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Evening star., 1936-08-22
HOLD.UP SUSPECT
IS HELD IN $25,000
Man Who Pleaded Guilty to s25
Robbery Is Wanted for
Other Thefts.

Bond Of $25, 900 was fixed by Judge
John P. Mcmahon in Police Court TO-
day to hold James E. Perkins, as. Of
2445 Eighteenth street for the grand
jury on q charge Of robbing q Chi
nese restaurant at 72s1z Eleventh
street southeast of $25 on August II.
Perkins pleaded guilty.
Detective Sergt. David @. Fletcher.
who investigated the robbery. told
Judge Mcmahon Perkins will be
charged with participation in two
hold-ups in Maryland and Virginia
since the robbery here.
According to Fletcher's testimony,
Perkins went into the restaurant and
ordered food, then held napkin over
a pistol and threatened Miss Ida
Dyer, 1909 Ninth street, cashier. while
he looted the cash register.
Perkins was arrested August IA by
Policemen C. E. Thorne and r. j.
Walters, eleventh precinct. and turned
over to Fletcher and Detective Sergt.
Elmer Lewis at headquarters.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
D. c. RABB|ASSA|LS
FATHER COUGHL|N
AS 'DEMAG0GUE'
Says Priests Words on
Jews Show "Hate Is Easy
Way to Notoriety."
"UNABATED lNDECENCW
LAID TO N. U. S. J. HEAD
Catholic Leader Tells Him Vati'
can Is Pondering Priests Case,
Gerstenfeld Says.

Accusations Of "scurrilous dem
agoguery" and "unahated indecency'
were hurled at Rev. Charles E. Cough
lin this morning by Rabbi Norman
Gerstenfeld of the washington Hebrew
Congregation in q special radio sermon
entitled, "A Rabbi Looks at Coughlin. III
Comparing the head Of the Ma
tional Union for Social Justice un-
favorably with the late DR.. s. Parkes
Cadman, Rabbi Gerstenfeld voiced
the hope that the country may be
saved from the mob miasmas Of the
evil Coughlins" and given more of
the great spirit OF the noble Cadmans"
In the future.
Directing his attack principally at
the Detroit priests references to the
Jewish race. the Washington rabbi
charged that such q course Is being
followed without rhyme or reason,
except that hate Is an easy way To
notoriety," by "an arrogant self
seeker who pours his malicious mis-
information into the ears Of confused
citizens"
"PerseCutlOn Cannot Hurt.
Persecution cannot hurt u.s." the
rabbi continued, "and Father Coughlin
cannot hurt us. Frankly, 1t is the
Catholic Church that Is being harmed
the most by the priesthood Of Fathes
Coughlin. In a centralized religion,
as is Catholicism, it is clear that he
is responsible to his direct superior,
Bishop Gallagher of Detroit, and that
the Pope in Rome could command
Father Coughlin.
THE decent citizens Of America,
not only Of the Jewish faith, but
among the most devout Catholics of
this country, are viewing with grow
ing indignation the 10 years Of Father
Coughlin's demagoguery and his in
creasing responsibility Of the past
years. and they turn to the supreme
pontiff Of the great church Of Rome
with a petition in their hearts that
the prestige of the church Of the
gentle st. Francis be not dragged into
the mfre. that q man like Coughlin
should speak with the freedom of
Ill SASLLCAis Ode INV WAth
the thunder Of the prestige Of Rome.
Reports Vatican Considers Case.
"In the past few days ! have been
in consultation with one Of the great
dignitaries of the Catholic Church,
and have been told that the Vati-
can Is pondering this matter at this
very moment. For the sake OF the
spirit of religious tolerance in this
country, we pray that the decision
will come before the great American
tradition of good will between the
faiths is utterly destroyed.
AN appeal to greed and hate Of
the ilk of Father Coughlins will only
lead America by rising wave of class
conflict into the wasteland Of another
Russian Communism or into the
tyranny of that nationahstic Com
munism called Fascism."
The address, a regular Saturday
morning sermon to the Hebrew con-
gregation, was broadcast over Station
WJSV.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
NEW PLAYGROUND
HOUSE COMPLETED
Palisades Unit Accepted by
Government-FieId to
Be Expanded.

The field house at Palisades Play
ground. near Sherrier place, Dana
place and Potomac avenue. which will
serve the rapidly growing Conduit
road section of West Washington. was
accepted officially yesterday by the
Government, following inspection Of
the completed work. This construc-
ton was made possible by Public
Works Administration grant.
An official dedication will be made
shortly, with officials OF the Conduit
Road Citizens Association and C..
Marshall Finnan, superintendent Of
the National Capital Parks, taking a
prominent part.
Made Double Acreage.
Palisades Fairgrounds now occupies
6 acres, although the Federal Gov
eminent hopes to double this when
additional funds for land acquisition
are made available. John Paolano,
landscape architect of the branch of
plans and design of the National
Park Service, Interior Department,
said today that the officials hope to
get the area surfaced, planted and
fenced this Fall, when all planting
and seeding will be accomplished.
The ultimate plan for development
calls Tor four tennis courts and a
large playfield for boys, as we'll as
naturalistic trail development and a
girls campfire ring. The present
project embraces a large playfield,
which will not be ready for use until
next Spring; a small children's shower
pool and two smaller Fairgrounds, one
for small children, accompanied by
their mothers, and the others for
children from 6 to 10 years.
Has Stage and Kitchen.
The new field house comprises an
auditorium and meeting hall, with
stage. projection room, kitchen and
dressing rooms, and an entrance lobby
with directors room. Over the lobby
is located the girls play room and
projection room, with boys play
room in the basement. The construc-
ton is of brick and Paolano pointed
out that the location takes advantage
Of the view down the Potomac River
and Of the palisades Of the Potomac.
The future George Washington Me-
mortal Parkway Drive will bound the
area on the south.
Paolano characterized the new
field house as probably one Of the
most complete types of field house
yet constructed, as 1t was especially
designed for that location"
Evening star., 1936-08-22
.13 HELD IN RAID
BY POLICE SQUAD
Officers, However, Fail to
Find Two Hunted in
O'Brien Shooting.

Still seeking three men wanted fol
the recent shooting of Joseph E.
O'Brien, police raided an alleged
gambling establishment In the $500
block of L street late yesterday, but
failed to find their quarry.
The raiding squad arrested 13 men
however, and destroyed large guam
tity of equipment, including te!e-
phones, racing charts and slips.
The place proved a miniature fort
ress, police said, with doors rein
forced with oak four r-by-fours and
one door faced with a 2-inch steel
plate.
The men sought were John
Sweeney, 10; Vernon Gegs) Tate
and Clarence (Cocky) Ware, 80, who
have been hunted by police since the
shooting of O'Brien last month.
O'Brien is still in the hospital with
both legs broken by bullets fired from
q car as he stood in front of a cafe
in the 200 block of Second street
southeast.
Morgan George Thomas, 81, Of the
2400 block of Pennsylvania avenue,
who identified himself as the owner
of the establishment, was charged
with setting up gaming table. No
charges were filed against the others.
Police were able to enter the place
by rushing the door as one CT the
men came out to get the keys 10 his
caf.
Most of those arrested were said
to have been gathered around a large
dice table when the officers entered.
All surrendered without q struggle.
The case against Thomas was con-
tinued until September IL by Judge
John P. Mcmahon in Police Court
today. He was released on $4,000
bond.
Meanwhile, Detective Lieut.. Glenn
ent p. Cox announced the raids will
continue until Sweeney. Tate and
Ware are caught.
Evening star., 1936-08-22


an aunt. was scheduled to appear be-
fore the coroner's jury.
Two other Washingtonians-M
Ellen Richards, 1910 Webster street,
teacher in the Gales Public School,
and Max Andrew Chambers, IS. Of
CAT A street northeast-were fatally
injured in highway crashes yesterday.
The mishap in which the boy was
hurt was witnessed by his GRANDPA
ther. John T. Hurley, who was sitting
on the front porch of the M street
residence.
Tells Family Of Mishap.
While Baxter placed the boy in the
machine and drove to the hospital,
the grandfather hurried upstairs to
tell his wife, Mrs. Blanche Hurley, 81,
and their daughter -in-law, Mrs.
Gladys Hurley, of the mishap.
Although they were in a front room,
the women did not see the boy run
over, and the shock of learning of the
tragedy caused the grandmother to
collapse. She was dead on the arrival
Of physician.
Edwards father, William Hurley, a
laundry truck driver, was at work
when notified his son had been in
jured. He sped to the hospital through
red lights with a police car in pursuit,
officers reported. Suffering from a
fractured skull and believed injured
internally. the boy never regained
consciousness.
1t was the fifty-third fatal traffic ac-
cident here since hte first of the year.
Sixty-six persons were killed during
the comparable period Of 1885.
Car Collides With Truck.
Miss Richards was killed and her
sister, Mrs. Mary L. Keith, and niece,
Miss Catherine Richards, were injured
when the car in which they were rid
ing collided with q truck near
Saco, Me.
Mrs. Keith, who lived with her sis
ter, suffered a broken ankle and shoul-
der injuries, while Miss Catherine
Richards, the driver, received q shoul-
der injury. The trio had left here
Monday on a vacation trip to Canada.
Chambers, World War veteran,
who came here in 1880 for hospital
ization for deafness. died at a Cum
berland Md hospital of a fractured
skull received when the automobile
in which he was riding overturned at
Green Ridge on the National High
way.
His cousin, Mrs. Clarice Marling Of
Marietta, Ohio, driver of the car, told
investigators he grabbed the steering
wheel as the car was rounding a curve.
She was unable to explain the action.
Mrs. Marling was only slightly in
jured. The couple had been visiting
in West Virginia and was returning
to Washington.
Sterling Mccullough, 6, colored, 116
Florida avenue, was perhaps seriously
injured last night when struck near
his home by an automobile operated
by James 3. Parks, 80, colored, 1851
Irving street. At Freedman's Hos
pital it was said the boy had head
cuts and that he may have q skull
fracture.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
JEAN BELL TO FACE
$500 THEFT CHARGE
Girl Who Faxed Torture Story
Here Will Be Tried in Bal
timore Monday.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
BALTIMORE, August 22.-Jean
Bell, alias Jane Arnold, center of q
later disproved vice ring torture in
vestigation in Washington recently,
goes on trial in Criminal Court here
Monday on . charge of larceny.
She is charged with having taken
$700 from a Washington World War
veteran in q Baltimore hotel some
months ago. The money was the vet
eran's bonus.
The woman told Washington police
she had been tortured and that the
initials &C. L." had been scratched on
her body. She contended members
of New York vice ring were guilty.
Washington police, after several days
investigation, disproved the story.
The veteran identified her as the
one who took his money from pic
lures which appeared in newspapers
during investigation Of her torture
story.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
O,oner Weighs Disposal of Bear
As Bite Sends MAJ, to Hospital

Randle, who operates q real estate
office at 2515 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, says the bear is as "harm-
less as o kitten" usually, but some
small boys had been teasing him and
put him in an Ill humor.
why, that bear will take bite OF
cake out of my mouth" Randle de-
clared. HE has always seemed good
natured to me-"
Randle bought the bear in Ontario
more than q year ago, when the an
imal was q small cub.
But Busco Is . big bear now, -
Randle admitted. II may have to
dispose Of him"
Evening star., 1936-08-22
81 PERSONS EXPECTED
AT PLASKETT REUNION

In memory Of the Tooth anniversary
Of the births Of John and Mary Gran
ford Plaskett, their descendants VIII
hold Q reunion at the home OF John
M. Plaskett, Lorton Valley, Va, this
afternoon. The grounds have been
owned by the Crawford family since
1928, and Lorton Valley was named by
q Plaskett.
Most of the 50 members Of the fam
fly are expected, including George
Plaskett of New Jersey, only living
member Of the Plaskett family that
came to America from England In
1853.
A sun dial built Of stones gathered
from the homes Of five generations OF
PIasketts win be dedicated, and copies
of . book Of family history win Be
distributed
Evening star., 1936-08-22
H0lD-UP SUSPECT
TO FACE LINEUP
Colored Man Believed to Have
Figured in Two Rob-
berries Here.

A colored suspect picked up for
investigation in the robbery and
brutal beating Of the proprietor Of
Fourteenth street dry cleaning shop
Tuesday was to face a special line
up at headquarters today in an effort
to identify him in the hold-up Of
the Fairfax Farm Dairy on First
street last February.
Police refused to disclose the identity
of the suspect pending further in
vestigation. It was said that the
victim of the recent robbery, Samuel
Siratonis, IS, who runs dry clean
ing place at 3003 Fourteenth street,
declared that . picture Of the suspect
resembled one of his assailants.
Dairy employees were asked to come
to headquarters to view the lineup.
More than 81, 400 was obtained in the
dairy robbery last Winter.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
BIDS ARE INVITED
ON RENT PROJECT
Apartment House at v and
Second to Accommodate
81 CoIored Families.

Bids were invited by the District
Alley Dwelling Authority today for
construction of a low-rent apartment
house for 81 colored families on newly
acquired property between v and w,
Second and Fourth streets.
This project differs in several ways
from the dwellings the Authority is
constructing at London court. in the
Southeast. The most obvious differ
ence is that in the Southeast the dwell
ings are row, two-story, one-family
houses, while in the Northwest they
are three-story apartment house di-
vided into two units.
The National Capital Parks Once
has been asked to advise on the plant
ing in the court, which will feature
the Northwest project, running from
the street to the alley. Behind the two
buildings will be clothes-drying yard
and playground. A common laundry
may be installed in the basement If
experience proves this desirable.
Each apartment will have bath
room as required by law, with wash
tubs in the kitchens. Through ventila-
ton IS to be provided. The apartments
will be centrally heated, another diff
ference from the London Court dwell
ings, which are to be heated with
stoves. Other differences are that gas
ranges will be used instead of coal
ranges and that mechanical refriger-
alton will be installed.
These differences in equipment will
add to the cost of the apartments.
One of the authority's purposes is to
learn whether the multi-family type
of dwelling. economizing though it
does On land, is as inexpensive as row
houses when the cost Of necessary
equipment is added.
The evidence given by bids sub
mitted may influence the authority
in the type of dwelling it erects in the
future.
Evening star., 1936-08-22

Under treatment for possible blood
poisoning from q bear bite, Willis
Marshall, IS, was in Emergency Hos
pital today while the animals owner,
U. s. Randle, real estate operator,
tried to decide whether to keep his
pet, send him to the Zoor or adver-
tise him for sale.
Busco, the bear, bit Marshall on
the left hand yesterday Is he was
feeding the pet in Randle's stables
at Thirty-fifth street and lPennsyl-
vania avenue southeast. The injured
man was admitted to the hospital TO
guard against infection.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
1000 VETERANS FAIL
TO APPLY FOR BONUS
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
approximately 200, 900 veterans have
not applied yet for their bonus bonds,
according to Veterans Administra-
ton officials.
Maybe the veterans just haven't
got around to it," they suggested, add
ing that nothing is lost by veteran
not applying, because all the bonds
will draw interest until 1945 whether
he applies now or later.
In q recent White House visit, Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator
Of veterans affairs, told President
Roosevelt that 3,353,851 veterans had
applied for bonus bonds and that
3,340,s3s of their applications had
been approved. The approved cer.
tificates, he said. represented an out.
lay Of t1,s24. .037, ,s27.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.

BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.
-OURISTS who order chicken"
in certain South or Central
American ports ought to know
i more about the iguana.
Take the case of lady who was
discussing tropical foods over cock
tails on q returning cruise boat re-
Gently.
She told her friends:
st never tasted better chicken IN
my life! 1t seemed to be all white
meat, and no bones. How do they
do it?"
A couple of sun-stained cynics eyed
each other with amusement. Shall
we tell her?" one of them whispered.
NO" said the other, she's much
too happy!"
So they let it 60. The same lady,
who happened to be from Washing
ton, by the way, may see this iguana
without suspecting she ever ate one.
The meat of this vegetarian is
tasty and highly esteemed by South
American natives, who feel, and not
without q certain justification, that
Evening star., 1936-08-22
Whip Cures Boys "Barks." /"

DALLAS R).-An 11-year-old col
ored boy, claiming he had been bitten
by q mad dog, was taken to the county
Jail growing" and swapping" Health
officers sconed and called his parents,
who proposed hickory treatment.
Boy" asked Dr.. A. e. Hill, when
you going to bark again?"
"Aint gonna bark no mo-" the
bog said, seaint do hit no mo-"
Evening star., 1936-08-22
Potatoes Secret Barred.

All curiously-shaped potatoes that
he collected during digging q farmer
near Van Reenen, South Africa, took
to market at one time. A housewife
bought q large tuber that was almost
in tSo sections. When she was pre-
pairing it for the table she found the
bowl part and most of the handle Of .
teaSpoon embedded In its flesh.
Evening star., 1936-08-22

what the tourists don't know about
iguanas won't hurt them.
This particular iguana Is native
of the Galapagos Islands. Thousands
of the lizards inhabit the beaches
there and feed on sea vegetation
barred by the tides.
There are at least 400 types Of
iguanas, scattered through the West
Indies, Central and South America.
The circus chameleon, which can
turn green, brown or grey, is said to
belong to this big family.
Another odd type Is lizard which
can run on water, using his hind feet
only. The fellow raises his body
and tail and folds his forelegs while
performing his unique stunt.
There are land, tree and water
types of iguanas of multiple sizes
and shapes. Practically all branches
of the family are confined to southern
portions Of the New World.
Tomorrow: The young prong
horn antelopes, recently fo,on here
from Wyoming.
Evening star., 1936-08-22

CURED less than
IL hours after
word of his in
jury in an auto
mobile accident
almost directly
in front of his
home had caused
his grandmother
to drop dead.
John w. Bax-
ter, 26, Of 1926
Nicholson street
southeast, driver
of the car that
struck the boy as
he was crossing
the street to visit
Evening star., 1936-08-22
Name Sounds Like
Picayune,' So She
Asks to Change 1t

Embarrassed because her name
sounds like "picayune," Mary
Lucy Picchione. 26l1 Adams Mill
road, yesterday asked District
Court for permission to change
it to Mary Dyana Gay.
She pointed out in her petit
ton that the word "picayune"
means "stingy, mean or parsi-
monious," and said this has been
extremely embarrassing to her.
She also told the court she has
experienced considerable diff
Guilty in making her name under
stood over the telephone.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
SEEK RENO DIVORCES.
Two Washington Residents Fill,
Suits in Nevada.

Divorce suits involving two Wash
iagton couples were filed in Reno
New, yesterday.
Mrs. Helena B. Bernard charged
cruelty in asking . divorce from
Frank Bernard, 421 Quincy street
musician in the Soldiers Home Band
and Orchestra, whom she married
here December 28, 1908. They have
grown daughter.
The same grounds were set forth
by William Charles Lowry in his pc
titicn for q decree against Mrs. Kath-
ryn McGill Lowry, whom he married
last November 20 In Frederick, Nd,
Evening star., 1936-08-22
RELEASED AT LISBON
French Newspaper Man Must
Leave Country in 4S Hours.

LISBON. August ~ R.-Jacques
Berthet, correspondent of the Paris
newspaper lie Temps, was released
today by Portuguese authorities on
condition he leave the country within
40 hours.
Berthet was arrested Thursday on
charges of sending tendentious news
from Portugal. The French govern
ment protested to Lisbon authorities
against his detention.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
INJURED BOY DIES
| AFTER NEWS KILLS
| HIS GRANDMOTHER
Woman, 81, Drops Dead
When Told of Accident
Involving Child, 5.
CRASHES FATAL TO TWO
OTHER D. C. RESIDENTS
School Teacher Succumbs After
Car and Truck Collide.
Veteran Killed.

An inquest was scheduled today In
the case Of Edward r. Hurley, S. of
1913 M street northeast. whose death
in Casualty Hospital last night oc.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
WOMAN is SUICIDE
Mrs. Charles G.. Helm Hangs Self
at St. Elizabeth's.

NC 0Cs 1II11dUStk1 .
Funeral arrangements were being
made today for Mrs. Marie c. Helm,
80, Of SOC Third street southeast, who
hanged herself by q towel last night
in the bath room Of st. Elizabeths
Hospital receiving ward.
Mrs. Helm, who is the wife OF
Charles G. Helm, had been q patient
ut st. Elizabeths since June. Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald issued
Q certificate Of suicide.
Evening star., 1936-08-22

Relics of the Afated Greedy Arctic expedition
than lost their ues hile ice bound Lady
Franklin Bay from 1881 to 1884 ho srpued endured
terrible hardshps haze been placed the Smithsonian Insu
tion relatives Maj Gen. Adophus reey leader of
erpedttion
Mrs Mary Gass shown examining the prayer book from
aohch Greey Dho died about conducted daiu
services he in the Arctic pair of his ooves and
silk badge at the reception
also ShoUn. -UnderDood Photo
Evening star., 1936-08-22

total contributions.
With receipts noted above, the trust
accounts for the District fund in the
Treasury totalled $954,303.34 yester-
day, this including the District con-
tribution of 100000 and interest of
about $1,000. In process of being
cleared to the trust account were
checks amounting to about $4,000
more.
Evening star., 1936-08-22
Contributions by Months.

The boards records show contribu-
tions as follows during the first seven
Evening star., 1936-08-22

for January and February, other than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-11

Vance. principal of Ben Davis High
School, is general chairman. Dean
William L. Richardson of the Butler
college of education is in charge of
giving the tests.
Pupils from the third grade
through the. senior classes in high
school are to participate in the
tests. A special essay contest, pre-
pared by Miss Emily Helming of the
Butler English department, has been
scheduled. Approximately $50 pupils
from the sixth grade through high
school have enrolled in the essay
contest.
Prizes are to be awarded the win
ming pupils in each grade. They
will be announced at meeting of
contestants and parents on April 6
in the Butler fieldhouse. The tests
were originated last year in order TO
stimulate academic activity among
the students of the public schools.
Members of the Butler committee
aiding Dean Richardson are DR.. A.
E. Garlic, DR.. Albert Mock, Dr.. T.
Shultz, DR.. James H. Peeling, Prof
H. M. Whistler Miss Emma Colbert,
Miss Elizabeth Bettcher, Miss Ruth
Patterson and Mrs. Maria Woollen
HYDE.