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Evening star., 1936-09-22
PR0BERS GET CLAIM
OF FRANK MISUSE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A request by Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, of Michigan for investi-
cation of alleged misuse of free mail
ing privileges in Michigan during the
recent primary campaign was in the
hands today of Chairman Lonergan of
the Senate Campaign Expenditures
Committee.
Lonergan said the Vandenberg re-
quest, and also a telegraphic protest
from Louis B. Ward along the same
line, would be laid before the COM
mittee Monday.
Vandenberg's charge involved al
legged distribution Of campaign pub
locations through the mails under
Government franks, which permit
transmittal postage free.
Ward wired Lonergan that abuse of
the franking privilege during the cam
paign "is the most fragrant violation
ever recorded"
A similar complaint has been filed
by George w. Welsh, Democratic can
didate for Governor in Michigan. with
the Post ONCE Department. The de-
partment recently announced its in
vestigation showed that none of the
publications in question actually had
entered the mails.
Evening star., 1936-09-22
GARNETT TO SEND
REPLY TO BROWN
Letter to Give Views on Plan
for Prosecutor to Aid
Police.

United States Attorney Leslie C..
Garnett planned to reply by letter
today to the suggestion of Maj. Ernest
w. Brown, superintendent of police,
that an assistant United States at
torney be assigned regularly to col
laborate with police in homicide in
vestigations.
Brown proposed the plan last week
in the interest of better co-ordina-
ton of law enforcement functions Of
the two agencies.
Garnett was out of the city when
Browns letter was received at the
United States attorneys Office. He is
understood to have completed draft
of his reply this morning.
Prior to receipt of Browns letter
Garnett had expressed interest in
such a plan, although he refused to
commit himself until he had made
a thorough study of it.
In his letter, Brown pointed out
that other cities are using the system
and are finding it of mutual benefit
to the district attorneys Office and
the police department.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen,
supervising the Police Department,
favors the proposal. He discussed the
matter with Maj. Brown before the
latter proposed the plan to Garnett.
Under the arrangement advocated,
Garnett would assign one of his legal
assistants to police headquarters. to
work with detectives in the initial in
vestigation of major crimes, especially
homicides. The assistant United
States attorney would follow such
cases through to trial stages, thereby
becoming thoroughly familiar with all
evidence and testimony.
Police would benefit through first
hand legal advice on competence of
evidence they may collect.
Evening star., 1936-09-22

The loyalist sympathizers who
brought echoes of the Spanish war to
Thirteenth street in Washington said
today that for the time being, at least.
the Maj. Ramon Franco auction would
be spared their demonstrations.
Meanwhile. three women arrested
yesterday when they attempted to
picket the sale were released under $50
bond each this morning when ar
raigr d before Police Court Judge
Robert E. Mattingly. The cases were
continued until Friday.
The women-Mrs. Marie Weinstein,
~, of 1449 Oak street: Mrs. Mildred
Egan, 81, of SIS F street. and Mrs.
Cecilia Roe, SO, of 419 Hobart place
are charged with parading without q
permit and enticing people away from
a sale.
The American Civil Liberties Union
arranged for their defense and re-
tanned Attorney Howard Westwood.
He will be assisted by Samuel Levine
of the International Labor Defense.
I'VE have no plans for today or
Evening star., 1936-09-22

A bank president appeared in Po-
lice Court today to defend . taxicab
driver who was arrested for traffic
violation after the banker engaged
him to drive to hospital. where
member of his family was Ill.
Taking the stand In Trafic Court,
H. Prescott Galley, president Of the
National Savings & Trust Co., testi-
fed the driver. Joseph King, 30, Of
5400 New Hampshire avenue, was not
obstructing trafic, as charged by
Ohicer d. G. Diehl.
Diehl, attached to the traffic d.
vision, accused King Of parking too
far from the curb and holding up
other vehicles at Fifteenth street and
New York avenue last Thursday.
Evening star., 1936-09-22
Cab Driuer Freed as Banker
Testifies on Traffic Charge

Galley, who lives in Chevy Chase,
Md, told the court King was waiting
for a traffic signal in a line of ma
chimes when he hurried from his
bank. opened the taxi door and in
structed the driver to take him to
Emergency Hospital.
Just as the banker entered the
cab Diehl approached and gave King
o ticket for the alleged violation. The
driver was forced to put up S. COL
lateral.
Those fellows can't afford to lose
S." Galley said after Judge Robert
z. Mattingly had dismissed the
charges and ordered Kings money re-
funded.
Evening star., 1936-09-22
IS ENDED
At LOCAL BAKERY
18 Back at Jobs-Complete
Unionization Reported
in Agreement.

With the Dutch Baker Boy, Inc.
strike ended last night, ID bakery
statesmen went back to work today,
under an agreement which was re-
ported to include complete unioniza-
ton of the shop at 807 Monroe street
northeast.
Although the bakery statesmen had
been the only ones on strike from the
firm for union wages and hours, the
bakers union also co-operated in the
strike and helped to picket both the
plant and the sales trucks. Bakers
continued to work there, but will now
be admitted into the union under the
new agreement.
Settlement of the strike was an
nounced publicly last night at the
Central Labor Union meeting at
typographical Temple by Robert
Lester, business agent for the bakery
statesmen. His simple announcement
that Dutch Baker Boy had signed"
was greeted with an outburst OF
applause. Lester and Charles B.
McCloskey, business agent for the
bakers union, were given rising vote
of appreciation for their work in the
strike.
According to Lester, the agreement
settling the strike was signed last
night by Paul Hannah, attorney for
the company, and John Keane, attor-
ney representing both the bakery
statesmen and bakers.
Fun details of the pay scale were
not disclosed.
At the shop last night there were
about 20 bakers and helpers on duty.
Evening star., 1936-09-22
INQUEST SLATED
IN AUTO DEATH
Taxi Driver Faces Quiz in
Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey
Fatality.

Inquest into the death of Mrs.
Elizabeth Gordon Bailey, n, who was
killed yesterday morning when struck
street at the corner of Eighteenth
and California streets, was to be held
at the District Morgue at 1880 am.
today.
Mrs. Bailey, who lived alone in an
apartment at 1904 @ street, was pro-
nounced dead upon arrival at Emer-
gency Hospital. Oscar Turner, 80,
colored. said by police to have been
the driver of the cab, took Mrs. Bailey
to the hospital in another machine.
He was held for action of the coroner
Turner lives at 1890 street.
The death raised the Districts 1886
traffic toll to so.
Mrs. Bailey is survived by two
daughters and three brothers. The
brothers are Fulton and Smith Cor
don, both real estate operators here,
and another who is understood to
live in Kansas. The daughters are
Miss Marguerite Bailey, 1880 r street,
clerk in the Disbursing Office
of the Treasury Department., and
Mrs. Marie Cartwright of near
Fredericksburg, Va. Mrs. Bailey, an
active worker in the Foundry Meth
odist Church, told friends in her
apartment yesterday morning that
she was going to church luncheon.
Another Driver Held.
Louis F. Lombardy, 43, Of 3407
Eastern avenue today faced Police
Court hearing under the negligent
homicide act and Traffic Court hear
ing on a charge of driving on a sus-
pended permit.
A coronor's jury ordered him held
on the first count after an inquest
yesterday in the death of Mrs. Mary
Mcguire, 70. He was to have been
arraigned on the traf1ic violation
charge yesterday, but the case was
deferred until tomorrow.
Lombardy's car plunged across q
sidewalk and struck Mrs. Mcguire
July 8 while she was moving the
front lawn of her home, 3100 Tenth
street northeast. She died more than
six weeks later. Autopsy indicated
her injuries may have complicated
other ailments.
Tells Of Painting.
Lombardy, a former navy yard en-
ploye, said he had tainted while driv-
ing to a doctor for treatment for a
sick headache, and that he knew
nothing of the accident until he re-
gained consciousness on Mrs. Ma
guire's lawn. He experienced SINH
lar fainting attacks in 1892, Lombardy
said.
Lombardy was arrested September
IA by Motor Cycle Policeman C. H.
Miller, twelfth precinct, who charged
Lombardy was operating on a sus-
pended permit. Lombardy told the
coroner's jury that he had not driven
since he received notice of his permit
suspension September 8.
The Mcguire inquest jury also
heard the case Of william Baker, 40,
Of Arlington, Va, fatally injured Au-
gust 80 in q fall from the running
board Of a car driven by Mark p. Sui
Ivan Of Indianapolis, with whom he
was arguing. Bakers death was ac-
cidental and Sullivan is blameless,
the jury found.
Witnesses testified there had been
no indication that Baker was pushed
from the running board.
-Four persons, one a 68-year-old
man, were injured in traf1c mishaps
yesterday.
The elderly man, Arthur w. Gar
rett, 229 First street northeast, suf-
fered cuts and bruises when struck
by q street car near Ninth and q
streets. He was treated at Emergency
Hospital. 90
Evening star., 1936-09-22
GETS 360.DAY TERM

Jesse Williams, Is, colored, captured
Saturday with flying tackle by a
22-year-old ice man, was sentenced
in Police Court today to $50 days in
Jail.
The ice man, A. c. Taylor, jr.,
1909 N street, caught Williams while
he was running from the Lenox
Building after snatching the purse of
Mrs. Ella Stowell. employe of the
Bureau of Public Roads branch there.
Evening star., 1936-09-22
WASTE Of WATER
HIT BY BOWMAN
1000 Engineers and Spe-
ciaIists Are Attending
MUp.Stream" ParIey.

Waste of water and attendant evils
have done more damage to the United
States than war. Isaiah Bowman,
president of John Hopkins University,
told the Upstream Engineering Con-
ference today.
The conference opened a two-day
program on controlling floods before
they become floods. More than 1000
engineers and conservation specialists
were expected to attend the sessions in
the Federal Auditorium.
I'VE have been too long in the wild
Indian stage, willing to scalp the land
and leave it a red horror" Bowman
said.
when the droughts and dust storms
come We hear Of prayers for rain by
families or whole communities. 1t
would be far more sensible to pray for
intelligence enough to take proper care
Of the soil and its cover when there are
no droughts. But steady long-range
work is apt to be neglected as soon as
We think that the evil genii are on
holiday. This is bad business, for the
conservation of land and water means
also the conservation OF people"
Pleading for more extensive studies
Of long-range weather conditions,
Bowman said: "The rain that affects
holiday or shipment of perishables
may seem important at the moment,
but it is the effect upon vegetation and
soils that, in the long run, determines
whether people can live in an area
or have perishableS to ship or can af-
ford a holiday"
Earl H. Clapp, associate chief for
ester, recommended three-point pro-
gram for watershed control:
81. Re-establish and maintain a
balance between vegetation, soil and
water.
=. Devise method of land plant
ing that will release for the common
good the other resources and services
of watersheds in so far as they will
not interfere with soil and water
conservation.
IS. Fullest economic use of engi-
neering devices, both temporary ones,
to make possible the restoration of
vegetation. and permanent ones. to
supply controls which vegetation alone
cannot give"
Exploitation End Seen.
The era of land exploitation and
extravagant waste of water resources
in this country is rapidly coming to
an end, said H. H. Bennett, chief Of
the soil conservation service.
Thorndike Saville, dean of the Col
lege of Engineering. New York Uni
versity, urged development of a scien-
tific program of co-ordinated research
in headwater control and land and
water conservation.
Evening star., 1936-09-22

Population of the District
Jail has reached its highest
point in history, forcing penal
officials to jam cells beyond
original capacity. Scores OF
prisoners are forced to sleep
on the floor NTH only a stra,0
mattress TOR q bed.
Upper lett-Sir men are
packed in this small cell,
10hich has accommodations
for only halt that number.
Three haze been, assigned
quarters on the floor.
Upper right-A group of
prisoners taking their daily
exercise, Which consists OF an
hours ,oalk in the dark cor
ridors OF a cell block.
Lo1Uer lett-A scene in an
other oUercroWded cell. The
prisoner on the bottom is on
the floor, 1Uhtch represents his
quarters. He tries to make the
most OF it reading a magazine.
TUo other prisoners sleep
dboUe him.
Evening star., 1936-09-22
A. B. c. BANS PIN BALL
AND CLAW MACHINES
Scheduled to 0n-Sale
Licensees Under Provision Of
Curb on "other Businesses.

WI " VA StASA AocAAAS55Sc'
Warnings will be issued to on-sale
liquor licensees within a few days that
they must remove claw and pin ball
machines from their premises within
reasonable" time, the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board announced
yesterday.
It was pointed out that such ma
chimes are now being operated in
about 800 places holding class c Ii
censes. Action to force their re-
moval is being taken on advice of
Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal un-
der q provision in the District liquor
law which says that proprietors who
dispense wine or beer may not conduct
any other business on the premises
which Is not incident to the sale Of
food, 1t was explained.
The A. B. c. Board has had the
claw and pin ball machine matter
under consideration for some time.
The board action has nothing to do
with the legality of the machines,
Mrs. Agnes K. Mason, board men,
Der, explained.
Evening star., 1936-09-22
Exploitation End Seen.
VICE CHAIRMAN NAMED
FOR SAFETY COMMITTEE

Jack Hayes Of Washington has been
named vice chairman of the Civic
Safety Committee of the United States
Junior Chamber of Commerce. ac-
cording to word received here today
from national headquarters in st.
Louis.
Evening star., 1936-09-22

Railways Of Great Britain carried
90, ,150,032 passengers In recent
month. q
The Washington times., 1936-09-18
SUIT IN SCHOOL
ROW DELAYED

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, Sept. 18.-Mandamus pro-
ceedings instituted by Mrs. Ruby
G.. Simpson, who recently was
ousted from the Arlington county
school board, will not be reviewed
by the State Supreme Court until
November, it was announced to-
day by Charles Henry Smith,
Alexandria attorney who is repre-
Senting Mrs. Simpson in her fight
to regain the seat now held by
the Rev. Walter F. Wolf.
Original plans were to present
the petition to the States highest
tribunal during its session at
Staunton, Va, which Just adj
journed earlier than was expected,
the petition being returned to
Mr.. Smith. The next session will
be in Richmond in the first week
in November.
Mrs. Simpson contends appoint
ment of DR.. Wolf was made too
late by the school electoral board,
a view upheld by Attorney Gen.
eral A. P. Staples of Virginia, but
disputed by Commonwealth's At
torney Lawrence w. Douglas Of
Arlington county.
The Washington times., 1936-09-18
MURAL CALLED
'C0CKEYED'

Hurricanes are apparently not
confined to the great outdoors
nowadays, since a minor one has
been brewing in the usually calm
and sedate Department Of Justice.
The cause of the minor dis
turbance," as the Weather Bureau
would describe it, is a panel in
a mural painted by Henry Varnum
Poor on a wall in the corridors
leading to the Attorney Generals
office.
The work of art depicts an at
torney arguing case before the
United States Supreme Court.
Nothing unusual about that, says
liberal artistic element within
the Department Of Justice, and be-
sides the painting is well executed
and forceful.
"Cockeyed" is the reply Of a
conservative element, which points
out the attorney depicted has his
back to the bench-a breach of
etiquette-and that the only other
lawyer in the picture seems to be
going to sleep.
The Washington times., 1936-09-18
Crime To Be Lonely?
Boy POndeES Fate

heard pronounced on him-and
his first job in a little more than
a year and half.
Asked before he climbed into the
black police van If Judge Mat
tingly had been correct in saying
he was probably the loneliest boy
in the world" Tommy replied:
81 guess maybe he's right
about that, but Washington is
the first city I've been In that
called it a crime to be lonely.
Tommy was a little off on that
statement because it's not a crime
to be lonely in the District Of Co.
lumbia. It's q miSdemeanor to be
a vagrant.
Today, after 48-hour chance to
get acquainted with the habitual
drunkardS, petty thieves and reck-
less drivers, Tommy left for the
workhouse at Occoquan. Va,
where he'll be able to cement
these friendships. Commenting on
the case, Judge Mattingly said:
Its not just the thing for
that boy, I guess, but I've
marked his commitment papers
subject to immediate recall
just in case things brighten for
him."
The Washington times., 1936-09-18
Is District Students
AT Staunton Academy

NTON, Va, Sept. IS.
Staunton Military Academy, first
of the Southern military honor
schools to be designated by the
War Department, began its seven
ty-fourth academic year yesterday
with a reported increase in enroll
ment of more than 100 boys.
Thirteen Washingtonians are in
cluded in the fall enrolment Of
cadets, who hail from threequar-
tiers of the States of the Union
and from many foreign countries.
Students from the District Of Co
lumbia include: L. Forbes Barry,
David EaSterling, jr., Theodore H.
williams, Wallace and Richard
Perrine, Matthew Mezzanotte, Carl
F.. Naples, Frank A. Orrne, James
H. Stevens, jr., Allan and William
Seigle. jr., Laird Shull and Layne
E, IOeffler.
The Washington times., 1936-09-18
4 Noted Scientists
Drown With CHARIOT

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 10
Q.N.SD.-Four prominent French
scientists, in addition to the
famed explorer, DR.. Jean Baptiste
Charcot, went down on the polar
ship Pourquoi-Pas, it was learned
today as the discovery Of addi-
tional bodies brought the death
list to 80.
DR.. Larronde, secretary general
Of the French Geographical So
ciety; Prof. De Vaux, noted physic-
ist, and Profs. Parat and Jaquir,
of the Sorbonne in Paris, were
among those lost.
The Washington times., 1936-09-18
Mrs. Wuppermann III

GREENWICH, Conn.-Mrs. 10.
sephine Wuppermann, president
Of the million-dollar Angostura-
Wuppermann Corporation, makers
Of Angostura Bitters, is seriously
i'll Of heart disease here in her
home. Two Of Mrs. Wuppedmann's
sons, Frank and Ralph Morgan,
the actors, arrived here after flying
from Hollywood. A third son, A.
Edward Wuppermann, Of Green
wich, who is general manager Of
the Angostura company, has been
with her constantly since she be-
came i'll several days ago.
The Washington times., 1936-09-18
COST OF FOOD
TO RISE THIS
WINTER


Feeding the family is going to
cost more and more this winter,
the United States Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics admitted to-
day.
Good beef is going to be higher.
butter and cheese, already at lex
tremely" high prices, are going
higher. So will be potatoes.
A strong storage demand for
pork Is expected to offset heavy
msrketipgs Of hogs, and pork
prices may rise after January 1.
Eggs will be higher, but poultry
should be lower, the Bureau said,
because Of expected heavy market
ngs OF poultry because of high
feed costs.
Canned Goods Rising
Apples and canned vegetables
are advancing in price, with only
tomatoes showing a bigger produc-
tlon Tor canning than last year.
Lamp may be cheaper, but an
expected heavy run Of sheep to
market has not materialized, the
Bureau said.
VI the vegetables, Sauer kraut
prices, canned, are just double
thoSe OF a year ago, the bureau
reported. Cut green beans have
advanced 5 cents the dozen cans;
oeetS, 20 cents; corn, Is cents;
peas, 71a-and even spinach was
up IL cents the dozen.
The drought reduced butter
production to an unusual low
level, the bureau said, and prices
nave increased already to the
highest since 1880. Prices during
the first half Of 1887 will average
higher than in the same period Of
1925.
Imports To Be Heavier
Butter imports this winter are
expected to exceed those of last
winter.
The reduction of the corn crop
to the lowest in so years, chiefly
due to the drought, will also re-
suit in a heavy import of corn,
particularly from the Argentine,
from which thirty-seven million
bushels were imported during the
19S4S5 period.
The Washington times., 1936-09-18

Seventeen-year-old Tommy So
ward left Washington today to
take UP the duties of the first job
he has held in little more than
a year and q half.
AS jobs go, this one isn't much.
It's q rather poorly paid PROPOSE
ton and in exactly six months
will be no more. Some time next
March, Tommy will again be with
out a thing in the world to do
will again measure up to the legal
definition of a vagrant, "a person
wandering abroad and not giving
q good account of himself"
For more than a year and a
half, Tommy Seward ha S
wandered abroad" without being
able to explain it. Born in the
little town of Findlay, Ohio, he
was orphaned at the age OF seven,
and barely managed to acquire an
elementary school education.
He grew to a height of 5 feet,
IL inches and took on weight of
ITO pounds. He cultivated a boy
ish smile which a year and a half
of wandering abroad" has made
unduly wistful. Three days ago,
a Twelfth Precinct policeman
asked him to account for himself
and for the first time in his II
years Tommy discovered that he
couldn't.
He couldn't do any better in
Police Court the next day, either;
which left Judge Robert E. Mat
tingly with no other recourse but
to find him guilty of vagrancy.
Down to the District Jail went IT.
year-old Tommy Seward, facing
the first Jail sentence he had ever
The Washington times., 1936-07-18
Wrth-Sobers
Wedding Set

In the presence of close friends,
the marriage of Mrs. Martha
Wirth and Mr.. Winfield Bell So
bers was solemnized this after"
noon at the Foundry Church. Rev.
Edward G. Latch officiated.
Mrs. Sobers, the daughter Of
Mr.. Otto MokroS, of Milwaukee,
wore simple tunic frock of white
crepe, with a straw picture hat.
The ensemble was completed by
a shoulder corsage of gardenias.
Her attendant was Miss Mariella
Hendon, who wore a frock of vel
low chiffon, with a yellow leghorn
hat. She wore a corSage of tails
man roses.
Mr.. Sobers, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Sobers, of Williams
port, Pa, had as his best man
Mr.. Louis Mitman. A dinner for
the bridal party followed the cere-
mony. After a honeymoon in
Pennsylvania. the couple will go
to Milwaukee, where they will
make IIle1r nome.
Capt. and Mrs. William H.
Wenstrom entertained at dinner
at the Shoreham Terrace last
evening. Their guests included
Col. and Mrs. C. A. Seoane, Col.
and Mrs. William Ord Ryan and
Capt. and Mrs. William A. R.
Robertson.
Mrs. James E. Barnes of Wash
ington, D. c.. is spending a month
at The Flanders, Ocean City, N. j.
Mrs. T. v. Sparrow, accom-
panied by her two children, of
Greensboro, N. c., is spending a
brief time at the Dodge.
DR.. and Mrs. M. G. Simpson,
of Southern Pines, N. c., are stop
ping at the Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mcfarland,
of Boston, have arrived in Wash
ington and are at the Shoreham
for a few days.
X X
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Fisher,
of Wyomissing, Pa, are spending
a few days at the Shoreham.
Mrs. Young Evans, of Atlanta,
Ca, is spending a brief time at
the Dodge and is accompanied by
Miss Helen Ford, of Birmingham,
Alabama.