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Evening star., 1936-08-13
AMBASSADORS CAR
HITS TWO CHILDREN
Girls Slightly Injured as Ma.
chine of Aranha Gets
Out of Control.

Two children were slightly injured
this morning when an automobile op-
Grated by Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian
Ambassador. went out of control at
Thirty-fourth and M streets and
struck them as they were walking
along the sidewalk, police reported
Those injured were three year r-old
Nancy Lee Lowe and Catherine Rest,
u, both of 1917 Thirty-fourth street.
They were taken to Georgetown Hos
pital, where the Ambassador called
to inquire as to their condition and
ask If he could be of service.
Ambassador Aranha told seventh
precinct police that something went
wrong" with his steering gear as he
was making left turn out of M street
into Thirty fourth street. The car
struck a tree, careened across the
street and rolled up on the sidewalk
in front of 1907 Thirty-fourth street,
striking the children.
Doctors told police preliminary
examination showed the children had
suffered nothing more serious than
painful cuts and bruises.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
COUNCIL WILL AID
JOB INSURANCE
Building Trades Group Votes
to Spread Data to All
Contractors.

The Executive Board of the Wash
ington Building Trades Council voted
Yesterday to assist the District in
carrying out the unemployment COM
pensation insurance act by furnishing
a list of projects here and aiding in
acouainting out-of-town contractors
with the law.
1t was pointed out that while Wash
ington builders are believed to be CO.
operating to the fullest extent, some
out-of-town contractors. through ig-
norance of the insurance act, leave
the city without paying the proper
amount of unemployment tax.
This condition will be alleviated, the
council believes, if District authorities
are in possession of records showing
what projects are being undertaken.
Failure of contractors to adhere
to the law works to the detriment
of their employees, who have no rec
ord of their work and thus are unable
to claim their proper compensation
the Executive Board explained.
John A. Marshall, director Of the
Unemployment Compensation Board
explained the operations of his group
IN a brief address at the meeting.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
SPRINKLER TRUCK
DRIVER CLEARED
Coroner's Jury Decides Ar
mond Douglas KnoWIton's
Death Was Accident.

Death under the wheels of District
water truck of 5-year Almond
Douglas Knowlton of 212 Fourteenth
street northeast, was accidental, a
coroner's jury held today.
The verdict relieved the truck driver,
James Windham, 1716 North Capitol
street, and his helper, John j. Kelly,
HOS Holbrook terrace northeast, of all
responsibility for the accident.
Testimony showed that the child
ran from between two cars and slipped
beneath the right rear wheel of the
truck. The pavement was wet. Kelly
had warned a dozen other children,
who were padding along in the spray,
to keep away. The Knowlton child
was not among these. and the driver
and helper did not see him.
The accident occurred on Wednes-
day almost in front of the child's
home.
Three persons, including an IL
year-old boy. were injured in traffic
accidents last night and today.
Mrs. Pauline Pangratz, 81, of 1885
Sixth street, received cuts requiring
five stitches on the forehead at Emer-
gency Hospital when an automobile
in which she was riding with Louis
Nutz, So, of the same address, was
in collision at Twelfth street and Con-
stitution avenue today with an Alex
andria bus driven by Archie w. Downs,
81, Of Lorton, Va.
William Malloy, II, of 702 New
Jersey avenue, was slightly injured
last night when struck by an automo-
bile driven by Major Holmes, %. col
ored, 922 Fifth street southeast. Po-
lice said the boy ran from behind
parked cars.
An automobile repeatedly stolen
from Mark Dresser of Chicago, stay
ing at the Willard Hotel, was in COL
lision last night with one driven by
Edwin M. Niemiec, %, of TOT Twenty
second street. Niemiec was treated at
Emergency for bruises and shock.
Police said the occupants of the
other car, two men and a woman,
fed. Earl McGrintley, 38, and Robert
Van, %, both with addresses in the
800 block of D street, later were ar
rested and held for investigation.
Louisa Smith, 40, colored, 9l9
Fourth street, was struck at Third
street and Massachusetts, avenue last
night by an automobile driven by
William H. Bohannon. Al, of 1917 L
street. She was treated at Casualty
Hospital for possible fracture Of the
right ankle.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

EVERAL rugged individualists,
including part Cherokee and
an elderly gentleman who be-
- lieves pineapple juice is a cure
all, have been clinging to their homes
while wreckers level the block around
them and steam shovels gouge out
the foundations for a huge new annex
across Fourteenth street from the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The part Cherokee is Rev. King
Blackwell, &C. E., M. E." a middle
aged Oklahoman, who wears his gray
hair in two braids to his waist and
who founded the Holy Church of the
Living God" He holds a tax title
to two ramshackle frame dwellings,
in the windows of which he has
posted various signs. One says:
Beware of death. The police say
that HOUSEKEEPING is against the law.
SO you enter this property at your
own risk. You may run into a trap
and get shot"
Grabs His Rife.
Several weeks ago Rev. Mr.. Black
well came home and found a crew Of
colored laborers pulling his clothing
from the hooks and rolling 1t up. He
said he grasped his rifle and de-
manded:
What are you doing here?"
well, We were getting ready to tear
this house down." Rev. Mr.. Blackwell
said they called over their shoulders.
There are several claimants of title to
the property, and the dispute will be
settled in court.
Meanwhile. Rev. Mr. Blackwell re-
mains in possession of his rife. He
occupies his time printing his own
tracts on the subject of peace and
keeping roomers, most of whom de-
parted ahead of the wreckers. Rev.
Mr.. Blackwell says the Government
has never made him a satisfactory
offer for the property.
Agents of the Treasury and the con-
tractors on the job have been unable
to make Rev. Mr.. Blackwell vacate.
although his dwellings are squarely in
the path of the projected buildings.
Wants "Official Notice"
William H. Abbott, II. who has
spent half his life collecting data about
the health-giving qualities of the pine
apple, finally has sold his two-story
brick dwelling on Fourteenth street
to the Government. but he says he
won't leave until he receives Official
notice"
The Treasury agents say Abbott has
received several of these, but Abbott
seems to feel the notices were not off,
cial enough to hurry him. He is tax
ing his own time about packing q
Evening star., 1936-08-13

dozen truck-loads of clippings he has
massed on the pineapple subject.
Abbott paused long enough to ex-
plain his theory.
When I was H." he said, my
hands and feet were frozen. After that
my circulation was bad. I went to
many doctors and none of them could
help me. Doctors are of little use.
las the years passed began to
collect information about the pine
apple. I soon learned its beneficial
qualities. used to drink three quarts
Of pineapple juice a day. But I knew
1t didn't help as much as it should.
so experimental to eliminate the
acid. The pineapples we get here are
too green and have too much acid in
them. I learned the secret. I learned
how to fix canned pineapple so it
would be almost as beneficial as that
which had ripened in the sun and
absorbed the ultraviolet rays. Just
the other day I got sick and pine
apple cured me.
I'm going to get all my informa-
ton about the pineapple together be-
fore I move. Just to show YOU how
| necessary that is, found a clipping
today I never knew I had. 1t was
lying on the floor with lot of stuff
that had collected for years. That
Evening star., 1936-08-13
TRUCE IS REACHED
IN BAKERY STRIKE
Official Agrees to TWo-Week
Trial on Basis of Closed
Shop.

Offer of a two-week trial on closed
shop basis brought truce in the strike
against the Dutch Bakery Boy. Inc,
by its delivery truck statesmen, it was
announced today by william M. Ed
wards, company president.
In an effort to work out a settlement
Edwards accepted the offer of Charles
B. McClosky, business agent Of Bakers
Union, No. 18, to operate the bakery
with union help instead of the present
non-union employees.
The labor cost in the Dutch Boy
plant Is now 10 per cent, while labor
cost in union plants is only half that
amount, Edwards said. If McClosky
can reduce labor cost in the Dutch Boy
plant sufficiently by use of union
bakers to permit payment of union
wages to the driver-salesmen now on
strike, Edwards said he would be will
ing to sign a contract Immediately.
st have a great deal of faith in Nc
Closky and am willing to give him
every opportunity to show what he
can do with an all-union shop" Ed
wards said.
"At a conference yesterday with
McClosky and Robert C. Lester, busi-
ness agent of Bakery Salesmens
Union, No. SO. this plan was agreed
on. If 1t Is successful, I am willing
to sign contract Immediately, and
to eliminate my former proposal to
share net profits after an 1s-month
trial period"
Edwards explained the driver-sales-
men now employed would continue
through the two-week period, but that
McClosky had full authority to hire
all union help if he wished. Any of
the present baking staff layed of dur
ing the two weeks trial will receive
full pay, Edwards said. If the trial
is successful, all help will be hired
from the union, he declared.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

hitch himself along like a man with
broken leg. Another strange fea-
ture of the sloth is the fact that he
has one more or one less bone in his
neck than any other mammal.
His Slothful lazy ways won him his
name with the coming of the white
man. The sloth is distant relative
of the huge ground sloths which were
larger than elephants and which dis
appeared from South America mil
lions of years ago.
The anteater seems to have de-
scended from this huge prehistoric
creature also.
At least Is types of sloths inhabit
the forests of South and Central
America. One branch of the family
has yellow or orange patch between
the shoulders which biologists at first
were at loss to explain. Then one
of the sloths was found attached to
limb and the spot Of color between
his shoulders exactly resembled a
broken branch.
Tomorrow: The American egret,
phose beautiful plun,age all but
brOu0ht about his extinction
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Staying Victim Identified.

OAKLAND, Calf, August 13 (P).-
A man whose chain-bound body was
found on San Francisco Bay mud
flats, south of here, was identified yes
terday as Raoul Louis Cherbourgh
36-year-old Los Angeles seaman, By
the State Bureau of Criminal Iden.
tification. He had been slain.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
SCHROM FACING
TEST BY DOCTORS
Fire Chief Urged to Take
Rest Rather Than Enter
Retirement.

The continued service of Fire Chief
Schrom may hinge on the result OF a
physical examination he will be given
tomorrow by DR.. John Reed of the
Board of Police and Fire Surgeons.
Commissioner Hazen suggested to
Schrom that he should take an ex-
tended leave, perhaps for three
months, and attempt to regain his
health.
Schrom has been suffering from
Evening star., 1936-08-13

King Of Utah, Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral James w. Morris, Public Printer
A. E. Giegengack, past National
Comdr. James A. Drain of the Amer
ican Legion. Maj. Ernest w. Brown,
superintendent of police; Thomas E.
Lodge, president of the Federation Of
Citizens Associations; Walter M. Bas-
tian. president Of the District Bar
Association; department commanders
OF the Legion from q number Of
States and officers Of other veteran
and patriotic organizations.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Johnny DOE" BOARDER
Abandoned Baby Transferred to
Private Home.

Johnny Doe" 3 months old. aban-
doned in Union Station July %. was
transferred from Gallinger Hospital
yesterday to the home of Mrs. Ethel
McCallam, 1920 Thirty-fourth street,
Mount Rainier. Md
Miss Olive Faircloth of the Board
of Public Welfare said today the child
probably would be boarded with Mrs.
McCallam for the next six months.
If no relative claims him he prob
ably will be given to one Of the many
families that wish to adopt him. Miss
Faircloth added. He was left with a
station matron by young woman,
presumably his mother.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Garrett Safe for G. o. P.
OAKLAND. Md. August IL lP

OAKLAND, Nd, August l3 R.-
Reports from four districts in Garrett
County's general registration of voters
indicate the Republicans will retain
their normal majority Of about three
to one over the Democrats. Thus
far, STA Republicans and 220 Demo-
Gratis have registered. Other regis
tration dates are August 18, Septem-
Der 20 and October 6 and 13.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Guardsmen Honor Governor.

BETHANY BEACH, Del, August
13 R)-This was Governors day at
Camp Theodore Townsend, the en-
campment of the National Guard of
Delaware. Gov. C. Douglass Buck, the
commander -in-chief, was the guest Of
honor. The Governor, accompanied by
his staff and other State off1cials, will
inspect the Guard.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
UNIT TO CELEBRATE

A dance and entertainment program
In celebration of the first birthday of
enactment of the Social Security act
will be held at the Washington Hotel,
Hall of Nations room, Friday at 9 pm,
by Lodge No. $50, American Fedora
ton of Government Employees, COM
posed Of Social Security Board work.
ers.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
BY w. ii. SHIPPEN, JR.


THIS upside down, slow-motion
sloth is about 10 times as con-
spicuous at the Zoo as he
u would be back in his native
South American jungles.
In his usual haunts his coat is a
bright, living green to match the foil
age into which he blends.
Natural coloration is the strange
little creatures only protection from
his enemies.
Back in the damp jungles, the
sloths coarse hair is covered with a
green parasite plant called alga of the
same primitive type which colors the
shells of sea turtles. The alga dies
when the sloth leaves the steaming
climate Of the tropics.
The sloths hair grows the wrong
way. he lives upside down. creeps
along limbs at night in search Of fruit
and tender shoots. hangs motionless
all day and never descends volun-
tarily to the ground.
Instead of toes he has strong, per-
manently flexed hooks, and on the
ground he cannot walk, but must
Evening star., 1936-08-13
TO SPONSOR CRUISER
Wife of Gov. Earle to oficiate at

Wife of Gov. Earle to Oficiate at
Launching Ceremonies.
Mrs. Huberta P. Earle, wife Of Gov
George H. Earle of Pennsylvania, will
act as sponsor at the launching OF
the U. S. S. Philadelphia. light cruiser
No. Al, now being built at the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard, the Navy Depart
ment announced today.
The Philadelphia is scheduled for
launching in November, but no date
has been set. It will be the fifth yes
sci of the Navy to bear that name.
OF 10000 tons standard displace-
ment. the cruiser was authorized in
1888, but its keel was not laid until
May 20, 1885.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
Rugged Individualists Defy Builders
2 expert" and Pastor Refuse to Vacate Homes

Upper: w. II. Abbott sits on
the steps of his house, deter
mined not to sell his land to
the Government, Which needs
it to build Bureau of Engrdu-
ing amer on Fourteenth
street southwest. Abbott is
one OF a little band OF prop
erty ownerS DhoSe motto is:
"We're here to stay"
LoWer:: This sign, hung in
the 10indo10 OF the home of
one OF the embattled, SerDes
as a 1Oarning to persons 1oho
1Uould seek to drbitrate the
impdSSe. Star staff Photos.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

clipping told me how to twist the
top out of ripe pineapple.
when get my money. I'm 60
ing to Hawaii to raise ripe pineapples.
You heard the story of Ponce de Leon.
Well. he hunted for the spring of
eternal youth when he should have
been hunting for pineapple juice.
i've been collecting data in this
house for more than 20 years now. I
won't mind leaving so long as can
take all my material with me-"
Evening star., 1936-08-13

Tomorrow: The American egret,
whose beautiful plumage all but
brought about his extinction.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

. URNING from the bargain sale they look bit depressed
II Of they dogno pusyred They longing for rest
simply seethe every of
Although they mild these bad
bchso
Evening star., 1936-04-19

Observation-Disclosures
JAMBOREE-Top, Norman
c. Kal, president of the Ad-
vertising Club of Washing
ton; center, Alvin Ehrlich,
chairman of the clubs 21st
annual jamboree tomorrow
night at the Shoreham;
lower, A. D. Willard, chair
man Of the Entertainment
Committee.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
EASE NEW OR TIGHT SHOES

bath. Greater
value now at
no extra cost !
S OIL d at all
orug, shoe and
depart m mt
stores.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

SENTINEL OF THE NIGHT
NSilhouetted a gain I nt Inc
Nj a beautiful snowy egret
u, Is SURPRISED by an intrudlns
camera = in the dark hours Io,snd al
th the Santa Catalina lslana Sna''
Birdpark.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
B. LILLE LAUDS
EDWARD

PITTSBURGH, Dec. II GIN.
S.).-Miss Beatrice Lille, English
born comedienne and Lady Robert
Peel in private life, today paid
tribute here to the splendid cour-
age" of former King Edward VIII
of England.
There is little left to say" re-
Sponded Miss Lille when asked
to comment on the young kings
abdication, but added:
81 heard the kings abdicatiOn
speech and cried. He was
splendid. What cOurage!"
Miss Lille also said she had
met Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simp-
son. OF her she said:
"She is terribly attractive.
She is very nice. She could not
be nicer. She is very SOignee
and all that.
"NOw that it is all decided,
everybody should be very happy
about it. think the former
Duke of York will make q
marvellous king"
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
LEAGUE LINK
.STIRS FIGHT ON
PEACEPACT

Phrases from the pen of Presl-
dent Roosevelt, rewritten into the
preamble Of the Inter-American
Peace Treaty signed at Buenos
Aires last Saturday, today pointed
that key pact of the Inter-Amer-
lean Conference towards a bitter
Senate fight.
A legal authority within the
Administration charged Senate
ratification of the treaty. as pre-
sented and signed by Secretary
of State Hull, would chain the
United States to the League of
Nations collective security SyS-
TEN.
Links of the chain, he said, were
forged in paragraph one OF the
treaty preamble, which is trans.
lated in the State Departments
official transcript from Buenos
Aires as follows:
"That according to the state
ment of His Excellency Frank
lin d. Roosevelt, President of
the United States the meas
ures to be adopted by it (the
cOnferenee) would advance the
cause of world peace inaSmuch
rs the agreements which might
be signed would supplement and
reinforce the efforts of the
League Of Nations, and of all
other existing or future peace
agencies, seeking to prevent
war;"
The Presidents quoted phrases
were taken from his letter of jan
uary 30 last broaching to t h e
heads of the other American re-
publicS a conference "in the cause
of permanent peace on this West
ern Continent"
State Department officials Wig
orously denied any United States
bond with Geneva was inherent
in the treaty. They said t h e
Presidents words were requoted
in the preamble only to allay jeal-
GUS apprehensions of Latin-Amer-
ican members of the League.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Tucker Us Retirement
Battle Veteran

1t was a long, hard pull, that
campaign which eventually
brought about the enactment OF
the retirement law for government
employees.
There are probably none who
better remember that fight and the
work that went with it than Ed
ward L. Tucker of 904 B st. S. E.,
for he was one of the most active
workers in the campaign.
In fact, it was Mr.. Tucker who
introduced the resolution at the
machinists' convention in Toronto
about 1902 that led to the forma-
tion of the organization Of the
groups seeking enactment Of the
law in the various branches Of the
Government.
Prior to that, each government
agency waged its own battle fol-
lowing his lead, the organizations
combined and fought along q
united front.
Mr.. Tucker learned his machin-
lists trade in Knoxville, Tenn, be-
ginning in 1883. He then set out,
as was the custom of young men
in the various trades those days
and worked in virtually every big
town in the country before getting
a call from Uncle Sam to join the
force at the Washington Navy
Yard in 1898.
There he continued to work until
1910 when he transferred to the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
where he stayed until he retired
in 1898
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Hoover Spins Good
Florida Fish Story

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Dec. IT.
Bad luck followed Fisherman Her
bert Hoover, who returned from
a day-long cruise in the Gulf
Stream last night-empty-handed
but with a good story.
The former President said:
81 hooked a beautiful Allison
tuna, but just as / had it in
close, a barracuda snapped it in
half. 1t took all the joy out Of
life"
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
D, c, Folk Honored

Two Washington residents have
received advanced degrees at the
convocation of the University of
Chicago, it was announced today.
Louis T. Merrill, connected
with the United States News, re-
ceived the degree of doctor of
philosophy in history and Regina
Gutenberg, 1913 Buchanan st.
N. w., received a master of arts
degree in social service.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
Club Luncheon Set

Members of the Reciprocity
Club will hold a luncheon meeting
1890 p. m. tomorrow at the Lafay-
cite Hotel. Applications for mem
bership by Leon Chatelain. jr., H.
S. Roberts, and Arthur J. Melville
have been accepted by the mem
bership committee, it was an
nnl1nced
The Washington times., 1936-12-17
"Boom" Is Failure

DVVTTI 70 ! 0ITUI .
NEW YORK, Dec. II U.N.S0.
Three glaciers were held in bail
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 TO-
day on charges of breaking plate
glass windows to help out bust
ness during the slack season.
The Washington times., 1936-12-17

T always give my family foods they like best Christmas
time what's Christmas dinner without old friends And
A&P Bread is Christmas dinner list again this
For years my children would eat noushng wholesome
bread They said of stale taseess Then one day
bought Arp Bread And what derence The children liked
it so much the whole loaf in meal.
"Snce then my children have strong and healthy for
APP Bread regularly So APP Bread old friend
we'll have for Christmas dinner this year. It's fresh and
Aavorful it makes the whole meal taste better"
The Washington times., 1936-05-22

All Federal prisoners awaiting
trial for murder or second offense
felonies will be subjected to a rigid
examination to determine their
sanity, under a plan placed before
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau by the Public Health Service.
If he approves the proposal,
which bears the strong advocacy
of the Department of Justice, the
Public Health Service will provide
part-time stats throughout the
nation to advise Federal judges
on the mental competency of pris-
onerS.
The Government experts will
recommend assignments to proper
The Washington times., 1936-05-22
TOday'S BOOndOggIe

The citizens of Clifton Ariz have done better for
themselves than did their neghbos in Duncan The value
of WPA projects approved for Clifton represents Federal
expenditures amounting to $5435 for every man, woman
and child in this little town of 2,305 inhabitants.
If Clifton had had ball it could have nosed
Duncan But all it had ball park and teams,
the WPA will spend $2328O to transform the old ball
grounds into recreational park.
1t might have been cheaper to provide Clifton with ball
team.
Yorks
The Washington times., 1936-05-22
Sanity Tests Urged
For All SlayeES

retreats for the insane If the SUBJ
jects are found of unsound minds.
BY the new plan the Govern
ment hopes to avert surprise de-
Tense moves to claim insanity for
prisoners charged with serious Of
lenses.
Another primary purpose Of the
plan, it was learned, is to Sift con-
flicting mental testimony Of medi-
cal experts and advise the court,
after careful examinations Of the
prisoners, on the mental health
and competency of the subject.
The proposal has the full ap,
prevail of Attorney General Cum.
mings and Surgeon General
Thomas Parran, jr.