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Evening star., 1936-08-08
OVERCOME SECOND Time,
GAS VICTIM SURVIVES
Fred Beuchert, SO, Refuses to
Talk When Taken to Hospital
From Somerset Place.

Although overcome by gas in his
kitchen on two successive days, Fred
Beuchert, 36, was still alive today.
Attaches at Gallinger Hospital re-
ported Beuchert regained conscious
ness during the night, but refused
to talk" His condition was better.
He was found unconscious yester-
day morning in the gas-flled kitchen
of his home at 712 Somerset place.
After receiving first aid from the res
cue squad, he was removed to CALM
ger for treatment and observation.
Miss Eleanor Huck, who lives next
door, discovered Beuchert yesterday.
The day before another neighbor,
James Carpenter, found Beuchert un-
conscious with the gas Jets open, but
he was revived. Beuchert has two
sons, Bobby, 10, and Fred, IL.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
SPECIAL NOTICES.

A SPECIAL MEETING OF Stockholders
of Lady Lee. incorporated, corporation.
will be held at 1905 F st. NV. Washington,
D. c.. at g pm. August II. 1886 for the
purpose OF authorizing an amendment to
the corporate charter of said corporation
TO S25. 600 and for such other business as
may be properly presented.
Signed: LEE K SHAPIRO,
HERMAN SHAPIRO.
MAURICE SHAPIRO.
Directors.
I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
1sSts 0 sheE haR
St sw 8"
NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF FIRST-TRUST
BONDS OF THE WASHINGTON AU-
DrTORIUM CORPORATION.
Coupon No. 8 of the first.trust bonds
Of said corporation will be paid upon pres
entation to the American Security g. Trust
'' " BENJAMIN RoLdAN.
81 Asst. Secretary.
CARPENTER, CABINETMAKER., STORE
fixtures. additions, alterations: 30 years
experience. HARRIS. Decatur 1922. IL
DAILY TRIPS. MOVING LOADS AND PART
ToTk ETeauent trips to other Eastern sts
~dE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE
co Phone Decatur $500.
FREE-SAND AND GRAVEL MIXTURE
suitable for roadways rough concrete. fll
given free at LAMOND TERRA GOTTA
WORKS Blair I'd and Underwood st: nv
TERMINAL VAN LINES
OF TAMPA. FLA.
Padded Vans-Pioneer Distance Movers:
OficeS, $50 Goth st. NV West O919.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Ignite or brown coal Is more solid
than peat, but less compact than ordi-
nary coal.
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Berlin

Continued From First Page.)
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TERMINAL VAN LINES
OF TAMPA. FLA.
Padded Vans-Pioneer Distance Movers.
OhceS, $50 goth st. NV West O919
Evening star., 1936-12-14

blue eyes and a crop OF soft. fair curls,
should not 60 to school. but should be
educated at home with her younger
sister, Margaret Rose. Their mother,
herself product Of home education.
was determined that both girls should
enjoy the same natural freedom Of
development that she herself had. She
holds spelling children to be q crime
and rules hers through kindness and
tact while at the same time demanding
implicit obedience.
Princess Elizabeth is inclined to be
self-willed and sometimes has to be
reproved sternly by her mother, but
she never has been slapped in her
life and Is a natural and unspoiled
child, extremely popular with every
one with whom she comes in contact.
She adores her sister, an affection
which Is returned, 50 that they are
happiest together and hate being sepa-
rated even for short time.
The Princess Elizabeth seems to
have as remarkable memory a. that
Evening star., 1936-12-14

possessed by her father: she never
forgets anything or anybody. and often
recalls q visitor, although she had
met him perhaps couple Of years
before. She is an apt pupil and seems
to like her lessons, particularly his
tory, geography, music and drawing,
for each OF which she has different
teacher.
The Queen insists on Q regular
routine for the children. Their meals
have to be punctual, for punctuality
Is law which has ruled the life of
every royal person. A few minutes
delay In their well-planned day would
result in catastrophe. The school
lessons begin at $50 am. and con-
tinue, with break for exercise, until
lunch. The afternoons are devoted
to games, an occasional dancing class.
skating lesson, = visit to the ZOO or
q drive through Kew Gardens or
through the park or some other ex-
cursion. Of educational interest.
The two princesses are especially
Evening star., 1936-12-14

fond Of visiting the ZOO. where they
have nursed baby alligator, talked
to baby chimpanzee, seen the lions
fed and laughed at the antics of the
penguins. Elizabeth, who has q gen.
erous nature, once tried to hand one
Of her toys to some child in the street.
She likes playing with other girls
and has many little friends OF her
own age whom she delights to enter
tain in the miniature cottage pre-
sented to her by the people of Wales.
She and her sister clean and wash
the four-room house themselves and
wash and iron the red-and-white-
checked gingham curtains.
Elizabeth is very fond of animals
and likes skating and swimming. She
has several hobbies, including garden
ing, knitting and>making cakes, and
has scrapbook in which she keeps
Photographs Of various royal relatives
from all over the world.
The children's nursery in their Pic
cadilly home was on the top floor, with
Evening star., 1936-12-14

special elevator to 1t. The chairs
and other furniture in the nursery are
all Of mahogany. the carpet bright
red and the walls golden green, re-
heved by q few pictures. The front
windows give a splendid view of a
corner OF Hyde Park, but despite this
there is . tremendous traffic outside
the house. A large garden In the rear
Is where Elizabeth and Margaret do
most Of their romping and playing.
generally with their pet dogs, jamie,
belonging to Elizabeth, and Dookie to
Margaret.
Elizabeth hates formality. Once she
committed the crime Of falling asleep
during q sermon in Balmoral Church,
and, when reproved by her mother, re-
piled: well. daddy closed his eyes"
Elizabeth's ways with some strangers Is
sometimes disconcerting, and this Is
a matter which has received close at
tention from her mother. One day
bishop patted her head and was taken
aback when Immediately she lisped,
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Duties as Wife and Mother
First Consideration of Queen
Personal Friends to Haze Same Vel.
: come at Buckingham Palace They
EniOyed in PiccadHIy.

plotted talent for light verse. 1t Is
fortunate that Princess Elizabeth. who,
unless brother is born, will be the
next Queen of England, should have
such loving and sensible parents to
prepare her for the important duties
which lie ahead.
Her parents have devoted 4 tre-
mendous amount of care to planning
her education. 1t had been decided
that the pretty 10-year-old girl, with
Evening star., 1936-12-14
I think you're a strange man"

II think you're strange man."
The late Lord Buckmaster loved to
tell story of how Elizabeth, standing
in front of him at some show, was told
to sit down because he couldn't see
Hes bigger than I am" said the
Princess with an injured air as she
resumed her seat.
Copyright, 1885. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1936-12-14
with 2-trousers> Overcoats, Tuxedos> Full Dress

Well wager there will be many many gifts under your tree
the 25h but will there be suit overcoat tuxedo full
ee @ GnH this IN & on a.
dons Every suit has two pairs of trousers Included
special purchase of 500 fine worseds of unusual value Tweed
Velour Melton and Weaheral fleece Overcoats Midnight
Blue Black single and doubebreasted Tuxedos and Full
Dress Suits And Of know reputation for fit
ting of all builds.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
$3,405,437 APP0RTIONED
FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS
Seventh Day Adventists Appropri-
ate $315, ,4O7 for China, $50, 0,149
for American Negroes.

An appropriation of s3,405,437 for
the 1887 program of the Foreign Mis-
sion Board of the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist Church was announced today
at world headquarters Of the church
in Takoma Park, Md.
The principal appropriations in
clude: China, $3l5,40787; inter-
America, which includes the northern
portion of South America, the Gen.
trail American states. Mexico and the
West Indies, $213,349.28: Northern
Europe, s106.00330; South Africa,
$2262e9.55; South America. $241,-
1859; Southern Asia, including In
dia ard Ceylon, 1924, 4,96151; South
ern Europe, $l46,813.12; Far East,
which includes Japan, Philippine
Islands. Malay States and French
Indo-C China. $24s.O9S 90; foreign
speaking peoples of North America,
$79,251.23; administration. $307,-
o90.96; miscellaneous work, $770,-
STOOL; for advancement of the church
among North American Negroes, $780,
i4e.4o: Canada, $31 1,305.42.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
PLAN CELEBRATION
At ALEXANDRIA
Organization Heads Lay
Ground Work to Show
City's Progress.
}, 4 Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

y q Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 26.-
Plans for a Greater Alexandria week,
to be held from February Is to % next
year, will be formulated at a meet
ing of representatives of the city's
civic, educational and religious Or
ganizations Tuesday, December /.
The celebration will emphasize the
city's growth and PROCESS during re-
cent years and will attempt to i'm
press residents and others with its
future possibilities as an important
part of the Greater Washington area,
officials explained.
A temporary committee, which in
cludes Martin p. Greene, manager Of
the Chamber of Commerce; Henry T.
Moncure, principal of George Wash
ington High School: J. William May,
an official Of the George Washington
Birthday Association; Joseph S. Ever
ly Of the Rotary Club and Edgar S.
Bayol of the Lions Club, has been
organized.
The climax OF the weeks celebra-
ton will be on George Washington's
birthday anniversary, February %. 1t
is not known at present whether the
George Washington Birthday Asso-
citation, which has sponsored huge
parades here on February % in past
years, plans to undertake another
parade next year in connection with
the celebration. The last Washington
Birthday parade was held in 1882 as
q feature of the bicentennial cele-
bration.
A permanent committee will be
named and definite plans made for
the Greater Alexandria week at Tues
days meeting.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
OF CALIFORNIA UPHELD
Cooperation With Federal Pro-
gram Assured by State Supreme
Court Ruling.

gram Assured by State Supreme
Court Ruling.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 26 up.
The California Supreme Court up
held validity of the State unemploy-
ment reserves act yesterday.
The opinion stated 100000 en-
ployes and 10000 employers are af-
fected. Their contributions to unem-
ployment insurance funds for this
year will total an estimated $l5,000,-
600.
The court granted Claude c. Gil
lum, proprietor Of the Hotel Clare
mont of Oakland. a writ of mandate
compelling State Treasurer Charles
G. johnson, Controller Ray L.
Riley and the Unemployment Re-
serve Commission to comply fully with
terms Of the State act and with the
Federal social security act.
Monday the United States Supreme
Court upheld validity Of the New York
State unemployment insurance legis-
lation.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Fire Makes Reality
. of Manufacturers
Hard Times Party
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 26.-The
hard times party Jacob Kanter
gave at his apartment in his
window blind manufacturing
plant was precisely that.
Fire starting in q store room
left several Of his so guests with
only their hard times costumes.
1t destroyed the factory and
left Kanter homeless. 1t sent
him to a hospital for treatment
of burns suffered when he
punched out a window trying to
save his guests clothes.
Firemen estimated the damage
at $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-11-26
Uchis Formerly in South.

The Uchi Indians, forming q dis
tinct linguistic stock, formerly lived
in Georgia and South Carolina.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
PAY OF EMPLOYE
AGENTS DISCLOSED
Plan of Steel Company Told
at Labor Board
Hearing.
BY JOHN C.. HENRY.

Employees OF the Carnegie Illinois
Steel Corp. have been paid as much
as $l05 per month by the company
for their services as officials of the
employe-representat plan, the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board was told
today by Elmer j. Maloy. steel strip
per in the Duquesne, Pa. plant.
This sum, he said, would be in ad-
dition to regular wages and would be
based upon time spent at company
union meetings.
IF anything happens to displease
the management" Maloy said. there
always are three or four meetings
called to change our minds
Maloy was placed on the stand to
substantiate charges by the board that
the steel corporation dominates its
employe representative groups.
Finish Fight Promised.
Outside the hearing the corporation
and its parent company, the United
States Steel Corp. issued a statement
saying it would fight to the finish
to maintain its present plan of en-
ploye representation. Comuanv conn
sci was blocked this morning by the
board in efforts to have the case dis
missed or continued until constitu-
tionality of the labor relations law
had been determined.
In its decision. pronounced after
nearly two hours Of argument and ex-
ecutive conference between counsel,
the board granted the steel company
additional time to prepare its answer
in the case and 20 submit further
evidence.
During the course Of hearing the
steel counsel's third motion for an ex-
tension of time to January 20, and the
postponement OF hearings until Feb
ruary l8, Board Chairman j. Warren
Madden reprimanded counsel for lack
of consideration" for the Government
and other parties involved.
Meanwhile, on another front, the
United Mine Workers issued a call
for 81 ,000, 900 extra funds to be used
as q reserve threat in wage negotia-
tions with the soft coal industry, in
the organizing drive against the steel
and other mass production industries
and to help support legislative per-
suasion ON behalf of certain measures
before Congress.
This disclosure was made today in
the form of an assessment notice di-
rected to the 500, 900 members of the
(See LABOR, Page A-s.)
Evening star., 1936-12-17
EXPENSE
INCREASE FEARED
Cut in Emergency Costs May
Offset "0rdinary' Appro.
priations Rise.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
House appropriations committee
men spoke today Of possibility Con.
gress might have to increase instead
Of trim appropriations for ordinary
Government expenses.
They have not given up hope OF tax
ing a big stride toward a balanced
budget by pairing emergency ex-
penditures.
They said, however, any such slashes
might be Offset partially by larger
appropriations for departments whose
functions have been enlarged.
"As long as we keep adding agencies,
and functions" said Chairman
Buchanan, Democrat, of Texas. we've
got to appropriate for them, and we
can't cut down."
He said the Treasury-Post Once
appropriation for the fiscal year be-
ginning July / might reach $780,
000, ,000-some $l0o, 100000 more than
the original sum for the current fiscal
year.
Representative Taber Of New York,
ranking Republican member. who has
been attending subcommittee hearings
on this appropriation. said:
Il haven't seen any signs Of cut
ting down expenses SO far"
Part of the prospective increase In
the Treasury-Post ONCE fund, Bu-
chanan indicated, may be attributed
(see APPROPRIATIONS, Page A-s.)
Evening star., 1936-12-17
2O-YEAR SENTENCE
lis GIVEN TEACHER
i'm PATR|C|DE CASE
Edith Maxwell, Convicted
Second Time, Handed
Maximum Term.
GIRL BURSTS IN TEARS
ON HEARING VERDICT
Attorneys Seek Defendants Ad-
mittance to Bail Pending
New Trial Argument.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WISE, Va, December l7.-Edith
Maxwell, mountaineer school teacher.
was convicted today in her second
trial for the Staying of her miner
blacksmith father and sentenced to 20
years in the State penitentiary.
The Wise County jury, after delib-
Grating an hour and 20 minutes, re-
turned a verdict of second degree
murder and recommended the maxi
mum penalty under the Virginia law
for the 22-year-old brunette.
Edith, standing to hear the verdict
read, bit her lip as the foreman pro-
nounced the word guilty"
Then, bursting into tears, she buried
her head on the shoulder of ner
brother. Earl Maxwell who led the
fight for his sisters second trial.
Christmas Is Ruined.
A moment later she regained her
composure enough to say bitterly:
This sure knocks out my Christ
mas"
She said she would return today
to Chesterfield County if Judge Ezra
T. Carter allowed her bail, pending
arguments of defense attorneys mo-
ton TO set aside the verdict as con-
trary to the law and evidence.
Judge Carter, however, delayed ac-
ton on the bail plea and recessed
court while lawyers looked up au-
thorities on the question.
He said it is not his practice to
grant bail where the sentence exceeds
10 years.
Dabs at Her Eyes.
During the time attorneys sought
continuance of the $4,000 bail in
which Edith was released several
months ago, she stood with her attor-
neys before the bench and dabbed at
her eyes with a crumpled handker-
chief.
Her 13-year- r-old sister, Mary Kath-
ryn. the only one of the family 70
testify to events in the Pound home
the night Trigg Maxwell died. stood
behind her with other members OF
the family. The child wept softly.
If the court denies the motion to
set aside the verdict, which Judge
Carter said will be heard not later
than March /. M. ]. Fulton said he
would appeal the conviction for the
second time.
1t was the second time the slender
girl had been convicted by a jury in
Wise County. She previously was
convicted Of killing her father, q
blacksmith and miner, and sentenced
to rs years in prison. But the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court gave her a new
trial on grounds that the evidence at
the first trial did not justify a ver-
dict of first-degree murder.
| For six hours attorneys for the Com
monwealth and defense argued before
the jury, after the judge had delivered
his instructions.
! Commemorative Attorney Fred B.
Greear declared Trigg Maxwell met his
death when his school teacher-daugh-
ter struck him over the head with some
blunt instrument. probably while he
slept" He pointed to the testimony
of States witnesses who had told the
court the 22-year-old girl had threat
ened to finish" her father.
In his arguments Greear stressed the
(See MAXWELL, Page AID
Evening star., 1936-12-17
BOARD ENROLLING
RAILROAD FORCES
Security Body Seeking
Names for Pension Plan
Now Tied Up in Courts.

Because the Railroad Retirement
Board lacks funds to carry on the
work. the Social Security Board has
undertaken to enroll the rail workers
of the Nation for the rail pension plan
now tied up in the courts.
This was disclosed today as hundreds
Of thousands of pension application
forms were being distributed to the
carriers for use OF their employees. As
was the case in assembling basic rec
ords for old-age benefits under the So
cial security act, the preliminary regis
tration work is being handled through
local post offices.
Rail workers are exempt from the
old-age benefits of the social security
act and Murray Latimer, chairman
of the Railroad Retirement Board
said that the listing of the rail work.
ers through the Social Security Board
did not mean that thought was being
given to bringing them under .he
social security act if their own law, for
the second time, is invalidated by the
Supreme Court.
New Rail Pension Act.
The new rail pension act supplant-
ing that invalidated by the Supreme
Court became effective at the start OF
this fiscal year. No appropriation was
made for setting up the necessary sys-
TEN Of records, however, it was ex-
planned, and the retirement board has
Ca CvSrTIpITY pece A-31
Evening star., 1936-12-17
RAIL CRASH KILLS
THREE IN ALABAMA
Two Engineers and Fireman Vic
Tins and Passengers Shaken
on L. & N.
BY the Associated Press.

VA 49, ~ ~NF
BY the Associated Press.
CASTLEBERRY. Ala, December
1.-Two engineers and a fireman
were killed in the head-on collision of
a southbound Louisville g. Nashville
passenger train and a northbound
train standing in the station here
early today. Passengers we're shaken
up but none was reported seriously in
jured.
Castleberry is in South Central Ala
bama 20 miles north of the Florida
peninsula line.
The two engines virtually were de-
molished.
Trainmen said passenger train No.
3 crashed into train No. 2 as it stood
at a water tank on the main line.
They listed the dead as Engineers
Lee Corey and Philip Grizzard, both
of Montgomery, Ala, and colored
fireman named Barnes.
Train No. runs from Mobile to
Cincinnati and train No. from Gin
cinnati to Mobile. The southbound
tram, No. 3, was running approxi-
mately three hours late when it left
Montgomery at 2 am.
Mayor r. j. Matthews Of Castle
berry said there was a heavy fog and
that many believed Grizzard, driving
the southbound No. 3. did not see the
switch signals that were reported TO
have been set directing him TO Q
siding.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
"FLIvvER" AIRPLANE
CRASHES; PILOT HURT
Bureau of Air Commerce Test
Expert Escapes Injury
in Accident,

Hayden Campbell, st. Joseph, Mo.
private pilot who turned the Baltimore
pike into q temporary airport while
bringing a new fivver airplane to
Washington for demonstration, was
seriously injured this afternoon when
the plane crashed near Boiling Field
during speed run. Walter Brownell,
test pilot for the Bureau of Air Com
merce, who was flying with him, was
uninjured.
Campbell was taken to Casualty
Hospital badly cut about the head
and face and hands. His condition
was said to be Undetermined"
The crash is said to have resulted
from a failure of the oil system in
the automobile engine with which the
little plane was powered. In the
forced landing which followed the
wings were torn of and the plane
rolled over and over. It was described
rs an almost complete loss.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
.ABD|CAT|0N RADIO
TALKS UNDER FIRE
Parliament to Probe Broad
casts by Former King
and Canterbury.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 1.-THE wrath
of militant members of the House OF
Commons fell today on the British
Broadcasting Co. for the Archbishop
of Canterbury's recent radio denun-
citation of former King Edward VIII
and his friends.
Members who disapproved the CEN
sure by the head of the Church Of
England prepared to explore every de-
tail of arrangements by the B. B. c.,
a government monopoly. for broadcasts
concerning the now Duke of Windsor's s
abdication.
Their fire, however. was expected to
center on the primate's address Sun
day, after Windsor had gone into vol
untary exile. which was broadcast
over B. B. C. facilities. The whole
issue was prepared for general de-
bate, possibly tonight, after inquiries
into other phases of the B. B. C.s
activities.
Controversy Widespread.
The archbishop provoked a wide
controversy by his rebuke of the former
ruler for desiring to wed twice.
divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson as
q violation Of Christian principles of
marriage" and of his friends as q
"circle whose standards and ways of
life are alien to all the best instincts
and traditions Of his people"
M. P.s opposed to the archbishop's
stand declared they would try to un-
(See ABDICATION, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-12-17
TOY BALL is PLANNED
TO AID STAR CAMPAIGN
ShOreham Hotel Show to Feature Stars
of Stage, Screen and Radio to
Benefit City's Needy.

tricycles. dolls, and teddy bears. Do
not be alarmed about sizes, distribution
officials say. The Parent-Teacher
Association and the Metropolitan
Police have on their carefully COM
piled lists of destitute and near desti-
tute-those existing on q level per-
mitting only enough food for survival
children Of every size clothing manu-
facturers make
1t will be a grand ball, preceding
the Warner Bros. IL toy matinees to
be held Saturday morning, and do
nations collected at the Shoreham
and the theaters will be distributed
through the same campaign.
Walter Huston, who is Othello at
the National Theater this week. will
(See TOY DRIVE, Page A-2.)