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Evening star., 1936-04-19
HYGIENE SOCIETY
TO HOLD DINNER
Walter w. R. May to Make
Principal Address at
Annual Meeting.

Walter W. r. May, director Of the
Chamber of Commerce Of Portland,
Greg, and World War social hygiene
liaison officer, will be the guest
speaker at the eighteenth annual din
ner meeting of the Social Hygiene
Society of the District of Columbia in
Barker Hall, Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth
and K streets, at Z pm. Friday, May /.
May will take as his subject 1.-The
Trail of Social Progress" After the
war he became executive news editor
of the Portland Oregonian, served as
chairman of the Community Chest
Campaign Committee during two sue
cessful campaigns and became thor
oughly familiar with the social well
fare activities and agencies of his
city.
The society at this meeting will elect
directors for two and three year terms.
The Committee on Nominations,
headed by Esther Scott, chairman, has
reported the following nominees to be
voted upon for three-year terms from
May /: Albert w. Atwood, Mrs. Samuel
G. Blythe, Virginia Christie, Rev. Rus
sell j. Clinchy, Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, Maj. Gen. Merritt w. Ireland,
DR.. Louise Taylor-Jones, Stephen E.
Kramer, DR.. Ella Oppenheimer, DR.. r.
A. Vonderlehr, w. w. Wheeler, DR..
William A. White and Herbert S.
Wood.
Candidates for the two-year term
are Mitchell Dreese and DR.. Dorothy
Boulding- -Ferebee.
Directors continuing in Office for a
period of two years more from May l
are Judge Fay L. Bentley, DR.. Anna
Bartsch Dunno, DR.. Russell Fields,
Joseph D. Kaufman, Capt. Rhoda
Milliken, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, DR..
Charles E. Riggs, Mrs. Maurice D.
Rosenberg, Mrs. R. Thomas West, Mrs.
w. w. Wheeler, G. G. Wilkinson, DR..
Prentiss Wilson and Mrs. Benjamin
R. Wood.
Directors who have one more year
to serve are DR.. Edith Seville Coale
DR.. Warren F. Draper, DR.. Lewis c.
Ecker, DR.. Frank Jones, j. E. Jones,
DR.. Robert Scott Lamb, Mrs. Julius
Lansburgh, Mrs. Lawrence Martin,
DR.. Earl Baldwin Mckinley, Solomon
H. Metz Esther Scott Willard Smith,
Mrs. Elwood Street, Mrs. Walter S.
Ufford and Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff.
Members of the Committee on
Nominations serving with Chairman
Scott are Albert w. Atwood, Judge Fay
L. Bentley, Mrs. Maurice D. Rosenberg
and Mrs. Walter S. Ufford.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-04-04
THIRD PRIZE CASH

In addition to the regular weekly Pay
Check, winner of third place will re-
ceive EXTRA Bonus check for SO per
cent Of his or her total earnings add
ed.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-04-04
FOURTH PRIZE CASH

In addition to the regular weekly Pay
Check winner of Fourth place will re-
ceive EXTRA Bonus Check for 33 1-3
per cent of his or her total winnings
added.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-04-04
Special Cash Prize Offer

Those who are competing for the
Grand Prizes, must remember that the
special cash Prizes offered for the best
total cash reports up to 9 P. M, on Sa-I
turday, April 4th, have no connection
with other prizes offered.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
NAMING OF CLARKE
HELD INDORSEME ENT
Renovation of Downtown Parks
Believed Backed by Roose-
velt Action.

An implied Endorsement of the rem
ovation of Washington's downtown
parks-plans for which have drawn
vigorous protests from some citizens
was seen by park authorities yesterday
in the reappointment by President
Roosevelt Of Gilmore D. Clarke of New
York to four-year term as landscape
architect member of the Fine Arts
Commission.
Clarke persuaded the commission to
approve plans for modernization Of
Lafayette, Franklin and other down.
town parks. The plans were prepared
by the Branch of Plans and Design
Of the National Park Service. Heading
the local unit of this branch is NAL
colin Kirkpatrick, resident landscape
architect.
Aroused citizens have expressed Wig
orous dsapproval with the moderni-
zation plans to newspapers and off,
cials of the National Capital Parks.
The loss Of small flower beds drew q
great deal of criticism.
Clarke is vice president Of the
American Society of Landscape Ar
chitects and has been a member of
the Fine Arts Commission since 1882
President Roosevelt also appointed
Henry Richardson Shepley Of Boston,
Mass. to the commission. Shepleys an
architect. succeeds his late partner,
Charles A. Coolidge. who died suddenly
early this month. He, too, will serve a
four-year term.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

an o. With the other hand make a
wavy motion beneath the o.
And so on. The idea is to make
up your own, out of songs, book titles
or. whatever titles you might have in
mind that you think you can act and
be perplexing.
The inclusion of a bit of panto-
mimic action by a little-known bit
comic-Dave Chasen-launched the
current craze through his acting out
the title of the song, River, Stay
Away From My Door," during the
film Millions in the Air
Chasen, who was born in Odessa,
and says he was once a business rep
resentative of the Car in this coun-
try, was not, however, the original
portrayer Of the river gesture. Credit
for the idea seems to belong to Jimmy
Savo, the Bronx juggler, who is said
by experts to be the best but least
appreciated pantomime artist in the
world.
Chasen's use of the gesture was
copied. Before long the game was
widespread. Up at the Capitol even
Marion McDonough, niece of Mary
Norton, chairman of the District Com
mittee, adopted the game. But it's
popularity is short. University of
Maryland students already consider it
old stuff.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
CHURCH GAMING
BAN SUPPORTED
La Roe Thinks Charges OF
Congress SiIenced by
Police Drive.

The campaign of District police to en-
force gambling laws against churches
conducting games of chance at benefit
affairs has the unqualified indorse.
ment Of Wilbur La Roe, jr.. chairman
of the Civic Affairs Committee Of the
Washington Federation of Churches
and chairman Of the District Parole
Board.
La Roe expressed the opinion yes
terday that recent charges in Congress
that many churches have been incon.
sistent IN opposing gambling and at
the same time carrying on "bingo"
and other games at their entertain
ments, will be silenced by the police
drive.
La Roe also charged that Chairman
Palmisano's Judiciary Subcommittee
of the House District Committee is
blockading anti-gambling legislation
vital to police in their enforcement
activities.
If the churches are sincere in their
opposition to gambling" La Roe said,
they must not tolerate lotteries for
the raising Of money. The current
blockade of the anti-gambling law in
the House creates serious situation
1t has passed the Senate twice. Under
existing statutes man can be caught
with numbers racket material and still
go free unless gambling is proved.
"As a result the numbers racket has
been running wild all over the Dis
trict. The police are hampered and
Congress asks about the churches
themselves. I think the Wilson and
other murders are attributable TO
gambling and the crime it leads to
because Of enormous profits. Police
said one organization had 400 custom
ers at $40 a week each-that is SIG. 600
week minimum income from gam
bling for one outfit alone. To eliminate
the evils that go with 1t, gambling
itself must be wiped out.
Some Of us are going to recon-
mend to the District Commissioned
and Congress law requiring all per-
sons entering the District who ever
have been convicted of a felony to
register within "a hours of arrival or
be subject to imprisonment Similar
laws are in force in Philadelphia,
Miami and Los Angeles. Washington
is a natural place for crooks of other
cities to congregate, being part way
between New York and Florida. Such
law would permit police to hold
former felons until their recent ac-
tivities could be checked. For example.
the perpetrators of a 5000 jewelry
theft in Miami were arrested in Wash
ington."
Evening star., 1936-04-19
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

IN 1884 every third person collected
match folders, or was it bottle
caps? In 1885 men and women
Il wrote chain letters. The parade
of fads is as eternal as the tides and
unpredictable as claiming horse. In
1886 we have gestures" or "one-man
charadeS."
This latest frenzy combines mans
irresponsible love of fads, his inherent
pleasure. in pantomime and his de-
light in guessing games. 1t is sweep
ing the country-interfering with
bridge parties, making life night
mare for the high-strung, distracting
school children. and turning business
hours into batty hours.
Unlike chain letters, gestures" costs
nothing to play and offers no reward
except the artistic satisfaction of a
triumph in personal and silent dra-
matics. In any event, they fulfill the
Century Dictionary's definition of q
fad:
"a trivial fancy. adopted and pur-
sued for time with irrational zeal"
The question of the inspiration Of
the new pantomime has been solved
It was traced to movie which played
Washington almost six weeks ago. AS
the film has gone from city to city
it has brought under its spell the
throng bored with murder, monopoly,
ghost and dozen other parlor games.
The equipment required for the
game is gift for wierd gesticulations
and watcher willing to guess what
the player is representing. The ges-
lures relate to song titles, cliches. IA
nous sayings, or even single words.
They constitute a skeletonized form
Of the old contest Of wits, charades.
gestures are these:
Ford V-8-Spread the index and
middle finger of the same hand to
form a v; keep the other fingers
curled into the palm and put the
hand on the face so that the bottom
of the v is just below the nostrils.
Spread the other hand over the top
of the head to form the radiator cap.
Getting over the grippe (this Is one
of the few which requires two per-
sons to act the gesture) Clasp the
hand of your partner; glide the free
hand through the air and vault 1t over
the grip.
Beating around the bush-Pat the
head (there must be hair on it,.
"Pasteurized" milk-Pass the hands
slowly before the eyes.
Moon over Miami-With the thumb
and index finger of one hand form
Evening star., 1936-04-19
LAW GROUP TO HOLD
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Speakers Listed for Meeting OF
Group Founded in 1906 by
Elihu Roots Advisers.

The American Society of Interna.
tional Law will hold its thirtieth an.
nual convention here Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday at the Carlton
Hotel.
Legal advisers of Elihu Root
founded the organization in 1906
while he was Secretary of State and
he served as its president for II
years.
President James Brown Scott will
call the convention to order Thurs
day at 9 pm. with George Grafton
Wilson, professor Of international
law, Harvard University. as the first
speaker. Wilson will discuss 1.-THE
United States and International Law.
Following him will be Prof. Parker
T. Moon of Columbia University on
1.-THE Need for Peaceful Change in
Europe and the Far East"
The meeting will close Saturday
with the annual dinner at which
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, George
s. Messersmith. American Minister to
Austria; Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j.,
regent of the Georgetown School of
Foreign Service, and Senor Don
Miguel Lopez Pumarejo, Colombian
Minister to the United States, will
speak.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
MISS VIRGINIA DAWES
TO WE'D ILLINOIS MAN
Engagement of Daughter of For
mer Vice President Is An
nounced in Evanston.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EVANSTON. Ill, April i8-The en-
gagement of Miss Virginia Dawes, fos-
ter daughter of former Vice President
Charles G. Dawes and Mrs. Dawes, to
Richard Thompson Cragg of Evanston,
was announced today at party at the
Dawes home here.
Miss Dawes said the wedding would
be in the Fall, but no definite date
had been set.
A previous engagement Of Miss
Dawes, to Ensign John Gardner Ten
nant of Washington, was broken by
mutual consent four years ago. At
the time, Miss Dawes extreme youth
was advanced as the reason.
Miss Dawes lived with her foster
parents in Washington from 1924 to
1928 and in London while Gen. Dawes
served as Ambassador to the Court Of
st. James. She was presented to the
court in 1881.
Cragg Is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl j. Cragg of Evanston. He was
graduated from Northwestern Univer-
sity in 1894.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
PLAN LADIES' NIGHT

The Washington General Assembly,
Fourth Degree, knights of Columbus,
will hold their annual ladies' night at
the Mayfower Hotter tomorrow eve
ming. The assembly's regular month
ly meeting will take place at 7:45 pm.
in the Jefferson room of the hotel.
followed by the ladies night program
at 9 pm. in the Italian garden.
Faithful Navigator John F. Hill
yard will preside at the meeting.
Faithful Capt. Eugene c. Baczenas is
in charge Of entertainment. The
principal speaker will be the Very
Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, o. P.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
new CAFETERIA
PROBE LAUNCHED
Contracts Given Welfare Associ.
alton Studied by Joint
Committee.

Contractual arrangements under
which the Welfare and Recreation
Association is operating cafeterias in
number of Federal buildings here
for the convenience of Government
employees are being investigated by a
new Joint committee recently ap-
pointed by Secretary Of the Inte-
rior Ickes.
George A. Moskey Of the National
mittee, last night denied a published
report that the committee had rec
commended to Ickes the abolition of
the associations system Of operation.
The committee, he said. will not
have its report to the Secretary ready
for perhaps two weeks.
Capt. F. w. Hoover, head OF the
association, which is a private agency
incorporated in the District. said no
report advocating its abolition had
come to his attention.
The associations administrative
problems have been the subject of a
two-year study. Since the association
is not Federal agency, Hoover said.
it cannot be abolished by the Govern
ment. Ickes' sole power over it is one
OF cancelling its contracts or making
changes in operations
The investigation was begun under
Louis CLAWS. chief Interior Depart
ment investigator, after various COM
plants. The first report was regarded
as unsatisfactory and Ickes ordered
the inquiry continued.
Moskey said last night that CLAWS
has submitted a report which indi-
Gates there might be some question of
Secretary Ickes' authority to enter
into contract with the association.
Ickes appointed a new committee to
study the legal aspects of the matter
and make further recommendations
for his guidance.
The association is said to have been
awarded the contract to operate the
restaurant in the new Interior Build
ing when it is completed.
In addition to Moskey the members
Of the Investigating Committee are
F. K. Kirgis. assistant solicitor of the
Interior Department; C. A. Gable of
the National Parks Service, Samuel
Goodacre of the Agriculture Depart
ment and George A. Holcombe Of the
Veterans Administration.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
CLEANUP DRIVE
ACHIEVES GOAL
Refuse Division Chief Lauds
Star for Gaining Help of
D. c. Residents.

An intensive two-week drive to make
Washington q cleaner city ended to-
day with noticeable improvement
everywhere and officials declaring con-
ditions the best in recent memory.
w. A. Xanten, acting chief of the
City Refuse Division, said the District
was cleaner than I've seen it in more
than year" Police and public CO.
operation with the divisions work has
attained q peak hitherto unexperi-
enced, he said. Xanten said The Star
had been principally responsible for
stirring enforcement Of regulations
against dirtying the streets and care
less discarding of rubbish.
Although the official cleanup pc
riod ended last night and the normal
schedules of white wing" and alley
cleaning gangs must be restored to-
morrow, officials hoped to maintain
gains already made and projected a
new plan for improving the city's
sishtliness.
Newspaper Lists Asked.
Xanten has written circulation man
ayers of all newspapers asking them
to furnish lists of distribution points
so that he may station trash con-
tainers at places where the litterine
problem is most acute. The presence
of the receptacles will make careless
ness by newsboys 'inexcuSable," he
said.
Gait Burns, circulation manager of
The Star, has furnished the re-
quested list.
The Commissioners appeal to citi-
zens that they get rid of all accumu-
lated rubbish and refuse last week
resulted in substantial increase ir
the volume of trash collection. Xanten
said so tons of rubbish a day more
than the usual daily load had been
carted OF between Monday and Sat-
urday.
Collection Work Speeded.
Police and public cooperation, re-
fuse division officials declared, has
enabled alley cleaning groups to work
with greatly increased speed. Ordi-
narily the alley gangs cover their
territory once every seven or eight
days, but since Inauguration of the
cleanup campaign they have been
covering it once every four or five
days.
Downtown streets, Xanten reported.
have been swept eight times during
the past two weeks and washed by
truck flushers about six times. Out
lying residential streets have been
swept six times and washed twice.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
BLOND IS GR|LLED
|NCH|CAGO KILLING
Cab Driver Tells of Rushing
Slayer of Contractor
to Detroit.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April ia blond young
woman. Betty Honzik, 26. was detained
by police tonight for questioning in
connection with the Staying Of Arthur
j. Hewitt, 60-year-old retired con-
tractor, found beaten to death, with a
French heel of a woman's shoe beside
him.
She was taken into custody after a
taxicab driver who claimed Hewitt's
killer was a fare received telegram
signed Betty"
The telegram, relayed to the police
station while the driver, George
Richardson, was being questioned,
read: Not necessary to wait until
sentence is passed. Count on me any
time. Notify me Immediately"
Richardson insisted the writer Of
the wire had nothing to do with this. !"
He told police a woman he knew only
as Jerry admitted the Staying after
hiring him to speed her from Chicago
to Detroit. He said he had mace the
trip in Hewitt's automobile after send
ing his cab to the garage with another
driver.
Another Girl Sought.
The other driver, Jack Rossi, sup
ported Richardson's story and identi-
fed Jerry as another girl for whom
q search was instituted
Miss Honzik was taken into custody
after police found her address in a
notebook in Richardson's apartment,
along with an unaddressed note read
ing:
Am at Superintendent McDonald's s
once, Checker Co., l40l West Jack
son. third floor, regarding the Pontiac
(the make of Hewitt's carr and De-
troit. If Betty comes tell her to come
down there if I'm not home yet, as I
may need her as witness-badly."
Richardson told his story to the
police on advice of his employer
George Mcdonald, vice president of
the Checker Cab Co., to whom he said
he first related it.
Other Persons Questioned.
The mystery of Hewitt's death-he
had come here Wednesday from his
suburban Wheaton home to collect
some money due him-deepened as
police questioned other persons named
in the notebook.
One OF these, Mrs. Mary Tischler.
said her 22-year- son Clement was
a friend of Richardson and also knew
Betty Honzik.
Clement Tschler, his mother added.
had left home Wednesday night and
did not return until early Friday Be-
fore he came back she said some one
drove his car into the yard and left
1t, the keys in the lock.
Says Girl Admitted Staying.
Richardson told police that Jerry"
had come to him Thursday night, tell
ing him she had to get out of town.
They made deal and as they were
proceeding toward Detroit she in
formed him she had struck a man
with ginger ale bottle and believed
she had killed him, Richardson said.
Richardson said his fare. who fur
nished the car, later identified as
Hewitt's, directed him to a shoe shop
in Detroit. explaining she had lost a
heel battling the man, who had at
tempted to attack her with a knife
She escaped out rear door of the
shop while he waited in front, Rich
ardson said. Then he returned to
Chicago. At Richardson's home police
found a topcoat belonging to Hewitt.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

they were unable to establish for GER
tain whether he committed suicide,
but stated they were inclined to that
belief. He had been suffering from a
nervous breakdown because of over
work during the recent Spanish dis
orders and was on his way to Rome
to rest.
Msgr. Crespi's body was removed to
the city cemetery, pending receipt Of
instructions from the Vatican.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Marriage Licenses.

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Frank R. Gale 46 Holly Hill. Fla. and
Mary Mary A Roche, 81. 1343 Park I'd;
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Nally, 10. both Of Altoona. Pa; Rev.
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ship with Capt. j. e. Bowers of No. 8
precinct and Capt. Bowers cigars.
A few hours later Zioncheck tele-
phoned The Star and said he'd be
down in 10 minutes and to come out
and take his picture.
Zioncheck drove UP at the height OF
the pm. Saturday rush hour in a
roadster like that described by police.
It didn't have washington State tags,
but pair OF them was noticed in the
uniform overcoat pocket of Capitol
Policeman George w. Bishop, who was
driving. The District plates on the
car are listed to Bishop. police said.
I'm irritated and little offended,
Zioncheck remarked graphically, later
explaining his Irritation" was be-
cause police said he had been driving
only 10 miles an hour" He said the
car had done" 81.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
NAVY OFFICIALS T0FETE
REICH SHIP COMMANDER
Reception Also to Honor Cadets
Serving on Emden During
Training Cruise.

Admiral william H. Standley, chief
of naval operations and Acting Secre-
tary of the Navy, next Friday will
give a luncheon at the Mayflower
Hotel in honor of Capt. Johannes
Bachmann, commanding the German
light cruiser Emden, due in Baltimore
on Tuesday.
Also at the Mayfower Hotel on
Friday the Navy Department will
hold reception for Capt. Bachmann,
his officers and the naval cadets who
are serving aboard the Emden.
The German warship has compile
ment of 20 officers and 160 German
naval cadets. She is now on a train
ing cruise in American waters. She
is scheduled to stay in Baltimore until
May 2.