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Evening star., 1936-02-27
LOCAL WOMAN H0N0RED

Mrs. w. Chaplin Huntington, for
mer president Of the Smith College
Alumnae Association, Is one Of three
nominees for places on the college
board Of trustees, according to word
received here today.
Evening star., 1936-02-27

plant to full capacity at moderate
prices, provided he can earn a living
by 50 doing"
Evening star., 1936-02-27
ECONOMY OF SCARCITY
SCORED BY GEN. WOOD

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 27.-Holding
an economy of scarcity" should have
no permanent place in the American
Evening star., 1936-02-27

Wild Turkeys Hunted.
Wild turkey hunts are attracting
many to Kazakstan, in Russia.
Evening star., 1936-09-30

circuit Of the Capitol grounds, they
thought it time to get back home.
That looked like q problem. be-
cause they had no idea how to get
there, but Carrie had an idea. They
got on the nearest street car and
Carrie told the conductor she knew
her home address, but not how to get
there. What was more. she had no
money. The conductor understood
He took them part way on his car
and gave them o transfer that took
them within short distance Of home.
and their distracted mother. They
had their first meal Of the day last
night. When Mrs. Bonavia started
them of to school today they had
strict instructions as To how and when
to get there.
Another wandering youngster, 4-year-
old Ronald Miller, was returned to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Miller,
Seat Pleasant, Md, after an un-
planned street car ride. Ronald had
been sent to the car line with an
umbrella to meet his sister, but got
on the car instead. The conductor
discovered him at the end Of the line
and turned him over to police. His
parents found him at the Receiving
Home.
Two youths who have been miss
ing from their homes since Monday
were believed heading for Texas.
They are William Stewart, II, Of 708
Tenth street northeast, and Elmer
Decatur, 16, Of 1404 Maryland avenue
northeast. A friend Of the two youths
told Mrs. Stewart they were on their
way to Texas and perhaps farther
West.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
POLICE SEEK T0P|N
ID KILLING ON MAN
Mrs. Goodwin's Confessed
Killer to Be GrilIed in
Sheads Death Also.

Norman w. Robinson, 81. colored,
former convict and confessed slayer
Of Mrs. Florence D. Goodwin, was to
be requestioned by homicide squad de-
tectives today in an effort to learn
If he knows anything of the murder
of Miss Mary e. Sheads, "a, retired
school teacher.
Miss Sheads was strangled by a
robber in her Sixteenth street apart
ment in the Spring Of 1884. Detectives
as yet have been unable to learn
whether Robinson was in Washington
at that time. The prisoner has de-
MED all knowledge of the crime.
A coroner's jury Saturday held Rob-
inson for the grand jury as the muir.
derer of Mrs. Goodwin, 43-year-old
Treasury Department typist. Mrs.
Goodwin was killed with an iron bar
early on the morning Of September 18
as she slept in the rooming house she
operated at 1102 Sixteenth street. The
motive was robbery.
Local police were notified by North
Carolina authorities today that Rob-
inson was discharged from a prison
at Raleigh early in 1888 after serving
21 months on q charge Of highway
robbery. The following year Robinson
was sentenced to three months in
jail here following his conviction on
q larceny count.
Robinson made full confession Of
the Goodwin murder to police and
was returned to the scene, where he
re-enacted the crime. He declined to
make statement to the coroner's
jury, however.
Evening star., 1936-09-30

"The city is full Of new residents,
and more are coming in as fast as they
can find homes. We have men on our
list who work here but live in Balti-
more or neighboring communities and
commute to Washington while waiting
for a chance to move here.
Prosperity Is Here.
Prosperity isn't just around the
corner for us-it's here!"
Experts place the number Of va
cancies here at less than 2 per cent,
although 1000 one-family dwellings
have been erected in the last year,
and some 5000 apartment units added
in the District alone.
At least $500 small homes have
been erected in nearby Maryland and
Virginia, and the Colonial Village
apartments in Virginia are providing
homes for almost 800 families.
Many of the new buildings were
timed for completion this Fall. But
not all the moving can be traced to
this source. Washingtonians. especially
apartment dwellers, are inclined to
grow restless in the Fall. They are
tempted to seek new homes in new
neighborhoods, q change of scene. As
one real estate man put it:
"Washington's moving day Is no
longer necessity-it's just habit"
Evening star., 1936-09-30

CCHOOL must seem pretty tame
today to Billie Jean Bonavia,
S, and her older sister, Carrie.
8, after the liberal education
they received while trying to fnd
their class rooms yesterday-the first
day Of the Fall term for them.
Billie Jean started 1t. She was so
anxious to get to her kindergarten
class at Truesdel School that she
started out alone before breakfast.
although she was not supposed to
report until the afternoon session.
Her mother. Mrs. O. Bonavia, 52o2
Kansas avenue, did not discover her
absence until time to call her to
breakfast. Then she sent Carrie out
to find her. Carrie, who had not had
breakfast either, finally caught up
to her younger sister. but when they
started back home they got lost. -
As they told the story last night,
it seemed as though they walked
around the Soldiers Home grounds
and passed Trinity College. Eventu-
ally they reached North Capitol
street and there, far away in the
distance, Carrie saw the dome Of
the Capitol.
Carrie, who is in the fourth grade
at Truesdell, had seen pictures of the
Capitol. She thought it would be a
fine thing to see it close up, with her
own eyes. so she and Billie Jean
started south.
As they trudged along it started to
rain, but they were so close then that
they decided not to turn back. Foot
sore and soaked to the skin, they
reached their goal. After q hurried
Evening star., 1936-09-30

in advance Of the sessions on Cap
itol Hill. In years past, this influx
began during october.
The large amount of moving going
on now is due. in part, to the many
shifts which follow the opening Of
new apartment buildings, and the
completion Of new homes.
One Family May Start Shifts.
One family moving from an apart
ment, for example. may start half a
dozen shifts. Vacancies are filled
quickly in a city where the housing
shortage remains acute despite the
building boom. An executive for q
big moving and storage company put
it this way:
"You might think the apartment
shortage would cut down moving. But
take the case Of a family We Just
moved from q Connecticut avenue
apartment to q new home across the
Potomac, in Virginia. Another family
Immediately took the apartment. The
apartment they vacated was filled, and
so on down the line. At least five
moves followed the first.
This is the best business season
we've ever experienced. We've been
booked up for the last month, and
we're booked solid through November.
I doubt If there's enough first-class
moving equipment in town to take
care of the demand.
Evening star., 1936-09-30

involved in the latter transfers.
Those to be promoted to precinct
detectives are William Ellery, assistant
to Darnall; william G. Fawcett and
Robert v. Murray Of the vice squad,
and Fred Antonelli, No. 2 precinct.
Fawcett and Murray will be as
signed to precincts later, while Ellery
will remain with the homicide squad
and Antonelli is to stay at No. 2.
Chief of Detectives Bernard W.
Thompson recently completed a study
of the organization Of homicide
squads in various large cities and re-
ported that the groups are COM
manded by lieutenants, captains or
even inspectors.
Maj. Brown said that Darnall's new
rank would increase his efficiency in
investigations, where he must give
orders to detective sergeants hereto
fore Of his own rank. The police
chief denied rumors Of q general
shake-up," emphasizing that tomor-
rows changes would be purely routine.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
Liue Pigeon Joins
Stuffed Specimens
Inside Smithsonian,
Doors, Windows We're
Shut for Night, So
Mystery Exists.

Employees Of the Smithsonian In
stitution this morning found a stray
carrier pigeon in a room full Of stuffed
birds of many varieties.
James Hill, building superintend-
ent, was at a loss to explain how the
flesh -and-blood specimen managed
to join such a strange company. All
the doors and windows had been closed
during the night.
The pigeon, battered and chilled by
last nights rain, seemed exhausted
after a long flight. It evidently Is a
valuable bird, Hill said, and wears leg
bands bearing serial numbers.
Employees, more accustomed to
stuffed birds than live ones, were un-
certain what to do with the visitor.
Meanwhile, they fed him and put him
In a storage room. .
Evening star., 1936-09-30
RHODES DENIES
ALL ACCUSATIONS
Former Head of Defunct
Loan Association Charges.
Bitter Antagonism.

Declaring the charges pending
against him mark the climax Of a
very bitter antagonism toward me on
the part of the office Of the controller
of the currency" Fred B. Rhodes,
indicted former head of the Fidelity
Building & Loan Association, today
issued q signed statement denying all
the accusations.
Rhodes, well known attorney and
former president of the Fidelity, was
indicted by the District Grand Jury
yesterday on 20 larceny and four
forgery charges in connection with
alleged irregularities that resulted in
the closing of the institution last
July 18.
Personally Advanced Funds.
After the controller had refused to
permit the sale of Fidelity organiza-
ton stock, Rhodes said, he personally
advanced funds to meet unusual ex-
penses incurred while the institution
was being built up. Rhodes cited the
1882 report of the controller to show
these advances were for Office rent and
salaries.
In February, 1886, he continued. the
controller forced him to retire from
active connection with the association.
Despite this, he asserted, he advanced
personally securities and property sp-
praised at $51, 900 in an effort to avert
the closing of the institution. He has
not been reimbursed for this advance,
he added.
Transactions Were Known.
Some Of the larceny charges were
based on construction loans Rhodes
procured from the Fidelity In the name
of another person. He asserted the
officers Of the association and the
controller knew all the details Of these
transactions. adding there has been
no loss to Fidelity as q result Of them.
He also denied the forgery charges,
claiming he had full authority for his
acts.
Rhodes concluded with the assertion
he hasn't the slightest doubt that
the assets of the institution are suf1-
cient to pay the members in full.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
RED CROSS DRIVE
NETS 1000 TOTAL
FOR THREE DAYS
Weather HaIts House-to-
House Soliciting, but
Reports Favorable.
Government UNITS
IN ACTION TODAY
Distribution Of Buttons and Other
Equipment to Volunteers
Completed.
More than 1000 washingtonians

More than 1000 Washingtonians
wore today the small red and white
button symbolizing their membership
this year in the Red Cross. Addi-
tional hundreds will be enrolled before
nightfall as the annual roll call Of the
District Red Cross Chapter completes
its fourth day.
The campaign goal is $1,000 mem.
bers before october l6.
Although yesterdays rain seriously
hampered campaign solicitors, encour.
aging reports continued to come to
headquarters at 1416 H street. Total
enrolment at 10 am. today was placed
at 2,170.
Weather Bars Planes.
Bad weather virtually stopped
activities of house-to-house solicitors
and forced postponement Of a flight
Of Army pursuit planes from Langley
Field, Va, which were to have circled
over the city in Geneva Cross forma-
ton. The flight will take place
between noon and pm. today,
weather permitting.
An intensive drive was planned
today by volunteer workers in the
Government solicitation units. The
utilities and business divisions also
strove to increase enrolment.
The physicians subdivision of the
professional solicitation group expects
to complete its canvass by nightfall,
DR.. Donald Knowlton, chairman.
said.
Roll headquarters said last night
that distribution Of all equipment
buttons, flags, circulars, enrolment
blanks, etc-has been completed and
that each of 1000 volunteers now was
prepared to take memberships for the
duration of the drive.
Apartments Solicited.
Captains in 81 apartment houses
started work yesterday afternoon
under Miss Elizabeth Wightman. Let
ters appealing for memberships were
distributed to $500 apartment house
dwellers.
Miss Nancy Brereton, Miss Helen
Beattie and Miss Peggy Dow. volun-
teers. established q membership booth
last night for the anniversary program
in D. j. Kaufman's principal store.
Lloyd B. Wilson, general roll call
chairman, said last night that he con-
sidered reports thus far more encour-
aging than he had anticipated.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
SPECIAL TAX UNIT
BACKED DBY HAzEN
Aliens Plan to Advertise
Unpaid Assessments Is
Approved.

Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen to-
day voiced approval of the program
planned by Tax Assessor Fred d. Allen
for compiling complete list Of all
properties against which there are de-
linquent special assessments and ad-
vertising them at the tax deed sale
q year from January.
Allen explained the list Is so long
there would not be time enough to
prepare It for action at the annual
sale next January.
Hazen also indorsed the proposal Of
Allen for legislation to make the PEN
alties, interest rates and time allowed
for payment uniform for all types of
special assessments. Allen plans to
submit q recommendation to the Com
missioners in the near future.
There is now q wide variety Of PEN
alties, interest charges and time for
payments, confusing not only to the
tax payer but to District clerks who
must figure the consequent charges,
officials say.
The move to clear up old tax as
sessments and to improve the whole
tax machinery is one Of the results
of q study ordered some months ago
by the Commissioners. A special
committee, headed by Maj. Daniel ].
Donovan, auditor, now Is completing
examination of these problems.
Already a number Of cases have
been taken to court by the District IN
the instance of long delinquent real
estate taxes in q move to sell the
properties to force collection Of the
tax levies. If such sales are approved
the District will be able to give clear
title, as distinguished from the tax
certificates given at the annual tax
deed sales.
Corporation Counsel Elwood II.
Seal and Tax Collector Chatham M.
Towers have been directed by Hazen
to prepare a much longer list Of cases
for court action for non-payment Of
realty assessments.
Evening star., 1936-09-30

A coroner's jury will decide today
whether Mrs. Sadie Watkins, 36, who
was found dead last Saturday in a
boarding house at 303 D street, was
attacked or died as the result OF an
accident.
Her body was discovered on q
blood-spattered bed, and dented
coffee pot and blood-stained knife
were lying nearby.
Three men, one said by police to
have been the common-law husband
of the woman, are held in connection
with the death.
They have told police Mrs. Wat
kins broke her nose in q fall and that
she had been drinking heavily prior
to the accident.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said an autopsy revealed the womans
heart was ruptured, q condition which
he said could have been caused by
excessive drinking.
Those held are Robert Taylor Wood.
IS, Of Richmond, Va, who, accord
ing to police, had been living with
Mrs. Watkins: John McGarrgle, 80,
Of 2l2 Indiana avenue. and Edward
Thomas Sellers, 32kof no fixed ad-
dress.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
NHE traditional reasons for
Washington's moving day.
seem to have disappeared, yet

TINE traditional reasons for
Washington's moving day"
seem to have disappeared, yet
Il the biggest residential shift
since the World War was well under
way here today.
Large trucking concerns have been
booked to capacity for weeks. They
cannot muster enough equipment to
move all their customers on time.
Public utility employees are busy with
service changes.
The gas companies, for example,
have received more orders for meter
changes this month than ever before.
The peak of the customer shift is ex-
pected the first few days in October,
and changes this season are 10 per
cent above those of the 1885 moving
period.
Leases Are Staggered.
Yet real estate men point out that
the city's landlords now stagger their
leases. Rental periods no longer end
In large numbers on September 80, as
in other cities. Thirty day agreements
are in wide use here, since thousands
of Federal employees and service men
are subject to transfer.
Too, the lame duck" amendment
has set back the opening Of Con-
gress, delaying the arrival of hun
dreds of employees, lobbyists and camp
followers who collect in Washington
Evening star., 1936-09-30
CAPITAL |SSECOND
IN COST OF LIVING
Only Cincinnati Is More Ex.
pensive for Families,
Survey Shows.

With the upward trend continuing
since the survey was concluded, a
special Labor Department study Of
costs of living of Federal employees
in Washington shows prices have
been increasing almost steadily since
March, 1888. At the present time,
among 80 large cities Of the United
States, only Cincinnati is a more ex-
pensive place in which to live than
the Nations Capital.
Taking the first six months Of 1928
as the normal for an index number
of 100, the survey discloses that total
costs were established at 1927 in
March, 1888. From then until JAN
uary is of this year they rose to
88.5. From then until April is there
was an irregular drop to 87.S, but an
increase In food prices brought re-
sumption of the climb since that date.
In separate costs, the greatest in
creases were noted in clothing at l6.5
per cent, furnishings and equipment
at 22.7 per cent, food at SO per cent
transportation at Al per cent. Life
insurance costs moved up 2.6 per cent
and education costs advanced or Of !
per cent.
Decreases over the complete period
under study were recorded in three
classiflcations, the housing costs being
down IL per cent. household operation
being of IL per cent and personal care
showing the greatest drop Of S.6 per
cent.
In making their study, the depart
ment took 1886 families of Federal en-
ployes and 1913 single individuals. On
a salary basis they were divided into
four groups as follows: Custodial en-
ployes with basic salaries less than
$2,500; other employees with salaries
below $2,500; employees with basis SAL
aries of $2,500 and over and employees
living as single individuals.
In consideration Of the four groups
it was found that the greatest total
increase was in the first Of these
groups where the advance was 7.3
per cent. For the second group, the
increase was SIS per cent, for the third
group it was 5.8 per cent and for the
single individuals it was only OF Of
per cent.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
FARM INCOME DROPS

A decline of $85, ,000, 900 in total cash
income Of farmers from July to Au-
gust-when farm income usually in
creases-was reported yesterday by the
Agriculture Department.
Early harvesting and marketing Of
grain crops In July. when cash income
totaled $734, ,000, 900, was said by the
department to have caused the decline
to $649, ,000, 900 in August. This total
still was $39, 900 ahead of the
S610, ,000, 900 for August last year.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
MURAL Is UNVEILED
Painting Depicts Growth Of Lans-
burgh Store.

A mural painting, depicting the
growth Of the Lansburgh Department
Store, by Joseph Anthony Atchinson,
Washington artist, was unveiled this
morning. with the entire store per-
sonnel In attendance.
The ceremony, at which Ralph
Goldsmith. general manager: Sol
Lansburgh, president, and Mark Lans-
burgh and Adolph Weyl oficiated,
marked the stores seventy-sixth an
niversary. The painting is 50 feet
long and 5 feet high and traces the
history Of the company from the small
building which 1rst housed IL store
in 1860
Evening star., 1936-09-30
Defense Group for Islands.

MANILA, p. I. P).-A new Council
Of National Defense for the Philippine
Commonwealth has been set up by
President Manuel L. Quezon. Elk ofd-
clio members include the President
himself as chairman, Vice President
Sergio Osmena as vice chairman ana
ali other members Of the cabinet.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
M'REYNOLDS ELECTED
. Welfare BOARD HEAD
Former Judge Doyle Reelected
Vice Chairman and Mrs. Gold
smith Secretary.

Frederick w. McReynolds today was
reelected chairman Of the Board of
Public Welfare for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1887. Former Judge
Michael M. Doyle was reelected vice
chairman and Mrs. Charles A. Gold
smith, secretary.
The following standing committees
were announced by McReynolds:
Public assistance-Dr. Frederic w.
Perkins, chairman; Mrs. Goldsmith,
Mrs. Spencer Gordon, Mrs. Coralie
Franklin Cook and william w. Spaid.
Penal and correctional institutions
Judge Doyle, chairman: DR.. Worth
B. Daniels, Mr.. McReynolds and
Spaid.
Child welfare-Mrs. Gordon, chair
man; DR.. Perkins, Mrs. Goldsmith,
Mrs. Cook and DR.. Henry J. Crosson.
Medical service-Dr. Crosson, chair
man; DR.. Daniels, Judge Doyle and
McReynolds.
Evening star., 1936-09-30

work in helping
to solve the MUIR
der of Mrs. Flor
ence Goodwin.
In making the
announc e m e n t,
Police Supt. Err
nest w. Brown
said four privates
will be elevated
to precinct de-
tectives a n d q
NUMBER OF "rOu-
tine /" transfers
will be made to-
m rro W. Mai.
Brown did not
name the men
Evening star., 1936-09-30
POLICE PROMOTION
IS WON BY DARNALL
Made Acting Lieutenant as Re-
suit of Work in Goodwin
Staying.

Detective Sergt. George Darnall.
veteran chief Of the homicide squad,
will assume the rank of acting lieu
tenant tomorrow as q reward for his
Evening star., 1936-09-30
INQUIRY SET TODAY
IN WOMAN'S DEATH
Coroner's Jury to Decide Whether
Mrs. Watkins Died as Result
of Accident.
nryv ETTJ
BULLETIN.

A coroner's jury today held Rob-
ert Taylor Wood, IS, responsible for
the death of Mrs. Sadie Watkins,
SO. In holding Wood for grand jury
action, the jury also recommended
that John McGarrigle, 50. and Ed
mund Thomas Sellers, 80, be held
as material witnesses.
Evening star., 1936-09-30
MERRILL BACK ON JOB
Pilot for Richman Returns to
Transport Line Post.

Dick Merrill, who recently COM
pleted q round-trip flight across the
Atlantic with Harry Richman, Broad
way crooner, was back on his regular
job today-the comparatively prosaic
business of plotting Eastern Airlines
planes between New York and Miami.
Merrill passed through Washington
on his way South yesterday and was
to pause here again today. arriving at
$3.50 pm. if bad weather. does not
interrupt schedules.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-01-30
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