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Evening star., 1936-09-21
O'BRIEN SHOOTING
SUSPECT RELEASED
Victim of Bootleg War" Fails
to Identify Edward Oliver
as Assailant.
as Assailant.

Suspected by police of completely
in the so-called bootleg war" shoot
ing of Joseph E. O'Brien, Edward
Oliver, 26, of the 1400 block of Fair
mont street, was released today after
the victim failed to identify him as
one of his assailants.
Oliver was turned over to police by
agents for the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau who arrested him Saturday. A
similarity in the nickname Of Oliver.
sometimes known as Legs" and that
of a man sought in connection with
the shooting is believed to have led
to the arrest.
Oliver told police he knew several
Of the men charged with shooting
O'Brien, but denied having anything
to do with the shooting, which oc-
CURED in front of q cafe in the 200
block Of Pennsylvania avenue south
east.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
FRIENDS SEE MAN
FALL TO DEATH IN
RIVER NEAR POINT
Former Life Guard Victim of
Strange Accident in
4-Foot Mater.
NO BRUISES ON BODY
TAKEN TO MORGUE
George L. Shinker, 20, Twelfth
Street Resident, Had Been
Doorman at Hotel.

While . group of friends stood on
the river bank and watched George
L. Shinker, rs, of 1856 Twelfth street,
doorman at the La Fayette Hotel and
q former life guard, died In water
three or four feet deep in the Poto-
mac early today. He had fallen from
the iron rail on the seawall, midway
between the tourist camp and Hams
Point.
His body was recovered at $50 an,
so minutes after the fall, by Raymond
King, 20, Of 932 Twenty-third street,
who had followed the fourth precinct
patrol wagon to the river after swing
ing in behind it with his automobile
on Water street southwest. He vol
unteered to 60 in after the body. de-
spite the fact he is still recovering
from q broken hip.
The cause Of Shinker's death was
not Immediately determined. The body
was taken to the District Morgue, and
an autopsy was scheduled to be per-
formed later In the day.
Metropolitan and park police said
there were no bruises on the body and
that little, If any, water came from
his lungs.
Shinker's friends and King re-
turned with officers to fourth precinct.
The friends explained their failure to
try to rescue Shinker by saying, NO
body could SWIM"
King, an electrician, said he took
rope from his automobile, stripped
all his clothes OF but q pair Of shorts
and was lowered into the water by
police.
Il waded through the water. about
waist deep. for several minutes"
King said, before my foot touched
Shinker's body. attached it to the
rope and 1t was pulled to the top Of
the sea wall. Then the officers threw
down . graphing rope to pull me back
up, but refused to use it for fear it
might break. They gave me another
rope"
King said some air came out Of
Shinker's lungs when he picked up
the body. King fractured his hip in
five places when he fell SO feet as
light pole on which he was working
broke last March. Since then he has
been unable to work.
Shinker, according to J. L. Leonard,
ST., with whom he lived, was an expert
swimmer, q former enlisted Navy man
and an ex-life guard.
In the group with Shinker at the
seawaI before he fell of were Murat
Richardson, rs, hotel elevator opera
tor; Jack Richardson, 81, hotel bell
hop, and Alvina Richardson, IL, all Of
1923 Otis place; Van Casey, 20, Of 28l5
Thirteenth street, hotel bell-hop:
Edwin Samuel, "a, Of Passing. Va,
owner of the car In which the party
had driven to the Speedway, and
Louise Nelson, New York City, who
has been visiting at 325l Mount Pleas
ant street.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Policemen, Flock
To Rose TaSSii'S
Wedding Dance
Not There to Enforce
La,c, but Because
They We're Asked.

There were more policemen at
Rose Tassi's wedding dance than you
could shake stick at. If you dared.
They weren't there, however, to en-.
force the law, but attended because
Rose asked them to.
The invitation was written on the
arrest book at No. 10 precinct several
days ago.
Rose. who lived then at 456 Park
road. wrote she was to be married
Sunday, September 20, at Sacred
Heart Church, and that In the eve
ming there would be reception at
her home
Those Irish cops who used to call
her Rosie O'Grady instead of by her
real name and who used to treat her
like one of their own children had
to be there
And all the officers who knew Rose
and could 60 to the reception went
to see the little girl who had grown
into O pretty woman Of 23 and mar
ried Leo lombard of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
"Loneliest Boy
Freed From, Jail to
Become q Barber
"YOu Will Not Haze to
Roam, Any More,"
Judge Tells SO,Uard.

Tommy Seward, II, who was de-
scribed by Judge Robert E. Mattingly
as probably the loneliest boy in the
world" when the court sentenced him
last week to serve six months in jail
on a charge of vagrancy, walked out
of Police Court today to learn the bar
Der trade, the sentence suspended.
Soward's case was taken up by
Joseph E. Dayton, director of the Bu-
reau of Rehabilitation, and when he
appeared in Police Court today he was
dressed in new clothes. He smiled
happily when told by Judge Mattingly,
"You will not have to roam around the
world any more. You are going to be
given q chance to learn q trade"
Young Seward was turned over to
the rehabilitation head, who said he
was going to get him job.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
2MANS[AUGHTER
COUNTS RETURNED
Youths, 19 and 20, Accused
in Deaths Resulting
From Accidents.

Thirty-four indictments. including
two charging manslaughter in con-
nection with automobile accidents.
were returned today by the District
grand jury.
John w. Hamilton, 10, of the 1700
block of Eighteenth street, was held
in the death September l Of George
r. Await, 20, Naval Hospital phar-
macist. Police charged that Hamil-
ton stole an automobile in Bethesda
and struck Awaits car at Ontario
road and Lanier place while fleeing
arrest The youth also was charged
with violating the national motor We
hicle theft act. The car belonged to
Edgar j. Gray, Bethesda. and was
wrecked.
In the other manslaughter indict-
ment, Bernard Lee Newsom, colored,
20, OF the 1900 block of Girard street.
was charged with the death of Daniel
Spaulding, 80, Of 1908 I street SOUTH
east. who alegedly was struck August
~ at Eleventh and K streets SOUTH
east by Newsom's car. Spaulding,
crossing the street at the time, was
carried rs feet by the machine. He
died the next day in Gallinger Hos
pital.
In order to avoid dif1iculties raised
by q plea Of misnomer, the grand jury
reindicted j. william Tomlinson, a,
criminal attorney, who was charged
several weeks ago with completely in
two robberies. He allegedly was the
master mind" of gang Of colored
robbers.
In the first pair of indictments,
Tomlinson was named John William
Tomlinson, otherwise known as John
william Tomilinson." His attorneys
attacked the validity Of the true bills
on the grounds he never has employed
an alias and also that his name is j.
william Tomlinson, rather than
John"
In one of the indictments, Tomlin-
son and two colored men were charged
with the pay roll robbery March IA Of
two Fairfax Farms Dairy employees,
who were forced at pistol point to sur
render more than $1,000. Named with
him were Philip John Pratt and Wal
ter Smallwood. In the second indict-
msnt, Tomlinson, Pratt and Charles
Henry Bass, colored. were charged with
robbing, Sam Siratonis, proprietor Of a
tailor shop at 3003 Fourteenth street,
August 10. Siratonis was badly beaten
by two colored men, who took $785.
Others indicted included:
Joseph L. GarilH, nonsupport oi
wife; Paul p. Brewington, false pre-.
lenses; Raymond Donaldson, bigamy;
Edgar Mooney and Otis Peak, assault
with intent to commit robbery;
Howard NJ. Price, Bruce C. Lawrence
Fred Albert White and Lawrence
Tavener, robbery; Richard T. Little
grand larceny; Peter J. Williams
simon Lutsky, Henry j. Montgomery
Samuel Reynolds, George Webster
Clarence Brooker and Prince e
Foster, joyriding; Henry Plowden
Bennie Foster, John r. Rose, Julius
| williams and Bernard e. Sheppard
housebreaking and larceny; Enes'
Jones, Thomas r. Day and Claude
johnson, assault with dangerous
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Mans Threat to Sit on Woman.
Carries Weight-496 Pounds

Algernon Massenburg's threat to sit
on her carried q lot of weight with
Margaret Jackson-almost 500 pounds,
to be exact.
Margaret, who weighs less than 100
pounds, had Algernon arrested on .
warrant Charging he threatened her
with bodily harm. 1t seemed that Al.
gernon had taken this method OF pre-
venting Margaret from occupying .
bench in front Of his home.
The accused and his accuser, both
colored, were neighbors In the 500
block of Fifth street southeast.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
D. c. MILK CONTROL
PROGRAM IN FORCE
Federal Rules Not to Affect Re.
tail Price of Bottled
Product.

Federal control of Washington S
milk supply began today at 1901 am,
under a marketing agreement admin
istered by Richard D. Aplin, 33-year-
old New England dairy expert.
The program will not affect the re-
tail price of bottled milk. according
to the Agrictural Adjustment Admin
istration.
Some producer and consumer fac
tions have threatened to challenge
the agreement in its infant stages.
while the Fairfax Farms Dairy has
announced through its attorneys that
it will seek court injunction to
suspend the agreement.
Henceforth, Aplin will receive
monthly reports from distributors to
enable him to compute uniform prices
to be paid dairy farmers.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

In Police Court today Margaret told
the Judge she had changed her mind
about prosecuting Algernon. She add
ed she now believed he was "only
fooling" when he threatened to sit
on her.
During the hearing Algernon could
not sit down because the chairs were
too small and there were no benches.
The court dismissed the charges.
As Algernon was leaving some one
asked his weight.
-Four hundred and nhety-six
pounds" was the reply.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
FIGURES
T0BE CONSIDERED
Budget Conference Tomor.
row Expected to Result
in Slash.

With . sharp cut in prospect, 4
final showdown will come tomorrow
on the 1888 budget estimates for the
public school system which represent
an actual increase of $5,036,659 over
current expenses. Most of the in
crease is for new buildings and land
purchases.
Since the school estimates, totaling
SIT 7,525, ,619, are nearly one-third OF
the entire estimates for the District
next year, the Commissioners reserved
their conference with Board Of Edu-
cation officials until the last.
We will be very sympathetic in
our attitude" Commissioner Melvin
C. Hazen said today, but there must
be a considerable slash in the school
estimates. How much am not pre-
pared to say"
Final Conference.
The final budget conference comes
the day following the opening OF the
new public school year with q record
breaking enrolment.
Aware of the acute need of slash
ing estimates to avoid new taxes,
members of the Board of Education
were determined, nevertheless, to save
as much as possible for new school
buildings. They will meet with the
Commissioners at IL am.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintend-
ent Of schools, and his assistants will
present data showing the congestion
in existing facilities and the need OF
new buildings to take care Of the in
creased enrolment, a factor that Is
expected to be encountered yearly.
The current appropriation of $l2,-
494, $50, under which the schools are
operating. provided only $1,541 900 for
new buildings and maintenance.
Compared with that sum the school
board Is now asking for $4,024 900.
This represents an increase of $2,-
49,, 500.
School Grounds Purchase.
The Commissioners likewise are
prepared to resist efforts to reduce
estimates for the purchase of school
grounds. Congress provided only
$4,000 currently for land purchases
and the School Board Is now asking
s1.468, 900.
Need for additional school buildings
is evident in view of the fact that
little more than 26 new class rooms
were added in the past year. School
officials said this new space will be
more than absorbed by gain in num-
ber of pupils estimated at approx
mately $500, or nearly 135 for each
new class room.
The principal items for new school
construction called for in the in
creased estimates for next year In
clude three new senior high schools,
four junior high schools, a new Wilson
Teachers College, new Miner Teach
ers' College and also number Of
additions and betterments.
Tomorrow's conference with the
Commissioners is the last opportunity
School Board officials will have to
defend their estimates before the en-
tire list for local operations Is for
warded to the Budget Bureau.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
weapon, and Howard Earl Gibson an

weapon, and Howard Earl Gibson and
Lytle j. Newton, forgery and uttering.
The following charges were ignored:
Charles c. Summers, false pre-
lenses; George w. Miller. violation OF
white slave traffic act: Samuel Green,
grand larceny; Edward Gravette.
'Cordell A. johnson and Nettie B. Frye,
joyriding; Joseph H. Reid, Joseph F.
Branzell and William Nelson. robbery.
and Thomas z. Hatton and Evelyn A.
Williams, assault with Q dangerous
weapon.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Upper Judging from the expression OF Donald Dap he
doesn't appear to be enjoying the opening OF the Districts
Looer lett Mrs Dorothy Morgan greets third graders at the
John Quincy Adams School Left to right Winred McGoDan
Buddy Henderson and Jimmy Murray.
right Floers for the teacher Left to
right: NJ Miller teacher; Joyce Neuntst and William
Conway at the Thomson School, Star STAT Photos
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-19
THE LEGION MOVES TOWARD
PENSIONS

= The meeting of the American Legion,
recently concluded at Cleveland, took
what many people fear is the first move
toward a demand for a general service
pension.
The resolution adopted was to the eff
feet that in no event shall the widows
and orphans of World War veterans be
without government protection The
wording, it is said, may be slightly amend
ed befort it is presented to Congress
next Winter for approval
Just what is meant by the word pro
lection is not clear but the word widow"
is defined by resolution as "a person
who married the veteran prior to July 3,
1881, or one who married the veteran sub
sequent to that date and who has lived
with the veteran continuously for period
of three years next preceding the veterans
DEATH
There is nothing in the resolution to
limit its application to widows of veterans
who were killed in service, or to imply
that it should be applicable only to those
who suffered injury during the struggle.
The plain Interpretation is that it seeks to
give the widows of ex-service men a pro-
lection not available or intended for wi
dows of other American citizens.
Every one recognizes the claim of
those who were dependent upon soldier
killed in battle and of those whose bread
winner has been incapacitated because of
war service. The Government has an i'm.
polling duty to these families which no
one would restrict. The effort to broaden
this class, however, to include the widows
of all ex-service men, regardless of war in
jury, means that the aid will be spread
over wider group. To this extent, the
Legion demand will work against the well
fare of the widows of the men who gave
up their lives and of the families of vet
Grams who were injured during the war
The attempt to impose upon the Gov
eminent the enormous financial burden of
general pension raises the question
whether the people of the nation intend to
permit the same sort of abuses that follow
ed earlier wars. Whether the general
public, aside from the veterans who will
get the money, intend to accept such an
obligation remains to be seen. Altogether,
it is matter of regret that the Legion, in
an exhibition of unselfish patriotism, did
not reaffirm in plain words its 1922 dec
general pension system
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-19
TODAY'S WEATHER
WEATHER CONDITIONS

Pressure is relatively high tn s
morning over the southeastern
portion of the country, Asheville,
N. c., 3O.06 inches, and is low
throughout other sections, with a
disturbance over the extreme up
per Mississippi Valley, Duluth and
Minneapolis, Mimi, 29.58 inches.
Light to moderate fains have oc-
Cured during the last "a hours
from CALIFORNIA; southeastward
over Idaho and Utah, and there
have been light rains in portions
of the northern and eastern Lake
region, and upper Ohio Valley,
while elsewhere fair weather has
prevailed. Temperatures are some
what below normal this morning
in the eastern portion of the
country, but have risen in most
other sections, where readings are
near or above the seasonal aver
age.
e. s. KENNEDY,
Official i'm Charge
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-19
HOW TO AVOID FIRES

Now that Fire Prevention Week has
passed and the people of this country have
settled back with the conviction that, after
all, it was just another one of those kind
of weeks, it might not be amiss to make a
few reflections in the hope of saving some
lives in this county during the coming win
ter.
Two-thirds of the fires that occur in
this country blaze up in dwellings and are
responsible for the loss of 1000 lives, half
of them children. Statistics show that
there are eight major causes of fires in the
homes: rubbish, defective chimneys, COM
bustible roofs, defective heating appara-
tus, matches and careless smoking, gaso-
line, kerosine, electrical defects and hot
ashes
Householders might keep the list in
mind and by taking care in regard to these
dangers avoid fire which might cause
death. They should remember that in
dividual carelessness is the greatest men,
ace to safety, whether from fire or other
hazards, and should not ignore safeguards
to prevent fatal mistakes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-19
SCRAMBLED SLOGANS

Here is nice parlor game. Write
on slips of paper certain advertising
slogans. On another set of slips write the
names of the various advertisers con-
cerned. Mix each set in two hats or other
receptacles and draw one slip from each
and compare. Here are some of the re-
suits reported by a contemporary:
Eventually, Why Not Now?"-Na-
tional Funeral Directors Association.
Good to the Last Drop" -Haviland
China
HAS the Strength of Gibraltar : =
BroOkfield Butter "a"
''Hams What Am" -Famous-Lasky
Players
"The Danger Line" -Pennsy1vania
Railroad. 5;sE
'The Flavor Lasts" -Squibb's Taste
less Castor Oil.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-19

formerly prevailed. For example. our
government proceeded to raise the
paper money price of an ounce of pure
gold from the base price Of $20.67 to
approximately $35 per ounce in &C.
cordance with the Warren monetary
theory to the effect that if we cheap
ened toffered more of) our paper
money in foreign exchange for gold
our, price level would rise. On JAN
uary 80. 1884. we legally fixed the
value of our dollar at S35 per ounce
of pure gold. --
What did this change mean? When
we were on gold standard an ounce
, Of pure gold (weighing $50 grains)
would coin UP into $20.67 because
the legal weight of the pure gold in
our standard gold dollar was 23.22
"a. $50
grains-thus. =2o.67. When
1892
we decided to coin these 480 grains
into S35. we consequently fixed the
weight of the gold dollar at 1874
grains-that is. =l3.714. or 1921
IS
II OUT
which is $40 fine. In this manner we
devaluated our dollar by approx
mately Al per cent. or, as popularity
stated. we adopted So cent dollar.
The effects on our price level are
so complicated that shall not try to
explain them here except to say that
there is no known or traceable rela-
tionship between given percentage
of devaIuation and the resulting be-
havior of the price level The effect
shows itself directly On foreign ex-
change rates. The legal exchange
rates (parities) between our new dol
lar. and foreign gold currencies were
so changed that it cost SO per cent
more of our lighter dollars to pur-
chase the same amount Of gold that
our old gold dollars formerly pur-
chased-that Is. It required 1859 per
cent Of the lighter So cent dollars
100
50 =l-ss'. This is the same as
erecting a tariff of SO per cent against
imports of foreign, goods. The cost of
foreign travelling was correspondingly
increased.
The French franc which had cost
391A cents, cost 1858 cents after our
devaluation. and the British pound
address questions TO fhe a"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-19
You and Your.
Nations Affairs
Meaning of Depreciation
By WALTER E. SPAHR -
partmenf of Economics, Ne,c York University

would have cost 1928 instead OF $4.87
had it not slipped from IFS moorings
in September. 1881, and deprecated
the American dollar.
The increased cost to our importers
of SO per cent at the same time gave
foreign importers IN advantage or Al
per cent-that is, in reducing the gold
value of our dollar by Al per cent it
costs the foreigner Al per cent less
to purchase our dollars. We thus auto
matically reduced by IL per cent the
gold value of the debts owed us by
foreigners. We increased by SO per
cent the burden of all debts owed by
us to foreigners.
Our domestic debtor-creditor rela-
tionships were unchanged. because all
debts were made payable not in gold
but in paper dollars. The profit from
this cheapening of our dollar went TO
the government and could have been
used to reduce the burden of the gov
ernment's debt to our people by that
amount-s2. 800. 100000. But the gov
eminent did not use this fund to
reduce its debt. About 800 million
dollars went into the general funds
of the Treasury and was spent; the
other 2 billion dollars went into the
Sterilization Fund used by the Treas
ury to deal in foreign exchange and
government securities.
The effects of our devaluation Of
the dollar on foreign trade are too
intricate to trace in the space avail
able here. 1t must. sufficeNtO say that
a devaluation by one country is sup
posed to put at disadvantage in
foreign trade ignoring counteracting
tariffs) those countries which have
not devaluated. This is because ma
tons stress as a measure of their
prosperity the units of goods ex-
ported For example. after we de-
VALIDATED our dollar. we in effect
insisted upon selling the foreigner the
same amount of our goods for Al per
cent less of his money lin gold). but
perhaps for the same amount of paper
money. and we gave ourselves the
privilege of paying him SO per cent
more of our dollars for the same
amount of his goods.
Since France could not sell us her
goods so easily. she felt hurt and less
prosperous. so she Is going to de-
valuate too-about 30 per cent at the
time of this writing. She will now
have the privilege of selling us more
of her goods for 80 per cent less of
our money. and her imports from US
viii cost her 43 per cent more
100
t-=1.43> than previously. But TO
20
counteract somewhat the effect on
her imports she is reducing her tariffs
about 20 per cent.
Limitations Of space will not permit
the desired congratulations My only
purpose is to provide basis which
will enable the average reader to fol-
low popular discussions. II may be
said. however. that the fact that
France, Switzerland. and Holland are
devaluating illustrates the old lesson
that once a few countries start on the
primrose path of devaluation other
countries will follow-and they will
keep up the game until international
sterilization halts the crazy efforts to
see who can give away the most GOES
for the least gold money in rein.
tho care 0f This he1spupsrj
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-19

The Catholic Review of Baltimore,
organ of Archbishop Curley. who prior to
his accession to the arch-bishopric of
Baltimore was Bishop of ST. Augustine,
Florida, rebuked both Father Coughlin
and Mnsgr. Ryan of Washington Catholic
University for meddling- in. politics. 1t
stated that neither is doing their political
OF. church affiliations any good. There
are 10000 Catholic priests in the United
States" says The Review, land 29,998 of
them are minding their own business y
Bishop Gallagher, the immediate superior
of Father Coughlin, has always defended
the so-called radio priest, and the respon-
sibility rests entirely with the bishop, es-
pecially in view of the oft-repeated state
ment by Father Coughlin that he will
cease his public utterances Immediately
he is so required by his superior.