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Evening star., 1936-11-05
lEMkE SAYS PARTY
"IS HERE TO STAY"
Presidential Aspirant Claims Elec.
tion Did Not Repudiats
Principles.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FARGO, N. OAK. November S.
Representative william Lemke of
North Dakota, who ran for President
on the Union party ticket, said in q
statement yesterday the party rs here
to stay" and Is going forward"
The statement outlining his policy
was released through party headquar-
ters In Chicago.
There are many great and worth
while principles that were incorpo-
rated in the Union party platform"
Lemke said. "The outcome Of the
election has in no way shown that
these principles are not worthy of Z
continued fight in their behalf"
Reafiirming his support Of "old-age
security along the principles set down
by DR.. Francis E. Townsend"
Lemke said he would continue my
whole-hearted corporation with all
Of the friends that are seeking to
bring complete security to the aged
folks Of this Nation"
He Is preparing . resolution, he
said, asking Congress for . full,
complete an impartial Investigation
Of the powers that control the money
and credit in the United States"
Venez,,eIa's nev eofYes II evxsActAd tn
Evening star., 1936-11-05
SCOTT TO DIRECT
FIVE BOYS CLUBS.
War Veteran Is Named by
Supt. Brown to Handle
Police Groups.

Sergt. J. e. Scott, holder Of q Dis
tinguished Service Cross Tor extra
ordinary heroism in action" during
the World War, and q member of the
Police Department since 1925, yester-
Evening star., 1936-11-05
CLIPPER PILOT IN TRIP
WITH HIS SECRET BRIDE
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Los ANGELES, November S.
Friends disclosed today that Francis
Scott Key Lewis, junior pilot of the
China Clipper who has made eight
Evening star., 1936-11-05
~ TRAFFIC 9a
0& CONVICTIONS 4A1

winfred B. CUMMINGS. s4os r
street. $40.
Ralph =. Arble, 735 Twelfth street
southeast, $40.
Joseph r. Sullivan, IT,, Maryland.
$40.
Leroy r. Briggs. ls42 Bay street
southeast, $40.
Harry Lustine. 536 Ingraham street.
s..
Genevieve v. Rouse. 307 Bryant
street northeast, $40.
Italy will open banks at Harrar and
bessie, Ethiopia.
Evening star., 1936-11-05

Lewis, former United States Navy
flyer, Il . direct descendant Of Francis
Scott Key, who wrote "The Star
Spangled Banner.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
D. c. GUARDS LEAD e
IN RIFLE CONTEST
Each Member of Team Receives
Medal in Match Fired at
Camp Perry, Ohio.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September
Sin the American Expeditionary
Force-Rumanian team match, fired
here today at the national rife
matches, the National Guard team
of the District of Columbia led all
the Guard teams Of the country, with
each member winning medal.
The match was won by the In
fantry team of the Regular Army.
with q score of 571. In defeating
the teams representing every State
in the Union except Delaware, the
District of Columbia team, led by Mai.
Just. c. Jensen, piled up score Of
565. just 6 points behind winning.
The regular doughboy team Of the
winning Guard team included
Second Lieut.. Henry M. Boudinot,
104th Quartermaster Regiment; STAFF
Sergt. Harry B. Parsons and Sergt.
Willard c. Jensen, both Of the 12lst
Engineers, and Staff Sergt. Theodore
L. Harrell and Corpl. Edwin L. Stau-
bus, both of the local Guard Ordi-
nance Department.
The match consisted of firing 10
shots at 200 yards from a standing
position and 10 shots at 500 yards.
The trophy was presented by Queen
Marie of Rumania in 1919 at the
interallied games at LIE Mans, France.
and was won by the United States.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
U. S. EMPLOYMENT
DECLINED IN JULY
Reduction of 1,0S1 Below June
Is First Drop in Several
Months.

For the first time in several months,
Federal employment showed q drop
here in July. q reduction OF 1881
workers below the June figure putting
the total at 1902, the monthly
report Of the Civil Service Commission
showed last night.
Nationally, however, there was q
gain of 7,444 to 714,600, making the
aggregate District-field 830,622.
In both Washington and on the
outside, there was a boost in employ
ment in the old line and new groups,
exclusive Of Works Progress, but the
latter category showed a falling of.
The increase outside of Washington
was reflected principally in seasonal
employment in Engineer and Quarter
master Corps. The major reduction
here was In the Works Program staff
in the War Department, running
slightly over 1,150.
The pay roll also showed one of its
infrequent drops, amounting to $12s,-
o7l,130. as compared to $12s,4S7 7,167
in June.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
LABOR DAY TRAVEL.
HEAVIEST IN YEARS
Warmer Weather Forecast
Today-ShoWers Likely
Tomorrow.

In one Of the greatest Labor day
exoduses in recent years. thousands of
last night departed
by rail, air, bus and automobile for
centers and old homesteads
as far away as Georgia, New England
and Indiana. s
Just as many thousands had poured
tant points to spend their holiday N
intensive sightseeing around the Cap
ital. The registers Of visitors at the
Washington Monument, the Capitol
and the Smithsonian Institution, chief
indicators of the number of out-of-
town visitors, were approaching record
highs.
The forecaster held out hope for
fair weather tomorrow, but added
there may be showers in the evening.
The rain may hold of till Tuesday.
Today is expected to be fair and
slightly warmer than yesterday.
Statistics Of this weekend travel,
according to one railroad passenger
agent, are in line with the ever-in-
creasing obedience to the urge to go
somewhere, which has received more
and more attention since the return
of mild prosperity and the reduction
Of rail coach rates to cents mile.
Most of the Labor day rail travellers
are going by 2-cent coach. One line
sent several thousand persons to New
York last night on the coaches of two
sections Of special excursion train.
Pullman travel to the deep South and
to overnight points westward also is
considerable.
The travel movement began Friday.
with the arrival and the departure of
the fortunate persons who can take
four holidays, or until Tuesday morn
ing.
The holiday tomorrow means a day
Of freedom from work for most shop
workers in the city and all postmen
except the men who distribute special
delivery mail. During the afternoon
the Union of Street Engineers WI take
. trip by boat to Marshall Hall for q
labor rally.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
DRIVER, RETURNED,
GIVES Up IN DEATH
Indianapolis Man Admits
Baker ToppIed From His
Machine.

Mark P. Sullivan, 43, an Indian
apolis salesman, who, police say, ad-
mits he was the driver of the auto
mobile from which William o. Baker
toppled and received fatal injuries
last Sunday night, surrendered yes
terday.
After making q statement to Chief
Of Detectives Bernard w. Thompson.
Sullivan was released in custody Of
his attorney pending q coroner's in
quest.
Died Of Fractured Skull
Baker, 42-year -old taxi driver, who
lived at 140s North Fillmore street,
Clarendon, Va, died of q fractured
skull in Emergency Hospital early
Monday. Witnesses told Detective
Sergt. william j. Liverman they had
seen Baker jump several times to the
running board Of an automobile with
which his cab had been in collision
at Fourteenth and K streets.
According to Inspector Thompson,
Sullivan said he helped put Baker in
another cab and asked the driver to
what hospital he was taking the in
jured taxi driver. When the man an
swered, ITO Emergency" Sullivan said
he understood him to say Mercy
hospital.
Learned Of Police Hunt.
Failing to find a Mercy" hospital,
Sullivan said he drove to Buffalo, N.
Y, and then to Indianapolis, police
said. Returning yesterday the sales
man said he learned police were look
ing for him and gave himself up.
Following the collision, witnesses
said the driver of the automobile cir
cled Thomas Circle three times, SEEM
ingly in an attempt to dissuade Baker
from pressing q claim for damages
On the third circuit, police were told,
Baker snatched at q windshield wiper,
which came loose. It was reported at
that time the driver stopped, picked
Baker up and put him in another car.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Traffic Convictions
DRYING WHILE DRUNK.

DRIVING WHILE DRUNK.
Harry ]. Crawford, 518 Ninth street
northeast, 500 or so days.
LEAVING AFTER COLLIDING.
Lawyer A. Hill, 1909 Union street
southwest, $100 or so days.
George Thomas alias Nicholas
Wright, 1882 Eighth street, $25 or 40
days.
RECKLESS DRIVING.
Heamut Seher, 6o2 Florence street
northeast, $50.
SECOND oFFENSE SPEEDING.
John A. De Lathonder, 2120 P
street, $25 or 80 days.
John r. Dawson, 1902 sherwood
street, $40. .- -s
FIRST oFFENsE SPEEDING.
George z. Hunter, 1900 G street, $25.
Robert Daily, GIL Morton street, $25.
Jessie c. williams, 1545 Ninth street,
$25.
Harold A. Shinn, Maryland. $40.
Thomas z. Bennett, AZ Fifteenth
street southeast. $40.
David M. Lang. Maryland, SIS.
william H. McKelden, Maryland,
SIS.
John H. GoSs, 3421 Morrison street,
SIS.
Everett D. Stout, Virginia, SIS.
Edward F. Daily. 10 Rhode Island
avenue northeast, SIS.
Lannie D. Chappell, 1925 A street
southeast, $40.
Clarence Thompson. Virginia, tio.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
G 6WASH|NGTON|ANS.
HURT IN z CRASHES.
Three in Family Injured in
Collision of Car With
Taxicab.

Six Washingtonians were injured,
none seriously, in two traffic accidents
in the District and nearby Maryland
yesterday and last night.
Three members of family suffered
minor injuries when their car was in
collision with q taxicab operated by
Alex v. Vickery, SO, Of 2ol Douglas
street northeast, at Thirteenth and c
streets southeast last night. Alphonsus
Benson, Al, of 1922 D street south
east, driver of the car. was cut, and
his wife Josephine, rs, suffered .
fractured right arm. Margaret Ben
son, 20, suffered cuts and bruises. AL
were treated at Casualty Hospital.
Others Hurt Slightly.
The other three victims received
minor injuries when the automobile
in which they were riding turned over
on the Davidsonville road near An
napolis.
Paul Bruckley, 62s Otis street, and
John william Chester, 610 Irving
street, were cut and George w. Runkle,
3119 Georgia avenue, received brush
burns.
While District highways remained
free from serious accident, Virginia
counted three more automobile deaths
yesterday, two the result Of smash-ups
on the heavily-traveled Richmond
Washington Highway.
D. C. Youth Fatally Injured.
A Washington youth William
Banks. %, colored, 1118 First street
was fatally injured in a head-on col
lision S miles north Of Fredericksburg
Friday night. He died shortly after
ward.
The toll from a Thursday night ac-
cident on the same highway reached
three early yesterday with the death
Of Richard Herman, IS, Of Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Knapp, 1882 d
street northeast, were fatally injured
In the same accident.
Eugene Fisher. %, Of Rich Patch
was killed Friday night on route 60
near Clifton Forge, when an automo-
bile turned over after q collision.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
&C.. C. EDITOR DENIES
PROPAGANDA CHARGE
Happy Days Has No Connection
With Democratic Commit
tee, Says Ryder.
BY the Associated Press.

6y inc AsSOClhteo FleSSs
Melvin Ryder. editor of Happy Days,
Civilian Conservation Corps weekly
newspaper, last night denied that he
was employed by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, or that his publi-
cation had carried any propaganda
of the Democratic National Commit
tee"
Ryder's statement was in reply to a
charge that the Democrats were utiliz-
ing the newspaper to spread propa-
ganda through c. c. G. camps made
by William Hard, Republican COM
mentator, in radio talks.
Ryder offered to submit q complete
file Of Happy Days to refute the
charge that it contained any propa-
ganda.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Conscience Fund
Receives 500 on
Unspecifed Debt
Special Delivery Letter
Fails to Specify Ac-
count Due.

Some one with an unusually heavy
conscience yesterday sent s67o in bills,
inclosed in a special delivery letter, to
Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers as
q contribution to the Districts CON
science fund"
There was no signature and no
reference to what kind OF tax or as
sessment the money was intended to
cover. The bills were folded inside a
sheet of paper on which was typed /:
Conscience fund -. S670."
There we're six 500 bills and . $50
and $40 bill in the letter, which was
postmarked in washington.
The money will be deposited at the
Treasury to the credit of the general
fund Of the District and spent along
with regular appropriations. Last hs-
cal year the conscience fund" con-
tributions totaled but $40 and the
year before but $2.25.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

spread through the fiscal years 1884
to 1896, inclusive, in amount equal to
the annual appropriation Of approx
mately $l,2S0,00o, plus $4,000 for
Embarrassing elimination.
This sum added to the regular ap-
preparation provided each year q to-
tai appropriation slightly less than
the regular fund prior to 1894. Our
program of development during the
years 1884 SO provided for only
about half of the usual street funds,
as street activities were supported by
Federal funds. This allowed for
more active program of bridge work.
Federal funds are no longer ava&-
able.
Highway Department appropria.
tions already have been reduced to
dangerous minimum"
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Labor Day Traffic
Most Dangerous,
Motorists Warned

Motorists were warned yester-
day by the American Automobile
Association that Labor day Is
"the most dangerous driving day
of the entire year."
Extreme care is needed this
year as never before, because all
signs indicate that the volume Of
traffic Monday will be the heaviest
in history" said an association
statement.
It added that more than 100
persons are killed and more than
$500 injured severely in motor
outings over the Labor day vaca-
ton each year.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
FOOD PRICES STABLE.

The Labor Department reported
yesterday that retail food prices in
August averaged the same Is In July,
but were higher than in August .
year ago.
The price level reported was "a per
cent Of its 1923-25 average, compared
with 1875 per cent in August. 1885,
and 1851 per cent in August, 1919.
The index for cereals advanced from
90.7 to 9l.7 from July to August, while
meats advanced from $40 to 95.4.
Fruit and vegetable prices dropped
from 80.7 to TAI.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Ais new SCHOOLS
CONSTRUCTED BY P. W. A.
Officials Report Program Provides
Glass Rooms for / out Of
Every Is Pupils.
n the Associated Press.

P. w. A. said yesterday its school
building and Improvement program
Is providing class rooms for l out
Of every rs Of the 30,600,ooo ele-
mentary, high school and college pu-
pills in the United States.
Reporting it financed 10 per cent
of the schools built in the two and
one-haif years ended June 80, the
administration added in a formal
statement that the Ais new build
ings it helped make possible would
provide for 1,202,160 pupils. Some
of the buildings have not yet been
completed.
OF the $4s1 ,s23, GOT p. w. A. school
program, communities were given
$174,576,261 and borrowed the re-
mainder either from P. w. A. or pri-
vate sources.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
TWO MEN SOUGHT
AS RILEY MURDER
|QU|z SHIFTS HERE
Fingerprints on Safe Are
Checked After Brutal Slay-
| ing of Watchman.
lSEVEN SUSPECTS HELD
| IN ARLINGTON JAIL
Sheriff Fields Denies Victim Car.
ried Large Sum Won on
Numbers" Bet.

Two white men whose identity Is
known to police were being hunted
here last night in connection with
the brutal Staying Of Marion J. Riley,
55-year- night watchman, who
was beaten to death early yesterday
when the James z. Colliflower Coal
Co. in nearby Virginia was robbed.
Centered in Virginia earlier in the
day, the investigation swung to WASH
ington when Inspector Bernard w.
Thompson, chief of the Detective Bu-
reau, was informed the two white
men knew something" about the
case.
Just what their connection is in
the murder, the detective head would
not reveal, but the announcement
that they were being sought came
shortly after it was learned finger
prints found on a battered safe at
the coal yard were being checked
against criminal files here.
Rome ana 1OiS0n on Ease.
Two headquarters detectives, Sergts.
Guy Rome and j. J. Tolson, have been
assigned to aid Arlington County in
vestigators.
Seven colored men still were being
held in the Arlington County Jail, but
Sheriff Howard B. Fields intimated ne
was no nearer a solution than he was
yesterday morning when Riley's body.
the head crushed, was found in the
doorway Of boiler room in the yard.
Three other colored suspects, who
were arrested several hours after the
murder. were released last night.
A report that Riley had won large
sum of money, estimated between s400
and $700, on numbers" bet, and was
carrying it when he was killed, was
denied by Sheriff Fields and his as
sistant, Detective Harry woodward.
Money and Gun Missing.
Sheriff Fields said he had been tcld
by the watchmans son, Marion, jr.,
that Riley had about $40 in his pocket
az tllc IA1IC VI I1lc HUI uCL. 4lC IuOL1cy
and gun Riley carried were missing
when his body was found.
The entire Arlington County police
force has been working on the case
| since the crime was discovered shortly
| after am. yesterday.
Riley, an Alexandrian and father of
eight children. apparently was slain
by some one who knew of his routine
and lay in wait for him to enter the
boiler room to start the morning fires,
How much money was stolen from
the heavy safe after it was wheeled
40 yards from the office and broken
open with crowbar and sledge was
still undetermined. James E. Coli
flower, head Of the coal firm, indicated
the amount was small, inasnuch as
the safe-cracking took place the day
after the pay roll was distributed.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
SOLDIER TRYING TO FLEE
OFFICER IN CAR RETAKEN
Youth L Arrested Twice Within
Five Minutes-Assessed Fines
of &75.

George E. Hunter, 19-year-old Army
private living at 1900 @ street, drove
into lot of trouble along Bladensburg
road northeast Friday night.
According to testimony before Judge
Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court
yesterday, young Hunter was stopped
by Policeman w. B. Hopkins. He was
told to drive to the twelfth precinct to
post collateral. Hopkins followed.
Hopkins told Judge Mattingly young
Hunter tried to escape and again was
arrested-twice within five minutes.
Hunter was fined $25 on each OF
two speeding charges and $2S on .
charge Of driving without . permit
Evening star., 1936-09-06

moon," as it Is known to the trade,
that they soon worked themselves out
of Job. Once their identity became
known by testimony in Police Court.
they couldn't get a drink in any of
their old haunts.
II you should happen into a place
where they sell liquor in a tea pot,
or a plain bar bottle without q label,
you are probably patronizing one of
scores Of small dispensaries where
Illicit liquor is sold. just another of
the innumerable outlets which police
and Federal agents are trying to dry
up. --
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Union Station Chef
Plans u. S. Dishes
For Power Parley
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The chef at the Union Station,
where the huge waiting room will
be turned into q banquet hall
Thursday for delegates to the
World Power Conference, is pre-
pairing to tempt foreign palates
with American foods.
The banqueters will be served
Philadelphia pepper pot, Kenne-
bee salmon, colonel of spring
lamb Virginia, sweet potatoes
Louisiana and tomatoes Ameri-
can.
This Is going to be the great
est meal since the Union Station
was built 30 years ago." promised
G. MattaA the chef.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
1000 U. S. EMPLOYEES
GIVEN EARLIER HOURS
Shortening Days and Cooler
Weather Cause Change in P.W.A.
and Interior Offices.

Shortening days and cooler weather
were signalized yesterday in the an
nouncement that some 1000 Govern
ment workers employed In the Public
Works Administration and the In.
terror Department here will be able to
sleep an hour later in the morning,
henceforth.
The employees will come to work,
starting Tuesday. at o am. and work
until 4:30 pm. Secretary Ickes, at the
start of the warmer weather, placed
his workers on the am. to $3.50
schedule. Now they revert to the old
order.
The change affects employees of the
National Capital Parks and the Build
ing Branch, as well as other workers
Of the National Park Service.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
SCHOOL OPENING SET

MANASSAS, Va, September S.
The Manassas Industrial School for
Colored Youth, located near here, will
open for the 1867 term on Wednes-
day. Registration will be on Thurs
day.
The school, founded in 1894 by Jen.
ME Dean, has . faculty Of eight mem.
bers.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
PROF. JAEGER SPEAKS
Laurel women's Club Holds First
Meeting Of Fall Season.

LAUREL. Md. September (Spe-
ciaD The Woman's Club Of Laurel,
at their first meeting Of the Fall sea-
son, enjoyed q discussion by Prof.
Walter C. Jaeger of Georgetown Uni
versity, on Contemporary Interna-
tional Relations.
The incoming president, Mrs. Paul
A. West, presided, and announced that
the program for the year would BE-
furnished each member before the next
meeting.
Evening star., 1936-11-28
LOW-COST HOMES
HELD BENEF|C|A
Purchases Made on Terms
Less Than Rent, Sur
vey Shows.

Evidence that operative builders
can construct low-priced homes con-
forming with Federal Housing Ad-
ministration standards, make COM
Portable profits from volume opera
tions and at the same time give pur-
chasers q means of buying their own
homes on terms less than they for
merly paid as rent-after a down
payment of 20 per cent Of the cost
is shown In survey made OF 30 SAM
pie cases in Hillside Heights, Nassau
County, N. Y.
Since July, 1896, there have been
l24 low-priced homes sold in Hillside
Heights under terms Of the insured
mortgage system. OF the cases sur.
veyed it is indicated that 80 per cent
of the new home owners we're paying
less in monthly payments on their
insured mortgages than they had
previously paid for rental property.
And these payments include princi.
pal on the mortgage as well a. in
terest, mortgage insurance, service
charges. taxes and hazard insurance.
In the 80 cases widely varied list
Of skilled artisans and workers was
recorded as having bought their own
homes under the insured mortgage
system-a letter carrier, bookkeeper.
dairyman. painter. policeman, plaster
er. electrician, carpenter. restaurant
manager. clerk, engineer, gardener
are examples. In one case a man
whose annual income is 81, 300 a year
now has become the owner of his
own home and is making monthly
payments of only s25.06.
In the development of Hillside
Heights. it was explained, every re-
quirement of Housing Administration
property standards was adhered to in
order to expedite the insurance of
mortgages. In report concerning
the economic stability Of the Hillside
Heights projects was the following
comment:
These 80 buyers again substantiate
Evening star., 1936-11-28
REAL ESTATE GAINS
INDICATED BY SURVEY
Evidences of Gradual Improve
ment Throughout Country
Are Reported.

Evidences Of gradual improvement
In realty conditions throughout the
country despite the retarding features
In many localities of the high tax bur.
den were given by a majority Of Lead
ing realty officials in answer to a sur
vey by Banking. the official publication
Of the American Bankers' Association.
The replies indicated that improve.
ment and promises Of further gain are
especially marked in the Eastern
North Central States, due to increased
industrial activity and better business
conditions. In parts of New England
and along the Atlantic Coast improve
ment has been held back by the drag
OF older realty in congested districts
and by high costs of remodeling and
reconditioning. In the Central States
all classes Of property are moving more
freely. In the West the gain has
been more moderate. Home construc-
ton in most of the East and South
Atlantic area was reported as very
active.
Evening star., 1936-11-28
Hunters Estimated at 500, 900.

Texas officials expect nearly half
million hunters and trappers to take
the field with the opening Of the deer
and turkey season.