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Evening star., 1936-12-16
EARLY RED RIDER
ACTION UNLIKELY,
SAYS BANKHEAD
Legislation of Greater I'm.
portance Comes First,
Speaker Reveals.
MRS. NORTON'S PLAN
MEETS OPPOSITION
Making D. c. Committee Member
Ex-Officio Member of Appro-
priations Group Hit.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Prospects of early action by Con-
greSS on any legislation designed to
repeal the so-called red rider" to
the 1886 District appropriation act
were dimmed today by Speaker Bank
head.
Congress will have legislation Of
greater importance to consider early
in the forthcoming session than a
bill to destroy the red rider" Bank
head told newspaper men at his first
press conference since returning to
Washington.
Bankhead was informed that one
OF the first bills expected to be re-
ported to the House by the District
Committee would be one to restore
academic freedom to the class rooms
OF the public schools
Importance Considered.
That is not of such paramount i'm
portance to get preferred status on
the House calendar" Bankhead re-
piled. If the bill is reported, how
ever. it. of course. will be given con-
sideration in regular order"
Bankhead also virtually killed the
plan of Chairman Norton of the House
District Committee to have a men,
Der of her group serve as an ex-officio
member of the Subcommittee on Ap-
District supply bill.
Advised that Mrs. Norton proposed
to ask him to assign one member of
her. committee to sit with the Appro-
priations Subcommittee during hear
ines on the 1888 supply bill. Bankhead
declared:
Right off the bat, don't think ]
would approve the plan. I can see
possible danger in the intermingling
OF the legislative and appropriations
committees"
Reason for Proposal.
Mrs. Norton proposed the plan in
view of the fact that the Subcommit-
tee on Appropriations. in charge of the
1888 District supply bill. will be made
up almost entirely of new members
unfamiliar with Washington and its
municipal problems. She thought a
member of her committee, if allowed
to sit with the subcommittee, could be
of valuable assistance to the new
members.
Bankhead also frowned on a plan Of
Representative Better, Democrat, Of
New York, to have Congress erect an
apartment house in Washington ex-
clusively for members and their secre-
taries. He said in his opinion Congress
had more important matters to con-
slider.
But" continued Bankhead. Il don't
want to throw any cold water on the
plan, and at the same time I don't
want to apply heat to it by approval. y
Evening star., 1936-12-16
DOOMED IN DEATH
Of MRS. GOODWIN
Colored Ex-Janitor Found
Guilty in BIudgeon Murder
Case.

Norman W. Robinson. 27 colored
was in death row" cell at the Dis
trict Jail today. convicted of first de-
gree murder in the brutal Staying
September 18 of Mrs. Florence Good
win, 41-year-old proprietor of a ROOM
ing house at 1902 Sixteenth street
Alarmed by the Defendants threats
that he might make a break" II
deputy marshals stood in the District
Court room late yesterday as the
foreman of a jury of nine men and
three women pronounced the verdict
Guilty as indicted"
Robinson glanced hastily about him
as if searching for an avenue of
escape. Eight deputy marshals stood
within a few feet of him and others
were in the background. He quietly
submitted 20 being led away.
Deliberate 3 Hours.
Justice Peyton Gordon had given a
charge to the jury which would have
permitted verdicts of not guilty. guilty
of murder in the first degree, or guilty
of murder in the second degree. The
jurors deliberated 3 hours and 10
minutes.
The verdict carries the death PEN
alty.s
Mrs Goodwin was beaten to death
with a heavyc iron furnace shaker
early in the morning before her ROOM
ers we're astir. The next day Robin
son was arrested and six days later
signed a confession and then re-
enacted the Staying.
Charges Third Degree Beatings.
Yesterday on the witness stand he
repudiated the confession, asserting he
had been forced to sign it, and testi-
fed that when he re-enacted the
crime he was in daze from beatings
he had received at the hands of police.
His testimony was not corroborated.
Two police officers and deputy coro-
ner denied he had been beaten, say
ing he freely confessed.
Robinson was temporarily employed
as a janitor in Mrs. Goodwin's room
ing house last Summer. His confess
sion indicated that he entered the
rear door with a pass key. bent on
robbery, and crushed Mrs. Goodwin's
skull with repeated blows because OF
fear of detection.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
EDITOR TO APPEAR
|NSCHOLAST|CBAN
School Board to Hear Pro-
test-Routine Matters
Also Up Today.

Maurice R. Robinson, editor of
Scholastic, weekly newspaper that was
barred from the approved list of the
Washington public schools two weeks
ago, planned today to defend the
publication before the Board of Edu-
cation.
Robinson, who twice declined invi-
tations to appear before the board
when his publication was under at
tack, demanded a hearing before the
board finally dropped the publication.
Originally Scholastic was charged with
being o-Communistic, but clean
bill of health" on that score was given
by committee of teachers and school
officials.
Accused Of Pacifism.
Later, it was approved for use in
the English classes of the senior high
schools but at the insistence of George
M. Whitwell, board member, the pub
lication's "pacifistic" policies were con-
sidered and the paper was banned be-
cause of its stated policy published
some three years ago.
Frederick j. Libbey, executive sec
retary of the National Council for the
Prevention of War, has Joined Rob-
inson in defense of the paper.
Lapse of Time Cited.
In a letter to Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, president of the board, Lib
bey called it stretching point" to
ban a publication for an editorial
written three years ago. especially
since there is no evidence that since
that time pupils in our high schools
have been harmed by it."
The editorial in question urged stu
dents to refuse conscription unless q
Nationwide referendum declared war,
and to refuse to serve unless equal
conscription was given industry and
capital.
The board expected today to COM
plete its last pre-holiday meeting with
only routine matters after hearing
Robinson.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
Non-Paying Guests Forced
O,Uner to Sell Mount Vernon

A great-great grandniece Of George
Washington and last remaining men,
ber Of the family born at Mount
Vernon, Mrs. Eleanor Washington
Howard today described conditions
that forced her father, John Augustine
Washington III, to sell the famous
old estate to the Mount Vernon Ladies
Association for 100000.
"Yes," she said, my father was
actually eaten out of house and home.
People came every day to look at the
estate, ate our food, accepted our
lodging, and then went of without
as much as thank you The estate
was never self-supporting, you know,
and with our family large as 1t was,
the expenses just couldn't be met"
This collateral descendent OF the
countrys leading hero went out Of her
way to purchase the first Of the new
series of stamps honoring Army heroes.
She made the trip to the Post once
Department to get the postage sticker,
which is a companion series to one
honoring naval heroes.
Born in 1856, one of seven children
and the youngest of five daughters.
Mrs. Howard was only 4 years old
when the estate was sold, but still has
q few vivid memories despite her 80
years of age.
II still remember how puzzled ] was
that though I went to bed every
night in my mothers bed, I always
awoke in q trundle bed beside it. +"
she said. MY most vivid recollection,
though, Is running out Of the house
and meeting a strange man who gave
me a copper penny. I can remember
the clothes he had on. everything
about him in fact. My mother saw
me with the coin, though I was 50
young didn't know what it was, and,
leading me down to the river, tossed
1t In with the admonition never to
take money from strangers"
Though the estate sold for 5000, 900,
her father never saw q cent Of it,
Mrs. Howard said. When the Civil
War broke out he offered his services
to his relative, Robert e. Lee, who
| attached him to his staff. He was
shot down near the Elkins River IN
Evening star., 1936-12-16

| BY a Stan Correspondent oil The Star.
~ ENSINGTON. Md. December
II l6-Surrounded by three lit
n tie children. the youngest of a
n dozen, Mrs James Elmer Gin
gell sat in the parlor of her home, on
a hill overlooking the railroad tracks
here, and told the story Of her 20
year-old son Lawrence. wanted for
questioning in connection with the
Staying of Ellwood Matthews.
Lawrence, gone for two months
his mother knew not where-returned
home unexpectedly Monday night and
was gone again yesterday morning
after his mother had heard radio
broadcast telling of the police search
for William Reed, Is, and her son in
connection with the murder of FL
wood D. Matthews, 68, Four Corners
farmer Mrs. Gingell told Lawrence
to give himself up to police. She
gave him hearty breakfast. He left
the house 80 minutes before police
arrived His mother has not seen
him since.
II feel terrible-its a blow to me-"
Mrs. Gingell, widowed since her hus-
bands death almost two years ago,
said. Lawrence is the only child who
has ever given her any trouble. He
would answer no questions his mother
asked They had lived at Colesville,
near the Matthews farm, when Law
renee disappeared two months ago.
Mrs. Gingell moved here month ago,
to be nearer Bethesda. where her 22-
year-old daughter has a job. She
brought the rest of the children with
her. Lawrence, she said, probably
found the new home by questioning
neighbors at Colesville.
Advised Surrender.
Il told Lawrence to go and give him.
self up" said the mother. woman of
middle age. Then he wouldn't listen
to me-"
Mrs. Gingell - the name is pro-
nounced in-jell'-held Betty Jane,
a healthy. pretty girl of 2 years, on
her lap. while Ruth, and Billy, 6,
home from his first term in school be-
cause he had just been vaccinated,
played in the parlor One son, 18, is
in c. c. c. camp. Another, Is, has a
job. The other seven children are
Evening star., 1936-12-16
CITIZENS STIRRED
BYPER|LSOF ROAD
Mass Meeting Tonight to De-
mand Improvement of Old
Georgetown Route.
b, q Stan Correspondent oil The Star.

by OIhu UIIeSpOHucuJ Ol 4uC oldI
BETHESDA. Md, December 16-
Scores of indignant citizens. stirred
by three deaths and numerous acci-
dents on Old Georgetown road. will
gather for a mass meeting here to-
night and insist upon immediate i'm
provement of the dangerous thorough
fare.
The meeting is to be held at the
Bethesda Women's Club. located at
Sonoma and Old Georgetown roads,
at 8 o'clock with county officials and
local representatives in the State AS
sembly expected to attend to hear
the protests.
PlacardS announcing the session,
which is sponsored by the Old George
town Road Citizens Association. re-
vived following two motorists deaths
in a bus-auto wreck December 6,
have been posted in Bethesda, Alta
Vista. Battery Park. Huntington Ter
race, Sonoma, Oak Place, Luxmanor
and other communities bordering the
road.
Interest Aroused.
Interest has been aroused to
fever pitch by the widespread cam
paign for widening and resurfacing
is expected by Lendall A. Conner,
president of the host organization,
and Ford Young. ST., chairman of
the special Road improvement Com
mittee of the association.
In addition to private citizens. heads
of the Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce. Rockville Pike Citizens Asso-
citation and representatives Of the
Alta Vista Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton, American Automobile Associa-
ton, Keystone Motor Club and other
bodies will be present.
The District of Columbia division OF
the American Automobile Association
launched survey of the road yester-
| day to determine the density Of traf-
f1c along the thoroughfare and the
hazardous points on the route, which
| is one of the main traffic arteries in
the metropolitan area of Montgomery
| County.
The survey was ordered by a spe-
cial committee appointed by the Ad.
viSory Board of the Washington
branch of the A. A. A. G. Adams
Howard is chairman of the commit
tee, while Washington l. Cleveland OF
Kensington, well-known county civic
leader. is a member.
A resolution urging the road i'm
provement work be carried out was
introduced in the Montgomery County
Civic Federation last night by the Old
Georgetown Road Citizens ASsocia-
ton and was referred to the Roads,
Streets and Bridges Committee for
study.
PropOnent of Road.
The measure, presented through
John A. Dickinson, charged the in
creased traffic due to installation of
bus service, the opening of a new
elementary school at Alta Vista and
the rapid growth of the communities
along the road warranted the work
that is advocated.
An attempt was made to have the
resolution passed as an emergency
measure, but the resolution finally was
referred to committee and will be acted
upon at some meeting in the near
future
The federation, however, was one of
the original proponents of the road
Improvement when it was first sug-
gested a year ago and the resolution
last night was aimed merely at re-
Affirming the groups previous stand.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
POLICE AGAIN MISS
Staying SUSPECT
Second Man Sought in Mat.
theWs Murder Visits
Home Safely.
By a Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, December 16.-
William Reed, IS. one of two youths
sought by Montgomery County police
in connection with the Staying of FL
wood Matthews, has visited the home
of his father near Four Corners within
the last 48 hours, Montgomery County
police learned today.
This news followed the discovery
yesterday that Lawrence Gingell, 20,
who was implicated with Reed, had
slept at the home of his mother at
Kensington, Md. Monday night.
Gingell, directed by his mother to
surrender when she heard over the
radio that police were seeking him.
left home and has not been seen
since.
Body Found Sunday.
Silver Spring police visited Reeds
father today. The elder Reed said he
could not remember whether his son
was at home Sunday or Monday
night"
Matthews body, with bullet holes in
the head and chest, was found Sunday
Wy bWo UOyo Ou q IONh III INOTIIlWcSG
Branch, near Four Corners. Mat
thews, wealthy 65-year- r-old farmer, had
been missing since November 81.
Gingell was last seen yesterday by
his mother at her home, in Kensing-
ton, after she had directed him to give
himself up to authorities when she
heard a police radio broadcast. He
walked of down the railroad tracks
toward the center of the town and
police visited the home 80 minutes
later to find him gone.
No Additional Word.
Police reported today no additional
word as to their whereabouts. In
addition to having been implicated
in the Matthews murder by the con-
fession of w. Joseph Kirby of Scran-
ton, Pa, who was wounded In q gun
battle with police last week near
Charleston, w. Va, Reed and Gingell
are wanted for questioning in q series
of robberies in Montgomery County
and more serious charges in West
Virginia.
Evening star., 1936-12-16

| small. all ranging upward in age from
Betty Jane.
Everything was going along smooth.
| ly until this terrible thing happened
Mrs. Gingell declared.
Returned Monday.
IF they the police) haven't got
Lawrence by now it isn't my fault.
told him the best thing to do was tc
give himself up at the Bethesda pre-
cinct.
Lawrence was here Monday night
when 1 returned from Washington
Apparently he was not worried over
anything that had happened. Tues
day morning I heard the radio call
between 8 and o'clock l told the
police about it when they came. He
left here about half past g. I gave
him a good breakfast, because I was
afraid he wouldn't come back. He
walked off down the railroad tracks"
His mother said Lawrence went
with the Reed boys all the time"
She knew Mr.. Matthews" the
farmer who was slain the night of
November 81 on the road near his
home, only to speak to and as a neigh
Dor. He was very nice man." she
said.
Turning toward her children, the
mother said: Il try to raise them
well. I never had any trouble with
any but Lawrence.
"Will Be Sad Christmas"
Almost with tears in her eyes, and
hoping Lawrence will not face a mur-
der charge, the mother concluded, 1T
will be a sad Christmas for me, and
we were planning such nice one"
Police were put on the trail of
Lawrence and William Reed. rs, when
w. Joseph Kirby. wounded in a battle
with West Virginia police last week
while two accomplices in the abduction
of a bank cashier escaped, refutedly
implicated them in confession made
at Charleston to Detective Sergt.
Theodore Vollten. chief of the Bureau
of Identification Of Montgomery
County police.
Bullets fired from a gun supposedly
belonging to Reed, the first one found
in the Manor Club after a gun battle
with police, the second In West Vir-
ginia, the third one discovered in
Matthews lower jaw, put Vollten on
the track
Evening star., 1936-12-16
POLICE RAIDER UPHELD
IN PROPERTY SEIZURE
Hammel's $4,000 Damage Suit
Following Acquittal Fails in
Court of Appeals.

The Court of Appeals decided late
yesterday that Lieut.. George M. Little
of the Police Department, cannot be
held accountable for property seized
in a prohibition raid on HammePs
Restaurant, on Tenth street between
D and e streets, August 80, 1882.
Hammel and several others were
charged, as a result of the raid, with
unlawful possession of liquor. and
subsequently we're acquitted by jury.
Three days later all seized property
was returned to Hammel. Neverthe-
less, Hammel sued for trespass, claim
ing $4,000 damages.
Speaking for the Court of Appeals
Associate Justice D. Lawrence Groner
said that Hammel's acquittal on the
criminal charge was not conclusive
that the seizure was illegal; that the
return of the property by the United
States without condemnation pro-
ceedings Is not conclusive that the
seizure was tortious.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
A.F. G. E. MAPS PLANS

The customary observance of Civil
Service week will be held by the
American Federation of Government
Employees January 1915, it was an
nounced today.
1t will be the fifty-fourth anniversary
of the passage of the Civil Service act
and will be marked by radio broad
casts meetings and other publicity
designed to attract public attention.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
FORT STEVENS POST
PLANS DANCE SATURDAY
Fete Will Be for Benefit of Chill
dren's Party and to Provide
Food for Needy.

A dance will be given by Fort
Stevens Post, No. 80, American Legion,
at Indian Spring Country Club, on
Saturday night. December ls. for the
benefit of a Christmas party for the
children. to be held at the post head
quarters on Georgia avenue, and to
help defray expenses for the posts
annual distribution of 100 baskets
to be given to needy families in the
city.
Chairman Mike Lyons of the Dance
Committee has asked that reserva-
tions be made as soon as possible.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
Is Children, No Doctor.

WILLOW SPRINGS. Mo. OPAL
though the stork has visited the farm
home of Mr.. and Mrs r. N Lee. near
here, is times. they have never EN-
ployed a doctor, even to officiate At
the births. Lee Is So and his wife 43.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
Glee Club to Meet.

The Armstrong Alumni Glee Club
viii meet in the Armstrong High
School auditorium at O'Clock tonight.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
1,910-Foot Tunnel.

The Swannanoa Tunnel under the
crest of the Blue Ridge at Ridgecrest,
N. c., Is 1910 feet long.
Evening star., 1936-12-16
Program,

Program.
l. Overture, THE Flying Dutch
man" -- -----Wagner
2. Intermezzo, Clair de Lune"
from Suite "Bergamasque."
Debussy
3. Excerpts from Jewels of the
Madonna" -Wolf-Ferari
4. Song of the Bayou Bloom
S. "Siegfried Idyl" from "Sieg-
6. Valse de concert, Artists Life"
Strauss
7. Symphonic paraphrase. THE
Volga Boatmen" ---Stoessel
8. Dance of the Hours" from LA
Gioconda" -Ponchielli
Q. "Polacca" from Suite No. 3,
Opus IS Tschaikowsky
The Marines Hymn"
"The tar.Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-12-16
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Marine Band
Symphony Orchestra, today, at 8 pm,
Marine Barracks auditorium. Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader; William F.
Santelmann, second leader, con-
ducting.
Evening star., 1936-12-16

Stan Correspondent oil The Star.
y ENSINGTON. Md. December
l6.-Surrounded by three lit
I tie children, the youngest of a
n dozen. Mrs. James Elmer Gin
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-08-07

1852, 100000 pairs of shoes. To produce
these would have required 6,945,000
man-years of work; it would have
kept 1,157,0 men and women at work
through the depression. To supply
materials for these industries alone
building, electrifcation, clothing
would have required 16,278,000 man
years Of work.
Waste of 23,085,000 man-years of
work during depression in other in
dustries, meant an inadequate food
supply, loss of opportunity for mil
lions in education and recreation, the
total amounting to 100000
Work For All is Major Problem
In every industry where workers
have lost by this failure to produce,
employers and persons working for
themselves have lost also.
Unemployment is a national waste,
affecting every citizen. There is no
one for whom it is not major con-
cern to discover how this idle man
power can be put to work and kept
steadily at work producing goods and
services.
Space prevents discussion here Of
measures to accomplish this, but one
basic requirement may be pointed out:
We need (a) organization of labor so
that it may become functioning unit
Iit society; (b) information to show
what production is needed and when
/ it can be produced; (c) coordination
of industrial activity so as to produce
what we need"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-08-07
Nashville Milk Drivers
Win Modified Picket Ban

Nashville, Tenn. (AFLNS)-Chan-
cellor James B. Newman interpreted
an injunction he had issued restrain
ing the newly-crganized local Of the
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and
Helpers Union from interfering with
the delivery of milk by the Nashville
Pure Milk Company as permitting the
right of peaceful picketing and per-
suasion to the driver-salesmen of the
union who are on strike for nine
hour day, $50 a week minimum wage
and recognition of the union.
The original injunction, granted al
the request of the company, was said
by company officials to prevent pick.
eting by the strikers. After argu
ment on petition to modify the in
junction, Chancellor Newman said:
at was not the intent of this court
to deny the rights of peaceful picket
ing and collective bargaining guar
anteed under the constitution.
'The injunction was issued to con
troll violence and unlawful acts ant
not to enjoin peaceful methods which
might be employed by striking EN-
ployes.o
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-08-07
COMPANY UNION
Rejects Overtime Payment
Plan

Pittsburgh (ILNS)-The Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corporations offer to
pay time and half for overtime was
rejected as 'of no benefit" by work
ers in the company's Edgar Thorn
son plant.
1t was the first definite reaction
among the country's 100000 steel
workers to the time and half pay
plan, which was offered recently by
most of the big steel producers.
| Workers at the Edgar Thomson
plant, one of Carnegie Illinois larg-
est, turned down the plan through a
vote of the majority of their employees
representatives
Leaders of the plants company
union" charged that the plan would
increase their cost of living, would
bring no benefits to the men and was
granted without the knowledge of the
employees representatives.
The resolution rejecting the offer
said that "a special meeting was
held here to inform US that our re
quest for time and half had been
granted" and then added
The representatives of this body
know nothing about such request
being put in The publicity given this
subject has been very prominent in
the newspapers.
we feel that such publicity has
raised the cost of living and that we
have receiStd no benefits of any
overtime by being given a 48-houl
week, and we are still in accord with
the plan of the 40-hour week at the
most, with time and half from Sat
urday noon until Sunday and double
time on Sundays and holidays"