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Evening star., 1937-10-23
MEMBERS SOUGHT
IN COOPERATIVE.
Consumers Services Sets
Goal of 200 to Launch
Grocery Store.

Seeking enough members in the low
income group to establish co-opera-
tive grocery in the Northwest area,
Consumers Services sponsored mass
meeting last night in Shiloh Baptist
Church
Rev. E. L. Ford, president Of Con-
sumers' Services. told the audience
that the organization. one of Is or so
launched in the District within the
last few years, now had so members
but that 200 were needed before leas-
ing property for the store. According
to plans. it would be established in
the section bounded by North Capitol,
Thirteenth and K streets and Florida
avenue northwest.
The cooperative is modelled on
Rochdale principles. now being used by
Rochdale Stores, Inc, ITO Seventh
street southwest.
Surplus Funds Returned.
Each member has one vote, regard
less OF the amount Of stock he may
own. and there is no proxy voting
Capital receives a fixed amount Of
interest at low rate and surplus funds
are returned to members as dividends
after overhead costs are met.
Lero~ A. Halbert. president of the
District of Columbia Cooperative
League, which co-ordinates the Wash
ington co-operatives. told the meeting
the project had great potentialities for
enabling the families of that area to
stretch low income over the present
high cost of living.
Nearly l000o0.000 families in Eu-
rope take advantages of such co-opera-
tive enterprises today" Halbert said.
In Washington co-operativeF repre-
sent 100000 worth of business a year. "
Secs Serfice Substituted
Miss Mamie Burroughs, head Of the
National Training School for Women
and Girls. colored institution, told
the gathering cooperative buying car
ried out the true Christian concept
Of Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself"
Religion is mixed with cabbages,
hammers, saws, rskes and hoes in
such an enterprise" she said BY
I banding together so that all may
prosper in equal proportion. the word
service is substituted for the word
profit and the lstter's attendant ills
are dispensed with
our Constitution starts With the
word we and it is in that vein that
pioneering should be forwarded in a
cause which may somedav solve many
of the major problems of our civiliza-
ton"
Evening star., 1937-10-23
MRS. FORD TO GIVE $4,000
A YEAR TO W0MEN'S UNIT
Farm Group Must Raise Equal
Amount-Aim Is to Aid Mar
keting Ventures.

An annual gift of 5000 for the
next three years was promised yes
teroay by Mrs. Henry Ford of Detroit
to the National Council of the Woman's
National Farm and Garden Associa-
tion. contingent upon the raising of
similar sum each year by the asso-
ciation.
This money will be used to make
possible the establishment of a
national headquarters and employ
ment of an executive secretary, first
in Charlottesville and later in Wash
ington. The association will raise its
share of the funds through member
ship dues.
Mrs. Arthur Esgate, president of
the local branch of the association,
says the association intends to en-
courage marketing ventures under
taken by farm women by establishing
standards for both the produce raised
on the farm and for handcrafts.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY the Associated press.

by lne Associated fIeSS.
CHICAGO. October 23.--Dlsturbed
by weakness of securities and disap-
pointing export business prospects, the
grain market idled along today.
Wheat disregarded a strong advance
in prices at Liverpool in the face Of
breaks of securities and opened gen.
orally steady. The unexpected strength
at Liverpool served merely to deter
sellers who were discouraged by the
failure of export business to materialize
overnight, and also by the feeble re-
sponse the Winnipeg market made to
the Liverpool advance
The net result was a quiet market.
The chattering telegraph instrument
which flashed price changes to the
big black board we're silent for minutes
at a time
Corn eased slightly, apparently
marking time until some announce
ment was made regarding corn loans.
Oats and rye we're quiet and steady,
Provisions declined slightly.
BY midsession. weakness had crept
into the wheat market and prices we're
unchanged to "a cents lower: De-
cember, 97A; May. 81. and corn was
34-1as cents lower; December, 57&:
May, 594.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
S,uaHo,cs Quit
Mission 4He0d
OF Usual Time
81 the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. Calf.
October 23-The mission swallows
have jumped the gun.
Centuryold tradition holds that the
birds which nest seven months every
year IN the parapets of historic San
Juan Capistrano Mission take off for
South America October %, San Juans
day.
But most Of them left last night. and
today only a. few laggards fluttered
about for the hundreds of tourists who
annually view their exodus.
Frank Sheridan, business manager
Of the mission, said oldtimers declare
the flock began to thin two weeks ago.
The thousands of swallows usually
leave at dawn during their stay here to
forage for insects. They return at SUM-
set and so are seldom seen even at the
height Of their season.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
PROF. DORSEY SPEAKS

The theory of a distinctive Negro
culture is unfounded and is used to
give moral support to those who wish
to exploit the colored worker, Emmett
e. Dorsey, professor of political science
at Howard University, last night told
members of the Capital City Forum
at 1902 Fourteenth street.
Culture" he declared, sis not racial,
but develops in environment and from
economic and social status"
Prof Dorsey, whose topic was
Democracy in the Southern States, "
said the one-party system In that
region represents q deprivation Of
constitutional rights.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
SCOTTSbOR0 CASE
BEFORE JUSTICE
Patterson Review Appeal
May Offer Basis for
Black Challenge.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court justices as
sembled today to decide whether TO
review the conviction of Haywood
Patterson. one Of the Negroes involved
in the famous Sc0ttsboro. Ala, cases.
Some observers expressed the belief
this litigation might provide a basis
for challenging any participation by
Justice Black, who at one time was a
member of the Ku Klux Klan.
One challenge of Blacks participa-
tion in litigation already has been
promised. 1t resulted from the court s
refusal last Monday to interfere with
a lower court ruling that the Securities
and Exchange Commission could
subpoena telegrans sent and received
by three Florida companies.
Utilized kilograms.
While chairman of the Senate Lobby
Committee. the new justice utilized
kilograms obtained by the Communica-
tions Commission from persons under
investigations
Twenty-eight petitions, including
Patterson's, were placed before the
justices at their weekly conference.
Whether the appeals will be heard in
open court will be announced Monday.
Patterson was sentenced to serve IS
years in prison after his conviction of
attacking a white woman on a moving
freight train near Scottsboro, in
March, 1881.
The Supreme Court has saved him
twice from the death penalty by or
dering new trials. 1t held in 1882
that he and other defendants had not
been provided with adequate counsel.
Three years later it ruled that Ne
proes had been Systematically ex-
Guided" from the juries which in
dicted and convicted him.
Escaped Death Sentence.
At the third trial, he escaped q
death sentence, but drew a 75-year
prison term.
Other litigation before the justices
included:
An appeal by the Duke Power Co
in an attempt to prevent the Public
Works Administration from making 6
S2,852, 600 loan and grant to Green
wood County. S. C., for an electric
plant at Buzzard Roost. The Fourth
Circuit Court Of Appeals ruled in favor
of the Government. The Supreme
Court already has agreed to review
similar litigation brought By the Ala
bama Power Co.
An attack by South Bend, Ind, on
constitutionality Of 1893 State law
under which a tax was imposed on
its municipality owned water plant.
The Indiana Supreme Court sustained
The assessment.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
Horse Show
(Sontinued From First Page.

cluding the coveted blue, and hunter
matters in general leaning the Whit
ney way.
The ladies hunter test. by the way,
was set over from yesterday until to-
morrow afternoon at / pm.
Today the principal tests slated are
the hunter class for horses owned
within 40 miles of the District. an
exhibition of foxhounds by the Red
land Hunt of Maryland. the handy
jumper test, the second phase of the
international team jumping and the
$500 hunter stake.
Summaries for Day.
Second dsy summaries:
Fault lt-and-out:. First scemps Boy
ridden by Capt. Milo H Matteson: second
Tsae Rd cqTd Sy cs0 En mfr h5s 'a9T d EVE:
IEidden By Lieut.; +. E, Weber: fourth
Filter Sunited statsi horse ut5S Show team
International Individual Military Cham
pionship. First. Dakota United States
Army horse show team; ridden by Lieut.
Commandant Chevalier Henri de Menten
de Horne third, Reno UNITED Sta les
Army horse show team. ridden by Lieut.
w. H. s. Wright. fourth. four horses were
tied for fourth place. there was no Jump
of and all were awarded ribbons.
Model Hunters. First. The Bear Mrs
John Hay whitney second, Grey knight
Mrs John Hay Whitney; third. Ucells
Mrs John Hay whitney, fourth, Bon
Diabie tMrs. John Hay Whitney,.
Five Hundred Dollar Jumper Stake.
First Joe Aleshire United States Army
horse show team. ridden by Lieut. Frank
lin 6 Wing ir.: second, Billy towned and
Fort Hoyle. Md. third, Ramona Belgian
Army team, ridden by Lieut. Ives van
Strydonck); fourth, Clipped Wings Fort
A. w. Rofe
Corinthian Glass: Grey Knight (Mrs J.
X. Whitney: second, Airy Spirit )Mrs
J. H. Whitney; third. Two Leaeins Mrs
: Whitney)i fourth. Tandem Miss
Louise Myers.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
RAILS WANT ADDED
TENF0LD RATE RISE
S47,500, 900 Boost Granted
by |. C. c. Held Only Frac-
ton of Cost Needs.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Executives of the Nations class
railroads, granted SAT 500 600 freight
rate increase, indicated today they
will ask the Interstate Commerce
Commission to approve a further in
crease of possibly 10 times that
amount.
Railway officials accepted the higher
rates announced yesterday by the
commission as only a fraction of
what they need to meet higher oper-
ating costs.
Wage increases in recent months,
the carriers contended, added $685.
600 900 to their annual outgo, or three
times the extra income approved by
the T. C. c.
J. J. Pelley, president of the Asso-
citation of American Railroads. said
the organization may file a petition
for an additional rate increase next
Thursday at Chicago.
Without additional increases, Presi-
dent William NJ Jeffers Of the Union
Pacific said, the railroads may be
forced back into Government oper-
alton"
In Chicago. Chairman Harry Guy
Taylor of the Western Association Of
Railway Executives said the increases
would 60 largely to Eastern lines.
"The SAT. 100000 additional revenue
annually granted by the I. c. c. rep
resents only one-tenth of the $500
600 900 in additional expenses" Tay-
lor added.
Informed persons here said the
carriers probably will seek a hori-
zontal 10 per cent increase. Yester-
days total was slightly above / per
cent
The $47.50O000 figure compared
with s54000,00O which the carriers
had asked in negotiations that have
lasted for months. The I. C. c. re-
fused to raise rates on anthracite
coal, refined petroleum in the South
ern territory and iron ore between
mines in Minnesota and docks on
Lake Superior.
Principal increases:
Bituminous coal and coke, IN
creases ranging from 3 to 10 cents,
terminating December 81, 1888.
Ignite coal. 2 to cents.
Iron and steel, 10 per cent to
maximum of cent hundred pounds;
scrap, 20 per cent to 2-cent maxi
mum.
Cement, lime, plaster, mortar and
gypsum, / cent hundred pounds.
Petroleum and its products, except
in Southern territory, l cent hun
dred pounds.
Commissioner Frank McManamy of
the I. C. C. denied the assertion of
shippers that freight rate increases
would drive traffic from the rails to
other modes Of transportation
This contentionl has been mega
tived by experience with the emer-
gency rates." he said. The record
shows that, under emergency rates
greater in many instances and much
more widely distributed than what is
before us here, rail traffic did not de-
crease"
The commissions 100-page decision
asserted that:
The record amply justifes the con-
clusion that IN the aggregate the rail-
roads are earning very materially less
than a reasonable return on the fair
value of their carrier properties"
1t noted. too, that recognition of
this fact that the railroads cannot
hope in times Of economic depression
to earn normal return carries with
it recognition of the complementary
principle that they should be given
an opportunity to earn more than
normal return in times of prosperity"
Evening star., 1937-10-23
FIGHTS ELECTION PLEA

Countering the request of the Amer
ican Radio Teleeraphists' Assoca ton
for an employe representation cleo
ton by the National Labor Relations
Board among employees of Postal Tele-
graph, the Commercial Telegrsphers'
Union yesterday protested to the board
that such an action would constitute
contract breaking of the most serj-
Gus nature" The c. T. u, an A, F.
Of L. affiliate, claims 1t has working
contracts with II major districts of
the Postal Telegraph Co.
The A. r. T. A. is affiliated With
the c. I. 0.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
ANACOSTIA CITIZENS
HIT BUSINESS TAX
Associat tion Also Nominates Slate
of officers. With Exception
of President.

The Anacostia Citizens Association
voted opposition to the business privi-
lege tax last night. declaring 1t unfair
to the citizens OF the district. The
association also opposed the City-Wide
Playground Association. claiming the
Parent Teacher Association filled the
need for such an organization.
Afflliation with the District of CO.
lumhia Suffrage Association was in
dorsed.
officers nominated for the coming
year, with the exception of the presi-
dency. were first vice president. w. H.
Benhof, jr second vice president.
Phyllis Plemens; treasurer, Frank
Reed; secretary. w. j. Tucker. and
delegates TO the Federation of Citizens
Associations, c. G. Smith and Mr.
Tucker.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
PUBLIC'S AID ASKED
IN HUNT FOR WOMAN
Comely 32-Year-0ld Brunette
Missing Since October 8
on Return From West.

Public aid was asked today in a
search for Mrs. Margaret NJ. Reeves,
beautiful 32-year-old brunette. who
has been missing since October 9,
when she returned here from trip
to the West Coast.
An appeal for any one having seen
Mrs. Reeves or knowing what has
happened to her to get in touch with
Mr.. Reeves. the police or with her
mother. Mrs. Lawrence M. Murphy
1889 Irving street. was issued after a
police search failed to disclose any
trace of her.
Her husband, P. w. Reeves, who
recently returned to this country
after serving on the staff of High
Commissioner McNutt of the Philip
pines, said the last heard from his
Evening star., 1937-10-23
CLASS WILL NOT MEET

The eouitation class Of the 5osth
Cavalry, scheduled to be held to-
morrow at $50 am. at Fort Myer
has been postponed until the same
hour next Sunday.
Shifting of the Tnter-American
Horse shcw to Fort Myer neoessitsted
the change.
Evening star., 1937-10-23

WEST CHESTER, Pa. tPl.--Mrs.
Guy Knauer is getting new fur
neckplece at bargain price.
She supplied the fur-the pelt of
red fox her automobile had killed.
Evening star., 1937-10-23

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed easy, 8 to IL lower. Sales, rs
contracts. January, 724b; March
7.25; May, 1880. Bid.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
THE WEATHER

District of Columbla--Partly cloudy
and colder tonight, with minimum
temperature about 55 degrees; tomor-
row fair, fresh northwest winds.
Maryland-Cloudy and colder, pre-
ceded by rain in the mountains to-
night; tomorrow fair.
Virginia Cloudy, preceded BY rain
in the extreme northwest portion;
colder in central and east portions
tonight; tomorrow fair.
West Partly cloudy, slightly
colder in northwest portion tonight;
tomorrow fair.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
muddy at Harpers Ferry; very muddy
at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
MISS PERKINS CALLS
STATE LABOR PARLEY
Governors or Representatives to
Participate in Legislation
Conference October 25 to 27.

Secretary Perkins has invited the
Governors or their representatives
from all States to participate in a
here
The meeting from October Is to
81 will be the fourth annual confer
ence of that character.
The agenda will include such topics
as cooperation between organized
labor and State labor departments,
age discrimination by employers, safety
and health, unemployment and work.
mems compensation, occupational dis
eases. minimum wages and maximum
hours and child labor.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
River Report.
Report for Last 2I Hours.
Record for Last "a Hours

Record for Last "a Hours
from noon yesterday to noon todayp
Highest. 80. l pm. yesterday. Year
aeo, 64 -
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest ~, on AUGUST "a.
Lowest, 10. on February Is,
Humidity for Last ~ Hours.
From noon yesterday TO noon todeyD
Highest rs per cent, at 10 p. m.
Lowest. 80 per cent. al noon YESTERDAY
Evening star., 1937-10-23
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL October % fP, Silver fu-
lures closed steady and unchansed No
sales October, "A sob. December, Al sob;
March, 43 sob. Bid.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

| CHICAGO. October % (p.-Fonowins
/ is the complete list OF transactions in
4 stocks on the Chicaso Stock Exchsnse to-
Evening star., 1937-10-23

Approximate Soes of Stocks the NJ Y Stock Exchange.
11:OO A.M----- 100000 1900 Nom 100000
sActual sales Of trading 10 shares
being under
bankruptcy securities assumed by such companies
Rates dividends foregorr table annual dis
hursmen based the last quarterly semi annual decas
ton Unless otherwise noted special extra dividends are not
included.
Ex rights Also extras Paid
last PAYABLE Declared this
Cash stock accumulated dividend paid or de-
Evening star., 1937-10-23

wife was when she called him early
on October and said she would con-
tact him again the following day.
Married in 1882. Mr. and Mrs.
Reeves are we'll known in Washington.
He worked as a secretary on Capitol
Hill for several years and she worked
at the r. F. c. before their marriage.
Mrs. Reeves did not accompany Mr..
Reeves when he went 10 the Philip
pines.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
Furpieee at Bargain.

a-Also extra or extras.
g-Declared or paid so far this year.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK. October 90 tP).-New York
Security DeAlers. Association:
Evening star., 1937-10-23

Monthly precipitation in inches in tbs
Capital (current month to date1.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
Cottonseed Oil.

Spot quiet; middlins. s.24.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
Tide Tables.
The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haif hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1937-10-23
MASONS' COUNCIL
SCORES D|CTATORS
Biennial Session Closed by
Awarding Degrees to
81 Members.

Condemning the persecution. i'm
prisonment assassination and mur-
der of Masons" in some Of the Con-
tinental European countries, the ST.
preme Council, Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction.
yesterday scored "tyrants and des-
pots"
This position was taken by the
council in ADOPTING a strongly worded
recommendation by its Committee on
Foreign Relations
The council closed its biennial ses-
sions of nearly weeks duration last
night at the House of the Temple on
Sixteenth street by awarding the
thirty third and last degree to "a
Mssons. Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president of George Washington Uni
versity, to which the order had given
81 100000. was the "active" member
Of the class, representing the entire
group during the ceremony.
Other promient members of the
class included Senator Carter Glass
Of Virginia, Maj Gen Charles P.
Summerall, head of The Citadel,
Charleston, S. c. Other local men
honored included James Walter
Humphrey. Charles Marvin Jones.
Frank Stetson and Ralph Alexander
Van Orsdel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-31

I'shway, and a girl two years her
 f1i1f was krifed to death in q va- ssnt lot on ''the wrong side of the H&clks."
 First of Crimes
 EixEt of the crimes was that for
 7,nh Alfred E. VolclrInann, butcher Ney and violinist in Q church choir, #as executed at Sing Sing prison February 1T. Volckmann, an i.1tro- sQective adolescent of l9, assaulted and stabbed to death Helen Glenn, faine year old daughter of Metho- dist minister at Greenville, N. r., June 26, 1885. The first of the ebathtub murders" was that of Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton, B year old writer who was strangled and crim- 1nally assaulted in her Manhattan apartment April 10, 1886. A 1S-inch strand of upholsterer's twine used 70 bind her hands trapped John Eiorenza, 24, 8 former convict who confessed. He was executed at Sing Sing January 2l.
 Co-Ed Next in Order
 Next in chronological order was Helen Clevenger, 19 year old New York university co-ed. who was shot and beaten to death in an Asheville, ". C.. hotel, after midnight July 16, ie36. The girl had just completed her first collegiate year with honors and was touring North Carolina mountain resorts with an uncle, w. E. Clevenger. He found her pajama- clad body, kneeling by the bed as though in prayer, when he went into her room to awaken her. She had not been assaulted. Officers found q blood-stained gun in the shack of gangling Martin Moore, 19 year old former bell boy in the hotel. He confessed that he shot the girl when she screamed, clubbed her and fled. He died in the North Carolina gas chamber December II, 1936..
 Second Bathtub Murder
 On January II, 1897, Frank w. Case, 8 young hotel executive, picked up the telephone in his Manhattan offlce and called the number of his Jackson Heights apartment. He got no answer. Worried, he hurried home and discovered the second of the "bathtub" murders. He found his % year old wife, Mary Harriet, attractive Skidmore college gradu- ate, dead in the bathtub. She had been beaten to death with a ham mer but had not been criminally assaulted. Police found the hammer and . blood-stained pair of trousers in the apartment house incinerator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-31

good deal of the time. I mention this because 1t seems like a clue to the character of the man. Probably the men who served with him in the army and in the National Guard with which he was identified so long so prominently will agree with one who knew him principally as a news paperman that his outstanding characteristics were reliability and fairness.
 "The records show that he was a reporter on The Republican from October 1909 to February 1912, when he was on the American for nearly a year. He was back on The Re- publican at the end of 1913 and stayed until he went to the Mex ican border. He was city editor of The Republican when he went into thes World war and his name ap- pears on The Republican honor roll as being in service from 1917 to 1919."
 Attorney Walter E. Monagan, ST., president of the Waterbury Bar association; Attorney Carroll was a friend of mine for many years and at one time was an associate of mine in the practice of law in'the