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Evening star., 1937-02-06

A fashionable women's Turkish bath
in which half q dozen customers
languished-was thrown into confusion
late yesterday when it was invaded
by eight men attempting to elude police
during q Connecticut avenue gambling
raid.
Squeals Of the steam room occupants
reached a new high q few seconds
later when the raiders also "barged"
into the private baths.
All eight men were taken into custody
and a number of alleged racing charts
and card playing equipment were con-
fiscated in the raid, which took place
on the fourth floor Of an establishment
in the 1900 block Of Connecticut
avenue.
Led by Acting Capt. George M. Little
of the vice fquad, the raiders claimed
they founeskhe men gambling after
forcing entry through . steel door.
Evening star., 1937-02-06

On the same train with the newly
weds were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lun-
din, an old established couple, who
live on the same street and in the
same block with the Gunitas. but who
do not know the bride and groom.
Yet, when the Lundins get back hame
they are going to meet the GunltaS
through mutual friends-and here is
why:
When the newly married Gunitas
alighted from their sleeping car at
the Union Station yesterday morn
ing, the rice brushed from their
clothes they started hand-in-hand for
the taxi stand. They were closely
followed by the Lundins. They OBJ
served the happy young couple ahead,
and Mr.. Lundin remarked, That
young fellow is carrying blackstone
bag just like mine -
Perhaps it is yours" said Mrs.
Lundin.
MY initials are on mine" Mr.. Lun-
din reminded her. and looked down
to see if he had the right bag.
Hey, there!" Mr.. Lundin shouted
at the unknown bridegroom, figuring
what had happened.
Gunita, the bridegroom, heard the
shouts-and feared jokesters were on
his trail He caught the arm Of his
bride, quickened pace, and together
they disappeared in the crowd.
Dismayed, the Lundins { ove over
to the Washington Hotel and were
registered in Room 624. Then they
tried to open the blackstone bag
for a clue. Unable to open tine bag,
Mr.. Lundin reported his troubles to
the assistant manager of the hotel,
F. G. Minnick.
Evening star., 1937-02-06

Episcopal students in the University
of Virginia.
In recognition of his special serv-
ices to his alma mater, he was awarded
an Algenon Sidney Sullivan Medallion
by the president and the Board of
Visitors Of the university. The Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary conferred
on him the honorary degree Of doctor
Of divinity.
DR. Powell was one Of those nomi-
mated for bishop coadjutor of the dio-
cese Of Virginia at the election held
in 1927. He Withdrew his name few
weeks ago when nominated for bishop
coadjutor for the diocese of Michigan.
On February /, 1881, he became
rector of Emmanuel Church in Balti-
more, succeeding the late Rev. DR..
Hugh Birckhead.
DR.. Powell has taken a leading part
in the religious and civic life of
Baltimore. He is member Of the
Standing Committee Of the diocese Of
Maryland, president of the Board of
Trustees of the Church Home and
Infirmary, was a delegate to the
general convention in Atlantic City in
1894 and was reelected last week as
a delegate to the general convention
meeting in Cincinnati next october.
His other responsibilities include:
President of the Board of Trustees
Of the Maryland Home for FriendleSs
Colored Children, director OF the
Church Mission of Health, trustee of
the Maryland Cathedral Foundation,
director of the League of Nations
Association, trustee Of st. James
School, member of the Committee on
Constitution and Canons Of the
diocese of Maryland, member OF the
Executive Committee of the Balti-
more Ministerial Union and member
of the Speakers Bureau Of the Family
Welfare Association in Baltimore. He
is also member Of the Eclectic Club,
the Interchurch Club, the Clerical
Discussion Group of Maryland, the
Baltimore Conference of Jews and
Christians and was president Of the
Maryland Glorious In 1886. He has
been very active in educational work
in the diocese of Maryland, serving
on the Commission on Religious Edu-
cation and as q member Of the faculty
for the Church Normal School. DR..
Powell has frequently accepted Lenten
preaching appointments in important
parishes in the Eastern States.
Married in 1924.
In 1924 he married Mary Wilkins
Rustin Of Charlottesville. They have
two sons, Philip Noble and Thomas
Hooker Powell.
For several years DR.. Powell has
ministered to the Summer colony at
st. Andrews-by-the-Sea, Rye Beach,
N. H. He is an enthusiastic mountain
climber, camper and woodsman, spend
ing part of each vacation at his camp
n the Blue Ridge Mountains OF Vir->
Ginia,
Evening star., 1937-02-06
PAIR FIRES HOUSE;
MAN IN HOSPITAL
Bricks Hurled Through Win.
dow Following Alleged
Robbery in Southwest.

Enraged because they claimed they
were robbed while visiting at 4O6 First
street southwest, two white men al
legedly threw bricks through the win
dows and set the house afire last
night. according to a police report.
burning a colored man critically.
They were sought by police today
while Henry Mills fought for life in
Providence Hospital, where he is be-
ing treated for severe burns to the
face and body.
Police were told the white men
called at the First street house early
last night and left peacefully after
staying about an hour.
About 10:3O pm. the men returned,
police were informed. and hurled sew
eral bricks through the front windows.
Entering the place. they are re-
ported to have roughly handled Della
Price, colored, occupant of a front
room.
A few minutes later they went to
another room, where, according to the
police report, they turned over port
able stove and fed.
The Price woman, Henry Scribbs,
also colored, and another person,
whose name was not learned by police,
managed to leave the house without
being burned Mills, who was Sleep
ing in rear room, was burned when
he ran through the flames to get to
the street.
The white men were described to
police. One was said to be about Is
years old and the other about 80.
Several fire companies responded to
an alarm and extinguished the blaze
before it spread through the house.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
HOMESICK IMMIGRANTS
DEATH RULED SUICIDE

A certificate of suicide has been
issued In the death Of Mrs. Frank
Trucci, so, the wife and mother who
came from Italy q few months ago,
but found she grew homesick for her
native land.
Mrs. Trucci was found shot to death
in her home, at 18 street, yesterday
morning by her husband, Frank
Trucci, q bricklayer, and son, Frank,
jr., II. She and the son came from
Mola, Italy, last Fall after waiting
seven years for the husband to save
enough money for their passage.
Mrs. Trucci spoke little English,
however, and her friends said she was
slow at adapting herself to life in the
new home. 4
Mrs. Trucci left B note in which she
exphined abe was " and wanted to die.
Evening star., 1937-02-06

one at the District Building in which
Melvin c. Hazen and George E. Allen
took oaths Of Office for their new terms
as Commissioners. Later the board
reelected Hazen president Of the board
and Allen vice president.
Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sui
tan, who conducted the Commission
ers' ceremonies, lauded the friendly
spirit Of Hazen and Allen, calling them
swell fellows" and predicted for them
second successful terms. More than
100 employees and officials, who at
tended, joined in applause for their
bosses"
Evening star., 1937-02-06

there bride and groom in the house?"
In room 622-next door," the bell
hop said. Minnick phoned the front
office. The J. Gunitas were in 622-
but they were out.
That's the guy that's got my bag"
Lundin surmised-and the party. con-
Sisting Of the Lundins. the assistant
manager, the house detective and the
head bell hop went to reclaim the
highly important papers awaited at
the Bureau Of Standards.
The bride and groom out to see the
sights. their blackstone bag was put
neatly in the place they had left the
Lundin luggage-and until they get
back to Cleveland they'll probably
never know all this happened; but
The Lundins are going to throw a
party in honor of the Gunitas when
the bride and groom get back home.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
BOARD OF TRADE
TO Dine TONIGHT
Mayfower Ball Room Converted
Into Showboat for Annual
BANQUET.

In a ball room converted by in
terror decoration into showboat, the
Board of Trade will hold its annual
dinner tonight at the Mayfower Hotel.
President Edgar Morris and other
officers will greet the distinguished
guests at a reception preceding the
dinner, which is to begin at $50
o'clock.
More than 800 persons, including
Ambassadors, cabinet officers, other
officials and members of Congress,
will attend.
From New York is coming troupe
Of entertainers whose identity is being
kept mystery. Leon Brusiloff,
Washington orchestra leader, will pro-
vide the music.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
D. A. R. MUSIC PROGRAM
Opera Club Quartet in Birthday
Feature at Club.

A MUSICAL program will be rem
dered by the Opera Club Quartet
under the direction Of Flora McGill
Keefer, with Dorothy Emery, accom-
panist, at the birthday party Of the
Mary Washington Chapter, D. A. R.,
Tuesday night at the Washington
Club.
Katherine Warren. soprano; Norma
6imonson, soprano; lone Hoffman,
contralto, and Dolph Atherton, BARI
tone, will be heard in selections from
"Rigoletto," "Maytime," Romberg; la
Boheme," Puccini, and Southern
Medley" Mrs. Keefer will also sing.
Greetings will be given by Mrs.
Charles Carroll Haig, State regent of
the District, and others, followed by
q short history Of the Mary Washing
ton Chapter, by its regent, Miss Janet
Richards. This chapter is the first
Of the So local chapters, D. A. R., to
be organized in the District. Its early
history is interesting. After the pro-
gram. . collation. Will be served.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
Carroll Exceeds Flood Quota.

WESTMINSTER, Md, February 6
Especially Collections from Carroll
County reaching Red Cross relief head
quarters here today approximated
$4,000, more than twice the quota of
$4,000. Carroll, explained John Leon
ard, county chairman, is on its way
to tripling the last quota. Freedom
district led the outlying sections, with
contributions there approaching the
81 900 mark,
Evening star., 1937-02-06
WILL PICK COMMITTEES

The District Council OF Engineering
and Architectural Societies will ap-
point four committees next week to
cooperate with the Commissioners
and citizens associations in studying
local engineering and legislative prob
lens.
Allen B. Mcdaniel, chairman of the
council, explained at a meeting last
night that the committees will study
fiscal relations, budget in regard to
engineering items, engineering prof.
ects and smoke na,isanse Abatement
Evening star., 1937-02-06
BY JOHN JAY DAILY.

w YHEN a bride and groom 60
\A/ on their honeymoon they
Wv are apt to be absent
minded - and this hap.
pened to Mr.. and Mrs. j. Gunita, who
were married only two days ago In
Cleveland and came here to see the
sights.
Evening star., 1937-02-06

the oath Of Office
for her second
term.
The oath vas
administered cy
Adam Giebel, chief
clerk of the cor
poration counsel's
Office. She was
one Of the three
original members
Of the board
appointed to a
three-year term.
Her new term is
for four years.
The cerenOnv
Evening star., 1937-02-06
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Soldiers Home Band in STAN
ley Hall at $50 pm. today. John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Evening star., 1937-02-06
MRS. MASON ENTERS
SECOND B. C. TERM
Takes Oath for 4 Years-Hazen
Reelected President of
Commissioners.

Mrs. Agnes K. Mason, recently re-
appointed by the District Commis.
sioners to membership on the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board, yesterday took
Evening star., 1937-02-24
W0MAN'S DEATH HELD
NOT DUE TO ACCIDENT

A coroner's jury decided yesterday
the death of Mrs. Margaret B. Tew, 80,
Of 1858 Mckinley street. was due to
natural causes. and not to injuries
which she had told relatives she suf-
fered January % in a taxicab acci-
dent.
The jury was told the death was
caused by pneumonia and exhaustion.
Mrs. Tew. who died Friday, had COM
planned to Mrs. Edith Lee, a daugh-
ter. on January % that a taxicab in
which she was riding had stopped
suddenly. throwing her to the floor.
The verdict automatically exoner-
ated Louis Lionhart, 1888 Kenyon
street, taxicab driver, who had been
held pending action of the coroner in
the case.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
SELASSIE SENDS MESSAGE.

LONDON. February "a (P.-Em.
peror Halle Selassie of Ethiopia today
sent message Of sympathy to Mrs
Everett A. Colson. whose husband
former adviser to the defunct Ehio-
plan government, died in Washing.
ton last night.
Colson's health was broken by the
italian conquest of Ethiopia" the
Negus said, but he continued to serve
the cause of right and justice unit
his strength was exhausted and hi.
life was sacrificed"
The message was signed Halle
Selassie, I, Emperor"
The dethroned Emperor instructed
his personal physician. DR.. M. Bayen
to represent him at Colson's funera,
and lay a wreath on the grave. DR.
Bayen, it was understood, Is now ir
Washington, D. G.
Evening star., 1937-02-24

by William A. Duvall, most worthy
grand patron Of the Eastern Star and
chairman of the International Temple
Committee. 1t will be accepted by
Mrs. Frances Haun, most worthy
grand matron.
John H. Cowles, sovereign grand
commander of Scottish Rite Masons,
and Miss Ella Mount, a granddaughter
Of the founder Of the Order of Eastern
Star, will be introduced to the gather
ing.
The temple dedication ceremony
will be conducted by Duvall, Paul
Cromelin, grand master OF Masoris
in the District; Harry B. Wright,
grand master in Maryland, and Neale
Rutland, grand master in Tennessee
Mrs. Minnie E. Keyes will read the
dedication honor roll.
An informal reception will follow
the ceremonies. A musical program
will be presented. The affair will get
under way at $50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
SONNTAG HONORED
IN MILITARY RITES
High Army Medical Officers
Attend Arlington Burial
in Snow.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Government honored with a
full military burial today Charles G.
Sonntag. Spanish-American War vet
eran. who voluntarily risked his life
in Dr. Walter Reeds famous battle
against yellow fever.
High ranking officers of the Army
Medical Corps stood in falling snow
as Sonntag, who died at his Calhoun
County, s. c., farm last Friday at the
age of "a. was lowered into a grave in
Arlington National Cemetery.
Brig. Gen. jefferson r. Keen, Army
Medical Corps. retired. recalled that
Sonntag was the last Of the band of
men who submitted to the bite of the
yellow fever-bearing mosquito in DR..
Reeds experiment to prove the insect
carried the dread disease.
Had Last Experiment Fever.
He had the last case of experiment
fever at Camp Lezear in Western Cuba
in 1901" said Keen, who was chief
Army surgeon of Western Cuba at the
time.
Dr. Reeds experiment consisted of
having volunteers submit themselves
to the bite of the mosquito, which the
Army physician believed caused the
disease, while other volunteers ex-
posed themselves to filthy conditions,
which others at the time believed
caused the malady
The volunteers bitten by the mos
quitoes contracted the disease, while
the others did not.
Sonntag recovered from the yellow
fever contracted from the mosquitoes.
He was rewarded with a commence
rative medal.
Brother at Funeral.
Otto Sonntag, retired Washington
policeman, was the only member of
the veterans family at the Arlington
rites. Sonntag, a brother, said the
widow, Mrs. Hattie Pou Sonntag, was
totally blind.
The rites were in charge Of Lieut.
Col. o. j. Cohee, Fort Myer chaplain
Representative Fulmer, Democrat,
OF South Carolina, who attended, an
nounced he would introduce bill to
have Sonntag's SIPS a month Govern
ment pension paid to the widow for
the remainder of her life
Members Of the Army Medical Corps
present included Maj. Gen. C. r. Rey-
nolds, surgeon general of the Army;
Col. James E. Fife. Col William r
Sheep. Maj. Gen. Merritte Ireland and
Col. E. E. Jones.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
TARIFF ON STEEL
MAY FORCE BIDS
Miss Perkins Makes Hint OF
Squeezing Industry on
Navy Contracts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The steel industry and the Gov
ernment were playing q waiting game
today in the matter of bids for Navy
materials, with the indirect warning
by Secretary of Labor Perkins that
the industrys tariff protection might
be used as an instrument of persuasion
being the latest development.
The industry has refused to bid for
Navy contracts because of the Walsh
Healey act, limiting the work week to
40 hours in plant filling Government
orders.
The Labor Secretary, speaking to
reporters yesterday, said she had
heard reports Congress might be
asked to remove the tariff. High duties
have given the domestic mills almost
monopoly on the American steel
market, she said
She added quickly, however, that
she had great hopes" several steel
concerns would offer to supply the
Navy within 48 hours.
The industry's attitude has changed
somewhat, she said, since it learned
that employees could work more than
40 hours if they were paid time and
one-haf for overtime
Work on six destroyers and three
submarines has been held up by lack
of steel bids.
Miss Perkins also told press con-
6n hod lrof tot;
bill to regulate wages and hours in
industry generally. but that this was
being used only as basis for discus
sion. She said she expects sweeping
changes before the measure goes to
Congress
A seasonal decline in employment in
many industries last month cost
10000 workers their jobs, she re-
ported.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
JESSE T. STEPHENSON
SUCCUMBS HERE AT 81
Funeral Services to Be Held To.
day for Father of Ply
Sician.

Jesse T. Stephenson. 81, father Of
DR.. E. T. Stephenson, physician, 2O8
Maryland avenue northeast, died
yesterday in the Home for Incurables
Mr.. Stephenson had been i'll since
suffering a hip fracture about four
years ago in fall at DR.. Stephenson's
Summer home at North Beach Park,
Md. He was a native of Mississippi
and later resided in Dallas. Tex He
came here 20 years ago to live with
his son.
Besides DR.. Stephenson, he leaves
three other sons, Emmett and Barto
Stephenson, both Of Dallas, and An
drew Stephenson. San Antonio, Tex:
a sister, living in Mississippi: several
grandchildren and several great
grandchildren.
Funeral services are being held this
afternoon at the Deal Funeral Home,
816 H street northeast Burial will
be in Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
AIDE To SELASS|E
Of ETHIOPIA DIES
Everett A. CoIson, "Key
Man" in Crisis, Expires
in D. C. Hospital.

Everett Andrews Colson, So, former
financial adviser to Emperor Halle
Selassie of Ethiopia. died last night
after long illness in George Washing
ton Hospital.
Mr.. Colson, ''key man" in the Italo-
Ethiopian crisis, had been in the hos
pital since Christmas He had been
i'll for some time while abroad, having
overtaxed his heart while serving the
Emperor in many capacities.
He worked strnuously before the
League of Nations for the Ethiopian
cause, several times arising from a
sick bed when his services were needed.
The American was called to Ethiopia
by Halle Selassie in 1880, while serving
as deputy customs collector in Haiti.
Previously, he had seen service as di-
rector of the Philippine Civil Service
Bureau and in the United States Con-
sular Service in Canton, China.
Author Of Notes to League.
Mr.. Colson, it is said, wrote the notes
sent to the League of Nations by the
Ethiopian ruler when efforts were be-
ing made to persuade Italy against
further invasion Several times he was
the Emperor's sole adviser, taking over
additional duties during absence Of
other counselors.
He became i'll in Adds Ababa in
the Fall of 1885. With Italy's victory
and the flight of Halle Selassie, Mr..
Colson, accompanied by his wife.
went to Alexandria, Egypt, in an effort
to recuperate. A month later. the En-
peror telephoned him to come to his
side at once.
Heeding the summons, Mr.. Colson
collapsed a month later but was able
to attend the League session in Geneva
last July.
G. U. Law Student Graduate.
A native of Warren, Me-, Mr.. Colson
was graduated from Georgetown Uni
versity Law School and began his
career in the Consular Service in the
Philippines. During the World War
he served under the auditor of the
War Department in France.
Mr.. Colson was a member of the
American Philatelic Society and the
Washington Philatelic Society for
many years.
Surviving him are his widow,
Mrs. Anna Johnston Colson, who Is
staying here with her sister, Mrs. An
neca Johnston, 1885 N street; son,
Edward, a student at Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology. and his STEP
mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Gillstrapp OF
California.
Funeral arrangements we're to be
announced later.
SELASSIE SENDS MESSAGE
Evening star., 1937-02-24
.0.E. S. RITES DRAW
|. MASON|CLEADERS
Dignitaries From Entire US.
Guests at Dedication of
Temple Tonight.

Masonic dignitaries from all over
the country will be guests of honor
tonight when the famous Belmont
Mansion. 1913 New Hampshire avenue,
where the former Prince of Wales
was once a house guest, will be
formally dedicated as the International
Eastern Star Temple.
Perry Belmont, who built the big
town house, also will be an honored
guest. The temple will be presented
Evening star., 1937-02-24

Malaga has barred nine American
films this year.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
LAUDS WORKER SCHOOLS S
Specialist Terms Them Social Con-
troll Milestones.

Urging the support Of professional
and semi-professional groups for work.
ers' schools now being conducted in IS
States. Hilda Worthington Smith, spe-
cialist in Workers Education, Fed
eral Relief Administration, last night
called such schools "milestones along
the road to social control
In an address before the Interprofes-
sional Association at the Interprofes-
sional Center. 808 Seventeenth street,
Miss Smith said that workers educa-
ton in these schools is based not only
on the need for material safety and
security, but also on human values
which cannot be measured in terms of
material things.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
IL. M'KENNEY BURIED
IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY
Native of City Was Treasury De-
partment Auditing Clerk-Il
Since Early January.

Lee L. McKenney, 43. Treasury De-
partment auditing clerk, formerly in
the insurance business here for many
years. who died Saturday in Mount
Alto Hospital, was buried today in
Arlington National Cemetery. Funeral
services were held in the Chambers fu-
neral home, 1400 Chaplin street.
A native Washingtonian, Mr.. Nc
Kenney formerly was staff manager
here for the Home Friendly Insurance
Co. Last September he became audit
ing clerk in the Procurement Division
of the Treasury. He had been i'll
since early in January. He served
in the Army at Camp Meade, Md,
during the World War.
Mr.. McKenney is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Katherine G. McKenney;
his mother, Mrs. Ella A. Bassford and
two sisters, Mrs. Eunice v. Avery and
Mrs. Joseph A. High.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
Hurry and Get In
On the Savings

For your own soke, don't let time
overtoke you! The February Sole
Of Lifetime Furniture soon will be
history. Toke advantage at once
oe the prevoi|ins low sole prices.
Evening star., 1937-02-24

SELECMAN. BURDETTE WILLIAM. On
residence. Residence ooa occoauan. Va. BURDETTE
WILLIAM SELECMAN beloved husband
of Lou Emma Selecman and father OF
Mrs Alice Roscoe and Mr.. Willard
Selecman of Occoauan. Va. Funeral
services Thursday. February 25 at 2
pm. at the Occoauar M. E. Church
South conducted by Rev. r. L. Morrison
and Rev. l.. 3. Atkins. Interment Po-
hick Cemetery
Evening star., 1937-02-24
Farm Income Gain Cited.

The Agriculture Department said
today cash form income in January
was S669, ,000000-a gain of s118,00O,-
900 over January, 1886. Government
benefit payments accounted for s43,-
900 900 of the total.