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Evening star., 1937-10-11
MURDER SOLUTION
LETTER IS. HOAX
Police Trace Offer of Aid in
Davidson Case to For.
tune Teller.

A letter from a mysterious in
formant who promised to reveal the
slayer of Elmer j. Davidson, United
States Chamber Of Commerce attor-
ney. was dismissed by police today as
hoax
Detective Chief Bernard w. Thomp-
son said the name signed to the letter
offering Virginia State police a solu-
ton Of the murder was that Of a
Washington fortune teller, who has
denied to police that she wrote the
letter.
The letter writer asserted that "for
$50 can tell you who killed Da-
wilson"
With this "clue" disposed of. police
reported little new in the way of
progress in the battling case, which
developed October 3 when the body
of the 52-year-old lawyer, who lived
at 555 Randolph street, was found
stabbed and shot on a lonely road
near Triangle, Va.
Still seeking to identify an auto
mobile with Pennsylvania tags that
picked up a man not far from the
scene Of the crime. State Police Sergt.
E. j. McDermott said he had OBJ
tanned description of several cars
seen on the Richmond highway the
day of the murder
The description, furnished by filling
station proprietors and others in the
vicinity OF Quantico, may aid in To-
eating the motorist who gave a ride
to a man who climbed from David
sons expensive coupe, which was
wrecked in ditch after being driven
away from the murder scene.
The theory that Davidson was slain
by hitch-hiker was shaken, how
ever, when fresh tracks of another
machine were found on the road near
the murder scene.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
INCREASE IN D. c.
INDIVIDUAL" TAX.
SHOWN IN REPORT
Returns Rise From 82,871
to 95,271 for 1885 Is
Noted by Treasury.
PAYMENTS IN INCOME
ADVANCE TO S7,176,0OO
Virginia and Maryland Also Reg
lister Boosts-41 in Nation in
Millionaire Column.

Along with the rest of the country,
the District made a substantial gain
in the number Of individual income
taxpayers and in the amount of rev.
enue turned into the Federal till from
1884 to 1885.
This was shown today i'll a report
from the Treasury Department indi-
eating the number of individual re-
turns rose here from 82,871 in 1874 to
1921 in 1885, while the net income
Of these returns increased during the
same period from s234,925,000 to
S268, ,667, 900. The tax paid increased
from s5,654,000 to $7,176, 600.
Thesa figures do not include either
the income tax on corporations or
miscellaneous taxes.
For the country as whole the
returns Of individuals reporting for
1885 numbered 4,575,012, on which
the net income was $14,sO9. .8l2 OPS.
and the total tax liability was $751;
439,343. AS compared with returns
for the previous year, the total num-
Der for 1885 increased by 408,502. or
Ill per cent, the net income increased
by s2,1l3,0O9,94s, or 16.5 per cent,
and the total tax liability increased
by s146,039 .565, or 28.6 per cent.
Gains in Virginia.
Virginia showed gain in number
OF returns from 1914 to 54.835, in
crease in net income from sl39, ,932 900
to $171 1,204,000 and in tax from So
666,000 to s5,269 900.
Maryland registered increases in
number Of returns from 84,395 to g.
$50, in net income from 1882 .624.OOO
to 1915, $4,000 and in tax from SILL
040,00 to s12,013,000.
The number of persons with an
annual income Of s1,000,000 or over
increased from 33 in 1884 to Al in
1885. according to the figures.
The greatest income in 1885, how
ever, was between $4,O00,O0O and s5.-
100000, whereas in 1884 this income
was over IS 100000.
The Al persons in the 1885 million-
aire column had aggregate net in
come of $73,631. 900 and paid SAL
10000 in income taxes. In 1894 the
33 persons with incomes of 81 900 900
or more had net incomes of s57.-
774,o0o and paid s32,2l1 900 in
taxes.
Biggest Contributors.
Persons with incomes ranging be-
tween 100000 and sl5O.0O0 were the
biggest contributors to the Federal
till in single tax bracket in both
1885 and 1884. paying 54,132 900 and
s38,l66,000 in the respective years. In
the lowest-bracket classifcations. in
dividuals with Incomes of less than
$4,000 paid s40,233.OOo in taxes for
1885, compared with s34,685, 900 in
1884.
The Treasury said 4,5750l2 per-
sons filed income tax returns during
1885, had s14.9O9.O0O in net income
and paid $657 ,439 900 in taxes. This
compared with 4,O94,42O persons,
sl2,796, 100000 of net income and
s511 10000 in taxes in 1884.
Salaries, wages, commissions. fees
and similar compensation were the
chief sourse of income in both years,
providing $1,000 in 1885 and
$500. ASS, 90 in 1884.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
DATA ON WELFARE SENT
OUT BY WOMEN VOTERS
Detailed Study by Mrs. Roscoe
Anderson Is Dispatched
to State Groups.

Assuming that standards for a
permanent public welfare system will
inevitably be formulated in this coun-
try, the National League of Women
Voters today sent a detailed study
Of the subject to its State groups,
compiled under the direction of Mrs.
Roscoe Anderson of st. Louis, chair
man Of the leagues departments Of
education and child welfare.
Federal social security, welfare leg
islation of the States and recon-
mended State standards to secure
State welfare administration free Of
political patronage are included in
the study.
With the modernization Of public
welfare machinery, the report says,
has come the post-depression realiza-
ton Of a need for permanent plan
ming.
"At no time since the league was
organized" it said, "have the goels
of coordination and sound admins
tration Of welfare services and quel-
fled personnel to administer them been
20 nearly within sight"
Evening star., 1937-10-11
FIDELITY ASSETS
ACTION DUE SOOT.
Proposed Contract for Sale
Checked Again by Fed.
eral Officials.

Action was expected today on the
proposed contract for sale of the as
sets of Fidelity Building e. Loan As
sociation to the new First Federal
Savings g. Loan Association.
Contract terms were carefully
checked again this morning at con-
ference at the Treasury Department by
representatives Of the three agencies
concerned. At the conference were
George P. Barse, counsel for the con-
troller of the currency; Walter M.
Bastian, counsel for the First Federal,
and Emery p. Woodall, assistant gen.
eral counsel of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board.
The contract was expected to go
before the F. H. L. B. B. this after
noon for consideration. If this board
approves, the contract will be rushed
to the First Federal board of directors
for final approval before the end of
the day.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
BY PHILIP H. LOVE.

Hey, Skin-nay! Y'oughta see
Johnny play ball on his one leg!"
That boyish cry-or something very
similar to it-went up on the play
ground at Fifth and K streets north
east when 12-year-old John Colliere
threw down his crutches, batted the
first pitched ball to deep center field
and hoped, kangaroo fashion, to first
base.
Only three weeks before Johnny had
returned to his home at $50 Fourth
street northeast, unaccustomed to the
empty trouser-leg dangling from his
right hip and hardly able to manage
his new crutches.
That was nearly three years ago,
but Johnny, now IS, still may be seen
hopping around the playground nearly
every clear afternoon, playing base
ball or basket ball-and sometimes
foot ball-with as much vi or as any
OF his two-legged cronies.
Son Killed by Truck.
1t was no new experience for
Johnny's mother, Mrs. Margaret COL
liere, when she received word on De-
cember 10. 1884. that the boy had
been hit by truck. She had gone
through much the same ordeal dozen
years before when another son,
Joseph, then Is, had been killed by a
truck which careened across the side
walk as the yOungster was walking in
200 block Of K street northeast.
Surgeons at Sibley Hospital did
their best to saw. Johnny's crushed
leg, but at the end Of a month they
conceded that the injury had them
beaten.
When I woke up and found the
leg gone" Johnny said today, Il
couldn't help feeling kind of sorry,
but-well, I knew was pretty lucky
at that"
When Johnny returned home three
months after the accident, he learned
that couple of the neighborhood
foot ball teams were meeting on
the playground. and he decided to
take in" the game. His mother
tucked him into his wheelchair and
a friend o. the family pushed him
the two blocks to the playground.
1T sure was good, seeing the fell
lows playing" he said. I'D played
with 'em nearly every day before my
accident, and I made up my mind,
right then and there, that I was
going to play again, too"
In less than a week Johnny had
mastered his crutches, and in two
weeks more. he'd learned to hop
around without them. BY this time,
it was early Spring and the boys were
playing soft ball-a game in which
Johnny always had been unusually
proficient.
The other youngsters didn't take
Johnny very seriously when he an
nounced he wanted in" on the
game, but they soon had to admit
that he was just about as good as
ever.
Now Johnny uses his crutches only
when he goes out" At home he
hops around without them, even
Evening star., 1937-10-11
TOWN HALL OPENS
NOV. 4 AT R|A[T0
Ninth Street Theater Being
Reopened as Cultural and
Free Speech Center.

The fourth season of the Town Hall
will be inaugurated November IA, it
was announced today when a partial
list Of the 20 events to make up this
years program of the forum and lee
ture society was made public
The meetings are being transferred
from the Shoreham Hotel to the
Rialto Theater on Ninth street. Just
north of G. which is being reopened
as civic, cultural and free speech
center in Corporation with a volun-
teer advisory board Of representative
citizens.
As in the past. the Town Hall will
be presented on Sunday evenings,
and for the initial program James
G. Mcdonald. former chairman of
the Foreign Policy Association, has
been chosen to speak on "a Back
ground for the Present World Crisis"
Lippman to Appear.
Others who will appear there in
clude Walter Lippmann. Aldous Hux-
ley. Count Keyserling and Phillip
Guedalla.
A varied list of organizations are
being interested in the Rialto's new
venture, among them being music
theater, patriotic, labor, business, pro-
fessional and lecture groups.
Rialto officers explained in a state
ment that the project was not being
undertaken in opposition to existing
auditorium, hotel and theater facili-
ties, but to ''fill the need for medium
sized auditorium available and easily
adaptable to all types of gatherings. u
Advisory Board Members.
Members Of the Volunteer Advisory
Board, who are participating as in
dividuals and not in their Official ca
pacities are:
DR.. John Studebaker, United States
commissioner of education; Elwood
Street, director of the Board of Public
Welfare; John Charles Thomas. con-
cert star; Richard Hogue, founder of
the Bronson Cutting Memorial lee
lures; Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle
president of the Board of Education
Owen Lovejoy of the American Council
on Education; Rev. Russell j. Clinchy,
pastor of Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church; Mrs. Charles Collier
and Mrs. Edward Coleman of the
League of Women Shoppers; Cor
rington Gill, assistant works progress
administrator; Miss Matilda Young OF
the Junior Cinema Guild; David
Cushman Coyle, author and econ
omist; Nicholas Ray, theatrical pro-
ducer; Clark Foreman and Rex Gold
smith of the District of Columbia Co.
operative League; Jacob Baker, presi-
dent of the United Federal Workers
of America; Robert Lincoln O'Brien,
chairman of the Film Society of Wash
ington, and Dwight F. Scott, insurance
executive.
The Rialto will open Monday night,
October 18. with a seven-day season
by the Columbia Opera Co. of New
York, under the auspices of the T..
Arthur Smith Concert Bureau. The
Washington Film Society and Junior
Cinema Guild also have arranged pro-
grams there.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
FIRST SESSION SET
BY WALTON LEAGUE
Clean Streams in Potomac Wa
tershed Listed as Aim for
Year

With "clean rivers and streams in
the Potomac watershed listed as its
major 1878 activity in this area
the District Chapter of the Isaak
Walton League of America will mold
Its first Fall session at the Raleigh
Hotel at 8 pm. Wednesday.
Elwood Seal, corporation counsel.
will discuss some of the details of
present and future possibilities of the
pollution situation. The District
chapter took leading part in the
battle for sewage disposal plant.
Chapters of the league in Virginia
and Maryland, members of the re-
gional council, recently went on
record as prepared to back the local
division to the limit in its efforts to
clean up the Potomac and its tribu-
taries.
Commissioner Frank Bell of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries
will desVibe the activities of this
Federal agency in fish protection and
culture.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
D. c. CHINESE MARK
INDEPENDENTLY.
Demonstration Against ia
pan Staged as Part Of
Celebration.

Approximately half Of the 800
Chinese in Washington, assembled last
night to celebrate the twenty-sixth an
niversary of their nation as a republic,
mixed their joymaking with demon
strations against Japan's aggression
as grave threat to the safety of their
relatively new government.
Chinese drums and cymbals doomed,
mixing with the shrill voices Of
Chinese children singing the music of
"double-ten," the tenth day of the
tenth month, and China's fourth of
July.
The Chinese National Salvation As
sociation, GOT H street, center of the
meeting last night. was posted with
signs. Down with Japanese Imperial
ism," and Long Live China and
Chinese Democracy"
Ihe enthusiastic and demonstrative
crowd jammed the small meeting
place and overflowed into the streets
Where Chinese girls moved about SELL
ing flowers for money which will be
sent to China for help in the war
with Japan. Rev. H. H. Hung. chair
man OF the Celebration Committee,
said that while no final estimate
had been made. several hundred
dollars" was collected.
DR.. Chuan Chi-yu, Chinese Con-
sui from New York City, voiced the
optimism Of the crowd in placing
China's military power and strength
in material resources above those of
Japan.
I'VE used to rear the Japanese air
forces, their army and their war
ships" he said. Nov We are learn
ing that We no longer need call them
invincible." The same points were
emphasized In other short talks.
A first-hand account of the war
time hostilities in China were given
by Miss King Ho-chu, who left
Shanghai about three months ago,
shortly after the first of the Japanese
attacks. Miss Ho-chu teaches in the
Chinese school here.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
One-Legged Youth Ouercomes
Handicap, Goes in for Sports
John COlIiere, Is, Just about as Good as
Euer, Comrades Say-Attends
St. Aloysius' School.
airs unaided

negotiating the stairs unaided.
Il don't think I'd use 'em at all"
he declared. ''if I wasn't afraid people
would think I looked kinda funny
just hopping along on one leg"
Has SPECIAL Guide"
Johnny. who is in the seventh
grade at st. Aloysius' School, is
escorted to and from classes by
Joseph Moltz. Is, of 1920 Fourth
street northeast-a special guide" as
Johnny calls him. appointed by Sister
Gertrude, one of his teachers.
Every Sunday during the Summer
Johnny plays base ball with his
neighborhood team, in match games
held on the Monument Grounds. And
now that foot ball season is on,
he attends the games every Friday
night at Griffith Stadium.
Il want to play more foot ball."
he said. Il can pass and tackle all
right. but I've got to speed up my
running =.
Course" he added, mo matter how
good get, don't guess I'll ever
be able to kick"
Evening star., 1937-10-11
3 TO APPEAR IN COURT
AFTER FREE-FOR-ALI
Detective Sergt. Ogle Suffers
Bruised Face in Fight
at Inn,

Three men were to appear in Police
Court today on charges growing out of
a free-for-all fight at the Joy Inn, 500
H street, early yesterday in which De-
tective Sergt. Howard Ogle suffered a
bruised face as he sought to quiet the
disturbance.
According to police, the fight started
inside the restaurant and wound up in
the street where several bystanders
joined in. Ogle fired his revolver in
the air twice before order was restored.
Those arrested, all Of whom are from
Capitol Heights, Md, were George w.
Forney, 81, charged with disorderly
conduct and assault, and John E. New
man, %, and Bernard F. Forney, 90,
both of whom we're charged with dis
orderly conduct.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
PUPILS ARE moved
TO WARM SCHOOLS;
272 RETURN HOME |
Class Rooms Still Unheated
in Douglass Simmons and
Terrell Buildings.
DR.. WILKINSON MAKES
TOUR TO FIND SPACE
Congestion Problem Is Created.
With Part Time Work Forced
in Most Instances.

More than 200 colored students
from the Terrell Junior High School
and 72 kindergarten pupils from the
Douglass-Simmons Elementary School
were left "out in the cold" today
after their schoolmates had been
transferred to other buildings.
Forced out of the temporarily closed
Douglass-Simmonsa and Terrell Schools
because of unheated class rooms, 1880
OF the pupils were placed in other
schools. but the remaining 272 pupils
were sent home because no room
could be found for them in other
buildings.
Surveying the situation, A. K. Savoy,
assistant superintendent in charge Of
elementary schools in Division 1-13.
declared:
There appears to be little hope of
nndlng class rooms for these children.
We have just about exhausted our re-
sources"
Makes Inspection Tour.
Meanwhile, Dr. Garnet c. Wilkin-
son, first assistant superintendent of
schools, was making tour of inspec-
ton IN an effort to find room to place
the remaining pupils until work can
be completed on the M street heating
plant, which supplies heat for both
the Douglass-Simmons and Terrell
Schools.
The transfer of, the 1880 students
also created congestion problem,
which necessitated placing a majority
OF the classes on part-time basis
Only at the Dunbar Junior High
School, where 224 Terrell students
were sent, were school officials able
TO keep classes on a full-time basis.
This was accomplished by doubling
up classes and using the auditorium
and other space. The students trans
ferred to Dunbar are all in the ga
grade.
Glasses Rearranged.
Armstrong and Shaw Junior High
Schools received Ill and 159 Terrell
pupils, respectively, but were forced
to rearrange classes so that students
can attend only half day. In the
latter buildings pupils already enrolled
also were forced to go on a part-time
schedule.
Similar schedules we're initiated in
the five elementary schools which
received the Douglass Simmons pupils.
The Jones School was forced to add
278 pupils to their rolls, the Banneker,
IA; John F. Cooke, 1858; Slater, ll9,
and Langston, n.
All the other available schools in
the vicinity of the closed buildings
already are so full that they could not
accommodate any more, Savoy said.
Must Walk Farther.
Savoy also explained that the trans
fers meant that many pupils would
have to walk some distance farther to
attend classes.
Although the contract for the work
at the heating plant specifies the work
Is to be completed November IS, school
officials have been informed some
heat will be available October 10, so
that the schools can be used.
Pupils attended the schools Thurs
day and Friday. but were forced to
follow the sun" around the buildings
without using any rooms where the
temperature was below "a degrees.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
Doctor on Wayto Treat Nephew
Is Injured in Collision of Autos

John A. Chappelear, 80. Of 1112 E
street southeast, ran of the road and
overturned IL miles southeast Of
Brandywine, Md.
Chappelear, case worker with
the Public Health Service, was re-
turning from visit to his father,
John L. Chappelear, and other rela-
tives in Hughesville. He was taken
to Gallinger by q passing motorist.
Physicians feared his skull was frac-
tured.
Dr.. Chappelear was rushing to see
his nephew when his car was in COL
lision with one which police said-was
operated by George B. Young, %, Of
722 Fifteenth street southeast, at Sew
enteenth and B streets southeast. His
machine was overturned.
Young was treated at Gallinger for
q sprained shoulder. After a short
time at Casualty, DR.. Chappelear
signed . release for himself.
Noting slight improvement in his
nephew's condition this afternoon, DR..
ChAppelear returned home.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
FEDERAL BUREAU PLANS
ACTIVE ACIDITY STUDY
Standards Unit at Work on Meth
cd Designed to Standardize
Control.

Investigation of active acidity, play
ing an important part in practically
all industrial fields, is being under
taken by the Bureau of Standards
as an important item of its new re-
search program.
The bureau is working on method
of standardizing the control of active
acidity and has been given the active
support of number of national tech
nical associations and manufacturers
in carrying on the program, it was
explained.
The control of active acidity plays
a large part in such industries as
dairying, tanning, brewing and other
lamentations, canning Of foods, man.
ufacture Of paper and casein products,
studies of soils, boiler waters. corrosion
Of metals and in the treatment Of
diseases.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
MOVIES AT M'KINLEY

Students at Mckinley High School
are being entertained after school
hours by weekly movies shown by the
Student Governing Organization.
Shows were started about a year ago
Is = regular feature at the school.
Profits, which last year amounted
TO $500, are used to promote school
activities, such as athletics and clubs.
Harold Welch is president of the
sponsoring organization.
Evening star., 1937-10-11
FIRST LADY BACKS
FREELUNCHDR|V
Problem of Aiding Needy Is
Most important, She
Tells Reporters.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt toda,
added her Endorsement to the cam
paign to obtain $67,50O for free school
lunches for needy children.
Stating she was not very well &C.
quainted with Washingtons current
campaign, she told her press confer
ence. however, that 'in general, the
problem of providing free lunches for
those who need them is most i'm
portant''
Mrs. Roosevelt said the drive should
be carried on with the whole hearted
cooperation of school authorities.
The campaign acein will be carried
to the airwaves toni>.,t, when Msgr
John A. Ryan of Catholic University
director of the social action depart
ment of the National Catholic Welfyre
Conference, will speak over Station
WRC.
His address in behalf of the free
lunch-fund drive is scheduled for 7:45
O'Clock. Msgr. Ryan was a member
OF the original committee which raised
the first funds for free school lunches
in 1888, before the project was taken
over by the Works Progress Admins
tration.
Mrs. John Boyle. jr., chairman Of
the Citizens Emergency Committee to
raise the lunch fund, reported today
approximately more than $4,000 has
peen placed in the treasury. The
total to be raised is $67, 500.
Prize Fights Help.
About $4,000 of the sum already
raised came from the sale of tickets
for the benefit prize fights to be staged
next Monday at Griffith Stadium.
Mrs. Boyle said returns over the week
end were "a little disheartening.
Meanwhile, another phase of the
drive - the take child o-lunch"
campaign-got under way today in
theaters, restaurants, grocery stores.
hotels and other establishments. Pa
irons of the business houses are being
informed they can provide lunch for
a school child with a donation of 7
cents.
Mrs. Boyle said 20 needy children
received free lunches today at Oppor-
tunity House. 915 New Jersey avenue
This will be continued every day, she
said.
Charity Ball Planned.
Sylvan King, vice chairman of the
committee, and Miss Ruth Madden
were to confer today at the Willard
Hotel with Carter Barron, Loew's diyi-
sion manager for the Washington area
and Sidney Lust, manager of a chain
OF theaterS, regarding projects for
the charity grand ball at the May
Hover Hotel October 26.
Under tentative plans, service of
the free hot lunches begin a week
from today. The total to be raised
before the project can be started is
$4,000. When this amount is in hand
the w. P. A. will provide approximate
~ sl25,000 in labor costs to run the
project, which will feed approximately
5000 children.
Evening star., 1937-10-11

was injured crit
ically when his
car overturned
last night.
Suffering a pos
sible brain con-
cussion and cuts
and brui is e s
about the head,
DR.. Chappelear
stopped at Cas-
atty Hospital
only long enough
to have his in
juries dressed and
then continued to
Gallinger Hos.
pital to help treas