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Evening star., 1937-09-10
PHI BETA KAPPA
RECOGNIZES GNU.
Chapter, First Established
in Washington, Granted
by Council.

George Washington University has
been granted a charter for Phi Beta
Kappa chapter by action of the coun-
Gil of the honorary scholastic fra
ternity now holding its nineteenth tri-
ennial session at Atlanta, university
officials announced today.
The chapter-the 130th granted by
the society-is the first to be estab-
lished in Washington.
Election to the fraternity constitutes
the highest recognition that can be
achieved for scholarship in the liberal
arts.
The society establishes chapters on
the basis of recommendations by its
Committee on Qualifications, which
investigated G. w. u. last Fall. It
was granted the local university for
It's excellence in liberal arts and
sciences, particularly in the quality
of its product, faculty, curriculum,
library, equipment and financial con-
dition."
Inc approval for the chapter is
the second recognition of its aca-
demsc work to come to G. w. U. with
IN year. Last February the Society
OF Sigma XII, national honorary scien-
tlflc fraternity. installed a chapter
at the university.
Inc Phi Beta Kappa council also
approved the applications for chap
ters OF eight other colleges and uni
Verslties. The list included III. Uni
verslty OF Buffalo, Reed College, Port
land, Greg; College of st. Catherine.
81. Paul, Mimi; Pennsylvania State
College, Washington and jefferson
College, University of Florida, Bir-
mingham Southern and the University
OF California at Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
SHOOTING SUSPECT
UNDER $4,000 BOND
Alleged Robber Held for Grand
Jury in Assault on
Detective.

James w. Ferguson, 35, colored. 1900
block of Oregon avenue, was held un-
der $4,000 bond for the grand iurv
when arraigned in Police Court todav
on charge of shooting a private de-
tectlve guarding a garage at l3s
twelfth street northeast.
The private detective-Edward q
Brown, 1865 Park road-was shot in
the hip Monday when he allegedly sur
priSed Ferguson in the garage. He is
not believed seriously wounded.
Since Brown was unable to annear
IN court today to testify, Ferguson was
charged only with HOUSEKEEPING. Po-
lice said charge of assault with in
tent to kill would be sought in the
grand jury proceeding.
Jacob Feeling, 26, of the 1900 block
OF Massachusetts avenue, arraigned
with Ferguson, also was held under
$4,000 bond. another man allegedly
implicated in the case is being brought
mere from Lansing, Mich.
Police said the garage had been
robbed II times when Brown was en-
gagged to guard it.
Evening star., 1937-09-10

leisurely meal instead of a prolific
source Of indigestion and probably q
shortener of life
There's nothing to be done about It,
Human nature prolongs ease abed to
the last possible moment.
Aroma of coffee mingles with the
aroma Of flowers. 1t is the city's
morning odor.
The first golfers make their appear
ance on the Rock Greek and East
Potomac links.
The greens still are heavy with dew
but the sun has lifted the mist so that
one can see where balls land.
There are no crowds to slow I'D the
players. If no balls are lost nine
holes can be played before going to
work
Many are at work in their gardens
before the heat of the day makes
such labor sweaty.
Night workers crawl into bed to
sleep the day through.
The corner grocery and meat mar
ket opens.
There is surprising amount of
before breakfast trade housewives
sending around for eggs. bacon, ETC.,
which they forgot the previous day.
1t Is almost entirely an accommoda-
ton trade-no profit in it, but the
market man has to be up any way
He probably has been up for two
hours already, purchasing his days
supplies. Few Washingtonians put
in longer hours.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
DRIVERS PERMIT PHOTOS
URGED TO STOP RACKET

"Thumb-nail" photographs on all
automobile drivers permits was ad-
vocated today by Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer as one means
OF breaking up the new permit pro-
curer's racket"
Within the last two months at
taches in Van Duzers Office have
caught rs persons who have misrep-
resented themselves in an effort to
procure permit for a person who
failed to pass the requisite examina-
tions. Seven have been arrested so
far this month.
Van Duzer said the description of
an applicant, now required on the
permit, is not sufficient to establish
identity and has paved the way for
group of permit-procuring rack
eteers" to operate at the traffic de-
partment. These "racketeers" have
been charging So for procuring a
drivers permit for an unsuccessful
applicant.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
TRIGGER SUSPECT
|NS& v ROBBERY
SEIZED IN TAMPA
Harry Gordon Smith, 26, Is
Arrested After Chase
of 1000 Miles.
D. C. POLICE TO BRING
HIM BACK FOR TRIAL
48-Hour Vigil Over Home of
Relatives Is Successful in
Catching Youth.

Waving extradition formalities,
Harry Gordon Smith, 33, arrested last
night in Tampa, Fla, as the trigger"
man in the S e. w Cafeteria hold-up
on August 81, willingly agreed today
to accompany Detective Sergts.
Joseph Shimon and w. v. Christian
back to Washington.
After a 2,000-mile chase, Shimon
and Christian arrested Smith when he
Evening star., 1937-09-10
NEW HOMES RISING
IN ALLEY PROJECT
Lettie Courts Bleak Houses
to Give Way to 16 Modern
Family Units.

Work is progressing rapidly on a
new low-rent housing project being
built by the Alley Dwelling Authority
for white tenants on site in the
southwest, long known as the K street
alley and frequently by the picturesque
name of Lettie court.
Within a few months Is neat and
modern two-story row houses will be
completed on ground formerly occu-
pied by some of the bleakest homes in
that section, few blocks distant from
the Neighborhood House settlement.
The new housing is being built on the
sites of the old alley and adjacent
properties between Sixth and Seventh
streets
that the p w. A. Housing Division
formerly endeavored to obtain a site
for its first housing project in Wash
ington, but failed because of iniunc-
tions brought by property owners who
opposed Federal condemnation.
Street and alley houses on the x
street site were in ruinous condi-
ton, the Alley Dwelling Authority
reported. and eight of the worst were
demolished month or 50 ago.
Faces Park-Like Court.
The new project contemplates a
development in the form of an inverted
U, with the rows of houses facing an
open space 80 feet wide and 108 feet
in depth. This space will be provided
with grass, trees, benches and walks
All the houses will have rear access to
paved alleys, one of which is being
widened, through dedication of a strip
Of land by the authority for the
mutual benefit of its future tenants
and other occupants of the square.
Rents for the old, dilapidated homes
that were demolished formerly ranged
from $40 to SIS monthly. The new
homes will rent for about $40.
Eight of the new houses will con-
tain four rooms, four will have five
rooms. and the remaining four will
contain six rooms. In addition, each
dwelling will have a modern bath
room and utility room in lieu of a
cellar. The utility rooms will be
equipped with containers for fuel,
laundry trays and service meters.
Different Types of Heating.
Six of the houses will be equipped
with hot-water heating systems,
located in the utility rooms The other
10 will use circulating hot-air heaters.
located in the living rooms. Hot water
will be available from gas water heat
ers and storage tanks in the kitchens.
The kitchens, it was said, will have gas
ranges and modern conveniences. All
the houses will be provided with ade-
quate closets.
The dwellings are being constructed
with concrete footings. furred and
insulated concrete block walls, with
insulated Stag roofs and steel easement
windows. All the living rooms will
have hardwood floors and the flooring
for the utility rooms is concrete.
OF the rs rooms in the houses. 1t
was said that "a will be located to
receive maximum sunlight throughout
the year. The remaining IL rooms. all
OF which are kitchens or secondary
bed rooms, will have windows facing
the north.
The entire project. including the
cost of the land, will require an ex-
penditure of around s13O,000. 1t is
the eleventh on the list of the au-
thorltys housing developments.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
Conductors Replaced by Car
Changes Get Ne,U Transit Jobs
York No,U on Minor observation-disclosures
lar Employment Seen 4 gain After
Three or -Four Months.
(StOry on Page A-1.J

The thirteen Capital Transit Co.
conductors who temporarily went out
of service recently when the 13 new
stream-lined cars were put into opera
ton are still on the pay roll, drawing
81 cents an hour doing odd jobs and
mixing work with game or two of
checkers or pinochle in the car barns.
But that won't last long, according
to 2. D. Merrill, company president.
A few of the men are trying to
qualify as motormen to operate the
80 additional new streamline one
man cars to be put into service Oc-
tober 3, and others are doing such odd
jobs as checking schedules and serving
as inspectors. But whatever the men
are doing now, they are destined to
go on the extra list along with 80
other conductors October if they
fail to qualify as one-man-car opera
tors.
To Be Paid for Work Hours.
And once on the extra list therell
be no 81 cents an hour for pinochle
PioyM COMPENSATION VIII De palu
only for the actual number of hours
the men are collecting fares.
The company does not intend to
release any of the As surplus conduc-
tors October 3, but will retain them
on the extra list and give them regular
runs as vacancies occur. II the normal
recession in the personnel of train
men is maintained, Merrill believes
all As conductors will have regular
Evening star., 1937-09-10

StuucliI dIlQ d.
legedly the brains of the robber gang.
BraIer had been implicated by Will
liam P. Allen, taxicab driver, who
drove Smith away from the scene of
the crime.
Driving Detective Inspector B. w.
Thompson's private car because off,
cial police cars were not in condition
for the long trip, Shimon and Chris
tian missed Smith in Raleigh, N. c..
by only few minutes and arrived in
other Southern cities only few hours
after their quarry had departed.
Smith, Brauer and Allen will be
placed in a lineup of robber suspects
early next week and all recent victims
of bandits will be urged to view them.
Inspector Thompson said. Brauer.
according to Inspector Thompson, has
implicated Smith in the hold-up of
Sanitary Grocery Co. store messenger
several days before the S g. w
robbery
Brauer and his young wife Dorothy
were dining in the g. w Cafeteria
when, according to the formers con-
fession, Smith entered and ordered
the cashier to hand over the days
receipts so nonchalantly she thought
he was Joking. After obtaining $1,192
at pistol point, the robber escaped in
Aliens cab and went to his rooming
house in the 800 block of Mount Ver-
non place where Brauer met him to
divide the lO4 Thomson revealed
Brauer was arrested three days later.
His wife was taken into custody with
him, but was released later when In
spector Thompson said he was con-
vinced she had no advance knowledge
Of the robbery.
Shimon and Christian are expected
to arrive here with Smith tomorrow.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
DRY LEAGUE DOUBTS
CRIME CURB DATA

The Anti-Saloon League questions
claims by the Distilled Spirits Institute
that legalization Of liquor has reduced
crime.
Edward B. Dunford, league attorney,
said figures made public by the in
stitute were mot sufficiently compre-
hensible to make a basis for such
judgment"
The institute had claimed the crime
record of five dry States was in every
case worse than the record of adjoin-
ing wet States, but Dunford contended
figures used in connection with minor
offenses were ''meager" and fuller In
formation is needed.
Evening star., 1937-09-10

to that served for
three years as a
member of the
Board of Chill
dren's Guardians,
which was under
the old Board of
Charities. H e
therefore was in
District service
about IA years.
Judge Doyle
gave no reason
for his resigna-
ton in his state
ment to the Com
missioners, but he
said today he had
Evening star., 1937-09-10
Asked for Aid.
He Recognizes
Man as Suspect

When a panhandler accosted him
yesterday, Detective Sergt. E. E.
Thompson was the most surprised
and delighted policeman on the force.
For the last three months Thompson
had been searching the highways and
byways of Washington without success
for John Wesley Lankford, colored, %.
Off duty, Thompson was seated in
his car in fropt of Emergency Hos
pital when the colored youth walked
up and asked:
Can you spare two bits for some
food?"
Recognizing the man, Thompson
arrested him.
Lankford was wanted in connection
with the beating and robbery of John
j. Martin, IA, of 1011 Otis place. Mar
tin was robbed of 5000 watch. Lank-
ford was arrested, but later released
when Martin failed to identify him.
The watch later turned up in a pawn
shop and Thompson started another
search for Lankford.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
Washington S
Own
Book Of Hours
] o'clock am.
is Washingtons getting-up | Il

"HIS is Washingtons getting-up
hour.
Between and is a con-
\ venient time for those who
must be at work at 9-leaving some
leeway for a second cup of coffee and
a running glance at the front page
and the sports pages.
Through what dark waters has earth
drifted while most of Washington has
slept-wars, massacres, blood purges,
sex murders. It's almost all bad news
blazoned by the morning papers from
the breakfast table. One doesn't go to
work with the serene feeling that all's
we'll with the world these days.
Lawns and bushes are be- e-diamonded
with dew.
The morning is still fresh and
fragrant, except where the neighbor's
dog has tipped over the garbage can
during the night.
The morning glories on the fence
are opened to their fullest and the
cardinal is singing among them.
Laborers start to work-envying
those who have still another two
hours. Really it doesn't make any
difference. It's just as hard to be at
work at 8 as at 7. 1t would be just
as hard if one didn't have to be at
work until noon.
A rush hour starts in the restau-
rants.
Doughnuts and coffee are gulped.
It's pity breakfast can't be
Evening star., 1937-09-10
CAR SALESMEN'S UNION
HERE HOLDS MEETING
Membership Now Totals IS, I'm
mediate Goal Is 800, Organ
izer Saws.

Nearly so members of the Fedora
ton of Automobile Statesmen of the
District of Columbia, newly or
ganized independent labor union, held
their second meeting last night at the
typographical Temple, 423 G street,
Jesse B. Manbeck, organizer and tenn
porary president, said today.
The constitution and bylaws of
the federation, which is reported to
be the first union of automobile sales
men in the East or South, were re-
ferred to a committee, which will re-
port on them at the next meeting,
scheduled for next Thursday.
Manbeck stated that membership
in the union has now reached 85.
His present objective is 800 members
"by the time the new models come
out" the organizer said.
Evening star., 1937-09-10

v 10 o g nue. Mr.. O'Donoghue.
mas oeen practicing law here for about
rrsii' years and is a director of the
onlon trust Co. For about f1ve years
ne mas been teaching law at the eve
nlng school of Georgetown University
La" School. He is graduate of
georgetown University, where he won
tne degree of Phi. D. and also OBJ
.alneo MS law degree at the George
to"n Law School. He is a graduate
OF the University of Southern CALI
lornia, where he took post t-graduate
work in law.
Judge Doyle was a member of the
Board Of Public Welfare from the
time OF It's creation in 1926 and prior
Evening star., 1937-09-10
CHAMBERS TO FACE
TWO AUTO CHARGES
Ordered to Appear in Court for
Ruling on Licensing of
Funeral Cars.

w. w. Chambers, undertaken, has
been ordered to appear in Police Court
tomorrow to answer two charges of
operating unlicensed funeral cars.
Similar charges against Chambers
were ignored by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Glenn Simmon last week.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Oliver
Gasch, who was assigned to handle
prosecution of the latest charges, said
Chambers would not be granted a
hearing in the corporation counsers
office, but would go directly before one
of the Police Court judges for a ruling
on whether he should be forced to take
out S25 license for each of the cars
he provides for mourners.
In his argument before Simmon,
Chambers successfully contended his
vehicles could not be classified as hired
cars because they were provided under
contract as part of the funeral service
Evening star., 1937-09-10
CAMPS TO CONTINUE
Two District Sites to Be Operated
for Next Quarter.

Robert Fechner, director of the
Civilian Conservation Corps. an
nounced today that the C. C. c. pro-
gram for the three-month period be-
ginning October provides for con-
tinuation of two camps in the District.
Fechner approved the recommended
ton OF the Agriculture Department
Tor the operation during the second
quarter Of one camp under the Bureau
OF Plant Industry. This camp is To-
Gated at Twenty-eighth and M streets
northeast. He also approved recon-
mendation OF the Interior Depart
ment for one camp at Benning on
National Capital Park projects.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
75,W0,000 NEW STAMPS
ROLLING OFF PRESS
Three-Cent Constitution Issue to
Be Placed on Sale Sep
tember II.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Bureau of Engraving presses rolled
off today the first of $4,000 900 new
postage stamps commemorating the
150th anniversary of the signing of
the Constitution.
The new issue, of the 3-cent variety,
will be placed on sale first at Philadel-
phia September II and elsewhere in
country day later. 1t reproduces j.
B. Stearns famous painting of the
Signing of the Constitution"
Postal officials and Director Sol
Bloom Of the United States Constitu-
tion Sesquecentennial Commission
watched printing Of the first of the
stamps.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
MOTORIST EXONERATED
Companions Testify Child Darted
in Path of Car.

HYATTSVILLE, Md, September
10 (SpeciaD "A. P. Geary of Capitol
Heights, Md, last night was exon
Grated by Justice Of the Peace Henry
H. ONeill and States Attorney Alan
Bowie after hearing testimony in the
death OF Leslie Taylor, 8, who was
killed at the end of the Beaver Dam
Bridge on River road September 2.
Young Taylor, it was testified by
several boys who were with him at
the time Of his death, ran across the
road and then darted back as Geary
swerved his car to avoid striking him.
Evening star., 1937-09-10

ceeulng j u d g e
Michael M. Doyle,
who resigned, eff
fective August 1.
W al S announced
I 0 d a y by the
Commissioners.
o. O n o ghue.
who is the son of
Justice ODon-
oghue of h e
District Court.
Will NIL out the
unexpired term
OF Judge Doyle.
which runs to
June 80, 1898.
Evening star., 1937-09-10

served long enough in the welfare
post. For many years he was chair
man Of the Penal Committee of the
Welfare Board. He advocated the
appointment of Col. William L. Peak
head of the District Reformatory at
Lorton, as the new general superin-
tendent of District penal institutions.
The appointment was given to Ray L.
Huff. Judge Doyle said the question
of that appointment had nothing to
do with his decision to resign.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
HELD ON DRUG COUNT
Woman Accused of Illegal Mar
cotic Sales.

Florence M. Green, AZ, of 439 K
street. was arrested today by Detec-
tive Sergt. C. E. Mansfield and Treas
ury Agent M. B. Wilson on charges
of violating the Harrison Narcotic Act.
She was booked at Police Headquarters
and her bond was set at $4,000.
Mansfield said several spoilers re-
ported purchasing narcotics from the
woman.
Evening star., 1937-09-10

appeared at the
home of a sister
in Tampa. The
detective had kept
a 48-hour " gi ]
over the house.
Smith, a for
mer lunch room
counter man, was
implicated in the
S e. w robbery,
police said, by the
confession of Al
fre d II e m a n
Brauer. 22-year-
old George Wash
ington University
Evening star., 1937-09-10
NAME 0'DON0CHUE
TO WELFARE POST
Lawyer and Director of
Union Trust Co. Will Sue
ceed Judge Doyle.

Appointment of Daniel w. ODon-
ognue, Jr., lawyer with Offices in the
Union Trust Building, to a place on
tne Board of Public Welfare. sue
Evening star., 1937-09-10
FIRM WINS 153-LB. CAKE
Washington Gas Co. Gets 1t as
Sales Contest Prize.

Sales Contest Prize.
A l53-pound fruit cake, II feet. in
circumference and feet thick, was
presented today to the Washington
Gas Co., winner in gas refrigerator
sales contest
The cake, believed by the bakers in
New York to be the largest ever
cooked up" was sent to Washing
ton today after airlines refused to
transport 1t, gas company ofYiciak said.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
ARRANGEMENT DELAYED
Ten Accused in Drug Theft Case
Face Court September 21.

Face Court September 81.
Ten persons accused of being mem
bers of ring which has been steal
ing from and accepting stolen prop
erty of the Washington Wholesale
Drug Exchange are to be arraigned
in court on September 81.
-Four of the men are charged with
conspiracy and are free on $500 bond
each. The other six, all druggists, are
charged with receiving stolen prop
erty and are held under $1,000 bond
each.
Evening star., 1937-09-10
SHEPPARD IN HOSPITAL
Senator From Texas Undergoes
Abdominal Operation.

Senator Sheppard of Texas under
went an abdominal operation at WAL
ter Reed Hospital today.
Physicians said his condition was
satisfactory.
Evening star., 1937-09-10

A doctor of medicine wears q hood
OF green with his academic gown.
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GREENLEAF SETS
BILLIARD. PACE

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4 GIN.
S0.-Ralph Greenleaf, veteran
cue master, continued to pace the
field today as the worlds pocket
billiard championship tournament
reached the halfway mark here.
He boosted four victories and
no defeats. Close behind came
Erwin Rudolph, with four games
won and one lost. Willie MoSconi
moved into third position with a
record Of three victories and one
defeat.
In one Of the most exciting
matches Of the tournament, Mos
conf yesterday triumphed over
Benny Allen in % innings, 1876
112. A run of 43 in the fifth put
Mosconi out in front. Aliens loss
dropped him into a tie for ninth
position with Joe Diehl.
Rudolph downed George Kelly,
1854; Irving Crane beat Joe
Diehl, 1854; and Charlie Sea-
back, the hitherto luckleSS Boston
ian, upset young Marcel Camp, Of
Detroit, 1858. to edge into
seventh place.
Tcday's matches:
Crane VS.. Lauri: Caras VS..
Diehl; Pon1 VS.. Camp; and
rGFeenleaf VS.. Allen.
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GOLDEN CLOVES
r=@at 49, =
ATTRACT 1900

The amateur boxing world, to-
day is talking and arguing and
forecasting-that is, the amateur
boxing world Of Washington and
vicinity.
The reason: Last nights sem
sationa1 bouts, ID Of 'em, pre-.
lininaries Of the washington
Herald's Golden Gloves tourna-
ment.
Some 1900 people, the largest
crowd to witness the preliminary
rounds Of the tourney In its five
year history, sat IN and appIauded
as bout after bout was offered.
Last nights bouts were both
novice and senior events. :,
FL Brookman, one Of the. stars
Of the Golden Gloves senior compe-
tition, gained the semifinal round
Of the tourney by outpointins and
severely Furnishing game frankie
Cuddy, Of the District National
Guard team. Brookman Is the
defending champion in the 147.
pound division. .
One Of the most sensational
knockouts Of the night came in
the Glen Drake Billy VermiIlion
battle when Drake flattened Wer.
million with . terrific right TO
CONTINUED on Page IS, Col. q
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greatness. Joe KrakauSkaS beat
the champions once. These young
southpaws accounted for just one
half of the total number Of vic
tories won by the Griffs from the
New York club. Newsom, now with
the Rex Sox; Weaver, whose status
for the coming season is most I'M
certain and Carl Fischer, now in
the minor leagues, won over New
York for Washington.
FIVE BOAST WIN MARGIN
Weaver, with IL victories and
nine defeats: Chase with four vic
tories and three defeats; Krakau.
skas, with four victories and one
defeat, and Ed Linke, with eight
victories and one mostly
doing relief work; Bill Phebus,
with three victories and two de-
featS, were the five Washington