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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
FARLEY ON D. E.
TAX DELAYED

Progress Of the District tax in
crease program faced another de-
lay today when it was announced
that the meeting Of the House
District Committee to consider the
program has been postponed from
tomorrow until later in the week,
probably Thursday.
The postponement is necessi-
tated by the absence from the city
of Representative Mary T. Norton
CD of New Jersey, committee
chairman.
Although she will return to the
city by Wednesday, the tax ques-
ton will not come before the full
committee on that day-the regu-
lar District Committee meeting day
since action on the daylight
savings bill is scheduled for that
time.
It is generally believed full COM
mittee approval will be given the
tax program as approved by the
subcommittee which has been
wrestling with the problem for
several weeks, and that applica.
ton will be made to the House
Rules Committee for a rule for
special consideration of the bill
some day late next week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
EIGHT INJURED
IN TRAFFIC.

Over one of the safest weekends
recently recorded on the Washing.
ton traffic front, eight persons
were sent to hospitals for treat
ment of injuries, which were serl.
Gus in only one case.
Blanche Simpson, 81, of 1048 Bla-
densburg Rd. N. E., was in Casu.
atty Hospital with a possible skull
fracture and facial decorations, the
result of an accident at Twenty.
fourth Place and Bladensburg
Road Northeast, when the car in
which she was a passenger struck
a lamp post. Another passenger.
William Wheeler, 20, of 735 North
Capitol ST., received injuries to his
hand, while the driver, Baburn
Nicely, Of the 900 block Layman
Pl. N. E., was unhurt.
Joe Jackson, 81, Of 1855 Sec.
ond st. N. w., was treated at
Freedman's for ankle and arm
injuries, received when he was
knocked down by a truck as he
attempted to board a street car
at Fourth Street and Florida
Avenue Northwest.
Finnis Sullivan, %, of the 600
block Eighth st. N. E., driver of
the truck, was charged with reck.
less driving. posting $500 at the
Second Precinct for his court
appearance.
Richard Dickerson, As, Of the
First block U st. N. W., also is
slated to stand trial on reckless
driving charges growing out Of
an accident at Twelfth and II
Streets Northeast, where police
say he drove his car into Marie
Baskerville, colored, %, of 1248
Wylie st. N. E., fracturing her
right ankle. Dickerson also is
charged with having no opera
tors permit, driving on dead"
license tags, and failing to show
a registration card.
Three-year-old Robert Cava.
naugh, 300 Fourteenth st. S. E.,
was treated at Casualty for
Continued on Page 10. Col. p
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Ken Murray
. Says.

Never mind who wins the
major league pennantS or knocks
off the world series-the best
thing that's happened to base
ball this season is that that
grand and valiant guy, Mickey
COchrane, Is getting well.
Dizzy Dean gets suspended
page one newS-yeah! Carl Hub
bells pitching streak broken
dramatic-yeah! But Mike Coch.
rane is getting well! That makes
this the SWEETEST baseball season
I've ever enjoyed and 1 don't
care now il the Browns and
Brooklyn cop the flags.
And that reminds me: II
there's such a thing as . duplex
dOghOuSe, Dizzy Dean and the
Rev. Jardine are in it now.
And not to change the sub
ject, 1 see the Treasury admits
it was somewhat cOckeyed In its
recent estimates. Gosh, I wish
the Government would let me
guess as wrong on my income
taxes as It does on its revenue!
If the Cove rnment guesses
wrong, Congress gets 10 more
days to think mp new taxes. But
II you guess wrong, you get five
years In LeavenwOrth.
Copyright, 1887. by McNGught
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
SCORES
TAXI LAWS

Failure of Congress to enact leg
islation to protect the public in
cases where the operation Of taxi
cabs is involved was severely criti-
cized by the United States Court
Of Appeals today.
The court, in its opinion by Jus
tice D. Lawrence Groner, asserted
it is powerless to help Rosa l..
Page collect a $500 verdict
against the Blue Light Corpora
ton because Of its intricate cor
porate Setup.
She had been injured by a cab
of the Blue Light Corporation and
had brought her suit not only
against the, corporation but
against the other firms connected
with it, including the Washington
Cab Sales Corporation, ID. M. D."
Corporation and a number Of in
dividuals. 49,.
With the exception Of the Blue
Light Corporation, the defendants
were able to show to the satisfac-
ton of the trial court that they
were no responsible for damages,
and that the Blue Light Corpora
ton has no physical assets upon
which the plaintiff could collect
her Judgment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
TIP ON KEENE
W|NSPRIzE

First prize for the best newstip
Of the week in The Washington
Times Weekly Newstip Contest
went for the story on the finding
Of the body of Charles Keene,
Washington real estate man who
disappeared from the Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Com
pany'S District of Columbia May
10 and whose body was found near
Smith Island nearly three weeks
later.
Second prize went for the tip on
the drowning of a 7-year-old boy at
Glen Island, Md.
Other awards went for the tip
on the swarm Of bees invading the
telephone room Of the Federal
Housing Administration; for the
first story on Secretary of the In
terror Harold L. Ickes being taken
to Naval Hospital; for the tip on
the birth of triplets born at Co
lumbia Hospital; for the story on
the headon collision between a
Seaboard Airline train and a
freight train at Raleigh, N. c., and
for the tip on the accident in
which a man was killed by a Bal
timore and Ohio railroad train at
Laurel, Md.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
SECURITY. PAY
DUE2,0OO HERE
THIS YEAR
Maturities and Death
Claims to Bring
Lump Sums

Nearly 1000 persons in the Dis
trict Of Columbia will become eli.
gible for lump-sum payments un-
der the social security act during
1887, either through death or from
having attained the age Of IS, it
was revealed here today by Ralph
B. Harris, field representative in
charge Of the Washington office
Of the Social Security Board.
Estimating that 1910 claims
would arise in the District during
the current calendar year from
persons dying or reaching the age
Of IS who are under the covered
employment" provisions Of the Sc
curly act, Mr.. Harris stressed the
importance of such information
being promptly filed with the 10
cal field office.
Lump Sum Due
All persons dying after Decem.
Der 81, 1895, who were under the
covered employment" provisions,
Mr.. Harris explained, have a lump
sum settlement due their relatives
or estate Of 31a per cent Of the
total wages earned since this date.
Likewise, those who attain the age
Of IS before January i, 1912, also
have 1ump.sum settlement due
them. { h ss....~3.4
Pointing out that the boards
offices are still giving a great
portion Of its time to the tabula-
ton Of the applicants account
numbers and the preparation of
q permanent record Of this tire.
mendouS number OF employees
throughout the country, the local
field office head emphasized the
necessity Of full cooperation from
both the employees aid employers
in filing claims due those becofns
ing qualified for these lump sum
payments.
Cash Qualifications
The earliest date employees un-
der the covered employment"
plan can qualify for monthly
benefits, according to Mr.. Harris,
Is January 2, 1941 and the neces-
sary qualifications to them be-
come eligible for monthly pay.
lnentS were outlined rs follows:
Employees must have worked at
least one day in each year be-
CONTINUED ON Page 10, Col. ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
G0NzAGAG|VES
SCHOLARSHIPS

Four youngsters won full schol-
arships to Gonzaga High School,
and twelve were successful In win
ming half scholarships. according
to results of examinations held
last Saturday and announced to-
day.
OF the three hundred students
competing, the winners are:
Daniel Sullivan and George Bur
roughs, of Holy Name School;
Charles Quill, Of st. Stephens
School, and William Shreve, Of
st. James School, full scholarships.
Richard Cotton and John Grigg,
of Sacred Heart School; Charles
Galeano, Louis williams, and Mat
thew Ridden, of Holy Name
School: John Ballard. of st. James
School; George Finch, Of Blessed
Sacrament School,; Norris Royal,
of Holy Comforter School; John
Troy, Of st. AIMS School: John
Fuller, of st. Stephens School;
Philip Koontz. of Nativity School,
and Charles F. Dimmich, of Holy
Comforter School, half scholar
ships.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
GOES TO COURT
ON STRETCHER

Suffering from two bullet wounds
in the back, Roscoe w. Kirk, SO, a
taxicab driver of 500 L st. N. E.,
was carried on stretcher into the
Grand Jury room to testify today.
Kirk, who was shot on February
5, last, was brought to the court
ambulance to testify against Viii
lie j. McClendon, colored, rs.
According to Kirk, McClendon
engaged his cab at Fifteenth and H
Streets Northeast, and, after driv-
ing several blocks, drew a gun and
told Kirk he was going to kill him.
Kirk attempted to drive into a
gasoline station for help, and the
colored man fired two shots. Kirk
has been bedridden ever since.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Will Present
Season S Final Drama

The Universal Players will pre-.
sent their final drama Of the sea-
son, 1.-THE Merry wives Of Wind.
sor" wednesday in Perkins Hall
Universalist National Memorial
Church.
The cast, directed by Anne M.
Fauntleroy, includes A.. G. Stovall,
Russell Chapman. T. Harrison
Ewell, Ruth Learn, Carnelius Fer
ris, Charles Chapman, Russell
Chapman. jr., c. Ferris, Betty
Smallman, Frances Duff, Patricia
Hunt, sylvia Duff, Beatrice Small
man, Helen Louise Saunders, Mar
jorie JanSSon and Patsy Pack.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
TICKET FIXING
N0TINV0LVED,
BOARD TOLD
Just Matter Of Policy,
Witness in Winfield
Traffic Case Says

Some of 200 policemen" re-
ceived free theater passes each
week, Harry E. Lohmeyer, former
manager of the Earle Theater,
told a trial board which today
heard testimony against Police
man Wexford E. Winfield, charged
with "ticket fixing" activities
while connected with the traffic
division.
Major Ernest w. Brown. Inspec-
tor L. I. H. Edwards, B. A. Lamb
and Capt. Milton Smith were sent
season passes to the theater, Lob.
meyer also revealed.
Strikes Legal Snag
The case against Winfield struck
a legal snag, developed by Defense
Attorney Charles E. Ford, who
drew from Lohmeyer the admission
that the passes were sent"a as mat
ter of policy" and not as a reward
for "ticket fixing"
Louis Silverberg, liquor store
operator in the 5000 block of
Georgia Ave. N. w., testified he
couldn't remember" having had a
parking ticket fixed" by Winfield.
He later absolutely denied that
Winfield ever suggested his traffic
violations be adjusted for "con-
sideration.
The testimony Of Charles Lin.
kins, attorney for Teunis F. Col
lier, Georgetown's traffic crusader,
was challenged by Ford on
grounds that most of his evidence
concerned transactions between
himself and Mrs. Winfield, now
deceased.
Fights Evidence
Ford spent fully three-quarters
of an hour in argument against
introduction Of evidence that Mrs
Winfield, the accused policeman's
estranged wife, turned over to him
several books of traffic violation
notices, allegedly cancelled by her
husband.
The trial, now in its second day
is expected to extend over a pc
Rod of weeks, during which time
more than 100 witnesses will ties
tify.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
''DOn QuixOte'' Is Next
LIN Times Book Offer

this week save seven consecutively
numbered coupons to get this book
being offered in The Times book.
a-week plan.
Coupon No. l appeared in yester.
days Sunday Herald. With the
one appearing in today's Times,
and five others which will appear
this week, you may obtain this
volume, included in the 2O.5ook
set OF the Worlds Greatest Litera.
ture.
Simply call District 1000 and
Continued on Page 10, Col. 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Record of Court
Traffic Case,
Convictions
First Offense Speeding


Walter Bickerd. Maryland, $40.
William A. Jones. no address
given, $40.
Charles w. Smith Virginia, SIS.
Charles E. Emswiler, jr, 1918
Waldbridge Pl. N. W., IS.
Arthur Cheeks, 512 Eleventh st.
S. E.. IS.
Fred Feldman, sos Decatur st.
N. w.. IS.
Anthony Maceollo, 3242 Nine
tenth st. N. W., $40.
William L. Pike. 2100 Fifteenth
st. S. E., IS.
Z Paul e. latham, Maryland, IS.
Bradbury Emerson AIS Aspen
st. N. W., IS. @.''.'
Walter B. Harneman. Mary
land, $25.
Thomas j. Garland, 2443 Mon.
roe st. N. E., $40.
Bascomb J. Pollard. no address
given, S..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Compromise Reached
On Farm TENANCY
International News Service

InteFnatlOnal NoWB SeFvlce
The compromise agreed to by
the White House on farm tenancy
is based on a small beginning but
a big program in future years,
congressional farm leaders said
today.
The proposal is to provide So.
100000 for the fiscal year begin
ming July /, during which the De-
partment of Agriculture will con.
duct experiments in purchasing
farms and selling them to tenants.
An appropriation of 1000. 900
for the fiscal year 1899 and $780,
100000 a year thereafter is pro-
posed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Women's Tourney June "a

Competition in the Women's
Ioistrict Golf Championship Is
echeduled Monday, June IA at the
Chevy Chase Club.
Mrs. K. S. Giles announced last
night entries for the tourney will
positively close Friday at p. m.
The chevy Chase Club viii be.
ppen Friday for practice rounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Georgetown Prep
Has u Graduates

twenty-five students graduated
from Georgetown Preparatory
School, Garrett Park, yesterday
with the Right Rev. Thomas A.
Emmett, apostolic vicar of ia.
maica, presiding.
The commencement address was
delivered by the Rev. w. Coleman
Nevis, S. j., former president of
Georgetown University.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Business Men Meet
Columbia HeiQhts

The Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association will meet tomor.
row night in the Arcade Building,
Fourteenth Street and Park Road.
Haridas T. MaZumdar, Of India,
will tell Of his impressions Of
America,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07
Capital 0ptimist Club !
Host 10 Jersey Golfers

To inaugurate the 1887 golf sea.
son of the Optimist Club a golf
luncheon will be held at the May.
flower Hotel morrow noon.
Guests of honor will be II golfing
members of the Irvington IN. j.
Optimist Club, who will fly here
for the affair and will play local
golfers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07

Fighting windmills with don
Quixote" will be a delightful sum.
mer diversion for thousands of
Washington Times readers who
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-07


I think It's time Americans got
I'D from their knees and realized
that they are the equal If not the
superior Of most Europeans.
We might begin our emancipa-
ton from humility by not worry
ING about the American tourist.
Certainly we are tourists, all Of
LIS. Some Of us are only a little
distance from the covered wagon
and Ellis Island.
Our ancestors, particularly our
English ancestors, were wanderers.
The English have been the most
Rcuuisitive tourists of all. ---.
Americans, having lost the AFRO
rance of the Mother Country, have
taken away a few impressions Of
Their good times, leaving a good
deal of cash behind, and pray that
the rest Of the world won't think
them vulgar.
Evening star., 1937-06-20
ARMY CHANGES
WEATHER SET-OP
Arms and Services Will Es.
tabIish Own Gathering
Agencies July |.

Meteorological services for the
Army, now the responsibility OF the
Signal Corps, will be transferred on
July l to the arms and services re-
quiring special weather information
the Air Corps, Field Artillery. Coast
Artillery Corps, Ordnance and Chemi-
cal Warfare Service.
The Air Corps, by far the heaviest
user of special weather services, will
establish an Air Corps School of
Meteorology for enlisted forecasters
st Patterson Field. Fairfield, Ohio
the War Department announced. At
this school there will be two courses
OF instruction each year, each of Ave
months duration The number of
students accepted for each course
will not exceed 35 and an enlisted
complement of not to exceed 10 men
Will be assigned as assistants at the
school.
School to Be Discontinued.
In establishing the Air Corps
School. the War Department an
nounced, the present School of Me-
teorology at Fort Monmouth, N. j..
under Signal Corps jurisdiction, will
be discontinued at the end of this
month and school property and per-
sonnel moved to Patterson Field
where 1t is expected classes will be
started not later than September l .
In view of this transfer" it was
explained, "it is desired to develop at
Patterson and Wright Fields meteor
illogical stations which will be models
of modern operation. In line with
these plans, the number of enlisted
meteorologists assigned to Patterson
Field will be increased from 10 to Is
and those at Wright Field from to s."
Capt, Don McNeal. Signal Corps.
now in charge of the Fort Monmouth
School, will take over command of
the new Air Corps School, Capt
Benjamin Stern, Signal Corps, re-
Gently assigned to Maxwell Field,
Montgomery, Ala, however. will be
replaced by an Air Corps officer who
will take charge of meteorological ac-
tivities at Patterson and Wright.
Field Artillery Units.
Inc fleld ArLlllery Will organize
meteorological units at Fort H1yle,
Md; Fort Sam Houston. Tex; Fort
Lewis. Wash; Fort Sill. Okla; Fort
Sheridan, Ill: Schofield Barracks,
T. H.; Fort Riley, Kans and Fort
Bragg, N. C. These units will fur
nish necessary meteorological data to
Field Artillery organizations located
within their service areas.
The Coast Artillery will continue
TO operate meteorological units now
active and will in addition, organize
units at each Coast Artillery haroor
defense base and at stations of anti
aircraft regiments.
Ordnance will establish one meteor
illogical unit at Aberdeen Proving
Ground. Md, and the Chemical War
fare Service one at Edgevood Ar
senal, Md.
With this change the Army Signal
Corps will be relieved of weather
duties which it has carried on since
the birth of organized weather serv-
ices in the United States. The United
States Weather Bureau originally was
organized by the Army Signal Corps
and operated as an Army service until
the time of its transfer to the Agri-
culture Department.
Evening star., 1937-06-20
4 CONCERTS THIS WEEK
Bands Play Tomorrow, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.

"o"1Res"dy anu IHUTSuay.
-Four concerts, including one by
the Washington Gas Light Co. Band,
will be given this week, National Cap
1tal Parks Office announced yesterday.
The gas company group will give
concert Wednesday at Palisades Park
6herrier and Dana places. Tomor-
row the Army Band will play at the
District World War Memorial in West
Potomac Park. The Navy Band will
play Tuesday and the Marine Band
Thursday at the same place. The
time for all the concerts will be from
7:30 pm. to 9 pm.
Evening star., 1937-06-20
New Church Planned Here.

A new church will be erected in
Washington by the Church of God, it
WAS announced at the international
camp meeting at Anderson, Ind. Con-
struction plans for the church will be
drafted Immediately, the announce
ment stated.
Evening star., 1937-06-20
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Evening star., 1937-06-20

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Evening star., 1937-06-20
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1913 value. 63-
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Evening star., 1937-06-20

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-09-18
GLADYS SCHAFER'S
POEMS ACCEPTED
WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE
GROWN ANTHOLOGY OF
VERSE"

Word was received at Great Falls
a few days ago from publishers in
New York Of the acceptance Of
two poems by Great Falls woman
for publication in the Grown An
theology of Verse;" an annual COM
pilatiOn of poetry.
Gladys Hunnewen Schafer Is the
author of 1.-THE Butterfly and My
Soul" and An Autumn Dawn" the
poems that will appear in the forth
coming volume.
The publication of the poetry was
the result Of the authors participation
in a prize poetry contest sponsored by
the Crown Publishers of New York.
The volume in which Mrs. Schafer's
work will appear will contain repre-
work of the country's OUT
standing contemporary poets.
Mrs. SchaferS work has been recog-
nized by other publications. Her poems
have appeared in such magazines as
The Harp, American Poetry. The Club
Poets Magazine, The Poet and
Modern American Poetry can an
thology. 1892.
Mrs. Schafer was born in Great
Falls and received her education in
public schools there. She is married
and has a young son. Prior to her
she was engaged in telephone
work here. Another of her interests
is book collecting.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-09-18
LIQUOR PROFITS
PASS S1,OOO,OOO
ADMINISTRATION WASS PREDICTS
BUSINESS NET OF 100000
FOR THIS YEAR

With liquor sale profits from
Jan. to Sept. / tOtaling $780,
O76.34, L. M. A. Wass, administrator
for the state liquor control board,
says MOntana's estimated net from
the business for the entire year still
is set at the 100000 mark.
Last years total profit was approx
imately S1,300000 while at this time
last year net profits were $169 ,495 be-
low the present figure. Permit sales
this year to Sept. l totaled $57 ,408 as
against $63,471 for the same period in
1896 when licenses sold for 50. The
price now is so cents.
DrOuth Influence
Augustus profit showed an 1894
decline from the 1922, 737 mark chalked
up for the same month last year. Adj
ministrator WaSS attributed the de-
crease to drouth conditions in eastern
Montana which have virtually par
alyzed" sales.
He also pointed out that a general
just before Labor day figured
i'm the decline as sales to Sept.
throughout the state totaled $4,000.
the profit on which would have run
the August total above the 1886 figure
Operating costs under the present
Setup have been greatly reduced, ac-
cording to the August report the total
operating cost for the first eight
months Of the year being $495, 642, or,
1nly $4,000 above the costs for the
'ame period in 1886, although net profit
his year for the period exceeds the
asst year figure by $169,495.