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Evening star., 1937-08-31
Golfer ROuts
Burglar With
Perfect Drive
Returns Home to Find
Intruder and Goes
Into Action.

Henry Jordon is afraid he got too
much distance when he drove a col
ored proWler out of the door OF his
home at 1900 Ninth street last night
with a golf club.
Jordon, also colored. hit hard and
followed through when he found the
prowler intent on ransacking his
home. For all Jordon knows, the bur-
glar may still be travelling.
Jordon told police he found the
lock of his front door broken when he
arrived home He slipped through the
door, took heavy club from a bag
standing in the hallway and fell on
the intruder unaware. The burglar
went out the door without taking any
loot
A platinum ring set with three dia-
monds and wedding ring were stolen
from a home in the 3400 block of o
street while the owner Edith M.
Lapish, was away on vacation, she
told police last night. The rings were
valued at 1910.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
Farr Man is Hit
In Head by Brick
Louis Fan ThrelU
Kno,cs Ho,c to Sym.
pnthize With " elsh-
man Over Defeat.

Patrick O'Connor had a headache
today that made him wish he'd been
safe in Tommy Fairs shoes last night,
taking left jabs to the head, rather
than in Washington, listening to the
heavyweight championship fight on
the radio
O'Connor, who is 29 heard the bout
at Thirteenth and H streets northeast
and started toward his home, at 1859
Emerson street northeast.
In the 700 block of Thirteenth
street." he said, Il approached a
crowd of people celebrating the Louis
victory Suddenly brick hit me
on the head"
1t was thrown by an ecstatic col
ored person whom he could not
identify. Doctors at Casualty Hospital
put several stitches in his head.
With the feeling of one who knows
what it is to be underdog, O'Connor
claimed today that "Farr undoubtedly
should have got the decision"
Evening star., 1937-08-31
D. c. HEADS SET BACK
new TAX DEADLINE
Filing Date for Business Privilege
Levy Is Moved Back to
October |.

The deadline for filing the new
business privilege tax returns was ex-
tended today by the Commissioners
from September 16 to October l.
Extension had been recommended
by Corporation Counsel Ewood H.
Seal, 10 v. Morgan, his special as
sistant on taxes, and District Tax As
SCISSOR Fred D. Allen. They feared
there might be complications resulting
from delay in mailing out the return
forms a4d the adoption Of rules and
regulations governing the tax.
The Commissioners already had ex-
tended the payment deadline on it
and the real estate and tangible per-
sonal property tax to October 81.
Assessor Allen announced his Office
would be ready to mail out the rest
estate bills the last week in Septem-
Der and that the personal property
bills would be ready September IS.
BY formal order, the Commissioners
also fixed the tax rate for the current
fiscal year at SITS per 500 OF value
in compliance with the omnibus tax
act OF Congress.
The rate applies to real estate and
tangible personal property and Is
effective as Of July l last.
Evening star., 1937-08-31

difficulty is seen In carrying these
plans by Pope into completion.
Congress in its closing days de-
of s5O0,00O for starting work on the
s3,OOO,0O0 memorial, apparently on
the grounds that detailed modified
plans for the project were not avail
able. Congress did, however, ap-
propriate a small sum to enable the
Thomas jefferson Memorial Associa-
ton to carry on until the lawmakers
reconvene.
Modification Stage Unknown.
Just what stage the modified plans
had reached at .the time of Pope's
death officials of the Fine Arts Com
mission and the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission were
not advised today.
In view OF Pope's demise it is con-
sidered likely there will be a renewal
of the demand for q competition
among architects Of the country to
secure Thomas Jefferson Memorial
design that will more nearly express
modern America, rather than the
classical conventions Of Greece and
Rome.
A number of members Of Congress,
as we'll as architects and others, had
previously insisted that Pope already
was we'll represented in Washington
by several architectural works. such
as the Pharmaceutical Building. the
Archives Building and Constitution
Hall
Evening star., 1937-08-31
Cats Hunting Post Office Mice,
Cetting Fat Off Federal Funds

were given to take it out Of miscel-
laneous, and ever since then the post
Office pussies have been living of mis-
cellaneous-some Of them even getting
fat on 1t.
All post Offices don't have cats-only
first and second class Offices are au-
thorized to buy cat food out Of mis-
cellaneous, and some of these prefer
other methods.
They buy poison or hire human rat
exterminators.
There are 1885 hrst-class post Of
fees and 3,404 second class. That's
4,540 potential cats. Ofncials estimate
there are half that number living of
Uncle Sam.
Theirs is a pretty lush life.
Dogs aren't allowed to roam through
post ofnces and the only overtime
comes 1T Thanksgiving and Christ
mas, when people are mailing lot Of
food,
Evening star., 1937-08-31

Aunt Mary" Jones Sweet chariot"
has swung low over her solitary shack
and carried her home.
The bent little colored woman, who
died yesterday after living more years
than she could remember, was thrust
a few months ago from the obscurity
of a vast and destitute age into the
spotlight of municipal investigation.
She was helped from her shanty
Into an automobile and whirled to
police headquarters. There she was
taken to an upper room, where a
group of men sat mysteriously around
= table and other people filled the
small chamber.
She was asked to raise her right
hand and swear that what she said
was true. She nodded vigorously.
Course 1t was true.
She was asked how old sho was.
She was sorry-she didn't know.
MY mother never did tell me,
she added. Maybe she forgot"
But she could remember the Civil
War well, she> explatned-she WA
Evening star., 1937-08-31


streets. Moskowitz lived at 937 Ran
dolph street.
Anita Zimring, 10, of 908 Emerson
street, was seriously injured when she
was either struck or walked into the
side Of an automobile driven by Ira
Walton. 100 block of Corcoran street,
in the 1900 block of Georgia avenue
She was treated at Emergency Hos
pital for possible fractures of the neck
and skull
Albert Painter, so, of 1921 Calvert
street, and Paul Meaders, 80, of 25Ol
Calvert street. were slightly injured
when Capital Transit Co. bus over
turned at Thirty-eighth and Veasey
street following collision with an au-
tomobile operated by a hit-and-run
driver. They were treated for cuts
and bruises.
George Goldenhorn, 55, a passen-
ger in Walter Reed Hospital truck,
suffered possible arm fracture when
Evening star., 1937-08-31
JUSTIN MILLER SWORN
IN COURT OF APPEALS

Justin Miller took the oath of Office
yesterday afternoon as an associate
Justice of the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia.
He was a member of the Federal
Board of Tax Appeals.
Justice Miller succeeds the late As
sociate Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel.
The new member of the appellate
bench was sworn in before Chief JUS
tice George E. Martin and nearly
100 former associates. The oath was
administered by Moncure Burke,
clerk of the Court of Appeals. Miller,
. native OF Crescent City, Calf, was
appointed August %.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
SWANSON is BACK

Secretary Swanson came back to
his desk at the Navy Department to-
day following q two-month vacation
at the former presidential camp on
the Rapidan, near Shenandoah Ma
tional Park.
Bureau chiefs greeted the cabinet
officer.
Archibald Oden. secretary to Mr..
swanson, said that his chief A "look-
Ing and feeling hne."
Evening star., 1937-08-31
HONOR RETIRING CLERK

Charles Henry Schirmer. 71-year-
old clerk in the Accounts Division Of
the Department of Justice, was today
presented with q gladstone. bag by
fellow employees, H. ]. Mcclure, head
OF the division, oniciating, in recogni-
ton Of his retirement after Is years
service with the department.
He came to the department As q
telegrapher from the Santa Fe Rail-
road. His wife was presented With .
'cor9ARe
Evening star., 1937-08-31
SLAUGHTER HOUSE
TALK TOMORROW
D. c. and Federal Officials
May Have Difficulty Reach
ing Accord.

District apd Federal officials may
have difficulty reaching an agreement
tomorrow on some matters involved in
the 10 months controversy over
threatened slaughter house operations
in Washington.
In view of the conference with rep
resentatives of the Interior Depart
ment and Public Health Service, Com
missioner Melvin c. HaZen held a
lengthy council with a number OF his
aides yesterday. They discussed chief
ly the question of industrial waste
which has arisen in connection with
the Districts new sewage treatment
works.
Efforts to Reconcile Views.
District sanitary engineers are
known to be in partial disagreement,
at least, with a Public Health Service
report on sewage problems. Efforts
will be made at tomorrow's confer
ence to reconcile these points OF view.
The Public Health Service has con-
tended that industrial waste from the
proposed Gobel slaughter house would
be equivalent to the sewage for a
population of 100000 people That
estimate was based on the plans for
the Gobel plant which is now actu-
ally under construction.
A somewhat less drastic view has
been taken by District sanitary en-
gineers, although it was pointed out
that the expected overload Of waste
from the Gobel plant constitutes a
serious problem.
Ickes Fights Slaughter House.
Secretary Ickes, who advanced
funds from P. w. A. for the construc-
ton of the sewage works, has in
sisted that measures be taken for
It's protection. He has also urged
the Commissioners to use every legal
means at their disposal to prevent
operation of slaughter house In the
Benning area.
Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal
was in conference yesterday with
Commissioner Hazen. So also were
Capt. Patrick H. Tansey, Assistant
Engineer Commissioner; J. B. Cor
don, director of sanitary engineering
and half dozen others who have
been engaged in sanitary studies.
John r. Riggles, president Of the
Seabrook Citizens Association, Sea-
brook. Md, today advised the Com
missioners that residents of his COM
munity are in favor of establishment
Of the slaughter house.
Asks He Be Heard.
Giving the Commissioners "assur-
ances" that the slaughter house would
be benefit instead Of a menace to
the residents Of Washington, Riggles
asked that he be heard tomorrow.
Riggles left with the Commissioners
q statement which declared, 'Mr.
Ickes should know that the Benning
abattoir will not be nuisance, but.
If defeated, will give monopoly to
out-of-town meat packers forever"
Riggles argued that operation OF the
Gobel plant would make meat avail
able here cheaper and better in quality,
and help to relieve unemployment by
providing Jobs for about 500 men
and women.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
PASSENGERS HERE
UNDER OBSERVATION
Six From Liner Hansa Not Be-
ueved to Have Contracted
Typhoid Fever.

Heved to Have Contracted
Typhoid Fever.
Six persons who came to Washing
ton after they had disembarked Fri
day from the German liner Hansa, on
which 20 members of the crew were
suspected. Of having contracted ty-
phoid fever, have placed themselves
under the observation of the District
health oflicer as a precautionary
measure.
None Of the six was found to be suf-
fering from the fever but all were ad-
vised to obtain medical attention at
once at the first symptoms Of any ILL
ness. Four of the six were Washing
ton residents.
Health Onicer George c. Rutland
Saturday urged any and all passen-
gers from the Hansa coming here to
submit to an examination as a precau-
tionary step. Health of1ice experts do
not anticipate any Of the passengers
will be taken with the fever because
the passengers and the crew lived In
entirely separate sections Of the vessel
Evening star., 1937-08-31
By the Associated Press.

S1OCVSA@SSN .
Put this down as q catty story
but the Post Once Department has a
flock Of felines feeding OF Federal
funds.
Here's the situation:
Just as the corner drug store deals
in more goods than drugs, the Ma
tion's post offices handle a lot OF
things besides letters.
Cheese, for instance.
Years ago the department recog-
nized the rat and mouse menace
when . long-forgotten postmaster
wrote to . long forgotten ondcial ask
ing what to do about 1t.
Instructions from washington were
simply get = cat.
The postmaster got cat, as did
others, and then arose the problem Of
footing the food bill.
Since there was no-food- -for-Federsl-
cats item In the budget instructions
Evening star., 1937-08-31

Cne truck was IN
collision with an
automobile driv-
en-, police said, by
Melvin Gre e n
berg. II, of the
1900 block of Fiji
teenth street. at
K a n S a S avenue
and Fifth street,
He was treated
at Eme rg e n c y
Hospital.
Anis Aver, First
Seer e t ary and
Charge d'Afaires
of the Egyptian
LEGATION, ESCAPED
Evening star., 1937-08-31

y 1LENcE and darkness are threads
of eternity.
In a three-story, stucco-cov-
- cred house with pleasant
garden at $50 Rhode Island avenue
northeast all the lights go out and
all voices cease A score of men
have betaken themselves out Of the
pattern of time into the pattern of
everlastingness.
None will speak until the prayers
at sunrise. This is the monastery
of the discalced Carmelites. Now
starts the nine-hour prayer Of silence
which is the language Of the eternal.
1t expresses subtler, deeper thoughts
than words.
4 X +
What a mystery of time Is within
these walls!
About 2,70O years ago-so the
brown-robed, barefooted monk ex-
plained-a holy man, named Elias
dwelt in a cave and set up an altar
on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land.
He was a Christian 800 years before
Christ.
Disciples gathered around him.
From these disciples there is an un-
broken line to this little flock OF
men who keep silence all the night
hours here in Washington.
Elias never died, says the monk.
He Is alive on earth somewhere
"enwrapped In ecstacy."
Twenty-seven hundred years ago
they kept this silence. Then it was
disturbed by the bowling Of the wolves
among the rocks on Mount Carmel.
Now it is disturbed by footing OF auto
horns ON Rhode Island avenue.
Both alike are froth on the ever
lasting silence. e.
At the Weather Bureau the man
with about the most responsible job
in Washington issues his forecast fol
48 DEMONSTRATING at am. the
next morning.
Charles L. Mitchell pores over charts
and kilograms from all over the United
States. It depends so much on what
is happening miles in the air above
Fargo, N. OAK, whether it will be
safe to make airplane reservations
from Washington to New York two
days hence. 1t depends so much
on what breaks exist in the rim o1
the Arctic Circle for the cold air t
get through at Fort Churchill or
Hudson Bay. 1t depends 50 mucl
on what is happening southwest o.
Iceland and north Of Bermuda.
He waits until the last possible
moment. The whole picture ma.
change suddenly. At about $40 b.
| can wait no longer.
Evening star., 1937-08-31

A / | a n I ! c Clty
skidded from the
highway n e a r
Penns Grove, N.
j., and crashed
into a pole.
The automobile,
occupied by Mos
koWitZ, his wife
and a party of
friends, was driv-
en- by Alexander
Tempchin, 40, Of
1927 U ps h u r
street, who op-
.,rates a gift shop
= AY1~AI. "
Evening star., 1937-08-31
HORSE DAMAGES CARS
Milk-Wagon steed Bolts Down
Street. Scattering Bottles.

SCTeeC, 6CHIIeIIHB 0V1t1es5'
Frightened by a passing truck,
milk-wagon horse bolted down the
1900 block of Twenty-flrst street early
yesterday at a gallop. scattering Pc
destrians, flinging milk bottles about
and Dumping three parked automo-
biles before his driver, Fred Williams
of 1928 K street, could bring him to
a halt.
Police estimated damages to the
cars at $25. George, the horse. was
unhurt. Williams, also uninjured,
said he thought George must be de-
scended from long line Of fire horses.
George wouldn't talk.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
SAUL M0SK0W|Tz
KILLED IN CRASH
Antique Dealer, 80, Dies
After Auto Skids Into Pole
in New Jersey.

Saul Moskowitz, 39year-old Wash
ington antique dealer, was killed yes
terday when the automobile in which
he was returning from a vacation at
Evening star., 1937-08-31
'A,782 Whales Caught.

Norway has just announced that
Norwegian whalers caught 44,7S2
whales in the 1856 season, thus es-
tablishing q new high record.
Evening star., 1937-08-31

BY the Army Band in Walter Reed
Hospital at $50 o'clock tonight. Capt
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
Evening star., 1937-08-31
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the Soldiers Home Band in the
band stand at $50 o'clock tonight.
John S. NJ Zimmerman, bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Adjustn1ent Needed

Another grace: Despite
plenty of operating cash on hand,
many guards must cover" several
buildings nightly, and despite ap-
preparations for the purpose, they
are not given carfare :. Women
elevator operators are given uni
forms, but guards Except one
ranking officer in each unit must
"cover" their beats in the most
vicious weather without the rub
Der coat or warm pea coat" which
the ranking officer is allowed {.
With numerous fat pay political
appointments available at Interior
for those ION the inside" it is won
dered why Secretary Ickes doesn't
take steps in worthy cause.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
HouU to Win a Ticket
Gopernme1lt en1pLoues inc.

Government employees find
ing (CAP) after their names
or "pen names" are tnOtted
to call for tDo passes to
Locus Capitol TheGter. noW
shouting Shirley Temple IN
Heidi" Those tabled (PAL)
are entitled to a pair of
ducGts to the Palace ShoD-
ing Ronald COLIN in
"The Prisoner of ZendG."
and those Dith (COL) may
call for tho Columbia tickets
to see Joan CRAWFORD in
"The Bride Wore Red"
Tickets are awarded for the
best "neDS tips" about Coz.
eminent conditions, Which
should carry a nom de
plume" or pen name" il
they are of the "touchy.
vdrtety" irritating to Off.
cialS. Tickets are also
awarded for short "Signed
articles" containing employe
neDS and gossip, and some
times they appear beside
someone's name just as q
good ,DiU gesture from The
Times.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01


ceiving his legal training at Column
bian University, which you young
fledglings are now accustomed to
call G. w. U. He spent 80
years in junior grades, eight as
trial attorney, and for the past
two decades has been chief law
officer for Tariff Commission
Previous experience included work
with Treasury and Justice .. He
regarded Government work as
career and Stunned offers to enter
private practice, and is credited
with having consolidated records
giving in detail the history of
every die, roll, plate or other en-
craving work done by Bureau Of
Engraving Also many other
suggestions in procedure adopted
by the Government.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Interior Hikers

Interior workers who recently
hiked to Chopawampsic Recrea-
tional Demonstration Area, Vir-
ginia, under leadership of Matt
Huppuck, Ian Forbes and James
Kelley:
Mr.. and Mrs. Julia Solomon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Berrall, Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Shapiro, Miss
Fannie Rubin, William Hill, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hughes, Mrs. Nettie R.
Niehaus, Marjorie Murphy, Laura
M. Dixon. Merel Sager, C. E.
Bandy, William B. Roeca, AIDE.
laide Walton, Bertha K. DeLucia,
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Support Red Cross

Last minute item from Julia A.
Doster, reports that 1912 en-
ployes of Interior contributed over
$4,000 to the Red Cross. Reports
at hand reveal that among those
Who were most interested in the
campaign were Assistant Secre-
tary Walters, Red Cross chairman
for Interior; Miss Doster. Miss
Sours, DR.. M n d en- h a ii, Miss
Brown, Miss Calem, Miss Waller,
Miss Broderick, Miss Kraft, Miss
Barber and MessrS. Klinefelder
and F'ortich.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01

Uncle Sam .
A B al m ore
N a n, McNabb
S u d d e n ly de-
cided he wished
to quit, t h u S
astounding Tar
if folk who
had looked up
to him as the
dean of their
force . AL
though Origl-
nally a citizen
of the Oriole
City, McNabb
was educated in
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Way Out West

Henry Rhine, UFWA's chief Or
ganizer, spent early October in
Los Angeles, finding time to pre-
sent a charter to the new Local
No. 16 that Sprang up among
Hole workers after Age had
decided a surgical operation was
its best course.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
China Folk to Skip

North Carolina Democratic Club
throws" its Harvest BALI No
vember 5 at the Raleigh, Treasurer
Marion C. Sedberry (PAD dis
closes All colored revue and
Happy Walkers rhythym group
will bulwark the evenings fun
Membership and guest tickets
available at clubs office in the
Raleigh, or at the door on the fate.
full night.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01

hair . . The
men around the
place, however,
poin t to his
startling ability
at playing soft
b a ii, W hic h
caused him to
star nightly in
t h e A r A S
league during
the past sum-
mer ShankS
is from Ogden,
Utah, and has
been in Wash
ington with Ag-
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Credit Where Due

Improvements in conditions at
Engraving and Printing, reported
in this column, are largely due to
Treasury Local, .UFWA, which
picked up 20 new members re-
Gently in it's current member
drive.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
AgOny's Now OUer

One year ago today: AAA en-
ployeS were glumly reading a
notice of decentralization, pre-
dieting drastic decrease in Wash
ington personnel.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01

for the past five years Outside
of softball his favorite sport is
photography, and while he is at
present a clerk with Central Sup
ply Section he has ambitions to
become a designing craftsman.
News tip prize today: M. ]. S.
(PAL).
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Clan to Gather

John T. Chichester (COL) an
nounces first fall meeting of Gen.
trail Council, United Civil Service
Employees, today Set for 8 p.
m. in first floor of McGill Build
ing, 908-914 F. st. N. w. Affair
is open to public, later ones may
not be E. Claude Babcock will
discuss Ramspeck retirement bill,
and status of the retirement fund,
touching on whether employees
contributions should be increased
Dab" will also discuss pend
ing Federal reorganization and its
probable effects on Civil Service
personnel Good Government,
UCSE magazine, will be distrib-
uted.
News tip award: K. H. Smith
(COD.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01

By J. EARLE MosER

Interior Department has issued 200 words embodied in
official press release in which pointed out that
than 100 fires in Government buildings squeched during
the first eight months of this year by the guard
force comprising about 24O0 Much made the fact
that Uncle Sam lost less than $500 in all the fires
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Tending to Knitting
Hines Biographical

Veterans Administrator Hines
is biographed in this weeks issue
of THE Government Standard"
. James Burns, new president
of AFGE Veterans Administration
Lodge, entered the service in 1919
as a stenographer, and now is a
member of D. C. bar Jerome
Henry and M. L. Nichols, Agricul-
ture, are authors of a bulletin in
Structing how to avoid erosion on
Sloping farm lands.
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
McNdbb Retires

Tariff Commission today loses
Charles E. McNabb, general coun-
sci. after So years of service for
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Curly-Haired Athlete

To some of Agriculture's girls
the outstanding feature regarding
Lyle B. ShankS (COL) is his curly
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Get the Minimum

Interior officials say guards may
have raises, but their salaries must
not, under the law, exceed the
average of the grade. SO what?
A survey of guards salaries shows
the great majority receiving ST.
200-the minimum for the grade
and the average not approached
=. This is the compensation re-
ceived by men who almost with
out exception risked their lives
to defend a Democracy under
which officials are appointed to
administer conditions under which
such men must work
The Washington times., 1937-11-01
Labor Group Squawks

Secretary Perkins is the latest
agency mogul to be hit by the
union discrimination" brick {.
Labor Local IL, UFWA, is demand
ing arbitration in the case of a
dismissed member.
News tip prize today: Inquirer"
(CAP),