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Evening star., 1937-08-15
WOMAN PRISONER
FLEES, BUT is CAUGHT
Falls Off Rear of Train Into
Arms Of Feminine
Deputy.

MIAMI, Fla, August 14.-An alert
woman deputy recaptued Mrs. Ethel
NJ. stager, being returned from De-
troit, Mich, to face a $4,000 embez-
Element charge, after the prisoner es-
capped today through a shattered train
window
The deputy, Miss Ruth Gaskin. said
the 32-year-old former bus company
cashier went to rest room when the
train paused at suburban station,
broke window ard leaped to the
ground.
Miss Gaskin said she jumped of
on the other side and dashed to the
rear of the train. where the escaping
prisoner fell into her arms.
An attorney sought Mrs. Stagers
release on $4,000 bond after the
woman, suffering from minor cuts.
was placed In Jail here.
A warrant charged her with en-
oeszlement from the company for
which she worked.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
WOMAN, 70, EVICTED
FOR H. 0. |. C. DEBT
But Carolinian Guards Old Books
and Antiques Against Action
in $500 Loan.
e, the Associated Press,


RALEIGH, N. c. August i4-M7ss
Annie Lewis, 10. formerly an usher In
the old State Museum here. sa+ In h.-
former home today, guarding old books
and antique furniture against evictors,
Most Of her possessions were already
stacked on the sidewalk.
Miss Lewis, who has lived a. -
Maiden lane, near North Carolina
State College, since 1925. received a
$500 home owners loan from the
Federal Government three wears a2o.
but, she said. she could not make a
payment until last year.
She was evicted yesterday in rainy
weather. from the place, which has
no steam heat or hot water Rental
from three apartments there. she said
was her sole income
Neighbors intervened. Temporarily
succeeding in having the book collec
ton kept inside
Those nearby kept porch lights on
last night, and some remained awake
to watch the pile Of belongings in the
street.
Il put every cent I had into thi,
place, and now they're going TO take
1t away from me" she said sh.
keeps dozen cats, one named Charles
Augustus LIndbereh.
The Wake County Welfare Depart
ment is investigating the case.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
MANS LUCK CHANGES
BECAUSE OF ARREST
By the Assoeia ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August l4.-The luck
Of Lawrence Byrne, IS, changed to-
day, and all because Of being arrested.
Penniless, Byrne was arrested for
vagrancy last Wednesday in the
Bronx after residents had complained
Of loiterers He told Magistrate Mi
chael Pord he had been an Army
captain overseas in the war. a former
chief Of police OF Minot, N Oak. that
he had been an accomplished court
stenographer. was unemployed through
no fault Of his own, and that he had
wife and six children in Port Huron,
Mich
Magistrate Ford, impressed, gave
him a dollar for cigarettes and re-
manded him for investigation Of his
story. Today police verified Byrnes
story and Samuel Lefkowitz an at
torney. gave Byrne job. The Judge
dismissed the charge, saying:
i know you want to come back
A man may be down, but never out
Evening star., 1937-08-15
DEWEY WILL RUN
ON c. 0.P. TICKET.
Declares War on Tammany
in Entering District At
torney's Race.
BACKGROUND-

BACKGROUND
NetD York City's primaries battle
has been preluded by many un-
erpected last-minute changes Flor
clio H. La Gudrdid, Fusion Mayor,
seeks reelection. Senator Copeland
1Dds chosen as candidate OF anti
Ne,D Deal Tamnlany faction after
weeks OF touch-and 90 maneuDer-
ing. His opponent in Democratic
primary, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Das
substituted suddenly for ddpper
Groper Whdlen as designee OF pro-
Ne1D Deal Tammdny faction.
BY the Associa ted Press.
NEW YORK, August 14.-Charging
AN alliance OF long standing between
crime and certain elements Of Tam
many Hail." Special Rackets Prose
cutor Thomas E. Dewey tonight an
nounced he would accept the Repub-
lican designation for New York Coun-
ty district attorney in the forthcom-
ing city election.
His decision to join the ticket head
ed by Mayor F. H. La Guardia came
after weeks OF pressure from Fusion
Republican circles. climaXed by the
last-minute withdrawal last night OF
Irving Ben Cooper, previous Repub-
lican entry for the district attorneys
Office.
In his dramatic eleventh-hour an
nouncement. Dewey, successful prose-
cutor of big-t time racketeers. said he
was convinced that his twoyear drive
on organized crime as special deputy
district attorney could best be pur-
sued by "a completely reorganlzed and
effective district attorneys office"
Declares War on Tammany.
Gas a result OF the work OF investi-
cation" Dewey said in formal state
ment, "it has become clear to me that
there is an alliance Of long standing
between crime and certain elements of
Tammany Hall.
For 20 years Tammany Hall has
controlled prosecution in this county
and for 20 years the power of the
criminal underworld has grown. This
alliance must be broken.
L am happy to enter the struggle
for good government at the side of
Mayor La Guardia. whose whole
hearted support and encouragement
in the work I have been conducting
has always been OF the greatest i'm
portance"
Dewey, who previously had planned
to retire to private practice after COM
pleting his racket-smashine campaign,
said he decided to seek the district
attorneyship as the result Of colossal
pressure"
Copeland in Two Primaries.
The present district attorney IL
William c. Dodge. whom Tammany
Hall, the Manhattan Democratic or
Ranl1ation. refused to back for re-
election and whose chief assistant
Harold w Hastings. is the running
mate OF Senator Royal S. Copeland
Tammany's anti-New Deal mayoralty
designee.
Copeland will run in the Repub-
lican primary as well as the Demo-
cratic. La Guardia. while he has not
declined the Republican designation,
has not indicated he would make A
vigorous nght for the nomination. al
ready having substantial independent
and labor support.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
MAN CONFESSES
Staying OF GIRL, 4
W. P. A. House Painter
Withstands 24-Hour Quiz,
but Finally Breaks.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, August 14.-Detective
r. J. Hanlon Of St. George, Staten
Island precinct, said tonight that "A
hours Of ceaseless questioning had
forced from Samuel Elmore, 3e-year-
old w. P A, house painter, con-
fession to the attack Staying q 4
year-old Joan kuleba in Staten Is
land Thursday.
1t was Elmore who reported finding
the nude body of the blond cnild,
straneled, and ravished, in the relsr
of rickety, deserted beach shack.
She was the fourth victim of sex
crime here in five months.
Hanlon said that Elmores confess
sion was taken in the presence of
Inspector John A. Lyons. assista Mt
chief of detectives. and District At
torney Prank 1nnes OF Richmond
County.
During full night and day of ex-
animation, Elmore reiterated time
and again his denial of having seen
the child before he passed the shack
on his way fishing Friday morning
The latest child Staying was blamed
in part for a fathers killing of his
three young daughters and his suicide
in Island Park, Long Island, last
night.
Friends said the man. Michael Hor-
bacheWski, a Russian gardener, sp-
peared upset as he came home from
Work last night carrying newspapers
with accounts of the Kubela case.
Aftec quitely eating supper with the
children, aged and 2i2 years and IL
months, and his 23-year- old wife, Hor-
bacheWski bought the little girls ice
cream, put them to bed, shot them,
and slashed his throat.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
HUNT FOR SHARKS

BAYSHORE, N. Y, August IA
PD.-There was q shark hunt on
today in the canals and bays Of this
Long Island town.
Hunters with rifles stalked several
sharks believed to have entered Great
South Bay and its inland estuaries
through Fire Island Inlet at high tide.
William Hosmanns, boatman,
claimed to have drawn first blood with
rifle Patrolman Edward Weckerle
of Lindenhurst reported getting shot
with his service revolver, but both
sharks got away.
Evening star., 1937-08-15

The morning he arrived the local
weekly printed front page cartoon
of an itinerant peddler calling on the
local housewife, in the form Of a wolf
at the door.
Buying himself paper, he began
ringing doorbells. When the good
lady came to the door he smiled, held
up the picture Of the wolf, and said
grufdy:
I'm 4 wolff"
Made . lot Of sales, 700.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
1000 ON RIVER BOAT
LODGED ON SANDBAR
President Aground Near st. Louis.
Dancing Passengers May
Spend Night There.

By the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, August 1.-THE river
steamer President was lodged on A
sandbar in the Mississippi River north
OF here tonight with 1900 passengers
on board
The $l,000,000 excursion boat struck
the sandbar about 5 pm, and efforts
OF two large tugboats to dislodge 1t
had failed six hours later.
The passengers merrily danced
dined and watched the fruitless efforts
Of the vorkmen.
1t was said many Of those aboard
probably would have to spend the
night on the boat, because there were
not sumcient craft available to take
them aShoee.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
BERLIN, 700 YEARS OLD,
OPENS FESTIVAL TODAY
Thousands Of Visitors Pour Into
City-Pageants and Parades
Slated Daily.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 14-Elaborate
street decorations and bulky special
editions Of newspapers reminded resi-
dents of the Reich's capital today
that Berlin will be seven centuries old
tomorrow.
Thousands of visitors, many OF them
brought by the power through Joy"
organization Qabor front recreational
branch), arrived in the city for the
"seven-day festival organized by DR..
Joseph Goebbels, minister OF propa-
ganda.
Parades and pageants-for which
more than 1000 uniforms and cos
TUNES have been made-will be staged
each day.
The pageants will depict medieval
warfare and the burning of Berlin,
the march into the World War and
Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
BLASTS
ARE LAID TO UNION
Goodyear Accuses United
Rubber Workers in Reply
to Complaint.
BY the Associated Press.

~ tiic nShotialeu FTSSb.
GADSDEN, Ala, August l4.-The
Goodyear Tire e. Rubber Co. OF Ala
bama charged the United Rubber
Works. OF America today with Co
ercion, intimidation and terrorism" In
a membership campaign.
Shootings, dynamitings and threats
OF personal violence" we're listed by the
company as among the methods used
by the United Rubber Workers, mem
bers or associates" to urge employees
into the union
The company made the accusations
In answer to 4 union complaint set
by the National Labor Relations Board
for hearing next Thursday in Gads-
den, the site OF the Alabama plant.
The answer denied the company
had Disseminated against the union
or It's members "in any manner or
form"
Attorney o. r. Hood said the an
sWer, signed by Supt. A. c. Michaels,
was dispatched by registered mail
Friday to Regional Director Charles
N. Fedelson of tine N L. r. B. in
Atlanta
Fiedelson's Office said 1t had not
been received
Labor Complaint Cited.
The regional director announced
previously the complaint charged the
company had sponsored 4 series OF
acts OF terrorism directed not only
at the United Rubber Workers but at
members OF other labor unions"
This the Goodyear Co. described as
absolutely untrue and without any
foundation OF fact"
Continuing, the answer charged
ANY such acts of terrorism" which
may have occurred at Gadsden were
melted, promoted. encouraged or
caused by the United Rubber Work.
ers Of America, its members or per-
sons associated with them"
The company averred on "informa-
ton and belief" that the United Rub
Der Workers, members or associates
pursued the policy of:
"l Coercing employees - to
! join = by various and sundrv meth
ods such as spy threats of shutting
down or closing respondents Good
years. manufacturing plant, by
threats Of personal violence and of
causing employees to be discharged or
lose their jobs,
| Night Parading Charged.
| "t2) Paradlng in automobiles at
late hours Of the night by the homes
OF respondents employees, accompanied
by great noise and frequently by
shooting, and especially by parading
| by the homes Of those employees who
were at respondents manufacturing
| plant working, thereby frightening
and intimidatlng their families;
"t3l Shooting into the homes or
boarding places of employees who did
not belong to the United Rubber Work
ers Of America;
go BY shooting at such employees
as they passed along the street, or other
ways, in their automobiles,
"t5) BY going to the homes or
boarding places OF such employees and
threatening them or members of their
families with personal fights and en-
counters:
"6) BY purchasing and transport
ing in their automobiles dynamite and
dynamite cartridges for the purpose OF
frightening, terrifying and intimidat-
ing employees or members of their
families, or OF blowing up cars in
which such employees were riding or of
blowing up their homes. and
90 BY various and sundry other
acts Of coercion. intimidation and ter
| rorlsm. all Of which continued re-
peatedly in and around respondents
| plant in Gadsden and along the public
highways"
Evening star., 1937-08-15
RAISES IN OIL WAGES
RUINOUS, FIRMS SAY
Heads Of Three Companies Called
to New York for Emer-
gency Parleys.

By the Associated Press
MEXICO CITY, August l4-Meyi-
can oil companies reiterated TODAY
that acceptance OF an arbitration
boards findings with regard to wage
increases and BENEFITS to oil workers
would necessitate abandonment Of op-
erations.
Heads Of three of the biggest COM
panies-L. L. Anderson of Huasteca,
G.. A. Steel of Pierce Sinclair and B.
T. w. Van Hasselt of Aguila-vere
called to New York for emergency
conferences on what action the indus
try would take in Mexico.
A three-man board of experts acting
as an arbitration board had awarded
wage increases and benefits to work.
ers which would cost the compan nies an
estimated s7,2oo,ooo yearly.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
SEPTEMBER RULING DUE
IMP. w. A. POWER CASE
Federal Judge Predicts Decision
Next Month in Santee-
Cooper Dispute.

By the Associated Press.
ROCK HILL, S. c., August IA
Federal Judge j. Lyles Glenn said
today his opinion in the Santee-
Cooper P. w. A. power project case
would be handed down sometime in
September" at Charleston.
Attorneys said an appeal to higher
courts was certain.
The South Carolina Power Co.,
Charleston; the Carolina Power IL
Light Co., Raleigh, and the South
Carolina Electric 6z Gas Co., Colum-
bia, were plaintiffs in the suit, seeking
a permanent injunction against the
s37,500,o0o project.
Trial Of the case. before Judge
Glenn at Columbia, was the longest
civil trial Of recent years, running
eight weeks.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
MAN HUNTED BY POSSE
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
Discharged Janitor at School That
Burned Was Being Sought
for Questioning.

By the Associa ted Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, August IA
Sheriff Carroll Cate said Charles Lett,
48, sought by posse for two days for
questioning about the burning of Gibbs
High School, shot himself to death
today when surrounded near here.
The sheriff said his men located
Lett near an ole sawmill AS they
closed in, they heard a gunshot and
found Lett dead from wound near
the heart.
Gibbs High School. two-story brick
structure northeast Of Knoxville,
burned to the ground Wednesday
night.
Sheriff Cate said Lett was discharged
~ janitor Of the school about
year ago.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
KIDNAPERS SIGNALED
White Flag in Paris Window Saws
Ransom Is Ready.

PARIS, August IA (P).-Miss Ida
sackheim placed a white flag in the
window of her hotel room today as a
signal to the suspected abductors Of
her niece, the 22-year-old American
dancer, Jean De Koven, that she was
ready to pay their ransom demand
She displayed the flag on the sug-
gestion Of police, who have been in
vestigating the three -week-old disap-
pearance Of the Brooklyn, NJ Y, girl.
There was no indica ton that Miss
Sackheim had established any con-
tact with the supposed kidnapers She
has received several notes demanding
$500 for the return of Miss De Koven.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
Hurt Ship Officer Taken Of.

NEW YORK, August IA (P).-The
Coast Guard cutter Argo radioed late
today she had taken X. Diehart,
fourth mate Of the steamship Labette,
OH that vessel after he was seriously
injured, and would land him at Bos-
ton.
The Labette, en- route from Hous-
ton, Tex, to Boston, radioed for as
distance while of the tip Of Long
Island. A Coast Guard plane was
sent to take the injured man to shore,
but was unable TO land because Of
rough water.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
UTILITY T0BU|LD
IN I. VAS AREA
Tennessee Power Company
Given Permit by State
Commission.
By the Associated Press.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. August IA
Tennessee's Public Utilities Commits
sion announced tonight 1t had decided
to let the Tennessee Electric Power
Co., over the protest OF T. V. A. pro-
tagonists. build a S20oo,000 steam
generating plant here in an area all
but encircled by T. v. AS HYDRO
electric lines.
The decision was by 2-to-l vote,
Commissioner Leon Jourolmon. ir.,
writing dissenting opinion opposing
the proposed construction as uneco-
non1lc, inprudent and sure to result
In higher electric rates than II the
company purchased power from the
T. V. A.
Chairman Porter Dunlap and w. H.
Turner, the other commissioner,
signed the majority opinion holding
that electricity can be produced
cheaper at the steam plant than by
buying it under proposed purchase
contract with the T. V. A.
Opinions on Cost Clash.
The two opinions clashed sharply
over comparative costs under the three
proposals under construction-steam
generation. purchase of power deliv-
cred here by the T. V. A. and purchase
from the T. V. A. at Columbia, ap-
proximately so miles away.
Jourolmon said the total outlay for
generating $4,000 kiloWstts at the steam
plant would be $4,000 annually. The
T. Y. A.. he continued, would sell a
like amount and deliver 1t here for
s4l5,758. or at an approximate 1924
saving.
II purchased at Columbia and
brought here over the companys own
lines, Jourolmon contended, the same
volume OF power would cost s425.oo2,
or sl2, 2,e08 less than If steam gener-
ated.
Against this. the ma ioritv opinion
cited testimony of five witnesses, only
one OF whom. Turner and Dunlap said,
figured purchased power to cost less
than steam generated.
The two opinions agreed on only
one maj tor point-the desirability Of a
T. V. A.-Tepco contract-and the
majority said this is not feasible now
because the commission finds that
the cost is less to the Tennessee Eec-
tric Power Co. 10 build a steam plant
10 produce power than to purchase
power at the rate proposed
Cites Power Available.
There is evidence in the record
and the commission also takes Judi
clal knowledge of the fact that there
exists and is available In Tennes-
zee an enormous amount OF power
generated by tho Tennessee Valley
Authority" Dunlap and Turner said
They added. however:
But it does not appear from the
Record that the rates at which the
power is to be sold to the Tennessee
Electric Power Co. will result in any
advantage to the customers OF the
Tennessee Electric Power Co., 10 the
general public or to said company,
since the company, according TO the
overwhelming testimony OF all wit
nesses, can generate power cheaper
than 1t can purchase it under any
rate proposed"
Jouroln1on contended that the
record clearly and finally shows" that
the utility can save by buying T. v. A.
energy.
He said the utility had made no
genuine e1ort" to obtain T. v. A..
power and had terminated the ne
EQUATIONS arbitrarily in an early stage.
at time when there was every
prospect that 1t might obtain even
lower rates than those already Of
3ered by the Authority"
Evening star., 1937-08-15
STRIKE FOR LUNCH TIME
Employees Tire of Lever in One
Hand, Sandwich in Other"

VENICE, Ill, August IA LP,.-Be-
cause l3 OF their fellow workers got
tired OF eating lunch with a lever
in one hand and sandwich in the
other" l25 employees of tie Barber
Co., Inc, roofing plant were on strike
today.
The company said r. T. Boaz. pres
ident of c. l. o. union represent
ing the men, found it too costly" to
stop and restart the machine the
group operated. The remaining en-
ployes, who are allowed lunch time,
joined the strike in sympathy.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
Fish to Speak in Forum
TO DISCUSS LIBERALIZATION OF THE G. OP

OT ORGANIZATION and Lib
X eralization Of the Repub-
i \ lican Party" will be dis
cussed by Representative
Hamilton Fish of New York when he
speaks in the National Radio Forum
at $50 pm. tomorrow. The forum is
arranged by The Washington Star and
broadcast over a coast-to-coast net
work of the National Broadcasting Co..
being heard locally through Station
WMAL.
Fish, who began his political career
in the New York Assembly in 1914 as
progressive follower Of Theodore
Roosevelt, has some well-deflned ideas
as to how to revitalize the G. D. p.
The tall, vigorous, outspoken New
Yorker believes the Republican party
should take a stand against what he
terms the radicalism Of the New Deal
by uniting liberals and conservatives.
He also has taken Z stand against what
he calh reactionary policies Of control
Of The party.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SALES TALK.

A BUSINESS man telephoned one
n Of Washington's sales book
~ salesmen the other day, asking
4 a the latter TO call with his sam
piles. The S. b. S. had sold him goods
before and knew by bitter experience
that he likely would receive only 4
81 or $3 order after making a trip
across town and spending three or four
hours In exhortation.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
C. c. C. CAMP STORES
OPPOSE LUXURY TAX
U. S. Government Named as Peti-
tioners in Seeking Injunction
Against State.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA. S. c., August IA
complaint seeking to halt collection
Of the South Carolina luxury" tax
on goods sold in camp company
stores in Civilian Conservation Corps
was served today on members Of the
State Tax Commission.
The complaint contended the C.
c. C. stores were owned and operated
by the Federal Government and there
fore We're not subject to taxation.
The United States Government was
named as petitioners in the action
which asked an injunction against
Walter G. Query, John P. Derham
and John G.. Richards to prevent their
collecting the tax.
Claude K. Wingate, general counsel
for the tax commission, said the
commissions contention was that the
stores were not operated by the Gov
ernment and therefore were not
exempt from the tax.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
BISHOP HITS COUNCIL
World Alliance Of Churches Might
Aid War, He Thinks.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, August IA
R).-The Bishop of Gloucester today
bitterly criticized proposal for a
world council OF churches.
He told the World Conference Of
Faith and Order that such . coun-
Gil might lead to considerable fric-
ton" between nations and be cause,
rather than prevention, Of war.
The proposal had been made earlier
in the conference. DR.. John r. Mott
Of New York said It was the most
strategic plan In the conference re-
port.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
BOO!!

GEORGE BRADNER, manager Of
the Washington sales ONCE OF
national hosiery company, says that
when he was canvasser on country
crew he and his crew landed In a
Kentucky mountain town which was
having \ buy from your local mer-
chant" campaign,
Evening star., 1937-08-15
ETCHING.

Bob Phillips Of the State Depart
ment Tas looking ouer some Of the
Nork done by artists on the Federal
project recently and discovered, to
his delight, that one Seth HOFFMAN
had made an etching OF certain
historical building on the Boston
Post road in Yorkers, N. Y. The
special reason uhy Bob uas so
thrilled mds that this building mus
constructed By one OF his ancestors.
Frederick Phihpse, Hollnnder,
1rho came to the United States
NTH Peter StuyDesant in 1647. Bob
isn't eractly sure Just nhdt relation
Frederick, first lord OF the manor
that 1Dds his real, sure enough
titlel pds to him, but he uas
direct 0reat-oreat-oreat OF some
kind. Also history repeols that
Frederick mas Tory, uho favored
the English IN the Revolution, 30
after the ,rdr mds oter he LETT this
country more or less under a cloud,
nent to England to hpe and died
there.
Evening star., 1937-08-15
DOUBLE CHECK.

One OF the boys those high
pressure tire sdlesmen enlploy to
check tires mds porkirg through
the colored district the other day.
Came to high -pouered limousine
outside one OF the colored hot
spots and started checking Became
aWdre OF an ominous, dark circle
OF faces about him.
What 10 doin, boy?"
'N-n-n-rothing"
Cit"
Boys Working in Cheuy Chase
no,D