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Evening star., 1937-01-08
2 PLEAD GUILTY
TO THEFT CHARGE
Third Member of Boots
and Spurs Gang" Denies
Participation.

Two members Of the so-called boots
and spurs gang" pleaded guilty this
morning in District Court before JUS
tice James M. Proctor to a charge OF
robbing Michael Armaly. storekeeper,
of 1909 T street, November 20. A
third alleged member of the gang,
Jack Joseph Kurz. l9. denied guilt.
Those who entered pleas of guilty
were William Nelson Beck, 81, and
Paul Leon Burger, 18.
Armaly reported to police that Kurz
and Beck entered his market about
$50 am. and, at pistol point, took
1852. Burger allegedly waited in the
car outside the store.
In addition to the robbery of Armaly.
the three youths also have been linked
with series of other crimes. including
the abduction of Fort Myer sentry
last November and the theft of his
automatic, ammunition and spurs.
At police headquarters lineup
about q month ago, the three were
identified by a number of their alleged
victims, among them three couples
who were robbed in parked cars cn
lonely roads.
Police co-operated a month ago
today to allow Kurz to be married i'll
church to an 18-year-old Edmonston,
Nd, girl.
Evening star., 1937-01-08

to Wednesday night" the p. w. A.
and I have seen in five months. We
can't 60 out at night because of the
baby. We have no friends here and no
money to hire somebody to stay with
Franklin. jr.
I'VE thought junior would be all
right il we left him in the car. We
bundled him in his blanket, pinned
the blankets down and locked the
door of the car. My wife went out
to him at his regular feeding time
with his bottle.
I'VE would have taken him in the
show with us, but we thought they
wouldn't let us inside with a baby.
We take him everywhere We go.
They even said our baby was under
nourished! Maybe We don't have all
We want TO eat ourselves. but the baby
gets plenty" The father strode to
his pantry, corner closet draped with
bit Of calico. He threw back the
curtain.
Look at this" he said, holding up
bottle of cod-liver oil, land this
and this!" Moore produced a tin
containing carrots, another oat meal
and bottle full Of milk. Does this
look like we're starving our son?"
Just as soon as my wife and I can
get a sandwich we're going out to
Gallinger Hospital and get our baby
back. He's our first and only, and
we've never been without him before.
Maybe people will say we were care
less to leave our child in an automo-
bile. but wait until they have been
in our position and they won't be so
harsh in their judgments.
Maybe We shouldn't have left him
| alone even for a minute. We don't
know all there is to know about raising
babies. I'm sure, though, that it
wasn't very cold Wednesday night,
and the child couldn't have been as
chilly as they said he was"
Mr.. and Mrs. Moore went to Gall
linger Hospital last night to ask for
their son. But the hospital attend
ants had orders to keep the child
pending a disposition Of the case by
District authorities. They turned the
parents away.
Father Becomes Anxious.
While Moore talked at his home
last night his wife leaned against the
crib and shivered. She kept clutch
ing her threadbare coat closer to her
slight body. Moore at length ex-
hausted his indignation and became
anxious.
do you think they'll fire me from
my P. w. A. job because of this scam
dial? Because Of the way I've been
held up to the public as a cruel faith
er? I've got good record there. To-
day is the first day I've missed in the
year I've been working for the P. w. A.
And they say we're cruel
wait until they know the humilia-
tion and torture we've been through
this last day. then they'll be able
to judge cruelty when they see it!"
Evening star., 1937-01-08
OiUIs Successful
In Startling Var,
Lanha,n Claims
Sent Back to Zoo After
Routing District Build.
ing Inraders.

Two captive owls which were perch
ed on the lodges of the District Build
Ing for the last three nights in an
effort to frighten starlings away were
returned to the Zoo today, their job
well done.
Clifford Lanham, superintendent of
trees and parking, claimed an un-
qualified success for the owls after
he visited the District Building last
midnight and found them in sole
possession of the startling roosts.
Lanham admitted, however, that the
owls were reinforced by q boy, who
circled the building on the ground be-
low, sweeping the ledges with an oxy-
gen balloon tied to q string.
Lanham said he found the sycamores
along midtown Pennsylvania avenue
wholly empty Of their usual quotas OF
roosting starlings. He has high hopes
that inaugural visitors will not be an
noyed by the pests this year.
After years of experience, however,
Lanham realizes that any victory over
Sthe startling hordes must be temporary
at best. He is on the alert for a coun-
ter attack and will bring the owls into
play again II need be.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
MAY FREE ASSETS
OF FIDELITY LOAN
Building Association Reor.
ganization Plan Studied by
Home Loan Bank.

Prospects of reorganization of the
closed Fidelity Building and Loan
Association brought hope today to
thousands of members" of this Or
ganization, who now see an oppor-
tunity for release Of at least some of
their funds which have been tied up
since the place was closed by order
of Controller Of the Currency
O'Connor.
The possibility of developments in
this direction was forecast in an Of
fetal statement yesterday by Con-
troller O'Connor, announcing that the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board had
started an examination of affairs of
the association. This examination.
the controller explained. was Ito de-
termine" the extent TO which the IA
cillties of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board may be utilized in effect
ing a reorganization of the associa-
ton"
Would Thaw Assets.
Such a reorganization" he con-
tinued, would contemplate the Gre
alton of an insured Federal Savings
and Loan Association through which,
if consummated, there would be made
available to the shareholders of FL
deity Building and Loan Association
their respective proportionate shares
of the sound value of the assets of
the association.
The examination now being made
consists primarily Of a classification
of the assets Of Fidelity Building and
Loan Association in order to deter
mine which of such assets would be
acceptable to the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board as assets of a new IN
sured Federal Savings and Loan As
sociation, and whether a sufficient
amount Of acceptable assets are avail
able to justify the reorganization of
Fidelity Building and Loan Associa-
tion."
Would Operate Under Loan Bank.
Should this new Federal Savings
and Loan Association be established,
it would be the first Of its kind in
the District. It would operate under
supervision of the Federal Home Loan
Bank of Winston-Salem, N. c., which
is the headquarters for the area, in
cluding Maryland. District. Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida, and Alabama. This whole
system is under direction of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board.
No decision can be reached for
some time. in the matter of Fidelity
reorganizat ton, it is believed.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
PROBATION ALLOWED
IN BRIBERY CASE
Nolan's Employe Was Principal
Government Witness-Escapes
Full Punishment.

Francis M. Kearney, who was
charged, with his employer, William j.
Nolan. automobile dealer, with bribing
witness in the divorce suit brought
against Nolan by his wife, was placed
on probation today by Justice James
M. Proctor of District Court.
Manager Of a branch sales room Of
the Nolan Motor Co., Kearney had
pleaded nolo contendere, which neither
admits nor denies guilt. Nolan, how
ever, pleaded not guilty and was con-
ricted recently after a jury trial. He
was sentenced to imprisonment for
from four months to year and day.
In placing Kearney on probation
Justice Proctor said he was following
the recommendation of the United
States attorney and the probation Of
ficer.
Kearney was the principal Govern
ment witness in Nolan's trial.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
PLANS TO BOOST
j. s. PAY STUDIED
McCarran ConferS With En-
pIoye Leaders-Reports
Progress Made.

Expert agencies both in and outside
of the Government service will be con-
suited by Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, of Nevada as to the best plan for
raising the lower -salaried groups in the
Federal Government, he announced
today after another conference with
employe groups.
Those attending today's conference
were Luther c. Steward, president,
and Miss Gertrude McNally. secretary
treasurer, of the National Federation
of Federal Employees. and John ]. Bar
rett of the Association of Postal
Clerks, who also is chairman Of the
Legislative Council of various employe
organizations.
I'VE are making progress toward
the working out Of bill, or perhaps
a series of bills. which will be sub
mitted for scrutiny to number Of
experts" McCarran said.
Among the agencies he intends to
ask for advice are the Brookings In
stitution, the Civil Service Assembly
and the Civil Service Commission.
McCarran has not reached the point
of deciding on details. beyond the
statement that his intention is to limit
the pay increases to salary groups
below $500 year, and to benefit par
ticularly those in the lowest brackets.
He said there is some difference of
opinion as to the salary level at which
the pay increase bill should stop. but
this difference of opinion has not been
expressed by the employe representa-
tives with whom he has conferred. He
indicated it comes from outside.
1T is my intention, however, to try
to improve the salary schedules below
$500 a year" he said.
Evening star., 1937-01-08

By the Associated Press.
Close reading of the Capitals book
of the moment-the Congressional
Directory-leads to the conclusion that
the quickest way to craftsmanship IS
the farm.
Tucked between the red covers of
this volume are 1872 pages of auto
biography In the raw, describing the
political accomplishments Of every one
in the seventy-fifth Congress from
Vice President to youngest Representa-
tive.
Fifty-one of the Nations 531 law
makers prefaced their personal history
with this agricultural preamble-"born
on farm" Three ultrarealists varied
their themes with born in q lUg
cabin"
Seven others-practitioners of the
direct approach style-wrote they were
reared on q farm" and a couple Of
.purists put 1t down In print they
F'% .ew to manhood On farm"
Evening star., 1937-01-08
BY W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.

BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.
UCRuE.:!Ls .:! ,-. .u,,.,
but what Of them?
They've shown us more
cruelty in a day than We could show
our child in a lifetime II we hated
him!"
The father held up his shaking
hands. still stained with fingerprint-
ing ink Does this look like cruelty?"
he demanded. And look at her!"
The thin, pallid mother standing
beside an empty crib was speechless
and still shivering with fright or some
emotion equally as strong when her
husband and the visitor turned toward
her. She said nothing, but dropped
her head and wept quietly.
Franklin Moore, the father, said it
was the first time he had been ar
rested in his Al years. That first ex-
perience with Jail, however, seemed
to have made much stronger impress
sion on his wife, who was Is years
younger.
Left Show to Feed Baby.
They say we we're cruel 10 our
baby" Moore continued. They say
We we're cruel and branded and finger
printed us as cruel people because
we went to a moving picture show
and left our baby locked in the auto
mobile!"
Moore declared that his wife had
left the moving picture show to give
her first born his bottle of milk only
Is minutes or so before the baby was
discovered locked in the parked car
by passer-by, who reported to police.
Il can prove it by the door man at
the picture show that she left shortly
before 8 o'clock and obtained permis-
sion to return. I stayed in the show
while she went to the baby, fed him,
tucked him in his blanket and came
back.
1T couldn't have been more than
20 minutes later that the man came
by the parking lot at Ninth street
and Massachusetts avenue and re-
ported our baby to police"
Mr.. and Mrs. Moore were held for
the grand jury under $500 bonds in
Police Court yesterday on charges Of
being cruel to their 8-month-old son.
Franklin, jr. 1t was testified that the
infant was choking on his teething
ring and blue with cold" when police
broke a window in the locked car
and took him to the Receiving Home
for Children.
Live in One Room.
Moore. P. W. A. worker, and his
wife received a reporter last night in
their one-room home. second floor
back, at 1915 Eleventh street. The
couple hao just returned home after
spending Wednesday night in jail and
the whole of yesterday being finger
printed, attending Police Court. an
swering questions at various bureaus
and finally arranging for their bonds,
totaling $500.
THAT moving picture show We went
Evening star., 1937-01-08
THREE ARE NAMED
FOR RVACANC|ESON
D. c. COMMITTEE
Senators 0verton, Hughes
and Hitchcock Will Fill
! New Places.
APPOINTMENTS LIKELY
TO BE MADE TODAY
Louisiana Legislator Has Thor
ough knowledge of Needs and
Affairs of Washington.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.


The three Democratic vacancies on
the Senate District Committee will be
filled by Senators Overton of Louisi-
ana. Hughes of Delaware and Hitch
cock of South Dakota.
These three appointments, which
may be made late today, will COM
plete the roster of the committee
Senator King. Democrat, of Utah an
nounced yesterday that he will re-
main as chairman The Republicans
have assigned Senator Bridges of New
Hampshire to their one District va
cancy.
Other Members.
Other members who will continue
10 serve on the committee are Glass,
Virginia; Copeland, New York; Tyd-
ings, Maryland; Lewis, Illinois; Bank
t.. head, Alabama; McCarran, Nevada !;
Reynolds, North Carolina and Bilbo,
Mississippi, all Democrats; Capper,
Kansas, and Austin, Vermont, Re-
publicanS.
For several weeks Senator King con-
sidered giving up the District chair
manship in order to have more time
for national legislation on major COM
mittees of which he is also member
After comforting with Majority Leader
Robinson yesterday, however, he an
nounced he would continue to guide
the Districts legislative program. The
Utah Senator has been chairman for
/, the past three years. but he has fol-
lowed the development of Washing
ton and its problems for many years,
as member of both the House and
Senate.
Senator Overton comes to the Dis
trict Committee with a thorough
knowledge of District affairs, gained
as member of the Appropriations
Subcommittee. in charge of the an
nual District supply bill. He has been
. member of the Senate for four
years. He is graduate of Louisiana
State University and also holds de-
grees from Tulane Law School and
the Agricultural and Mechanical COL
lege Of Baton Rouge. He served in
the House in the Seventy-second Con-
gres before being elected Senator.
New Senators.
The two other Democrats slated
for Observation-Disclosures and Hitch
ock-are new Senators.
Senator Hughes was elected in No.
vember. defeating Senator Hastings,
Republican, of Delaware. He is
lawyer, farmer and banker.
Senator Hitchcock was appointed by
the Governor of South Dakota to
complete the term of the late SEN
ator Norbeck, Republican, who died
recently.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
TAX|CAb DRIVER
SHEDS BULLETS
Was Shot in Abdomen Dur.
ing Fight-Street Car
Conductor Quizzed.

Either George Edwards. 35-year-old
taxi driver, can "take it" or the gun
with which he was shot in the abb
domen early today can't "give It,"
At least this was the observation Of
police as they reported Edwards re-
covering from the effects of bullet
fired at close range in q street corner
affray with q street car conductor.
Edwards, who lives at 2022 Portner
place, and Bryan Thompson, 80. Of
1925 Thirty-third street. we're in
volved in the gunplay at Twelfth and
r streets northeast about $3.50 am.
During a fight, the cause of which
police have been unable to determine,
Edwards was clubbed over the head
several times with the butt of the gun
and then shot. Thompson was
wounded in the wrist.
The gun, q .32-caliber revolver of
the type popular about the turn Of
the century, was found on the roof
Of nearby garage. A "six-shooter,
it contained two full shells and four
empties.
The bullets must have been as old
as the gun, for the slug that pierced
Edwards abdomen barely broke the
skin, It was said at Casualty Hospital.
Thompson's wrist injury also was re-
ported to be slight
Thompson, arrested in an alley at
Eleventh and c streets northeast
shortly after the shooting, was being
held at the ninth precinct for investi-
CATION.
Police said he didn't remember what
happened after he engaged Edwards
cab at Twelfth and @ streets, and Ed
wards, according to officers who talked
to him, also was unable to explain
what started the fight.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
SPEAKERS LISTED

Representative Robert p. RamSpeck,
chairman Of the House Civil Service
Committee; Charles West, Undersec-
retaryss Of the Interior, and Robert L.
johnson Of New York, president of the
National Civil Service Reform League,
will be the principal speakers at the
first annual in-service training lunch
con Of the School Of Public Affairs of
American University tomorrow after
noon at the Mayfower Hotel.
The luncheon, scheduled to start at
2 pm. will be presided over by Arthur
SEE s: rlemm!ns. ming. director Of thf School OF
Evening star., 1937-01-08
1887 TRAFFIC DEAD
TENTATIVELY FOUR
AS INQUIRY STARTS
One Case Investigated After
Man CoI|apses in Drug
Store.
WOMAN, 73, SUCCUMBS
TO AUTOMOBILE HURTS
Fatal Injury Of Washingtonian
on Mount Vernon Highway
Also Probed.

Washington's 1887 traffic fatality
toll stood tentatively at four today
but official listing of one of the VIC
tins was withheld pending an inves-
tigation by the homicide squad and
the cOroners office.
The latest death was that of Miss
Sue M. Gill, 70, of 1884 Columbia
road, who died in Emergency Hospi-
tai this morning of injuries received
when knocked down December 20 in
the TOO block of Columbia road.
Police said Reese B. Gillespie, 81
Of 822 Gallatin street, driver OF the
car which hit the woman, was
charged with operating on an expired
permit.
Another Hit November 2.
The case under investigation in
wolves Arthur D. Bowers, 81, of 942
K street. who collapsed yesterday in
drug store near his home and was
pronounced dead when an Emergency
Hospital ambulance arrived.
Police learned that Bowers received
several broken ribs and dislocated
shoulder November 2 when struck by
an automobile at Tenth street and
New York avenue.
Although he is said to have re-
fused hospital treatment at the time
Bowers later was confined to
Homeopathic Hospital, where he de.
veloped pneumonia.
Killed on Highway.
Another traffic case under investiga-
tion was the death yesterday Of John
w. Hurley, 20, Of 1919 Geranium street
who was instantly killed when his
car was hit by another machine wh1s
he was making U-turn on the Mount
Vernon Memorial Highway, about a
mile above Alexandria.
The driver of the other automobile
Henry Herman, As, of Philadelphia
was treated at Alexandria Emergency
Hospital for a fractured kneecap and
multiple cuts and bruises.
The accident occurred, police re-
ported. while Hurley. who had beer
working with a road gang of the
Bureau of Public Roads at Abingdon
had gone for water for fellow work
men. Driving a borrowed car. he was
on his way back when the collision
took place.
Foster Unchanged.
Meanwhile, the condition OF Eddie
Foster, 40, former Washington base
ball player. who. police believe. was
struck early yesterday by a hit-and-
run car near Beltsville, Md, remained
unchanged.
At Casualty Hospital. Foster was
said to be semi conscious. and so far
police have been unable to learn from
him how he was injured and left un-
conscious on the rain-soaked Balti-
more Boulevard.
X-rays revealed. hospital attendants
said. that Foster did not have a skull
fracture, as was at first believed, nor
are his legs broken. He is suffering
from severe shock. however, and his
condition is still considered serious.
Evening star., 1937-01-08

bars. having been graduated from old
Columbian College, now George WASH
ington University Law School.
During the World War, Mr.. Wallace
was employed by the Air Nitrates Corp,
working at Muscle Shoals. Ala. Later
he became an assistant solicitor in the
office Of the Secretary of Interior.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Katherine Bryant Wallace.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
DRAWS S25 FINE

Richard Lehman of Shamokin, Pa,
was fined $25 by Judge Walter j. Casey
in Police Court today on a charge Of
delivering coal without license. He
entered plea of guilty.
Lehman is one of q number of
truckers from the coal mining fields
OF Pennsylvania and West Virginia
who have been delivering coal directly
to consumers here. Several have been
arrested and convicted. Lehman was
arrested by Pvt. c. C. Harris while
unloading at a house on Fourth street.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
SPECIALITY STORE ADS
TO BE Meeting TOPIC
Isador Cohen to Address Adver.
tising Club Members at
willard Tonight.

Isador Cohen, advertising manager
Of the Raleigh Haberdashery, viii ad-
dress the Advertising Club Of WASH
ington on Specially Store Advertis-
ing" at Q meeting at Sis o'clock to-
night in the willard Hotel.
Cohen will make Q showing Of cur
rent illustrations of advertising Of
stores engaged in mems and women's
wear. shoes, etc. Illustrations Of how
to improve advertising also will be
shown.
Lecture Committee Chairman James
Hardey. who will preside, announced
Cohen's speech would be followed by
. question and answer period
Evening star., 1937-01-08

at GaWler S Fun
eral arl lor
Private services
and burial will
follow in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Mr.. Wallace,
who lived at the
Stoneleigh Court
Apartments, died
Wednesday night
at Garfield Hos
pltal after an ILL
ness of several
weeks. He was a
member Of the
District, Georgia
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Y. H, WALLACE RITES
TO BE TOMORROW
Masonic Services Will Be Held.
Burial to Be in Rock Creek
Cemetery.

Masonic rites for Victor Harris WAL
lace, IS. descendent of John Washing
ton, one Of the first Presidents an
cestors, will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Old Taverns Near Churches.

The taverns of Colonial New Eng
land were generally located near the
church and regarded in those days as
Q convenient aid ID ehureh-gotns.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Four Held in Swiss Raid.

ZURICH, Switzerland, January 8
@.-Four persons were arrested today
when police raided an office suspected
as a recruiting center for volunteers
to join Spanish Socialists.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-12-16
r. Hunt. Deziel, and Larson.

er, Hunt, Deziel, and Larson.
It was evident at half time that
Swanville was in desperate straits
as regarded their scoring status
From the outset they had employed
a slow breaking offensive attempt
ing a passing system much the
same as the locals. When that fail
| ed to click, they turned frantically
to the fast break and bedlam broke
loose, and with it the local attack
degenerated somewhat, too. The
fact of the matter Is that Sank
Centre defensives were so tight
Swanville didn't earn a half dozen
shots all night.
It was in the third quarter that
Cohn, one time ace, connected for
the first Swanville goal, but Ethun
came back with a one hand flip
shot from in front of the basket
and nullified the close in the lead
that might have accrued.
Swanville steadied bit during
this quarter and with it came an
easier time for the locals. With the
IlON1IlS SlVWSl tACaA PehSoAAAto
functioned more smoothly although
at no time did they completely
abandon their passing attack. 1t
was the final frame before Glaeser,
Swanville forward, connected for
the final opposition goal. For a Sec
ond somebody lost their man, and
Glaeser was alone for shot. A
quick flip, faster than you can flick
an eye, and in it tumbled through
the hoop.
Walker, who was switched to
guard in this game, came through
fast in the late fourth quarter,
broke up a Swanville attack and
dashed unaided down the floor to
score lonehanded. 1t was almost the
sole instance of a quick break for
the locals.
One thing is certain. With the
ball in possession Of Sank Centre
the other team cannot score. That
was the situation Friday night.
They took the ball, held onto it as
long as they could, moved in for a
shot, and raced to cover. When they
missed, they were racing back to
the defensive which was tight, and
therein lies the tale of the ball
game.