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Evening star., 1937-05-15
Stru1v Hats Take
Fashion Stage for
Males of Capital
Shop Windo,o Sugges.
tior,s Hard to Resist
nm Rriohf DIV.

Today is an annual milestone In
fashions for men-it's the "red-letter
day" of hats. Except for Easter, 1t
Is practically the only day when
man can put on something new and
say, "See, I know what to do today,
and I did it,
Not that a man could help know
what to do today. Store windows
are full Of suggestions-almost COM
mands. To walk by q mems shop with
your chin held high in the air and
felt pulled low will take q lot more
nerve than to ease inside the first
store and get the whole matter Oh
your mind once and tor all.
Today Is May Is, . day Of character
molding. The old felt will continue
to grace the matches Of our indi-
vidualists. Some will sidestep by
going bareheaded the rest Of the
Summer. Most Of US will sport =
bright, new straw hat.
If the weather plays . part in your
decision, today will be fair and con-
tinued cool, according to the Weather
Bureau. Rising temperature Is fore.
cast for tomorrow with no rain In
0ight.
Evening star., 1937-05-15

telephone pole He was dead on ar
rival at Galinger Hospital, where he
was taken by passing motorist.
Less than five hours after he re-
ceived severe head injuries in fight,
Ellis Styles, %. colored. 200 G street
northeast, was knocked down by an
automobile.
Styles was struck on the head with
a brick, near Second and G streets
northeast, about 6 pm, and was
treated at Casualty Hospital. Police
said he refused to stay at the hospital
after treatment.
Skull Fracture Feared.
About 1890 pm. he was injured
about the head, when, according to
police, he stepped into the path of an
automobile beneath the H street via
duct. He was again taken to Casualty,
where it was said his skull may oe
fractured.
Seven other persons were injured,
two perhaps seriously, in accidents
during the last "a hours.
Ellen Coleman, "a, colored, 1924
Eleventh street, was seriously injured
when truck ran over the sidewalk
and struck her following collision
at Eleventh and R streets.
The truck, operated, police said, by
James Darlington, d, colored. 242O K
street, was in collision with an auto
mobile driven by Chimes Sewers, 26,
Of the 1000 block of M street.
Fannie Cuthberton, A, colored, 1911
C street southeast, was taken to CASH.
atty with head and spine injuries re-
ceived when she was struck by street
car at Pennsylvania and North Caro-
lima avenues southeast. Her condition
also is considered serious.
Youths Leg Fractured.
Robert T. Surine, 18, Of 1926 Kali
mia road, suffered compound frac-
ture of the leg when struck by an
automobile on Cedar street, near
Fifth. He was taken to Walter Reed
Hospital.
Marshall Jackson, IL, colored, 1921
Champlain street, received a broken
leg when his coaster wagon struck a
parked car on Florida avenue near
California street. He was taken to
Casualty.
Other traffic victims and their in
juries were Pauline Carroll, 40, colored,
1439 T street, internal injuries; Rob-
ert c. Kent, II, Of 1927 D street
northeast, cuts and bruises; Mrs. Ade-
laide Jamison, So, of 1888 Fifteenth
street, back injuries, and Madeline
Sutton, 38, colored, 424 First street,
shoulder, leg and wrist injuries.
At an inquest yesterday, Floyd
Little, IS, of "a M street northeast
street car motorman, was exonerated
in the death. May 4, of Henry j. Kit
finger, II, Of oil First street north
east. Kittinger was struck at First
and H streets by a street car oper-
ated by Little.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
c.. 0. ENTERS SMALL
INDUSTRIAL FIELDS
Scores Of Local Unions Being
Nationalized, Committee
Announces.

BY the Associated Press.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization said today it is enterting
many small industrial fields to nation
alize scores of local unions
Some 40 charters have been granted
local groups, the c. I. o. said, to give
them c. I. o. standing until the in
dustrial workers they represent can
be organized on a national basis.
Asked If the plan was designed to
Combat the American Federation of
Labor" officials said this was not the
intention and it was merely a way
to give the local units, upon thier
request, membership in the c. I. o.
Of1cials said the small groups char
tered were in such industrial units
as cork, distillery, highway, cereal,
brick and clay, furniture and other
industries where the number of work.
men is small compared with the
heavy" industries.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
1,2OO ON OUTING
FOR SHAD BAKE
Trade Board Party Includes
Congress Members and
Officials.

Some 1900 Washington business
men and their guests from Congress,
the Federal and District Governments
and the judiciary left the city this
morning to attend the forty-third an
nual shad bake Of the Board OF Trade
at Bay Ridge, Md.
Boxing matches. base ball, SWIM
ming and floor SHOW were scheduled
on the all-day program
Among those attending the func-
ton were:
Senators William H. King. j. Ham,
ilton Lewis, Elmer Thomas, Gerald P.
Nye. F. Ryan Duffy, Theodore F.
Green, Henry F. Ashurst and Guy M.
Gillette, Representatives Paul w.
Shafer, Ralph o. Brewster, Everett M.
Dirksen, w. Sterling Cole, Leon Sacks,
Laurence F. Arnold, Ross A. Collins,
R. P. Hill, Norman r. Hamilton and
Allard H. Gasque.
Col. Daniel I. Sultan, Engineer
Commissioner, Capt. H. S. Bishop, jr.,
assistant engineer commissioner Capt.
Patrick H. Tansey, assistant engineer
commissioner; Capt. Don G. Shingler,
assistant engineer commissioner !;
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of Dis
trict Court, Arthur H Kent, James G.
Strong, assistant treasurer, Home
Owners Loan Corp. Frank Bell COM
missioner, United States Bureau OF
Fisheries; Charles E. jackson, deputy
United States Bureau of Fisheries
William N. Rehlander, assistant di-
rector, Procurement Division, Treas
ury, and Paulo G.. Hasslocher, Bra
lillian Embassy.
John S. ,Bleecker, jr., president
Junior Board of Commerce; Fred B
Linton, executive secretary. Junior
Board Of Commerce; Robert B. Swope
president, Rotary Club; David A
Skinner, secretary, United State.
Chamber Of Commerce; Willard M
Kochenderfer, secretary, Hotel Men.
Association; Maj. Ernest w. Brown
superintendent of police; William A
Van Du2er, director of vehicles anC
traffic; c. Marshall Finnan, superin-
tendent, National Capital Parks; Ken.
nedy Rea, clerk, Senate Committee or
Appropriations; Ross Haworth, sec.
retary to the Commissioner; Emf
Press, assistant to director Of sani-
tary engineering; George c. Shinn
John F. Victory, w. w. Wheeler
Frederick P. H. Siddons, Granville
Guide, c. Hayward Marshall, Ray.
mond NJ. F1oNance, James c. Wilkes
Odell S. Smith. George E. Keneipp
John ]. Esch. John A. Remon, George
v. Graham. Col L. c. Crawford, Harry
King, Harry Blake, Col. Leroy w
Heron. w. L. Beale and guests. Free
East, William F. Raymond, George
H. O'Connor and H. M. Brundage, jr
Evening star., 1937-05-15
D. c. RELIEF FIGHT
STATUS IN DOUBT
Hazen Says He Personally
Will Not Ask Million Above
House Figure.

Doubt prevailed at the District
Building today as to whether the Com
missioners would make an aggressive
fight for the provision OF an extra
milan dollars for direct relief here
next fiscal year, when they appear
before the Senate District Subcom-
n1ittee on Appropriations next week
on items in the 1888 budget.
Commissioner HAGEN made clear to-
day that, so far as he personally Is
concerned, he would not campaign for
an increase OF 50 much as $1,000, 900
above the figures Of S1,411 900 for re-
lief, approved by the House.
He went further to insist that his
recollection was that the Board of
Commissioners never had voted for
mally to seek an increase Of $1O00,-
900, which the Board of Public We'll
fare has recommended as a means Of
a6ording relief to some 5000 families
IN which there are 'employables" who
now cannot get on the direct relief
list.
Commissioner Allen, who supervises
relief operations, has said the Com
nissioners were committed to request
an additional 100000. But he has
indicated that relief officials will have
to carry the burden Of proving the
need for the increase.
About two weeks ago, Hazen an
nounced that the question OF the size
Of the relief appropriation of the
District, which should be approved
for the next fiscal year, would be dis
cussed before the Senate Subcommit-
tee headed by Senator Thomas Of
Oklahoma. He said that the conflict
ing views Of several organized groups
would be laid before Thomas sub
committee.
The Federation Of Citizens Asso-
Citations has gone on record opposing
any increase in the relief item above
the sum recommended by the Budget
Bureau, or $1,465,0 900. Directors OF
the Board of Trade also opposed the
100000 increase, but since then
have been making q survey Of the
problem. The request for a million
dollar increase was supported by q
civic committee, representing religious
and social work groups.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
Like schoolbow throwing spitballs
when teacher steps out of the room,
House members cut up yesterday when
Speaker Bankhead and Representa-
tive Rayburn OF Texas, the Demo-
cratic leader, went to the White House
to talk over the legislative situation.
Before they had completed their
conference with President Roosevelt
telephone call brought them hus-
ting back to the Capitol to restore
order.
They stepped into q scene Of con-
fusion.
The $ll5,97l 265 Interior Depart
ment appropriation bill had been
under consideration and battle over
reclamation and irrigation projects
had threatened to delay action on
the measure until long past dinner
time.
Decide to Quit
Some members decided It was time
to knock of for the day, and, amid
a din Of chatter, hooting and ap-
FAAAASSs t4ASAO ~C1C IAdA d OONCIl
tions designed to end me session.
Finally, when Representative Nc
Reynolds, Democrat, Of Tennessee re-
marked that the House was in no
condition to do business with all this
fuss and disorder" the chamber voted,
116 to 2l, to stop work on the Inte-
rtor bill.
Representative O'Connor, Democrat,
Of New York took over as Acting
Speaker.
There were more motions 10 ad-
journ.
Representative Boland, Democrat,
OF Pennsylvania, the Democratic whip,
dashed in.
Il just got through talking with the
Speaker at the White House." he said
breathlessly. Il told him of the stu
Evening star., 1937-05-15
SPEAKERS CHOSEN HERE
Bisgyer and Janus to Address
Jewish Welfare Session.

Maurice Bisgyer, executive secre-
tary Of the International B'na. Birth,
and Shimon Q. Janus Of the Depart
ment of Hebrew Education, both Of
this city, will be guest speakers at
the thirty-eighth National Confer
ence of Jewish Social Welfare, to
be held at Indianapolis, from Wednes-
day through next Sunday.
Local delegates who will attend the
conference include, besides Bbgyer
and Janus, Isadore Hershfield, Miss
Myrtle Cohen, Miss Ruth Green, Mrs.
Marguerite Mayer and Morris Klass,
director Of the Jewish Social Service
Agency.
Evening star., 1937-05-15

Of Mount Washington Presbyterian
Church officiating Burial will be In
Greenmount Cemetery.
A veteran of more than 20 years
service with the telephone Company,
Mr.. Gephart recently was elected a
member Of the Alexander Graham Bell
Chapter, Telephone Pioneers Of Ameri-
ca, made up Of employees with more
than 20 years service. A native Of
Baltimore, he was graduate Ct
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and
Of Cornell University.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
OIL PLANT DAMAGED

Blaze Breaks Out in Refinery
House Above Key Bridge.
Fire breaking out in a Worthington
OIL Refinery house on the Potomac
River. q short distance above Key
Bridge today, was limited to an ap-
proximate 500 loss in machinery as
companies from Cherrydale, Claren-
don and Ballston fought in dense
smoke to keep the IRE from spreading
to nearby tanks containing about 5000
gallons of oil.
Chief A. C. Scheffel of the Arling-
ton County department, said damage
was limited to flltering machinery.
Cause OF the fire was undetermined.
Evening star., 1937-05-15

Telephone Co.,
who died Thurs
day at his home,
l 8 l l Thirty
seventh street,
are being held
this afternoon in
Baltimore.
The services
are scheduled to
be held at the
home of his
s l s t e r, M RS.
Eugene Hayden,
5720 Cross County
boulevard, Mount
Washington, with
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Beer Glasses Found Unclean.

CULVER CITY, Calf. R-Healtn
authorities said lipstick imprints OF
women found on glasses indicated they
had not been washed properly. Com
plants were filed against the owners
Of 80 b4{s and beer parlnrs.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
ARCHIVES DANCE SET
Association to Meet at Broadmoor
Next Friday.

The National Archives Association
will hold a dance at the Broadmoor
Apartments next Friday night. Plans
are in charge Of the Social Commit
tee, including Emmett T. Leahy, Miss
Nadene Russell, William c. Keegan
and Mrs. Nellie M. Sphinx.
Sponsors for the event are Mr.. and
Mrs. Thad Page and Mr.. and Mrs.
Dorsey w. Hyde, IT,, and the officers
of the association: Nelson M. Blake,
president; Blanche M. Hyde, vice
president; Suzanne Waters, secretary,
and Raemey A. Burton, treasurer.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Police Benefit Tickets on Sale.

Tickets for the boxing contest to be
held June for benefit of the Metro
politan Police Relief Association were
placed on sale today at all station
houses. Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown
said officers of duty could sell tickets
in uniform, providing their badges are
not exposed.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
TRAFFIC DEATHS
REACH Al HERE
Man Killed in Striking Pole
When Hurled From
Door of Auto.

Thrown to the street when the door
Of an automobile in which he was
riding flew open, Elmer L. Barham,
80, of l02 Ridge road southeast, was
almost instantly killed late yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Stock Purchase Approved.

An Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion board recommended yesterday
that the Richmond (va.) Greyhound
Lines, Inc, be authorized to acquire
control Of the Peninsula Transit
Corp. by purchase Of capital stock for
$4,000.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Ex.Judge in China to Speak.

Charles S. Lobingier, former Judge
Of the United States Court for China,
will addres the Oriental Culture Group
at Sis o'clock tonight at the home
OF Miss Ida Hoyt Chamberlain. 2737
Cathedral avenue.
Evening star., 1937-05-15

1t was the forty
seventh traffic ia
tality this year.
Barham, police
said, was a pas
senger in a ma
chine operated by
Arthur Boan, 80,
of 4002 D street
southeast, when
the accident oc-
Cured on Ana
costa road south
east, near Blaine
street.
When he fell
from the car,
Rarham struck q
Evening star., 1937-05-15
Bridge to Be Rebuilt.

Famous Menai Suspension Bridge.
opened In 1926 at Anglesey. Scotland.
Is to be reconstructed at cost Of
81, ,140, 900.
Evening star., 1937-05-15

PoUer and speed OF Uncle
Sans ships can be predicted
By means of tests 1Dith steel or
Uood models in the expert
mental basin, Sketched dboDe,
to be built at Carderock, on
Conduit road, near Cabin
John, Md. The basin 1Dill be
equipped 1Dtth the latest de-
Dices for testing models of
ships, seupldnes and amphib-
iunS. 1t 1DiH replace the
eristinq model basin at the
NaUy Yard, Which has long
been considered obsolete.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
HENRY ALVIN BINGHAM
EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL
Retired Treasury Department EN-
ploye Had Lived in Capital
80 Years.

80 Years.
Henry Alvin Bingham, 10, Of 1901
K street, retired Treasury Depart
ment employe, died late yesterday
IN Emergency Hospital after an illness
of several months.
A native Of Pennsylvania, Mr.. Bing-
man had been . Washington resi-
dent about 80 years. He was . mem
Der Of Harmony Lodge Of Masons.
Surviving are daughter, Mrs. John
R. Hogan, this city; three sons, Dr.
Harry Bingham, dentist. and 6.
Steuart Bingham, both Of this city,
and DR.. Carroll E. Bingham. physician
In the Coast Guard Service at Point
Barrow. Alaska, who formerly practiced
here, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 8
o'clock tonight In Gawler's temporary
chapel, 1906 H street. Burial will
II At LAurelton. P>., Monday.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
G. F. GEPHART RITES
IN BALTIMORE TODAY

Funeral services for George Frederick
Gephart, 43, mechanical engineer
with the Chesapeake g. Potomac
Evening star., 1937-05-15

A closeup sketch of the
main building for the $780,
900 project. An option already
has been secured on 100 acres
at Cdrderock for the model
basin development and the
construction 1DiU take about
t1Do years. inset: Rear Ad-
n1irdl DaUid w. Taylor, chief
constructor during the World
War and eminent ndDdl drchi-
tect, in Uhose honor Presi-
dent Roosevelt has sanctioned
naming the basin the "DdUid
w. Taylor Model Bdsin."
Evening star., 1937-05-15

DWAYNE MANUEL,
Seuen-year-old son OF William
/. Manuel, 923 Fourteenth
street southeast, Dho had a
close call late yesterday When
his father inadvertently gaze
hin, q dose of poison, Which he
mistook for cough sirup. Gal
linger Hospital physicians said
the boy 1Das not seriously at
tected. DUdyne, shoDn 1Dtth
his pet dog, Barr. agreed that
1t 1Uas bad medicine"
Star Stat Photo.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
GIRL DIE
IN CRASH

Three new traffic deaths were
reported in Washington and the
immediate vicinity last night.
'One man was killed in the Dis
trict, sending the traffic death toll
for the year UP to 81, while a
youth and a girl were killed on
the Mt. Vernon Memorial High
way when the motorcycle on which
they were riding crashed head-on
with an automobile.
John Grassi, 40, of $50 Orleans
st. N. E., died at Casualty Hos
pital from injuries suffered when
he was struck by street car in
the 900 block H st. N. E.
Jack Boone, 10, of 1920 Sixth
st. S. W., died at Emergency Hos
pital a few minutes after he had
been admitted. suffering injuries
when his motorcycle crashed into
an automobile driven by Franklin
A. Huguley. %, Of 80 Rhode Island
Ave. N. w.
Sally Jennings, II, Of S24 G st.
N. E., who was riding on the
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
All District to Fete
Cherry Buds April 3

ing the period Of Cherry Bios.
som Week. 1t will be quite fitting
that all our citizens constitute
themselves a committee of one
to this end and further manifest
their enthusiastic interest by the
flying of flags, the setting up
of displays and other outward
manifestations of welcome to
our fellow Americans, giving
them assurance that there is al.
ways a welcome and accOmmOda-
tiOns in plenty for the new
conner within our gates"
At the same time the Commits.
sioners dispatched to Torataro
UShiZuka, mayor of Tokyo, Japan,
a cablegram advising him Of the
approaching festivities and of the
selection of 10-year-old Sakika
Saito, daughter of the Japanese
Ambassador, as queen. The Jap
anese cherry trees around the
Tidal Basin were a gift to the
citizens Of the District from resi-.
dents Of Tokyo
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
AIR WARNING
TOLD PR0BERS

SBUR G H, March 81
Q.N.SD.-Flight Is, the Inflated
T. w. A. skyliuer that crashed
near here Thursday night with
loss of 13 lives, was dispatched
to Pittsburgh in the face of
weather bureau warnings of mist.
snow. thunderstormS and ice, in
Vestigators of the U. S. Bureau of
Air Commerce we're told today.
This information was given the
probers by Orme T. Cove. dis.
patcher at the Newark Airport
for T. w. A., officials of which
have blamed ice caked on the
ailerons to an unprecedented
thickness for the crash.
Under questioning by B. J.
Jacobs, of the United States
Bureau of Air Commerce, Cove
testified he dispatched the plane
after conference with the
pilots. He and Capt. Larry
Bohnet, Cove declared, had
agreed the flight would be q
normal operation" Captain
Bonnet and all others on the
plane died.
Cove asserted conditions were
improving through the day, and
an additional safety factor was
that the ship carried fuel for q
flight to. Columbus, If necessary.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
7 TELEFLASH
TO LOSE
PHONES
Garnett Views Action
As Blow to Race
Track Gambling

Another blow was dealt the
gambling fraternity of the Wash
ington area today when officials
of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company notified
United States Attorney Leslie C..
Garnett that the company was dis
continuing telephone connections
to the Teleflash broadcasting serv-
ice, which has been broadcaSting
racing news received from the
tracks to some $50 clients in Wash
ington and vicinity.
In making this announcement,
Mr.. Garnett emphasized that the
Teleflash promoters have been
conducting a lawful business in
supplying this information, and
that scores of recent raids have
been directed not at the broadcast
ers, but the gambling centerS which
use the information illegally, and
at Telecast, Inc, with offices in
the Albee Building, which is said
to have been "pirating" this racing
news from the TeleflaSh broad
casts and relaying it to their own
clientele.
Even so, the telephone COM
pany's decision to cut off the
phones over which the Teleflash
broadcastS were received was con-
sidered by the United States At
torney as the hardest jolt yet
handed race-track gamblers in
Washington.
It was explained that the broad
casts were transmitted over regu-
lar telephone wires hooked up to
loudspeakerS at the receiving
end, making amplified telephone
reception the medium through
which race track reports reached
the gamblers. This has been a
favorite transmission device Of
gambling centers since the de-
velopment of this method of COM
munication.
In a recent raid on the Tele-
cast offices, police arrested sew
eral employees of the telephone
company said to have been serv-
ing the station.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
WPA STRIKE
THREATENS
INN. \.
5000 Workers Face
Tie-uP If $500
Engineers Quit

NEW YORK, March 81 G.N.SO.
A strike Of $500 WPA engineers
and other technical workers in
New York City was in prospect
today with the possibility of tieing
up 25 major projects with $4,000
workers.
Workers organizations decided
on the strike as a protest against
the new Federal order for drastic
reduction of the number of WPA
employees drawn from nonrelief
sources and the number receiving
wages above those provided by the
security scale. Three thousand
nonrelief workers would lose their
jobs here if this order is carried
into effect and $4,000 would be
subject to pay cuts.
In advance of the general stop
page planned by the engineers, 81
workers went on a sit-down strike
called by the WPA division of the
Federation of Architects, Engi-
neers, Chemists and Technicians,
and occupied a room in school
building, where they had been en-
ployed. A WPA official charged
them with disorderly conduct, and
all were elected by police and ar
rested.
Lieut.. Col. Brehon B. Somervell,
local WPA administrator, an
nounced that any workers who
went on strike and refused to
leave the premises where they
were employed would face arrest
and would be dismissed.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
EP.N0RT0N.
INDICATES
OPPOSITION
INH0USE
New Taxes Suggested
Here Likely to Raise
Over II Millions

A threatened revolt by some
members Of the House District
Committee against the sweeping
reorganization of the District
government Setup contained in
the legislative proposals in the
District supply bill took shape to-
day.
At the conclusion Of an execu.
tive session of the House District
Committee, it's chairman, Repre-
sentative Mary T. Norton Of New
Jersey, expressed the belief that
the legislative changes contained
in the appropriation bill as re-
ported by the Appropriations
Committee yesterday are subject
to points of order.
She indicated that she, with
the support of other members OF
her committee, may make these
points of order when the bill comes
before the House.
Meeting Tomorrow
She is withholding a definite
stand on this matter, however,
until she discusses it thoroughly
with members of her committee
at a special meeting which she
has called for tomorrow morning.
Having presented the District
yesterday with an appropriation
bill which will leave the city with
an estimated deficit of over $6,-
100000 at the end of the next
fiscal year, the House District Ap-
preparations subcommittee was
prepared today to introduce nine
new local tax proposals in the
House.
Although full details of the new
measures have not been revealed,
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