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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-08
3 INJURED HERE
IN TRAFFIC, I
SERIOUSLY

Eight persons were injured, two
seriously, here in the last "a
hours In traffic mishaps, police re-
ports revealed today.
relied by an automobile at
Fifth and o SITS. N. W., six-year
old Bernard Robinson, colored,
1919 Sixth st. N. W., suffered @
possibly fractured skull, bruises
and abraSions. He is in Casualty
Hospital. Police arrested Ray
mond o. Owen, 81, Of Bennett Pl.
N. E., driver Of the automobile, on
. charge Of driving on a sus-
pended permit.
Suffering from conclusion OF
the brain and a possibly frac-
tured skull, George Ross, T.
colored, 1894 Sixth st. N. E., is in
Casualty Hospital. He was struck
by an automobile near his home
yesterday.
Others injured less seriously
included: Woodrow Atkinson,
II, Q messenger, 1918 Eighteenth
st. N. W., struck at Ninth Street
and Rhode Island Ave. N. W.;
Eugene Thorpe, 4, Of 431 Fourth
st. N. W., struck at Fourth and
U Streets Northwest; Oracle
Poole, 20, Of 724 Eighth st. N
e. injured when his automobile
collided with another at Seventh
and East Capitol Streets; viii
liam Matthews colored, 20, 1314K
Fifth st. N. W., knocked down
in the 1900 block Ingraham st
N. W.; Yvonne McKephan, col
ored, 2, gill Tenth st. N. w.
struck at Rhode Island Avenue
and T Streets Northwest, and
Ella Marshall, colored, 40. 1917
Six-and-arhalf st. N. w., knocked
down at Seventh and o Streets
Northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-08
'Dydee Wash Robbed
OF $50 and Checks

An enterprising thief discover
ed there are other things than
"dydees" at the Dydee Wash
Laundry, 4ls New Jersey Ave.
N. w.
Gaining entrance to the
laundry office yesterday, the
thief made off with a brief case.
John K. Jones, Clio Fifth st. N.
W., operator of the laundry, told
police the brief case contained
$3.50 in cash and a number of
checks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-08
Monday Evening Club
Elects VIM. A. Roberts

Members of the Monday Eve
ming Club, gathered at Sixteenth
and Kennedy Streets Northwest
for q picnic yesterday, chose Will
liam A. Roberts as their president
for the coming year.
Roberts. former Peoples Coun-
sci, will be assisted in running the
organization by the new first vice
president, Capt Rhoda Milliken;
second vice president, Edgar M.
Garlach; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Florence A. Stewart; Carroll
E. Robb, recording secretary, and
Morris KlaSs, treasurer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-08
Tuberculosis Clinic
: In County Postponed

EVANSVILLE, Md, June 8.
The regular tuberculosis clinic,
originally scheduled for today in
the Seventh Day Adventist clinic
building in Hyattsville, has been
postponed until tomorrow at 10
a. m.
Dr.. Hugh j. WEIGH Of the Mary
land tuberculosis Sanitorium at
Mt. Wilson will conduct the ex-
anlinations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-08

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Suitable for any room in the house.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-08

Vat dye shorts, we'll made and full cut
sizes 80 to "A. White cotton pullover shirt
sizes "a to 46. Men: Cash in on Thu
extra saving
Evening star., 1937-02-19
"Victory Dinner"
Tickets Offered OF.
IastalIn,ent PIa7,

Dinner checks on the installment
plan will be q feature Of the Demo-
cratic victory dinner" at the May
flower Hotel on March AT 500 per
plate.
The Democratic National Committee
explained that those attending the
dinner may have six months in which
to pay. They are to pay $25 down
and like installments each two months.
It Is explained in invitations sent
out for the dinner that of the $780,
per-plate charge, IS will be to defray
the actual expenses Of the dinner and
that $s5 will be used to pay off the
party deficit. Last years dinner, at
$50 per plate, proved so successful
that it was decided to double the
charge for the March 4 event.
President Roosevelt is to speak at
the $100-a-plate dinner. There will
be an overflow" dinner, at $40 q
plate, in another hotel. Other din
ners. at varying prices, are to be held
in 43 States, it was explained. Be-
cause of the need for flood relief,
scheduled dinners have been can
celed in Ohio, Mississippi and Ten
nessee. Maine and Vermont, which
went Republican, are off the list.
Last years series of dinners brought
in more than $345,0O0 to the Demo-
cratic National Committee, it Is said.
The March 4 dinners, it is hoped, will
bring in enough to wipe out the exist
ing $4s7,000 deficit from the last
campaign.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
Rubinoff
Continued From First Page.)

J. Van Dyke of Brooklyn and asked
Miss Garcia If she knew him. The
answer was the same as when she was
confronted yesterday with Armand Ro-
lando, another sleek young man.
, His name is familiar" Miss Garcia
said in lisping, girlish voice, but
don't recall his face"
Under further questioning, however,
she admitted that she had met Van
Dyke in an employment agency.
did you ever go to Virginia with
him?" Halprin asked.
II most certainly did not" said
Peggy vehemently.
did you ever 60 to Jersey with
him?"
Mot that recall"
do you remember ever getting some
money from him2"
Never" she screamed Indignantly.
Judge Criticizes Trial.
Judge Cotillo announced then that
It was time for the fishing expedition"
TO turn into a trial.
Miss Garcia denied she ever had re-
,,ceived money from Van Dyke, or that
she had told Van Dyke that she never
could bear children as q result of q
marriage when she was only is years
old. She testified yesterday that as a
result of her relationship the violinist
she became an expectant mother.
Il never, never, never had such o
discussion" Miss Garcia exclaimed,
appealing directly to the jury.
Delving into her background, Hal
prin brought out her real name,
Pauline Micheline Taylor, and that
she attended schools in Newport News
and Bedford, Va. She also went to
night school here.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
b[ANKET|NGUR
IN FEDERAL UNITS
Civic Service Extension to
Emergency Employees,
Babcock Proposal.

Recommendation that the extension
Of civil service to employees in emer-
gency agencies and other established
units of the Government be by
blanketing them in without any ex-
animation either competitive or nom
competitive, was made today by e
Claude Babcock, president of the
United Civil Service Employees, at the
continued hearing before the House
Civil Service Committee.
He said that on December 27, 1885,
more than 10000 non-civil service
employees acquired competitive civil
service status under the soil conserva-
ton act without any examination.
Babcock urged that those employees
now in the classified civil service who
had passed civil service competitive
examinations should be given the
seniority rating as compared with
those to whom the civil service is
about to be extended.
William B. Bergman, administrative
assistant and chief clerk Of the Navy
Department, advocated non-competi-
tive examinations.
Leo George, representing the Ma
tional Federation of Post Office Clerks,
opposed on-competitive eXamina-
tions. He urged that employees should
be brought in by specific legislation
and not by Executive order as per-
mitted under the Ramspeck bill.
John F. Middendorf, legislative rep
resentative of the National Associa-
ton of Special Delivery Messengers,
said that they are the forgotten men
in the Government service and wished
to have them included under the
classified civil service.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
NICE'S KIN CLEARED
OF DISORDER CHARGE
Governors Nephew Victim of
Circumstances" Baltimore
Magistrate Says.
~ the Associated Press.

BY Tile Associated tTeSS.
BALTIMORE, February ia dis
orderly conduct charge against Deeley
K. Nice, nephew Of the Governor and
chief magistrate of the Peoples Court,
was dismissed today when Magistrate
Nice explained to Magistrate John A.
Janetzke that he was IAN innocent
victim of circumstances"
Magistrate Janetzke also dismissed
three other men, arrested with Nice
during a street fight here early today.
TT is evident, Mr.. Nice, that you
are the innocent victim Of circum-
stances" Jonetzke said, dismissing the
case. You came along and saw the
fight and then got mixed up In It
innocently and got the worst Of It,"
Nice, an attorney, said he left the
home Of a client about midnight and
saw a crowd Of men apparently fight
ing in the middle Of the street.
"I stopped to look" he said. THE
fighters suddenly shifted to me- I got
mixed up in the middle of them and
was knocked down."
He said his watch was stolen during
the melee.
Nice spent several hours in Jail cell.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
ONE DEAD, 5HURT
IN AREA TRAFFIC
Man Injured January z Dies
of Skull Fracture-Car
SkidS at Curve.

A man, struck by an automobile in
Maryland six weeks ago, died here
yesterday and five other persons were
injured in crashes on District streets
and Virginia highways.
The death was that of Walter J.
Dempsey, 80, of Colmar Manor, Md,
who was hurt near his home January
2. He died in Casualty Hospital of q
fractured skull and other injuries.
Among those hurt were three WASH
ingtonians, two of whom were thrown
from their machine when it skidded
on curve and hurtled over another
car near Fredericksburg, Va.
The trio-Samuel Taylor, 80, and
Mrs. Virginia Armstrong, SO, both of
1888 Columbia road, and Jack Fields.
II, Of 3711 Eighteenth street-were
taken to Mary Washington Hospital,
Fredericksburg.
Taylor, said by police to have been
the driver, and Mrs. Armstrong were
treated for shock, while Fields was ad-
mitted to the hospital for back in
Juries. None was believed seriously
hurt.
R. e. Duval, highway engineer of
King George, Va, driver OF the other
machine, was treated for severe cuts.
The fifth person injured was Ruby
Robinson. IL, colored, 1888 B street
northeast, who received what may be
a broken jaw when she was knocked
down at Fifteenth and B streets north
east by car driven by Samuel Loef-
fel. %, Of Brooklyn, N. Y. She was
taken to Gallinger Hospital. Loeffel
was charged with reckless driving at
the ninth precinct.
A coroner's jury yesterday exon
Grated two motorists and a motorman
involved in three District traffic fatal
tiles. Those cleared were Arthur
Bingler, driver Of a taxi with which
David l.. Waple, 10, collided while
coasting early Wednesday; Douglas
Reid, whose car struck Arthur Jor-
dan, 80. colored, on February 8, and
Joseph Diggs, operator of a street
car that knocked down Mrs. Annie M.
Eslin, "a, during Tuesdays snowstorm.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
RIDER CONFEREES
NAMED IN SENATE
Action Clears Way for Con-
ference Between Both
Branches of Congress.

The way was cleared this afternoon
for a conference between the two
branches of Congress en- whether to
repeal or modify the red rider, when
the Senate appointed its conferees.
They are: Senators Black, Democrat,
Of Alabama: Copeland, Democrat, of
| New York; Walsh, Democrat, of
Massachusetts,; Borah, Republican, Of
Idaho, and La Toilette, Progressive, Of
Wisconsin.
The House named its conferees late
yesterday, and meeting probably will
be arranged without delay. The Sen
ate has twice voted within the last
two weeks for outright repeal instead
Of the House proposal merely to modify
the present ban on teaching or ad-
vocating communism in the public
| schools.
In conference, efforts will be made
to settle the differences between the
Senate's bill for outright repeal of
the rider and the modified House
measure, which would permit the
teaching of the facts of communism
buI ALL 4bS a0NOIoOJs
The House named as its conferees
Chairman Norton of the District Com
mittee, Representative Kennedy, Dem
ocrat, of Maryland, sponsor of the
repeal bill the House amended, and
Representative Short, Republican, of
Missouri. The Senate conferees, how
ever, have not yet been appointed.
Repeal Twice Voted.
Twice the Senate has voted for out
right repeal Of the rider at the cur
rent session Of Congress. The House
may have another opportunity to
vote on the issue if its conferees fail
to reach an agreement with those
to be named by the Senate. In con-
ference, the House conferees are ex-
pected to support the position Of the
House, which approved Kennedy's bill
with the Mccormack amendment.
The House Unexpectedly late yes
terday sent the red rider" issue into
conference on motion of Kennedy
A similar move by Mrs. Norton the
preceding day was blocked by Rep
resentative Taber, Republican, Of New
York
Taber was in the House chamber
when Kennedy made the unanimous
consent request for conference. with
the Senate, but offered no objection.
1t is understood his earlier objections
were withdrawn during an informal
conference with Kennedy.
Repeal Friends Hopeful.
Action of the House has renewed
the hopes Of those fighting to have
the rider repealed. If the conference
committee fails to reach an agree
ment, it was pointed out, the House
conferees will have to return to the
House for instructions. Advocates Of
repeal there believe If the issue comes
to another vote the House may change
its position and go along with the
Senate In its move to wipe the rider
from the statute books.
At any rate, the latest development
in the House indicates the red rider"
issue probably will be settled within
the next few weeks.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
CONDUCTS INITIATION
Candidates Are Dressed to Carica.
ture Respective Businesses
or Professions.

The Cosmopolitan Club had an initi-
alton at the Mayfiower last night, and
1t appeared to be draw, at the con-
clusion Of the sand-burning cere-
monies, as to who took the toughest
riding, those initiated or the initiator.
Although the neophytes were brought
into the room one at q time, dressed
in caricatures of their respective busi-
nesses and professions, Jim Colliflower,
master Of ceremonies and the Mike-a
microphone had been installed in an
effort to overcome the vociferous
heckling Of Lew Payne and Mike
Schaefer-resented the opportunity
given the candidates to get their ad-
vertising plugs over to the member
ship, and tried to advertise his busi-
ness. But the initiates, one by one,
insisted on getting their microphone
advertising.
There came onto the stage, one by
one-they couldn't come otherwise be-
cause Of their bulky costumes-Harry
Baker Of the Wilson Steamship Line,
entangled in a life preserver; John
Chevalier, manager of the Palace
Laundry, dressed in one Of those large
paper bags they put over your clean
ing work and bag of dirty linen
Smeared up by smoke from Jim Coli
flowers product-at least that's what
Chevalier said; William r. Teunis,
carrying lorgnette, big enough for all
the candidates to see through; Herman
Schulteis Of the Chestnut Farms
Chevy Chase Dairy, in milk bottle
IL feet high, which saved him a lot
Of embarrassment, because he could
see out and the members couldn't see
through; Edward R. Walton, bearing
Pat Pendings key, which he said un-
locked the way to getting patent, and
Peter F. Gordon, who gained admis-
sion because Of Jim Colli1ower's de-
cision that the candidate didn't know
anything about his waterproofing busi-
ness.
All Of this hilarious time was fol-
lowed by an entertainment in which
Virginia Barry and Walter Doe did
some tap dancing, Jean Carmin two
dances. stories by Harry Smith and
some mystic work by Harry Baker, the
latter performing as part Of the price
of admission.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
BOARD MAY REVIEW
BAN ON MAGAZINE
Gilligan Requests Educators to
Discuss Restoration of Scho.
lastic in Schools.

The Board Of Education will be
asked at its next meeting to reopen
hearings on the school magazine,
Scholastic, which was banned from
Washington's public schools some time
ago.
This was made known at the boards
session yesterday when Henry Gill;
gan, member of the board, declared
he wanted the case reopened and that
unless some one else does it." he
would ask for a new hearing at the
next meeting. The publication was
banned because Of its alleged "paci-
fstic" policy.
Gflligan, who was among those who
voted to discontinue use of the maga-
zine, said he had been reading cur
rent issues and is mot at all sure it
should be banned permanently"
Mrs. Lenore Smith, another board
member, indicated some time ago that
she favored reconsideration of the
case. She was not present at yes
terday's meeting because of illness.
Three other members also we're alb
sent.
Evening star., 1937-02-19
|CUTT|NG RELATED
| BY TRIAL WITNESS
Detective Says Girl Held His
Arm as Monaghan
Welded Knife.
BY the Associated Press.

SOMERSET, Pa, February 19.-
Detective John c. Wall, first defense
witness at the trial of State trooper
charged with murder, testified today
that 18-year-old Florence Dean held
his arm while Frank Monaghan, ho-
tel man, slashed his face and neck
with knife on the night of Septem-
Der II last.
Trooper Stacy Gunderman and six
other peace officers Of Uniontown.
Pa, are accused of beating Monaghan
to death in an attempt to force him to
confess the cutting of Wall. Gunder-
man was the first Of the defendants
called to trial.
Wall told Of stopping Monaghan's
car along q rural road and offering to
drive him and Miss Dean home be-
cause Monaghan was too drunk and
he might have hurt some one" Miss
Dean was chambermaid at Monagh-
ans hotel.
The detective testified:
Miss Dean asked me to show the
badge. I showed her it. Then she
| started to hit me with both hands.
She yelled. Frank, are you going to
let him get away with this? Do
something. Do something -"
Called Him "Nice Boy"
Monaghan said, John you're a
pretty nice boy. like you The
next thing, he put his arms around
my head and put knife to my neck"
The detective said he was cut on
the neck, hands and face, adding:
Il was trying to defend myself and
she miss Dean) grabbed my right
hand and held it. (Wall has since
brought charges Of felonious assault
and battery against Miss DEAN.
Earlier the detective said District
Attorney James A. Reilly, one of the
seven defendants, was with him at
the time he stopped Monaghans car.
He said:
II didn't arrest him (Monaghan)
but offered to drive him in.
was not armed. I started to turn on
the ignition. I didn't get the car
started"
Defense Attorney John Duggan, jr.,
termed Monaghan a rat" with a
vicious disposition" in his opening
address to the jury.
Says He Fell Under Shower.
He asserted Monaghan fell under
a shower while officers tried to sober
him for questioning about the stabbing
Of County Detective John Wall.
Duggan, describing the scene in the
| Bertillon room the night of last Sep
tember IL, told the jury:
"Mr Grunderman said: I guess we'll
have to flngerprint you and mug you
When he did. Monaghan struck him in
the back and then grabbed him and
punched him in the ribs and kicked
him.
"Gunderman cracked him down,
He appeared to be bleeding at the
nose. Gunderman grabbed him, picked
him up took him to the
shower and threw water on him Again
he fell"
Evening star., 1937-02-19
POSTGRADUATE CLINIC
AT G. w. TOMORROW

Exhibits and scientific papers on
medical and surgical techniques will be
featured tomorrow at the fifth annual
postgraduate clinic Of the George
Washington University School Of
Medicine.
On the program Of the session,
scheduled to begin at 8 am, are IS
members of the medical faculty and a
number Of practitioners. Among them
are DR.. Charles Stanley White, DR..
Harry Dowling, DR.. Walter Freeman,
Dr.. James Watts, DR.. David Davis, DR..
Lyman Sexton and DR.. Francis r.
Hagner.
The program will close tomorrow
night with the eleventh annual re-
union and banquet of the University
Medical Society at the Mayf1ower
Hotel DR.. Cyrus @. Sturgis, director
Of the Thomas Henry Simpson Memo
rial Institute Of Medical Research and
professor Of medicine IN the University
Of Michigau, will b euest speake1
Evening star., 1937-02-19

utes-he didn't care to talke about his
son-and then returned to his bed,
while Mrs. Phillips continued her
story.
"I can't imagine why this hap
pened." sobbed Mrs. Phillips 1T
must have been accidental. Billy
had planned to take his father out
to meeting Of the Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans. Just before left the
apartment at 4 pm. he asked me for
money for candy, joked with his
sister and talked about his plans for
the Summer. He wanted to go to
Florida again.
HE was a great radio boy" the
mother went on. He belonged to the
American Radio League. He made a
device that turns on the radio auto
matically every morning. His friends
told him he ought to have had it
patented.
"The only thing I can figure is
that he was working at the stove with
his soldering iron, his heart went bad
and he fell.
ut is so unfair to our boy to say
that he committed suicide. The po-
lice did not talk to a member of the
family. was prostrated His father
was not here at the time. He had
thrown several sacks on the floor.
And he always put papers down on
the kitchen floor when he worked at
the stove because he knew I didn't
want him to get lead from the solder
ing iron on the lnoleum."
Mrs. Phillips and her daughter, Mrs
William Francis Mayer Of Clarendon,
left the apartment at 3 pm. Mrs.
Mayer forgot something" and went
back. Billy was eating in the
kitchen" his mother said. She tele-
phoned him half-hour later, at $3.50.
Mr.. Mayer telephoned the apartment
at 4 pm. and Billy informed him
that Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Mayer
were due back any minute"
"He had a weak heart and asked me
only several days ago how it felt to
have a heart attack" Mrs. Phillips
recounted. II told him about it. He
had been a boxer and swimmer at
school and had won his life-saving
papers in Florida. I went to school
last Fall, though, and asked them
not to let him box or wreetle on ac-
count of his heart. He had hemor-
rhage of the lung last September"
Then Mrs. Phillips told how she
dragged Billy through the door after
finding him in the kitchen" She
tried to breathe air into his lungs
The father was wounded while he
served as a motor cycle courier with
the Air Corps in France during the
war He lost the sight of one eye, and
eight years ago "the other eye went
out"
Evening star., 1937-02-19
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Routine business.
Inquiry into General Motors labor
espionage continues.
Finance Committee considers ex-
tending reciprocal trade program.
Building and Grounds Committee
considers Mellon art gift.
House:
Resumes debate on $500, 900 900
Treasury Post Office appropriations.
Foreign Affairs Committee continues
hearings on permanent neutrality leg
islation.
Ways and Means discusses coal con-
troll bill.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will not be in session.
Foreign Relations Committee, execu-
tive session, on neutrality legislation.
House:
VIII not BE- in sesuion.
Evening star., 1937-02-19

wonder If they have any pickanin'
nies" one lady was heard to remark
as she passed.
Il Il n II
HORSES.
The horse Is coming bdcb-the
horse Is going bdck-ldrgely de-
pending on 1Dhich Department OF
Commerce press release Is used as
basis of deduction. One industry
statement sho1Ded q pronounced
increase in the manufacture OF
horsedrGDn Dehicles from 1888 to
1885. A later report shotDs sharp
decrease in the production of horse
shoes during the same period.
Chief Stdtisttcidn La Verne BedleS
thinks probably greater proper
ton OF horses are going bdrefootsd
and keeping of the hard-surj1 1ce
highways to Hue close to the land.