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for this fiscal year. The Welfare
Board insists there are some 5000
cases who are in desperate need.
The Council Of Social Agencies
said:
Private family welfare agencies
have stretched their funds to the
utmost to meet the severe emergen-
cies that are occurring daily among
the city's poor. One large agency
helped 7e7 more families IN July,
1887, than In the same period last
year. To do this. since its funds are
less than last year, 1t has had to
spread relief dangerously thin
The five major private welfare
agencies aided 1000 families last
month. but turned away 2e4 families,
all Of whom were in desperate circum-
stances, simply because there were
no funds available to help them"
Heavier Burden Seen.
Miss Anne Halliday. secretary Of the
councils family and child welfare di-
vision. said that since both public and
private agencies lack funds. families
are resorting to means OF existence
that will ultimately place an even
heavier welfare burden on the COM
munity in terms of illness, delin-
quency and other social problems.
The municipal center would be
built on the northern half of the area
between Pennsylvania avenue and D
street, Third and Sixth streets. pur-
chased some years ago as a result OF
Federal plans eventually to take over
the present District Building.
The Commissioners for two years
have been seeking to have the United
States buy the lower half Of the site
for Federal purposes Several times
they have proposed that the United
States buy the District Building to
make available a portion Of the sum
needed by the District for its new
home.
Hazen said he would seek to start
the project next year because Of the
deplorable condition of the old build
ing on Indiana avenue near D street.
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Funds for Municipal Center to
Be Asked in '39, Hazen Says
Million viii Be Sought in Nert Budg
Estimates for Beginning of Construc.
ton Welfare Request Cut Seen.

A new effort to obtain funds for
starting construction OF the long
delayed new Municipal Center will be
made in the 1899 District budget
estimates. under plans disclosed yes
terday by Commissioner Hazen.
He announced he would seek to
have an item of perhaps as much as
sl,000,000 included in the budget
proposals. which are to be forwarded
to the Budget Bureau by the Commits
sioners next month. This would be
for the first wing of the projected new
city hall" and would be intended
as new housing for headquarters
divisions of the Police Department.
Il have hopes that the other Com
missioners will agree that the time
has come to start the center" said
Hazen. and I have hope the Budget
Bureau and Congress will find this
program possible
Inclusion of the item will add to
the problems Of Mai. Daniel j. Dono-
van, District budget officer, who is
sharpening his shears to cut into the
estimates of department heads, now
being filed.
Welfare Estimates.
Estimates of the Board of Public
Welfare, amounting to $ll, ,349, 567, OF
81 per cent over current appropria-
tions, will have to be reduced heavily
the Commissioners and Maj. Donovan
said. They said this would apply to
the request of the Public Assistance
Division for an increase from $l,876,-
40 to s4,079,455 for the several re-
lief programs.
That there will be new contest
over the relief item was indicated
yesterday, however, when the Coun-
Gil Of Social Agencies promptly de-
clared the request of the Board OF
Public Welfare for a new item OF
sl.225,0oO for relief of employable
persons was justified.
The Budget Bureau and Congress
refused to grant funds for the en-
playable cases in the appropriations
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Mrs. Gladys p Culp, 81, of 14oo L
street was admitted to Casualty Hos
pital suffering from severe brain con-
cussion and possibly q skull fracture
after her automobile was in collision
with a truck driven by Carl Gorham,
10, colored, 1920 Fenwick street north
east at First and L streets northeast.
Ralph Jones, 80. OF 1928 West Vir-
glnla avenue northeast suffered a
fractured skull and internal injuries
when the truck on which he was rid
ing was in collision with an automobile
driven, police said, by Lawrence Ber-
nard, 81, Of 4450 Verplanck place in
the 1900 block of Forty-sixth street.
The truck, police said. was driven by
Elmer M. Bliss, jr.. %, Of the 2s0o
block OF Twenty-seventh street. Jones
is in Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. BERTHE I. Wenk, 56. Of p Seaton
place was cut about the face when the
automobile in which she was riding
in funeral procession was forced to
stop suddenly at New Jersey avenue
and B street southeast and hurled her
from her seat. She was treated At
Providence Hospital
Virginian Injured.
Robert Roberts, 56, Of 3l5 South
St. Asaph street. Alexandria, was taken
to Emergency with compound frac-
ture OF the left leg, cuts on the head
and possibly fractured skull after
being struck on the Memorial Highway
near the railroad bridge late last night.
Frank H. Hepp, 20, of 3o1 webster
street, took Roberts to the h ospital
after the accident and was later
charged with reckless driving by Park
Police and released on $500 bond set
by United States Commissioner H
Burton Phillips Of Alexandria.
-Four youths injured in 4 collision on
the Colesville pike near the Toll House
Tavern were taken to Walter Reed
Hospital shortly before midnight. The
extent of their injuries was not de-
termined.
Donald Gill, 20, and Lawrence
Windsor, Is, both of Silver Sprins
were in one car and Robert BaRgott.
20. and John Rushe, 20, of Clifton
Park in the other, according to police.
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Group Threatens
Protest Sit.
On Car Rails Here
Park Vieu Business Men
Irked by Georgia
Arenue Service.

1rked by the failure Of the Capital
Transit Co. to improve service along
Georgia avenue, members Of the Park
View Business Mems Association
threaten to sit on the street car tracks
in protest.
The sit-down was approved only as
a last resort, however, when the asso-
ciation adopted a resolution Friday
night complaining against old and
noisy cars operating on Georgia ave-
nue..
NJ c. Schwartz was reelected presi-
dent of the association Other officers
named for another term are D. E.
Nichols, first VICE president; Theodore
Hohmeyer, second vice president; j.
Zoltrow, treasurer, and j. M. Basso
secretary.
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Clothing Thieves Hunted.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. IA
Three colored thieves, who snatched
SIS worth Of clothing from hangers
in the J. G. Penney Co. store, SIS
King street, were sought by police
today. The trio Of two men and q
woman grabbed five SIS suits, leaped
into an automobile and ned down
the Mount Vernon boulevard toward
WaShington this afternoon.
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BUS ROUTES AWARDED

LEONARDTOWN, Md, August IA
Especially Two new bus-route con-
tracts in st. Marys County have been
awarded by the Board Of Education.
Carl 1nsley Of Hollywood won the
Hollywood-to-drea Mills School bus
route.
Warren Thompson Of Loveville was
awarded the Loveville Clements and
Compton bus 1outs.
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BROTHER DECLAN JOSEPH
is DEAD AT ANNENDALE
Family Name Of Member Of Cath
olic Sect Was Michael
s. Hoffman.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMMENDALE, Md, August IL
Brother Declan Joseph, a member OF
the Christian Brothers for more than
half q century, died today at the
Normal Institute here.
His family name was Michael S
Hoffman. He was born in Brookville,
Pa, November II, 1853.
After . career of preaching which
carried him to Norfolk, Va; Rockhil
College, Md; Calvert College, Balti-
more, and Augusta, Ga. he retired to
the Normal Institute here. He cele-
brated his golden jubilee as a mem.
ber of the Christian Brothers three
years ago.
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Ultimatum From Mayor.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa tP.-
Mayor William Guilfoyle served no
tice on Fire Chief William Grote
that the latter had Just five days to
carry out the Mayors instructions or
be suspended for 80 days without pay.
The Mayor ordered the chief to paint
his mechanics automobile red. The
chief had It painted blue.
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FISHING SHIP, GROUNDED
IN CHESAPEAKE, FLOATED
Coast Guard Cutter Aids Vessel
Which Ran on Sandbar
During Storm.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASsociated Press.
BALTIMORE, August IA. - The
Coast Guard cutter Apache today
fioated the 125-foot fishing steamer
G. H. Mcneil, from the Upper Chesa.
peake Bay Sandbar on which the
vessel ran aground yesterday.
The Mcneil, carrying a crew of 30
had been fishing of the Delaware and
New Jersey coast and passed through
the Chesapeake and Delaware Cana
en- route to Reidsville, Va, her home
port. She ran aground between
Tolchester and Poole's Island during
q storm.
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ARMY-NAW UNION
ENDS CONVENTION
C.: John Russell of Washing
ton Named National Head
of Organization.

With the election of C. John Rus
sell Of Washington as national COM
mander, the forty-eighth national en-
campment of the Army and Navy
Union adjourned yesterday. after four
days Of sessions at the Willard Ho-
tel.
Atlantic City was selected for the
next convention.
Russell who now is attached to
the Social Security Board, served dur
iHg the World War with the 5th
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FIREM!EN'S CARNIVAL
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SANDY SPRING, Md, August a.
The Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment will hold its annual carnival
and field day August - at the Sher-
wood High School, 1t was announced
today by Fire Chief Spencer J. H.
Brown.
Entertainment features include q
base ball game In the afternoon and
dancing at night Supper will be served
from 3 to pm. Proceeds viii be
turned into the department fund.
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SOLDIERS HOME DEATH.
is DECLARED SUICIDE
Veteran of Indian Wars Found
Shot in Garden House
on Grounds.

A suicide certificate was issued by
the coroher last night in the death OF
Henry s. Corp, "a, Soldiers Home
inmate, who shot himself through the
head in q garden house on the home
grounds yesterday. ...
Corp, veteran Of the Indian wars,
formerly was a sergeant in the 4th
Infantry. He came to the home about
10 years ago from Arkansas.
Police said Corp left . note for his
son, John S. Corp, q guard 1T the
Lorton Reformatory, giving instrue-
tious for disposal Of his personal
effects.
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SEVENBADLYHURT
IN AUTO CRASHES
Youths Car Hits Curbing.
Brain Conclusion Result
of Truck Collision.

Seven persons were seriously injured
in automobile accidents in and near
Washington last night.
Eugene Lowry, II, Of 1925 Mckinley
street, suffered internal injuries,
puncture wound in the side and shock
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when his Automo-
bile. according q to
olice, crashed
into the curbing
on the cen t er
strip in Wiscon-
sin ven ue at
Langdrum lane In
Bethesda.
The youth, son
OF Milton z. Low
~, patent attor-
Hcy, Was Jaken 10
Georgetown Hos
pital. He is a stu
dent at Woodrow
w I son Htg h
Srho0l
Evening star., 1937-09-12
STATE POWER AID
UPHELD BY COURT
Wisconsin's Grants to Firm Pro-
noting Public Ownership May
Go to Supreme Bench.
BY the Associa ted Press

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis. September IL
Circuit Judge Alvin c. Refs upheld
the constitutionality Of the Wisconsin
Development Authority act today in
test case ruling which attorneys
said would be appealed to the State
Supreme Court.
A law appropriating 10000 year
to the w. ID. A., private corporation.
for encouragement and promotion Of
public ownership of utilities was en-
acted by the 1887 Legislature with
the backing of the administration Of
Gov. Philip F. La Toilette.
Its first court test began when
Secretary Of State Theodore DAM
mann, threatened with suit by three
Milwaukee taxpayers, refused to audit
claims of s109 on the appropriated
funds, and the authority sued for a
writ Of mandamus TO compel release
OF the funds.
Attorney Harold Stafford, repre-
sentinC Dammann, questioned the va
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jurisdiction over the warehouse work.
ers, whom they have been organizing
gradually since the 1884 maritime
strike, began circulating petitions de-
msnding governmental certifcation of
the c. 1. o. set-up as the warehouse
mems bargaining agency.
Work at Reduced Capacity.
Crippled by a teanster blockade
which began IL days ago. the San
Francisco water front continued func-
tioning at reduced capacity, and ship
ping circles cautiously predicted that
the truck drivers boycott of c. T. o.
handled cargo might never develop
into a complete tie-up.
Representatives of the Intercoastal
Freight Steamship Association, which
had been considering an embargo on
San Francisco Bay ports in view Of
the uncertain prospects for cargo
movement, said $4,000 tons of goods
had been diverted to railroads in one
week.
A limited amount of cargo con-
tinued to move to and from the docks
via the State-owned Belt Line Rail-
road Some congestion was noted on
the piers. but shipping agencies said
there were no signs that an acute
situation was in immediate prospect.
ux.a
International Vice President Dave
Beck Of the teamsters, who led his
union representatives in formulating
the strategy program. reiterated that
other ports on the coast If rail move
ment of cargo counteracted their
water front boycott.
Jack Garter, spokesman for the
teamsters in Oakland, said his union
had received from the A. F. Of L.
a new charter for warehousemen and
that 200 men already had signed for
membership in this area.
Harry Bridges. West Coast long
shoremens and c. l. 0. leader, said
he seriously doubted" whether the
A. F. of L. had actually issued q
charter for longshoremen.
Longshoremen's leaders asserted s.
900 of their San Francisco members
and 1900 Oakland co-workers had
signed the petitions asking the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board to GER
tify their existing unions as bargain
ing agents for the warehousemen.
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LINER is DELAYED

Stewards on President Hoover
Walkout at Honolulu.
HONOLULU, September II {P.-
Sailing of the liner President Hoover
for San Francisco, en- route from
the Shanghai wa zone, was delayed
five and half hours today because
of walkout by the stewards.
The stewards complain the chief
engineer had assaulted bellboy. The
bellboy swore to warrant charging
assault. but because he refused tc
remain ashore the police did not ar
rest the engineer.
The stewards had a huddle, re-
turned to the vessel and the Hoover
sailed.
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G|RL,LOST 4DAyS,
TELLS HARDSH|PS
Child, a, ReCounts Terrors
of Nights in Ozark WiIds.
Is Bruised and Naked.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERRYVILLE, Ark, September IL.
Rest and food strengthened 4-year-
old Florence Jackson today, the terrors
of four nights in Ozark woodlands
fading as the hours passed.
once 1 slept on fiat rock" said
the red-haired little daughter of a
coal miner Il caught cold and called
for mother"
She told in disconnected phrases
of other problems since she dropped
out of a walk with her family last
Monday because of a blistered foot
and became lost in hunting the family
motor car
Attendants discounted some of her
story, but bruises and scratches proved
the hardships she survived.
Naked, the child made her way late
yesterday to South Missouri farm
7 miles from the scene of her dis
appearance.
Mrs. A. W. Goodwin took her in
and cared for her until the arrival
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Jackson of Chelsea, Okla.
Physicians said she would recover
unless she developed pneumonia.
Florence said she once hid in the
woods when she saw two strange men.
probably among the TOO who hunted
her.
She declared she slept one night
in log, once in a tree.
Another night. she said. "a black
man and woman picked me up"
The child's hair was matted with
burrs and her skin lacerated by
briars when she hailed Mrs. Goodwin
across Indian Greek.
She was eating a tomato and sheep
sorrell, an edible weed Wild grapes
had supplied other food, she said.
Her dress got wet and mussed up
and then she threw it away.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
STORM KILLS PATIENT

SUDBURY. Ontario, September, IL
canadian Press Roy Bacon, IA,
died from infantie paralysis today
when the power to the iron lung in
which he had been kept alive for
week was cut off by destructive
storm.
The storm, which ragged last night
and today. cut off electricity for As
minutes in st. Joseph's Hospital,
where the boy was a patient.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
ANOTHER QUARTER
HITS KENT MURAL
Puerto Rico Cares Nothing
for message" Resents
People Shown.

Rockwell Kent's mural in the new
Post once Department Building
brought forth hot "caramba" yes
terday from the president of Puerto
Rico's Senate, according to the Asso-
ciated Press.
ut is a libel, a calumny, and a
gran insulto' to our culture" DR.
Rafael Martinez Nadal declared.
ut must be wiped out-we will send
q Puerto Rican artist who will not
misrepresent us as bunch of African
bushmen." the islands Coalitionist
party leader exclaimed.
1t was not the cryptic message in
the obscure Kuskokwin dialect of the
Eskimos that annoyed Senator Mar
tinez. That message. inscribed in the
mural on an air mail letter being de-
hvered in Puerto Rico, exhorted the
Islanders to change chiefs"
The political aspects of the picture
were "trifiing, very insignificant" the
senator said.
Puerto Rico Wants Statehood.
EFT is well known and proved by the
elections he declared. that the ma
iority of the Puerto Ricans do not
wish independence-we want to be a
State in the American Union. There
fore, who should care about a sup
posed message from the Eskimos that
1t takes an Arctic explorer like Will
jemur Steffansson to translate? I ask
you!
mo! Caramba, it cannot be. We
are not Negritos in Puerto Rico /
protest I shall protest to the Post
Office. The picture must be removed.
1t is insolent. We have artists in
Puerto Rico who will not make a
funny-paper of our cultured"
The senator's objections to Kents
mural probably will be taken into con-
sideration by the Procurement Divi-
sion, Treasury Department, during its
investigation of the painting, it was
learned.
Kent on Carpet.
Already Kent has been called on to
explain just what he means by the
cryptic inscription on the letter being
delivered to the Puerto Ricans Rear
Admiral c. J. Peoples, director of pro-
curement, has demanded an official
Interpretation of the inscription.
The painting has not yet been ac-
cepted by the Government, nor has it
been fully paid for. Kent has re-
ceived part of his contract price, but
under Treasury regulations would not
get his final installment until the
painting is formally accepted
If the work proves too Objectionable
10 the Government, 1t could be re-
jected.
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ALICE ROBERTSON,
Who 1DdS to hare entered
Stanford University at Palo
Alto, Calf, nert month, ad-
mttted yesterday she DdS the
utctina OF Thursdays ktdnap-
ing and assault on the
campus. Police are hunting
her dttdcker, Dho used scissors
to infict mounds on her face
and breast.
-Copgriuht. A. P. Wuephoto.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
GRAND JURY TO SIFT
EXTORTION CHARGE
Man Held at Richmond Accused
of Threatening Madge Evans.
$4,000 Was Sought.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, September 11-Fred-
erick J. Wood waited in Henrico
County Jail today for United States
grand jury action on a charge he at
tempted to extort $4,000 from Metro
Goldwyn Mayer studios.
Authorities said Wood was arrested
in connection with a threat to "ex-
pose" Madge Evans, blond movie star.
The man told United States Commits
sioner Melvin Glegenheimer yesterday
he had loaned $4,000 to the actress and
it had not been returned.
The defendants brother, James o.
Wood, said "As far as we know,
Frederick has never been to Holly
Evening star., 1937-09-12

wood. and the alleged pictures are
purely imaginative"
James Wood said his brother was
released from the Eastern State Hos
pital last Christmas. He was COM
mitted to the hospital in 1886. Pre-
viously, he said. his brother had been
an inmate of the Western State Hospi-
tai in 1884
Wood pleaded innocent to the ex-
tortion charge when arraigned before
the commissioner yesterday.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
LOU H0LTZ MARRIES
Stage Star Weds Phyllis Gilman,
Model. in Mexico.

Aqua CALIENTE, Mexico, Septem-
Der IL (P).-Lou Holtz, 36, stage ano
screen star, and Phyllis Gilman
model, were married here today
Holtz said he met Miss Gilman
when they were making a picture ir
London last year. They will spend
a brief honeymoon here before re-
turning to Hollywood. where Holt7
is having screen. test.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
D. c. MAN ELECTED
Thomas ]. Frailey Named Alpha
Chi Rios National President.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., September
II (P,.-Alphs Chi Rho National Col
lege Fraternity. in convention here,
today elected Thomas J. Frailey of
Washington, D. C., as president for
1878. Mr.. Frailey is connected
with the legal department of the
United States Veterans Administra-
ton.
The new vice president is Horace
r. Basford of the actuarial depart
ment of an insurance company in
New York City.
William H. D. Cox, a Newark law
yer, is the new national counsellor.
Speakers at the banquet tonight in
cluded William Mcclellan, president Of
the Potomac Electric Power Co.; Prof.
Moses Brines. faculty member of Rut-
gers University, and Robert B. Stew
art, controller of Purdue University
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Russia to Join U. S. Fete.

MEXICO CITY, September II (P).
Mexico officially accepted today an
invitation to participate in San Fran
cisco's 1889 Golden Gate International
Exposition. All other Central Amer
ican nations have indicated they will
be represented.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

lidity OF the act on the grounds IL
authorized the State to engage in
works of internal improvement, and
that 1t approved expenditure of pub
lie money for private purpose. both
expressly forbidden, he said, in the
Wisconsin constitution.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Maritime
Continued From First Page.

workers of 56 steamship lines operat-
Ing from Atlantic and Gulf ports.
The board held that the I. S. U. plea
to delay the elections until after new
name has been selected for the re-
vanlped maritime unit Of the A. F. of
L., was not sufficient cause for a post
ponement. The /. S. U. was given a
week to find new name for the bal
lots.
c. i. o. Protested Delay.
The c. /. o. National Maritime
Union. claiming support of 10000 sea-
men, protested to the board Friday
that another delay in the maritime
elections would only prolong and in
tensify the two years of labor strife on
the Atlantic water front.
The elections will give organized
seamen an opportunity to determine
whether they want TO be represented by
the c. I. 0. or A F. of l.. unions in
collective bargaining conferences with
ship owners.
The board also directed ship owners
10 avoid giving an unequal number OF
passes to the rival unions organizers
who want TO board ships in search of
recruits.
The c. l. o. maritime division at a
strike conference in New York Thurs
day charged that ship owners were
aiding the I. S. u. and Joseph p.
Ryan, head of the International Long
shoremen's Association, in lining up
strength for the A. F. of L.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
CONSOLIDATE FORCES.
c. l. o. and A. +. of L. Appear Plan.
ming Long Struggle.

SAN FRANCISCO, September II
Rl.-A. F. of L. teamsters and c. I. O.
longshoremen started consolidating
their forces today as if expecting a
long struggle for control of organized
varehousemen on the Pacific Coast.
Union teamsters, claiming coast
membership of 10000. carried the
fight to the longshoremen through
central committees formed yesterday
by delegates representing all major
Pacific ports.
Longshoremen. refusing to Weld
Evening star., 1937-02-10
MIDWEST FOUND
HOME OF BEAUTIES
Cameras Best Subjects Are
From Wide. Open Spaces,
Says 0'NeiII.7 !

Americas beautiful girls come
trom-Arthur O'Neil, Dho photo
graphs them, tells In the second
and last OF series OF articles on
beauty and the camera.