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Evening star., 1937-02-24
BUDGET FREEDOM
FROM BUREAU AIM
Citizens Committee May
Consider Change in D. c.
Set-up Study.

Freedom Of the District budget
estimates from the control Of the
Budget Bureau likely will be con-
sidered In the comprehensive investi-
cation of the District Government set
up to be made by a committee Of
civic and business leaders.
Proposals Tor consolidation Of the
metropolitan and the United States
park police likely will be another,
according to informal talk today on
the agenda which may be prepared by
the investigating group.
These two subjects, frequently de-
bated. are expected to be raised when
the committee makes a scrutiny of
suggestions for broadening Of the
powers of the Commissioners.
The committee has not yet been
named. and it Is not expected to
start functioning until after March
10, when Engineer Commissioner Dan
I. Sultan returns from vacation.
Commissioner Hazen announces the
Merchants and Manufacturers As
sociation will be asked to have rep
resentatives. Other groups likely will
be asked to participate.
The chairman Is to be named after
the full membership is selected, Hazen
said. He said he hoped the chair
man would be some one familiar with
the Districts problems and set-up,
and one who would have ample time
to devote to a careful, serious exam
ination of suggestions for possible
reorganization.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
FOUR HELD FOR JURY
IN HOLD.UP ATTEMPT
White Man and Three Colored
Accused of Trying to Rob
Laundry.

A white man and three colored men
were held for grand jury action today
on charges of attempted robbery in
connection with the attempted hold
up February 16 Of the Arcade-Sun-
shine Laundry, 735 Lamont street,
which was averted when Miss Eleanor
Campbell, 28-year-old cashier. beat
of a colored bandit with a broom
stick.
The quartet was ordered held after
arraignment before Police Court
Judge Walter j. Casey. The white
man is Clifford L. Gibbons, 1400 block
Of Fifth street. The others are Rob-
ert C. Chambers of no fixed address,
Nathaniel Cobbs. 5000 block of Sher-
man avenue, and Anthony Kirby, TOO
block of Harvard street.
Bond for the colored men was set
at $1,000 each, while Gibbons bond
was set at $500.
tective Sergt. Robert Barrett the at
tempted robbery was planned three
weeks earlier. He named Chambers as
the man who entered the laundry es-
tablishment with drawn gun, fired a
wild shot at Miss Campbell and then
fled to a waiting automobile after the
cashier attacked him with a broom.
hitting him so hard the handle broke
'over his head.
Gibbons, an employe of parking
LOT. had lent a customers automobile
to Chambers, Barrett testified. 1t had
been agreed that if the hold-up was
successful Gibbons was to receive $50.
the court was told. Kirby, an employe
Of the laundry for several years. and
Cobbs were said to have participated
in plans for the hold-up. and Kirby
was named as the driver of the car.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
"Glacier Priest" to Seek Neev Islands
Father Hubbard Here to Arrange Lecture Plans to Spend
Winter on Land in Bering Strait.

:prove the origin of the Eskimos and
be a permanent record of their fast
disappearing civilization"
Father Hubbard's Winters in the
United States have been almost as
strenuous as the last 10 Summers he
has devoted to exploring the glaciers
and turbulent rivers of Alaska.
Between October and May he lee
lures to some 100000 people, devoting
the proceeds to the maintenance of
600 Eskimo and half-breed orphans
In Alaska and to equipping his expe-
ditions. On his wilderness jaunts he
carries the vestments Of his order and
portable altar and celebrates daily
mass for members Of his party.
Exploration is tradition Of the
JeSuitS," Father Hubbard said. Il
carry it on with the aid of modern
methods. You might call me an ad-
venture salesman. I sell by story to
the American people, and the funds I
raise go to worthy charity. I'll soon
be so years old.
DO you think I'll be too old then
to pack my 115-pound pack and keep
up with the young college athletes who
accompany me on my jaunts?"
Father Hubbard's listeners said they
hardly thought so.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
Rush to Read of Issue Blocks
Anthem, to Saue Constitution

"For weeks I've been seeking books
on the Constitution so that can
compose my ode on historical basis.
I'm sure the ode will be set to
music and sung by countless Ameri-
cans. But when I search for books
by John Marshall or James Beck I
find they already have been removed
from the shelves of the library. I
intend to awaken public interest in the
subject as soon as people bring the
books back"
Miss Mock will be remembered, she
said, as the composer of a 1882
Roosevelt slogan song entitled Roll In
With Roosevelt and sung to the tune
of Good Night. Ladies'"
Miss Mock was a violinist until she
broke a wrist. After that, while sur
rounding herself with musicians, she
turned her creative talents toward
poetry and literature.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
House Officials Hold AuditiOns
For Assistant Reading Clerk

lected. His voice and diction was
flawless.
when he came to the final test,
the roll CALL" Chaffee related. "he
broke out in perspiration, botched the
Job and declared he couldn't do it."
For a try-out. a recommendation
from either Speaker Bankhead or
South Trimble, House clerk, is neces-
sary.
Few Congressman know it, but the
name-reading side of the reading
clerks Job Is not the most important.
Chaffee said he and his associate are
responsible for preparing the official
copy Of all legislation that goes 70 the
enrolling clerk after House passage.
Chaffee and Haltigan are as careful
Of their voices as opera stars.
"I haven't been to a theater, ex-
cept in recess periods, for years." Chat
fee said. Keeping FREQ from throat
infections certainly restricts my social
ufe."
Evening star., 1937-02-24
BY w. H. SHIPPEN. JR.

Father Bernard Hubbard is planning
to follow the flight Of sea gulls to un-
discovered islands in the ice-locked
Arctic Ocean north of Siberia.
But before undertaking that adven-
ture the glacier priest" will spend q
Winter on King Island in the Bering
Strait to record in sound and fllm the
native customs and language Of the
Eskimo population.
The Jesuit explorer was enthusiastic
about his plans for the future when he
stopped in Washington today to ar
range for his lecture in Constitution
Hall next Wednesday night. 1t will be
his last appearance here for at least
two years.
Father Hubbard said that thousands
of gulls and terms fly from the north
ern coast of Alaska over the Arctic
Ocean in a direction which indicates
they have havens on undiscovered
islands which must lie several hundred
miles north of the Siberian coast.
Sure" Islands Are There.
I'm sure the islands are there"
Father Hubbard said. "They prob.
ably are small and rocky and barren.
You couldn't sell one for. $40, but
the fact remains that their discovery
would add to mans limited knowl-
edge OF the Arctic. That possibility Is
challenge enough for me.
I'VE will take 75-foot boat now
being built for us of stainless steel,
with streamlined superstructure and
electrically welded seams. Such a
boat, we hope, will be forced upward
if caught in an ice pack rather than
crushed. The boat will be powered
by Diesel engines which will run on
seal oil should our regular stock of
fuel run low.
I'VE will take along a dozen sturdy
Eskimos and when the ice stops us
we will travel over the ice, pulling
sleds and carrying Eskimo kayaks to
transport us across open stretches of
water. These kayaks are made Of
sealskin stretched over a pointed
frame and should suit the purpose
admirably.
This coming Winter I expect to
spend on King Island in the Southern
Bering Strait of the Alaskan Coast.
The Eskimos who live here have had
almost no contact with the whites and
their language, traditions and customs
Evening star., 1937-02-24
COMMITTEE OK.
|SGVENCAP|T0L
EXTENSION PLAN
Senate Group Favors Ap-
pointment of Commission
to Select Design.
TWO CHOICES ARE OPEN
ON ENLARGEMENT SIZE
Bill Fixes Cost Limit at So, 900,
600, Subject to Appropria-
tions Consent.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

A favorable report on the Connally
bill for extension of the east front
of the Capitol was voted today by the
Senate Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee
The proposal is to bring forward
the original central portion for the
main purpose of giving the dome a
more balanced appearance and to put
marble front on that section to
match the House and Senate wings.
AS approved by the committee, the
measure sets up congressional COM
mission to decide which Of two alter
native plans should be carried out.
One plan would limit the extension
to about IL feet, which would give
the dome the appearance of adequate
support, but without adding any more
Office space inside the building. The
other plan would bring the extension
out approximately 80 feet to give ad-
ditional committee rooms and a cor
ridor connecting the House and Sen
ate wings on the gallery floor. At
present there is no hallway between
the wings on the gallery floor.
$4,000, 900 Limit of Cost.
The bill fixes the limit of cost at
not to'exceed $4,000, 900, but the funds
would have to be passed on by the
Appropriations Committee after the
commission decided which plan to
follow
The committee voted down a sug-
gestion by Senator Austin, Republican,
of Vermont, that the bill be limited
to the extension Of approximately IL
feet.
The bill probably will pass the Sem
ate. which approved similar measure
in the last Congress, but the real test
will come in the House, where oppo-
sition developed two years ago. The
previous bill died in the House. The
opponents have contended the orig
inal central portion should not be
changed because of the history con-
nected with it. They argue the loss
in historic value would outweigh the
advantages gained from the improve
ments.
Says Designer Favored It..
Supporters Of the measure empha-
size that when Thomas U. Walter
built the wings and present dome rs
years ago he believed that at some fu-
ture time the east front of the old part
should be brought forward to give the
entire structure a completed appear
ance architecturally.
A commission which studied the
proposed extension in 1905 pointed out
that the present dome had to be de-
signed in proportion to the enlarged
building "and yet Mr. Walter found
himself compelled to place this larger
dome upon the masonry foundations
and walls Of the smaller dome"
The 1905 report stated that Walter
realized and agreed that the extension
should be made to eliminate the ap-
pearance of the dome overhanging the
portico.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
DEATHBR|NGSTO TOLL
IN TRAFFIC TO 25
Man, so, Injured in Decem-
ber, Dies-Four Hurt
in "a Hours.

The twenty-fifth traffic death oi
the year-eight more than at this time
In l936-was recorded last night wher
William Schweitzer, go. of 1913 Thirc
street. died in Gallinger Hospital o1
injuries received December 10 when
he was struck by an automobile at
Truxton Circle, North Capitol street
and Florida avenue
The driver of the car was said by
police to be Henry Long. 81, colofed
TOO block of Ninth street He was
arrested at the time of the accident
on a charge of reckless driving.
Four persons-two of them children
were injured in other mishaps re-
ported during the last "a hours
Mrs Esther Gouker, 81. of 1915
Twelfth street, suffered a sprained
shoulder and hip when the taxicab in
which she was riding was in collision
with another machine at Eleventh
and L streets. She was taken to
Emergency Hospital.
Watson Dixon, II, of 5719 Fourth
street. passenger in private car, was
cut about the face in a crash at Fourth
and Jefferson streets. He also was
treated at Emergency. Dixon was rid
ing in machine operated by Carl
Mills, IS, of 523 Seventh street.
Peter Norton, Is, colored, 1929
Seventh street. was cut about the head
and leg when struck by hit-and-run
driver in the 1900 block of Fifth street.
He was taken to Freedmen's Hospital.
The other victim was Paul Hughes,
10, of 1923 Shepherd street, who was
bruised when his coaster wagon struck
an automobile while he was playing in
an alley in the 1900 block of Randolph
street. He was treated at Garfield Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
Paternity Presents
Hurt Student Pin
In Hospital Room
Initiation Rites WaiUed
for G.. ". Student In.
iured in Ceremonies.

Fraternity initiation ceremonies
postponed Saturday night after YER
non Rasmussen was shocked by q
power line while running an errand"
in the interests Of fraternalism-were
carried out yesterday at Georgetown
Hospital, where the 25-year-old George
Washington University student is re-
covering from burns.
Waving the usual rites. due to
Rasmussen's confinement, members Of
Sigma Chi presented him with the
fraternity's pin, which makes him
one of them.
Rasmussen, who comes from East
Salt Lake City, Utah, was burned
about the arm and legs when he came
near q 13,000-volt line after he
climbed q fence surrounding the
Dalecarlia distribution reservoir on
Conduit road.
According to members Of the fra
ternity, who sent him from the house
while they made preparations for the
initiation. he misunderstood 'instruc-
tions," which called for him to flnd
an object" and strayed from the
route hs was to taxa.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
LEGION POST TO HOLD
PATRIOTIC EXERCISES
Fort Stevens Units Program to
Be Held in Paul Junior High

Fort Stevens Units Program to
Be Held in Paul Junior High
School Auditorium Tomorrow.
Fort Stevens Post, No. 80, American
Legion, will hold its third annual
community patriotic exercises in the
auditorium of Paul Junior High School
at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
Representative James L. Quinn of
Pennsylvania will be the speaker.
Presentation of Fort Stevens Post
Americanism Medals will be made to
students participating in the recent
essay contest who have been selected
by the faculty of each of the II north
west graded and parochial schools.
Certificates Of merit will be presented
to students who attained second and
third place. Robert A. Maurer will
be present on behalf of the Board Of
Education.
Entertainment will be furnished by
the Paul Junior High School Orches-
ira, the Juniors of Sergt. Jasper Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary Unit and the
Fort Stevens Drum and Bugle Corps.
Americanism Oficer Joseph A.
Walker u general chairman.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
TOWN HALL DATES
JUDICIARY DEBATE
Senator Black and Representative
Brewster to Take Part-Dr.
Haggard Due April II.

Officials of the Town Hall of Wash
ington announced today arrangements
have been completed for debate be-
tween two members of Congress on
President Roosevelt's judiciary reor-
ganization proposals.
The debate will take place at the
Town Hall session Sunday night at
the Shoreham Hotel between Senator
Black, Democrat, of Alabama, and
Representative Brewster, Republican,
OF Maine.
DR.. Howard W. Haggard of Yale
University, who was to be principal
speaker at the next session, will be
heard April II instead, Mrs. Richard
v. Oulahan. Town Hall director, said.
There will be no panel for the de-
bate on the court ISSUE Senator Black
Is strong supporter of the court
bill, while Representative Brewster Is
opposed to it.
Listeners will be given an oppor-
tunity to question the speakers from
the floor.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
By the Associated Press.


House officials ere conducting q Sc
ries of additions to find q man with
poise. :.
They want him to I'LL the post Of
assistant reading clerk, created as the
result of the illness Of stentorian-
voiced P. ]. (Pat, Haltigan, who be-
gan calling rolls in the House IS years
ago.
Although voice and enunciation
count. A. E. Chaffee, veteran reading
clerk. said poise probably would be
the determining factor.
"In q roll call not only ha, /, to
call out the 435 members names audi
bly, and pronounce them correctly" :"
said Chaffee, but at the same time
you must see that the tally clerk gets
the responses accurately and also keep
your own record straight"
A one-time Chautauqua lecturer
tried out ct The tina Chaffee was -
Evening star., 1937-02-24
SEWING EXHIBITED
BY W.P.A. WOMEN
Garments, BedcoverS and
Other Articles to Be Given
to Relief Families.

The handiwork of 1,400 women en-
ployed in % w. P. A. sewing rooms
in the District was shown to members
of the District Federation of Women's
Clubs in an exhibit yesterday at the
Roosevelt Hotel.
Garments for men, women and
children, towels, bedcovers and other
articles. in fact, everything but shoes
and overcoats, were presented in a
display arranged on tables. They were
taken directly from the workrooms to
the exhibit hall, and later they will
be given to relief families and to local
institutions.
Women employed in the sewing
rooms. operated by the District w. P.
A. under Deputy Administrator Otto
j. Cass. are paid s4620 a month. All
of them are the economic heads of
families. During the last year, $500
garments have been made in the sew
ing rooms here.
The Federation, sponsoring yester-
days exhibit, met at the Roosevelt
and heard a brief address by District
Welfare Director Elwood Street. Mrs.
Lloyd w. Biddle, president Of the
federation presided Mrs. Ruth Snod-
grass sang several Colonial songs,
accompanied by Mrs. Mary c. Tighe.
Both were attired in Colonial cos
TUNES. Mrs. c. NJ. Lewis, also in
costume. impersonated Susan B. An
thony "in the little red shawl"
At present the stock of clothing
made by sewing room workers is low
because the local warehouse was vir-
tually cleaned out recently for the
benefit of Ohio Valley food sufferers
Other w. p A. sewing rooms through
out the country contributed to the
food victims.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
M'GEE CONVICTED
IN ASSAULT CASE
Faces Maximum Sentence
of 80 Years-GirI, ID, .
Takes Stand.

Edward J. MCGEE, %, today was
found guilty Of criminal assault on q
14-year-old Langley Junior High
School student. The District Court
jury, out only so minutes. failed to
recommend the death sentence for
MCGEE who can be sent to prison for
q maximum of 80 years.
Assistant United States Attorney
Roger Robb. prosecuting the case,
asked for death for MCGEE, but not
since the conviction 10 years ago Of
Philip Jackson. colored. for attacking
a white woman in the Capitol Grounds,
has a jury recommended capital pun
ishment. Only for this crime is jury
empowered by law to decide on the
penalty.
The victim of the alleged assault
testified that she had been property
man" for q student play at Langley
the night of the occurrence. Decem-
Der 18 last. She said she was return
ing from the school in company Of q
13-year-old schoolmate when MCGEE
seized her, dragged her into an alley,
beat her and assaulted her.
Both she and her girl companion
identified MCGEE from the witness
stand. The other girl testified she
ran home and told her father. who
called police. MCGEE was arrested
nearby.
His defense was q dual one. He
contended, first, that he did not COM
nit the crime, and second, that if he
did do it, he was so drunk that he did
not know what he was doing.
Justice James M. Proctor instructed
the jury that drunkenness was no de-
fense.
MCGEE, q gas station attendant, Is
married and has three children. He
lives in the first block Of I street.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
MASONIC PARLEY ENDS

The annual conference OF grand
masters of Masonic lodges throughout
the country. which began yesterday,
will conclude today at the Willard
Hotel
The group of more than 40 grand
masters was received informally yes
terday by President Roosevelt. Last
night the program was featured by a
banquet.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra in the Auditorium at 8
pm. today. Capt. Taylor Branson,
leader; william F. Santelmann. sec
ond leader.
Program.
Overture, la Vie Pour le Gar"
CThe Life for the Czar) -Glinka
1.-The Call of the Plains"
Rubin Goldmark
ca Chant de PAlouette,"
from 1.-THE Seasons"
Tschaikowsky
CD "Humoreske,"
Opus 10, No. o. TschaikowSky
Concerto for Horn and
Orchestra No. 3 in e
Flat Major" Mozart
Symphonic Poem, Don JUAN"
Opus Richard Strauss
Waltz Suite, Moonlight on
the Alster''- -Fetras
Grand Fantasy, Variations on
Yankee Doodle" Opus
Anton Rubinstein
THE Marines Hymn"
'4Ehs Star spanslsd Banner.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
"GAY NINETIES" BALL

The Sponsors Committee Of the
Presidents Cup Regatta will stage
costume ball with gay COS" motif
at the Willard Hotel on the night OF
March IL with the Gay Nineties Glee
Club, composed of 80 or more Wash
tngton singers, acting as the floor
committee.
The Lisa Gardiner dance group
will present costume dances and solo
numbers. The entertainment pro.
gram includes quartet and comic
opera numbers and dance music.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
WOMAN BANDIT, 28,
PERMITS CAPTURE
Weeps During HoId.Up of
Store and Waits for
Y Police,

Crime was too much for a woman
bandit who, softened by God bless
you," drank soft drink after order
ing whisky and tearfuNy allowed her
self to be captured last night by the
unarmed proprietress Of the grocery
store she attempted to rob.
The blond gun girl. identified by
police as Mrs. Mary Lucille Sheckles,
%, made what obviously was her frst
venture into the hold-up business at
a store at 1921 Eighteenth street.
-year-old Andrew Schwartz
was alone behind the counter when
she entered and asked for a half-pint
Of rye. Andrew called his mother,
Mrs. Rose Schwartz.
The woman suddenly changed her
mind while Mrs. Schwartz was trying
to determine what brand of liquor she
wanted. Producing . tiny .32-caliber
revolver, which she handled nervously,
she compelled Mrs. Schwartz to give
her the contents of the cash register.
Blessed" by Victim.
"Take it and God bless you," said
Mrs. Schwartz, handing over $25.
THAT isn't all-give me the rest"
the hold-up woman replied. "A man
out there will kill me If I don't get
1t ALL"
Mrs. Schwartz glanced at the door
but didn't see anybody. The bandit
appeared on the verge of tears as she
held the money in one hand and the
gun in the other.
A colored customer walked in about
that time, and the bandit partially re-
gained her composure. At her warning
that she might shoot, the newcomer
dropped to the floor and stayed there.
Mrs. Sabre Scala, wife of a shoe
store proprietor next door, dropped in
to pay Mrs. Schwartz a friendly call.
She quailed at the sight Of the gun.
In fact, Mrs. Scala wanted to go right
away, but the hold-up woman made
her stay.
Another customer started in. She
saw what was going on, however, and
hurried to a nearby beauty parlor,
where she called police.
Detectives Arrive.
When third precinct detectives ar
rived, they found very sad-looking
bandit-her eyes red from crying and
the gun hanging at her side.
Mrs. Schwartz told the officers the
woman made no resistance when she
came from behind the counter. She
held the bandit and she sobbed, num-
bling something about her mother
being dead only two months. Then
she drank little from bottle of pop,
shifting all the while.
The only explanation for the tears
seemed to be that the bandit was
moved by Mrs. Schwartz's blessing"
or was frightened at the thought Of
what she was doing.
At the Women's Bureau the woman
said she lived In the 1900 block of
Mills avenue northeast. At that ad-
dress it was said she and her mother
had moved about month ago.
Police records revealed a Mary Lu-
cille Sheckles has been arrested six
times during the last two years, four
times on charges of drunkenness, once
for disorderly conduct and once for
investigation.
Evening star., 1937-02-24
Birthday Luncheon Tomorrow

A belated celebration of Washing
toms birthday anniversary will be
held by the Cosmopolitan Club at its
luncheon meeting tomorrow at 1880
pm. at the Carlton Hotel. The speak
er will be Prof Edward Stafford of
Georgetown University, who will dis
cuss Washington and His Relation
to the Law"
Evening star., 1937-02-24
Oregon Flower Lecture.

HYATTSVILLE, Md, February a
Especially DIR. j. S. Cooley Of the De-
partment of Agriculture will give an
illustrated lecture on Oregon Wild
Flowers" at the February meeting Of
the Hyattsville Horticultural Society.
to be held at the Horticultural Build
ing, University { Maryland, tomor-
row at 8 pm.