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The Washington times., 1937-11-16
Mrs. DeeQQn
Celebrates
Birthday

Mrs. Margaret Deegan cele-
brated another birthday yes
terday. But Mrs. Deegan has a
special way Of celebrating the
date. And whether they all
know it or not, more than $50
persons helped Mrs. Deegan
celebrate the occasion by at
tending the annual turkey din
ner sponsored by the Moose
haven Committee Of the Women
Of the Moose, last night in
Moose Hall, 1414 I st. N. w.
Mrs. Deegan, chairman of the
dinner, is a past regent Of
Columbia Chapter (the local
Moose Women) and a member
Of the National Moosehaven
Committee as well as chairman
Of the local committee. This is
the third consecutive year that
she has led her group in Spon-
Soring the benefit dinner, held
especially on her birthday, with
the proceeds going to Moose
haven, the orders home for the
aged in Florida.
THOUSAND AIDED
MooSehaven, described as the
"City Of Contentnent," is an
estate of approximately so
acres, IS miles west Of Jackson
vile. Since its establishment
in 1922 more than a thousand
aged folk have been cared for,
with an average population of
$50.
All Of the inhabitants of Moose
haven are engaged in such tasks
as their bodily condition and pre-
viouS training permit them and
all are provided with more than
the needful things of life. Also
husbands and wives are not sep
arated at MooSehaven, but to-
gether may spend the balance Of
their lives. Mosehavep repre-
sents an investment of one mil
lion dollars, plus an annual con-
tribution of approximately a
hundred thousand dollars re-
quired for its maintenance.
Mrs. Deegan has devoted much
time recently to establishing a
fund with which to equip a mod
ern hospital at Moosehaven, sue
ceeding in arouSing interest in
this project throughout the en-
tire organization, and this year
the proceeds from last nights
dinner will go to the hospital
fund, as well as to provide a
Christmas box for the women at
Moosehaven.
GOOD CHEF
A regular "chef" is Mrs. Dee
gan, who was buSily engaged for
several days before the dinner
preparing roast turkey and other
tasty items. And the meal was
good! Mrs. Deegan's assistants
in the cooking were Mrs. Anna
Wagner and Mrs. Grace Clark.
Wearing immaculate aprons,
members who assisted in serving
were Mrs. Calvin Giles, Mrs. j.
p. Mitchell, Miss Earle Mitchell,
Mrs. Pauline Miller and Mrs.
Robert Baldwin. Mrs. Baldwin
is the senior regent of Columbia
Chapter. Mrs. Marie Clarke was
cashier"
Mrs. James Davis, wife Of
Senator Davis of Pennsylvania,
came to the dinner with her two
daughters, Jane and Jewel, and
with her siSter-in-law, Mrs. Han
nah Jones, of Sharon, Pa. Sena-
tor Davis is the director general
Of the Moose Fraternity.
Others seen at the dinner:
Mr.. anG! Mrs. Wade Mitchell.
Mrs. Mitchell is publicity chair
man, and she looked charming
in her Paisley dress and her
chic red tam-Shaped hat.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Clark.
Mrs. Clark is a past regent and
alumni chairman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Rada, the
chapters chaplain.
The Washington times., 1937-11-16

in a celebration tonight. The
event will be a testimonial din
ner in honor of DR.. Enoch w.
Skies, president of Clemson Col.
iege, South Carolina, and will
be held in the Harrington Hotel
at $50 p. m.
DR.. Henry w. Barre, president
Of the local club, will preside at
the meeting preceding the din
ner at which many Clemson
alumni, now connected with
other colleges, will be present.
The bridge section of the Park
View Women's Club held a bridge
luncheon at 1890 today at the
home Of Mrs. Hugh KeiSer, 4807
Arkansas Ave. N. w. Mrs. w.
o. Hancock, chairman, presided.
Mrs. A. E. Brumfield was assist
ing hostess.
Evening star., 1937-12-14
GROUP REJECTS
RUHLAND'S PLEA
Piney Branch Citizen Unit
Again Opposes Hospital
Use by GaI|inger.

Further opposition to the conversion
Upshur street NV. into a GONZALES
cent home for Gallinger Hospital
patients was voiced last night at
meeting of the Piney Branch Citizens
Association.
Already having passed resolutions
against the plan. the association last
night gave added instructions to the
head of a committee who will present
the associations viewpoint before a
hearing of a subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee on
about December 20.
- Frank G. Merritt vice president of
the association and chairman of the
committee which contains represen-
tatives of several other associations
and parent-teacher groups opposing
the plan, will head the delegation
before the subcommittee hearing.
Rutland Letter Read.
A letter from Health Officer George
G. Rutland which was received by
the association last Wednesday fol-
lows in part:
The Department Of Health pro-
poses the temporary utilization of
Upshur CHospitaD as a convalescent
home. The reasons for urging favor
able consideration of this plan are
the following:
"Gallinger Hospital is notoriously
overcrowded. 1t is an established
fact that to operate a convalescent
home requires lesser staff and there
fore can be undertaken more cheaply
than operation for the acutely sick
Washington, unfortunately, has no
convalescent hospital so far. The
utilization of Upshur as GONZALES
cent home, therefore, would be Of
immediate help to lessen the over
crowding at Gallinger, giving the
patients that must be taken care of
at Gallinger better chance for more
service. This could be done without
any material cost to the taxpayer.
Il do not urge this recommendation
for Upshur as a permanent procedure
but as an immediate solution of q
pressing problem. I hope have your
support"
Cites Delay.
DR.. Rutland concluded by saving
a year and a half would be required
to obtain the appropriation and for
construction of a new building at
Gallinger
A letter was to be written to DR..
Rutland stating why the association
did not favor his proposal.
Among the associations reasons for
opposing the plan were that the
zoning laws did not provide for the
type Of institution which would be
required; that the transportation
problem between Gallinger and Up
shur would be an important one since
the two institutions are six miles
apart; that the association would
prefer that Upshu: be converted into
an educational center. preferably the
site for the new Wilson Teachers
College, and that the parking prob
lem on guest days at the hospital
would be cne to be considered in the
event 1t we're turned into a GONZALES
cent home
Several residents of the neighbor-
hood, though not members of the
association, attended the meeting and
voiced their disapproval of the con-
valescent home plan.
Evening star., 1937-12-14

told the group that the lone vulner-
able spot to fires would be the District
Building, should fire throw the
central Office out of order there.
Unlike many OF the larger cities in
the country, there is no isolated sys-
tenn here to meet with such an emer-
gency as would necessitate reserve
alarm system, Mr.. Friede said
Mr.. Friede further declared that
use Of the telephone had proven a
time wasting method due to excite
ment of callers and the minutes
wasted when the report was referred
from the telephone operator to the
Evening star., 1937-12-14
ORGAN RECITAL LISTED

The fourth Of the series Of organ
recitals to be held in the Mckinley
Technical High School next Sunday
at pm. will feature traditional
Christmas carols, their origin and
stories.
Mrs. Mathilde Kolb Bartlett, con-
tralto, will sing a group of the carols
and sketch their history. She will
be accompanied by Prof A. G. L..
Wiener at the organ and William F..
Hullings on the guitar. No admis-
sion will be charged.
Evening star., 1937-12-14

central office and then to the fire
house in the fire area.
Discussing the advantages of radio
as part of the fire alarm equipment,
Mr.. Friede pointed out the made
quacy of radio in stormy weather, a
time when the fire box with its un-
derground cables Is most reliable.
A letter from Western Market farm
ers to the District Commissioners
requesting hearing on the parking
situation at the X Street Market was
Endorsed by the body on motion of
Grover Ayers Of the association.
Deploring the conditions of the
Evening star., 1937-12-14
CONCESSION TO PUPILS

AS a special accommodation to high
school students the Washington Popu-
lar Opera Association yesterday placed
on sale tickets priced at SO cents for
the performance Of "Haensel und
Gretel," to be given at the Rialto The
ater next Sunday afternoon.
Students can obtain further in
formation about the performance and
the purchase of tickets by calling the
associations Office at the Raleigh
Hotel.
Evening star., 1937-12-14

parks and parkways Of the Western
section of the city. Mrs. Charles
Edward Russell. member of the asso-
citation, asked that petition be sent
to the National Capital Parks and
Planning Commission urging more
planting and landscaping in these
parks. The proposal was Endorsed
by the group.
Evening star., 1937-12-14
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
IS HELD VULNERABLE
West End Citizens Group to
District Has No Reserve
Control.

Speaking before the West End Citi-
zens' Association at its meeting last
night. Herbert A. Friede, superin-
tendent of fire alarms in the District,
Evening star., 1937-12-14
PETTENGILL TO SPEAK
Will Discuss Constitution Before
Sons of American Revolution.

SsVIIo UI x11IIcI1 1Cdd eVUIuLIUu.
Representative Samuel Pettengill
Of Indiana will speak on the Con-
stitution at meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Society, Sons of
the American Revolution, to be held
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the Mayflower
Hotel
A supper will be served, and Earl
Carbauh. baritone. and Miss Kath-
crime Mcmillan, soprano, will give a
musical program.
Evening star., 1937-12-14

Trucks Painted Khaki.
All mail trucks, fire engines and
miscellaneous government trucks in
Osaka, Japan, are to be painted khaki.
Evening star., 1937-12-14

Family fragrant, perspi-
ration proof, Almonized
gloves will charm her with
their smartness, their sauve
fit, their flaWless quality.
Black, brown, gray and
white. Sizes 534 to 712.
Kann's Street Floor
Evening star., 1937-03-23

United States Department of Agri-
culture reports show lower Rio Grande
Valley citrus is being carried by truck
tc 26 States beyond Texas.
Evening star., 1937-03-23

strikers in small, non-automotive
plants
While the union deferred its threat
ened call of cityWide automotlVe
strike as a more formidable protest
against those evictions, city officials
announced there would be no further
interference with peaceful strikers.
Several raids, two yesterday. avowedly
were based upon information that
nom employees were among the strikers.
The announcement of an impend-
ing meeting between Chrysler and
Lewis at Lansing climaXed long-con-
tinued efforts to bring them together
in New York. Chrysler heretofore
has refused to meet any representa-
tive of the union as long as strikers
continued to occupy the plants.
1t was assumed Lewis would offer
tomorrow to settle the Chrysler strike
on the basis of the recent General
Motors agreement, calling for ex-
elusive bargaining rights for six
months. Chrysler conferees here re-
jected that proposal yesterday.
Nine Are Convicted.
Nine men were convicted of con-
tempt and given suspended sentences
today as an aftermath of the election
of IS strikers from the Newton Pack
ing Co. plant Saturday.
The nine men and l3 women refused
to apologize Saturday when they were
arraigned before Circuit Judge Allan
Campbell for ignoring a court order
that they leave the plant peaceably.
The other strikers apologized and were
released.
Today the 13 women made full
apologies, but the nine men persisted
in their REFUSAL contending that they
had no knowledge of the issuance of
the injunction and subsequent writs of
attachment. Judge Campbell said he
was confident they knew of the court
orders
Homer Martin, U. A. w. president,
had announced a city-Wide walkout
would be ordered if police persisted in
their activities against small sit-down
protests. Two such strikes were broken
up Saturday and two more yielded
quietly to police pressure yesterday.
Mayor Defends Police.
Mayor Couzens, in statement de-
Tending his department against Mar
tins charges the police were brutal
in ejecting strikers, gave assurance
there would be mo interference with
peaceful so-called sit-down strikes"
The only action, he said, would be
in disputes where outsiders partici-
pated.
Martin charged late yesterday the
union had evidence the corporation
deliberately withheld" evidence SUBJ
poenaed by Senator Robert M. La Fol-
lette's Special Committee on Civil
Liberties.
B. E. Hutchinson, chairman of the
Chrysler Finance Committee, denied
the charge and said it appeared the U.
A. w. had added the crimes Of
breaking and entering and burglary to
their already illegal seizure OF our
plants"
K. T. Keller, Chrysler president, an
Evening star., 1937-03-23

nounced Herman L. Weckler, vice
president and general manager of the
De Soto division, had been named a
vice president of Chrysler Corp. in
charge of industrial relations. Weckler
has been participating in negotiations
with the U. A. w.
Talk of recall movements against
both Mayor Couzens and Gov. Murphy
was heard yesterday. Martin said he
was seriously considering" such ac-
ton against CouzenS because of the
strike raids. G. L. Williston, manu-
facturers' agent, telegraphed the Gov
ernor a demond that troops be used to
oust the Chrysler strikers, with the
threat recall movement would be
started April l unless the chief execu-
tive acted.
The Governor disclosed yesterday
that threats against his life had been
received but had been given no atten-
ton.
Negotiations in the REQ Motor Car
Co. strike at Lansing entered their
second day. Mayor Max T. Templeton,
who brought the two sides together,
was appointed spokesman for the con-
| ference, but declined to comment
Each side had seven representatives
More than 1000 were made idle by the
strike.
The Hudson Motor Car Co. strike
| dating back to the start of the Chrys-
| Ter sit-doWn, was stagnant
Evening star., 1937-03-23

want an outsider telling me how to
run my business"
Two auto workers, one employed IN
a plant not closed by strike and the
other thrown out of work as the result
of the Chrysler strike, expressed the
idea that the sit-down method of en-
forcing union demands had been
ruined" by the outcropping of sit
downs in every conceivable type of
business.
Il suppose it's our own fault for
showing them how it should be done, )"
said one of the workers.
BOotblack Offers Opinions.
One man, whose occupation is COM
paratively unaffected by the sit-doWn
epidemic, a colored shoe-shine boy,
gave voice to another sentiment which
is fairly prevalent throughout the city.
The police are certainly making a
fine showing against the girls in the
cigar factory and the old folks in the
welfare office" he said, but you don't
notice them trying to kick out the
boys in the Chrysler plants, do you'
Boy, won't that be picnic when they
try it? OF course, they got sense
enough not to try it. I'll take the
whole Michigan National Guard to
put them boys out.
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Evening star., 1937-03-23

ers refused to pass picket lines in a
month-long strike. George Slater of
Chicago, union representative, an
nounced a mutually agreeable settle
ment with operators. Terms wer not
disclosed.
Hotel culinary and maintenance
workers and bartenders called a mass
meeting today to decide whether to
authorize a joint executive board to
call strike IF and when necessary"
General wage increases are sought.
Ernest Farmer, spokesman for the
workers, said l25 had struck to enforce
a demand for higher wages, shorter
hours and elimination of what he
termed stretchout.
Farmer said the employees had no
union affiliations.
David B. Robertson, president of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Firemen
and Enginemen, announced at Cleve-
land that demands for a 20 per cent
| wage increase for railroad workers
went to all railroads in the United
| otateS yesterday.
The demands were made on behalf
Of five railroad brotherhoods repre-
Sentlng trainmen and sWitchmen, en-
gmeers, flremen, enginemen and con-
ductors. They ask that the wage in
crease become effective May l.
The proposed wage increase was
approved at meeting of brother
| hood officials in Chicago last month
and later ratified by approximately
100000 members of the five brother
! hoods.
Congoleum- Nairn. Inc, announced
a general wage increase for all its
hourly paid plant employees, effective
March "a. The company said it was
making minimum base rate of pay
OF IS day for an eight-hour day at
its major plants at Marcus Hook, Pa,
and Kearney, N. j.
! Settlement of a strike of TOO en-
ployes of the Malleable Iron Fittings
Co., which kept the factory at Bran
| ford, Conn, idle for almost two weeks
was announced by Thorvald F. Ham
mer, company president.
Evening star., 1937-03-23
ITALY HAS RED RAIN
Dust From African Desert Causes
Riviera Phenomenon.

GENOA, Italy, March % (P).-Red
rain mystified the residents of the
italian Riviera today and caused fore
boding among the superstitious
peasants.
Meteorologists explained the phe-
nomenon was result Of clouds Of red
dust borne from the African desert
Evening star., 1937-03-23
DAV|S0NS' BANK
ACCOUNTS Barred
Records Brought to Court
in Effort to Show Mayor
Concealed Assets.
By Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

By stan correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 23.-
Records Of the Citizens National Bank
Of Alexandria today were presented
in evidence In the trial of Emmett
c. Dawson, Mayor of Alexandria, on
a charge of concealing assets in q
bankruptcy proceeding The records
were introduced today in United
States District Court in an effort
to show he had sought to conceal
such assets by transferring a savings
account to his wife and daughter
Chester G. Pierce, cashier of the
bank, produced the records under q
subpoena issued by the court Under
questioning by District Attorney Ster-
ling Hutcheson, it was brought out
that a checking account in the name
OF Dawson was closed out at the
bank March Is, 1888, when the bal
ance was 1927, and redeposited in a
savings account in the names Of him.
self and wife.
Subsequent deposits, Pierce testi-
fled, brought the total up to s3,756
on October %, 1885, when the ac-
count was closed and redeposited in
the names of Mrs. Ora L. Dawson
and Mrs. Ora M. Hefin, their daueh-
ter.
Seldom Visited Bank.
Pierce testified, under cross-exam-
ination, by William E. Leahy, chief
OF defense counsel, that most of the
withdrawals on the account we're by
Mrs. Dawson. He said Dawson came
to the bank only eight or ten times
to his knowledge. OF the lib checks
drawn on the joint account. onlv
l3 were signed by Dawson, it was
brought out.
Following the changing of accounts
October %. 1885, Dawson filed a
bankruptcy petition November 18
The present charge against him is
based on testimony given at a hear
ing before the referee in bankruptcy
Dawson was indicted by grand
jury last June.
AS court recessed at noon William.
z. Willin, assistant general secretary.
treasurer of the International Asso.
citation OF Machinists, of which Dayi.
son Is general secretary wa,
on the stand explaining records of the
association, which showed variou.
payments to Dawson as salary. He
brought out the Alexandria chic,
executive is paid $500 a year by the
machinistS.
Judge Luther B. Way is presidins
and the case is being heard before q
jury.
Evening star., 1937-03-23
DETROIT IS CALM
AMID 'S|T-D0WNS'
Majority of Citizens PoI|ed
Say They Are Getting
Tired of Situation.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DETROIT, March % (N.AN,A).-
Detroit may be sitting on powder
keg OF industrial strife, but the man
in the street refuses to get excited
about it.
Police have evicted sit-down strikers
from three small plants and welfare
ONCE in the last three days; 5000
stay-ins continue to occupy all
Chrysler plants in defiance of a court
Injunction ordering them to evacuate;
the United Automobile Workers Union
has called mass meeting in down.
town Cadillac square for Tuesday, de-
spite refusal of the City Council to
grant the necessary permit; the U. A.
W. has threatened a general strike
in the automobile industry if police
raids on sit-downers are not discon-
tinued-but the man in the street
shrugs his shoulders and declares
Everything will work out all right"
Blames Gov. Murphy.
It's all Gov. Murphy's fault" said
Mrs. Alice Baker, an office worker
If he had called out the troops up in
Flint and put out the General Motors
strikers, all these sit-down strikes in
Detroit wouldn't have happened. They
don't treat strikers that way in
Canada. They've had one sit-down
there and the police broke it up al
most as soon as it started However,
think the Detroit police will handle
the situation here without any
trouble
An employe of collection house
expressed the sentiment of most of
those interviewed during the evening
rush hour in downtown Detroit when
he said:
My sympathy was with the strik-
ers when they first started, but this
wave of sit-down strikes is giving me
a pain in the neck I'm working
man, myself so naturally I was in
sympathy with the strikers at first.
It seemed to me that if they couldn't
get working conditions, wages and
hours improved by any other way,
why, sit-down strike was pretty
thing too far When you stop to think
about it it just doesn't seem right to
take mans property away from him
and order him out of his place of
business. I don't care what kind Of
complaints the worker hast just
doesn't seem like the American way Of
doing things"
Says Attitude Changed.
Another woman, whose sympathies
originally were with the strikers, said
her attitude changed when it was re-
vealed, in recent department store
sit-down, that the union organizers
were hoodluns with police records and
that at least one of them was a pro
fessional sit-downer" who got $50 for
each lob"
I'm just about fed up with these
nit-dovn strikes and the way they've
crippled business" said H. F. Reaume,
employe of large Detroit bank. I'm
sympathetic with the strikers efforts
10 better their conditions, but I GER
tainly don't like their methods. Espe-
eially, the methods used by these gang
sters who are trying to run the work
ingmen. I don't blame the employer
who refuses to deal with such men.
II I were an employer l wouldn't