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Evening star., 1937-04-17
Anniversary
of p a st or
|ToBe Noted
Rev. j. H. Garner
With Church
for Year.

THE first anniversary of Rev. ]. Her.
bert Garner as pastor of the Sixth
Presbyterian Church will be observed
tomorrow morning. A native of Pitts
burgh, Pa, he came here after serv-
ing the First Presbyterian Church of
Brownsville, Pa, for six years and the
Presbyterian Church Of Cochranton,
Pa, for three years.
The new Board of Trustees, Floyd D.
Akers, L. A. Borah, John L. Imine, j.
Austin Latimer. will participate with
the Board Of Trustees in a reorgani-
zation service conducted by the min
lister.
The Young Peoples Society will
meet at pm.
The Session will meet Monday night.
The Board of Deacons will meet
Wednesday evening in the minister's
study.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
PARISH TO HOLD
ONE-DAY RETREAT
Campion Evidence Guild
Sponsors Event in
AnacOstia,

A one-day retrcat will be held TO-
morrow at Our Lady Of Perpetual Help
Parish in Anacostia from 8 to 6. 1t is
being sponsored by the Campion Evi-
dence Guild and committee from
seven colored parishes in Washington
are making the arrangements in CO.
operation with Rev. Franz Scheerveiss.
The program will open with a mass
at 8 and short sermon by Rev.
Joseph B. Collins. First conference
at 1890, second at 230 and holy hour
at 5. Breakfast and dinner will be
served to those.
Special busses will leave Fourteenth
and New York avenue at 7:30, 10 and
2. 1t will be necessary to make reser-
Vations for the meals and for the bis.
1t Is open to men and women, Cath
ohc or non-Catholic. Any one des!r-
ing to make reservations may call Mis-
Mary Hardy, Columbia 9743.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
TOPIC IS most
DANGEROUS SIN"

Rev. Albert P. Shirley will preach
tomorrow at II am. at Francis Asbury
M. E. Church South on The Most
Dangerous Sin in the World" and at 8
pm. on The Velvet Yoke"
The third session of the School of
Missions will be held Thursday at 8
pm. at the church. These meetings
have been on Friday. The last two
however, will be held April % and
April 20. Next week Miss Myrtle
Moore will review chapters and 6
Of the book, by the Waters of Be-
thesda," and Lacy Hughes will show
the moving picture, The Rise of
Race"
Evening star., 1937-04-17
TALK ON PARKS
SET TOMORROW
DR.. Perkins to Preach
Later at Universalist
National Memorial.

"The Adventure of Democracy" Is
the sermon topic of DR.. Frederic w.
Perkins tomorrow at the Universalist
National Memorial Church
The Adult Forum will meet at 1915
under the direction of DR.. o. I. Hen
erickson. The assistant historian of
the National Parks Service, DR.. H. L.
Garrett, will speak on Historic In
terest in the National Parks
During the afternoon there will be
a hike for the Sunday Evening Group
if the weather permits.
A stereoptican lecture on the North
Carolina work of the Women's Ma
tional Missionary Association will be
feature at a meeting Tuesday after
noon. There will be a luncheon at
1915. Annual election OF officers.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
JESUS, THE OMEGA"
IS SERMON SUBJECT

At Dumbarton Avenue M. E. Church
tomorrow morning Rev. Walter
Franklin Atkinson will speak on
"Jesus, the Omega" At 8 pm. there
will be given an evangelistic appeal.
The sermon topic will be IF" Six
new ushers have been appointed for
tomorrow mornings services: Jere-
miah Thompson, Edwin Summers,
Robert Leach, George Bright, Eugene
Shoemaker and Joseph Stone.
Prayer service will be held Thurs
day at pm.
The play, Her Emergency Family"
by the senior choir will be repeated
May IA. 1t will be joint benefit
for the Association for the Blind and
the current fund of the church.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
TRINITY LUTHERAN
Weeks Activities of Mt.
Rainier Church.

At Trinity Lutheran Church, Mount
Rainier, Md, Rev. Edwin Pieplow will
preach at IL am. on 'The Little
While That Is so Hard to Learn"
The Junior Club meets at $3.50
pm. under the direction of Miss
Alvina Brusick. The Senior Walther
League will hear Rev. H. M. Hennig
of Trinity Church, Washington. He
will speak on "Mormonism.''
The pastor at 8 pm. will continue
his series on the Greed and will
preach on "The Origin of Evil"
The Board of Trustees meet Mon
day evening.
The Ladies' Aid Society will hold
Q supper In the church Thursday.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
DR.. BROOKS TO TALK
Life's Foundations Topic
at Lincoln Congregational

At the Lincoln Congregational Tenn
pie tomorrow morning DR.. R. w.
Brooks will speak on "Life's Founda-
tions: Expedients or Principles?"
There will be a missionary mass
meeting at pm, with the Peoples,
Plymouth and Lincoln Temple Con-
gregational Churches taking part.
The guest missionary speaker will be
DR.. Henry Curtis Mcdowell, who has
spent II years in Angola, Portuguese,
West Africa. He will discuss THE
Romance of Missions" A public re-
ception will follow the meeting. All
are invited.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
LINCOLN ROAD M. E.
simplicity of Salvation
DR.. Stones Subject.

Rev. Reginald Heber Stone, pastor
Of Lincoln Road M. E. Church, will
speak at IL am. on "The Simplicity
Of Salvation" Mrs. Clara Lund has
special program at II am. for chill
dren from to 8 years Of age. At
6:45 pm. David Church will discuss
the topic, Preparing to Live" with
the Epworth League group. At 8
pm. the theme of the hour will be
1.-The Sweetest Story Ever Told"
when Bible story telling contest
will be featured and rewards offered.
At the close of this service lunch will
be served and social held.
A chicken supper will be served in
the church Thursday from to 8
pm. by the Ladies' Guild.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
SERMON SELECTED
BY DIR. SNYDER

Al st. Paul's Lutheran Church to-
morrow morning DR.. Henry W. Snyder
will use as his sermon theme Human
Advertisements" Young Peoples
night will be observed at the evening
service and the subject OF the discourse
will be which Road?"
The Mems Club will meet Monday
evening at the home Of Vernon F.
Ferguson, 1904 Forty-seventh street.
John A. Bresnahan of the Traffic
Committee of the Board of Trade viii
speak on Traffic Enforcement"
The pastor will preach at the mid
week service Wednesday evening.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
LA ROE TO SPEAK
Chevy Chase Presbyte-
rian Topics Announced.

Rev J. Hlllman Hollister will preach
IN Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
tomorrow morning on Example"
The young peoples groups will meet
Tor supper at O'Clock in the assembly
room. At 7 O'Clock Wilbur La Roe,
Jr., Will address the group on Where
Do I stand?"
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Meyer Is Indicted
In Staying Of Girl

WEST CHESTER, Pa, March 9
G.N.SD.-An indictment for muir
der had been returned today by
the Chester county grand jury
against Alexander P. Meyer. con.
fessed slayer of 16-year-old Helen
Mayer.
The only witness before the
grand jury was Detective Francis
Grubb, who told of the search for
the girl after her school books and
shoes were found on a road near
her home, of the arrest Of Meyer.
and the discovery of the girls body
in a 50.foot well where Meyer had
thrown it. Meyers confession that
he had deliberately run down the
girl with his automobile and at
tackled her before disposing of her
body, was read.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
D. E. DRIVERS
GETWARN|NG

limiting at drastic action to be
taken against drivers of District
Government automobiles who be-
come involved in traffic accidents
in the future, G. M. Thornett, act
ing secretary to the District Com
today circulated the
following memorandum to all de-
partment heads:
"The Corporation Counsel has
recently recommended to the
Commissioners settlements in
eight accident cases in which
District vehicle was involved. In
each case, the Corporation
Counsel held that the accident
was caused by negligence on the
part of the District vehicle.
Department heads are re-
quested to issue a warning to
those employees under their su-
pervisiOn who operate District
motor vehicles that negligence
in the operation thereof will not
be tolerated and that in cases
where negligence is apparent
the driver of the vehicle in
vOIved may be subject to dis
miSSal.
Each head of department is
requested to furnish this office
with the names of any drivers in
his department or service who
have had three or more acci-
dents, together with complete in.
formation with respect to each
such accident"
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Child Bride Seeking
Job to Replace Love

find her girl acquaintance and
said she slept Saturday and Sun
day nights inside the truck.
The Falices were married a
month ago after five months court
ship. They had considerable diff
Guilty in finding a minister who
would perform the ceremony be-
cause of Eleanor'S age.
Other Couple Happy
Another child-bride 14-year-old
Mildred Kaufman, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kaufman,
of Mountaindale, Md, near Fred
erick, and her husband, Elmer
Stinnett, "a, an enrollee at the
CCC camp at Frederick, returned
here from Frederick today to con.
tinue their honeymoon at the
home of Stinnett's parents. They
were married in Frederick Satur-
day after going together" for
about year.
Stinnett said he will have to
resign from the camp because Of
his marriage. He added:
But / think l have another
Job waiting for me-"
The Washington times., 1937-03-09

Meanwhile, these Developments
occurred elsewhere: H.
/. Two pants factories in
Southeast Washington were tied
up by a sit-down strike of girl
piece workers earning, they said,
an average of S. or Sc a week
of from "A to 48 hours. The
management offered them a 10
per cent raise after they sat
down and refused to work upon
reporting at 7 o'clock this morn.
ing. They turned it down cold,
demanding a Is per cent ad'
vance.
Warrants Threatened
2. District police and prosecu-
tors were called into consulta-
tation by the willard Hotel
management and lawyers in
working out a formula by which
the latter hope to obtain war
rants against their striking en-
ployes charging them with tres
pass and unlawful entry. the
maximum penalty for which un-
der the District code is a $50
fine or six months in Jail, or
both, in the discretion of the
court. The weakness of this
threatened procedure is that the
employees cannot be considered
to be in the hotel unlawfully
while still in its employ, and
up to midday they had not been
discharged.
8. Assistant Secretary of Labor
Edward F. McGrady and Major
George L. Berry, president of the
Labor Non-PartiSan League, per-
Sonally intervened in the Willard
strike in the hope of conciliating
the differences between manage
ment and employees and ending
the shutdown.
At the Willard the strikers said
1903 walters, mattresses, cooks and
kitchen helpers, members of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employers
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
FACTORIES CLOSE.
AS GIRLS ASK
PAY RAISE

Sit-down strikes swept through Washington
today leaving trail of shut downs or wage in
creases in their wake.
Events moved so swiftly at the Mayflower
Hotel that maids and charwomen, who had
asked only for a guarantee of steady employ
ment and 5-per cent wage advance, were
given a Is per cent pay increase exactly 20
minutes after they "sat down." Their de-
mands were more than met before they even
had time to doff their uniforms,
simultaneously it was learned that the Mayfower man.
agement is working salary and wage schedule
which it said would give every empoye Of the hotel
an increase in pay within week
At the Willard Hotel the other hand the main dining
ROOM the cocktail lounge and other rooms in which food
uuay served all closed except the coffee shop in the
the Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Strikers declared this would be closed this afternoon
the cofe shop staff signed by union organizers
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Asleep, Not Drunk
Says Miss GIassford,
But Pays SIS Fine

LOS ANGELES, March 8 G.N.S)
Dorothy Glassford was minus $25
today after changing her plea and
paying a fine on charges OF being
drunk in an automobile.
Miss Glassford, comely divorce
daughter of Brig. Gen. Pelham D.
GlaSsford, former Washington
ID. c. police superintendent,
pleaded not guilty and demanded
a jury trial last week following
her arrest.
James j. Madden, former EN-.
ployer Of Miss GlaSsford, paid a
fine March 5 after being arrested
with her in a parked automobile
early that morning. Miss Glass
ford said:
81 still don't know why the
police arrested us. We had mere
ly fallen asleep in my automobile
while waiting for some friends"
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
CHAT TIES UP
PRESIDENT
By EDWARD B. LOCKETT
Copyright. 1897, by international
News Servics)
By EARL GOODWIN

Tonight's "fireside talk" by
President Roosevelt marks the SD
preme effort of his political life,
so his close friends are saying to-
day. Tonight, just little more
than four years since he broad
cast his first fireside talk, a few
days after his first Inauguration
and the inception of the New Deal,
the President faces the country to
explain what even many of his
friends declare is the most daring
and unusual proposal ever made
by any President.
The President cancelled all his
engagements today, looked at the
manuscript of his fireSide talk as
he had prepared it-threw it away
Continued on Page 3, Col. y
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Roosevelt King
Movement Launched
By Group at Yale

NEW HAVEN. Conn. March 9
G.N.S0-A group of Yale students
announced today that they had
organized a "Roosevelt-for-K King"
club, the members being desig-
mated as constitutional royalists.
Among plans Of the club, it was
stated, is the coronation of Presi-
dent Roosevelt at washington. and
the changing of the name Of the
capital to Roosevelt, D. c."
A proclamation Of the club de-
clared:
"The intense interest of the
American public in the affairs
of the British monarchy for the
last six months betrayS an in.
hibited longing for royal rule"
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Tragedy al Childbirth
Takes Life Of Doctor,
Mother, 1S, and Child

WASHINGTON, Ind, March 9
G.N.S0.-Three persons were dead
today in a tragedy of childbirth
that took the lives Of a young
mother, her unborn child and the
attending physician.
A heart attack caused DR..
Ch-rles F. Hope to fall dead be-
side the bed while he was attempt
ing to deliver the first child Of
18-year-old Mrs. Roy Boyd.
DR.. E. E. Long. assisting in the
delivery, bent over DR.. Hope. and
determined that he was dead of
a heart attack. turned back to
Mrs. Boyd to find that she and
her baby had died of shock.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
international News Service

Surprises mounted in the strange
saga of the Spanish gun-runner
Mar Cantabrico today.
Following admission by men,
ber of the crew that the name
of the ship had been changed to
that of the British liner AIDA and
the latter's signals used in sending
out an S. O.S when she was
shelled by the cruiser Canarias,
came the assertion the vessel did
not sink as reported.
Authority for this was the direc-
tor of Cameleyre Freres, owners OF
a fleet of fishing smacks at Ara
chon, France, which participated
in rescue work.
In addition to reporting the
probable death of II persons
thrown into the Bay of Biscay
when a lifeboat capsized, one Of
the rescuing fishermen told bis
director the Mar Cantabrico pro
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
New Reports Cloud
Gul-Ru1lner'S Fate

ceeded slowly toward San Sebas-
tian under escort of the CanariaS
as a prize of war.
Britain May Protest
Great Britain considered a pro-
test over misuse of the 'Adda's
name and signals, while Spanish
government esmen out
spokenly eared fall of Madrid
because of loss of the Mar Can
tabrico's munitions cargo, rushed
out of New York just before Con.
gressional action halted shipment
of arms to Spain.
Two Americans have been re-
ported as among the passengers
Continued on Page 6, Col. q
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Ousted Policeman
Kills Officer, Self

DENVER, March 9 Q.N.S9. L.
Rage over losing special police
commission, aggravated by heavy
drinking, was blamed today by
police for the murder of Patrol
man Forrest E. Sawyer by Fred
te-lings, former night watchman,
who then committed suicide.
Patrolman Michael Carroll, who
accompanied Sawyer to Stallings'
home in answer to a summons
from Stallings, was shot through
the chest and seriously wounded
last night.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
50 Families Homeless
In Illinois Flood

FREEPoRT, ILL.,, March 9.
O.N.SO. .-Three factories re-
mained closed today and so fam
lilies were temporarily homeless due
to flood waters from Pecatonica
River, which had overflowed it's
banks for the second time in two
weeks.
More than 200 lowland residents
we're forced by the overfloWing
stream to leave their homes.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
$4,000 GU 7
MOTOR
| STRIKES
Epidemic of Unrest
Ends Vacation Of =.
Gov. Murphy
international News Service

An epidemic Of new strikes In
the automobile industry, affecting
Chrysler, Hudson, Briggs Body and
other plants, left between $1,000
and 100000 workers idle today in
Detroit.
Factories were closed down
when the United Automobile Work
ers' Union, a wing of John L.
Lewis Committee for Industrial
Organization, failed to make head
way with managements on the
question of sole recognition Of the
union.
Nine Chrysler and three Hudson
plants closed, as did the Briggs
Body factory in Detroit. Other
plants supplying parts were ex-
pected to close down,
Governor Frank Murphy Of
Michigan was planning to end a
Florida vacation to act as arbiter.
When K. T. Keller. Chrysler
president, and his aides arrived at
the Detroit plant Of the company
today for a union parley he was
barred by strike pickets from en-
tering the building.
Steel is battle-ground
Warfare between the American
Federation of Labor and Lewis
C. I. 0. took another turn as the
C. I. O.-opposed employees Of Car
negie-I Illinois Steel Corporation
looked toward possible A. F. of L.
support in the feud with C. I. o
John p. Frey, A. F. Of L. metal
trades executive, was scheduled to
confer with the Carnegie represent
atives at Pittsburgh today or to-
fCOntinued on Pare 9. Col, II
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Maryland Student
Pronounced Suicide

WESTMINSTER, Md, March
9.-William F. Coleman, 21-year-
old Western Maryland College
student, found dead in his room
yesterday with a rosary clutched
in his hands, has been pronounced
a suicide by Acting Coroner Sher-
man E. Flanagan. A vial contain
ing poison was found near the
body.
Friends said Coleman had been
depressed and moody of late. He
was the son of Joseph j. Coleman,
of Cumberland.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
BALTIMORE, March 9 U.N.S0.
"NarriaRe is a failure, at least

BALTIMORE, March 9 U.N.SO.
Marriage is a failure, at least
mine Is, and I'm leaving to get
a job Of my own"
This was the ultimatum this
city's child-bride-of-a-month, 13-
year-old Mrs. Eleanor Hands
Falice, gave her mother and %
year-cld husband, Joseph Fallce,
an unemployed quarry worker, to-
day following her return home
after being absent since Saturday.
Mrs. Lillian Hands. who, with
her son-in-law, asked police to
search for the child wife, reported
to them that Eleanor returned
home yesterday and said she had
gone to Delaware in a truck with
a man friend named Jimmy
Week End in Truck
The parent said her daughter,
obviously disgusted with married
life, suddenly decided to visit a
girl friend in Delaware and went
to "Jimmy's" home, to ask him
to drive her there in his truck.
She said her daughter failed to
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Bandits Rob Woman
Owner Of PaWnshop

NEW YORK, March 9 G.N.S).
Five bandits, two of them armed,
held up the woman owner of a
Brooklyn pawnshop and eight
other persons, forced them to lie
on the floor, stripped the open
safe of its contents and fled in
an automobile today.
The holdup was in the pawnshop
of Mrs. Fanny Gritlefeld. Value
of articles stolen, police said, might
total $4,000.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
SIX ST A TES
JARRED BY
TREN0RS
Ntarmed Detroiters
Rush to Streets as
Z: Shocks Are Felt

DETROIT, March 9 Q.N.S).
Two earthquake shocks, one so Sc
we're that residents rushed to the
streets in alarm, rocked Michigan,
five other Central States and parts
of Canada today, according to re-
ports here.
The first shock came at 12:45
q. m. The second was reported at
1912 a. m. by the University OF
Michigan seismograph experts, but
was so slight it was hardly felt.
The first tremor lasted for two
minutes, with lesser shocks lasting
four minutes. In one neighborhood
in Detroit; residents rushed to the
streets and an apartment building
was shaken so that coffee in one
suite of rooms was spilled out OF
q pot.
It was the second tremor in this
area this month. The first oc-
CURED March 2,
CHICAGO, March 9 GN.sJ.
Six states of the Central West
and the Province Of Ontario com
pared notes today on an earth.
quake that for eight minutes in.
termittently Jared a wide area ex-
tending as far east as Huntington,
w. Va.
Although buildings and houses
were shaken and thousands of per
sons were reused from their sleep
by the succession of tremors, no
serious damage or injury was re-
ported.
OF greater intensity than the
earth shock that occurred in the
same region March 2, the tremors
started two minutes before 11:45
O'Clock &C. s. T.) and continued
for eight minutes.
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Ken
lucky, Illinois and Wisconsin felt
the tremor.
Chicagoans from the northern
and western outskirts of the city to
the far south side felt the earth
quake as a distinct thudding shock.
Thousands were awakened from
sleep. At Fort Wayne, Ind, the
shock cracked plaster in many
homes.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Broadway Gambler
Held in n. Y. Staying

NEW YORK, March 9 GN.S0.
william Tough Willie" McCabe,
Broadway gambler, was held today
as a suspect in the Staying OF John
"Shirts" Spellman, 20, described
by police as a policy racketeer.
Police said McCabe was with
spellman an hour before the lat
ter was shot down in a Brooklyn
restaurant. McCabe denied any
knowledge of the shooting.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
MAYFL0WER QUICKLY SETTLES STRIKE;
WARRANTS THREATENED AT WILLARD
Finances
OF Union
Barred

The tolloptng article reUecls
for the first time closely guarded
secrets of the financial Setup OF
the United Mine Workers Union,
SpeGrhedd of the Committee for
Industrial Organization. Sources
of the information are tGctuGL
and Mnimpedchable but, for
obUiouS reasons, may not be
reueGIed.
By EDWARD B. LOCKETT
(Copyright. 1897. by international
News servics)
The United Mine Workers, Of
which C. 1. o. Chairman John l..
Lewis is president, loaned the c.
I. o. 1855 900 during the last six
months of 1895. contributed $452,-
418 to President RooSevelt's reelec-
ton campaign-and still wound up
the year with $2,754, ,982 in the cash
box.
Moreover, the current special as.
sessment now being collected from
members of the Mine Workers
Union at the direction Of ?resi
dent Lewis and other U. M. w
executives, if collected on schedule,
will pour another $500. 900 into the
union Golfers by the middle Of this
month or a little later.
Between June and December
/, 1885, the mine workers spent
$1,T54, ,493. Their income was ST.,
409, ,685 during the same period
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
WASHINGTON WEATHER

Fair and colder today with lowest tempera.
tJire tonight about "a; tomorrow fair and
continued cold; moderate northwest winds
highest temperature last "a hours, 55; low
est. 38.
CWeather Details on Page 81
The Washington times., 1937-12-06

her apartment today.
The girl, Mary Franchi, former
waitress in the beer garden in
which Chester Pollard was given
fatal knockout drops November 20,
was named as dope seller by the
nine persons arrested as gang
members, police said. Pollard was
carried from the beer garden and
left to die in a taxicab.
Police said an Ionia prison con-
vict told them the gang uses pretty
women to lure drinkers. The
women drop dope into the victims
glasses and other gang members
carry the victims outside to rob
them, the convict said.
Police said the convict, whose
name was withheld, named 20 bar
room mattresses and five barten-
ders who act as tipoffS for the
gang, telling which Of the barroom
customers have large sums of
money.
The Washington times., 1937-12-06

price will surprise you'll PLYMOUTH
DIVISION OF CERYsLER CORPORA
TON, Detroit, Michigan. s.