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Evening star., 1937-04-21
FIDELITY GROUP OPPOSED.

The Federal Home Loan Bank Board
today had under consideration highly
conflicting arguments submitted at a
board hearing yesterday as to wheth-
er four men, former officials of the
closed Fidelity Building and Loan As
soctation, should be members of the
temporary Board of Directors of the
proposed Federal Savings and Loan
Association, successor to Fidelity
These men-Dr. Ralph W. S. Bon
nett, former president of Fidelity;
Marcus Borchardt, former secretary;
Harry J. Miller and John L. Fletcher
were objected to and criticized by
one group of shareholders, but were
stoutly defended and highly praised
by another group. All four were
present at the meeting.
At one point in the hearing a warn
ing was issued that unless the four
men objected to were removed an in
junction would be sought in court to
block the organization of the new
institution as proposed.
The hearing was spirited as feeling
ran high, charges and counter charges
were hurled back and forth, and the
Tie was passed several times. The
chairman, Fred w. Catlett board
members, several times had difficulty
in preserving order. The board room
was crowded to the doors, with people
standing all around.
At the close of the hearing Catlett
explained that the problem of per-
sonnel would be considered from sew
eral angles in connection with the
application for a charter for the new
Federal Savings and Loan Association.
On only one thing did most wit
nesses appear to be agreed-that they
wanted the New Federal Savings g.
Loan Association organized so as to
make available IS per cent of their
funds, either in cash or for invest
ment in the new insured association.
The big difference as disclosed at
the hearing was whether the four men
In question should or should not be
on the board of the new association.
Walter M. Bastian, attorney for the
IL men who signed the application for
a Slldl plOSCllOCd IllS SdoC III GllGIIl
in opening the hearing. His recon-
mendation on the four men was i'm
mediately subjected to attack, prin-
cipally from G. A. Sullivan, 1908
Rhode Island avenue northeast, and
Don A. Lotus, chairman of the De-
positors and Shareholders Committee
and president of Permanesque Homes
Village, Inc, Alexandria.
Bastian read a prepared statement
outlining efforts made to organize the
Federal Savings & Loan Association,
and declared much of the credit for
this went to the four men in question.
Representing the Federal Home
Loan Bank Bcara the hearing were
Catlett, Vice Chair = T. D. Webb,
DR.. H. E. Hoagland, william F. Stev-
enson, members of the Review Com
mittee: Horace Russell, general coun-
sci for the board, and John w. Bal
lard, chief examiner.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
CRISIS" AVERTED
AT MARITIME UNIT
Commission May Certify
Employees Individually
to Civil Service.
% Arrested for Vagrancy

The Civil Service Commission today
granted to the new Maritime Com
mission the right to certify its 923
employees for civil service status in
dividually as rapidly as it can be de-
termined whether their services are
satisfactory.
The ruling averted what had been
described by Joseph P. Kennedy, new
chairman of the Maritime Commission.
as major crisis confronting the
group, which was organized Monday
Under previous ruling, it would have
been necessary for the Maritime Com
mission either to issue blanket GER
tification by April 26 covering more
than 900 employees whose capabilities
were unknown to commission members
or to refuse to certify any of them
for civil service status. on the ground
it had been impossible to determine
their efficiency.
Alternative Is Allowed.
To overcome this difficulty, Chair
man Kennedy requested that the Civil
Service Commission set aside the April
26 deadline and permit the Maritime
Commission to certify its employees
to the Civil Service Commission as it
was determined in individual cases
that their services were satisfactory.
In a letter from the Civil Service
Commission, made public today by
the Maritime Commission, permission
was granted to follow this procedure
More than 900 former employees of
the United States Shipping Board and
the United States Shipping Board
Merchant Fleet Corp. we're transferred
to the Maritime Commission on Oc-
tober 26, 1886
BY statute, the Maritime Commits
sion was directed to certify satisfactory
employees to the Civil Service Commis-
sion within six months. This period
is to expire April 26.
Body Just Organized.
Because Of delays in appointment
OF members of the Maritime Commis-
sion, however, the body was not able
to organize until this week.
In ruling that the Maritime Com
mission employees may be certified at
any time after the six months period,
the Civil Service Commission pointed
out that lit is desirable that the
certificates for classification purposes
be made as early as possible in the
case of each employe in order that the
staff of the Maritime Commission may
be placed on mobile basis"
Evening star., 1937-04-21
GUEST.

Bitter disappointment has ragged
in our heart since we heard of the
tired old gentleman who wandered
into the lobby OF this building at
the height OF the cherry blossom
boom, parked a suit case in front
OF the lad" counter and asked for
room and bath. The clerk er-
planned this Uds not a hotel, and
referred the tello1U to some of our
neighboring hostelries-uhen, darn
it, De ,oould gladly haue rented out
nice cosy spot for him to sleep
on, prouded he had mastered that
special technique whereby neUs-
paper men keep their feet out of
the Typewriter keys Wkile snoosing
on desk tops.
X X
TRANSLATION.
-FOUR friends went out to the open
ing ball game in taxi Monday,
two of them dividing the fare on the
outbound trip, the other two promising
to do so as they returned After the
game was over, the quartet hailed a
colored cab driver, and the pair whose
turn it was to pay up began discussing
the probable fare and the proper tip
for the driver. Having nothing else
to do, they fell to arguing over the
latter point, discreetly conducting the
conversation in French.
At the end of the journey, the de-
bate over the tip still unsettled, one
of the chaps asked the driver, How
much?"
Sixty cents" he replied in perfect
French, And if you can't agree on
the tip, don't bother about it. 1t really
doesn't matter"
The hnguists, too befuddled to
answer, paid off with they know not
how much and retreated hastily.
LEASE.
HE manager of cinema palace on
Fifteenth street answered the
telephone the other night and heard a
suave, businesslike male say, This is
Col. Marvin Mcintyre OF the White
House staff"
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?"
said the manager in his most dulcet
voice.
We'll" said the fake Mr.. Mcintyre,
I'VE wanted to know if we could lease
you our lawn. Thought you might
want to use it to roll that egg we
heard had been laid over at your
theater"
The manager got it then. His call
came from local drama critic who
had said If certain film extravaganza
laid an egg" at the box ONCE. it
would at least lay the most stupen-
do'ls, enormous eggs ever heard of in
Hollywood.
Evening star., 1937-04-21

Soon peace reigned once again in
the Kelly acres. for when the neigh
bors' chickens came home to roost,
hanging on their beaks were little
messages reading, 1--WE been over In
Kelly's carrot patch" I've been
scratching in Kelly's radishes." I've
been raising hell in Kellys lettuce"
etc
Evening star., 1937-04-21
ENTERTAINED IN CAPITAL.
Morgans Occupied Palatial Mass
achusetts Avenue Home.


Mr.. Morgan and his second wife
entertained extensively here during
1886, when they occupied the palatial
Auchincloss home at $500 Masschu-
setts avenue.
Last Summer, they took house
on Long Island. They spent most of
last Winter in their New York apart
ment.
Recently the Morgans took an apart
ment at the Wardman Park Hotel.
They entertained here for the last
time several weeks ago with q large
party in honor of James w. Gerard,
former Ambassador to Germany and
President Roosevelt's official repre-
sentative to the coronation Of King
George vi of England, and Mrs.
Gerard.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
MRS. HAMILTON SUES
FOR MAINTENANCE
Wife of G. O. P. Committee Chair
man Charges "Gross Neglect
and Cruelty
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., April 21.-Mrs.
Laura Hamilton filed suit in District
Court today for separate maintenance
from John D. M. Hamilton, chair
man OF the Republican National
Committee.
Mrs. Hamilton asked custody of
their two children, Daniel, 20, and
Laura, IL. The suit charged gross
neglect OF duty, abandonment and
extreme cruelty" .......
Evening star., 1937-04-21

A second deadlocked jury was a
possibility today as the nine men and
three women trying the forgery charge
against Fred B. Rhodes continued
to debate inconclusively nearly "a
hours after receiving the case.
Locked up overnight, the jury, which
had retired at 3:42 pm. yesterday, re-
sumed deliberations at $50 O'Clock
this morning and early this afternoon
still was at it. Meanwhile, Rhodes,
6l-year-old former president of the
closed Fidelity Building & Loan Asso-
citation, which is now being reorgan-
lied, sat in Criminal Division / of
District Court or paced the corridors
outside awaiting some word
Charged with forging a 81, 500 with
drawal slip against the account of
Desire A. Irr, 65 K street, a Fidelity
depositor, to cover an overdraft,
Rhodes was tried first last month
That jury, however, reported hopeless
disagreement after % hours and vas
discharged by Justice Peyton Gordon,
who also presided at the present trial
Ask for Definition.
First indications that the jurors
were having difficulty came at 6
O'Clock last night, when they filed back
into court and asked Justice Gordon
to define forgery.
Carefully Justice Gordon went over
the matter, and the jurors, already
out more than two hours, re-entered
the jury room. After dinner they
again resumed deliberations, and then
at 10 O'Clock were sent for the night
to the Continental Hotel, under guard
of deputy marshal, with instruc-
tions to be back in court at 10 am.
today.
There were indications that if the
present jury is deadlocked the Gov
ernment will go to trial on one of the
other counts against Rhodes, who
was indicted on 8 counts alleging
forgery and 20 larceny.
In his final instructions Justice
Gordon told the jury they must decide
whether the paper Orr slip was in
tended to defraud some one and
whether it was apparently capable of
accomplishing that"
An affirmative finding, he said, must
bring in verdict of guilty, adding
that if there was reasonable doubt"
in the minds of the jurors it was their
duty to acquit
Wilson Makes Last Plea.
The closing arguments devolved
upon Assistant United States Attorney
John J. Wilson, who conducted the
prosecution with Assistant United
States Attorney Howard Boyd and
William E. Leahy, chief defense coun-
sci, who was aided by William E.
Richardson.
Wilson, in opening, declared that If
the jurors were satisfied that Rhodes
did not have authority to use IRIS &C
count you must conclude there was
intent to defraud"
Leahy, in response, asserted that
Mrs. Ruth S. Horner, Government
witness, who was assistant secretary
and assistant treasurer of Fidelity,
knew what was being done and that a
record she kept, together with IRIS
passbook, accurately reflected the &C
count of the Printing Office worker.
He scoffed at calling the $500
withdrawal slip forgery.
FIDELITY GROJTP OPPOSED
Evening star., 1937-04-21
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SACKED.

A MOTHER chapter has been
n written in that strange saga
~ known as THE Eccentric
4 a Birds Of Macomb Street" You
may recall last season the hero of the
tale was cardinal that had a mad
passion for living in a garage. The
latest characters are wrens, a whole
flock of them, who have discovered
that some of the residents are sheath
ing wistaria clusters with paper bags
to prevent sparrows from nipping the
buds.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
Trained for Coronation.

To accustom horses to the Haunting
decorations during the coronation pa
rade in London the animals are being
driven between rows of men waving
pieces of sacking.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
Inside-0ut Garb Popular.

Goats and dresses which give the ef-
feet Of beir- customary garments worn
inside out constitute "the latest" on
the Riviera In France.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
AGREE ON NEUTRALITY
Senate and House Conferees Reach

Senate and House Conferees Reach
Compromise on Bill.
A compromise on the permanent
neutrality bill has brought Senate and
House conferees near a final agree
ment
Conferees said they had decided to
give President Roosevelt discretion in
requiring that trade with belligerents
be on cash and carry" basis. The
provision as it passed the Senate was
mandatory.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
JURY IN RHODES
TRIAL STILL OUT
Second Deadlock Possible
With Nearly "a Hours
Time Elapsed.
RI1JETTN
BULLETIN.

The jury considering the forgery
charge against Fred B. Rhodes re-
ported disagreement at 1910 pm,
but was sent back for further de-
liberation by Justice Peyton Cor
don. The jury's brief appearance
provided a brisk interchange be-
tween Justice Gordon and William
E. Leahy, chief defense counsel,
after the court refused to rein
struct the jurors on reasonable
doubt" and also refused to redefine
intent" in accohdance with de-
fense wishes. Leahy noted excep-
tionS.
Evening star., 1937-04-21

Streamlined lococomtives made in
Russia have a projected speed of SO
miles an hour.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
.DENHARDT DENIED
POSTPONED TRIAL
Case to Proceed at Once
Defendant Boasts Clear
Conscience.
BACKGROUND

On November S, during course OF
an automobile ride, Verna Carr
Taylor, 40-year-old 1pidoU, GRACIOUS
tancee OF Brig. Gen. Henry H. Dem
hdrdt, 61-yedr-old former attorney
general and Lieutenant Governor OF
Kentucky, Wds slain. Charges OF
murder Uere pressed at insiStence
OF Uonldn's relatives.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
SCARLET LETTER.

HOWARD zANHISER, a public re-
lations man down at the United
States Biological Survey, brought back
from week end in Pittsburgh a tale
that should put big, malicious ideas
into the heads of all garden owners
who live next door to chicken farms.
Zanhiser says that out near Tio-
nesta, Pa, where lives rich banker,
James Kelly, flock of chickens had
been raiding the Kelly gardens for
weeks when gardener named Benny
Charleston got a fine inspiration. He
bought supply of shelled corn and
bored small holes in the grains. To
each of these he attached a thread
and to each thread a small note.
Evening star., 1937-04-21

After examining the bags, finding
them light, airy and at the same time
windproof the wrens have moved in,
making home each night in differ
ent sack preserving a sort of tran
sient domesticity.
ADD SIGNS.
- Just beyond the Peace Cross on
the Defense Highway there is a
sign on lunch room reading:
Hamburgers. Hot Dogs.
Sand Witches.
SCHOONER.
I ANDING in gusty 30-knot north
west wind at the nearby airport
the other day, Navy pilot found it
impossible to turn down wind to taxi
to the usual parking line. Even with
a squad of enlisted men tugging on
his wings, the wind was too strong to
permit him to swing the ship broad
side. He pondered his plight for a
few moments, then motioned to the
men to help him ease over to a ma
cadam runway. There he faced his
plane full into the wind. cut his motor,
cranked down his wing flaps.
With the flaps acting as sails and
his wheel brakes as steering gear, he
nonchalantly sailed" his land schooner
tail first to the proper line.
Evening star., 1937-04-21
Travelling Post Offices.

Travelling motor post Offices are
being eetab ablished In South Africa.
Evening star., 1937-04-21

this morning, but Judge Mcmahon
recessed court before Creechs case
was called
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Deer,O Oh Dear!
Mystery MGLddy Kills
Them Off

PASADENA, Calf, Nov. %
Q.N.S0-A mysterious malady is
killing deer by the score in the
toothill area of the Angeles Ma
t1onal Forest, foreSters and bio
logical experts revealed as they
sought to trace the cause.
DR.. Edward L. Vail, disease in.
vestigator for the Biological Sur.
vey' called in by the rangers, ad.
vanced the theory that the deer are
dying Of plant poisoning, probably
the result of unusual growths in
duceo by the wet winter,
Stomachs of several of 40 deer
found dead in the last few days
nave been sent to State labora-
tories at San Francisco for analy.
sis.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
THRONGS VIEW
MODERN ART

Record crowds attended the new
Museum. of Modern Art Gallery
at Seventeenth and H Streets
Northwest, during its inaugural
week. it was announced today by
Adele K. Smith, manager of the
gallery.
The gallery, which opened last
Monday, has drawn artists, art
lovers and persons curious to see
the art Of the five great French
masters who started the modern
movement.
These artists, who flowered
toward the end Of the last century
and at the turn of this century,
are Paul Cezanne. Paul Gauguin,
George Seurat, Pierre Auguste
Renoir and Vincent Van Gogh.
The museum will continue. and
the works of art will be changed
from time to time.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Don't Neglect
Your Chld's Cold

Don't let chest colds or croupy
coughs go untreated. Rub Childrenfs
Musterole on child's throat and chest
at once. This milder form of regular
Musterole penetrates, warns, and
stimulates local circulation. Floods
the bronchial tubes with its soothing,
relieving vapors. Musterole brings re-
lief naturally because it, a ~e0unteF.
irFitant"-NOT Just salve. Recon-
mended by many doctors and nurses.
Three strengths: Regular, Children's
Cnild), and Extra Strong.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Names Play
Big Role
Here

Historic names found their way
to contemporary police history
yesterday.
Robert E. Lee, colored, was
wounded seriously as three shots
were fired in an alteration in the
300 block of H st. S. w.
Lee was taken to a hospital
Police arrested William Mckinley,
also colored, of 400 block of Della
ware Ave. S. w. He was held for
investigation in connection with
the shooting.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Deer Me! Hunter
Finds 1t Is a Deer

ENTERPRISE, Ore, Nov. %
u.N'So.-W. r. Stein shot a large
1our-point buck deer, and then
wondered if his animal knowledge
nad gone amisS somewhere when
ne found w. P. Warnock's cattle
mark ear-notched on his kill.
His fears were allayed when
Stockmen explained that it was
one OF several which were caught
as lawns several years ago at the
Warnock ranch and earmarked
before turned loose.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Fireman Initiates
New Ambulance

DETROIT, Nov. % GN.S0.-A
fireman got the first ride in the
fire departments new 16-cylinder
$4,000 ambulance. Only a few
minutes after firemen proudly ac-
cepted the ambulance as a gift
from Detroit industrialist, it was
sent to the scene of fire, where
Fireman James Jones had been
run down by a reckless driver
while fighting a blaze in an auto
mobile.
Jones was taken to a hospital.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Prison Break
Three Youths Flee
Prison Farm
Special to the washington Herald

SptClhl 10 tHO
HAGERSTOWN, Md, Nov. 81.
Three slender young prisoners
squeezed through a narrow open
ing in a dormitory window and
escaped from the Maryland State
penal farm here yesterday, it was
revealed today. 1t was the third
successful prison break within
two weeks.
The youths are Harold Brins-
field, 18, and Roy Brinsfield, 20,
brothers, of Seaford, Md, and
James Gisriel, 10, Baltimore. All
we're serving short sentences for
larceny.
Four other prisoners have
escaped since November 8.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
u. S. Agency Shows
Cash Balance

G.N.S0 A cash balance in a
governmental agency? Take the
General Land office in the In.
terror Department for example.
The office reported it operated
at a profit during the last fiscal
year, with receiptS-the largest
since 1927-aggregating $780,
1894 and disbursements totalling
81 ,503, ,010.23.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Archduke Likes
U. S. Trains, Girls

CHICAGO, Nov. % G.N.S0.
Archduke Franz Joseph of Austria
discusses streamlining thus:
II like the smooth lines Of
your new American trains, they
are like the beautiful figures of
your American girls"
The Washington times., 1937-11-22

S ktlle d ConsuItant
for Special Shampoos.
H a ir Dyeing and
other problems con-
corning the health
and appearance of
your hair.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
Red Plane Builder
RepOrted Executed

LONDON, Nov. % GN.S).
Blamed for the failure of Sigis-
mund Levanevsky's Polar flight,
Anatole Tupolev, designer of Le-
vanevsky'S plane, was executed
last Friday in Moscow, the Daily
Express reported today in an un-
confirmed dispatch from Warsaw.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22

Permanent W aves
given by experts un-
der the supervision
of Miss Callahan,
M a n a ger of the
Salon.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
TURKEY DINNER
BUDGET F 0 R 7.
TO 7 AK E S6.42.
D. C. Markets Are Amply
Supplied With Fowl

Up from the Valley of Virginia
over the weekend came thousands
of fat and bewildered turkey hens
and gobblers, to lay down their lives
in local markets and determine
the price of Thanksgiving dinners
in Washington.
AS the market opened this morn
ing, dressed turkeys were quoted
at 35 cents a pound, but market
men said the price may fluctuate
until the full extent of supply on
nearby farms is determined.
YEARS CROP SHORT
Experts at the Department Of
Agriculture estimate that the 1887
turkey crop is 10 per cent less
than last years, when the markets
were glutted. But there will be no
shortage, experts said, because
what the fowls lack in numbers
they make up in size.
Cost of the turkey is the biggest
item in the Thanksgiving dinner
budget and it is estimated that a
typical holiday dinner for seven
at current prices would add $6.42
to the grocery bill
HERE'S A BUDGET
A typical budget follows:
12-pound turkey at 35c per
pound ................. $4.2O
Three pounds white potatoes. .05
Three pounds sweet potatoes. .06
Two pounds white onions. :. 10
Two pounds string beans. 80. 80
Bunch of carrots. s........... .06
Six apples. .................. 20
Four pears for slicing ...... is
Gallon of cider. r............. .35
Two pounds cranberrieS. zee. 80
Two pounds of grapes. ...... is
Coffee, tea, etc. rs
Candy, nuts, etc. ........... .25
$6.42
A national grocery chain has
prepared a sample SO combination
in its New York kitchens which
should satisfy the appetite of
famished glutton.
1t includes clear soup and crack
ers, celery, Salted nuts and olives,
a 10 to 12-pound roast stuffed
turkey and giblet gravy, mashed
potatoes, yellow turnips, green
peas, cranberry jelly, ThankSgiv-
ing salad, rolls and butter, pump
kin and mince pies, stuffed dates
and coffee.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22
BIG JUICE PLANT

The worlds largest fruit Juice
plant is to be built in Honolulu at
a cost of $1,25O,OOO. 1t will special.
ize in the canning of pineapple
juice.
The Washington times., 1937-11-22

Prof. Lucien Rudaux, eminent as
tronOmer, continues his explanation of
the dangerous death-traps that dare
devils face who risk their lives on
trips to other planets. concluding I'm
stallment Nith this Sundays WASH
tngtOn Herald-Times in The American
Weekly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-02
NEW JERSEY MAN
 PINNED IN WRECK

Boston, June 2 = (UP) - A New Jersey man was pinned in 8 crushed truck cab nearly an hour early to- day before police, flremen and BoS- ton elevated railway officials could pry apart the wreckage and free him. T want to die," Frank Mar mones, 35, of 18th street, Hammon- ton, N. J., cried as the Rev. c. F. Donovan, pastor of St. Philips church, administered last rites. But when a tractor finally had pulled the truck cab clear of the motor and freed him, Marmones was found to have suffered only a fractured right knee and superficial injuries He was hoSpitalized and his condi- tion reported good.
 Marmones, buyer and shipper of farm products, was trapped when the driver, Joseph J. Sigilato, 24, of Lincoln street, Hamilton, N. Y, fell asleep and their 2 1-2 ton truck loaded with strawberries for the Boston market crashed into an ele- vated railway upright. Sigilato was thrown clear, suffering cuts and bruises, but Marmones was pinned inside when the motor was pushed through the front of the cab.