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Evening star., 1937-05-28

2e. 1897. GEORGE E. SUIT beloved
husband OF Lottie NJ Suit and father
of Mrs. Ruby Green and Mrs Ethel
Drish. grandfather Of George Lottie
May and John Green and George Drish.
jr. Funeral from his late residence
1917 South Capitol ST.. on Saturday.
May 90. at 2 pm. Relatives and
friends invited. Interment Cedar Hill
Evening star., 1937-05-28

STEVENS. JANE GARDNER. On Thurs
JANE GARDNER STEVENS. daughter Of
Lester L, and the late Mabel Dom
stevens, formerly of WASHINGTON D. c.
Funeral services at the chapel OF Stew
art 4 Mowen Co.. los West North ave
Baltimore. Md. on Saturday. May 30
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
Irish Veterans Welcome
 National Staff Members

tended by delegations representing the chapters recently formed in Hartford, Bristol and Meri6en.
 During the progress of the din- ner to be held tonight at midnight the Silver Chalet will be appropri- ately decorated with Irish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The table adornment will include a wide va riety of Irish novelties including the popular clay pipes, baskets and shamrocks. In addition to delega- tions representing the Irish asso- ciatoin, several of the city's prom inent citizens will be present.
 Meet At Elton
 The parade formation tomorrow afternoon will take place at the Hotel Elton at 1 o'clock from which point the local chapter and visiting delegations will proceed to the vi- cinity of Freight street to assemble in their proper parade division.
 After the installation exercises on Sunday afternoon, the unit will send a representation to the picnic spon- sored by Sylvester J. Stokes post of the Lithuanian Legion, which at that time will be ip progress at Lith- uanian park on the Chestnut Hill road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
MISS DU POINT
 SECRETLY WED

Cambridge, Mass, June 18-CUP) The secret marriage of Miss Denise Du Pont, 9, of Wilmington, Del, and Carl Andrew Zapfee, "A, of Brainard, Minn., Harvard engineer ing school student, at Christ church May 21 was, disclosed today.
 Mis- Du Pont, who graduated Monday from Bradford Junior col- lege in Haverhill. Mass, is a daugh- ter of the late Alfred Irene Du Pont and a first cousin of Miss Ethel Du Point, fiancee of Franklin D.. Roosevelt, Jr, namesake son of the president.
 Zapfee, a graduate of Michigan College of Mining tnd Technology, is the son of a mid-western college professor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
MRS. HERMAN
 PLEADS GUILTY
Win Be Sentenced Next MOnday-Killed One of
 Two Children

Riverhead, N. Y., June 18CUP)- Mrs. Helen Tiernan, 28-year -old blond seamstress who murdered one of her two children to make room in her home for a lover, faced a prison term of from 20 years to life Imprisonment today. She plead ed guilty to murder in the second degree last night after the prosecu- ton had rested a case intended to send her to the electric chair. For mer justice John R. Vunk, her at torney, entered the plea which was accepted by District Attorney L. Barron Hill.
 Sentence On Monday
 Supreme court Justice James T. Hallinan said he would pronounce sentence Monday. In event she re- ceives the minimum sentence, it would be possible for her to be re- leased after a little more than 13 years.A poll of the jurors after the trial was ended indicated that they would not have voted first de- gree verdict because of the defend- ants mental condition" District Attorney Hill said he believed Mrs .Tiernan was legally sane but in the dull class" and that justice would be fulfilled by the guilty plea. Mrs. Herman killed her seven-year- old daughter, Helen, and tried to kill her son, Jimmy, 3. She struck them with a hatchet, bust their throats and set fire to their gasoline drench- ed clothing.
 Fund In Woods
 The girls body was found in the woods the following day, and Jim my, still conscious but badly in- jured, was nearby. He still is in Patchogue, N. Y, hospital. Mrs. Tiernan confessed that she tried to do away with both children to make room for her lover, George Chris todolus, a Greek restaurant worker. She said there was not room in her shabby New York tenement flat for him and the children. He denied in testifying against her yesterday that he knew anything about Mrs. Tier mans plan to kill her children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

uanian extraction will be honored tomorrow night at a dinner dance at St. Joseph's hall under the sponsorship of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Lithuanian Chamber of Com merce. All Lithuanian pupils in To- cal grammar, prochial and high schools have been invited to take part in the progra mwhich will be- gin at S:30 o'clock, with dancing to continue until 2 a. m., with music by the Young Melodians or chestra. Dinner will be served at Il o'clock.
 Students who received final hon. ors will be introduced to the gath ering which will include the Lith- uanian professional and business people of the city. The committed in charge includes Mrs. Nellie Jenu- saitis, president, chairman; Mrs Martha zailskas and Mrs. Matthew J. Colney.
 The entertainment features, un- der the direction of Alexander J Aleksis, will include songs by Na- talie Plangas, Dolores Markevich Jennie and Adele Lusas, Algiro UlinSkaS and Peter Lazauskas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

The newly organized Waterbury chapter No. II, Irish Veterans, will take a prominent part in the Vet erans' activities over the weekend. The post will participate in the V. F. w. parade tomorrow afternoon and it is expected that large dele gation will turn out. Members of the chapter will be hosts to national officers at midnight tonight at Patsy Browns restaurant where a corned beef and cabbage supper will be served.
 ' Installation exercises to be di- rected by national officers will take place on Sunday afternoon at Patsy Browns Silver Chalet on West Main street and will be followed with the dedication Of the local department charter. Officers to be ind,lcted in- clude Captain J. Peter Costigan, commander; Michael Fallon, senior vice-commander; Dr. B. A. OHara, junior vice = commander; John Lynch, quartermaster; Joseph Gar vey, officer of the day; William Keavney, sergeant-at-arms: Attor- ney Vincent Scully, judge advocate; Dr. John F. Hackett, surgeon; Lieut.. t.-Col. William J. Shanahan, historian; James Cunningham, ad- jutant; and Rev. Albert Callahan, of the Church of the Sacred Heart, chaplain. Included on the board of directors are, William Dillon, Cap- tain Peter Fox. Philip Kelly, James Moran, William T. Harrington, James Mulyille. Joseph Cunningham, Frank x. Downs and William
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
LABOR FEUD HITS
 SHEPARD MESS

New York, June 18.-(UP)-The national labor relations board strove today to settle strikes of steam ship crews and shipyard workers.
 A feud between maritime unions affiliated with the American Fed eration of Labor and the Co'-'-. for Industrial OrganizaClon .-.ul,ed in labor disputes along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
 Seventeen ocean-going vessels were tied up in Baltimore, Md. Sit- down strikers held two eastern steamship freighters here.
 Mrs. Fillmore M. Herrick, New York region director of the labor board appealed for peace between the h. ternational Seamen's union, mem- Der of the A. F. of L., and the Ma tional Maritime union, c. I. O. af- filiate.
 Officials of the N. M. U., who or dered strikes aboard the freighters Sandwich and Cornish here, an- nounced their willingness to "keer things quiet" until the labor board has had an opportunity to conduct an election to determine which unior should be permitted to bargain col lectively for crew members.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

Powers Hapg0Od New England 0. I. o. secretary sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of an anti strike injunction.
 Thomas visit was preceded by the first outbreak of strike violence in nearly a month. A score cf work CTS at the Maine Shoes, Inc, plant routed a dozen c. I. O. pickets in a short-lived fist fight. Three persons were injured.
 Thomas also spoke to delegates of the students Christian conference at Lake Chocotua, N. H. The confer ence is meeting at Lake Sebago, Me, but Thomas refused to speak in Maine because of laboris ban on Maine as a vacationland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
MAINE STRIKE IS
 GOING s DAYS

Auburn, Me, June 18.-tUP)- CUP) Leaders of the 85-day Au- bIun-Lewiston shoe strike tofiav con- sidered proposal'to seek an amend ment to liberaligc the state injunc- ton law as applied to labor dis putes.
 The proposal was advanced at a strikers mass meeting yesterday by Norman Thomas. national chairman of the socialist party, after visiting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
HEBREW SOCIETY
 ENJOYS SPEAKERS

Miss Kathleen Crowley, juvenile probation officer and Dr. Bernard A. German of Roosevelt lodge, Knights of Pythias, were speakers yesterday at a meeting of the Hebrew Ladies' Aid society in Heis- ler's restaurant. About 100 were present.
 Preparations for the society's sum- mer activities were placed in the hands of Mrs. Joseph Plutzick and Mrs. Morris Siller as co-chairmen; Mrs. Samuel Goldman, secretary, and Mrs. George Kaplan, treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
TOM MOONEY IS
 BACK IN PRISON

San Quentin, Col. June 17-OP) Thomas ,. Mooney, who is under life sentence for the preparedness day bombing that killed 10 persons in San Francisco in 1916, was back in the state prison today awaiting a medical examination and an as- signment to work if he is able.
 He was removed from the San Francisco county jail where he had been year while habeas corps proceedings were before the state supreme court. The court ordered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
AFTER GRADUATING

.Groton, Conn, June 18. CUP)-A few minutes after being graduated from Robert Fitch High school, l5- year-old David Garcia was killed last night when struck by a truck while he was walking home.
 State police held Emerson L. Mo Even, the truck driver, on tech- nical charge pending a coroner inquiry. -%
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
DENTIST DIES SUDDENLY

Bridgeport, Conn.,, June IS. (UP) pr. Philip J. Mclaughlin. 67, for- mer president of the board of edu- cation and one of the city's best known dentists, died early today Of a heart ailment. Born at Nashua, N. H., Dr. Mclaughlin was a close friend of Postmaster General James A. Farley. He leaves a son and two daughters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18
LAST OF VETERANS

westville, Conn, June 1s. tUP)- Funeral services will be held Sat- urday for William P. Downs, 92. last of the civil war veterans in this town, who died late yesterday after a long illness.
 He leaves his widow, e son and daughter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

More than 1,600 are expected to attend the 28th anniversary ob- servance of St. Stanislaus' Benefit society to take place tomorrow night at Hamilton park pavilion, the program to include entertain ment, dancing and refreshments. The society is one of the more in- huential Polish organizations in the state, and during the time since its organization has been in- terested in church activities, po- litical and civic affairs. Perhaps the most outstanding achievement in the history of the unit has been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

O'Connor.
 National officers to supervise the ceremonies comprise, Past Com mander Charles Mccarthy, Walter Ferry, national commander, Edward Coughlin, national chaplain; Joseph Byrnes, national advocate; and Jos eph Coakley, national quarrermas- ter. All are residents of Newark, N. J. The ceremonies will also be at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

i him returned to San Quentin afte deciding not to act on the habe1 corpus petition until the sumn1e recess is over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

Only 12 of South Dakota's 930 motor vehicle accidents were classi- fled as unavoidable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-18

There were 26,221 ,052 cars and trucks registered in the United States in 1885.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
LICENSE TRANSFER
DISAPPROVAL RAISED
School Officials Reconsider Stand
on Permit Shift to SO
@ Street.

On the basis Of new evidence pre-
sented, school officials have reconsid-
cred their previously expressed disap-
proval of the transfer of a liquor Ii
cense to premises at 81 o street by
the District Wholesale Corp, it was
learned today
The Board Of Education has noti-.
fed the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board that no objections will be raised,
provided all operations are conducted
from a court in the rear OF the prem
ises and the liquor sign is as small
as legal requirements will permit.
Previous objection from the school
officials was based on the fact the
premises is practically diagonal across
the street from the Margaret Murray
Washington Trade School and very
near the Armstrong and Dunbar High
Schools.
Reconsideration by the board was
requested at the last meeting by Rep
resentative Bloom of New York ON
behalf of the corporation. Bloom
pointed out that there was already a
brewery near the school in question
and also that all business would be
carried on from the rear court.
The matter was turned over to John
H. wilson, a lawyer member of the
board, who, after a personal inspec-
ton of the premises and proposals, de-
clared no legal, physical or geograph-
ical objections could be seen.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
3-|N-ONE HOMES
TO Be ALLOWED
= IN LARGER AREA
Construction Is Permitted
in "A.Semi- Restricted"
Territory.
CHANGE CONSIDERED
NEARLY TWO YEARS
Better Development of Land Be-
tween Commercial and Resi-
dence Zones Intended.

Construction Of Community houses,
the "a-semi-restricted" areas of the
District will be permitted hereafter
under an amendment to regulations
adopted today by the zoning Com
mission.
The classification in the past has
been used for "tWo-in-one" houses, if
properties in such areas were not used
for detached dwellings.
The change has been under con-
sideration since July 1885, when the
amendment was proposed by the COM
mission itself. Members of the COM
mission staff said the change had been
Endorsed by spokesmen for the Ma
tional Capital. Park and Planning
Commission and numerous civic
bodies.
At the latest actual survey made,
in November, 1888, the commission
found that lat acres, or slightly less
than per cent of the total Of private
ly-owned land in the District, was
zoned "a-semi-restricted." Since then,
some additional land has been placed
in that classification, and it is be-
lieved that slightly more than l per
cent now is SO zoned.
The change is intended to permit
better development of the land lying
between commercial and restricted
residential areas. Experts Of the COM
mission we're convinced there was not
in the past enough of buffer guard
between the two. Furthermore, some
experts believed three dwellings built
as one structure can be made more
attractive than the two-in-one house.
The commission also announced it
has denied the request of Fulton r.
Gordon, real estate operator, for q
change from residential to first COM
mercial classification for the property
on the east side OF Connecticut avenue
between Legation street and Military
road.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
Stuffed O,ul in Electric Cage
Finally Solues Startling Problem,

For years the attempts OF Herbert
Thomas Dyett to drive the starlings
from his yard got him nothing but
sassy back-talk to the effect that the
birds had come to stay.
Dyett shot at starlings, lighted their
noctural roosts with flares, screamed
at them and sent grotesque balloons
after them, all TO no avail. He even
cut down some of his trees They
visited in flocks as thick as locusts.
But now Dyett has found starting
antidote which seems SO effective
that the Food Habits Section of the
Biological Survey of the Department
Of Agriculture Is ready to suggest to
the first Washington starting sufferer
who calls for aid.
The remedy is electrocution, with
a stuffed hooty OWL the starlings'
public enemy No. /, as the bait to
lure the unwelcome chirpers to q
quick and sizzling end.
The use of an owl is nothing new
in the eternal fight Of man VS.. startling.
The trees around the Army War Col
lege were alive last Fall with taxi
dermist specimens of the wise old bird,
whose mere presence was supposed to
send the starlings somewhere else.
But the use of an owl In a cage
wired for death is new, said Or. Clar.
ence Cottam of the Food Habits Sec
ton. Not only has Dyett developed
Evening star., 1937-03-27

a new anti-starling technique but his
principle is based on different
starting psychology from that Of the
Army College owl users. The latter
went on the theory that the starting
would take one look at the owl and
depart. Dyett supposed that the
startling would take one look at the
owl and attack it, suffering electro
cution in the effort.
The Dyett theory, which is due for
thorough trial here next Fall, when
the starlings will be thickest and
most unWelcome, originated in Rome,
N. Y, where Dyett, retired president
OF a wire cable company, owns sew
eral grassy acres, whose many trees
provided just the homes the starlings
were looking for
How successful was the high
powered owl Is described by Dyett in
letter to Gerard F. Hubbard of the
National Geographic Society here. He
wrote, in part:
Briefly, mounted a stuffed owl
in a wire cage which was electrified.
The first night that the cage was
put at the top Of pine tree four or
five OF the starlings were killed and
from that time on the starl <ouble
disappeared in my yard. Be- ore that
had had several thousand of them
in my yard every night"
The starlings, Dyett said, were gone
by dawn, never to geturn.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
MONTGOMER BEEF
TAX MAY BE HALVED
Bill Proposes Reduction of Han
ding Charge" to 5 Cents
q Case.
, a statr Correspondent of The Star.

By stad Correspondent of The Star
ANNAPOLIS, March 27.-One an
swer-or rather half an answer-to the
pleas of Montgomery County beer deal
ers was to be found in State Assembly
files today.
It's bill proposing TO reduce the
county's handling charge" on beer to
S cents case and so cents barrel,
so per cent cut.
Actually, the county government
handles no beer, but exacts the tax on
every case and barrel brought into
Montgomery for delivery to local mer-
chants
The fee is part of the plan of county
monopoly of alcoholic beverage sales.
Proceeds from that charge and oper-
alton of county-oWned liquor dispen-
sarles go to tax relief purposes.
Abolition of the beer levy was urged
by the Retail Beer Dealers Association,
who termed it unfair" but members
of the Montgomery delegation, who
sponsored yesterdays bill, agreed only
to so per cent reduction.
Other items on the dealers program
advocating general liberalization" of
all county liquor laws this session were
firmly and fatty rejected.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
FUNERAL MONDAY
FOR MRS. L|SNER
Services for Wife of Former
Store Owner to Be at
Home Here.

Funeral services for Mrs Laura
Hartman Lisner, wife of Abram Lis
ner, former owner of the Palais Royal
Department Store, will be held Mon
day at the residence, 1928 Massa-
chusetts avenue, where she died yes
terday of heart attack. The hour OF
the funeral and other details are to
be announced later.
Mrs. Lisner, lifelong Washington
resident, was prominent in social cir
cles and had contributed to many edu-
cational, welfare and charitable enter
prises.
Among institutions to which she
George Washington University and
hospital, Georgetown Hospital. the
Home for Foundlings and various IN
stitutions for the blind. At the time
Of her death Mrs. Lisner was an asso-
ciate member of the Women's Board
of George Washington University Hos
pital. She was a member of the
Covenant Presbyterian Church.
Her husband is her only immediate
survivor She leaves a nephew, how
ever John T. Graham, retired Wash
ington business man, who lives in
Chevy Chase, Md. Mrs. Lisners sister,
the late Miss Wilhelmina Hartman,
was well known public school teacher
here. Mr.. Lisner retired from busi-
ness and sold his interest in Palals
Royal about IL years ago.
Evening star., 1937-03-27

two alleged accomplices of Milton is
being continued
Milton, who has been on probation
here since last June on a grand larceny
charge, is alleged by the bureau to
have been member Of the gang which
bludgeoned Herbert Leonard, colored
janitor and night matchman at the
welfare building, 2l5 Eighth street
southwest.
After binding Leonard securely and
placing adhesive tape over his mouth
and eyes, the intruders endeavored for
some time to open two safes contain
ing total of $4,000
Failing in this attempt the men
fed. About As minutes later the iani-
tor managed to hop to the front
porch of an adjoining house and give
the alarm.
G-men We're called into the case be-
cause the crime took place on a Fed
eral reservation. They declined to re-
veal how their investigation led them
to arrest Milton.
A formal complaint was filed against
the prisoner today. Milton's finger
print record at the F. B. l., it was an
nounced. showed he was released on
probation under grand larceny
charge on June Is, 1886. The record
also showed he was arrested in 1884
for investigation, released on $4,000
bond in June, 1885. on a grand larceny
charge and that charge of robbery
against him was nolle pressed on Octo-
Der II, 1885.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
Egg Rollers Practice Shots
For White House Lalvn Eueilt

An ambulance and first aid tent, we'll
manned, will be on hand to patch up
the youngsters scratches and revive
the old folks who get caught in the
rush.
"A better program than usual" >"
promised Raymond Muir, White House
usher A magician and puppet show
will furnish entertainment. There's
even the possibility of ventriloqulst.
-Four boys bands will play.
President Roosevelt will look on
from the south portico for part OF
the day. Mrs Roosevelt will be in the
thick of things.
The egg rolling will begin at 9 am.
All children under 10 will be admitted
accompanied by only one adult each.
Every body brings his own eggs.
No holds are barred as far as egg roll
ing rules go, but there is traditional
way of playing the game. It's essence
is slope.
The trick is rolling an egg doWnhill
in an attempt to hit an opponents
egg perched on the grass at the bot
tom. Some play for keeps-ceding an
egg if it's hit by that Of a rival.
At S pm. grounds are cleared-of
visitors. 1t usually takes weeks to get
rid of the eggshells.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
RELIEF CASH NEED
WILL Be AIRED
Public Hearings Called Next
Friday on Question
of J0bIeSS,

The Commissioners today agreed to
hold public hearing at II am. next
Friday on the question of the need
of funds for relief of the unemployed
destitute in the District, at the re-
quest of the District Workers Alliance
The hearing was arranged after =
delegation from the alliance, headed
by David Dixon, had appealed first
to Commissioner Allen and later to
Engineer Commissioner Sultan.
The alliance, consisting Of workers
on W. P. A. projects, began picketing
the District Building some days ago,
first in protest against dismissal Of
more than 300 from a project at
Boiling Field and later for an increase
in work relief funds.
The delegation is protesting spe-
cifically against the present rule which
bars direct relief to any one who is
in the "employable" class. They also
protest Federal rules that no one who
is not certified as in need of relief
can be given jobs on the w. P. A.
even if sufficient project money were
available.
A recent statement by Otto j. Cass,
deputy District works administrator,
showed there were more than 1000
unemployed persons awaiting assign
ment to w. P. A. jobs here.
Dixon said between IL and 18
spokesmen would be called by the alli-
ance at the Friday hearing to testify
as to the need for increased funds
during the remainder Of this fiscal
year and for the next fiscal year, be-
ginning July |.