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Evening star., 1938-07-11
GEORGE l. ToLsoN DIES
OF HEART AILMENT
Montgomery Sanitary Engineer
Was Lifelong Resident Of
Co1esvi11A Sectior

Colesville Section.
Special Dispatchto The Star.
COLESVILLE. Nd, July 1l.-George
Lawrence Tolson. SO. sanitary engineer
OF the Montgomery County Health De-
partment for three years, died yester-
day at the Montgomery County Gen.
eral Hospital Of heart ailment.
A lifelong resident of this COM
munity. Mr.. Tolson was the son of
the late Judge Alfred c. Tolson and
Catherine I. Tolson. He spent the
greater part Of his life in farming, but
took an active interest in Democratic
politics. He was defeated in 1884 for
House delegate on the Fusion ticket.
Mr.. Tolson was an active worker in the
Montgomery County Grange and was
member Of Forest Glen Council
knights Of Columbus.
Surviving are two sisters. Mrs.
George F. Bonifant Of Layhill, Nd;
Mrs. Clara Brown Of Washington. and
four brothers, c. j. Tolson and w. z.
Tolson, both Of Colesville; A. G. Tolson
Of Prince Georges County, and r. L.
Tolson of Nevada.
Funeral services will be held We'd
nesday at st. Johns Catholic Church.
Forest Glen, Nd. where requiem mass
will be sung at 10 am. Interment will
be in the church cemetery.
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during the World War. Active in the
American Legion and other organiza-
tions, he was member and past vice
commander Of Fort Stevens Post of
the Legion; belonged to the Forty and
Eight Society," the Washington Board
of Trade and the Eldorado Club, being
former president of the latter.
Mr. Tucker was national treasurer
of the Society for the Hard of Hear
ing.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs. Mary
M. Tucker; two sons. Albert o. and
Robert T. Tucker; a daughter, Mary
Jane Tucker; three brothers, Richard
H.. William E. and Walter L. Tucker.
and four sisters, Mrs. Ashby Mullen,
Mrs King De Lawder. Mrs. Lawrence
Wulfecamp and Mrs. Arthur Rich.
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partment more than 80 years and
was made chief Of the Seventh Bat
talon in 1918. About seven years
ago he became chief Of the First
Battalion.
The possessor Of distinguished
record with the department, Mr.. Gill
had received many citations, among
them being those for his work in
the Knickerbocker Theater disaster
and the Kann's warehouse fire. A
natice Of Maryland. he had lived IN
the District the greater part Of his life.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mamie
Gill; daughter. Mrs. Grover Nay.
lor, the latter Of Silver Spring, Nd,
and four brothers, Ernest, Harry and
Herbert Gill. all Of this city. and
William Gill Of Minneapolis.
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Dfatha.

WILLIAMS. ANTHONY. On Friday.
}Ys 1sas WIse' se'is:s ~. s.aysd aSs9 slssSd An
ibSe. fs9 esyes t1 mourn their 9ss three sons
H.nrS n sn m'sS sens Fe'iins inn.r.I ::
dsH thePesit.r - at his late an''r re:idenee iue'-
Funeral Wednesdsy July 13: at ! pm
fSm III h rs str nN New ReDt Sa0i and GhHsh n5d
invited.
WOODWARD, ALvERDA S. On Mon
dsg s,b Jals H 1saS aSrRns s her reSes9es
beloved wife of he late Herbert Z. WOOD. od
Nard Ar41un mD,heT poo. Of Ross j. Woodward and
fST 5as r. e at s0sys so rs;dends s
to the he shrine pdrs Of the Sacred Heart 18th
mass viii Be offered mere u At 10 am. ieSuihM fer the
repose. Of her soul. Relatives and friends
invite invited. Interment 'Drivate' at Mount
zEA. EDWARD WILLIAM. On Monday
dense fe.se 29ss Eye st. NV. EDWARD VIII
Notice Of funeral later. IL
1tt Mrntnriattt.
BROWN: MATILDA. In loyinr memory
july Gtn'eS ii' 1885 'n's ie TWO years ago today
HER SON. HuvER I. BROWN. .
BROWN. MATILDA In sad but loving
MsiHHemm95snse MHfmps seow,n our our dear mother:
TWO years ago today. July II. 1885.
SAMUEL AND SUMNER BROWN
eys e FSErs9E sgEreS p1r5s n
GARMnoDY. who departed this lMe July
HER DEVOTED CHILDREN AND GRAND
CHILDREN
GRAY. FLORENCE LOUISE. In sad
put loyins I re rlemembranee Of our dear sis
ter. FLORENCE LOUISE GRAY who de-
parted this life one year ago today. July
o., She has left us. but her memory is
SISTERS: MRS MABEL MASON. MRS.
GRACE MCNEIL
SMITH. ELIZA A. In sad but loving
remsmbrance of my beloved mother. ELIZA
A. SMITH. who departed this life twenty
one wears ago today. July IL. 1917.
Never shall my memory fade:
The sweetest love will forever linger
In my heart for you always.
LOVING DAUGHTER. MATTE M.
WRIGHT
Evening star., 1938-07-11
IRISH TO CELEBRATE

The wearing Of the green will be
IN fashion at the Lafayette Hotel to-
night as some 200 patriots Of Erin
observe the national sovereignty of
Ireland after nearly 700 years Of
strife.
A Joint committee of Irish societies.
including the United Irish Clubs, the
Ancient Order Of Hibernians. the
Friends Of the Recognition of the
Irish Republic and other organiza-
tions, are arranging a dinner.
Charles Edward Russell, author and
lecturer, will deliver the principal
address. Other remarks will be made
by representatives of the various or.
ganizations.
Evening star., 1938-07-11

road NV, will
be buried tomor-
row in Arlington
National Gene
terry. Funeral
services will be
held at 2 pm. in
the Fort Myer
Chapel.
A native Wash
ingtonian, Mr..
Tucker was edu-
Gated in public
9 ra d e schools
here and at Busi-
n ess H 1 g h
School. He serv-
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will be held ut
2 pm. tomorrow
at the residence.
Burial will be In
Cedar Hill Gene
terry.
Pallbearers will
be Deputy Chief
A. G. Buscher ,
Battalion Chiefs
T. B. Stanton, J.
r. Groves, O. r.
Moxley, r. M. Ed
wards and j. B.
Lyon.
Mr.. Gill had
been q member
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Garn uf ThankH.

YOUNG. ANN NJ. We wish TO express
sincere thanks to neishbors. friends and
relatives tor their kind expressions Of
sympathy. beautiful floral tributes and
use Of cars at the death Of my beloved
wife. ANN NJ YOUNG
JAMES L. YOUNG AND FAMILY. .
Evening star., 1938-07-11
c. W. GILL RITES
TO BE TOMORROW
Fire Department Battalion Chief
Died Saturday Night-Burial
to Be in Cedar Hill.

Funeral services for Charles w.
Gill. Sc, battalion chief Of the Dis
trict Fire Department., who died late
Saturday night Of heart attack At
his home, 1872 Allison street NV,
Evening star., 1938-07-11
ARLINGTON RITES SET
FOR ALBERT W. TUCKER
Funeral of National GEOGRAPHIC
Statistician to Be Held
Tomorrow Afternoon,

Albert w. Tucker A. for the last
18 years chief statistician for the Ma
tional Geographic Society. who died
Saturday at his home, 1910 Locust
Evening star., 1938-07-11
Free School for Workers.

Mining companies Of England are
inaugurating a plan to send young
workers to school one day each week
with pay.
Evening star., 1938-12-29

PCPdACu PdPOA
that A. A. A. releases to newspapers
tended to be "couched in terms
shedding favorable light on opera
tions of the agency"
Nevertheless" he added, efforts
are consistently made by the A. A.
A. to see to 1t that they do not
omit mention of essential details
which have the contrary effect"
The association heard last night
from its president, c. A. Dykstra, a
program sponsored to perpetuate
democracy. The president of the
University of Wisconsin pointed to
new parties which have taken
over in the European scene" and
added:
"One thing they have done for us,
however. They have challenged us
to find solution within the orbit
OF the representative system"
He listed the needs of the Ameri-
can people as:
A social goal to which they can
aspire with confidence, govern
mental structure which can meet
the public strains and stresses OF
present and future and a citizen
ship which can be trusted to act
responsibly.
"On every hand are the witch
doctors with their panaceas" he said.
Glasses, groups and special plead
ers clash with each other. Every
where immediacy is in the saddle.
The result is that we are living reck-
lessly and irresponsibly the world
over"
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Congress Library Plans
Rare Music Exhibit

The Library of Congress has ar
ranged an exhibition or rare manu-
scripts and early editions of musical
work in connection with the 60th
annual convention here this week of
the Music Teachers National Asso-
ciation.
The exhibit, open from 9 am. to
10 pm, contains the 18th century
Burgundian manuscripts of motets
and part songs known as the Chan
sons de pArborde," manuscripts of
songs by Schubert, Schumann and
Hugo Wolf and the copy of the
libretto used by the stage manager
at the first performance of Mozart's
opera, 'The Marriage of Figaro" in
Vienna, in 1885.
Piano, violin, chamber and vocal
music are represented in the ex-
hibits arranged under the direction
OF DR.. Harold Spivacke, chief of the
music division.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Siisto
Continued From First Page. }

from the New York Stock Exchange
and the Philadelphia Exchange in
1880 and receiver appointed
Later terms were offered the
creditors, consisting of so per cent
in cash and notes for the balance
of their claims. These were accept
ed and the firm discharged from
bankruptcy and again permitted to
have a partner as a member of the
New York exchange.
Sisto Financial Corp, which fig
ures in the present action, is an
investment company of the Cen
eral Management type, which had
contract with ]. A. Sisto & Co.
by which the latter handled its
brokerage operations. The contract
provided that j. A. Sisto 81 Co. re-
ceived no compensation whatsoever
unless the company earned at least
8 per cent and paid annual divi-
dends of at least 81 a share.
Interested in Cab Businesses.
Sisto as broker was interested
in taxicab enterprises.
Mr.. Seabury charged Walker had
accepted from Sisto 80 bonds Of ag-
gregate value approximating $4,000
and that Sisto then had a large
financial interest in bringing about
limitation of the number of taxi
cabs operating in New York City
and was desirous of inducing the
Mayor to bring about such a limi-
tation."
Thereafter, Mr.. Seabury charged
"the Mayor actively sponsored and
caused to be enacted legislation, the
passage of which was, to his knowl-
edge, desired by the said j. A. Sisto
and by certain corporations, in the
securities of which the said j. A
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Ban on Transporting
Labor Disputants
Urged by Hoffman
House Member Sick
And Tired of Some
Of 6. !. o. Tactics
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Representative Hoffman, Repub-
lican, Of Michigan today proposed
legislation to prohibit interstate
transportation of union organizers
or other persons to engage in labor
disputes.
1t would be companion, he said,
to the law prohibiting interstate
transportation of strike breakers.
Representative Hoffman, a persis-
tent critic of the c. I. O., told re-
porters the public was sick and
tired" of some of that organizations
tactics. He contended union Or
ganizers and pickets were crossing
State boundaries ito promote labor
disputes"
Dose Of Own Medicine.
Their lawless force will be met"
he said. There will be enough dep
uties to meet these fellows and give
them a dose of their own medicine,
but ours will be lawful dose"
Urging repeal of the Wagner Act
$50 we can get rid Of" the National
Labor Relations Board, followed by
enactment of new labor law,
leaving enforcement to the courts,
Representative Hoffman added:
I'VE are not going to submit to
that Labor Boards illegal activities"
He also advocated legislation re-
quiring labor unions to incorporate
and to report their financial condi-
ton to Congress and also to make
them subject to the law forbidding
corporations to contribute to polit-
ical campaigns.
Ramspeck Favors Revision.
Sentiment for revision of the
Wagner Act also came from the Sec
ond ranking Democrat of the House
Labor Committee, Representative
Ramspeck of Georgia.
Asserting the subject would be
zone of the hottest and hardest"
problems of the new Congress, Rep
resentative Ramspeck contended it
had been the intention of Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York,
author of the law, to give employers
equal rights to petition the Labor
Board for elections to determine COL
lective bargaining units and that
nothing in the law prohibits such
action.
THE board has interpreted the
law, however" Mr.. Ramspeck said,
80 that employers do not have that
right"
Evening star., 1938-12-29

comedy mate Of rotund Oliver
Hardy.
Here, as far as the records show.
is recapitulation OF his married
life and the settlements of the three
wives and another who claimed to
be a common law wife:
Mae Laurel, the comedians vaude-
vile partner for six years, who said
she became his common-law wife
in New York in 1919 and sued for
$1,000 monthly separate main
tenance, dropped the action for q
cash settlement.
Married Again in 1926.
Lois Laurel, whom Laurel married
in 1926 and who divorced him in
1888, last April was denied $1,355
month for support of a daughter,
Lois, 10, when she admitted in court
that she possessed $274,OOO in cash
and property, most from a property
agreement at the time of the divorce.
Virginia Ruth Laurel, whom he
married in Mexico in 1894, was
granted 5 per cent of his income
when she won an interlocutory de-
cree December "a, 1896.
Last April. before he was sus-
pended by Roach. Laurel said his
income was $4,000 per picture, and
he was making two a year. Even so,
he testified, his payments to former
wives and the Government for m
come tax had reduced him to living
off the proceeds from a $4,000 an
nuity he purchased years ago. H.
liana's claim in her suit that he now
has contract for $4,000 weekly
was news to friends.
Superior Judge Leslie E. Still COM
mented earlier in the year:
1T seems to me Mr.. Laurel has
been paying out huge sums of
money without himself getting any
thing for it."
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Littouer Will Speak
In SYNAGOGUE

Sebastian B. Littauer, professor of
mathematics in the United States
Naval Academy, will discuss Con-
trlbutions OF Jews to Mathematics"
tomorrow night at Adas Israel
Synagogue.
Rabbi Solomon H. Metz is to speak
on Judaism as Art" and the
services are to be conducted by Cam
tor Louis Novick, assisted by the
choir under direction of Abe Shef-
!erman.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.-Life
with wry-faced Stan Laurel was just
one sleepless night after another,
with his two former wives disturbing
her slumbers at "ungodly hours, -
blond Illiana Laurel charged today.
The Russian dancer, who married
the motion picture comedian three
times during 1888, demanded 1900
monthly in separate maintenance
suit.
Climaxing a hectic marital life
which began last New Year Day
with an elopement to Yuma, Ariz.,
continued with frequent tiffs and as
many reconciliations, including SOL
emnization of the two extra mar
riages, Iliana's suit asked election
Of the comic from his Canoga Park
home, title to all community prop
erty and $4,000 attorneys fees.
She claimed that "by reason of his
attitude toward his former wives"
they annoyed her by having police
and fremen visit the house, and by
causing persons to write her anony-
nous letters.
Claims Affection Repulsed.
Laurel, she characterized, as re-
framing from demonstrations" of
love, and added that he ignored
and repulsed" her attempts to show
affection. She asserted he was rude
and moody in the presence of friends
and often became intoxicated, on
such occasions using "vile and loath-
some" language. The separation, she
set forth. occurred November 18.
Almost as tangled as his marital
affairs are Laurel's finances. At
present he's out of a job, having
been deemed by Producer Hal Roach
to have broken his contract. Harry
Langdon has replaced him as the
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Bird ges Assai|s IVA.
Yardstick Rates
As 'brazen Fraud
Widely Held Suspicious
Confirmed by Probe,
Senator Charges
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Senator Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire. charged today that
yardstick power rates of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority were a
'brazen fraud" on the taxpayer, the
consumer and the investor.
Writing in the January issue of
Investor America, Senator Bridges
asserted that the congressional in
vestigation of T. v. A., although
bent on 'whitewashing' the pet
project of the New Deal" had con-
irmed widely held" suspicious.
The inquiry, he said, had shown
among other things that:
l. T. v. A. bookkeeping methods
were LAX, incompetent, deceptive"
and designed to conceal rather than
reveal the Authority's fiscal con-
dition.
2. T. v. A. had dishonesty" con-
tended that the experiment was a
"oona f1de flood control and navi-
cation project, and not primarily an
adventure IN socialism via the back
door Of Federal sales and distribu-
ton of power"
3. T. V. A. was attempting to force
private utilities to sell their plants
at T. V. A. terms by erecting COM
petitive transmission lines. In this,
ne said, T. V. A. was holding hands
under the table" with P. w, A.. an
other branch of the Federal Govern
ment. He added that a major por-
ton of P. w. AS activity for "en-
doWed municipal ownership" of elec-
trlc plants was concentrated in the
T. v. A. area.
4. Instead of being a "bankable
proposition, as its officers have
claimed" T. v. A. will lose $4,000 900
annually on its power operations,
5. T. V. A. has violated the law bv
failing to observe the general code"
IN relation to annual audits by the
General Accounting Office; failing
TO follow the uniform system of &C
counting established by the Federal
Power Commission; failing to estab-
llsh headquarters at Muscle Shoals.
Ala; ignoring a congressional re-
qulrement that 1t submit an alloca-
tlon OF costs, and neglecting to
maintain its nitrate plants in stand
oy" condition as required by law.
6. The Authority had been profit
gate with public funds, careless. in
efficient, theoretical, impractical.
dictatorial and hopeless misfit for
the task before it."
Senator Bridges complained that
Francis Biddle, counsel to the con-
gresslonal committee investigating
I. V. A.. had at times appeared as
a special pleader for T. v. A." and
had attempted to gag" T. v. A. en-
ployes.
Evening star., 1938-12-29
CoIored Man Injured
In Fist Fioht Dies

Eugene Ross, 81, colored, 300 block
OF L street Sc, who fell and hit his
head on the street curb during a fist
fight with another colored man at
Second and M streets Sc. Monday,
died early today after refusing to
go to hospital.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said he would perform an autopsy
today to determine the cause of
death. Pending the coroner's IT.
port, police were holding the 34-
year-old colored man said to have
been involved in the fight.
Evening star., 1938-12-29

ing pr0pagan-
d." Alfred D.
Stedman, assist
ant A. A. A. ad-
ministrator, told
t he American
Political Science
Association to-
day that the
govern m e n t q l
agency was i'm
portant in keep
ing farmers and
the general pub
lie informed"
Mr.. Stedman
admitted in a
Evening star., 1938-12-29
Sisto and Samuel Underleider & Co.,
were substantially Interested"

0Aooo ~AAA 6eAA0CA O1AOc1lclOcI q Co.,
were substantially interested"
1.-The Ungerleider firm is not
involved in any way in the pres
ent difficulties of the Sisto firm.l
Walker denied he had caused to
be enacted legislation limiting the
number of taxicabs operating in
New York. To which Mr.. Seabury
replied:
THAT is the denial of a fictitious
contention. - The allegation that
was made, and which is true, is
that the Mayor sponsored and caused
to be enacted regulatory legislation
desired by Sisto and Ungerleider
and the interests with which they
were substantially connected"
Evening star., 1938-12-29
A. A. A. Propaganda
Through Information
Service Denied
Stedmon Admits Press
Releases Present q Z
Favorable Picture
By the Associated Press.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 29.-De-
nying that the information service
of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration was guilty of spread
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-02
A HIGHER NATIONAL INCOME

The business improvement ontlin-
ed in the October bulletin of the
Fedora. Reserve Board is good read
ing, as it says that one million per-
sons have been re-employed since
last spring.
Many important factors indicating
a rising industrial situation ex-
planned in the bulletin, the most i'm
portant item of which is a higher
national income. When the national
income goes up it follows that wages
industrial earnings and sales Of
all kinds are increasing throughout
the country.
So these official declarations
aren't as dull as they are sometimes
said to be. When there are benefits
on a large scale you need to mathe-
matically reduce them to different
communities. See It filter all the way
down the line. When there is a pick
up of one million men in Jobs that
means that there is something hap
pening right in your neigLborhood.
for the benefit of your people and
the country as a whole.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-02
HoLLYVILLE

Among those who will change
their residence at New Years is Rob
ert Veasey having sold his farm and
home 10 parties in Virginia. He will
occupy the farm and home Of the
late Edgar Coulter Of near Harbeson.
Mrs. Emma Wilson OF near this
place who has been a patient at the
Milford Memorial Hospital for the
past two weeks, suffering from a
stomach disorder. is much improved
and convalescing at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. Preston Tyndall In
Milford.
Mrs. VIM. +. Burton and daughter
Marian accompanied by the formers
sister. Mrs. Gertrude Corbitt. Of
Georgetown, spent Thanksgiving hol-
icays in New York visiting their sis
ter and aunt, Mrs. Edna Warrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Stevenson Of
Philadelphia were among the holiday
visitors here with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. IRA Stevenson.
Unity NJ. Z. Church has been UNDER
going a renovation in the shape Of
new wallpaper and interior painting
which presents very attractive APP
pearance.
The early snowfall Of last week
caught many farmers unprepared-
Many wood piles were not heavy.
Some had not finished hGsking corn
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Prettyman
and family OF Morristown, N. J., spent
the Thanksgiving holidays with their
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. David H. Pret-
lyman. here.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-02
What DO The Railroads
Really Want?
= ]. Z. Jones

N- D. II. Jones
The railroad association appealed
to all the powers of Government, in
cluding the President, to force a cut
of Is per cent in wages at the very
time that the Administration was
bending it's energies in support of
an entirely contradictory measure
the labor standards act, the purpose
of which is to raise wages.
or course the railroads lost, and
despite their protestations, there is
good reason to question the SINGER
ity of their wage-cut plan. No one
really expected railroad. strike at
any time.
The railway association has talked
down on great loans to the lines
"hut with a SMILE according to the
daily press. The gestures OF despair
following the report of the Presi-
dents committee did not have any
appearance OF being genuine. Every
one is interested in the welfare of
the railroads. because they are so
important part of the country, it.
self.
II the railroad attitude was not so
vague the efforts to save them might
stand more chances to succeed.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-02
MERw SYSTEM IN NAVE ONLY

The merit system is supposed to
have a very important place in pub
lie employment. The Civil Service is
evidently misnamed if it is surp0s-
ed to represent the merit system. -
Federal and State Governments are
pretty noisy in announcing that they
keep people in positions OF respon-
sibility because they have back
grounds of efficient records. There
are many thousands in the merit
SYSTEM" employed in the depart
iments in Washington. They go on,
year after year, doing the work in
small places. Very few of them ever
get to the top.
A new administration comes along
and the politicians pass ou: exccu-
i've positions paying good salaries
to other politicians who have party
record and "cut ice" in local cleo
itions and in national and state cam
paigns. They get the big jobs and
the little folks who have done their
best under the merit system" are
ground under their heels.
II this only happened in one adj
ministration it wouldn't be so bad!
but there is a turnover everv tour
or eight years. at which time the po-
lifieal favorities get the rewards Of
the spoils system. The lesser folfs
who know their Jobs stick along in
the merit system, and wait until re-
tirement. OF the end of their days.
for better jobs.