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The Washington times., 1938-04-22
POWER FAILS
CHAIR TWICE,
2 MISS DEATH
"Act of GOd," Says
One Doomed

HUNTSVILLE, Tex, April %
U.N.S).-John w. Vaughn, 49,
year-old white man Of San An
tonic, Tex, condemned to death
for the Staying Of a San Antonio
policeman, talked himself into a
weeks lease on life early today
when the generator supplying cur
rent to the State prisons electric
char failed.
VaIghn's "little talk" stretched
into 10 minutes. While he pleaded
his innocence to the small group
Of witnesses in the execution
chamber, declaring Jesus Christ
has interceded once tonight" the
generator sputtered and went dead
for the second time in less than
three hours. :
GRANTS RETRIEVE
Warden W. w. Waid got in
touch with Gov. Alfred at Austin,
explained the situation and Alfred
granted a weeks reprieve to
Vaughn and Johnnie Banks, Is
yeaEold Negro preacher who was
another Of three men originally
scheduled to die today.
Banks had waited at the ''lit-
tie green door" shortly after mid
night to pay the penalty for the
Staying Of Jewel Smith, his 13-
year-old siSter-in-law. When the
generator failed for the first time,
Waid ordered Banks taken back
to his cell. Electricians made
emergency repairs.
At 2::3O Vaughn was summoned
to be the first to die. He was
smoking a cigar as he entered the
death chamber.
Have you anything you want
to say before the sentence of
the State is carried outP" Waid
asked him.
DENIES GUILT
eyes, warden, eff you please"
replied Vaughn. He laid his
cigar down, stepped to within
three feet Of the witnesses and
began:
Gentlemen, you are all here
to witness, I suppose. an execu-
ton. I want to say to each and
every one of you this is some
thing against the Lord Jesus
Christ because he saw fit to
intercede and save an innocent
mans life. But man has pre-.
vailed. Now I am here, pay
ing the price of my life for the
crime Of another man, to which
I fell heir. I prayed to Jesus
to put stop to this and he
sent his warning it was against
his law"
Vaughn then turned to the
warden and other prison officials
and said he had nothing against
them, that they were only carry
ing out their duty.
1--WE got faith in God. I am
ready to die"
He charged that a San Antonio
officer had persuaded Donald
Baker, Vaughn's companion, to
plead guilty to burglary on the
night of January 16. 1887, when
Vaughn allegedly killed Motor.
cycle Policeman A. A. Edwards
and "they decided to hang the
murder on me-"
The Washington times., 1938-04-22
GENERAL FARLEY

Mr.. Roosevelt also disclosed that
some time this summer he might
call q general conference of State,
municipal and Federal officials to
discuss overlapping taxation.
This matter has been under con-
Sideration for some time, Mr..
Roosevelt said. but other problems
have taken priority. He would
like, however, to see the tax field
apportioned on a sounder basis
between nation and State.
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GENERATOR STOPS

As Vaughn continued, the gen.
orator hidden behind drapery at
the side of the room, began to
slow, Sputter and finally stopped.
Waid inspected the machine and
then motioned that Vaughn
should be taken back to his cell.
4 THANK you, warden, thank
you," Vaughn almost sobbed.
Then he turned again to the wit.
neSSes and declared:
"Well, gentlemen, you have
Just seen an honest man and
God win again"
The Washington times., 1938-04-22
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WASHINGTON FORECAST

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ture as tonight; Saturday fair, with
moderate winds. "Details on Page SS).
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
Trio Confess:
BABY BANDITS
IN BANK TWICE
Washington Times Staff Photos

ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 10.-Be-
lieved to be the youngest bank
robbers in history, three Rockville
boys, age 7, 10 and II years of age
are being held by the Montgomery
county juvenile authorities today
charged with breaking into the
Farmers Banking and Trust Com
pany Sunday afternoon and again
last night.
The three boys, according to
county police, entered the bank
through a rear ventilating win
dow and stole about $40 in change.
The fact they had been in the
bank on Sunday was not noticed
police said but when they entered
again last night a passerby saw
the shadow of figure in the dark
ened building and called the police.
The three culprits escaped, but
police rounded up a number of
suspects and soon a confession was
obtained, juvenile authorities said.
The boys were already awaiting
trial on a number of hoisebreak-
ing charges.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
Lacks Time:
EXPERT LIMITS
WELFARE STUDY

Miss Dorothy Henry, Cleveland
child welfare expert, today aban-
doned her contemplated city-wide
survey of welfare agencies for chill
dren and focused her attention on
three institutions she decided
needed most pressing attention.
These were the National Train
ing School for Girls, the Industrial
Home School for White Children
and the Receiving Home for Chill
dren.
Borrowed from Cleveland to
aid in solution of local juvenile
problems, Miss Henry explained
it was impossible for her ad-
equately to encompass the entire
welfare field of the Capital in the
time allotted her. She is to return
to Cleveland September Is, and
her findings must be in the hands
Of the District Commissioners by
that date in order that budgetary
estimates for 1910 may be con-
Sidered,
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
D. C. GENEROSITY
IN HEALTH CAMP.
DRIVE PRAISED
Mrs. Grant Grateful to
Public for 'T.B.' Aid

"It was faith-the kind that
moves mountains, coupled with
the generosity Of the Washington
public made it possible"
Gratefully and happily, Mrs.
Ernest Grant, managing director
of the Washington tuberculosis
Association, made this statement
as she announced early today that
27 Washington children at the as
sociation's Bald Eagle Hill tuber-
culosis camp, are now assured of
their chance to fight their way
back to health.
$99.SS OVER GOAL
Not only was the necessary
$4,000 required for the additional
children to stay in camp raised,
but the drive has been oversub-
scribed by $99.ss. Mrs. Grant
said.
She requests that activities for
the benefit of the camp continue,
however, as fund may be used to
augment that which the associa-
tion will raise for the camp next
summer.
SEEMED HOPELESS
It seemed a hopeless task to fill
the 26 empty beds when the camp
opened, Mrs. Grant said, and keep
them filled, but Washingtonians,
spurred on by the campaign of The
Washington Times and the Wash
ington Herald, responded so nobly
that not only were the 26 beds
maintained, but an additional bed
set up for a child sadly in need Of
the health-giving air of the breeze
swept hills.
"There is no other way to ex-
press it, it was just faith and
generosity (that of the Washing
ton public with their contribu-
tionS and Of The Times and
Herald with their appeaD that
made it possible" Mrs. Grant
said.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
Civil Service Lists
Hospital Positions

Examinations for first assistant
physician (psychiatriSt), to act as
assistant superintendent at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital, and for va
ried grades of public assistance
consultant have been announced
by the Civil Service Commission,
receipt Of applications closing Sep
tember 6 for persons living east Of
the Rocky Mountains.
The st. Elizabeth berth pays
$500 yearly, the public assistance
positions from $4,000 to $4,000.
Application blanks and informa-
ton are available at Room 113,
Civil Service Commission, Seventh
and F Sts. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
Armed Pair
Get 5000
Find a Safe Place to Play

A wide police quest was on to-
day for two colored bandits who
late last night held up a Northeast
grocer at gunpoint and robbed him
Of 5000.
Victim Of the holdup men was
Abraham Finkelstein, whose store
is at 1902 Florida Ave. N. w. He
told police the men entered the
store while he was alone and
forced him to lie down behind the
counter while the cash register
was rifled.
Sought also by police was the
lone colored bandit who snatched
the purse of Oracle Gilbert, of
1916 Tenth st. N. w., last night
after slashing her on the shoulder
with knife. She said the purse
contained $5.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
Head Blow Fatal
To Mary|andeI

AS the result Of being hit on
the head with a pump handle dur
ing an argument over how to run
his farm, Herbert Canter, Is, of
Bright Seat, Nd, died last night
in Casualty Hospital. Prince
Georges police said they would
take into custody the alleged
asSailant.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

and has dimples in her elbows.
Her chances of growing up to be
a charming young lady now are
as good as any healthy baby Of
her own age, doctors have as
sured her mother, Mrs. Mary
HALEY.
HAS A TOOTH
Proudly Mrs. HALEY displayed
Jeans tiny tooth, which began to
appear several days ago. Mrs.
HALEY, who is living with her
husbands parents at 142 Yuma
st. S. E., takes Baby Jean to the
Health Department clinic every
week.
Although she has not started
to crawl yet, Baby Jean seems to
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
DEDICATION
Rites at NeV OUer-
pass in KensingtOn

A new overpass at the Kensing-
ton grade crossing, which was
branded in a survey made by the
American Automobile Association
as the most hazardous in the
Washington area, will be dedicated
late today.
Scores Of persons have been
killed and injured at the crossing,
and records show that IL were
killed in a seven-month period. The
overpass was made possible by a
grant from the FederaIaid high
way program.
Senator George Radcliffe (D0
of Maryland will be the principal
speaker on the dedication program.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
Va. Holds Inquest
On Highway Death

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 9-Dr.
E. H. Marstellar, Prince William
County Coroner, will hold an in
quest today into the death of
Charles S. Smith, IS, of Altoona,
Pa, who was instantly killed near
Tringle on the Richmond High
way yesterday when struck by an
automobile.
Roy Ross of Richmond, said to
have been driving the automobile
is being held. His car overturned
after striking Smith, it is said,
and he was Severaly lacerated.
Drivers; watch Out for children
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
PICKETING ENDS
KennedyWarrenHeLp
Return to Jobs

Striking employees of the Ken
nedy-Warren. swank Connecticut
Avenue, Northwest. Apar tments,
returned to work this morning
pending outcome of negotiations
between officials Of the Building
Service Employees Union, Local SO,
and representatives of the B. F.
Saul Company, owners.
Porters, elevator men, janitors
and garagemen, left their posts
yesterday orning in protest
against the discharge of an eleva-
tor boy for alleged union activi-
ties. Twenty-nine of them pick
eted the front of the building,
but were called off this morning.
The union is an affiliate of the
American Federation Of Labor.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
MOTHER URGES.
BACK yard USE.
TO SAVE YOUNG.

Where the grass grows greenest
in Washington the lives Of chill
dren are in greatest peril in the
opinion of Mrs. Henry Carter, OF
3010 Douglas st. N. E.
Until last year." Mrs. Carter
explained, 1--WE took great pride
in keeping our back yards beau
tiful, and then we realized it
looked so lovely because our chill
dren were playing in the streets"
BACK TO LAWN
Without hesitation Mrs. Carter
pronounced a death sentence OH
her lovely blooming flowers and
smooth, green lawn and turned
the back yard over to her young
sters, Jimmie, 8, Henry, 13, and
Betty Lou, Z.
Some evenings we have
counted as many as 40 children
playing back there" Mrs. Carter
said. Naturally, the yard isn't
pretty to look at now, but at
least we haven't been on edge
all day listening for squealing
brakes. We know the children
are safe and happy and we fig
ure in few years after they
have grown up we can start rails
ing flowers again."
HUNDREDS OF OTHERS"
Mrs. Carter believes it would be
an important lifesaving contribu-
ton If Washington's parents
would agree to dedicate their back
yards to children.
There must be hundreds of
parents like we were who con.
centrate Of developing beauty in
their back yards and forget
their children have no place to
play" Mrs. Carter said.
II think parents should grow
their flowers in their front
yards and allow their children
to grow in the back yards"
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

life while physicians rallied all
the resources of medical science
to her aid. Too weak to nurse she
was fed through a tube. Thrice her
father submitted to blood trans
fusionS.
ODDS DROP
ounce by ounce the little tot
cut down those 10,O00-to-1 odds.
When she Was eight days old the
odds were only 5,000-to-1. When
she was three months old, Jean
Frances suffered a sinking spell
and the cd Is jumped up again.
But she fought back and after 10
months in the hospital her par
ents were permitted to take her
home.
Still as tiny as a doll, Baby Jean
now weighs 13 pounds 2 ounces
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
More Enticing Fairgrounds Asked in Driue
Suiinher
GiiUen +
Terms

Hobart R. Everett, 80, will have
to invent something which will
melt steel bars and brick walls if
he wants any liberty during the
next 240 days.
You remember Everett. He's
the Baltimorean who went from
patent attorney to patent attor-
ney here not long ago getting ad-
vances to finance an invention"
he claimed would transform Gel
lophane into a material like tin.
Yesterday they brought him be-
fore Judge Walter J. Casey in Po-
lice Court on four charges of false
pretenses. The judge invented a
sentence of 60 days in the District
Jail on each charge.
Mi
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
7 Purses Stolen
From Apartment

Theft Of purses containing SGT
and SO, respectively, were reported
by Ida and Pearl Swami from their
apartment at 1889 Spring Rd.
N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

ONE IN 10000
Doctors rushed the two-pound
four-ounce mite to an incubator
and sadly shook their heads. The
child had, they said, only one
chance in 10000 of surviving.
But little Jean Frances c1ung
tenaciously 10 her tiny thread Of
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

be almost precociously alert. She
laughs and chuckles audibly when
her mother calls her.
"She never cries except some
times when she gets hungry at
night" Mrs. HALEY said.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
SERIOUS LA OK
OF EQUI PMENT
RESTRICTS USE
Children Shun Baked
Recreation Spaces

A drive to correct a serious short
coming in the traffic safety cru
SADIE designed to keep children off
dangerous Washington streets was
started today.
Richard M. Ham, director Of
safety Of the AAA's District Motor
Club, pointed out on many Of the
100 Fairgrounds now in operation,
there are insufficient enticements
to keep children on the guarded
playspaces.
Many Of the Fairgrounds
have only a few swings and see
saws for the amusement of chill
dren. These are not enough.
Others are baked to a fever pitch
throughout the day by the sun
and it's no wonder kids won't
stay on them" Ham said.
PLANS PUBLIC APPEAL
Scheduled to appear at Fridays
meeting called by Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen to discuss the
safety movement, Ham said he
will propose a public appeal for
equipment, either to be donated or
loaned, so that children will be
contented to "play and play
safely"
With a seven-point program in
mind, Commissioner Hazen sum-
moned the Friday conference.
Aiming toward a permanent pro-
gram, Hazen outlined the seven
points as follows:
School boy safety patrol protec-
ton for children homeward bound
from Fairgrounds: more safety
talks by policement on the
grounds; wider advertisement of
the playground locations; improve
ment in playground leadership: in
crease in playground personnel:
increase in physical equipment of
the Fairgrounds and making the
grounds more attractive to chill
dren.
CHILDREN'S APPEAL
Last week Hazen was visited by
a group of children who made
touching requests for protection
from street dangers. He promised
to keep faith with these young.
sters. He said today:
Il am going to keep faith. I
particularly included the sew
enth point in the program
keeping Fairgrounds more at
tractive-because one Of these
youngsters told me of cutting
his feet on cinders while romp-
ing on the grounds. We've Just
got to keep kids interested in
coming to the grounds from the
streets"
Niggardly appropriations over a
period of years was blamed by
Miss Sibyl Baker, District play
grounds supervisor, for the short
comings on the Fairgrounds to-
day.
POLICE PICKUPS PRAISED
Acting Traffic Director M. o.
Eldridge, also scheduled to appear
at Fridays conference, said he
believed the practice OF police
picking up children playing unat-
tended in the street and taking
them to their own homes should
be pressed as a major offense in
the drive.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
the District National
Guard, mas requested that his
organization be represented at the
conference on Friday.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
Jean Frances Fooled EN-:
.'MIRACLE BABY
ONE YEAR OLD
Born 3 Months Too Soon, Doctors
Gave Her 1O,OOO-tO-1 Chance
By JAMES J. CULLINANE

One tiny candle will CLEAN in triumph 10000 shadows
of death in the home of Mr. and Mrs Edward HALEY this Fri
day when little Jean Frances Washingtons miracle baby
celebrates her first birthday
Struggled in shoe box Jean Frances made her debut to
Washington the morning of Friday August 13 year
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
MISS WASHINGTON"
WILL LEAD PARADE

A SPlRANT for the title of "Miss America in the COM
IA ing national beauty contest at Atlantic City, Miss
Dorothy Parker the iss Washington of 1885, will lead
Three Trips an automobile parade tomorrow in
connection with the Columbia Heights
] o Be Made Business Mems Association outing at
D. ea Marshall Hall.
~ SVS""S' The parade will leave Fourteenth
Street and Park Road Northwest at p and proceed to
the Wilson Line wharf Maine Avenue Southwest where
the excursonsts will board the steamer City of Washing
ton. Many Columbia Heights stores will close so en-
ployes may attending the outing The boat will leave at
10 a. M, p. m. and $50 p m.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09
BATTLE ROYAL
3 Hurt, 8 Jailed in
Night Club FrucGs

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. "a
free-for-all fight at colored night
club near here sent three persons
to Alexandria Hospital shortly
after midnight last night for treat
ment Of cuts and gunshot wounds,
lodged eight in the Fairfax County
Jail and sent probably a dozen
others to private physicians for
treatment.
Police are holding Albert Hol-
land, colored, 81, proprietor of
Hollands Inn, a night club on the
Richmond Highway near Gum
Springs on charges of disorderly
conduct and resisting an officer.
Holland also is wanted by Fairfax
police on charges of felonious as
sault as the result of two shoot
ings.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

Full of LIe Little Jean Frances HALEY AUOaits Her
First Birthday
ago. when her father rushed her to Providence Hospital from
his home Waldorf Nd where she had been born shortly be-
fore midnight, three months too soon.
The Washington times., 1938-08-09

. Drivers: Watch Out for Children ..
Evening star., 1938-12-02
WASHINGTON g., FRIDAY DECEMBER o.
Refugee Group
Seeks Way Around
Reich Flight Tax
Five-Power Committee
Hunting Sanctuary
Fer 5,0OO,0 900

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2.-Five states
men, representing the United
States, Great Britain, France, the
Netherlands and Brazil, today
tackled the gigantic problem Of find-
Ing sanctuary for the potential S.
100000 European refugees who are
seeking new homes.
Informed sources said the group
would try to crack Germany's
"night-tax" rule, which strips Jews
Of virtually all they own rs they
leave Germany, tending to make
them public charges on countries
allowing them to enter.
Form "Inner Committee"
With that barrier removed. the
statesmen. who form the Timer
Committee" Of the 1ntergovern-
mental Board formed at Evian-Les-
Bains. France, last summer, would
expect better reaction to the COM
mittee efforts from South American
and British Empire countries.
Today's meeting of the committee
was the first since the recent anti
Semitic drive started in Germany.
The British chairman. Earl VIM
terton, and the American perma-
nent executive director, George
Rublee, submitted reports on work
done since the committee was
formed.
200 Children Reach England.
Meanwhile, the first 200 German
Jewish children reached English
Evening star., 1938-12-02
4, the Assoctated Press.

By the Associated FreSs.
NEW YORK. Dec. "A dapper
young international financiers pro-
jected wooing Of Movie Star Loretta
Young was baked today by q mail
fraud charge Federal ofncials served
on him as he left the liner Queen
Mary.
The prisoner, booked as William P.
Buckner, 81, of New York, was ac-
cused OF mulcting Philippine railroad
bondholders Of 500 900 by whirlwind
intercontinental operations that in
cluded a chorus-girl lobbying party
in Washington.
Airline employees were just pick
ing up Buckner's baggage from the
pier last night for a flight to Holly
wood when Assistant United States
Attorney William p. Maloney and
several aides closed in on him.
Rifling quickly through Buckner's
luggage, Mr.. Maloney grabbed q
briefcase and exclaimed, "This is
what we want!"
Another in Custody.
Buckner was taken to an ofIice in
Wall Street 6nd questioned along
with q man booked as William J..
Gillespie, AZ, Of Brooklyn, who had
been taken into custody few hours
before.
Buckner said the accusation was
all a mistake. He was allowed to
telephone Miss Young in Hollywood
to tell her he had been delayed.
Although Buckner said he vas
Miss Young's fiance the movie &C
tress was quoted as saying he was
just a casual acquaintance.
The arrests resulted from an in
vestigation started last January by
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission when defaulted bonds Of
the Philippine Railways Co. sud-
denly jumped from $ll to $3l in
the wake of a rumor they would be
redeemed at 500 par. They plopped
back to SRI in>two days when the
Philippine government denied the
report. ,s
Was Elected Chairman.
A complaint 'filed by Postal In
spector Charles Clarahan said Buck
ner organized q bondholders' pro-
tective committee last year, got
himself elected chairman and, ac-
cording to Mr.. Maloney, got con-
tributions from the bondholders on
the promise that he would persuade
the Philippine government to re-
deem the bonds at $50.
Mr.. Maloney said Buckner, f1gur-
ing q beauty lobby" in Washing
ton would be a good way to put
through the redemption, fieN five
girls from a New York night club