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Evening star., 1938-04-22

mala, In Libertad, II Salvador:
Amapala in Honduras, Corinto In
Nicaragua and Tunta Arenas In Costa
Rica. The cruise will end 1T Balboa
on July Al.
Evening star., 1938-04-22

Before Spain became too busy for
such things. combs, mantila shawls
and mantillas were As much q part Of
the country as bullights, dancing and
religious ceremonies.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Capital to Have
; Ballot Boxes,
Droped in Black

Voteless Washington will be in
mourning when the rest of the Ma
ton goes to the polls tomorrow.
The Capital will have its ballot
boxes but they will be draped in
black.
They will be placed at three i'm
portant downtown corners-Four-
teenth and F streets NV, Thir-
teenth street and New York ave-
nue. NV, and Seventh and E
streets NV.
The boxes will be attended by
members of the District League of
Women Voters, who will supply
passers-by with information on the
plight OF residents of the District
with regard to voting and enlist sup
port for constitutional amendments
which would give the District suf-
frage.
Those who have volunteered to
man" the boxes from early morn
ing until late afternoon are Mrs.
Franklin Ryan, Mrs. C. F. Duncan,
Mrs. Lorraine Bradford, Mrs. Wood
Gray, Mrs. Charles Weston, Mrs.
Louis Gutenberg, Mrs. Eugene Park
inson, Mrs. A. J. McKelway, Mrs.
Edna Johnston, Mrs Thomas How
erton, Mrs. Henry Chalmers, Mrs.
Richard l.. Stokes and Mrs. Ruth
Hopper.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Confesses ; Robberies
OF Ice Cream Shops

William Walker, 10, colored, of the
100 block of L street NV, who was
overpowered by an 18-year-old East
ern High School football player
when he attempted to rob an ice
cream store Wednesday, has con-
fessed to robbing another ice cream
shop three times during the last
month, Police Court Judge Edward
M. Curran was told at the defend
ants arraignment today.
Walker, who pleaded guilty, was
held for grand jury action unoer
$4,000 bond on the charge of rob-
bing the store Wednesday. when he
was captured by Dominic Pinto after
a struggle at the store at 918 H
street NE. Walker had taken $495
from Mrs. Emma j. Hasseldon be-
fore Pinto overpowered him.
Detective E. E. Scott told the court
that Walker snapped a .22-caliber
pistol in Pinto's stomach and evi-
dence' of assault to kill also will
be laid before the grand jury.
The officer said the defendant
confessed to robbing a store at 112
H street NV. three times less than
a week apart during October. Mr..
Scott testified that Walker had been
identified by the three women he
held up, Marie Pillsbury, 108 Fiji
teenth street Sc, from which he
got So: Rose Hanken, 40O8 Third
street NV, who lost $40, and Agnes
Young of 529 Fifth street Sc, who
was forced to give him Sc.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Ryan Widows Tax Case
Won by Virginia
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court gave Virginia
today the right to impose an income
tax on proceeds of a trust estate
which previously had been subjected
to an income tax in New York.
This affirmed a ruling by the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court of Appeals
upholding that States assessment
on income received from 1880 to
1888, inclusive, by Mary T. Ryan.
widow of Thomas Fortune Ryan,
while resident of Lynchburg.
Mrs. Ryan paid the 1896 Vir-
ginia tax and brought suit to recover
it on the ground that New York
had taxed the same income from
a trust set up under the will of her
husband.
She contended it was unconsti-
tlonal for two States to tax the
same income.
Mrs. Ryan died after the Vir-
ginia court gave its decision The
case was appealed to the Supreme
Court here by the Guaranty Trust
Co. of New York, executor of her
estate.
Justice McReynolds delivered to-
days decision. No dissent was an
nounced.
Here" Justice McReynolds said,
"the thing taxed was receipt of in
come within Virginia by a citizen
residing there. The mere fact that
another State lawfully taxed funds
from which the payments were
made did not necessarily destroy
Virginia's right to tax something
done within her borders"
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Warrant Lacking, q Seized
In Opium Raid Freed

-Four Chinese arrested Saturday
night in raid on what police de-
Scrlbed as an opium den in the 1400
block of North Capitol street were
released by United States Commits
sioner Needham c. Turnage today
because the arresting officers had
failed to obtain a search warrant.
Policemen H. H. Carter and Irv-
ing Lubore of the pickup squad,
who took the four into custody, tes-
tilted at hearing before the COM
missioner that they made the raid
after receiving complaints of the
odor of burning opium.
1t was testified that a quantity
OF opium was found on the premises.
but Mr.. Turnage said there was no
evidence offered that the men were
using it, or that the policemen were
armed with a search warrant. He
then ordered the release of the men,
who had been at liberty under $1,000
bonds each.
The Chinese were listed as Foo
Lee. so, of the 1400 block of North
Capitol street: Lee Jeong. Is, of the
140O block of U street NV; Wasang
Yep, 30, of the 300 block of Fourth
street NV, and Sam Lee, 26, of the
1900 block of Twelfth street NV,
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Police Check Records
Of 3 Men Seized in
Gambling Raid
immigration OffieioIs
Join in Probe-ll Are
Released After Quiz

Federal immigration authorities
and local police today were checking
the records of % men, apparently
of foreign birth. who were seized
late Saturday night in a raid on an
alleged gambling establishment in
the 600 block of G street NV.
Eleven others captured with them
were released after questioning.
The prisoners we're being investi-
gated to determine if they had en-
tered this country legally and if
they were suspects in any robbery
or other criminal cases. Police said
they could not be charged with gam
bling for lack of direct evidence,
although considerable gambling
equipment was confiscated in the
raid.
The raid grew out of complaint
by a man who told police he had
been drugged at the establishment
and robbed of s125 in cash, a SITS
diamond ring and a gold watch.
Evening star., 1938-11-07

Damages Inside
Of Dance Hall
H Street Blaze
Believed Started
By q Cigarette

A two alarm fire believed to have
been started by discarded cigarette
virtually destroyed the interior of a
large cafe, bar and dance hall at
800 H street NJ E. early this morning.
The blaze broke out in the rear of
the dance hall about 2::30 am,
shortly after the place closed.
1t was thought guest might have
tossed a lighted cigarette into a
trash container.
The first firemen on the scene
found the dance hall mass of
flames and turned in second alarm.
The blaze was extinguished before
it did much damage to the upper
floors of the three-story building.
Residents of the upper floors hur-
ried to the street. Fireman James
T. Elliott, 38, of 144 c street Sc,
driver of a battalion chiefs car,
impaled his foot on a nail while
fighting the blaze. He was treated
at Casualty Hospital.
No estimate of the damage was
available today. The interior of the
big dance hall was ruined, including
bar fixtures, furniture and a quan-
tity of whisky and beer. The place
is operated by Herman Rombro and
is named the Rendezvous"
At about the same time firemen
were extinguishing a blaze in linen
closet on the fourth floor of the
Burlington Hotel. A guest smelled
smoke and turned in the alarm.
About so guests were aroused by
the fire, but were not obliged to
leave the building.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
u. 5. Parks System
Covers 100000
Acres in 1888
Director Criticizes Plan
To Take Water From
Lake Yellowstone

The Federal park system has been
enlarged up to total of 144 areas,
covering more than 100000 acres
in the Continental United States,
Hawaii and Alaska. it was an
nounced by Arno B. Cammerer, di-
rector of the National Park Service,
in his annual report to Secretary OF
the Interior Ickes.
Defending the park system against
exploitation by commercial interests,
the director criticized a proposal to
authorize diversion of water from
Lake Yellowstone in the Yellowstone
National Park for commercial irri-
cation.
Inclusion of an item of S743.265
in the second Deficiency Appropria-
ton Act of 1888 for purchase of
lands to round out the boundaries
for Great Smoky Mountain National
Park in North Carolina and Ten
nesSee. forecasts. he said, that the
lands may be acquired in time for
formal dedication to the public
within year.
Total travel to the various areas
of the Federal park system reached
an all-time high of 15,133,432 for
the travel year ending September
30, 1887, and the preseason travel
during the following fall and win
ter and spring months reflected an
increased use.
The number of forest fires re-
ported in the Western national parks
was the lowest since 1880.
Winter sports enjoyed phe-
nomenal growth in popularity
throughout the national parks dur
ing the winter of 1937-8," the direc-
tor said. An advisory committee or
camping, hiking and skiing ap-
pointed by Secretary Ickes func-
toned during the year, formulating
policies and practices concerning
these activities.
Pointing to greatly increased in
terest in the park system, Director
Cammerer deplored the "embarrass-
ing shortage" of printing needs in
meeting increased demands for lit
erature.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Preachers AssuiI Move
To LequIize GumbIino

Condemning legalized lotteries as
morally and economically vicious" :"
Washington Methodist Episcopal
preachers today adopted a resolution
opposing any change in Maryland's S
gambling law that would make such
practice legal
At meeting held at the Meth
odist Building, the preachers also
called upon all Methodists in Mary
land and other good d-thinking citi-
zenS to vote against the lottery
amendment.
At the same time an appeal by
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes was broad
cast urging both opposition to the
proposed lottery amendment and
also the amendment that would re-
quire 4S-hour waiting period before
marriage licenses are obtained.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Retail Selling Courses
Slated for D. 6. Schools

Six courses in retail selling will
be introduced in the expansion of
the vocational education program
in the District public schools prob
ably after Christmas.
The courses, drawn up by school
officials and representatives of the
big department stores of the city,
will be taught in evening classes
and enrolment will be limited eX-
clusively to those currently en-
ployed in retail-selling capacity or
whose last position was in this field.
No decision has yet been made
as to which school or schools will
offer the new program made pos
sible through the Districts partici-
patton in Federal funds for the
expansion of vocational education
under the George-Deen Act of 1886
1t is understood the department
stores suggested postponement of
the introduction of the courses un-
til after the holiday rush.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Utilities Commission
AsksCourtto Bar
Taxi Firm Appeal
Agency Contends
Concern Unaffected
By Limit on Cabs

The Public Utilities Commission
came into District Court today and
asked the tribunal to throw out an
amended petition of appeal of the
Independent Taxi Owners Asso-
citation, Inc, against the limitation
OF 1000 cabs which the regulatory
body has laid down.
Represented by Attorneys Elwood
Seal, general counsel for the COM
mission, and Lloyd B. Harrison, spe-
clal assistant corporation counsel,
the commission argues that mas
much as the association had more
than 1000 cabs on the date of the
order complained of, it is not
affected. The order specifically pro-
vides, the Government counsel
argued, that the limitation does not
apply to groups having a fleet of
more than 1000 taxicabs on the
effective date of the order.
Further, the lawyers contend in
their argument to dismiss, that the
order complained of is administra-
tive and of general operation; is not
directed against this particular
company or other individuals: is
not an appealable order; that it was
promulgated pursuant to statutes
which do not provide the right of
appeal. and that the amended pc
tition of appeal shows on its face
that this company is not directly
affected. In addition, the lawyers
say that the petition of appeal sets
forth no facts which, if true, would
entitle this company to the relief
prayed for.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Blood Bank Set Up
For Transfusions
At Ga||inger Hospital
Central Unit to Serve
All Institutions
Here Is Studied

Successful establishment of a
blood bank" at Gallinger Municipal
Hospital, to assure supply of blood
needed for transfusions for INDECENT
persons. was reported today by Supt.
Edgar A Bocock in a memorandum
to Health Officer George c. Ruh-
land.
DR.. Bocock revealed that medical
authorities are studying possibilities
of the organization of a central ac-
tivity to serve all public and private
hospitals of the city, but he added
that under present conditions Gal
linger can meet its own needs with
out outside assistance or additional
funds.
Meanwhile, DR.. Rutland an
nounced plans for conference with
public and private hospital repre-
sentatives, police and fire depart
ment officials on needs of improving
life-saving work by the use of new
types of inhalators for victims of
various kinds of suffocations.
Dispensing 80 Pints a Month.
Establishment of a blood bank"
at Gallinger was discussed last jan
uary. The plan has been working
so we'll that the hospital is dispen-
sing about 80 pints of blood a month
on the average, in transfusions,
DR.. Bocock reported. The bank
is replentished and increased after
each TRANSMISSION by the hospital
requesting friends or relatives of
a patient receiving blood from the
bank to donate.
In each case the blood is scientif-
cally typed and examined to deter
mine if there are any traces of
diease.
Having a supply of various types
of blood in the bank eliminates
delays formerly encountered when
in emergencies it was discovered a
patient needed an immediate trans
fusion. In all possible cases the
blood is taken from the bank
and then at least four friends or
relatives of the recipient are asked
to go to the hospital to contribute
blood to replentish the stock. DR..
Bocock said it was exceedingly rare
to encounter a refusal on the part
of friends or relatives to do this.
Special Rooms for System.
To place the bank" on a more
efficient basis the system is to be
housed in three special rooms at the
hospital, under the direction of a
junior surgeon and a graduate nurse,
to supervise all operations in the
additions to the blood stock, its
"typing." preservation in refriger-
ations and maintenance of accurate
records.
DR.. Rutland said he hoped that
all hospital ambulances and emer-
gency vehicles would be equipped K
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Walter johnson
| In @. O. P. Radio
|'Pleu Toniqht

Walter Johnson, the Big Train"
OF baseball, will speak on behalf of
the Republican National Committee
from Washington over the National
Broadcasting Co. tonight from Gas
to 10 pm. (E. S. T). His subject is
Batter Up!"
Mr.. Johnson, whose father was the
holder of various public offices, has
just begun to take an interest in
politics. He will be introduced by
John Hamilton, chairman of the
Republican National Committee.
Mr.. Johnson's address will be in
the nature of a last-minute message
to voters. A candidate for the first
time in his life, he is seeking a seat
as commissioner of Montgomery
County. Md. His address. however,
viii b OF q national nature.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
d. Alley Authority
Asksto Use Property
For Oil Burner Work
Zonine Board Sets Next
Hearing Date Nov. Is;
Session to Be Public

An appeal by the Alley Dwelling
Authority for permission to use the
rear of property at 205 Third street
Sc. for storage and repair of oil
burners was listed today by the
newly created Board of Zoning Ad-
justment for its third public hearing
which will be held November l6.
The second public hearing of the
board will be held at 10 N. Wednes-
day in the boardroom of the District
Building when nine cases previously
announced will be considered.
The list for the November 16 hear
ing, in addition to the Alley Dwelling
Authority case, is as follows:
Request by the combined con-
gregations of the Orthodox Jewish
Synagogues of the District for a vari-
ance to permit erection of a one
story addition to be used as ritual
baptizing home, at the rear of 1916
Eighth street NV.
Appeal by Ben Porto for permis-
sion to erect a one-story addition
to a dwelling at 4018 Chesapeake
street NV.
Request by Jacob Rosenbloom and
Rachmlel Shoub for permission to
establish a gasoline and automobile
service station at the northeast cor
ner of Second and Kennedy streets
NV.
Request by R. L. Elliott for per-
mission to use the rear of 614 S
street N. w. for the constructing OF
automobile batteries.
Request by S. S. Snyder for per-
mission to erect tWo-story rear ad-
dition at II Fourth street Sc.
Requests by the Standard Oil Co.
OF New Jersey for permission to
establish gasoline and oil stations at
1150 New Jersey avenue NV. and
513 E street NV, where non-con-
forming stations, erected prior to
the enactment of the zoning law,
are operated.
An appeal by Hoffman Philip for
a variance to permit erection of a
second-story addition to the dwell
ing at 1928 Massachusetts avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1938-11-07

and northwest sections were some
bigger fish and some harder fighters
than any ever displayed in the
aquarium here before.
There was one 100-pound sturgeon
the biggest ever brought here. And
there were 20 young muskellunge-
known as the "fresh-water tiger
and about the "1ghtingest" fish
there is in fresh water.
$500 Fish Included.
The muskellunge were a present
to Commissioner Bell from Min
nesota Commissioner of Conserva-
ton Herman c. WinsloW, who want
ed the Federal fisheries men here to
"see what real fish are
They were among the first put
on display this morning and seemed
to enjoy their new home. Babies
now, only or inches long, they
may weigh as much as SO to 80
pounds when full grown.
Trucks were busy throughout the
morning Transporting tanks from
the box car to the aquarium, hurry
ing to get the fish into fresh water.
The shipment included nearly 600
specimen fish for display in the
aquarium, and more than 5000
others for distribution to applicants
in the vicinity Of Washington for
stocking purposes. 1t was the largest
shipment received by the aquarium
in the last four or five years.
Some of the fish are going to the
Congressional Country Club to stock
the lake there, and Commissioner
Bell said he would make sure that
the club got a species that would
not eat lost golf balls. These will
be mostly bass and blue gills.
Besides the big sturgeon, the pike
and 50-pound Mississippi mud
catfish, the shipment included
Small-mouth black bass. crappie,
buffalo, white carp, dogfsh, bull
heads, wall-eye pike, sheepshead
and blue gills.
Evening star., 1938-11-07

Don't be abashed if you can't
carry a live, squirming big fish in
your bare hands-they get away
from even an expert like Fred G..
Orslnger, director of the Bureau of
Fisheries Aquarium.
Mr.. Orsinger was in hurry today
to transfer three big Northern Pike
from tank in which they had been
shipped from La Crosse. Wis, into
one OF the big display tanks in the
aquarium in the Commerce Depart
ment Building.
The fish had just about exhausted
the oxygen in the water in the
shipping tank and to save their lives
they had to be put into fresh water
right away Besides, newspaper
photographers were waiting at the
display tank to get a picture of
MI. Orsinger dumping in the pike.
He wet a towel, wrapped it
around one of the pike, walked
down the corridor ard tossed it into
the display tank without mishap.
Then he hurried back for another.
This one was livelier and wriggled
out Of his grasp alf-Way to its new
home, Topping onto the concrete
floor
100-Pound Sturgeon in Lot.
To the accompaniment of laughter
from the photographers and from
Commissioner of Fisheries Frank T.
Bell and G. C. Leach. chief of the
Division of Fish Culture of the
bureau, Mr. Orsinger wrestled with
the 8-pound pike moment, took a
firm grip with his hands, clasped it
to his chest and finally got it into
the fresh water
Then, Wiping his perspiring face.
he joined in the laughter. Though
he had been working since 7:3O
this morning, helping half a dozen
laborers unload box car of new fish
for the aquarium, it was all fun.
Included in the shipment collected
by the La Crosse Bureau of Fisheries
Station from the Mississippi Valley
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Downtown Stores
To Remain Open
Armistice Day

Virtually all the big down.
town stores will remain open on
Friday. the Districts first legal
Armistice Day.
The Government departments
and banks will be closed and
transportation companies have
planned holiday schedules. 1t
was said that store employees
who ale members of military
organizations will be excused to
participate in parades and me-
mortal ceremonies.
Last May Congress decreed
November II as a local holiday
in the District. Accordingly.
all Federal departments will be
closed for the first time on
Armistice Day here.
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Bond Concert

BY the Army Band in the audi
torium at the War College at 3:15
pm. tomorrow. Capt. Thomas F.
Darcy, jr., leader; Karl Hubner,
assistant.
March, Marching to Victory"
johnson
Fantasy Espanol, LA Del Soto
Del Parra" Soutullo and Vert
Popular, Rainbow Round the
Moon Rose and Donaldson
Xylophone solo, "Czardas" Monti
Joseph L. Young, soloist.
Waltz, "The Nightingale" e"---Nevin
March, "Old Comrades" Teike
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-11-07
Perjury Pleas
Of Behr|e and
Carpenter LOST
Convictions Upheld
In O'Brien Shooting
Case Testimony

Convictions In two perjury cases
were upheld today by the United
States Court of Appeals-one of
them involving Harry Behrle-which
grew out of the shooting of Joseph
E. O'Brien on the night of July 20,
1886, as an incident in a gang war
fare between two rival groups.
Behrle appealed from the District
Court from the judgment of con-
viction on an Indictment for
perjury. The other case in which
the appellate tribunal ruled today
involved William R. Carpenter.
Carpenter was convicted of per-
jury in the District Court and
sought reversal because the trial
court refused to declare mistrial
for alleged misstatements of a juror
in his preliminary examination, and
also because the court imposed SEN
tence under the District of Co.
lumbia perjury statute instead of
saunder the Federal statute
The appellate tribunal swept away
arguments of Behrle's counsel that
ppCl "ClC Ny
the district attorney in his opening
address to the jury at the perjury
trial; tnat the court enormously ad-
mitted evidence of separate and dis
tinct offenses: that there was in
sufficient proof of perjury, and that
sentence was enormously under the
District of Columbia perjury statute
and not under the Federal statute.
The appellate tribunal ruled that
none of these contentious was sub
stantial.
The appellate court recalled that
Behrle had witnessed the OBrien
shooting and four days later Behrle
had made written statement to
police in which he described the
event and named the persons who
had participated.
On November II, 1886, nearly two
years ago, Behrle testified before
the grand jury and fully substanti-
ated all his former statements, the
appellate tribunal asserted today.
but on December he was called
to testify as a Government witness
in the criminal trial of several &C
cused of shooting OBrien.
The appellate court said that on
the witness stand Behrle denied hav-
ing seen anything happen, and when
shown his assigned statement, he ad-
mitted his signature but said he did
not know the contents, and when the
statement was read to him. he said
he did not remember whether any
of the events described in it hap
pened or not.
Carpenter and Behrle were alleged
to have identified OBrien's assail-
ants to police and at the trial to
have suffered a lapse of memory
and testified they did not know who
shot him.
OBrien himself was convicted of
perjury for his failure to identify
Rags Warning and the others who
were found guilty of attempting to
kill him. The Court of Appeals up
held OBriens conviction.