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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-06

meeting. Superintendent Fleming said today, as he prepared to show the controller the letter for the sec- ond time, that James Purcell, Row. land aide, had Suggested and ap- proved" the voucher form, the let ter relating to the contracts and rates, and still the controller denied knowing about them when pressed for his reason for non-payment of eight truckers at Thursdays meet ing.
 About half of the sums to be paid by special action of the board of finance and Mayor Frank Hayes to provide alleviation for the hardship imposed by the controller on these part-time city employees, go to in- dividuals who have suffered over 8 long period by neglect of their claims by the controller. Superin- tendent Fleming has tried for months to get the controller to pay these claims, approved by city boards and, as Finance Commission CT John H. Goss stated Thursday, not affected by the contract forms made up on recommendation of the contgoller June 30.
 At Thursdays meeting a delega- tion of the truckers appeared, some of them engaged on WPA work and explained to the board that their creditorsx-their landlords, the util- ity. company, the stores-refused to beliSve that they had not been paid, the time has been so long. Water bury merchants could not under stand how the controllers office, based upon publicized exemplifica- tion of the merit system" could be O reniss that bills owed since January had not been paid.
 Thus, the listing of the bills owed these truckers is undertaken by the department hiring them to assure these creditors that the men and women have the money they claim to be owed in prospective pay
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-06
Finance Board To Meet On Monday To Approue Bills
$3OOOO Owed By City for Contract Service of Trucks Equipment -Hold-up By Controller Unexplained
 as Street Supt. Complies With Requests

Bills amounting to about 900 and owed by the city for contract service of trucks and equipment since January when Controller Sherwood L. Rowland took oce will be approved at special meeting of the Board Finance Monday. Although Superintendent of Streets Thomas Fleming had submitted the controllers required
 showing the oral contracts and rates July to the controller denied this Thusav at the Board of Finance
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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-27

F G. Pooley has returned to his
ranch near Coulee City.
Paul and Clarence Rice, Fred
Joplin, Marylies Clute, Emily Sal
mac and Grace Fritch moored Ito
the dam Sunday.
Mrs. Jack Gilden, Mrs. Jack
Adams and Beulah Larsen were at
the dam Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Abbot of Wenatchee
is visiting her husband this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gilden and
son spent last Thursday and Fri
day at Kellogg, Idaho.
Beulah Larsen is visiting Louise
Eggleton this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chef Evans, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Willis and Fred
Joplin spent Sunday at Ephrata.
USED CAR CLEARANCE - 80
Dodge pickup, $525; '33 Ford cpe.,
$500; "a Plymouth sedan, $500;
80 Pontiac coach, 1925; 1880
Dodge sedan, $35; 80 Ford coach,
$175; '29 Chevrolet sedan, 800;
'29 Chevrolet coupe, $85; '29 Ford
coach, $110; '29 Durant, $25; '27
studebaker, $40; '27 Chevrolet Sc
dan, $40. (Excise tax not includ-
ed). Buy now while prices are low!
-Stoll's Garage. adv.
Charles and Ivan Pope, Frank
Eggleton, Loren Cunningham, June
Brown ad Louise Eggleton motored
to Almira Sunday.
Mrs. L. F. Rhodes and Mrs. e. A.
card party Saturday night.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-27

? Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Aldrich were
business visitors to Spokane today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Logg and
baby son spent Saturday with Mrs.
Logg's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Olin.
II E. Stoll made a business trip to
Spokane today.
FOR SALE - Choice residential
lots, very reasonable Call at Dis
patch. adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike veola motored
to Ephrata Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Leonard and
Bonnie were visitors in Ritzville on
Saturday.
Mrs, Cora Snively was calling in
Wenatchee the last of the week.
Mrs. A. D. Pugh and daughter.
Miss Thelma, motored to the dam
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Austring are the
proud parents of baby boy born on
January 9TH at the Sacred Heart hos
pital in Spokane.
SEND BROKEN GLASSES d.
RECT for quick repairs to DR.. AL
fred E. Jones, Box 1916 Spokane
He has given you reliable eye SER
vice for years. ALI glasses and re-
pairs manufactured by recognized
dispensers. adv. tin
| 1a11 Nfofh Sc q
visit from her sister, Mrs. Edith Bur
ton, this week.
Lee Lynard returned home from
Twin Lakes, Wash, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. J. Austring from
British Columbia are guests this week
at the home of their son, J. P. Aus.
tring.
A. H. Mckee, former st. Andrews
resident, and Ray Moreland, both of
southern Idaho, were callers in town
Monday.
A FEW SUITS AND OvERCOATs
to clear out at drastically reduced
prices.-Browne's adv.
The Birthday club met Monday
evening at the home of Mrs. Esther
Brimble.
Frank Mccain and Milton Kirk
wood were visitors to Yakima last
Thursday and Friday.
Bill Pyles is back at work in his
grocery store, following weeks i'll
ness.
FOR SALE - Centrally located
five-room house and two lots In
Coulee City, $4,000 cash. Inquire
ait Dispatch office. adv.
Mrs Frank Mccain attended the
funeral of her aunt at Tacoma We'd
nesday.
Duane Guenther, wife and daugh-
ter, Pat, of Yakima visited at the
Lloyd Mitchell and L. E. Jeffers
homes Sunday. They went on to the
dam to take in the sights.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-27
HartIine Briefs

The Ladies Aid met at the home
Of Mrs. Alva Higginbotham Thurs
day afternoon. The occasion marked
the quarterly birthday dinner, also
the election of officers. All officers
were reelected. Mrs. Ed Edwards,
president; Mrs. E. I. Evans, vice
president. and Mrs. L. L. Friedrich,
secretary-trasuerer A dainty lunch
IF sherbert, cake and coffee was serv.
cd to seventeen members and five
visitors. The next meeting will be
with Mrs. e. I. Evans on February 8.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-27
City In Brief

Leslie Lamb and Roy Graves Wis
tied at the home of B. j. Lamb Mon
day.
Mrs Hazel Woodhouse and Miss
Dolly Lamb are spending the week
end at Spokane.
D. Eckenberger of Hartline, was
in town Wednesday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-01-27

Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Berry and
children were Sunday visitors ait
the home of MIR. and Mrs. Ted
Green at Mason City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Jess and chill
dren spent Saturday in Spokane.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
D. c. MOTORISTS
IN RUSHFOR TAGS
Few Expected to Be Minus
Plates After Today-OnIy
Six Arrested.

Hundreds Of District motorists who
failed to get their 1888 license plates
before the Trafac Department closed
for the holiday week end at pm.
Friday, started out on that task today
as the period of grace ended at 8 am.
The department opened at 9 am
and during the first hour 600 sets Of
tags were handed out. At this rate
only about 5000 motorists will be
without their tags when the depart
ment closes at pm. today, Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer es-
timated.
Meanwhile. the arrest books at police
precincts indicated few motorists were
taking the chance of driving their
automobiles with dead" tags. Up
until noon. only six arrests had been
made-three by seventh precinct
officers, two by No. 8, and one by the
Traffic Division.
MI. Van Duzer said record tag
line was accommodated by the license
plate distributors Friday, when 1907
sets Of tags were passed out.
Local motorists had been given q
two-day postponement Of the tag re-
quirement by Police supt. Ernest w.
Brown, who had ordered that no ar
rests for driving without the new
tags be made before Am. today.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
INJUNCTION DENIED
IN PAY RULING
ScaffoIding Erectors and
Movers Given Same Salary
as Painters.

Justice Jennings Bailey of District
Court today sustained a motion to
dismiss a suit brought by the firm
painting the interior OF the City Post
Once Building to enjoin enforcement
Of Labor Department ruling that it
must pay painters wages to scaffold-
ing erectors and movers.
Unless the decision is appealed, its
effect will be to release to such work.
ers sums which have been withheld
by the Treasury Department from the
contracting concern in order to insure
the higher wage rate for the scaffold-
ing employees
Ruling Declared Arbitrary.
The contractor. Counes g. Rattis
Corp. OF New York, contended that
the ruling. made by a special Labor
Department referee, was arbitrary and
capricious. The referee, Carl R
Schedler, had found that the term
painter" should include scaffolding
laborers. Secretary of Labor Perkins
thereupon ordered the firm to pay
the difference between painters wages
and laborers' wages to the scafroldins
workers.
Asserting that the Labor Depart
ment order would cost them almost
$4,000, the firm asked the District
Court for an injunction.
Justice Bailey, however, refused to
interfere, holding that the suit in
effect was one against the Govern
ment. Assistant United States At
torney John w. Fihelly represented
the Secretary of Labor.
Declared Victory for Labor.
Bryce P. Holcombe, business agent
for Painters Local Union, No. 1858,
hailed the decision Of Justice Bailey
as a victory" for organized labor.
The issue had been brought by his
union, Mr.. Holcombe said, and the
decision today should stand as a pre-
cedent for Interpretation of the
Bacon-Davis law, concerning wage
rates paid on Government work
throughout the country.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Bethesda Keeps
2-Cent Rate for
Letters to ID. C..

Construction Of a new post Office
building at Bethesda, Nd, will not
affect the preferential rate it enjoys
as q branch Of the Washington ofice,
1t was announced by United States
postal oddcials today.
As branches of the WASHINGTON
office, Bethesda and Chevy Chase have
the 2-cent rate for letters and first
class mail, while Scent stamp is
required for letter transmitted to
or from Washington and Silver
Spring, Md; Hyattsville, Md, or
Arlington, Va. The Bethesda and
Chevy Chase Offices are the only
Washington branch Offices in the
suburban area outside the District.
Until about a year ago much of
the service in Arlington County was
delivered at the 2-cent rate from the
Washington Office, but now comes un-
der the Scent rate since establish
ment Of the Arlington Post Once a.
an Independent branch.
The new post ofiice at Bethesda Is
on Wisconsin avenue, only q few
doors south Of the present ONCE, and
q expected to be completed within
the next few weeks.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
ALIENATION SUIT
HERE IS ABANDONED
Action OF John S. Daingerfeld
Against E. Pendleton Turner
Dropped Without EXPLANATION.

The 100000 alienation of affections
suit filed in District Court about a
month ago by John S. Barbour Dain-
gerf1eld, member of an old and promi-
nent Virginia family, against E. Pen
dleton Turner, Washington socialite,
has been abandoned, 1t was learned
today.
Mr.. Daingerfield accused Mr..
Turner of inducing Mrs. Daingerfeld
to leave him and to bar him from the
home at 20l7 Hillyer place NV,
which he had given her. A suit for
limited divorce filed by Mrs. danger
field September 20 is pending.
No reason for stopping the action
was given and Mr. Daingerfield's at
torney could not be reached today
for an explanation.
Mr.. Turner's lawyer, Samuel F.
Beach, said he merely had been in
formed that the suit was dismissed.
A motion for bill of particulars con-
cerning the charges involved in the
proceeding was pending.
The Daingerf1elds were married in
Baltimore November 16, 1907. The
bride was Miss Alice Regina Raisin.
also socially prominent.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

Of money they have stored away
through the years.
Asked If they had managed to save
anything, Roberta said cheerfully,
though shakily:
Il guess we have managed to save
a little. You know the Bible says
something about II you have a little,
save q little. and II you have plenty,
save plenty"
Any further questioning along finan-
cial lines revealed nothing. as she
would wander to some other unrelated
subject.
Olivia seemed anxious for her sister
to leave the hospital Immediately to
go home and take care of some
important envelopes have there"
Any questions as to the contents
Of the enevelopes were evaded.
The latter spent most Of her time
during the interview asking nurses
and others in the room to bring her
some postal cards and some 2-cent
stamps, indicating she was responsible
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Roberta and Ouia Hale sho,vn in Galnger Hospital.

gold certificates and the remainder in
bills Of relatively small denominations
and coins.
Each envelope was carefully marked
with the name of the person or
organization who had donated the
money, the date received and the
exact amount. to the penny.
Even silver that had been given
separately was wrapped neatly in
white paper and similar information
written on the wrapper.
Much of the treasure" dated from
years just after the Civil War and
most of the bills were the large type
in circulation before 1927.
Hundreds of uncanceled postage
stamps were found In boxes OF unused
stationery
Committee members in relating the
startling discovery said at one time
money was piled so high on one Of the
beds hundreds of crumpled bills fell
to the floor.
One unusual discovery was the pres
ence Of dozens of copies OF checks
Evening star., 1938-01-03
TWO ARE KILLED
OVER WEEK END
BYAUT0CRASHES
l. M. Beauchamp Crushed
While Changing Tire on
Bladensburg Road.
NEW YEAR DAY INJURIES
ARE FATAL TO ANOTHER
Five Persons Are Injured in
Three-Car Collision Near
Largo Yesterday.

Struck while changing a tire, Lloyd
M. Beauchamp 80, of 2916 Vista
street NE, was killed almost instantly
yesterday in an automobile accident
on Bladensburg road, near Fort Lin
coin Cemetery.
One other death and several casual
ties were reported during the week
end period as the result of mishaps
in the District and nearby.
Mr.. Beauchamp, filling station at
tendant, was crushed against his own
machine, police said, by a car oper-
ated by Theo Maggia, 1oo6 Otis place
NV. He was dead on arrival at
Casualty Hospital.
Dominick Dell'Erba, 20, Of 5000
North Dakota avenue NV, a pas
senger in Mr.. Beauchamps automo-
bile, was cut about the face and head
in the collision. He was treated at
Casualty.
Dies of Injuries.
The other dead person was Missouri
Dade, so, colored, Brentwood, Nd,
who died in Casualty Of injuries re-
ceived New Year Day when the car in
which she was riding collided with
another near her home.
Robert c. Draper, 7, of 1904 Belmont
street NV suffered broken leg and
other injuries when, police said, he
ran from behind a parked machine
and was knocked down near his home.
He was taken to Garfield Hospital.
John A. Nicholson, 20, Fairland, Md,
morning newspaper route agent, is in
Providence Hospital with serious in
ternal injuries as the result Of an acci-
dent on the Baltimore boulevard near
Riverdale.
Three-Car Collision.
A three-car collision near Largo,
Md, injured five persons. three of
them from the District. They were
Arthur Bakersfield, 36, Of 1917 S
street NV, who may be injured in
ternally; Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm Davis,
904 Eleventh street Sc, cut and
bruised; Lillian Rhodes, Is, Seat Pleas
ant, Nd, injured knee, and John
Parker, %, Annapolis, Nd, broken
shoulder.
Anthony Bonnano, 81, Of 4o13 Four
teenth street NV, received q broken
leg and other injuries when he was
struck by truck in the 100 block Of
Florida avenue NV.
Injured Near Rockville.
Carey A. Dodd, 81, OF $40 Maryland
avenue NE, was injured last night
when his car crashed into a pile of
stone and careened into a power-line
pole. 10 miles north of Rockville, Md.
He received injuries to his head and
neck and was treated by the Rockville
rescue squad and DR.. w. S. Murphy
in Rockville before being sent home
Evening star., 1938-01-03

to discover an envelope bulging with
currency.
A musty trunk in a corner was
opened. The tray was packed with
similar envelopes containing coins
and 81 bills.
The tray was lifted out to reveal,
among various pieces of clothing long
out Of date, hundreds Of additional
envelopes, each bulging with bills,
flves, tens and twenties, and dozens Of
silver coins.
From 3 pm. when the initial dis
covery was made. until long after mid
night, four committee members re-
manned in the dimly lit room and
handled money, some counting while
others searched drawers and vases,
ripped open cushions and inspected
the contents of boxes about the
premises.
More than $4,000 Counted.
Before they left, exhausted, more
than $4,000 had been counted, ap-
proximately $500 Of which was in
Evening star., 1938-01-03

received by the pair. Before cashing
them, one of the sisters painstakingly
had traced every detail from the
drafts and placed the facsimile in the
envelope, along with the money re-
ceived in the cashfng transaction.
Even emblems present on some some
checks donated by organization were
copied in detail.
II got so tired of seeing money"
one of the committee members re-
marked, Il was simply thrilled when
I found an envelope that contained
correspondence alone. And there
weren't many Of them"
Sisters Are UNIFORMED
No one has informed the sisters,
convalescing in the same ward at Gal
linger, Of the discovery of their treas
ure. Doctors believe such information
probably would prove more than their
already shattered nerves could stand.
In an interview at the hospital
this reporter was led to believe the
sisters have no idea of the amount
Evening star., 1938-01-03
DISTRICT SYSTEM
Of ACC0UNT|NG|S
HIT BY ELLIOTT
Acting Controller General
Holds Shortages May Exist
Without Detection.
PASSIVE RESISTANCE"
ATTITUDE is CITED
Declares Commissioners in Some
Instances Have Failed to
Answer Communications.

The condition of the revenue ac-
counts of the District of Columbia
Government lis such that serious
shortages may exist without detec-
ton" Acting Controller General
Richard NJ Elliott said today in his
annual report.
Detailing a 10-year effort to i'm
prove accounting practices in the
municipal establishment, Mr.. Elliott
conceded that some betterment had
been worked, but emphasized that
possibilities had been far from rea-
liZed.
As he summed up the situation:
All efforts of the General Accounting
Office to cause adoption of practices
calculated to correct existing deficien-
cies appear to be countered with a
form of passive resistance"
The accounting survey was under
taken in 1928, and many shortcom-
ings developed, Mr. Elliott said. In
the course of several years, he con-
tinued, the District Commissioners
were importuned on numerous occa-
sions to straighten out matters, but
in some instances, the communica-
tions from the General Accounting
Office was not ANSWERED..
IAN examination of the revenue
accounts of the District Government
disclosed many forms of irregularity,"
he continued. Receipts are posted
to the records which are not &C.
counted for: taxes have been abated
and Cancelled, apparently without
authority: overdue taxes have not
been advertised as required by law;
penalties have not been charged on
taxes in arrears when paid; the pay
ment records have never been bal
anced with cash records; the audi
tors so-called control accounts are
not in balance with detail records in
support thereof. and generally the
condition Of affairs is such that Sc
rious shortages may exist without
detection"
In Police Court and for handling
gasoline tax refunds. the acting con-
troller general said. the recommended
accounting system has been installed;
for real estate and personal tax rec
ords it has been but partly installed.
The system was set up in Municipal
Court, but abandoned, and never has
been installed in the Department Of
Vehicles and Traffic, according to
Mr.. Elliott.
In the entire accounting procedure,
the report concludes, there is a com
plete lack OF centralized control"
Evening star., 1938-01-03
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Marine Band. tomorrow at
3 pm, IN the auditorium, Marine
Barracks. Capt. Taylor Branson,
leader; william r. Santelmann, Sec
ond leader.
The Marines Hymn"
Overture, Roman Carneval" Berlios
Selection, ''Tales Of Hoffman,"
Offenbach
saxophone solo, "valse Premier"
Douse
Musician Kenneth Douse.
Caprice, "Eglantina" IVAN Loock
Humoreske, Jolly Coppersmith,"
Peter
Clarinet solo, solo de Concours,"
Messenger
Musician Paul Gogel.
"a Stag Party" Sousa
Bassoon solo, "Rondo" -Lange
Musician William Koch.
Rhapsodic evolution, From Africa
to Harlem" --------------Ben -Benneth
Second. Hungarian Rhapsody" Liszt
March, ''P. 8. M. A." -Miescer
"Can1Onetta" Goddard
Hymn, HAL the Power Of Jssus'
Name"
"Ths saas spansasd 4annssr
Evening star., 1938-01-03

opinion OF the corporation counsel and
the advisory opinion" Of Acting Con-
troller General Richard N Elliott that
G. H. A. was without authority of
law" the clinic In the 1900 block Of
street NV. continued operating to-
day, as usual The controller generals
opinion was rendered in . personal
letter to Senator Pat McCarran. Demo-
crat, OF Nevada, based on the alloca-
ton Of $4,000 Of funds from Home
Owners Loan Corp. to G. H. A.
Trustees Of Group Health were
faced with several problems at their
meeting today. First, the legal status
of the outfit has been attacked from
so many angles that the organization
apparently is going to be wary about
the next step Horace Russell, general
counsel Of the Home Owners Loan
Corp, is a trustee of G. H. A.
1t was decided today that no court
action will be taken until after the
meeting Of G. H. A. Board Of Trustees
and further conferences with law
enforcement officials. Previously plans
had been made to test the case in
District Court, under the new
"declaratory judgment law"
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Fortune Found in Room of Aged> Stricken Sisters
By THOMAS C. HARDMAN.

A WEIRD story Of the poverty
~ stricken existence OF two aged
~ spinster sisters with a small
a fortune at their finger tips
was revealed here today tale OF
near starvation in a dingy two-room
fiat literally filled with thousands Of
dollars
Death alone could have brought
about the unveiling of these two mod
ern Midases had not a queer twist
of circumstances placed the elderly
pair in the hospital at the same time
with injuries received in freak acci-
dents.
For more than IS years, Olivia and
Roberta Hale, both believed past their
Goth birthdays, had lived off the $40
month provided them through the
Southern Relief Society and donations
from other organizations, friends and
distant relatives.
Roberta. who had been confined to
the fiat at 512 Second street NV. for
nearly 10 years with leg ailment,
was burned severely about the left
shoulder approximately 10 days ago
when a candle she was carrying ig-
nlted her clothing Something had
gone wrong with the electric lights.
Her sister, Olivia, had waited on
her and seen that she was made as
comfortable as possible in the musty
apartment until early last week, when
Miss Olivia fell and fractured her hip.
Relief Workers Appear.
A committee from the relief society
paid the couple visit Thursday to
find Roberta laid up in one of the
small bedrooms. her scared shoulder,
which by this time had become in
fected. swathed in greasy bandages,
and Olivia lying on a pile of quilts
which had been heaped on the bare
springs of bed in the other room.
Here were found groceries and can
goods stacked about, much of the
perishable edibles in decayed stage.
An ambulance was summoned and
after much persuasion the sisters con-
sented to go to Emergency Hospital,
from where they later were transferred
to Gallinger.
Meanwhile, member of the relief
society committee, in attempting to
straighten up the quarters, opened a
drawer of an old-fashioned chiffonier