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La gaceta., 1938-01-21
LA FBRIA DE FLORIDA Sc
ABRIRA ~OFICIALMENTE
Ell MARTES

FL martes por la noche, a las
7:30, Sc abrira oficialmente la
Feria de Florida por eli presi-
dente Carl d.. Brorein, luego
de que Ell aicalde ChanceH lie
La gaceta., 1938-01-21

No vemos Inconvenience algu
no en- que las organizaciones o.
breras revelen ell estado de sus
tesoros, 81 asi 10 hacen las corpo
raciones y los individuos.
Media igual para todos.
La gaceta., 1938-01-21
DAVID SHOLTZ ANUNCIA
SU

Daytona Beach, Enero 81
David Sholtz, exgobernador
del Estado, anunci6 aver su
candidatura a senadr nacio-
nal. :
Aspira al puesto que desem
peha Ell senador Claude Pep .
per.
La gaceta., 1938-01-21
''Neutralidad?" ....

Investiga ell gobierno de I'm
Gle Sam ell apresamiento, por los
hermanitos de los japoneses, del
vapor Nantucket Chief"
NADIA Sc hara.
La gaceta., 1938-01-21

Dejaron a Hodges en- la pre-
sidencia.--.. FL individuo Sc ARE
pinto y los otros, los buenos
cristianos, lie absolvieron.
Pero lie han pedido que Sc
ponga un bozal y que antes de
hablar en- representation de los
dem6cratas del estado, consulte
a los miembrox del Executive.
Muchos reaccionarios hay en-
la Florida opuestos a la Obra de
gobierno del presidente Roose :
welt; pero va Sc les ha trazado
l. Inca divisoria.
NO PASARAN.
La gaceta., 1938-01-21

I'm negro safvaje o loco atac6
violentamente a una sonora v
despu&s la hiri6 ~grsvemsute.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
DR.. D.A. COLEMAN,
us. CHEM|ST,D|ES
Had Been With Department
Since 1918-Editor of
Magazine.

DR.. David A. Coleman, who had beer
in charge of the milling. baking ano
cereal chemistry laboratory of the
Economics Bureau, Agricultural De.
partment, died yesterday in Sible,
Hospital after an illness of two weeks
He had been with the Agriculture De.
partment since 1918.
DR.. Coleman was regarded as an
authority on cereal chemistry, not only
within the department, but in COM
mercial and scientific fields as well
He was a frequent contributor to
scientific publications and took an &C.
tive part in the American Association
Of Cereal Chemists, being editor In
chief Of the magazine Cereal Chem
istry at the time of his death.
He was educated In the schools Of
Framingham, Mass, at the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College and re-
ceived his doctors degree at Rutgers
University in 1917. He served in the
Medical Corps of the Army during the
World War and saw service in France.
DR.. Coleman is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Martha r. Coleman: a
son. David M. Coleman, II, and a
daughter, Rosemary, 9. His father
and sister also survive.
Funeral services will be held in St.
Anthony's Catholic Church at 9 am.
Monday. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
LYON PARK CITIZENS
WILL BACK BOYS CLUB
Support of Organization to Be
Formed Within Month Pledged
at Meeting.
= Stan Correspondent of The Star.

B: staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va, Feb. 26.-Sup-
port Of a boys club to be orRan,zed
within the next month was voted last
night by the Lyon Park Citizens Asso-
ciation meeting in the community
house.
Earl r. Leisher told the association
he believed the proposed club would be
OF great benefit to the community ana
that there is a need for one since no
organizations Of this nature are at
present functioning in the county. The
association voted to make Mr.. Leisher
director In charge Of organization.
O. d. Adams was appointed to sue
ceed George Sanders, resigned, as dele
gate to the Arlington County Civic
Federation. f
James Thorpe of the Bureau Of
Chemistry and Soils, Department Of
Agriculture, gave an illustrated lecture
on China. Mr.. Thorps, who was re-
leased by the United States Govern
ment to advise the Chinese government
on soil conservation work and to make
surveys, Is an amateur photographer
and showed lantern slides and motion
pictures Of the people and interesting
points Of this nation.
The association voted to support the
budget OF the board Of governors OF
the Lyon Park Community Center,
which Is described q the only COM
munity y-owned center Of this. kind n
the county.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
LEFT-OF-PLATFORM
DRIVING LIMITED
Old Regulation Is Revived.
Signs on Loading Walks
- Now Effective.

As = measure Of safety to pedestri-
ans. the District Commissioners have
restored to the trafic regulations q
provision that was dropped inadvert-
emily during revision Of the rules In
1881, limiting the right of drivers to
pass to the left of loading platforms.
The old rule. now revived. reads
Vehicles may, with due caution, drive
to the left of loading platforms. ex-
cept when oflicial signs indicate other
wise"
In recommending re-establBhment
Of this rule, Trafic Director William
A. Van Duzer said: Two persons have
been killed while walking from one
platform to another. One of these
locations was at Massachusetts avenue
and North Capitol street and the other
at Fourteenth and u streets NV.
Special signs were placed at those
locations and at number Of other
locations indicating that vehicula,
traffic should keep to the right, but
an assistant corporation counsel at
Police Court has just nolle pressed
several cases which were made At
North Capitol street and Massa-
chusetts avenue where cars were
driven to the left OF the platform in
disregard Of the signs.
1T is believed . general regulation
covering this subject Is necessary in
order to prevent serious accidents At
. number Of such locations through
out the District"
The change was indorsed by Cor
poration Counsel Elwood H. Seal.
Evening star., 1938-02-26

F. B. I. agents to Kansas City. Al
though unarmed when taken by sur
prise by the agents. he told captors
he had planned never to be taken
alive. Two revolvers were found in
his room.
The prisoner, following his release
from a three-year term at Alcatra1
for impersonation Of Federal oficers,
is charged with shooting and kidnap-
ing . San Diego, Calf, policeman and
with fleeing to Tijuana, Mexico, to
avoid arrest. In Tijuana, the F. B. I.
said, he engaged in gun battle with
Mexican police. who finally placed
him in Jail. He escaped from this
jail last October.
At one time, posing as "Col. william
E. Boyd" Strain went In full Army
uniform to March Field, Calf, and
obtained = .45-caliber automatic pts.
tol through military channels.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
LAST SERVICES HELD
FOR MRS. SHERIDAN
Widow Of Union Cavalry Leader
Laid 70 Resk in Arlington
National Cemeterv.

Funeral services for Mrs. Philip H.
Sheridan were held today in st.
Matthews Catholic Church, With
Msgr. Edward L. Buckley, rector Of the
church, officiating. Burial followed IN
Arlington National Cemetery.
Mrs. Sheridan, widow Of the Union
Armys cavalry leader. died Thursday
at her home, 22l1 Massachusetts ave-
nue. NV, at the age Of 81. Death
came nearly half . century after the
death Of Gen. Sheridan.
Mrs. Sheridan had spent most Of her
girlhood in Washington and at Army
posts. She was born at Fort Union,
N. Mex, and was educated in schools
here and in Philadelphia.
She was q leader in social circles
here for many years, but in recent
years had lived here 50 quietly that
many persons did not know she resided
in the Capital.
Mrs. Sheridan Is survived by three
daughters, the Misses Mary, Irene and
Louise Sheridan, who lived with her
here, and two grandchildren.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
FREE LUNCH GRANT
EXPIRES APRIL /
Last Of Emergency Relief Money
Continues Plan Through
..... March,

Free lunches for needy school chill
dren will be continued to the end of
March by use of the last Of unex-
pended balances Of old Federal emer.
gency relief grants to the District.
A sum of $4,000 in unoblieated bal
ances. said to represent the last dregs
OF the old relief grants, made possible
extension Of the program from March
Z to March 81. The Commissioners
yesterday received approval Of Federal
oncials to use this fund for the lunch
program.
Budget Bureau officials, however,
have not yet notified the Commis-
sioners Of their final action on the
repeated request Of the District for
approval of 4 supplemental appro-
priation Of nearly $4,000 to carry
the lunch program through to the
end Of the school term in June.
The Commissioners also requested
approval Of an item Of $6s, 900 for the
lunch program IN the next school
year.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
DRIVE
NEARS HALF GOAL
Meeting Shows $47,764 in
Hand-Mrs. Strong Tells
of 0rcheStra'S Value.

The National Symphony Orchestra
Association has raised s47,764.50 In
its drive for $l03, 900 sustaining fund
for the 1889 season, 1t was an
nounced yesterday at the first report
meeting Of the General Campaign
Committee at the Carlton Hotel. The
drive opened last Wednesday and will
continue through March 8.
The sum reported amounts to 46.37
per cent Of the total being sought.
THE total reported represents an
excellent effort on the part Of our
large corps Of volunteer workers." L.
Corrin Strong, general campaign
chairman, said. But it's only q be-
ginning"
At the opening of the meeting, Mrs.
Henry Alvah Strong. one of the orig
inal sponsors Of the National SYM
phony and active on the Board of
Directors of the association for some
time, told of the friends the orchestra
has won outside of Washington. In
many communities, she said, the Ma
tional Symphony represents the only
available organization that can pro-
vide symphonic concerts.
The largest amount reported at
yesterdays meeting was that Of the
Special Gifts Committee. Thomas p.
Morgan, jr.. chairman, announced his
unit had raised $40.12S, or 1923 per
cent Of its quota Of $57,100. This
amount represents the donations of
81 individuals.
Other committee reports: Mems
Business, 1880; Women's business,
$1.22S.50; Army, $685.; Associations,
$50; Education. $25; Government,
s1,710; Navy, $500; Orchestra Guild,
1869, and Suburban 1920.
The total number Of gifts was ITS.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
'BARK[EY ASKSU
RULE VOTE
Proposals Would Place Full
Responsibility for
Projects.
By the Associated Press,

Majority Leader Barkley, Democrat,
Kentucky. said today he would advo-
cate Senate vote this session on
proposals to place upon the Federal
Government the full responsibility for
flood control projects.
He made the statement after several
Senators protested against q provision
Of the 1886 flood control act reouir-
ing local interests to pay for rights of
way and operation OF reservoirs.
The issue was revived by Senate de-
bate yesterday on Gilbertsville Dam,
proposed $4,000, 900 addition to de-
velopment of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority. Senator Miller, Democrat, Ar
kansas and others declared it was
unfair" to exempt T. v. A. commune
ties from requirements of q law which
had prevented flood control works else
where.
Senator Barkley said he opposed the
local participation clause when it was
enacted in 1886, and still believed it
should be repealed.
Senator Miller predicted the Senate
Commerce Committee would hold
hearings soon on his bill authorizing
extensive flood control DEVELOPMENTS
in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys,
the half-billion dollar cost to be borne
entirely by the Federal Government.
The Arkansan said virtually no work
had been done under the 1886 act be-
cause communities were unable to pay
their share Of the cost.
Although Senators Barley and Mil
Ter and others insisted flood protection
was Altogether q national problem,
Chairman Copeland, Democrat, New
York Of the Commerce Committee in
dicated opposition to . nat elimination
OF local responsibility. He was author
Of the 1886 act.
He told the Senate communities
benefited by flood control projects
should be willing to contribute a Dor.
tion Of the cost For example, he said.
Pittsburgh ought to bear some of the
cost of any program which might re-.
suit in saving it from heavy food
damages.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
Cellar Deepened
Too Much, Gold
Re,cards sDiggers
57Double Eagles Are
Found Ownership
Fight Starts.
BY the Associated Press.

0y tne ASSOCl3teo kIeSS.
BLOOMSBURY, Pa, Feb. 26.-The
Job Of deepening the cellar under an
old house was completed today-with
the aid Of q pile of buried gold-but
it was task too well done, the con-
tractor decided.
Fellow laborers swung their picks
with will when John johnson turned
up $40 gold piece, and by the time
the treasure hunt ended the cellar
was 2 feet deeper than the owner de-
sired.
johnson had seen something in the
loose earth at his feet.
Il thought they were washers" he
said, 'Then-"
Big heaps Of sodden dirt told the
story. Johnson's pick rose and fell
Is it never did before. Gold and more
gold. In vain did he try to hide his
excitement from fellow workers. They
came and dug. too.
Several hours effort yielded 81 coins
with face value Of Sl.140, now worth
much more.
Then arose the question Of owner
ship. Elmer r. Beers, prosperous elec-
trical contractor who purchased the
house last year, claimed the money
He divided 5000 between johnson and
two other laborers. then kept the rest
BY the rule Of finders keepers
johnson calculated the find was all his
I'm going to see lawyer" he de.
| clAred.
Who buried the gold remained Z
puzzle. The late Martha Altmiller
from whom Beers bought the place
occupied the house for years.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
j. s. LEGAL STAFF
SEPARATION URGED
Lawyers Should Not Be
Under Control of Persons
Advised, Speaker Says.

Separate organizations for Govern
ment legal STATS to enable them to
take detached view" of question:
submitted to them were urged last
night by Horace Russell, president Of
the Federal Bar Association, at a
meeting Of the organization in the
auditorium Of the Commerce Depart
ment.
Declaring lawyers should not be
subject to direction from persons they
are advising, Mr.. Russell expressed
the belief that an independent posi-
ton and an independent budget for
the legal departments of Government
bodies. would improve the work of
the lawyers.
Speaking in the panel on admins
trative Law, DR.. Emmett Sebree, Board
Of Tax Appeals attorney, said review
Of administrative actions by the Fed
eral courts has resulted in conflicting
decisions in different jurisdictions and
urged creation Of a new appellate
court to review judicial decisions of
administrative agencies. Such q court
ne said, would hand down uniform
decisions and soon build up valuable
body of administrative law.
Asserting that the rights of indi.
viduas under administrative Law
have often been subjugated to exec.
utive efficiency and expediency," Wal.
ter M. Bastian, former president o,
the District Bar Association, declared
there should be no difference in pro-
cedure in q case involving citizen and
citizen and one involving citizen and
his Government.
Other speakers included Robert M.
Cooper, antitrust division lawyer;
Carl Mcfarland, Assistant Attorney
General; William r. Valance of the
State Department, and Thomas M,
Ross of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
FIDELITY MAILS
DIVIDEND ORDERS
New Federal Savings and
Loan Association to Open
Next Tuesday.

AZ plans were completed to open the
new First Federal Savings & Loan
Association next Tuesday morning,
cards were dropped into the mail to-
day notifying the first 500 shareholders
OF Fidelity Building & Loan Associa-
tion to call Tuesday for their FIRST and
fnal dividend"
The cards were mailed out by Re-
ceiver James H. Nolan to Fidelity
shareholders asking them to come in
for their dividend orders" When the
shareholders get their dividend orders,
amounting to IS per cent Of their
Fidelity holdings, they may present
them to the officials of the First Fed
eral Savings & Loan Association. in
the same room.
To Transfer Holdings.
Already a majority of shareholders
have made arrangements to transfer
their old holdings into shares in the
First Federal. For those who wish
cash, however. their IS per cent, or
any part of it, will be available.
The cards to be sent out by Re-
ceiver Nolan will be mailed at the
rate of 500 day until all shareholders
have been notified. This is for the
purpose of staggering on different
days the more than $4,000 Fidelity
shareholders, so that all would not
attempt to come in at once This
procedure has been used for years
IN notifying depositors of closed banks
to call for their dividends.
Executive Manager Ready.
Carl H. Ellingson, executive man.
ager Of the First Federal, is ready
with his statf to open the new insti-
tuition.
The First Federal Building, formerly
owned by Fidelity, is at 6l0 Thirteenth
street NV.
Claims against Fidelity amount to
about $3.743,O00, according to Con-
troller Of the Currency j. F. T. O'Con-
nor, who late yesterday made public
plans for paying the first and final
dividend"
Evening star., 1938-02-26
Nobel
CONTINUED From First Page.)

after the award of the prize had been
announced. DR.. Kurt Wannow, age
40 and an employe Of . firm Of law
yers, was sitting at q table In the
cafe when q woman he had never
seen before came in and took . place
at the same table. A few words were
exchanged and the woman introduced
herself as Maud Won Ossietzky. wife
of the writer. She was worried, she
confided to Dr. Wannow, because she
was afraid it would be hard to get the
Nobel Prize money from Oslo.
DR.. Wannow treasured her. 1t would
be q simple matter, he said, and could
easily be. arranged. He convinced Frau
Won Ossietzky that he himself could
get the money for her Ind her hus-
band. After further meetings. several
Of them In the same cafe, Frau Won
Ossietzky got her husband to sign .
power of attorney for Wannow. It was
agreed that Wannow would be paid
20, 900 marks ($8.000) II he succeeded
in getting the prize money for Won
Ossietzky.
Transfer Finally Obtained
Wannow then sent his secretary,
Alexandra Kreutzberger, to Oslo with
the power Of attorney. There was de-
Law because certain formalities had not
been complied with, but finally Frau
lein Kreutzberger obtained . transfer
of the funds to Germany-to Wan.
noVS private account.
First Wannow paid himself his 20,.
900 mark $4,000 fee. From then on,
the state maintains, Wannow's con-
duct became definitely criminal. He
loaned" 10000 marks (Sl6,000) Of the
money to 17-year-old Lottie L.. IN IN.
innate friend. the state charges, and
later apparently loaned" her still
more. He also seems to have loaned
further sums to other friends.
At this time certain foreign news
papers began to charge that the Nazis
were preventing Won Ossietzky from
receiving his prize money. The regime
already had forbidden him to 60 to
Oslo to get the award himself. Moved,
ironically, by these charges the Ges-
tapo (secret police) now intervened IN
the case and was able to save the last
remnant OF 16.500 marks.
Wannow was arrested and - now
being tried on charges Of fraud. Tho
final irony developed late yesterday
when Won Ossietzky, who himself has
stood In German prisoners docks
three times. appeared as . vituess
for the state. He denied ever having
authorized Wannow to dispose Of the
prize money, as the defendant had
done. He had intended to use most
Of it for charitable purposes, he said.
Describes Reaction 70 Award. 20
II asked myself, Are you worthy
Of this prize money or Is 1t only
political demonstratton?'" Won Os-
sietzky testified at one point in de.
scribing his reaction to the hrst news
Of the Nobel award. Then thought
back over my life, though, and de.
cided that I was not entirely I'm.
worthy"
Won Ossietzky's condition Is still
serious and his attending physician
asked the court for an adjournment
for . few days because Of the strain
the trial was putting on his patients
health. Won Ossietxky protested that
he was able to continue, but the court
acceded to the doctors request.
Although the court offered Won
Ossietzky . chair 50 that he could
testify seated, the writer said that he
preferred to stand and did % whilo
giving oil his testimony.
(oopyrisht, 1855, by chieaso Daily NswAS
Evening star., 1938-02-26
$14,O(O SAVING.
FOR D. c. URGED
Kennedy Would Reopen Dis.
trict Laboratory for
Materials Test.

District taxpaye1s will lose $4,000
annually unless the Senate District
Committee corrects q Joker" In thu
District appropriation bill before 10.
porting 1t next week, according to
Representative Kennedy, Democrat, Of
Maryland. He wrote late yesterday
to Senator Tydings, Democrat, Of
Maryland urging him to offer an
amendment.
The bill carries proviso which for.
bids any funds being used for the
operation of the highway department
laboratory to test materials for Use by
the District government. Mr.. Kennedy
points out that the bill, which passed
the House a month ago and Is now
being considered by the Senate District
Committee, carries $4,000 for ths
Bureau of Standards to make tests
that the District government could
make In its own laboratory for $4,000
year.
Senator Tydings has assured Mr.,
Kennedy that he will cooperate by
pressing for acceptance Of an amend.
ment which would authorize the local
laboratory, idle for several years, to
be reopened. Mr.. Kennedy's letter
said: The District can handle the
work at q much smaller cost-for
example, there are certain concrets
inspections which they sometimes
make In the amount of 100 per day,
which cost $3.50 per day at the Bureau
of Standards and which one man
could handle at the District plant
at a cost OF $500 per day."
The District Commissioners, Dis.
trict Auditor Daniel j. Donovan and
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, director Of
highways, have strongly urged" that
the proviso be eliminated and funds
be provided to reopen the District
testing plant. Mr.. Kennedy said. :
Evening star., 1938-02-26
ASKSPUbL|C'S SAID
TO KILL NUMBERS
Hazen Urges Reports on
Gambling Activities, but
Reaffirms Law Need,

Federal ofncials and private citizens
were urged today by Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen to report to police
any information they may have of the
activities of the numbers games op-
orators or runners.
He said he believed this form Of
public cooperation would go q long
way" In efforts to LIMIT the numbers
racket, but he insisted there could be
no final success until the Districts
gambling laws are provided with more
teeth"
Urges King Bill Passage.
Commissioner Hazen repeated the
oft-stated Recommendation of the
Commissioners for passage by Con-
gress Of the King bill, which would
make possession Of numbers slips
prima facie evidence Of violation of
the gambling laws.
This bill has been passed by the
Senate, but House action has been
blocked by opposition by Representa-
tive Palmisano, Democrat, Of Mary
land, now chairman of the House
District Committee. @
To Poll Court Officials.
To center additional attention on
the problem, Mr.. Ha1en said he would
ask for comments on the gambling
situation from the group Of judges and
other legal officials who are to con-
fer with the Commissioners March S
on suggestions that all District Grim
inal Court activities he housed in the
new Police Court Building.
Among those invited to this session
are Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat Of
United States District Court. Presiding
Judge John P. Mcmahon Of Police
Court. Acting United States Attorney
David A. Pine, Corporation Counsel
Elwood H. Seal and 4 group Of attor-
neys from the District Bar Associa-
ton. including its president. Bolitha
Laws. and former Corporation Coun-
sci E. Barrett Prettyman.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
FUNERAL TOMORROW
FOR 1T. COL. SCHOFIELD
Companies Representatives Here
Survived by Widow, Daughter
and Brother.

Funeral services will be held at II
am. Monday in st. Thomas Episco-
pal Church for 1t. Col. Lane Scho-
field. representative here for many
companies in connection with sales to
the Government. He died Thursday
in Walter Reed Hospital.
In recent years Col. Schofield had
been member Of the Oncers' Re-
serve Corps. He was a veteran Of the
Spanish American and World Wars
He retired from active Army service
about Is years ago.
Col. schofleld is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Virginia Lee schofield,
president of the District of Columbia
Daughters of 1912; . daughter, Mrs.
Elaine Gramers and . brother, Ed
ward A. Schofield.