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Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-25
TOURISTS WARNED NOT
TO SLEEP IN AUTOS

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Aug. 25. CUP)
Tourists were being warned to-
day against sleeping in their autos
in this area and police and deputy
Sheriffs were seeking a pair of
armed robbers wanted in connec-
ton with at least two parked car
holdups last night.
Evening star., 1938-06-02

W0men and Shorter Womm-
FITTED DRESS COATS of beautifully soft
crepey and nubby woolens in black or
navy-S10
TUXEDO REVERS plus the stitching you
like so well! Coats of smart and service
able bamboo homSpun-S10
TWEEDS and SUEDES!-Short boxy coats
SO eminently suited to all-around town and
vacation wear-tweeds imported or by
Stroock's-suede of exquisitely soft Dove
down" quality-S10
FULL LENGTH BOX COATS with button
back revers, of novelty tweeds, most wear
able-S10
--CAPES "a length) in black and navy blue
sheer dressy woolen-S10
IT'S $40 coot Sole! Coot Shops Third floor
Evening star., 1938-06-02

WHITE HATS All
purchased
width medium styles Won't little
pboxe
and ssrawsfine Maanssno White
FetssRoyon Heodizes 2It7
eYa Floor
Evening star., 1938-07-22
NATURALIST NAMED
TO CAPITAL PARKS
New Assistant to McHenry Will
Conduct First of Series of
Junior Walks

Under a program of expansion of
local park activities, Arthur w. Shively
of Huntingdon, Pa, has been ap-
pointed ranger naturalist in the Ma
tional Capital Parks Office and as
signed as assistant to Park Naturalist
Donald Edv ard McHenry.
Mr.. Shively will be on duty here
through the remainder of the summer,
it was announced by Edward j. Kelly.
administrative assistant to the super
intendent of National Capital parks.
The new ranger naturalist is science
instructor at Huntingdon College and
Hanover High School. Hanover, Pa.
AS his first assignment Mr.. Shively
will conduct the first of a series OF
Junior nature walks" Tuesday morn
ing. The walk for children from 8 to
Is years old. will be through upper
Rock Creek Park from $50 to IL am.
1t will start from the Sixth Presby-
terian Church, Sixteenth and Kennedy
streets NV. at $50 am.
Mr.. Shively also will be in charge
of a new series of Thursday evening
programs in the Sylvan Theater at
Fort Bunker Hill Park. Thirteenth
and Perry streets NE. His first pro-
gram will be held there next Thurs
day at 8 pm. oHward E. Rothrock.
acting chief naturalist, National Park
Service. will give an illustrated lecture
on "Glimpses Of Our National Parks"
Evening star., 1938-07-22
F.S. A. COOPERATIVE
TO MAKE CLOTHES
Conduct Of Factory Will Be
Yardstick to Measure
Operation Costs.

The Farm Security Administration
announced yesterday that it had
agreed to let consumers co-operatives
take over clothing factory at one Of
its projects and determine the cost of
manufacturing wearing apparel under
"the most favorable working condi-
tions"
Spokesman for the administration
said the project was expected to pro-
vide ''yardstick" for measuring man.
ufacturing costs.
A non-profit corporation, the Con-
sumer Wholesale Clothiers, Inc, has
been organized to operate the cloth
ing factory at the Jersey homestead
project, near Hightstown, N. j., off,
cials said. The factory was purchased
and equipped with a 5000, 1000 Govern
ment loan to residents of the home
stead, who work in the plant.
The new corporation has been au-
thorized to sell products of the factory
to consumer cooperative organizations
in all parts Of the country agreeing to
participate in the experiment.
Onicials of the Farm Security Ad-
ministration said the factory, now en-
ploying about 100 workers, was union
lied and paid the prevailing union
scale.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
NEWUNDERPASS
PROTESTS FILED
W|THC|TY HEADS
Thomas Circle Business Men
and Owners of Property .
Appear.
ROUTING OF TRAFFIC
THROUGH PARK ASKED
Delay in Construction of Project
Sought Until Congress Can
Reconsider Action.

Protests against construction of a
traffic underpass for Thomas Circle
along the line of Massachusetts, ave-
nue.. for which Congress has approved
District appropriation of $3.50 900,
were filed with the Commissioners to-
day by delegation representing prop
erty owners and business interests
along Massachusetts avenue and Four
teenth street.
The delegation suggested as an alter
native that Massachusetts avenue
traftlc be cut through portion of
the Thomas Circle park, but asked
that if this cannot be done under the
law. that the Commissioners with
hold construction of the project until
Congress can reconsider the project
at the next session.
The Commissioners took no action
except to say they would consider the
petition.
The group included A. J. Driscoll,
president of the Mid-City Citizens As
sociation; Eugene J. Butler and
Charles A. Mcmahon, representing
the National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference; Frank B. Hoffman, chairman
OF a special committee representing
property owners near Thomas Circle:
Mrs. w. J. Flood, 1922 Massa chusetts
avenue NV. and Mrs. Emily E.
Chapman, 1927 Massachusetts avenue
NV.
District Engineer Department off,
cials said plans have not been COM
pleted, but that it appeared it would
be necessary to widen Massachusetts
avenue on either side by about 81
feet. between Thirteenth street and
point about half way between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets.
They said this would be necessary
If the underpass was to be wide
enough to provide for four lanes Of
traffic and if the main roadway Of
Massachusetts avenue would be wide
enough to have two traffic lanes on
either side of the street.
Members of the delegation protested
that such plans would mean the loss
OF more than 100 shade trees along
| the street and that the result of the
engineering project would be grave
damage to properties along this section
of the avenue.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
JUNE FARM INCOME
SET AT $559, 900, 900
Receipts Plus Benefit Payments
for Same Period Last Year
Were $e31 100000.

The Agriculture Department esti-
mated today farmers received $780,
100000 in June from sale of their
products, plus Government benefit
payments. Similar receipts for June
last year were estimated at $751;
100000.
Farm marketing receipts and benefit
payments for the first six months of
this year totaled about $3.341 900 900,
records showed, compared with So
829. 100000 during the corresponding
period last year
Benefit payments for the month
period were reported at $257, ,000, 900,
compared with $3.50 100000 last year.
The department said the cash in
come from crop sales was Is per cent
below the estimate for June last year.
Receipts from live stock and live stock
products were shown as 9 per cent
lower.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
COMMUTERSH|T
FARE ABOLITION
Southern Patrons Protest
Application at Hearing
Before |. &C.

The Southern Railway Co. proposal
to discontinue communication fares be-
tween Washington and points in Vir-
ginia encountered opposition today at
hearing at the Interstate Commerce
Commission
More than score of Virginians who
commute daily to Washington on the
Southern Railway line attended the
hearing to voice opposition to the
proposed change through Attorney w.
1. Denning, who represented a large
group of residents of the communities
which would be affected
Mr.. Denning presented a statement
showing that. if the Communication
fares are Cancelled and commuters
forced to pay the normal coach fare,
the increase in fare cost would range
as high as 240 per cent in some cases.
This was figured on basis of 156-
trip Communication tickets, as COM
pared to the normal coach fare.
The communities which would be
principally affected by the proposal
are Springfield, Ravensworth. Burke
Sideburn, Fairfax. Clifton, Manassas,
Bristow and Nokesville.
Counsel for the railroad presented
figures showing the road had a deficit
of $3,l62,75l for the period from
January to May, 1898, as compared
with a net profit of sl.930,2O1 for
the corresponding period in 1887.
The railroad presented its proposal
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion last May l8, but the commission
ordered the change suspended pend
ing the hearing and further investi-
cation.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
INSTALL BARBER BOARD

Members of the wly-appointed
BARRIERS Examining Board, which will
administer the new law providing for
licensing and regulation of barber
shops, were sworn into Office today at
a ceremony at a meeting of the Board
of Commissioners.
The members are Saviour Sidotti
and Tcny J. Durso and Richard Ad-
kinson. colored. The Commissioners
have designated Mr.. Sidotti president
Of the board.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
D. c. POLICE KILLINGS
CONDEMNED BY UNION
Cleaners and Laundry Workers
Say Sense of Decency Has
Been Outraged

Police killings in the District OF
Columbia were condemned in a reso-
luton made public today by the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Cleaners
and Laundry Workers Union.
The resolution stated:
Our union, representing an In
dustry employing 1000 cleaning and
laundry workers, adds its voice to that
of thousands of indignant Washing
tonians whose sense of decency has
been outraged by the needless and
wanton killings.
I'VE feel that the citizens Of our
city, and particularly those in the
labor movement, have silently &C
cepted this intolerable situation too
long. 1t is particularly incumbent
upon the organized labor movement
in this city to once and for all put a
halt to this situation and we are ready
to lend all our support"
Evening star., 1938-07-22
FOUR BOYS HELD
IN THEFT SERIES
Two Others Are Sought by
Police of Mount Rainier
and Brentwood.

Two Mount Rainier and two Brent
wood, Md, youths were under arres.
today and two others were being
sought by police in connection with
series of robberies in nearby Mary
land, including theater, bowling alley,
drugstore and poolroom.
The boys. ranging in age from II
to 20. were to be arrigned at o'clock
tonight before Judge Gilbert Hughes
of Mount Rainier on robbery charges.
They are being held at the Hyatts-
vile Jail.
Their arrest concluded an inpesti-
CATION begun by Police Chief Gene
Plummer of Mount Rainier last jan
uary when the first robbery occurred
In the series. Chief Plummer esti-
mated the boys obtained approxi-
mately S700
One of the youths is being held
by washington police He was ar
rested last week after purse snatch
ing in the District. in which a son
of Mount Rainier official also was
involved.
Chief Plummer said warrants
charging robbery would be sworn out
to-day. Confessions obtained from all
of the boys. the police chief said. in
volve the two missing youths. one of
whom is known to be in Georgia and
the other believed to be in Pennsyl-
vania
Chief Plummer revealed that through
a dictaphone secretly placed in the
boys cell, plans for an attempted es-
cape last night were overheard. He
said, however, it would have been i'm
possible for the boys to get out.
One of the victimized establishments
was the Cameo Theater at Mount
Rainier. Chief Plummer said the
youths admitted robbing a candy ma
chine after their attempts to crack
open the theater safe failed.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
CHILD ON FLYER
DIES UNDER AUTO
Death 48th From Traffic.
Boy Had Borrowed Sled
on Wheels.

The Districts traffic toll stood at 48
today after 9-year-old boy died
under the wheels of an automobile
in the 1900 block of Forty third street
yesterday as he bolted from an alley
into the street on borrowed flyer" :"
The boy. Robert Williams. of 1902
Forty-third street NV. died almost
instantly when his sled on wheels"
was in collision with car driven by
Mrs. Marie H. Eisinger, 40, of 1900
Brandywine street NV.
Mrs. Eisinger was released In the
custody of her attorney, Raymond
Sparks, for appearance at coroner S
inquest
Pearl Amos, colored. OF 1923 Riggs
street NV, who saw the accident
from a window in a nearby house,
said Mrs. Eisinger was driving slowly
and tried to stop when she saw the
boy but apparently did not have time.
At No. precinct test of Mrs
Eisinger's brakes showed them in good
condition.
The boys mother. Mrs. Mildred
Harper, notified of the accident by
neighbors, said she had not allowed
Robert to have one of the flyers be-
cause she was afraid something like
this would happen"
Mrs Harper is the wife of John G.
Harper, yard manager for local coal
concern.
Police late yesterday reported that
the colored traffic victim who had
died in the morning at Casualty Hos
pital was Joseph Lee, SIS, of 666 Callan
street NE He was struck by car
said to have been driven by Donald
A. Swope, Is. of 9l6 Tenth street N E
The body remained unidentified at
the morgue several hours.
Those Hurt In Traffic.
Those injured in traffic accidents
late yesterday and today included
John Kelly. 30, Of II Seaton place
NE, who received severe head cuts
and a. possible jaw fracture when
struck by a bicycle at North Capitol
and Pierce streets. He was treated at
Sibley Hospital. The bicyclist was
Elmer cambridge, 20, a Western
Union messenger.
William E. Walker. 38. of the Army
Medical Corps, stationed at Walter
Reed Hospital, was struck at Connecti-
cut avenue and Northampton street
NV. by a car which police said was
driven by Edwin w. Parrill, 54, of
Bethesda, Md. He was treated at Wal
ter Reed for lacerations and bruises.
Morris Gass, 49, of 42l Irving street
NV, blew his horn while driving at
Georgia avenue and Park road NV
and, according to police report
caused a pedestrian, Mrs. Rebecca
Litoff, A, of 544 Newton place NV,
to fall to the street in front of his
car" Mrs. Litoff was treated at Gar
field Hospital for head cuts and pos
sible skull fracture.
A motor cyclist, Marion Thrift, 10
of 6l5 G street Sc, escaped with
bruises when his machine collided with
a taxicab and careened into Capital
Transit bus at Twenty-fourth and
Calvert streets NV.
Edwin Schneider, Is, of 337 D street
Sc and David Mockabee. 8, of GIG
L street Sc. we're believed seriously
injured this morning when caught
between two automobiles in the 600
block of L street Sc. They were re-
moved to Providence Hospital, where
their condition was described as un-
determined.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
HOOVER REVIEWS WORK
OF F. B. |. DURING YEAR
Activities of G-Men Worth $7.64
for Every ST. They Cost,
He Declares.
- BY II e Associated Press.

). by u Associated Press.
J. Edgar Hoover figured today that
activities of his G-men last fiscal
year were worth 1854 for every 81 they
cost
Mr.. Hoover. reporting as director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
put the valuation figure at s47.568,-
4l9. The sum represented stolen prop
erty recovered, fines imposed. or saw
ings effected.
Mr.. Hoover added that F. B. L.
agents had solved l24 kidnapings of
127 Investigated since passage of the
Lindbergh kidnapping law in 1892.
The unsolved kidnapings are those
involving little Charles Mattson at Ia
coma, Wash, December 26, 1886; Ar
thur Fried, 32-year-old contractor,
White Plains, NJ Y, December S, 1887,
and 12-year-old Peter Levine, New
Rochelle. N. Y. February "a, 1898.
The two boys were slain.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
THREE ARE INJURED
WHEN BUS OVERTURNS
Soft Shoulder of Road Blamed
for Accident of Group of
Picnickers.

Three of more than a Score of COL
ored persons. returning from Spar
rows Beach outing aboard chartered
Capital Transit Co. bus. were injured
late yesterday when the machine over
turned while rounding a curve on
Central avenue half mile west Of
Grain highway.
The injured were Esther James,
1888 Third street NV; Estelle Mitch
ell, 602 Forty-ninth street NE. and
Bernice Ware, 1901 G street NE. All
were treated at Annapolis.
The driver. M. p. Ready, said the
accident occurred when the wheels
Of the bus sank In soft shoulder
of the road.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
Want Signs Returned.

ARLINGTON, Va, July 20 (spe-
ciaD State highway officials will be
requested by the Arlington Chamber
Of Commerce to restore 15-mile-an
hour speed limit signs in school and
business districts along State high
ways. The Executive Committee
voted such action at meeting yes
terday. ....-
Evening star., 1938-07-22
JOSEPH WHITEHEAD,
Ex-LEGISLAT0R, DIES
Former Fifth Virginia Area
Representative Was n
Years of Age.

Joseph Whitehead, ST.. II. former
member of the House from the fifth
Virginia district, died today at Memo
rial Hospital in Danville after an ILL
ness of several months, the Associated
Press reported.
Mr.. Whitehead served in Congress
from 1925 to 1881 and in the Virginia
State Senate from 1889 to 1904.
A native of Mount Airy, Va, Mr..
Whitehead graduated from Richmond
College, now the University of Rich
mond, and took his law degree at
the University Of Virginia.
He practiced law for years in Pitt
sylvania County.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
PROGRAM TRANSFERRED
Campfire Session to Be Held in
Interior Department.

Because of wet grounds, the camp
fire program of the National Capital
Parks, scheduled for o'clock tonight
in the Pierce Mill picnic grove, Rock
Creek Park, will be transferred to the
North Interior Department Audi
torium, F street between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth streets NV, starting
at $50 pm.
Darcy McNickle, author and lee
turer and member of the Flathead
Indian tribe of Montana, will discuss
the past and future of the American
Indian. Palmer Byrd, Chickasaw
Indian, in native costume, will sing
the tribal songs Of his people. There
will be a sound motion picture de.
picting life. customs and. traditions
of the Navajo Indians.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
FLOUR is PURCHASED
FOR RELIEF FAMILIES
/ 900, 900 Additional Barrels to
Be Bought for Distribution
in States.

Hy the Associated Press.
The Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp. said yesterday it would buy
about 1000, 900 barrels of wheat flour
for States to distribute to families on
relief.
The corporation in the last two
months has bought 2,902, ,225 barrels
Of wheat products, including flour and
cereal, at . cost Of $11,75l, 900.
The new -four purchases will remove
about 100000 bushels of surplus
wheat from regular market channels,
officials said. They added that addi-
tional purchases may be made from
time to time this year.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
BEAUTY CONTEST
Style Review Also Will Feature
Moonlight Cruise Monday.

A style review and beauty contest
will be held on moonlight cruise
sponsored by the Washington Hair
dressers' and Cosmetology Association
aboard the Wilson Line steamer City
of Washington at $50 pm. Monday
and not Tuesday as previously an
nounced.
Emile Beauvais. chairman Of ar
rangements. announced that the style
show. featuring formal, afternoon.
bathing beach and sport wear, would
be presented by the F. H. Model
League of Washington Thirty pro-
fessional models are expected to par
ticipate in the review and beauty con-
test.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
COL. ARTHUR w. CHASE
DIES IN SAN FRANCISCO
Coast Artillery officer Served Two
Short Tours of Duty in
Washington.

Col Arthur w. Chase, II. Coast
Artillery Corps, U. s. A., retired, died
Wednesday in the Letterman General
Hospital at San Francisco, the War
Department announced today.
Col. Chase had two short tours of
duty here, serving in the Office of the
Paymaster General in 1905 and in the
ONCE of the Chief of Staff in 1906.
A native of Potter. Iowa, Col Chase
was graduated from the United States
Military Academy in June, 1892. Dur
ing the Spanish-American War he
served at Havana, Cuba. He was
retired in January, 1919.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
Rockville Names Officer.

ROCKVILLE, Md, July "a (Spe-
ciaD aD.-Because of several recent rob-
berries here the Mayor and Council
have appointed former Constable
Arthur Burke Of the Silver Spring
neighborhood a full-time town police
man. Rockville has been without
regular policeman for several years.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
PITTMAN SEES VISIT
OF KING AIDING PEACE
Senator Says It Indicates
Strengthening of Alliance
Between the Nations.

By Tire Associated Press.
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. said
yesterday an unlimited" alliance be-
tween Great Britain and France will
cause any other European country to
refrain from any rash act"
The Senator said the visit of the
King and Queen of England to France
was an indication of broadening and
of the alliance between
the two governments. This, he said.
made the European situation look
better.
Evening star., 1938-07-22
(Story on Page A-1.)

This sketch prepared By the
Traffic Bureau ShoDS the streets
(shaded) that are available for the
parking OF spectators at tomorro,D's
Soap Bor Derby, as DeH as the
derby race course on Ne1D Hamp-
shire Avenue NE. and other high
spots OF the derby area. Parking
1rill not be permitted on Sligo Mil
road, Peabody street and Oneida
place (O6acial cars npiH be parked
on Eastern auenue.)
The Washington times., 1938-12-22
Nitro to Blow Up
Building Is Merely
Aqua Pura

= CHICAGO, Dec. % G.N.SD Be
ing a detective story writer, Mrs.
Mary Schuch should have been
wary of making the small mistake
that always spoils perfect crime.
But in trying to live the plot
from one of her thrillers that she
could not sell, she proved no wiser
than the master criminal" of the
printed page and was in Jail to-
day on charges of attempted bank
robbery.
The woman walked up to the
desk of R. j. Neal, president in
the Drexel State Bank. exhibited
two walls that she said contained
nitroglycerine, and handed him a
note demanding $4,000 before
everyon is blown up and killed"
Neal led the woman through
the crowded bank foyer to the
draft department, where he exc
cuted a draft for $4,000, then
guided her to teller's window,
where the draft was honored, and
she was handed $4,000 in cash.
AS the woman took the money,
Neal signaled to city policeman
who happened to be in the bank
and she was seized.
The walls contained only water.
The Washington times., 1938-12-22
BUSINESS SEES
BOOM IN SALES
FOR NEXT YEAR
Majority of Concerns to
Increase "AdS"

NEW YORK, Dec. % O.N.S0
Anticipation of better sales fol-
1889 has caused so per cent of the
nations leading advertisers to in
crease their budgets approximate
ly is per cent for the next IL
months, it was revealed today.
A survey conducted by the AS
sociation of National Advertisers
Inc, reveals that of the remain
ing SO per cent, AZ per cent will
permit no reduction in advertis
ing appropriations for the coming
year.
The association reports that
about "a per cent Of the compan.
les answering questionnaires ex
pect business will increase approx
mately 13 per cent over 1898.
The survey covered 1872 leading
national manufacturers who use
advertising as an aid to selling
and expend yearly amounts vary.
ing from $50,00O to one million
dollars each.
TT is encouraging to note"
declared Paul B. West, president
of the association, that these
national manufacturers, on the
whole, are planning for 1899
with more confidence than has
been evident over the past three
or four years."
The Washington times., 1938-12-22
PAIR BRANDED RATS
AT KIDNAPPING TRIAL
Brother of Fried
YelLS at Accused
From Stand

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Hugo
Fried, older brother of the kid.
naped and slain Arthur Fried, 81,
testified in General Sessions Court
yesterday that ito protect some
one else" he pleaded guilty in
1885 to a charge Of receiving
stolen goods.
Then Fried rose dramatically
from the witness stand, pointed
at the two kidnapping defendants,
Joseph Stephen Sacoda. 80, and
DemetriuS Gula. 81. and shouted !:
Il did not want to be like
those rats who killed my
brother~
MET IN JAIL
Hugo. it is said, met Sacoda
when they were both in Jail, Fried
for the 1885 crime.
Under croSS-examination, Fried
testified that he was at the Ar.
rowhead Inn with my sweet.
heart" on the night his brother
was abducted. Asked if he Is
married, he said he is a widower.
Petite, dark-eyed Mrs. Arthur
Fried, in black except for a gray
Persian lamb coat, followed her
brother-in-law to the stand and
almost broke down as she identi-
fled her husbands handwriting in
the two ransom notes which de-
manded 100000.
RAISED RANSOM
Hugo has testified that he
raised $500 but refused to toss
it to the kidnapers from the door
of a Manhattan theater on Janu-
ary l, and thereafter heard moth
ing more from the confessed slay-
ers of Arthur.
Mrs. Fried said Arthur had only
about $5 in his pockets when he
disappeared and that his salary
was $100 a week as an executive
of the Colonial Sand & Stone Co.