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Evening star., 1938-02-15
of Courmets Formed
By Workers IN Culinary Art

A society of gourmets, whose dur
ng-the- dinner conversation Is limited
to a very narrow field, has been or
ganized by local members of the culi-
nary profession and connoisseurs of
good food and wine.
A Washington chapter of Les Amis
dEscofier had its beginning at a
meeting Thursday night of a couple
of dozen chefs called together by
Claude F. Jarrin of the Raleigh Hotel.
These friends Of Escofher, late chef
Of all chefs (there is, of course, some
argument here), are to hold two din
ners year that are to be the acme
in everything that's without equal in
food and drink.
But the conversation at these din
ners-there's where the society will
be the envy Of many a bored listener
to after-dinner palaver and the ad-
vocate Of more eating with less talk
ing. Here's the set-up as stipulated
by the constitution and bylaws:
There will be no speeches in the
first place, and, secondly, since the
Les Amis d'Esconaer Society Is an
organization Of honest people, it is
absolutely forbidden, under threat OF
expulsion. to speak Of personxa edairs,
Of ones work q speciality, An more
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Woman, Finds
Policeman, but
Bit Too Late

Miss Margaret G. Miller wanted a
policeman yesterday, and wanted him
badly, but not the way she finally got
one.
Charged with speeding, Miss Miller
told Judge Hobart Newman and q
radio audience in Traffic Court today
that few minutes before her arrest
she would have welcomed the appear
ance Of an officer.
Miss Miller explained she thought
she was being followed by a man in
q brown car because she had seen
him several times while she was mar
keting. The car seemed to be keeping
pace with her, she said. and she finally
became 50 frightened that that she
started looking for . policeman.
She found one. Unluckily, however,
the man in the brown car had dis
appeared, and the officer, instead OF
trying to pick up the mans trail, ar
rested her for speeding.
when I saw Ofncer J. E. Fippin, u
she said. II thought II had just mad
that policeman 2 minutes ago, before
that car disappeared I would have
been all right As it was, he arrested
me for speeding"
= Judge Newman took her pSrsonal
bond.
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DC. GENERAL FUND
DUE TO BEAR COST
OF FSTREETL|GHT|NG
Commissioners Agree to Ask
Senate to Disapproye
of Transfer.
THOMAS is EXPECTED
TO INDORSE NEW MOVE
subcommittee Continues Hearing.
Civic Groups in Support of
Avenue Bridge.
By !. A. O'LEARY

The District Commissioners agreed
today to ask the Senate to put the
$765,000 cost of street lighting back
IN the citys general revenue account,
instead of transferring it to the high
way fund
In eW Of indications by Chairman
Thomas of the Senate subcommittee
IN charge OF local appropriations that
ne Will be guided by the wishes of
the city heads on this question, to-
Gays developments made it appear
almost certain the lighting bill will
come from general revenues.
While this will add S765 900 to the
S2,OO0,000 general fund deficit in the
House BILL to be met by taxes, it is
doubtful whether the transfer to the
highway fund could be kept in the bill
II restored in view of opposition based
on the ground it would be diversion
from the intent of the highway fund.
This opposition among supporters of
the Federal aid highway fund sue
ceeded in killing the transfer in the
House.
Meanwhile, the Senate subcommit-
tee continued hearing civic organiza-
lions today in support of starting the
new Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge in
the Southeast section. Further argu-
ments also were presented for and
against transfer of summer school
playground operations from the Play
grounds Department to the Com
munity Center Department.
Allotment OF more money out of the
highway fund for improvement of
traffic regulation was suggested by
the Keystone Automobile Club in a
statement filed with the Senate sub
committee yesterday Specific rec
concentrations included:
Set aside at least $4,000 a year for
traffic educational work. a three-year
program of replacing old parking and
other traffic signs, larger appropria-
ton for keeping the heavily travelled
streets clearly marked with all neces-
sary white lines, additional personnel
TO expedite service to the public in
the motor vehicle department, an in
crease from $4,000 to S35,O0O in the
lOI lllSldlllIlB new
traffic lights at intersections where
they are needed, consideration of the
need for more traffic officers.
Traffic educational campaigns car
ried on in Pennsylvania were cited
by the club in urging a similar ac-
tivity by the District vehicle. depart
ment.
The club approved a House item to
allow the vehicle department to en-
ploy an additional engineer to make
engineering studies of conditions caus-
ing serious traffic accidents. Point
ing out there are many intersections
where five or more serious accidents
have occurred within year, the
statement contended the additional
engineer is needed to study corrective
measures.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
BRIDGE REPAIRS
TO DETOUR TRAFFIC
Eleventh Street Anacostia Span
to Be Closed on
Thursday.

The overWorked draw of the Elev-
enth Street Anacostia Bridge will re-
ceive a stimulant which will result
In the. bridge being closed to traffic
all day Thursday and probably part
OF Friday.
= Last fall the draw was used as
much in six weeks as it normally is
used in six years" explained Capt.
H. C. Whitehurst, director of high
ways. Some day, if it isn't repaired,
it might be raised and get stuck def
nitely. That would be just too bad for
traffic"
So the draw will be raised at 80
am. Thursday to enable a repair
crew to work on the hinges and locks.
Traffic will be detoured over the
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge and the
Benning Bridge. Heavy trucks will
be required to use the Benning Bridge
exclusively
During the dredging of the Ana
costa River last fall by the United
States engineers the draw of the
Anacostia Bridge had to be raised
and lowered as many as lis time:
in single week. That was a terrific
strain. Capt. Whitehurst pointed out
In view of the fact that the draw
isn't used more than 100 times during
any normal year
Anacostia Bridge is the main trafit
artery from Eleventh street Sc. II
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j. s. WILL REPAIR
GREENBELT ROAD,
CLOSING DISPUTE
Work Will Start at Once,
County Commissioners
Are Informed.
ACTION is DECIDED
AFTER COMPLAINTS
Details of Upkeep Agreement Ap.
parently Overlooked by Com
munity officials.

The Government Is going to live up
to the promise it made when it started
building It's model community" at
Greenbelt, Md. and repair the now
impossible road between Branchville
and Greenbelt, the Prince Georges
County commissioners were informed
today.
The dispute over who is to fix the
road, which county officials said has
gone to pot" since heavy hauling for
the Greenbelt project has practically
ceased, was ended when Greenbelt
officials were shown an agreement
under which the Government had
promised to turn the road back to the
county in as good condition as when
it started using it.
Will Begin Immediately.
o. K. Fulmer, assistant community
manager OF Greenbelt, promised that
repairing work will begin Immediately,
Joseph CLANCY. district engineer for
the Maryland State Road Commission,
told the county commissioners in ses-
sion at Upper Marlboro.
The repairs will enable Capital
Transit Co. buses operating between
Greenbelt and Washington to resume
using the route over which they were
chartered to run, and get away from
a detour via the Edmonston road and
Berwyr, which now is adding nearly
2 miles to the Branchville- -Greenbelt
run.
Apparently. details of the road up
keep agreement had been overlooked
by present administrators of Green
belt. Mr.. CLANCY sent a copy of it to
Mr. Fulmer today, and word came back
within an hour that the Government
would make the needed repairs.
Became Impossible.
County officials said the Govern
ment kept the road in good repair
while Greenbelt was being built. but
let it run down as the Greenbelt haul
ing slackened. The stretch finally be-
came impossible last Saturday, fore
ing the detour of buses and other
traffic, which brought vehement COM
plants from Greenbelt and Branch
vile citizens
Many of the ruts in the road are
so deep that a cars wheels sink down
to the axle and dozens of cars have
been hauled from the mire during the
recent thaW and wet weather. Most
of the damage, A. L. johnson, who
operates the bus terminal station in
connection with his store at Branch
vile, says is caused by water which
runs down the bitches and cuts across
the road at low places.
Evening star., 1938-02-15

particularly to attempt to use the
society as q means Of making busi-
ness contacts. It is unnecessary to
elucidate further upon this delicate
question, which every one under
stands"
Also, needless to say, at these
meetings reference will never be
made on the subjects Of politics, re-
ligious beliefs, personal opinions OF
either members or invited guests, ir-
respective Of their profession or social
status"
Active members or guests, the con-
stitution states, may be called on to
recount some anecdote, but under no
circumstances will the talker be per-
mitted to use . topic, story or sub
ject which has been used before, pub
lished, hashed or rehashed" on the
assumption that 1T is be.ter to tell q
new story, even If uninteresting, than
some oft-time repeated joke that is
known by all and will no longer pro-
woke mirth."
II the attendants at these dinners
wear tight collars the talking limita-
tions won't matter much, anyway, as
= rule rigidly enforced Is one requir-
ing that napkins be Won in the
collar.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
WAITER IS HELD.
IN 500 SLAY|NC
Policeman Says Chimes e
Acted SuspiciousIy AIight-
ing From Street Car.

William Der, 36. Chinese waiter,
yesterday was ordered held for grand
jury action by a coroner's jury in
vestigating the murder February l of
Henry Der 500. IS, in the bedroom
above his laundry at 14O5 H street NE.
The jurors returned their verdict
after hearing testimony placing Der
In the vicinity of the slain laundry
mans home on the night of the
crime. The defendant admitted hav-
ing visited the murdered man the
evening of his death. but told police
he had left 500 about $50 o'clock
that night, after a visit of several
hours and had not returned. Detec-
tive Sergt John w. Wise said Chinese
associates bore out Der's alibi that he
was at restaurant from 10:45 pm.
until about o'clock the morning after
the murder.
Policeman William Hall testified he
saw Der get off street car at Fiji
teenth and H streets NE about 1920
o'clock on the night of February l..
His attention was attracted to him,
the officer said, because the Chinese
kept watching him in preparing to
alight from the car.
500 was strangled to death by a
rope tied around his neck and then
stabbed in the throat between II 80
pm. and 1890 am. that night, Dep
uty Coroner Richard M. Rosenberg
said an autopsy indicated. Sylvia
King, colored, told the jury she was
awakened in her bedroom next door
to Soo's apartment by means and
screams at 1870 pm.
Soo's body was found by Mary
Tesvie, 81, colored laundress employed
by him for the last four years. She
testified Der had called at the laundry
for the first time that afternoon and
departed about $50 pm, a few min
utes before she went home and left
her employer playing on the floor
with a cat. She quoted 500 as saying
he and Der had been good friends ir
Boston. King 500, son of the slain
man. testified he had never known
Der to call on his father in the Mas
sachusetts city.
The Chinese waiter has lived here
for the past five months, working in
a Chinese restaurant near Wisconsin
avenue and M street NV, Sergt
Wise said. Der told him, Mr.. Wise
stated that he had learned 500 was in
Washington about four months ago
but had not visited him until the
afternoon of February /, when he
went to say goodbye before leaving
for Chicago.
Der, who sat stoically through the
inquest and did not testify, was ar
rested for a second time last week
after being questioned and released
the day after the murder victims BODY
was discovered.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
FINISH FIGHT DUE
IN NDR|VERS' STRIKE
New System Menacing Jobs
of 100 in WaIkout Brinqs
Defiance.

A fight to the finish" was the an
swer today of about 100 striking union
truck drivers and helpers to the an
nouncement of their employers, eight
beer and soft drink bottling and dis
trlbutlng companies. that new de-
livery system being formulated may
mean the permanent loss of the dis
gruntled drivers jobs.
The new plan, under which drivers
would only operate the trucks and a
staff of statesmen would take orders
for deliveries. already has been put
into effect by one of the eight firms
and may be adopted by another today
it was reported.
Under this set-up. the drivers would
be paid straight salary and would do
no work requiring payment of a COM
mission.
The walkout, called early Friday,
resulted through the failure of the
distributors to agree to the terms of
contract providing for 54-hour week,
an sl8 weekly wage and Scent COM
mission on the case. The old drivers
contract, which expired January 13,
provided for SIS weekly wage and a
scent per case commission.
Upon learning of the outcome of
conference of officials of the eight
firms late yesterday, Henry Myers,
business agent for the Beer and Soda
Drivers. Chauffeurs and Helpers
Local, No. 81, which is conducting the
strike, said:
Its method of getting by cheaper
than they tthe distributors) have. We
are getting 100 per cent cooperation
from the public and our pickets will
stay on the job"
Police were instructed today to pay
special attention to trucks of the DR..
Pepper plant. one of those affected
by the strike. following reports that
attempts would be made to disable
the vehicles. Mr.. Myers said, how
ever, he had urged the striking drivers
to refrain from violence while they
are out.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
MEMORIAL HONORS
SAILORS Of MAINE
Fortieth Anniversary oil
Event, Finds U. S. Pre-
pared, Johnson Saws.

The United States is better pre-
pared to protect itself than ever be-
fore in its history" Assistant Secretary
OF War Louis Johnson declared today
at memorial exercises honoring men
who lost their lives 40 years ago in
the sinking of the y. S. S. Maine In
Havana Harbor.
Those assembled in Fort Myer rid
ing hall for the anniversary celebra-
tion heard Mr.. johnson recall the
state Of our unpreparedness at that
time and issue the warning that
never again must we allow our de-
fenses to become so completely de-
pleted."
Mistakes resulting from lack of
preparation cost the United States
heavily in lives and money during the
War with Spain, Mr.. Johnson said.
Despite this lesson the outbreak of
the World War again found us guilty
of the same lack of foresight" he ex-
planned.
THE mistakes of the unprepared-
ness we now are determined to cor
rect" Mr.. johnson said. To-day we
are better prepared than ever before
in our history to protect our country,
and well we must be; but not for
offense but for defense; not for ag-
gression but for protection; not to
wage war but to keep out of war"
The Woman's Auxiliary Of the De-
partment of the District of Columbia,
United Spanish War Veterans, gath
cred at the cemetery at pm. to place
wreaths at the base Of the Maine
shaft. Representatives Of President
Roosevelt and the Republic of Cuba
and officers Of the u. s. w. v. and
other patriotic organizations placed
the wFeaths. Mrs. Myrtle Moxley,
president of the auxiliary, presided at
the ceremony.
More than 500 people will meet at
the Mayfower Hotel tonight to attend
the banquet which will commemorate
the sinking of the Maine and honor
the present leader of the U. s. w. ",
Mr.. Kennedy. Sponsored by the De-
partment of the District Of Columbia
U. S. w. ", the annual affair will
have q number of distinguished
guests.
Evening star., 1938-02-15

are studying the situation.
In indorsing the proposed transfer
OF the summer jurisdiction of ~
school Fairgrounds to- the schools
school officials have defined recreation
rs an extension of the health and
physical education programs in the
schools. which therefore rightly be-
longs under the Board of Education.
Bad Weather Fairgrounds.
In addition. it is pointed out in
widely distributed material, school
buildings. 102 OF which are expected
to be used in the city-wide recreation
development, are the only real ia
cilities owned by the people of the
District for recreation purposes in
bad weather. In 1884. it is said, there
were 127 days when the temperature
was either above 90, freezing or rain
ing. In 1886, it is added, there were
1856 such days.
It is further shown that these
buildings are under the control Of the
School Board by organic act Of Con-
gress in 1906 and after-School control
vested in the board through the
Community Center, established in
1915.
Figures also are cited declaring that
| in 1880 there were l4l cities. out of
those reporting any recreation at all,
under the control of Boards of Edu-
cation, while in 1886 there were 1879.
Since there was a decrease in certain
types of municipality controlled organ
| izations, deduction is made that there
| is a trend toward school board con-
troll throughout the country.
Includes Adults, Too.
On the other hand, the Playground
Department defines recreation as use
of leisure time according to inclina-
ton and something quite apart from
education. Hence department sup
| porters feel recreation should be uni
fed under the Commissioners, espe-
cially since recreation is not restricted
to children of school age, but includes
adults and pre-school age children.
According to a report by the City
Wide Playground Council, set-up OF
| CuuCdLlOildl IOullIlc OIl Gllc pldy -
grounds may affect the desire of chill
dren to hse such grounds.
Playground supporters also have
been campaigning very actively
against the transfer proposal.
In support of the contention that
| recreation should be under the mu-
nicipal government figures are intro
duced to show. that, while there was
| falling off in certain types of mu-
nicipal control. there was gain in
others. In 1880, it is quoted from
statistics of the National Recreation
Association, there were SOL under
control other than school board and
in 1886 there were 613.
Other Figures Cited.
In cities reporting year round recre-
alton service, association figures show,
during the same six years, an increase
Evening star., 1938-02-15
THREE HURT HERE;
CRASH VICTIM DIES
Girl, ID, Is Third Fatality in
Lee Boulevard Crack.up.
Boy, 8, Injured.
BULLETIN.

At today's testimony that he
shot away" after running through
a safety zone and fatally injuring
George w. Sutton, IA, former Ten
nessee attorney general, Saturday
night, a coroner's jury today or
dered Martin L. Bray, 30-year-old-
Vienna, Va, carpenter, held for the
grand jury.
Death OF a victim of a recent Vir-
ginia crash and injury of three other
persons was marked up against traffic
during the last "a hours
The dead person was Rosalee Harper,
IA, 1dylwood. Va. who succumbed in
Emergency Hospital last night to in
juries received Friday in an accident
on the Lee boulevard, near the Fairfax
County line.
Two other persons, including Mrs
Blanche Green. IS. the girls foster
mother, were killed in the same ac-
cident.
William Crawford. jr.. 8. of 809 E
street Sc. was injured seriously when
struck by truck near his home. At
Emergency Hospital he was said to
have a broken hip and perhaps a skull
fracture
Samuel Moor, AZ, colored, SAL Drake
place NE, received compound frac-
ture Of the leg when knocked down by
an automobile on Central avenue NE
Sallie Langford. 26. of 532 Tennes-
see avenue NE. was treated at Provi-
dence Hospital for chest injuries re-
ceived in an accident near Alexandria
Roy L. Williams, 80, of the 900
block of South Carolina avenue Sc.
said by police to have been driving
the automobile in which she was rid
ing when it collided with another last
night, was charged with colliding
driving while under the influence OF
liquor and leaving the scene of an
accident without making his identity
known. He was arrested here and
turned over to Alexandria authorities
when he took his injured companion
to Providence, police said.
Meanwhile, an inquest was Sched-
uled today into the hit-run death Sat.
uraday night Of George w. Sutton, IA
former Tennessee attorney general
who was struck by an automobile al
Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street
NV.
Martin L. Bray, 30, Vienna, Va, wa
to appear at the inquest. He sur.
rendered after being sought for 81,
hours in connection with the fata
accident.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
employees TO DANCE

Employees Of the Interior Depart
ment will celebrate George Washing
tons birthday anniversary with q
dance at 10 pm. Saturday in the
buildings cafeteria, under auspices Of
the Interior Department Recreation
Association.
Stanley w. Crosthwait Is president
Of the association. Employees Of other
Government offices are invited. A
Get-Acquainted Committee has been
appointed to introduce visitors.
Merel sager Is e1neirman Of the
Arrsugements Comm lee.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
MAJ. W. NJ. H0GE, 81,
EDUCATOR, EXPIRES
Father of D. c. officer Had Been
on Teaching Staff of Three
Military Schools.

Military Schools.
Maj. William McGuffey Hoge. 81,
widely known educator who had been
on the teaching stats of three mill
tary academies, died Sunday night at
his Nome in ST. Louis, it was learned
today through the Associated Press.
Maj. Hoge was the father of Capt
Kenneth G.. Hoge, Arlington, Va, on
duty at the Adjutant Generals Office
here. Besides his son. Maj. Hoge
also leaves his widow, two other sons,
It. Col. B. F. Hoge, Fort Bliss, Tex,
and 1t. Col. w NJ Hoge, Army
district engineer at Omaha, Nebr.; a
daughter, Mrs. F. P. Chew of Laguna
Beach. Calf, wife of retired COM
mander of the United States Navy
and brother.
Maj. Hoge taught at Kemper Mill
tary Academy, Bonneville, Mo-, after
his graduation from the University of
Missouri in 1881 and subsequently be-
came assistant superintendent of the
school. He joined the staff of Went
worth Military Academy. Lexington,
Mo-, in 1903, remaining there in 1916,
when he went to Culver Military Acad-
emy at Culver, Ind. He retired in
1929.
Evening star., 1938-02-15

in school board control from II to Is
and in municipal control from l9l
to 206.
The increase under school board
control is attributed to work of the
w. P. A. in introducing recreation to
communities where it had never been
before. Since there was no municipal
agency established, it was put under
the school boards. Playground De-
partment official explained.
Park Office officials have pointed out
the fact that there is still another
type of recreation that is entirely
apart from either of these two de-
partmepts as, for example, when q
man sits and reads on a park bench
in the shade. Observers declare this
is the reason the parks Office would
oppose any organization of recreation
which would arbitrarily decide over
the objection of the Federal office tt
turn park into playground.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
ENLISTMENT HARDER

The Navy has changed . rule of
seven years standing to make 1t harder
to enlist by giving sitter examina-
ton. Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews,
chief Of the Bureau Of Navigation.
revealed today.
In q circular letter to all ships and
stations, the admiral set passing
mark Of so, rather than the older one
of 40, to make one eligible for enlist
ment. Applicants must take these
tests at recruiting stations, and after
arrival at the Naval Training Station
they will again-> be put over tho
hurdles,
Evening star., 1938-02-15
RELIEF CONFERENCE

Immediate Needs of 1000 Fam
lilies Will Be Considered.
Seeking amplification of the relief
program for the District, confer
ence of interested citizens will be
held at the District Building at
pm. Saturday under sponsorship of
the Citizens Committee on Unem-
ployment and Relief.
In the call for the conference Mrs.
Louise A. Wilson, acting secretary of
the committee. pointed to the imme-
date needs of about 1000 families
here.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
Bright Eggs.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. R.-George
Black OF Arcola is feeding his hens
harmless dyes Of various colors so they
will lay many-hued eggs.
Black says the dyes do not change
the taste Of the eggs and appeal to
color-minded customers,