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Evening star., 1938-01-31

from Florida to Texas-as likely places
to 60.
Mr.. Kriegh thought it most likely
they had headed either for Texas or
for Miami, Fla, where young Macs
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Moore, is va
cationing. Her home is in Wolf
Point, Mont, where the Krieghs visit
each Summer, but Mr.. Kriegh doubted
If the boys had started that way.
His son is an ardent baseball fan,
Mr.. Kriegh said, and his chief am
bition has been to become a south
paw pitcher with the Washington
Nationals. He is a good player for
his age and excels in all athletics" {"
Mr.. Kriegh said. He Is a high-rank-
ing student at Alice Deal Junior High
School.
Police in several Southern cities
were asked to be on the lookout for
the missing boys. and appeals for
aid in locating them were broadcast
over radio chains.
The Kriegh boy, dark-haired and
brown-eyed, left home wearing long
blue trousers, corduroy upper jacket
and torn cap. Young Day. light
haired and brown-eyed, was wearing
striped long trousers. a brown upper
jacket, red plaid scarf and no hat.
Among other youngsters reported
missing over the week end were Law
renee Carlysle, II, of 1905 Thirty
fourth street NV; Leonard Grae-
bener, IA. Of 1908 Twentieth street
NE. and Socrates Mangolis, IS, OF
919 New York avenue NV.
Evening star., 1938-01-31

clothes and contribute a small amount
toward the expenses Of the house. One
other boy buys his clothes and two
others earn their little spending"
money.
As for the god-parents, they con-
tribute mostly toward clothing the
children and toward their recreation.
Just before Mr.. White was married,
in 1917, his father died, leaving an
estate that included two houses, to bs
divided among several heirs. Mr..
White borrowed $4,000. paid the other
heirs their shares, and took over both
houses. He moved into the one In
which he still lives and rented the
other. He finished paying back the
5000 in 1880.
In 1882 he made an addition to the
house he lives in, converting the base
nent into three rooms and adding
two rooms on the rear. Although he
had to borrow 81 900 to do it, this was
more than taken care of by his bonus
for World War service.
Now he has an annual income of
$3.50, of which $4,000 is his salary
from the Treasury Department. The
remaining $l,250 represents rent from
the house he owns and income from
other sources.
He has . little more than $270
per month coming in regularly, Of
not sssm laroe for family Of 10, hub
Evening star., 1938-01-31
RATE CUT SAVING
DEC|S|0NNEAR|NG
New Power Cost Schedule to
Go Into Effect To-
morrow,

A decision of the Public Utilities
Commission may be forthcoming to-
day, it was said, on the distribution Of
the estimated savings of $7e9, 900 to
local patrons of the Potomac Electric
Power Co.
A revised schedule of rates will be-
come effective after tomorrow.
A week ago the commission ordered
the company to reduce from 6.5 to
6 per cent the basic return allowed
on property valuation of $4,000, 900.
It was understood the commission,
which met before noon, was consider
ing its own notifications Of . revised
scheduled submitted by the company
last Friday. The company schedule
was said to have lowered the rate for
apartment houses as well as reduced
the number Of hours to which the
initial 3.9 cents per kilowatt hour
would be applicable.
The company met the first demand
for a revised schedule by alloting
about one-third of the estimated saw
ings to domestic consumers, leaving
the balance of the estimated $769, 900
to be divided among commercial users.
This was unsatisfactory to the COM
mission, which believed the domestic
consumers should have more favor
able consideration. The company then
submitted a revised schedule which
was under consideration today in con-
nection with notifications proposed
by the commission.
It was not altogether certain the
commission would arrive 1T q decision
late today. It had been planned last
week to announce q decision tomor-
row, when the reduction Il supposed
to 60 into effect.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
READY TO BUILD
AT JEWISH CENTER
Announcement Made Work Will
Start Soon on New $150,000
Addition.

Construction of the new $150,000
addition to the Jewish Community
Center will start in the near future,
Harry Viner, chairman Of the spe-
cial building committee, announced
at the annual meeting OF the Board Of
Trustees and election Of officers ct
the center last night.
The addition will be architecurally
. part Of the present center. Mr..
Viner said, and will house physical
training and club rooms. Funds for
the construction Of the building were
presented to the center last August
by an anonymous donor.
Speakers at last nights meeting in
cluded Morris Bsgyer, executive Sec
retary Of B'nai Birth, Jewish fra
ternal organization. and former di-
rector Of the center, and Herbert L.
Willett. jr., director Of the Commu-
nifty Chest.
All officers Of the center were re-
elected. Benjamin Ourismen will
serve his third term as president.
Other officers are I. s. Turnover, first
vice president; Burnett Siman, Sec
ond vice president; Mrs. A. L. Dem.
bdtz, third vice president; r. s. Gich-
ner. treasurer: Isadore Freund. as
sistant treasurer; Abe shenerman,
recording secretary. and Moe Often.
berg. emrsspouding secretary.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
HIS is to tell how a man end
his wife feed, clothe, house
and make comfortable them
selves and their ~ children ~,

10 W VC1A INV q lkd1l Gnu
his wife feed, clothe, house
and make comfortable them
selves and their II children on
an annual income of $3.50, plus few
dollars which five of the boys earn
and a little help from the children's
god-parents.
They don't live on farm, but in
the Capital, where living costs are
among the highest in the world.
It i not q problem faced by many
parents, but Mr.. and Mrs. William A.
White, 1924 East Capitol street, not
only face 1t, but solve it. They live
In modest comfort, too. Their home
Is Z 10-room house with two complete
baths and two washrooms. They own
. car, have q servant, and their
Christmas saving fund last year to-
tailed 5000. The children, ranging
from 4 weeks to 20 years old, are per-
haps healthier than those in family
where there are only two They are
being well educated and they have
cheerful outlooks.
How do they do it? 1t requires all
the ability it takes to operate a small
business. The tasR demands they
spend wisely, and be constantly alert
they do not exceed their incomes. It
demands that the parents live almost
solely for their children.
The two oldest boys, 40 and 10, are
self-SnpportinS. Thsg buy them
Evening star., 1938-01-31
Puzzle AnslUer
Here Might Be
He Hates Doors

He was arrested the third time he
tried it, but police still were trying to
find out today why he wanted to kick
down doors.
The door kicking started about $50
am. yesterday. Circumstantial evi-
dence indicated it may have been
brought on by too many toasts to the
Presidents birthday.
In any event. DR.. Ernest Hardy,
30l r street NV, reported to police
that somebody kicked his door down
and ran.
Ethel Thomas. 164s Third street
NV. reported few minutes later
that man ran up on her porch and
started kicking down the door, but
ran when a roomer started after him.
Police caught up with the door,
kicker after he had destroyed about
half the door in calling on Adolph
Levenson, 243 @ street NV.
The prisoner was held at the second
precinct for investigation in the three
cases, involving SIS damage.
Asked the why" for all the door
kicking, officers said you ask him:
we've been asking him all day and he
doesn't say"
Evening star., 1938-01-31
BAND CONCERT

By the United States Army Band
at the Army Band auditorium 1T 8
pm. today. Capt. Thomas r. Darcy,
leader; Karl Hubner, assistant leader.
Program.
Overture, "Phedre" -Massenet
Romance, arabian Night" Mildenberg
Cornet sextet, Something
Different" -Ostrom
Ralph K. Ostrom, Albin I. johnson,
William L. Bachman, Charles w.
Barnes, Victor ]. Christensen and
ROLAND M. Holt, cornetists.
Caprice, "Pasquinade" Gottschalk
Valse intermezzo, "A Rose Leaf"
Chambers
March, New York Hippodrome" -sousa
The Star spangled 1ann1."
Evening star., 1938-01-31

4 FTER IS years Of barbering
" Michael Kiefer still is so
~ crazy" about his trade that
he's willing to cut hair or
shave whiskers, or both, 'just for the
fun of it."
The 53-year- BARRIERS shop" is
in the cellar of the Salvation Army
Mems Social Service Center, at First
and F streets NV. close enough to
the furnace to permit him to ply his
coal scuttle without too much inter-
ference from his scissors and razor.
AS a matter of fact, "Old Mike
that's what his customers" call him
wouldn't be welding his scissors and
razor at all if it weren't for that coal
scuttle.
Il guess I'd be on relief" he ad-
mitted today, pausing in his tonsorial
ministrations to a fellow resident Of
the center. Either that or lying in
the free ward of some hospital, nearly
dying Of asthma"
Asthma Ended His Job.
~ was dSInua, Mike went on to
explain to the accompaniment of snips
at his customers hair. that put him
among the unemployables.
Il can't hold down a steady job"
he said, because I'm laid up too
much. And" he added with flourish
OF his scissors. Il never know when
it's going to hit me-maybe tomorrow,
maybe next week. maybe right now"
Mike learned his trade in his ma
tive Germany. Coming to this coun-
try on visit in 1904. he liked it 20
well that he decided to become IN
American citizen. He lived in Sharon,
Pa. at first, then in Cleveland.
II worked in one of the biggest bar
Der shops in Cleveland for % years."
he said, "but my asthma-it got too
bad, and had to give it up. Then I
worked in Akron, but the asthma got
me there, too"
Washington No Help.
Mixes wife has been dead since
1918, and his only daughter followed
her about a year ago.
Il thought maybe my asthma would
Evening star., 1938-01-31
.JOBLESS CHECKS
MAY Be GIVEN OUT
HERE NEXT WEEK
Claimants Must Certify They
Are Still Eligible for
Pay.
PAYMENTS TO BE MADE
IN PERSON AT OFFICE
Some States, Including Maryland,
Already Are Receiving Funds.
$150,000 Is Distributed.

Eligible claimants who filed appli-
cation for unemployment compensa-
ton at the beginning Of the new
year and have completed the required
three-week waiting period must GER
tify their continuing eligibility at the
local Office of the United States En-
ployment Service this week before
their first jobless insurance checks
can be made out.
In explaining the procedure claim
ants must follow, John A. Marshall,
director Of the District Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board, today
pointed out that, although many un-
employed workers are eligible to re-
ceive compensation for the week end
ing Saturday, they probably will not
receive their checks until next week.
These persons, he explained, must
appear at the unemployment Office
to report any employment they may
have had last week. and that on the
following day their checks will be
made out. Then, when they certify
their continuing eligibility next week,
they will receive their benefit checks.
Checks Sent Out.
Meanwhile, the Social Security
Board announced that jobless insur-
ance checks totaling s150,387 were
sent to 14.908 eligible unemployed
workers in 10 States during the first
five days Of benefit payments.
The board said that since these
States, which include Maryland. re-
quired a waiting period of only two
weeks, they were the first to make
the payments among the % States in
which unemployment compensation
laws went into full operation at the
beginning Of the year.
Mr.. Marshall said the law requires
every worker affected by the act must
make periodic calls at the employ
ment center when he becomes unem-
ployed to report any part-time work
he may have had and to ascertain
whether new position has been
found for him by the employment
center.
To Mail Checks Later.
Eventually" Mr.. Marshall added,
"it is hoped to speed up the check
distributing process by mailing all
checks, but at the present time the
unemployment compensation law re-
quires that they must be paid at the
local unemployment office. The Dis
trict Unemployment Compensati ton
Board is now preparing a recon-
mendation to Congress for an ap-
propriate amendment to effect this
change. which would allow the board
to release all checks to claimants four
to five days earlier than is now pos
sible."
Mr.. Marshall estimated approx
mately 1000 benefit checks are ready
to be paid. but he added that it is
impossible to say definitely how many
workers are eligible until they report
at the employment center this week.
Those who filed claims between jan
uary 3 and completed the required
waiting period in the week ended
January %.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
SEVEN DIE IN VIRGINIA.
Five of Traffic Victims Lose Lives in
Three Accidents in Winchester Area,
Av $ha Aeeoejs<nd Dr,ec

FIVE o. Trah1c Victims Lose Lives in
Three Accidents in Winchester Area,
~ the Associated Press.
Sudden death on the States high
ways centered its tragic activity in the
winchester area over the week end,
where five persons lost their lives in
automobile accidents.
Two students at Hampton Institute
were victims of an accident near the
Chamberlain Country Club, bringing
the death toll to seven.
Three of those dead at Winchester
lost their lives as the result of the
same accident Saturday on route so,
two miles from the city They were
Ollie Mcfarland and Holmes Pufiin-
burger of Frederick County and w. c..
Lawrence, drug salesman of Bristol
A Frederick County farmer. Graham
Wallace, died yesterday as the result
Of q second accident and an un-
identified woman was killed on the
Martinsburg pike, two miles north Of
the city, last night to increase the
number Of victims to five.
William Whitaker. Jamaica, N. Y,
Hampton student, was killed in the
crash at Hampton and a companion,
Clarence Griffin Of Baltimore, died to-
day In Hampton Hospital.
The crash which killed three sent
two others to the Winchester Hospital.
1They are Mildred Puff1nburger, sister
Of one Of the victims, and Douglas
Mcfarland, brother Of Ollie.
The machine in which they were
riding left the highway at a curve,
State Officer R. E. Bayliss said, crossed
. gully and railroad tracks, struck an
apple tree and overturned in an
abandoned road.
Mr.. Wallace's death came as the
result Of q crushed skull received when
;, . car left the road near Stephens City.
Roderick Wallace, brother, was hurt.
Odicers were seeking to learn the
identity Of the woman fatally injured
On the Martinsburg pike. She was
about 80 years Of age.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
De MILE DEFENDS
HOLLYWOOD ART
Mickey Mouse Rated a New
Dealer, Popeye a Fascist
at Town Hall.

Though a critic recently declared
that drama started on Mount Olympus
and descended step by step until it
reached the sea level Of Hollywood,
William G. De Mile, the motion pic
ture producer, director and author,
made short shrift Of that statement
last night in the Town Hall meeting
at the Rialto Theater.
After Mr.. De Mile, as the principal
speaker, and head Of . distinguished
panel. had traced the origins Of
Hollywoodian endeavors he had fairly
convinced . comfortable audience that
after all is said the American motion
picture business leads the world.
Even . few healthy hecklers could
get nowhere with this defender of the
faith, who pointed out that American
theatergoers get just about what they
want when they step up to the box
office and deposit their hard-earned
cash.
Criterion for Worth.
They want entertainment, and we
give it to them," Mr.. De Mile de-
clared, defining an important picture
as "one that grips the imagination Of
the masses and moves them in an i'm
portant way. Asked TO 60 further with
this explanation, he said, AN impor-
tant picture is one that gets the most
votes-and . vote i the price OF ad-
mission ut the box omce."
From there on the discussion became
quite academic. The panel and men,
bers Of the audience wanted to know
all the inside facts about the motion
picture businessand Mr.. De Mile
gave them "the lown down.: How stars
are made, how a picture to be success
should gross $5,000,000, how dogs and
babies outrate regular actors, how
block booking works, how the dual
feature sis pain in the neck" to pro-
ducers and exhibitors alike, as well
as to the intellectual theatergoers;
how Hollywood went ahead of Euro
pean production while all Europe was
fighting In the last World War, and
. host Of others.
Mickey Mouse . New Dealer.
Joseph N. M. Gray, chancellor Of
American University. one Of the mem
bers Of the panel, gave it - his opin-
ion that Popeye, the popular char
acter with children, Is . Fascist, be-
cause he believes In might and power,
whereas Mickey Mouse is . New
Dealer, because he wants to give
everybody what they want. It was
here that Mr.. De Mile admitted that
block booking Of films Is . form of
fascism.
On the panel with Chancellor Gray
were Mrs. Frank A. Linzel, president
Of the Council of Motion Pictures Of
the District of Columbia; Represents
tive Brooks Fletcher Of Ohio and Jay
Carmody, dramatic editor of The Star.
Nelson Bell, dramatic editor Of The
Post, wlS unable to attend. The meet
ing was presided over by John W.
Studebaker.
In closing his talk, Mr.. De Mile
made Q plea 1or free and uncensorsd
pictures.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
Big Steel and Iron Bill.

Money spent for iron and steel used
in P. w. A. non-Federal projects dur
ing the last four years helped create
morv than one-billion manhours Of
privae 2 employment, tbs Labor De-
partm mt said yesterday.
The department said $465,552,3 ,370
worth Of metal products went into
public works construction.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
1900 IN PRINCE GEORGES
ATTEND BIRTHDAY BALLS
BY q stan CORRESPONDENT Of The Star.

MOUNT RAINIER, Md, Jan. ST.
Prince Georges County birthday balls
were attended by about 1900 persons
Saturday night, 1t was announced
today by J. Robert Sherwood, general
chairman. No estimate on the cash
returns could be made by w. Waverly
Webb, treasurer, until reports had
been received from tho three dance
committees.
More than TOO persons attended the
dance ut Beaver Dam Country Club.
500 danced at 0reenbelt and about le0
attended the ball at ori@th Farms on
thu Marlboro pike.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
CIVIL SERVICE TESTS
FOR MEN ANNOUNCED
Regional Examinations Are for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Limits 18 to SO.

An examination for stenographer-
typists. limited to men only, and
confined to the District OF Columbia,
Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
and West Virginia. was announced to-
day by the Civil Service Commission.
The age limits are 1853, and appl,-
cations will be received until Feblu-
ary II.
Details are available at the fourth
civil service district Office, GIG G.
street NV.
Evening star., 1938-01-31
BY PHILIP H. LOVE.

4 FTER IS years Of barbering
~ Michael Kiefer still is so
~ crazy" about his trade that
u - hos ui11irp n n,,t to{r ~
The Washington times., 1938-09-01

-but he denied he conceived the
idea of having Weinberg shake
down" Ison.
Dwell, don't you know
that "Bo" Weinberg Georges
BrotheD took your client, Ison
for ride?
A.-No, I did not.
Davis denied Ison had paid over
money to himself and George
Weinberg. Stryker called the wit
ness attention to the story Ison
had told of being taken for an
automobile ride and warned, and
he asked Davis if he thought Ison
was lying.
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION"
: II would say there was a diff.
ference of opinion" replied the
witness.
Finally, the witness admitted
he knew Ison had been threatened
"by someone in the underworld
but he didn't know by whom.
Didn't George Weinberg
get some sum per week from
| your client, Ison?
Ayes. !
Q.-How do you know? %
A.-George told me, and I was
present at the discussion.
Stryker wanted to know if it
wasn't a fact that "Bo" Weinberg
was Schultz's trigger man." Davis
couldn't say of his own knowledge
but he heard" he was.
The defense counsel asked if
Davis had brought "Bo" to the
meeting of Ison with Schultz and
other mob leaders because "Bo''
was persuasive arguer."
He was a very fine speaker,
sir" replied Davis.
Gle didn't aid his argu-
ment by displaying a loaded re-
volver, did he?
Al never saw him with one,
sir.
Davis wouldn't know" whether
Ison paid protection to Schultz.
Stryker asked about the occa-
sion when the Schultz mob had
policy Banker Henry Miro before
them for a discussion about join
ing the combination. Stryker re-
marked:
It mean the one when Schultz
took out his gum
IT believe Schultz had q gum"
conceded Davis. "He took his
shirt off and he took his gun
off, too"
Davis said the meeting was in
his apartment.
Stryker asked whether Schultz
took Miro into the kitchen and
said, "now you're going to pay
money" displaying his gun.
IT never saw anything like
that" replied Davis.
The Washington times., 1938-09-01

have 1t widely known that Mr..
Hines liked you?" asked Stryker.
We'll, sir" said Dixie, II never
denied it,"
Davis admitted he tried to please
Hines "in every way"-that he
never turned down a favor for him
in his life"
Davis said he had never can
vassed at an election, but that his
father did.
FATHERS PART HONEST
"You fathers part in the elec-
ton was honest, no doubt" said
Stryker.
"Oh, unquestionably, sir" re-
piled Davis.
Stryker asked him if he was
anxious to see his candidates win
and Davis replied:
Il was always anxious to see
anything Mr.. Hines wanted to
come out in the end"
Davis admitted that in 1882 he
became active on Dutch" Schultz
income tax matters and Travelled
back and forth from Washington.
He went to Washington four or
five times a month, throughout
1882.
Stryker asked Davis when he
left New York and became a fugi-
tive. Davis replied:
1.-TWO, three or four weeks
after Schultz was killed. left
the latter part of November,
1885.
CAME BACK TO FIGHT
IT stayed in Las Vegas, N. M.
until January. 1885, when I
heard there were disbarment
proceedings against me. So I
came back to New York to fight
them"
Stryker asked Davis when he
first met George elm berg,
Schultz lieutenant, and the wit
ness replied "in 1929" Davis ad-
mitted that Joseph Ison. policy
banker, was one of his legal clients,
The Washington times., 1938-09-01
DEPUTY ADMITS
MEN HUSTLED
TO ROAST Pen
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prison official for ridiculous man.
agement."
Accused by his superior as the
man who turned on the heat that
baked the four convicts, Guard
Sergt. James Hart was to take the,
witness stand to tell the true
story" of what happened.
Hart was named by Prison su-
perintendent William B. Mills an
the man who gave an "unauthor.
lied" order that turned Holmes
burg's isolation cell into a human
bake oven for rs convicts.
AS Warden Mills had done
previously, Deputy Warden
Craven placed responsibility for
the fatal go hours of living
hell on Sergeant of the
Guards James Hart.
who turned on the heat"
Boyle asked the witness.
Sergeant Hart" replied
Craven.
"Wh0 gave him permissiOn?"
'NO one"
Revealing the expected trend Of
Hart's testimony in the notorious
torture Of the prisoners under an
estimated 20O-degree temperature,
Coroner Hersch declared prior to
resuming the hearings in the
deaths:
I'VE have a statement from
Hart, made to my investigators
and to the district attorney, that
the order to turn on the heat
came from Craven"
The Washington times., 1938-09-01
STRYKER "RIPS.
HOLES IN HIDE"
|OF Dixie DAVIS.
BY EDWIN C. HILL

NEW YORK, Sept. / dN.s)
AS the trial Of James j. Hines
went into this afternoon, Defense
Counsel Stryker was ripping large
pieces from the thick hide ot
Dixie" Davis.
1t was a spectacle curiously like
the amuSements which delighted
Roman mobs in the Coliseum
when they tossed an early Chris
tian to the lions, not that Mr..
Davis can be claSSed as such, but
the analogy is striking.
CHOICE NAMES
Double-crosser, liar. associate OF
thugs and killers-these were only
a few of the blasting accusations
which Lloyd Stryker hurled at
young Davis.
And the lawyer witness (for
here we have the extraordinary
spectacle Of lawyer against law
yer) admitted every wicked charge.
He admitted it without turning
a hair, bold as brass. The most
example of impudent
Self-possession which ever was
noted in a criminal trial.
TIMES CHANGE
Take this, for instance:
BY Mr.. Stryker-Mr. Davis,
have you any regard for an
oath?
Davis-I haven't had until
noW-I have now.
Mr.. Stryker-I ask you again
Have you ever had any re-
gard for an oath?
DaviS-I have committed per-
jury many times.