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Evening star., 1938-03-19
AILtNG MAN KILLS
SELF WITH SHOTGUN
Dominick Cicala, SO, Rugged Up
Weapon With Cords Tied
to Both Triggers,

Convinced that he was the victim
OF an 1ncurable disease, Dominick
Cicala, SO, committed suicide late YES.
terday in his home at 1918 H street
NE. by firing shotgun into his ab-
domen with the aid of string which
had been rugged to both triggers OF
the double-barreled gun.
Mr.. Cicala tied a double cord to q
door stop fixed in the wall and secured
both ends Of the cord to the two trig-
gers. He then placed the stock of the
gun against the wall and pointed the
barrels into his abdomen. When he
pulled the gun toward him, one car
fridge WAS exploded. He died almost
instantly.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald,
who investigated, said the recoil Of
the gun kicked chip from the plaster
Of the wall. DR.. Macdonald issued .
certificate Of suicide. Members Of the
family told police that Mr.. Cicala often
had threatened to end his life.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
ROOSEVELT QUITS
ROADS FUND FIGHT
Administration Abandons Hope
of Canceling ALLEGATION
of $500, ,OOO,O 900.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The administration abandoned hope
yesterday of getting Congress to can
eel an ALLEGATION of 5000 100000 among
the States for highway construction
work during the fiscal year beginning
July /.
This was made known in a letter
Secretary Wallace sent to Governors
of the various States. asking them to
submit projects for approval so they
might obtain their shares Of the
money.
The Secretary's letter said President
Roosevelt nov feels that you should
not be asked to further delay the sub
mission of the road building projects
of your State"
The ALLEGATION included s125,0o0,-
900 for principal highways, s25,000.-
900 for secondary roads and $780,
100000 for grade-crossing separation
projects
President Roosevelt suggested to
Congress that funds allotted the States
for the current fiscal year be spread
over the next fiscal year also, but the
lawmakers took no action.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
PIONEER CITIZENS
SESSION RECALLED
Takoma Park Association
Told of Achievements of
Early Years.

Details of the first meeting Of the
Takoma Park ID. C.-Md) Citizens
Association 49 years ago we're out
lined by John B. Kinnear. the only
survivor of the charter members pres
ent on that occasion. at the anniver-
sary celebration last night in the Ia
koma Park Branch Of the Washington
Public Library of that organization.
Mr.. kinnear, an early settler in the
town, was one of the early presidents.
The first meeting, he said, was held
in the small waiting station of the
Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad. this being
the only place where the citizens could
meet. One of the first matters to re-
ceive the attention of the association
was to secure better service on the
railroad, which resulted in the first
express service for the community
Tells of Obtaining Library.
He recited efforts made by members
of the body, with the assistance of
Angus Lamond. another pioneer resi-
dent and friend Of Andrew Carnegie,
in obtaining the present library build
ing where the meeting was held last
night. Erection of the first school
building. construction of the first
trunk sewer. street car service and
other accomplishments of the associa-
ton were described by Mr.. Kinnear
He urged continuation of the same
spirit to upbuild the community and
maintain its present standard as a
suburb of the National Capital. Trib-
utes were paid to Mr. Kinnear by DR..
William A. Hooker. Burt w. Andrews
and Howard S. Fisk.
The association went on record IA
voring control of all school plav-
grounds by the Board of Education.
President DR.. Guy Clinton an
nounced that Mayor John r. Adams
would be general chairman of the
Fourth OF July community celebration
More State Police Asked.
On motion of DR.. Chester c. Waters,
secretary of the association, it was
voted to urge Maryland officials to
proVlde more State police for duty in
Montgomery County. Establishment
OF substation in Montgomery Coun-
ty, similar to those in other parts
OF the State, was asked.
A resolution presented by David T.
Blose protesting against the proposed
l-cent tax on fuel oil as provided in
a bill now before Congress was
adopted.
John L. Nixon addressed the asso-
clation on public relief, stressing the
point that the sum of $3,047 900 rec
commended by the Board of Public
Welfare was necessary to care for the
thousands Of employable unemployed
In the District.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
Several Offers
Follow Pups
Photo in Paper

What price publicity?" is a ques-
ton that should be worrying Sandy
McDougal, 3, of 6205 Fourteenth
street NV.
Sandy, for the uninformed, is a
Scottie who adorned four columns in
The Star Wednesday because Of his
ability to wear spectacles, clamp his
teeth on a pipe and juggle a couple
of parakeets while balancing himself
on his hindquarters.
Judging from the number of tele-
phone calls from persons who ex-
pressed a desire to purchase Sandy,
his appeal is great.
His owner, Miss Betty Sando, re-
vealed today that at least half a
dozen Of these calls had been made
up to midnight last night.
One caller, an unidentified attache
at the French Embassy, offered 5000
for exclusive rights to Sandy, but
Miss Sando declined with thanks.
The last would-be buyer called pre-
cisely on the stroke of midnight.
We'll, If you don't want to sell him,
does he have any pups?" was the
query. Mr.. McDouxal doesn't.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
PARKING METERS
AND RELIEF QUIZ
TO FACE BATTLE
House Expected to Act on
D. c. Appropriation Bill
Early Next Week.
AUTO PLAN is OPPOSED
BY CHAIRMAN SCHULTZ
Labor and Welfare Groups Are
Making Drive for Votes for
Aid Investigation.

House action on the report Of con-
ferees on the District appropriation
bill, which already has been approved
by the Senate, is expected either Nom
day or Tuesday. leaders said today.
There are II items on which the
House must pass, and on two of these
bitter fight is promised. They are
the installation on trial of parking
meters and the proposed relief inves-
tigation.
Chairman Schultz of the Subcom-
mittee on Traffic has served notice he
will vigorously oppose the parking me-
tiers, which he calls "one-armed ban
dts" He said today he will appeal to
those interested in maintaining the
Capital beautiful on the grounds the
meters would seriously deface the
streets. He will also contend motor
lists already are overtaxed.
Drive Being Made.
A drive is being made over the week
end by representatives of organized
labor and welfare organizations to per-
suade House members to vote for q
relief investigation to be completed be-
fore the adjournment of Congress, so
that II additional funds are found to
be needed they can be appropriated.
The fight for relief provisions will
again be led by Representatives Dirk
sen, Republican. of Illinois; Bigelow,
Democrat, of Ohio. and Voorhis, DEM
ocrat, of California, who made the
unsuccessful effort to get the relief
appropriation increased from 5000 .00O
to $l,900,O00 when the appropriation
bill was passed by the House.
The provision in the conference re-
port approved by the Senate calls for
the relief investigation to be completed
by August /, under supervision of the
House and Senate Appropriations
Committee chairmen. and that the
100000 for relief funds be expended
to prevent deficiency.
Bridge Approval Due.
The House is expected to approve
without serious debate items for the
new Pennsylvania avenue bridge across
the Anacostia River, the provision that
the S765,000 street lighting cost be
paid from the general funds, for the
new auxiliary reservoir on the Sol
diers' Home grounds, the preparation
of plans for new central library on
the Municipal Center site, and for
public school lectures on the dangers
OF intoxicants and narcotics.
The pending bill calls for total ap-
preparations of s47,255, 900, with pro-
spective deficit in the general fund Of
s3,700,000, although the bill has re-
duced that fund $682,0o0 under the
current amount. The principal in
creases are in highway expenditures,
and these do not affect the general
fund. Compared with $5,723,O00 in
the present bill, the highway appro-
priation last year was S3,s4s, ,OO0-and
this will practically exhaust that spe-
cial fund.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
TRICKS OF SHEEP
RAISING EXPLAINED
Wyoming Rancher and Naturalist
Lectures Before Geographic
Society.

Charles j. Belden, rancher and
naturalist, who annually ships thou
sands OF sheep and cattle from his
100000 Pitchfork Ranch, near Cody,
Wyo., last night told the National
Geographic Society some of the tricks
OF the trade of raising sheep, whose
little idiosyncrasies he said are
summed up in the old saying, Where
a Sleeps brain should be is Just a
void filled with wrong ideas"
Sheep must be watched "a hours a
day to keep them from harm. For
instance, eve with heavy growth of
wool will turn over on her back to
scrape off ticks and then is unable to
arise without the help of sheep dogs
that are on hand for just such duty.
When the animals are not gotten up.
he explained, gas often forms on their
stomach and stops heart action.
Sheep will not march in the middle
OF the day and will not cross bridge
until one of their number is carried
over.
Clipping, Mr.. Belden explained, is
done now by machinery, skilled hands
operating the devices.
Mr.. Belden also goes in for captur-
ing and raising antelopes and several
OF those in the Zoo here came from
his ranch.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
COLLATERAL BOOST
ORDERED BY BROWN
Precincts Instructed to Impose
Increases in More Serious
Traffic Violations,

An order to Metropolitan police
precincts to increase the amount of
collateral in most traffic cases has
been issued by Maj. Ernest W. Brown
The action followed a meeting of
police inspectors and captains in Maj.
Browns office yesterday, which was
attended also by Police Court Judge
John F. Mcmahon and Assistant Cor
poration Counsel George Nelson.
Maj. Brown pointed out that too
many traffic offenders have been will
ing to forfeit low collateral rather
than go to court.
The new order will apply spe-
officially to traffic infractions combin-
ing an injury or property damage.
1t is hoped that by increasing COL
lateral more persons will appear in
court to attempt to have fines lowered.
Maj. Brown said also he was graft
fled to note that there have been 16
less traffic deaths since January
than In the same period last year.
There have been 18 deaths so far this
year. as against "a in the correspond
ing period in 1887.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
WOMAN
STRUCK BY AUTO
Park Policeman Says She
Walked Into Car-CoupIe
Thrown From Cycle.

Mrs. Annie Fincher, Sc, of Bethesda,
Nd, was seriously injured last night
when knocked down by an automobile
while crossing K street in the 1900
block NV. She was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for what may be a
fracture of the skull and cuts about
the forehead. Her condition was de-
scribed as undetermined today
The automobile. police reported, was
driven by Park Policeman Reynold l.
Bartness, 80. of Brentwood, Md. The
officer said Mrs. Fincher walked into
the rear fender of his car.
Man and Wife Injured.
Wallace Curry. "a, and his wife, 20
of SOL New Jersey avenue NV, were
injured early today when thrown from
their motor cycle on the Mount Vernon
Memorial highway about miles south
of Alexandria.
Mr. Curry was treated at Alexandra
Hospital for conclusion of the brain
and cuts on the right leg, while his
wife received first aid for minor cuts
and bruises.
w. c. Jordan, %, of 1920 Sixteenth
street NV, taxicab driver, and
Francis Frayhardt, &c. of 2136 K street
NV. passenger in the cab operated
by Mr.. Jordan were cut and bruised
early today in a collision between the
cab and an automobile on Thirteenth
street near K street NV. Both re-
ceived first aid at Emergency Hospital
Believed Hit Run Victim.
Believed to be the victim of a hit
and-run driver, an unidentified colored
man. about As or so years old, was
found early today in the 140O block OF
E street Sc. He was taken to Casualty
Hospital and treated for what may be
fracture of the skull and cuts about
the head and face. Police could locate
no witnesses to the accident, believed
to have occurred about S am.
Four persons, two of them children
escaped with minor injuries yesterday
in a head-on collision between two cars
on the Wheaton road near Kensington
Md. All were residents of Kensinpton
John B. Davis, 81, was bruised on
the head. and Mrs. Laura P. Utrecht
driver Of the other car, suffered a leo
injury. Her two children, Fred. 12
and Dorothy, S, were cut by flyine
glass.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
SMALL GRATU|T|ES
F0RPR|SONERS HIT
D. c. Civic Groups Protest
Inadequate Sums Given
Men on Release.

Protests against the present method
OF paying small gratuities to prisoner;
being released from District penal in.
stitutions were lodged with the Pena
Committee of the Public Welfare
Board yesterday by representatives Of
civic and welfare groups.
The present plan, under which, ii
was charged, released prisoners are
being given as little as 50 and SO to
tide them over until parole officers or
welfare agencies can take care of them
is providing serious problem the
representatives said Men unable to
get aid often end up at police head
quarters again, it was said.
Until last September. there was a
long-standing practice of giving each
man $40 on his release from prison.
With deficit of $1,000 looming in its
maintenance fund, the Welfare Board
adopted a new policy of paying gratui-
ties on the basis of need, in the belief
that many released prisoners would
not need the $40 because they had
families to look out for them. had
saved money from their work at the
prison, or for other reasons.
The committee was told the private
welfare agencies have been unable to
give aid to the men because their
budgets, too, had been pared.
Among those who joined in the pro-
test were the Bureau of Rehabilitation,
Criminal Justice Association, Council
OF Social Agencies and Parole Board.
Elwood Street. director of the We'll
fare Board, said the committee would
prepare a report on the conference.
He added, however. that he did not
know what recommendation it would
make.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
HIGHER LICENSE
CHARGESSTUD|ED
F0RD.C. REVENUE
Heavier Rate on Theater
and Ball Parks Under
Subcommittee Scrutiny.
NICHOLS HOLDING OUT
FOR LIQUOR TAX RAISE
Wholesale Dealers Attorney Said
to Have Impressed Other
Members.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Attempting to find some other ade.
quate revenue source as a substitute
for the business privilege tax that au-
tomatically expires July /, larger IL
cense fees on theaters, professional
baseball parks and other forms of
business have been discussed at length
by the Tax Subcommittee of the House
District Committee, Chairman Mich
OILS, Democrat, of Oklahoma disclosed
today.
The subcommittee will vote Monday
on the proposed increases in license
fees, and is expected to complete the
bill
The present baseball park license
fee is described as nominal" by MIR.
Nichols, as compared with the police
service rendered. An increase was con-
sldered last year before the business
privilege tax was adopted. Each time
baseball game is played at Griffith
Stadium large number of police are
assigned to handle the crowds and to
preserve order, he explained
Would Raise Liquor Tax.
Chairman Nichols said he would
continue to support the proposed in
crease in the liquor tax from so cents
to 81 a gallon. while Representative
Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, sub
committee member, is vehemently op-
posed. Other members of the SUBJ
committee expressed themselves as
scndb hv tho of
ford F. Schwartz, an attorney for the
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association.
that this tax would drive District resi-
dents into nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia for their liquor supplies and
would promote bootlegging.
Mr.. Schwartz claimed that 739 hard
liquor licenses are paying s2,25o,0Oo
In taxes a year to the District. If
the stamp tax is doubled, he argued,
the earning power of many dealers
will be destroyed. with the direct re.
suit that the District will suffer a
serious loss in revenue
s1,500.0o0 Revenue Seen.
Chairman Nichols elaine. that when
the liquor tax and a Sl-a-barrel levy
on beer were written into the pending
tax bill, these two items would yield
an additional 81 100000 in revenue.
This will prove too great burden
for many of the dealers" Mr.. Schwartz
said. 1T will encourage illicit sale of
liquor and in that way will increase
crime"
He pointed out that Virginia is al
ready selling standard brands of liquor
in its State dispensaries about Is per
cent under District prices because Of
lower taxes, and that Maryland prices
also are slightly lower than those in
Washington. He emphasized that in
1887 the District collected sl,156,523
in hard liquor taxes and s5O7 900 in
license fees. Liquor dealers used real
estate assessed at S3,75O,0O0 and taxed
at $550,000 besides furnishing employ
ment to more than 800 persons, he
declared.
1t was also disclosed that the sub
committee is having considerable diff
flculty in determining when the in
come tax should become effective. 1t
was responsibly stated the group has
practically abandoned its plan to make
this tax retroactive to apply to last
years income. on the theory that it
would levy double taxation on those
who had paid the business privilege
| tax.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
LIVING COST DATA
SLOWS HEAR|NG0N
LAUNDRY WAGES
Disputes Put Over Until
Tuesday After Sharp
Differences.
INADEQUATE BUDGET
FOR FOOD is CHARGED
Schoenthal Contends Figures on
Costs, If True, Show Diet of
Group Deficient.

Debate over allowances to be grant,
ed the 4,50G women employees of WASH
ington laundries and dry cleaning es-
Establishments for rent, food and cloth
Ing will be resumed by employer and
employe spokesmen at next Tuesdays
session of the Minimum Wage Board
conference.
Sharp differences occurred at yes
terday's session of the conference on
prices actually being paid for these
necessities
Employer spokesmen sought to show
that hundreds of laundresses actually
are paying as low as 81 and SO week
for rooms, but employe witnesses tes-
titled that rental prices for suitable"
rooms ranged from S425 a week up
ward. Arthur L. Schoenthal, labor
representative on the board, insisted
the rent allowance should be no less
than SIS week.
Employe Statements Cited.
E. E. Farran and Sam Rubenstein,
laundry owners representatives to the
conference, promised to produce at the
next session survey showing rooms
were being rented at lower rates than
S. Mr.. Farran cited a number of
statements received from laundry en-
ployes showing prices ranging from So
to So week.
There was even more conflict yes
terday over the cost of adequate food
Mr.. Farran submitted digest of state
ments taken from laundry employees to
show that the average cost of food for
LIS of them was $3.75 a week and
the average for 286 others was $3.50.
The employees, through MIR. Schoen-
tkal, are contending for an allowance
of no less than SO week for food.
Even assuming the correctness of
the statements you have reported" /"
Mr.. Schoenthal told Mr. Farran, they
would not prove that these workers
now are able to buy food they need, or
that they had sufficiently balanced
diet. Do you realize that if these
women are paying but $374 a week
for food that it would mean an aver
age of but l8 cents per meal? That
strikes me as perfectly impossible. And
II that s the case with more than
1000 workers, then they are not get
ting proper food, for women who per-
form actual physical work"
Clothing Evidence Presented.
Exhibits of clothing purchased at
local stores were offered by the en-
ployers as samples of costs faced by
employees. These were in support of
the claim of the employers that 80
cents week is a sufficient clothing
allowance. The employees are de-
manding an allowance of $2.42
Sylvan King, Washington merchant,
who for years was a member of the
firm of Kings Palace, department
store, testified as an expert witness
for the employers. There was long
discussion over hats at "a cents each,
light coat at $40 and heavy winter
coat at S1295, offered by the en-
ployers. Women worker spokesmen on
the conference group insisted there
was no economy in buying cheap types
of clothing.
During a discussion of the quality
OF the cloth in the winter coat, Mr..
King said he believed that wood pulp
and vegetable oil was the basis of the
cloth OF most of the clothing worn
by members of the conference.
Evening star., 1938-03-19
Clergyman Directs Religious
Force Toward Public affairs
DR.. Carruthers, Sponsor of Open Parish
Increment, Emissions Reuiualof
Christian Influence.

Dodd, former United States Ambas-
sador to Germany. will discuss the
world-famous Niemoller trial. At a
later meeting DR.. Culbertson will de-
scribe the Greek Church in Rumania,
one of the dictator" churches, and
his daughter, Miss Junia Culbertson,
now singing with the Savoy Opera,
Philadelphia, will make her local
musical debut. The American AM
bassador to China and the Rev
Charles R. Erdman, past moderator
of the Presbyterian Church and now
chairman of the Board of Foreign
Missions of that church, will be
speakers at future meetings.
Hopeful for Ideal.
Dr. Carruthers, who came here from
his home in Pasadena, Calf, to
launch his open parish plan, said
that he hoped the idea would estab-
lish itself firmly in the National Capt.
tai as basis for similar non-sec-
tartan development throughout the
Nation and the world
The National Capital" he ex-
planned, has not used its national
church power in the. aid of Govern
ment as the forefathers of the coun-
try intended religion should be used
as power in the affairs of men"
The open parish, he pointed out
is entirely independent of any church
organization and does not seek to
unity or to supplant the churches
but rater to expand their field OF
usefulness. He is planning meet
ing of Federal personnel chiefs in
an effort to bring the open parish
plan to the attention of Federal work.
ers and to assist them in finding
temporary church homes during their
stay in Washington.
He has adopted as the open parish
motto the phrase for every one OF
every faith from everywhere"
Evening star., 1938-03-19

In the testing basin the model first
will be pulled through the water by
an overhead carriage. Later a pro-
peller and other appendages will be
added for testing. From these trials
the power and speed of the finished
product can be computed. as we'll as
the water resistance and the residual
resistance-that is, the resistance from
waves and eddies.
The United States is the only coun-
try which uses wood in construction
of its ship models. Other countries
use wax models
The testing basin at the local yard
is the Governments only establish
ment of this kind Another basin to
replace the present one is being built
near Cabin John, Md. One of its test
ing basins will be $50 feet long, SO
feet wide and % feet deep