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Evening star., 1938-07-27
Star staff Photos.

ing his philosophy toward this meas
ure. he argues:
THE world does not owe a man a
living, but it does owe him a chance
to make living"
Although both Senator Tydings and
Mr.. Lewis have been attending rallies
and making speeches at scattered
points for several weeks. the cam
paign is only just beginning to warm
up and probably will increase in in
tensity during August.
Mr.. Tydings, in denying general
opposition to the administration, calls
attention to measures he approved,
including the Home Owners Loan
Corp. Act. the Civilian Conservation
Corps, the present Guf1ey Coal Act,
the wage-hour law, Farm Credit Act
and a number of others The main
issues he opposed in the last Congress
were the Supreme Court plan. which
vast stopped in the Senate, and the
Government reorganization bill, side
tracked in the House.
Mr.. Lewis and his supporters con-
tend, however, that Mr. 'Tydings Is
out Of sympathy with the major OBJ
jectives of the Roosevelt administra-
ton. These claims and counter claims
no doubt will continue to fill the air
until the primary day arrives.
All OF which should keep Maryland
in the political spotlight until the
leaves begin to turn.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
Two D. c. DEATHS
ARE CALLED SUICIDE
One Certificate Issued 10 Months
After Man Shot Himself
in Chest.

The death of Charles M. Arnold, %,
Of the 4600 block of Forty-third street
NV. nearly 10 months after he was
said to have shot himself in the chest,
was ruled suicide yesterday by Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald.
The verdict was based on findings of
an autopsy that death was due to COM
plications resulting from the bullet
wound. Since the shooting last Sep
tember. Mr.. Arnold had undergone
several operations at Georgetown Hos
pital. He died after one Monday.
The coroner issued another suicide
certificate in the death of Mrs Marline
Vierbuchen. 20, whose body was found
yesterday in a gas-filled kitchenette
adjoining her room at 456 K street
NV. Bride of less than a year. she
left note addressed to her husband,
Rudolph Vierbuchen, 80, printer.
They had quarreled few days ago
and she had tried unsuccessfully to
get in touch with him yesterday morn
Ing, it was said.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
ANOTHER TAXI KILLS
CHAUFFEUR AFOOT
Part. Time Driver Knocked Down
While Crossing Street From
Parked Cab.

Sam Bernstein, So, Of 2129 Eight.
zenith street NV, q part-time taxi
cab driver, died in Emergency Hospi.
tai today, a few hours after being
knocked down by another taxicab a.
he was walking across the 1000 block
Of Fourteenth street NV.
Police said the driver Of the cab
that struck him, Ralph r. Winslow
26, Arlington, Va, who was released
after the accident in custody of his
attorney, would be held for action OF
a coroner's inquest.
Mr.. Bernstein was the 51st person
to be killed in District trafic accidents
this year, as compared with 81 at this
time last year.
Members of his family said he was
working last night and apparently
had parked his cab when the fatal
accident occurred, shortly after am
Evening star., 1938-07-27
TRAFFIC DEATH
CURB SOUGHT BY
SCHOOL OFFICIALS
Conference on Opening of
More Fairgrounds Is
Planned.
RECREATION CHIEFS
WILL BE CONSULTED
Legal Aspects Will Be Discussed
With Corporation Counsel,
Says DR.. Holmes.

Public school officers planned today
70 confer with recreation and other
District officials soon on the possibility
of opening additional school play
grounds as means of curbing child
traffic deaths, which have mounted
recently.
Decision to give careful attention
to the matter was reached at an in
formal meeting yesterday at the
Franklin School.
DR.. Chester w. Holmes, acting su-
perintendent of schools. said a con-
ference will be arranged between Mrs
Elizabeth K. Peoples. director of the
Community Center Department; Miss
Sibyl Baker. supervisor of the Depart
ment of Fairgrounds. and Lewis R.
Barrett District co-ordinator of rec
reation with regard to the playground
situation in its entirety.
To Confer With Brown.
In addition. Dr. Holmes said he in
tends to confer with Police Supt.
Ernest w. Brown on the problem and
to solicit an opinion from Corporation
Counsel ElWood H. Seal as to the legal
aspects involved should the Board of
Education decide to permit opening of
additional Fairgrounds without super
vision.
There is some question in my
mind" he said, "as to whether the
board would be sued if an accident
should happen to child on unsuper-
vised school property"
At present the Community Center
Department and the Department of
Fairgrounds are operating more than
100 Fairgrounds throughout the city
on appropriations considerably less
than were available for the same pur-
poses last year, and there are no funds
to provide supervision on any addi-
tional grounds, it was pointed out.
No Assurance of Use.
School officers also pointed out that,
even were grounds opened without su-
pervision, there is no assurance they
would be used by the child instead of
the streets and injuries can occur on
unsupervised grounds as well as any
where else.
At the time the summer recreation
program was planned, efforts were
made by the school recreation heads
to open Fairgrounds which were not
too near those operated by the Play
ground Department and which, with
them, would effectively cover the Dis
trict.
Mrs. Peoples said yesterday that, of
the approximately 80 school play
grounds not open. possibly 20 could be
opened to advantage without overlap
ping too much on other grounds.
Supervision might possibly be ar
ranged. she said. by taking one SUPER
visor from those Fairgrounds where
there are two
two supervisors to a ground. Our ex-
perience in operating grounds under
both single and double supervision has
indicated this"
Hopes for Supervisors.
Meanwhile, Maj. Brown expressed his
support of opening additional grounds,
but added the hope that supervision
could be provided.
Naturally, we are tremendously in
terested in getting the children off the
streets" he said.
Draff1c Director William A. Van
Duzer added his Endorsement and sug-
gested supervisors could be enlisted
from among the older boys who make
up the traffic patrols during the school
wear
Evening star., 1938-07-27
IDavis Vacations
|ByCatchingNe'o
| TOuds for Zoo

Thirteen giant toads from Bermuda
arrived at the Zoo yesterday, proof
enough for fellow keepers that NAL
colin Davis was on another vacation"
Mr.. Davis, who accompanied DR..
William M Mann on his collecting ex-
pedition to the East Indies. keeps right
on collecting when he goes on vaca-
tion-to Cuba, Panama, etc.
This year Mrs. Davis thought she
would get him away from 1t all for
q while. Mr.. Davis, head keeper Of
the birdhouse, had been working hard.
His wife hoped he would rest in Ber-
muda, since most Of the wild life Of
that island centers around the cock
tail bars.
The toads were Mr.. Davis answer.
He hunted them with q net and flash
light. The keepers feel they may
expect other contributions from Mr..
Davis before he ends his holiday.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
GROFE Will DIRECT
CONCERT TONIGHT
National Symphony to Play
Several Compositions of
Guest Conductor.

The music of Ferde Grofe, consid-
cred by many European critics the
most typical symphonic expression Of
the United States, will be presented
by the National Symphony Orchestra
tonight under direction of the COM
poser. appearing here for the first time
as guest conductor Of the symphony
Mr.. Grofe has taken a place in
American music similar to that oc-
cupied III the field of poetry by Walt
Whitman and Carl Sandburg. critics
say. His works include such compost
tions as Hollywood Suite" Sym
phony in Steel" Tabloid" "Missis-
sippi," and Grand Canyon Suite"
Although he first gained national
prominence with his orchestration
used for the world premiere Of George
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue" and
in spite of the fact he had his own
dance band in Chicago about four
years ago. Mr.. Grofe told a press con-
ference yesterday that he has definite
ly parted ways with so-called popular
music.
At present he is working on a ballet,
"Cafe Society,"" to be produced in
October by Catherine Iittlefield and
her ballet at the Chicago Civic Opera
A satire, the opening theme Of the
introduction is a musical counterpart
Of the phrase. TOO. too-too, too"
the audience presumably being at lib
erty to supply the divine"
In addition to Mr.. Grofe's own
composition, the orchestra tonight will
play Rhapsody in Blue" with Emer-
son Meyers, Washington pianist, as
soloist. The program will end with
Otto Cesanas Negro Heaven" and
an arrangement of Stephen Foster
melodies by Luis Guzman.
The two-hour Water Gate concert
will begin at pm. Station WMAL
will broadcast the last half Of the
program,
Evening star., 1938-07-27
HAPPY CHILDREN
. LEAvE.FOR CAMP
More Will Have Carefree
Vacations if Needed
Money Is Raised.

Three buses crammed with radiant
youngsters and assorted bundles and
bags pulled away from Thomson
School today, bound for Camp Good
Will. while mothers, caught between
laughter and grateful tears, waved
frantic goodbys and camp workers
smiled with tired relief.
Even the bus drivers were grinninp
as the children, almost buried beneath
catcher's mitts, sand pals and even a
guitar, settled back to enjoy their trip
to the camp.
AS the buses started to move, the
mothers ran along beside them for a
ways, shouting last-minute advice to
their offspring and exchanging good
by kisses.
One young father clung to his little
girl for moment as she leaned ia,
out the window. Then he kissed her
hurriedly and turned away.
She's all I've got in the world" he
explained II sure will miss her. But
gosh, I'm glad she's going to have a
holiday"
End Of Uncertainty.
1t was the end of the uncertainty
for the camp workers, the parents and
the youngsters who knew or suspected
they might not have their two weeks
at camp.
AS a camp worker folded up her list
and prepared to leave she said
IF it hadn't been for people being
so kind, those youngsters wouldn't be
leaving for camp today. No one will
ever know how hard it would have been
to tell them they couldn't 60"
Last week the Family Service Asso-
citation, which operates Camps Good
Will and Pleasant, announced the
camps would close Immediately unless
s2,400 could be raised to send the
youngsters.
Just Couldn't Close.''
Funds started pouring in. The
camps, an integral part of Washington
life for SO years, just couldn't close.
These children, born to spend so
weeks Of the year in back alleys and
crowded rooming houses, needed the
two-week vacation too desperately to
be refused.
And so today they left for camp
100 strong. Yesterday. a similar num-
Der boarded buses for Camp Pleasant.
In two weeks another group of un-
derfed. too thin youngsters will climb
aboard camp-bound buses if Washing
tonians continue to respond to the
need for funds. Unless $500 more
is raised, the children will spend their
long participated vacations right where
they spend the rest of the year-at
home.
AS the bus pulled away today, the
children were asked what they would
do first when they get to camp.
SWIM" they chorused and with
out hesitation, added, "and eat!'
Evening star., 1938-07-27
Star Carriers
Viii Pay Visit
TOGIen Echo

Some 1000 Star carriers from the
city and suburban areas and their
helpers will try out the latest Glen
Echo events in their annual outing to
the amusement park tonight at 7:l5
o'clock as guests of The Star.
Under the direction of Gait Burns,
circulation manager of The Star, the
boys will receive their carfare to the
park and long strips of tickets to the
various events, including refreshments
and swimming.
At the same time, the $50 colored
carrier boys will meet with j. M.
Richards a. Suburban Gardens Amuse.
ment Park for thei1 outing.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
VANDUzERBACKS
FEDERAL DRIVERS
Traffic officials Letter Is
Cited to Show License
Is Unnecessary.

The fight of the National Park
Service to clear Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps worker arrested here for
driving Federally-owned truck
assigned to Maryland without an
operators permit apparently is sus-
tained by William A. Van Duzer,
director of vehicles and traffic, in a
communication made public today.
Regarded as important in that it
would determine the right of any Fed
eral employe. including enlisted men
of the Army, to drive Government
vehicles in or through the District
without operators permits, the case
has been taken under advisement un-
til August Is by Judge Hobart New
man in Traffic Court.
Louis Frick, National Capital Parks
legal adviser. is in chsiye OF the
Federal Governments effort to clear
the driver, George Oberholtzer, C. G.
c. enrollee on duty at Garrett Park,
Md. He has sent to Judge Newman
a letter written by Mr.. Van Duzer
which, he claims. upholds the Park
Service contention that Mr.. Ober-
holtzer did not need an operators
permit.
In this communication" Mr.. Frick
wrote to Judge Newman, Mr.. Van
Duzer stated that if Maryland, Vir-
ginia or any other State does not re-
uuire permits for the operators of Fed
eral-owned vehicles, garaged outside
the District of Columbia, the District
of Columbia would not require these
operators to have District permits.
1T is hoped that the comment OF the
director of vehicles and trafhc Will
assist you in reaching a decision Ia
vorable to the United States in the case
of the District of Columbia versus
George Oberholtzer.
Mr.. Van Duzer's letter was written
to South Trimble, jr., Commerce De-
partment solicitor, as the result OF an
arrest last year of the operator OF q
vehicle of the Bureau of Air Com
merce bearing a Commerce Depart
ment identification tag. It stated:
Wnere any SJate, SUCH dS vAsAiio
or Maryland, recognizes the Depart
ment of Commerce tags, we are bound
by our reciprocity agreement with
those States to recognize these tags for
the period that they honor District
tags in those States.
In other words, in the case OF q
car belonging to the Federal Govern
ment which is garaged outside OF the
District of Columbia, it would not
be necessary for that vehicle to carry
District of Columbia tags, or Tor the
operator to have District OF Co.
lumbia operators permit.
If Virginia or Maryland or any
other State does not require operators
permits for Federal-owned vehicles,
the District of Columbia would not
require those operators to have q Dis
trict of Columbia operators permit"
Mr.. Oberholtzer was arrested by q
Metropolitan policeman June 8, on
Nebraska avenue NV. and charged
With driving without "a op0asoTs
Evening star., 1938-07-27
BOARD TO PROBE
K|CK-bACK LAID
TO RESTAURANTS
Some Employers Accused of
Practice in Pay of
Mattresses.
IMPROPER DEDUCTION
FOR MEALS CHARGED
Secretary Reveals Routine Check
Has Resulted in Return of
$1,000 to Workers.

Complaints of 'kick-back" practices
OF some restaurant operators were
under investigation today by agents of
the District Minimum Wage Board to
determine if the board should reopen
the entire question Of the basic wages
and other conditions of restaurant
employment, board officials announced
today
Miss Gwen Geach, board secretary,
reported that the board has continued
to receive complaints from mattresses
OF violations of both the spirit and the
letter of the minimum wage order.
She revealed that investigation so far
made by the board, in a routine
check-up of the public housekeeping
wage order, has resulted in the collec-
ton of approximately $1,000 in back
wages for restaurant employees.
At special meeting last night the
board directed its two investigators to
make a special investigation of all
complaints to enable the board to de-
termine whether to reopen the confer.
ence on the basic wage for women
and minors employed by restaurants.
Board officials informally have indi-
Gated dissatisfaction with the manner
in which the wage and hour rules have
worked in practice. '
Among complaints received are
those charging that some employers
have paid their mattresses and other
employees the prescribed rates and then
have forced them to turn these checks
back in and receive lesser sums. Other
charges are that mattresses are being
improperly required to accept 30-cent
deductions for meals not served at the
time when they are officially on duty.
In the latter case the board indi-
Gates it will consider a revision of its
rule permitting the reduction FOR meals
which in many cases now bring the
cash payment for mattresses down to
net of $685., not counting tips.
Board officials said they had received
complaints that mattresses receiving
little or nothing in the form of tips
had been classified by the employers
under the mattresses scale of $l3.25 a
week, which applies before deductions
of 80 cents for meals and 81 a week
for uniforms. The board, 1t was said
may consider a change in the wording
Of this rule so as to require the pay
ment in such cases of a minimum Of
$16.50 a week, which applies to
counter girls, salad girls. checkers and
other employees who do not customarily
receive or depend upon daily tips.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
Numbers Slips
Fall as Suspect
Removes Hat

Carlton S. Beers, 40, of the 1900
block of Park Road NV, was brought
into police headquarters yesterday fol-
booking on q charge Of possessing
numbers slips, following his arrest in
the 3400 block Of Eleventh street NV.
The prisoner stepped up to be
booked.
why don't you take your hat off?"
suggested q detective.
Beers raised his hat and To his
CONSERVATION and the amusement of
the police, many more numbers slips
fell from his head to the floor.
Beers recovered his aplomb. but
not his slips, and hastily left after
posting $500 bond for appearance in
Police Court today.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
Campaigning With Our Friends the Neighbors
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,


OF all the candidates who are
standing on the New Deal platform
in this years congressional primaries
there probably is none who is so much
at home there as Representative David
]. Lewis Of Maryland, who Is opposing
Senator Millard E. Tydings for the
Democratic senatorial nomination.
For Cumberland's rugged little vet
eran OF many political campaigns has
had an active part in shaping some
of the planks in that platform on
Capitol Hill during the last five years,
and long before there was New Deal
he had been advocating social reforms
closely akin to it.
Senator Tydings, fighting vigorously
to retain his seat, has made it clear
he intends to challenge the claim that
he is a foe of the administration.
He declared few days ago that he
has supported the bone and sinew"
of the Roosevelt program and con-
tended that on those occasions when
he opposed it he believed he was
presenting the Maryland view.
Verdict Sept. IL.
Subsequent statements from Mr..
Lewis headquarters indicate, however,
that he plans to continue to make
support of the New Deal the main
issue during the six weeks of CAM
paigning still ahead. The voters will
render the verdit on September IL.
Active and alert despite his 50 years,
Davey Lewis, who entered politics as
a member Of the State Legislature
36 years ago, has had his auto
mobile fitted out with sound equip
ment and is ready to hit the trail
into various sections of the State dur
ing August and early September.
The son of immigrant parents, both
of whom came from South Wales and
married in this country, Mr. Lewis
was born in log cabin near Osceola
Mills, Pa, May /, 1859. From the
day he entered the coal mines at the
age of 9 to work beside his father the
story of Davey Lewis career has been
a colorful one.
In his Office at the Capitol yester-
day he settled back in his chair,
puffed on his big black pipe and let
his memory drift back half a century
to recall how, at 10, he suggested to
his fellow miners scheme for help
ing each other out when sickness kept
them out of the mines. 1t was a
cooperative plan under which the
men on the job would take turns at
mining and sending out to be weighed
the daily quota of "a sick companion
in addition to their own quotas.
Social insurance started then, so
far as I was concerned" he observed
as he finished telling the story.
Books His Friends.
Mr.. Lewis had to acquire his own
education reading at night. but he
had an ambition for book learning
that is as strong today as in his
youth. Books and his pipe are his
hobbies. He said he never cared for
fishing and hunting and often Won
dered why until he had chance at
the age OF so to visit his father S
birthplace, South Wales.
Il found there hadn't been much
fishing or hunting there since the
Evening star., 1938-07-27
$l,4OO Needed
Sum Necessary to Keep
Camp Good Will Open
in August,

The children who left for Camp
Good Will today will be the last to go
unless the Family Service Association.
which operates the two camps, is able
to raise an additional ST ,4O0-the diff
ference between the $4,000 it must
have to keep the camps open for the
period beginning August 9 and the
amount it has already succeeded in
raising.
The Star will be glad to receive any
acknowledge contributions to the fund
to keep the camps open. Mail your
contributions to The Star or bring
them to The Star cashier.
Previously acknowledged 81 1928 "A
Less correction - 1000
Evening star., 1938-07-27
ARNOLD. TO SPEAK
Monopolies Investigator Will
Address Press Club.

Assistant Attorney General Thur
man w. Arnold now investigating
monopolies as a member of the Ma
tional Economic Committee. will de-
liver an off-the-record address at a
National Press Club luncheon tomor-
row on How Can the Sherman Anti
trust Act Be Enforced?"
Mr.. Arnold, former Yale Law School
professor, is author of the contro-
versial Folklore of Capitalism" con-
tanning. passages on "trust-busting"
that were questioned at the time his
appointment to the Government post
was ratified by the Senate early this
Evening star., 1938-07-27

permit. At the time he was driving
Government-owned G. G. 6. truck
assigned to Maryland on omcial Gov
eminent business and WIS en- route
from Garrett Park TO the Interior
DepATtment.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
Mother Irked
By: Calls for
Rescue of Son
Police Agree Child
at WindO,U Vas
in No Danger.

From the second-story window of a
fiat at 746 Ninth street NV. 2-year-
old Buster Eckart looked down on
the street today at an anxious group
OF people who gathered when police
and the fire rescue squad arrived
in response to call that a baby had
fallen through screen and was
hanging out over the street.
Evening star., 1938-07-27
BAND CONCERTS

BY the Marine Band at the Capitol
at 1880 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader; William F. Santel-
mann, assistant.
BY the Navy Band in the bandstand
at the Navy Yard at 1880 O'Clock to-
night. 1t. Charles Benter, leader;
Charles Brendler, assistant.
Evening star., 1938-07-27

Indignantly, Mrs Billie Eckart, 81,
the child's mother told police the
screen was securely nailed in and that
the child was in no danger. AL
though the child was able to stand
on the low sill and look out the VIM
dow, police. after examining the
screen, agreed with the mother that
the child was in no danger.
Mrs. Eckart said it was the second
time within week that some one
has called police that her child was
about to fall.