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Evening star., 1938-11-01
D. {. Wage Board Sets
Office Worker Hearinqs

y The District of Columbia Mini
mum Wage Beard will begin hear
ings tomorrow on minimum wage
scales for Office employees.
Conference committees represent
ing the public, employers and en-
ployes will attend the hearings.
They will be held beginning at 10
am. in the second floor courtroom of
the old Police Court Building.
This hearing will take place on
the first anniversary of the board S
first hearing-that on November 2,
1887. for store employees.
To acquaint Office workers with
the hearings and minimum wage
provisions, the Washington News
paper Guild and local q of the
United Office and Professional
Workers. Union are sponsoring q
meeting tonight for Office workers,
at which Miss Louise V. Stitt of the
Women's Bureau, Department of
Labor, will speak, Miss Helen Shu-
ford Of the Office Workers Union
announced today.
This meeting will be held in the
auditorium of the North Interior
Building beginning at 8:15 O'Clock.
Sidney Katz, secretary of the WASH
ington Industrial Union Council,
will preside.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
He's In Again!
Man Sentenced
| Aquin as Drunk

William Branch, 35, was in Police
Court again today for being drunk
the third time in the last month
and half that he's been in only a
day after getting out of Jail.
The second week in September
Branch was before the court and
sentenced to pay $25 or serve 25
days in Jail. After serving eight
days of the sentence, he paid his
way out.
The next day he was arrested
again for being drunk. In court,
Judge Hobart Newman took
Branch's personal bond on the plea
that he was celebrating his freedom
with a few beers and that he had
a Job awaiting him in Philadelphia
The very next day he was back
again for being drunk. Judge New
man sentenced him to $25 or Is
days, and he served the Jail SEN
tence.
Branch told the court he got out
yesterday and was in court today.
Before Judge Walter j. Casey. he
pleaded that he had acquired an
other job during the few hours he
was out and was celebrating.
I'VE have been a little too lenient
on you, believe" Judge Casey said,
and sentenced him to pay 500 or
serve 80 Gays.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Parking LOT Employees
License Plan Asked

All attendants and other employees
OF parking lot operators would be
required to obtain license from
the District under a proposed new
regulation suggested to the Com
missioners today by C. j. B. Murphy
president of the Associated Parking
Station Operators of the District,
Inc.
Mr.. Murphy wrote the Commits
sioners that his association had
been making study of rules and
regulations governing parking lots
IN 20 Of the larger cities.
The one new regulation he pro-
posed would require each applicant
for the proposed license to fill out
a form, to be provided by the Police
Department, giving his full name,
residence, place of residence for five
years preceding the application, and
other data, including a statement of
whether he had ever been convicted
OF a felony or misdemeanor.
The proposal was referred for
study to Edward w. Thomas, assist
ant corporation counsel.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
George F. Hane Dies
Al Bethesda Home

George F. Hane, 70, president of
the firm of George F. Hane, Inc,
dealers in real estate, loans and
insurance, died last night at his
home, 1400 Old Georgetown road,
Bethesda, Md. He had been Ill
since January.
A native of Frederick, Md, Mr..
Hane had been in business here
about IS years. He formerly was
treasurer Of the old firm of Wilcox,
Hane & Co., the predecessor of the
present firm. He became head of
the firm in 1884 when it was in
corporated under the new name.
The firm has it's Offices at 1922 F
street NV. Mr.. Hane also was a
director of the District Title In
surance Co.
Active in the Masonic fraternity
Mr.. Hane was a member of Fed
eral Lodge, F. A. A. M; Eureka
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons;
Washington Commandery, Knights
Templar, and Almas Temple of the
Shrine.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Gertrude E. Hane; a son, George
c. Hane, this city; a daughter, Mrs.
Eugene Stevens, Bethesda, and two
grandchildren.
The body is resting at the Warner
E. Humphrey funeral home, Silver
Spring, Md.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
New Chain Letter Idea Changes
Menu in Greenbet Homes

mighty founder in New England,
sat down to Philadelphia scrapple.
A native Philadelphia encoun-
tered dish of that rough Southern
delicacy known as hoe cake.
A breadwinner, whose mother and
father raised him on the goodies of
Czechoslovakia, ran afoul of some
steaming Hungarian goulash.
And one who sprang from the
frigid steppes of Russia stepped into
a dining room filled with the pun
gent fragrance of wiener schnitzel.
The story can't. be complete,
though!
There is no japanese in Greenbelt
to come home of an evening to chop
suey.
However, there is an Italian who
dislikes spaghetti. He came home to
spaghetti. His wife said she didn't
want to break the. chain.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Funeral Here Tomorrow
For Miss WurfieId

Funeral services for Miss Virginia
Frances Warf1eld, "a student at the
Corcoran Art Gallery, who died Sum-
day at Columbia Hospital, will be
held at pm. tomorrow in Cham
bers' funeral home, 14OO Chaplin
street NV. Burial will be in Con-
gressional Cemetery.
Miss Warf1eld was the daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert M. Warfield.
with whom she lived at 211 Rhode
Island avenue NE. She was great
grandniece Of former Gov. Warfleld
Of Maryland and a distant relative
of the Duchess of Windsor.
Miss Warf1eld was graduate of
Mckinley High School and was a
member Of the Lambda Sigma Delta
Sorority. Besides her parents, she
leaves brother, William War1eld.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
.Chrysanthemum Show
With 1900 Plants
To Be Open Today
$40 Varieties Included
In Display at
Greenhouse

After a preliminary reception by
Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the
Secretary of Agriculture, to women
OF the cabinet and others socially
prominent the thirty-seventh an
nual mum" show of the United
States Department of Agriculture
was to be thrown open to the pub
lie at l o'clock this afternoon in
the exhibition greenhouse at Four
teenth street and Constitution ave-
nue. NV. The public will be ad-
mitted free daily. from am. until
9 pm. a
There are 1900 plants, including
ITO varieties Of the large Japanese
chrySanthemums in the bed down
the center of the conservatory, and
banked on either side are 600 plants
OF pompons or home garden hardy
chrysanthemums in 400 varieties.
The tallest plant in the show is
the Mrs. Franklins D. Roosevelt,
which towers 8 feet high. It oc-
cupies the very center of the pyra-
mided massing of the large exhibi-
ton blooms in riot of coloring,
which is the chief attraction OF. the
show.
The newest specimen on display
is a tall truly Japanese bloom OF
wine coloring and with tangled
tubular petals-the Seika no Tsu-
zami. Other new japanese varieties
which attracted attention at the
preview this morning are Indian
Chief, maroon and old gold color
ing, with wide. up-curling petals,
and the Gay Nineties, named last
year, a rosy pink, which is more
than feet tall.
There are several miniature
blooms among the pompon seed
lings which are expected to attract
much attention from commercial
growers. The Silver Dollar is daisy
shaped, with such a fiat bloom that
it looks as if it has been pressed.
Another interesting new pompon is
the Anemone White.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
City Costs 10 Climb
Under 1910 Budget,
Taxpayers Head Says
R. S. Lusk, However,
Agrees Levy Increase for
Year Is Not Necessary

Protest that operating costs of
the municipal government would
continue to increase under the
Commissioners proposed 1910 bud
get of $50, 1888 ,96371 was made to-
day by Rufus S. Lusk, president Of
the Washington Taxpayers Asso-
ciation.
However, he agreed the budget
plan Of the Commissioners makes
pretty good reading for taxpayers
in that, if enacted. it would at
least mean no increased taxation
next year.
Commenting on the fact the Com
missioners' budget would represent
an increase of only S622,884 over
this years appropriation, Mr.. Lusk
added:
THE general government cost
would be nearer per cent more,
except that there is a saving in
capital outlays of s1,037 900. The
sum of s500.OOO is not being request
ed, as in 1899, to continue the Mu-
nicipal Center work, and the P. w.
A. repayment has been reduced
from $1,000. .000-the amount in the
current budget-to s462 500.
Rise IN Other Agencies.
In other words, these savings will
be used up by higher expenses in
other departments.
THE proposed increase in general
Government operation and main
tainance cost for 1910 compared to
1889 is more than was the increase
in 1889 over the previous year. All
general departments but three are
listed to get more money next year.
And this does not mean that
there is any real decrease in capital
outlay. Soon we shall start to pay
back the many millions lent by
P. w. A
Some proposed increases for 1910
over 1889 are:
General administration, 4.93 per
cent: sewers, 2,047 per cent; public
schools. 1882 per cent; Metropolitan
Police, 675 per cent; Health Depart
ment. 4.6l per cent; public welfare,
IA per cent; disposal of city refuse,
11.9 per cent; militia, 22.2 per cent;
reclamation of Anacostia flats, SO g
per cent; National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, 144 per cent
and National Geological Park, 1874
per cent"
Hearings Are Begun.
The Budget Bureau today began
private hearings on the 1910 esti-
mates of the District Commissioners
calling for appropriations totaling
$50, 1888, ,96371.
The Commissioners estimates
/ which were cut down approximately
$16,000,000 from the original re-
quests of the department heads
recommend an increase of only
$622,884.7l over appropriations for
the current fiscal year.
Principal witnesses at the initial
hearing, beginning at $50 am. to-
day, were 1t. COL David McCoach
jr, Engineer Commissioner, and Maj
Daniel j. Donovan, District auditor
and budget officer.
Following the hearings, the next
step in determining the Districts
1910 budget will be the Budget Blu.
reau's recommendations to Congress
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Halloween Quiet
This Year, With
Only 8 Alarms
autumn frolic.

The hobgoblins Of Halloween had
taken their leave today and little
aftermath of their pranks remained,
with Washington spending one of its
most peaceful celebrations in years.
Young Halloween celebrants broke
351 street lights and globes, accord
ing to preliminary reports to Walter
E. Kern, District electrical superin-
tendent. Mr.. Kern said the total
figure probably will double that.
Last year over-exuberant boys
broke 734 street lights and globes.
Police reported that only eight false
fire alarms were turned in, whereas
in other years the number often
had been nearly twice that many.
The alarms were sounded between
tbs and 1870 pm. in various parts
of the city and were not believed
to be the activities of single group.
Halloween celebrators we're though,
today by police to have been respon-
sible for one of the fires last night
Four engine companies and two
truck companies responded to a call
reporting that the Wheatley School
Montello avenue and Morse street
NE, was on fire last night. When
they arrived they found the rear
door of the school burning.
No arrests were made in connec-
ton with the alarms. Little van
dalism was in evidence, although
sometime during the night prank
sters stole to the front doors of
police headquarters and marked the
glass with soap. They wrote, Foo. u
At Police Court, usually a reliable
indicator of the nights revelling,
only 81 persons were charged with
being drunk, while in other years
the number has been as high as
200. Nine persons were charged
with disorderly conduct.
Soap writer's also were active in
the Northeast section, where show
windows of stores were marked
Police had call at Eighth and H
streets NE, where a. fight was sup.
posed to be in progress, but all was
quiet when they arrived and the
reveler who was struck refused to
file charges.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Mrs. Augusta c. Joy
Funeral Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Augusta
c. Joy, 81, who died Sunday at the
home of Mrs. Charles w. Miller,
sr., Riggs road and the District line
NE, were scheduled to be held at
2 pm. today at the Miller residence
Burial will be in Rock Greek Gene
terry.
Mrs. Joy was the widow of Thomas
Joy, former proprietor of a meat
market here. She is survived by
several nieces and nephews. Mrs.
Joy had been a resident of this city
for many years. She came to Amer
lea from Germany with her mother
in 1860.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Womun Reports New
Assault Attempt

An attempted assault, the third
here in less than a week, was re-
ported last night to police, who ar
rested a colored suspect and held
him for investigation in this and
other cases reported in the past few
months.
Mrs. Virginia T. Decicco, 9O5 E
street southeast, told police she was
driving her car near Virginia avenue
and Third street Sc, when a COL
ored man jumped to the running
board and reached for her throat.
She and two woman componions in
the car screamed, Mrs. Decicco
said, and the man fed. He was cap
tured later, however, and locked up
at the fifth precinct station.
A 23-year-old man already is
awaiting trial on assault charges
growing out of attacks on two girls
Friday night.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Dr.. Tribe Testifies
Before Grand Jury
In Medical Probe
Director of 6. H. A. Is
Summoned to Appear
At Session Today

DR.. George B. Tribe, prominent
member of the District Medical So
ciety, testified today before the spe.
cial grand jury investigating Gov
ernment allegations of a combina-
tion in restraint of trade on the part
of the society and its parent Or
ganization. the American Medical
Association.
The nature of DR.. Tribes testi-
mony was kept an official secret
His name has not heretofore beer
connected publicly with the battle
between the District Medical Society
and Group Health Association, Inc.
a Federal employees group medi-
cine" cooperative opposed by the
society and the A. M. A. DR.. Tribe
is a specialist on diseases of the
sinus.
On emerging from the grand jury
room after testifying for nearly ar
hour and half. DR.. Tribe greeted
reporters with this statement:
II am not a political doctor, anC
I have 20 comment to make"
D.. selders Called.
Also called by the Government to
appear before the grand jury today
were DR.. Raymond E. Selders, medi-
cal director of Group Health Asso-
citation, whose activities on behalf
of Group Health have been a storm
center Of the medical controversy
Another witness on the list was Ross
Garrett, executive head of the
Health Security Administration
privately liaison organization be-
tween the hospitals and the Com.
munity Chest.
DR.. Selders was charged by the
Harris County Medical Society, al
Houston Tex. with violating the
canon of ethics of the A. M. A. be
cause of his association with the
Group Health movement. The
charges were referred by the societ,
to the judicial counsel of the A
M. A., which remanded the case te
the society for further consideration
There has been no announcement
of the society's decision.
To Be Heard Later.
The physicians who had beer
scheduled to appear yesterday wer,
not called into the grand jury room
but will be heard later. They ar,
DR.. Frederick A. Moretti and DR.
Thomas S. Lee, both of this city.
DR.. Richard H. Price, general in.
ternist of Group Health Association
testified briefly yesterday. afternoon
Others appearing yesterday wer,
DR.. Allan E. Lee, who resigned from
G. H. A. last December, and DR.
Roy D. Adams, both of this city
Neither had any statement to max,
after leaving the jurors.
The Department of Justice charge.
that both the Medical Society of tn,
District and the American Medica
Association violated the anti-trus
act.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
BAND CONCERT

BY the Soldiers Home Band in
Stanley Hall at $50 pm. today.
John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmas-
ter; Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, "Col. James S. Pettitt,
U. S. A." -----Z Zimmerman
Overture, "An American Festi-
val, Hegner
Suite romantic, "A Day in Ven-
Cd Alba" DAWN.
CD "Gondolieri" (Gondoliers).
90 "Canzone Amorosa" Vene-
tian Love Song.
"a "Buona Notte."
Scenes from the opera Carmen"
Bizet
Pop numbers:
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" :"
Harris
when Night Is Young" - Green
Waltz song, by All the Stars
Above You" - OHara
Finale, "Klown Kapers" Ball
"The Star. Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Mrs. Green Dies

Mrs. Eloise Baker Green, IA, wife
Of Leighton L. Green, died yesterday
at her home, $500 Edmunds street
NV, after long illness.
Until recently Mrs. Green had
lived in Montgomery County, Md.
Her husband is retired farmer and
former real estate dealer.
Funeral services will be held at II
am. tomorrow in the w. r. Pumph-
rey chapel, Bethesda, Md. Burial
will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
BY the Associated Press.

GREENBELT, Md, Nov. Illus
bands in this model" Government
community faced dire digestive
dilemma today.
The trouble was a domestic varia-
ton of the old get-rich-quick chain
letter idea.
A housewife-enthus over
Greenbelt's cooperative living-sent
chain letter to another housewife
inclosing not dime, but a cooking
recipe.
This might have done no damage
in the average town of $500 people,
but the list Of residents at Greenbelt
reads somewhat like the roster of
the League of Nations.
The idea spread like melting but
ter.
A husband, whose ancestors have
floundered for generations with the
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Lodge Opens Drive

Columbia Lodge, No. IS, I. B. p.
o. E. Of Washington, is launching a
concerted membership drive, John
F. Ross, drive director, announced
today. A doctors certificate is no
longer required, it was said, and
members were urged to adopt the
slogan, Every member get another
member"
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Truinmun Retires at 70

After almost half a century of
railroading, Edward j. Humphrey of
60l street S.W. retired today as a
freight conductor on the Washing
ton-Baltimore run at the age Of 70.
He returned yesterday from his last
tour of active duty on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Evening star., 1938-11-01
Pressure SuIesmen

SHREVEPORT, La. (R.-A bunch
OF city firemen whooped up ticket
sales for their annual ball by run
ming a ladder from a fire engine up
the front of the bank building. A
fire laddie tapped on Office windows
peddling tickets.
Evening star., 1938-07-17

turned the boat and nearly a thousand
persons were drowned, including many
women and children who were aboard
at the time.
IN THE museum will be display
of curios made by souvenir seek
ers after the vessel was raised-a
Sumatra knife made from one Of
her metal fittings. snuff box made
from part Of her timbers, and small
book, entitled "The Loss of the Royal
George" bound in wood from the hull.
Another exhibit, one of which the
Navy is justly proud, will consist Of
relics from the Saginaw, which was
wrecked in November, 1870, while
dredging channel at Midway Island.
One of her officers. 1t. J. G. Talbot,
and four men volunteered to seek
aid for their companions and in the
ships cutter they set out for Hawaii.
They took with them the Saginaw's
sextant, and, so the shipwrecked men
who remained would not be entirely
without means of navigation, another
sextant was made from wreckage.
They gained Kauai Island, 500
miles distant-on December 10, but
the cutter capsized in the surf as they
were landing, and all except William
Halford were drowned. Halford was
later rewarded with IN officers COM
mission Tor having participated IN this
Evening star., 1938-07-17

when the Rogers collection was ac-
quired, and this stipulation seems to
have been the agent which precip-
itated the unsettled matter.
Many of the lot models in the COL
lection are admiralty models"-that
is, models which we're submitted to
the British admiralty instead Of blue
prints, and were therefore built with
their hulls unplanked, 50 the construc-
ton could be seen. One such model
is of the Royal George, which was
accidentally sunk at Spitnead in 1882.
A s A result Of stress Of wartime con-
ditions. it had been impossible
to take the Royal George into dock
yard, and she was heeled over as she
lay at anchor so that her bottom could
be scraped. To accomplish this, all
her guns were moved to one side and
vents were opened so that her hold
would I'LL. with sea water. After some
time the carpenter sounded the water
and reported that unless she were
rghted shortly she would certainly
capsize. Capt. Kempenfeld asked
whether or not he was responsible
for the safety of the vessel and dis
missed him. When a small bumboat
tied alongside to trade with the sailors
the list became so pronounced that the
captain ordered all men to man the
guns and drag them to their original
places. This extSA weight over.
Evening star., 1938-07-17

courageous venture which, as a feat
OF seamanship, is comparable to the
voyage of Capt Blight, although tn.
British captain sailed over twice as
far.
THE Saginaw exhibit will include
her chronometer which was
saved, the ingeniously improvised sex
tant, and her cutter in which Talbot
and his men sailed.
OF more tragic implication than
the Saginaw's cutter is a relic of the
ill-fated DeLong Arctic Exploration
Expedition QS79-1882) every mem
Der OF which perished. It is . wood
en- grave mark. about IS by II inches,
lettered with penknife.
Near this exhibit, probably, will be
seen the hand generator used by Ad-
miral Byrd on his Antarctic expe-
dition 1929 of which he wrote:
Used on the trail to develop power
for the radio sets. It gave remark
able performance. I do not know
what we would have done without it. I"
Not by any means will most of the
displays in the new museum denote
tragedy. The Annapolis museum Is
intended to serve chiefly as an in
spiration to midshipmen, and the ex-
hibits will represent the u. 8. Nays
great successes ~ well Is her grand
failures.