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Evening star., 1938-11-18
Case Work Staff Cuts
Barring Aid 10 Needy,
Says Street Report
Too Few Workers to
Investigate All Of
Pleas, He Says

Belief that applicants for relief
are being denied assistance because
the case work staff, which was dras-
tically reduced last July l when
Congress limited the direct relief
fund to 5000 900, is unable to keep
current with interviews of applicants
was voiced today by the Public As
sistance Division in its report on
October operations.
The report, made public by We'll
fare Director Elwood Street, showed
that there had been q reduction Of
A per cent in the number of general
relief recipients since last January
and of 10 per cent, in the same
period, in the number of aid-to-
dependent children cases.
The report stated "the reduction
to the reduced appropriation for
relief. The reduction in aid to de-
pendent children is due to the re-
duced staff that has slowed up the
approval of categorical assistance.
In neither instance does the reduc-
ton necessarily indicate a decrease
in need.
THE drop in the number Of ap-
proved A. D. C. cases undoubtedly Is
due to the fact that the reduced staff
was unable to make the investigation
necessary to determine if the cases
were legally eligible for aid"
The division added that the field
staff of caseworkers was reduced to
81 and that "the average case load
per worker was SO high that much
necessary work was left undone." 1t
said that with a total case load in
October of $3.50, the staff was able
to make field visits or office inter-
views totaling only 5,298.
The division said this represented
an average of 143 field visits and
ONCE interviews per worker during
the month, in addition to planning
for clients, travelling to and from
field visits, reading records, dictsting
letters, case recording. pay rolls, sur
plus commodity orders, statistical
reports, telephoning, meetings and
conferences with supervisors and the
many other details that make up the
work of the case worker"
Evening star., 1938-11-18
Visiting British Monorchs
To Stay at White House
But Entire RoyoI Entouroge Of 40 Can't Be
Housed There, Mrs. Roosevelt Says

Tentatively, 1t is planned that
the King will occupy suite OF
rooms on the northeast corner OF
the second floor and that the Queen
will have the suite across the hall
Under that arrangement they would
share the Monroe room as sitting
room and that end of the floor
could be shut of from the remainder
of the house.
The suite being considered for the
King includes what Is called the
pink room, smaller bedroom and
q bath.
The Queens bedroom would be
the Lincoln study, which at one
time was President Lincoln's ONCE
and later served other Presidents
In the capacity before President
Hoover furnished it as a bedroom
The sitting room under discussion
is at the top of the marble steps
leading up from the main floor. In its
marble fireplace is an inscription
explaining that the room was first
used for meeting of the cabinet
during the administration OF Presi-
dent johnson.
Evening star., 1938-11-18
Dieckhoff
Continued From First Page)

New York of Hugh r. Wilson, Amer
ican Ambassador to Berlin.
Mr.. Wilson was called back to the
United States by President Roosevelt
for report and consultation" fol-
lowing Germany's campaign against
the Jews.
Thomson to Be in Charge.
DR.. Hans Thomson, embassy coun-
selor, will be in charge during
Dieckhoffs s absence. The embassy
secretary said he had no idea how
long that would be.
Embassy attaches said Dieckhofi's
recall orders were received by cable
early this morning. He was told to
come home at once for "consulta-
ton"
apparently he is being recalled
for exactly the salpe reason that
Ambassador Wilson has been called
home" an Embassy official stated.
Dieckhof was in retirement today
and would make no statement. To-
days instructions from Berlin were
the first ofncial word he had received
since Mr.. Wilson's recall was an
nounced and President Roosevelt
condemned developments in Ger
many In strong language In a White
House press statement.
Before he leaves, 1t was an
nounced, Dieckho1 will call on Sec
retary Hull. Mrs Dieckhon will not
accompany her husband home, but
probably will leave about Decem-
ber 6 to spend Christmas with her
husband in Germany. 1t was un-
derstood the wife of Ambassador
Wilson has similar plans to spend
Christmas with her husband in the
United States.
Dieckhof was last at the State
Department on Saturday when Sec
retary Hull told him that full pre-
cautions had been taken here and
throughout the United States. whef-
ever there were German consulates,
to protect both the property aYsd
personnel against any demonstr6-
ton or attempted violence. Imme-
diately after that police guards ap-
peared at the embassy here.
Reporters and photographers who
appeared at Dieckhoff's residence
this morning were ordered away by
private guards. "in the name Of the
German government"
This is German property they
were told.
Evening star., 1938-11-18

nights shooting and outlined plan
of cooperation between the WASH
ington Police Department and the
Montgomery County authorities. Maj.
Brown said that the situation ap-
pears to be serious and he is con-
sidering the possibility OF having a
Joint reward for the apprehension of
the sniper.
A conference will be held today
at Bethesda, Md, between Inspector
Thompson, States Attorney Pugh
and Maryland police. Inspector
Thompson has already assigned the
entire homicide squad to the case.
Victim to View Suspects.
The colored men arrested by the
police will be viewed by Mrs. Edna
L. Brown today in Georgetown Hos
pital II her condition permits. Two
Maryland police were placed on
guard at the scene of the crime to
prevent curiosity seekers from
trampling the ground and possibly
destroying some of the clues. anC
cancellation of leave for all detec-
tives and uniformed officers in the
county was ordered by Police Chief
J. William Garrett.
Inspector Thompson got out o.
the sick bed when he received the
call of the shooting. He and 10 de-
tectives rushed to the scene and they
stayed there until 430 am. today
Inspector Thompson was i'll las
night because of the late hours hs
has been keeping in trying to cleal
up the murder in Spring Valley
The inspector and members of ths
Homicide Squad and several mer
from other squads have been cruis'
ing the parks and streets nightly
till the wee hours of the morning
Col. William L. Peake, Lorton Va
Reformatory, said this morning thai
he had received no request from
Montgomery County authorities OF
Washington police for bloodhounds
Evening star., 1938-11-18
~ the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
The King and Queen Of Great
Britain will be house guests at the
White House when they visit
America next year.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt told her
press conference today she and
the President would entertain their
royal visitors and such people In
their party as they deemed neces-
sary to have with them, but that
other arrangements would be made
for some members of the royal en-
tourage.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she understood
there would be 40 in the party, and
that it would be impossible to have
40 people staying in the White
House.
King George and Queen Elizabeth
will be the first reigning monarchs
to be entertained overnight at the
White House although the late
King Edward VII spent the night
there when he was Prince of Wales
Mrs. Roosevelt said plans for the
entertainment of their royal majes-
ties were incomplete. She UNDER
stood that they were to be at the
World Fair one day.
Evening star., 1938-11-18

by J. S. Swank, a milk truck driver,
who at the time knew nothing Of the
shooting.
Father Of Contractor.
Mr.. Murray was the father Of
Frank Murray, 1929 Connecticut
avenue NV, District building
contractor.
Detectives today planned to again
question Mrs. Brown If her condi-
ton permits. They explained that
the woman was overwrought when
they talked to her last night.
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson
said that the IL shells found on the
scene of the shooting last night will
be turned over to 1t. John Fowler,
ballistics expert of the Metropolitan
Police Department, who will COM
pare them with the shells found at
the two other shootings.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown conferred
with Inspector Thompson on last
Evening star., 1938-11-18
Never Drove q Truck

PHILADELPHIA F-Ben Wolf
received a $2275 check. from the
State Highway Department, couldn't
recall doing anything for the depart
ment and sent it back.
Back came the check with this
notation: That's your pay for driv-
ing a truck IS hours at IS cents an
hour"
The figuring was all right, but
Ben's an artist, he didn't drive a
highway truck, and he can't find the
Ben Wolf who did.
Evening star., 1938-11-18

one Of the leaders in the movement
to found the new unit, forecast sue
cess for the association. In the last
six months he has done much of the
Evening star., 1938-11-18

work preliminary to organization. In.
that time a petition calling for the
new group was circulated and over
200 residents signed it.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
Prisoner Wins Dubious Honor
Is 5000, ,OOOth Fingerprnted

Isaiah Grants fingerprints won him
a dubious distinction yesterday and,
at the same time, brought him added
trouble.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton announced that Grants prints,
received yesterday from police in
Miami, Fla, raised the grand total Of
fingerprints in the F. B. I. collection
to 100000. The prints also identified
him as fugitive wanted for murder
by Pittsburgh authorities
Grant, alias Georgia Boy" has a
long criminal record, according to
F. B. I. files. He served a sentence
in the State Penitentiary at Pitts
burgh in the early 20s for robbery. On
March Is of last year Pittsburgh po-
lice asked the F. B. I. to watch for
Grants f1negrprints, as they believed
he might be arrested in other cities
under other names. They said he
was wanted in connection with a slay-
ing in Pittsburgh
Grant got into fight in Miami a
few days ago and was arrested by
local police. They forwarded his
flngerprints to the F. B. I. for
Identification. An examiner here
matched them with prints taken of
Grants fingers while he was in prison,
and small red tab on the file warned
the examiner that the man was
Evening star., 1938-07-17
SUSPECTS ARE TAKEN
IN AUTO THEFT DRIVE

Efforts Of Washington and Rich
mond police to break up an auto theft
ring continued yesterday with arrest
of several additional suspects and re-
covery near Richmond of five cars be-
lieved to be among more than Is light
cars stolen here in the last two months
and taken to Henrico County for
resale.
A 33-year-old mechanic, arrested
Friday in Richmond and brought here
for questioning, was still being held by
headquarters detectives last night,
though he has not been charged.
Police say the cars are stolen here
and taken to Richmond, where they
are dismantled and then reassembled
with their motors and chassis inter-
changed in an effort to make them
more difficult to trace Detective Sergt.
Jacob Wolf Of the auto squad here, is
leading the investigation in Cooper
alton with Virginia authorities
Evening star., 1938-07-17
NAWCONCERNED
FOR AIR EXPERTS
Fears Officers Capable Of
Operating DirigibIe Will
Be Scattered.

The scattering Of experienced air.
ship officers capable of operating the
Navy's projected new $1,000 900 dir
igible is arousing concern at the Navy
Department.
Terming the personnel situation
critical" some of the Nays airship
experts yesterday expressed the opin-
ion that the transfer or retirement Of
ofdcers jeopardized the revival of ex-
periments with lighter-than-air craft.
Those experiments were brought to q
standstill with the loss OF the Macon
in 1895.
OF 48 officers qualified for airship
duty by service on the Macon and the
sister ship Akron, destroyed in 1888,
only Is are on such duty now. A
dozen others. who failed of promotion,
face involuntary retirement from the
Navy. No enlisted men have been
trained for three years.
Rosendahl Goes to Sea.
Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, out
standing dirigible expert, was ordered
to warship duty last week while the
Navy was awaiting a nod from Presi-
dent Roosevelt to go ahead with work
on the airship for which Congress
voted initial funds Of $500 900.
Comdr. Rosendahl asked for the sea
service In order to qualify for pro-
motion. He will be succeeded as COM
mander Of the Lakehurst IN. j. Air
Station by Comdr Jesse L. Kenworthy.
Others who commanded the Akron
and Macon, convinced that little op-
portunity for advancement remained
in the airship branch, have trans
ferred to the regular naval service.
Comdr Hubert v. Wiley, who COM
manded the Macon when it was lost
off the California Coast, is an in
structor in English at the Naval
Academy.
Capt, Harry Shoemaker, one-time
commander Of the Lakehurst Station,
and Comdr. Alger Dresel, a former
commander Of both the Akron and
Evening star., 1938-07-17
WAGE TESTIMONY
ON SOUTH VO|DED
|. c. c. Examiner Forbids
Northern Interest to
Show Exhibits.
BY the Associated Press.

oS 'De hssoCldleQ TTeSS.
BUFFALO, N. Y, July 16.-North-
ern interests met a setback today in
their efforts to prove that southern
shippers should not be granted lower
freight rates on northbound goods.
An Interstate Commerce Commits
sion examiner ruled out testimony re-
latlng to comparative wage levels of
the North and South, as a Southern
spokesman hunted that the North
was suffering from industrial decay"
At the same time the commission
eliminated wooden furniture from the
list OF commodities affected in the
South's proposed rate reductions,
move proposed by southern MANU-
facturers
Southern opposition promptly de-
veloped today when Wendell A. Van
Hook. New York City civil engineer
testifying for New York State, sought
to present exhibits purporting to show
that southeastern wage levels we're
lower than those In the northeast.
TIE South's objections were sustained
by Examiner G. H. Mattingly.
Van Hook was allowed, however. 20
make This general statement for The
recoros. In general our findings
show lower wages and longer hours
in the Southeastern States than in
the northeastern.
Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of In
diana, opposing the Southern rate
proposal. told the commission earlier
this week that the South did not need
lower rates in order to develop FORTH
ern trade because it already had sew
eral advantages over the North. one
Of which was the extreme difference
in the cost of labor
Evening star., 1938-07-17
HEALTH DELEGATES
MEET TOMORROW
National Group Will Discuss
Financing Medical Care
for All.

Methods of financing general pro-
gram of medical care not only for re-
lief and low-income groups, but also
for self supporting persons, will be
among the subjects discussed at the
National Health Conference convan-
ing tomorrow for three days at the
Mayfiower Hotel.
About ITS persons are expected to
participate in the conference, accord
ing to Miss Josephine Roche, chair
man of the Presidents Inter-depart-
mental Committee to Coordinate
Health and Welfare Activities. The
conference was called at the suggestion
of President Roosevelt.
Delegates will include not only men,
bers Of the medical and other profess
sions, but representatives of labor.
farmers. business men and other
groups.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
FOG HELPS FIGHT
ON FOREST FIRES
Real Gains Are Reported in
Southwestern Area of
Washington State.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SEATTLE. July 16.-Fog, cooler
weather and slowly rising humidity
aided the Pacific Northwests thou
sands Of weary forest fire fighters to-
night.
Heavy fog settled as the brisk winds
died in the Ryderwood area of South
western Washington, where 400 fire
fighters reported real gains" against
a 20,000-acre blaze in logged-off land
and green timber.
A few families evacuated yesterday
before the wind shifted after driving
flames within a mile of the town.
The humidity rose to 81 here today,
only five points below normal as $50
loggers, State wardens and volunteers
battled the Toandos Peninsula forest
fire threatening summer homes and
small farms northwest of here.
State foresters reported 200 fires in
Washington. All available man power
in the Mount Baker National Forest
was rushed to blaze, out of control
Evening star., 1938-07-17
Sasscer Fights
Stand on
Highway Ruling
BY the Associated Press,


UPPER MARLBORO, Md, July 49,
Senate President Lansdale G..
Sasscer, an ardent booster of South
ern Maryland. challenged today Gov
Harry w. Nice's Interpretation of a
law which, the Governor said, lin
tied State Roads Commission mem
bership to representative of "the
Eastern Shore. Baltimore City and
Western Maryland"
The Governor made that statement
yesterday in appointing Elmer R.
Jarboe, st. Marys County, to the COM
mission.
THE act (Which is effective next
May - says very plainly the counties
Of the western Shore" Mr.. Sasscer
said. The term western shore means,
and always has meant, the counties
west of the Chesapeake Bay"
Evening star., 1938-07-17

wanted" Pittsburgh police were no
titled Of Grants arrest in Florida.
The fingerprint collection of the F..
B. I. began in 1924 with nucleus of
about 100000 prints taken by prison
officials and police. Today the bureau
receives more than 1000 fingerprint
cards daily from nearly II 900 law en-
forcement agencies in this country and
from SO foreign Identification bul eaus.
More than 600 fugitives are located
every month through this free identi-
flcation service, instituted by Director
j. Edgar Hoover through a cooper
ative arrangement with local authors
ties.
A search can be made of the 9,000,-
900 cards in less than three minutes,
due to the systematic classification
Of prints according to whorls, loops,
deltas and other characteristics.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL
IN WIFE SLAYING CASE
Attorney for Brown Will Base
Plea on Verdict Being
Against Evidence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Md. July ls.-A mo-
ton for a new trial for Fred L.
Brown, 4S, sentenced tn hang for
strangling his young wife, was filed
todsy with the clerk Of the Circuit
Court.
Attorney James A. McAllister based
his motion on plea that the jury's
verdict was against the weight of evi-
dence and the admission of Browns
signed confession in which he ad-
mitted strangling his 17-year- r-old
wife, an expectant mother, and
throwing her body into the Nanti-
coke River with four plow shares at
tached to weigh her down.
Other reasons for the new trial
will be given, Mr.. McAllister said,
when the court hears the motion. A
date is expected to be set when the
court meets in Snow Hill Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
BOYS ABOARD YACHT
J FACE THEFT CHARGES
Trto, Back From South Seas,
f. Tired of ocean-Kept
Vessel in Good Trim.
By the Associated Press,

sy The Associated Press.
SANTA CRUZ, Calf, July 16.-
Three Santa Cruz boys who Dor
rowed" a $4,000 yacht for a cruise
TO the South Seas returned home on
the vessel today and confessed they
were plenty tired of the sea-"
Z Police took them in custody to
answer grand theft charges.
4 The boys-Lyle Tara, II; James
Henniger, II, and william Grace, 10
Worked as crew members on the re-
turn trip from Puerto vallarta, State
N Jalisco. Mexico, where they were
detained when they put in for sup
Wies after 20 days at sea.
Lew X. Foote, owner of the 52-foot
ketch, the Tira, indicated he would
leave prosecution of the boys up to
Santa Cruz authorities. He signed
the theft complaints before he few
south to claim the boat.
Foote said the boys kept the ship
immaculate the entire trip home and
behaved themselves"
Evening star., 1938-07-17
ALLEGED PRICE LEVEL
( TACTICS HIT IN ORDER
Fence Makers Told to STOP
& Practices in Production of
Snow Barriers.

l.
Snow Barriers.
BY the Associated Press.
! The Federal Trade Commission an
nounced yesterday it had ordered the
United Fence Manufacturers Associa-
stion of Burlington, N. j., and eight
producers to stop an alleged effort to
maintain identical prices for snow
fence
The eight producers were listed as
follows:
Z Mattson Wire &, Manufacturing Co.,
Joliet. Ill; Nebraska Bridge Supply g.
Lumber Co., Omaha, Nebr.; Rowe
Manufacturing Co., Galesburg, ILL.,;
New Jersey Fence Co., Burlington,
N. j.; Illinois Wire and Manufactur-
ing Co. of Joliet. Ill.,; Buffalo Indus
trial Co, Buffalo, N. Y; Leon L.
Hutchinson, Pavilion. NJ Y, and Stew
art w. Adams, Oxford, N. Y.
The commission said these COM
Panies sold 80 per cent of the snow
fence purchased in the following States
for use as barriers along highways:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,. Rhode Island, Connec-
ticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia and Ohio.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
SYMPOSIUM AT G. w. u.
TO OPEN TOMORROW

A symposium on Government cor
porations will open at 8 pm tomorrow
in Stockton Hall on the George WASH
ington University campus. The univer-
sity law school will conduct the SYM
postum.
Topics for the week-long program
by visiting experts include frontiers of
municipal law. Federal-city relation
ships; legislative control of the ex-
penditure of public funds and the
General Accounting Office, and the
legal experiences of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corp. and the Tennessee
Valley Authority.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
Macon, are students at the Naval War
College,
Fulton Still Designing.

IOnc6C.
Fulton Still Designing.
Comdr. Garland Fulton, who helped
design virtually all the Nays big diri-
gibles, still is engaged in that work,
since as an aeronautical engineer he
is unaffected by the Navy rule of rota-
ton between sea and shore duty.
Ofhcials disclosed that a study was
being made Of possible legislation to
make lighter-than-air service more st.
tractive by increasing chances Of pro-
motion.
The proposal, drafted by Representa-
tive Alfred N. Phillips. Democrat, Of
Connecticut would empower the Presi-
dent to set aside the requirement Of
alternate sea and shore duty with
out jeopardizing an airship officer's
chances to advance.
Mr.. Phillips drafted it at the request
OF Chairman Vinson, Democrat, of
Georgia after the House Naval Com
mittee heard testimony in May that
the personnel situation was critical.
Evening star., 1938-07-17

on the Cascade River, near Marble
mount.
A Snoqualmie National Forest fire,
just west of Snoqualn1ie Pass, threat
ened to force closure of the Translate
Sunset highway.
East of the Cascades conditions
were critical in the Wenatchee Ma
tional Forest. Supervisor Gilbert D.
Brown augmented his regular force of
81 iookouts to 80 as smoke cut visibil-
ity to almost nothing"
Evening star., 1938-07-17
Sell Now Campaign Planned.

CULPEPER, Va. July Is Especially {.
The Cooperative Retail Merchants
Association announced yesterday that
Culpeper merchants plan sell now"
campaign from July % to October 81.
At the conclusion of the drive $500 In
cash prizes will be given away.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
Church Group Plans Supper.

OHU1VH U1VuP 1IdHs supper.
The Ladies' Aid of the Burtonsville
(Md) Methodist Episcopal Church
will sponsor picnic and fried chicken
supper Thursday on the church
grounds. The program will include
sports events and amusements.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
Power Engineers to Meet.

The Washington Chapter of the Ma
tional Association of Power Engineers
will sponsor an illustrated lecture on
furnaces at its regular bi-monthly
meeting at the Raleigh Hotel Tues
day at 8 pm
Evening star., 1938-07-17
THREE DIE IN CRASH
IL Others Injured in Florida in
Bus-Auto Collision.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July Is
R.-Three persons were killed and
at least II others injured, some seri-
ously, when city bus and q small
automobile icollided head-on in a
binding rain near here today.
Carlton Gates, jr., Jacksonville
contractor: an unidentified woman
and an unidentified colored man wzre
instantly killed. The bus driver, c. w.
Butler, was seriously hurt.