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Evening star., 1938-12-05
Doctor Held by Nozis
On 1riuI Tomorrow

DR.. Oscar La Vine, Mount Rainier,
Nd, physician, who has been held
prisoner by Nazi authorities for four
months, will go on trial tomorrow
in Vienna, according to q brother,
DR.. Leonard La Vine, also of Mount
Rainier, who said the State Depart
ment had received 8 cable to that
effect last night.
DR.. La Vine, graduate of George
Washington University. and DR..
George Michael Albert of New York
were arrested by Nad authorities on
charges Of violating currency regu-
lations. The exact nature Of the ac-
cusations was not divulged by the
Vienna oficials.
One of the sisters of the i'm
prisoned Maryland man is in Vienna
to aid him. Relatives and friends
have asked the State Department to
intervene and have raised . 10000
fund for his release.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Defendant Must Appear
In Court Monduy

Edmond G. Fletcher, q former AS
sistant Attorney General. who has a
60-day jail sentence pending against
him following . conviction on an
unlawful entry charge, has been
given until next Monday to surren-
der himself before Police Court
Judge John p. Mcmahon.
Fletcher was scheduled to surren-
der himself today, but on Saturday
Judge Mcmahon postponed his ap-
pesrance on Fletcher's plea of
participation In q District Court case
this week.
Fletcher was convicted in 1887 Of
allegedly refusing to vacate q house
ON which the Home Owners Loan
Corp. had instituted foreclosure pro-
ceedings. The case was taken all
the way to the Supreme Court, which
denied . petition for . writ OF
certioran last October.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Franklin Bank
Depositors TO
Get 100000
Poyment of New
Dividend Storts
Tomorrow

Depositors in the closed Franklin
National Bank will receive an addi-
tional dividend amounting to about
100000 beginning tomorrow. 1t was
announced today by Samuel M.
Thrift, executive secretary OF the
Franklin Liquidating Trust
The dividend will be paid in
check form, at the Office of the trust,
Room %, at 945 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., in the building formerly occu-
pied by the bank.
Checks have been made out in
the amount of 20 per cent of the
face value of certificates of partici-
patton held by depositors. 1t will
be necessary for depositors to pre-
sent their certificates of participa-
ton. in order to get their new
checks, Mr.. Thrift emphasized.
These certificates were issued in
April, 1894, when Franklin deposi-
tors were paid in cash IS per cent
of their claims through the City
Bank of Washington. which now op-
crates branch in the old Franklin
Building at Pennsylvania avenue
and Tenth street. For the remain
der of their claims, depositorS re-
ceived at that time, certificates OF
participation representing IS per
cent of their deposits. Two diW-
dends have been paid since, each
one representing Is per cent OF the
face value of the certificates. The
dividend of 20 per cent now payable
amounts to per cent OF the orig
inal deposit.
Thus, when depositors get their
checks for the latest dividend they
will have received total of 8912
per cent of their deposits.
The Office will be open daily from
9 am to S pm, Mr.. Thrift ex-
planned, with the exception of Sat-
urdav when it will close at noon.
Trustees of the liquidating trust are
William F. Kelly, Lindsey P. Raw
ley and Henry j. SterZer.
AS announced Saturday, another
closed bank will begin paying an
additional dividend tomorrow, when
the Potomac Savings Bank begins
distribution of an per cent divi-
dend, amounting to $162 900, to $500
depositors. Checks will be paid to
depositors bringing notification
cards to the Office of Receiver JUS
tus S. Wardell. at 1406 G street NV.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Woman Seeks Cure
For Sugar Deficiency

Suffering from an affliction caused
by deficiency of sugar in the blood
Miss Evelyn Labinski, Is, of Flint
Mich, is in Washington today to
confer with medical authorities in
terested in finding cure for her
malady, hypoglycemia.
A graduate of the University OF
Michigan, she plans to go to New
York soon with a view to revivine
a magazine she founded at the age
Of IL, known as "The Quill"
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Airport Activity Cut
To Minimum by
Fog Blanket
Traffic Expected to Be
Resumed With Better
Weather Lote Today

Baked by billowing fog which
blanketed the Eastern Seaboard
throughout most of Sunday and
early morning hours today, COM
mercial airline operations at WASH
ington Airport we're bedded down
with the overcast ceiling and re-
duced to a minimum of activity.
Cancellation of all incoming and
outgoing trips was ordered this
morning by commercial lines, but
traffic was expected to resume this
afternoon with the passage of a
warm front moving northward, due
to reach Washington near noon,
bringing in its wake clearer weather
and rising ceilings.
Plane Makes Forced Landing.
The airport weather bureau said
that the ceiling and visibility at the
field would hold steady at 200 feet
and visibility u mile until passage
of the warm front, then both i'm
prove rapidly. probably permitting
transport service to resume through
out the remainder Of the day.
Fog, rain and overcast skies
moved into the local district late
Saturday afternoon. causing one
plane to make forced landing
in a field near Baltimore and five
others to land at alternate fields or
be rerouted on their flights to this
city.
Four Flights Made.
Only four flights, two arrivals and
two departures. were made from
Washington Airport Sunday, all
being made between and 4:40 pm,
when temporary improvement OF
ceiling and visibility permitted land
ings and takeoffs Pennsylvania
Central Airlines dispatched Trip
to Pittsburgh at 4:35 pm. with
P. c. A. Trip arriving at 3:55 pm
American Airlines operated Trip
4. arriving at pm, and dispatched
Trip 10 to Chicago at 4::35 pm
Eastern Airlines' trips all passed up
the local port.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
| Buzz Saw Blade
Breaks Awoy>
Kills BOY
sya Stan CORRESPONDENT Of The Star

sya Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
L1NCOLNIA, Va, Dec. 5.-A
Whirling buzz saw became an instru-
ment of death here yesterday when
Its shaft broke and the blade hit
14-year-old Robert McGuin, jr.
Ihe youth died in Alexandria
General Hospital about five hours
later from loss of blood and shock.
He Is the son of an unemployed
carpenter.
The father was working at the
buzz saw when the revolving shaft
broke. Robert was standing In a
clearing about rs feet away. The
whirling disk struck the bow at the
hip, severed the hip bone. carried
away two fingers and, still rotating.
detected and almost completely
severed the left foot at the ankle
Robert was taken to the hospital
whefe the left foot was amputated
Thebody was removed to the Gun
ningham funeral home in Alex
atiriA
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Funeral Services
Are Held Here for
JamesF. Hughes
BurioI Is in Arlington
For Former Assistont
District Attorney

Funeral services for James Francis
Hughes, A, former assistant district
attorney here, who died Thursday
in the United States Veterans Hos
pital. Oteen. N. c.. were held here
today in ST. Anthony's Catholic
Church.
Mass was celebrated by brother
of Mr.. Hughes, the Few. Edward
v. Hughes, curate of the Church of
the Assumption. Providence, r. I
Another brother, the Rev. Eugene
v. Hughes, pastor of st. Teresa S
Church, PaWtucket. r. l.. was dea-
con, and the Rev. Urban Cahill
o. p. of Newburgh, N. Y, was SUBJ
deacon.
Burial was in Arlington National
Cemetery with full military honors
Many members of the District bar
classmates of Mr.. Hughes children
at st. Anthonys School and men,
bers of Bunker Hill Post, American
Legion, of which Mr.. Hughes was a
former adjutant, attended the fun
eral. Besides others attending was
William j. Crane, president of the
Rhode Island State Society of Wash
ington, of which Mrs. Hughes was
one of the early members. Members
of Bunker Hill Post were pallbearers.
Mr.. Hughes, who served with the
Naval Reserves during the World
War, lived here at 1912 Twelfth
place NE. A native Of Bristol
r. l., he was graduated with a
law degree from Catholic University
in 1922. He was appointed assistant
district attorney in 1929. In 1881
he returned to private law practice
in Washington.
Besides his two brothers, he leaves
his widow, Mrs. Katherine Hughes;
four children. Betty, James F., jr.;;
John and Eugene Hughes; two
other brothers, Charles L. Hughes,
in charge of the Bristol R. H.
County Bureau of the Providence
Journal and Evening Bulletin, and
John j. Hughes, New York, and two
sisters, Miss Anna Louise Hughes
and Miss Sadie Hughes, both OF
whom live in Rhode Island.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Secondary Airport
Is Proposed in
College Park Area
Prince Georges c. Of c.
Directors Plan Drive
For Federal Aid

The Prince Georges County
Chamber of Commerce will seek a
secondary airport for Washington in
the College Park (Md) area to sup
plement the facilities at Gravelly
Point, on Mount Vernon Memorial
highway. it was learned today.
A proposal to inaugurate a cam
paign for Federal aid for develop
ment of the College Park site will
be discussed at the chambers board
of directors meeting tonight in the
Telephone Building at Hyattsville
Henry Caspare, ST., of Colmar Man
or. will preside.
The proposal grew out of talk
before the chamber last week by
Sidney Mashbir. president of the
Washington Institute of Technology
and vice president of the Air Track
Corp, which is perfecting a blind
landing device at the College Park
Airport.
Location Held Suitable.
Mr.. Mashbir pointed out that the
growth Of air transportation would
make it feasible to develop Sec
ondary airport in this section. and
said that the College Park location
was suitable because of its proximity
to Washington and its accessibility
over several main highways.
The College Park Airport, he
pointed out, was the first Govern
ment air field in the world, having
been used by the Wright brothers
Immediately before and after they
sold the War Department its first
airplane 80 years ago. 1t has since
been used by many famous aviators.
The College Park site consists of
nearly so acres and can be devel-
oped as either an airplane or air
ship terminus, officials of the
chamber claim.
Improvements to Be Discussed
During the latter stages of the
congressional hearings which pre-
ceded the final selection of Gravelly
Point the College Park site was
discussed, but plans had advanced
to the point where a decision had
to be made before proponents of
the site could muster much sup
port. Chamber officials believe that
it would meet any technical re-
quirements.
The board also will discuss pro-
posal to authorize the Board Of
County Commissioners to institute
Improvements in unincorporated
sections of the county, without es-
tablishing special taxing area.
Many residential and business
sections are in need of various types
of improvements, such as lighting
and paving, which could be pro-
vided by the county with special
authority of the Legislature. The
Prince Georges County Pomona
Grange and the Civic Federation
have approved the proposal.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
SIS, 900 Is Pledged
Toward Church Debt

Pledges of more than $50. .0000 were
received at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church yesterday in
connection with its campaign to
raise $127 900 to wipe out the in
debtedness on the church property.
The debt was incurred about 10
years ago through purchase of GER
tain properties. and improvements
on the church edifice, situated at
New York avenue and H and Thir-
teenth streets NV.
Col. Walter C. Clephane is chair
man of the Special Gifts Commit
tee. while Harry Blake is chairman
of the Compaign Workers Commit
tee. The campaign will continue
daily through this week.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Improved Wright Field
Airwoy Is Proposed
BY the AsSociated Presa.

BY the Associated Press.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Dec. s.
Louis johnson, Assistant Secretary
of War, told an Elks Memorial Day
audience yesterday an appropriation
would be asked to construct an air
way second to none" between
Washington ana Wright Field, Army
air base in Ohio.
Mr.. johnson said Morgantown
would be on . direct line Of the
airway and predicted 1t would be .
distinct advantage to the new
81 SOC, 900 municipal airport here and
. boon" to this section Of West
Virginia.
In discussing the air force, Mr..
johnson said he expected the
Nations force to be expanded to
$1,000 men "as rapidly = possible. J"
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Dr.. Harold c. Bryant
Will Speak Wednesday

An illustrated talk on "Where to
Go and What to See in the Great
Southwest" will be given at the
Departmental Auditorium Wednes-
day night At 8 O'Clock.
The lecturer will be DR.. Harold
c. Bryant, supervisor of research
and information, National Park
Service. In q short while DR.. Bryant
will begin new duties as superinten.
dent Of Grand Canyon National
Park. .
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Nv the Associated Press,

Maybe safecracking is lost art.
Perhaps all the old-timers with
the sensitive fingers and ears, at
tuned to make the tumblers drop,
have reformed or passed on to that
unearthly abode where rules the
figure of O'Henry's Jimmy Valentine
The thought may be sociologically
pleasing but the safecrackings con-
tinue, albeit without the glamour
of flnesse.
Take, for instance. the three re-
ported in Virginia the past week end.
All pry, hammer and bungle.
In the only successful one, the
perpetrator-he got $50 from Stat
ford County Trial Justice Chiches-
ter's office-left a shirt. Not iust a
thread or a slip of paper, but whole
shirt. 1t was enough to make a
storybook detective turn in his grave
A band of safecrackers undeserv-
Evening star., 1938-12-05
LAWYERS to Meet

A special meeting of the Section
Of International and Comparative
Law of the American Bar Associa.
ton will be held at 8:15 pm. Friday
at the Mayflower Hotel. William
r. Valance, chairman Of the group.
announced the meeting yesterday.
saying It would be held In connec-
ton with the opening of the Pam
American Conference in Lima
that day,
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Howard u. Meetino

Canon Anson Phelps Stokes OF
washington Cathedral will discuss
"The Need of Religion in a Chang
ing Social Order" at a meeting of
the fellowship council of Howard
University at $50 pm. Tuesday,
December 20 at the University
Chapel.
Evening star., 1938-12-05
Two Persons Killed
In Auto Crashes in
Nearby Maryland
Walter Reed Soldier
And Riverdole Man
Are Victims


accidents in nearby Maryland last
night, one of them crushed beneath
the front wheel of the car in which
he was riding with a friend. Several
persons were injured in week end
traffic crashes.
The dead are: Lake S. Eary. 10.
a soldier attached to Walter Reed
Hospital, and Leland S. Shaw, u,
of Riverdale.
Eary died in the hospital Of a
hemorrhage from a punctured lung
and shock only few hours after an
accident in which three of his COM
panions were injured. Police re-
ported that Franklin L. Good, 20,
driver of the car, suffered severe in
juries to both legs, and Joseph
Aldrich. 20, and James M. Broadway,
10, cuts and bruises. All were
assigned to the hospital Mont
gomery County police said their car
struck a telephone pole after failing
to round a turn on the Garrett Park
road at Rock Creek.
ACCIDENT Ff0Oc0.
Prince Georges County police still
were investigating the manner in
which Shaw met his death on the
Edmonston road near Lowndes ave-
nue. in Bladensburg. The driver of
the car in which he was passenger
was Blair Hamell of Riverdale. police
said. He was taken to Providence
Hospital by the Bladensburg rescue
squad. He suffered fracture of the
skull and cuts and bruises on both
legs.
Police could obtain no information
from Hamell. who was in a semi
conscious condition, but officers said
that apparently the car turned over
two or three times before stopping
right side up. Shaw was thrown
from the car, and was crushed when
the left front wheel landed on his
neck. He was dead on arrival at the
Casualty Hospital.
The Bladensburg rescue squad also
took Cecil Cox, %. Of Fairfax, Va.
to Casualty Hospital after an acci-
dent in Bladensburg. He was struck
while crossing the street by q car
operated by Robert A. Humphries
81, of Riverdale, who was released
on bond pending outcome Of Cox
injuries.
Two persons received cuts and
bruises in a head-on collision be.
tween two automobiles on the Lee
highway a short distance west o1
Fairfax in a dense fog yesterday
morning.
On Way to Funeral.
According to County Omcer Graf.
ton L. Wells, cars driven by Honey
N. Cornwell of Fauquier County
and Fielding D. Russell of the 20(
block Of Massachusetts, avenue col
hded as the automobile driven BY
Mr.. Cornwell attempted to pas.
another car that had stalled on the
road.
Lewis c. Russell and William Rus.
sell, uncle and son. respectively, o1
Fielding D. Russell, were cut ane
bruised, and were treated by DR.
r. E. Feagans Of Fairfax. Neither
Mr.. nor Mrs. Russell nor another
uncle in the car was injured, police
said. The Russell family was er
route to Georgia to attend the fu'
neral Of Richard B. Russell, ST., chic
justice Of the Supreme Court o.
Georgia.
Early today Charles Warren, 80
colored, and Laura Warren. Is
colored, both of the 1900 block o.
Montello avenue NE, were taker
to Gallinger Hospital in an uncon.
scious condition after being founc
in . wrecked auto on Naylor road
5 miles from the District line, ir
Prince Georges County. The hos.
pital said both may have fractured
skulls and internal injuries.
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
HAMMOND RITES.
ARE HELD TODAY.
IN PHILADELPHIA.
Former Cornell Dean
Library Expert

Funeral services for DR.. William
Alexander Hammond, II, Library
Of Congress consultant, will be
held today at the grave in Ivy
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. DR.
Hammond died here Saturday.
Services here were held yesterday
at Lees funeral home, Fourth and
Massachusetts, Avenue Northwest.
FORMER CORNELL DEAN
Former dean of the university
faculty at Cornell, he was the
first of a number of scholars to
accept advisory appointments to
the Congressional Library, con-
tinuing in his studies until his
illness eight days ago.
He was born in New Athens, Ohio,
and was a graduate of Harvard
University in 1885. After receiv-
ing his Phi. D. degree from Leip-
zig in 1891, DR.. Hammond lectured
on the classics at Kings College,
Canada, and served as assistant
professor of philosophy at Cornell
from 1892 to 1908, following which
he was Sage professor of ancient
philosophy from 1908 to 1890.
TWO SONS SURVIVE
He was a member of the Amer
ican Philosophical Association and
the American Council of Learned
Societies. He belonged to the Cos.
mos and Chevy Chase Clubs and
was a Kappa Alpha and Phi Beta
Kappa.
Surviving are two sons, Donald
and John William Hammond, and
a daughter-in-law, widow of the
late Capt. Arthur Kenley Ham
mond, instructor at West Point,
killed in a polo accident several
years ago.
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
NEGLECT HELD
T.B. TOLL CAUSE

Speaking at the first meeting
arranged by the May Day Child
Health Committee, Mrs. Ernest R.
Grant managing director of the
District tuberculosis Association
last night, blamed the high tuber-
culosiS death rate in Washington
on child neglect.
She said there are 100 empty
beds in the children's tuberculosis
hospital at Glenn Dale, and six
vacancies in the health school for
tubercular children.
Studies have shown conclu-
sively," Mrs. Grant said, "that
the period from infancy to early
childhood is in reality the ne
elected age period, and because
Of the neglect during this period,
the high mortality results in the
teen age"
She emphasized the period of
childhood was crucial in the
treatment of tuberculosis, and de-
manded:
How much longer will we toll
crate the empty beds in our
sanitorium and vacancies in the
health School?"
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
MRS. E. |, Gator
DIES At HOME OF
DAUGHTER HERE.
Funeral Services Set
For Tomorrow

Mrs. E. Lavinia Gator, widow oi
Albert Gator. supervisor of mainte
nance at st. Elizabeth's Hospital
died yesterday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John J. Rodruck,
$3.50 Hawthorne Pl. N. w. She
was 76 years old.
A lifelong resident of Washing.
ton, Mrs. Gator was the daughter
of Charles F. and Lavinia Wilson,
also lifelong residents of this city.
She was educated in the District
public schools and, in 1880, was
wed to Albert Gator. Mr.. Gator
died in 1928.
WAS U. S. EMPLOYE
For is years, until her retire
ment five years ago, Mrs. Gator
was an employe of the Veterans
Administration.
She was an active and promi-
nent member of Electa Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star; Daugh-
terS of America, and Society of
Natives, and was a lifelong mem
Der of the Anacostia Methodist
Episcopal Church.
RITES TOMORROW
Brief funeral services will be
held at the residence. Last rites
will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock
IN the Anacostia M. E. Church,
with the Rev. John Fort, pastor,
officiating, assisted by the Rev. OS-
car J. Randall, pastor of the Po-
omac Heights Comm munityj
Church. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Gator is survived by four
other daughters, Mrs. lola Harris,
If Jacksonville, Fla: Mrs. Lucille
Derry, of Boston: Mrs. Frances
and Mrs. Laura Lpscomb.
She also leave seven grandchil-
dren.
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
l. A. Droqo
Police Hero Dies,
After Operation

NEW YORK, May 10.-Detec-
tive Louis A. Drago, heroic mem
ber of the New York police depart
ment, is dead today.
Drago, a member of the force
for IA years, died in Fordham Hos.
pital following an operation. He
was IL years old.
In 1925. while off duty, he
chased three bandits who had held
up jewelry store. In the gun
battle that followed he killed one
and captured the other two. Sev-
eral months later he again fought
gun battle with a bandit trio,
wounding one and capturing an
other.
Drago is survived by a widow
and three children.
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
A. d. GaegIe1
SUccUnubs
At 81

Anthony D. Gaegler, retired
president of the American Security
Life Insurance Company, died yes
terday in Sibley Hospital.
Mr.. Gaegler was born in Wash.
ington, February Z, 1874. He was
educated at st. Mary'S parochial
school and a public high school.
He began his business career as
a bookkeeper with the Balloon
johnson Coal Company. Later he
served in the same capacity with
the ]. Maury Dove Coal Company.
He later established and was
president of the American Security
Life Insurance Company, retiring
as head of the firm six years ago.
Funeral services have been ten
tatively set for Thursday, with
requiem mass in st. Mary'S Cath
olic Church. Interment will be in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs.
Barbara Miller Gaegler; two sons,
x. and Vincent A. Gaegler;
;wo daughters, Mrs. Antoinette
Lockwood and Mrs. Maria He'll
ners, and five grandchildren.
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
DEATHS

Fredericka xander, IS, 10 Concord
Ave. N. e.
Addie Tune walker, rs, A1Os Military
Rd. N. W.
William A. Hammond. II, 1855 wyo-
ming Ave. N. W.
Josephine Douglass Strong, rs, 1850
Connecticut Ave. N. W.
Lillian McElfresh Flather, 7s. 1901
Park Rd. N. W.
George Brahler, 81. Casualty Hospital.
Caroline Sophie Orth. 5s, 4sSs Colo
rado Ave. N. W.
Margaret M. Malonsy. 55, $500 Four
teenth st. N. W.
Justin A. Harrison. 81. Casualty Hos.
pitaI.
Rose Alpher. So, Emergency Hospital.
N. w.
Marvin Bowman Dorr. ss, 1919 G St.
N, w,
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
MOTHER SEEKS
MISSING GIRL, IS

Police today were asked to
search for Mary Catherine Nc
Carten, Is, who disappeared
yesterday from her home, 80 Four
teenth st. N. E.
The girls disappearance was
reported by her mother, Mrs. Will
liam McCarten. When she left
home she was wearing a brown
dress, rose sweater, brown shoes,
and a green jacket.
She is described as five feet
tall, weighs 95 pounds, and has
blonde, bobbed hair,
The Washington times., 1938-05-10
Births. Deaths. MARRIAGES

Paul. MINI.
Claude Carrier 2s. 1913 Park Rd. N.
w, and Helen B. Dorfer. 81, 1410 Girard
St. N. W.
Richard A. Klein, 80. Chicago. ILL.,, and
Marion B. Kadin, 10. 1852 Woodley Pl
N. W.
N. W., and Eene P. Greene, as. 2sIS
Thirteenth st. N. W.
Gordon T. Backus. %. s4s3 Mt. Pleas
ant st. N. W., and Charlotte L. Tilley,
%. 1911 Twenty-first st. N. w.
Robert H. Voigt, ~. sol C st. S. W.,
and Betty A. Rose, IS, 431s Fifteenth
st. N. W,