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Evening star., 1939-06-28
Congress in Brief
TODAY

Senate:
Continues debate on $1,735, 900 900
relief bill. II am.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
siders neutrality legislation. 1890
am.
House:
Considers Senate amendments to
monetary and agriculture bills; then
resumes neutrality debate.
Ways and Means Committee hears
Federal officials explain proposed
taxing of governmental securities
10 am.
Banking Committee hears further
testimony for doubling United
States Housing Authority funds.
10:30 am.
Labor Committee hears support
ers of Wagner Act. 10 am.
Appropriations Committee con-
siders further investigation of w. P.
A. 1880 am.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Program uncertain if relief bill is
desposed Of.
Military Affairs Committee meets
In executive session. 10 am.
Banking subcommittee holds hear
ing on Mead bill for loans to small
business. 1890 am.
Finance Committee meets in ex-
ecutive session on social security
amendments. 10 am.
House:
trality bill.
Banking subcommittee considers
Mead bill with Jesse Jones as chiet
witness. 10:3otSm.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Civil Service Wants
Water Lily Experts

Water lily experts are wanted by
the National Park Service.
The Civil Service Commission is
announcing an examination for
horticulturist and assistant horti-
culturist to work with aquatic and
subaquatic plants. and will receive
applications until July 6.
The employment is. intermittent
and the pay is S504 a day for as
sistant and $704 for horticulturist.
Details are available at the Fourth
Civil Service District Office, 9l6 G.
street NV.
Other examinations announced by
the commission today are:
Chief occupational therapy aid,
arts and crafts, $4,000 annually, st.
Ellzabeth's Hospital; architects,
from $4,000 to $4,000, and silvicul-
turists, $4,000 to $500.
Applications may be made for
these at the commission, Seventh
and F streets NV.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Pupils, 10 and II.
Are Charged
With Arson

Two brothers, 10 and II years old,
today faced arson charges after
police said they admitted setting
fire to the Seabrook School, where
they are pupils, and to their fathers
home and garage.
The boys are to be given hear
ing Friday before Judge Walter L.
Green in the Hyattsville Police
Court.
Policeman Louis j. Mackall Of the
Prince Georges force said the boys
told him they set fire to the Sea-
brook School on May Is, to a garage
owned by Edward E. Perkins at Sea-
brook and to their fathers garage
on June II, and to their own home
on June 81. They also admitted
they broke into the Dredge store
at Seabrook to obtain matches, ac-
cording to Mr.. Mackall.
Mr.. Perkins garage was destroyed
and he obtained the warrant for
the boys, police said. None of the
other fires did appreciable damage,
the one in the school being confined
to the basement, where it started,
according to police No charges have
been preferred in the other fires.
Mr.. Mackall said the boys first
admitted to their school teacher that
they were responsible for the series
OF fires and later confessed to him.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Capt. Frederick Porter
Honored al Luncheon

Capt. Frederick E. Porter. Navy
Medical Corps, who will be detached
from duty as inspector of Medical
Department activities here July l
and ordered home for retirement
after IS years of active service, was
guest of honor at a luncheon given
by his associates yesterday at the
New Willard Hotel.
During recent years Capt. Porter
has commanded the Navy's largest
hospitals. most recently that at San
Diego, Calf, from 1885 to 1898. He
was born in Ohio August /, 1875,
and entered the naval service from
Tennessee June 10, 1904.
Those attending the luncheon
were Rear Admiral R. T. McIntire,
surgeon general of the Navy; H.
w. Smith. C. M. Oman B. H. Dor
sey and Perceval S. Rossiter, re-
tired, former surgeon general: Capts.
R. E. Hoyt, j. E. Gill, A. B. Clifford,
w. N. Mcdonnell, D. G. Sutton, w.
Chambers, G. C. Thomas, L. w.
johnson, w. j. Riddick, w. w.
Wickersham, w. N Michael, H. E.
Harvey and G. F. Clark, and Comdrs.
G. S. Stephenson, w. J. C. Agnew,
R. r. Gasser, E. E. Smith, J. C.
Adams, G. B. Macarthur, S. r.
Mills, c. L. Andrus, j. j. Kaveney
and F. G. Ulen, all of the Navy
Medical Corps.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Chest 10 Start Drive
For Funds Nov. 3

The, Community Chest will launch
its annual fall campaign to raise
funds for member agencies on No
vember 8, 1t was decided yesterday
at meeting of the Chests Cam
paign Committee in the boardroom
of the Hamilton National Bank.
Chauncey G. Parker, jr, general
chairman of the campaign, presided
at the meeting, at which the chair
men of eight units reported on
progress in building up their VOL
unteer forces for the fall campaign,
which will run to November %.
Dates for the three events which
annually precede the actual cam
paign were also set. The COM
munity-wide mass meeting will be
held November in Constitution
Hall. The Community Chest League,
which devotes the pre-campaign
period to educational activities, will
hold its luncheon October 16 in the
ballroom of the Mayfower Hotel.
Community Chest Sunday, the day
on which the churches call the at
tention of their congregations to
the work of the Chest, has been
set for october 20.
Unit leaders making reports were
Charles B. Dulcan, ST., Group Unit;
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, Gov
ernment Unit; Thomas P. Morgan,
jr., Advance Gifts Unit; William
w. Wheeler, Metropolitan Unit;
Donal L. Chamberlain, Suburban
Unit; Earl A. Nash, Public Rela-
tions Unit: James A. Councillor, ST.,
Audit Unit. and c. Chester Cay
wood, Meetings Unit. Nathan A
Dobbins. local attorney, was an
nounced by Mr.. Parker as chairman
of the Capital Unit.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Jehovoh's Witnesses
Free on Parade Churoe

Charges Of parading without a
permit against 16 members of
Jehovah's Witnesses we're dismissed
In Traffic Court today.
Judge Hobart Newman said he was
not convinced beyond reasonable
doubt that the procession down
Fourteenth street NV. on May q
came within the definition of a
parade" since the group was walk
ing on the sidewalk and the members
were several feet apart. They were
carrying small signs advertising a
meeting.
At the trial two weeks ago, De-
tective John Apostolides quoted
Malcolm Downie, leader of the group,
as saying that 1t was against the
theory Of their religion to apply for
a permit, since God had given per-
mission" Mr.. Downie, however,
denied making this statement.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Law Students Essoy
Wins S 100 Prize

A $l00 prize was received today py
Sidney Max Goldstein, member of
the graduating class of the George
town University School of Law. who
won the schools Nathan Burkan
Memorial competition with his es-
say on Musical Copyright"
The late Mr.. Burkan, specialist
in copyright law. left a foundation
from which prizes of 500 are given
to students submitting the best es-
says on some phase of copyright
law in each of the 100 or more law
schools in the country. Last year
was the first time the competition
was held.
The winning essay from each law
school Is entered in national COM
petition for prize of $1,000. 1t was
expected the final award would pe
announced at the annuel meeting
of the American Bar Association.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Barrett Will Head
Playground System
When L Is Unified
Appropriation Bill
Conferees ReportedIy
Agreed on Manager

Lewis r. Barrett has been agreed
upon as the manager of the District
playground system when the con-
solidation provided in the new ap-
preparation bill goes into effect, 1t
was understood today.
Mr.. Barrett is at present on the
pay roll of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission as
co-ordinator of recreation. His new
position will include almost the
same duties, but will give him great
er authority.
The appropriation bill is at pres
ent in conference, with House and
Senate representatives seeking to
reach certain agreements. Yester-
day 1t was announced in, the House
that the conferees had agreed on
consolidation of the playground sys-
TENS now divided under control of
the Community Center Department
OF the school system and the Dis
trict Playground Department.
The agreement provides for a
manager to take over control of both
systems-this manager to be ap-
pointed by the Board of Education
and the District Commissioners. At
the Capitol it was understood that
the conferees had reached agree
ment on this after deciding that
Mr.. Barrett would be the new man.
ager.
He will thus be placed over Miss
Sybil Baker, head of the Playground
Department, and Mrs Elizabeth K
Peoples, director of the Commu-
nifty Center Department.
Mr.. Barrett will continue on the
pay roll of the Park and Planning
Commission, but will have greater
authority under the law when he
assumes his new title.
He said he had heard nothing
about the arrangement and Mrs
Peoples indicated that she was SINH
larly ignorant of the change.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Prison Life Probed
After I Are Shot
In Break Attempt
Womor Used by Men
As Hostage May Lose
Her Right Arm
BY the Associated Press.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, June %.
Indiana officials. delving into life
in State prison here, sought today
the circumstances that enabled
three convicts to launch a weird
plot to trade a Woman's life for
their freedom.
The three seized Mrs. Ruth join
er, %, Charlottesville 1ndD welfare
worker, as she toured the institution
yesterday and held her captive near
ly two hours, butcher knives at her
throat, while they parleyed with
Warden Alfred F. Dowd for guns,
an automobile and safe conduct to
the outside world.
Prison guards and State police
finally quelled the outbreak by firing
through broken windows into the
Office Of DR.. Patrick H. Weeks,
prison physician, where the men
were entrenched.
Seven Wounded.
Mrs. Joiner, the three bad men, a
fourth prisoner and two prison at
taches were wounded.
She was in St. Anthony's Hospital
here today, wounded so badly sur
geons feared they might have to
amputate her right arm. She was
shot in the shoulder and chest. The
others were wounded less severely.
The mutinous convicts were in
solitary confinement. Because of
their wounds the warden allowed
them beds.
The three were Richard Sweet, 26,
Of Parke County, serving life for
kidnapping: Alphonse Skuszwich, 20,
of South Bend, serving life for MUIR
der. and Earl Niverson, 80, of Hunt
ington, serving 10 to Is years for
robbery.
Sweet has been in prison since
1895 and the other two since 1896.
Separate Investigations.
The others wounded were Leroy
Hunt, "a. of South Bend, trusty,
serving 10 years for robbery; Ed
gar Wetzell, %, the warden's secre-
tary, and Joseph Piotrowski, 81,
guard. Piotrowski was slashed as
he tried to rescue Mrs. Joiner.
The warden and John H. Klinger,
director of the State public welfare
department, began separate investi-
cations of the affair.
Mr.. Klinger sped here yesterday
by automobile from Indianapolis.
There his chief, Welfare Admins
traitor Thurman A. Gottschalk, an
nounced stop would be put to
sightseeing trips through the prison
and the Pendleton State Reforma-
tory.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Wife of Archduke Poisoned.
Sorojevo Magistrate Charges
Vienna Barred Autopsy, Declares
Official Who Examined Prinzip

pressure" on him from Vienna court
circles and suggestions" were made
that he must find the Serbian gov
ernment guilty.
The murderers were young fan
atics and idealists who wished to
free Bosnia from Austria hungary
and attach it to Serbia" he said.
"The questioning of Pripzip and two
accomplices convinced me they were
alone in knowing of the plot"
DR.. Pfeffer, pensioned for many
years, works in his garden and his
model orchard. Despite his great
age, which he refuses to divulge, he
Is energetic. He rises soon after
dawn for long day in his garden
Although his name was known
throughout the world Is years ago,
he is all but forgotten today. He
likes, however, to recall the huge
crowds which once gathered around
him seeking to extract secrets from
him about the Sarajevo tragedy.
Prinzip died in prison and his body
was brought here for burial 10 years
ago.
Sarajevo Garrison Increased.
Long lines of marching troops and
rumbling tanks last night lent a
somber significance to the 25th an
niversary of the pistol shots that
started the World War. Proud Yugo-
slav infantrymen, swinging through
Sarajevo's crooked streets to martial
music, came home from maneuvers.
With machine-like precision they
swept in Serried ranks over the little
bridge where Prinzip fired the fatal
shots, and past the humble cemetery
where the assasins body lies in a
simple grave.
Now Sarajevo, where Moham-
medans, Catholics and Jews work to-
gether in the shadow of shining
minarets, has awakened from its
long slumber. Yugoslavias rearma-
ment, like that of the rest of the
world, has jammed Sarajevo's bar
racks to overfowing, brought big
guns to her artillery park and fight-
ing plahs to her airport.
v IS
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Common
Household Pests

Even the best housewife
may find to her horror that
some obnoxious pest has in
vaded her home. It may be
an army Of ants or cock
reaches, a bedbug or a mouse
or two. The surest way to
keep the house free of them is
to know what to do and to do
1t quickly and thoroughly.
Our new 32-page booklet,
COMMON HOUSEHOLD
PESTS, gives this information
briefly but adequately. Be-
sides those already mentioned,
1t includes clothes moths, car
pet beetles, mosquitoes, flies,
termites, fleas, centipedes, sill
verflsh, crickets, wasps, rats
and mice. Send for your copy
now. Ten cents, postpaid.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Miss MaryC. Benfer
kChosen 10 Head
Job S Daughters
Grand Guardian Council
Opens in Procession
Of Celestial Chorus

Election of Miss Mary C. Benfer,
5000 Seventeenth street NE, as
grand guardian marked last nights S
formal opening of the second annual
session of the Grand Guardian
Council of the District of Columbia
Order of Jobs Daughters at the
Wardman Park Hotel. Miss Benfer
was vice grand guardian during the
last year.
The meeting opened with a color
full procession Of the celestial chorus,
composed of the massed choirS of the
six participating bethels, or chap
ters, followed by the grand officers
and bethel queens and princesses.
During the program the national
emblem was presented, tributes were
made to the District and bethel
flags and a reception was held for
present and past honored queens.
Directs Session.
Mrs. Mary E. Teachum, IS, retiring
grand guardian of the council and
guardian of Bethel No. /, directed
the session. Mrs. Teachum helped
found the organization in Washing
ton and established the first bethel
16 years ago.
Mrs. M. Virginia Thompson OF
Hyattsville, Md, supreme guardian,
was honor guest at the meeting.
Greetings were extended the
Daughters by Eugene Thompson,
grand master of Masons, and Mrs,
Ruth Cromelin, grand matron OF
the Eastern Star. Herbert Nevius,
associate grand guardian, and Miss
Benfer responded for the conven-
ton.
Tribute to Flags.
Tributes to the National, District
and bethel flags were given by
Miss Dorothy Johnson. honored
queen of Bethel No. l, Miss Evelyn
Mayes of Bethel No. 5 and Miss
Florence Fleming Of Bethel No. 2,
respectively. Other bethel queens
participating in the program in
cluded Miss Evelyn Reynolds, No.
8; Miss Marjorie Pitt, No. 4, and
Miss Virginia Dent, No. 6.
Other newly elected officers, to be
Installed tonight following a buffet
supper at $50 pm, are as follows:
William Newman, associate grand
guardian; Miss Dorothy Vernon, vice
grand guardian; William Fox, vice
associate grand guardian; Mrs. Mary
Dent, grand guide; Mrs. Ella Dow
den, grand marshal; Mrs. Aimee
Schmidt. grand secretary; Mrs.
Laura Wallace, grand treasurer;
John Mcconnell, grand inner guard;
Karl Pitt, grand outer guard.
Newly appointed officers include
Mrs. Helen Patterson, grand chap
lain; Mrs. Myra Root, grand libra
rian; Mrs. Sallie Wilson, grand mu-
sician; Mrs. Pearl Young, grand first
messenger; Mrs. Maria Hotis, grand
second messenger; Mrs. Ethel Hayes,
grand third messenger; Mrs. Eunice
Mcdowell, grand fourth messenger;
Mrs. Pearl Thring, grand fifth mes
senger; Mrs. Nell Brattain, senior
custodian; Mrs. Ethel Flemming,
grand Junior custodian.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Insurance Agents Seek
Compensation Benefits

A protest against a provision of
the McGehee bill, which they main
tain excludes Washington industrial
insurance agents from unemploy-
ment compensation benefits, was
registered today by the United Office
and Professional Workers of Amer
lea, c. l. o. affiliate.
The protesters contend that such
agents are not independent con-
tractors, because they are required
to report to their Offices and work
under set of rules established by
their employers. In a letter to Rep
resentative Herman Eberharter,
George G. Brody, national official
of the union, asked that the union
be allowed to appear at the hear
ings on the proposed bill.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Ross Is Found Guilty
Of MonsIuuqhter

Willie James Ross, ~, colored, was
found guilty of manslaughter yes
terday by District Court jury after
Is minutes deliberation.
Ross was indicted on charge of
second degree murder for the slay-
ing of his wife, Willie Wray Ross, 26,
In q vacant house on Macomb street
NV. On April 10. Testimony showed
she rekeived So stab wounds.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
BY the Associated Press,

SARAJEVO, Yugcslavia, June %.
The conviction that Princess
Sophie, whose assassination with her
Austrian archduke husband 25 years
ago today led to the World War, was
poisoned ito make sure of her death"
was voiced today by DR.. Leo Pfeffer,
the examining magistrate.
A quarter century after Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hun
gary and his morganatic wife were
shot in this former Bosnian capital
by Bosnian student, DR.. Pfeffer
discussed for the first time the in
innate details of his investigation of
the tragedy.
Now old and bent and nearly deaf
DR.. Pfeffer said his investigations
at the time convinced him that
Princess Sophie could have been
saved except for carelessness and
an injection which must have been
some kind of poison"
Autopsy Demand Refused.
II was fully convinced at the time
that the two deaths came in very
handy for the Austro-H Hungarian
monarchy, which wanted to start
action against Serbia" he said.
A month after the killings Austria
Hungary declared war on Serbia,
charging that the Serbian govern
ment was behind the plot. Soon all
Europe entered the conflict which
spread over the world.
DR.. Pfeffer said he had demanded
an autopsy be performed on the
Princess to satisfy his suspicion, but
1t was refused by higher ups"
He said Gavrillo Prinzip, the stu
dent who fired the fatal shots, told
him under cross-examination that
he had not intended to shoot Sophie
on that sunny day, June %, 1914.
when I shot a second time at
the archduke," (the heir to the
Austrian throne) the doctor quoted
Prinzip as saying, Il slipped and the
bullet hit the princess by mistake.
DR.. PfNfer said that throughout
the subsequent investigation he felt
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Weather Report
Furnished by the Uni,

Furnished
District CoumbiaParty followed
thundeshowers
temperature; gentle to moderate southwest
MayandParty cloudy preceded portion
tonight tomorrow partly cloudy followed by local
afternoon at night! not much change temperature
Vignia-Party cloudy with showers west
portions tonight tomorrow partly cloudy followed
and hundersoms in afternoon night
perature.
Vrgnia-Local
not much change In temperature
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Jewish Youth Urged
To Fight Discrimination

The Jewish youth of America was
urged to fight anti-Semitic dis
elimination instead of turning the
other cheek" in a talk by Representa-
tive Coffee of Washington last night
before the United Jewish Youth OF
Washington at the Jewish Com
munity Center.
Speaking on Youth Can Safe
guard Democracy the Washington
Representative told his listeners to
combat injustice and intolerance
now. before it is too late, and a
situation similar to that in Germany
arises.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Two Georgetown Golfers
Win at Des Moines
Nv tho AsSociated precs

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, June 28.-
Two Georgetown U. golfers-John
P. Burke and Raymond j. Higgins
successfully passed their first-round
test in the National Collegiate Golf
Championship individual play today.
Burke defeated Stanley J. Kowal of
Michigan State, 2 and /, while Hig-
gins bested William Cooper of Min
nesota, and 3.
In other flrst-round matches Mar
vim Mesch, Oklohoma, DEBATED Louis
S. Daddio, Pittsburgh, and 4, and
H. r. Merritt, Yale, defeated Lynn
Reiss, Michigan, 3 and /.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
German Army Plane
Reported Fired On
By Polish Artillery
Reich Croft Is Suid to
Have Been Flying Over
Prohibited Area
BY the,,Associated Press.

BY the,Associated Press.
WARSAW. June 28.-Reliable re-
ports from Gdynia, Poland's port
close to the Free City of Danzis,
said today German military plane
had been fired on by Polish coast
artillery.
The incident was said to have oc-
CURED Monday, not yesterday as
other reports had said.
In Berlin the air ministry denied
reports that any German plane had
been shot down." but rumors per-
sisted that German plane had been
fired on near the Polish naval sta
ton of Puck, at the extreme end of
the Polish Corridor.
Unknown If Plane Hit.
The Gdynia sources said it was not
known whether the supposed Ger.
man plane, allegedly flying over pro-
hibited territory at the northern tip
Of the corridor, had been hit.
Polish officials here charged there
had been numerous violations of
Polish frontiers by German planes
in recent weeks.
The region of the Hell Peninsula,
which juts into the Gulf of Danzig,
is prohibited for flight and Polish
artillery has been instructed to shoot
in case of any attempt by foreign
military aircraft to pass over the
area.
1,400 More Enter Danzig.
The Express Telegraph Agency
said today that 1,40O men in civilian
clothing entered Danzig from East
Prussia last night, bringing to 2,4OO
the number imported for . free
corps"
The agency said the men were
quartered in police buildings and
asserted that Danzig police were
placed in state OF emergency be-
ginning today.
1t also stated that quantities of
war materials were smuggled into
Danzig from East Prussia last night
over roads which had no customs
stations.
Plans to Strengthen Police.
A dispatch from Danzig yesterday
said the Free City's predominantly
Nazi police force was to be strength
ened by several hundred men trained
along military lines and that a
force of 1.500 men was the goal.
Free City authorities denied the
Warsaw reports of new arrivals for
the "free corps that Poland insists
is being organized there.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Senate Group Fovors
Harrington Pay Raise
BY the Associated Press,

BY the ASS0clated Press.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee yesterday recommended SAL
ary increase for Col. F. c. Har-
rington, w. P. A. administrator.
The committee suggested legisla-
ton permitting Col. Harrington's
$1,000 annual salary as an Army
officer to be supplemented by $4,000
a year from the relief appropriation.
Evening star., 1939-06-28
Would Bur Use of Mails
For Foreign Divorces

BY the Associated Press
Use of the mails to tell Americans
how and where to obtain divorces
in foreign countries would be out
lawed under bill approved yester-
day by the Senate Post Office Com
mittee.
Senator McKellar, Democrat, of
Tennessee, who introduced the legis-
lation, said he was informed the
mails had been used rather extern
sively' for the solicitation of divorce
cases to be filed abroad.
Evening star., 1939-06-28

The disturbance that was south Of Nova
being central about 500 miles south OF
Cape Race, Newfoundland with lowest
pressure about % 80 inches Another dis
Port Harrison, Quebec 29.68 inches.
Pressure is relatively low from Manitoba,
The Pas. 20. .96 inches. outh-southeastward
Arizona, High pressure prevails over
Newfoundland. ST. Johns. 1920 inches.
Maine. Eastport. 3O1S inches and thence
southwark along and of the Atlantic Coast.
Cape Henry. Va. 1920 inches. Pressure
3O14 inches During the last "a hours
showers have occurred in the Plains States,
the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. and in
portions of the Gulf States. Temperatures
have risen in the Northern Plateau.