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Evening star., 1939-03-14

Woman Democrats Cancel
Social Activities.
The Woman's National Democratic
Club has Cancelled all social activi-
ties this week because Of the death
of David Tucker Brown, husband OF
the president of the club.
Over 60 national clubs will send
delegates to the fourth conference
of the Woman's National Affiliated
Clubs which will open next Tuesday
at the clubhouse, 1926 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV. In addition to
strong representation from the West
ern and Southern States, there will
be large delegation from Maryland,
representing the Democratic Wom-
ems Luncheon Club of Baltimore,
the United Democratic Women'S
Clubs of Maryland, the Women's
Democratic Club of Chevy Chase and
the Leland ,Women's Democratic
Club of Bethesda.
Mrs. Samuel Herrick is chairman
of the conference and will be assist
ed by Mrs. j. Brent Clarke. Regis
tration will begin at club headquar-
tiers Tuesday morning. The mass
meeting Wednesday night will be
open to the general public.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
vlTALITY" Vifumin 6
TryEains the New HlGH-VITAMIN
Yeast Daily to Get a Rich Extra
Amount-to Help You Feel Peppier!

People who tire easily, feel depressed
and "old" for their years very often
need more vitamins than everyday
meals provide-particularly the
VITALITY" Vitamin G.
You can be sure of an exception
ally rich supply of this VITALITY"
vitamin as well as extra amounts
Of .'Cold Fighting Vitamin A and
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Club Dinner
Will Mark
First Year
Credit Women
To Install
Officers

The Credit Women's Breakfast
Club will celebrate its first ami
versary at formal banquet Thurs
day at 8 pm. at the Dodge Hotel.
Candlelight service for installation
of officers will feature the program.
Officers recently reelected to
serve a second year are Miss Will
helmina Guide, president; Miss
Martha Bean, vice president; Miss
Alice White, recording secretary;
Miss Ruth Adams, corresponding
secretary, and Miss Harry Hodan,
treasurer.
The club is composed of women
engaged in credit and collection
work in the local retail stores.
Meetings are educational and the
membership has steadily grown
since organization of the group.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
(Which Way, Mrs. American"
To Be Mrs. Taft's Topic.

Mrs. Robert A. Taft, wife of Sem
ator Taft of Ohio. who will be one
OF the principal speakers at the an
nual banquet of the League of Re-
publican Women of the District on
March q at the Mayf1ower Hotel,
has chosen as her subject (Which
Way, Mrs. American" Representa-
tive Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota,
another speaker, will discuss What
Makes America American"
Reservations for the banquet are
being made now at league head
quarters, 1901 Seventeenth street
NV.
Evening star., 1939-03-14

Mrs. Agnes NJ. Parker
To Address ZenOs Club.
The ZenOS Club of the Business
and professional Women's Depart
ment of the Y. w. G. A. will have
Evening star., 1939-03-14

Mrs. Agnes Mccall Parker as .
speaker at pm. tomorrow. She
will discuss "A Good Personality"
Miss Marie Higdon, program chair
man, will be in charge and number
OF girls from Strong Residence plan
to join the group for the evening.
The public affairs group of the
Blue Triangle Club will meet Thurs
day for the first of three discussions
on Reorganization of the District
Government" led by Mrs. Joseph
Lowe, a member of the District
Voteless League of Women Voters.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
National Banks Held
Subjectto Wagner AcI
In n. |. R. B. RuIinq
Not Federal Agencies;
Dismissed EmpIoye
Ordered Reinstuted
B, the Associated Press.

A ruling that national banks are
subject to the Wagner Act was is
sued today by the National Labor
Relations Board, which held that
the institutions are not agencies of
the Federal Government.
The board ordered the Bank of
America National Trust and Savings
Association. California. to reinstate
with back pay an employe who the
board said had been discharged for
union activity. 1t directed the asso-
ciaticn to cease 'discouraging mem
bership in the United ONCE and
Professional Workers of America
&C. l. o. or any other labor organi-
zation of its employees
Comment by Board.
The board, in ordering re-employ-
ment of Edward C. Washer. for
merly employed in the Los Angeles
Office of the bank. said the trust
and savings association contended
that national banks are agencies
and instrumentalities of the Federal
Government; that as such they are
synonymous with the United States
within the meaning of the Wagner
Act. In support of this. the board
said, the association cited it's men,
bership in the Federal Reserve Sys-
TEN and the Federal Deposit 1nsur-
ance Corp
To this contention the board re-
piled that 'the United States did
not create the respondent (the asso-
ciationD. as 1t has many other agen-
cies, for the purpose of carrying on
its governmental functions" but
that 1t merely provided per-
missive means by which the re-
spondent could be organized and
do business"
Ruling on Commerce.
Ruling on what it said was a further
contention of the bank that it was
not engaged in commerce and that
its operations did not affect COM
merce within the meaning of the
provisions of the National Labor
Act. the board stated:
1T is matter of common knowl-
edge that the Commercial Bank. of
which the respondent is an out
standing example. is the primary
medium in the comercial system of
the United States for the transfer
of money credits from one portion
Of the country to another 4.
Banking is the lifeblood of COM
merce."
Mr.. Washer had complained to the
board that he was employed at the
Los Angeles Office of the company
in 1895, and given some raises, but
when he became interested in union
organization in 1897 he was trans
ferred to Chico, a small town in
Northern California. Subsequently,
he complained, he was dismissed.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Bandits Hold Up Two in Truck
At Corner; Flee With $500
Woman and Driver
Collecting Cafe
Funds Are Victims

A bold daylight holdup at the busy
corner of Seventh and H streets NE
shortly before 10 am. today netted
three bandits a haul estimated at
$500.
The money was the weekend re-
celptS of three Goodacre restaur-
ants. Beulah st. Clair, 10, of 1ll6
H street NE, an employe OF the
restaurant chain, had picked the
money up from establishments at
141 B street Sc, 1909 H street NE.
and 1924 H street NE.
The truck in which she was rid
ing, driven by Ulysses Philips, COL
ored, 1888 Corcoran street NV, had
stopped at Seventh and H streets
NE. so that a collection could be
made from the restaurant at 7O4 H
street NE.
Just as the truck stopped a sedan
drew abreast and a man, carrying
his coat over his arm, got out and
approached Mrs. st. Clair's side. He
pointed a pistol, which had been
hidden by the coat, at her and said ::
mo foolishness."
Reaching in the truck. the rob-
Der grabbed three money bags and
and the woman's pocketbook. He
jumped into the car, where two men
waited for him, and the three sped
off. Mrs. st. Clair said her pocket
book contained about 81.
None of the men were masked and
the quiet manner in which the hold
up was carried out excited no sus-
picions on the part of passersby.
Weekend burglaries and holdups
reported to police included:
Home of Gustave M Bugniazet,
Evening star., 1939-08-07
BY The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press
The Census Bureau has new
problem-tracking down those who
live in trailers.
The problem will arise during a
practice census to be conducted in
preparation for the national census
of 1910.
During this trial Job, which will
cover st. Joseph and Marshall
Counties, Ind, beginning August
IS, the bureau will tackle for the
first time enumeration of trailer
dwellers, who have increased a hum
dredfold since 1880.
1t was stated that license plates on
the trailer may be from Maine or
California, but if the trailer's occu-
pant claims no other residence he
will be enume1 Ted as OF the place
where. his car hlppens to be parked.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Revamped -Four Aces
Again Win Worlds
Bridge Title
Come From | 900 Points
Behind in Final Night
To Score by 1850
By the Associated Press.

ASBURY PARK. N. j., Aug. T.
In nip-andtuck final session
climax event of the week long con-
tract bridge tournament here. a re-
vamped Four Aces team decisively
won the world championship team
of four event for the fourth time
out of five it has been played.
The champions are Oswald Jacoby,
NJ D. Maier and Howard Schencken,
members of the old combination,
plus Theodore Lightner and Robert
McPherran, alternates. all New York
The runners-up were the Phila-
delphia foursome of Charles Goren,
Mrs. Ralph c. Young. Charles j.
Solomon and John r. Crawford
who had battled through six Cruel
ling sessions to challenge the laurel
Wearers. Myron Fuchs. New York
was their alternate member.
The aces were more than 1000
points behind when they went into
the final round last night, but were
ahead by $50 at the three-quarter
mark and finally emerged with a
lead of 1850.
Masters Pair Event.
New Workers also won the masters
pair event earlier in the day. The
worlds championship cup in this
contest going to Harry Fishbein and
Robert Appleyard. Mr.. Jacoby and
Waldemar Won Zedwitz, cup donor
for the event, we're second and Mr..
Maier and Mr.. Schencken were
third.
All but two sets of defending
champions were uncrowned during
the seven days of play. The re-
peaters were Mrs. Ralph c. Young,
Philadelphia, and Mrs. A. NJ. Sobel,
New York, who carried off the
women's pair crown for the second
successive year, and the -Four Aces.
In the mems pair event, Mr.. ia
coby, playing with 24-year-old John
Crawford, Philadelphia, youngest
player in the meet, easily topped an
imposing field.
For the second year, also, women
won the amateur team title. This
time it was New York quartet
composed of Mrs. F. c. Horn, Mrs.
Mabel Erwin. Mrs Valerie Klein and
Mrs. Gussie Planco, who lifted the
cup from a field of both men and
women.
The only title to leave the Phila-
delphia New York area was in the
mixed team competition and even
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Counting Trailer Population
Is New Task for Census Takers

Enumeration Of the population of
tourist and trailer camps will be an
important factor in the national
census, since it will provide statis-
tics which may be correlated with
problems of migratory labor, educa-
ton, relief and SO on.
The bureau issued a plea for pa
tience on the part Of those questioned
by census takers. Each enumeration
who knocks at persons door, it
was stated, has in the back of his
head 342 instructions.
Knowing this, the householder
should remember the hotnily Don't
shoot the piano player. He's doing
the best he can" the bureau said.
Information given by the house.
holder is confidential, 'but the
enumerator is pledged not to try to
sell the headYf the house a maga-
zine subscription.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Plane Aids Search for Elephant
Loose After Virginia Wreck

The elephants trainer, injured in
the crash, sought from his hospital
bed to help other searchers by Of
fering advice on "Elsie's' tenn
permanent.
While the plane searched from the
air. posse of searchers stepped gin
gerly near the fringe of the woods
apparently unwilling to check too
closely on the possibility expressed
by Trainer Larry White that the
crash might have made Elsie go
haywire"
The crash fatally injured John H
Blair, As. of Kansas City, Mo. d
circus hand, hurt three others and
killed one of the two elephants car
ried in the wslung trailer.
Elsie escaped early Yesterday
when the tractor drawn trailer. part
of the circus caravan of go vehicles,
left the highway seven miles south
of here and cracked up in a ditch.
The two elephants in the trailer
were spilled. One of them-"Rub-
ber" by name-lay still with broken
neck.
But Elsie" got dazedly to her feet
and made for the woods.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
A Booklet on
How to Tell Fortunes

FORTUNE TELLING is a
booklet showing how to read
fortunes in a variety of ways.
1t tells what the stars predict;
what the lines of your hand
foretell, and what your dreams
mean. 1t also tells how to
read cards; how to interpret
tea leaves and coffee grounds,
and contains a wealth of in
teresting facts on signs, omens
and superstitions. This kind
of study is great fun and af-
fords endless amusement for
parties. Order your copy of
this fascinating publication
today. 1nclose 10 cents to
cover cost and handling.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Court Denies Review
OF Civil Service Custer

The United States Court Of Ap-
peals today laid down the rule that
where action is taken in removing
from Office an employe in the classi-
fed civil service and this in accord
ance with the law, this action is not
renewable by mandamus and court
of law has no jurisdiction to inquire
into the guilt or innocence of the
employe as to the charges upon
which he was removed
The court made this finding in the
case of a former New York City
Post Office clerk, Jonathan Levine
removed because he allegedly violat-
ed the rules in urging the adoption
of resolution to secure reinstate-
ment of fellow worker and served
as member of union committee to
agitate the subject and gave the
press news release on the situa-
ton. Today the appellate court af-
f1rmed District Court finding that
dismissed Mr., Levine's petition. The
court held that he had been rightly
tried for publishing allegedly false
statements in the newspapers.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Endurance Record
OF 343 Hours Set
For Light Planes
Moody Brothers Go to
Hotel for Sleep After
Two Weeks in Air
BY the Associated Press.


SPRINGFIELD, H., Aug T.
Hunter and Humphrey Moody took
light plane endurance flight record
and a four-day growth of blond
beard to bed with them today.
The brothers landed their lit
tie Taylorcraft monoplane, Miss
Springfield" at the Municipal Air
port last night at 10:46 pm. &C. S.
IT,, exactly 343 hours and Al min
utes and 3 seconds after they took
off July %.
Grinning, stoutly declaring they
could have gone on that much
longer" they nevertheless went i'm
mediately to a hotel where a do
not disturb" sign and two police
men guarded their door. They were
so cramped, because they couldn't
stand up for two weeks in the plane,
that friends half carried them to an
automobile.
An electrical storm brought them
down. 1t had been brewing for sew
eral hours and rather than chance
a mishap they landed when it broke,
although their 55-horsepower engine
was still purring smoothly. Fifteen
minutes after the landing a torren-
tial rain fell and the wind whipped
up strong enough to uproot several
trees.
Hunter, Is, kissed his wife Doro-
thy, who had prepared their meals,
and Humphrey. 81. just grinned and
waved aside well wishers. The only
time they shaved aloft was last
Wednesday.
1t was last Tuesday when the
Moodys Of Decatur, ILL.,, broke the
previous record of 218 hours 43 min
utes set last year at Long Beach,
Calf, by Clyde Schleiper, Thomas
and Harley Long. The heavy plane
endurance record is 653 hours. held
by Al and Fred Keys of Meridian,
Miss.
The Moodys refueled with
weighted rope and snap hook, TO
which cans of gasoline were attach
ed from truck speeding over the
airport runway. Food, letters, tele-
grams and clothing were sent aloft
similarly They slept aloft in relays,
four or five hours at time. and
communicated with their ground
crew by radio.
They travelled an estimated $4,000
miles, or as far as around the world,
at about 80 miles an hour and within
a radius of 100 miles of Springfield.
Leroy Murphy, flight manager. said
a tri-motor sightseeing plane
operated during the endurance.
flight Just about paid expenses"
Evening star., 1939-08-07
BY the Associated Press.

bt lue hosOtldltC fTSSS.
STAUNTON, Va, Aug IA plane
from the Staunton Municipal Air
port droned over forest areas south
of Stanton in search of an escaped
circus elephant today while show
workers attempted to lure the two
ton Elsie out of hiding by chain
ing two other elephants in a field
nearby.
The hunt by air was begun when
the elephant continued at large more
than "a hours after she had escaped
from a trailer that was wrecked en-
route from West Virginia to Roa-
noke. Va.
Circus workers expressed the be-
lief Elsie" would join her mates
without further ado if she once got
over the fright" induced by the
accident, but their hopes for an
early capture were dissipated when
dawn brought no sign of the huge
beast, except a trampled fence here
and there.
Searchers believed the fugitive
was in a wooded area 2 or 3 miles
south of Mint Spring, about 10 miles
from Staunton.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Navy May Try to Lift
SquuIus This Week
By the Associated Press


PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. T.
Navy officials said today a second
attempt at lifting the sunken Sub
marine Squalus might be started at
the end of this week as salvagers pre-
pared to lower pontoons.
If the weather is good, the Navy
plans to attach six pontoons to the
stern of the squalus within the next
three days. An additional two days
will be needed to lower four other
pontoons to the forward end
Lifting chains already have been
placed beneath the stern of the
submersible, which sank last May
during a test dive and dropped to
the bottom again July II during the
first lifting attempt.
Meanwhile, the Navy reported
that Diver Edmund B. Crosby, of
Pensacola, Fla, was the first vic
time of bends" since salvage work
began. He recovered satisfactorily
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Chevy Chase View Girl
Dies in Michioon

Shirley Ann Schiefer, 10, daughter
of DR.. and Mrs. Herbert F.. Schiefer
of Chevy Chase View, Md, died yes
terday of infantile paralysis while
on a vacation trip to Saginaw. Mich
She had been visiting relatives at
Frankenmuth, Mich. and Saginaw
with her mother and sister, Cath
crime, and was i'll only five days.
She was a student at the Kensington
Md Elementary School. Her
father. who is on the textiles staff
of the Bureau of Standards, left by
plane Saturday night and reached
Saginaw before she died.
Funeral services and burial will be
held in Saginaw tomorrow.
Evening star., 1939-08-07

then only half of it went West. AL
win Landy and Miss Florence STRAIT
ford, Cleveland. joined with Mrs.
Valerie Klein and Robert Chatkin,
New York, to carry off the honors.
In the amateur pair event, the
national crown was won by Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert D. Lent, BronXville
N. Y, one of the few husband-and-
wife combinations in the tourney.
With the hit of the tournament
the two-tier. 60-seat arena built
around one of the tables, the day
of spectator bridge is rapidly ap-
preaching, officials believe This
"kabitzer's leaven' was filled all
week and plans are already being
made to devise a system of mirrors
to give onlookers an even better view
of championship play in future
meets.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Pharmacy Robbed II Times

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 7 P)-
Burglars paid their 18th annual visit
to Irving Sanzell's pharmacy, pos
tai substation, last night and it cost
him 1929 in cash and $1O0 in stamps.
Heavy bars placed on the back
windows after previous losses proved
no problem for the burglars. This
time they entered the front door,
took the safe out the same way.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Housebreoker, Wife and Child
Being Deported to ireland

the family to become dependent on
the State.
Judge Stedman Prescott, in Cir
cult Court, ordered general sus-
pension of sentence following the
guilty plea, and had the man placed
in custody of an immigration in
spector In court. Mawhinney is
scheduled to sail for ireland to-
morrow. He may never return to
this country under the terms of the
suspension of the sentence.
Mawhinney was arrested last
month and charged with larceny Of
silverware and jewelry from home in
Chevy Chase and Bethesda. The
Stat Attorneys ONCE said he was
arrested In Baltimore, Md.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
John F. Webster Dies;
Managed Realty Branch

John F. Webster, 3S, manager
of the Virginia branch of Boss e.
Phelps, realtors for IL years, died
suddenly yesterday of a heart attack
at his home, 1865 Stuyvesant place
NV.
Mr. Webster was born in Peoria,
Ill, and was the son of the late
Ben Temple Webster. prominent
Washington real estate man.
Prominent in local civic circles, he
was member of the Washington
Board of Trade. past president of the
Kiwanis Club of Arlington, Va, and
Evening star., 1939-08-07

president of the American Standard
Life Insurance Co., at ASH Twenty
eighth street NV, entered by break
ing first-t1oor window; "a pints of
pre-war whisky and a .38-caliber
pistol stolen
John Yeps, %, laundry proprietor
of 306 Fourth street NE, held up by
colored man armed with pistol.
robbed of SIS and stuck with fiat
iron; treated at Casualty Hospital
for scalp lacerations.
Residence of Anna Ferguson, 649
Girard street NE, ransacked by
burglars. who cut screen on rear
door; S53 from cigar box and S2l
from dresser drawer missing.
Evening star., 1939-08-07

his widow, Mrs. Helene Phillips
Webster; son. John Gordon, II,
and his mother, Mrs. Virgie G.
Webster.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at the home at 2 pm. con-
Quoted by the Rev J. Hillman Hollis
ter. pastor of the Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church. Burial will
be private.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Prisoner Found Hanging
By Shirt From Cell Bur

John Joseph Brown, 81, of the
4500 block of Seventh street NV,
alias Casey" early today was found
hanging by the neck from his shirt
attached to a cell bar at the first
precinct police station. He was
taken to Casualty Hospital in an
ambulance and treated by a staff
physician for throat injury and a
bruised neck, according to police
He later was taken to Gallinger
Hospital.
He had been booked as being
drunk, according to police.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
BY a Stan Correspondent of The Star.

6y Stau correspondent OF Inc star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd, Aug. John
Mawhinney, "a, his wife and child
born to the couple in their native
Ireland, today were turned over to
immigration authorities for depor-
tation back to ireland, following a
plea of guilty by Mawhinney to two
charges of house breaking and
larceny in Montgomery County.
Five other children born In this
country are to join their parents in
Ireland, where they are to be sent
by the Catholic Charities. States
Attorney Ben G. wilkinson recon-
mended deportation for Mawhinney,
irldica ing that 3 jail sentence for
the defendant merely would cause
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Soviet Marks Victory
At Chongkufeng Hill
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW. Aug. Soviet Russia
staged a victory celebration yester-
day on the anniversary of the fight
ing last year with japanese at
Changkufeng Hill
There were patriotic ARTICLES in
the newspapers and ceremonies in
parks of culture and rest throughout
the nation.
Editorials stressed that the vest
pocket war in the region where the
Siberian, Manchukuoan and Korean
frontiers came together was one Of
the most glorious chapters in Soviet
military history.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
American Clipper Sets
New Record to EnqIond
nv the Assor,atsd press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. THE American
Clipper arrived in Southampton yes
terday only a little more than "a
hours after leaving New York to
set new record for Atlantic
passenger flight.
Carrying a. passengers and a crew
Of IL, the clipper made the OPEN
ocean hop from Botwood, Newfound-
land, t1 Foynes, ireland, In 1lia
hours.
Evening star., 1939-08-07

past president Of
the Alexandria
Arlington Fair
fax Real Estate
Board. He took
an active interest
in the boys camp
movement of the
Kiwanis Club.
He also was an
examiner for the
Virginia S t a t e
Real Estate Lii
cense Commits
sion and director
of the Arlington
Title Co.
C,,r,yi,,t-
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Cotton Firm Head Dies

HOUSTON. Tex, Aug 7 (PJ.-
Monroe Dunnaway Anderson. 66
president of one of the world larg-
est cotton firms, Anderson. Clayton
& Co.. died at his home yesterday
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow. The body will be sent to
jackson, Tenn, for burial.