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Evening star., 1939-02-08
District Wage Board
Opens Hearing on
Basic Wage
Minimums for Women
In Manufacturing
To Be Studied

The District Minimum Wage
Board today opened its hearing on
a basic wage for women employed
in manufacturing and wholesale
businesses here and then recessed
until Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
Mrs. William Kittle, board chair
man, presided over a brief meeting
in the old Police Court Building and
presented the question of whether
1000 or more women so employed
were receiving living wage.
Albert w. Atwood, author and
economist. is chairman of the con-
ference which will hear arguments
on the question. He represents the
public, along with Mrs. w. G. Stuart
and Mrs. Cazenove G. Lee, jr.
Employe representatives are Mrs.
Hattie Dorfman, Mrs. Naomi
Schlegel and Miss Frances Lewis.
The employers are represented by
William Freeman, general manager,
Washington Shopping News; Will
liam Russell, Capital Awning Co.,
and Dewey Zirkin, H. Zirkin Sons,
Inc, furriers.
Claude H. Woodward, employer
member of the Minimum Wage
Board, told the conference the en-
ployers would be ready Friday to
submit budget on the cost of liv-
ing here for women employees in
manufacturing and wholesale enter
prises. Arthur Schoenthal, labor
member, had previously announced
the employe representatives were
ready to offer a budget.
Mrs. Kittle requested persons de-
string to testify in the case notify
Miss Gwen Geach, board secretary,
q day in advance.
Mr.. Woodward urged all interested
employers who wish to testify to
come to the hearings.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Report Notes Pacts
Are Spur 10 Trade
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department as
serted today United States trade
with countries having sreciprocal
trade agreements with the United
States was on a better basis than
that with other countries last year
Exports to Enlargement coun-
tries, the department said, declined
6.8 per cent and to non-agreement
countries 81 per cent, while United
States imports decreased 28.9 per
cent from Enlargement coun-
tries and 416 per cent from nom
agreement countries.
Because of the effect of the busi-
ness recession here on foreign trade,
the department said, the results of
the reciprocal trade agreement pro-
gram could be better judged by COM
pairing the last two years with
1894 and 1885, which were the two
years which preceded the trade
agreements.
The years 1878 showed the
United States sold 612 per cent
more to trade-agreement countries
than in 1886, while sales to nom
agreement countries improved only
37o per cent.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
New Tree Diseases Seen
Threat to Animal Life

An increasing number of new tree
diseases, which can be introduced
through modern transportation and
international commerce present a
future menace to American animal
life as we'll as the trees, DR.. G. F..
Gravatt of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry told members of the Botan-
ical Society of Washington last night
at a meeting at the Cosmos Club.
Mr.. Gravatt warned that several
of the food plants, vital to animal
nutrition such as the persimmon,
chestnut and chinquapin trees are
already threatened with extinction
through disease. Once lost, a specie
is difficult to replace, he said, and
those plants which replace them
often fail to provide as good quail
ity Of food.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Special Squad Will Be Detailed
To Enforce Pedestrian Law
25-Doy Educational Period to Precede
Arrests, Maj. Brown Says

A special squad Of policemen will
be detailed to enforce the new pedes-
trian control regulations, ordered
yesterday by the District Commits
sioners, Supt. of Police Ernest w.
Brown said today.
Maj. Brown pointed out that the
police department is understaffed
and that therefore the detail could
not be large but, he said: Il will use
as many men as I possibly can
spare"
The policemen. Maj. Brown said,
would be drawn from the traffic
division and the precincts.
He indicated that he did not think
many arrests would have to be made.
Il am hoping the people of the
District will recognize the merits of
the regulations and observe them
without coercion from us" he said.
Educational Period" First.
The special policemen will be sta
toned at advantageous points at
busy intersections when the 25-day
educational period" is over, and
when pedestrians violate the regula-
tions they will be placed under arrest.
The officer will proceed to the near
est call box and there call the wagon
to take the offender to the nearest
precinct where he will be charged
and forced to post collateral.
However, Maj. Brown hopes there
will be few occasions to require this
procedure and that the public will
cooperate fully.
He said he is instructing his
officers to be courteous but firm" in
enforcing the new regulation and
expects that this method will, in
the long run, make the control plan
more popular with pedestrians.
He has called a meeting today of
all police sergeants to discuss the
enforcement of pedestrian control,
which was taken up and considered
at meeting Monday afternoon of
inspectors, captains and lieutenants.
Maj. Brown said he did not know
at this time how many men he
would be able to spare for this duty
and added that it would be possible
only to cover major intersections.
Policemen assigned to this duty
will need no specialized training in
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Missions Conference
To End Tonight With
Mass Meeting
Dr.. Leslie B. Moss to
Address Session at
First Baptist Church

A mass meeting at the First Bap-
tist Church tonight will close the
two-day conference sponsored by the
Washington Federation of Churches
and the Foreign Missions Confer
fence of North America. which has
featured speakers from India, China
and Mexico.
One of two teams visiting 4C
cities In the country to report on
the Madras Foreign Missionary
Conference held in India in De-
cember, the team includes Miss lila
Sircar, associate general secretary
OF the student Christian movement
in India Prof. P. C. Hsu of the
University of Shanghai, and DR.
Baez Camargo, executive secretary
of the National Council of Evan
gelical Churches in Mexico.
Women's Meeting Scheduled.
A womens meeting at which Mrs
Frank A. Linzel, president of the
Woman's Council of the Washing
ton Federation of Churches, was tc
preside, was scheduled this morning
Speakers were to be Miss Sircar, DR.
Camargo and Dr. Hilda Ives, Con-
gregational clergyman who teaches
at the Andover- Newton Theological
Seminary near Boston.
DR.. Leslie B. Moss. secretary OF
the Foreign Missions Conference,
will speak at the mass meeting to-
night. DR.. Camargo and DR. Hsu will
also speak at the evening meeting
DR.. j. Hillman Hollister, pastor OF
the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church and chairman OF the Con-
ference Program Committee, will
conduct devotions. and DR.. Horace
E. Cromer, president of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches, will
:. offer the opening prayer. Presiding
will be DR.. Frederick Brown Harris,
pastor of the Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Miss Sircar Speaks.
Miss Sircar told the meeting last
night that India is willing to sup
port missionaries but they must be
men interested In the basic prob
lens of the people and willing to
help build a new economic order.
"The missionary's role in relief
and other phases of work in China,
DR.. Hsu said, has convinced the
Chinese that the church is their
real refuge"
Despite persecution suffering and
opposition. he added, Christianity is
making progress in war-torn China
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Representative Fay
10 Undergo Reamputafion

Representative James H. Fay,
Democrat, of New York was in
Walter Reed Hospital today await
ing reamputation on his left leg a
few inches above the place where
the limb was amputated during the
World War.
Hospital officials said the leg had
been bothering the Representative
and reamputation was necessary to
heal the old wound. He lost his leg
during the Argonne fighting. The
operation will be performed within
the next few days, hospital officials
said.
Mr.. Fay, serving his first term
in the House, last November de-
feated John O'Connor for the New
York 10th district seat in the Ro6se-
velt purge"
Evening star., 1939-02-08

addition to that already received, he
said, except to become versed In
the regulations themselves.
The first two regulations, he said,
are self lf-explanatory, but enforce
ment of the third will be more diff
cult.
The third regulation states that
mo pedestrian shall use any road
way between intersections when a
vehicle is approaching from either
direction so as to constitute hazard
for his own safety or use such road
way at any time in negligent or
reckless manner"
Court Test Required.
Violations under this regulation
will have to be defined by test cases
in court, Maj Brown said. as the
police are not in position to deter
mine what constituting hazard to
himself" or "in a negligent or reck-
less manner" will mean when the
cases are tried.
Maj Brown said he has favored a
more stringent regulation in this
respect, though not so strict as that
proposed by Traffic Director William
A. Van Duzer, which would have
prohibited any person from crossing
any street in the District between
intersections.
Maj Brown said he thought a
regulation as stringent as the latter
would not have been necessary on
outlying residential streets and had
favored instead a rule which would
have prohibited pedestrians from
crossing streets other than at inter-
sections only in blocks controlled
at either end by lights or traffic
policemen.
A regulation of this sort would be
far easier to enforce than the pres
ent regulation where requirements
are not specifically defined, Maj.
Brown said.
Asked why the proposed special
squad of policemen could not give
pedestrians tickets instead Of sending
them to the station house, Mai.
Brown said 1t would be impossible
to give tickets as only few pedes-
trians carry positive and reliable
identification of themselves on their
persons, such as is the case with
automobile operators.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Minimum Pay Bill
ToCost $1o,o00,ooo
Senator Is Told
Civil Service Agency
Outlines Effect of
$1,000 SoIory Floor

The Civil Service Commission to-
day informed Chairman Bulow of
the Senate Civil Service Committee
that the $1,000 minimum pay bill
for Government employees would
represent an outlay of $4,000, 900
but gave no indication of the ad-
ministrations attitude toward the
measure.
THE commission is advised the
Bureau of the Budget has no objec-
ton to the submission of this report
to your committee" the letter
stated, but that such advice is not
to be considered as involving any
commitment with respect to the re-
lation of the proposed legislation to
the program of the President"
The commission figured that ap-
plying the bill only to employees COW
cred by the Classification Act of
1923 would cost IS, 10000. The pro-
posed increases. in rates of pay for
part-time charmen and charwom-
en- would account for an additional
cost of $780, 900, the greater part of
which would be in the postal service.
The commission went on to ex-
plain that these estimates do not
include "the cost of corresponding
adjustments, possible of accomplish
ment administratively, in the sala-
ries OF employees in analogous posi-
tions whose compensation is now
fixed under the emergency agency
schedule executive order of June
2l, 193D or under purely admin
istrative regulation. We estimate
that there are about $4,000 such
positions and that the cost of cor
responding pay adjustments for this
group would be about $4,5OO,0O0."
The report explained that the
purpose of the bill, which was in
troduced by Senator Bulow, is to
established minimum of $1,000 for
full-time positions under the classi-
f1cation act in the lowest grades in
which adults are ordinarily en-
ployed; also to adjust rates in the
next few higher grades so as to
maintain "a proper salary grada-
ton among positions involving a
gradually increasing degree of diff
Guilty or responsibility"
The commission said the bill il
enacted would Immediately affect
about 46,700 full-time permanent
employees and about 3,7O0 part time
workers in the char service. OF this
number 10,789 are departmental
workers and 35,913 in the field
service.
In addition to Senator Bulow's
bill, Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada, is preparing to reintro-
duce in few days the bill he spon-
sored in the last Congress to make
$500 the minimum, with small in
creases in other grades up to the
$500 level. Senator Bulow has
stated hearings will be held on both
measures later in the session.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Tuxes to Be Discussed

Measures before Congress relating
to taxation of District residents will
be discussed tonight at the regular
meeting of the Rhode Island Avenue
Citizens Association in the Wood
ridge SUBJ Branch Library. Pending
bills are to be outlined by T. J.
Llewellyn, chairman of the civic
groups Legislative Committee.
Evening star., 1939-02-08

Act of 1884; Irven L. Hanback,, abor-
ton; Clayton P. Hendrick, Brady F..
Thomas, Everett w. Jones, Irving L.
Mulberry and Thomas r. Harley, re-
ceiving stolen property; James Co.
kinos and George Macreyanis, set
ting up gaming table; John Jamer-
son, Margaret Purks, Francis L. Ly-
ons, violation of the numbers law;
Kenneth Lee and Lonnie Jones, car
nal knowledge.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Policeman Volunteers
To Give Blood to
3-Month-OId Boy

Three month = old bert
Mealor, i'll at Children's Hos
pital, was to receive a blood
TRANSMISSION today from a po-
liceman who answered his
mothers appeal for help last
night.
The mother, Mrs. Ann Mea-
lor, of 2309 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. went to the third
precinct station and told off,
GERS her son needed a trans
fusion. Pvt. Emmett r. Waters
volunteered. A test showed
his blood was the right type.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Druq Store Robbed

The theft of 1896 worth of mer-
chandise from Peoples Drug Store
at 2529 Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
was reported to police yesterday by
James H. McAllister, store manager.
Thieves gained entrance by break
ing the glass in door.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Band Concert

BY the United States Marine Band
Symphony Orchestra this evening
at 8 o'clock in the Marine Barracks
auditorium. Capt. Taylor Branson,
leader; william r. Santelmann, SEC
ond leader.
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Buck to Seek Nomination

BALTIMORE, Feb. 8 P.-Charles
H. Buck, president of the Maryland
Land Title Guaranty Co., said last
night he would file today as can
didate for the Democratic mayoralty
nomination.
Evening star., 1939-12-28
Lenin' to Hold
Legal Status in
Cambridge
y the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 28.-
The words 'Lenin" and "Leningrad,"
which the City Council deemed I'M
fit for the eyes of Cambridge citi-
zens, will remain quite legal, never
theless.
Mayor John w. Lyons informed
q breathless public that he would
not sign the resolution banning
those naughy words from all books
and publications in this city, home
of Harvard, Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology and Radcliffe
The resolution, coupled with an
other commanding the use of st.
Petersburg in place of 'Leningrad,"
was passed unanimously by the
council Tuesday night, at the urg-
ing of Sponsoring Councilman
Michael A. Sullivan, who said it
was aimed at "the curse of Com
munism."
Without the Mayors signature
the resolutions cannot become ef-
fective, and besides, Police Chief
Timothy Leahy found they con-
tanned no provision for enforce
ment.
Evening star., 1939-12-10

furnished apartments. hotel rooms and
boarding houses.
went into the house The living
room looked plenty nice. There was a
fire in the CRATE and Helen was work
ing on some curtains. Domestic bliss
sure. Sappy, too, if YOU want to
look at 1t that way. But 1t got me
Helen jumped up as soon as she
heard me- Her eyes were shining and
the heat had rouged her face. She
looked pretty and even younger than
she was. She'd heard the game over
the radio and was all excited. We
talked about 1t for awhile then She
switched over to how she was gong
TO furnish the guest room. and what
Ann had said that afternoon
things like that.
should've told her the truth then,
II would've been better. She could
take it, But didn't say a word.
couldn't get to sleep that night Tor
thinking of the spot I'd put Helen and
the kid in. had to find some way out,
As tossed around my thoughts kept
iabblng back to Rocky Finally IT
seemed that he was my only chance.
But locate Rocky?
During the next few weeks | did
c>crythlng but send out 4 posse.
went with the team on the road, and
in every city spent my oii moments
nos,ng around Up IN Better a lci."w
told me he'd seen Rocky working IN
Evening star., 1939-12-10
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

fourth battle was coming up IN another
three weeks In between. we had L
stiff schedule on the road. Ii more in
iuries hit us. we'd be sunk What I
needed was tast-travcllng. fast
scoring trio of forwards yeah. an
other Red Line Simple. Just like that.
sec?
pulled myself out OF the chair and
walked across to where Il picture OF
Rocky Rhodes hung on the wall. It'd
been taken three years ago. the night
they'd given him the Stafford Trophy
as the most valuable player IN the
league, The Blond Bullet The
playmaker OF the Red Line
stood looking at that photograph.
remembering what Double Decker had
said: we can't do ii w!ihOut him."
Double hadn't told me anything new.
With Rocky back i'll the groove be-
tween Edmond and Decker thcre'd be
ICE magic 3. the old razzle-dazzle
and chance to win But that was like
wishing for the moon Rocky was all
washed up had been for two years
-. ever since CARING had sold HIM.
didn't even know where he was
put on my hat and coat and drove
home - sunk. And when turned the
car up the drive OF our new house. |
.clt even worse We had Il swell little
place outside town. with tiagstoned
terrace and a garden. 1t was a dream
house to Helen - and me, too. We'd
waited years to build It - living IN
Evening star., 1939-12-10

Dnolrnnm VI Green Falls a year ago.
But the Blond Bullet wasn't IN the
Falls and thc lwnlr""In guys dldn
hnuw where he'd gone. asked tnl
myself.
Nil tins time things were getting
worse . | mean with the team. The
injury INK rode us hard. But the
Wintun game was the pay-ol!.
Hubbard collected 4 broken collar
bone: llInkcy Clarke got staShcd 50
bad 1t took ten stitches, and Bill Kelly
picked the same night to get an ear IN
lection.
We hit the city with the team IN
Spllnts. | was glad Helen and the
KID were out of town. She certainly
would'vc guessed that something was
darned wrong.
got up the morning OF the fourth
game half sick with worry. ANY hope
of finding Rocky had just about
pctered out left the Car at home and
started downtown, fighting the des
pair that had sunk over me.
don't know what made me look IN
that pawnshop window. must'vc
been standing there for three minutes.
staring at the plate glass. not seeing a
thing. Then for some unknown reason
my eyes came into focus.
The window was crowded with fish
ing tackle. watches. baseball gloves.
guitars and a silver cup. The cup
was right in the middle of the junk
so close to me that | could read the
engraved inscription: The Stafford
Trophy Presented To Richard
Rocky Rhodes
| read these words over and oveIs
Then | banged into the shop. 1t took
a lot of argument and flash of folding
money before the little pawnbroker
was willing to hunt up his records. |
finally got the dope that the cup had
been pawned months ago by George
Schultz of 85 Brock Street. bought
the trophy for ten bucks and beat it
out. I'm telling you. | was just about
nuts.
Eighty-hve Brock Street was beer
parlor and the bartender turned out
to be George Schultz. He was big
red-faced guy with a fringe OF HAIR
pulled the wrong way over his bald !
head. As soon as he saw the cup in my
hand he got suspicious.
threw questions at him. Wherc'd
he get it? Who gave it to him? Schultz
was sullen. put a tlve-buck bill on the
bar Schultz said. We'll. bum gave
me that thing for some booze
long time ago. He was broke. dunno
his name"
That meant getting hold of the bum
- tracing Rocky through him. where
does this guy hang out? Have you
seen him recently?" asked
Schultz hesitated. looking at me.
Sure. seen him." He jerked a wet
thumb over his shoulder toward
closed door at the back He's in there
now. Sleeping off jag"
said, Thanks" pushed open the
door and stepped into small room.
The place was empty except for man
sprawled over a table There was a
glass and bottle of whisky beside
him. He had his arms around his head
took one look at his face - and
stopped dead. He was bum. all right
- but he was Rocky Rhodes.
In my mind I'd been carrying pic
ture Of Rocky as Id last seen him -
(Continved on pogs 71
Evening star., 1939-12-10
THIN ICE
Continued from ooge five

next time We mlghtnt be so lucky.
tried 10 face facts. | had weak
team and knew IL Sure. we'd clipped
the Indians lead to one game but we
weren't out OF the woods Vet. The
Evening star., 1939-12-10

caronled off skate and spun into
the cage! III admit l was still trem-
bling when l sank down INTO my
office chair all hour later
We'd won by a tlukey shot -. the
Evening star., 1939-12-10
5. TERM INSURANCE

TERM INSURANCE is designed primarily to
meet a temporary need, such as assuring ex-
ira funds to pay off mortgage or to cover a
business loan in case of death. This type of
insurance provides for the payment of the
face value Of the policy to the benehciaries
of the policyholder only in case he dies within
the period of time specified by the policy.
Let us suppose that you wish your family
to be paid 81 900 if you die within definite
PERIOD say 10 years.
To meet this need, you buy $1,000 TO-
Year Term Insurance Policy. Your policy will,
let say, be one of 1000 similar policies.
Experience shows that in this insured
group, certain number of people. say 90,
will die within the lO-year period. Therefore,
each member of the group must pay only
enough, each year he lives of the l0-year
period, so that the total amount paid in will
enable the insurance company to pay benef-
ciaries go death claims of 81 1000 each-a
total of 100000.
Naturally, the 91O policyholders in the
group who will still be living at the end of
the 10 years, having obtained the protection
they desired, will receive nothing more-ex-
cept certain renewal or conversion privileges
included in some policies.
There you have the three basic types of life
insurance. Some people will find one type
suited to their needs. Others will wish to have
more than one type In addition, many poll
cies include provisions under which the in
surance proceeds are paid out in some form
of income instead of in one sum.
Life insurance has been made so compre-
hensive and so adaptable that, no matter
what your specific needs may be, life insur-
ance program can be shaped to meet them.
Evening star., 1939-12-10

VX 7HlLE THERE many different kinds of life
w policies. there really only three basic types
of life insurance Whole Life Endowment. and Term.
These three types of life insurance sometimes
less interchangeable where
make it advisable Each has features which make
fitted for certain purposes Through combinations of the
three types life insurance be adapted
of individual The examples given below intended
to show primary need each of these types
and to point certain important features each nd
Evening star., 1939-12-10

"And where do you think you're going? ?"