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Evening star., 1939-07-15
Paroled Lorfon Inmate
Back After Two DAYS

Buzz Donovan, convicted of armed
robbery. was back in Lorton Re-
formatory today after his second
parole ended abruptly last night with
his rearrest following two days of
freedom.
Wilbur La Roe, jr., Parole Board
member, explained he had a warrant
issued for Donovan's arrest yester-
day at noon when he received in
formation that the former prisoner S
conduct had been in violation of his
parole. A hearing will be granted
Donovan next week, Mr.. La Roe said.
Donovan was given job at the
Home for the Aged and Infirm at
Blue Plains, D. c., when he was re-
leased from Lorton for the second
time Wednesday.
His first parole came in 1884 while
he was serving a 10-year term for
armed robbery. Donovan went to
an Indiana farm where he obtained
a job, but he was ordered from the
community on Christmas Eve by a
mob, the members of which claimed
to be "Klansmen."
Mr.. La Roe explained that under
such conditions, the board thought
it best to revoke Donovans first
parole.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Three Safety Engineers
Sent to Disaster Scene

Three safety engineers of the Bu-
reau of Mines have been dispatched
by the Interior Department, equipped
with mine rescue apparatus, to the
scene of the explosion of the Duvin
Coal Co. mine at Providence, KY.
c. A. Herbert, supervising engi-
neer of the Mine Safety Station at
Vincennes, Ind, the station closest
to the Duvin mine, left for Provi-
dence last night with truck fully
equipped with mine rescue appa-
ratuS.
The other two engineers sent to
the scene are l.. H. MCGUIRE, min
ing engineer attached to the Pitts
burgh Safety Station, and G. T.
Powell, safety instructor at the Nor
ton, Va, safety station.
The three men were instructed to
give all possible assistance in rescue
operations.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
ext of Letter
Roosevelt Cited Plight
Which Faced DC,

The text of President Roosevelt s
letter to Senator Overton and Rep
resentative Collins yesterday, which
was followed by passage of the Dis
trict appropriation bill. follows:
'"I am deeply concerned by the
situation which currently affects the
government of the District of Co.
lumbia. More than 10000 employees
will be payless Saturday.
There Is even a question as to
the right of the Commissioners to
continue the employment of the
flremen, policemen. street cleaners
school janitors, court attendants
etc, etc. where no appropriation to
pay them exists.
"As you know, I have directed the
District Commissioners to continue
than half million people of the Dis
trlct OF Columbia government for
the very obvious reason that if these
functions are not continued the
safety of life and property and the
normal occupations of the more
than half million peoplpe of the Dis
.trict would become impossible.
There has to be continuing gov
ernment.
For this reason I think it is of
the utmost Importance that, in order
to maintain local government, a
joint resolution be passed authoriz-
ing the District government to con-
tinue for week or two weeks or a
month, and appropriating enough
money to carry this out.
Il hope this can be done before
Saturday because every man of the
employees are greatly dependent on
their pay checks.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Doomed Slayer
YoWns at News
IOf Reprieve
BY the Associated Press.

ERIE, Pa. July 15.-Paul Ferry
81, heard without show of emotion
that he had been saved from the
electric chair a twelfth time.
"Oh, I like it here One place is
as good as another" the former w
P. A. worker asserted when advised
that he wouldn't be taken to Rock
view prison death house as sched-
uled today.
Warden Matt Hess said he tried
to impress upon Ferry that Gov.
Arthur H. James had stayed his
execution from next Monday until
September 25, but the condemned
wife slayer displayed little interest
in the news
Gov. James said the reprieve was
granted at suggestion of Attorney
General Claude T. Reno ITO give
further consideration to all the facts
in the case"
Gubernatorial respites II times
previously had saved the former
w. P. A. worker from the electric
chair for chopping his wife to death
in a drunken rage on May 8, 1886
Evening star., 1939-07-15
American Bar Retains
Role as Defender Of
Civil Liberties
Move to Homstrine
Bill Of Rights
Committee Beaten
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.-The
American Bar Association retained
its role as a defender of civil liberties
when the House of Delegates at its
convention yesterday defeated over.
whelmingly a resolution to ham.
string the Bill of Rights Committee.
The delegates chose Philadelphia
for the 1910 convention before ad-
Journing their f1ve-day meeting last
night.
Robert J. Carey of Jersey City,
N. j., where the associations Bill
OF Rights Committee recently inter-
vened in court after Mayor Frank
Hague refused to permit c. I. Q.
union mass meeting in a city park,
staged fight to curb the commit.
tees power.
Mr.. Carey contended the bar
would be asked to intervene in all
kinds of cases if it's present policy
were continued. Such Intervention,
he said, might result in a split In
the association.
One OF the voices raised in de-
tense of the Bill of Rights Com
mittee was that of Charles A.
Beardsley of Oakland, Calf, who
was installed yesterday as the new
president of the association. He as
serted problems involving the bill
of rights had arisen all over the
Nation, and that the committees
work should continue.
Hundreds of the $500 delegates
remained in San Francisco today to
visit the Golden Gate Exposition,
although the convention business
was ended. The lawyers were hon.
ored guests at the exposition.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Government Pension
For House Members
Defeated, F., 119 10 Is
Vote Follows Charges
Of 'Demoeoeuery' and
Political Cowurdice
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
House members have decided to
take a chance on saving enough
from their $l0,00O-a -a-year salaries to
provide for their old age-without
the benefit of Government pen
sion.
Despite gloomy portrayals of the
perils of the poorhouse, they voted,
ll9 to 73, late yesterday against par
ticipation in the Federal contrib
utory pension system. The vote
came after charges of "dema-
goguery' and political cowardice"
had been hurled back and forth in
the chamber in two-hour debate
Members from farm States were
particularly vocal against the prop
osition, contending Congress should
not take such a step until it had
provided social security for the Ma
tion's 100000 agricultural workers.
Pensions for members of Con-
gress should be the roof to a we'll
rounded social security system, not
a foundation stone contended
Representative Mundt, Republican,
Of South Dakota.
Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee said he
offered the plan in the hope of max
ing it unnecessary for members of
Congress, after long years of service.
to be dependent on others for
living.
This is not political grab bag"
he declared.
The House heard numerous ac-
counts of veteran members, unable
to lay aside funds for a political
rainy day, being forced to accept
some miserable job in the Govern
ment departments
But dire predictions of the Or
deal they would face in defending
the pension plan before their constit-
uents apparently proved stronger
argument, for Democrats and Re-
publicans joined to support an
amendment, which Representative
Rees, Republican, of Kansas offered
to eliminate the provision.
Under the plan, members of Con-
gress would have contributed per
cent of their salaries, or $500 yearly,
and the Government would have put
up an equal amount.
A member with Is years service
who retired at g., Representative
Ramspeck explained, would have
drawn an annuity of $l,673.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

by blanket. A garden hose eX-
tended from under the blanket to
a jet in the gas range in the kitchen,
according to Montgomery County
police. He was alone in the home
The Rescue Squad of the Silver
Spring Fire Department restored
him to consciousness and took him
to the hospital, but he failed to re-
spond to treatment and died at 7
am. An inquest was to be held by
DR.. G. E. Hawks, of Rockville, Md,
Montgomery County coroner.
Police said Mr.. Nicholson's wife
was away on vacation and is ex-
pected to arrive home today. He
was a member of Rescue Squad No.
2, stationed with Engine Company
No. II and would have completed
his fourteenth year with the Dis
trict Fire Department tomorrow. Be-
sides his widow, two children survive.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

hole-high, 20 feet to the left of the
pin. Byron Clipped weakly, Is feet
short, and on his putt was inches
wide and foot and half over to
lose the hole with to g.
Nelson hooked his second shot at
No. into a trap while Picard's ball
wide OF the green, bounced off the
tire of neWsreel truck. Byron
came out IS feet short, while Picard
Clipped up handsomely within 2 feet
OF the hole and, after twice request
Ing newsreel men to stop their cam
eras, knocked in the putt for a
winning birdie, 4 and 2 up.
Misses S-FoOt Putt.
Nelson, whose puts had been
either of line or short, left an g.
footer 2 inches shy of the cup on
the fifth to halve it in par Is. His
rival went 3 up at the par-3 sixth,
for Picard again was hole-high
Is feet away, off the tee, while
Byron, on the other side Of the green
was 80 feet from the pin. His ap-
proach putt rolled past the cup and
half-tymied Picard, who rollec
one 18 inches over and got a con-
ceded 3 when Nelson missed his s.
footer coming back.
Picard left 25-footer a couple of
inches short of the cup and halved
the seventh, and then made a splen-
did recovery to halve the eighth
He hit a bad drive, and had to play
his second over group of trees
1t cleared those all right, but also
cleared the green, and left him with
trap to chip over coming back. HI
eased one up that struck the bank
of the green and tricked down tt
within six feet of the hole. Her,
Nelson lost a chance to reduce tn,
margin as his 8-foot bid for birdi,
stopped short.
Picard's on the ninth was a con
ceded par to Byron's eagle 2. Henry
drive left him under a tree to tn
right of the fairway. His secon'
kited off a branch and into a trap
and he still was there figuring
out when Nelson holed out his chi]
from 80 yards away. The ball wen
over trap, struck on the green an,
headed for the hole.
Their cards:
Picard, out------ 453 443 444-3
Nelson, out------ 534 544 442-3
picard leads, 2 up)
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Jail Faces Germans
Who Neglected Work
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HANOVER, Germany, July 15.-
Absence from work without legiti-
mate excuse or failure to carry
through an assigned task means a
Jail term in the Reich, labor Off
cials have ruled.
Two young men were sentenced to
one month in Jail by a local court
yesterday for staying away from
their jobs.
Another man in Fulda recently
was sentenced to year of forced
labor for laziness and drinking toe
much. He remained away on sew
eral occasions from work given him
by a public employment office.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Mine Blast
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entrance and called the mine Office
to give the first word of the accident.
Immediately calls went out to
neighboring towns and rescue work.
ers assembled quickly.
There were demonstrative scenes
as one by one the first nine came
to the surface. They literally were
"mobbed" by their families and
friends.
The seven other men who came to
the surface were Roy Baker, William
Reynolds, Roscoe Higdon, Ed Mayes,
Joe Thomas, Henry De Priest and
Everett HibbS,
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Capital to Greet Cuban
Lions Club DELEGATION

With an 85-piece band to an
nounce their presence, 100 members
of the Lions Club of Cuba were to
reach Washington today. They plan
stop-over here on their way to the
Lions convention at Pittsburgh.
The Cuban Embassy plans to en-
tertain the visitors at a cocktail
party at $50 pm. The band, the
Cuban Navy Band, will play during
the party. On Monday the delega-
tion will be received at the Pam
American Union.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
40-Year-0Id Doll
Wins First Prize r
For Mistress, 10
30 Miniature Folk
Vie for Honors at
Brightwood Show

The old triumphed over the new
yesterday afternoon when 40
year-old doll displayed by its 10
year-old mistress took first prize at
the Brightwood School Fairgrounds
doll show.
Thirty dolls, ranging from petite
Princess Elizabeth to Grumpy of
Seven Dwarfs fame, were displayed.
Joan Lewis, 10. of 1897 Sheridan
street NV. was one of the winners
with her ancient doll, capped with
a wig Of her mothers childhood
locks and dressed in a blue polka
dot frock like her own.
Once Belonged to Mother.
Joan's doll first belonged to her
mother, present from her grand
mother. Deciding that the doll
needed new hair, Joans mother
sheared off some of her own auburn
locks and presto-a new doll with
light blue eyes and long. dark tresses.
The doll later descended to Joan's
sister, Jane, and then finally to
Joan.
Joan said her mother made the
dolls dress especially for the show.
Both Joan and doll were twins from
the top of their auburn locks to
the tips of their sandaled toes.
Another first-prize winner was
Denise Mcmahon, 9, of GAIA Eighth
street NV, whose little blond
haired Czecho- -Slovakian doll was
clad in quaint and colorful peasant
costume.
First prize honors also went to
9-year-old Ruth Inderlied of 816 E
street NE. whose sophisticated bou-
doir doll, dressed in fancy pink frills
and ruffles, brought her a green
ribbon.
Even Clothes-Pin Dolls.
Indeed, every doll had its day on
the sunny Brightwood School play
ground. Two prim little clothes-pin
dolls dressed in white polka-dot
frocks stood next to the corn-cob
doll, with smart plaid skirt and
brown knitting wool tresses. Snow
White sat demurely beside Princess
Elizabeth, whose blond head was
set of by miniature tiara.
Other flrst-award winners includ-
ed 8-year-old Doris Altman of 1909
Van Buren street NV, and Joyce
Niebell of 1865 Nicholson street
NV. Judges were Mrs. Leona Brad
ley of 1873 Nicholson street NV.
and Miss Margaret Dickey. art su-
pervisor for the Community Center
Playground.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Cunoeist Is Rescued,
Treated for Shock

Thrown into the Potomac River
near Key Bridge late yesterday when
his canoe capsized, Robert w. Price,
20, of 1923 Park road N w., was
under treatment at Georgetown
Hospital today for shock
Mr.. Price was rescued from the
river by other canoists and taken
ashore at Dempsey's Boat House,
near the bridge. His condition was
described as mot serious"
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Cupt. Nudeuu Indorsed
For Legion Position

Capt. Guy c. Nadeau has been
unanimously indorsed for the post of
senior vice commander of the Dis
trict Department of the American
Legion by the Cooley Mccullough
Post, No. %, American Legion. Capt.
Nadeau has been commanding off,
Ger of the National Guard of Honor
for three years.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Blust FeIIs Inventor
BY the Associated Press.

By The ASSOCIATED Press.
REDWOOD CITY, Calf. July IS
R.-John Kelsey, inventor. was
knocked unconscious yesterday bv
an explosion and fire that wrecked
his $4,000 laboratory in North Palo
Alto
A physician said Mr.. Kelsey ap.
parently was not injured.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

the supply bill and to make avail
able to the District government the
long needed funds for its operation.
Representative Stefan, Repub-
lican, of Nebraska, another member
of the House Conference Commit
tee, also declared the House con-
ferees had yielded on the lump sum
figure because of the critical situa-
ton confronting the District
Il don't believe any one knows
whether 100000 or $5,OOO,OOO
should be the amount of the lump
sum-" he declared. Il believe So
000,0 900 is enough. Yet we ran into
the serious condition faced by the
Commissioners and were forced to
compromise. It seems to me this is
a fair compromise, although most
of us feel $5,000,000 is enough"
Wants Fair Solution"
Representative Stefan also told
the House he believed something
should be done" to work out a solu-
ton to the fiscal relations problem
that would be fair to both the cour-
try and the taxpayers of the Dis
trict.
Representative Bates, Republican,
of Massachusetts,, a member Of the
District Legislative Committee, de-
clared a great deal of opposition to
increasing the Federal payment
came from members who felt the
taxpayers in their own States
would have to make up the differ
ence. Then he cited statistics
showing funds he said the Federal
Government collected from the
various States and the amount it
had returned in the form of grants.
In each case the Federal grant was
higher.
Mr. Bates said his figures were
taken from the annual report of
the Secretary of Treasury for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1898. He
explained the figures showed the
payment by the States of all forms
of internal revenue taxes, except
social security taxes. The amount
returned to the States by the Fed
eral Government, he said, repre-
sent w. p. A. grants, agriculture
subsidies and other forms of direct
aid, no portion of which had to
be returned.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Polish Club Picnic

The Polish Club of Washington
will hold picnic tomorrow at
Chapel Point Park, Md Transpor-
tation will be provided for those who
meet at 8 am. at Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
6,000-Foot Tunnel

A tunnel nearly 5000 feet long is
being constructed through the Wild
derstein Mountain to connect the
three German provinces Of Swabia,
Tyrol-Vorarlberg and Upper Ba-
varia.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

! o u II q uIlCOu-
scious on a cot
in the front room
of his home at
904 B on i f a n t
street, S i | v e r
Spring, Md.
Neighbors in
the apartment
snelled gas COM
ing from the
front room of
of the Nicholson
home and forced
the door. Mr.
Nicholson W a S
lying on the cot,
his head covered
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Woman Is Arrested
In Staying Of D. {.
Man in Panama
Madison Love, 81, Is
Shot to Death Outside
Of Fashionable Club
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PANAMA, July 15.-Mrs. Eileen
Watson. 30-year-old American, was
under arrest today following the
Staying of Madison Love, 81, an
American employe of the West In
dies Oil Co.
Mrs. Watson is the eStranged wife
Of Robert Watson, a surveyor of the
American Bureau of Shipping and
resident of the Canal Zone.
Mr.. Love was shot yesterday out
side Panamas fashionable Union
Club at the close of a ball ushering
in BaStille Day festivities.
Witnesses said four bullets were
fired at him, two of which missed
while one struck his left hand and
the fourth entered his left side.
He died en- route to a hospital.
Officials at the oil company said
they understood Mr.. Loves father
and sister lived in Maryland.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Late Arrivals Face
Wait for Seats at
Sunset Symphonies
Seating During Music
Bdrred, Effective
Tomorrow Night

The second of the Sunset SYM
phony" series by the National SYM
phony Orchestra will start promptly
at o'clock tomorrow night, and
ushers have been instructed not to
seat any one after the program
starts until there is a halt between
numbers.
Another large crowd was expected
to fill the open-air amphitheater
about the Water Gate on the Poto-
mac. DR.. Hans Kinder will conduct,
with Gloria Perkins, violinist, ap-
pearing as soloist.
The program will open with
Glinka's overture to Russian and
Ludmilla" and continue with the
long violin Concerto in D Major"
by Tschaikowsky.
Long Stand in Prospect.
There will be only one break in
the first half of the concert, and
persons not seated before 8 o'clock
may have to stand for a consider
able time The opening concert drew
an attendance of between 10000 and
$4,000, and some confusion was
caused, it was said, by late arrivals.
The Symphony Orchestra Associa-
ton today made the following state
ment on the subject:
There has been considerable criti-
cism expressed on the part of those
who were distracted by the seating
Of late arrivals during the first por-
ton of last Wednesday nights con-
cert
''The Summer Concerts Commit
tee feels the criticism was justified,
and regrets the distractions although
they were unavoidable under the
circumstances. Steps have been
taken to prevent their reoccurrence
at future concerts by setting the
starting hour at o'clock sharp and
by jnstructing the ushers to seat no
one after the concerts opening ex-
cept between numbers.
Early Hour Catches Sunset.
Each sunset symphony will begin
promptly at 8 pm. This rather early
starting hour is necessary if the
concerts are truly to be sunset SYM
phonies. Thousands who attend
regularly have told us that the nat
ural backdrop which the sunsets
over the Virginia hills provide for
the early portion OF the concerts
adds immeasurably to their enjoy
ment of the music In fairness to
them, we do not feel that We can
set later starting hour.
"As to the distractions at Wednes-
day nights concert, part Of the con-
fusion resulted from the delayed
work on the orchestra barge and
shell, which went on almost to the
moment of curtain time and conse-
quently held back other preparations
for the summer series opening. Part
of the confusion resulted from the
Unprecedented size of last Wednes-
days attendance, which exceeded
our most optimistic expectations.
And finally, part of the confusion
resulted from the necessary pre-
cautions which President Roosevelts S
staff had to take for his appearance,
and from the natural and spon-
taneous enthusiasm which that ap-
pearance evoked"
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Attended Naval Academy.

Madison Love, 33, former Western
High and Naval Academy student
who was shot to death in Panama
City yesterday will be buried there,
his sister said today.
The sister, Mrs. Bonnie L. Won
Steinner-Goeltl of Kensington, Md,
said members of Mr.. Loves family
here had been notified of his death
and had made the funeral arrange
ments.
Mr.. Love, the family was informed.
died en- route to hospital. He had
been in Washington last summer
and had gone to Panama to work
for the West India Oil Co.
Born in Seattle, Wash, Mr.. Love
came to Washington during the war
when his father, Maj. H. K. Love.
who lives now in Silver Spring. Md.
was transferred here He attended
Western High School, later trans
ferring to Dewitt Preparatory School.
He entered the Naval Academy. bu.
resigned in his third year, his sister
said.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
District Fireman Dies
Of Gas POISONING

John H. Nicholson, 3S, District
fireman. died in Providence Hospital
today as result of gas poisoning
less than "a hours after he was
Evening star., 1939-07-15

Airplane factories In italy are
operating at maximum capacity.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

PRESENTS CHECK-Lous Massey Oeft) president of the
Connecticut Avenue Association presenting check
to Harold Brooks chairman of the Summer
mtee OF the National Symphony Orchestra gesture
appreciation for the Sunset Symphonies
the proceeds from the associations spring style
presented yesterday. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Lists 6 States.
His figures follow

Mr.. Bates told newspapermen
after the House debate he cited
these particular States because
members from those States during
debate on the conference report on
the tax bill Wednesday had 'fbe-
grudgingly" indicated their opposi-
ton to an increase In the Federal
payments, while his figures show
the District is paying more to the
United States Treasury than It Is
receiving In direct Federal grants.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
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