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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-04
Newest Milford Story
Casts Boyd as Hopalong
Fsmisr Cast Surrounds Boyd in Latest Story Of Ranch
Country: Evelyn vensble in Feminine Role; J. Carroll
Kay Lnsker in Story Of Bad Mans Regeneration

William Boyd George Hayes and Russell Hayden cast
the familiar "Hopalong Cassidy" Windy Halliday" and
Lucky Jenkins respectively head the of Paramouns
'The Frontiersmen brand-new Cassidy thriller from
the pen Clarence E. milford The film opens today at the
Riviera theater
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-04
Going Places" and he
Road to Reno" Open 7 oday
Dick Powell and Anita Louise Head Cost Of Comedy at
Music Box; Randolph Scott and Hope Hampton in
Celebrated Story Of the Divorce City

Going Places the Warner picture which opens to-
day the Music Box theater with Dick Powell and Anita
Louise heading the cast hilarious farce whose action Is
interspersed with highly original and unefu
hare
Evening star., 1939-08-19

car, and he was forced to drive up
an embankment in trying to avoid
hitting him. Neither Mr.. Barr nor
a companion was injured when the
machine turned over.
Meanwhile, a 9-year -old girl, in
jured when her bicycle collided with
a truck yesterday, was recovering
at her home today.
She Is Carol Lee Ortel of 17O2
Webster street NV. The accident
occurred when the bicycle which the
girl was riding on Eighteenth street
NV. collided with the truck at
Blagden avenue.
Hester Smith, Sc, colored, of 312
P street NV received a fractured
leg last night when she was knocked
down by an automobile at Seventh
street and Rhode Island avenue
NV. She was treated at Freed
mems Hospital.
Niels Christensen, Social Sc
curity Board executive living at Ais
Wisconsin avenue NV, was re-
ported IN serious condition in a
Laurens Is. c. hospital after an
automobile accident near there.
The Associated Press said Mr.. Chris
tensen had suffered a back inssry.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Arsonists' Average Age
Past 50, BieIaski Says
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
In contrast to murder. robbery and
burglary, arson is crime of middle
age" A. Bruce Bielaski, assistant
manager of the National Board of
Fire Underwriters, told candidates
for deputy fire marshals posts at the
University of Maryland yesterday.
Mr.. Bielaski told the candidates,
who came to College Park from VOL
unteer departments all over Mary
land, that the average age of arson
lists is past so. The great bulk of
criminals are under Is years Of age.
but more than IS per cent of all
arsonists are past that age, Mr..
Bielaski said.
Written examinations for deputy
fire marshals were given the candi-
dates yesterday at the conclusion of
the two-day training school.
The training course stressed the
need for enforcing Maryland's fire
prevention code.
Hazelton A. Joyce, deputy commits
sioner for the Maryland State Fire
MarshaIs Department, also spoke to
the candidates on procedure for
deputy fire marshals.
Chief j. w. Just of the Fire Service
Extension School, University of
Maryland, outlined procedure in in
cendiary fires.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Victory Legion Post
Renomes Fitzgibbons

Patrick J. Fitzgibbons, account
ant in the War Department, last
night was reelected commander of
Victory Post, No 4, of the American
Legion
Mr.. Fitzgibbons has the distinc-
ton of being the first commander of
the post to be elected for second
term. Other officers elected at the
meeting, held at 414 Ninth street
NV, were Edgar c. Macdonald,
first vice commander; Glenn w.
Davis, second vice commander; {;
Frederick C. Jones. third vice COM
mander; Joseph w. Hanley, SER
geant at arms; Albertus N. Schroe-
der, welfare officer and chaplain;
Mr.. Hanley and John E. E. Lind
holm, color bearers, and John T.
Calderwood and Clarence Mccarthy
color guards. Graciano Carvajal was
named trustee for a three-year-term
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Program to Promote Traffic
Safety in District Drafted
Commissioners Approval Awaited;
Double Parking Survey Urged

A series of recommendations call
ing for new highway safety promo
ton campaign will be submitted to
the Commissioners in the next few
days by the TRAFFIC Advisory Coun-
Gil.
The new program, which would
be carried out under a $500 appro-
priation authorized by Congress, was
adopted by the council last night.
1t will go in effect as soon as the
Commissioners give their approval.
Whitney Leary, chairman of the
council, said the campaign calls for
city-wide safety efforts through
newspapers, theaters, radio, window
posters and street signs.
The council also recommended a
thorough survey by Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer of double
parking, both in the rural areas and
congested sections. Through the
study. the council hopes to deter
mine whether sufficient loading zone
space is provided for commercial
vehicles.
Film Trailers Planned.s
The council also anticipates max
ing motion picture trailers empha-
sizing the importance of sane driv-
ing and sane walking. which would
be shown in theaters throughout the
city. Schoolrooms, filling stations
and other places would be provided
with safety posters, and billboards
cautioning motorists to drive safely
would be erected at each of the 10
major entrances to the city.
Meanwhile, the American Auto
mobile Association announced pub
lication of new booklet on "Pedes-
trian Protection" giving the results
of a three-year study of the cause
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Court Refuses Aid
In Collecting Looms

Judge Nathan Cayton dismissed
three suits brought by Seventh
street merchant yesterday with the
warning that merchants who lend
money at usurious rates to their
customers cannot use Municipal
Court to collect the monev through
suits for merchandise debts.
The suits were dismissed after
the defendants, all employees OF the
Washington Terminal Co.. told the
court they had been paying excess
sive rates of interest on money lent
them after they had purchased
merchandise at his store.
Judge Cayton told the merchant
he was lucky" that the defendants
hadn't sued him to get back some
OF the money they paid at those
usurious rates"
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Trunk Staying Case
Is Turned Back 10
Washington Police
Atlanta Coroner's Jury
Decides Murder Is
Out Of Its Jurisdiction

A coroners jury in Atlanta, Ga,
decided today that Washington
trunk murder victim had met death
at the hands of "a person or persons"
unknown, and assigned to District
police the task of solving the mys-
terry.
The jury was sworn in by Coroner
Paul Donehoo at an inquest held in
an Atlanta funeral parlor. After
few minutes deliberation, the Jurors
decided that the victim-a dark
skinned young woman whose bat
tered body was found in a trunk
sent to Atlanta from Washington
had died of a skull fracture. The
woman had been badly beaten and a
bullet wound was found in her head.
Will Return Body.
The scene of the death. the jury
ruled, was out of it's jurisdiction. A
Washington detective, Aubrey Tol-
sol. and Washington deputy cor
oner, Richard Rosenberg. attended
the inquest.
1ney MADE arrangements to re-
turn the body to Washington. where
the first task facing investigators
will be identification.
Police announced today that a
bullet wound had been found in tho
victims head. The undergarments
in which the body was clad have
yielded no clues and the most tan
gible bit of evidence found so far
is small picture of a young COL
ored woman, possible the victim,
discovered in the trunk.
Body Discovered Thursday.
The pody was discovered in the
baggage room of the Terminal Sta
ton in Atlanta Thursday. 1t had
been checked aboard a Seaboard
Railway train out of Washington
Tuesday night. Investigation showed
that two men had taken the trunk
to the station here in truck and
police are searching for them.
Atlanta police say they believe
the body to be that of a light
skinned colored woman, about 30
years Of age.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
D. {. Legion Auxiliary
To Pick New Slate
OF Officers
Heads to Be Installed
Tonight at Closing
Session of Convention

Delegates TO the 14th annual con-
vention of the D. c. Department,
American Legion Auxiliary, were
meeting this afternoon to nominate
a new slate of officers for the en-
suing year.
Election and installation of a new
department president and other off,
GERS will take place tonight at the
closing session of the convention in
the auditorium of the Commerce De-
partment.
Miss Minnie May Hardy, the out
going president, will automatically
become the national executive COM
mitteewoman, succeeding Mrs. Doro-
thy B. Harper
The opening meeting of the con-
vention last night was told by As
sistant Secretary of War Louis john
son that loyal Americans should
rally behind the Presidents defense
plans in these troubled days.
I'VE must build our defenses so
strong that potential enemies will
think twice, three times, or even 10
times before violating our rights"
Mr. johnson declared.
At the outset of the initial session,
Miss Hardy led procession of dis
tinguished guests, officials and Gold
Star Mothers, escorted by the Ma
tional Guard of Honor of the Amer
ican Legion.
Mrs. Harper, the retiring national
executive committeewoman, handed
the gavel to Miss Hardy after call
ing the meeting to order. Following
the invocation by Mrs. Anne Elliott,
chaplain. and the pledge to the flag.
led by Mrs. Jessie S. Curran, Amer
icanism chairman, reports were
made by various committees.
The Viola Hines Fones Hood Eel
lowship Trophy. awarded to the
member who accomplishes most in
promoting good fellowship among
members. was presented to President
Hardy. A memorial service for de-
ceased members was directed by
Evelyn Copeland, chairman of me-
MORALS.
| obAiCio wiz SIOhC AlCluucu MD i.
Gen. Peter c. Harris, U. S. A., re-
tired, former director of the Ma
tional World War Orphans Educa-
tional Service; Brig. Gen. Frank T..
Hines, administrator of veterans af-
fairs, and William T. Slattery, re-
Gently elected department COM
mander of the District American
Legion.
The Auxiliary Juniors Conference
met in the auditorium today to hear
reports from post presidents and in
stall officers in the Girls Nation.
composed of high school girls who
are members of the group.
Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper, founder
of the Girls Nation. planned to in
stall the following: Mary Catherine
Ware of Sergt. Jasper Post, presi-
dent; Dorothy Snow, I'd Division,
vice president; Helen Zaruba,
Colley- Mccullough Post, secretary;
Alliebelle Wright of Kenna-Main
Post, chaplain: Patricia Lipscomb,
Potomac Post, sergeant at arms;
Betty Westlein of Killeen Post and
Marjorie Mccarthy of Victory Post,
color bearers
Evening star., 1939-08-19

and cure of accidents involving per-
sons afoot. The booklet will be sent
to motor vehicle administrators,
traffic engineers, motor clubs, safety
organizations and others interested
in bettering the traffic record.
In some cities, the booklet says,
pedestrian accidents account for all
traffic fatalities. A three-fold pro-
gram Of improving street facilities,
educating drivers and walkers in
their rights and obligations and Sc
lective enforcement against traffic
violations most prolific in causing
pedestrian accidents is recon-
mended as an immediate attack on
the problem.
Chief Findings Listed.
Some of the principal findings and
recommendations contained in the
booklet follow:
!. Most pedestrians killed are
elderly persons who have never
driven a car and consequently are
not aware of the problems of the
driver.
2. In city traffic. cars on the aver
age move eight times as fast as a
person on foot.
3. Right turns should not be per-
mitted on the red traffic signal ex-
cept where there is little or no
pedestrian traffic, or where other
conditions make such a plan i'm
perative
4. Full use should be made of
barriers to protect pedestrians from
crossing in midblock; such crossings
cause more deaths than any other
pedestrian action.
S. Pedestrian control, with pfnal-
ties for violation, should be at
tempted only after long-range edu-
cational program
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Police Trap Man
Accused as Bandit
In Goodacre HoIdup
Victim Of Robbery
Makes Identification
At Headquarters

Detective 1t. John Fowler chief of
the robbery squad, said today 32-
year-old man was charged with the
$500 armed robbery of collector for
the Goodacre restaurant chain
August 7, following his arrest last
night in police trap at Wisconsin
avenue and Ellicott street NV.
Identifying himself as Clarence D.
Bache of the 100 block of Euclid
street NV, the man denied any
connection with the robbery, which
occurred during the morning rush
hour in the TOO block of H street
NE, but 1t. Fowler said the victim.
Mrs. Beulah St. Clair, 10, identified
the suspect at police headquarters
shortly after his arrest.
The man was trapped, police re-
vealed, through a description of the
sedan in which the bandit escaped
with two accomplices after the
holdup.
1t. Fowler said an eighth precinct
officer in scout car spotted the
sedan Thursday night at the Wis
consin avenue and Ellicott street
intersection, but lost it after trail
ing it for several blocks.
The scout car went back to the
intersection last night. Soon the
car stopped in front of a house in
the 400 block of Ellicott street
The officer reported a man went into
the house and returned with a
woman. The two were arrested as
they stepped into the sedan.
Two pistols were found in the car
1t. Fowler said Bache was held
under $4,000 bond.
The robbery occurred as Mrs. St
Clair stood near a truck in which
she was being driven from one
Goodacre restaurant to another to
make collections. An unmasked
white man stepped from a sedan
and calmly forced her to the truck
and held her and a colored driver
at pistol point while he took the
bags containing the week lend re-
ceipts of the three restaurants Mrs.
st. Clair had visited.
The bandit escaped with his COM
panions without attracting the at
tention of pedestrians and motor
lists passing the scene.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
FiIipinos to Celebrate
Birthday Of Quezon

BY the Associated Press.
The $4,000 Filipino residents of
the United States will celebrate the
birthday of President Manuel Luis
QueZon today with dances and
benefit functions for the Anti
Tubercular Society in the islands.
Since last year. President Quezon S
birthday has been the occasion for
anti tubercular benefit functions
similar to those held on President
Roosevelt's birthday for an infantile
paralysis benefit fund.
Dances would be held tonight.
Resident Commissioner Joaquin M.
Elizalde announced. in Washington,
New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Los
Angeles and other large cities by
Filipino nationals.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Why Must They Die? No. 81 "s 1's' Lost e Sse;%ss oSs
Analyses OF the 9th, 10th and
32d traffic fatalities haze not been
published, pending completion OF
Official Investigations. The first
t,Do mentioned Uere hit-run cases.

The place: Loughborough road
NV. about two blocks east of inter-
section with Conduit road NV.
The accident: A motorcycle po-
liceman, while responding to a radio
call of a prowler in the 1900 block OF
Forest lane NV. was fatally in
jured according to police when the
motorcycle he was riding rounded
sharp curve on Loughborough
road NV. and ran onto an embank-
ment. The motorcycle ran along
the embankment and apparently
returned to the road at which time
the victim was thrown off his cycle
onto the pavement, police said. The
victim was being followed by a scout
car about 100 yards back. Taken to
Georgetown Hospital, he was treated
for a fracture at the base of the
skull, lacerations and possible in
ternal injuries, according to police.
He died a few hours later.
The time: About 335 am, Mon
day, August IA.
Weather conditions: Dark, road
unlighted at point Of accident.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Boy Suffers Broken Leg
When Hit by Auto

Six-year-old Donald johnson. COL
ored, who lives near North Glebe
road and Lee boulevard, Arlington,
Va, suffered broken leg this morn
ing when struck by an automobile
which after hitting him ran up an
embankment and overturned. The
child was taken to Freedmen's Hos
pital by the Clarendon Rescue
Squad
w. R. Barr, Is, driver of the auto
mobile, said the boy ran from a
nearby grocery into the path of his
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Nearby W.P.A.
Pay 10 Rise 10
Highest Level
Metropolitan District
Stotus to Bring
Best Wages Sept. !

Maryland and Virginia relief
workers residing in the area desig-
mated by the 1880 census as the
Washington metropolitan district
are to receive boosts in pay after
September l to the highest P. w. A.
levels in the country.
The privilege is theirs because of
the ruling in the newly revised
wage schedule which provides that
persons living in the metropolitan
districts" of cities of more than
10000 as defined by the last census
shall receive the same wage scale
as those in the city proper. Wash
ington is one of the % districts so
recognized by the w. P. A. Since
the intermediate scale that has pre-
vailed here is increased to the top
levels, those fortunate enough to
claim residence in its environs are
to receive the same benefits.
In view of the geographical
changes made in the regional w.
P. A. setup. the chief beneficiaries
will be the Virginia reliefers in
Arlington County and the section
Of Fairfax County included in the
metropolitan district. Falls Church
and Fairfax are a part Of it.
Virginia in Lower Level.
While Washington and the State
Of Maryland are moved up from
region 2 to region l, with corre-
spending pay increases under the
new schedule, Virginia remains at
the lower Southern level. The only
exceptions are the communities in
cluded in the Greater Washington
area.
The pay increases for those fa-
vored Virginia reliefers are signifi-
cant. Unskilled outdoor workers in
the rest of Virginia will be jumped
from $26 to $35 a month in towns
under 5000; and up to a $50.70
maximum, according to population
ratings.
Under the Washington rate that
prevails after Septembed l, the
neighboring Virginia reliefers will
receive the maximum $57. For other
classifications of work the pay grad
yates to a top of 1890 compared
with the Virginia maximum of $sl 9t
in cities of 100000 and over.
Rockville Included.
In Maryland, Rockville, Wheaton
Lanham, Berwyn and Oxon Hill are
some of the farther removed COM
munities lying within the Wash
ington metropolitan district. Al
though Maryland is to be in the
highest w. P. A. wage region be-
cause of it's living costs, the pay OF
reliefers in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties would not other
wise equal the pay of those in the
Baltimore district. But for the fact
that they are now to be a part OF
the Washington district, their pay
would be based on the rate in towns
under 5000, which is the lowest in
the State.
The number of Maryland and Vir-
ginia reliefers benefited by resi-
dence> in the Washington district
is not large A statistical break
down" was not available at W. P. A
headquarters The number of per-
sons employed in Washington or
relief rolls as of August is was
9,567, excluding 507 in supervisory
capacities. Certified and waiting
for employment were 5,6l6 persons
Approximately TOO relief worker.
from Washington are engaged or
jobs outside the city, it was said
especially in Arlington County.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Highway Department
Cuts Accidents IS Pet.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. l9.-Giles
M. Robertson, safety engineer of the
State Highway Department, reported
yesterday the number of employees
suffering injury in the course of
their work had been reduced from
2,512 in 1928 to 671 in 1883, a
decrease of approximately rs per
cent.
The continuous decline over the
seven-year period, Mr.. Robertson
said, could be attributed largely to
a concerted effort to make all
highway workers accident-consciou
through the establishment of safety
committees in all the 81 areas hav-
ing resident engineers.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
R. {. A. AIIots $2,9l4,WO
The Rural Identification Adm

The Rural Electrification Admin
istration announced yesterday al
lotments totaling $2.9l4,00O.
Among them were Northern Pied
mont Electric Cooperative, Madi-
son, Va. additional $77,0OO to build
7S miles for 225 members in Cul-
peper and Fauquier Counties.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Survivors Of SquoIus
May Get Extra Pay
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER, N. H., Aug. 49,
Because OF ruling by the controller
general that deprives surviving crew
members Of the submarine Squalus
of extra pay for submarine duty,
Representative Arthur B. jerks,
Republican; of New Hampshire said
today he would introduce a bill at
the next session of Congress to give
the men the extra stipend.
The survivors will not receive the
extra pay from May %. when the
Squalus sank.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Widow Sues Restaurant
In Husbands Death

Alleging that her husband, James
Carl Stout, died of food poisoning
after eating in a restaurant in the
600 block of North Capitol street,
Mrs. Carrie Hunt Stout today sued
in District Court to recover $4,000
from the proprietor, Joseph M.
Gailliott.
Through Attorneys Barbour, Gar
nett, Pickett g. Hill, Mrs. Stout
said that her husband was stricken
last November 20 and died Decem-
Der 2.
Evening star., 1939-08-19

The street: Dry, curve with slight
upgrade.
!. The vehicle: Police said the victim
was travelling eastward on Lough-.
borough road about IS miles IN
hour on his motorcycle.
Evening star., 1939-08-19

The driver: A 29-year-old police
man with about years experience
In operating motorcycles, police
said. t.r
Coroner's verdict: Accidental
death. No inquest held.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Looun Confined to Home

Assistants said today Senator
Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky was
confined to his home under doctors
orders to take a complete rest of
week or more because of overwork.
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Band Concert

By the United States Soldiers
Home Band this evening at 6:3O
o'clock in the Soldiers Home band
stand. John s. M. Zimmerman.
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, as
sistant.
March, "The Iron Master"
Peter Buys
Overture, 'The Secret Marriage"
Cimerosa
ta) I'm a Chinese Temple Gar
den" Ketelhev
(b) There's Something About a
Soldier" CAV
Excerpts from musical comedy.
"Katinka" Friml
Popular numbers, Sing a Song of
Sunbeams" Monaco
Down the MALI Bolton
Waltz suite, Dreams of Childhood"
Jugend Traume) .- Waldteufel
Finale, Philippine Constabulary,"
Lafler
"The Star spansled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-08-19
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 43.
Motorists injured, 7.
Motorists arrested, 235.
Pedestrians injured, 3.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton of pedestrian control regu-
lations, 6.
Evening star., 1939-08-19

Peru may have gold mining
boom before 1910.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
IrujiIIo Defended
By Dominican T.. Of T.,

The Dominican Chamber OF Com
merce today defended Gen. Rafael
Leonidas Trujillo, former president
of the Dominican Republic, whose
invitation from President Roose-
velt to tea at the White House was
attacked by the Committee for
Dominican Democracy
"As Americans. we strongly re-
sent any criticism of the President
of the United States from such a
source, insulting his distinguished
guest the chamber declared in a
statement for the press. 1t added
We members of the Dominican
Chamber of Commerce in the
United States, composed of Ameri-
can business men, know that the
accomplishments achieved by Gen.
Trujillo during his administration
have far exceeded any public well
fare program ever instituted in
his country"
The general, who will be here
until Tuesday. when he departs by
yacht for New York, went to Fort
George G. Meade, Md, today to
see the troops there. A reception
at the Pan American Union which
had been planned for tonight in
the generals honor by Minister
Pastoriza of the Dominican Repub-
lie has been Cancelled out of respect
to the late Secretary Swanson.