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Evening star., 1939-05-05

322-E, Star.
MEAT statesmen
To call on hotels and restaurants Answer
by mail ONLY. giving references. expert
ence. Auth Supply Co., Riggs Market. 142S
P st. NV.
PATENT LAWYER.
LONG G-ESTABLISHED FIRM DESIRES
MAN THOROUGHLY VERSED IN INTER
FERENCE PRACTICE AND PREPARATION
AND PROSECUTION OF APPLICATIONS
FOR PATENTS. NOT OVER As. STATE
QUALIFICATIONS FULLY AND SALARY
DESIRED. BOX 2a0-D Star.
MEN, white, over 81 years of
age, with D. C. permits, to drive
Diamond Cabs.
FREE INSTRUCTIONS.
For further details see Mr.. A.
L. Livsie, between 3 pm. to S p. m,
Room No. Ill, 1735 14th st. NV.
SALESMAN, used cars; splen-
did opportunity to men who
will work; plenty of prospects.
See Mr.. Bond. Call Carl Mo-
tor Sales Co., 1882 Georgia
ave. NV.
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tween Eve and K-Comfortable rooms:
single from 81: double with running water,
from 50 wk: double with bath. from S12 SO
vklp: 2i-hour elevator and switchboard
service Excellent dining room
Evening star., 1939-05-05

THE WESTMINSTER, 1907 18th st. NV
Comfortable rms. running water. inner
spring mattresses single, S5 up: double, ~
up: with bath 50 Showers, elevator. Large
frnnt 1-rnnr,, English IA sennenf ant 50 80
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FURNITURE cLEAhrp-sANlrlzEp

3-P1ECE upholstered suite cleaned -sani
reas. Natl. Cleaning Ser. Ad. 66O1.
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I4I4 MADISON. of leah n.w.-sinEle, or
double r., porch, semi-pvt. b.. detached
home Randolph 1874 after B
Evening star., 1939-05-05

PIANO, slightly used, latest mooel Colonial
| style spinet in mahosany; special to close
out only SlTg. Pay 81 monthly. New
piano guarantee. Natl. 3223 Arthur
Jordan Piano Co.. corner 18th and G
Evening star., 1939-05-05

DOMESTIC.
OPEN-Counterman. $50 per week: white
. colored women. g.h.w.: have white or
colored help Maine EMPLOYMENT Once
500 NV. Republic 21Os-2lO9. 5'
OPENINGS for - white housekeepers: live
IN. Maine Employment once. 606 G
st NV Republic 2lQS
RELIABLE AGENCY Dec 1851. 1902 l1th,
mas cooks. maids. mattresses. gh W. part
time day workers couples housemen
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1924 WISCONSIN AVE NW-Gentlemsn.
single room. private family. S4 week. Phone
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STERING.

Let us reupholster your old living room
suite better than it was when new. Pay
on easy terms IL you like. No deposit nee
essary. Call for free estimate. Met 534S.
Omitted utilitjeS. ! lQ5 9TH st n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
BrickIayer Is drilled
In Z Torso Sayings
BY the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, July Sheriff
Martin L. O'Donnell and deputies
continued to question a 52-year- old
bricklayer today in Cleveland's IL
torso slayings.
AS officers grilled the bricklayer
for the second consecutive day, Chief
Deputy Clarence M. Tylicki revealed
that the man had refused to eat
since his arrest Wednesday night.
The suspect admitted drinking
with Mrs. Florence Polillo, AZ, the
third torso victim, the night before
her body was found decapitated in
January. 1886, Sheriff ODonnell
said. Human blood stains were
found on the wall of the mans
bathroom and on large knife which
he had borrowed from a neighbor.
According to Sheriff ODonnell,
the man also was known to have
associated with Edward w. Andrassy,
%; Mrs. Rose Wallace, 40, colored,
and an unidentified tatooed sailor
three other victims in the our-year-
old mystery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.,
Star STAFF Correspondept

HOBOKEN, N. j., July Fifty
three days is long time at sea with
a rhinoceros. even very fine
rhinoceros-an Indian prince of the
animal kingdom.
Malcolm Davis of the Washing
ton Zoo looked bit tuckered out
when the motor freighter City of
Rayville pulled in here this morn
ing. almost two months out of CAL
cutta, India-so did Gunda, the
rhinoceros.
The two were in the best of health,
but they had seen a lot of each
other. They welcomed company
especially Mr.. Davis. whose wife was
waiting on the dock, along with a
party of friends from Washington.
Although Mr. Davis had last been
ashore in India longer ago than it
was easy to remember before he
landed in the U. S. A. he had to
show his floating menagerie-again
To say that he had some surprises
tucked away under the poop deck
aft would be putting it mildly. 1t
would seem that it never rains but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Dearth Of Guards
Blamed in Escape Of
Prisoner Patients
Neither District Jail Nor
GolIinger Has Personnel
Enough to Watch Them
BY HORACE KNOWLES.

How District Jail prisoners sent
to Gallinger Hospital for treatment
are unguarded and can simply walk
OUT was revealed today with the
escape week ago of two prisoners,
one of whom was serving a term of
four months to one year for house
breaking.
Charles A. Summer "a, who had
served only three weeks of his house
breaking sentence, and police
prisoner, Raymond CogsWell Barrier,
"a, walked out of eye, ear and throat
ward last Friday night. Only a
nurse. Miss Belle Lindler, 81, was
on duty in the ward.
Barrier, being held on charge of
lettering, was recaptured when he
returned to the hospital Tuesday
because an infected jaw for which
he was being treated needed further
attention. Summer is still at large.
Jail Supt. Thomas M. Rives said
today he did not have enough guards
to watch prisoners sent to the hospl-
tai except. when they were charged
with a serious" crime, and even
these oftentimes we're unguarded.
IL Prisoners Unguarded.
The Jail head said that last night
II prisoners who are not being
watched except by nurses and in
ternes were in the hospital. Ten
others are confined to the psyche
pathic ward, which is closely guarded.
DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, superintend-
ent of Gallinger, pointed out that
Jail prisoners come to the hospital
lust like any other patient" He
said their clothes are taken away
from them. but that his staff is
not large enough to permit him to
assign men specially to guard them.
Mr.. Rives said that the Jail guard
personnel consists of Is males. Six
other men are turkeys and cap
tains. How many additional guards
would be necessary to watch
prisoners sent to Gallinger would
depend entirely on the number Of
different wards the prisoners were
confined to. Excluding the psyche
pathic ward there are about 20
other divisions at the hospital.
Nurse Couldn't Stop Them.
Miss Lindler said today that she
checked the eye, ear and throat
ward about 9 pm. Friday and that
she went to another part of the
building. The two were missing
when she returned few minutes
later. 1t is believed they took
clothes from other patients.
Miss Lindler, who is on duty from
7 pm. to 7 am, alone in the ward
except for an occasional visit by
a doctor or inferno, said she would
have been powerless to stop the
men even if she had seen them
leave.
What could I do against two
mem" she asked.
In Police Court today Barrier was
sentenced by Judge Edward M.
Curran to pay $40 or serve 10 days
for lettering on q golf course in q
park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Riggs Beats Cooke
In Five-Set Match
For Wimbledon Title
Loser Takes Early Lead
But Rival Reeoins
Poise to Win Crown
BY the Associated Press.

WIMBLEDON, England, July T.
Bobby Riggs of Chicago beat his
roommate and doubles partner, Ell
wood Cooke of Portland, Ore. 2-6.
8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 60, today in the
all-American final of the all-Eng-
land tennis championship, before a
capacity crowd Of 1900.
Though he was within a point of
losing the first two sets. Riggs,
playing with that sublime noncha-
lance which has baffed British
critics, pulled Cooke back almost as
he liked and never really looked like
a loser after the start of the fourth
set.
Riggs, making his debut at VIM
bledon, now has won Is straight
from Cooke, who was not even con-
sidered good enough by the United
States Lawn Tennis Association to
have his full expenses paid to the
tournament. The only other Amer
lean ever to win the Wimbledon title
on his first visit was Ellsworth Vines
in 1882.
Cooke, little nervous at the start.
let Riggs get away to a 40-15 lead in
the first game, but he pulled himself
together to win with beautiful
slicing half volley. Again in the
second game Riggs got away to a
40-l5 lead, but Cooke started going
to the net and beat him with two
great smashes to take the game and
20 lead.
Both stayed at the base line in
the third and battered the ball back
and forth in tense, hard-hitting raj
lies. -Four times Riggs got to adj
vantage and four times Cooke pulled
back, and finally after 10 minutes
(See TENNIS paue Ad)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
fTert OF Representative Kennedy
Report on Page A-6.J
BY JAMES E. CHM.

Supported by President Roosevelt
Representative Kennedy, Democrat,
of Maryland, made preparations to-
day to push through Congress be-
fore adjournment his bill to modern
ize the District government
Mr.. Kennedy, chairman of the Re-
organization Subcommittee of the
House District Committee, intro
duced the bill late yesterday after
the President told Commissioner
George E. Allen at a White House
conference it met with his approval
The final reorganization plan as
embodied in the bill would carry out
most of Mr.. Roosevelt's ideas as to
how the municipal government
should be set up and operated 1t
differs radically in Gome respects
from the original program developed
for the House District Committee by
Griffenhagen &c Associates, a Chi
cago firm of municipal engineers
hired for that purpose.
Increases Commissioners Powers.
The present board of three Com
missioners would remain intact I'M
der the bill. The Commissioners,
however, would be given increased
powers, and serve as the governing
and policy making officials of the
District. Directly under them would
be a new official-an administrator
who would act as the chief executive
and administrative officer of the Dis
trict. He would have direct control
over the activities OF all depart
ments, and his salary would be fixed
at not less than $4,000 year.
Both the Budget Bureau and
Congress would be divorced from
any control whatever over the Dis
trict budget under provisions of the
bill broadening the authority of the
Commissioners. The additional DOW
ers granted the Commissioners
would include those to levy and
assess taxes and special assessments
according to law, control property
and finances, and to appropriate and
expend the money of the District.
Instead of II departments as pro-
posed in the original Griff1enhagen
plan to absorb the heterogeneous
array of municipal agencies, the
See D. c. ORGANIZATION, Pg. AS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
W. P. A. Unions
Fight for Change
In New Relief Act
A. F. l. Units Join
Strike Pressure for
Hours Revision

Pressure for congressional recon-
sideration of the 1910 Relief Act was
being built up today by organized
effort of two national unions of
w. P. A. workers, by official strike
action on the part of several build
ing trades councils of the American
Federation of Labor and by con-
tinued refusal of thousands of relief
clients to accept new wage-and-h hour
requirements Of the w. P. A.
Principal objective of the protest
effort. beginning Wednesday as the
new fiscal year statute became OPP
erative, was a relaxation of the pro-
vision that workers must put in 1870
hours per month for the basic Sc
curity wage rather than earn this
sum in shorter time at a higher
hourly rate.
Meanwhile, administrative officials
of the w. P. A.. poWerless to depart
from the precise wording of the law,
have pointed to the uselessness of
negotiation and informed their local
administrators that the conditions
must be accepted or the workers
replaced after absence of five days.
w. P. A. Commissioner F. c. Har-
rington said he personally favored
the requirement and that the
recommendation for it originated
With the w. P. A. He said it simpli-
fed the operation of projects to re-
qulre all employees to work the same
number of hours and also prevented
w. P. A. workers from earning their
monthly security wage within a
short time each month and then
taking an outside job under an as
sumed name
May Spur Job-Hunting.
Moreover, he said, he thought it
might spur w. P. A. workers to seek
jobs in private industry if they had
to work 100 hours for the monthly
security wage, which ranges from
$26 to S94.
In addition, the w. P. A. is max
ing preparations for carrying out
two other controversial mandates
OF the law, first to plan 3O-day lay
Ollo lOl all ItlltI WORKERS On Lne
rolls for lS months and. second, to
revise the present geographic wage
dlfferentials in such a way as to
preserve the national average of
about $3.50 per month, but to make
them correspond more closely to cost
| of differences in living costs.
Col Harrington, remarking that
the layoff requirement is going to
make it more difficult to administer
projects efficiently, estimated about
100000 individuals now on the rolls
will be affected.
Initial pressure for reconsidera-
ton OF these sections of the relief
law was coming today from the
Workers Alliance, w. P. A. union,
and the Workers Security Fedora
ton, rival organization.
Shortly after noon today it was
announced that David LASER, presi-
dent of the alliance, would meet
(Sne w p Douo AdN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Antitrust Drive
To CUT Building Costs
Outlined by Arnold
Restraints of Trade in
Housing Field Are
'IntolerobIe,' He Testifies
By TIE Associated Press.

Assistant Attorney General Thur
man Arnold outlined today a pro-
gram of antitrust law enforcement
by which the Justice Department
hopes to bring down building prices
and get more homes for Amer
leans"
Testifying before the Federal Mo-
nopoly Committee, the chief of the
Antitrust Division said a Nation
wide investigation now being carried
on by the Justice Department
showed restraints of trade in the
housing field were so prevalent and
their aggregate effect so important
that the situation is no longer toll
cradle"
Besides prosecution of law viola
ton on a national scale, Mr.. Arnold
said the department. program en-
visioned co-ordinating the activities
of the Department of Justice with
other Government agencies and with
business.
Trust should not be con-
sidered an end in itself" he told the
committee. Legal procedures should
be utilized in reasonable way to
get constructive results"
Action on Nation Wide Scale.
Mr.. Arnold said that to establish
"a free and independent economy in
the building industry-not Govern
ment controlled nor dominated"-it
would be necessary to take stimuli
taneous action on a Nation wide
scale against all restraints which at
feet the price of the final product"
The Assistant Attorney General
expressed the hope that private cap
ital would be sufficiently encouraged
by the departments program to un-
dertake low-cost housing expert
mentS.
Although emphasizing that the de-
partment intended simultaneous
prosecution of all combinations
creating the log jam in the build
ing industry" Mr.. Arnold said the
program would not be exclusively
one of criminal indictment. Civil
suits and consent DEGREES, he tolc
the committee, would be resorted tt
ISoa N60NODOI poro AAI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
400 Youngsters Awaiting
Soap Box Derby Start
Elimination Heats to Get Under Way
Tomorrow at | AN. at Ward Circle

With their hearts Lncomfortably
close to their mouths, some 400
Washington youngsters today were
looking forward to tomorrow and
the second running of Washing
tons Soap Box Derby.
The races are to be run in elimi-
nation heats over a down-hill course
on 1,250-foot section of Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, extending
westward from Ward Circle. The
four boys comprising the first heat
will roll down the starting ramp at
II am and successive heats will
follow Immediately.
Last years crowd at the Derby's
first running here was estimated
by police to be in excess Of 10000
persons, and an even larger num-
Der is expected tomorrow. There
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07

will pe 40 admission charge, and
spectators will view the races from
positions on both sides of the course,
which will be roped off to keep the
crowd from the lanes where the
boys and their home made coaster
cars will race. A grandstand at
the lower end of the course will
be available only to sponsors of the
Derby and official guests. Imme-
diately back of the starting ramps
large area will be roped off for
assembling Of the racers. Only the
boys entered in the event and Derby
officials will be permitted in this
space.
Public transportation to the site
may be obtained via the Massa-
chusetts avenue bus line, and by
(See DERBY, Page A-2J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
So Days at Sea With Rhino,
Zoo Official Arrives in u. S.
Davis Also Brings Collection Of
Indian Animals for Woshinqton

it pours at the Washington Zoo, re-
Gently enlarged by $50 specimens
from Southern South America, for
Mr.. Davis, in addition to Gunda,
brought back alive the following.
Six l5-foot pythons.
Eight Ceylon monkeys of various
types.
Four jungle cats.
A coffln-ike box OF gavials and
crocodiles.
Four cobras.
Six vipers, green and russell.
-Four green snakes.
Four white snakes.
Four ratSnakes.
A monitor lizard.
A collection of birds.
The bird collection included a
dozen Ceylon partridges. six Indian
cranes, a score of Ceylon sparrows
two ibis and a dozen ash doves
There was also a washtub full OF
water turtles and three tortoises.
Mr.. Davis exercised a lot of in.
genuity on his one-man expedition
For instance, he needed a long
lCaa znN De-. 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
RooseveIt's District
Reorganization Plan
Pushed for Enactment
Kennedy Offers Bill
Maintaining School and
Library Setups
BACKGROUND


Congress at its last session dp-
propriated $1,000 to finance a
surrey looking tolUard reorgnnis-
ing District government in the
interest OF efieiency and econ
omy. Firm OF Grifenhagen O.
Associates OF Chicago employed
to deeUlop q pldn President
Roosevelt, hoWeUer, opposed GER
tain features OF the original Grit
tenhGgen program, and changes
Uere made to meet his objections.
Changes also 1Dere made reluc-
family to Offset criticism of ciuic
and business organizations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Congressman Are Exempted
With Other Non-Residents
In Proposed D. 6. Income Tax
President Considering
Message on City's
Fiscal Plight
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
From 1878 to 1922 Federal Co..
eminent and District shared Dis
trict expenses on a $3.50 basis.
From 1925 q 60-40 ratio pre-
rallied, Nth Federal Government
paying DO per cent. Since then
a lump sum, decreasing from
$500 900 high to s5,0O0.000 for
the past te,O gears. has been er-
tent OF Federal payment. House
supported S50OO,O00 again this
year, but Senate stood firm for
Operton proposal of Federal OBJ
legation based on per cent of land
area in District required for ma
tional purposes, or about sS,OOO,-
600. D. C. tar and supply bills
are no,D seUen days late.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
BY J. A. OLEARY.

Definite agreement on the COM
promise Federal payment of $780,
900 and an income tax with the same
exemptions as in the national law
was reached by House and Senate
conferees today, ending the deadlock
over the local revenue law.
While the District appropriation
bill remains unsettled in the hands
of separate group Of conferees, the
basic controversy there has been
over the same issue of the Federal
lump sum and if the House accepts
the tax compromise it is more than
likely it would clear the way for
passage of the supply bill. Both the
Senate and House will have to agree
on the compromise reached today
by the conferees, however.
AS the tax conferees were TAX
ing the first step to overcome the
legislative impasse indications came
from the White House that the
President may send a message to
Congress early next week, calling
attention to the conditions under
which the District government has
been operating for week without
funds.
Present Status Continues.
The city will have to continue to
run in this unauthorized manner
over another week end, since the
House does not meet again until
Monday and may not take up the
tax conference report before Tues
day.
In accepting the House income
tax and letting the business privi-
lege tax die the conferees exempted
not only members of Congress but
most other high Government Off
Gals as well as an unknown large
number of temporary residents.
Without naming the exempted
groups it accomplished this by ap-
plying the income levy only to
those "domiciled" in the District.
The tax experts explain this word
has a definite legal meaning that
would impose the tax only on those
who have come here to make Wash
lngton t.lelr home.
Rates Still Undetermined.
The income tax will be drafted to
raise only S750000, after Chairman
Overton of the Senate conferees an
nounced that he will agree to sub
stantial reductions in the relief and
school building items still in dispute
in the appropriation bill, making
larger income tax yield unnecessary.
While the exact rates for the in
come levy remain to be worked out
in another conference at 11:30 to-
morrow, there was some indication
the rates may have to be high in
view of the personal exemptions and
the exclusion of large number of
temporary residents.
Use of the word "domicile" in de-
scribing who must pay the income
tax also eXempts the hundreds of
residents of Maryland and Virginia
who work in Washington
The personal exemptions, CORE
spending to the Federal law, are:
Single persons, $1,000; married per-
sons. $500 and $500 for each de-
pendent
The confereeS struck out the retro
active feature of the House bill that
would have applied the tax to 1898
income. Instead they applied it to
the 1889 income. payable March Is,
1910, the same deadline on Federal
income tax
Utilities Revision Included.
A last-minute decision by the con-
ferees today includes the Senate
revision of gross receipt taxes on
public utilities, and also applies the
new per cent net corporation in
come levy to the utilities. The net
result will be to add 100000 to the
(See D. C. FISCAL, Page A-lOD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Non-InfIummubIe Cos
Is Shipped to Poland

FTPSS,
AMARILLO, Tex, July THE
United States helium plant here
has shipped 100000 cubic feet of
the non-inf1ammable gas to Poland
for a stratosphere flight.
DR.. G. w. Seibel, in charge of the
plant, said the purchase was ar
ranged in Washington by the Polish
consulate at New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Ten Persons Injured
In New York u Crash
BY the Associated Press

BY Cl1e HSSOCIHCeU PTeSS.
NEW YORK, July -Four per-
sons suffered possible skull frac-
lures and six others were less seri-
ously hurt today in a rear-end
collision of two southbound trains
on the Second avenue elevated line
near Eighteenth street.
The crash threw several hundred
men and women off their feet.
Firemen set up ladders against the
81" structure to assist injured and
excited passengers to safety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Huze Interrupts Service

PHILADELPHIA, July 7 R-
Rain and haze interrupted sched-
uled autogiro flights today in a
Smile air mail service started yes
terday between the Philadelphia
post ONCE roof and the Camden
Airport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07

EDDYV1LLE, KY, July 7 (P).-
Anvil Rice, 49, who pleaded guilty
to numbering Walter Dorfman last
July 20 after hitch-hiking an auto
mobile ride, walked "the last mile
to death in the electric chair at the
State Penitentiary here early today
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-07
Flying Boot Leaves Horto

LISBON, Portugal, July 7 lP.-
The American Export Airlines flying
boat Transa tlantic left for Horta,
the Azores, today. The craft, west
bound on the return from its first
New Mediterranean survey
flight, arrived here yesterday.