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Evening star., 1939-02-12
Burglar Uses Glass Cutter
To Foil Alarm Systems

Armed with glass cutter ard the
ability to use 1t in q manner which
would not affect the delicate burglar
alarm systems, a thief broke into two
downtown store windows last night
and early this morning. making off
with furs from one establishment
and two watches valued at $75 from
! the other.
In both instances the burglar re-
moved pieces of glass from the VIM
dows and completed the thefts with
out being seen.
The first entry was made into a
fur shop in the 1900 block of G.
street NV. around II o'clock. OFF,
cials of the store said they could
not understand what had been taken
before comforting with the window
dresser. About two hours later the
thief used his cutting tool on the
window of jeWelry store in the
900 block of F street, obtaining the
pair Of timepieces.
He had cut so close to the de-
tector band on the plate glass win
dow at the latter shop that police
set off the alarm while examining
the broken pane.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Republican
Continued From First Page }

overruled in the case of some of the
newest American airplanes, we are
indeed justified in demanding all
the facts.
I'VE should also look into the
use which has been made of the
$4,000 100000 fund which is called
the 'stabilization' fund, and which
is used by the Secretary OF the
Treasury to buy and sell foreign
money. Improperly used, this power
could make us the most hated ma
ton on earth
Representative Wadsworth of New
York, speaking at Grand Rapids,
Mich. said serious consideration"
should be given to the implications
of a large national debt should the
United States be drawn into war.
How will it be if we are drawn
irresistibly into a major war and
are compelled to start with debt
of $4,000 100000 hanging over us?"
he asked. -
Pointing out that the debt will
reach that figure by 1910, the speaker
said that in event of war this coun-
try might very we'll be forced to
wholesale imitation of credit and the
currency itself" The aftermath OF
this, he added. would be the break
down of the present economic sys-
tenn and "the reduction of our peo-
pie to a state of economic misery"
Another speaker at the Grand
Rapids rally. Miss Marion E. Mar
| tin, assistant chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee.
scored the administrations relief
program through the Works Prog
ress Administration.
LAS Lincoln Warred against actual
slavery she said, Il can imagine
| his doing battle against the politl-
| cal slavery of w. P. A-the subtle
| self f-enslavement by the gradual
surrendering of initiative and self
| confidence, and finally the actual
submission of political rights"
Representative Fish OF New York
| told Springfield Ill) audience the
best way to celebrate Lincoln's
| birthday is ito strive to restore the
principles of government for which
! he stood
Mr. Fish called for "a united and
militant" Republican party ito op-
pose every New Deal attempt to
undermine our Constitutional svs-
tenn and set up dictatorial govern
ment similar to Fascism, Nazism
or Communism and every other ism
except Americanism.'
Representative Short of Missouri,
speaking in Greensboro, N. c., said:
irresponsible spending of the
Roosevelt administration had
brought the Nation to "the brink of
bankruptcy
The President in the last six years,
he said, had spent more than all
the Presidents and Congresses to-
gether from the time of George
Washington to that of Woodrow
Wilson.
He asked that a halt be called to
excessive governmental control
and excessive taxation so "the
wheels of private industry can turn
again" and that capital driven
into hiding may again be placed
in use
Evening star., 1939-02-12

whose distance was 2 2,445 miles. 1t
Kelseys plane was said to have done
400 miles an hour in West Coast
tests.
The fuselage of the ship withstood
the crash well, being only twisted,
but both wings were crumpled. rud-
ders torn away, propellers bent and
motors cracked.
With armed soldiers on guard,
Army mechanics dismantled the
wreck and trucked the parts to the
airport. where they will be exam
ined when the inquiry resumes TO-
morrow.
1t. Kelsey, 33, is married and is
regularly assigned to the laboratory
division of Wright Field, Dayton.
His flight apparently set new
transcontinental mark for Army
ships as the 9-hour 55-minute flight
of 1t. H. L. Neely last July % was
believed the previous fastest. 1t.
Nicely few from San Francisco to
Mitchell Field in a Seversky pursuit
plane. stopping at Salt Lake City,
Omaha and Cleveland.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
| Brothers Land
lin Cell After
at Station

Over the police radio it sounded
like an old-fashioned riot-a big
holdup, or perhaps some catastrophe.
The broadcast sent squads OF
officers rushing to the Union Sta
ton. Go to the train shed" the
order said. That was all
When half dozen or more police
men reached the scene. they found
Not riot. Not a holdup. Not a
catastrophe.
They found only two men, brothers
they were, who wanted to take a
train trip despite objections of the
station gatekeeper, who thought
their condition would not make
them ideal passengers.
The brothers insisted and the gate
keeper had to call j. D. Orndorff, 26,
q station officer. Bodily encounter
soon followed.
When the fight was over, the two
brothers and four onlookers who
somehow got mixed up in the melee
were in Jail, newsstand operator
was sweeping away some broken
glass from the show cases, and Janl-
tors were cleaning up some pools OF
blood.
The brothers, who gave their
names at the First precinct station
as Albert Glickfeld, 81, and Rubin
Glickfeld, 30, had three charges
placed against them, drunk, assault
and disorderly conduct.
Two of the onlookers, police said,
interfered when they sought to stop
the fight and were taken in custody.
Two others, posing as men from
the District Attorneys Office were
arrested and held for investigation
when they could not give q satisfac-
tory explanation of their conduct.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Rumuniu
Continued From First Page }

Calinescu. In the house where they
were seized the police found more
than 1000 rife and pistol cartridges,
several hand grenades and II pounds
of dynamite.
Calinescu. hard -fsted minister of
interior, job in which he had been
battling the Iron Guard, was made
vice premier February l. This eX-
pansion of his cabinet powers was
interpreted as an assurance OF con-
tinued suppression OF the terrorist
group.
Miron Cristea, 7l-year- pa
triarch of the Rumanian Church.
remained in the premiership, but
the change was expected to give him
more time for his religious duties.
Most of the youths arrested in
the plot on Calinescu were provin-
cial students who came to the capi-
tai after the inner council OF the
Iron Guard decided to avenge Codre-
anus death.
CalineScu, who then was minis
ter of interior, was generally held
responsible for orders leading to
the shooting of Codreanu and l3
others as they were being trans
ferred to Bucharest for questioning.
Since then he has become known
as the strong man of the cabinet.
The latest manifestation of ter
rorism was an attack on the Bucha
rest radio station last night in
which the Rumanian government
said one of the attacking group was
killed and Is were arrested after
an exchange of fire between the
terrorists and soldiers.
There was nothing in the govern
ment's terse communique on this
incident to indicate whether the at
tackers were Iron Guardists, but po-
lice acknowledged the possibility
there were political motives in the
attack.
The police, however, minimized
the effectiveness of the revolution
ary activity.
High police officials issued the
following statement:
I'm connection with recent ter
rorists actions of the late Iron
Guard, II arrests have been made.
All formerly were members of the
Iron Guard and had been under
observation. Four hand grenades
and two rifles were confiscated. No
military men were among those
arrested"
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Hit-and-R Crash
Leads 10 Arrest
In Arlington
Man, so, Being Held
As Fugitive Wanted
In Chicago

A hit-and-run accident in Arling-
ton County, Va. has led to the arrest
of a 6O-year-old man who is being
held as a fugitive from justice for
Chicago UllD officials, county police
said last night.
The prisoner, whose bond has been
set at $4,000 gave his name as Harry
Afford Hood. Arlington police said
they have a copy of an indictment
by Cook County Gll) grand jury
charging embezzlement of $720. in
volving fraudulent checks.
The search for hit-and-run
driver began Friday when taxicab
operated by Harold Strickland of
the 2700 block of Thirteenth street
NV, was struck on Lee boulevard
in front of Arlington Hall. Junior
college for girls A passenger in the
taxi. Mrs. J. R. j. Shepard OF Co.
lumbuS, Ga. who was en- route to
the school to visit her daughter, re-
ceived minor head injuries.
Police later recovered damaged
car that had been abandoned at a
IlltlIlS SldtIOll dt Ice dllQ w doiiiiiS
ton boulevards in Arlington. They
linked it to the taxi accident through
marks on both vehicles, they said.
Yesterday Mr.. Hood called Airing
ton police to claim the automobile
which they had impounded. He was
advised to come to the sheriff S Of
flee. When Mr.. Hood arrived De-
tective Hugh Jones arrested him on
a warrant including the fugitive
charge.
Mr.. Hood gave an address in a
Washington Office building.
Police quoted Mr.. Hood as saying
he would contest eXtraditlon to Chi
cago. 1t was learned that Mr.. Hood,
who said he is research worker,
has Laboratory near Merrifleld,
Va, about miles west of Falls
Church on the Lee highway. 1t was
said he had been experimenting on
a process to recover gold from GER
tain types of sand.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Plane
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1
guard around the Wreckage and
rushed the planes instruments to
the field Office, their condition un-
determined.
Col. James CLANCY, field COM
mandant, called an inquiry board
into session Immediately. with 1t.
Kelsey present. The findings were
expected to be kept secret and sent
to Washington,
New LOckheed Pursuit Ship.
The weather at the time of the
crash was clear, with a light shift
ing wind
The plane was a new Lockheed,
the Army's first tWin-engined pur-
suit plane. completed at the Lock-
heed Burbank plant two weeks ago
and capable of doing $50 miles
an hour
1t was an all-metal single-seater
with stratosphere operating equip
ment. tricycle. undercarriage and
super high lift devices.
1t was designed to carry a nest
of high-power machine guns, but
had none today. Its designation
was XP38
The National Aeronautic Associa
ton. which officially timed the flight
said 1t. Kelsey made the fastest
flying time for cross country flight
on record. but that his two stops
made his elapsed time II minutes
and II seconds slower than the
record set by Mr.. Hughes in his own
Single-motored plane.
Wreck Dismantled.
1t. Kelsey landed for fuel at
Amarillo at IL noon ,E. S. t. and
took off at 1922 pm landed at
Dayton at $40 pm. (E. S. T) and
took off at 3:33 pm. and reached
here at 4:57: :36-giving him a total
flying time of hours SO seconds.
His distance was estimated at
2,4o0 miles, giving him flying time
speed average of about 342 miles an
hour, as compared with the 332
miles an hour average of Mr. Hughes,
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Holmes
Continued From First Page)

Stephen Early, one Of President
Roosevelt's secretaries.
Mr.. Holmes joined the news
service in 1916 after having been
associated with the Indianapolis
Und) Sun, United Press and the
old New York Evening Mail.
A native of New Richmond, Ind,
he was Acknowledgements in the
newspaper field and served as presi-
dent of the Gridiron Club during
1888. During the World War Mr.
Holmes was attached to the 18th
Division and to the 258th Aero
Squadron as aerial observer.
Mr.. Holmes began his newspaper
career as a reporter for the Kansas
City tMoD Star and once received
a Pulitzer prize honorable mention
for his account of the burial of the
Unknown Soldier.
In addition to his wife, he leaves
two daughters, Mary Catherine and
Kathryn Early Holmes.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
1t. Kelsey Won Flying
Medal for Saving
Sons Toy Train
the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio. Feb. Lit.
Ben S. Kelsey, who crashed at
Mitchell Field today, wears a
Distinguished Flying Medal
because he stuck" with a fam
ing plane to save a toy
train for his small son.
On Christmas Eve, 1896, the
young officer was returning to
Dayton from the East when,
just west of Columbus. exhaust
flames set fire to one wing of his
plane. He elected to try a dash
for Wright Field rather than
"'bail out" When he landed
one wing of his craft was al
most destroyed.
The citation commended him
for taking extreme personal risk
to save Army property. He said
later he did it to save an elec-
trio train he was bringing with
him as a Christmas present for
his boy.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

of the two occupants, identified as
the one who tried to snatch the
pocketbook, jumped out and fed
Mr.. Gordon chased him and pulled
him down.
Meanwhile, police, attracted by
the wild chase, arrived and took the
driver of the car into custody.
Both were locked up and ordered
held for further investigation.
Mr.. Gordon, who has been driving
a cab for less than q year. was for
merly. for 10 years, with the Coast
Guard.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

then go to the proposed director Of
finance instead of to the auditor as
at present. The finance director in
turn would pass them along to the
governing body, possibly with his
own recommendations All ques-
tions of policy would be decided by
the governing body after public
hearings. The budget then would
be transmitted to Congress by the
governing body, short-circuiting the
present route via the Budget Bureau.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Shakespeare Society
To heur DR.. Dawson

DR.. G. E. Dawson, librarian Of the
Folger Shakespeare Library will
discuss "A Man OF Fashion in
Shakespeare Time" tomorrow
night in a talk before the Shakes
peare Society in Perkins Hall, Six
teenth and S streets NV.
Scenes from Richard III" are to
be presented during the program,
which is scheduled to begin at 8:15
O'Clock
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Man Kills Wife, Self
At Birthday Party
b. the Associated Press.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Feb. Ii
James H. Hendricks. 55, w. P. A.
worker, shot his 37-year- es-
tranged wife to death before horri-
ned guests at a birthday party
tonight, then killed himself. Coroner
James E. Roberts reported.
Mrs. Hendricks had been separated
from her husband for some time.
She was attending party for Hen
bricks landlady when he walked
in unexpectedly. The shooting.
which followed a brief quarrel. or
phaned the couples eight children.
ranging in age from 3 months to
10 years.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
Astronomer to Speak

Glen H. Draper, astronomer Of the
United States Naval Observatory,
will discuss The Philosophy Of Cause
and Effect when the Society of
Philosophical Inquiry meets Tuesday
at 445 pm. in the new building of
the United States National Museum.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

The weekly attendance at Amer
lean motion picture theaters is es.
timated at 90,00O,000.
Evening star., 1939-02-12
C.|. 0. AsksMembers
0fA.F.L. for Support
In Wagner Act Fight
Rank and File Urged to
Renounce Leaders on
Amendments to Law
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Charging that Labor Board has
favored C. I. o., officials OF the
American Federation OF Labor
hare joined employer groups In
demanding reuiSion OF the Wag-
ner Act at this session. Its pro-
poSals ,Uere embodied in suggest
ed amendments introduced re-
Gently by Senator Walsh, Demo-
crdt, of Massachusetts,. Last 1OeeE
Senator Burke, Democrat, OF
Nebraska also put torlOard series
OF prOpoSed chances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09
Autopsy Today
In Traffic Death
Of Pedestrian
John Calhoun White
Killed by Automobile;
Senator Gibson Hurt

An autopsy was scheduled TODAY
at the District Morgue in connection
with the traffic death of John CAL
houn White, 65-year-old pedestrian
who was killed last night when he
was struck by an automobile on
Florida avenue between Fourteenth
and H streets NE. Mr.. White was
the 39th victim of the District S
1899 traffic toll.
Mr.. White was identified by
Richard T. Mcmahon of 6l5 H street
Ne. police reported.
The striking car, according to
police, was operated by Carl A.
johnson. colored 10, of 1745 Eleventh
street NV, who was being held
today for the action of the coroner.
AT the same time police reported
that Senator Ernest Gibson of Yer
mont was injured last night when
the car in which he was a passenger
was struck by an automobile driven
by Herman E. Fisher, %, of 21O9
Eighteenth street NV, on the Taft
Bridge. Senator Gibson was treated
by private physician for minor
injuries and returned to his home
Trying to avoid a tree which had
blown over into Bacon drive near
constitution avenue during last
nights storm. Motorcycle Policeman
Livingston of the United States Park
police suffered minor injuries when
his machine skidded and overturned,
according to police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09


Rev. H. S. Wilkinson will deliver the
invocation, while Walter Hickman,
Washington, national first vice
president, will welcome the visiting
stenotypists. Miss Irwin will re-
spond.
There will be an open forum dis
cussion from 2 to pm. Part Of
the program will be broadcast.
Those participating in the forum
will be Miss Irwin, Mrs. Chloris
Coyle, Indianapolis, Ind, past presi-
dent, and Ed H. Hammock, Cleve-
land, Ohio. They will be inter-
viewed by Bill Coyle, radio director
of The Star.
The annual banquet of the organ
ization will be held tomorrow night
at 7:45 o'clock in the Continental
room, followed by a formal dance
from 10 pm. to l am.
Business matters. election of new
officers and selection of a 1910 con-
vention city will be taken up at the
Sunday morning meeting.
Officers of the Washington chap
ter who will be hosts to the con-
vention are Mr.. Hickman, local
president; Haines Dennis, vice
president; Marvin H. Hamlin, treas
urer: Helen S. Mckinley. recording
secretary, and Kate Schlosburg,
corresponding secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09
Hogerstown Man
Held Following
Forced Drive
81 the Associated Press.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, June O.
A 29-year-old Hagerstown man was
held on an open charge today while
county authorities investigated a
complaint that he forced a young
man and woman to drive all night
through Western Maryland and
finally into West Virginia.
The ride ended, Sheriff Joseph D..
Baker said, in Shepherdstown, w.
Va, where State policeman took
the man into custody after a four
State alarm had been broadcast.
The sheriff identified the prisoner
as Joseph R. Smith, father of three
children. He is estranged from his
wife.
Baker said John o. Doub, 81,
Hagerstown. and Miss Margaret
Simmons, Oklahoma City, Okla, a
student at Hood College in Fred
erick, told him they were stopped
at Halfway, Washington County,
Wednesday night at about 10
o'clock.
Doub said the man flourished a
pistol and ordered him to drive
around" Early this morning, after
driving several hundred miles"
Doub said, the man allowed Miss
Simmons to leave the automobile
at Funkstown, where she is visiting
her uncle and aunt.
Doub and the man continued to
West Virginia, where they were
stopped by the State policeman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09
Bakers Union
Counts Votes .
On Strike
1900 Other Workers
Would Be Affected
By WuIkout if Called

Possibility Of a strike tomorrow
of 600 members of Bakers Union,
Local 118. was seen today as the
union tabulated results of balloting
on proposed walkout in further
ance of demands for two weeks va
cation and 10-cent-an-ho wage
increase for helpers. A three
fourths vote will be required to call
strike.
Final count of the voting will
not be announced until 10 am. to-
morrow, according to Charles B.
McClosky, business agent for the
union. Meanwhile, efforts are to
be made to avert a strike through
arbitration, he added. Should rs
per cent or more Of the union
bakery workers favor a strike the
men will not return to their Jobs.
most of which involve night work,
Mr.. McClosky said. He estimated
that about $500 other bakery work.
ers would be affected by a union
strike.
Another important event on the
washington ldDOr front tomorrow
Will be meeting of representatives
OF the Carpenters District Council
and local contractors. At this ses-
sion Conciliator Howard T. Colyin
OF the Labor Department hopes for
settlement of wage and hour de-
mands, for which some 1000 union
carpenters have threatened a strike
Monday. The carpenters seek
seVen-hour, s13 day instead of
their present eight-hour, sl2 dav.
No developments were reported in
the building laborers' strike in
which 100 construction jobs have
oeen brought to virtual standstill
during the week Picketing bv l 500
iaoorers was stopped Tuesday. as
there have been no attempts at
strlke-breaking, but efforts to ne
gotlate differences between the
Building Laborers' Union and the
Master Building Association have
1alled to date. The strikers demand
increases of 10 to Is cents an hour
over their present pay of 70 cents
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09
Changes in Forgery Statute
Advocated by Justice Proctor
Lighter Sentence for Smaller Crimes,
He Believes, Would Aid Justice

Justice James M Proctor in Dis
trlct Court today advocated the
reduction of the forgery statute from
the present minimum sentence of
mlnlstration of justice in cases
one year TO permit a better ad-
where comparatively small amounts
are concerned,
The jurist suggested that the
district attorney. David A. Pine,
take the matter up with the proper
authorities with view of ameliorat-
ing the situation Mr.. Pine today
was out of the city, attending the
Fourth judicial Circuit Conference
at Asheville, N. c. Justice Proctor
indicated that the Department of
Justice should be contacted to see
II the statute cannot be changed
by inducing Congress to alter the
present provisions of the law.
In many cases where small sums
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09
Street and Number Plans
Pushed in Prince GEORGES

Immediate action in carrying out
the street naming and house num-
Der program started several months
ago. IN metropolitan Prince Georges
County was urged last night bv the
Prince Georges County Municipal
Of1cers' ASsocia ton.
The secretary of the association
was instructed to write to the Marv-
unconditional Park and Planning
Commission for a report on the
status of the work. It was said at
the meeting that no work has been
Gone on the project for some time.
The association also appointed a
committee to work with those an
pointed by the county Chamber of
Commerce and the Federation of
Citizens Associations to negotiate
with the Capital Transit Co, and
the Maryland Public Service Com
mission for adequate bus and street
car service after the proposed street
car terminal is completed at Mount
Rainier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09
Merle Sweet Heads
East Bethesda Citizens

Merle Sweet has been elected
president of the East Bethesda
(MdD Citizens Association to sue
coed DR.. w. c. Killinger, who de-
clined to stand for reelection, it was
announced today following the an
nual meeting at the Bethesda
Chevy Chase recreation center.
Donald Gray was named vice
president and Raymond H. Smith,
secretary, and Clyde Du Binder,
treasurer, was reelected. The
meeting was held at an outing and
picnic supper closing the sessions
until fall.
E. P. Ellis, chairman Of the Zon-
ing Committee, was directed to con-
fer with County Commissioner
Thomas E. Hampton on enforce
ment of coming regulations in the
East Bethesda area. Several homes
in residential A areas have been
converted into two and three family
dwellings without securing permits,
members Of the association said.