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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Insurance Agents Pledge
HELD for Defense PROGRAM

More than 400 members of the
National Association of Mutual
Insurance Agents today pledged
support to the national defense pro-
gram at their ninth annual conven-
ton in Wardman Park Hotel. The
visitors were welcomed by Charles
M. Boteler, Washington insurance
man and president of the Associa-
ton, and Edgar Morris, chairman
of the Greater National Capital
Committee, Washington Board Of
Trade.
Most of the agents arrived here
yesterday for a preliminary bust
ness meeting. Speakers at this
mornings general session included
H. A. Kern of Van Vert, Ohio; AL
fred M. Best of New York, and
Raymond C.. Baker Of Boston, insur-
ance executives.
The afternoon program today was
to include talks by Robert L. Van
Fossan of Washington, Fred w. Cat
lett, member of tlye Federal Home
Loan Bank hoard; G. w. Sulley of
Dayton, and Harry Collins Spill
man, author and lecturer.
Rear Admiral E. j. King, men,
Der of the Nays General Board,
will discuss the Nays part in the
defense program at q luncheon at
1890 o'clock tomorrow.
Ofncers will be elected tomorrow
and the convention will end with
the annual banquet and dinner
dance tomorrow night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Glasses in Home Hygiene
Slated by Red Cross

Several classes in home hygiene
and care of the sick will be given
this fall by the District Chapter
of the American Red Cross, Miss
Caroline E. Thomson, instructor In
this course for the District Red
Cross. announced today.
Glasses will be limited to 20 STU
dents.
A junior course for Girl Scouts
will be organized at the Hine
Junior High School at 10 am. Sat-
friday. The class will meet every
Saturday for over six weeks, Miss
Thelma Bayard will be the in
structor.
The yearly fall class in co-opera-
ton with the Y. w. c. A. will be
organized at 7;30 pm. october 8.
The class will meet at the Y. w.
c. A., Seventeenth and K streets
NV, Tuesdays and Thursdays from
7::3O to $50 pm. Miss Thomson will
be in charge of instruction.
A class for foreign born will be
conducted in cooperation with the
Americanization Schools, beginning
October at 100 pm, with Miss
Thomson as the instructor. The
class will meet from 100 to $3.50
pm. on Mondays and Wednesdays
at the District Red Cross Chapter
House, 1870 E street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Campaign 10 Correct
Defective Teeth Of
Students Expanded
Puppet Show Conducted
By Specialists to Be
Feature Of Program

The Health Department campaign
for correction of defects in teeth
of school children will be expanded
during this school term to include
all pupils in the elementary grades
in the white, colored and parochial
schools. according to an announce
ment by Dr. George c. Rutland,
health officer.
Beginning Monday, teeth of pu-
pills from kindergarten through the
sixth grade will be inspected,
The program will be marked by
the presentation of puppet show
depicting the care of teeth. to be
given by specialists from Chicago
under auspices of the District Den
tai Society. The first show will be
given at $50 am. Monday at, the
st. Gabriels Parochial School on
Grant Circle. 1t will be presented
at II 80 am. at the Nativity School
6008 Georgia avenue NV, and at
100 pm. at the Sacred Heart School
in the 1900 block of Park road NV
In addition, there will be lectures in
classrooms by dental hygienists.
Teeth repairs and corrections, rec
commended by District agents, may
be made by private dentists. Dr.
Rutland announced, however, those
children whose parents are unable
to employ private dentist may be
treated free at the dental clinics
under the Health Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Gayety Restaurant
Penalty Reduced
By Commissioners
Lakes Liquor Permit
Will Be Suspended
For so Doys

James J. Lake, proprietor of the
Gayety Restaurant, yesterday won a
reduction of PENALTY for alleged
offenses against the District Liquor
Act there, so that he will be able
to reopen his establishment in time
for the holiday trade and the
Christmas and New Year ceiebra-
lions.
Finding on two counts that he
had permitted his establishment to
be used for immoral purposes and
of failing to act in good faith" the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
recently ordered his permit sus-
pended for 80 days, beginning Oc-
tober l and running to 8 am
January /.
After considering an appeal from
this decision, which Mr.. Lakes at
torney insisted would be drastic
even if the boards verdict were
sustained. the Commissioners yester-
day approved the boards finding as
to facts but ordered the suspension
reduced to so days, beginning Oc-
tober l.
In this connection, the Commits
Sioners stated: I'm view of the
mass of testimony in the case rela-
tive to the cooperation of Mr.. Lake
with the Police Department and
the statement of the assistant corpo-
ration counsel michael j. Keane),
during the argument on the sp-
peal, that he does not believe that
Mr.. Lake personally condoned or
had knowledge of the violations
charged, the Commissioners have
reduced the suspension period -"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
| Fortune Teller
Tor Scientist?
|Court to Decide

Attorneys in Police Court today
prepared to renew their arguments
on whether a woman defendant who
predicted the election OF Wendell
Willkie is a fortune teller or a
scientist.
Counsel for Miss Jamie Correll
Bartleman. "a. of 1800-A Connect
cut avenue NV. contend she is a
learned astrologer who has spent
her life studying the stars. while the
Government insists she is merely an
unlicensed fortune teller
The court was told at the opening
of the trial yesterday that Miss
Bartleman was graduate of Oxford
University and had studied naviga-
ton and astronomy before branch
ing out into astrology. The de-
PENDANT. it was said. had been con-
suited by Adolf Hitler, members of
the British royal family and
wealthy Americans and South Amer
leans. ...s
Defense counsel admitted Miss
Bartleman had accepted fees rang
ing from 81 to $1,000. but insisted
she was a scientist who issued gen.
eral forecasts as to dates favorable
to her clients.
Two policewomen testified, how
ever, that they paid her 81 each
after she predicted. among other
things, that Mr.. Willkie will win
the election and England will win
the war
Miss Bartleman was arrested in
her apartment by Policeman Earl
D. Alder of No Is precinct.
Judge Hobart Newman was to re-
sumo the trial today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Heavy Iron Safe Heads
List Of Overnight Thefts

A heavy iron safe was stolen from
a market at 5722 Georgia avenue
NV. during the night, police were
told today.
No estimate of the money in 1t
could be obtained The thieves
broke into the place through the
basement and carried the safe out
a rear door on the first floor.
Theft of more than 5000 from a
restaurant at Alb Neal street NE.
also had been reported.
Victim of the robbery was Louise
Splitgerber, proprietor of the restau-
rant. She said the money was in
her purse on shelf and apparently
was taken by some one who crept
into the place unobServed.
Two young bandits were sought by
police after the holdup of liquor
store at 1708 l street NV. shortly
before midnight. They obtained
about 5000 in the robbery.
The two entered the store and
confronted the manager, Joseph c.
Monaghan, 35, with drawn guns.
Tney OTueIeu INN oiiu
bow. Quentin Newkirk, %, to lie
down on the floor in a rear room.
When they were unable to open
the cash register the bandits re-
called Mr.. Monaghan. forced him to
omen it and then ordered him back
to the other room.
Two colored men robbed Lillian
Newman, 81, manager OF an ice
cream store at 1865 New Hampshire
avenue NV, as she was closing
the place at midnight. They OBJ
tanned about $40 at pistol point.
Purse snatchers seized a pocket
hook from Clara Beans of 3l3 East
Capitol street last night as she
walked on Third street Sc. near A
street. The purse contained
about SIG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
D. T.. Officials
Study Baltimore
FoodStampP|an
Commissioners Visit
Nearby Metropolis
To Get information

District Commissioners j. Russell
Young and David McCoach, jr.,
were in Baltimore today to study
the operation of a food stamp plan
In that city. Budget Officer Daniel
j. Donovan and Welfare Director
Robert E. Bondy accompanied the
Commissioners.
Mayor Howard Jackson of Bali
more greeted the District officials
upon arrival and introduced them
TO T. J. Waxter. director of Public
Welfare in Baltimore. Mr.. WaXter
called in Irwin Quinn, superin-
tendent of the Surplus Commodities
Corp. activities to talk to the Wash
ington representatives.
The food stamp plan has been in
operation in Baltimore since April
and is considered successful by
municipal officers there. Every
month, they told the Commissioners,
the demand for stamps has in
creased
The Commissioners now are near
Ing the close of their hearings for
department heads on the proposed
1912 District budget estimates. 1t
was reported that there is some dis
agreement among the Commissioners
as to whether they again should
recommend an appropriation Of
S150.0O0 to be used as a revolving
fund for the purchase Of food
stamps.
One Commissioner is said to be
doubtful that the District should
seek an appropriation for the pur-
pose.
The Commissioners earlier this
year approved a food stamp plan
for the District and asked Congress
for an appropriation. The House
already had acted on the approprla-
ton bill for this fiscal year and the
requested s150,000 was inserted by
the Senate, only to be taken out by
Senate House confereeS when the
bill received final consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
100000 Request
For Charity Made
By Depew Widow
Will Also Leaves More
Than S100, 900 to
Relatives and Friends

Public charitable requests aggre-
eating 100000 and gifts totaling
much more than 100000 to rela-
tives and friends were among the
items in the will of Mrs Nav Palmer
Depew. 73-year- old widow of the
famous humorist, statesman and
orator. Chauncey M. Depew, filed
today in District Court.
The exact amount of, her estate
will not be known until an inven-
tory is filed with the court, when
Attorney Henry F. Butler. repre-
senting the estate. seeks a petition
for probate Of the will.
Mrs. Depew left $50 900 to Emer-
gency Hospital. directing that $50 900
of this be used for a course in &C.
cupational therapy.
She bequeathed $4,000 to st.
Matthews Cathedral here and left
$4,000 to George Washington Uni
versity to be added to the Chaun-
cey M. Depew memorial trust fund
| to stimulate public speaking.
The Church of st. Theresa at
Briarcnff. Westminster County, N.
Y, was left $4,000.
$4,000 Gift Refused.
Thomas H. Wilson of Scarsdale
! N. Y, was left $4,000, but mas
much as he is vice president of the
| United States Trust Co. of New
York, named as one of the executors
of the estate, he declined this be-
quest The court was informed that
Mr.. Wilson declined to accept the
gift because it is customary for Of
ficers and members of the trust COM
pany never to accept gifts from an
estate with which the firm is con-
nected as executor.
Named as executors with the
trust company are Mrs. Charles c.
Glover, jr., cousin of the testatrix,
and Attorney Butler, both Of this
city.
Mrs. Depew left to her sister, Alice
Wedel harrisburg of Paris. France
$4,000 in addition to gifts made
during life.
Mrs. Depew, who died July 81,
made her will on January 6. Among
the requests are these personal lega-
cies: To her brother-in-law, Fred
erick Wedel harrisburg. $4,000; Mrs.
George Wade Martin. 1915 Nine
tenth street NV, $4,000: Mrs.
Kate Deering Ridgley, 1908 @ street
NV, $4,000 Mrs. Marion Sander
son Nall of Tarrytown, N. Y, $40, 900,
and to Attorney Butler an equal
sum.
Servants Remembered.
Employees of Mrs. Depew were
remembered in her will as follows:
William Schilling, chauffeur for
many years. $4,000; Sylvia Paw
lousek, $4,000; other servants who
had been in her employ $3.50 for one
years service, $500 for two years
and 81 900 for three years.
Mrs. Depew left her cousin, Mrs.
Glover, all of her real estate, in
Guiding 2107 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, and all of her tangible per-
sonal property, as we'll as one-half
of the residue of the estate. The
other half is to be held by the
executors in trust for Mrs. Depew's
cousin, Mrs. Eva McAllister Prichett,
during her life and for Mrs.
Prichett's daughter during her life.
The balance is then to be distributed
one-third to the children of Mrs.
Prichett's daughter and the rest to
Mrs. Glover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Baroness von Pogenhordt Dies
After Overdose of Medicine
Coroner and Police
Probe Death of
Society Leader
BULLETIN.

An officer at the District
Morgue said this afternoon that
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
had issued a certificate OF death
by natural causes. for Baroness
Won Pagenhardt. Death was due
to apoplexy, it was stated.
Baroness Marie vor Pagenhardt,
AZ, socially prominent wife of Baron
Macmillan Won Pagenhardt, con-
sulting engineer, and former Ger
man nobleman. died this morning in
Garfield Hospital, where she was
taken last night suffering from a
severe headache"
Dr. M. C. Dollman. who called to
the Won Pagenhardt home at 24l5
Foxhall road NV. yesterday by her
husband, who renounced his title
to become an American citizen in
1882. said Baroness VOL Pagenhardt
accidently had taken an overdose
of a headache potion
The cause of death was not Of
ficially disclosed, pending an investi-
cation by DR.. A. Magruder Mac
Donald, coroner, and Detective
Sergt. Dewey Guest of the homicide
squad
DR.. Dollman told police that a
son, Robert. a student at ST Adams
School for Boys, had been with the
baroness all yesterday afternoon,
when she complained of a severe
headache.
Baron Won Pagenhardt, who is
the son Of Baron Robert and Prin-
cess Alexandria Won Ysenburg, re-
turned home about 430 pm, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
ILow-Cost Homes
On Old Georgetown
Road Protested
Montgomery Bourd
Refers Natter to Park
And Planning Body
A. P. Photo.

A protest against construction OF
a low-cost residential project on Old
Georgetown road in Bethesda was
received by the Montgomery County
Board of Commissioners yesterday
from E. P. Knollman, who resides on
an adjoining tract at POOL Old
Georgetown road.
In a letter to the commissioners
Me-. Knollman said that building
permit already had been issued for
$3.50 house on a 40-acre tract
between Beech drive and GroSyenor
lane and that a large number OF
similar type houses was planned fol-
the site.
Claiming that the proposed houses
are Of a considerably less expensive
type than others in the area, he
wrote that, in his opinion. "a de-
velopment of this nature will destroy
to a very great degree the value OF
the property in the neighborhood
including the value of my own home
and will also be definitely detri-
mental to the best interests of Be-
thesda and Montgomery County as
whole"
The board referred the matter to
the Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission for con-
sideration when the subdivision plat
for the project comes up for ap-
proval, The area already is zoned
for residential purposes.
The board ordered advertised fol
a hearing an application from J
Guy Neel, attorney for Harry Poret-
sky and Clifford E. Thomas to re-
zone from residential A to COM
mercial D lot II and parcel A OF
block A, Woodside Village, on Geor-
gia avenue between Ridge road ano
Corwin drive.
ALIVE A. Monkey, county inspector
of weights and measures, reported
to the board yesterday that during
the year ending September Is he
had made LAO inspections of gaso-
line pumps, of which 1854 were cor
rect, 80 measured over and 81 meas
ured short on the first inspection
Ten pumps have been replaced by
new ones, six more will be and the
others have been corrected, he re-
ported.
Of the 1880 scales tested, 80 were
found out of order and adjusted
and II have been replaced, he said
Twelve sets of spring scales and five
computing scales have been con-
demned.
Word that Fred w. Heine, whom
the board last week appointed clerk
of the Silver Spring Police Court
has been named committing magis-
trate of the fifth election district
by Gov. O'Conor was received by
the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25

In investigating and reporting
traffic accidents. members OF In
spector Miller's 31-man accident in
vestigation squad will follow a 10
point program designed to cover
thoroughly every angle of any mis-
hap.
Intended to help prevent similar
accidents in the future and to bring
the person at fault into court, the
procedure calls for the investigating
officer to determine first whether
the accident has been caused by a
hit -and-run motoriSt.
Then Identify Driver.
The next step is to identify the
driver of the car and the victim.
If only automobiles are involved,
then drivers of all cars in the acct
dent must be identified.
After all witnesses to the crash
have been identified, written state
ments from both witnesses and
driver or drivers are obtained. These
statements are then checked by the
officer so that they provide clear
picture of what happened.
Pictures of any skid marks and OF
the automobile or automobiles in
volved in the crash are then to be
taken, after which complete meas
urements of the marks are to be
made.
Weekly Analysis.
The brakes on the vehicle or We
hicles are checked, and after re-
viewing the facts at hand, the off,
Ger makes an arrest if he thinks an
arrest is justified. Finally, he makes
out a full report in duplicate. One
copy goes to the precinct in which
the accident occurred and the other
to Inspector Miller.
A weekly analysis of all the re-
ports will be made by the inspector
in order to discover just what factor
is responsible for most of the acct
dents. recommendation will be
sent to the various precincts to
concentrate on these traffic VIOLA
tions.
Yesterday, the squad investigated
So accidents, in which IL persons
three motorists and nine pedestrians
were injured. AS a result of the
Investigations, charges of violating
traffic regulations were placed
against 20 of those involved.
In one case, a driver was injured
when his automobile ran into a tree
on Maine avenue near H street S.W.
Police said he had fallen asleep at
the wheel and charged him with
careless driving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Drug Antitrust Probers
Comb 10 Tons of Data

In a secluded Office in the Police
Court Building officials of the De-
partment of Justice are going
through approximately 10 tons of
material, some of it supplied by
business houses over the Nation, in
an effort to determine if the drug
industry is violating the Sherman
antitrust or other statutes.
For the past several weeks, these
officials have been combing the
records and the task Is now nearly
completed.
Kenneth L. Kimble, special assist
ant to Attorney General Robert
Jackson, in charge of the inquiry,
said today that he hopes to complete
the examination of the records in
from three weeks to a month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Marcel Cusuvunt Oliver,
6. U. Prep Student, Dies

Marcel Casavant Oliver, 10, son of
Maj. and Mrs. Fred N. Oliver,
4 Laurel Parkway, Chevy Chase, Md. :,
died last night in Doctors Hospital
after a brief illness. A student at
Georgetown Preparatory School. he
was active in athletics and other
school affairs.
Besides his parents, the boy is
survived by a brother, Fred, jr.,
living in Texas, and a sister, Miss
Marie Oliver of this Sity.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow, with mass at Blessed Sac
rament Catholic Church at II am
Burial will be at his mothers former
home, st. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
10-Point Procedure
Fixed for Investigating
Auto Accidents
Inspector Mi|Ier's Squad
To Take Witnesses
Written Statements
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
yesterday:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured. 5.
Motorists arrested, 352.
Pedestrians injured. 7.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg.
ulations, none.
The traffic record for 24-hour
period ending at 8 am. today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 36.
Motorists injured, 3.
Motorists arrested. 335.
Pedestrians injured. 9.
Pedestrians arrested for vlo-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
GreenbeIt PIT. A.
Officers Installed

New officers of the Greenbelt
Md Parent Association
were installed at meeting at the
Greenbelt School Monday night.
Those who took office were Mrs.
MILFORD Miller, president; Mrs. o.
Kline Fulmer. vice president; Mrs.
c. Ritchey. secretary; Leon Beneflel.
treasurer, and Mrs. o. NJ. JohnSon,
historian,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Housing Needs Survey
To Stress Rent Control

Results of the United Federal
workers survey of housing needs
of Government workers will be an
nounced tonight at the second
housing conference of the Washing
ton industrial Union Council in the
north Interior Department Audi
torium. Rent control Will be en-
phasized.
include A. D. Lewis, brother OF John
T. Lewis and chairman of the
United Construction Workers Or
ganizing Committee; Oliver Met
zerott, District Rent Commission
chairman in 1925; Morton ahaf-
fran. member of the U. F. w. A.
Housing Committee, and Charles S.
Duke, chairman Of the I: U. G. Hous-
inr Committee. Cecil Owen, presi-
cent, will preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Scholarships Awarded
To Three Students

R. Stanley LeVallee, 314 Ritten-
house street NV, and Austin p.
Dodge, 9 Grafton street, Chevy
Chase, Md, have been awarded
freshmen scholarships to Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, it was
announced yesterday.
Mr.. LaVallee was graduated from
Central High School and Mr.. Dodge
from Woodrow Wilson High School.
The scholarships were competitive.
1t was announced also that Robert
D. Arnold of 300 Q street NV. had
received the special regional scholar
ship award established by the Tech
nology Club here. H. D. Randall,
jr., was chairman of the committee
making the award which carried q
full years tuition. Mr.. Arnold pre-
pared ct Western High School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Chancellor to Celebrate
Communion Moss

The Right Rev. Joseph M. Nelli-
gan, chancellor of the archdiocese
of Baltimore and Washington, will
celebrate the annual communion
mass Of the Washington Laywomen
Retreat League at 8 am. Sunday in
st. Matthew'S Cathedral.
A breakfast will follow the mass
at the Mayflower Hotel at 8 a m, az
which the Rev. John S. Spence,
spiritual director of the league, will
speak. The Rev. Aloysius Hogan,
s. j., dean Of the graduate school
of Georgetown University, also will
speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25

summoned DR.. Dollman, an old
family friend.
Baroness Won Pagenhardt, the
former Marie Depuy Adams of St.
Louis, was married In 1918. Her hus-
band came to the United States in
1910 and was naturalized eight years
ago.
Baron Won Pagenhardt served as
naval architect and consulting en-
gineer in st. Louis from 1917 to
1923. He designed the low draft
steel barges and tugboats for the
War Department now in use on
the Mississippi and Ohio River
waterway systems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Trinity College Opens

Trinity College in Brookland
opened formally today the new
scholastic year with a new program
in economics calculated to combine
education in economics with inter-
national relations, language, diplo-
macy and science. Miss Eva Ross,
a graduate in economics of the Uni
versity of London, heads the eco
Monies department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Reception for Teachers

The Parent-Teacher Association
of Henry Clay School, Lyon Park.
Arlington, Va, will start its years
program tomorrow night with . re-
ception f6r teachers In the school.