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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-27
Baltimore Neighbors Meet
In Pennsylvania Crash
By the Associate. Press.

DUBOIS, Pa, Aug. Pitts a small
world.
Occupants of two automobiles,
crawling out of the wreckage after
the cars collided head-on on the
Million Dollar" Highway near
Byrnedale, found they were neigh
bors-living about block apart at
Baltimore, Md, $50 miles away.
Mrs. Anna G. Conner and Mrs.
Isabelle Foreman, riding in one car.
were hospitalized because of minor
injuries. Mrs. Connor's son, John,
escaped injury, as did Harry r.
Miller, who was in the other ma
chine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-27
BY the Associated Press.

BY ING ASSOCIAteu Ffcbbs ?
A SCOTTISH PORT, Aug. II
delayed BY CENSOR Tall, bearded
Comdr. Ben Bryan of the submarine
Seahon told today how an enemy
merchant ship rammed his vessel
just outside a German naval base,
ripping away the deck rails and
tearing both periscopes loose.
The dented and damaged Sealion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-27
Police Seek VunduI

Police of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
are trying to trap a man whose
amusement is to shoot lead bullets
with a slingshot into automobile
windshields.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-27

WOMEN PROTEST POLL years ago Yesterday women were granted
delegation the Capitol with 100
CaIfo niawitho nlookng
Evening star., 1940-04-30
City News in Brief
TODAY.

Dinner. Instructive Visiting Nurse
Society, Mayflower Hotel, 7 pm.
Dinner, Beta Eta Phi Sorority,
Hotel 2400, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Collectors Club, Branch
S, S. P. A., Thomson Community
Center, 8 pm.
Meeting, Friendly Sons Of st. Pat
rick. Mayf1ower Hotel, pm.
Dance, West Virginia State So
ciety, Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, ladies night, Washington
Council, Knights Of Columbus, Will
lard Hotel, 10 pm.
Annual meeting, United States
Chamber of. Commerce, Willard
Hotel, all day.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, George Washington Uni
versity Hospital Women's Board,
Mayflower Hotel, 10:30 am.
Luncheon, Gyro Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Soroptimist Club, Will
lard Hotel, pm. .. ........
Meeting, Photo Engravers' Union,
Hamilton Hotel, $50 pm.
Dinner, Pierce Butler Law Club,
Raleigh Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Master Plumbers Asso-
citation, Hotel 2400, 8 pm,
Meeting, Washington Philatelic
Society, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Alpha Beta Phi Frater-
nifty, Ambassador Hotel, pm.
Dance. Interior Department, Hotel
2400, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1940-04-30
Central Union Mission
Fund Above $4,000

Mrs. Howard E. Thompkins re-
ceived a rousing ovation at the
Central Union Mission report dinner
at the Calvary Baptist Church last
night when she announced the
highest amount yet brought in by
any individual team. With her
total of nearly $500, she won the
silver cup for the women's division
and lifted the campaign figure to
date to $40,753.5O. .-.
Elton H. Brown was awarded the
cup for the mems division in the
days totals. The mission is con-
Quoting drive for 100000 to build
an addition to the present structure
and will hold the next report dinner
Thursday night at Calvary Church,
where campaign headquarters have
been established
DR.. Chesteen Smith opened last
nights meeting with prayer. w. w.
Everett, general campaign chairman
and presiding officer, introduced
Wilbur La Roe, jr., as star salesman
of the Advance Gifts Committee
who told the workers the methods
he used in getting his large totals.
American flags in silk and ar
ranged to stand on winners tables
were given to these division leaders:
J. K. Althaus, G. M. Gooch, w. o.
Grapes, G. c. Lake, H. Palmer, E. H.
Brown, Miss Bertha Jabin, Miss
Mary Allen, Miss Dorothy Herring,
Evening star., 1940-04-30
Civil Service Power
Asked for Congress
And Not President
BuIow Fuvors Chance
In Plan to Extend
Classification Act
By ]. A. FOX.

Congress rather than the PreSi-
dent should decide what employees
are to receive civil service status
and be brought under the classifl-
cation act, Chairman BuloW of the
Senate Civil Service Committee said
today as hearings were concluded on
the Ramspeck civil service extension
bill.
AS the bill passed the House, the
President by executive order would
give groups of workers the oppor-
tunity to qualify for civil service as
he saw fit and also would decide
when field workers should receive
the benefit of the classification act
pay scales.
MOser Testifies.
Senator Bulow said, however, he
simply was expressing his own
opinion and did not intend to reflect
the views of other members of the
committee.
The chairman expressed the hope
the committee could report out the
DILL shortly. He said that as soon as
accounts of the hearings were
printed-which should be soon
copies will be furnished committee
members for study and an executive
session then would be called to take
up the bill
The hearings, which have been
under way several weeks, were in
tended to close last Friday, but were
reopened this morning to give Rep
resertative Moser, Democrat. of
Pennsylvania a chance to testify
Keller Nichols Plan Favored.
A former postal employe. Repre-
sentative Moser said he opposed the
provision of the bill to allow en-
ployes to acquire civil service status
through nom competitive examina-
tions. He said competitive exam
nations should be used and criti-
cized the Civil Service Commission
for favoring the former method.
Mr.. Moser also declared in favor
of the Keller Nichols amendment to
the Ramspeck bill which would DENY
It's benefits to all employees from
States having more of its citizens in
the apportioned service here than
they are entitled to on the basis of
population.
Evening star., 1940-04-30
w. P. A. Art Exhibit
Due to Open, Today

An art exhibit, showing progress
made by students in special art
classes Of the District Work Projects
Administration, was to open at l
pm. today in the Children's Art
Gallery, 816 Independence avenue
S.W.
The exhibit includes work done
by the children in four age groups,
under direction of the admins
tration's artist-teachers. The first
group includes children from to 4,
who have made their first effort to
draw or paint; the second those
from to 8, who have drawn with
out regard for realism; the third
those from 8 to II, to whom the
symbolic image has begun to have
realistic qualities, and the fourth
children from II to II, in which
realistic and social qualities have
entered their work
The Children's Art Gallery is open
to the public from / pm. to pm.
from Mondays through Fridays and
from 10 am. to pm. on Saturdays.
1t Is closed on Sundays.
Evening star., 1940-04-30
Robber With Knife Takes
Woman's Purse ...'

Mrs. Pauline Kline, 1910 Ninth
street NE, was robbed of her purse
last night near Ninth and Quincy
streets NE. by robber who forced
her into an alley at knife-point.
Mrs. Kline was on her way home
when the robber, a tall white man,
came up behind her and pressed the
knife against her back. He forced
her to walk into the alley and when
he grabbed her arm she screamed.
He seized her purse, containing
about $3.50, and fled.
Another purse-snatcher accosted
Florence Mcdaniel 1447 Chaplin
street NV, near her home last
night. AS he seized her pocketbook
Mrs. Mcdaniel hit him with bottle
of milk she was carrying. The bot
tie broke but the man got away
with the purse, containing $1.70.
Evening star., 1940-04-30
Press Job Selling Charge
AT Trial Of Representative

BY the Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Ga, April 800.
John Rogge, Assistant United States
Attorney General took over prose-
cution of Representative B. Frank
Welchel, Democrat, of Georgia to-
day as the Government sought to
prove the North Georgia Represen-
tative sold postal jobs.
Questioning William s. Elliott.
president of the Bank of Canton,
Ga, the man who directed Louisi-
ana's graft investigation, swiftly de-
veloped evidence which, he said,
would show that the father of a
prospective rural letter carrier bor-
roWed money to pay for his sons
appointment.
Mr.. Elliott testified that j. H. Hol-
comb, sr.. approached him in Octo-
Der, 1898, asking a letter Of recon-
mendation to Mr. Whelchel in be-
half of his son. Hulon Holcomb. At
the time, the witness said, Holcomb
told him he understood they are
offering money for postal jobs"
Mr.. Elliott related he told Mr..
Holcomb such action would be in
violation of Federal law and thought
no more of the matter although he
wrote the requested recommended
ton. Two months later, he said, Mr..
Holcombe approached him again in
Canton and asked a loan of $500.
To this Mr.. Elliott agreed, it was
declared.
Mr.. Rogge told the court the Gov
ernment was prepared to offer evil
dence that S1,1O0 of this subse-
quently was paid to H. Grady Jones
indicted jointly with Mr.. Whelchel
on seven counts of conspiracy, and
that the latter delivered this to the
p Ponroconf tive
Evening star., 1940-04-30

Mrs. H. E. Thompkins and Mrs. w.
T. Peverill.
John L. Bateman, team captain,
reported that a $25 subscription to
his solicitors had been made by an
8-year-old girl, whose name was
not divulged This Is the youngest
donor yet listed
Evening star., 1940-01-02
State Will Sell Out
Manufacturer for
Unpaid Security Tax
Pennsylvania Mons
Two Trucks Already
Seized by U. S. Agents
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. Fired
Perkins, York battery manufacturer
who lost two trucks to the Federal
Government for failure to pay social
security taxes, has until Friday to
pay $22241 in similar levies to the
State.
The Pennsylvania division of un-
employment compensation disclosed
the States deadline, after Federal
agents siezed two trucks from Per-
kins' battery plant and warned the
foe Of Government taxes on the
small business man" they would be
sold at public auction next Monday
to square a social security tax debt
of $94 O2 to the Federal Government.
Perkins, 61-year-old former Cor
nell football player, who defied the
N. r. A. four years ago, has told the
State unemployment division he
would borrow money on his insur-
ance and buy back my business" If
he were sold out" at public auction.
Declaring he would fight it out
if it takes all winter" Perkins called
on "every self-respecting and op-
pressed employer in the State of
Pennsylvania to join me in refusing
to pay another cent in payroll taxes
come what may"
David R. Perry, special counsel for
the unemployment compensation
division, said the State would ask
for an audit of his books and pro
ceed with a civil suit" unless he pays
the delinquent taxes by January S.
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Planes on Way 10 Meet
Swarm Into Orlando
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ORLANDO, Fla, Jan. 2.-Addi-
tional private planes scared into
Orlando today to swell the fleet Of
hundreds already assembled for an
arcade to Miami's all-American
meet.
BY nightfall 1t was expected that
at least 600 would be on hand for
the takeoff tomorrow morning for
st. Petersburg. first stop on the mass
flight. A stop also will be made
at West Palm Beach before the fleet
roars into Miami.
An estimated 900 pilots, their pas
sengers and Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority officials were guests at an
airport barbecue last night.
The Federal delegation included
Grove Webster, chief of the private
flying division of the G. A. A.; w.
G. Stewart, technical adviser with
the c. A. A.; Ed Nilsson, Southeastern
regional supervisor for the c. A. A.,
and Fred Easley, c. A. A. inspector.
They expressed particular interest
In the mass civilian fight because
Of the Governments program to
train 10000 civilian pilots.
Among the pilots arriving yester-
day was Hermelinda de Briones Of
Ecuador, who lost her plane last
year on the return leg of the Miami
Havana flight. She said she hoped
to gain permission to attempt the
flight again this year.
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Tax Collector, II, Held
In City Hall Staying
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KENILWORTH, N. j., Jan. O.
Borough Clerk August j. Stahl, 49,
was slain yesterday at Borough Hall
in what Police Chief George Conk-
lin said was persecution complex"
shooting by 72-year -old Tax COL
lector John E. Butler.
Patrolman Andrew Ruscancsky,
35, received a superficial bullet
wound in the abdomen later during
a struggle among Mr.. Butler and
municipal officials who witnessed
the attack on Mr.. Stahl.
Mr.. Butler was held without bail
for the Union County grand jury op
a charge of murder when arraigned
before Chief Conklin under a new
State law which permits police
chiefs to conduct summary hear
ings.
Chief Conklin said the tax col
lector, who has held Office since
1923, gave him note which showed
he considered himself prosecuted.
The note, Mr.. Conklin said. con-
tanned the names of four men whom
Butler intended to shoot.
County Detective Michael Tev-
man said Mr.. Butler, just before he
opened fire with two .38-caliber re-
volvers, handed Mr.. Stahl a copy of
resolution passed by the Council
November %, stripping the collec-
tor of the power to appoint his own
assistants.
Evening star., 1940-01-02

monthly grants to 1850 old-age
clients and 1880 dependent chill
dren to be distributed the re-
mainder Of the present biennium
ending June 80, 1941.
The legislators will be asked also
to adopt proposed corrective amend
ments to assistance lien and burial
laws, the unemployment compensa-
ton statute and the Workmen's
Compensation Act.
The unicameral body meets reg
ularly once every two years in the
odd-numbered years. The first ses-
sion was held in 1887. Senators-the
title adopted by the lawmakers
receive $872 year but get no extra
pay for special session.
Two-thirds Of the members may
request special session or, as In
today's meeting, the Governor may
send out the call.
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Surprise Meeting
In Auto Sends
Two to HOSPITAL
By the Associated Press.

WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, Jan. 2.-Its
pretty hard to say whether Cole
Ferry or Frank Clamerlik was the
more surprised when they met.
Ferry, a Waukegan merchant,
settled into the back seat of his new
car after the New Year eve party
and went to sleep while his wife
drove home.
En- route Mrs. Ferry stopped to
wish some friends a happy New
Year. When her husband awoke he
found a man at the wheel and the
car racing along at go an hour.
Ferry clutched at the driver
Clamerlik-who learned for the first
time that he wasn't alone in the car.
AS the men struggled, the car
reached a dead end street, crashed
through a barricade and a heavy
wire fence and went down a 15-foot
embankment.
Ferry suffered conclusion and
serious internal injuries. Clamerlik
has broken leg.
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Report Notes Losses
OF Farm Markets
Because Of War
Crop Control System
Must Be Continued,
Wallace Declares

By the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department, In a
progress report" on American farm
exports since outbreak of the Eu-
ropean war, declared today that
many farmers see their markets
being caught in the no-man's land
between the opposing economic bar
RACES of the belligerents."
The foreign trade situation was
summarized as follows:
The allied blockade shuts Amer
lean products out of German-con-
trolled markets.
The allies are applying trade con-
trolls in ways tending to favor
sources of farm supplies other than
those of the United States.
Trade measures of European neu-
trails also are closing markets to
American products.
Cotton Exports May Suffer.
Allied control of shipping space
and bulk buying outside the United
States later may adversely affect
cotton exports.
The allied selective buying policy
Tor wheat favors producing nations
other than the United States. The
same policy for pork products favors
other nations, but Canada may buy
hOpS from this colIptrv
Exchange controls and import
licenses are working against Amer
lean fruit exports. Tobacco exports
are reduced by similar measures.
The report was prepared for the
Agricultural Advisory Council, COM
posed of representatives of pro-
ducers, professors and distributors
OF farm goods and of organized
labor. 1t was formed by Secretary
Wallace at the outbreak of the war
to advise with him on farm policies
Old Policy Held Doomed.
Meanwhile. Secretary Wallace de-
clared in his annual report that
American agriculture cannot return
to the "laisseZ faire" days when
farmers were free to produce as
they desired and Government lin
tied its farm aid efforts to education
and research.
The post World War economic
crisis forced the Government to step
in, he said, with programs designed
to stabilize prices and adjust agri-
cultural production to declining
markets both at home and abroad.
With agriculture still able to pro-
duce far in excess of markets and
the European war threatening a new
period of maladjustment at its con-
clusion, Secretary Wallace said the
Governments crop control procedure
"almost inevitably have to be con-
tinued for many years."
There is grave danger, the Agri-
culture Department chief declared,
that the war, with its stimulating
effect upon demand and prices of
farm products, will be regarded as
. solution of the farm problem.
That would be folly, he added, be-
cause a slump may follow the war.
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Parent Who ScuIded
Girl, Is, Is Sent to Jail

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. O.
Vincent Llacer. 38, was Jailed for
three months and fined 500 today
on a charge of scalding his l3-year-
old stepdaughter. Grace, after she
returned from a New Year date"
Detective George Keinberger
quoted Llacer as saying he poured a
kettle of boiling water on the girl
because "her coughing and sneez-
ing got on my nerves" after he
scolded her.
Disregarding the testimony of the
stepdaughter that the scalding was
accidental, Judge John F. Lynn told
Llacer he had done "a terrible, cruel
and inhuman thing"
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Fishing Clubs Head
Is Pretty Busy Man
In Troubled Days
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 2.-The presi-
dent Of the Midland Salmon
and Trout Club wrote IN his
New Year greeting to the organ
iZation:
II fear that there is little
prospect Of my finding time for
fishing under present condi-
tionS."
The name of the president:
Neville Chamberlain.
Evening star., 1940-01-02

Occasional Pieces
1-147.5o ChippendoIe Type
Secretary Desk, Honduras mohog-
any and sumwood, for S119.75
4-So5 Governor Winthrop Type
Secretary Desks, reduced to
s44.75
2-$e4.5O Grand Rapids Fire.
side Chairs, gold royon and cot
ton domosk, for------s44 so
l-S49. so Console TobIe, carved
Oedesto base, reduced to $40 81
l-seo.5o Wall TobIe, sotin-
s49.75
2-S48.5o Picked Mahogany
Flip Top TobIes, Sheraton style,
reduced to --------s3 $3.50
3-$26.75 Brown. Sheraton Mo-
hoeony Hospitality Cabinets, re-
dueed to -----------$19.75
$3.50 Modern design Ce-
dor-lined Chest, woInut veneer
exterior, reduced to----$24.75
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Nebraska S 43-Man
Legislature Holds
Special Session
UnieomeroI Assembly
Called to Pass on
Relief Measure
BY the Annotated Press.

6y the AXSOCIeteo FfeS6.
LINCOLN, Nebr., Jan. 2.-The
only unicameral Legislature in the
country convened today for its first
special session, principally to ap-
propriate more money for relief.
Summoned by Gov. r. L. Cochran
the 43 members of Nebraska's one
house Legislature, elected on q
non-political ballot, will be asked
to pass a bill enabling assistance
recipients to obtain approximately
$500,000 available in excess tax COL
lections.
Matched with Federal money, the
bill would create a fund of about
81 900 900 for increasing the regular
Evening star., 1940-01-02
AGE Of Trio Is 257

At birthday reunion in zuuer-
braak, South Africa, the ages of
two sisters and a brother totaled
257 years, one sister being IS, the
other "a and the brother 88, and
this was their first birthday dinner
together in 40 years.
Evening star., 1940-01-02
Deuth Strikes Twice

FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 2 R.-
George William Fitz-Charles, So,
died of q heart attack. His 75-year-
old mother, Mrs. Sarah Martha
Fitz-C Charles. collapsed at his fuAer-
al and died within a few minutes.
Heart attack" said Justice Gus
Brown.
Evening star., 1940-01-02

Japan shipped $4,000, 900 worth
of pearls to other countries in 1899.
Evening star., 1940-01-02

Boy Scouts of England are organ
izing "Air Scout" troops.
Evening star., 1940-01-02

Hugh Scottie Hood who pushed wheelbarrow from
York San Francisco lift mortgage two Long Island
City lots is shown his home The mortgage holder
offered cancel the debt Hood pushed wheebarrow
the country. Hood out three pairs doing
"A. p Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1940-03-08
Cleveland Park, S14.75O.

NEAR THE CATHEDRAL
We have many calls for detached homes
in this popular cloSe-in section with q bed.
room or two and bath on the 1st hoo4
There are o bedrooms in all with . BATH
on each floor The living room is unusually
large dining room bright and cheerful: in
fact. the entire property has an atmosphere
peculiar to the fine old Cleveland Park
homes. The lovely wide porch and spacious
wooded grounds, with a frontage of nearly
100 feet on quiet, pretty street. make
eliminating purchaser 1t is being offered
TO settle an estate and may be inspected
any time by appointment. Phone BOSS AZ
PHEl.PS, MA Q200. until q n
Evening star., 1940-03-08
HISTORICAL
GEORGETOWN

Todays comforts-yesterdays charm.
This interesting Early American home
stands on q large lot. 19x80. and has wide
pine floors and quaint terrace with
fenced-in garden. Exceptionally large
rooms with sun deck opening OF the rear
bedroom. overlooking the garden. All mod
air-conditioned heat.
STEP INTO YESTERDAY TODAY"
For information call Mr. Keasbey,
Hobart 7036 for this and other George
town property
Evening star., 1940-03-08

SLASH YOUR RENT BILL!
BY renting one of our large airy, de-
rent and sHblet few rms our sfs spt rent
will be practically zero. All rms. are
large. bright, with. ample closets, separate
and off man hall. Excellent layout for
subletting. Mod. equipment, 24-hr eleva-
tor and phone service. to 5 rm. suites.
from Sb5. See mgr, ALABAMA, cor. IL tn
and N SITS. NV MI. 1850.