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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12
) Seized Again
In Policy Raid

Five persons already facing ex-
animation on gambling conspiracy
charges were held in the county
Jail today on second identical
charge following a raid on an al
legged policy house at 1901 Calhoun
avenue, Dearborn.
The five gave their names as
Peter Pappas. az, who occupied
the above address; Ahmed Abass,
AZ. OF 1896 Salina avenue, Dear
horn: Alex Massar, "a. of 1910
Canterbury avenue, Dearb Dor n;
Hazel Alder. "a, of 80 Gerald
street. Highland Park. and Mil
dred Greeb. %. of 1911 Salina ave-
nue., Dearborn.
Henry Lucas, investigator for
the prosecutors office, said all five
were taken in a series Of raids in
the downtown Detroit area on
November 4. All were out on bond
waiting continuation OF their ex-
animation December II, when ar
rested yesterday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12
Plane Labor Row Settled

NEW YORK. Dec. II (INS).-
The four-months-old dispute be-
tween the Bell Aircraft Corpora
ton and CIO aircraft workers was
settled today with the granting of
a 1914 cents an hour pay increase
10 all employes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12
Memorial for Sea Victims

WASHINGTON, Dec. II (INS)
The navy said today memorial
services for its personnel which
died in the torpedoing of the u. S.
S. Reuben James, will be held
aboard the frigate Constitution at
Boston, Mass, navy yard Sunday
at 10 a. m. One hundred men lost
their lives when the destroyer was
sunk off Iceland, October 30, 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

County government, was COM
mitted TO Jail early Wednesday
for "evading and refusing TO an
swer questions.
Yesterday he sent Word TO Judge
Ferguson that he wished TO an
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

After purging himself of one
charge of contempt of court,
George Weiss, owner of the De-
troit Packing House Market, was
sent back to the county Jail to-
day under the second 60-day sem
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

tence imposed on him within A.
hours by Circuit Judge Homer
Ferguson.
Weiss. testifying before the one
man grand jury investigating
alleged corruption in the Wayne
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12
Retail Witness After Purge to Win Liberty

swer the questions and clear him.
self. This he did. but. according
TO Prosecutor William f. Bowling,
he refused today to answer new
questions.
eve have returned him In iaiI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

for so days with . 800 nne,S
Bowling said
The new question which Weiss
refused to answer was worded:
what did you do with the
money that you personally with
drew from your business In
1912"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

Gen. Hugh 8. Johnso
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

Buy . bag of Kroger's
Hot Dated Spotlight Coffee
Cor any other kroger eoffee)
like il as well or better than
any other brand you're serving
now, or return unused portion
in original container and get
any other brand we sell Free!
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Ten Steps Suggested
To Cut Traffic Deaths

In an effort to cut down traffic
fatalities during 1941. the Automo-
tive Safety Foundation. composed
OF about Is civic. automobile and
trade organizations, has appealed
to the various State governments
to place into effect the following
l0-point program:
Recodification of traffic laws,
simplifying and standardizing them
in line with the national uniform
vehicle code.
Full use of uniform traffic signs,
signals and markers.
Effective laws to assure uniform
traffic accident reporting.
Legislation to provide for stand
ard drivers license laws and ade-
quate driver examinations.
Uniform accident and driver
licensing record systems.
Inclusion of driver education in
high school courses.
Employment of additional trained
career personnel by States and
cities in proportion to the growing
volume of traffic.
Fully manned and equipped high
way patrols.
Wider use of State highway plan
ming survey facts in a rational plan
of highway development.
Full support of the standard high
way safety program for States.
Adoption by the States of these
procedures, the foundation pointed
out, would result in more safe and
orderly traffic, essential both to
peacetime economy and sound ma
tional defense"
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Security Union Charges
Injustice al Airport

The American Security Union in
it's publication, Security News" to-
day charged that one of the most
fragrant injustices' to w. P. A.
workers is occurring at the National
Airport here
Side by side, the article asserted,
at the airport construction are
w. P. A. laborers earning $l2 week,
and company employees earning $32
a week.
This situation cannot be de-
Tended by logic, justice, the interests
of national defense or democracy"
the article declared.
To alter the situation the union
is proposing that the w. P. A. be
scrapped as a relief program and
replaced with a non-relief Defend
America Works Program" in order
that the workers may be paid de
cent wages"
Evening star., 1941-01-06
5PersonsKi||ed,
23|njured in
Auto Accidents
Dramatic Student
Hit While Pushing
His Stalled Car

A 2l-year-old Washington dramatic
student was killed, four other per-
sons lost their lives and % were in
iured as the result of weekend traf-
fic accidents in the Washington
area.
Two of the four died after head
on collision today at Merrifield, Va.
They were David Franklin TeWald,
43, Woodstock, Va, and Millard
Henry Herrell, 81. Falls Church.
Andrew T. Dent, jr., senior at
Wilson Teachers College, became
the third fatality of 1941 when he
died early yesterday in Emergency
Hospital following blood transfusions
and amputation of his right leg.
Mr.. Dent, son of a teller in the
Riggs National Bank, whose resi-
dence is at 1912 Buchanan street
NV, was driving Saturday night
in the 1000 block of Kansas avenue
NV, when his car stalled. AS he
got out and started pushing, another
car, which police said was proceed
ing without headlights, smashed
INTO MN.
Driver Freed on 81 900 Bond.
His companion, Miss Katherine
Burrow, d. of 1914 Riggs place NV,
who had known Mr.. Dent for five
years, was uninjured, but was treat
ed for shock at Emergency. She
had held the mortally injured man
until the ambulance arrived.
Police listed Harry E. Lightner.
%, of Falls Church, Va, as driver
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Wool Manufacturers
To Discuss Prices Here

Representatives of the wool manu-
featuring industry will attend con-
ference here tomorrow sponsored by
the Defense Commission to discuss
prices of wooden piece goods and
other matters pertaining to the in
dustry in relation to defense.
Leon Henderson, member of the
commission in charge of price stabil-
ization, explained in regard to the
conference that buyers of woolen
goods have complained of sharply
advanced prices and sales methods
by some sellers which tend to create
an unnecessary rush to cover re-
quirements at higher prices.
1t is reported, according to the
commission, that less than half of
the increase in prices now being
quoted can be explained on the
basis of higher raw wool prices.
Hope was expressed that the con-
ference will result in check to the
upward price rise.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
H. J. VoIker, 81, Dies;
Ex-Wedther Bureau Aide

Hermann j. Volker, 80, who retired
in 1922 as chief of the veri1cation
section of the Weather Bureau, died
today in Soldiers Home Hospital
Mr.. Volker was born in Lehrte.
Germany, and came to the United
States when he was o. From 1881
to 1884 he was in the Army, much
of the time fighting Indians in the
Dakotas and surrounding territory.
He was appointed to the Weather
Bureau in 1890, and was assigned
here, with the exception of several
months spent in st. Paul.
His wife, Mrs. Anna Louise Volker,
died a year ago. Surviving are a
daughter, Miss Anna Volker; a son,
H. L. Volker of Arlington, Va; a
brother, Bernard w. Volker of
klamath Falls. Greg, and a sister,
Mrs. John H. Ehrnst of Beardsley,
MINI.
Funeral services will be held We'd
nesday at the Wright funeral home.
1887 Tenth street NV, with burial
in Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
F. H. A. Head Reports
D. T.. Home Building
Expansion Is Rapid
Mortgages Guin 1000
In Year in Face of
Defense Emergency

Rapid advancement of residential
construction in the metropolitan
area of Washington was reported to-
day to the Washington Building
Congress by Abner H. Ferguson,
Federal housing administrator.
In an address at the MayfloWer
Hotel. Mr.. Ferguson declared there
had been a gain of approXimately
100 per cent over the preceding year
in the small-home mortgages ac-
cepted for insurance in December
by the F. H. AS District insuring
office.
This expansion was attributed to
demand created by housing needs
during the defense emergency.
Increasing activity in the building
field here. Mr.. Ferguson said, also
was reflected in the fact that plans
for 100 residential subdivisions in
the District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia we're approved by the
local F. H. A. Office during 1910 as
compared with only ITO in the en-
tire six preceding years.
Many new apartment units also
are under construction or are near
ing the construction stage. he con-
tinued. If present plans are car
ried out, as many as $50 of these
new units will be financed by F. H.
A.-insured mortgages. the admins
traitor said.
Other near-term developments in
clude the construction of l,135 FAM
lily units by the Army and Navy for
enlisted men with families or civilian
Navy personnel and the construction
of 2.346 family units by the Alley
Dwelling Authority for the very low
income groups, he pointed out.
During the first II months of 1910,
slightly more than $4,000 new
dwelling units were built in Metro
politan Washington, as compared
with 13200 in the entire year 1899
and slightly more than 10000 in
1886, Mr. Ferguson said.
Through the F. H. AS insured
mortgage plan, new housing accom-
modations for approximately $4,000
Washingtonians have bee!l con-
Structed since the start of the F. H
A program. the administrator de-
clared Small-home mortgages ac-
cepted for F. H. A. insurance up to
Novmeber 30 totaled 8,877, while
$500 new family units were provided
by 81 large rental projects financed
by F. H. A.-insured mortgages, he
said. In addition, 30,234 families in
the Metropolitan Area have modern
lied or repaired their homes through
F. H. A.-insured property improve
ment loans totaling $14,418,898.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Congressional Club
Sale for $4,000
Reported TO Court
Transaction to Become
Final in February
Unless Cause Is Shown

Reports of the sale of the Con-
gresSional Country Club for S270,00
to a new corporation, Congressional
Country Club, Inc, headed by Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the
Veterans Administration. were filed
in Montgomery County Circuit Court
today.
The sale. reported by the trustees
William Montgomery, John T.
Meany and Leonard P. Steuart, will
be adjudged final in February un-
less cause to the contrary is shown
before that date
A hearing is scheduled in Federal
Court in Baltimore Friday on a pro-
posal by a group of second-trust
bondholderS to submit another re-
organization plan. Federal Judge
w. Calvin Chestnut signed court
order in Baltimore last week dis
solving injunction proceedings
brought by the bondholders against
the club, returning the club to its
old status. 1t was sold at auction
last September and reorganization
plans of the corporation headed by
Gen. Hines had been held up pend
ing the injunction hearing.
Since the sale four months age
operation of the club has been in
charge of Lanier P. McLachlen ano
Myron w. Davy. Other officers OF
the new corporation are Mr.. Mont
gomery, Joseph H Hines, F. G.
Await. James A. Councillor, George
K. Brobeck, Harry P. Somerville
Bancroft Foley, Dr.. Robert A. Keilty
Henry I. Quinn. Frank L. Yates
Thomas ]. Groom, Mr.. Steuart
Howard w. Kacy and Daniel j
Norman. The fiscal assets include
the club house and 3971a acres of
land on River road.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Cold Wave \ Blamed
For ; Fires; Smoke
FeIIs Woman, 78
Fourteen Persons Driven
From D Street House
By Basement Bloze

The cold wave is believed to have
been indirectly responsible for three
fires here yesterday and last night.
In one a 78-year-old woman was
overcome by smoke.
The victim was Mrs. Minerva Snl-
der. Along with IA other persons.
she was driven from her bed into
the cold street when a fire was dis
covered in the basement of dwell
ing at 2l1 D street NV. about 6
am. yesterday. Mrs. Snider made
her way to safety from her room on
the third floor and placed herself in
the care of a private doctor.
Furnace Blamed.
Charles Bonuccelli, %, son of
joseph Bonuccelli, owner of the
building. was aroused by smoke and
awoke first his father and then other
occupants of the building. HIS
brother, Hugo, 25, fireman at
tached to No. Is engine company,
asleep in the house at the time,
called the fire department.
Firemen we're unable to locate the
cause of the blaze, but SAID II coulo
have resulted from an overheated
furnace.
Defective wiring of the heating
plant is believed to have started a
fire yesterday in the parish hall ad-
Joining old St. Pauls Church at 2115
Fifteenth street NV. Considerable
damage was done to costumes and
settings of the Blackfriar's Guild
which makes the building it's head
quarters.
Two Alarms Sounded.
Two alarms were turned in before
the fire was subdued. Most of the
damage was done by smoke and
water. The dramatic group post
poned a meeting scheduled for last
night, but will hold tryouts for a
forthcoming production this eve
ming.
Fire of undetermined origin caused
damage estimated at more than
$4,000 to the glass shop of the Her
son Auto Exchange at 70 Florida
avenue NE. last night. The blaze
was restricted to one room. A large
supply of glass and cutting tools
we're ruined.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Mrs. Baden Marks 99th Year;
Recalls Days of D. c. SeIf-Rule

Mrs. Anna Baden, who can re-
member when the first sidewalk was
laid in Washington and when the
city governed itself. celebrated her
99th birthday today.
Tonight she will be guest of honor
at banquet given by the Daughters
of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Mrs. Baden, who danced at re-
ception on New Year Day, was born
near Alexandria. Va. in 1842.
Before the outbreak of the Civil
War she married a Union officer
and her family said she is the only
living widow of a Civil War soldier
who was married before the conflict.
In 1884, she helped organize the
Department of the Potomac Wom-
ems Relief Corps, auxiliary OF the
Grand Army of the Republic. She
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Southwest Branch
Library Is Opened;
Has 1890 Books
Reading Room Equipped
With Plaster Walls
Treated AcousticuIIy

Designed to serve an area with
population of about 24000, the
newest addition to Washington
Free Public Library systematic
Southwest Branch Library - was
opened for business today.
The new branch. which will pro-
vide both educational and recrea-
tional facilities for Southwest resi-
dents, forms a wing of the new
Thomas jefferson Memorial Junior
High School. Seventh and H streets
S.W. The school was ready for the
opening of the term last fall, but
the library wing was not dedicated
until last Friday
The initial activity on schedule
today was the registration of all
Jefferson Junior High students. Miss
Virginia Mclaughlin. librarian of
the branch, planned to register them
by classes.
The library has been provided.
with 1890 volumes and 90 mag
azines. Reading rooms are equipped
with acoustically treated plaster
walls and indirect lighting. Most
of the book shelves are built into the
walls to conserve space and improve
appearance.
The adult department, occupying
the first floor. will be open each
week day from m. to 9 pm. The
children's division on the second
floor opens at the same hour, but
closes one hour earlier
A small auditorium is provided in
the basement of the building with
a seating capacity of from so to IS
persons. 1t will be available for
meetings of citizens associations
and similar organizations.
The library, designed under the
direction of Nathan c. Wyeth.
municipal architect. is of the
Georgian Colonial style recommend
ed by the Fine Arts Commission IS
the best adapted to the Washington
tradition.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
5,110,270 Job|ess
Last March, Census
Bureau Reports
Represents One enth
Of Nations Labor Force;
1880, ,062 on U. S. Projects
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau reports that
it found 5,1lO,27O persons-approxi-
mately tenth of the Nations
available labor force-jobless and in
search of employment last March.
The figure was based on data COM
piled at the time the decennlal
census was being taken.
In addition, the bureau reported
yesterday, there were 1880 ,062 work.
ing on public emergency projects
those of the National Youth Ad-
ministration. Civilian Conservation
Corps and Work Projects Admins
tration-and another 1,789, IA whose
employment status was not deter
mined.
The bureau expressed belief few
of the latter were in the labor
force"
Estimates Ran to 1900, 900.
Estimates by private and labor
organizations on the number I'M
employed at the beginning of 1910
ranged from 100000 by the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
TO 100000 by the Congress of In
dustrial Organiza tions.
The Census Bureaus figure was
based on a 5 per cent cross-section
of the population in each of the
$4,000 census districts.
This calculation also showed that
there were 100,972,196 persons IA
years or older last March. of whom
IS $50, ,43O worked on private or nom
emergency Government work, 28.-
836,464 engaged in housework. 9.O7O,-
986 went to school, 5.22OO98 were
unemployable. l,226.374 in institu-
tions and 1886 348 were not seeking
work for other reasons.
The bureau conceded that in its
final estimates there might be a
considerable upward revision of the
number working on Government
emergency jobs, noting that at the
end of last March Federal agency
records showed the total of such
employees to be 3,377, ,70l.
5000 900 Defense Jobs.
The available labor force was CAL
culated in the preliminary figures
at 39,994,l97 men and l2,846.565
women, including 36,149, ,465 men and
II ,581 OPT women working and 3844,-
1872 men and 1868 women seek
ing work.
Differences in classification pre-
vented comparison with the 1880
unemployment figures.
The bureau had no statistics on
the number of unemployed who have
obtained jobs since the census was
taken, but Secretary of Labor Per-
kins estimated recently that from
November, 1899, to November. 1910
the number of employed persons
increased 100000.
She also estimated in her annual
report yesterday that the defense
program would make 100000 to
5000 900 jobs available to men and
women in the next year and half.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Bad Money Declining,
Secret Service Men
Told at Conference
Education Compuien
Pushed to Extend Results
Still Farther

Counterfeit money is much Scarcer
since the United States Secret
Service started public campaign
against it four years ago, Secret
Service agents from all over the
country were told today as they
began four days of conferences at
the Willard Hotel.
Between the years 1882 and 1886.
according to a chart exhibited at
the conference, the public loss from
counterfeiting averaged S740,000
year. During 1910 the loss was re-
ported at about 100000
But the agents hope this Will be
reduced still further as the slogan
know your money penetrates more
completely all the channels of COM
merce The chief purpose OF the
educational campaign is to acqualnt
cashiers, storekeepers and others
who handle money constantly with
the difference between true and
"phony' bills and coins. so they
may be reported promptly and those
passing them detected.
Committee meetings occupied the
morning session, after which there
was a recess to permit agents as
signed to presidential protection to
cover the route of President Roose-
welt to the Capitol to deliver his
message to Congress
The afternoon program included
greetings from Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Herbert E. CASTOR
and Elmer L. Trey. co-ordlnstor of
Treasury enforcement agencies, and
addresses by Edward F. Foley, gen.
eral counsel of the Treasury De-
partment; Norman Thompson, ad-
ministrative assistant to the Sec
retary of the Treasury; Frank Birg-
field. chief clerk of the Treasury;
Charles Schoeneman, assistant to the
Secretary, and James A. Bennett,
director of the Bureau of Prisons.
DR.. Wilmer Souder of the Ma
tional Bureau of Standards will ad-
dress the agents tonight on Science
vs. Crime" Sessions will continue
through Thursday.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Propeller Club Dinner
To Honor A. n. Huoq

The Propeller Club of the Port OF
Washington has arranged a testi-
monial dinner for Alfred H. Haag,
director of the division of research,
Maritime Commission, at 8 pm,
January 16, in the Willard Hotel.
An honor key of Delta Phi Epsilon
will be presented to Mr.. Haag, who
also is director of the Department
of International Shipping, George
town University.
]. j. Nolan, president of the Pro-
peller Club, said the membership
Of the club has determined to honor
Director Haag "for long and dis
tinguished service in the develop
ment of the American Merchant
Marine"
Evening star., 1941-01-06

Of the car and released him on $1,000
bond pending a coroner's inquest.
He was only slightly injured.
Mr.. Dent was interested in paint
ing and writing in addition TO
acting. His ambition was to teach
children. A motoring enthusiast, he
had crossed the continent in his
car.
Funeral services for Mr.. Dent. who
was prominent in the Arts Club,
the Sylvan Theater and the Com
munity Center, will be held at 1920
am. Wednesday at st. Stephens
and the Incarnation Church, Six
teenth and Newton streets NV.
Burial will be in Rock Creek Gene
terry.
Pedestrian Killed.
A few hours before Mr.. Dents
death. Benjamin Duckett, 81, COL
ored, 6O9 O'Neal court S.W., became
the second fatality of the year when
he died in Casualty Hospital after
being struck by an automobile as
he was crossing in front of $50
Fourth street S.W.
The driver of the car. who police
listed as Alfred D. Warwick, colored.
rs, of Anacostia, will appear before
a coroners jury today
Drivers of two cars which collided
head-on at Merrifield on Lee high
way died in hospitals here.
Mr.. Tewald died in Georgetown
Hospital of fractured skull and
Mr.. Herrell at Emergency Hospital
of a head injury believed to be
skull fracture.
3 Suffer Minor Injuries.
In the car with Mr.. Tewald we're
Howard Cline. As, and John Hol-
singer, Sc. both of Woodstock
Joseph Butler. 10. of Merrifield was
a passenger in Mr.. HeTell's ma
chine. All three escaped with minor
injuries.
William Cuddey, 18, of 1882 Bilt-
more street NV, sustained frac-
tured right leg when his car, going
north on Wisconsin avenue, struck
another machine just north of the
District line and careened into a
power line pole early today. Mem
bers of the Bethesda rescue squad
worked for nearly half hour be-
fore they were able to extricate him
from his wrecked car. He was re-
moved to Georgetown Hospital. Miss
Margaret Auterback. II, of near
Bethesda, who was with him in the
car, suffered cuts and bruises.
Four Are Injured.
Four colored persons were injured,
none seriously, when trailer truck
loaded with lumber struck the rear
of Safeway railways bus on the
Baltimore boulevard at Muirkirk,
Md. about $50 am.
Lulu Forbes. At. of Brooklyn, a
passenger on the bus, and Fermey
Payne, 46, of Columbia. Va, who
was in the truck, were admitted to
Casualty Hospital, and Leroy Davis,
1s, of 359 M place S.W.' and Estelle
Payne, 18, of Columbia, also in the
truck were given flrst-aid treatment
and released.
A Baltimore man, Earl S. James,
3s. lost his life last night when
struck by truck on Route l, 5 miles
north of Fredericksburg, Va. Police
said he had gotten out of his
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