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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-14
Shades of St. Patrick!
Shamrock Has Rival
In Green Curnation

On March II all good sons and
daughters Of Erin pause to en-
change the pleasantries and good
Wishes Of St. PatricKs day. But
believe il or not-today the
shamrock is giving place to the
green caFnation, principally be-
cause the shamrock is SO scarce
in america. Florists solve the
problem by dipping the stem, of
q Unite carndtion in green color
ing and this tlot0s upward to the
petals, giving the bloom the hue
of the Emerald isle.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-14
Finnish Enin

The Finnish national epic, the
Kalevala, is many hundreds of
years old and is regarded as one
OF the finest epic poems in the
world.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-14
First in America

In 1892, Charles T.. and Frank
Duryea built and ran successfully
sne lHst gasoline car made in Amer
'ca-a "horscless buggy"
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Guilty Cases Tried
In Court Without
Police Testimony
Judge Casey Experiments
With Plan to Relieve
Officers in Minor Coses

A recent proposal by Judge Walter
J. Casey to the District Commission
ers to eliminate police testimony in
minor Police Court cases, where the
defendants decide before arraign-
ment to enter guilty pleas, was put
into effect yesterday for the first
time by Judge Casey as an expert
ment.
The experiment was tried in Dis
trict branch of the court in drunk
and disorderly cases. OF AZ defend
ants, all except 7 entered pleas
of guilty. The seven who pleaded
not guilty were all former offenders
In all, % of those arraigned were
repeaters.
In working the experiment, Judge
Casey had the policemen stay in
court in the event any of the de-
PENDANTS changed their minds and
decided to plead not guilty, but none
did.
The plan is designed to relieve
police from sitting in court, waiting
for cases to come up, in order that
the officers may devote their time
to other police work.
Judge Casey related the idea tc
the Commissioners. he explained, in
asking for additional assistant pro-
baton officers at Police Court, two
more of whom are said to be needed
now. Joseph Sanford, chief Police
Court probation officer, said more
assistant probation officers will be
needed if the plan is put into prac-
tice.
An assistant probation officer in
terviewed each man before he was
arraigned to determine how he
wanted to plead.
All of yesterdays defendants ap-
pearing on the drunk and disorderly
charges were found guilty, but five
of them were given suspended SEN
tences.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
0den Asks New Trial
In Sweetheart Staying

A new trial was asked yesterday ii
District Court for Guy E. Oden, l9,
convicted by jury Of the Staying
of his l5-year-old sweetheart, on
the ground that errors had been
committed during the former thea
ter uSher's trial.
Attorney Milton I. Lewis filed the
petition for Oden, who faces man
datory death sentence as a result
of conviction this week of first
degree murder in the death of Miss
Ellen Reid Cannon.
The petition alleged that Justice
Jesse c. Adkins, the trial judge,
failed to lock up the jury while the
case was in progress: that certain
unnamed prosecution witness made
derogatory remarks about the de-
fendant within hearing of the jury,
and that the court erred in failing
to permit a sister of the dead girl
to identify the latter's handwriting
in certain evidence.
1t was alleged, further, that the
jury should have been excluded
from the courtroom during attor-
neys' arguments and during tes-
timony of police concerning an al
legged confession made by Oden.
Assistant United States Attorney
Bernard Margolius, who prosecuted
the case, will oppose the new trial
move,
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Traffic Death Accidental
Coroner's S Jury Decides

A coroner's jury yesterday de-
clared accidental the traffic death
of Ulysses Watts, 30, colored, of the
1900 block of Ninth street NV,
who was struck September 25 by an
automobile while crossing the street
in front of his home.
Driver of the car was Adrian
Thomas. 81. colored, of the $500
block of Thirteenth street NV, who
took the stand to tell of the accident.
He told the jury that he had been
following a taxicab south on Ninth
street when it suddenly stopped,
forcing him to Swerve toward the
center of the street to avoid q crash.
He added he did not see the victim
until just at the time of the accident.
Mr.. Watts died Monday in Freed
mems Hospital, where he had been
taken by the driver.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued certificates of accidental
death yesterday in two other traffic
fatalities. They were those of
Augustus Cook, IL, colored, of the
400 block of Ridge street NV, who
was struck by a truck while riding
bicycle in the 1900 block of Fifth
street NV, and Judson I. Kingman,
27, of Maryland Park, Md, whose
automobile crashed into a tree at
Forty-ninth street and Central ave-
nue. NE.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Kutz 10 Call ParIey
To Discuss School
Safety Facilities
Uniform Standards
Sought; 40 Buildings
Are Held Deficient

Engineer Commissioner Charles
w. Kutz today announced plans for
an early conference of representa-
tives of several municipal agencies
to work out uniform standards for
safety measures in public school
buildings.
Fire Department inspectors pre-
viously reported 40 schools were
without adequate, modern, standard
interior fire alarm systems" seven
lacked exit facilities and eight need
newer, safer heating systems. The
report also showed that in the es-
timation of the inspectors only Is
Of ITO school buildings were found
to be completely satisfactory" from
the safety standpoint.
Both Gen. Kutz and Commission
er John Russell Young, however
have agreed with some school au-
thorities, that there was nothing
particularly alarming in the report
although each recommendation
should be and would be studied.
At the same time. it was indicated
by the Commissioners they would
recommend in the budget proposals
for the next fiscal year an increase
in the fund for repairs and i'm
provements to school buildings if the
| review of the report of the fire in
spectors showed that to be necessary
Gen. Kutz said he was perturbec
over the reported lack of proper fire
exit doors in some of the schools anc
declared he could see no reason VIII!
| the Calvin Coolidge Senior High
! School, for instance. should lacI
proper facilities of this character
since it was only recently completed
IF there is difference in the
standard followed by the fire in
/ spectors. the municipal architect
/ office. the Commissioners and the
school people" he said, Il think thi
should be determined and that We
should establish a uniform standard
For this reason, am calling join
conference soon to go over thl:
situation with men from the fire
marshalls Office. the building in
spector's Office, the municipal archi.
tect's Office, the District Repair Shop
and school authorities. We want II
find out what are proper standard:
and have the same measures fol-
lowed by all of the units"
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Matte Brown Pleads
Innocent in Robbery

Matte Brown, boxer indicted by the
District grand jury Tuesday on a
charge of robbery in connection
with the $3,23368 payroll holdup
of the Valley Forge Distributing Co.
August 2 in the 300 block of South
Capitol street, yesterday pleaded in
nocent in District Court.
Two men indicted with Brown,
Sam Greenstein, %, and Harry Roth,
AZ each pleaded guilty to the in
dictment Brown is represented by
Attorney Charles E. Ford.
Police said that the trio took the
money from Pearl Baum. who had
been to the bank for the funds.
Officials said that they were in
formed that toy pistol was used in
the holdup. Brown is free on bond
and an early trial is expected by
Government officials. Greenstein
and Roth are expected to be SEN
fenced shortly.
Evening star., 1941-10-04

tute about 10 per cent of the mes
senger staff.
Postal Telegraph reports that two
of its new employees have already
been grabbed off" by customers
offered jobs as file clerks, at better
salary. Postal Telegraph says it en-
courages this sort of thing as a
goodwill builder.
Western Union. according to C.
G. Hickcox, assistant superinten-
dent, will promote its girls within
the ranks. Already four have been
made clerks or operators.
National defense, of course, was
behind this move to feminine the
Capitals telegraphy.
At the beginning of the emergency
about 10 per cent of the messenger
staff was pulled out with the Ma
tional Guard. Many more have gone
in the draft Feeling the pinch
coming, the firms decided on hiring
girls before any real jams developed.
Boys too young for the draft, it was
reported, are spurning messenger
jobs to run elevators and hustle
around the department stores.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Doomed Slayer Granted
STAY 10 Seek AppeaI

John Eugene Eklund, Is, was
granted a stay of execution by JUS
tice Jesse C. Adkins in District
Court yesterday in order that coun-
sci might contest Eklund's first
degree murder conviction in the
United States Court of Appeals.
January 16 was set as the new Date.
Eklund was slated to die in the
electric chair Wednesday for the
"sniper" shooting of Hylan Nc
elaine, II, colored, last October
Defense counsel contend police
used dictaphone illegally to obtain
evidence while the prisoner was
comforting with an attorney in a cell.
Eklund is under indictment for
two other fatal shootings. He Is
accused of killing Sam Banks and
Theodore I. Gofney. both colored,
in the $500 block of I street NV.
about a week before the McCiaine
shooting, which took place near
intersection of Virginia avenue and
the Rock Greek and Potomac park
way.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Montgomery
| SWeors inFnst
Woman Deputy

The first woman deputy sheriff
in Montgomery County was sworn
in yesterday by Circuit Court Clerk
Clayton K. Watkins.
She is Mrs Frederick w. Crocker
of 4807 Hampden lane. Bethesda,
manager of the Chevy Chase
Women's Club, and a member of
the club for many years.
"Of course, I am not going to
carry gun" Mrs. Crocker ex-
planned, Il just wanted the author
ity to use in case I need it,"
She said that her duties as hostess
of the club did not require the
authority of the law. but that oc-
casionally when the club was rented
out to groups of young persons some
of them occasionally got into mis-
chief" A deputy's badge, she be-
lieved, would be all that was needed
to curb these mischievous visitors.
Mrs. Crocker, a resident of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase area since
1916, will not be on the county
pay roll, it was explained.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Bonds for zapp and Tom
Ordered Sent 10 Embassy

Justice Jesse c. Adkins in District
Court yesterday ordered that
So, 900 in cash bonds posted for Man.
fred zapp, former manager of Trans
ocean News Service in the United
States, and Guenther Tom. its chief
editor, after they were indicted as
unregistered foreign agents, be trans
ferred to the German Embassy here.
The jurist said that this fund will
be subject to any Treasury Depart
ment claim and will be liable TO be
included in funds frozen under a
presidential order affecting German
assets in this country.
Justice Adkins ruling followed a
hearing this afternoon participated
in by Attorneys Emil Morosini. jr.,
and Daniel Cohalan. jr., of New York
City, representing Zapp and Tom,
who have been sent back to Germany
in exchange for two American news
papermen. The cases against them
mere were dropped. Representing
the Government were Special Assist
ants to the Attorney General Will
liam Power Maloney and Edward j.
Hickey, jr.
The German Consul General in
New York City supplied the money
| for the bonds for the two men, Mr.
C0halan told Justice Adkins,
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Where To G6}2'sl9{
What To PsMixlS+5f M
-ezBe6: SD~1,IrgE>I

night; small charge to cover re-
freshments and music.
Dance, National Catholic Com
munity Service Club, 9l8 Tenth
street NV, 9 o'clock tonight; host
esseS.
Dance, Jewish Community Gen.
ter, Sixteenth and @ streets NV,
o'clock tonight.
Dinner and dance, sponsored by
Covenant-Firs Presbyterian League
for Men in the Service, Fellowship
House, 1868 Massachusetts avenue
NV, 6 o'clock tonight; transporta-
ton to Fellowship House provided
from church, Connecticut avenue
and N street NV.
Dancing, games and refreshments,
| Arlington Recreation Center, Tenth
and Irving streets North. Claren-
don, Va, l pm. to midnight today.
Open house, National Capital
Service Mems Club, COG E street
NV, 8 o'clock tonight; hostesses.
Supper and dance, St. Johns
Parish House, Sixteenth and H
streets NV. $50 o'clock tonight.
FOR COLORED SERVICE MEN.
Dance, Banneker Fieldhouse,
Georgia avenue and Howard place
NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Dancing and games. Phyllis
Wheatley Y. w c. A, 901 Rhode
Island avenue NV, 8 o'clock to-
night
Boxing match and basketball
game. Y. M. c. A.. 1912 Twelfth
street NV, 8 o'clock tonight,
Evening star., 1941-10-04
I telegraph Firms Now Have
53 Girl Messengers Here

Beginning just a fortnight ago,
Western Union and Postal Tele-
graph have now built up a staff of
So girl messengers, to supplement
the boys who bicycle around town.
Company officials say the feminine
messengers, whose average age is
10, are every whit as efficient as de-
livery boys-and in some cases are
making more money.
Their wage is $l4 week, but
M. N. Binkman, terminal service
manager for Postal Telegraph, re-
ports that the girls seem to be get
ting more tips than boys on the
same salary. One girl collected SIS
during a week. he said.
Each firm Identifies its girls with
an overseas cap-khaki for West
ern Union, blue for Postal Tele-
graph. The latter completes its
girls outfit with light blue blouse
and a navy blue skirt.
Girl messengers don't ride. Known
as walkers" they are assigned to
branch stations in the Metropolitan
Area and serve buildings not more
than a block distant. They consti-
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Four Firms 10 Protest Fee
For Sightseeing Buses

A formal protest will be lodged
with the Interior Department by
four bus firms against imposition
of a fee for sightseeing vehicles
using the boulevard to Mount
Vernon, 1t was announced yesterday
following conference between
officials of the National Capital
Parks and representatives of the
firms.
William L. Bush, president of the
Gray Line, said the communication
protesting the tax will announce
the firms intention of presenting
further data against it. Other bus
firms operating sightseeing sched-
Iues on the boulevard are the Grey
hound, Capital Transit and Alex
andria, Bancroft & Washington
Transit Co.
The annual fee, announced by
Secretary Ickes last week, will be
So per seat on each vehicle. Through
permits, the department will be able
to control the flow of such vehicles.
the Secretary said
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Two Deaths Listed
As Suicides by Cos

A 40-year-old woman and 72-
year-old man were found dead in
the gas-filled kitchens of their
homes yesterday. Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald listed both
deaths as suicides.
Mrs. Bertha E. CheSeldine, J6l5
Twentieth street NE, was found
slumped over a gas range, one jet
of which was open, police reported.
Her husband, David S. Cheseldine,
made the discovery. She was pro-
nounced dead by a Casualty Hos
pital ambulance physician.
Harry H. Nichols, 7400 Twelfth
street NV, was found on the floor
by a niece, Mrs. Norma Jackson,
according to police. Gas was flowing
from jets of a stove. Mr.. Nichols
was pronounced dead by an Emer-
gency Hospital ambulance physician
Police said they were told Mr.
Nichols had been in poor health
He was retired postal employe.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Revised District Court
Bill Comes Up October Is

A revised bill to reform Washing
tons Municipal and Police Courts
will be reported out by the House
District Committee next week and
called up in the House on the next
District Day, october Is, according
to a prediction yesterday by Repre-
sentative McGehee, chairman Of
the subcommittee handling the
measure.
As rewritten, the reform will be-
come effective l20 days after passage
instead of within 80 days, as orig
inally drafted. After hearing tes-
timony by leaders of bench and bar,
it was decided the shakeup could
not be put through in month.
Police and Municipal Courts will
be merged into single city tribunal
with expanded jurisdiction, if the
measure is adopted A new inter-
mediate appellate court will be
placed above this court with the
aim of taking the burden from the
United States Court of Appeals.
Judges of the present two city courts
would continue as officers of the con-
soIidated court, and a plan for re-
tirement after 20 years service would
be put into effect.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Jewish Harvest Feast
To Begin Tomorrow

Sukos, Jewish harvest festival and
feast of tabernacles, begins tomor-
row evening
known also as the feast of the
booths, SukoS Is observed with the
building of booths covered with
leaves and twigs outside of the home
and synagogue, to commemorate
Israels 40 years of wandering in the
desert when they lived in that kind
of home.
Observed for eight days by reform
Jewry, it is a nine-day festival for
the orthodox and conservative. The
first and last days are holidays
marked by special services, while
the days between are semi-holidays
The last day of Sukos, known as re-
joicing in the law, marks the time
when the cycle of reading the Penta-
teuch in the synagogue is completed
and a new cycle started.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Biggest Roll Call Day
Leaves Drive Tagging
Behind 194O'sLeve|
1850 Memberships
Bring Total to Date
To Only 1882

Despite the fact that yesterday
was the most productive day thus
far in the drive, District Red Cross
volunteers today faced the necessity
of bringing in memberships in even
larger numbers if they are TO match
the pace of last years campaign.
Seeking means of stimulating the
Roll Call, Chairman Edgar Morris
meanwhile announced that the
chairmen of various units would
meet with him Monday at 4:30 pm.
at Roll Call headquarters, 2020 Mas
sachuSetts avenue NV, in an effort
to speed up enrolment reports.
AS the Roll Call approached the
end of its second week. Red Cross
officials revealed that the fruits of
yesterdays soliciting was the enroll
ment of 1850 persons-the largest
number signed in single day since
the drive started September %.
1t brought the total enrolment to
1882, but left "a huge gap to be
filled before the campaign ends on
OClODeI ~. llc SOdl - NOO,OOo
memberships.
Mr.. Morris has pointed out. how
ever, that although the figures re-
ported to date are far below what
had been anticipated, he believes
there are many thousand member
ships yet unreported to headquar-
tiers.
Notable among the large reports
received yesterday was one from the
General Business Group, headed by
David E. Mccoy. His group yester-
day brought in 2,022 memberships,
the bulk of which were from the en-
ploy9s of Woodward & Lothrop.
Several firms were added yester-
day to the list of those whose entire
personnel has enrolled in the Red
Cross. These 100 per cent firms are:
Maryland Casualty Co.. Lincoln
National Bank. Bank of Commerce
& Savings. District Building & Loan
Association, Washington Realty,
Brodie and Colbert, Cafritz Co. and
Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Granting Newspapers
Radio Licenses on
Merit Recommended
Harvard Law Professor
Proposes Judging of
Each Case Separately
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

While diversity in radio broad
casting ownership is desirable, Zach
ariah Chaffee, jr, professor of law
at Harvard University, told the
Federal Communications Commits
sion yesterday afternoon he did not
advocate excluding newspapers from
operating stations, but he suggested
instead that each application be
judged on its merits. with certain
rules for the commissions guidance.
Prof. Chaffee was called as an
expert witness in the commission's S
investigation of newspaper owner
ship radio stations.
If the commission should enter
a drastic order requiring all news
paper-oWned stations TO close down,
a large percentage of the going
stations would be put out of busi-
ness, he pointed out.
Would Judge by Conditions.
In consideration future applica-
tions for station licenses, Prof.
Chaffee said, the commission might
find that in one community it would
be better, from an economic point
to have newspaper and radio sta
ton combined. rather than invite
ruinous competition. while in an
other community the regulatory
body might we'll require separation
of the two means of public COM
munication.
From the viewpoint of genera
welfare. he added. a flexible rule
/ allowing the commission wide dis
cretion. might be indicated. On the
other hand, objections to such 6
plan could be raised, he explained
1T might be said" Prof. Chaffet
added that newspapers Opposing
/ the administration would be in bac
/ favor, and a communications COM
mission could whip them into lint
with a flexible rule by refusing
/ licenses"
Would Have Certain Rules.
Whether such a belief were vel
/ founded, the mere belief would bt
most harmful, he felt.
Prof. Chaffee said that, while hi
had no fixed view on the situation
he thought it would be more desir'
able for certain conditions to be laiC
down for the granting or refusa
of newspaper broadcasting licenses
rather than make the decision en-
/ tirely a matter of discretion.
Chairman James Lawrence Fl!
adjourned the hearings last nigh
until 10 am. next Thursday.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
EXHIBIT.

EXHIBIT.
Landscape Club of Washington,
paintings of local scenes, Arts Club,
20l7 I street NV, opening tomor-
row and continuing through Oc-
tober "a, 10 am. to pm.
MUSIC.
Organ musicale, Music for Re
taxation" Washington Chapel,
Church of Jesus Christ of the Lat
ter Day Saints, Sixteenth street and
Columbia road NV, 8 o'clock to-
night.
OUTINGS.
Moonlight canoe trip and camp
fire program. Capital Hiking Club,
meet at Thirty-sixth and M streets
NV. 5:45 o'clock this afternoon.
Hike from Aaron Church to Villa
Ecuador in nearby Virginia, Wan
derbirds Hiking Club, meet at Ma
tional Theater, 9 am, tomorrow.
Hike, Arlington Farm, Va, and
National Arboretum, Capital Hik-
ing Club, leave 1416 F street NV
am. tomorrow.
Nature and historical trip up C.
g. o. Canal by mule drawn barge
under auspices of National Capital
Parks, buses leave 14l6 F street
NV. 8 am. and noon tomorrow.
Nature and historical tour to Har-
pers Ferry. w. Va. and C. & O.
Canal Parkway under auspices OF
National Capital Parks, meet at
Harpers Ferry Railway Station II
am. tomorrow; special buses leave
1416 F. street NV. a m. tomorrow
Tree walk, Lincoln Park, Eleventh
and East Capitol streets, under aus
pices of National Capital Parks
meet at Lincoln Statue in park 2:3C
pm. tomorrow.
Hike, C. & o. Canal between
Washington and Seneca, Md, un-
der auspices of National Capita
| Parks, meet at Canal road anc
Chain Bridge 3 pm. tomorrow; spe-
cial buses leave l4l6 F street NV
2:30 pm. tomorrow.
DANCES.
All States Club, Washington Ho-
| tel, $50 o'clock tonight.
Beta Chi Sorority, Wardman Park
Hotel, 10 O'Clock tonight.
MEETINGS.
National Capital Amateur AS
tronomers' Association, Nationa
Museum, Constitution avenue al
Tenth street NV, 8 o'clock tonight
Military Order of the World War
Mayfiower Hotel, 1880 am. tomor.
row.
American Academy of Orthopedit
Surgeons, Mayflower Hotel, all day
| tomorrow.
BUFFET SUPPER.
Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority, Ward.
man Park Hotel, 8 o'clock tonight.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Dance. sponsored by Soil Conser
vation Service, patio of Agriculture
Administration Building, Jefferson
drive and Fourteenth street SW.,
O'Clock tonight.
Dance, Soldiers, Sailors and Ma.
rines' Club, 10l5 L street NV,
o'clock tonight; hostesses.
Street dance, E street between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth street.
NV, 8 o'clock tonight
Dance, Y. M. C. A., 1876 G stree
NV, 9 o'clock tonight; hostesses.
Dance, Y w. C. A., Seventeenth
and K streets NV. 8 o'clock to
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Defense Spending Sets
Record in September

BY the Associated Press.
Defense spending hit new record
pace of 81, 1,319,954, $50 last month.
The Treasury said yesterday the
September expenditures for defense
were nearly $500, ,0O0, 900 more than
August, when the previous record
was set. Defense costs for the first
three months of the fiscal year, be-
ginning July l, 1941, totaled S., ,403.-
930,272, compared with 1921 ,076, ,265
for the similar period last year.