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ONEPEADS LY IN Mll!_S_@UTAG[ Harry M. Rothgeb to Be Sen- tenced Saturday by Jus- tice Gordon. Harry M. Rothgeb, one of three men under indictment in connection with . the attempt to destroy two delivery wagon loads of milk with acid Novem- ber 16, pleaded guilty to the charge in District Supreme Court yesterday after- | nocn before Justice Peyton Gordon. Sentence, which p:obably will be deliv- | ered Saturday, was deferred pending an nvestigation by the probation officer. | The two others under indictment nrei Elmer Carr Rayford and Richard Conte, | & taxicab driver. | Rothgeb was sec:etary of the Milk | Drivers and Dairy Employes’ Union, | No. 246, at the time of his arrest, while | Rayford was a business manager of | the Taxicab Drivers’ Union. | In a signed statement, given when | detectives arrested them a week after | the outrage, the men said they had acted in an attempt 1o force new mem- bers into the milk drive ' union. an | undertaking which labor interests later | denounced. H A disinfectant with an acid base was poured over bottles banked in two milk wagons standing beside the curb at Cathedral and _Connecticut’ avenue while the drivers were inside an apart ment building making deliveries Rothgeb was rep:esented by Attor- neys Madison Hill and Raymond Neu- decker. The two others are still at liberty on bond. DAMAGED AIRPLANE, | REPAIRED, FLIES ON Twenty Hours After Safe Landing | With 18 Passengers It Starts | to New York. | Twenty hours after it had been | landed on one wheel with 18 passen- gers aboard at Candler Field, | a glant transport plane parts received from Ne: air on the return trip, pa National Capital last nig party of officials of the Transport Line aboard. The repajr job was completed in rec- ord time by a crew of mechanics at the | Atianta field. A crumpled aileron on the right lower wing was rebuilt, re- covered and painted, a broken strut| containing the shock-absorbing unit | was replaced by one flown from New | York by airmail and damage to_other | parts of the landing gear and th# right engine nacelle. into -which the crippled wheel was driven in landing, was re-| paired. The big plane took off from Candler Field at 1:30 o'clock yesterday after- noon, _landing at Richmond = shortly after 6 o'clock and then continuing on to New York without stopping here. The accident was attributed to ogeé of the rarest' happenings in transport ‘avi- ation. the crystallizatidn of a mjetal knuckle connecting the. strut with the |T- Test of the landing gear assembly. The’ knuckle snapped on 4 rough fleld, the da not being discovered until after HOUSE MEMBERS ASK HOLIDAY APPROVAL Clamor Raised for Passage of Sat- urday Afternoon Bill Before ' Christmas. Clamor was heard in the House yes- | terday for passage before the Christ. | mas recess of th -round Saturday half holiday bill for Government em- ploves. mot only in the District of Co- bla, but throughout the country. These appeals were made while the Kendall bill for a 44-hour week in the tal service VAt under consideration. ve ord o ",’“’ Soet { Wisconsin, years has colleagues for early passage of the half-holiday bill. i Representative LaGuardia, Re ub- | lican, of "New York, and o‘c«..nmn,f Democrat, of New York, spoke in sup- | lels port of the Kendall bill and of the Sat. | urday half-holiday bill as a first step | toward shorter work week, not only for | Government employes, but for those | 'ng:m in private industry. | veral other members e 75 Of the House | |w MAIL MARRIAGE OFFERS .BRING POSTAL'PI‘!OTEST Oftice, Joke Carried Too Far, Says, Husband, Who Convinces Wife l He Didn’t Want Change. By the Associated Press, ’ EVANSTON, Ill, December 11.—It| wasn't 5o bad when the mails brought him, samples of soap and . breakfast foods, , but .when they showered him with ‘mafriage bureau literature, which | was hard to explain to the wife, it was | to do something about it, ‘M'"l’ h complained. | ngs,” he told postal authorities, | have become serious. My mail box mmed with marriage Jbureau litera- | re, like the one from ‘A lady in' Eureka who wants to marry a cowboy or some other Westerner because I like horses’ or like the one from the red- rl_in Texas who has a little vlio is érazy to call me daddy.” | mate, but | anyway, and blamed fellow office we s for his | predicament. 1 WOMEN’S PARTY ASKS,| EQUAL RIGHTS LAW N R ] Resolution Passed at Closing Ses- ! sion to Go to President and New York Executive. Wel wife he didn't want a n vanted a change in his By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 11.—A resolution to support - the proposed “equal rights amendment.” i that men and women b2 the laws of the Uniled passed last night by the National | an's Party st its’ final session. The resolution, presented by Anita Pollitz- ker, representative from Narth Caro- lina, will be carried to President Foo- ver and to Gov. Roosevelt of New York The resolufion “further stated that “women at this time of unemployment ! shall not be Tequired to give up their | jobs to men, nor shall they be limited | by regulations against night work.” e B RED CROSS ELECTION | AT SILVER SPRING man of Branch—Others | Selected. i Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., December 11. —Mrs. Howell Forsyth was elected chairman of the Silver Spring branch of the Montgomery County Chapter of the American Red Cross at a meeting | held in the county builting. | Other officers, all of whom were re- | elected, are: Mrs. Robert Watson, vice chairman; Mrs. Ralph Wells, secretary, | and Mrs. Joseph Cissel, treasurer. | The following were elected to serve on the Board of Dirdefbrs: Mrs. Jnmcsl H. Lamon, Mrs. Paul Cook, Mrs. C. ¥. | Fleishell," 'Mrs. Kelly Magee, Anton Horak, . Howleit, Mrs. Paul Mrs. Prank L. Hewitt; Mrs. ‘George Davis, A icoger, Mrs. T. C. Ta Mrs. Willlam E. Perry, Mrs. L. Christie, Mrs. F. Paul Clark, Mr: Birney, Mis, Joseph Griffin, Mr: Cissel, Mrs. E. M. Whitcomb, Mr i ert McCeney and Mrs. Frank Meyer, | An_ Executive Committee was created, which is composed of the four officers | and the following five members of the ' Board of Directors: Mrs’ Meyer, Mrs, Hewitt, Mrs. Christie, Mrs. HowSelt and Mr. Hornk. It was . reported that over $500 had been received in Aanpual member- ship drive, just completed in the com- munity. A’ small part of this will be used in providing needy families with baskets of food &t ‘Christmas wtime. Mrs. Frank Meyer heads the com- mittee which is compléting plans for the establishment of a-Red Cross closet in the police station”located in the county building . ‘The room will contain firsi-aid 0 be used by the police in accidents réquiring emergency measures, In the absence of the chairman, Mrs. Frany Meyer, who_was. jl, the vieé chairman, ~ Mrs, T4 Watson, pre- sided. Four Killed in Crash. DAKOTA CITY, Nébf., December 11 (®).—Four persons were killed late yes- | terday, when a motor train collided with an automobile near here, The dead, all o.cupants of the auto- mobile, were identified as J. F. Dan- , Sloux Cily, lowa; Prank Sim- mons, South Sioux City, Nebr.: Leslie Hokum, Fremont, Nel tis Sizemore, believed to be of Lake Erickson, Nebr. 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