Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1935, Page 7

TOPOUND WOMAN FOUND IN GARRET Rescued From Room, She Says Husband Imprisoned Her for Five Years. My the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—Gray- haired and hollow-eyed, her body wasted to less than 70 pounds, Anna Van Cleve stared up from a hospital cot today and offered detectives her only explanation for five years spent Jocked in a garret prison, with only scraps for food. “My husband didn’t ltke my cook- ing,” she whispered. She looked all of 80 years—she is 48—when the detectives found her on ® bed in a lonely third-story room, berett of light by boarded windows and nailed-down shades. Her eyes were sunken deep in her head, and her skin hung on her bones. Sores pocked her face and | hands. An old black dress was wound about her, tacked with safety pins. Door Locked. She clutched bread crusts in each hand. A cup of water and a bucket were on the floor. Beside the bed the room was furnished with a chair. The door was locked. She was too weak to walk, so police earried her to an ambulance and sped her to Morals Court and then to a hospital. gl Two glasses of milk was all the food she was allowed, but that seemed to strengthen her. She had raided the garbage pail for &t least one ravenous meal while her | alleged captors—her husband, William, | 54-year-old window washer, aud his sister, Catherine, 57—were away from | home, the Van Cleves' neighbors said. | They never knew she was there, they } #aid, until they saw wild eyes peering | through slits between the boards on the windows. Afraid to Take Food. One neighbor, Charles Osborn, told detectives he tied food to a clothesline | prop and hoisted it to her window after he witnessed the garbage pail raid. But she was apparently afraid to| take it. It was in answer to Osborn’s pleas that the detectives investigated. They | went to the house late yesterday and | arrested Van Cleve and his sister. | “She was dirty,” Van Cleve said. “She was filthy.. And I wanted my sister to do the cooking.” He denied his wife was imprisoned, | saying she stayed in the garret volun- tarily. Police said he made no effort to explain her condition. The Van Cleves were married in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1926. They lived at their present home since June 1, but Mrs. Van Cleve said she had been similarly imprisoned in other houses they occupied here during the last five years, ‘ sy = — | PARTY STABBING FATAL | | Six Men and Five Women Held for Police Questioning. Alfred Frederick, 28, colored, 1420 Sixth street, died Monday night shortly | after being stabbed in the throat, po- | lice said, while attending a party in the 1700 block of Thirteenth street. Police are holding six men and five ‘women, all colored, for questioning. Frederick was taken to Freedmen's Hospital by Ernest J. Butler, 609 P street, police said. He was pronounced dead on arrival. -. . ..AND T THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1935 Gas Lights Still Do Duty 38 May Still Be Found in Smithsonian Grounds and ‘Georgetown. Frank Cittidino, last of the District's street gas light crew, inspects one of the remaining 53 lights on his daily round. HE last true lamplighter is gone still 38 gas lights to be tended | and a man who does the job. | —Star Staff Photdt globe. They have to be looked after, from Washington, but there are | however. That’s the job of Frank Cittidino, 135 C street northeast, veteran relict Scattered through the grounds of [of the day when all lamps were lit the Smithsonian Institution are 26 | by the familiar figure carrying ladder | ernment standards. Still | gas lights on Washington Gaslight |and lighter stick. He's the only gas Co. posts and another dozen on Gov- | light tender left. another | an “hour after sunrise and half an Twice a day—half batch of 15 do service in George- |hour before sunset—he trudges the town, in and around Montrose Park. | rounds of his 53 lights, seeing that all All these remaining gas lights are | have obeyed the mechanism in their automatically turned on and off by a | glass domes and that all the globes clock-work mechanism fixed inside the are intact. MISS LAWLOR TO SING | “TRIAL BY JURY” ROLE| | California Girl Will Have Femi- nine Lead in Sylvan Theater Opera. Kathleen Lawlor, recently arrived | here from California, will sing the leading feminine role in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Trial by Jury” being pre- sented by the Estelle opera group at the Sylvan Theater on | the Monument ground tomorrow at 8 pm. Preceding the operetta the| United States Marine Band, under | ENJOY SMOKING MORE LET YOUR TASTE HERE'S the easiest way in the world to save money. Buy direction of Capt. Taylor Branson, will present a musical program. Tickets may be purchased at the Willard and Washington Hotels, Com- munity Center office, A. A. A. ticket bureau and at the grounds at 7 p.m. In case of inclement weather, tickets purchased will be accepted at the postponed performance.” Lodge Will Hear Nye. Senator Nye of North Dakota will ‘Wentworth | address the F. E. R. A. Union Lodge, No. 139, American Federation of Gov- ernment Employes. on “War and Mu- nitions” tomorrow at 8 p.n. at the Mayflower Eotel. NEW U.S. ALCOHOL SYSTEMAPPROVED Ways and Means Commit- tee to Report Plan to House Today. By the Associated Press. A new Federal alcohol control sys- tem, disagreeing in two important par- ticulars with the wishes of high ad- ministration leaders, was approved yesterday by the House Ways and Means Committee and was to be for- mally reported out by the committee today. Leaders plan to put it through the House Priday. Except for two things, the bill was said to have full approval of admin- istration - officials. The two points were: The committee’s insistence that the new Federal Alcohol Administra- tion be a division within the Treas- ury, instead of independent, and that sales of liquor in barrels and kegs be permitted. In addition, the bill: Places restrictions on interlocking directorates. Levies an occupational tax of $10 a year on importers, shippers, manufac- turers, rectifiers and others engaged in handling distilled spirits, wines or beverages, and requires them to take licenses. Directs that no license be issued to a person who violates “fair trade prac- tice” stipulations, such as those which were included in the old F. A. C. A. codes and which forbade false ad- vertising, belittling a competitor, and mislabeling. FARLEY AND SENATORS TALK OVER PATRONAGE Informal Reception at Capitol Follows Luncheon—May Leave Tomorow for Hawaii. By the Associated Press. Postmaster General Farley held an informal reception for Democratic Senators yesterday in an office just off the Senate chamber. Entertained at luncheon by Edwin A. Halsey, scretary of the Senate, Farley spent a couple of hours with a long line of Senators discussing their | various patronage proflems and diffi- culties. Among those chatting with him were Vice President Garner and Senators Rabinson, Democrat, of Arkansas; Harrison, Democrat, of Mijssissippi; Wagner, Democrat, of New York, and McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee. Farley had planned fo leave on a vacation trip to Hawaii Monday, but departure has been delayed by a press of work. It now looks as though he may get away tomOrrow. PER | DAY SINGLE ROOM AND PRIVATE BATH HOTEL TUDOR NEW YORK CITY F.H. A INTENSIFIES INDUSTRIAL DRIVE Experts in Seven Key Cities . . Spur Aid for Durable Goods Industries. By the Assoclated Press. Embarking on a Nation-wide selling campaign, the Federal Housing Ad- ministration is intensifying efforts to open up a market of gigastic poten- tialities to the durable goods and building industries. Seven experts from F. H. A, have been assigned to the key centers of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pitts- burgh, Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland. Officials sald today they will seek to stimulate wider use of Federal financ- ing facilities for modernization of in- dustrial and commercial plants and dwellings. Great Accumulated Demand. ‘Their activities will be supplemented by F. H. A’s headquarters here and by its branch offices in the 48 States. Main objective in the campaign, officials said, is the release of a pent- up demand for materials and machin- ery which has been accumulating since the 1929 crisis to the point where economists say it now is the greatest in the country’s history. Published estimates say that if all outworn and obsolete plants and equipment were medernized and all homes needing repairs were improved the value of goods and services thus| required would aggregate from $2,500,- | 000,000 to $100,000,000,000. Lecture Course Given. The new campaign began recently when the heads of more than 100 trade and industrial associations met with Housing Administration officials and received an intensive lecture course on added Federal financing| facilities made available to the factory | owner and commercial operator | through a recent amendment to the | housing act. | This gave the housing administrator | authority to insure loans up to $50,000 in addition to smaller loans for con- struction and repair of homes. The Housing Administration does not lend money, but merely insures loans made by approved financial institutions. PLANE CRASl.-I KILLS TWO LONDON, July 17 (#).—Two persons | were killed and six injured yesterday | when an airplane crashed and burned | at the edge of Heston Airdrome after | taking off for the silver jubilee review | | of the British fieet. Maj. A. W. Fosbroke-Hobbes, gen eral secretary of the research depart. ment of the Conservative party, and | 10 TAMPA CIGAR FIRMS ATTACK A. A. A. IN SUIT Action Seeks to Halt Collection of Taxes and Have Law De- clared Unconstitutional. By the Assoclated Press, ‘TAMPA, Fla., July 17—Ten Tampa cigar manufacturers flled sult in Fed- eral District Court here yesterday at- tacking the validity of the A. A. A. processing tax on leaf tobacco, held unconstitutional as to cotton process- ing by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston. The cases filed here all named as defendant J. Edwin Larson, both in-' dividually and as United States col- lector of internal revenue for the dis- trict of Florida, and seek a temporary restraining order to enjoin “the col- lection or attempts to collect sald taxes in any manner.” The prayer also seeks a court decree declaring the A. A A and the processing tax un- constitutional. River Excursion Friday, A moonlight excursion on the steamer Potomac will be given by the Admiral Robert E. Peary Ship, No. 427, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Pri- day, salling time being set for 8:45 pam., from the dock at Seventh and Water streets southwest OIld Mattresses Sterilized Cleaned Made Buoyant Reticked One-day Service Cost only $5 and up —_— = Studio Couches, $2450 and up 4-Poster Wood Beds, $7.95 and up Metal Beds, $5.95 and up Mattresses and Springs ZABAN'S P{AIIQHBL 410-9411. 726 11th St. SHIPS GO TO MANEUVER | King George Leads British Fleet, Stripped for Action. PORTSMOUTH, England, July 17| (®.—8tripped of gala dress, a long | line of warships slipped to sea today | for maneuvers. ‘They were led by King George, aboard the royal yacht Victoria and | Albert, from which he witnessed yes- terday the silver jubilee review of the British fleet. Decks were cleared for action, with | greatest interest centering on d “battle | to the death” between robot planes and new anti-aireraft guns. NEW LOW PRICE Benzol-Blended BETHOLINE REDUCED 1 # a galion No Change in Quality NOW ONLY 2¢ MORE THAN REGULAR GASOLINES Get a Bargain Tankful Today! | For Summer, try the New L T. PIVER'S enture FACE POWDER A 3 made without | & < starch, “ talc or orris root | | » » cannot clog pores, and perspiration will not make it “"cake”. Clings longer, and blends in with your complexion. (Rose Cendree special summer shade.) For Sale By s _A-7% CORNS REMOVED BY CASTOR OIL A sew liquid called | NOXACORN ends pain and dries up the worst corns and calluses. 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