Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1935, Page 17

Washington News A F.OF L. ELECTION BY BUILDING GROUP RENAMES LEADERS “pfficial” Department Acts to Validate Poll Held Voided in Court. FIGHT MAY BE TAKEN TO FEDERATION MEETING Williams and Full Slate to Stay in Office Despite Strong Opposition. In a move to validate an election voided by a decision of District Su- preme Court, the so-called “official” buflding trades department of the American Federation of Labor, in spe- cial convention today, renamed the slate of officers headed by J. W. Wil- liams, whose incumbency had been declared illegal. Concurrently, this action was con- demned as unlawful by M. J. Mc-| Doncugh, head of the group which the federation does not recognize and which had attacked the previous | election. It was predicted that the | fight, involving more than 500,000 workers in 19 unions, would go be- | fore the federation convention in At- lantic City in October. Along with Williams, Herbert Rivers | of Washington was renamed secre- tary-treasurer, and the following vice presidents were again chosen: John | Possehl, engineers; Richard J. Gray, | bricklayers; D. W. Tracy, electrical | workers, and William McCarthy, mar- | ble workers, all of Washington, and | ‘Thomas L. Hughes, teamsters, Indian- | apolis, and Joseph V. Moreschi, hod carriers and laborers, Quincy, Mass. Williams is a member of Carpenters’ Union and Rivers of the Hod Carriers and Laborers. Began Term in November. ‘The group headed by Williams came into office last November at a special convention called by President Green | of the American Federation of Labor after a breach between the two fac- tions at the San Francisco convention & month earlier. McDonough's group—comprising 12 unions—did not participate in this election and on the first of the year moved out of the Pederation of Labor Building, taking the department rec- ords and establishing new headquar- ters. The Williams group sued to regain the records and to restrain the other organization from exercising any departmental function. McDon- | ough's group, claiming to be right- | fully in office, filed a cross-bill to bar | the other organization from acting. Justice Jesse C. Adkins dismissed both proceedings. He held the Wil- liams group had been elected unlaw- fully because the opposition was en- titled to office until January 1. It was on the contention that Mc- Donough's group was out of office on the first of the year that the “official” department held today’s election at the = theater where Shirley Temple is star- | call of President Green. McDonough said today, however, that his group had set up a de facto | Williams, and now lives at Decatur | department and is appealing from the court ruling. Refused to Seat Delegates. McDonough was re-elected president of the Building Trades Department in September of last year, but that con- | vention refused to seat electricians, | carpenters and bricklayers, and was declared unlawful by the American | Federation of Labor convention. It was then that the November meeting here was called. In dismissing Mec- Donough’s cross-bill Justice Adkins also held that the September election was void, but that the election in 1931 gave McDonough and his associates the right to hold office until January 1 ©of this year. The court also said, however, ac- cording to McDonough, that he and his associates had an implied right to hold office until their successors were duly elected and this convention which went 1n session yesterday and ended today was illegally called the dis- senters contend. At the offices of the ~official” Build- ing Trades Department today, when a question was asked if a new effort would be made to recover the records in McDonough'’s possession, it was said tRat was a matter for the federation itself to decide. | While the “official” department has the fewest number of unions—seven— it has majority membership. —_— D. of A. Plans Luncheon. GAITHERSBURG, August 2 \Spe- cial) —Archbishop Curley Unit Cath- olic, Daughters of America, will hold 2 benefit luncheon and card party at the home of Mrs. E. P. Schwartz, Summit avenue, tomorrow afternoon | at 1 o'clock. Detective “Fixes” Elopers’ Trouble With Irate Parent Perjury Charges Are Withdrawn Through Efforts of Ogle. Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle put aside his ordinary duties long enough yesterday to effect a reconciliation between a recently married young couple and an irate parent. Detective Ogle a few days ago was called on to serve a perjury warrant on William H. Richards, 23, of fig- e warrant was sworn out by the youth’s father-in-law, Dellbert Kidwell of Chillum, Md., who charged Richards had given the wrong age for his daughter Frances when the couple a license July 17. he served the warrant Ogle ound the young pair getting that he decided to see what do in the role of family ¢ came up before Police Isaac R. Hitt yesterday, father withdrew the charges The Zo WASHINGTON, D. C, Mother Loses Fight to Seize Children Seen Here by Chance Above: Nancy (left) and Louise Wooding, children of William Wooding, whose appearance on a downtown street caused their mother, Miss Louise Williams, di- vorced wife of Wooding, to at- tempt to take them from their stepmother. They were photo- graphed in a taxicab at police headquarters while waiting for their stepmother. I Temple motion picture and witnessed a real life drama instead were on their way home to Danville, Va., today after their mother tried to take them from their step- mother at F and Thirteenth streets yesterday afternoon. A large throng of shoppers and theatergoers watched while the two women struggled over custody of the girls, Louise, 6, and Nancy Wooding, 8, daughters of William Wooding, a Standard Oil Co. salesman, who lives WO little girls who came to Washington to see a Shirley | in the 1800 block of Calvert street., Louise and Nancy, who have been living with their grandmother at Dan- ville since their mother and father were divorced two years ago, came to ‘Washington to visit their step-mother, a former nurse at Garfield Hospital, and to attend a picture show. As the little girls were led into the ring, they were seen by their mother, who had resumed the name of Louise Heights, Md. It was the first time Miss Williams had seen her daughters for two years. Acting on an impulse, which ap- parently she could not resist, the mother followed her children into the theater, police were told. She' per- suaded the tnree to return to the street, investigators learned, and in- sisted that the little girls get into a cab with her. The stepmother re- sisted with spirit. MISS LOUISE WILLIAMS. While the dispute was in progress and spectators gathered Detective ‘Watson Salkeld of No. 5 precinct hap- pened by and took the women and children to headquarters, where they | conferred with Detective Lieut. Clem- | ent Cox. | Meanwhile the older of the girls | told reporters in an ante room: | *“That woman” (meaning mother; “started grabbing at us. “on't care who she is, I don't like her and I don’t want her grabbing at me and fighting on the street.” Lieut. Cox said Miss Willlams ad- mitted the court had awarded custody of the children to their grandmother. The mother said she could not resist the impulse to be near her daughters. The little girls left headquarterse in | custody of their step-mother and Miss | Williams was advised not to violate the court order. Both children clung to the hands of Mrs. Wooding. They seemed dis- appointed when news photographers were told not to take their pictures, especially in view of the fact that they did not get to see the Shirley Temple feature. their U. S. AGENT HELD INFATAL SHOOTING Loudoun Coroner’s -Jury Acts on Testimony Man ‘Was Shot in Back. Special Dispatch to The Star LEESBURG Va. August 2.—After Federal Agent John A. Millan ad- mitted shooting Delmas Duncan, Lou- doun County moonshiner, in the back during a raid near Ryan Wednesday, the agent today was ordered held for the action of the grand jury at a coroner’s inquest. The admission was drawn from Millan by Attorney Edward E. Gar- rett at an inquest conducted by Dr. John A. Cibson. county coroner. Millan said that he shot Duncan at a distance of about 5 feet as Dun- can, revolver ir hand, whirled as if to shoot nim. A few seconds before, he said, Duncan had snapped the re- volver in his face. He said he had been chasing Dun- can, who had been surprised at the still, through dense underbrush. Dun- can’s gun dropped from his right hand as the Federal agents turned him over after he had been shot. It had three shells in the chamber. Milan testified that several times he called to Duncan to halt and to drop the gun. He testified he shot only when he believed his own life was in danger. John Mann, 17, of Ryan, Va., who said he had no home and who was with Duncan at the time the officers raided the still, was the first witness. He said Duncan had carried the gun to the still in the seat of his car and that when the raiders reached the still the weapon was hanging on the limb of a tree within a few feet of the still. A. A. A. CLERK MARRIES Clair Rizer Bishop, 25, A. A. A. junior clerk and former foot ball player at the University of Nebraska, was married yesterday in Lincoln, Nebr., to Miss Mae Helen Posey ‘%of that city, according to the Asso- clated Press. Bishop has been working in Wash- ington since April, 1934, in the rental and benefit audit section of the di- &sion of finance of the Adjustment e Hitt dismissed the case. Administration. D.C. AREA PLANS PLEATO PRESIDENT | Southeast Civic Leaders Protest Alleged Neglect. Business and civic leaders of south- east Washington are planning to pre- sent to President Roosevelt a resolu- tion protesting against the actions of District officials in “ignoring” re- peated requests for public improve- ments in the southeast section. Richard B. English, vice president of the Southeast Business Men’s Asso- | clation, said his organization’s Execu- | tive Committee will meet early next | week to take action on a resolution | he has prepared. “This whole thing has gone far enough,” English declared today. “Citizens of Southeast Washington have been treated indifferently by the | District Commissioners and other city | officials too long. “We believe it is up to the President to get them on the job or put them out of office. He put them in there and if they can't do the job, they should be replaced.” ‘The. most important projects sought by civic and business groups are a new bridge to replace the Pennsyl- vania avenue span which the citizens declare is “unsafe”; more playgrounds and recreation centers, and the re- moval of the garbage transfer plant from New Jersey avenue and K streec southeast. The full membership of the organi- zation will meet a week from next Monday, and Clarence F. Donohoe, president, announced Engineer Com- missioner Dan I. Sultan will be asked to attend. R R L PAVING CONTRACT LET A contract for improving the road- day by the Commissioners. Corson & Gruman put in the suc- cessful low bid, the work costing $60,- 973.50. Another contract for new paving on was $24,972.50. 1! F ASSAULT CHARGES FACE PLANT HEAD I STRIKE CLASH Weinman Is Arrested on Four Warrants in Al- exandria. WOMEN CLAIM THEY WERE HIT IN- MELEE Two Man Sympathizers Also Ac- cused—Continuance of Case Is Granted. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 2.— Said to be under a doctor's care fol- lowing a melee with girl strikers at the Century Manufacturing Co.’s shirt factory which resulted, in his arrest yesterday, Sidney Weinman, 23, president of the company, asked for & continuance of the hearing of four charges of assault and abusive lan- Court today. The continuance was granted by Judge James Reece Duncan until ‘Tuesday. Weinman was released in custody of his attorney after his arrest yes- terday on four warrants sworn out by three girl strikers and a woman sympathizer. All claimed to have been struck by flying fists of the young company official in a fracas outside the plant yesterday afternoon. Other Case Continued. A telegram which read, “Sidney under doctor's care, postponed until August 8, was received from Morris Weinman of Baltimore, father of the plant head, by E. Joel Treger, Wein- man’s attorney, a few minutes before the case was scheduled to be heard in court this morning. At the same time Judge Duncan ordered a continuance of the cases of George Arnold, 19, and Bernard Ham- mill, 34, strike sympathizers, who were arrested on disorderly conduct Tuesday. The two, arrested at the scene by Capt. of Police John 8. Arnold, also were released in custody of their attorney. According to Mayor E. C. Davison, a witness of the melee, Weinman | came out of the plant swinging both fists into & crowd of 15 girl strikers, who had been standing outside the factory while the youth and a colored helper loaded a company truck. ‘Woman Knocked Down. ‘Weinman's first blow struck one of the woman strikers in the breast and other striker claimed to have been cut on the face by & ring the youth had on his finger. One of the women said to have been hit in the fracas, Mrs. Lucille Gard- ner, was not an employe of the plant. However, she swore out one of the warrants. The other warrants for Weinman's arresi were obtained by Mrs. Bessie Shelton, Mrs. Valerie Padgett and Mrs. Ethel Mahoney, all employes on strike. After his allegpd fisticuffs episode, Weinman was said to have run to the automobile of Capt. of Police Arnold. There he was grabbed by the two man sympathizers while Mayor Davison and police shielded him from the in- furiated women. The two men were placed under arrest and Weinman driven to police headquarters by Capt. Arnold to end the scene. Truck Driven Away. The truck, which strikers had per- mitted to be loaded, had been driven away-a few minutes before the melee. To date attempts by Conciliation Commissioner Howard T. Colvin of the Labor Department to bring offi- cials of the company and the strikers together in an effort to end the strike have proved futile. Colvin said today that conciliation efforts were at a standstill following yesterday’s flare-up at the plant. ‘The approximately 100 woman em- ployes have been on strike for almost three weeks in protest of a recent wage cut. They have maintained picket guards at the plant both day and night since their walkout July 15. SUSPECT IN.JEWELHY THEFTS IS ARRESTED Youth Held in Lynchburg Ac- cused of Trying to Sell Watches. Detective Michael J. Dowd was to leave this afternoon for Lynchburg, Va., with a warrant for the arrest and return here of a youth said to be Lee Bryant, 17, of Clinton, Miss., suspected of participation in recent jewel thefts. Lynchburg police were holding Bry- ant for questioning by Dowd. They reported they had found in his pos- session three watches and three dia- mond rings. Numbers on the watches were said to correspond with those of watches taken from the window of Castleberg’s jewelry store, 1004 F street, early in the morning of July 30. According to the Associated Press, Bryant was arrested in Lynchburg when he tried to sell a watch to a jeweler, He was said to have insisted he bought the watches and rings found in his possession from a transient for $5 and a pair of shoes. DRIVER BROUGHT HERE Col-orod Youth Charged With Using D. C. Car. Ernest L. Smith, 16, colored. 2400 mobile squad and Precinct Detective J. O. Curtis. Cator guage, through his attorney, in POHL’!‘ charges along with Weinman, until | knocked her down, Davison said. An- | ening Sfar RIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1935. The Potomac Park Apartments, ernment to house the Public Works at Twenty-first and C streets, slated Administration headquarters. to be taken over by the Federal Gov=- —Star Staff Photo. ARRESTED YOUTH IS FOUND UNHURT Detailed Report to Be Made | on Fight With Police in “Drunk Case.” After an official investigation had | already been ordered into the reported | serfous injury of 19-year-old Odel! Brown in a fight with police last| night, it was learned at Casualty Hos- pital today that the youth is urhurt and was clamoring to be released | It was feared for a while the youth’s neck was broken as he fought with officers in a patrol wagon after he had | been arrested for alleged drunkenness, | and Asst. Supt. of Police L. I. H Ed- wards had requested a detailed re-| port of the affair. Arrested on Avenue. Brown, who has no fixed address, was taken into custody near Thir- teenth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue by First Precinct Policeman C.| W. Masenheimer. The patrol w called and the youth was turned over to Officer H. H. Wilson, who sat with | him in the rear. En route to the station, Wilson said, Brown attacked him. With the help of the driver, R. M. Alexander, Wil- son said he subdued the prisoner. A few minutes later Brown is reported to have again attacked the officer. This time Wilson allegedly struck the | youth on the head with the butt of his revolver, lacerating his scalp. Taken to Hospital. After being booked at the precinct, Brown was put in the patrol again to be taken to Casualty for treat- ment for his slight injuries. On the| way, according to police, he made a lunge at Wilson and started choking the officer. Wilson said he pushed the boy, sending him reeling into the front of the patrol, where he fell and was believed to have severely injured his neck. A thorough examination at the hos- pital this morning, physicians said, re- vealed Brown's neck was uninjured and that his head was not cut, as at first reported. He was expected to be discharged from the hospital this aft- ‘ernoon. Meanwhile, Capt. William E. Holmes, first precinct, went ahead with his investigation of the incident in con- formity with the order issued by In- spector Edwards. MANY DELINQUENT ON PERSONAL TAXES 12,000 Fail to File Reports, Making Themselves Liable to Penalty. District tax officials estimated rough- 1y today that 12,000 persons had failed to file their personal tax reports, thus holding themselves liable to an $11 mandamus penalty In the final rush to send in their returns before the deadline at mid- night July 31 approximately 3,500 re- sorted to the malls. Tax Assessor Willlam P. Richards did not adhere strictly to the limitations in numerous cases and taxpayers could give rea- sonable excuses for their delay in filing returns. A great many returns were received in this way yesterday. Legal action will be taken, however, against delinquents who fail to take advantage of regulations which permit partial returns to be filed when it is impossible to make out a complete re- port. —_— LIBRARY TO BE CLOSED | previous violation. DURING ALL OF AUGUST Washingtoniana Division Pro- gram Is Announced by Dr. Bowerman, Librarian. The Washingtoniana division of the Public Library will be closed during the month of August. Research workers to wish to use Washingtoniana material are asked to inquire at the desk in the reading and reference Eastern | by Judge Eugene Im pounded Auto Disappears, but Is Captured Again Car Taken From Front of Precinct Station Is Found Abandoned. Police of No. 3 precinct had to impound an automobile twice in less than 24 hours to make their action stick. First impounded for violation of & parking regulation, the machine was placed in front of the station house to wait for its owner to call for it Police are not certain about the owner calling, but some one did. The car disappeared. A° search for the owner last night proved futile, when inquiry at the residence given for the man to whom the machine is listed brought the information he did not live there. This morning, however, officers again found the automobile near Nineteenth street and Jefferson place. Although this time it was within the law, in so far as parking was con- cerned, it was taken back for the The machine is again in front of No. 3 police statior but a small and important part of its engine is not. = Officers say several slot machines were found in the car today. 10 START SUNDAY Cars to Be Discontinued Between Rockville and Alta Vista and D. C. Service on the P street bus line, postponed for a week because of lack of available equipment, will start next Sunday. The Capital Transit Co. also an- nounced that beginning Sunday street car service between Rockville, Md., and Alta Vista and the District line at Wisconsin avenue will be discon- tinued and operition of a new bus line between these points will begin. The new line will use the Georgetown road. Patrons may transfer to street cars at the District line, going do®n Wisconsiu avenue. Beginning Monday rush-hour serv- ice will be put into operation on the Burleith-Glover Park and the Mass- achusetts avenue bus lines. This i for the benefit of the Government employes in the buildings along Po- tomac Park, along Constitution ave- nue between Twentieth and Tenth streets. Three additional trips will provide rush-hour services, it was said, on the three bus routes. The P street cross-line bus service will extend from Thirty-sixth street to New Jersey avenue. The West End bus line, which was extended into the Georgetown area when street car service over P Street Bridge was abandoned last month, will be restored next month. POSITIONS ARE OPEN FOR U. S. DRAFTSMEN Civil Service Examinations Also Will Be Held for Principal Horticulturist. Two new examinations have been listed by the Civil Service Commis- sion. For engineering draftsmen and junior engineering draftsmen appli- cations will be received until August 19 at the commission, Seventh and F streets. The pay is $1,620 to $2,300. For principal horticulturist, bulb and floricultural investigations, Bu- reau of Plant Industry, application may be made until August 15. The pay is $5,600. e ———— STATUTE UPHELD Law on Water Ices and Sherbets Wins Court Verdict. BALTIMORE, August 2 (#)—Val- idity of the 1935 statute requiring water ice and sherberts be sold only in individual contatmers, which must be plainly labelled was upheld yesterday , in ruling PAGE B—1 PURCHASE OF PARK APARTMENTS SEEN IN'VACATE ORDER Tenants in Potomac Build- ing Must Make Way for Interior Department. OFFICES FOR P. W. A. DUE TO BE INSTALLED NOW Structure Is in Area to Be Cleared for Northwest Rec- tangle of Government. Early purchase by the Federal Gov- ernment of the Potomac Park Apart- ments, Twenty-first and C streets, appeared in prospect today after it was learned that Weaver Bros., agents for the building, had served a notice on the tenants to vacate within 30 days. Tentative plans of the Interior De- partment provide for altering the | building and installing the Public Works Administration there, it was learned. { C. J. Guthrie, chief of the Division of Government Space Control of the National Park Service, Interior De- partment, declared there are a few | details to be cleared up before a defi- | nite commitment can be given to the owners. Plans for Purchase. The Procurement Division of TRAFFIC ARRESTS | /INCAMPAIGN DROP {George W. Tenley, 63, Fa- | tally Injured in Maryland Accident. For the fir safety cam weeks ago tra time since the traffic started nearly two s fell below the hour period end- One death re- t in Maryland 3, of 307 S tor, died last night in Casualty Hos- pital from injuries received several 'hours earlier when struck by a street | car in Brentwood, Md He failed to regain consciousness | after being struck and was identified at the District morgue by his son. M C. Tenley, with whom he made his home at the S street address. He suf- | fered a crushed chest and other in- | juries. 22 Arrested for Speeding. | Two hundred and seventy-nine ar- rests were made during the 24 hours ending at 8 am. Of these 22 were for speeding, 14 for passing red lights and | 8 for reckless driving. Officials attribute the fewer arrests to better observance. genarlly. of the traffic regulations and feel the success of the campaign is shown by the de- | crease. Seven persons, two of them chil- | dren, were hurt in a total of 27 acci- | dents here from 8 a.m. yesterday to 8 am. today. None of the injuries was expected to prove serious. Virginia Man Injured. The most seriously hurt was Charles Moore, 35, of Alexandria, Va., pro- motion manager of the Washington Post. He suffered a spinal fracture in a collisicn between an automobile and a taxicab in which he was rid- ing at Fourteenth street and Penns; vanja avenue. Robert Grueble, 27, of Bristol, driver of the automobile which col- | lided with the taxicab, was charged with reckless driving. | Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, acting ' superintendent of police during the absence of Maj. Ernest W. Brown, to- day issued an order for strict enforce- | ment of the law forbidding glaring | headlights on motor vehicles. 'FEWER D. C. CRIMES ' REPORTED FOR JULY Record Set With No Hold-up Cases for Three-Day Period. Something of a record was estab- lished this morning, when for the first | time in a long while not a single re- | port of a hold-up had been made to | police for three days. Inspector L. I H. Edwards, acting police superintendent during the brief absence of Ma) Ernest W. Brown, said recall in & long while. Inspector Edwards attributed the no-hold-up record to extra activity of police, which, he believes also has brought about a reduction in other forms of crime For July there were only 225 house- breakings, against 239 in June and 271 in May. Robberies for July num- bered only 47, against 67 for June and 63 for May Even the number of stolen auto- mobiles in July ‘was much lower, rec- ords show than in. the previous month, with a 215 total for that month and 250 in June, JIMMY THIEVES NET $500 IN TWO HAULS Street Apartment—P Street Place Robbed. Jimmy thieves netted more than $500 worth of jewelry and a small amount of cash last night in two rob- beries. An unset diamond worth $500 and a watch were stolen from the apart- ment of Katherine Shenk, 3420 Six- teenth street, police were told. were reported stolen from the apart- ment of Alice Domino and Catherine Shoe, 2006 P street. Their empty on the suit of the el Ice Cream Co., against the Board of Health, pocketbooks were jund in a nearby alley, N ¥ it was the first such situation he could Jewelry Taken From Sixteenth | Six dollars and incidental articles | Treasury Department is to buy property, under present plans. The is to be done under authority granted by Congress under the Keyes-Elliott act, which set aside property for eventual purchase by the Government ‘The Potomac Park Apartments are located in the area, which has been designated by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as the | Northwest Rectangle. Eventually the Government is to buy all the property lin the area bounded by E street, Eighteenth street, Constitution avenue and the Potomac River. Government officials disclosed that immediate purchase of this building will provide urgently needed space, and they foresaw a saving in rent whicl would have to be spent elsewhere if space were leased. 70,000 Feet Floor Space. | The Potomac Park Apartments will | provide some 70,000 square feet of net floor area. Alterations will have to be undertaken to convert the building into desirable office space. Due to crowded conditions in the Interior Building and the fact many divisions are scattered in rented space, Secre- tary Ickes desires to concentrate the P. W. A. antl give it more room. This | will be done when the Potomac Park Apartments pass into Government ownership. Negotiations for the acquisition of the apartments have been in prog- ress for some time, it was learned today. Yesterday Weaver Bros. served notice on the tenants that they would have to get out by August 31. There are 115 apartments in the Potomac Park, an eight-story build- ing. The present owners are said to be Martin West of Weaver Bros and James P. Schick. The building was erected in June. 1924, and the first owner was Frederic J. Haskin, who conducts a daily i formation service in The Star. His offices are now located in the building BOY ON PROBATION IN STABBING CASE Judge Bentley Scores Stealing of Newspapers Which Led to Attack. Waldon Robert Anderson, 15, col- ored, 2200 block of Twelfth street, was placed on probation by Juvenile Court Judge Fay Bentley today in connection | with the stabbing last month of Wal- | ter PFinnin, 18-year-old newspaper | carrier boy, who had attempted to prevent the colored youth from steal- ing his papers. Five days after the stabbing, which | occurred July 21 at Thirteenth and Belmont streets, Officer Frank Ashley, armed only with a meager description of Finnin's assailant, apprehended young Andersom It was testified today that Ander- son took several copies of The Sunday Star which had been delivered by Finnin. The carrier boy sald he had gone into an apartment house and found Anderson with the papers, | which he accused him of stealing. The colored youth then is alleged to have | taken a knife from his belt and stabbed ! Finnin in the back. Finnin told the court he had been missing papers {or several days before | he finally discovered Anderson taking them. In placing the youth on probation, | Judge Bentley delivered a lecture on the danger of stealing papers, saying the -carrier boys must pay for them and the subscribers in turn lose their papers. She said so long as she is on the bench she will do everything in her power to stop the practice. JUDGE H. M. STEPHENS IS FETED AT LUNCHEON | Fifty Friends and Associates Cel- { ebrate Elevation to Court | of Appeals. Pa.,| | Judge Harold M. Stephens, former Assistant Attorney General, recently appointed to the District Court of Appeals, was honored yesterday at a testimonial luncheon in the National Press Club auditorium. Approximately 50 friends and associates attended. The speakers were Phillip E. Buck, former director of litigation for the N. R. A; Ewin L. Davis, chairman of the Pederal Trade Commission; John Dickinson, successor to Judge Ste- phens as Assistant Attorney General; Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the | Federal Reserve Board; Prank K Nebeker, former Assistant Attorney General, and rman King of the Senate District ttee,