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- [Cceemivews | The Sumday Star SO0 APPROVED FOR TUBERCULOSIS CHECK IN DISTRICT Sum Is Reported Included: in $1,236,000 Addition for Work Relief. PROGRAM WILL GIVE STEADY WORK TO 1,200 City Officials Have Sent 144 Projects, Totaling $13,000,000, to W. P. A. for Approval. | The tuberculosis case-finding pro- gram of Health Officer George C.| Ruhland is included in a list of 30/ District projects approved by the Fed- | eral Works Progress Administration, according to informal word received yesterday by District officials. The additional programs, which will give approximately 1,200 more relief clients steady work under the new | unemployment relief plan, have an| estimated total cost of $1,236,000. With allocation of funds for this| program, Dr. Ruhland will have‘ placed at his command a large staff of workers to aid medical officers in giving examinations to “volunteers,” in compilation of records of cases and in tracing medical histories of fami- lies where there have been cases of the white plague. 6,000 Known Cases. There now are some 6,000 known cases of tuberculosis in the District, which is second among the cities of the United States in the death rate from tuberculosis. Dr. Ruhland be- lieves, from tests given high school pupils, and from other data, that the i H District has another 6,000 cases which are not registered. Up to yesterday, the Federal Gov- | emment had approved 24 District works proposals having a cost of some $3,000,000. A total of 5.500 relief clients now are at work under | these programs. All told, the District | has sent to the W. P. A. for approval | 144 projects calling for a total ex- penditure of $13,000,000, designed to | give steady work to 15,500 men and | women on the relief rolls. $99,000 Is Approved. | For the tuberculosis case-finding study, the Federal officials are said to have approved $99,000.. Dr. Ruh- | land’s original program requested use | of $101,000 and the employment of | %79 workers. | Other major items reported ap- proved by the W, P. A. include the | following: | or.employment of additional nurses | and attendants at Gallinger Hospital, which would make possible consider- | able expansion of the care of tuber- culosis patients at the city institu- | tion, $99,000. Improvement of buildings and mak- | ing of physical repairs at Gallinger Hospital, $105,000. For repairs and improvements to various District properties, under di- rection of the District Repair Shop, $290,000. | For construction and repair work | at the Zoo and other work there, | $229,000. For landscaping and building im- | provements at the United States Sol- diers’ Home, $80,000. NEW NAVY VESSEL T0 BE HERE 0CT. 28 Navy Day Celebration to Be on Monday This Year—27th on Sunday. One of the Navy's newest destroyers, \} the Dale, will be brought to Washing- ton for the celebration of Navy day, October 28, it was announced yester- | day by the Navy Department. The | Dale is now on her shakedown cruise | at Leghorn, Italy. She is commanded | by Comdr. William A. Corn and is of | 1,500 tons’ displacement. | The vessel will reach here a day or | two before the celebration at the | ‘Washington Navy Yard and will de- part for New York October 29. The Dale is scheduled to leave Leg- | horn Friday and visit Villefranche, France, and Valencia, Spain, before returning to the United States. The seventh of the new destroyers to be | completed, the Dale was authorized by the act of Congress of August 29, | 1916, prior to America’s entry into the World War. Constructed at the New | York Navy Yard, she was commis- | sioned on June 17 last. | Ordinarily, Navy day is celebrated | on October 27, anniversary of the bisth of Theodore Roosevelt. This | year that date falls upon Sunday and | the celebration will be held the day following. INK BURNS FROSH Bophs Brand Freshman Rebels With Laundry Marker. STOCKTON, Calif., September 21 (#).—Five College of Pacific freshmen were reported by college authorities today to be under medical treatment for caustic burns received when they were painted with laundry ink by sophomores. The students, under treatment at the college infirmary, were Max Froome, Dale Hollingsworth, Alton Hodges, Douglas Taylor and Francis Hellman. The freshmen said they under- went the hazing a week ago for re- | fusing to wear “dink” caps and for talking to women students. WILL MARK DOG WEEK Humane Education Society to , Haold Meeting Tomorrow Night. { A public meeting in observance of tional dog week wil' be held by the jumane Education Society tomorrow ievening in the building of the League for the Larger Life, 1414 Sixteenth ; i will be made by Robert Dbt and Mrs. Frances Cameron The slogan for the week is “Evazy Home Needs a Dog.” v | tion. ‘ucnwy for Canada. Street Interviews by WIS Safety Campaign Bring Pertinent Obser- vations on D. C. Conditions. As a feature of the safety cam= paign now being conducted by The Star, Station WISV of the Colum~ bia Broadcasting System yesterday - afternoon broadcast interviews with . passersby at the intersection of Fifteenth street and New York ave- nue on what might be done to im- prove the traffic situation. The following is a partial tran- script of thig broadcast. Names are correct as far as it was possible for a stenographer to get them. Q. Here's Mr. Van Duzer, the direc- tor of traffic. Just a minute,"Mr. Van Duzer, would you like to say some- thing? A. Well, T think this Star drive is going to be of immense help here in the District. Unquestionably, publicity is what is needed in educa- We have 251,000 drivers in the District, probably more per capita than any other city in the world. In the last nine months we have had 77 fatalities; 49 of them were pedes- trians, and of the 49, 39 were the pedestrian’s fault—crossing in the middle of the block and other viola- tions. Q. Do you think there are too many taxicabs in Washington? A. Well, | there are over 4,000, which is about one taxicab for every 125 people. New York City has one taxicab for every | 750 people. Q. But if they drive carefully, that is not too many? A. Why, we can handle more vehicles if they will drive carefully. Q. Have you any particular sug- | gestion to make at this time? A. The only thing I have to say is pedes- | trians should cross with the light and |not in the middle of the block, or dodge out from behind parked cars. | During the last week, there have been three children killed. children. ERE'S a young lady. Q. What's your name? A. Angela Crosden. Q What suggestion have you to make? A. I think there should be Watch your WASHINGTON, - D. C, Traffic Views Via Radio V in Interest of The Star more one-way streets in Washington to help the traffic along. Here’s a gentleman who has some- thing to say. Q. What is your name? A. Louis T. Scott. Q. How long have you lived here? A. Twenty-five years. Q. What suggestion could you make about traffic in Washington? A. Oh, I think if we had more ene-way streets there would be less accidents. Here's another gentleman. Q. What's your name, please? A. John Dinger. Q. Where do you live? A. Six- teenth street northwest. Q. Have you any ideas about traffic conditions in Washington? A. The Police Department ought to be given a course in directing traffic. The pe- destrian ought to be trained to cross streets at the correct time. Q. Do you think these safety drives | do any good? A. I think they do a | great deal of good. | Q. Do you think they make the | people think safely? A. I believe it | is bringing before the minds of the people to watch more carefully | at all times. Here's a young your name, Miller. Q. Where do you live? A. George- town. Q. What have you to say about the traffic conditions in Washington? | A. I think it is the fault of the drivers more than the pedestrians. HERE comes a young man. Q. What is your name, please? A. Dona- due. Q. Where do you live? teenth street. Q. What ideas have you about Washington safety? A. Washington safety? Well, I believe there should be more precautions taken on keeping children off the streets. Q. I think that is a fine idea when i school is opening soon. Go ahead, " (See INTERVIEWS, Page B-2.) lady. please? Q. What's A. Frances A. Six- D. . DIVORGE LAW POINT UP TUESDAY 400 Cases Depend on Deci- | sion Regarding Separa- tion and Desertion. The question of whether the separa- tion and desertion provisions of Wash- ington’s new divorce law are retroac- tive, on which hangs the fate of some 400 court actions, will be argued be- | fore Justice O’Donoghue in District Supreme Court Tuesday. When the law was passed its spon- sors intended it to be retroactive, but no specific provision was incorporated. | Consequently, a dispute has arisen as | to whether a litigant can obtain a divorce on the grounds he or she was deserted two years ago, or must wait two years after the effective date of the act, August 8 of this year. In addition to the grounds of de- sertion, the new law permits absolute divorce after five years’ separation. The majority of all divorce actions filed since the first part of August have been based on one of these two pro- visions. The first test was made in the suit of Mrs. Lena Rucker, 913 L street northeast. Ralph Fitcher, represent- ing the husband, Robert B. Rucker, 913 Evart street northeast, asked that the suit be dismissed, and said he would raise the question of whether the law is retroactive. A second motion was filed by At- torney Bruce Aitchison. who had been | appointed by Justice Jennings Bailey to represent J. Ronald Tipping, now in Florida, who is being sued by Mrs. Elizabeth Tipping, 1909 Nineteenth street. The suit is uncontested. Justice Bailey is said to have ap- pointed Aitchison for the specific pur- pose of testing the law. Attorneys in | both cases have agreed to argue the | matter jointly. An appeal from Jus- tice O'Donoghue’s ruling, no matter what its nature, appears probable. WOMEN LAWYERS PLAN JUDGE RAEDY TRIBUTE| Justices of District Supreme Court and Municipal Court Are Among Invited. Judge Ellen K. Raedy, newly ap- | pointed judge on the Municipal Court | bench, will be honored by the Women’s | Bar Association of the District at a reception to be held October 4 at the Mayflower Hotel. The association has invited a num- ber of prominent guests, including the Jjustices of the Disirict Supreme Court and the Municipal Court, the marshal for the District and officers of the District Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Barristers’ Club and their wives. Judge Raedy, who received her ap- pointment in July, is the second wom- an to be named to the Municipal Court bench. She succeeded Judge Mary O'Toole. e D. C. STUDENT HONORED Fisher Body Guild Alumni Elects International Secretary. Gordon L. Drummond, 23, of 936 Quincy street, student at the Univer- sity of Michigan, has been elected international alumni secretary of the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, which annually awards university scholare ships for model coach-building. Drum- mond won a $5,000 scholarship in 1932. Other officers of the alumni asso- ciation elected at the recent Detroit convention of the guild’s educational foundation are: David Tennant, 19, of London, Ontario, president; Frank- lin Atwater, 19, New Britain, Conn., vice president for the United States; Richard Guthrie, 18, London, Ontario, vice president for Canada; Hitzelberger, 16, Racine, Wis,, secre- tary for the United States, and Allan McLean, 21, Collingwood, Ontario, - Stuart | Louis P. Levitt, LOAN SHARK LAW DRIVE T0 CONTINUE More Evidence Gathered for Court Test—One | Trial Scheduled. With one case taken to court for | trial, the drive against alleged | violators of the 1913 “loan shark” | law will be continued this week, Assistant Corporation Counsel Edward | M. Curran declared last night. Charges of making loans at more than 6 per cent interest per year were placed yesterday against Jacob Rubin, trading as the United Finance Co. at 943 New Ycrk avenue. After in- formations were flled by Curran, Rubin voluntary went to police headquarters and posted $200 bond for appearance at a hearing at Police Court tomorrow. Jury trial will be demanded, officials were informed. More Evidence. Curran said last night he had gathered evidence in “a half dozen” other cases, and would issue informa- tions this week charging small loan ;:Apemwrs with violation of the 1913 w. The campaign is being conducted under orders from Corporation | Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman against all lenders who operate without a license and charge more than 6 per cent interest. Licensed firms may charge no more than 12 per cent per | year. The drive was planned after Congress failed to enact a new small loans law fostered by Prettyman. Woman Complainant. One complainant against Rubin was Miss Gladys Pantaze, 308 Second 1 street southeast, who was said to have been required io pledge payment of $103 all told for a loan of $75, secured by an automobile. The other | was Raymond Wise, 127 Eleventh street northeast, who said he was loaned $150 last April by Rubin after | agreeing to repay a total of $216. Counsel for Rubin said his busi- ness was that of a broker and that he placed loans instead of making them himself. “If our business is not legal, we will close our doors,” the attorney said. “If legal, we want to eontinue.” It is claimed the in- terest alone was not illegal and that | the additional sums represented costs | of insurance and investigation of ap- plications and other incidentals. TWO ARE SENTENCED ON AUTO VIOLATIONS Third Gets 60 Days on Each of Two Counts of Unlicensed Sale of Liquor. Two defendants convicted of traffic violations and one of violating the liquor laws were given stiff sentences by Judge Gus A, Schuldt in Trafic Court yesterday. George Lister, charged with reckless driving after he is alleged to have struck four parked cars at Tennessee avenue and Fifteenth street north- east was sentenced to pay a fine of $75 or serve 45 days in jail. Thomas J. Evans was sentenced to $50 or 30 days for operating without a permit. Ernest Ercus, colored, 33, 1742 Eighth street, was sentenced to serve 60 days each on first and second counts of unlicensed sale of liquor, and to pav a fine of $100 or serve 30 days for keeping liquor for sale without a license. —- Jewish Home Group to Meet. A group of women sponsors of the National Home for Jewish Children at Denver will hold their first meet- ing of the season Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Shoreham Hotel, where Harry Blumenthal, director of the home, will address them. The meeting is to be 2 INVESTIGATIONS WILL BE HELD IN BELLEVUE SLAYING Marine Guard to Be Called Before Inquiry Court and Inquest. SAILORS ACCOMPANYING MORIARTY ARE DETAINED Fatal Shooting Occurred as Vie- tim Is Said to Have Crashed Magazine Gate ‘Two investigations will open tomor- row in the fatal shooting yesterday of John Donald Moriarty, 25-year-old Government Printing Office employe, | by a Marine guard at the Bellevue Magazine. Pvt. John F. Whitmore, who shot the young civilian during a scuffie when the latter allegedly drove his car into the grounds after being com- manded to halt, will be summoned at an inquest set for 11:30 a.m. at the District Morgue. He later will be called before a court of inquiry to be named by Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees, commandant of the Navy Yard. Whitmore and two sailors who were in Moriarty's machine when the shooting occurred are being held at the Marine Barracks pending the in- vestigations. Had Picked Up Another. Moriarty, who lived with his mother, Mrs. M. Elizabeth Moriarty, & nurse, at 1015 N street, had Wriven K. F. Burton ‘ and R. Bakken, first-class radiomen, to the magazine and en route had picked up George Holroyd, 633 Eighth street, a civilian employe ! at Bellevue, who rode on the ruuning board. After being detained at the entrance Moriarty is said to have driven into gate and slightly injuring Whitmore. Recovering, Whitmore, with his .45- gun was discharged. Moriarty died the heart. an investigation on the scene Mori- arty apparently was accidentally shot. Whitmore's orders, it was stated, were to let no one pass through the gate. Moriarty, he said, approached at a high rate of speed and paid no at- tention to a stop signal. Jailed for Drunkenness. Moriarty, 434 Irving street, had been arrested Friday night by ninth pre- cinct police and charged with drunken- | mess. Just prior to their arrest, police said, Mrs. Moriarty was treated at ‘Clsuully Hospital for arm and leg | injuries she said she received in help- | ing her husband to their car. Mrs, Moriarty was held for a while |at the Woman's Bureau. Moriaity | was released from the precinct about 2 am., little more than eight hours | before he was shot. ] Whitmore, who is 38 and a native of Overton, Nev., enlisted in the Ma- rine Corps in 1917. He went overseas just before the armistice and later | served in China. He was assigned to duty at the navy yard last March. COAST GUARD LETS 33 BOAT CONTRACTS Seven of New Craft Will Be Used for Rescue Work in Airplane Crashes. Taking steps to expand further its fleet of small boats, the United States Coast Guard yesterday awarded con- tracts to two different firms for con- struction of seven “airplane-crash res- cue boats” and thirteen 26-foot speed boats. Contract for the airplane-crash boats, which will be standard “run- abouts” 28 feet long, with a speed of 40 miles an hour, went to the Hacker Boat Co. of Mount Clements, Mich., in the total sum of $25,098.75. The boats will be assigned to various Coast Guard air stations. ‘The 26-foot speed boats will be con- structed by the Robinson Marine Con- struction Co. at Benton Harbor, Mich., at a cost of $2,323 each. These boats will have a speed of 35 miles an hour. LoE e MEETING ANNOUNCED ‘The annual meeting of the Florence Crittenton Circles will be held Fri- day, October 25, at the home, Reser- voir and Conduit roads, under direc- tion of Mrs. Frederick M. Kerby, it | was announced yesterday. The importance of participation of board members of Community Chest organizations in the annual Chest campaign was stressed by Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson, president of the Board of Managers of the Florence almost instantly from a wound near | | turned. They are then sent to Cor- poration Counsel E. Barreit Pretty- | the day at the magazine, said after | man for later use when the meaning Lieut. George C. Wright, officer of | Moriarty and his wife, Mrs. Elsie | Crittenton Home, at the September meeting. Alley The District Alley Dwelling Author- ity, it was disclosed yesterday, is i a quandary because it cannot per- suade any one to accept a payment of more than $500 due an unnamed individual who cannot be located. Banks, trust companies, the Treas- ury and the-controller general’s office have been asked to receive the money in_trust, but all say they can't do it. The sum is involved in acquisition of land for an alley dwelling project which cannot be accomplished until legal disposition of the sum is ar- “Theé story illustrates one of the difficulties in asembling properties for the purpose of reconstruction,” said followed by a tea arranged by Mrs. assisted by Mrs. Charles Besseches, Mrs. J. S. Neviaser, Mrs, B, Reubens, Mrs. M. Sarnoff and Mrs. J. J. Zupnick. Mrs. Sylvia Kap- lowits will play the John Ihider, executive officer of the suthority. “In this case, the former owner of the property willed it to a near rela- tive, but & codicll stated fhat $500 Shooting Probed JOHN D. MORIARTY. STREET REPAVING CONTRACT ISLET Work Is First Step in Re-! moval of Connecticut Avenue Car Tracks. ‘The first major step for removal of the abandoned Connecticut ave- nue street cer tracks was ordered yesterday by the Commissioners in awarding a contract for repaving of Connecticut avenue from Calvert street to the south end of the Klingle Bridge. The contract went to McGuire & Rolfe, Inc., the low bidder which offered to do the work for $42.600. The project will be financed out of Federal grants to the District for road improvements, under the Bu- reau of Roads program. District officials as yet have not the grounds, knocking open an iron | determined finally how the cost of such street improvements will be shared between the District and the caliber service revolver in hand. rush- | Capital Transit .Co. under terms of | ed to stop the civilian. They grappled | | at the car, police were told, and the | the street railway merger act. In cases of this kind, the District is billing the company for paving of the | track area and the bills are being re- of the law will be tested. Previously, the Commissioners or- dered street improvements on Calvert street between the new Calvert Street Bridge and Connecticut avenue. An- other section in the near future will be fréed of tracks and repaved. Chevy Chase civic leaders have asked that the tracks remain in place until the bus service substituted for street cars has proved satisfactory. District officials explained that the tracks so far or- dered removed are so worn they would have to be rebuilt anyway. 'CLERKS ON RELIEF MAY ASSIST BOARD D. C. Unemployment Compensa- | tion Assignment May Be Or- dered Tomorrow. Clerical workers on the District re- lief list may be assigned this week to aid the District Unemployment Com- pensation Board.in compilation of a register of all employers in the Capi- tal. -~ John A. Marshall, executive director for the board, has aplied for assign- ment of a number of clerks for this work as an emergency works project. When Commissioner George E. Allen, District relief administrator, returns from vacation tomorrow, he is ex- pected to approve the request. The clerks would be set to work copying names and addresses of em- ployers from the lists of those having policies with the United States Work- men's Compensation Board. This is to be a major guide in preparation of the register. Preparation of the register was or- dered by the board as one of the major tasks to be performed prior to January 1 when collection of pay roll assessments against employers will start. Members of the board are Daniel J. Callahan, John Locher and Commissioners Hazen, Allen and Sul- tan, . AIR TALK TO BE GIVEN Use of Planes in Mining Projects to Be Explained to Engineers. An illustrated talk by Charles F. Jackson, chief of the mining division, Bureau of Mines, will be given at a meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Friday night at the La Fayette Hotel. His topic will be “Use of the Airplane in Remote Mining Operations.” The meeting will be preceded by a dinner at 6:30. The program also will include a motion picture entitled “The Lindbergh Trail,” showing the route taken by the fiyer on a South Ameri- can flight. Project Balked as $50 Lies Waiting for Missing Heir should be paid to a certain nephew. The nephew disappeared some two years ago and his whereabouts now are unknown. “It will be seven years before he is legally presumed to be dead. Con- sequently, the $500 plus interest for some seven years to come, according to the title company, must be held available in case he reappears. “The authority has approached trust companies and banks, but found them unwilling to accept. Of course, the Controller General’s office cannot SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER | major purposes of the conference will 29 Ly 1935. PARLEY T0 OPEN HERE TOMORROW ONHUMANNEEDS President Will Launch Con- ference, With Response by Swope. 500 NATIONAL LEADERS EXPECTED TO ATTEND Analysis of Government Activity and Dissipation of Misunder- standing Aim. Campaign plans for the annual fight of private charity agains: hu- man misery and social maladjustment will be laid here tomorrow and Tues- day at the 1935 Mobilization for Hu- man Needs Conference. President Roosevelt will open the | conference on the south grounds of | the White House at 10 a.m. tomorrow. | Gerard Swope, mobilization chairmean, | will make the formal response. Mrs. Roosevelt, as chairman of the National Women’s Committee, is tak- ing a leading role and will conduct 2 meeting of her committee in the east room of the White House following the ceremonies on the lawn. At the same time the National Citizens’ Com- mittee, under the leadership of Mr. Swope, will begin drafting its program for the guidance of private charities this Winter at a- meeting in the May- flower Hotel's Chinese room. Some 500 business and civic leaders, social workers and laymen are ex- pected to register for the conference. Thirty-five privately supported na- tional welfare organizations are spon- soring the 1935 mobilization, wi‘h Community Chests and Councils, Inc. serving as the administrative agency. Two Major Purposes. | Allen T. Burns, executive vice president of Community Chests and Councils, Inc., said yesterday two be careful analysis of what the Fed- eral Government is doing and plans | to do to help those wholly or partially | unable to help themselves and ac- | quainting delegates with the *wide- | spread misunderstanding” of social workers and what they are trying to do for unfortunates and to adopt Sports—Pages 7 to 11 Schools and Colleges—Pages 4, 5, 6 Charity Leaders- GERARD SWOPE. —Underwood & Underwood. ALLEN T. BURNS, —Harris-Ewing Photo. D. C. STORE SALES GAINING STEADILY methods to dissipate this misunder- standing. The conference will devote special Bank Clearings Regis- ter Increase. attention to the new soclal security | act, its aim and responsibilities and the measure of co-operation which it will require from private charities. Actual stories of men, women and children who have been obliged to ask for help during depression years will be presented Tuesday at 9:30 am. in the Mayflower ball room. A hearing board, headed by Newton D. Baker, chairman of the Mobilization for Human Needs for the three years prior to Mr. Swope's election last June, will cross-question social work- ers who will demonstrate their con- tacts with families, the families to be represented by members of the Wash- ington Community Players. Actual friends of the families who were given assistance will be present to testify. Board of Examining. The examining board will include ! Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr. Swope, Harry L. | Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator; | Miss Katherine Lenroot, head of the Children's Bureau; Mrs. Mary K. Simkhovich, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. Sidney C. Borg, Dr. George E. | Vincent, John Stewart Bryan, Miss | Dorothy C. Kahn, Stillman F. West- brook, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes | and Joseph P. Tumulty. In charge of one of the round table discussions on probation will be Charles L. Chute, executive director of the National Probation Association, who will lead talks on minimum standards in probation work and the results obtained to date. ‘There will be a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow, with Mrs. Roosevelt as the principal speaker. Mr. West- brook, acting president of Community Chests and Councils, Inc., will be | chairman. Mrs, Roosevelt's subject is “Meeting Human Needs Unmet by Government.” At 3 pm. the Women's Committee | will reassemble to hear addresses by | Mrs. W. P. Hobby and Mrs. Borg of New York City. They will speak on “Women’s Work in Interpreting Wel- fare Services.” Thereafter, there will be a discussion, led by Mrs. Frederic M. Paist, on “Practical Ways of Speak- ing Up for Human Needs.” Groups | from several communities will make reports. ‘l A meeting on campaign plans for | 1935 will be led by Charles P. Taft, 2d. Speakers at a symposium at this meeting will be Carter Taylor, Harris- burg, Pa., Welfare Federation; Don- aldson Brown, vice president and chairman, General Motors Corp. Fi- nance Committee; Dudley Blossom, general chairman, Cleveland, Ohio, Community Fund; Joseph H. Ashton, Ashton Insurance Agency, Kansas City, Mo.; Lynn Mowat, campaign director, Los Angeles Welfare Federa- tion; H. E. Atwood, vice president, First National Bank & Trust Co. Minneapolis. Lippmann to Speak. The principal speakers at a ban- quet to be held tomorrow night at the Mayflower will be Walter Lippmann, editorial commentator, and Edward D. Duffield, president of the Prudential Life Insurance Co. Mr. Lippmann will speak on the new social security program and Mr. Duffield on the ex- tent to which taxes take care of the relief burden, A breakfast will be held Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock. John Stew- art Bryan, president of William and Mary College, and Mr. Burns are to be the principal speakers. The meeting has been dedicated to the memory of the late Prederic R. Kel- logg. a past president of the Com- munity Chest organization. ‘The dramatization-of-social-work | forfeiting his $5 collateral. | feiture was made Priday, but was set | stimulated by good Fall shopping | weather, Washihgton department store | sales continue to register steady gains in volume, while retail and waole- | sale trade maintains consistent prog: ress in all sections of the country, inccnrdmg to Commerce Department | reports from 34 cities made public yesterday. Sales in stores here during the week ended September 18 increased 8.7 per cent over the preceding week and 17.9 per cent over the correspond- ing week of 1934. ‘Throughout the country all lines of retail trade were reported moving |into greater volume, with wearing | apparel taking the lead. The buying | of furniture, rugs and other house- hold equipment, also continued to increase. Bank clearings in Washington were up 7 per cent from the preceding week and 36.8 per cent over the same 1934 week. Building permits declined 56.3 per cent from the previous week’s high level, which included a $1.000,000 in- surance building, but were 27.3 per cent higher. than the corresponding week of last yeer. ‘The influx of visitors to Washington. as reflected by the number registered at the Smithsonian Institution, showed 51,315 for the week. 49,015 for the previous week and 32.635 for the cor- responding week of 1934. Wholesale trade in the 34 cities in- cluded in the survey followed the gen- eral trends of retail. Shortage of ready merchandise is reported in New immediate delivery on many sales has buying policy prevalent for the last | five years. STREET AUTO WASHING “Simonize Doctor” Acquitted on Charge of Illegally Occupy- ing Public Space. Clarence Dendy, colored ‘simonize doctor,” who was arrested Thursday. charged with illegally occupying a public space, was acquitted in Police Court yesterday by Judge Walter J. Casey. At the time of his arrest, Dendy announced his intention of The for- aside when he asked for a trial. In giving his verdict Judge Casey said he was not ruling upon the va- lidity, out was basing his decision upon the information which con- tended Dendy was occupying space with his buckets, brushes and cloths. The court held that if this were a violation a person could not legally set a suitcase down on the street without violating the law. Dendy has been making his living by washing and polishing automobiles streets for the past five years. He was arrested by Policeman J. Lohman of the first precinct. RETIRED PRINTER DIES William A. Green Had Been in Government Service 30 Years. William A. Green, former Wash- ington resident who retired three years ago after 30 years of service in the Government Printing Office, died yes- terday at Lakewood, Ohio, according to word received here last night. He had been {ll for more than three years. Well known in Washington, Mr. Green was a member of the B. B. French Masonic Lodge, the Maccabees and the Rhode Island Avenue Meth. odist Protestant Chureh. He lived at 4114 Military road. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lil- s, |ian 3L Green, and two sons, E. Mel- bourne and Chagles E. Green. Retail Level 17.9 Over 1934. .York City, where the impossibility of | led to a break in the hand-to-mouth | VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT in the vicinity of Fifteenth and I| PAGE B—1 TKILLED, B HURT IN CRASHES HERE ANDINMARYLAND Man Dies at Casualty After Brother’s Car Collides With Truck. DRIVER, NOT INJURED, IS HELD FOR CORONER Seven Children Slightly Hurt in Other Mishaps—Two Bicy- clists Victims. One person was killed and eight others, most of them children, wer: injured in automobile accidents in nearby Maryland and the District yesterday. | Clinton O. Sisson, 35, of 101'3 M | street southeast, died on the operat- ing table at Casualty Hospital shortly after a machine driven by his brothe= collided head-on with a truck near | Piscataway Creek in Prince Georges | County. His skull was fractured ano his neck broken. Alvin Talbert, 29. of 1605 Twenty= seventh street, who was riding with Sisson, received a deep cut in his arm | and other injuries. He also was taken to Casualty. Held for Coroner. Eskell W. Sisson, 1208 First street southeast, was held for a coroner’s investigation. He was said to be un- injured. The accident occurred on Livingston road, police said, and in- volved a truck operated by M. O. Weeks of Accokeek, Md. Neitner Weeks nor his wife nor brother-in- law, who were riding with h.m, were hurt. Weeks was charged with reck- less driving. In the other mishaps seven chile dren were slightly injured. Buddy Williams, 15, of 1208 Thire | tieth street, and Barbara Zimmerman, | 13, of 3040 R street, suffered cuts and bruises when the bicycle they were riding collided at Wisconsin avenue and Thirty-fifth street with an | automobile driven by Albert J. Ber- |nard, 3724 Yuma street. They were | treated at Georgetown Hospital and | went home. Walking behind an automcbiie that was being parked on Nineteenth | street southeast by Dr. Francis P, | Boland of Gallinger Hospital, Ruth | Camden. 8 of 140 Eleventh' street | southeast, and Gloria Prospe:i, 9, of | 111 Nineteenth street southeast, were knocked down. They were treated et Gallinger for bruises and shock. Boy Cut on Head. | Alfonso Glover, 5, colored, 1028 Ken- | yon street, was cut on the head and shoulder when struck as he ran from behind a parked car at Eleventh and | Irving streets. He was taken to | Freedmen's Hospital. Police said the machine which knocked him down was operated by Floyd W. Keyes, 26, of 432 Newton place. Harry Hawkins, 7. of 422 Third street, was hit at Fifth and G streets by a car driven by John F. Matthews, 210 L street southeast. After being treated at Emergency Hospital for bruises he returned home. Douglas H. Sayer, 18, of Kensington, Md., received minor injuries when the machine he was driving overturned on | Connecticut avenue extended, a mile beyond Chevy Chase Lake. He told Montgomery County police he was forced to swerve up an embankment | when a car operated by an unidentified | man came out of a side road. Sayer {and a young man with him refused hospital treatment INCOME TAX GAINS IN 20-DAY PERIOD September Showing $4,988,143, Against $3,636,681 in Same Time Last Year. Increase of more than a million | dollars in income tax collections for the first 20 days of September in the local collection district of Maryland | and the District of Columbia was re- ported last night by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering. Telegraphic reports from the local collector showed figures here increased from $3,636,681.53 for the first 20 days | in September last year to $4.986,143.77 during the comparable period of 1935. Virginia showed an increase during the same periods from $1,894,859.83 to $2,484.069.34. The country as a whole showed a gain from $160.359,~ 334.20 to $226,352,401.47. . | Convention Plans Topic. Plans for the next convention will be discussed at a meeting of the | Second Division Association, District |of Columbia Branch, on Thursday | evening at the New Colonial Hotel. | The session opens at 8 o'clock. Housewives Face Fines of $50 for Milk Bottles’ Use Prosecution Threatened to Force Return of Containers. Most Washington housewives are “law violators” and subject to first of- fense fines of $50, according to As- sistant Corporation. Counsel George M. Neilson, who is preparing to ine voke for the first time a law prohibit« ing the use, defacement, destruction or detention of milk bottles, cans or crates. The act, which was passed in 1926, has never been invoked and prosecu- tions against known violators are to be withheld long enough to allow the return of the property to the dairies. Under the law, Neilson said, a la- beled milk container can be used for nothing but the handling of milk, Violators are subject to & maximum fine of $50 for the first offense and fines of $100 for each subsequent of- fense, »