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Washington News WONAN, 77, KILLED CROSSING * STREET WHEN HIT BY TAX Colored Cab Driver'ls Held by Police for Action by Coroner HIT-AND-RUN MOTORIST HUNTED AFTER MISHAP Victim, 60, Has Fractured Skull. Driver Said to Have Gone Through Red Light. Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon Bailey, 77, of 1604 Q street, was killed today when struck by a taxicab while crossing Eighteenth street at California street. Mrs. Bailey was dead on arrival at Fmergency Hosital. She was iden- tified at the Morgue a while later by » daughter, Miss Marguerite G. Bailey, . 1630 R street, an employe in the Dis- bursing Office of the Treasury Depart- ment. Oscar Turner, 33, colored, 1230 8 street, said by police to be the driver of the taxicab, was ordered held for action of the coroner. Turner took the woman to Emergency Hospital in another cab. She was pronounced dead on arrival. Hit-Run Driver Hunted. A hit-and-run motorist who, police said, critically injured a 60-year-old | woman last night after driving through | & red light at First street and Louisi- ana avenue, was being sought. Police #aid the automobile bore Maryland license plates. Eighteen other persons were in- Jured, two seriously, in traffic acci- dents yesterday in the District and in nearby Maryland and Virginia. The hit-and-run victim—Mrs. Josephine Muswick of Little Rock, Ark—is in Emergency Hospital suf- fering from a fractured skull. She was taken there in a taxicab after being struck while crossing Louisiana avenue, Two-year-old Barbara Fenton, 220 E street, also is in a serious condition from head injuries received last night | when hit in front of her home by an | eutomobile driven by Bernice E. Cobb, 31. colored, 149 W street. The child is in Casualty Hospital. 7 Hurt Near Gaithersburg. Seven persons were injured, one eritically, in a head-on collission on the Frederick road at Middlebrook Hill, north of Gaithersburg, Md., early yesterday. Harry West, jr., Seneca, Md., driver of one of the cars, was charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor and with reckless driving. He was re- leased on $1,000 bond. Jesse Higgins, 31, Rockville, driver of the other auto, and his wife were taken to Georgetown Hospital. Mrs. Higgins suffered fractures of the jaw and right arm, and cuts, while her | husband was cut on the head and legs. Two other passengers in the Higgins car — Pershing Thompson, Clarksburg, brother of Mrs. Higgins, and Miss Doris Beacht, 18, Rockville, suffered cuts and bruises. Altee Downs, 24, and Margaret Bornman, 18, both of Seneca and | occupants of the West car, were treat- ed at Montgomery County Hospital | for cuts. Mrs. Higgins was said to be | the most seriously injured. Harvey E. Knott, 41, of 5516 Caro- lina place, and five companions in the car he was driving were injured when the machine collided at Twelfth | street and Constitution avenue with | a car driven by John W. Parrish, 47, Brentwood, Md. Reckless Driving Charged. Knott suffered cuts and bruises, the others, all of the same address, were Andrew G. Smith, 69, head cuts; John | Norman Knott, 5, fractured right leg, cuts to forehead; Marie Smith, 58, head cuts; Marie Knott, sprained ankle, cuts, shock, and Claude Knott, 9, cuts. Both drivers were charged with reckless driving at the first precinct. An accident in which an automo- bile hit a tree, a telephone and a lamp post in the 1800 block of Good Hope road southeast sent two persons to Casualty Hospital. The driver, Janie Jones, 24, suffered a pelvis in- Jury and a cut nose, and a passenger, Catherine Price, 26, a sprained back. Two other passengers escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Clemons Rollins, 38, colored, 1704 Tenth street, and Rufus Hunter, 39, also colored, 1627 Eleventh street, were treated at Mount Alto Hospital for injuries they said they received in an accident near Orange, Va. Neither was seriously hurt. BENCH IS PRESENTED TO LIBRARY BRANCH Auxiliary to Sons of Union Vet- erans Gives Memorial to Georgetown Unit. ‘The Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War presented a memorial bench to the Georgetown branch of the Public Library in formal ceremonies at 1:30 p.m. today, The presentation was made by Mrs. Phyllis M. Dean, Westboro, Mass. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen ac- cepted the bench for the District, and Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt, trustee, for the library. The memorial then was turned over to Ralph L. Thomp- son, branch librarian. Sons of Union Veterans witnessed the ceremony. Election of Mary J. Love, national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, as president of the Federated Patriotic Societies, composed of dele- gates to the organizations allied with the G. A. R, was announced following an executive session of the group yes- terday afterncon at the Mayflower Hotel. Mrs. Stella B. Owen, national presi- dent of the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans, was elected vice pres- jdent of the federated group. Other new officers are Rev. Frank Houston of Indiana, secretary-treasurer, and Miss Wynnye Wiliamson, national president of the Ladies of the G. A. R., national chaplain. The activities of the federated or- ganization closed with a dinner at the Mayflower yesterday evening. 1 Recovers Body RAYMOND KING. SCHOOL FIGURES TOBE CONSIDERE Budget Conference Tomor- row Expected to Result in Slash. With a sharp cut in prospect, & final showdown will come tomorrow on the 1938 budget estimates for the public school system which represent an actual increase of $5,036,659 over current expenses. Most of the in- crease is for new buildings and land purchases. Since the school estimates, totaling $17,525,619, are nearly one-third of the entire estimates for the District next year, the Commissioners reserved their conference with Board of Edu- cation officials until the last. “We will be very sympathetic in | our attitude,” Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen said today, “but there must be a considerable slash in the school estimates. How much I am not pre- pared to say.” Final Conference. The final budget conference comes the day following the opening of the new public school year with a record- breaking enrollment. Aware of the acute need of slash- ing estimates to avoid new taxes, members of the Board of Education were determined, nevertheless, to save as much as possible for new school buildings. They will meet with the Commissioners at 11 a.m. Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools, and his assistants will present data showing the congestion in existing facilities and the need of new buildings to take care of the in- creased enrellment, a factor that is expected to be encountered yearly. The current appropriation of $12,- 494,960, under which the schools are operating, provided only $1,541,000 for new buildings and maintenance. Compared with that sum the school board is now asking for $4,024,000. ‘This represents an increase of $2,- 482,500. A School Grounds Purchase. The Commissioners likewise are prepared to resist efforts to reduce estimates for the purchase of school grounds. $26,000 currently for land purchases and the School Board is now asking $1,468,000. Need for additional school buildings is evident in view of the fact that little more than 26 new class rooms were added in the past year. School officials said this new space will be more than absorbed by gain in num- ber of pupils estimated at approxi- mately 3,500, or nearly 135 for each new class room. The principal items for new school construction called for in the in- creased estimates for next year in- clude three mew senior high schools, four junior high schools, a new Wilson Teachers’ College, a new Miner Teach- ers’ College and also a number of additions and betterments. Tomorrow's conference with the Commissioners is the last opportunity School Board officials will have to defend their estimates before the en- tire list for local operations is for- warded to the Budget Bureau. “Loneliest Boy” Freed From Jail to Become a Barber “You Will Not Have to .Roan} Any. More,” . Judge Tells Soward. ‘Tommy Soward, 17, who was de- scribed by Judge Robert E. Mattingly as “probably the loneliest boy in the world” when the court sentenced him last week to serve six months in jail on a charge of vagrancy, walked out of Police Court today to learn the bar- ber trade, the sentence suspended. Soward’s case was taken up by Joseph E. Dayton, director of the Bu- reau of Rehabilitation, and when he appeared in Police Court today he was dressed in new clothes. He smiled “You will not have to roam around the world any more. You are going to be given a chance to learn a trade.” Young Soward was turned over to the rehabilitation head, who said he was going to get him a job. Congress provided only | The Foening Har WASHINGTON, D. IFRIENDS SEE AN FALL TO DEATH IN RIVER NEAR POINT Former Life Guard Victim of Strange Accident in 4-Foot Water. NO BRUISES ON BODY TAKEN TO MORGUE George L. Shinker, 26, Twelfth Street Resident, Had Been Doorman at Hotel. ‘While a group of friends stood on the river bank and watched George L. Shinker, 26, of 736 Twelfth street, doorman at the La Fayette Hotel and s former life guard, died in water three or four feet deep in the Poto- mac early today. He had fallen from the iron rail en the seawall, midway ;:t‘:een the tourist camp and Hains t. His body was recovered at 3:30 am,, 50 minutes after the fall, by Raymond King, 29, of 932 Twenty-third street, who had followed the fourth precinct patrol wagon to the river after swing- ing in behind it with his automobile on Water street southwest. He vol- unteered to go in after the body, de- spite the fact he is still recovering from a broken hip. ‘The cause of Shinker's death was not immediately determined. The body was taken to the District Morgue, and an autopsy was scheduled to be per- formed later in the day. Metropolitan and park police said there were no bruises on the body and that little, if any, water came from his lungs. Shinker’s friends and King re- turned with officers to fourth precinct. The friends explained their failure to try to rescue Shinker by saying, “No- body could swim.” King, an electrician, said he took rope from his automobile, stripped all his clothes off but & pair ef shorts and was lowered into the water by police. “I waded through the water, about waist deep, for several minutes,” King said, “before my foot touched Shinker's body. I attached it to the rope and it was pulled to the top of the sea wall. Then the officers threw down a grappling rope to pull me back up, but I refused to use it for fear it might break. They gave me another rope.” King sald some air came out of Shinker's lungs when he picked up the body. King fractured his hip in five places when he fell 50 feet as a light pole on which he was working broke last March. Since then he has been unable to work. Shinker, according to J. L. Leonard, sr., with whom he lived, was an expert swimmer, a former enlisted Navy man and an ex-life guard. In the group with Shinker at the seawall before he fell off were Murat Richardson, 26, hotel elevator opera- tor; Jack Richardson, 21, hotel bell- hop, and Alvina Richardson, 18, all of 1323 Otis place; Van Casey, 20, of 2815 Thirteenth street, hotel bell-hop; Edwin Samuel, 24, of Passing, Va. owner of the car In which the party had driven to the Speedway, and Louise Nelson, New York City, who has been visiting at 3251 Mount Pleas- ant street. -— AWARD WINNERS -AT AMERICAN U. Winners of scholarship awards on the basis of high marks, 14 gradu- ates of Washington high schools were registering today as freshmen at the College of Liberal Arts of American University for the new academic year. Registration also was under way at the downtown center of the univer- sity, 1901-1907 F street, at the Grad- uate School and the School of Pub- lic Affairs. The acholarship award local stu- dents, most of whom made grades of “A” throughout their four years in hikh school, were announced by Dean George B. Woods of the college as follows: Roosevelt High School—Erva Bar- ger, 1125 Buchanan street; Ruth Dewey, 854 Whittier place; James Hewitt, 820 Allison street; Nathan Wechsler, 4705 Georgia avenue. Western High School — Frances Brewster, 3533 R street. McKinley High School — Marian Brumbaugh, 1528 Monroe street north- east; Mary Anne Prazier, 2831 Myrtle avenue northeast; Marvin Towne, 1800 Kearny street northeast.’ Central High School—Walter Handy, 4712 Eighth road, South Barcroft, Va.; Judith Rose, 921 Massachusetts ave- nue; Walter Sanderlin, 3436 Mount Pleasant street. Eastern High School —Margaret Lyon, 3035 Alabama avenue southeast; Laura Talbott, 223 Seventeenth street northeast; William Winter, 431 B | street n . Outside District another schol- arship award student comes from Be- thesda-Chevy Chase High School— Rene Beard, 4708 Chevy Chase boule- happily when told by Judge Mattingly, | bard. Many functions are scheduled for the freshmen today and tomorrow. Tonight they will visit the Naval Ob- servatory. Tomorrow night there will be = “Big Brother and Big Sister” party in the college gymnasium. Man’s Threat to Algernon Massenburg'’s threat te sit on her carried a lot of weight with Margaret Jackson—almost 500 pounds, to be exact. Margaret, who weighs less than 100 pounds, Algernon arrested on & warrant ‘charging he threatened her with bodily harm. It seemed that Al- gernon had taken this method of pre- venting Margaret from occupying & bench in front of his home. ‘The accused and his accuser, both colored, were neighbors in the 500 block of Fifth street southeast. L Sit on Woman. Carries Weight—496 Pounds the judge she had her mind ahout. prosecuting Algernon. ed she believed he was fooling” he threatened to her. During ‘hearing Algernon sit because the chairs small there no Algernon was lea some his weight. hundred and " ‘was the reply. ‘were the ninety- 4 doesn’t appear to be enjoying schools. Upper: Judging from the expression of Donald Davis, 7, he the opening of the District’s Photo taken at Thomson School. Lower left: Mrs. Dorothy Morgan greets third graders at the John Quincy Adams School. Left to right: Winitred McGowan, Buddy Henderson and Jimmy Murray. Lower right: Flowers and an apple for the teacher. Left to right: Mrs. M. D. Miller, teacher, Joyce Neunlist and William ¢—— Conway at the Thomson School, I MANSLAUGHTER COUNTS RETURNED Youths, 19 and 20, Accused in Deaths Resulting From Accidents. Thirty-four indictments, including two charging manslaughter in con- negtion with automobile accidents, were returned today by the District | grand jury. John ‘W. Hamilton, 19, of the 1700 block of Eighteenth street, was held in the death September 1 of George F. Awalt, 29, Naval Hospital phar- macist. Police charged that Hamil- | ton stole an automobile in Bethesda | and struck Awalt's car at Ontario road snd Lanier place while fleeing arrest. The youth also was charged with violating the national motor ve- hicle theft act. The car belonged to Edgar J. Gray, Bethesda, and was wrecked. In the other manslaughter indict- ment, Bernard Lee Newsom, colored, 20, of the 1200 block of Girard street, was charged with the death of Daniel Spaulding, 32, of 1003 I street south- east, who allegedly was struck August 27 at Eleventh and K streets south- east ‘by Newsom's car. Spaulding, crossing the street at the time, was carried 75 feet by the machine. He died the next day in Gallinger Hos- pital. In order to avold difficulties raised by & plea of misnomer, the grand jury reindicted J. William Tomlinson, 42, criminal attorney, who was charged several weeks ago with complicity in two robberies. He allegedly was the robbers. In the first pair of irdictments, Tomlinson was named “John William Tomlinson, otherwise known as John William Tomilinson.” His attorneys attacked the validity of the true bills on the grounds he never has employed an alias and also that his name is J. William - Tomlinson, rather than “John.” In one of the indictments, Tomlin- son and two colored men were charged with the pay roll robbery March 14 of two Pairfax Farms Dairy employes, who were forced at pistol point to sur- render more than $3,000. Named with him were Philip John Pratt and Wal- Henry Bass, colored, were charged with robbing Sam Siratonis, proprietor of a tailor shop at 3003 Fourteenth street, August 18. Siratonis was badly beaten by two colored men, who took $785. ||u- Raymond Donaldson, “master mind” of & gang of colored X —Star Staff Photos. l weapon, and Howard Earl Gibson and Lytle J. Newton, forgery and uttering. The following charges were ignored: Charles C. Summers, false pre- tenses; George W. Miller, violation of white slave traffic act; Samuel Green, grand larceny; Edward Gravette, | Cordell A. Johnson.and Nettie B. Frye, | joyriding; Joseph H. Reid, Joseph F. ;Bnnzfll and Willlam Nelson, rebbery | and Thomas E. Hatton and Evelyn A. Willlams, assault with & dangerous weapon. | D. C. MILK CONTROL PROGRAM IN FORCE Federal Rules Not to Affect Re- tail Price of Bottled Product. Federal control of Washington's milk supply began today at 12:01 am,, under a marketing agreement admin- istered by Richard D. Aplin, 33-year- old New England dairy expert. The program will not affect the re- tail price of bottled milk, according to the Agrictural Adjustment Admin- istration. Some producer and consumer fac- tions have threatened to challenge the agreement in its infant stages, while the Fairfax Farms Dairy has announced through its attorneys that it will seek a court injunction to suspend the agreement. Henceforth, Aplin will receive monthly reports from distributors to enable him to compute uniform prices to be paid dairy farmers. Young Washington Y, he_got over, even if the camera caught him with one foot on each side of the bar. The jumper oma Park Playground. forming at the T Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hale, 220 Kennedy, daughter of Mrs. W. Conception School, C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936. Edith Maxwell ! Takes in Capital | On Leaving Jail | Attorney Accompaniesl Virginia Teacher Fac- ing New Trial. ! While Edith Maxwell's attorney | planned to seek a change of venue in | her new trial, the 22-year-old Virginia | school teacher came to the Capital | yesterday for a change of scenery. here as she went to the movies ani toured the city without being recog- nized. | Last night, after seeing the White | House, the ‘Washington Monumen: | and other landmarks, she stayed with | friends in nearby Virginia. Today she | Virginia, where she will visit relatives. Miss Maxwell was accompanied here by Charles Henry Smith, Alexandria | lawyer, who took the case before the | RELIEF ROLLS T IBCASES N MONTH Number of Unemployables on List Reduced in August, Report Shows. A reduction of only 18 cases In director of the public assistance divi- sion. There were 4,777 cases on re- lief rolls during the month. ‘The slight reduction was reported despite the fact that 214 more cases was schealed 1o travel to Soutners | 1, corined, o old-age assistance| ! month, and an increase of 17 cases of | aid for the needy blind. At the emd of August. there were PAGE B—1 PROPERTY OWNERS QTG STE OF EAGRAVIG ANNEX Moving Out Under Orders of Court to Vacate by Midnight. TREASURY INVOKED CONDEMNATION ACT Contractor Forced to Quit Work When Government Failed to Deliver 12 Tracts. Property owners who have been resisting attempts of the Government to take over their homes for tfle new Bureau of Engraving and Prinung annex today began moving out under orders of District Court to vacate tne property by midnignt. Many residents had begun moving their belongings into vans this morn- ing and, barring unexpectea aeveliop- ment, Government officials nopea tne entire tract would be vacatea and ready for the contractor before sun- down. The contractor, John McShain Co., Inc., had stopped work in formal pro- test August 5, because the Government had failed to deliver to him about 12 pieces of property. If all the resi- dents formerly protesting opey tnhe | court’s order the whole area will be | available for the contractor to re- sume operations tomorrow morning. | Whether the contractor will do so | remains to be seen. Midnight Is Deadline. ‘The court order under which prop- erty owners were vacating fixed mid- night as the zero hour for all property to be empty under the provisions of the so-called new condemnation law in the District of Columbia. ‘This law was invoked by the Treas- *|ury Department, Procurement Divie sion, after all efforts to purchase the property had failed because the Gov= ernment and the property owners could not get together on a ‘price. The Government filed condemnation proceedings long ago, and on August 24 had filed in District Court an ae- tion known as “declaration of taking.” Under this declaration, title to the property vested immediately in the Government, according to provisions of the law. The Government paid into the court a sum estimated by the Treasury to be “full value,” leaving the final determination of the price for further action in condemnation proceedings. The court then fixed the date of midnight tonight for the | residents to vacate. $4,000,000 Contract. The McShain contract for more than $4,000,000 provides for construction of | both the Bureau of Engraving and Printing annex, facing Fourteenth street between C and D streets south- west, and another structure on nearby property for the Bureau of Agricult- | ural Economics of the Department of Agriculture. All of the property in dispute which tied up the contractor's work temporarily was located in site | for the Bureau of Engraving annex. This new building is to be connected | with the old Bureau of Engraving, | across Fourteenth street. by a tunnel, and will also have another tunnel to connect it with the railroad siding “he aumber of unemployables re- nearby, In contrast to the stares of Wise ceiving relief from the Board of | County residents, she found comfort Public Welfare during August was ve- | in the fact she was just another girl' ported today by Miss M. Alice Hill, | '$600 BOGUS NOTES CAUSE FOUR ARRESTS Secret Service Prisoners Held to Grand Jury Following Arraignment. Seizure of approximately $600 in bogus $20 notes was announced, by the Secret Service today as four colored Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.|2.385 cases where aged perscns were ren were arraigned before United The appellate court decreed the evi. | either receiving aid or were under|giates Commissioner Needham C. dence did not justify a first-degree | murder verdict and a 25-year sentence. | Miss Maxwell was released from the Jonesville (Va.) Jjail Saturday on $6,000 bond. According to testimony presented at | the fifst trial in Wise County, the girl's | father, Trigg Maxwell, died after als| daughter struck him with a slippe: while he was beating and threatening her in a drunken rage, is Alvin Hale, 9, per- Alvin is the son of street. Tomorrow: Helene . Kennedy, at the Immaculate . ==Star Staff Photo. investigation, and a total of 133 cases involving the needy blind. The rea- son why so many of these cases were transferred from relief rolls during Ithe month, Miss Hill reported, was because applicants for this type of assistance had been given first atten- tion cn account of their greater need. During August the division can- celed 512 cases which had been pre- viously on relief rolls, due to changes in the condition of the families. Of these, 149 had become employed. In addition to these 512 closed cases the division rejected 1,514 applications for assistance for various reasons. About half of this number, 868, had been certified to the Works Progress Administration or to the National Youth Administration; 188 had secured employment or made other adjust- ment, and 161 cases were found to have adequate income. | On the other hand, Miss Hill re- ported, 69 new applications were ac- cepted and 201 cases previously closed were reopened because the families in- vestigated were found to be in need. | e O’BRIEN SHOOTING SUSPECT RELEASED Victim of “Bootleg War” Fails to Identify EdwardQliver as Assailant. Suspected by police of complicity in the so-called “bootleg war"” shoot- ing of Joseph E. O'Brien, Edward Oliver, 26, of the 1400 block of Fair- mont street, was released today after the victim failed to identify him as one of his assailants. Oliver was turned over to police by agents for the Internal Revepue Bu- reau who arrested him Saturday. A similarity in the nickname of Oliver, sometimes known as “Legs,” and that of a man sought in connection with the shooting is believed to have led to the arrest. Oliver told police he knew several of the men charged with shooting O'Brien, but denied having anything to do with the shooting, which oc- curred in front of a cafe in the 200 block of Pennsylvania avenue south- | Turnace on counterfeiting charges. All | were held for the grand jury. | David A. Richardson, 2000 block of Fifteenth street, was held under $3.000 | bond and Leroy Ambers, 1300 block of | Riges street; Leroy Watson, 500 block of T street, and Homer A. Gran= | bell, 1700 block of Eleventh street, un- | der $1,000 each. | Secret Service Agents G. C. Drescher and A. P. Hare told the commissioner | they seized a package of approximately | 30 bogus notes in Ambers’ home. They | had been brought here from New York, the agents declared. | Two notes each were recovered from ‘Watson and Granbell, they said. They testified there were no notes found in | Richardson's possession, but he was identified as the passer of one of them. | The agents said all of the notes bore the same serial number. Policemen Flock To Rose Tassi’s Wedding Dance Not There to Enforce Law, but Because They Were Asked. There were more policemen at Rose Tassi's wedding dance than you could shake a stick at, if you dared. They weren't there, however, to en« force the law, but attended because Rose asked them to. The invitation was written on the arrest book at No. 10 precinct several days ago. Rose, who lived then at 456 Park road, wrote she was to be married Sunday, September 20, at Sacred Heart Church, and that in the eve- ning there would be a reception at her home. Those Irish cops who used to call her Rosie O'Grady instead of by her real name and who used to treat her like one of their own children had to be there. And all the officers who knew Rose and could go to the reception went to see the little girl who had grown east. b ] into a pretty woman of 23 and mar- ried Leo Lombardi of 3 a

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