Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1937, Page 5

‘ people, climaxed the two-day quarterly GROCER, 77, 48TH D.C. TRAFFICVICTIM William Hannan Dies of Skull Fracture—Two Children Are Injured. Washington's 1937 traffic toll was boosted to 48 late yesterday with the death in Emergency Hospital of Wil- liam Hannan, 77-year-old grocer. Only 36 fatalities were reported for | the same period last year. Meanwhile Richard Day, 6, of 124 | E street and Jean Riggin, 4, colored, 218 K street, were seriously injured last night when struck by automobiles. The colored boy was a hit-and-run victim. Dies of Skull Fracture. Hannan, who lived at 1521 Seven- teenth street, died of a skull fracture | recelved Saturday, when, according Lo police, he walked into the side of a o taxicab driven by Nicholas A. Argera- kis, 42, of 2523 Fourteenth street, at Seventeenth street and Rhode Island avenue. An inquest in the case was scheduled for noon Thursday at the District Morgue. A coroner's jury also will in- vestigate the death of Mrs. Annie M. | Corder. 88, of 3248 N street on that date. She died last Thursday of in- Juries received in a collision April 18 Child’s Head Injured. | Richard was in Casualty Hospital | today with a severe head injury. He | was knocked down while crossing | Constitution avenue between Dela- | ware avenue and First street north- | east by a machine driven by Joseph A. Rosasco, 47, of 414 Eleventh street. Police released the driver after ques- tioning. Struck by a taxicab while crossing in front of her home, Jean had her skull fractured, leg broken and re- | ceived internal injuries. taken to Freedmen's Hospital. The only other injury reported to | police last night was that of Cath- erine Williams, 26, colored, 644 Third | street, who was cut about the chin, | scalp, hands and legs when struck by | &t hit-and-run driver. Her condition | was said to be not serious at Freed- | men’s Hospital | A defective track switch which caused the back wheels of a street car to leave the rails was blamed by a coroner’s jury yesterday for the death of George L. Norton, 78, of . the Ontario Apartments. injured when | struck by the rear end of the partially derailed car at the corner of Four- | teenth and G streets May 7. In a second inquest Arthur G. Boan, 30, of 4002 D street southeast, was ordered held for the Police Court under the negligent homicide act in connection with the death Friday of Elmer L. Barham, 39, of 102 Ridge road, who, it was testified, fell from Boan's car when the door flew open 8s the two were driving near Anacostia road and Blaine street southeast. Barham was killed instantly when he struck a telephone pole after fall- ing from the car Norton was taken to Emergency Hospital after being struck by the | street car and treated for a minor | scalp wound. He died last Thursday | of pneumonia brought on by internal injuries. Motorman Isaac C. Burnett of the . Capital Transit Co. testified he did not know at the time the car's rear Wheels left the rail that any one had been injured. The jury was un- | able to determine who had last set | the switch. — QUAKER ACHIEVEMENTS | PORTRAYED IN PAGEANT | Bociety of Friends Holds Quar- terly Two-Day Session Near Winchester. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va, May 18—A pageant portraying highlights and achievements of Quakers since earliest days, directed by Miss Grace F. Clev- enger and enacted by a score of young meeting of the Society of Friends at | historic Hopewell Meeting House, near here, yesterday. The local congrega- tion recently celebrated its 200th an- | niversary. Greetings were brought from Eng- lish Friends by Brian Price-Heyworth, who will be in this country until after | the All Friends’ International Confer- | ence early next Fall at Swarthmore | and Haverford Colleges. Others who | spoke included Mrs. Anna Jackson | Branson, Philadelphia, and Mr. and Mrs. Foster Haycock, Bedford, Pa. | The meetings were attended by large numbers of Friends from North- ern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and the District of Co- We Can Remodel Your Watch 10 the movement ic ond — keep it, but why mot put it in a mew case with a modern dial? Use Your Credit CASTELBERG'S 1004 F St, W, SHAKE T INTO YOUR SHOES Makes Dew or tight shoes feel easy. Boothes tender. swollen, aching feet and stope the pain of ©orns, bunions and ealluses. For Free Sample and Walking Doll, address ALLEN'S 'OOEA?I. LEROY,N.Y, £) WAX PAPER SANDWICH WRAPS A pure white tasteless and odor. lees paper that will keep your sand- wiches fresh for the voungsters lunch or the midnight supper. 480 ; sheets to package. the package Similarity Not Due to Kinship, Say John L. and John C. Lewis THE EVENING JOHN C. LEWIS. By the Associated Press. LMOST every one meeting John A missioner, asks what relation he is to John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers. “None,” says John C., and John L. confirms it. Their careers, however, have been even more strikingly similar than are their bushy eyebrows, graying brown hair, and general physical make-up. Both are coal miners, the sons of Welsh coal miners. Both have been labor leaders for many years. Although they were brought up only about 70 miles apart in the Iowa coal fields, they met for the first time She was in 1911 at the United Mine Workers' | convention in Columbus, Ohio. Since then they have been just “Jack” (John L) and “Shady” (John C.) to each other. “Of course, it's possible that we're distant cousins,” John C. said today. “But we've never been able to trace it down, if we are.” Both Thomas Lewis (John L.’ father) and John Lewis (John C.'s father) left Wales in the seventies. John C., who took the oath as com- missioner yesterday, is president of the Towa Pederation of Labor, but ex- pects to retire next month. His Call Mr. C. Lewis, new soft coal com- | JOHN L. LEWIS. —A. P. Photos. | brother, James, still is & miner at | Madrid, Iowa. “If you think I look like Jack, you ought to see Jim,” John C. said. | “You'd take them for twins.” | CINCINNATI SHAKEN | BY SEWER GAS BLASTS | By the Associated Press. | CINCINNATI, May 18.—A series of sharp sewer-gas explosions shook downtown Cincinnati last night, in- juring at least one man and endan- | gering automobile traffic on streets | | crowded with late theater-goers. Nu- | | merous windows in the area were | shattered. | A pedestrian, who gave his name as | | carl Goldbeck of New York, was | | struck by & fragment of an iron man- | | hole cover. 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STAR, ATTACK 1S URGED OND.C.FUND SLICE Roberts, Monday Club Head, Says 25,000 Would Suf- fer Under Planned Cut. William A. Roberts, former people’s counsel of the District, last night urged the members of the Monday Evening Club to make concerted and speedy attack on the House plan to slash $1,000,000 from next year's Dis- trict relief funds. Basing his remarks on a recently completed survey of unemployment in the District, Roberts, who was named president of the club a few minutes before, told his Barker Hall audience there were 25,000 persons here who would suffer if the Senate committee approved the million-dollar slash. “About 11,000 of the group, all of whom have lived in the District for at least a year, are employed by the W. P. A.” Roberts sald, “but that still leaves about 14,000 people, ac- tively seeking work through employ- ment agencles, who are just unable to get it.” Although he did not propose « reso- | lution for the club, the former people's counsel sald this was something the members should want to do them- selves and urged hasty action since the Senate hearings on relief were slated for today. Elected with Roberts were Capt. Rhoda Millikin, first vice presiden Edgar M. Gerlach, second vice pres dent; Mrs. Florence E. Steward, cor- responding secretary; Carroll E. Robb, | recording secretary; Morris Klass, treasurer, and Otto J. Cass, Mrs, | Morris C. Betts, Leopold V. Freund- berg, Dr. Daniel L. Seckinger and Mrs. R. Thomas West, members at | large. } Three guest speakers described sepa- | rate ph of the evening's forum | subject, “Insurance Aspects of the Social Security Act.” They were W. R. | Williamson, chief actuarial consultant of the Social Security Board; J. A. Marshall, director of unemployment | compensation for the District of Co- | lumbia, and Alanson W. Willcox, as- | sistant general counsel of the Social Security Board, who spoke in place of Russell R. Reagh, Government actu- | Cel Acquainted with 0ring or Courtesy Parking N.W. Cor. 12th and E Sts. F at Eleventh WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, ary, who was unable to be present. The forum was presided over by Murray W. Latimer, chairman of the Rallroad Retirement Board. The speakers dwelt principally on past activities of the Social Becurity Board in the light of the fact that old-age insurance and unemployment insurance must be handled as a busi- ness proposition with the same busi- ness tenets applying as if an insur- ance company were handling the program. 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