Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1937, Page 16

HIGH COURT HOLDS THIRD AND FINAL SECRET MEETING Week’s Sessions on Black’s Right to Seat and 300 Other Petitions. RULING IS EXPECTED MONDAY ON JUSTICE Bix New Deal Measures, Includ- inga T. V. A, a Wagner Act and Two Gold Cases Are Up. By she Associated Press. The Supreme Court met today for a final conference before its expected announcement Monday concerning Justice Black's right to a seat on the bench. This was the third secret meeting this week at which the justices dis- cussed pending petitions and agreed whether to review the decisions of lower courts. Their rulings will be announced Monday—the 65th birthday anniver- sary of Justice Harlan F. Stone. ‘Two challenges of Justice Black's title to his position, along with litiga- tion involving six Roosevelt adminis- tration laws, were included among 300 petitions before the tribunal. Albert Levitt, former Federal judge in the Virgin Islands, and Patrick Henry Kelly, Boston attorney, con- tested Black’s appointment a few min- utes after he took his seat last Monday. Black's former membership in the Ku Klux Klan, which stirred bitter controversy before and after his his- toric radio speech, was not mentioned in the challenges. Black Attends Parleys, Levitt contended Justice Van De- vanter, whom Black succeeded, would have to resign instead of retire before & vacany would be created. He also argued Black was barred because he was a member of the Senate which increased the “emoluments” of jus- tices by permitting them to retire at full pay after becoming 70 and serv- ing 10 years, Kelly asserted the retirement act ‘was unconstitutional because Congress had no right to relieve justices of their duties unless they resigned. While Black has been attending the eonferences, it was generally assumed he is not participating in the action affecting him. The litigation affecting Roosevelt administration laws involved: 1. Whether the National Labor Re- fations Board can hold hearings under the Wagner act on complaints of un- fair labor practices against the New- port News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd. 2. Charles Martin of Greencastle, Ind., seeks to recover damages under the 1933 “truth in securities” act from two directors of the Continental Dis- tillers & Importers Corp. He con- tended the directors could be held re- sponsible for allegedly incorrect state- ments filed with the Securities Com- mission concerning securities issued. Case on T. V. A. 3. Three cases attacking constitu- tionality of the 1936 act broadening Federal regulation of commodity ex- changes. They were filed by members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and the Kansas City Board of Trade. 4. Two gold cases. One involves an attempt by Arthur Machen of Balti- more to compel the Treasury to pay interest on a Liberty bond called for redemption in advance of the ma- turity date. In the other John Ogden of Indianapolis wants the Treasury to redeem his Liberty bonds in gold— the medium specified on the bonds. 5. The Merced irrigation district of California wants the court to re- consider its 5-4 decision holding un- constitutional the 193¢ municipal bankruptcy act permitting cities to re- duce their indebtedness in Federal bankruptcy courts. 6. The Georgia Power Co. is trying to proceed in the Eastern Tennessee Federal District Court, after losing in the Northern Federal District Court, with litigation seeking to prevent the Tennessee Valley Authority from ex- panding its activities in Georgia. $45,000,000 LIMIT ON BUDGET URGED Brightwood Citizens’ Association Also Elects Officers, Headed by C. W. Ray. The “ceiling” of the District ap- propriation bill for 1938-9 should be set at $45000,000, the Brightwood Citizens’ Association recommended unanimously last night at the first meeting of the season in Paul Junior High School, Presented by William McK. Clay- ton, the resolution §xpressed Oppo- sition to any renewal of the so-called business privilege tax and the real estate tax beyond the rate of $1.50. Charles W. Ray was re-elected president of the association for the twentieth consecutive year. Other officers elected were: First vice presi- dent, John Clagett Proctor; second vice president, L. F. Randolph; third vice president, Prof. L. J. Cantrell; fourth vice president, A. Y. Casanova; corresponding secretary, J. W. Fer- riter; recording secretary, Samuel A. Swiggett; financial secretary and treasurer, Elmer Johnson. Clayton and J. A. Saul were named delegates to Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions. Ray announced appointment of eommittee chairmen as follows: Utili- ties, Clayton; taxation and legisla- tion, Saul; zoning, George R. Wil- helm; streets, lights and parks, Capt. ‘Walter Emerson; public schools and playgrounds, Milton M. Flanders; fire and police, Elmer Johnson; post of- fice, Richard Sauer; historical and Memorial day, Proctor; membership, P. J. Moynihan; health and sani tion, W. E. Brown; program, Wilhelm; library, Casanova. The association indorsed the princi- ple and purposes of the District Suf- frage Association and offered to co- operate. Indorsement was also given to the new Northwest National Bank now being organized by citizens of the community, details of which were outlined by speakers last night. Ap- plication for a charter was filed with the Treasury Department & few days 8go. he died some time ago. BALLOON FIGURES 10 BE IN PARADE Awards Will Be Increased for 1937 Halloween Celebration. A parade feature which until last year Washingtonians seldom viewed except in news reel parade pictures again will be on display on Consti- tution avenue during the seventh annual civic Halloween celebration Saturday, October 30. The Halloween Committee, meeting yesterday in the Willard Hotel with Harry P. Somerville, general chair- | man, was informed that the giant, | helium-filled balloon figures which passed in review in the 1936 Halloween parade again will appear on Consti- tution avenue. The balloon figures, representing animals and each manned by a ground crew of about 10 men, will be furnished by a group of Washing- ton stores. They will tower above the parade, guided by small ropes running to the ground. Maay Decorated Floats. Although the balloons will replace some of the larger floats, there still vehicles, Mark Lansburgh, chairman of the commercial end of the celebra- tion, informed the committee. Sergt. Bert Sheldon, chairman of the Prizes Committee, said many more awards will be provided this year than last year. His committee al- ready has obtained 30 prizes—almost 20 more than last year—and expects more from merchants who don't wish to go to the expense of building floats. Prizes and cups will be awarded for commercial floats, civic or non-com- mercial floats, costumed group march- ers, decorated private vehicles, cos- tumed individual marchers and bands. Plans Completed. Plans for the court of honor, re- viewing stand and grandstand have been completed, Albert Clyde-Burton, assistant superintendent of the Na- tional Capital Parks, announced. These will be located on Constitution avenue between Fifteenth and Seven- teenth streets. As in last year's celebration, the Mayors and other officials of nearby cities and towns will be invited as guests of honor. About 700 blanks for nominees for the honor of being queen or a member of her court have been sent out. Miss Ella Werner, chairman of the Queen Committeee, will be assisted in the judging by Mrs. Edna Knight Gasch, Robert Swope and the dra- matic critics of the five Washington newspapers. The committee decided that in case of inclement weather the celebration will be held the following Monday. ROBERT E . DENNIS, 28, Native of Muncie, Ind., Had Been 111 Six Weeks—Active in Boy Scout Work. Robert E. Dennis, 28, of 1530 Rhode Island avenue northeast, clerk in the Treasury Procurement Division, died in Sibley Hospital yesterday after an illness of about six weeks. Mr. Dennis, a native of Muncie. Ind, had lived here about 10 years and had been active in Boy Scout work, being scoutmaster of a lccal troop. He was a mem- ber of the United States Marine Reserves. Surviving are his widow, formerly Miss Lucille Honeycutt, to whom he was married last July, and a sister, Miss Mary Sue Dennis, this city. The body will be sent today to Muncie for funeral services and burial there Monday. —_— e DIRECTORATE IS NAMED TO ADMINISTER FUND Group Will Have Charge $125,000 Foundation for Aid of Child Welfare Work. ‘The directorate of the new $125,000 foundation to be administered for the benefit of the child welfare work of the Kiwanis Club was announced to- day by Geotge P. Mangan, president of the club. The directors sre Bruce Baird, Bynum E. Hinton, Edwin H. Etz, Dr. Montgomery Blair, F. A.. Fenning, H. Prescott Gatley and Mr. Mangan. To be known as the “Anson Mills Foundation,” the corporation was formed recently to administer funds that were a surplus from the estate of Mr. Mills, much of which was left to charities. The Kiwanis Club, which does wel- fare work for crippled children, will be able to double the number of cases 1t handles, it was said. A R. E. Dennis. of will be many decorated floats and | TREASURY CLERK, DIES | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Looking you squarely in the eye is the large king cobra at the Washington Zoo. had little trouble persuading him to take a pugnacious pose. is hidden behind the log. This cobra is somewhere between 10 and 13 feet long. Dr. Rice, Pioneer in Discovery Of Dust Explosions, Retires <> Work of Bureauof Mines Official Has Saved Untold Lives. Retirement of Dr. George 8. Rice, whose service to the men who labor in the world's coal pits will never be forgotten, was announced today by the Bureau of Mines. Terminating 30 years of labor on the cause and prevention of the dreaded coal mine explosions deep in the earth, Dr. Rice leaves behind a rec- ord of indefatigable energy that has resulted in saving untold numbers of lives. As chief mining engineer of the bureau, he was the leader in the long hours of patient experiment that led to discovery that many of the ex- plosions were due to dust, rather than gas as had formerly been supposed. He advocated the spreading of non= inflammable rock dust, which has pre- vented many of the disasters that are the dread of every miner. Authority on Dust Explosions. Dr. Rice, who is 71, was born at Claremont, N. H. After two years' study at the College of the City of New York he entered the School of Mines of Columbia University, finish- ing with the degree of engineer of mines in 1887. He became connected with the technological branch of the Geological Survey, which was later merged with the Bureau of Mines, in 1908. At the first experimental coal mine in the world for the study of ex- plosions near Bruceton, Pa., Dr. Rice began a series of investigations that have resulted in the practical elimina- tion of widespread dust explosions. His bulletins on the work at this mine are recognized as classics on the ignition, propagation and prevention of the disasters. When the United States entered the World War, Dr. Rice was instrumen- tal in aiding the Chemical Warfare Service due to his experience in deal- ing with noxious gases and in devising respiratory protection against them. Developed Gas Masks, After the war he was a key man in aiding the manufacture of the superior form of oxygen breathing apparatus developed by Bureau of Mines men, the industrial gas masks, the use of warning agents in compressed air lines and more efficient detectors of mine gases. For his pioneering work, honorary membership has been conferred on him by the British Institution of Mining Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Mining Society of Nova Scotia and the Societe de 1'Industrie Minerale of France. He has received medals from the British Institution of Mining Engi- neers and from Columbia University and in 1936 Lafayette College conferred upon him the honorary degree of doc- tor of science. He recently returned from a trip to | Brussels, Belgium, where he partici- pated in the Fourth International Mine Safety and Health Research Confer- ence. Dr. Rice will continue to live at his home on the Virginia bank of the Po- tomac near Mount Vernon. JOASH CHEST DAY PLANS BEING LAID Washington District Superintend- ent Announces November 7 as Date of Offering. Rev. G. Ellis Williams, superintend- ent of the Washington district of the M. E. Church, announces plans for the District-wide Joash Chest day Novem- ber 7. Rev. R. L. Wood, Rev. H. W. Burgab and Rev. Walter Michael and S. G. Loeffler, John J. Dolan and Ggorge H. Vaneman are making the arrangements. The District-wide Joash Chest day was adopted in order to meet the need for debt reduction on churches that are heavily involved financially. To date 28 churches have entered into the program. On November 7 these churches will have a service when each member of the congregation will be asked to bring a personal offering and deposit it in a chest placed in the chancel of the church. The service will be conducted by the minister of the church, OWNER OF CAR IS SUED 24 HOURS AFTER CRASH Baltimore Woman 'Asks $20,000 in Court Here—Claims Seri- ous Injuries. Less than 24 hours after the acci- dent Hazei E. Welker of Baltimore filed suit in District Court late yes- terday for $20,000 damages against Clyde Toutant, Montpelier, Vt., whose automobile is alleged to have struck the car in which she was Fiding Thursday afternoon at South Dakota and Rhode Island avenues northeast. Through Attorneys Charles 8. Baker, B. L. Tepper and Robert H. Marcus she told the court Toutant’s machine was being driven by an- other man. She said she was seri- ously injureds DR. GEORGE S. RICE. INTUTIONHELD CUDE N RELEF Family Welfare Association i Parley Hears Logic Can’t Single Out Needy. Social workers dealing with relief | clients need some of the psychic quali- ties of the Delphian Oracle, experts at the meeting of the Middle Atlantic Regional Committee, Family Welfare Association of America, at the Ward- man Park Hotel, learned yesterday. As they entered their sessions, the delegates found copies of an article by Elizabeth H. Dexter of New York City on the question of “Has Case Work a Place in the Administration of Public Relief?” Relief clients often tell so many half-truths to sociological in- vestigators that the worker must rely on intuition to arrive at the facts, Miss Dexter wrote, explaining: “The relief applicant may be un- willing to disclose his situation for a variety of reasons. In some instances it may be that he deliberately seeks relief illegally. From a sense of honor the applicant may prefer to use his last savings to pay his debts, or he may misunderstand the agency's restrictions and conceal information unwittingly. “On the other hand, his distress may so confuse and bewilder him that he gives a contradictory, illogical, rambling account of his difficulties. Sometimes his humiliation at seeking relief causes him to understate his circumstances, or fear of rejection leads him to exaggeration. “In fact, the client’s behavior may furnish no ready index to what is going on within him. In order to reach the facts necessary to prove eligibility, the worker must often find her way through a barrier of human feeling.” The three-day meeting will end today. ARMED MEN.THREATEN YORK TRUCK DRIVERS By the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, October 9.—Truck drivers from York, Pa., sped to police stations in Baltimore yesterday to re- port threats by men carrying machine guns. They said the threats were shouted from an automobile which pulled abreast of them several times en route from York, where a truck drivers’ strike is in progress, to Baltimore. Machine guns, they said, were thrust out of windows of the automo- bile, but no shots were fired. The drivers, all of York, said they brought empty trucks to Baltimore to | gether with two Federa! pick up cargoes. D. C. SATURDAY. Here’s a Gentleman You Really Should Meet He’s easily annoyed and the photographer The center photo indicates the snake’s great length; most of his tail The zoo had an even larger one on display, but —Star Staff Photo. NUMBERS MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED One-Eyed Man Makes Iden- tification Difficult by Dis- carding Glass Member. A suspect whose identification was doubly difficult, police say, because of the fact he had discarded a glass eye was being held here today for Mary- land authorities in connection with the gang killing of Sam Jefferees, 37, colored “numbers” runner, who was fatally wounded at a Camp Springs road house on September 30. The one-eyed prisoner was booked as Fred Schinman, 39, of the 1300 block of M street, alias Albert Mann, Adolph Alfred Schinman, Webb and Schulman. Police said that after Schinman was lodged in jail he dis-| posed of his glass eye. Questioned as to what he had done with the eye, the prisoner was quoted as saying: “Youll have to dig up the city sewer system to find it!" Schinman nevertheless was identi- fied by Policeman Edwin C. Cissell of the Prince Georges County force as one of two men who drove up to a filling station at Reds Corner shortly before the shooting to inquire the way to the colored road house where the murder occurred. Cissell and Sergt. Edon Turner, to- liquor tax agents, were seated in a Prince Georges County police car at the filling station when a big sedan pulled up and two men asked the station attendant for directions. The attendant became suspicious and told the policemen that two “tough-looking citizens” in the expen- sive sedan were looking for the colored road house. Cissell, he said, got a look at the pair, and Sergt. Turner jotted down the license number of their car. Shortly afterward Jefferees was called from the road house by two men in a big sedan. When the colored man stepped up to the car, he was shot through the abdomen. He died at Casualty Hospital last Saturday after describing his assailants to police. Schinman was being held under an open charge for Maryland authorities. He was arrested last night by Detes tives Robert Barrett and William Guest at Fourth and H streets north- east. Police are still looking for the sedan and the second suspect in the killing. HOLY COMMUNION WILL BE OBSERVED Dr. Blackwelder Will Preach at Church of Reformation Service. Holy communion will be celebrated | tomorrow at the Church of the Reformation at 8:30 a.m., in connec- tion with the 11 o'clock service, and again at 9:15 p.m. At the 11 o'clock service Dr. Oscar F. Blackwelder will speak on “The Basis of Christian Culture.” At 8 p.m. he will continue his series on “What a Modern Man Can Believe,” using for his subject, “The Creative Purpose of God.” The question and answer period will be resumed. The Luther League meets at 6:45 o'clock in the parish hall, when James Taylor will speak on ‘“Choosing My Life Work.” Tuesday at 6:45 o'clock the Women’s League of Gettysburg College will hold a dinner in this church. Mrs. George W. Nicely, national president, will be the speaker. R Busy College President. At Harvard and other early colleges it was once the duty of the president to inspect the manners of the students, to give some exposition of the Bible at morning and evening services and to join in the reading from Hebrew into Greek from the Old Testament in the morning and out of English into Greek from the New Testament in the evening. Brushing Man From Car Laid To Cases of Mistaken Identity ‘What apparently was a double case of mistaken identity resulted last night in Ralph Shepherd, 27-year- old - painter, of the 4900 block of Fourth street, being hurled to the street from the running board of an automobile driven by & man who thought he was about to be robbed. Shepherd, suffering from head in- Juries and cuts, was in fair condition at Gallinger Hospital today. From him and Morris A. Raines, 7204 Seventh street, a botany instructor at "Howard University, police pieced to- gether a strange story. Raines said he was sitting in his automobile, parked in the 5400 block of Georgla avenue, waiting for his wife to come back from a store in the block, when a man he had never seen before stepped on the running board and asked “Are you waiting for s woman?” Then, Raines said, the stranger yelled “Open that door or I'll kill you.” Raines, fearing the man was & bandit, hastily locked the door, threw his car into second gear and astarted up Georgia avenue. He drove close enough to another car to drag the man on his running board off into the street. Raines then drove to the sixth pre- cinct to report the case and a cruis- ing police car took the injured man to Gallinger, where he identified himself as Shepherd. Shepherd convinced police he was not a hold-3p man. He said he mis- took Raines for a man he thought had been annoying his wife, who worked in a store in the block where the teacher's car was parked, and that he had just been attempting to talk to him. Police indicated no charges would be filed against any one in the affair. OCTOBER 9, 1937. OFFICIAL PARLEY CALLED T0 SHAPE D.C.TAXPROGRAM Static Plan Lasting 7 Years Is Goal of Special Committee. SEVERAL SUBSTITUTES TO BE MADE READY Council of Civie and Business Leaders to Pass on Proposals to Be Worked Out. Initial steps to develop a permanent tax program for the District will be taken next week by a special com- mittee of municipal officials, it was announced today by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer who also is chairman of the com- mittee. Plans for the meeting were made by Maj. Donovan following a conference yesterday between his committee, the Commissioners and the recently cre- ated Advisory Council of civic and business leaders. The special tax committee, in obe- dience to the wishes of the Commis- sioners, will seek to work out a pro- gram of taxation that will remain static for a period of at least seven years, and provide for the preparation of a definite plan of capital improve- ments through the 1945 fiscal year. To Fit Taxes to Needs. Maj. Donovan said his committee first would determine the operating expenses for the next seven years, estimate the capital outlay for that period, and then build a new tax pro- gram to meet those items. As soon as the committee completes | the program, it will be submitted to the advisory council for consideration. The council is headed by L. A. Car- ruthers, chairman of the fiscal af- fairs committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Finding a substitute for the present bitterly opposed business privilege tax, which expires at the close of the cur- rent fiscal year, is to be one of the major problems of the tax committee. Indications are if this tax is scrapped the Commissioners will recommend some other form to raise about the same amount of revenue it will pro- duce. The tax committee, however, has been instructed to “improve and per- fect” the business privilege tax, as well as frame other tax programs, including an income tax and general sales tax which were discarded by Congress in the final days of the last session when it struggled to give the District an “emergency” tax act to offset an anticipated serious budget deficit of more than $6,000,000. Would Submit Several Plans. “What we intend to do,” said Com- missioner Hazen, “is to have four or five tax plans ready for Congress. We don’t want to go through the same situation which confronted us at the last session. One day it was an in- come tax; the next day a saies tax. Our tax committee often worked late at night to get a plan ready for con- sideration of the Congressional com- mittees. The result was Congress en- acted a half-baked business privilege tax. “This year, however, the story will be different. We will go before Con- gress with four or five perfected tax plans. If a committee asks for an income tax we will have it. If it pro- poses a sales tax, we will have that, too. We also will have ready an im- proved version of the business privi- lege tax.” The tax committee is composed of the same municipal officials who framed the present “emergency” tax program which is estimated to yield about $9,000,000 in additional revenue. In addition to Maj. Donovan, it in- cludes Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal, Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, director of highways: Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman of the Public Utilities Commission; Fred D. Allen, tax assessor, and Chatham M. Towers, tax collector. SPEER PRESIDENT OF G. W. U. BODY Center Party Candidate Winner After Two Days’ Balloting. Left Party Has 34. Following two days of balloting by the student body, the Center party last night won the largest number of seats in the George Washington University Student Union, with 37, and its presi- dential candidate, James P. Speer, 2d, became president of the legislature. The winning group, however, suf- fered a proportionate loss to the Left party, with 34, and the Rightists, with 23. Last year it had a plurality of 18 over the other groups. Commenting on the closeness of the outcome, Speer said: “I believe the close vote will benefit the union by creating more interest in the minority parties. The majority party will have to be on its mettle to retain its leadership.” Each party will now choose its dele- gate to party conventions, the first of which will be that of the Leftists Wednesday. The first session of the legislature will be held early in No- vember. The union was set up two years ago by the students to afford practice in parliamentary procedure and to serve as & medium for expression of interest in public affairs. It is modeled on the Oxford and Cambridge societies and has itself served as a model for student legislatures in other univer- sities. RITES ARE TOMORROW George M. McCann to Be Buried at Chester, Pa. Funeral services for George M. Mc- Cann, 53, chief engineer of the cannon section of the Army Ordnance De- partment, who died Thursday at his home, 16 Aspen street, Chevy Chase, Md., will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the William Reuben Pumphrey funeral home, Bethesda, Md. Burial will be in Chester, Pa. Mr. McCann, who designed all types of cannon, had been in Government service more than 20 years and was widely known in the department as an expert in his line. A A 'MRS. FANNY TAYLOR Plant Experts Put More Zip Into Popcorn B3 the Associated Press. With pardonable pride, Government | plant experts announced today they are putting more pop in popcorn. “Popability,” they said, “is the qual- ity most desired in popcorn.” Tedious experiments have improved the popping. If the volume that comes out of a popper is less than | 20 times the unpopped corn, experts at the Agriculture Department said, the corn is not first quality. POLIGE AID SOUGHT IN AUTO CHECK-UP Van Duzer Thinks -10,000 to 20,000 Drivers Lack Valid Permits. Traffic Bureau officials today were considering asking the aid of the Metropolitan Police force in making a thorough check-up on the number of | District motorists operating automo- biles without permits. M. O. Eldridge, assistant director of the Department of Vehicles and Traffic, said it has not been decided Jjust how the Police Department, would conduct such an investigation, but that methods used in other cities in | periodic checks of motorists without permits are being studied. In announcing a round-up of un- licensed operators yesterday, Traffic | Director William A. Van Duzer called | attention to the fact that last year | some 2,000 persons arrested for traffic violations were found to be driving | without permits or on expired permits. | “Had these persons not been in- | volved in accidents or stopped for | traffic violations, they probably would | | project through the W. P. A W.P.A. DISCOUNT ON F00D 10 CUT COST OF LUNCHES Citizens’ Emergency Com- mittee Told 25 Per Cent to, Be Saved on Pupils. AGENCY REQUIRES CASH ON HAND BEFORE ACTING $1000 Advanced for Benefit Fights—Total Only About One- Fifth of Immediate Goal. Food for the hot lunches to be served to the nearly 5,000 underfed school children in Washington will be purchased through the Works Prog- ress Administration under Governe ment contract to save an approximate 25 per cent in cost. Although many local merchants ¢ have volunteered food advances a month’s credit, Mrs. John Boyle, jr, chairman of the Citizens' Emergency Committee, told a group of about 100 business men and women at the Har- rington Hotel yesterday it would be necessary and cheaper to handle the to get the advantage of the lower cost and certified food called for under Gove ernment contract. Mrs. Boyle also declared that W. P. A officials would not under- write the project, including their con- tribution of the labor costs of about $125,000, unless the local sponsors had cash available in the bank. Credit, she explained, would not suffice. Benefit Fight Cash Advanced. have escaped detection,” Van Duzer said. “The fact that many are in- volved in traffic crashes shows that | the driver without a permit is dan- gerous. “On a proportionate basis, there | must be 10,000 or 12,000 persons here operating cars without permits.” Van Duzer said he will confer on| | the question soon with Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, but he would not say just what plan will be recom- mended to him. He admitted there is a possibility Washington may adopt a method, used in other cities, in which police stop. for instance, 10 out | of every 50 cars to check up on per: mits, e e as DIES IN CHEVY CHASE Widow of Senator Walsh's Secre- tary Was Active in Eastern Star Work. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, CHEVY CHASE, Md., October 9 — Mrs. Fanny Taylor, 78. widow ot Miles | Taylor, secretary to the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana and a | well known figure at the Capitol for nearly 40 years, died of pneumonia yesterday in the home of her daugh- ters, Mrs. T. Cummins and Mrs. Helen T. Steinbarger, 30 West Bradley lane. Mrs. Taylor was a charter member of Naomi Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and had been active in its affairs. She served as a chapter matron in 1901 and grand matron of the District in 1912. She was largely Tesponsible for establishment of the endowment fund for the Eastern Star-Masonic home and was a mem- ber of the board of directors for 15 years. She is survived by her daugh- ters and a sister, Mrs, E. H. Ayer, Washington. N DR. A. A. STOCKDALE TO BE GUEST PREACHER Will Fill Pulpit at Francis As- bury M. E. Church South in Absence of Pastor. In the absence of the pastor, Rev Albert P. Shirkey of Francis Asbury M. E. Church South, who is attending the annual conference in Winchester tomorrow, Dr. A. A. Stockdale will preach at 11 am. on “The Temptation | to Faint.” Rev. Frank E. Johnston, jr., | assistant pastor of Calvary Baptist | Church, will speak at 8 pm. on “A| Three-fold Faith.” On Monday at 6:30 p.m. the Work- ers' Council will meet at the church. Dinner will be served at 6:30. Prayer | service Thursday will be in charge of | Miss Louise Munsey and Mr. Mathieu | Worth. VESPER SERVICE SET Knights of Columbus Event Is To- morrow at 7:30 P.M. Local Knights of Columbus will at- tend their annual vesper service at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, Sixteenth street and Park road. The seryice is spon- sored by the District chapter. Rev. John S. Spence will preach, and Knights of the Fourth Degree in uniform will act as a guard of honor. Smit“hs Isianders Ask Protection of Red Cross Nurse Bt the Associated Press. SMITHS ISLAND, Md, October 9.—Residents of Smiths Island re- membering weeks of privation and fear when ice cut off all communica- tion with the mainland sought yes- terday assignment of a Red Cross nurse to the island this Winter. They presented their plea at a meeting of the Crisfield Chapter of the Red Cross attended by represent- atives of the national organization. J. Millard Tawes, chairman of the Crisfleld unit, said the request would be submitted to Washington head- quarters. Last Winter Mrs. Emma Fox Clin- ton of Washington spent three months on the island. She cared for 40 cases of mumps and measles; many per- sons afflicted with influenza or pneu- monia; two cases of apoplexy; two accident cases, and many persons with minor ailments. She was assigned to the island after ice isolated the settlements for three months in the Winter of 1935 and 1936, Many persons then became severely ill, and little aid was possible. | to be raised | munity Chest. In almost immediate response to the chairman’s plea for cash, fizht promoters Joe Turner and Gol Ahearn advanced the committee $1.000 | to be repaid when funds become av able from the various planned bene- fits late this month. Mrs. James M | Doran, committee treasurer, estimated the receipts thus far from various other donations at about $1,000 Since the committee will be able 1o |start the lunch project as soon as $10,000 is available, the amount lef: is $8,000. The amount that must come from tie community to operate the lunches for | the year has been put at $67,000 A suggestion was made at the meet ing that a group of associations ta: the committee's note for several thou- sand dollars to enable the develop- ment of immediate cash resources at a bank and hence immediate com- mencement of the lunch service. No discussion was offered, however. Mrs. Boyle announced the commit- tee anticipated almost $20,000 from the series of “vanishing teas” started ” several days ago. Would Clear Drive for Chest. e want to get our drive over with | this month,” she added, “so as not t interfere in any way with the Com- We must look upo ourselves as a supplement to the Ches activities.” Sylvan King, vice chairman of the committee, urged support of the benc- fit boxing matches October 18 a Griffith Stadium and stressed the point that “100 cents on the dollar will go to the children. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, president of the Women's City Club, said she w: trying to collect voluntary contribu- tions in her organization but expressec surprise that the project was so costiy She said the original cost in 1933 wa. only $12,000. Mrs. Boyle replied that there were more children to be cared for now and that actually the cost of the { lunch per pupil is lower today than in 1933. She added that the work woulg give employment to more than 200 heads of families who would have to fall back on already inadequate chari- ties if the work were not made av able. Double Good Accomplished. “Thus we are really accomplishing a double object,” she explained The chairman also announced th- opening of the “silent guest” cam- paigr. Monday when milk bottles w1 be placed in every restaurant and,| store possible asking people to “takr a hungry child to lunch today. It only costs 7 cents.” Boy Scouts are being asked to sc programs at the Inter-America horse show later this month on whic the committee will receive & per- centage, she said. Mrs. Boyle also declared she wil seek introduction of a bill in Con- gress this session to provide perma- nently for the underfed children “I don't think we will be called upon to do this work again next year,” she said. GUARD BANDSMEN WIN SUIT FOR PAY 26 Members Are Affected by Decision of Judge Cayton. $3,800 Involved. A verdict in favor of 26 members of the District National Guard Band, who sued the District for pay ap- proximating $3,800, was handed down in Municipal Court yesterday by Judgs Nathan Cayton. The verdict was based on only one of the 26 cases, it being stipulated that this single case would serve as a test, since the facts in all were virtually the same. The suits were filed in September, 1936, through the law firm of Tilson,. Stanley & McCuen to decide whether members of the band were entitied to $4 a day from the District for time spent at camp and during parades in addition to their regular militia pay. Prior to the fiscal year 1933 an item for “pay of troops” was in- cluded in the annual District appro- priation act. A report of the fact that pay for the band was included in this item was made to the District budget officer for inclusion in his re port to Congress, but that item was eliminated in committee. The pay sought had accumulated since the item was discontinued. _— Legionnaires See Le Brun. PARIS, October 9 (#).—A delegation of American Legionnaires, headed by Comdr. Daniel Doherty, was received yesterday by President Albert F. Le Brun. They were presented to the President by Albert Riviere, minister of pensions.