Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1940, Page 30

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Voting to make the issue city-wide 4 in scope by placing it before the > Federation in form of a protest, the association demanded more adequate regulations by both the District and the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for governing the activities of commercial vehicles passing through the National Capital. Tells of Regulations. Lt. John R: Jeffries of No. 12 police precinct, questioned by a member on District laws regarding interstate commerce trucks, stated that present regulations compel trucks entering the city on Routes 1, 50 or 240 to follow well-defined streets on their way through the city. If they deviate, he said, the Metropolitan police are empowered to act. If, however, they enter by any of the numerous gmall roads leading to Washington, the police cannot be sustained in an arrest “The regulations permit deliveries at warehouses or establishments in points throughout the city if com- missioned to do so,” Lt. Jeffries ex- plained. “Present laws protect the citizen in a very small degree. I would advise any group desirous of remaking the regulations to place the matter before the I. C. C.” Terms Surprise Members. John J. Hurley, president of the association, said the matter had been brought to his attention by numerous residents of the Michigan Park section who had complained of “laxity on the part of police and officials” in not compelling trucks to remain on their designated routes while passing through the city. The limited scope of the present laws surprised members. Mr. Hurley said the association | would take action at once through the Federation and with the I. C. C. to make the law more potent. The association does not meet again until October, but Mr. Hurley said the Executive Committee would | meet during the summer to care for any pressing problems which might | arise. Mixup in Overfime Pay Halts Work at Ship Yard By the Associated Press. . 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Union officials and company Tep-1 resentatives, meanwhile, sought to -adjust the -work week schedule, which "has been complicated by the wage-hour law. ‘The plant is constructing eight C-3 type cargo ships for the United States Maritime Commission. Phillip_B. Brill, general manager of - the shipbuilding company, de- clared the dispute began when the men were asked to move a ship Sat- urday from the outfitting wharf to the drydocks, and the men de- manded double pay for overtime. The company, Mr. Brill explained, had a 44-hour work-week agreement with the men but had been operat- ing on a 40-hour week with no Sat- urday work. He said an offer was made to pay overtime after 44 hours when Saturday work was required, but the men refused to work at all Saturday on overtime pay. Chairman E. V. Porter of a union committee said there was no strike or walkout and the men were acting on their own initiative. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO Inspector’s Shar Two Woman Sh The Patterson sisters, who are to the shoplifting trade what Napo- leon is to the warriors or Miss Amdr- ica is to the beauties, were guests today of the Washington police, and quite by chance, It was the sharp eye of Inspector Bernard W. Thompson that revealed the distfnguished pair and saved them from the ignominity of clas- sification as the Doe girls. The Patterson sisters are not sis- ters at all, and their name is not Patterson. They are merely two women, believed to be mother and daughter, who are known as the slickest shoplifters in the trade. They were arrested first in 1926 and their police records since take note of sojourns in some of our best bastiles. They went into durance vile here in 1935, and were released to Philadelphia police after a veri- table blizzard of warrants had come to local authorities from detectives in other cities. Yesterday a squad of detectives set up a lookout at a downtown hotel, on the request of Baltimore police, for a pair of shoplifters who had created some havoc in the Monumental City. The detectives arrested the two women and took them to headquarters. The women were taciturn, to say the least, and the detectives were in the process of listing them on the books as Jane and Helen Doe when Inspector Thompson sauntered in. “Well, well,” he said, “if it isn't the Patterson sisters.” | The inspector had recognized them | from other years. | It developed that in their roomr| here they had .an assortment orl finery from local stores. Their best gag is to steal valuable | items like fur coats and then send ¥O SONONUONNONINONNONNONN storage loss—your handling and expert p Eye Identifies oplifters them back to the store—for a cash refund. That is what they did in Baltl- more. Sligo Park Citizens Elect Stewart D. 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