Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1924, Page 17

PRESIDENT LEAVING PI by his secretar:; after the funera pl: t Morristown, N. J. C. Bascom Slemp, vesterday afternoon. NEY HOME. President Coolidge, followed leaving the Pitney home on R street The burial of Justice Pitney took Copyright by Harris & Ewing. AT FUNERAL OF JUSTICE PITNEY IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY. Taft and Mrs. Taft leaving the Pitney home, 1763 R street, yesterday, after the funeral service. Kenna behind the Chief Justice, and Justice Holmes standing in the doorwa: WASHINGTON WOMAN JUDGES PUPPY SHOW. Mrs. B. B. Thomp- s in the annua Mrs. Th son awarding the pri Pennsylvania, New York. popular breed of pets. NEW PLAYGROUNDS HOPE OF FUTURE Park Commission Expected | to Increase Safe Recrea- | tion Spaces for Children. The playground department of the District ng hopefully to the y ational Capital Park dditional ground | afe recreation for | to get them Commission for the it needs to provide the children of the ®if the crowded streets The budget for the playground de- | partment for the fiscal year 1926 makes no provision for the purchase | any additional sites, presumably | ause of the understanding that om now on playground develop- ment, as well as park extension, will come' through the action of the Park | Commission The Budget Bureau recommended mn initial appropriation of $600,000 for the purchase of land by the Park <Commission. The Park Commission is not disclosing what lands it intends 10 acquire with its first appropriation, @nd, for that reason, it cannot be pre- dicted at this time how much of the $600,000 will be used for playground extension. Commission’s Probable Aim. of 1 It is understood, however, that the wark commission intends to give con- sideration to the need for more mu- nicipal - playground space. The new budget, therefore, may prove more beneficial to the playground depart- ment than is indicated by a study of the regular playground estimates | alone. The total amount appropriated for the playgrounds department for the current year is $165,5670. The new es- #imates were cut to $147,600. The dif- ference, however, is almost entirely due to the fact that this year $21,300 was appropriated for the purchase of 3ew grounds, while it is not intended to purchase any additional Brounds cut of playground funds next year. All of the items for maintenance and upkeep of the system are the same In the new budget as current ap- propriations. The allotment for sala- Ties has been increased to take care of reclassification salaries. The lump sum of $21,000 granted this year for the purpose of keeping school yards open as playgrounds during the months when .the schools are closed has been renewed in the new budget. This fund has become an important one to the system during the past two or three years, because it per- mits the operation of 40 school yards us additional playgrounds during the Summer. . Prior to the term of Commissioner Oyster as a member of the Board of Commissioners school yards had to Dbe locked during the vacation period, when they were most needed, be- cause school appropriations were not | by plant employes, and the others were 1 Pekingese Club show at the Hotel ompson has made a study of this By United News Pictures. PAYMASTER SLAIN, 3 BANDITS JAILED Second Man Wounded in| Bungled Effort to Take Plant Pay Roll. 5 Associated Press. NIAGARA FALLS. December 12.— Howard R. Huff, paymaster of the Na- tional Carbon Co., was shot and killed, and James Weaver, an employe, wae | wounded yesterday when three men | bungled a hold-up in"the paymaster's | office. One of the bandits was captured | taken by the police within half an hour. The men under arrest gave their names as Matthew Wilson, Jamestown; | David Goodwin, Niagara Falls, and Wil- | liam (Jake) Carpenter of Niagara Falls | and -Buffalo. Carpenter was taken at the plant and roughly handled before a policeman arrived. The other two were found.in a garage and surrendered without a fight. | The men arrived at the plant in an automobile at the time when the ehift men are accustomed to get their pay envelopes in the paymaster's office on the second floor. Wilgon and Carpenter left the car in charge of Goodwin and went to a side door, from which a stairway leads to the ' paymaster's office. Carpenter brushed aside James Weaver, a laborer, who was waiting for his pay, and shoved a_revolver through the wicket, ordering Huff to hand over the pay en- velopes. The other bandit in the mean- time had covered Weaver with a re- volver. Bullet Pierces Heart. When Huff refused to hand over the money and instead shouted “Robbers,” Carpenter. fired at him. The bullet en- tered Huff's left side, piercing his heart. Wilson then turned his weapon toward Weaver, who had begun to yell for help. He fired one shot, the bullet striking Weaver in the les. The cries and shots attracted others in_the office building and employes out- side coming for their pay. William E. Hannam, a clerk in the office on_the first floor, attempted to intercept Wil- son, who led the race of the two rob- bers toward their car. Wilson fired one shot at Hannam, but it went wild. Han- nam ran through the door leading to the side etairs and encountered Car- penter at the landing. Hannam grappled with Carpenter, holding him until other employes came to the rescue. Carpenter gave the police informa- tion that led to the capture of Wilson and Goodwin. - etias H NEW YORK EXCHANGE IS SUED ON OUSTERS Two Members of Firm .Cn.rry Sus- provided to furnish supervision for the school yards after the schools closed. % Capt. Oyster Imterested. Capt. Oyster became interested in the question of affording better rec- reation ‘for the children during the months when the boys and girls ha practically the entire day for play. At first he raised a fund by prival pension and Expulsion to Court. By_the Associated Press. 24 NEW YORK, December 12.—The change over its members was ques- tioned yesterday when Nathan J. Miller and Louig F. Oppenheimer, miembers of Miller & Co. obtained from Justice Wagner in Supreme subscription to operate a small num. ber of school yards as playgrounds, and then Congress recognized the value of this service by making a yegular appropriation for the pur: pose, 2 Court a temporary , injunction. re- straining the exchange from taking action against them. Only on few. occasions have rul- ings of the exchange been carried to the courts, and the announcement of i« % fo PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE BOARDWALK. Newlyweds of Washing- ton, Mr. and Mrs, Henry A. Latimer, who are spending their honey- moon at Atlantic City. Mrs. Latimer was Miss Helen Beckham, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Beckham of Washington. a new test created a sensation that has not beep equaled since Allan A. Ryan filed a suit for $1,000,000 dam- ages against the institution—a pro- ceeding which never came to trial. Miller and Oppenheimer were tried before the governing committees of the exchange Wednesday and found guilty of vjolating regulations. The committee decided to expel Miller and to suspend Oppenheimer for two years. The charges on which they were found guilty related to alleged irreg- ularities in a transaction in oil stock reputedly in the Southern States Ol Corporation, nearly a year ago. Miller &.Co. is the second firm to incur the displeasure of the exchange as a re- sult of these dealings. The other was Secor, Reynolds & Co., the exchange member of which was expelled a few weeks ago. BOARD MEMBERS NAMED. Salvation Army Announces ‘New Appointments Here. The addition of G. Logan Payne, newspaper publisher; Roger White- ford, president Lions Club; Harry Kimball, president Kiwanis Club; Radford Moses, local merchant; John Poole, . president of < the Federal- American National Bank, and Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan to the advisory board of the Salvation Army here was announced today. Other board members are Rudolph Jose, chairman; Thomas P. Hickman, treasure: Victor Deyber, William Flather, Isaac Gans, W. F. Gude, L L. Goldhetm, W. 5. Hoge, jr.; Robert L. McKeever, Newbold ~Noyes, Myer Cohen ~ and District Commissioner authority of the New York Stock Ex-|Cuno H. Rudolph. ‘The new board will meet December 22 in the Evangeline residence of the Salvation Army, 1330 L street. The Army’s program for 1925 will be dis- cussed at this meeting. ' The Army is now in the midst of an appeal for $15,000, the money being needed . to carry out-.an extensive Christmas relief program formulated by the Army. Donations should be sent to 607 E street. Copyright by Atiantic Foto Service. Chief Justice William Howard Justice Mc- Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Lydia Hunter, a dancer who will be featured in the Security Club mu- sical revue of 1924, at the Wilson Normal School tonight. Photo by Rice. SENATOR-ELECT FROM KENTUCKY. Frederic M. Sackett, recently elected Senator from Kentucky, and Mrs. Sackett, photographed in ‘Washington yesterda ceeds Senator Stanley, Democrat. U.S.EXPERT FINDS AUTO PROBLEM SOLVED BY NATIONS OF EUROPE Percy Owen Says Forbidding of All Parking in Con- gested Areas Settles London Issue—Law More Deeply Rgspected. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Percy Owen, the United States Gov- ernment’s automobile expert, has just returned to Washington from an in- spection of moter and traffic condi- tions in Europe. Mr. Owen is the chief of the automotive division of the Department of Commerce and one of the pioneer automobile men of the country. His findings in the Old World are certain to have an impor- tant bearing upon the deliberations of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, which will as- semble In Washington on December 15 at the call of Secretary Hoover. Solve Parking Problem. “Several European countrie: Mr. Owen to. this writer, “have much to teach America in the -way of auto- mobile regulation. The two great centers, London and Paris, for in- stance, have effectually settled the parking problem by having none. They adhere to the simple principle that streets and highways are for traffic andnot for storage. In London there is no parking at all, except for taxis at fixed spots in the center of streets. Paris has just begun to ex- periment with' parking on a limited scale in & few streets. On odd-num- bered days of the ‘month cars may park for brief periods on the odd- numbered side of the street, and on even-numbered days, on the even- numbered side. But in neither Paris, nor London, nor in any of the nine Evuropean countries I visited, does it ever occur to the municipal author- itles to let somebody occupy, free, gratis and for nothing, 80 square feet of street space, often for as long as he pleases.’ Mr. Owen was asked whether Eu- ropean automobllists hold pedestrian 1ife cheap as some ' American motorists do. “Of course,” he re- plied, “there are nothing like the myriads of cars over there that we have. Country driving and touring are relatively unknown. Passenger cars and trucks registered in the United States on July 1, 1924, totaled 15,623,898, This is about three times as many as there were in all the rest of the world put together. Respect for Law Deeper. #Our potentlalities for motor fat ities and injuries are therefore im- mensely greater. But T think there is no doubt that in most European countries there Is a far more deeply ingrained respect for law, as applied to motoring, than there is in. the United States. That is certainly so in Great. Britain. Everybody who has ever visited London knows the awe and reverence in which the London “bobbfe’ is held. There is not a single signal tower or stop-and-go device visible at any of Lendon's countless trafic centers. All there is to be seen is the majestic, omnjpotent and inviolably obeyed ‘‘bobbie’ with his uplifted or. outstretched right arm. Nobody ever jaws him; . and the memory -of man runneth not so far back that anybody can remember when a ‘bobble’s’ trafic command was unheeded.” The European automobile industry, Mr. Owen thinks, is making effective strides in’ the direction of helping the world to grapple with the ever- increasing traffic problem by encour- aging the development of smaller ca: “The tendency to get away from the large car and the tendency toward the small car with four-wheel bfakes and balloon tires represent about-as much as manufacturers can do to make safety in trafiic. Smaller cars, too, obviously will make for rellef of the parking situation, if The new Senator, who is a Republican, suc- National Photo. parking in public highways is to per- sist. In Europe it is recognized that measures for, fuller protection of the public, from the safety standpoint, must be enforced by municipal and police authorities In the form of more rigld control and regulation in the larger centers. I need hardly say that the motoring public has its co- operative duty, too, in the shape of consideration for the pedestrian pub- lic. European city rulers. also are giving thought to the benefits ob- talnable for traffic from widening streets and narrowing sidewalks.” Studied Nine Countries. Mr. Owen studled automobile con- ditions in England, Treland, France, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Ger- many, Denmark and Holland. With the exception of London and Parls, he discovered that not even the largest capitals have anything approaching the traflic problem that confronts the average American city of 200,000 pop- ulation. When Hoover's automotive expert told an.Englishman that tens of thousands of American working- men park their own cars in front of the mills and factories where they are employed, = the Englishman thought he was hearing a typical Yankee romance. A European farmer who has his own car is extremely rare. Mr. Owen was president of the Lib- erty Motor Car Co. of Detroit before entering_ the Department of Com- merce. He was the first automaobile salesman on Broadway, 25 years ago. About that time he was an interna- tionally famed auto racer and piloted an American car in one of the early James Gordon Bennett international cup races in Ireland. (Copyright, 1924.) Get: West Point Posts. The President has appointed Jerome P. Geary of Boone, Md., and Willits A. Brewster, son of Lieut. Col A. F. Brewster, 76th Field Artillery, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., as cadets at large at the United States Military Acad- emy, subject to competitive examina- tion. Charles L. Walls, jr, Denton, Md., has been appointed a cadet at the Military Academy from the first district of Maryland. A ROSE FOR THE BUREAU DIRECTOR. Litle Jean Elizabeth Kaiser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kaiser of Washington, present- ing Gen. Hines, director of the Veterans’ Bureau, with one of the arti- ficial roses manufactured by the Pittsburgh factory manned by disabled BANKERS HOLDING mittee of the American Bankers’ Capital. President Coolidge. PRESIDENT T0AID RECREATIONWORK Assures Council on *Out- door” Life of His Interest in Its Activities. More detailed formulation of sthe program agreed upon for three-vear survey of the recreational facilities of the country and the possibilities of their extension occupied the conclud- ing sessions here today of the meet- |ing of the advisory council of the National Conference on Outdoor Rec- reation. The program also included an ad- dress by Theodore Roosevelt and con- deration of numerous committee re | ports, two of ‘these dealing with b; laws and program work. Selection of a date for the next annual meeting of the conference and action on the applications of new organizations for membership were other matters to be disposed of. | Memage from the President. President Coolidge, who called the | National Conference on Outdoor Rec- reation into existence last May, yes- terday sent renewed assurances of his interest in its work. Elihu Root sent a message to the meeting hold- ing up the influences of outdoor rec- reation as the greatest safeguard against moral and intellectual de- cadence. Col. Roosevelt, a White House guest. was on vesterday's program to preside over and address the after- noon session, but this was postponed until today. The council appointed committees to shape various phases to a paper by Dr. George Bird Grinnell of New York, wild life expert, during Yesterday afternoon. Unless intelligent organization and provision can furnish new occasions and opportunities and create new habits of outdoor life, Mr, Root warned in his letter, “we shall lose our physical health, our moral stami- na, our intellectual power and become a decadent people.” Dr. Grinnell’s Plea, Dr. Grinnell urged that States cede to the Forest Service control of their game in national forests, establish and look after game refuges in a way similar to the Pennsylvania plan, check ‘misguided drainage projects to save food and water for wild fowl and give game commissions more power. * The secretary’s report estimated that the projected fact-finding survey of national parks, forests and similar areas would’cost $15,000, that of State parks and forests $12,500 and that, for county and municipal parks and play- grounds $53,200. arious units of the Federal Governmefit will aid in these surveys of the Nation’s recreational facilities, and economic factors enter- ing Into the program will be sur- veyed natinally- by a separate or- ganization. A survey of recreational possibilities on American highways also is planned. Chauncey J. Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., of the American Association of Museums, who is chairman of the ex- ecutive committee of the advisory councll, presided at all of yesterday's sessions. An informal dinner was held last night, with round-table di cusslons and brief addresses. BRI SR ey The Torrey pins, now vanishing, were named in honor of John Torrey, professor of botany in Columbia University. He visited California and studied its flora long before the transcontinental railroad. ¢ PR A CONFERENCE The photograph was taken HERE. Administrative com- Association, now conferring in the vesterday. when they called upon o National Photo. MELLON EXPLANS DEFRTSEH RAD |Says Dry Agent Was Dis- | missed for Making False Affidavit. The Federal prohibition agent, Rob- | ert J. Owens, who raided the residence of Hugo Gilbert de Fritsch in New York last August, has been discussed from the service or “deliberately mak- ing a false afidavit to procure rch warrant on a private resi dence,” Secretary Mellon has informed |the House judiciary committee. M de Fritsch is a relative by marriage of Chief Justice Taft Replying to a resolution of inquiry Mr. Mellon said, numerous complaints |had been received prior to the raid |that Owens had treated persons he |arrested brutally, and had otherwis misused his office. Owens, the Secretary related, ap peared before United States Commis- sioner Boyle to ask fdr a warrant to | search a building at 142 West Fifty- fourth street, New York, two floors of which he claimed were used as an all-night restaurant, telling the com- missioner he had positive knowledse that liquor was being sold there Séized Pre-Volste: Two days later, the report con- tinued. Owens asked the commis- sioner to revise the warrant, declar- ing the address should have been 142 East Fifty-fourth “street. Mr. [ Mellon said the agent then broke in the door of the De Fritsch residence in the absence of the family and care- taker and found 70 cases of miscel- laneous liquors a locked vault Iwhich showed by their ‘“old and mouldy” appearance that they had been placed there before prohibiton became effective. The liquor was returned to: Mr. de Fritsch after an investigation of the raid, the Secretary related. Owens was given an opportunity to explain his conduct, the report stated, but had not done so satisfactorily, havt asserted that a stranger had givad him a tip that bootleg liquor was A the residence, and contended that he had himself seen a case taken from a truck and carried into the house. The judiciary committee- indicated in transmitting the . report ta- the House that it would take no action on the inquiry resolution, which was introduced by Representative. La Guardia, ‘Republican, New York. No effort was made by Mr. La Guardia, the' committee said, to have, the Treasury Department investigate the affalr, seeking instead to have the House look into circumstances sur- rounding the raid and Owens' dis- missal. Liquor. Citizens to Heet: Francis Wells, president of the Blaine Invincible Club, the oldest col- ored Republican club in the country, will be the principal speaker at the meeting tonight of the Citizens’ As- sociation of Deanwood, to be held at the Deanwood School. His subject will be “Race Solidarity.” W. A. ‘Watson will preside and Dr. Camp- bell of New York will speak. C. F. Smith, Mrs. Mamie Lee and M Gor- don will contribute to the music fea- ture of the eyening’s program . Those on the committee on: arrangements are: ‘J. W. ‘Howard, chairman; N. Green, Willlam Patterson, R. Mo- Caul, Patrick Tolliver, H. 8. Hay- wood and William Branch,