Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1926, Page 2

2 FLORIDA RELIF FUND INCREASING ) s 1 Washington Red Cross Man- agers Report Third of $50,000 Quota in Hand. Washington continued taday to add s contributions to the fund for relief and rehabilitation work heing con ducted by the Red Cross In F;"l"flfl't, devastated areas, hrinzing the tot raised hire to approximarely ane.third of the quota of $50.000 set for the Dis. } trict's share of £5,000,000 national ap. peal. Sums sent to the District of Colum- | bia Chapter of the Red Cross, at 16 Jackson place, and At The Star vester day and this morninz. hrougift the | city's total to $16.300, with additional | sums being received with each mai.. Work of Rebuilding Begun. While relief work of an emergenct character practically has heen pleted, the longer and less sensationn! work of rebuilding has hegun and wil! continue perhaps monthe. John Barton Payne. national ~h man of the Red Cross. pointed out i day that the rehabilitation work the tornado-swept areas of the ' dle West in 1925 required ten months for completion Mr. Payne said the natlon at large has raised about half of jts §5.000,0 quota for Florida . Additional donations listed. Additional contributions Florida relief fund follow: F. M Cash .. Cash oo Cash ....... Noble Lewis .. Anonymous . Grace McKenzie A. M. Clephane Mrs. Edna € White Mre. C. B. McCann Miss Jessie B. Hart Anonymous one Miss M. Taylor .. P W, e . Dr. Stuart . Johneon Emma B. Hawks ........... Rev. Herbert Seott Smith .. Anonvmous Mr. and Mrs. Anonymous J. A Gaston . Mrs. Alice Kelly . 8arah H. Church Oscar L. Johnson A Friend . Rose L. Hidde ... A. €. Nelson .... Anonymous ........ Robert Batcheller ... Annie E. Hutchison Robert W. Wilson R Misses Alice and Adele Heaven P. Blair ..... Anonymous ........ E. Blanche Hamilton Ar. and Mrs. P. (" Mrs. Richard Wilme: Anonymous Elizabeth Trick ..... Mrs. Otis F. Lamond Garrard B. Winaton J. H. Brickenstein .. Mrs. Charles £ Dewey B Mr. and Mrg. N. 8. Faucett James M. Denty .. Mre. Percy L. Harley Kinnear Class Young Men, vary Baptist Church. R. S. Stanley v R. L. Reyman Mre. Willlam Feiton P. 8§ Deffes, Margaret Bayiy .... Helen G. Campbell. . A. E. Lews. g Anna G. D Kate E. Capt. J Joseph Sanders .. . Cash collection Park Savings Bank s e Cash collection ball park....... Cash collection Keith's Theater Ohave Sholem Synagogue Total. Donors to Florida re the Ohave Sholem Synagogue rpf{ Fetterman ....... Rbbi J. T. Loeb. .\1‘}= Kave Ben. Jaffe Samue] Rass Zalman Cafritz N. Cafr g Mrs. Nietovich . Louis Sandler .. Rev. A, Kalmus Cash Frank Goldstein Charles Goldstein . A. Klein ... Sam Orloff £, Biron £ Goldberg Rehecca Liberman Nathan Liberman A. §. Cohen A. Cohen Isaac Cohen J. Cohen lsrael Levinson Joseph Kapian H. Gervirz M. Waykoff A Fose J. Bass to Merrill ..... . H Wetherill 10,00 100,00 oo 00 1001 S0.00 3.00 10,00 5.00 10.00 1.00 10.00 3,00 10.00 1.00 5,00 25.00 100.00 20,00 25,00 10.00 o0 .00 Alexander s A0.00 3.76 3.33 | at . $10.00 na no on | 0o | o 0o 0 o0 | an 0o ot “on o0 a0 o n 1.00 00 00 a0 on o Total . eeee. B30 $2,486.13 Received hy The Star. Contributions received at The Star | office vesterday and this morning follow Previously Mary E. Simps D. Fulton Ha Mrs. Edward H Miss Maude E Cash 3 4 i, Y e Reta Roman Mr. and Mrs lesac Behrend Capital Cizar & Toba W. & Purdum L. P. Siebold Erlebacher, Ine Mr. and Mrs. W Mrs. P. T. Hall Mrs A H. Kreh Employes of Woodward Lothrop Co cknowledzed £1,990.43 | s 200 | Moot E.F Colladiy Inc. H. Kerr i o | At The Star 3 Total received 486,13 ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. | TODAY The executive League for Industra meet a' the office Marx Lewis, 710 F 5 o'clock The North Capitol ¢ ation will open its season in Sundav school auditorium N United Brethren Church. Wil Ke. nedy of The Evening Star will v, will Lma ymmiites Nemorra of the ci; eenth st s TONIGHT A dinner_for the members of w York State Society will be given in the Arts rden. In the absence of Mis th, president J. H. McClure will preside. Gideon A Lyon will speak and Mis< Adelside Borah will give monologues. Mideity Citizens meet, § oclock, at fation will' an School {outbr. fana L. Charles enely this me raoney and wa rest to have the | = in streets and questicned them were not arrested. the looking f who vears old, of 861y Fenton stree( north- east. was arrested heen Protection of Cows From Poison Weed Urged on Governor By the Associated ¥ress. SPRINGFIELD, 111, September 27. An appenl from Gov. Len Small to all farmers of the State to keep cattle from shady pastures uniil the flelds have Deen inspected for the white snakeront. a polson weed, was made public here last night. The death of an infant at Auburn Satur- das. caused by milk from a cow which had eaten the weed. hrought the human death list of K o 15, The appeal telegram 1o of the State Department of A ture. Instructinz him do eve: thing poss ble in his fight against the ~pidemic. Additional patches of the weed were found near Spalding terday, when State men moned swhen a number of cattle he. came sick. BURGLAR IS SHOT, POLICEMAN HURT Negro Emerging From Ware- house in Early-Morning Battles With Officers. was containe: Stanard, b in A battle fn the darkness early to Iy heiween Policemen M. W. King M. Langhton of the tweifth precinet and 2 negro hurglar, emers ng from the warehouse of the Piggly ggly Corporation, Fifth and T ~ireets northeast, resulied n the ahontinz of the latter and the injury of King, whoe was hit in the head with an iren har wielded by the ne- zrn, whose fire was refurned when he hiazed away at the officers. Police later arresied John (ross, rolored. 127 K street, former employe st the warehouse, when he was found pded In the stomach and head at Florida avenue and kckington place northeast, and_the prisoner admitted. rding 1o the police. that he was the Piggly Wiggly suspect. Cross is n Freedmen's Hospital, under guard. in a serious condition Five stiiches were necessury to close the wound in King's head. and Policeman W. R. Rosson, also of No. 12 precinet, required treatment at Emergency Hospital for an injury to his leg sustained when he was hurry- ing from the station house to the as- sistance of his brother officers. One of Four Burglaries. he burglary case was one of three over Sundav night, in one instance <afecrackers getting hetween $1,000 and $1.500 from,the automobile estab. lishment of Joseph McReynolds, 1631 Fourteenth street, In burglarly at the Korman Jewelry Co., 708 H street northeast. sometime after Saturday night. which was a discovered this morning, watches, re- valvers and other articles to the valie of about $1,000 were stolen. Two holdaups also were reported. and in one of these he victim was heaten the bandits when he was slow to answer thelr demand for meney. Because of repeated robheries in the | piggly Wiggly warehouse, Capt Plemmons of the twelfth precinct last night detailed the two policemen 1o witch the building. Some time after 3 o'clack they wed man ap pear and en a window, fir: hreaking the gla with a brick wrapped in a piece of buriap. Desiring to give the intruder time to gain pos- session of some of the firm's goods, the police walted for him ‘to leave the building It was 3:45 o'clock when the man returned through the window, and when Policeman King reached for him the negio felled him with an iron bar, then ran a short distance hefore open ing fire, sending three hullets in the direction of the officers, Although badly wounded and shock King and Laughton quickly red the fire. Cross Finally Captured. count of the darkness, the siiceeeded in getting ot of the policemen sap- peared. Cross, wounded, was found at Florida avenue and Fckington place northeast =onn afterward, and was (aken to Freedmen's Hospital, where, it is stated, his admission v Examination of the xroery firm's warehonae ! that the hurglar had filled the firm's trucks with groveries and was going to the rear of the premises to drive it od i on g rglar sight of one of the windew Robbery Disclosed This Morning. The McRernolds robhery took place ometime aiter & lock last night, Veinz discovered this morning when e establishment ‘wax oy 1 tor Lusinesz. A check is heinz made to Aetermine the exac amount of the Inse capt. precinet, mand_ and ysfield gated, found opened with 1 nse uzed in automohile repai had heen knocked irom the yeceptacie and the spindle punched . allowing the opening of the safe door, Envelopes and two sirong hoxes had heen rohbed of their cash contents and papers in the sa were strewn hout the fHoor. Entrance was gained through a basement window. Man Beaten by Thugs. Grarge Echols of 1212 M street wax heaten by three colored men when he wax slow in compiving with their de mand for money in a hold-up at First and 1. st at 12330 o'clock. The handits, armed. obtained $75. Echols was not injured to the extent that he iived hospital attention. Four sus. ects were arrested in connection with this case by Policemen F. R. Reh and ber of the secand precinet . English of Harrisonburg < held up by an armed colore Juhn Marshall place and ¢ hout 1 o'clock, and in response demand for his money, t il £1.25. The handit, satisfied, hur left withont searching Fnglish saved 20 he had in another y . Burlingame, of 2 with members his Detectives sh b No, com- and in- Gieurse Willia: n., WA man at atvent " a y powket Two Said to Admit Robbery. after the _apartment umman at 1128 Eleventh heen entered and robhed ning of a check for 3500 ch and chian. police ar 1 two colored men, who are said fessed. 15t hefore hearing of the Shortly of ha Policemen Camipbell and Henry of the two colored 1en Eleventh and M hut they Notified later of policemen started A nan Jones, 20 ond precinet saw an alley neav burglary, the the pair agail said he is Alphonso He is said to have wearing the watch ani chain stolen from the Grumman apxriment. West End W. . T. U, will meet, |1 745 o'clock. at Union M. E. Church. | Childs, les W, The police say he told them Char Euclid 19 years old, of 1027 heen with him. . had Childs was - A . | arrested at_his home. BAND CONCERT. [ iy were locked up at the second TODAY By the United States Soldiers’ Home | Band at 5:45 oclock. John 8. M. Zim mermann, leader, Emil A. Fenstad,! second Jeader, | precinet station for further investiga- | me before 1 could get out tion. —e The happiest are helped others to be Y. e present ! al etor | were sum- | s made. | off | when he was sizhted coming through | after the shooting of Policemen Frank Verm Upper—Nicholas Lee Eagles and Sa el Marino i L. Ach and Leo W Busch. D. (. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER custody of Policemen W. W. McGregor and W. Lower—.! n, who gave his blood in a transfusion operation for Busch, the more seriously wounded. Busch and Policeman W. H. SUTHERLAND-HARRIS MARRIAGE DATE SET Washington Ball Club Manager and Alien Property Custodian’s Daughter to Wed Friday. The marriage of Stanley Ravmond tucky™) Harris, manager of the Washington Base Ball Club, and Miss Elizaheth Sutherland. daughter of Alien Property Custodian and Mrs. Howard Sutherland, will take place Friday at 4:30 p.m. at _the home of the hride’s parents, 1843 R street, it was announced today. The wedding will he very owing to the recent death of the bride’s sister, Mrs. fieorge M. Lyon. Rey. Dr. Frederick H. BRarron of Elkins. W. Va.. will officiate. The bride will have as her only attendant her sister, Mise Margaret Sutheriand. Berkely Lyon and Mar- garet Walker, nieces of the bride. will be flower girls. Dr. George M. Lyon of Huntington, W. V.. brother indaw of the bride, will act as hest man. A recoption will he held im mediately following the wedding for members of the wedding party and wedding guests, “The couple will leave for New York after the wedding and expect to sail for Burope, where they will spend their honeymoon, after attending the { opening game of the 1925 world serfes hetween the Yankees and the Card- inals WAVE OF BANDITRY REACHES CLIMAX IN WOUNDING OF FIVE quiet, v | (ontinued | from st First Page) and Upshur street one of the men, hought to have heen Marino, hroke lovse from Busch’s grasp, hipped out a revolver and opened fire as he van. His three companions followed | suit, and guns began to blaze in sev- eral directions. | Policeman Hit First. ! Ach was the first to get hit, several bullets striking him hefore he could draw his own gun. Busch also stag- gered under the beiching fire from the Heeing men. Both policemen. al- though suffering agony, pulled them- selves together, drew their guns and rted in pursuit of their assailants Ach Kept in sight of Marino | Bagles, who were running south Liifth street. and suddenly the fugi tives turned and biased their guns di {vectly at the policeman, whe crumpled {to the ground with a bullet through | his intestines. Ach managed to raise {his gun as he lay on the pavement. | | | and he succeeded in shooting Marino lin the leg. S Busch, meanwhile, had been chasing the other pait up New Hampshire | avenue toward Grant Cirele. Because | of his probably fatal wounds, however, | he was focced to give up the pursuit, i} and he was picked up a few minutes !Jater by a passing motorist and rushed to_the hospital. i | The fusillade of shots, which turned | slumbering Petworth into a bedlam of | | confusion. was followed by a sys-| | tematic and intensive man hunt by | {citizens and police through dark al-| {levs, cellars and areaways of that| {vicinity i Appear Four Hours Later. ! Fhe bundits disappeared, but about | four hours later Mrs. George Vogel \f 4105 New Hampshire avenne was in her kitchen preparing food for her haby, when she he: some one com- | ing tp the stairs. and looked up t e Marino, she said, standing in the foorway. She started screaming, and | Marino he other man later iden tified lex rushed into the base ment @ hen out through a front door, where neighbors, alarmed | Mrs. Vozel's cries, took up the pur- \it. Charies Newheart and Roscoe tley capturing the feeing pai had just come downstairs with v baby in my arms,” said Mrs. Vogel this morning, describing the affai “when I heard some one coming up the cellar steps. Knowing my husband ! was still in bed I began to wonder | wha it could be, At that instant I looked at the door leading from the cellar and 1 saw Marino standing there. 1 looked at him, frightened to | @eath. and he said, ‘Don’t yell’ and was about to say something else when |1 gave a vell and he ran down the steps. , “I started for the front door, but | knowing it was hard to open due to dampnes id they would get ‘Then I ran | out the hack door into the vard. where {1 began to scream. At that time my nd t and I told him what had bappehed. pike, He went into the cellar and saw the two men leaving the front door of the cellar. “In the meantime Mr. Newheart, who lives nest door, came running out of his front door and caught the two men as they were going down the steps. The men would not stop walk- ing and Mr. Newheart, holding both of them. walked along with them untii they neared the corner of Taylor street, where both men made # plunge to get away. Mr. Newheart zrabhed Marino, but Eagles ran down the street. \While Mr. Newheart and Marino were fizhting on the ground another neight Mr. Oatley, ran out of his house and Mrs. Newheait cried out, “There he goes across the par Mr. Oatley went after Eagles, who was very fleet of foot, and Mr. Oatley jumped in a passing machine and zave chase, catching agles at Geor- avenue and bringing him back to mv home, where they were held until the police arrived.” While awaiting the arrival of the police, Mrs, Vogel said, Marino plead- ed (o he let loose. saving they were only beotleggers and had done noth- ing and that he was very sick and wounded. She said he pleaded like a child. . fter the police arrived.” Mrs. ogel said, “we turned the men over to them and were told we had caught two bandits. Mr. Vogel, Mr. Oatley and Mr. Newheart went next door into a vacant house, thinking the other two fugitives might he in there, but instead of findinx the men they found a gun, some watches and other things, evidently stolen: MeCabe was arrested night at the home of a friend at 1| K stveet by Headquarters Detectiv Murphy and Trammel, who had heen tipped off that he could he found theve. Break Into Darkened Koom, The detectives burst into a darken- ed room in which Mcabe sat talking wth a woman, poked guns in his face and demanded his surrender. McCabe, they said, gave himself up with the words: “Well, you've got me.” His Arst question, Murphy was: “How are the policemen?™ Informed that they might die, Me- Cabe exclaimed, "My God, that's too " Murphy said that McCabe ad- mitted bein gone of the quartet in- volved in the battle. but denied firing any shots. Marino, however, told police that MeCabe stuck gun around Marino's side and fired sev- eral of the shots, McCabe declared he had fought France and was drawing compen: tion from the Government. He had heen employed for several days on the sales foree of a local motor comp: Vietim Taken to Baltimore, roctor, it snid. went to the home of his brother Ralph and told him he had been shot. talph explained that he started to take the wounded man to a loeal hospital. but he refused to al low himself 10 he taken anvwhere in Washington, and so he drove him to Baltimore. RBaltimore police were no- tified of the fact that Proctor was in a dying conditien from a bullet wound and he was immediately placed under olice eillance, and local police were notified. Two other Proctor brothers were arrested yesterday on Highway Bridge while on’ their way to Joplin, Va., to bring their mother to Baltimore. The others were taken at thelr homes during the day. They are sus- pected of having taken more or Active parts in the campaign of crime charged to the gang. Motorists Are Robbed. lookout for Marino, actor and Mcabe was tele. phoned to police headuuarrers here shortly_after fonr men had held up and_robhed Felix Solari of Camden, N. 1., and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Reed and Albert The bandits ay Solari’s automobile and Ingg: said, in The gles, John 1 opriated ge. aban- {doned a stolen car in which they had arrived on the scene and set off in Solari's car. Near Berwyn they stopped Martin's car, robbed Martin f >200 and a watch, took a diamond stickpin from Mr. Reed and relieved frs. Reed of $9. Mrs. Reed saved §: in bills and a diamond ring hy ¢ cealing them in her clothes. The bandits then drove to the White House Tavern. not far from Berwyn, left Solari’s car at the road side_and got to Davis Coon, proprietor of the tavern. It was in Coon’s car that the men drove to \Washington. Fellow Officers Offer Aid. A number of fellow members of the police forced volunteered to give their | the Quantico robberies. blood in an effort to save the life of Policeman Busch when physiclans an- nounced a transfusion operation would be necessary. Policeman W. H. Ver- million of the thirteenth precinct was selected. Busch was still hovering be- |tween life and death this afternoon. Ach’s condition, while critical, was not hose who have | husband came running down stajrs las bad as his colleague’s. Eagles and Marino, according te less | Martin on the Baltimore | n- | into another belonging | | several | | | EMINENT ARTISTS VISITING CAPITAL Bistinguished American and European Painters View Galleries Here. An international group, of disti guished artists arrived in Washington this morning on a three-day visit to the art galleries and publie buildings of the Capital. They are Charles Sims, keoper of the Royal Academ London: Pierre Bonnard, modernist French painter: Giovanni Romagnoli, head of the art department of University of Bologna, Italy: Homer Saint-Gandens, director of the fine arts department of Carnegie Institiite, Pittsburgh, and Guillaume Les Furopean representati gie Institute. Sima, Bonnard and Remagnoli, have bwen serving on the jury of awards prior to the opening of the twenty-fifth international exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, Octoher 14, togethe with Saint-Gaudens Nl Lerolle, were the guests at funcheon today of Secretary Mellon at his resi- dence, where they view his famons callection of pafntings. The American who Federation of Arts will entertain the | the he the are at tea this afternoon House, and a dinner will in their honor at Club, where they visitors Octagon miven fonight Chevy hase ving. Will Visit Mount Verno The artists will lunch tomorrow at historic Hall, in Virginia, and will afterward vis Mount Ver. non. he sight ing itinerary Wed will inelude the Corcoran, r and National Galleries, the Cap. Arlington Cemetery and the Adams statue in Rock They will go to Phila day to see the Joseph collection. the points of interest in New Yo Chicago and €leveland, also in Pit hurgh. where they judged the exhibi. tion entries om 14 countries, Ronnard will sail home on Saturday; Sims will stap in New York for a while to paint and Romagnoli is going to teach for a time at the Carnegie Institute. The Pittshurgh exhibition Iphia Thurs. Widener art awards will he announced October 14. | ms, a prominent Royal Academy, ranks with the noted McEvoy in portrajture. which remains the hest form of British art. Sims’ recent portrait of King Gegrge, clad in knees hreeches, caused a storm of controversy in England, and the canvas is now rolled up in his studio, awaiting the ascent to the throne of anather monarch. Others, Also Pierre Bdfnard. Denis and Vuillard, mildly modernistic French art. work hangs in this e visit this member of the Eminent. a colleague represents tendencies A fine example of his in_the Phillips Gallery ¥, which the artists wiil afternoon. He is an un questioned leader among French painters, especially in the depiction of interiors and figures and the inter relation of colors and patterns. Romagnoli is a brilliant painter. ns evidenced by the fact that an entire room was devoted to his work at the last Venetlan international exhibition. Together with Gaudenzi, he repre sented the younger school of Italian academic art as opposed to the md- vanced school of painting. He special izes in nudes, done somewhat after the Zorn” manner. Saint Gaudens, a son of the famous sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who is acting as host to the artists, considers the Shaw memorial in Ros. ton. the Lincoln statue in Chicago, and the monument in Rock Creek Cemetery. depicting Grief, the hest ex- amples of his father's work. Lerolle, wha, arranges to bring neted foreign paintings over to the for exhibition at the Cargnegie In- stitute, ix a son of the well known French painter, Henri Lerolle, of the Chief Pratt, gave a detafled account | today of the varfous hold-ups the have performed in Virginia and Wash. ington. They told how they robbed filling stations op the road near Quantico and held |h a tourist on the way back to Washington from They gave minute descriptions of the robbery at the Million-Dollar Grocgry and at the Sixteenth sireet gas station, the in- spector declared. The statements were taken down in writing by a corps of detectives, headed by Detective Sergt. Ed Kelly, who plied them with questions all night long in a locked room at police bisa dupistiol LS & the | Creek Park. | They have already visited | in | United States | 27, 1926. PMIAMI ZONE L0SS SET AT 75 MILLION As Rehabilitation Gods For- ward, Communities Count | Financial Damage.- By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., September 27.— Miami | and her neighboring communities in the hurricane-swept area today re- | sume their interrupted task of reha-| | hilltation generally after a Sahbath abservance. Observation through the Greater Miami zone during the \\'p--ki of reconstruction has prompted an es.} timate of property losses of apppoxi-| ely $75,000.000, a figure named in the original estimates and concurred in by business and clvic leaders. T Damage to innumerable homes. many demolished, others tially wrecked and thousands with o furnishings hy water, was estimated | At $20,000,000. the major item in prop- jerty . Apartment houses, hetter | constructed for the most part than houses throush this section, suffered | { approximately $2,500,000, according to | the unofficial tabulation. | Office buildings, the majority of which are in_downtown Miami, lost windows and furnishings in wholesale quantities, but only one structure in this group suffered heyond repair, this single _exception heing the Mever Kiser Building. The total office build- | Ing loss was placed at between $2,000,- 000 and $2.500,000, Church Loss $3500,000, Churches amounting to $300.000, | Theater and | structures were d od 1o the extent of approximately 3 Damages to garages and automobiles hax been estimated at §3.000,000, Ruined wharves and docks, stretch ing alonz the bay front, the water front of Miami River and the western rim of Palm Reach, accounted for more than $500,000 damage, it was e: timated. Industry and public utilities, exelu- sive of delay in production and serv- ice in the few days after the storm, were helieved to have suffered a loss of $5,000,000. Shipping hore it que of losses, estimated at $5,000.000. No craft with the exception of several large ocean-going liners moored in sheltered docks escaped. Relief Fund, $191,668. Many contributions from all parts of the nation continued to pour in to- day, the total fund last night having aggregated $191.668. Many other contributions swelled the total, rge contribution having been received in merchandise. Appeals for lahor hoth skilled and common have heen received to assist in rehabilitation work. ) MARKET DEALERS 0. K. MID-CITY SITE: ASK PROMPT ACTION st Page) | | suffered loss varions amusement (Continned from In order to give an expression of our opinion we have signed this petition.” ‘I'he dealers who signed the petition ar Washington Dairy Co.. A, T, Schroth & Sons, Joseph Phillips Co., Crisfield Fish Co., John E. Thompson, Pauline Herald, ¢, Rerger, Otto Sehneider, Fairfax Oyster, Wise Brothers, T. V. Hough & Son, W. R. Sacks, Washington Salad Co.. Blite Fruit Co., John N. Gns Gillespie, Edward It Rey W. Smith, Henry La Fontaine, | L Fontaine, . ¢. Rrigzs, John Schlort, W. H. Daly’s Sons, R | Fleteher, Ralph T, Bricker, F. 8. New- {man &' Bro, Fawin Shuffle, km- mert Rrothers, A. Casimano, William Riter's Sons, James B. Smith’s Sons, S. 0. Wendel & Co., Wallace M. Perry Hamilton Dairly Co.. C. Conrad Schroth, Fred Briggs. Chestnut F Reall, Gundersheimer and { kman, L. C, Rosenburch, | n, . Engie Sons, In Andrew (. Riley, Amiel | J. Hurley Co., R. Melni- | o5 E. . Rus- W. Zimmerman, Emma J. | Ewald, G. Melton Thomas hert | owaler, F. W. Loetsch, R. | ‘hroth, Peter Messiga. Raymond (. | Reid, John H. HeitMuller, H. Louis Robey, Constantine Juras, New York hy Charles Johnson Rarnes, Thomas R. Dewdney, Riley, 15 E. Hunter, F. I! wacher. Ralph 1°. Counselman. L. Koeniz. Chavles E. Ihel, Mrs. M. Nicolophalos. John T. Ger man, George W. Carll, Watson & | | Hollister, Tne.: Samuel Black. A. M. | Briggs, Char'es [. Miller. Rosslyn | | Ice and Packing Corporation, by M. L. Jackson, jr.. N. E. Brooke. John W, Koob, . Marion Walker, Charles W, Bodsch, 1. Kaplan. Leonard 8. 1 Cannon & Co., Lane, A, H. Colman. « & Rros, B Ruschoff. Fries, ¢ Kendrick. | Miss Joris: Hummer & Rodis | Rice, Charles E. Haover, \ [ John A Kunlo, A, | Tea Co. by 1. | Schneider Ba M. Holzheierlein, Counselman, Zioras. Frank mes Pl ¥ Gatti Pfiel, A cove, Ch cher, G, K. | | John | Cheélvning, John O F. Bush & P Charles Layton Bros., H. Schriver, Lowe Peyton G. Pull, S. Barnes, Peter Pap- pas. John H. Zuras, Charles J. John. son. Frnest N. Refd. George M. Tunt, Richard Collier, Joseph Kaplan, Snid: er's, George T. Snider. Harry H. Den Thomas G. King Co., Charles | Keith, Gotthardi, J. Miller, W. G. ! Recker, J. W. Colle . E. Kettler, | Wwilliam D. Wells, 1. A" floover, (| J. Chapin, F. stman, Albert | Lepper, Jacob O, . Charles H. Iansons, jr.. J. F. Jamsons, Lonnle | G. Higher, W Consalius. CITY OWNERSHIP URGED. Commissioners Get Suggestion Food Distributing Facilities. | Public awnership and control o central food distributing facilities the District was suggested to the (‘o < as a subjeet “worthy ton™ by George M. Rober superintendent of weights, and markets, in report, made public today [ Pointing out that the farmers' | produce market, which will be moved | to make way for the new Internal Revenue Rullding. is the only market unit_in the vicinity of the Center Market owned by the District, Mr. Roberts declared that “it can hardly he expected that a well co-ordinated marketing center available to acom modate all the large food distributing activities, constructed and operated along approved lines as advocated by well crystallized public sentiment, will | he realized through private ownership. It appears, therefore, that public ownership and public control of the | central food distributing centers is a subject worthy of consideration. The business of food distribution in cities has long been recognized as one de manding rigid regulation in different respects for the purpose of maintain ing health, sanitation and fair dealing “In no other way can necessary pub. lic regulation be o thoroughly effec- | tuated as by public ownership, and public control of facilities for distribu- | o the | of of | tion. Necessary regulation dees not mean only protection for the purchas- | ing publie: it means protection for up- | skabt. business, falr reats, wholesome [ the subcommitiee of THREE SAVED FROM MOB. Negroes in Jersey City Said to Have Chased Children. JERSEY CITY, N. I, September 27 P)— Pulice reserves last night saved three negroes from an infuriated mob of more than 300 persons bent on avenging. attacks on little children. The negroes, Louis Scott, Charles Allen and Raymond Caldwell, wers arvested after Vincent Purcell, white, had been stabbed. Police say the negroes were drunk. The crowd threatened them after they had chased a group of children. Ac cording to wlitnesses, each engro car- ried a razor or knife. BROWNLOW FAVORS SINGLE D. C. HEAD Tellé Investigating Commit- tee City Government Should Have Several Departments. A single executive head for a mu- nicipal government is the ideal con- dition, and the functional activities of the District of Columbia municipal government should he divided into seven or ei bureaus, each \der a head accountable for ap- sintment and dismissal for the business efficiency of these depurt- ments to the le executive Louis Brownlow, many veard Distriet Commissioner and since then city manager In Petersburg, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn., thus advised today the House Dis- trict committee, which is holding in- formal conferences preliminary to deciding program extensive hearings covering a systematic study the District government to see what resrganization and remedial legislation should he recommended The seven departments of func- tional activities in the municipal gov- ernment, suggested Brownlow, with «divector in charge of each, account- Iy to the coordinating ad- siness for minist government, would 1. Public finance. Public works. Public safety. Public health. Fublic welfare, Public recreation. . Public utilities. Mr. Brownle strong the study of tue functional activitie so that business principles might be employed fgr most eflicient adminis- tration, should Le made entireiy ey avate from any consideration of polit- ical power in the government of the National Capital. This was his reply to insistent questioning by Repre- sentatives MelLeod of Michigan prasided, and Reid of Illinols, re ing the probable advantage i eress should grant suffrage or heme rule in Washington, Demand for N Mr. Brownlow said that he was op posed to purely local suffrage and thought there was little, if any, de- mand for it, but that he believed there i a strong, persistent and growing demand for national representation, The municipal zovernment of the Distriet of Columbia as a whole is one of the best in the world, Mr. Brown- low said, in prefacinz his advice to the committee. Mr. Brownlow was the prinei witness hefore the committee todi having heen invited on aceount of his very unusual experience, not only in the local government. but in larze citles, and because for nearl vears he has heen an earnest student of the problems of government. Much of the time was devoted to a discus- sion of the theory and history of gov ernment, with a special reference to the National Capital. Ie dec administration there single executive head, under which all the activities of the municipality should he co-ordinated. lie expliined that under the form of government in Washington the three Commissioners ipproximate such single aetion. while T the usutl commission form of government as adopted hy some 100 cities the five or s commission ers do net act @ unit, except in a legisiative function. each administer- ing certain departments separately. nal Suffras 1l A husiness Approves Centralized Systen. He thought tion tendency he Iation is now awaiting 1 ture for a sepa e Commissjon amul the vanced at the hearin relieve the District Comm duties as members of the 7 mission. Representative Reid argued 1 pperty owners shonld have the v zoning questions before decis reached. Asked di part of the helieved the subeon look into icularly, emphasized that whatev he v de shonid not be implication that those ticularly needed reform. He suggested this pro subcommittee: That they should de- termine in advance the primary fun tions of the city wernment in order of importance, and expressed confi- dence that they would fall unde tHese five heads —health, education public safety, public work, other than those comprehended under health. and a growing need for recveational tacilities. He thought the subcommitiee should then question how well the xisting or; tion and system is that the decentraliza may brin tronble, and ticularly to the legis. (- Congress and siden igna Public Utilities proposition ad Saturday to of rol th » in w My, Reid wh government he nittee ought to Mr. Brownlow suggestions ken ax an sncies par tly by District t edure to the meeting the needs of the people tn- | to de- local ¢ heads ¢ hehind the der these five maj termine how far zovernment is in any of the dey ments. They should find out how other ties are meeting these needs. so that the cumulative experi- ence of all of the municipalities of the country might be used as » guide in making the municipal administ tion the National Capital the best possible. Mr. Brownlow said that the applica- tion to the collection of revenues and dishursement of expenditu most modern systen of ho and_accounting should he ealled attention that for more than quarter of a century the District ing [l had the best bookkeeping svstem and | xtill has one of the best. e thought the most important work of the sub- committee was to see if the existing municipal zovernment in any of its surroundings and giving the man who conducts his business properly an op- It also means affording to the people food distribu- tion at reasonable cost, which should result in reasonable prices.” Mr. Roberts said that the farmer's produce market is now admirably sit- uated, the plan of construction is good and it is a thriving municipal institu tion. “Any new location selected,” he declared, “should he equally good, equaily nceessible from all sections of the city and the country, and the new plant should nieet requirements of the most advanced type of farmers mar ket.” _‘- ¥ rtunity to pros:-er, other | LANDIS ANNOUNCES PLAYERS IN SERIES 28 Yankees and 26 Cardinals on List—$5 Reserved Seat Price. By the Assaciated Press. CHICAGO, September 27.—Rase Ball Commissioner K. M. Landis today an nounced the plavers eligible for the world serfes begining in New York Oc tober 2. The list includes 28 men on the New York club, winner of the American League pennant, and 26 on the St. Louls Cardinals, National League champions Names of the players are: New York Amerfeans—Manager Huggins, Char ley O'Leary and Frad Merkle, coaches; Adams. Beall. Rengough. Rraxton, Carlyle, Col . Combs, Dugan, Gazel la, Gehrig, Hoyt. Jones, Koenig, Laz zerri, MeQuaid, Meusel, Paschal. Pen nock, Ruether, Ruth, vereid, Shaw key, Shocker, Thomas and Ward. Hornshy Hi Louls Nationals William Killifer Alexander, Rell. Blad Douthit, Flower dlahan, Holm, teinhart, Sonthworth, d Viek pdis aleo annon ds Cardinals. s t. Manager Horns and Williams, Herman Rell, Rottomley, Hefey, hnson, coaches; Lester tehn Sherdel, They e nmixsioner following schedule of | games: | $5: general rchers are subject 1o a fces £ 1y Jreserye the the seats. ed. #3, The it riesion <or £ 10 per be suscoptible provement. e pointed out that here the org ization and system is enmbersome on aecourt of the dual Federal control nd municipal administration and the f with legistution 1l scope and for purely mumict pal matters coming into a clash " thare was much legislation under co ration and little time in which to tion by an unwield e RBr o ax sty the municipal hospital and the pub vy system of the District te show important branches of the local nment were delayed in develop ment on account of this cumbersom system requiring Hie said that the sube be on its guard because conditions ¢ not be improved by inereasin complexity of machine Tt considerall Improvam w by simplificatior éry Tie advocated a survey and furnish o th ubeommittee with the nimes of three important national assoe tions which have already made such municipal surveys, Questioned resarding local suffraze b Mr. McLeond, Mr. Brownlow that home rule implies the right the loenl residents to elect their ewn legishative representatives. and that any one of the virious forms of suf frage which have heen advocated weonld in his opinion have a different effect. 1t how Gove t that nt of the n said complete local “the most wouid im how the factor in the husi Govern you would giv self-government,” he s important question wh mediately rise wonld chief industry and 1 the city would pax I ness of the United 1 ment.’ he st txes, States i Congress tle Interested. to Mr. Meleod's loeal government that it wonid change that it for any one te whether it would im the efli ney of the government, If the question was one of setting up an ideal 1 govern | ment it would be entively a different | answer, Mr. Brownlow said Tn answering some of My Reid's Lquestions whether Congress fook much interest in the Distriet Brownlow said, on the contrary helieved Congress took too little inter Lest in the District He pointed out in detail that as far as leg ative ilems are concerned Washington s absolutely unique, hut that as far as |its funetional activities are concerned it doesn’t make any difference | whether the people vote or do not Ivote. Mr. Brownlow said that unless the minds of the pe o here have B rged mightily the six vears since he was District Commissioner they wonld not want the kind of suf- | frage Mr. McLeod susgested giving {them. He sald that undoubtedly any tauch form of suffrage wonld result in multiplying by thousands of times the “Kicks" to Congress, To Study Books. rownlow and Dr the librarian brare, promised to with '« list of articles and on municipal zovernme which the su should study. In emphasizi hington is one of the most effic wernments in the world, Mr. that part of the inefliciency traced bhack to the fact that Congress does not take enough inte in the Capital City. He was asked at considerable lensth vegarding the councilman: form | of government, which is now in op | tion in some 300 cities, only 1 of { which have abandoned this system {after adopting it by charter, and only 1 of these, Akron, Ohio, being a large | city. In reply regarding In direct reply suggestion of purely Mr. Brownlow said make such would he imy sy in advance prove or inju it » Goo of the provide oth M. RBowerman, st to questions by Mr. Reid, whether the subcommittes should go into the question of civil service in i1ts survey, Mr. Brownlow said that entrance hars as set up by the Federal civil service system should he retained, hut that the exit bars should be let down so that the mu nicipal management would have easier opportunity to get rid of undesirable employes. Thig, he pointed out, was due to the fact that the employes come inte much closer cont directly with the people under the District Gover ment than under the Federal depart ments. He adviged that the civil sery jee emplov of the District should come under i chief of personnel, s ject to the District Commissioners or I 'whatever administrative authority ¥ he in charge. J Yaden, chief of the e division of the civil service, f the school hoard and a dele. to the of Citiz peiations the Petworth « A was granted per- mission to insert in the record, the Civil Servi Commission’s answer to Mr. Brownlow's receon endations regarding the bars on the k doors of the civil service, Mr. Yaden -also advised a careful study of the municipal architect’s of- fice He advocated that either there should be more assistants or that the municipal architect be allowed to have plans for municipal bulldings {drawn by outside architects. He com- plained againsy delays in the school building pr M., against the method of assessing taxes, and against zon- ing regul ms in which the prop- erty owngrs Bad no voice. The ittee _adjourned for two weekd With Mr Reid authorized to call the meeting, as he is the oniy one of the seven members on the sub- committee who now espects te. be Washington on that date.© = amining a mem