Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1927, Page 11

" INDEXING OF LAWS OF STATES BEGUN Library of Congress Under- i takes Big Task, Covering 300,000 Pages. Preparations are under way at the S.dbrary of Congress for indexing ap yroximately 300,000 pages of laws— 2he complete legislative output of the €3 States. The work has just been authorized winder an act of Congress and will be 1 charge of the legislative reference , of which Herman H. B. Myer is chief. The bulk of the indexing will he of legisiation passed since 1915, wwhen most of the states revised their Matutes to date. At present, it was explained, it is a Yong, tedious job for a lawyer to find vut the exact status of any subject zoverned by wion throughout she country. Huge Task Outlined. It would practically be necessary for him to go through the 300,000-0dd vages in order not to mis: of the various State Legislature the question in which he is inter *The index will enable him to do this in_a short time. are le; producing of laws that fill from 100 brinted pages. No been made to determine many statutes have been ev Y has st how value State Tk is expected to be ¢ ‘ongress and to the va wgislatures since they fomed to look up the precedents suhvr States before framing their own egislation. Laws of General Concern. ‘The index will ~oncern itself mostly avith laws of general public concern, Yaying no attention to purely private bills. Tt is estimated that the legisla- 1915 will fill about ed since nd the revised statutes | 100,000 more. Something of the same task was at- tempted by the brary not revived after a disastrous fire in 1909. Since then legislation has be- come an almost impenetrable tangle. No man could hope to be familiar with all the law throughout the United States, it was explaired, and the best he could do would be to specialize on some subject. This index will not touch upon the Jrederal law, for which a special index 1s kept up from day to day FREDERICK THE GREAT STAMP CAUSES FIGHT Leads to Controversy Between Re- publicans and Nationalists in Germany. "By the Associated Prees. BERLIN, February 19.—The con- troversy between Republicans and Na- tionalists over the 10-pfennig postage stamp which contains a picture of Frederick the Great is still raging. A Nationalist Reich g deputy complained to the post office depart- ment that when he asked for some Frederick the Great stamps in a branch post office thé clerk, who ob- viously was a Republican sympathizer smiled haughtily and replied that the stamps_were sold out. The Deputy objected to the smile. As a resuilt all the clerks of the post office were called on the carpet. No one could be brought to confess to such a gross misdemeanor, and the ministry of posts and_telegraphs transferred the entire staff to another branch. The incident has induced several Berlin dailies to request the Deputy to identify himself so that he might be showered with truly Republican satire. > A Boston firm has been awarded the ontract to build a pave the ntire length of Cuba, The tract price is of ,000,000. excess - | property of Michael Ponkroskow, New York State Li-| between 1890 and 1908, but was | €1l Junior High School, where he is in Anton Benish Refutes Story of Michael Ponkroskow, Boy Who Killed Marcus Gold. Otto Borchsenius, Classmate, Tells How Accused Appear- ed at School With Pistol. A story told New York police by Michael = Ponkroskow, 12-year-old | schoolboy, who shot and killed Marcus | Gold in a hold-up at his leather goods | store in Brooklyn Monday night, that he obtaincd a revolver from Anton Benish, a neighbor, but for more than la year a resident of Washington. | denied by Mr. Benish, who lives| at 1435 Spring road. His stepson, Otto Borchsenius, a former classmate of Michael, also stated that they had never possessed such a weapon. Otto substantiated the previous evi- | dence obtained by New York police | by revealing that more than a year | ago, in the Fall of 1925, Michael ap- | peared at school with o .38-caliber revolver hidden in the top of his roll- top boots, which he boasted of having “swiped” from his father's bureau drawer. According to information from New York, the revolver em- | ploved in the fatal shooting was the Visited Home Only Once. Mrs. Benish declared that on only one occasion had Michael visited her | home. At that time he had come in with a group of school friends of her | son’s and the boys had gone down in | the cellar and played a few minutes and then gone out. “The day when this ‘Mike' came to our house T told my boy not to asso- slate with him any more,” she said. | “He had an unkempt appearance and kept ducking his head and grinning n a way that I did not like, | “As far as any gun goes—the only | gun we have ever had is a water pistol.” Her husband stated that never had any gun while Jamaica, Long Island. seen “Mike."” Called from his studies at the Pow- | he had living at He had never the $B grade, Otto, who is 13 years old, told of the days when Michael Ponkroskow was his classmate at the Kew Gardens School, detailing para- doxical characteristics of the youthful slayer, ranging from a love for playing “wild West,” to a shy, lonely Russian, holding aloof from his school mates | a‘r:fi] playing the violin with unusual skill. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DISTRICT MAN DENIES YOUNG SLAYER USED HIS REVOLVER OTTO BORCHSENIUS. “When I knew him ‘Mike’ wasn't a bad boy,” declared Otto, after repeat- ing tually everything his mother and step-father had sald, “but we never played with him much because he was sort of unkempt and right shy. anyway. After my mother told me not to go with him, I never did any more. That was about a year and a half ago.” Had Talent for Drawing. The boy who is today b the stamp of the “kiiler bright in his school work sessed of a marked talent for drawi Otto said, besides being fond of pla ing the violin. “One day we were at school and he pulled a .38-caliber pistol out of the top of his boot. He said that he took the pistol from his father’s bureau drawer and used it to play Wild West with. “At lunch time we went out on one of the ‘lots’ and ‘Mike' pointed the pistol in the air and shot it off. When the empty shell dropped out I picked it up, because I was saving such things then. It had the word ‘Peters’ on it and was a .38." “You know, I think that ‘Mike’ felt sort of shy 'cause he was a Russian and hadn't really gotten like an Amer- ican,” confided young Otto, “and he used to go off by himself away from most of the other boys. When he was with us he would sort of duck his head down in his arm and hang back. The boys he went with mostly were foreigners like himself, and some of them were right tough. “But I don't think ‘Mike' was bad then,” he hastened to say, “at least, 1 never knew him to be bad in school.” MANDATE IS WITHHELD. District Court of ‘Appeals Grants Motion of Traction Company. The District Court of Appeals yes- terday granted the motion of the Capital Traction Co. to withhold its mandate in the valuation case of the company to afford counsel an oppor- tunity to ask the United States Supreme Court to review the decision of the appelate tribunal. The Court of Appeals recently modi- fied a_decision of Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Court by de- ducting from the valuation of $30- 000,000 placed by that court on the property of the company the sum of 5,150,000 claimed to have been paid for the franchises of the old Washing- ton & Georgetown Railroad Co. At- torneys George E. Hamlilton and G. Thomas Dunlop represent the com. pany. e SNOW BRINGS WOLVES. Peasant Killed Animals Search for Food. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 19 ) —During a_week of almost con- tinuous snowfall, the heaviest in liv- ing memory, wolves have appeared on the outskirts of the city, some enter- ing the suburbs, where one peasant was killed. The entire population of Trebizond has been supplied with arms to fight the invaders. RACHMANINOFF World-Famous Russian Composer-Pianist At Poli's—Tomorrow—4:30 O’Clock WILL PLAY THE STEINWAY “THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTAL In One of the Most Beautiful Piano Recitals of the Steinway Grand “M”. Season CONVICTED MURDERER BREAKS HUNGER STRIKE Benjamin Turner Takes Milk and ‘Will Appeal From Life Sentence. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me, February 19.— A cup of warm milk simultaneously ended the five-day hunger strike of Benjamin H. Turner of Mystic, Iowa, and his irresolution about an appeal from the life sentence imposed on him last Friday for the slaying of James D. Hallen. Turner drank the milk and decided to appeal. Later, he took some broth and then called for an orange. - Turner has persisted in protesting his right to kill Hallen. “It was his life or mine,” he told jail at- tendants and attorneys as he sought an answer to his conviction for the killing, which he admitted on the stand was caused by an alleged fraud of $827. Turner trailed Hallen from Mexico City to fulfill an oath of re- venge taken five vears before. The crime occurred near here last Sep- tember. Since his conviction the slayer has refused to eat, bathe, shave or exercise. New Rumanian Minister. BUCHAREST, Felruary 19 (#).— Prince Antoine Bibesco, former Ru- manian Minister to the United States, has been named Minister to Madrid, it was official] nounced last night. RACHMANINOFF’S RECORDS For the New ORTHOPHONIC VICTROLA are nothing short of WONDERFUL REPRO- DUCTIONS of is predominating artistry. 37 Different Selections are offered in the $1,500 vast Victor catalog, any of which will be played for you upon request. COME IN ANY DAY AT YOUR CONVENIENCE and listen to some of the beautiful vecords of Marion Talley, Galli-Curci, Mary Garden, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Kresler and scores of other prominent musicians and musical organizations. EXCLUSIVE STEINWAY REPRESENTATIVES IN WASHINGTON E. F. Droo &5’ Sons Co., 100 G NEW JUNIOR HIGH - PLANS APPROVED Fine Arts Commission In- dorses Idea for Garnett- Patterson Structure. The plan designed by Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris for the new Garnet-Patterson Junlor High School to be built at Tenth and U | streets and Vermont avenue, was | given the approval yesterday of the | Commission of Fine Arts, | The new school will be a 24-room ! structure with auditorium and gym- | nasium and will be U-shaped around i three sides, with playground inside of the 1. A 7T-foot brick will be built around the other side. Mr. Harrls has planned to put a clump of tall trees at each end of the wall and along it, outside the play- ground, where there will be a row of small trees and a parkway with grass. An architectural gateway will be constructed in the middle of the wall, which will be kept closed during play periods, but will be open as the main entrance to the school at all other times With the general plan approved Mr. Harris will now fill in the orna- mental details and submit them to members of the commission by mail so tha steps toward advertising for awarding the contract ma be ex- pedited. STAR TO BE AMERICAN. Vilma Banky, Native of Hungary, Will Take Out Papers. SAN FRANCISCO, February 19 (#).| —Vilma Banky, Hungarian -moving picture star, today announced her in- tention of becoming an American citi- zen. The film star, who is visiting here, said she would take the firat step toward gaining citizenship upon her return to Los Angeles. Miss Banky, a native of Hungary, has been in this country two years. s been, in this country two years: __sentence ranging from 8 t0 20 youmy e e A No Interest or Extras Added to Charge AccountsIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIY ¢ Do Not Penalize Our F'riend s FEBRUARY 20, + Soft Word o — — I sald to Gilbert Gable, “I find T am not able to hire you any more; I've had some dire reverses and in my divers purses there’s but a scanty store. I'd hoped, to our enjoyment, you'd be in my employment for many years to come; but when the fates are plot- ting a carnival of swatting, our hopes go out of plumb.” For years this Gil- bert Gable had worked about the stable, the garden and the lawn, and he had grown so grouchy, so lazy and so slouchy, T often wished him gone. My grandsire, old and wheezy, oft sald, ““You are too easy, you ought to kick his spine; he spends long hours sleeping while bugs and worms are creeping along the bough and vine. His snores I hear him throwing while noxious weeds are growing and killing off the peas; and still with smiles you greet him, and tenderly you treat him. and pay him the bawbees. If I were his employer he'd think me a de- stroyer, the way I'd run him down; the riot act reciting, I'd hand him language blighting, and chase him out of town.” Now this is where we differ; my granddad is a biffer, who'd rather scrap than eat: but peace to me looks charming, contention is alarm- ing, I'd have surroundings sweet. This Gilbert says, “I'm sorry, if this be true, by gorry, if I must go my wa) we've got along together in fair and stormy weather, and I would like to stay.” No caustic words are uttered, no bitter threats are muttered, and he’s departed now; and this is vastly better, methinks, oh, donnerwetter. than kicking up a row. My granddad hears me calling: “To sidestep fuss and brawling Is better far than strife; for you the heated scrapping, the swatting and the slapping, for me the peaceful life.” WALT MASON. (Copyright. 1027.) Must Serve 3 to 20 Years for Aid- ing Taxi Robbery. CHICAGO, February 19 (P).—Mrs Jean Ambrose, East Chicago, Ind., flapper bandit, yesterday was sen- tenced to serve from 3 to 20 years in the State prison for aiding in a rob- bery. She testified vesterday that she was with Albert Welsbaum when he robbed a_taxicab driver, but insisted she was forced to aid in the robbery. Welsbaum is now serving a prison sentence ranging from 3 to 20 1927—PART 1. MASONIC CONFERENCE TO MEET WEDNESDAY Representatives From Practically Every State in Union Will Gather for Deliberation. A conference of the heads of all the symbolic Masonic jurisdictions of the United States is to be Leld here Wed- nesday. The attendance will include the Grand Master of Masons, and other Masonic grand representatives from practically every State of the United States. There are indications that as a result of the conference Wednesday, it will be agreed that the annual conference of grand masters and grand representatives will be held in the National Capital regularly here- atter. The visitors from throughout the United States will assemble in Alexan- drla, Va., Monday for the annual meet- ing of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association. The colossal memorial is being erected in that city. J. Claude Kelper, grand sec- retary of the Grand Lodge, ¥. A. M., of the District of Columbfa, is sec- retary-treasurer of the memorial asso- clation Making_a trip to Mount Vernon Tuesday, Washington's Birthday anni- versary, the visitors will be the guests of the Grand Lodge, F. A. A. M., all day Wednesday. Grand Master Gratz E. Dunkum will welcome them in the small ballroom of the Willard Hotel at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Grand Lodge of the District will be host at an elaborate luncheon at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, after which the conference will be resumed {and a_carefully prepared agenda con- GIRL BANDIT CONVICTED. | sidered until the topics thereon have been completed. Miss Atcherson Promoted. Miss Lucille Atcherson, third secre- tary of legation at Berne, Switzer- land, the first woman appointed td the United States diplomatic service, is to be transferred to Panama as sec- retary of the legation in that city. She has been serving at Berne since July, 1924. The transfer, which is re- garded as a promotion, will be made in the next few week: . Parisiennes favor the new “modified One price to all—divided payments or cash. No interest charges or extras to pay when you buy furniture at Golden- berg’s. We do not penalize our friends. PLANS BIG MEETING. Salvation Army Will Have York Speaker. Lieut. Col. Samson Hodges of York will speak on “Why Die? meeting at the Salvation Army ple Corps, on E street tonight. Brigadier Walter Mab soloist, will be the chief Lassle Quartet of New Yo heard at this service. The quartet is composed of Emma Clinnick, Capt. e Niles, Capt. Emily Cowan and Mrs. Capt. Willlam Bearchell. Staff-Capt. Ernest R. Ho has the oversight of the Arm ities in the District of Columt Virginia, will preside, supported the Washington headquarters band. New | New at a m . tenor loist. The will be Commercial Pilots Tested. Army doctors and special equip- ment necessary for physical examina- tion of Army flying personnel have been made avallable by the War De- partment to eo-operate with the De partment of Commerce in carrying -| the arsenal explosion - 1 ARSENAL EXPLOSION HEROES ARE HONORED Navy Crosses Presented Q. M. Sergt. Granger and Pvt. Bush at Quantico. Special Dispateh to The Star. QUANTICO, Va., February 19.—For extraordinary heroism at the scene of at Lake Den mark, N. J., last year, Q. M. Sergt. Warren L. Granger and Pvt. George J. Bush of the United States Marine Corps were presented with Navy crosses here ¥ The crosses were awarded by Presi- dent_Coolldge on recommendation of the vy Department, and the pre- sentation- was made in the presence of a regiment of troops by Maj. Gen. E. K. Cole, commandant of the Ma- rine post here. out alr commerce regulations requir ing physical examination of applicants for lic nses to pilot commercial A. |craft. bottle to sed by a wom over the n. A hot-water » has been de Public Mass Meeting Mexican Question From Protestant Viewpcint WASHINGTON AUDITORIUM MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927, 8 P.M. Dr. Hubert C. Herring, Dr. Harry E on Dr, Herrin speak has just returned from genlus for meeting peaple in all parts of wocial subjects with a background shared experlence during the past eight years in M Dr. Woolever Dr. publicist, Mexican situation,’ ax well he social, religlous, political, indust; er, and Bishop J. al and eduentional an_extended visit the the world and speaks o exico es Cannon. fr.. will ditions in Mexico. qualifies him (o speak authoritatively. journalist and traveler, has given much attentlon to the other forelgn affuirs. is ‘work ns editor and_direetor s of the national Methodist press is to study and interpret national mnd international legislation and movements and to dixseminate the truth regarding them. Music will be rendered by Harry Angel at the plano, The doors of the auditos i Putney, direcior of the School of preside at the meeting. COME AND lico, bariton will be open at 7:00 o tical Sclence of Ameriea LEARN THE Mrs. Angelica k. 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