Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1929, Page 12

WOMAN ANXIOUS ABOUT CONDITION OF MATE SHE SHOT Weary Mother Herself of Story Preceding Shooting in Court. HUSBAND IS NOT NOW INCLINED TO PROSECUTE | — | Man and “Other Woman” Arrested | Originally on Warrant Obtained by Wife October 5, 1927. A weary mother told today of the sorrows and struggles which preyed upon her mind until yesterday “some- thing snapped” and she fired four shots into her husband’s body as he was walking down a corridor in the Police Court Building. Her chief concern joday was for her husband, inquiring anxiously of visitors if they had heard “how he was getting along.” The husband, Charles A. Brown, is in Emergency Hospital. Physicians think he will recover despite a bullet wound in his arm and thres bullets still logged in the left side of his chest. Brown said today that he did not blame his wife for the shooting as much he did another woman, who, he said, “egged her on.” He indicated that he probably would not be inclined to prosecute his wife, - | The wife, Mrs. May C. Brown, is| being héld at the House of Detention | pending the outcome of the man’s in- Juries. She is 40 years old. Life ras left un unmistakable impress on the wife and mother of two children. | Deep lines etched in her face bear mute | testimony to vears of hard work and endjess troubles. She told the following story of her ite: * “Charles and I were married 18 years ago in June. For years we were happy with our two children, Dorothy and Catherine. He had steady work and all of us enjoyed the blessings of a real home. “Several years ago he started to run around with other women and I finally left him. Children Saw Him. “My little girls would come home from the house of a relative, where he was staying, and tell me of seeing him and another woman in each other’s arms. ‘They were too young to realize what it meant, but I knew and it was more than I could stand. “I had always worked, even when we were living together, but after we sep- arated it was mighty hard to get along. I was getting only $10 a week from him and there were many times when the children and I were without coal and sufficlent food “We moved out into Maryland, where living was cheaper, and I worked in town while the girls ran the house. I had to walk more than a mile after dark to reach the house because we lived so far from the car line, I'll never forget the Winter, four years ago. There ‘was a heavy snow that year and part of my way home lay through the Cedar Hill Cemetery. I can still hear that snow crunching under my feet, with & sound like sharp explosions. ~‘Sometimes work was hard to get. I have picked vegetables for farmers— for a while I ran a roadside lunch- Toom—one Summer I sold flowers on the highway—in fact, I have done al- most everything that would bring me an _honorable living for my children and myself. Denies Hounding Other Woman. “It's not true that I hounded Mrs. Johnson, or wrote her threatening let- ters. Goodness knows I didn’t want to see her or have anything to do with her. Of course, I knew he was living ‘with her but the only letter I ever wrote was to him. I warned him then never to take my daughters—they were fond of him and went to see into the same house with her. son arrested for a statutory offense I thought the thing would be settled once and for all, and that I would get my divorce. But case dragged and dragged, with one continuance after another—I wish I knew why. “The continuance yesterday was the Jast straw. My mind was in a whirl Unburdens ; today. But that's not half the story. out by the scruff of the neck to get him DEAF HANDICAPS STUDIED IN PARLEY Teachers and Scientists Con- fer Here on Means of Overcoming Defects. Methods of overcoming the handicap of deafness through education were dis- Conference cn the Deaf and Hard of Hearing called by the National Re- search Council. ‘The conference, composed of psy- chologists, - physicians, educators and physicists, is meeting' at the National Academy of Science Building. Substitution of touch for sound’in communicating with the deaf, which has been the subject of intensive ex- periments by Dr. Robert H. Gault of Northwestern University at . Gallaudet College here and elsewhere, is a vel remotes possibility, Dr. Gault told the conference yesterday. , Dr. Gault's method was to convey the speech vibra- tions against the palms of the deaf ztul}ents with a modified telephonic levice, Adjunct to Lip Reading. ~ He insisted, however, that this method promises to prove a valuable ‘adjunct to lip reading, the subject both seeing and feeling the speech which he cannot hear. Part of the advantage, he said, probably- lies in the ability to detect accents of words better by feeling than sight. Some blind and deaf persons, he said, are able to understand speech by putting their hands on the head of th speaker. If the application of soun vibrations could be made directly against the ear, he said, the results might be much better, but he has never been able to do this without causing pain. Dr. Harvey Fletcher of the Bell Tele- phone laboratories said that experi- ments have shown the thresholds of hearing and pain due to vibrations against the meatus of the ear are very close together, whereas the thresolds of touch and pain on the fingers are very far apert. Dr. Max Goldstein, president of the American Otological Association, sald that 20 per cent of deaf children have some slight hearing and urged that more be done to develop this with the natural voice rather than use instru- ments which might destroy it alto- gether. May Prove Asset. Dr. Gordon Berry of Worcester, Mass., said that for some jobs deafness actually proves an asset, because the deaf per- son has trained his powers of observa- tion far more than the normal indi- vidual. ‘The deaf get along better than those who hear when their status is consid- ered in proportion to the rest of the population, said Dr. E. A. Gruver, di- rector of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf. “We have been surprised again and again,” he said, “at children who go out from school - apparently feeble-minded who come back in their own automobiles. They take better care of their children and their, families.” Prof. Donald Patterson of the Univer- sity of Minnesota urged that a special study be Mlo ;l‘ I:y wl&\‘!% of 500 de:; persons employe a tire company Akron, omg. ‘These have become: very Rrospemus. A study of the way they ave adjusted themselves to their jobs, be said, should vield information which could ‘be applied ‘elsewhere. Properly trained deaf children, Dr. Wwhen I walked out of the courtroom. When I saw Mrs. Johnson standing in the doorway behind my husband. She e an'T s that “When I saw that something snaj inside of me, I walked up \‘: Ch‘l’?leeda and started shooting. She ran or I would have shot her, too. I don’t know why I shot him. I don't know how many times I shot. I was so upset that 1 hardly knew anything until I found “I have always been a good wife and faithful to my husband. I want my daughters to grow up the same way, and I regret this trouble more for their sake than for my own. I am not afraid :?ll;k:nysel let them do what they want o A “Good Wife,” He Admits. . The husband substantiated much of her story, admitting that she had been & “good wife,” but subject to “sudden fits of temper.” “I remember one night about six years #go. She had a pistol and said she was gojing to shoot me. We were in bed. T laughed and told her to wait ~until T went to sleep so that I wouldn't ‘know anything about it. I knew she r€idn’t mean it. “We would have been happy, T think, if other people had left us alone. I know who is to blame for this shooting, ‘and it's not my wife. They ought to ;:l’tnt that other woman instead of Records of the court show that Brown and Mrs. Johnson first were ar- Tested on a warrant obtained by Mrs. Brown on October 5, 1927. The case was brought to trial some time later and dismissed for want of prosecution, 2s Mrs. Brown did not appear in court. On June 22, last vear, Mrs. Brown ap- peared at the office of Prosecuting At- torney Given, now Judge Given, and demanded a new warrant, charging that the police had failed to summon l\::ew appear as a witness in the first Mr. Given issued a new warrant for Mrs. Johnson and Brown. They were arralgned and demanded a jury trial. A crowded docket, Judge Given ex- plained today, caused the case to be set for trial on the 12th of November. When that date came Lieut. J. A. Sulli- van of No. 6 precinct, a witness, was 11l and it was postponed again to De- cember 5. On December 5 it was set for February 1 “for court reasons.” A crowded docket again is believed to have caused this postponement. Yesterday, when Attorney Bertrand Emerson, rep- | resenting Brown, reported that he had | lost his voice from pleading in a case the previous day, it was postponed for one week. RUM AWAITS CLAIMANT. Fourteen bottles of whisky are in possession of the police awaiting a claimant, but it is doubted that the owner of the liquor wil ever appear. The liquor was found early Wed- necday morning near the polica, booth at Reservoir and Foxhall roads, where it had been left, Goldstein said, are able to hold their own in colleges without any special con- siderations. One totally deaf boy, he said, now is a senior at Harvard with high scolastic standing, and a girl in a similar predicament was able to major }n a foreign language in another col- ege. ‘The problem of deal with the child who is slightly hard of hear is even more difficult than that of training the totally deaf child, the conference was told. *The public schools make little provision for these children, who natur- ally are at a great disadvantage com- pared with their classmates. Program Decided On. ‘The conference decided on a program involving the general establishment of classes in lip reading for the more seriously affected children, gl class- es for the hard-of-hearing children, de- termination of the type of teachers needed for such children, use of- me- chanical aids in instruction, and the treatment of sligh'ly deaf children who remain in the regular classes. The committee will stress to teachers the importance of watching the emotional and social adjustment of such children. Knowledge of lip reading, it was pointed out, may keep the slightly deaf child psychologically normal where otherwise it would degenerate. It is also proposed to devise s set of intelligence and achievement tests particularly for deaf children for whom the standard tests are not suitable. Several tests for the deaf already have been devised, but their use and inter- pretation has not been - standardized. 1s is proposed to work out specially scaled tests for reading, arithmetic, spelling, English, history, geography, handwriting, health knowledge and in- dustrial arts, which will range from the primary through the high school grades. It is also proposed to work out & test for finger spelling, for proficiency in lip reading, and a method of meas- uring the intelligibility of the speech of a deaf child in conversation with Eenons who are not familiar with im, ROBBED BY MASK MEN. Zwo Colored Bandits Take $32 From Local Grocer. Two colored men with handkerchiefs masking their faces, held up at the point. of a revolver Benjamin.Cohen in his grocery store at 1001 First street south- west and robbed him of $32 last evening. No customers were in the store at the time. Cohen told Headquarters Detective Oscar Mansfield that he and his wife were in the room in rear of the store when the robbers entered. 7Thinking they were customers, Cohen came into the front room and was ordered to throw up his hands. One of the men searched his clothes and emptied the cash reg- ister. As they were about to leave Mrs. Cohen entered and also was searched. A description of the bandits has been blr:ndcust 10 all police precincts in the city, cussed this morning by the National| Mr. Groundhog posed in the sunshine for this photograph at the Zoo Attendants at the Zoo had to haul him into the sunshine. —Star Stafl Photo. Groundhog _Gives Capital Six More Weeks -of Winter Pulled Out by Scruff of Neck, Sees Shadow and Dives Into Den. ‘The groundhog’s neighbors, much exercised over the prospect of more raw weather, watched him closely today. For'that matter, the whole National | Zoological Park was in something of a flutter, especially that section of it recruited from warmer, sunnier lands. ‘The - zebras stamped impatiently and shivered—the elephant house was all agog; uneasy rumblings issued, now and then, from the lion den. Meanwhile the furry cynosure of all eyes, apparently oblivious of the fact that it was his big day, snoozed peace- fully in the depths of his rock burrow. Believe it or not, he had to be hauled, blinking and by the scruff of his neck, into the brilliant sunlight of this the big day of all groundhogs. Taking one wild glance at his TY | shadow, the fellow would have rushed immediately into his burrow, but a photographer was there—and you know how these newspaper men are, in- sistent, to say the least. Nevertheless, the dire prophecy holds good. Mr. Groundhog, however inad- vertently, had emerged. seen his shad- ow and dived into his den again . . . So, for six weeks now, Winter will linger here. If you don't believe it, go out and have a look at the animals from sunny Africa . . they're a down-hcarted DL ELAY ASHED Conferees to Be Appointed in Few Days Despite Plea of Wisconsin Member. Senate and House conferees probably will be appointed within the next few days to work out the final terms of the bill, which has passed both houses, to provide for the licensing of dagree-con- ferring institutions. Under the District code as it stands, a group of persons may set up an institution, issuing diplomas and conferring degrees, mere- ly by incorporating. ‘The pending bill would set up certain standards for degree-conferring schools, and enable the Board of Education to pass upon the qualifications of the in- stitutions applying for the right to con- fer degrees. Before sending the bill to conference the Senate District committee yesterday afternoon gave: its opponents another opportunity to state their objections. Representative Nelson of Wisconsin, speaking for the opponents, objected to many features of the measure ane urged that it be permitted to go over for further ‘study- b . - He said the thing, but y Congress. bill aims to do the right in a wrong way. In the course of his argument Rep- resentative Nelson rafsed the point tha Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, is a member of the faculty of National University Law School, and that as head of the school board he would be passing on the ap- Pplications of competing ‘institutions. ‘W. O. Tufts of the Chamber of Com- merce, representing the supporters of the bill, said that while he had not dis- cussed that question with Dr. Carusi, he felt sure the head of the school board would be glad to be relieved of taking part in the administration -of this law, since he has many other school duties to perform. Mr. Tufts told the Sena- tors the pending measure would be a good Dbill even with the House amend- ments, and told of the need for such legislation. MAN IS NEAR DEATH AFTER SHOOTING SCRAPE William Cunningham, colored, 35 years old, of 1716 N street, is at the point of death at Emergency Hospital with a bullet in each lung as a result of an altercation early this morning at 2238 Eleventh street. Willlam Henry Long, also colored, 33 years old, of the Eleventh street address, is being held at the eighth police precinct in connec- tion with the shooting. According to police, Cunningham was at Long’s home early in the evening and the two argued about some money. Cunningham left but returned shortly after midnight. Long said he broke in the rear door of the house and rushed in and grappled with him. Then Long shot him twice, police state. Cunningham was taken to Emergency Hospital in the ambulance and treated by Dr. I. Rutkoski of the staff. LAW ENFORCEMENT STUDY HERE URGED: BUTLER SUGGESTED Gamblers’ Benefit Perform- ance at Gayety Held Within Statutes. “MORAL FORCES OF CITY” “CHALLENGED” BY SHOW “Rally for God and Country,” in Form of Prohibition Mass Meet- ing, Set for Tomorrow. A report from Commissioner Dough- erty, stating that the midnight benefit performance at the - Gayety Theater early this week for the benefit of four men committed to jail after they had refused to “squeal” in connection with gambling cases, was not in violation of any local regulations, was received by Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict committee yesterday afternoon. At the same time the Senator received | a letter from Maj. Clayton Emig, sug- | gesting that some one like Gen. Smedley Butler of the Marine Corps be invited to make a study of local law enforce- ment conditions. gard for “our local guardians of the law,” but felt “lawlessness is on -the in- crease.” He pointed out that Gen. But- ler will soon return from China, and that he might be given an opporturdity to study the local situation, and, if necessary, be given authority to aid in improving conditions, No Violations Found. Commissioner Dougherty, responding to a request from Senator Capper for information, replied that local police regulations permit theaters to operate 24 hours on week days, and that the as- sistant corporation counsel at Police Court had decided there were no viola- tions of regulations involved in the per- formance at the Gayety. The Commis- sioner also- stated that the police of the first precinct were told the proceeds were to be used only for the families of the men who are in jail, ‘Taking the benefit as a challenge to the “moral forces of the city,” Clinton N. Howard, chairman of the united committee for law enforcement, has announced another prohibition mass meeting, to be held at Luther Place Memorial Church, tomorrow afternoon, as a “rally for God and country.” _ Calls Moral Forces to Rally, “When the underworld is so organ- ized,” said Howard in an announcement of the rally, “as to fill a theater in de- fense of lawlessness, without a single prior press announcement or advertise- ment, and crowd it to capacity until 4 o'clock in the morning with gamblers, prize fighters, rum-runners, bootleggers and underworld patrons, as a benefit for convicted criminals ‘who would not squeal,’ as occurred in a Washington theater on last Monday night, it be- hooves the moral forces of the city to rally in defense of law and order.” The speakers will be Representative Menges of Pennsylvania, a former pro- fessor of chemistry, who will take for his subject “The Lutheran Church and Prohibition,” and Dr. Howard, who will speak on “Washington, Jackson, Lin- coln, Hoover and the Constitution.” BLADENSBURG ROAD PARKING AT LIMIT Center Space Will Not Be Extended and Likely to Be Removed. The center parking on Bladensburg road northeast, which is now in place from H to L street, probably will never be extended beyond these limits, and the parking there itself will probably be removed to take care of added tradic in years to come, Assistant Engineer Commissioner Herbert C. Whitehurst said today. The statement came in answer to many inquiries on the sub- Ject recently. At present, from L street to the Dis- trict line, two strips of the roadway are paved, the center being left unsur- faced. Originally the plan was to con- tinue the center parking along this strip, but, according to Capt. White- hurst, the time is not distant when the traffic on the road will grow so great that the center will be covered with concrete to accommodate it. When a car is parked at the sidewalk, Capt. ‘Whitehurst said, only one other car at a time can get by on the.paved surface. To put curbs around the center strip without widening the street would be to invite accidents, and the widening would cost “a fortune.” The Commissioners plan eventually to extend New York avenue from the railroad bridge to Bladensburg road. When that is done, much traffic to Maryland, which now travels Rhode Island avenue, probably will be diverted to New York avenue and thus to Bladensburg road. The line of the New York avenue extension intersects with Bladensburg road a little to the north of the line of T street. From this point to the District line will be the first, in all probability, to have the center paved. From that point south paving will follow as the traffic grows, and last of all the center parking now between H and L streets probably will be torn up and a concrete surface laid. ‘The National Broadcasting Co. sur- prised the Nation yesterday afternoon by transmitting over its coast-to-coast network of stations, in which WRC is 2 link, a symphony concert in London. It was the first attempt at rebroad- casting over a Nation-wide hook-up in America, and while the results were fair, the transmission of the London concert, interrupted as it was with at- mospheric . disturbances - and fading, showed that ,the proposed regular Anglo-American exchange of radio pro- grams is yet fraught with uncertain- tles. This rebroadcast, however, is ex- pected to be the forerunner of others from time to time, but their frequency d length will be governed largely by atmospheric conditions. The program, which originated in the London studios of the British Broad- casting Co., began at 4:50 o'clock, and | continued for more than 20 minutes. The music was carried from London by telephones 35 miles to 5SW, at Chelins- ford, where it was hurled across the Atlantic on a 25.53-meter wave band with & power of 10 kilowatts. The | Radio Corporation of Ameriea experi- [ SYMPHONY CONCERT IN LONDON, BROADCAST HERE, GIVES THRILL mental station at Riverhead, Long Island, picked up the program and seat it by telephone lines to the N. B. C. studios in New York City, where it was transmitted on regular wave channels over the coast-to-coast network. Aside from the symphony concert, the American listeners heard the chimes of Big Ben in the tower of the Houses of Parliament in London peal the hour of 7 o'clock, and a portion of the dance music at the Savoy Hotel. The most interesting part of the program, how- ever, was the voice of ‘he London an- nouncer who said: “This is London «calling, all stations taking this will give their pronouncements.” Englineers of the Radlo Corporation of America have been experimenting at Riverhead for several years in an effort to establish a regular exchange of American and English radio programs. Special equipment has been set up to minimize static and overcome fading. These difficulties are yet to be over- come, although the broadcast yesterday indicated that considerable progress has been made since the attempts in 1927 to re-broadcast programs from London. Maj. Emig said he had a high re-| SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 SIMMONS REPLIES 10 BINGHAM STAND OND. C. LUMP SUM Declares Senator Has Not Considered “Offsets” in Asking Increase. EMPHASIZES “BENEFITS” FROM FEDERAL BUILDINGS Chairman Also Takes Issue on Amount of Tax Liability of Government Here. Chairman Simmons of the House subcommittee on District appropria- tions replied yesterday in a formal stat ment in the House to a recent state- ment given to The Star by Senator Bingham, chairman of the Senate sub- committee on tne District appropria- tion bill, in which the latter argued that the Federal Government should add at least $800,000 to the $9.000,000 lump sum contribution towards the costs of the local municipality. Mr. Simmons argues that Senatcw Bingham has not given the Federal Government sufficient credit for “off- sets” by reason ot “the very consider- able economic benefits accruing to the District owing to the presence here of rational monumnts and great public bulldings, which make Washington the mecca of hundreds of thousands of tourists.” Takes Issue on Tax. He also takes issue with Senator Bingham on the amount of tax lability of the Federal Government in the Dis- trict. He points out that Senator Bing- ham answers the question, *‘What is the liability of the Federal Government as a municipal taxpayer?’ by reaching the sum of $6,989,082 as the proper amount and rejects the Bureau of Efficlency figure of $7,440,939. The Senator shares the same ‘grave doubt’ that I expressed as to the justification of a charge against the United States as an intangible tax,” sald Mr. Sim- mons, “and he therefore deducts, prop- erly, I think, from the $7,440,939 which the Bureau of Efficiency reached, leav- ing a total of $6,989,082 as the normal ‘tax’ bill of the United States to the District of Columbia. The Senator, however, accepts without question the ‘tax’ on_tangible personalty of $1,536,- 315, in spite of the fact that that charges the United States for the fiscal year 1928 with 51 per cent of the tax- able tangible personal property of the District. “I submit, as I did in my previous statement, that this is an absurd charge against the United States. Either it is too high as a ‘charge’ against the United States or it means that the District citi- zen is not paying his full share of Dis- trict tangible taxes. In either event the charge is unfair to the United States on a comparative basis. But let us ac- cept the Senator’s figures of $6,989,082 as a proper ‘tax'—leaving $2,010,918, which the $9,000,000 Jump sum payment gives to the District over and above a normal ‘tax.’ The Bureau of Efficiency in its report on fiscal relations, page 5, arrives at a tax ‘payable by the United States to the District of Columbia of $7,440,939," divided as follows: Real property tax. +.$5,452,767 ‘Tangible personalty 1,536,315 Intangible personalty 451,857 Total evveeernrenesanes $7,440,939 Discusses Exemptions. Representative Simmong then enters into a lenghty discussion of the prob- lem of determining exemptions and concludes by saying that “by using the Bureau of Efficiency report and arriving at the average of exemptions for other comparable cities, I have shown that a fair reduction is the $283,991,600 of ex- empt property would be $35,000,000, bringing the figure down to $249,000,000 instead of the $284,000,000. “That figure of $35,00,000 should be applied, not on the $84,951,383 of Dis- trict-owned property and United States property dedicated to District purposes, not on the $80,000,000 of privately owned property, but to the $119,040,217 of federally owned park property. By doing this the United States would as- sume taxes on approximately 30 per cent of the parks which it owns and which have made it unnecessary for the municipality to go in as deeply for park acquisition as some other cities have been compelled to do, and latgely by bond issues. The taxes on this 30 per cent would, as 135‘19?303"2”'0“ pointed out amount to ,000. “The Senator suggests a reduction in the total exemptions of $103,991,000, which, applying the $1.70 tax rate, would charge the United States with $1,767,857.20. I suggest following the Bureau of Efficiency report figures and reduce the exemptions by $35,000,000, which, applying the $1.70 tax rate, ‘would chlrge the United States with taxes of $595,000. The difference be- tween the two sets of figures is $68.- 991,600 of exemptions and $1,172,857.20 in taxes to the United States. I know of no better piace for him to find the answer to his fourth question. “T am pleased at the Senator’s finding that the District taxpayer is not Mlnf taxed more heavily than other citles of this sive. The tables of the Bureau of Efficlency report show that they are taxed under cities of their size.” _ Excess Park, Acquisition. Next Mr. Simmons discusses how much of the cost of excess park ac- quisition and maintenance should be met by the .Federal Government. Referring again to the Bureau of Efficlency rteport on the fiscal re- lations he says that this report shows that Washington has a per capita cost of $2.38 for “recreation” as against an average of $1.65 for the comparable cities, or 73 cents per capita above the average. This is the item in which the ks are carried. Five hundred and fifty thousands persons, at 73 cents each, equals $401,500 that this excess costs above the average. “We have, then, from the. Bureau of Efficiency report the following answer to the Senator’s question: Ordinary tax load..........$6,980,082 Loss by excessive exemptions. 595,000 Excess park maintenance. 401,500 Total ...eicinaereinenss 7,985,582 “This leaves, by the $9,000,000 pay- ment by the Federal Government, $1,- 014,418 over and above all items which the Senator included in his statement, with the exception of park purchases, which is a variable sum, from year to year. No figures are available as to who paid the cost of park lands already acquired. The bill this year carries $1,000,000 for park purchases. Upon the basis of these figures,” concludes Mr. Simmons, “the United States is not only paying a fair tax on its prop- erty, the excess cost of exemptions, and excess park ‘maintenance above the average, but over and abote that is paying $1,000,000 for parks in the city.” Colored Man Held for Assault. Paul Hanson, 31 years old, of 1106 Sixth street southwest, is reported by the police to have engaged in an alter- cation at Massachusetts avenue and Fourth street shortly after 10 o'clock last night with Benjamin James, col- ored, 30 years old, 2144 L street, and was dealt a blow on his head. The wounded man was treated at Casualty Hospital for a laceration of the scalp and James was arrested on & assault, s 1 Photographed at the Carlton Hotel. ington Board of Trade tonight. FAMED HERO OF THE SEA CAPT. AND MRS. Capt. Fried will be a guest of the Wash- HERE GEORGE FRIED, —Star Staff Photo. YEBGS CRACK SAFE AND REMOVE .21 Burglars Work Behind Frost Screen on Front Show Windows. ‘Taking advantage of the cold weather which painted a heavy coating of frost over the front show windows of the Philadelphia Market Co. last night, three safe crackers twisted the heavy iron bars protecting a rear window out of position to gain entrance and looted the company’s safe of $900 in cash and $300 in negotiable checks. Policeman J. J. Fitzpatrick of the third precinct tried the front door of the store, located at 1144 Connecticut avenue, at 4 o'clock this morning and found it locked. Even if the safe crack- ers had been inside at the time, he said, the thick frost patterns on the windows "w:uld have prevented him from seeing | them. 1 Police Called in Early Morning. ‘The robbery was discovered at 5:50 o'clock this morning by George Devon, who opened the store. He notified the police and the manager, H. V..Hayden. *The yeggmen reached a rear window cn the second floor by climbing onto a shed adjoining the market and fronting on an alley. The heavy screcn was torn off and the half-inch iron bars protecting the window were twisted up from the bottom, just enough to permit a man to crawl through. After forcing the window, which led into the manager’s office, the men went i to the first floor and carried the heavy building. ‘The combination was removed with a chisel and the mechanism controlling the lock picked. Cash Cacafully Sorted. The cash drawers in the safe were carried upstairs to the manager's office and their contents carefuliy sorted. The fact that two extra chairs were found in the office this morning led to the police theory that three men participated in the robbery. A number of the company's can- aeled checks, which had been returned from the bank yesterday, were torn up. The men also stole a collection of old coins belonging to the manager. BIG BOMB PLANE ARRIVES. Second of 35 Ordered for Army Air Corps ‘Delivered. ‘The second of 35 big “Panther” bombing planes, the first ever built with air-cooled motors, ordered by the Army Air Corps, was brought here at ; oRclofi y“ml?'l:yze"mrh' by Lieut. . R. McReynol rom the Keyst e of mbers was flow: to this city recently by Lieut. Mcl: Reynolds and now is undergoing official e blane naw at Boling FLIG sroveasy now af robabl will remain here until early negc wee'ky Man Questioned Regarding Ring. The cl of Mary Funk, Thirteenth street, that he failed to re- store a diamond ring she loaned him in A resulted today in- the ques- tioning at headquarters of John Fulton Neft, 25-year-old carpenter, 3009 Doug- las street. Told by Detective Arthur T. Fihelly that Miss Funk had valued the ring at $100 in her charge of lar- ceny after trust against him, Neff smiled, but declined to comment on the valuation. 3 safe from the front to the rear of the! 1013 | cl GAB DRIVER HELD FOR HITTING MAN Taxi, Is Injured in Accident. Jamc: Yilllams, colored, 30, was seriously injured early this morning when he was struck by a taxicab as he stepped off of the street car load- ing platform at Seventh and K streets. Herman W. Gregory, 31, of 140 C street northeast, driver of the machine, was arrested by first precinct police and is being held while circumstances of the case are being investigated. For several hours Willlams identity was not known. Finally Clarence Lu- cas, colored, of 918 Eleventh street, told police the man formerly roomed at the Eleventh street address. His residence is not known. ‘The Fire Department rescue squad removed the injured man to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. Louis Jimal for a probable fracture jof his skull and fractures to both legs. In a collision between an altomobile driven by Joseph G. Long, 30, of 515 F street, in which Mrs. Virginia = Long, 24, was a passenger. and a garbage | wagon yesterday, at Seventh and East | Capitol streets, the tongue of the wagon was forced through the curtain of the automobile, striking Mrs. Long on the nose. .Shé was treated by a private physician for bruised nose and shock. While crossing Benning road at Eighteenth street northeast yesterday, Desserina Cuppola, 15, of 7i2 Eight- eenth street northeast, was struck by an automobile truck operated by Frank C. Ruppert, 18, of 636 H street north- east. Ruppert took her to Casualty Hospital ‘and she was treated by Dr. A. M. McDonald, resident physician, for bruises about her face and shock. Eight-year-old Jack Ramsey of 1441 Spring road. sustained a broken bone in his right foot yesterday when a parked motor eycle in the rear of his home fell on him. . He was treated by Dr. Joseph Harns of 2013 New Hamp- shire avenue. MANY SKATERS ENJOY ICE IN MIRROR BASIN Low Temperature Last Night In- sures Continuation of Sport During Today. A chilling wind sweeping across the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial added zest to the wintry setting for the countless skaters that took ad- vantage today of the season’s second day of ice skating. The temperature went down to 16 degrees last night, sealing the cracks that vesterday's skaters had made and knitting the crevasses that were still in the ice. Measurements by the Office registered a depth of ice from 2 to 4 inches this morning and announce- ment was made that skating will last until dark. Late yesterday the office sent men with scrapers to trim down the ridges and the whipping wind swept the rink lean, so that today the ice was clear and smooth and all was propitious for the revelers. After offices closed for the day yesterday a crowd estimated at 3,000 persons enjoyed the skating until darkness banned further sport until this morning. ‘While the reflecting pool is the largest rendezvous for the skaters, there is also skating for smaller groups -at Plerce Mill and north of Blagden ford in Rock Creek Park, SAFE WRECKED BY BURGLARS Policeman L. F. Lewis of the third precinct before the safe delphia Market Co., 1144 Connecticut avenue, cracked by bussiay tons charge of : who escaped with $1,200. "1 heavy coating the burglars as they Phi of frost on the W' —Star Staf Photo, |Colored Victim, Struck by of Public Buildings and Public Parks | \ day, when he was CAPT FRED GETS. CHEERSOFTHRONES ON CAPTAL IS Rescue Hero Received by Shipping Board and Naval Officials. CALLS AT SENATE AND HOUSE CHAMBERS America’'s Commander Expects to See President Monday—Din- ner Guest Tonight. Capt. George Fried, commander of the liner America, and hero of the sea, whose rescues have brought him world renown, and whose Jatest exploit was the saving of the crew of the sinking Italian steamer Florida, was a guest of ‘Washington today and spent a busy day paying his respects to the officials of the United States Shipping Board, to the Secretary of the Navy, the members of the press and members of the two houses of Congress. The modest master of the America with Mrs. Fried, arrived here last night and was greeted officially by a dele- gation from the Board of Trade and unofficially by a battery of eameramen. He will remain in Washington until Monday afternoon. when he will leave for his home in Worcester, Mass, Receives Congratulations. Capt. Fried arose early this morning, paused long enough at the Carlton Hotel to pose for news cameramen, and immediately went to the office of the United States Shipping Board, where he was received by the board and of- ficially congratulated for his work in saving the crew of the Florida. Immediately after the reception at the Shipping Board Capt. Fried went to the office of the Secretary of the Navy. He was again congratulated for his heroic sea rescue work. ‘Thence Capt. Fried went to the Press Club, where he was the guest of honor ai & luncheon. Capt. Fried was ac- companied on his trips around town by George Mabee, assistant general manager of the United States lines and Martin L. Petrey also representing the shipping lines. This afternoon Capt. Fried is being received at the Senate and the House. Guest of Trade Board. Tonight Capt. Fried will be the it of honor at the annual dinner of the Washington Board of Trade, at the ‘Willard ‘Hotel. Capt. Pried has reserved tomorrow for strict privacy. He said today that tomorrow he will see no one. He in- tends to clear the great mass of corre- spondence that is before him and “do some writing.” Before he leaves Washington Capt. Fried will pay his respects to President Coolidge. His visit to the White House probably will be some time Monday. Everywhere Capt. Fried went today he was greeted by cheering At the offices of the Shipping Board this morning practically the entire clerical force gathered outside the board room for a glimpse of the master of the America, and when he appeared they cheered loudly. The same ovation was given outside the office of the Secre- tary of Navy. mipretakieigiing CAPITAL BOY FINED ON CHARGE OF THREATS Tobert Eveler, 17, Held in Chicago After Conviction for At~ tempted Extortion. Although his father, Rev. George Eveler of 435 Quincy street, declined discuss the case, a Chicago dispatch by, the Associated Press brought the in- formation that his son, Robert Eveler, 17 years old;, was fined $200 and costs Sharge of atempted extortion by threats ¢ of attem) n by from his former employer. Rev. Mr. Eveler declined to indicate whether or not he is to send the money tq release the boy from the House of Correction. ‘The dispatch said that young Eveler was arrested six weeks ago and that a report from the Psycopathic Hospital held that the boy was sane. The dis- patch asserted he had confessed he had sent letters demanding money to Nathan Ritholz. his former employer, who in- sisted the boy receive punishment when Judge William Helander appeared dis- posed to heed the plea of the father that the youth be released. ‘Young Eveler is a former student of McKinley High School. —e FORD CITY, PA., MAN DIES. Came Here Six Weeks Ago to Un- dergo Treatment. Karl L. W. Core, 52 years old._con- struction engineer with "the Pmab\ah Plate Glass Co. of Ford City, Pa., who came here six weeks ago to undesgo treatment at Garfleld Hospital, dled {uhmy at the home of his mothe law, Mrs. Charles Hoyle, 1829 . third street, following an of uvre"nlr:onmm ill be hel nel Wi 1d Mon afternoon from Mr. 1A Ford City, and interment wifl be in Wi birth . , Pa., his Mr. e Is survived by and three young daughters, Mildred, Mary and Natalle, all of whom were here at the time of his deah. LONG ILLNE H. to NESS FATAL. | | Frederick Bechtold Dies at His Home at Age of 71. Frederick Bechtold, 71 years old, died at his home, 138 R street northeast, yesterday after a long illness. Mr Bechtold came to this city from Ohio seven years ago. Funeral services will be conducted in St. Martin's Catholic Church Monday morning at 9 o'clock, following beiet services at the residence. Intermént will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Mr. Bechtold is survived by his widew, Mrs. Julia Bechtold; two sons, Leo and ter Bechtold, and three grandchildren. !DR. A. P. NOYES RESIGNS. |St. Elizabeth's Psychiatrist Will Go to Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Noyes has been at St. Elizabeth “ospital for nin: . tal, ; Dr. Noyes was in Providence yester- formally off new post, and il