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Washington ‘News The Puoening Star Society and General WASHINGTON, D © B MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1929. PAGE 17 00 ARE ARRAIGNED N POLICE COURT ONLIQUOR COUNTS, Majority Fined $10 After Hearings on Charges of Intoxication. 'DOCTORS FIGHT | | JGwendolyn Freese in Hos- pital Anxious About Little Brother. Father Chases Driver After Accident and Hospital Trip. “THE GARDEN OF NAPLES” IS RAIDED BY DRY SQUAD! i Suspect Accused of Attempting to; Run Down Pursuing Officer With Car. Despite the Jones law and contentions | ©f prohibitionists that its drastic provi- sions would spell disaster for liquor pur- veyors and thelr customers, 90 persons were arraigned in Police Court today on charges of intoxication. Court attaches declare this number surpasses the customary list of pre- Jones law days by at least 10 names. The majority of those arraigned were | fined $10. 1In the office of Assistant United States Attorney David A. Hart, liquor pros cutor, prohibition agents and police, | whose activities have been said to be decreasing, filed information papers re- garding the arrests of 18 persons on liquor charges. The Garden of Naples restaurant, in the 400 block of Eleventh street, raided Saturday night, provided the op- | portunity for Sergt. O. J. Letterman, { commander of the vice squad, to make | the first charges under the new law Informers having made two alleged ! “puys” on different occasions, Matilda Di Dominico, 36, alleged hostess, and Joseph Johnson, 16, colored, an assist- ant, were charged with making two} jllicit sales, Two quarts of rum and | one pint of alcohol were seized, police claim. Three Colored Persons Taken. Ruth Alberta Landrum, Fred Wil- | determined Whether little Gwendolyn: Freese, 7- year-old _daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Freese, 3932 New Hampshire avenue, Wwill lose the sight of an eye a result of cuts sustained in an automobile collision last night was un- this morning, _following treatment at Casualty and the Episco- pal, Eye, Ear and Throat Hospitals, Although lacerated by flying glass, Gwendolyn evinced primary concern for the welfare of her 9-month-old brother, Russell, jr, who was riding beside her on the back seat when the Freese machine crashed at Fourth and K streets northeast with another oper- ated, police claim, by John Archie Oliver of the first' block of Pershing avenue northeast. Oliver was to have been arraigned in Police Court today on a charge of leaving after collision, He stopped fol- lowing the accident, drove the injured child and her father to the hospital, but declined to enter the doorway at the hospital, Mr. Freese told police. Chased by Father. “I carried Gwendolyn into Casualty Hospital,” the father declared, “but Oliver hung back at the doorway. placed her in the charge of physicians and returned to the street, looking for Oliver. When he saw me he ran, and I had to chase him several blocks before I overtook him. I then turned Oliver over to police.” After receiving emergency ireatment at Casualty from Dr. Louis Jimal, OF GIRL HURT IN COLLISION TO SAVE EYE | | | | GWENDOLYN_F] pal Hospital, where Dr. LeRoy W. Hy an oculist, was called in to perform an operation. Dr. Hyde said today there was danger that the child might lose an eye. Mr. Freese, with his wife beside him |on the front seat, and Gwendolyn and | Russell, jr., occupying the tonneau, was | returning from a visit to his mother- | in-law, | | | i | | Struck Despite Caution. He said he was driving with unusual | caution because he had just passed the {scene of an accident, but that his car was struck from the rear by Oliver's car | coming from the west. { Mr. Freese, an employe of the Navy | Yard, said no other member of his| family was injured in the accident. He | was to appear against Oliver in Police Court today. Charges were lodged against Oliver at | | the ninth precinct station following the | faccident. ALLENREQUESTS HE BE SUSPENDED . liams and Lawrence Miles, all colored, ; were charged with possession, following | their arrest by Detective S. F. Gravely. ! According to police, they entered prem- | jses in the 1100 block of Nineteenth Street, believing a fight was in progress, and discovered the trio and a small | uantity of alleg iquor. " Captfired after he was said to have attempted to run down Officer George Newton of the eleventh precinct, in his i Norman E. Goodwin faces charges of transporting, —possessing, | reckless driving and leaving after col- liding. Goodwin is said to have traveled at a speed of 60 miles an hour attempting to evade arrest. Thirty-six one-half gallon jars of liquor were discovered in | his machine, officials said. Alleged to have been carrying three one-half gallon jars of liquor in an alley in the rear of his home in the 200 block of G street northeast, John Hans- ford, colored, 17 years old, was charged with transporstation and possession. He was arrested by Officer William Malone of the ninth precinct. -~ Earl Glover, 1760 block Oregon ave- nue,; Louise Grant and Bertha Brown, both of the first block of Alexander court, all colore;l. were gmrgfetxil wxlth transporting 'and possessing following (helxp:rre’.:tgby Detectives W. R. Laflin, W. F. Burke and R. A. Williams of the eighth precinct. Police declare the trio destroyed liquor carried in their ma- chine although a small amount was re- covered. Detectives Burke and Laflin arrested Albert Lorenzo Harper, colored, of Chain Bridge road, who they say was car- rying & case of whisky at the time of his arrest, He was charged with trans: and possessing. DO:::I‘ istant United States Attorney R.F. | Camalier Tefused to issue papers in the cases of Annie Booker and Pearl Davis, both colored, of the.1800 block of Four- teenth street, and. Isabelle Taylor, col- ‘ored,,of the 2200 block of Champlain street. Detectives Burke and Llflin.‘ who made the arrests, alleged the trio had a small quantity of liquor in their | possession, Maude Hill faces charges of sale and | possession as the result of a raid ol premises in the 900 block of Third! street southwest by Federal prohibition | agents. An informer is said to have made a “buy” before the raid. Although no liquor was discovered in | & raid in the 900 block of Fourth street, | ‘George Roy Kelly, colored, was charged with sale and possession as an informe: is said to have purchased alleged whisky there on a previous occasion. John Thornton, colored, 1500 block of Ninth street, faces charges of trans- porting and possessing. Officer Eugene Jackson, who arrested him, declared | that the man was carrying three pints of liquor when taken. CLOTHING IS STOLEN. Three Thefts Reported to Police Over Week End. Clothing valued at $400 was stolen yesterday in -three thefts, police were told. 7 Miss Cathleen Dugan told police that some one entered her apartment, at 1026 Sixteenth street, Saturday night and stole a fur coat valued at $300. David Zoslow of 321 Allison street re- | ported the loss of clothing by thieves who entered his home some time Sat- urday. A “watch, clothing and $6 in were stolen from the home of Ellen Hill of 1418 Corcoran street urday night. MRS. OWEN Wfi.L SPEAK. Representative to Be Honor Guest at Dinner Tomorrow. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida will be the guest of honor at a dinner tomorrow night at the club- house of the American Association of University Women, 1634 I street, given by the Women's Bar Association of the District_of Columbia. i “The dinner js scheduled for 7 o'clock and will be followed by speeches by Mrs, Owen and Elizabeth Eastman, who cash Mrs, Sat- will speak on _the Willlamstown, Mass,, | Institute of Politics. May T. Bigelow will be toastmistress. CITIZENS TO NOMINATE. The Progressive Citizens' Association of Georgetown will hold a special meet- ing at the National Press Club on Wed- nesday to nhmm:\lc(u ('ml‘(lhdntu for the Citizens' Advisory Counc e ing of the Federation of Citi- zens' Assoctations declaring that Mrs. Aarie Moore Forest, previously s lected delegate, was ineligible because of em- 1] Letter to Maj. Hesse Calls Attention to Charges as Need of Probe. Policeman Robert J. Allen, stormy petrel of the Police Department, who has drawn the censure of his superiors for his criticisms of the department, today requested that he be suspended from the force. His request for suspen- sion, contained in & letter to Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, fol- lowed an investigation launched Satur- day by his superiors into the wounding of a colored man by Allen Friday night, when the policeman shot at three fleeing colored suspects in Northwest Wash- ington. Allen’s letter today to Maj. Hesse follows: Request for Suspension. “Request that I be immediately sus- pended from active duty pending out- come of the present serious charges that are pending against me, involving_the wounding of one James Frazier. Rea- sons for this request are as follows: “That I feel that it is not conducive to the best interests of the public to have a man who has been charged and is suspected of having shot a citizen in cold blood and without sufficient Jjustification still performing active duty. “It seems utterly incongruous to me to allow or require a policeman to per- form such active duty, still in pos- session of his. weapons and authority, especially in view of the fact that he is charged and suspected of having mis- used these very weapons and authority. “Your attention is respectfully d rected to all of the circumstances sui rounding these charges and to the re- ort and recommendations of Inspector Louis J. Stoll, who claims to have in- vestigated the shooting and upon whose recommendations you have ordered charges against me involving unauthor-*| ized use of my weapons. “You are reminded that the incident pon which the charges are based oc- curred at 11:06 p.m., Friday, March 15, 1929, and that official report of the same reached police headquarters at ap- March 16. The charges were imme- diately prepared and were officially brought against me within an hour eived. During this hour and a half| after the report was received it is| claimed that Inspector Louis J. Stoll | was assigned to investigate the case| againsi me, that in this short space of§ time he did investigate the case against | me, rendered his written report to the | major of the Police Department, who| upon due and deliberate consideration | of said report reached the decision that | in his opinion my use of my firearms was unauthorized and unwarranted, that neither public life or property was endangered at the time, and that T could readily have made the ar- rest without using the method that I did, and consequently I am required | to defend myself before the trial board | of the Metropolitan Police Department. | Duty of Investigation, “It is respectfully called to the ma- jor's attention that during the hour and one-haif that expired from the time the report was received at headquarters | to the time the charges were brought it was the duty of Inspector Stoll in mak- ing this investigation to interview each | and every witness who could possibly throw some light on the occurrence and to clearly examine all of the facts of the shooting and to form his opinion | and render his report from the results of said interVew and examination. In addition to the wounded man himself | there were a number of other police offi- | cers in the immediate vicinity of the | scene of the shooting and several citi- zens, and a close check-up on Inspec- tor Stoll's report shows clearly that! none of these people were interviewed | personally by him or any one else dur- | 1 ing the conduct of his investigation. It | | is also pointed out that during the past | year at least four officers. of the Met- | Topolitan Police Department have been involved in shootings of this nature and | that in each case a thorough investiga- | tion was conducted over a period of said officers were trial board on some brought before | charges. | "It is well known at the major's office | and by the general public the position 1 have always taken as & police officer toward unkind and abusive treatment toward such persons as are unfor- tunate enough to run afoul of the law. {1t is my earnest desire to maintain | this position and to always deserve and days before the placed In me as an officer, and I feel now that this position is’ jeopardized and the public’s confidence shaken by the speed with which these chaiges were brought against me, as I could ployment in the public school system led to the action. have readily shown to Inspector Stoll or any one else assigned to the in-| i proximately 9:30 in the morning of | nd a half after the report was re-| | of Akron, { warrant the confidence the public has | EIGHT ARE INJURED INTRAFFIG MISHAPS Woman in Crash Sustains Possible Fracture of Back. Motor Cycle Hits Car. ‘Two women and six men were injured | in traffic accidents in Washington last | night and Sunday. Mrs. Edna Ruhlman, 24, of 1216 D | street southeast is in a serfous condi- | tion at Emergency Hospital. Physicians | fear an X-ray examination will disclose she is suffering from a fracture of the | back. Mrs. Ruhlman was injured yesterday when an automobile in which she was riding on the Fredericksburg Pike near Quantico, Va., turned over after it had | been sideswiped by a truck. Howard Luckham of Hyattsville, Md., driver of the truck, told police he was trying to avoid a collision with a car coming from the opposite direction when his truck slid into the automobile in which Mys. Ruhlman was riding | with her husband and two neighbors. ‘The ‘others escaped injury. Two Youths Crash Into Automobile. Two youths were injured when their motor cytle crashed into an automobile in front the St. Elizabeth's Hospital Alfred Reynolds, 18, of Congress Heights, Md.,, was thrown from the motor cycle sidecar, receiving a frac- tured hip and internal injuries. Otto March 19, of the 3600 block of Brothers place southeast, operator of the motor | cycle, escaped with bruises. Both were | taken to Casualty Hospital and treated by Dr. L. Jimal: Benjamin F. Tinkins, 51, of 605 Sixth street, received a fractured skull when he was knocked down at Third street |and Massachusetts avenue last night | by a taxicab driven, police say, by John M. Ferguson of the 500 block of | Sixth street northeast. Ferguson took the injured man to Casualty Hospital. Miss Betty Marks, 28, of 2757 Woodley place. suffered a bruised shoulder and other minor injuries when an automo- bile in which she was riding collided | with ~another machine yesterday at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Policeman Badly Injured. When the rear.tire of his bicycle | came off unexpectedly last night, Park | Policeman George W. Singletary was thrown to the sidewalk at New Hamp- shire avenue and S street, suffering pos- sibly a broken back. He is in Emer- gency Hospital. Singletary, who is 26 years old, lives at 1013 Massachusetts avenue northeast. Richard P. Brensinger, 7 years old. of 724 Twelfth street southeast, rcceived a broken nose last night when he was knocked down by an automobile at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast. Douglass Holland, colored, of Acco- tink, Va., was arrested by police of the second precinct and charged with driv- ing while drunk and leaving after col- liding, following a collision between his machine and another automobile at Sev- enth and M streets yesterday. Slightly Hurt in Collision. John 8. Ramey, 56 years old, colored, S.C., was slightly injured las night when the automobile he was driv ing collided at Beltsville, Md., with an- other operated by Horace F. Logan, 1311 Union street southwest. Ramey was re- moved to Casualty Hospital by a pass- ing motorist and treated for possible fractured ribs and lacerations. vestigation that my use of my weapons was wholly warranted and that the dis- cretion with which an officer is vested in cases of this kind was in no way abused, had the inspector, before ren- dering his report, taken the time and trouble to question me or to interview the large number of witnesses to the shooting. “Immediately after the report of the shooting reached your office I attempted to see you personally there, waiting in your anteroom for approximately three hours so that I could explain to you the facts surrounding this occurren and to request that I be temporarily suspended from active duty, but as you know I was informed that you were too busy to talk to me at that time, “It is therefore respectfully requested, for the foregoing reasons, that I be suspended from active duty without pay or any other allowances until such |time as the charges are disposed of, »which I earnestly request wiil be as | speedily as the business of your' office will allow.” Vice Consul Ordered Back. Winfield . Scott of the District of Columbia, United States vice consul at Puerto Castilla, Honduras, has been or- dered to this city for duty at the State Department, EXCAVATORS FIND i | i i | i | | | | { Gwendolyn was removed to the Episco- | | buried cities by archeologists of the RARE ART WORKS - IN'YUCATAN RUINS Maya Peoples Shown to Have High Esthetic Tastes Along | With Civilizatipn. 1 FRAGMENTS ARE COPIED BY CARNEGIE ARTISTS | | | | Three Great Periods Include Ancient One of Only Small Clay Models. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The Maya peoples of Yucatan not only established 2,000 years ago a high- class material civilization, independent of outside influences, but also produced first-class works of art, remnants of which are being recovered from their Carnegie Institution of Washington. Among the members of the staff in Yucatan are two professional artists, M. Jean Charlot and Ann Extell Morris, who are making copies in color of these fragments. Many of them reveal an original; native genius of high order. | The figures often seem grotesque to | American eyes largely because modern Americans are not Mayas and have been conditioned to other artistic ideals. The art of the Mayas, according to M. Charlot, falls naturally into three great periods. The first, of unknown antiqui- ty, produéed a wealth of small clay mod- €ls, mostly of human figures. The tech- nique was simple and child-like. The figures consist merely of pellets of clay stuck together, squeezed with ine fin- gers, and pierced with holes for the yes, mouth and nose. Second Period Empire. ‘The second period corresponds broadly | with the beginning of the Christian era, | and is known as the Old Empire. Its| art_ relics are found largely in Guate- mala and Honduras, where the Mayas lived before migrating northward to Yucatan. The height of achievement | was reached during the fourth century and its decline began during the sixth century, almost 1,000 years before the coming of the first white men. From this period the Carnegie ex- cavators have recovered many bas- reliefs, monolithic stone monuments, fallen fragments of decorative sculp- ture and a few admirable examples of painted pottery. It apparently was an age of strong religious fecling, accord- ing to M. Charlot. The subjects dealt with are symbolic in character. The human figures are depicted as wearing quite complicated garments and orna. ments, illustrating the complex nature of the civilization which existed at the time. This, he believes, was the golden age of Maya art, before it had been affected in any way by outside in- fluences. There can be traced a pro- gressive broadening of the esthetic ideals of the artists. ‘The third period is known as the North Maya or New Empire period and its greatest achievements are found in the buried cities of Uxmal and Chichen Itza in Yucatan, where much of the CTarnegie excavation work has been car- ried on. Much of the artistic perfec- tion of the old empire still is found, but there.is a foreign note probably in- troduced from the North. The stone and wood carviogs show less mastery of details, The gnost important con- tributions of this perlod, M. Charlot believes, are the. illuminated manu- scripts, three of which are known, and the monumental paintings found on | the temple walls. Religion and Social Order, Religion and the social order is treat- ed more simply than in the earlier | period. Great feather head dresses and | elabérate masks of the priests decrease in size. It evidently was a more dem- ocratic age. Scenes are shown depict- ing everyday life and there is more motion in the pictures. The period probably reached its zenith during the tenth and eleventh centuries, just be- fore the Renaissance. ‘Through a study of the general cus- toms of the people, according to M. Charlot, it is believed that all the Old Empire sculptures once were covered elaborately with paint. Only slight | vestiges of this paint are left. Pre- sumably painting also was used by itself | and monumental frescoes once covered | the temple walls. None of these have Leen discovered. As with many exam- ples of Greek art, the lost paintings be studied only through the work of minor painters who obtained their in- spiration from the masters. These men worked on vases and low-reliefs. A striking characteristic of the artists of the Old Empire, says M. Charlot, was their tendency to create abstract shapes which were ®holly unrelated to the world of natur dwarfish figures with animal faces. The latter figures constitute the so-called “grotesque” gods. The artist of the New Empire had lost much of the creative imagination. He was a realist and copied faithfully from nature. Of the hundreds of representations of the human figures recovered in Yucatan there are few that do not convey the impression that the subject “sat for his portrait.” Recovered Art Works. During the past year Carnegie exca- | vators have recovered some works of art from the transition period combining the imagination of the old with the; realism of the new! One of these was an ancient stucco pyramid found at Uaxactun, in Northern Guatemala. This, built approximately 2,000 years ago, is characterized by M. Charlot as “perhaps the most beautiful example of ancient American architecture that has come down to us.’ ‘The pyramid is 85 feet square at the base and 25 feet high, with a stairway on each of its four faces. Colossal masks of fine lime stucco, the upper phirs fashioned in the likeness of gro- tesque human heads and the lower of serpents’ heads, flank these stairways, guarding the approaches to the holy | region above. In the heart of this early pyramid the excavators found a human skeleton. Excavations on'the floor of the plaza | which the pyramid faces djsclosed frag- | ments of red-ware dishes and several | tiny human and animal figures of clay, | which are of the archean type. All the evidence here points to a transition from the simple realism of the pre- { Maya art to the religious symbolism of | the Old Empire. PROMOTION FAVORED. Detective Dowd Is Recommended for Headquarters Post. Promotion of Precinct Detective Mich- ael M. ixth precinct, to a head- quarters detective was recommended to the Commissioners today by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, Maj. Hesse also recommended that John F. Boxwell, special officer at the sixth precinct assigned to prohibition work, be promoted to Dowd's place. 4 | | | ! i | i will be finished about February 1, 1930. FIVE HELD FOR QUIZ BY GRAND JURORS IN INFORMERS' DEATHS Suspects Face Charges of Murder in Connection With Slaying of Pair. SCORE OF WITNESSES PLACED UPON STAND One Testifies That Defendant Said | He Was “Out to Get” Police Aide. The five colored men who on Friday were charged with the murder of two colored police informers in Southwest Washington last Wednesday night. all were held by a coroner’s jury today for the action of the grand jury. The men are: Leon Thomas Brown, 19 years old; Lawrence Bias, 26 vears old; Theodores Smith, 24 years old; Cor- nelius L. Lyons, 32 years old, and Wil- liam Bradley, 35 years old. They are charged with shooting to death Clarence Harvey and Edward Smith in Broad_alley, between Third and Four-and-a-half streets and G and H streets southwest, in the district which is known by police as “Bear’s Gap.” With the exception of Jesse Kendall, another colored informer, who was with Harvey and Smith when the shooting occurred, but who escaped unhurt, the testimony of the score or more other | witnesses, _including Lieut. Edward Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, w purely perfunctory. Defendant Singled Out. Kendall singled out Bradley, one of the defendants, as the man who ap- proached Smith, with whom he was walking down the street, and declared | that “he was out to get him.” i The slayings, which first were thought | to have been the result of a lottery war, were said by police to have been caused by the seizure of a quantity of liquor Wednesday night and the wound- ing of Bradley by one of the informers. Harvey shot Bradley, according to police, when he was accosted upon leav- ing the place where he is alleged to! have attempted to purchase liquor, and from which it was said later that a quantity of liquor was seized. Gun Belonged to Barrett. According to testimony of police to- | day, the gun found in Harvey's hand is the property of Detective R. J. Bar- rett of the fourth precinct and was stolen, they said, from a desk in the ergeant’s room at the fourth precinct. Harvey, it was tesjified, called at the precinct about 7 o'clock on the night he was slain and sought an interview with Barrett, and after being told thal the detective was absent, left the sta- | tion house. | i | WORK PROGRESSES ON MEMORIAL SPAN Steel for Bridge Is Being Made at Plant in Pennsyl- - vania. While plans are being pushed forward in constructing foundations for the| bridge that will span the channels, con- tinuing Arlington Memorial Bridge from Columbia Island to the Virginia shore, fabrication of the steel for the bascule span in the bridge proper is going ahead in the shops of the con- tractor, the Phoenix Bridge Co., at Phoenixville, Pa. W. E. Sturges, local representative| of the bridge firm, said today that some { 2,300 tons of steel and machinery will be shipped to Washington for the job. | Shipments will be started in May and | continue until about December 1, he ex- plained. The bascule span of the bridge ‘The $900,000 job calls for a great amount of ornamentation, he pointed out, which, when completed, will per- mit the bascule span to open like a jack-knife, allowing vessels to proceed up to Georgetown. The bascule span is said | to be one of the most decorated of its| kind in the country and the only one of that type in this section. YARD CONDUCTOR KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY CARS Phillip M. Handley’s Body Found Between Tracks of Terminal Company. | i Phillip M. Handley, 48, of 155 Rhode Island avenue, a yard conductor of the ‘Washington Terminal Co., was killed shortly after midnight last night while at work in the yard. Fellow employes reported that Hand- ley was in charge of a moving draft of empty cars and was riding on the lead | car. Interrogation of employes today led officials to express the opinion that Handley had leghed too far out a door or window and had struck cars on an adjoining track. - The body was found between tracks and physicians at the station said Handley had died instantly. He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Thelma Handley. ADDRESS BY WHITTEMORE. Dr. Herbert L. Whittemore, chief of the section of engineering mechanics of the Bureau of Standards, will address the Washington section of the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engineers at 8 o'clock tonight at Cosmos Club Hall on “Tests of Welded Structures at the Bureau of Standards.” Following Dr. Whittemore's talk three reels of moving pictures, illustrating the action of oxyacetylene apparatus and the welding of structures in several in- dustries, will be shown. WOMAN OVERCOME BY GAS Miss Edna Francis Dodson, 26, a cripple since the day of her birth, was found 1n an unconscious condition in a gas-filled room at 524 Tennessee avenue northeast yesterday by relatives return- ing from church. The free end of a rubber tube, which was attached to an open gas jet, was lying close to her mouth, Miss Dodsoh has never had the use of her legs ahd one arm. Relatives say she Is subject to perlods of intense despondency. The young woman revived after emergency treatmsnt by Dr. Louis Jimal of Casualty Hospital. She is expected to recover, | | | | Additional ! which Arthur C. Moses is chairman, to istatements will hereafter be mailed to Upper, left to right: Miss Hollis Haltigan of St. Paul’s High School. Lower, left to right: Miss Marie 'x of Holy Cross Academy and Miss Eileen | McCray of St. €ecilia’s Academy, and Lorend Freund of Gonzaga High School. 127 ARE NOMINATED AS CHEST TRUSTEES | | Names Are Ex-. pected to Be Added to List by Contributors. A total of 127 persons have been | nominated to serve on the board of | trustees of the Washington Com- munity Chest for this year, it is an- nounced by Clarence ~A. ~Aspinwall, | secretary. Fifty-seven of these have been nominated by a committee, of represent contributors on the board, | while the names of 70 persons repre- | senting member organizations of the chest have been presented by those or- | ganizations. Additional names are ex- pected to be added to the list next Wednesday. The annual meeting of the board of trustees for the election of officers will be held March 27. A ballot containing the names of | trustees to be elected by contributors | is being malied to all contributors to whom statements of March payments are being sent. Contributors whose payments are not due in March may | have these ballots on request of the| Community Chest office. The mailing | of these statements and ballots has not been completed, because in order to save expense the names of contributors who have payments to make are being put upon addressing machine plates. ‘The making bf the plates and the mail. ing of statements and ballots are ex pected to be completed this week. | Through use of these address plates subscribers promptly on the first of each month, it is announced. Organization Appointees. The names of the persons appointed by member agencies to serve as mem- | bers of the board of trustees and the | agencies which they represent follow: American Legion, Mrs. Jullus I. Pey- ser, Gen. Amos A. Fries; Associated Charities, Helen Nicolay, Walter S. Ufford: Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, John Dolph, Wallace Hatch; Boys’ Club, Frank R. Jelleff, Francis V. Thomson; Catholic Charities, Rev. John O'Grady, Allen Pope; Child Welfare Society, Mrs. Louis Lehr, Caro- line Sweeney; Children’s Country Home, Mrs. Joseph Himes, Mrs. Archibald Davis; Christ Child Society, Mrs. Charles P. Neill, Mrs. George W. Martin; Citizens’ Relief Society, Col. Walter C. Clephane, Walter S. Pratt, jr.; Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, H. R. W. Miles, A. G. Ramisch; Council of Social Agencies, Mrs. Fernando Cuni- berti, Mrs. W. A. Roberts; District of Columbia Congress of Parents and ‘Teachers, Walter B. Fry, Mrs. Louis Castell; Central Dispensary and Emer- gency Hospital, Harry King, Woodbury Blair; Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Henry (P. Blair, Rev. Calvert E. Buck; Episcopal Home for Children, Mrs. David Meade Lea, Mrs. Lila P. Duval; Georgetown University Hospital, | Dr. Thomas S. Lee, Dr. C. H. T.| Lowndes; Hebrew Home for the Aged, Simon Hirshman, Charles A. Gold- smith; Holy Family Day Nursery, Peter Drury, Mrs. Manolah Brennan. Instructive Visiting Nurse Society, Mrs. Frank E. Weeden, Gertrude H. Bowling; Jewish Community Center, Morris Cafritz, Maurice Bisgyer, Jewish Foster Home, David L. Frank, Adolph Weyl: Jewish Welfare Federation, Rabbi Willlam F. Rosenblum (other to be se- lected) ; Juanita K. Nye, Council House, Mrs. eLonard B. Schloss, Beth Israel; | Juvenile Protective Association, Mrs. | Walter S. Ufford, Mildred Terrett: Neighborhood House, Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, Mrs. J. P. S. Neligh; Noel House, Mary Thom, M. Boyd Hinds; St. Ann’s Infant Asylum, Sister Cornelia, | Charles W. Darr; St. Rose's Technical | School, W. M. Deviny, A. J. Hickey; St. Vincent's Home and School, M. F. Cal- nan, Paul E. Johnson; Salvation Army Rudolph Jose, Staff Capt. James Asher Social Hygiene Society, Smith, Herbert S. Wood; Southern Re- lief Society, Mrs. Eugenia Rollins, Mrs. Pearce Horne; Travelers’ -Aid Society, Arthur C. Moses, Mrs. Mirgaret Ford; | United Hebrew Relief Society, Mrs, Charles A. Goldsmith, Morris Cafritz Washington Animal Rescuc League, Mrs. Truman G. Palmer, Miss N. R. Macomb; Washington Humane _Society, Gen. George Barnett, John P. Heap; Young ‘Women's Christian Association, Mar- garet R. Fox and Hettie P. Anderson. Have Not Acted. ‘The following organizations have not vet sent in the names of their trustees, but the lists are expected at the Com- munity Chest office as soon as their | | I ‘Willard _C. | the Hesse Enjoys First ‘Complaintless’ Day Of Administration For the first time in his three years’ administration of the Metropolitan Police Department Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, retiring superintendent, today opened his official correspondence without finding a complaint. There were no letters from the public criti- cising the conduct of a policeman, and likewise there were no re- ports from the precinct com- manders or other officials recom- mending disciplinary action against a member of the force. ‘The condition was all the more unusual because the Monday morning mail usually produces the greatest bulk of complaints. Maj. Hesse seemed at a loss to explain the situation. “Perhaps this is the calm that I have been told always follows astorm,” he remarked facetiously. BURLINGAME HITS RETIREMENT TALK phatically Denies He In- tends to Quit Force. Capt. Guy E. Burlingame of the sec- ond police precinct, today for the first time, denied rumors of his impending retirement that _have persistently coursed through officials channels in the District Building, as well as in the Police Department since his exonera- tion on the charges growing out of ths accusations of Mrs. Helen F. Blalock, former Seventh street palmist. 50,” he declared emphatically. The reports that Capt. Burlingame would seek voluntarily’ to close his pic- turesque 33-year career on the police force through the medium of retire- ment, were based on intimations that the District Commisdioners expected him to make such a move. It was pointed out, however, that the Commissioners have the power to order the retirement of Capt. Burlingame at any time, if they so desire, as he has passed the age of 60, the optional limi- tation fixed by law on the service of a police officer or a member of the Fire Department. The retirement law, as it relates to the Police and Fire Depart- ments specifically stipulates that the Commissioners, in their discretion, may retire a policeman or fireman who has reached the age of 60. The Commissioners have not given any indication whether they propose to use their discretion in the case of Capt. Burlingame, who has passed life’s sixty- second milestone. Capt. Burlingame has no known physical deficiency and his superiors | have rated him as the most efficient | police captain on the force. The only ! reason then that they would order his | retirement, it was said, would be to| preciude possible criticism from several | members of Congress who are said to! be displeased over the outcome of the recent trial. Thomas L. Blanton, the severest critic of Capt. Burlingame, has left Congre: Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent, one of the targets in the Police De- partment of congressional criticism in the past, is expected to be out of the service when the new Congress con- venes next month. Capt. Burlingame's special trial did not prove to be as costly to the Police Department as at first anticipated. A check-up by Inspector William S. Shel- by, assistant superintendent and per- sonnel officer, indicates that the major expense, the stenographic transcript of the testimony, will not exceed $1,200. It had been estimated that this item alone probably would reach $2,000. ‘The other items of expense in connec- tion with the trial are minor, so that the total bill likely will be kept under $1,200. The payment of these bills will be made from the Police Department’s contingent fund. Episcopal City Missions, Florence Crit- tenton Home, George Washington Uni Homeopathic Hospital, Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A, Providence Hospital Out- patient and Social Service Department, St. Joseph's Home and School, Twelfth boards have had a chance to meet and elect representative: Boy Scouts, Children's Hospital, Co- lumbia Hospital for Women, Disabled Street Branch Y. M. C. A., Washington Veteran Police Officer Em-! “I have not filed an application for | retirement and I do not intend to do; CHAMPION ORATORS COMPETE IN FIRST INTERSCHOOL FRAY Winner, to Enter District Finals, to Be Announced Over Air Tonight. THREE GIRLS AND BOY ARE CONTESTING TODAY Misses Hollis Essex, Eileen Halti- gan and Marie McCray and Lorend Freund in Field. The first interschool competition in the Sixth National Oratorical Contest here 15 being held this afternoon in McMahon Hall, Catholic University. Until today the schools in The Star's yarea of the contest had been busy with their own eliminations, by which they proopsed to select their best orators to represent them in the group phase of the contest, and early this afternoon the student bodies of four Washington pri- vate and parochial schools were en route to Brookland to witness the first fray of the year between school ch;r:plons, ree girls and a lone bo; the field of contestants dey.m;:g"i: forder in which they will make their bids for victory they are Miss Hollis Essex of Holy Cross® Academy, Miss Eileen Haltigan of St. Paul's Academy, Miss Marie McCray of St. Cecilia’s Academy and Lorend Freund of Gonzaga High School. The winner, who, will be en- titled to compete in ghe private and parochial District finalS for the $100 award and a place in The Star finals, will be announced-over radio Station WMAL as one of the “flashes from The Evening Star” at 7 o'clock tonight. Time of Speakers Limited. Each contestant in this afternoon’s contest meztxg was allowed 10 minutes in which to deliver an oration and Rev. Dr. Charles A. Hart, professor of logic at Catholic University and chairman of the meeting, was prepared to sound th's gavel against any orator who has ; talking at the end of the period. The jsame rule will be enforced at each of the contest meets vet to be held. The judges of this afternoon’s com- petition are picked Catholic University students, including members of the class in logic instructed by Dr. Hart, | Prof. Joseph English’s public speakin classes, and Dr. Charles H. McCarthy’ class in American History. Each of the judges was to write a seperate ballot without consulting other members of the deciding board, and the ballots were to be compiled by a contest official. Dr, l;:;te will announce the winner from the " This afternoon's gram includes music { Regina Torrens, pian gina Hartnett, violini Cross Academy. Wnners of School Honors. As previously announced, this after- noon’s orators won their school cham- plonships with different speeches. Miss Essex is speaking on “The Constitution in the Daily Life of the Individual,” Miss Haltigan is discussing “The Develop- ment of the Constitution,” Miss McCray is speaking 6n “The Citizen: His Rights and Duties Under’ the Constitution,’ and young Freund is speaking about “The Constitution of the United States of America as = Guarantee of the Liberty offi the mA‘mprlcan People.” leretofore unanounced in The Star, Miss Haltigan, champion of St. Paul's High School. is a daughter of P. J. Hal- tigan, reading clerk of the House of Representatives, 1860 California street. She is ambitious to become a business woman and following the completion of her course at St. Paul's she plans to study toward that end. She is a bas- ket ball player at her school where she s treasurer of the athletic association. OLD LIQUOR ABUSES SCORED BY LUDLOW Indiana Representative Addresses Harrison Bible Class of Con- gress Street Church. Under inspiration of the liquors dis- pensed over the bar of the old saloon formerly in the Capitol Building, the old topers in Congress often behaved in a way that ought to have made the Goddess of Liberty on the Capitol dome hide her head in shame, Repre- sentative Louis Ludlow of Indiana told members of the Harrison Bible class of the Congress Street Methodist Church yesterday. Representative Ludlow, former presi- dent _of the National Press Club, and for 37 years a newspaper writer and observer, in his address to the Bible class on “Milestones of Progress,” gave a recital of evidences that have come under his observation, during his long career &s a newspaper man, tending to _ show that the world is growing better. “Crime waves have occurred and re- curred,” the speaker said, ‘“faithless public servants have too often soiled the record with black blotches of in- famy, but on the whole society has ad- vanced by many milestones of progress. Referring again to lawlessness and vice conditions existing in the National Capital, when he first joined the press gallery, Representative Ludlow said he was convinced the-day of licensed vice is gone forever. contest meet pro- selections by Miss ist, and Miss Re- ist, students of Holy 'E. . HAINER, FORMER REPRESENTATIVE, DEAD | Nebraskan, 77 Years 01d, Served in Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Sessions as Republican. Former Representative Eugene J. Hainer of Nebraska, 77 years old, Re- publican member of the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, died in Omaha, | Nebr., according to word received here today. Mr. Hainer was an unsuccessful can- didate for re-election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress, after which he re- sumed the practice of law, first in Aurora and then in Lincoln, Nebr, He was a native of Hun and emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1854. He spent his boyhood American Veterans of the World War,{0n a farm near Garden Grove, lowa. He attended school at the Garden Grove Seminary and then went to the Iowa versity Hospital, Girl Scouts; National i Agricultural College. He was graduated in law from the Simpson Centenary College, Indianola, Iowa, in 1876; was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in Aurora, Nebr., Co-operative Society, Washington Home for Foundlings and the Young Men's Christian Association, - e, the following year. Before being elected to Congress he became interested in banking and also in a line of cream- eries in Southern Nebraska. A