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BARTOVETERANS AS CRIME JURORS FAGES CHALLENGE Courts Here Are Hampered; by Practice Which Has Grown Insidiously. FINE LEGAL QUIBBLE IS HELD RESPONSIBLE! Relations of Former Soldiers With Government Might Cause Mistrial, Is Argument. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A doctrine in force since the war, under which virtually every World War veteran is debarred from servi on a criminal jury in the District of Co- lumbia, will be challenged in thie Dis- trict Supreme Court next month. The questions to prospective jurors, | relating to insurance, bonus and mem- bership in the Officers’ Reserve Corps have been stricken from the list to test the validity of the contention that . the presence of such individuals on juries rhight resuit in numerous and ex- pensive mistrials. This curious condition has arisen through the close relation of the local courts with the Federal Government, | which i< a party to all criminal actions. Rejection of World War veterans as jurors involves a fine point in law m- ;‘erpreunon. relative to drawing juries ere. T{ the veteran holds a war risk in- | surance policy or an adjusted compen- | sation certificate, he has a contractual | relation with the Government which | makes him ineligible to serve. in any | case to which the Government is a party. Most veterans fall into one of these categories. Thousands have allow- ed their war risk policies to lapse, but nearly all have adjusted service cer- tificates. About the only former serv- ice men not included are those who, in | the ranks for a few weeks at the end of | the war. accepted Jump payments which | closed their business relations with the Government. Barred, Just the Same. * If the veteran is receiving disability compensation alone, his relation is not strictly contractual, but still it is such that it effectually bars him from crim- inal jury service. Since he is re¢eiving benefits from the Government, it is argued, he might feel, however unrea- sonably. that any adverse decision would be resented by Uncle Sam. who might get revenge by cutting down lhe! compensation. Court. officials’ admit | this is a finely-drawn point, but it is not inconceivable some veteran might be_beset by such fears. Rejection of veterans is not specific | in the statute, but the practice bas | grown up from judicial interpretation | of the contractual relations clause. War | risk insurance policies and adjusted compensation certificates, it has bee) determined. are clearly | n contracts between the individual and the Gov- ernment. Hence, a veteran on a jury might afford technical grounds for mistrial in a hard-fought case, de- laying the course of justice and putting the Government to & great deal of ex- The practice has been ‘to ask pros- pective jurors specifically if they fall | in any of the above categories. If! they do. they are automatically disquali- fied for a criminal jury. Court officials stress that this can in no sense be con- | sidered discrimination against veter- ans as such. 2, Challenge Is Contemplated. For some time, it is learned, there has been an_inclination in the District Su- preme Court to challange the practice.’ No judge hitherto has taken that step, which is full of technical dangers. I veterans holding these alleged con- tractual relations with the Government were accepted, the result might be in- validation of a great deal of the pro- ceedings and a heavy expense to the Government. ‘The courts recognize. however,-that | because of this fechnicality, many per- sons ideally adapted for jury duty are lost. It also results in narrowing an | ;irudy extremely narrow list of eligi- | les. Specifically barred by statute are all persons under 21 and over 65, l“; employes of the Federal Government | and of the District of Columbis, all! clergymen, physicians and lawyers in | active practise, all notaries public and | masters of vessels in District of Co- lumbia waters. all illiterates and all who have been convicted of felonies. | ‘Women are eligible, but are exempted | at their own request. Formerly it was | the practice to make them appear in | open court and state their objections. ‘This has been discontinued, since it | obviously was not the intent of the| law that & woman should be subjected to any humiliation or embarrassment | in availing herself of the privilege of not serving. She is not required to give any rea- son. Jury service for women is a com- paratively new thing and naturally many are loath to put themselves in a ition which may involve disagree- able duties. This is a condition, it is felt, which will be overcome in time as the women on juries become less of a novelty. Leaves Small Remainder. Out of & population of half & million | this leaves a small remainder. It is im- | Dest pel possible to estimate the number of | ians actually available for Wi criminal jury service because the ex- | th! empted classes overlap in so many . Many war veterans, for ex- ample, are employes of the Government and so barred in any event. Others are | clergymen, lawyers and physicians. | Were it not for this overlapping, the list of those barred serving and those who are exempted at their own request might actual the total populati people in Washington are women. This would knock off a quarter of a million at once. Government employes, in some “WHEN CAN Regains Consciousness in Hospital With Fractured Leg and Cuts. Roby Whitfield - Gets Same Doctor Who Had Treated Injured Finger. ‘Twelve-year-old Roby Whitfield may have a gloomy outlook for some time as he lies in bed at Emergency Hos- pital for a probably indefinite period with a compound fracture of the left leg and numerous ful lacerations, but his first question upon' regaining consciousness this morning’ was, “Ask Dr. Gordon when I can play ball again.” Roby, who is the star first baseman on a local junior base ball nine, had a special reason in asking for Dr. Leon Gordon of the hospital staff, because the boy has kindly recollections of past experiences with the physician. Satyrday evening, Roby came into the emergency room of the hospital with a dislocated finger suffered while playing ball on the Monument Lot. At that time Dr. Gordon treated the in- jured member and Roby said the doctor did such a skillful job and was so en- couraging that he decided to go back and see the physician again. Sunday the boy saw Dr. Gordon and had the finger redressed and was told he could play ball this week. PLAY BALL?" BOY'S FIRST QUERY AFTER ACCIDENT WASHINGTON, ROBY WHITFIELD. — | But last night Dr. Gordon was called to the emergency room to treat a boy who had just been brought in from Sixth and G streets from a serious automobile accident. A cursory ex- amination revealed a possible fractured leg and hip, besides numerous lacera- tions and severe shock. An immediate operation was performed and the lad | was in a coma until this morning. There was & look of relief on his| pain-filled face when he opened his eyes and saw Dr. Gordon standing be- side him. RETIREMENT BILL SOON TO REAPPEAR Senator Dale Sponsors the Measure Let Die by Pocket Veto. One of the first bills reintroduced in the. Senate .at the new session will be the Government employes’ retirement measure, given a pocket veto by former President ‘Coolidge after it had passed both branches of the last Congress. Senator Dale, Republican, of Vermont, chairmgan of the civil service commit- tee, ouneed -today that he would in- troduce the bill at the first opportunity, after which it will be referred to his| committee. In view of support by the Senate during the old .Congress it is probable the. committee again will in- dorse it, but whether action can be ob- tained during the - special session is problematical. It is'certain to be pushed at the regular session, however. Its main feature is that it would per- mit retirement of employes after 30 years’ service when 68; letter carriers, post office clerks and others in that group at 63, after 30 years' service, and railway- mail clerks and those engaged in hazardous work at 60, after 30 years. Under the present law the age limits are 70, 68 and 65, respectively, for these groups. Emp! now are eligible to Tetire at the higher age limits after 15 years' service. The bill also increases the maximum annuity from $1.000 to '$1,200 a year. While all retired employes do not re- ceive the maximum, shey would get a proportionately higher amount under the new bill than they now receive. Supporters believe the proposed age limits are so high it is probable that the few employes to avail themselves of optional retirements will be limited to those who have become mentally or physically impaired. & It is argued, therefore, that this measure would improve efficiency and Temunerate long service, thereby prov- ing an advantage both to the Govern- ] ment and to-the empl loyes. Under the bill the annuity would be computed by multiplying the average exceed $1,600 a year, re- ceived by the employe during the last five years of service, not to exceed 30 years, and dividing the product by 40. This method would produce an annuity |- which would be three-fourths of the average pay for the stated period, but in no case more than $1,200. The aver- age annuity would be $800 a year. Under the present law the method in operation luces an annuity prodt equivalent to two-thirds of the average ' pay, with a maximum of $1,000. CA TR CARAWAY RENEWS DRIVE FOR NEW D. C. SYSTEM Senator to Reintroduce Bill for Substituting City Manager for Board of Commissioners. The bill advocated by Senator Cara- way, Democrat, of Arkansas, in the last Congress to abolish the Board of District Commissioners and substitute a city manager form of government for Washington will be reintroduced early this session, the Arkansas Senator stated today. Senator Caraway said he did not regard the District as a itical sub- division and therefore felt that it some one select- training in mu- nicipal management. He sald the Dis- trict should get for city manager the rson available, regardless of po- affiliation, and appoint him without any definite tenure of office so be replaced whenever it ‘was deemed advisable to obtain a better man. JOHN PYLES FBI"E DEAD. Had Applied Few Hours Before for Treatment at Hospital. John Pyles, 47 years old, died sudden- stree ly in his apartment at 509 E morning from the effects of capacity or other, would approach 100,- | what 000, but here again there is much over-| lapping so far as women and those un- der and over age are concerned. The juror must be a resident of the District of Columbia. Formerly this was o be a “good and true” person. This, in itself, allows the court Psy! ithic ASKNOSUSPENSION - OF SINCLAIR TERM | gAttorneys Merely:Consult Hitz as to His Availability, He Says. Justice William Hitz of the District | Supreme Court, who imposed the sen- | tence of three months in jail on Harry F. Sinclair, New York oil magnate, for contempt to the United States Senate, today denied that any application had | been made to him by counsel for Sin- | clair looking to an indefinite suspension | of Sinclair's sentence. The court ad- | mitted that lawyers for the oil magnate | had consulted him some days ago, | quiring if he would be available in the event of their decision to take some | | legal steps following the handing down | g{ the me:dl(e of the g:n“ed ?Ya‘lu upreme Court Amrmh:g e conviction and sentence of Sinclair. Justice Hitz | has not been in good health, and was | away from the court recently because ' of iilness, and counsel wished to be as- | | sured of the likelihood of his presence | ‘;n the bench when the mandate ar- | rives. 1 | " According to_press reports of the in- | | tention of the Sinclair lawyers they wil! ask the court to give 8 sus- ded sentence in the interests of the | ders of mma:“l?:h various com- | ported, that Ehe sending ot jail will work a cruel thousands of persons who are interested in his companies. $ At the clerk’s office, it was stated, no such application Has been filled. Attor- ney George P. Hoover, local counsel for Sinclair, was out of the city. and no in formation was obtainable from his of- ' fice as to the reported application to the court, | PURCHASE BUREAL URGED FOR HEST Chamber Believes Charities | Could Save by Pooling Their Orders. i Establishment of a central purchasing | bureau, whose services would be avail- | able to all social agencies, as & muns‘» of effecting further economy for units | of the Washington Community Chest | |and outside socizl welfare organizations was advocated by the charities commit- tee of the Washington Chamber of | Commerce in a resolution adopted yes- | terday at its meeting in the Homer Building. This resolution” said: | “Examination of the budgets of par- | | ticular social agencies in- connection with Washington's first Community | Chest has revealed, on the whole, that | these cies have been carefully and econo! administered, but that | there are, however, a number of in- stances where further economies might be effected, more particularly in the purchase of supplies.” “In the opinion of the charities com- mittee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce,” it was added, “attention should .be given to the possible desir- ability of establishing a central pur- chasing 1, whose services would be available to all ‘local social agencies, whether or not included in- the Chest. Such a bureau might be created in- the Council of Socjal Agencies. .- - - “The object of this bureau would be to study the purchasing of each agency included and to discover in what cases the principle of group buying | might b:«zpmc. Having developed & list of and articles which could be bought advantageously in quantity for a group of agencies, the next step ions gov- i g t | of these 8] specifications available to those interested, who would be asked to submit bids for* definite O der i plan, the Touses “Un 3 X should benefit by the ewuon of many small orders and by lessened in the collection of sums due to them. The agencies concerned, on the other hand, would be insured a Ssup- of needed goods or articles of uni- I(,g'tn quality and they would b&w to secure quantity prices with the cur- nm,tdheounb for promptness in. pay- ment. - » T itee also adopted & lution that mtem y Chance, appoint a committee Teso- 0. five it is re- D. G, D.C. PROPERTY TAX LEAPS FROM §18.18 T0§41.%, 10 YEARS Per Capita Levy Is Given in Figures of Department of Commerce. 545,900 POPULATION ESTIMATE IS USED | Increase in - Collections Put af 173.9 Per Cent in Report Cov- ering Finance Phases. Per ca property taxes jumped from $18.18 ml.’! in the ‘Dictrict in the 10 years between 1918 and 1928, accord- ing to a report issued today by the Department of Commerce. 1In the same period, the report showed, the increase in the amount of property taxes collected was 173.9 per cent. The report is based on the financial condition of the District for the fiscal year ending’ June 30, 1928; and covers the various phases of municipal finance, including expendityres, revenues, as- sessed valuations afid tax levies. The population estimate used was 545,900. oRevenue Is $75.63 Per Capita. Total revenue receipts in the fiscal year the report showed. amounted to $41.286,664, or $75.63 per capita, of which property taxes represented 55.5 per cent. The report also showed that the assessed valuation of property was $1,719,654,710 and that the per capita tax levy was $39.85, compared with $20.68 in 1918. Operation and maintenance of the ;™ yo summoned the president of the | general departments of the municipal government, according to the report, cost the taxpayers $27,887.123. or §51.08 per capita, an increase of $2.72 over | the preceding fiscal year. Classification Plea Is Ma The report closed with a plea for a uniform classification of financial sta- tistics by cities having a population of more than 30,000. Because of diversified accounting sys- tems, agents of the department, it de- clared, are forced to visit nearly 250 cities to collect information. “The bureau,” the report said, “ad- vocates a simple, logical and compre- hensive classification of accounts which | would permit obtaining accurate and comparable data.” TREE 1S PLANTED IN FESS' HONOR His Part in Beautification of Capital Section Is Recognized, An Ohio Buckeye tree was planted in the Capitol grounds today in recogni- tion_of the part Senator PFess, Repub- lican, of Ohio, has taken in the enact- ment of legislation for the beautification | of the area surrounding the Capitol and for the improvement of the National Capital generally. nator Fess was requested to trans- plant this tree from his State in the Capitol grounds, where a rare assort- ment of trees from various localities has been assembled. Interested in District of Columbia. As chairman of the Senate committee on librayy, & member of the public buildings and grounds committee and as vice chairman of the George Washing- ton Bicentennial ‘Commission. Senator Fess has been actively identified with many measures for the improvement of Washington. During. his previous serv- ice in the House of Representatives he also took an interest in the National Capital. nator Fess was author of the law creating the Commission on I:nhr&; ment of the'Capitol grounds. Since creation of that commission Senator Keyes of New Hampshire and Repre- sentative Elliott of Indlana have put through the enabling act to carry out the plan. ‘The Ohlo Senator helped put thro: the legislation Jast year for the me: boulevard to Mount Vernon, which will be a permanent memorial of the bicen- tennial celebration in 1932. He also took part in the enactment of the legislation for the Federal building program now under way. Other Legisiation. Other legislation in which Senator Fess has been instrumental in having enacted includes: The law for relocation and enlargement of the Botanic® Gar- dens, for additional land for the Library of ition to the Red fiy on two mq THIEF GETS §340 - BY SMASHING SAFE | Other Valuables Stolen From | Planograph Co.~Police | Get Fingerprints. A burglar, thought to have been work- ing alone, obtained $340 in cash and ‘miscellaneous loot early today from the | office of the Washington Planograph Co., 1220-22 North Capitol street, after he had employed tools and equipment found in the lithographing plant to pry the combinztion from a heavy safe on the second floor. How the intruder effected entry was | not. established, since doors and windows bore no sign of having been forced. The | robbery was. discovered by the janitor when he came to work early this morn- | company, James E. Halley, who notified | police. * | The burglar pried the combination { from the sate with an inking roller bar taken from the shop on the ground | foor, first pulling on a set of rubber ! fingertips used by printers when work- ing with acid. These were found beside | the safe. | After forcing the strong box, he car- ried the contents to a desk nearby and searched the papers for possible loot, | scattering discarded records and stock certificates over the floor. Although a complete check-up had not been made this morning, it is thought that no val- | uable papers were taken. In addition to the money, the safe- cracker got $10 worth of street car | tokens and a small amount of personal jewelry from the office desks he ran- sacked. Police of the second precinct and Fred Sanberg, fingerprint expert from head- quarters, obtained several photographs of prints left by the intrduder, despite | his precautions. 'ADDRESS LISTED | BY M. CHEVRILLON French Academy Member to Lec- ture on “Hippolyte Taine,” Noted Historian. | M. Andre Chevrillon of the famous | French Academy will give an address | on “Hippolyte Taine " one of the worl | best known historians and philosophers, | in the baliroom of the Ma; under the auspices of the lower Hotel, i titut Pran- at 4:30 o'clock. A large number of intellectual lead- ers in the Capital will be present to hear’ this brilliant Frenchman. The French Academy was founded 300 years under the patronage of Cardinal helieu and has since included in its membership many of the world's best known names, such as Racine, Balzac, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Pasteur, Marshal Foch, and Among its present members are Anatole France, Prime Minister Poincare, Marcel Prevost, Clemenceau, Henri Bergson and Georges Goyau. M. Chevrillon is'a_nephew of Taine, whose work on the History of English Literature is considered one of the greatest ever published. Taine is con- | sidered the founder of a new school of historical methods which applies to history the rules that are available in the most exact seiences. He, too, was a member of the French Academy. His nephew is a graduate of the famous Sorbonne in Paris, prominently known as a writer and traveler. He comes of a very distinguished intellectual fam- ily, his sister, Mme. Taillandier, and her daughter, Mme. Mayran, being weil known writers. His ' brother, Chevrillon, is an old friend of President Hoover, and during the World War was the official at Paris for the Hoover re- lief work in Northern France. M. on has visited the United States four times, but has never before delivered an address in Washington. His lecture will be in English. ‘The meeting Friday will be of addi- tional significance, for at that time the Institut Francais will release its latest publication, & one-volume work on Maj. L’Enfant, Prench- artillery officer. who was appointed by George Washington to design the Capital City. L'Enfant’s work was done so well that the present plan of Washinton varies only slightly for | from the original plans laid out by this VISITING NURSES’ WORK STUDIED AT INSTITUTE Specialisf of Activities—Meeting in Home of Mrs. Myers. The third one-day institute held by the Instructive Visiting Nurse Soclety wou of studying the work association began at the o‘(hhun, George H. Myers, 2310 S tinue throughout the day. Specialists in public hul{h ‘were the program to address the associatio: including Miss Anna L. Huber, preside; of the New York Visiting Nurse Societ: of the dfl‘l,lll] on Program With Film | ‘morning at 10:30 o'clock to | French officer. ‘The new work on L'Enfant has an in- troduetion by former Ambassador Jules Jusserand of France and a foreword by - Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, which maintains generdl supervision over the architectur- :l and planning development of Wash- ington. FUNERAL OF.WEAVER ‘AT HOWARD TOMORROW !;u;er:l umeul&ruorm:a; :uvnr, ~csistant professor of English loward university, who 'dled at his residence, 19 Fourteenth street northeast, Sun | cais de Washington, Priday afternoon | Louis | T! TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929. l QUESTION MARK’S BIG SISTER ARRIVES I i If | ' E | | | 1E ] [ Upper: H. L. RUST, Jr. Lower: H. LAWRENCE CHOATE. | Added to the board of the Y. M. C. A. | last night. "THOMPSON IS AGAIN | AT HEAD OF Y. M. C. A Former Assistant Attorney General | Given Second Term—Other Of- | ficers Also Re-Elected. Huston Thompson, former Assistant | Attorney General and former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, was re-elected president of the Young Men's Christian Association for his second held at the Y, 1736 G street. Other officers were re-elected, as fol- lows: Coleman Jennings, first vice presi- dent; Dr. Arthur C. Christie, second vice president; W. H. Kerr, recording secretary; John Poole, treasurer; George ‘W. Offutt, assistant treasurer, and John B. Larner, general counsel. Two new directors were added to the Choate, and five other directors were re-elected for new terms of three xears. They are Col. P. M. Anderson, W. C. Hanson, John W. Hardell, A. H. Lawson and Willlam Montfomery. The elections followed submission of the report of a nominating committee consisting of W. H. Hill, chairman; A. W. Defenderfer, George W. Offutt, 'homas J. Frailey and Edward J. Steagall. ‘William Knawles Cooper, general sec- retary of the Y. M. C. A., and Leonar W. De Gast, associate general secre- tary, assisted in conducting the meeting. THREE ARE RETURNED HERE FROM NEWARK Held for Questioning in Jewel Robbery on Night of January 6. ‘Three men arrested in Newark, Ohio, last week and held for questioning in connection with the investigation of the $7,000 jewelry robbery in the jewelry establishment of Joshua C. Jubb, third floor of 817 G street, the night of Jan- uary 6, were returned here yesterday by Detectives Thomas F. Sweeney and John H. Fowler of the homicide and bank squad. . The trio registered as A. J. Maxim, 28 years old, Los Angeles, Calif. 3 had been rand Phillips, and when the local “Prof. Weaver, who was 23 years old, was an honor g:dunte of Dunbar High won distinction as a He later ‘atiended Williams. | i tectives were informed that Maxim had been arrested with them they also took charge of him. A fourth man arrested, Charles was out on a $1,500 having burgla; bond on a charge of term last night at the annual meeting | board, H. L. Rust, jr, and H. Lawrence | ‘T'he Army’s largest transport plane has been brought to Bolling Field as a headquarters plane and will share hangar space with the Question Mark, world's record endurance plane, a transport plane of slightly smaller size. three 425-horsepower métors give a top speed of 148 miles per hour and a cruising speed of 125 miles per hour. The new plane’s It can —Star Staff Photo. |ONGER PROBATION - FOR POLICE URGED |Pratt: Suggests One, Two or Possibly Three Year Periods. The probationary term for District policemen zhould be extended from one | to two, or_possibly three, years, Maj. | Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of ‘E‘:» | lice, said today. Maj. Pratt said that | many policemen maintain strict dis- cipline for their probationary years, but | at the end of that time, when they are | promoted to privates in class 2, consider that they are set for life and let down. “If the period could last two or three | years,” Maj. Pratt added, “good disci- pline would become a habit, and we | wouldn't have so much of that let- down.” At present a policeman on his proba- | tionary period may be dismissed by the superintendent, if the order is approved | by the Commissioners, without hearing before the Trial Board. After their pro- bationary term is ended, however, they may not be dismissed except on recom- | mendation of the Trial Board after | standing trial. | Maj. Pratt’s remarks were made dur- ing a discussion of the omission of an | item of $700,000 for increase of salaries | for firemen and policemen from District | | Auditor Donovan’s five-year financial | program for the District. | _ Maj. Pratt said that he understood, | however, that if the pay increase meas- | ure should be passed during the five | years there would be enough money to take care of it, in spite of its omission { from the set-up of the report. program calls for a $7,000,000 surplus i at the end of the five years, and this | would. therefore. be ample | Speaking about salary increases for policemen generally, ,Maj. Pratt said he was not in favor of increasing the basic salary, $1,800 per annum, for pri- | vates. | He favored making wider differences | between the pay of inspectors and as- | sistant _superintendents and between | captains and tors, however. present the differences in salary tween these two r: amount to $250 per annumm, and Maj. said that he | had often heard captains express them- | | selves as satisfled with their job, as the | $250 they would gain by promotion to inspectorships would not compensate them for the added responsibilities at- tached to the promotion. AIDES ANNOUNCED FOR TRADE BOARD Chairmen of Committees Designated to Serve in Coming Year. Appointment of committee chairmen for the Washington Board of Trade to serve in the ensuing year was an- nounced today by Edward J. Murphy, newly elected president. ‘The executive committee consists of George W. Offutt, chairman; Odell S. Smith, Edwin C. Brandenburg, William T. Galliher, J. Harry Cunningham, Ed- win C. Graham, Frank P. Leetch, Sam- uel J. Prescott, Ben T. Webster, George Miller and President Murphy. Other committee heads are A. J. d | Driscoll, special on American ideals: Lawrence E. Williams, special on avia- tion; F. L. Averill, bridges; Walter 8. Pratt, jr., charities and corrections: A. K. sme, community affairs; C. Phil- lips Hill, industrial interests; David M. Lea, insurance and fire protection; Jo- seph A. , law. Willlam R. Ellis, membership: Gen. Anton Stephan, nilitary and naval af- fairs; A ton P. Clark, jr., municipe art; Joshua Evans, jr., -municipal finance; Theodore W. Noyes, national presentation; P. Littlepage, public schools; Victor B. Deyber, public utilities and transporta. tion; Frank P. Leetch, river and harbor improvement. fus S. Lusk, sewerage; George V. FISH NURSERY TO HELP HOOVER HAVE GOOD TIME Maryland Officials Co-operating to Assure Plentiful Supply in Hunting Creek. Preparation for the construction of a fish nursery, made of’15 large onmgaidumsl the estate of Lawrence 7, secre- tary to President Hoover. at Oatoctin Furnace, Md., are being made today, J. Shepson Earle, State conservation com- missioner for Maryland, announced this t Hoover will be assured of At | PAGE 17 SEVEN D.C.BILS - GIVEN 70 HOUSE ATFIRST SESSION | Kvale Reintroduces Measure to Abolish Capital Punish- ment in District. i TINKHAM URGES FUND OF $30,000 FOR SURVEY i Dickinson of Iowa Would Put Summer White Honse West of Mississippi River. | Seven measures affecting the Distriet | of Columbia particularly were intro- duced in the House today. ! Representative Tinkham, Republican of Massachusetts, introduced a bill au- thorizing an appropriation of $30,000 | for an engineering and landscape study, preparation of plans and estimate of costs of improvement of the base and ground of the Washington Monument. This measure provides that the di- rector of public buildings and public parks of the National Capital. in con- sultation with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, shall | make this study. ! Partial Measure Proposed. Representative La Guardia, Republic- an. of New York, introduced a bill to | extend the jurisdiction and territory of | the judicial district of the State of Maryland so as to include the District jof Columbia. This United States Dis- trict Court would have concurrent juris- diction in all criminal cases with the courts of the District of Columbia, ex- cept that it would have exclusive and sole jurisdiction of all offenses commit- ted within the District constituting a violation of any of the provisions in chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of title 18 { of the code of laws of the United States. Representative James of Michigan, chairman of the military affairs com- mittee, introduced a bill authorizing appropriation for the Army War Col- ege. Representative Kelly, Republican, of Pennsylvania, introduced a joint reso- lution to permit the citizens’ associa- tions of Chevy Chase to erect a me- morial to the late Senator Francis G. Newlands in the form of a memorial fountain in Chevy Chase Circle. Capitol Bill Is Introduced. Representative Montague, Democra, of Virginia, introduced a bill for ~x- tension and completion of the Unitcd | States Capitol. | This calls for extension and recon- struction of the central portion of th |Capitol in_accordance with a repor: |made to Congress, March 3, 1905. His | bill would authorize an appropriation |of $3,500,000 for this purpose. Representative Kvale. Republican. of Minnesota, reintroduced his bill to abo! ish capital punishment in the Districc of Columbia. ! Re ntative Dickinson. Republican. fof gxmtmdueed a bill creating 2 | commission to select a Summer Whitc ! House, or the site for a Summer Whitc House, west of the Mississippi River. FOUR MEN PUT ON TRIAL ON GAMBLING CHARGES Jointly Under Indictment for Set- ting Up Gaming Table for Betting Purposes. Wilbur L. Dorsey, accused of setting | up a gaming table at | where dice games could | bets taken on the result , i was placed on trial today before Chief i Justice McCoy in Criminal Division 1 | with Jack Stein, Bart Kennett and Em- mett Johnson, the two latter being col- i ored. The four men were indicted joint- ly. All were represented by counsel with the exception of Dorsey. When_the case was called Attorney Morris Wampler for Dorsey explained | to the court that he was sctually en- i gaged in a jury trial before Justice Wil- { liam Hitz in Circuit Division 2 and could not proceed with the Dorsey trial. ‘The chief justice insisted that the trial | proceed after asking Dorsey if he would | select another lawyer or would request the court to assign one to defend him. Dorsey answered “No" when the court put, the direct question “Do you want | me to assign counsel?” Attorney S. Mc- | Comas Hawken appears for Stein, while the other two defendants are represent= ed by Attorneys Whelan & O'Connell. Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins is conducting the prose | cution. The arrest of the four men followed a raid by the vice squad. under Sergt. O. J. Letterman, May 29 last. The se- lection of a jury was in progress this afternoon. |ONE-ACT COMEDY SERIES | TO BE GIVEN TOMORROW L | Adults of Southeast Washington, in “The Follies,” to Present Program. A series of one-act comedies by “The Follies,” an organization composed of adults of Southeast Washington. will feature an entertainment under the auspices of the Southeast Community | Center in the Hine Junior High School, Seventh and C streets southeast, to- morrow ht at 8:15 o'clock. Mrs. Helen W. Zeller, drama leader of the Southeast center, has coached the par- ticipants in the comedies and arranged for orchestra music for the n. One comedy, “Hearts,” will be pre. sented by the drama unit of the Na. tional and Prof 1 Wom: an’s Club, with Miss Stella E. Chad- BEEES