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2 THE EVENING L] IBULGARIAN MINISTER'S WIFE BILL T0 BARE PRESS PRAISES WOMEN OF COUNTRY | Carry on Love of Tradi- AIDES HCKERS TENDERED NESSAGES ANSWER FAREWELL LUNGH RADI VOTE APPEAL 0 GET CASE TODAY Fhipps Starts Move to Dis- close “Real Holders” of U. S. Newspaper Properties. | Py the Associated Press | Atter Postmaster General Brown had | transmitted to the Senate yesterday| amended. statements of ownership of 13 mewspapers mentioned in testimon in the Federal Trade €ommission's in- | vestigation eof fnancial holdings in newspapers by power companies.” a bill to provide for disclosure of the “real | ownership” of newspapers was intro- cuced by Chairman Phipps of the Sen- | ate post office ccmmittee. The bill of Senator Phipps would amend the present law so that in addi. tion to the names of stockholders. bor holders or other security holders. the Post Office Department may require such information about the newspape: ownership as it may desire. Alabamans Are Summoned. The Federa! Trade Commission mean- while annouaced the summoning of the | three witnesce h F. McGowin Mobile. Ala., financier: Victor H. Han- son, proprietor and publisher of the Birminghem (Ala.) News and the Age- Herald, and R. B. Chandler, publisher of the Mobile Press. to appear before it June 14 in connection with its in- quiry into power companies’ financing of Alabama newspapers. The commission also has called Ira C Copley, California and Illinois news- | paper publisher, to appear before it June 13. This was done at his ow Tequest after charges of his owner- | ship cf public utilities securities had | Daen mada by Semator Norris, Repub- ! lican, of Nebraska. Copley denied the iginal post office &tatements of p. sent to the Senate several waeks ago, showed that only 2 of t 13 newspapers ci‘ed the Internati aper & Fower Co, or its subsidiaries holding a financial interest in them. A third said A. R. Graustein, president of the International. had an interest in it. The remaining 10, all of which had bcen mentioned in the Trade Commis- sion's investigation, mentioned no finaneial interest in them by the In- ternationad or its subsidiar Both the original and the amended statements vere as of the date of April 1. New York Papers’ Statements. Tn its amencied statement. the Brook- Y. EZagle said the Piedmont Ass n, Inc., a subsidiary of e International, had a financial inter- in it. The Knickerbocker Press and the Evening News, both published in Albany, N. Y. also cited that the Piedmont Press Association, Inc., owned “more than 1 per cent” of their stock. Frank E. Gannett of Rochester. N. Y., | publisher of the three newspapers, | however, since the transmission of the | amended statements has paid back to the International the entire financial holdings of that concern in the lhr!!i new 0 Thres nmewspapers controlled by the Bryan-Thomason Newspapers, Inc.. the Chicago Journal, the Tampa, Tribune and the Greensboro. N. C. Record, in their amended statements to the Post Office Department said de- bentures and preferred stock in that corporation were held by William A. 8. Mulligan of Chicago as agent or at- torney for the International Paper Co. As in their original statement of ownership, the Spartanburg, 8. C. Herald and the Journal said in their amended statements their stock was owned by the Herald-Journal Co. LaVarre Repeats Statement. Harold Hall and William LaVarre, publishers of the Augusta, Ga, Chronicie and the Columbia, 8. C. Record, reiterated in their amended statements that they were the sole owners, but explained that loans made to them by the International as dis- closed in their testimony before the Federal Trade Commission, were dated | after April 1 Hall and LaVarre also testified they owned the two Spartanburg newspapers. The twe newspapers which listed hold 1 | in their original lulemenu‘ Boston Herald and the ‘Traveler. The Chicago Daily News in its original statement named Graustein 2s the holder of some of its stock. PRESIDENT MOVES TO CONCENTRATE | DRY ENFORCEMENT| ~—(Continued Prom First were the views on the general problem of disre- spect for law. The commission, meeting for the first time in its new general headquarters in | the Tower Building. at Fourteenth and | K streets, received Mr. Mellon behind | closed doors, and the nature of his tes- | timony regarding problems confronting | the commission was not announced. | It was understood, however, that the | Treasury Secretary dealt chief prohibition and nareotic questions, both of major importance to his department Mr. Mellon is said to have offered to the commission all information he has available on these subjecta | The effect of the appearance of Sec- retary Mellon as the first “witnes:" be- | fore the commission was to place re-| newed emphasis on the prohibition phases of the commission’s sweeping in- vestigation. Members of the commission | have endeavored to “correct” an im-| rression that they were going to con- centrate on the liquor evil As the commission questioned Secre- tary Mellon in aecret session Senator Hi Democrat, of Missouri, came forward with a “protest” against execu- tive hearings. Closed sessions will de- feat the object of the inquiry. he sald Will Sound Senate. Senator Hawes declared that if he finds the commission intends to hold | executive hearings he will introduce a resolution in the Senate to obtain the entiment of Congress. He pointed out that the Tariff Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and other agencies of the Government conduct their pro- ceedings publicly “Open hearings will be invaluable to the commission itself,” the Missouri Senator stated. "It would mean two years (if the commission is to con- tinye that long) of public thought di- rected to this great subject of judicial reform and prohibition. For the com- mission to proceed behind closed doors riod and then at the con- ng make public ita own eonclusion will defeat the object | of the commission. It will de oy | public confidence in the thoroughness | of its work or the impartiality of its | conclusion.” | Favors Closed Seasions. | Chairman George W. Wickersham is said to favor closed sessions because he has found them to be more efficient. He made statements to this effact recently while discussing the question of ope; hearings. At the same time he has an- nounced that public hearings will be held at stated times here and in other cities. There is but little space in the during this clusion of the h commission’s conference room for spec- | tators or the press. Two of the doors of the room were locked during the hearing this morning and a third door Other Government officials were to be nterviewed today and during the re- mainder of the week. Strategic Jines of battle will be drawn for the war on erime and indifference to law All but two of the 11 members of the eommission were present tod The missing members were Federal Judges illiam §. Kenvon of Iowa and Paul J. tions and Handicrafts. Admires Peasant Women For Depth of Inward Life and Moral Sensitiveness. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. How for more than 1,000 vears the womanhood of her country has helped | to preserve and earry on a knowledge | and love of the national traditlons, folk-lore and handicrafts, despite cen- turies of foreign oppression and perse- cutions, is intereatingly told by the wife of the Minister from Bulgarin, Mme. Simeon Radef!. “Two weeks ago.” she recalls, “Bul- garia cclebrated the thousandth anniver- ! sary of her greatest King. In the time of that King. the Bulgarian nation had a remarkable civilization and a litera- ture which it transmitted to the other Jav people. Tn the fourteenth eentury the Bul- garians fell under Turkish domination. which lasted four centuries. The na- tional revival of Bulgaria started again 106 vears ago and brought Bulgari from’ a pocr. backward and enslaved couniry to the haven of freedom and prosperity which it now enjoys. There were many reasons.” con. tinued Mme, Radeff. “for that revival, | but one of the most important was that Bulgarian women kept alive, during the | sinister time of our history, the tradi- tions of th nation. Praises Peasant Women. “Anv time that T speak of the women of Bulgaria. my first thought is for the Bulgarian peasant women. 1 do not al- lude to their qualities as hard workers, to their devotion to family life or ta their thrift—pe women in this re- spect are probably the same the world over. What I admire in the peasant woman of my country iz the depth of her inward life—her moral sensitive- ness, her poetical feeling. Our fo! lor presents that aspect of Bulgarian country women in the most impressive way. Mme. Radeff here sketched a delight- ful picture of a native Bulgarian cns- tom, which is still in pepular praetice and which has been one of the greatest factors in the preservation of old legends and traditions. Tt has for endless custom of the boys and girls of the village to gather in some popular home on s Winter night after the day's work 1s finished. Taking their ne work. for a Bulgarian woman's hands are al- wars busy, the girls sit together in a group at one end of the room. while the bovs mssemble in another corner. They then start to sing. improving ac they go. The boys start the singing perhaps relating a_story or something they w to tell the girls. Sometimes they send love messages. ‘which they make known by singing in an imper- sonal manner, sure, however, that their | fair listeners will catch the real mean- ing of their song. “The girls will then answer by singing | also and in this way the songs of the people are being preserved and en- riched.” Costumes Still in Use, ‘The picturesque native ecostumes of the Bulgarian countrywomen are still used extensively—in faet, almost ex- clusively—in the smaller villages and towns removed from the modern capital of Sofia. It is also becoming quite the fashion among the soclety girls, Mme. | Radeff said. to adopt the native cos- tume for Summer wear at the beaches and watering plac The genuine peasant costume is usually of a heavy cotton or linen or very heavy woel, but recently there has been a movement among women prominent in the life of the nation, to revive the use of the reuum dress in lighter materials. The | jovely costumes, usually comprising a white blouse heavily embroidered and a black skirt, also covered with the stik | needlework, so skillfully executed th-t it appears to be a piece of brocade, are now being made in modern silks, and it is easily understood why they should be increasing in popularity ameng the girls of Buigarian social circles. Incidentally, Mme. Radeff explained that most of the lovely silks now used throughout her country, are of home production and manufacture. “The silk industry is a very impor- | tant one in Bulgaria,” she explained. “In the Southern part, especiall: produced in great guantities. silk worms is one of the chief oceupa tions of the old women. They also spin the silk and use the raw product for the making of fabrics and laces” Mme, Radeff proudly displays some Bulgarian handiwork, ‘some of which has proved its durability for many gen- erations. It includes many beautiful pleces of silk needlepoint lace, all of which has been made by the Bulgarian women. The unique feature of the Rul- ages. been the | Good Samaritan, in which she received | | i \ | 1 | | garian lace. is the finely worked medal- | lion, which forms an important motif of the trimming. MME. RADEFF. | i Sleeves Tn Family Many Years. | Calling attention to an odd pair of white raw <i'k sleeves, with brilliant | crimson stripes and edged with a fine | silk lace, Mme. Radefl said, “These | sleeves have been in my family for ma many vears. The brilliant coloring s char- | acteristic of all the clothing worn by the women of my country. The Bulgarian country women love gay colors—they love bright things and always iook on the happier side of life. They are al- ways singing, te, no matter how hard they may be working." In addition to the silk sleeves, two very handsomely embroidered woolen mats, said to be many centuries old, testified to the durability of Bulgarian fabrics. as wwell as Bulgarian werk- manship. by & perfect conditian of preservation. Practically all of ‘the Jaces shown by Mme. Radefl were necdlepoint, of & heavy, durable, raw silk It has long been the custom among the peasants to elaborately trim the groom’s chirts with lace, as well as the bride’s costumes, the Minister's wife | said A primitive but effective method of dveing materials, is still employed in Mme, Radeff's country among the, natives of the villages. To obtain the | gay stripes upon the white backgrounds, 50 often seen in the Bulgarian silks, the raw thread is tied very tightly into a compact bundle. It is then dipped into the dye, which incidentally is entirely made by the peasants, and when the bundle is untied, it shows the stripes an the white background. produced by the fact that only the exterior portions, of the compaetly ted silk. has absorbed | the dve, leaving the interior untouched by the color. Thirst for Education. | “Keeping up good aneient customs and traditions throughout the country. is accompanied by a love of p 0 rogress.” | Mme. Radeft remarked. “Bulgarian | women have a thirst for education. In| the larger eities of the countrv may be | found many women doing important | scientific T ching in universities—active in social welfare enterprises and the other fields into | which the twentieth century woman has | eptered “Although Bulgarian women do not | vet vote.” continued the Minister's wife, | “they take the greatest interest in gen- | eral politics. especially in social work. | They also influence the men in questions | of national importance to the women and children. Bulgarian men alwayvs give consideration to the opinien ex-| pressed by their women. Public opinion, | as well as the government. fully appr eiate the importance of the particip ton of women in national and state life." “You will perhaps remember that the| first government to appoint a woman to a dipiomatic post the Bulgarian, as | well as giving o a young woman lawyer | the important mission of representing her country in an international mixed’ claims court. The American schools for girle in Bulgaria and at Constantinople are al- i rays overcrowded with Bulgarian girls. | Near Sofia, a big American eollege is | being built. Development of social work | in Bulgaria was greatly stimulated by an American Iady—the wife of a for- mer Russian Minister in Sofia, Mme. Bakhmeteff, who, before her ringe, was Miss Mary Beale. “Although 1 was very young at thi time," reminisced Mme. Radeff, "I re member her quite well, as she was a great friend of my mother. Mme, Bakhmeteft founded the Society of the the co-operation of the most prominent women of Bulgaria “The American Red Cross alse has assisted s, sending o Bulgaria nurses | for training the persannel for Bulgarian hospitals. “America’s part In Buigarian eduea- tion for women and in social welfare work, has been of greatest impertanee.” | TWO OCEAN PLANES SHVED FROMWAVES Wind Kicks Up Breakers Un- der Yellow Bird and Green Flash on Maine Beach. By the Associated Press OLD ORCHARD, Me., June 6 —The French and American fiyers waiting here for suitable weather to hop for Paris and Rome. respectively, today gave attention to the condition of their planes, which narrowly escaped | damage. A strong off-thore wind kicked up breaker under the wheels of the Yellow Bird and Green Flash as they rested on the beach facing the sea A fireman and volunteers hauled the planes up on the beach. Breakers would have washed the under fuselage of the Yellow Bird had it remained there much longer Roger @. Williams and Lewis A Yancey of the Green Flash and Jean Assolant and Rene Le Fevre of the Yellow Bird expressed their gratitude to volunteer workers. Yancey indicated that a take-off on the ocean hop could not be expected for at least 24 hours. He said. how- er, that a favorable high pressure area was moving slowly seaward toward the course thev intend to follow. VALUABLE LAUNDRY! 1 £1,500,00 in Bonds Is Transported as Bundle of “Wash."” FRANKFORT, Ky., June 6 (P)- £1,500,000 laundry package was deliv- | ered by automobile frem Louisville to the State insurance department here | yesterday. The bundle, loosely "wrapped and | bearing a slip ‘checking its contents as | being shirts, socks and other wearing apparel. contained negotiable securities | that were brought here by representa- | tives of & Kentucky insurance firm to | deposit in accordance with the law re- quiring insurance eompanies to keep & foecified pmount of securities in State vaulls, Al PRIVATE KITCHEN IS BEING BUILT IN the clank of plumbing tools upon pipes | and the other noises necessary for the| installation ef a kitehen and all its ad- | juncts in an aleove off the conference | reom that adjoins Mr. Brown's private | office in the Postoffice Department Building at Eleventh street and Penn- sylvania avenue, | A Sink Is Included. Into the aleove the workmen are puf- ting a_ commonplace sink, where the head of the Postoffice Department mav | wash his own dishes; a stove, where | that dignitary may eook the delicaceis | he has learned to concoct: a refrigera- | tor to kesp the foods which will adorn | the conference table, and a larder which the Postmaster General is ex- pected to keep well-stocked | There the Postmaster General will| cook away to his heart's content the several faney dishes of his own econ- coetion, the most famous of whieh is something like a Hungarian goulash the “chicken paprikash.’ The kitchen ought to be ready in a werk or s0. members of the Postmaster | General's office force declared today. Long Interested in Art. For years the Postmaster General has been interested in the culinary art. He says he learned cooking while roughing it ‘on camping trips, beginning with the homely ham and eggs, but gradually be- coming more proficient with the more difficult dishes. From there Mr. Brown branched out into the realm of creative cooking and has evolved, in addition to the “chicken paprikash” other dishes diffeult not only to cook but te pro- neunee. The kitehen is being installed in the conference room at the Postmaster Gen- eral's own axpense, it was announced. A Garden, Too! ‘The Postmaster General has not gone about his kitchen activities in any half- way manner. Out in Toledo, where Mr. Brown had his home before he took up his official duties as a member of President Hoover's eabinet, he main- tained a kitchen garden with his estab- lishment, raising his own tomatoes, cabb: and other vegetables with which he supplied his own table, It is expected that when Mr. Brown becomes more settled in the Capital he will continue t. practice. Mother Magdalen, a director of Provi- dence Roman Catholic Convent, Wood Green, Eneland, the only n¥n connscted with a public company, died recently. | American Society | Massachusetts | Carrie Chapman C: Civic Leadersr Guests of Honor at Testimonial at Y. W. C. A, Mr. and Mrs. George Alfred Ricker for years aetive in eivie affairs and in the movement to secure naticnal repr sentation fer the District of Columbia, were guesta of honor today at a testi- monial luncheen given by eivil and social organizations and bodies working for Distriet suffrage at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets. The affair was given on the eccasion of the de- parture of Mr. and Mrs. Ricker for Chi- cago 11_ye ) Mr. Ricker, a eivil engineer, and re- membered best for his work in con- structing_the gorge trolley line at Niagara Falls, will leave his post here with the American Portl Cement Association to assume char of the association’s bureau of edueation in Chicage. Many Pay Tribute, Joining in the tribute to Mr. Mrs. Ricker are: The Citizens' Joint Committee on National Representation. Federation of Citizens' Associations, Twentieth Cen- tury Club, board of trustees of All Souls' Unitarian Chureh, Women's Alliance of All Souls' Unitarian Church, Unitarian Laymen's Ldagu2, ‘Vaskhin; ton Soclety of Engineers, Voteless Di triet of Columbis Veters, and Nationa! ital Park and [ Planning Commission and other organi- | zations. Jesse C. Suter, chairman of the com- mittee on arrangements for the lunch- eon. is being assisted by Mrs. R. Thom West. Dr. Percival Hall, Mrs. Johnston, Edward S. Hege. Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, Col. E. H. Newcomer and John W. Adams. Col. Grant Present. The list of those attending the lunch- son includes: Lieut. Cel. U. 8. Grant 3d. director of public bulldlng and pub- lie parks; Mlt Carev H. Brown, en- gineer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commissien, and Mrs. Brown; Frederic William Wile, Theodore W. Noyes, Commissioner Proctor L. Dough- of All Souls’ Unitarian Chureh, and Mrs. Plerce, and Dr. George C. Haven- ner, president of the Federation of Cit- izens' Associations Mr. and Mrs. Ricker both have been | members of the Citisens' Joint Commit- | authorised by {tee on Natienal Representation and volunteer work on the co- ordinating eommittee of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- ston, of which Maj. Brown is c’firman Served Rafireads. Mr. Ricker began his engineering werk on the Erie Railroad at 16 years of Twe years later he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After leaving there he was assistant engineer on the Erle road and later on the Northern Pacific Ratlroad in Mon- tana. He surveyed and built the Niag- ara Goi Railroad and was chief e gineer of the Buffalo traction lines. He also bult the first three eoncrete grain eleva'ors in Buffale harbor. T1 1913 he was tpfifilnwd first deputy commussioner of highways of the State nf New York. He started that State the construction of concrete roads. In 1918 he was eivil service examiner of the hava done | New York State Civil Serviee Commis- sion and in the same vear, he was con- sulting engineer of the New York State Automobile Association and editor of Motordom, its official magasine. In 1916 he )oined the Portland Cement Association of Chieago as high- way engineer and in 1918 came here as its representative. He is now goi to the Chicago headquarters of the as soclation to become manager of its sducational bureau. Civil Service Hebby. His hobby has been civil service re- form, having been for 14 years a mem- ber and president “6f the Buffalo City Civil Service Commission. He was active in eivic wark in Buffalo and a member of the Civil Serviee Reform Commossion executive eommittee. He was also chairman of the board of trustees of All Souls’ Unitarian Chureh |'here during the building of the new | edifice st Sixteenth and Harvard of Civil Engineers, Institute Teechnology Societies and the Cosmes Club. Mrs. Ricker became interested early in ecivic affairs and welfare work Buffalo. She was a director of the Wémen's Educational and Industrial Union and ene of the Airst members of the D. A. R. She was also one of Mrs. lieutenants i the campaign for woman suffrage in New York State. She was engaged in similar activities later in Albany, Kan- sas City, Chicago, and has continued | her interest in eivie and welfare work in_Washingten She_has been president of the Vote- Isec Distriet of Columbia League of Women Voters, chairman of the civic section of the Twentieth Century Club and a trustee of All Souls’ Unitarian Church. She has worked on the eiti- z*ns’ joint committee for a number of years and is a member of the Distriet of Columbia commission for the George Washington Memorial celebration of 1932, U. S. MAY ESTABLISH EMBASSY IN PEIPING Dr. Wu Brings Matter Before State Department and Plan Is Being Considered. Br the Associdted Press Elevation of the American legation in Peiping to the rank of an embassy is being eonsidered by the State Depart- ment. Dr. €. C. Wu, who recently assumed his duties here as Chinese minister called the matter to the department's attention and offieials said today the minister had been informed that the raising of the legation rank was under econsideration. Dr. Wu, in his conversations with the Department remarked that his gov- ernment would be pleased to receive an ambassador from the United States and that the Chinese legation here would be reciprocally given the highest of diplomatic ranks. Btockholm-to-New York Expected to Be Started Saturday. STOCKHOLM, June 8 (#).—Capt. Al- bin Ahrenberg, Swedish aviator, an- nounced today that everything was in readiness for the start of his flight across the Atlantic at 6 a.m. Saturday (about midnight, Fastern standard New York is his goal. . Ahrenberg, accompanied by Axel Floden and Mechanie Ljunglund, will make his first halt at Bergen, Norway, where he is due at 11 am. He will remain there an hour be- fore his departure for Chile is developing its policy of lend- ing government aid to projects for in- creasing production. fter residing in Washington for League of Women | in | Flight | ™ .Capper ‘and Jones Receive Many Letters From Widely Separated Areas. | The appeal made over the radio last week by Senators Jones, Republican of | Washington, and Capper. Republican of | Kansas, in support of national represen- | tation for the people of the Distriet of ! Columbia, has brought to thesa Senators letters from widely separated localities, ! indicating that the plea was well re- ceived and made an impression on ‘he senders of the messages. | Scnator Jones received a message from South America. It was from M H. Ricketts, in Buenos Aires, stating | | i l that his radio speech was elerely re- ' leeived there. Senator Jones received | other comments from the Far West, in- | cluding his own State of Washington, as { well as California and Oregon One of the letters received by Senator | Capper was from G. E. Hustis, of Fast Orange. N. J. who stated that he and Mrs. Huctis agree fully with the ecn- | clusion stated by the Senator. There were other letters along the same lines. Among them was another from Evan H. Tucker, of the Northeast Washing- | ton Citizens' Association ZONING AFFAIRS LAXLY HANDLED, BUREAU CHARGES (Continued From First Page.) !and oecupied for such a use prior to zoning and therefore not subject to the | | soning regulations. Nene of was required by law or re seeure a certificate or pay a fee. “The administration of these regula- Itions has mever been resolved into a Idefinite pelicy ealeulated to carry out the intent of the law or the regula- tions." | Reports Alleged Violations. The report then gives six instances of t the three gulation to | erty, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, pastor | ajleged violations of the regulations, in | ach eas d ad- ress: ) ing names, dates an Sertificate of oceupancy issued |for a hotel and apartment drug store. | Aceording to the files the certificate was the Commissioners on | condition that entrances and exits be within the building and that there be ne outside display, in accordance with the soning rescrictions in residential dis- | |triets, Considerable remodeling was | done without a building permit. * * ¢ | There is a great deal o play. The net result is that a corner |drug store and lunchroom eatering to the general public has been establiched 'in a residential district in violation of the sening regulations (2) Certificate was issued before the construetion of the building had start- |ed. This building when finished did not comply with the regulations: there- | | tore, when the inspector of buildings issued this certificate he virtually ap- | proved a number of violations of the regulations. Obviously it is dangerous | practice to certity, | with the bullding regulations. (3) Auto repair shop: Bullding per- | mit was issued permitting the applicant to bulld “one auto top show (one story) |as per plane.” No permit for rasing could be located, although there had been a two-story dwelling on the prem- | ises just prior to this date, which must ‘hl\'u been razed. Under this permit a two-story brick and stucco building up and the lower floor used ’ll made of the additional story in the inspectors’ reports, although there was mention of some unstated change in the plans. Later, building permit to establish a public garage on the prem | 1ses was issued. A public garage may | be permitted in a first commercial dis- | triet, but any auto repairing must be merely incidental to the main business In this case, however, auto repairing was the prineipal business. Two days later eertificate of occupancy was is- sued to the first floor of the two- | story brick building as a “public garage | “l ition and hattery service, accessories Although this le preseribed by regulation. The occu- pancy of the building was more accu rately described by the sign “Auto R air Shop” placed over the door than t was in the certificate of occupancy. The net result is that an aute repair I shop has been established and is op- | erating In a zone in which the Zoning | Commission has decreed that no auto vepair shops shall be permitted Shop in Prohibited Zone, ir shop. This buildine reroom by the District Electrical Department from April 1 1923, until May 31, 1926. It is located in a first commercial zone, where auto repair shops are prohibited. Certificate of occnglm‘v was issued May 14, 1926 for “Pul tery Service, Starting, Lighting Igni- tion.” 1In spite of the use specified on the certificate, the establishment is. in fact, an auto repair shop. Aithough this building has been occupled as noted above by the District Electrical Department for three yea: d was so occupled at the time th pl n was filed, the applicant represented that | the place had formerly been used as ublic livery stable. There is a nota. plication indicating that & police survey had been made in August, 1020, but the record of this eould not be located. This is another case where an auto repair shop has | been established and allowed to operate contrary to the regulations 18) Publie gari filling and service station and auto repair shop are being operaced at this location. which zoned first commercial. The adjoining property owners gave thelr consent to he establishment of a “flling station” only. Lacer they were notified by the police of the intent to build a public garage, but there is nothing in the record 1o show that they consented to this use. Part of the main building is occupied as an auto repair shop. Iarge sign over the door proclaims.this violation of che zoning law in no un- eerfain manner, but apparently it has not been discovered by the building inspector's staff nor by the police (8) Th two bulldings are in a residential district. and have been oec- cupied far Arst commercial uses for some time prior to August 30. 1920. Both buildings have been structurally aleered under permits issued by the inspector of buildings since the zoning regulations became effective. These alterations were in direct violation or the zoning regulations. The repor. was based on investiga- tions made by F. J. Queenin and D. P. Evans, and was forwarded to the Com- ioners by Herbert D. Brown, chief of the Bureau of Efficiency BAND CONCERT. iles and .Conradi “The Dying Poet”....Gottschalk “Movement from Ballet Herodiade'. . ... Gems from mus! Fortune Teller’ A Fox trot, Just Roll Aleng"”. Waltz song, “I'm Away from the World, ‘When I'm Away from You,” Pollosk Finale, “Con Moto” .....Gernert “The Star Spangled Banner,” outside dis- | before a structure N | has been completed, that it complies | n aute repair shop. No mention | ® | resignation to President Hoover March lic Garage. Buick Service, Bat- | is | !vd the United States Soldiers’ Home | Left fo right: Carl T. Schuneman, retiring Assistant Secretary of the | Treasury, and his siecessor, Ferry Kimball Healh. —Star Staff Photo. rem e v e ) N ATTAK ON HITCH-HIKER | AS TREASURY ASSISTANT Colored Man Is Accused of | ‘ Hitting Passenger and Tak- ing Traveling Bag. ___(Continued From First Page.) Iun. but left that institution during the Spanish-American War to join the | 32d Michigan Infantry. Has Shipping Interests. Mr. Heath is interested in the insur- ance and shipping business on the | Great Lakes. He has been assistant to the president of the Goodtich Transit | Co., a shipping firm of the Great Lakes The World War record of Mr. Heath started at the officers’ training camp at Fort Sheridan and he served overseas being promoted to major of the 33| Field Artillery in France. After The arrest yesterday afternoon of a colored man said to have stolen an au- tomobile, assaulted and robbed a hitch- hiker and subsequently talked Virginia autharities out of detaining him was credited today to the observing eye of Jack Rowles, a tourist guide. Howles yesterday overheard George H. Heavern of Altoona, Pa.. say his auto- mobile had just been stolen He learned the license number. spot- ted the tag and notified Virginia au- thorities, wio arrested James Washing- ton, eolored, 19, of the 700 block of First street. Detective Sergeant Frank M. Alli- good returned him and booked him on & charge of grand larceny. Subsequently police here heard of the case of Robert T. Stewart of East Falls Church, Va., who was picked up yes- terday afternoon by a colored man just south of Alexandria. Stewart sald the man invited him to ride. Two miles below Accotink, Stew- art said, the head with a crank handle and robbed him of his traveling bag. Stewart said he notified authorities, who picked up the colored man, ques- tioned him and released him. The col- ored man denied the robbery allegation, declaring he was driving the automobile in the employ of two white men After his return here Washington confessed he was the driver of the car in which art was injured, accord- ing to : ive Alligood SIR ESME ANNOUNCES TO SECRETARY STIMSON EMBASSY WILL BE DRY —(Continued From First Pege.) Hoover, then head American Relief Mission, to take charge | of that mission’s work in Finland. For his services of five months in Finland for the mission_Maj. Heath was deco- rated by the Finnish government | Knight of the White Rose of Fir He a member of the Club and Kent Country Club of Grand Rapids, the American Legion, the Mili- tary Order of Foreign Wars, the Mili- | tary Order of the Loyal Legion, the | Metropolitan_Club of Washington, the | University Club _of Chicago_and _the | Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York City. Comments on Building. | Mr. Schuneman, in commenting on | the progress made in Washington on public buildings. expressed especial in- | terest in the Department of Agriculture, which is on the verge of still further | development. As soon two more “squnrrt of land can be zcquired by con- | demnation at the corner of Fourteenth and B streets southwest, Mr. Schune=- man said, plans were virtually ready to proceed with the erection there of enormous extensible builings. “When the new executive building for the department is completed, and | the extensible buildings across B street are finished. the two buildings being connected by a bridge over B sireet and all the old structures torn down,” said Mr. Schuneman, “it will be a splendid clean-up of all the old buildings in that area. The departmental building itsel! will present a magnificent front.” Plans also are progressing, Mr. Schuneman said, for the Archives Bullding, which is to be erected in the triangle. | Mr. Schuneman. who appointed {in 1828 by President Coolidge to suc- ceed McKenzie Morse, tendered his matic immunity and privilege the Government has no interfere with this privilege, fringe upon 1t or narrrow in any way, but_ will protest the diplomats in their rights | 4. but has remained in office at the re- quest of the President. It was said at | the White House today that Mr. Schune- { man will stay on at the Treasury De- | Rmment for'a week or so to familiarize COUNT IS ARRESTED | AS RUM RING AGENT Envoy's Attituds Porsonal. Commenting unon the position taken by the British Ambassador. Secretary Stimson added that re regarded it as A purely personal matter. He said no other diplomats had been to the State Department to inform him of a like intention Sir Esme Howard, in a recent letter to James T. Carter of Lynchburg, Va 2 prohibitionist, sald he was willing to surrender the diplomatic privilege of importing liquor. 1f ti Government would i have it stopped. 7 was parent, however. that ne such tion was likely to come from this Gov. ernment The British Ambassador has, there- fore, gone much further than the prom- ise made in his lstter, since he has not | De Polignac of 0ld Frensh Famil Among 37 Men Taken in Round-up. y * wish to B: the Assaciated P NEW YORK, June 8.—Count Francis de Maxence de Polignac, sald to be of the old French nobility, was arrested by | undercover prohibition agents today end | eharged with being the European agent lof an international rum ring Seven cases of liquor were seized in |the count's suite at the Savoy-Plaza | Hotel. | The count's arrest occurred in a gen- jeral round-up of 37 men who are charged with conspiracy to violate the | prohibition act in connection with the Activities of the alleged ring. william J. Calhoun, chief In charge of the 40 agents making the round-up. said a pile of papers relating to activi- ties of the ring were found in Count de Polignac’s suite. Another raid conducted on the “head- quarters” of the ring resulted in the arrest of two other alleged leaders, Wil- liam Bartels and Philip D. Gowen Bartels and Gowen occupied offices 200 Fifth avenue under the firm name of the "Go-Bart Co. exporters and importe: Two other men ar- ed in the offices were William B Flynn and George Heath from official quarters. Liquor Orders to Stop. Of course, if Sir Esme Howard signs no mere for liquor shipments liquor will ~esse to be recsived at the embassy or by any of the members of the embassy staff. When Washington diploma to restock their cellars the first necessary step is to inform the Stats Department that a shipment of liquor is expected on a certain ship, ar- riving in & given place and time. This nformation must be sent over the sig- nature of the head of the mission—the ambassador, minister or, in his absence, the official who is aeting in his place. The State Department informs the Treasury Department. and instructions are iscued to the customs officials to pass the shipment on to a representa- tive of the embassy. who appears with the proper credentials. This repre- at taining the liquor until it reaches its destination and is distributed to_the | members of the embassy staff who have | placed orders for it Senator Blease, Democrat, of South | Carolina, who has been conducting a | fight to do away with diplomatic 1 munity from the prohibition law, made A brief reference when the Senate met | today te the action of the British Am. | bassador. The South Carolina Senator | declared: “T take off my hat and bow | to the British Ambassador for agreeing | |to abide by the Conatitution of the | United States.” H AUTO AND T'RAIN CRASH. | Laxman Anderson | | e |DUKE OF GLOUCESTER STARTS TRIP JUNE 10 Continuance of Itinerary Will De- pend on His Condition Dur- ing Next Few Days. By the Associated Pres VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Junc 6.—The Duke of Gloucester will start, | his trip across Canada on June 10, it! ! has been officially announced. Whether | the prince will be able to continue the | itinerary mapped out prior to his acei- | dent at Bright House Park Tuesda: when he received a fractured coll bone as his pony slipped and fell, w Suffers Concus- sion of Brain in Accident. | Epecial Dispatch to The Btar. ALEXANDRIA, Va.. June 6 | Anderson of 117 South Columl street i5 suffering with concussion of the brain as a result of a wreck here this depend on his condition during the next | morning when an automobile which he |few days. Prince Henry's departure! was driving collided with an electric | from Vancouver was first set for Friday | train of the Mount Vernon. Alexandria morning. but his physicians decided he | & Washington Eleetric Railway Co. at ' would not be fit for travel at that time. | the North Braddock Station. | Resting pasier today, his royal high- | The machine was wrecked and the | ness was in fine spirits, joining his | electric train was derailed. Anderson | companions of the royal party at lunch- [ was taken to the Alexandria Hospital | eon in the regal suite at the Hotel Van- | by Harry H. Beach of 215 South Lee couver and appearing quite unconcerned sfreet. His condition is not regarded about his injury. as serlous. the eolored man hit him on | __ | arrested and charged with d States | waited for an intimation of any kind sentative accompanies the truck eon- | Closing Arguments Start in Trial of Officers in Death Be the Associnted Press ARINGDON. Va.. June 6.—The ease of J. W. Crowe, Washington Coun': deputy sheriff, charged with murder in connectign with the fatal shooting of J. W. Kendrick, 16, Emory and Henrv College tsudent, should reach the jury carly this afternoon All testimony ix in. and lawyers th morning were clearing away four hour of argument before the ju Crowe, 50 years old, and the father of 12 children, is under joint indietment with James MeReynolds, Abingd City policeman, and W. D. Worle: deputy sheriff Said They Sought Phelps. The State charges that these throe nfficers fired upon an autemobile oecu- pied by Kendrick and twe other yount men, Paul Phelps and Sterling Dutton the night of May 8, inflicting wound upon Kendrick from which he died 20 hours later. Crowe and MCReynolds cy were seeking Phelps upon in | {Both men denied knowledge of Ken- {not see him in the automobile. ~Mc- | cers fired only after Phelps. who wa: Defense counsel succeeded in havine 4 o “Te court instructs the jury Yaat if matter of law, he was guilty of a felon: to arrest him with er without warrant his flight by mistake or accident was excusabl e Siouing A BROWN T | Defendant Faces Eighth Trip teo | drick being in the car, and throughout | Reynolds testified that he did not fire, |.operating the car, had ignored an order included iIn the instruetions to the jury | Phelps, on the night of May 8, wa: |in view of previous convictions and it and, if necessary, to shoot and kill him “1f the killing of Phelps would have | unless the sheoting was done in & wan- RIAL AGAIN | Court as Seventh Fails to | formation that he was intoxicated the trial have contended that they did but that one or both of the other off- 1 to halt. Defense Wins Strong Polpt. { transperting ardent spirits, them, as a | was the right and duty of the officers in order to effect the arrest or prevent | been justified, the killing of Kendrick | ton and reckless mannes ENDS IN DEADLOCK | Bring Verdict. Brought into court seven times in the | past two vears to be tried on a statutary | charge preferred by his wife, Charles H. | Brown, of the first block of H street. | whe was shot three times by his wife | after the case had been postponed in | February, _yesterday afternoon stood | trial in Police Court before a jury which became hopelessly deadlocked and forced Judge Hitt t8 declare the case a mistrial. He now faces the pros- pect of coming te eourt for the eighth time in the same case. Another attempt to decide the Brown case will be made following the selec- tion of a new j\lr;m. el June 18, it is announced by ecuting Attorney Irving Goldsteln. Brown and Lilllan Johnson were arrested at the H street address in | Octobar, 1927, on a warrant sworn eut | by his wife, Mrs. May C. Brown, 813 ! € street northeast. She didn't appear for the first trial and the case was dis- missed for lack of prosecution. She saeured another warrant. however, and since then many continuances have delaved the case. On February 15, folle s contin- uance of the case, Mrs. wn fired three bullets into her husband’s body as , accom by Lillian Johnsen. Mrs. Brown Wa§ t with under intent to kill. She is at M $5.000 bond. Despite protests of the defense eoun« sel Brown's two daughters were intro- duced by the prosecution te testify against him. They told of hay soen their father in the company Johnson on several occasions. It was stated that the jury was dead- locked yesterday with a vote of § to 3 for acquittal. ASSISTANT TO GRANT T0 BE MAJ. PETERSON An order issued at the War Depart- ment oday relieved Maj. Virgil L. Peterson, Corps of Engineers, from duty as_instructor in the General Service Schools_at Fort Leavenworth, Kan: August 20, and directed him to proceed o this city and repert to Lieut. Col. |y, 8 orant 3d. director of Public Buildings and Public P the Na- | tional Capital, for duty as his assistant | His special duties will be defined by Col. Grant after his arrival. Mej. Peterson is from Kentucky and is a graduate of the West Point Academy. | class of 1908. He served in the Worid War as a colonel of En!lneerl. National | Army, and was awarded the Distin- guished Service Medal . MONTGOMERY POLICE ; LOOK FOR COLLECTOR | | By a Staft Correspondent of The Bta BETHESDA, Md., June 6. — gomery County police are on th |'out for a person giving the name of “Capt. Jones of the Bethesda Volun- | teer Fire Department.” who is seeking | contributions to a fund for the relief | of injured firemen and widows and or- phans of firemen. Chief Browne of the Bethesda de- partment informed the police that that organization neither has a “Capt. Jones” nor has it suc haf und. Lindbergh Takes Big Chance in Covering Name of His Cruiser | By the Associat BOSTON, June Guard officials say he has over- looked. Lindbergh and his bride have beep reported cruising about the waters of Cape Cod in a cabin cruiser, the Mouette, He was reported to have coversd the boat’s name with canvas, in order to outwit those who might in- terrupt his honevmoon. Coast Guard boats en the watch for rum runners list boats with covered names under two head- ings—rum runners or pirates, officials pointed out that th Coast Guardsmen always give & ship the opportunity of identity. ing itself, but the covering of boat's name is not always a safe procedure and hesitancy in answering might lead to shots being fired.