Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1929, Page 17

Washington News @he Fp WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1929. ening Sfaf. FHH PAGE 17 GLASSMAN GARAGE IS PADLOCKED BY fecswasn - TEMPORARY ORDER Grand Jury Opens Probe of! Rum Ring Conspiracy Charges. LAWFUL BUSINESS MAY BE CONDUCTED Ccurt Ruling Prevents Storing,{ Selling and Transporting of Whisky. While the District grand jury was hearing witnesses today in connection | with charges of a whisky conspiracy | ring, said to have operated from the two garages of Herbert Glassman, 2101 14th street and 1319 L _street, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and As- sistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcott were granted by Justice Wil- liam Hitz of the District Supreme Court, a temporary “padlock” injunction against both ‘garages and a temporary restraining order against Glassman and | his alleged associates. Orcutt_explained that the temporary court order, signed by Justice Hitz, will \not prevent Glassman from proceeding i with his lawful business now conducted at the two garages, including the rent- a-car _business and the Glassman's Studebaker Sales and Service. The re- straining order merely prevents the | storing, selling and transporting of whisky and the soliciting of orders for | deliveries of intoxicants, the assistant | prosecutor said. 1 It is too early to be confident that this is going to happen. It is too early | to assume the bill will become an al- | most wholly one. The tendency is that way. Nevertheless, there will be long battles on the Senate floor before the condition can fully arise. 1If this condition should come about, several important questions would arise. Easterners’ Attitude Ts Factor. The first is, what would then be the attitude of Senators and members from the industrial East? Would they sup- port, or refrain from vigorously oppos- ing, a mainly agricultural bill> Senator Moses of New Hampshire recently said publicly that the bill was becoming one whose sole or principal effect would be to make foods expensive to Eastern consuming centers. ‘That was prob- ably an off hand remark rather than a considered suggestion of a policy to be followed by the East. Nevertheless, Senator Moses’ remark suggests a meod that may come upon New England and the East if the bill becomes one in which the East has very little stake, and the farmers a very large stake. It i5 by no means likely, however, that the | Republican party as a whole would deny to the farmers the increased tar- iff which was more or less explicitly promised them in the campaign. Named as defendants in the “padlock™ proceedings are: Herbert . Glassman, trading as Glassman's Sales Co., Glass- man’s Rent-a-car Co., Glassman's Gar- | age and Glassman's Studebaker Sales | and Service; the Glassman Rent-a-Car Corporation, Inc.; Samuel Goldstein, Harry Behrle, Irving Rosenberg, Davis Glassman. Alion Cissel, Antonio D'Am- brosio, Jacob Miller, Julius Sanders, Harvey O'Connor, Robert C. Jones and | Francis J. Paxton, described as his em- ployes. Attached as formal parties are: Francis W. Hill, sr., owner of premises agricultural 2101 Fourteenth street, and Harry Sherby, who owns premises 1319 L | street. The petition generally alleges that some of the defendants continuously | during the period from September 1, 1928, until January 1, 1929, had pos- session of intoxicating liquors, includ- | ing whisky, gin and other alcoholic | liquors, contained in large part.in trucks | and automobiles, which were used to transport unlawfully the liquor to var- fous parts of the city. Solicitation o(‘ orders for whisky also is alleged. i Attached to the application for the | injunction were affidavits signed by two | former employes of Glassman, setting | out in detail the alleged operation of the so-called liquor ring at the garages during the time of their employment, as | well as affidavits of police officers about what they found in two raids on the | Glassman establishment. -RUM ‘TIP’ REWARD AWAITS CLAIMANT ‘The United States Treasury, which makes it a business of receiving monies collected from the taxpayers, had $7,500 on deposit waiting for somebody to call for it today, but. the prospects were that the money in question would stay in the vaults for a long time. 1 The item is made available to the person ' wiose information led to the seizure of the palatial yacht Margo, owned by Bert A. Massce, wealthy soap manufacturer of Chicago. The Margo was sejzed in Detroit about two weeks ago and was found to have on board approximately 40 cases of choice liguors. The boat had been chartered by Louis Mendelssohn of Detroit. The person who gave the information which led to the seizure is entitled, un- der the tariff act of 1922 to 25 per cent of the net amount recovered by the Government, not in excess of $50,000. Massee, as an innocent party to the af-| fair, was allowed by the Treasury De- partment to redeem his vessgl upon pay- ment of a $30,000 fine and the $7,500 which can be claimed by the person who suggested the seizure is 25 per cent of that amount. JOHN B. DANIEL, ANNOUNCER, KNOWN TO MILLIONS, DIES ngtonian, Who Read Hoover’s Peace Pact Speegh, Is Operation Victim. Was Formerly Connected With Station WRC—End Comes in New York. The voice of John B. Daniel, known to millions of radio fans throughout the United States, was silenced forever this morning when he died at St. Eliza- beth's Hospital in New York, follow< ing an operation for appendicitis last Wednesday night. v Daniel, formerly attached to Station WRC of the National Broadcasting Co. here, had been in New York for a year. On July 17 he returned to Washington to handle the peace pact ceremonies at the White House. When through some misunderstanding President Hoover's voice did not go on the air, Daniel read the Chief Executive’s speech to the radio audience. Daniel, during: the administration of President Coolidge, introduced Mr. Coolidge to the radio audience on sev- eral occasions. He was 28 years old and engaged to Miss Bertha Cable of 1910 K strect, the daughter of Lieut. W. A: Cable, U. S. N, retired, and they had planned to be married late this month in New York. Mayor Walker of New York was to have performed the ceremony. Five Years as Announcer. Daniel had been announcing for more than five years. His first post was with Station WJZ in New York City. Three years ago he was sent to WRC in Washington. The work of Daniel here, where he handled many important programs which were broadcast throughout the country, attracted the attention of NBC DANIEL. -Harris-Ewing Photo. JOHN B. officials in New York. A year ago he was transferred to New York. In the past few months Daniel was rapidly forging ahead. Some of the largest concerns in the country using broadcasting selected him to announce their programs. In the description of public events, Daniel was being selected on every occasion. Among the outstanding broadcasts in which Daniel participated were the Lindbergh ceremonies in Washington, inauguration of President Hoover and arrival of the Graf Zeppelin in Lake- hurst, N. J., both this and last year. The announcer was the son of Tom Daniel, English actor, he came to this county as a youth and at 18 entered journalism as a dramatic critic. He later turned to the profession of sing- ing and was heard in many cities over the country in musical comedy and vaudeville. He was in the Navy for three years. PASSENGER ROBS CAB DRIVER OF $8 12 Diamond Rings, Valued at $2,000, Are Stolen From Store Window. William H. Hoffman, taxicab driver. 409 Third street, reported to the police last night that he had been held up at the point of a pistol and robbed of $8. His story to police of the second pre- cinct was that he had a colored pas- senger in his car last night, and that after visiting a Fifth street lunchroom, he wasd irected to drive to Seventh and R streets. When his destination was reached, | he stated, his fare pointed a pistol at | him andedemanded that he “fork over” his money. Hoffman said he surren- dered his cash. Several colored men answering the description of the robber were arrested by the police, but Hoff- man was unable to identify any one of them. Rings Taken From Window. Loss of 12 diamond rings, valued at $2.000, was reported to police of the first precinct, by Edward Frank, in business at 434 Ninth street. Frank told police of the first precinct that his place of business was entered between 7 and 10 o'clock last night and the rings taken from the show window. The store was entered by means of a duplicate key. A dozen rings were taken from the window. Property valued at $170 was taken from the waiting room in Union Sta- tion yesterday. Willlam A. Longstreet lost his handbag and suit case contain- ing wearing apparel valued at $70. Kenneth Perry of the vicinity of Johnson City, Tenn,, lost a fiber suit i case containing $20 worth of wearing apparel. Ulysses Cunningham, 2021 Bain- bridge street, Richmond, Va. lost a lcather bag containing a camera and wearing apparel valued at $75. Pickpocket Gets $100. Frank W. Kirby, Vineland, N. J., visiting at 2023 Kalorama road, late Saturday night was the victim of a i pickpocket while riding on a Mount Pleasant car. A leather billfold, con- taining about $100, was taken from his pocket. \ Jimmying a window, an unidentified individual gained entrance to the home of Charles H. Andrews, 2822 Connecti- cut avenue, some time Saturday. The intruder, believed to be a colored man, sm‘iflscveml articles of jewelry valued at $40. George Dana, 535 Fourth street south- east, reported the taking of less than $10 from his cash register Saturday night. Entrance was gained by remov- ing a window screen. WOMAN, 70, IS INJURED IN FALL ON STEPS AT HOME Groans Bring Neighbors to Aid Her, Since Husband Was at Work at Time. Mrs. Kale Rockwell, 70 years old, 82 U street, was injured seriously about 10 o'clock last night as the result of a fall on the stairs leading from the first to the second floor of her home, to which she had just moved Saturday. Her husband, Charles H. Rockwell, was at his place of employment, and ‘The Treasury Department has no ln-, her groans brought neighbors and formation on who might be entitled to the money, but if man, woman or child can prove that it was his or her tip that brought about the seizure the money will be paid under the terms of the act, and the department will not disclose his * or her identity, secrecy being a depart- mental policy in such cases. Pending the submission of any such claim, there is some uncertainty as to how to account for the money, and in the event nobody claims it final disposi- tion will be another problem. o CLARENCE B. LANE DIES AT SANITARIUM HERE Clarence B.! Lane of Germantown, Pa., at one time chief of the Dairy Di- vision, United States Department of Agriculture, and in recent years an ex- ecutive of a large dairy company of Philadelphia, died in the Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, yesterday. He had been a patient at the sani- ! police to her assistance. Dr. J. R. Young responded to a call sent to Casuaity Hospital and took Mrs. Rockwell to that institution. It was reported at the hospital that she was severely shocked and that her skull may be fractured. The extent of the injury to her skull will be determined by an X-ray examination. VETERAN CLOTHIER, BENJAMIN BASS, DIES Benjamin Bass, 56 years old, for nearly 40 years in the clothing business here, dicd of ‘stomach trouble at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hyman Gar- finkle, 3827 Kansas avenue, yesterday. Born in Russia, Bass came to this country at the age of 16 and set- tled in Washington, where he has since resided. His place of business was at 1730 Seventh street. Surviving are his widow, Rebecca Bass; & son, 10 ARE INJURED INAUTD CRASHE ' Three Children Are Among Victims of Heavy Traffic Over Holiday. ‘The heavy motor traffic in Washing- ton and nearby States over Sunday resulted in injuries to ten residents of the District, three of them children. Mrs, Eleanor Casalege, 35 1314 S street southeast, was hurt the most seriously. She was wounded in the leg and received a fractured arm and left hand injuries about 5 o'clock yesterday afterncon when the automobile in which she was a passenger was in a collision near Mechanicsville, Md. The other machine was operated by Herman J. Kruel of Philadelphia, bolice | were informed. Several other members of the Casalege party were shaken slightly. Mrs. Casalege was removed to her home, where her condition was undetermined this morning. Two Children Are Hurt. ‘Two small children received cuts and bruises late yesterday afternoon in a colllision at Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth street. They were Frances Hardy, four years old and Paul Hardy, two years old, of 2608': L street. The machine in which they were passengers ‘was operated by Levi J. Nriderer, 45, of McSherrystown, Pa., and the other car was driven by John Haglage. 45, 1510 Wisconsin_avenue. The children were taken to Emergency Hospital. Three-year-old Billy Swink, 218 Fifth street northeast, was slightly bruised yesterday morning when he was hit by an automobile operated by Kath- eryne S. Fort, 33, 229 Tennessee aventie naréheast, at Fifth and D streets north- east. John H. Goodman, 57, 1345 A street northeast, was bruised painfully and |lacerated yesterday morning when hit by his own automobile, which started off after he had cranked it at Thir- teenth and H streets northeast, and careened into a street car. Neither ve- hicle was damaged badly. The man was given first aid at Casualty Hospital. Esther Silver, 45, 1534 E street south- east, was bruised slightly about noon yesterday when she leaped from an autotomobile that went out of control on Tilden street near Rock Creek Park. ‘The car brought up on the roadside without injury to others of the party. The woman was treated at Emergency Hospital and later discharged. Two men were treated at Emergency Hospital for injuries suffered about noon yesterday in an_ automobile acci- dent near Upper Marlboro, Md. They were: William Larson, 21, of the first block of V street northeast, who was slightly lacerated, and George Ioudden, 20, 1833 First street, who had a deep cut in his left arm. Elbow Is Fractured. C. A. Marty, 36, 76 K street north- east, was treated at Emergency Hos- pital early yesterday for a fractured elbow and lacerations suffered in an automobile accident near Frederick, Md. He remained at the hospital, al- though his condition was not regarded as_serious. When hit by an automobile yesterday morning as he was crossing New Jersey avenue and Rhode Island avenue, Albert Heninger,- 50, 1017 Maryland avenue, received a lacerated forehead and bruises about the . He was admitted to Garfield Hospital. The automobile was driven by Edward Btl:cléwell. colored, 21, of 418 Franklin street, e B THREE SUDDEN DEATHS REPORTED TO CORONER Two Women and 19-Year-0l1d Girl Succumb, All From Nat- ural®Causes. Three sudden deaths were reported to Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt yesterday, all from natural causes. Mrs, Virgie Jeffer- son Bennitt, 55 years old was found dead in bed early in the morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nellie Hart, 2121 Fifteenth street southeast, where she resided. Dr. George I. Eppard re- spund:da m an m:lency call and pro- nounc e extinct. > old, 616 foumd Mrs. Annle Waddy, 81 years Eleventh street southwest, was dead in bed shortly before 7 o'clock last night by another occupant of the house, Do Emervency lospish nesponde staff of Emergency to a call, examined .the and found the woman lifeless. Mrs. Waddy had been under treatment in a local bospital several weeks ago, police were told. Bessie Morton, colored, 19 years old, daughter of Rev. W. A. L. Morton, was found dead in the family home, at 460 AIR SPEED TESTS ARE PLANNED FOR -~ NYSTERY PLANE \ Craft, Constructed With Ut- most Secrecy, Is Prepared at Anacostia Station. MAY BE ENTERED IN RACES AT CLEVELAND SATURDAY Ship Is & Development of Curtiss Sea Hawk, Says Philadel- phia Report, Speed-tests of what is expected to be the fastest military plane yet developed in the United States are to be flown this week over the speed course of the Anacostia Naval Air Station, extending from the station a distance of two ana one-half miles down the Potomac River. The' plane has just been completed at Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadel- phia, and probably will be brought to the local air station tomorrow. If the tests are successful, the ship is to be entered in the National Air Races open- ing at Cleveland Saturday. ‘The ship was constructed with the utmost secrecy and in many particu- lars represents an entirely new develop- ment in aeronautical engineering. It was originally built for entry in the Na- tional air races with Lieut. Alford J. Wil- liams as pilot. Lieut. Willlams’ work in preparation for the Schneider trophy races in England next month, however, has eliminated him from the Cleveland races. Clark to Pilot Craft. The new racer is to be flown during its tests and in Cleveland, if it is de- cided to send her there, by Lieut. J. J. Clark, executive officer of the Anacostia station. “There is nothing much that can be said about the plane until after the trial flights,” Lieut. Clark said. “I do not know how fast it will be or what sort of performance we can expect from ships of this particular type.” According to unofficial reports re- ceived here from Philadelphia, the plane is a development of the Curtiss Sea Hawk. The ship has been reconstructed to permit the use of a newly developed cooling fluid for the motor. The large water radiator of the original Hawk has been replaced by new radiators of great- ly reduced size, bullt into the sides of the fuselage. Streamlines Are Changed. As a result of these changes the streamlining _has been completely changed and the plane will be almost unrecognizable as a development of the Hawk type. The streamlining suggests the Mercury racing plane which has been built for Lieut. Willlams and which now is awaiting its final tests at An- napolis, Md., it is understood. The original power plant of the Hawk is the basis for the motor of the new racer. The power, however, has been greatly increased, it is said, by the use of supercharging and unusually high compression. Great rivalry between the Army and Navy is expected at the Cleveland races and Navy officials are hopeful that the new plane may pass its speed tests here in time to bring new laurels to the Navy during the country’s greatest annual aeronautical classic next week. WORKERS PUSH REGATTA DRIVE Success as Yachting Feature Is Assured, Due to Caliber of Entrants. Despite assurance that the President’s Cup regatta on the Potomac River Sep- tember 13 and 14 will be successfu! as a sporting event, the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Power Boat Association, sponsor of the meet, is concerned over the slow- nes with which the $10,000 evpense fund is being raised. ‘This amount, L. Gordon Leech, sec- retary of the association declares, is essential if the speed boat classic is to to be properly and adequately held, every effort will be exerted during the next few da)‘ to complete the fund. ‘The success cf the regatta as a yacht- ing feature is assured by the caliber of the boats which already have been entered, Mr. Leech said today. These | include half a dozen boats of the fa- mous Gold Cup class, among them being the boat which the Talbot interests of California are building especially for the race. The Jersey Lighting, owned by Commodore Gerald Holbrook of New Jersey, and the Dodge boat, Horace, also have béen listed for the President’s Cup race of the coming regatta. Similarly, the entries for the Secre- tary of the Navy's Cup include some of the better known boats of the cur- rent season. Commodore Roy Keyes of the Buffalo Launch Club has entered the Curtiss Wilgold, IIT and the Carenaught. ‘The runabout race is expected to at- tract interest in view of the entry of Jim Orme’s Dart, popularly known local boat; that of three Chris Crafts by Art Seagren, and three Baby Gars by C. E. Moran. ‘The outboard races, always among the most interesting to the spectators, have drawn scores of entries from ‘Washington as well as other cities. 4-H CLUB CASE TAKER™ TO CIRCUIT COURT Advisory Council of Jefferson Coun- ty, W. Va., Seeks Mandamus to Name Director. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., August 19.—The advisory council of 4-H Glubs in Jefferson County will seek manda- mus instructions from Circuit Court in its effort to have the county court name of 4-H Club work in to ;appeal to Circuit Court and authorizing John Y. Mc- Donald and H. H. Huyett to act as -] a Frank Carroll, colored huckster, secreted his savings in small silver coins in his home for years. This morning the house burned and 21l the money was lost. The police put a guard on the property until the ruins cooled sufficiently to search for the silver. 190 00T OF 385 PASS BAR EXAMINATIONS 17 Winning Right to Practice in District Supreme Court Are Women. Seventeen women and 173 men suc- cessfully passed the last examination for admission to the bar of the District Supreme Court, the committee reported | today. Nearly 50 per cent passed the rigid examination out of 385 applicants. John Paul Earnest, chairman of the committee, and Judge Ralph Given, its secretary, will move the admission to practice of the successful candidates early in Octaber. \ The list of successful candidates fol- ows: Morris Abramowitz, Albert F. Adams, Paul C. Albus, Raymond Dean Allison, Joseph P. Bailey, Vernon V. Baker, Clarence R. Barrow, Wilbur N. Baugh- man, John Ninian Beall, William Jo- seph Begley, Abraham Belman, Leroy S. Bendheim, Jordan Ruthven Bentley, Robert Kenneth Biro, Herbert Russell Bishop, Samuel Robert Blanken, Joseph M. Bonuco, Bernice Saunders Bowden, Harry Emmons Boyd, John Reed Brad- ley, George F. Brandt, jr.: Isadore Brill, Norma Hardy Britton, Daniel Barlow Burke, Robert Granville Burke, William Gerald Burke, Eona L. Burnett, Others Who Passed. John C. Cannon, jr.; Stephen, Jay Carey, Mary Corcoran Carley, Arturo Y. Casanova, jr.; Norwood P. Cassidy, Elizabeth G. Casteel, Ernest Denning Cavanaugh, Raymond W. Cohen, Ed- ward S. Coons, jr.; Fischel Cornfield, Maurice A. Crowe, Mary Esther Crog- gan, Julian T. Cromelin, Mary Lewis Crosse, Edward M. Curran, Armand A. Cyr, Willlam G. Cullen, Alan B. David, Clarence C. Davison, Sylvia Deane, Louis J. Dembo, Cyril Porter Dickson, Nathan A. Dobbins, Thurman L. Dod- son, Lueile Donovan, Michael Downey, Paul O. Dunham. Curtis Roland Engelhart, Joseph F. English, Elaine Marion Eppley, Mark F. Esch, John R. Fitzpatrick, Olivine Fortier, Frederick Lyons French, John Richard Gardner, Mgrgan Maa Mur- rough Gilbert, Morton George Goldberg, Guy Howard Goodman, John T. Graves, Robert Van Rensselaer Haig, Willard M. Hanson, Richard A. Harman, ‘harles Joseph Harnett, Floyd Manda- ville Harris, Jack Hayes, Hedin, Max Heller, Russell H. Herrell, Raymond Herzog, John O. Hichew, Francis Thomas Hickey, Sophronia May Hodder, Louis Ogle Hodges, jr., Roy H. Hodpes, Joseph York Houghton, Charles Pope Hownrd, Fannle May Huff, Robert Motris Hughes, Aubrey Eugene Hummer, Joseph Hopkins Hurley. Charles M. Irelan, jr.; Robert Little Irwin, Leland F. James, Fred Jarrett, Charles M. Johnston, Benjamin Morton Kail, Andrew D. Kane, John M. Kear- ful, Stafford Warwick Keegin, Alice Lavinia Kelly, Willlam F. Kelly, jr.; Joseph L. Koehl, Allen Joseph Krouse, Donald G. Lambert, Willard Edwin La Rosa, Clarence L. Lavender, Charles Laughlin, Samuel Levine, Samuel Light- man, Hadley W. Libbey, Francis J. Ludes, Vincent A, Lutkiewitz, Jerome K. Lyle, Arthur A. Maguire, Randolph O. Marchetti, Charles Franklin Martin, Walter Scott McBroom, Irvin R. Mc- Clellan, John L. McCrea, Ellen C. Mce Donald, John Francis McDonald, John Robert Francis McDonald, Charles Halpin McGovern, William Henry Me- Grath, James Daniel McQuade, William D. Medley, Henry J. Meloy, Lawrence R. Michener, Joseph Milenky, Willlam A. Millen, H. B. Milnor, James O'Don- nell Moran, John D. Murphy. These Also Succeeded. Ellas G. Naame, Philip Michael O'Bhrigl.,‘gohn Ml&flel O'Dea, John Jo- seph O'Leary, Robert A. O'Leary, Har- old Olsen, ~Walter Nelson P:{mqmsz. Ralph E. Parker, Daniel Partridge III, Chester W. Pecore, Ralph Gilbert Pen- noyer, Walter D. Perry, Allan R. Plum- ley, Marcel Mallet Prevost, Stanley. R. or, Leo Quackenbush, Francis E. Reed, Roy Dahlquist Reese, Owen G. Reichmann, Julian H. Reis, Herbert Henry Rice, Edwin Leland Richardson, Louis Robertson, Reynolds Robertson, Mark S. Robson, Michael J. Rock, Otho Larkin Rogers, Geor%e Panagiotou Sakis, Theodore Saks, Jacob Sandler, Adelaide E. Schlaudecker, Fred S. Schow, Thom- as L. Schroyer, Septimus Bonham Sightlen, jr.: Mildred Browne Sisler, Francis M. Sullivan, George Kent Stod- dard. Gilbert P. Tarleton, Eugene M. There, Wilmer W. Tinley, Paul Tomasello, Jo- seph Leonard Townsend, . Rose Riedl Trammell, J. P. Tumulty, jr.; Willlam James Wade, George Alvin Walker, Charles. Allen Ward, Earle Leicester g‘"’“‘m %(lurr%v ‘:inderson ge%la’. eorge Eustace Weigle, Eugene eis- bender, Herman J. Wells, Willlam ‘Wells Charles W. C. Williams, H. Win- n] y m, ers B. 4 lice able be | Xarley, Irving Bernard Yoehelson and m D .l oy ‘William Augustine Zalesak. Lived on Charity; Worth $14,000. search PARIS (#).—Whan 81-year-old 1-11:5 Ivan Axel | A'tbl.he | MAN HELD ON CHARGES OF 6-YEAR-OLD GIRLE R - | | Andrew McKinney of Washington | Taken to Prince Frederick, Md., Jail for Trial. Andrew McKinney, 26, 1100 block of North Capitol street, Washington, was | Prince Frederick, Md., after a 6-year- old Washington girl told police au- thorities of North Beach that he was the man who assaulted her yesterday in the woods near the beach. The man is said to have denied seeing the girl before his arrest. It was said this morning that the man was taken to Prince Frederick | because he would have to be tried there, and not as a precautionary measure. According to the girl's story, she ac- | cepted a man’s offer to carry her in his automobile to Mount Harmony. | She was found crying on the road later | by another Washington couple. A companion of -McKinney's, ar- | rested yesterday in connecticn with the | case, was released after questioning. DISTRICT INGOME TAX TOTAL FALS |Capital Pays $17,094,719 to Federal Treasury Dur- ing 1929. | _ The District paid $17,094,719.09 in Treasury in the fiscal year 1929, it was revealed today in the preliminary re- port of Robert H. Lucas, commissioner of internal revenue. Of this amount, income taxes accounted for $15,677.- 952.08, a 4 per cent decrease from the fiscal year 1928. The District was among the group of States reporting the largest collec- tions from the estate tax, with a total of $1,124,866.74. An increase of $37,994,502 in rev- enue from tobacco manufacturers was announced. “This was due,” the re- port said, “to the great increase in the manufacture and sale of 11 cigarettes, which was in excess of 13 per cent of the previous year.” 3 North Carolina Leads. North Carolina led the other States |in the tax on cigarettes, paying $211,- 322,418. Virginia «came second with $62,711,566. Pennsylvania led in the tax on cigars with $6,926,154. ‘The cost of collecting internal taxes for 1929 was $1.17 for each $100 re- celved, the same average as for 1928. Aggregate receipts for the country were $2,939,054.375, as compared with $2,- 790,535,537 for 1928, an increase of $148,518.837.75. ‘Income taxes for the country as a whole were $2,331,274,429, compared with $2,174,537,103 for 1928, while mis- cellaneous taxes, including everything except income tax, amounted to $607,- ;1;25946 for 1929 and $615962,43¢ for Refunds Total $190,164,359. Refunds made during the last fiscal year on illegally or erroneously collected taxes aggregated $190,164,359, while ad- ditional assessments and collections re- sulting from office audits and fleld in- vestigations brought in $405,855,475. “It is interesting to note,” said the report of Commissioner Lucas, “that the total amount of refunds of taxes illegally or erroneously collected which were made during the fiscal years 1917 to 1929, inclusive — namely, $1,127,481,- 557.40—is approximately 23 per cent of the total amount of additional assess- ments and collections resulting from the office audits and fleld investigations whil%l‘; have been made during the same period.” RIVER BEING DRAGGED FOR DROWNED MAN Efforts to recover the body of a man reported to have drowned yesterday afternoon just off Hains Point were renewed by harbor police today. Yesterday they dragged the channel from midafternoon until dusk, while a throng of Sunday motorists looked on from their parking places along the sea wall. ‘The report of the drowning was given police by a sailor working on a seaplane at the Naval Air Station, across the channel. Clarence R. Palmer, 25, said he |saw & man struggle on the surface for a moment and then go under. The point he designated was closer Potomac Park shore than the Air Station. but no one on the Hains Point side of the river saw a r'.:nfih; Ing to indicate that a man had gone over the sea wall. Palmer assisted the police with their throughout yesterday afternoon. Wife Sees 'Chute Jumper Die. ND, Ohio, August 19 (P).— Y| CLEVELAND, While his wife and two small children w2 Donn Jack forty, a | this morning being held in the jail at | Federal taxes into the United States| —Star Staff Photo. HUGKSTER LOSES SHVNGS N FRE $400 in Small Coins Buried in Ruins' as House Is Destroyed. Nearly $400 in small change—the life | savings of Frank Carroll—was lost to-! day when fire destroyed the colored | huckster's home at 2629 Douglas road | southeast. H After the fire, police and firemen | probed the ashes, but found only a few | of the dimes and quarters Carroll had secreted in the walls and ceilings of | the house. Carroll, his old horse and huckster’s : wagon, have been familiar figures in | Southeast Washington for 15 years. In good weather and bad he peddled his fruit and vegetables from house to house and saved what he could, looking forward to the day when he would be | in a position to buy e farm in the | country for his two children, his wife ‘and his mother. Only now and then was he able to! | save a dime or a quarter to go toward | the farm. Reluctant to bother the bank | with such small amounts, he hid the | money in various niches of his frame house. i | Carroll and his wife left early this! morning for their work, leaving the | children with their grandmother. Short- ly after 9 o'clock neighbors saw smoke pouring from a window on the ground | floor. They rescued the two children | and turned in’an alarm. i Before the 60-year-old grandmother | | could escape the first floor was in | | flames.. She jumped from a second- | story window,“sustaining a broken arm ! and burns on both legs. She was taken | to Casualty Hospital. 1 Carroll was notified of the fire and | after hunting through the ruins for an | ! hour recovered about $25 of his money. | | Firemen said_the remainder probably | | had been melted. 1 Members of No. 15 engine company |ran a hose line 2,500 feet before they could bring water to play on the fire. | The house might have been saved, they |3aid, hed a hydrant been more acces- | sible. ! I 1 MAN HANGS HIMSELF IN HOME BATHROOM Despondency Over Death Brother and Lack of Work Are Blamed. of Despondency over the death of his brother and lack of employment were | believed by the family of James Wilmer ‘Wright, 42 years old, to have led him | to hang himself in the bathroom at his | home, 1224 Sixth street southwest, shortly after noon today. The man! was pronounced dead by the family | physician, Dr. Henry G. Hadley, 1252 Sixth street southwest, and a physician | of the Emergency Hospital staff, after efforts by physicians and members of No. 1 rescue squad to revive him had proved futile. The man was discovered hangin a bathroom curtain by his mother, Mrs. | Louise Wright, when he failed to re- spond to a call to come to lunch. Ac- cording to relatives, Mr. Wright had been unemployed for some time. The dead man is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nellie Wright, employed at King's Palace, two young chil- dren, James, 4 years old, and Jessie, 5 years old; his mother, father, John H. Wright, and three brothers, William, Elmer and Emmett Wright. He. had been in poor health for some time, relatives said. g BRITISH FLYER HERE. | Capt. Frank T. Courtney, British aviator, who was forced down in_mid- Atlantic last year during an attempted transoceanic flight, passed through Washington today in a British Moth airplane in which he will enter the light-plane derby from Havana, Cuba, to Cleveland, in connection with the national air races next week. Capt. Courtney stopped at Hoover Field just long enough to refuel this morning en route from New York to Havana. He expected to reach Cuba before nightfall. ‘The plane he is using was remodeled for the derby. The front cockpit has been closed and streamlined, and all} exterior fittings, including wires, have been streamlined to increase the speed of the little ship. AIDED BY RE.SCUE SQUAD. Members of Fire Rescue Squad No. 1 assisted telephone linemen this morn- ing to remove a repairman from an un- g by | derground conduit, after he had been | ¢ taken suddenly ill and clamber of 1722 Twelft] squad headquarters, The workman, Frank Curtin, 37, an last accounts. The new regu was too weak to | Railroad crashed into a 12. through the manhole in frent | at the Long Beach termi terda h street, just opposite | causing injurles to 16 persons. " NURSES FILE SUIT TORECOVER$5.900 IN HOWELLS CASE Defendant Is Charged in Bill With Hoarding Cash Given Her. STOCK TRANSACTIONS WERE PROMISED,THEY SAY Lillian Gerard and Irene Biggs Ara Plaintiffs—Prison Bail Is Set at $25,000. Alleging the defendant “has monies stocks, bonds and securities located :f places where she has secreted them fg the purpose of defrauding her cred itors,” Lillian Gerard and Irene Biggr of the Toronto Apartments today suec’ in the District Supreme Court to re- cover from Elzina Howells $5,900 whic? they say they gave her for investment. Miss Howells, it is charged appro. priated the money for her own use She now is in jail in default of $25.006 bond fixed by the Police Court on come plaints made by the young women, whe say they are co-partners practicing the profession of nurse under an agreement to divide profits and losses equally. The nurses are among the alleged victims of the woman who is said to have sent them to Europe on a free trip for which passage was said to have been paid by a dishonored check. In their bill of particulars the nurses set out that at various times between December 10, 1928, and June 21 last i the defendant represented herself as having special and valuable knowledge and ability to make investments and received from them a total of $5,900 upon the express promise and agree- ment that she would purchase on thelr behalf stocks and securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange and would deliver the same to them. Miss Howells failed to carry out the agree- ment, they assert, and although demand has been made for such stock purchases they have never received them. The plaintiffs say they gave Miss Howells $500 December 10, $300 De- cember 12, $200 February 12, $1.000 February 14. $1,000 February $500 Fébruary 28, $1.000 March 23, $400 April 11 and $1,000 June 21. They also allege that “El2ina Howells has prom- ised to make restitution to plaintiffs if and upon condition that they will secure her release from prison, where she now is, in defallt of bail, upon & | charge of criminal theft and swindling.” Attorney Claudian B. Northrop ap- pears for the two nur: WATSON ADVOCATES FIRE AMBULANCE Chief Urges Purchase of Equip- ment for Emergency Work. Fire Chief George S. Watson today advocated the purchase of an ambulance as an auxiliary unit for the District Fire Department. The ambulance, according to the fire chief, would serve a dual purpose—it could be used by the department’s rescue squad and to transport firemen to the aospital who are injured on a fireground The rescue squad wagon, Watson explained, is equipped with fire-fighting apparatus as well as first-aid parapher= {nalia, and in a vast number of thg cases’ it handles only an inhalator ang other first aid equipment is needed, Yet all of the fire fighting apparatus has to be carried along because it part of the equipment of the rescur wagon. With an ambulance, Chief Watsor pointed out, it would be necessary te detail only two members of the rescue squad to respond to emergency calls in drownings or gas cases, thus leavins’ the rescue wagon in service to responc to alarms of fire. Moreover, he said, i is sometimes found expedient by the rescue squad to take some of its pa- | tients to a hospital, and in such cases | the none too comfortable rescue wagon is used for this purpose. The ambu- ._therefore, would be a valuable asset in these cases. An ambulance on a fireground also is necessary, Watson declared, to carry Injured firemen to the hospital. The injured men are now transported in & hose wagon or any other available vehicle. The fire chief feels that they should be made as comfortable as pos- sible while benig hurried from a fire to a hospital. Estimates prepared for Chief Watson show that a modern and comfortable ambulance can be purchased and equipped for approximately $3,500. It is likely that Congress will be asked at the regular session in December to pro- ‘vide an appropriation for the ambu- ance. SLOW JOB HUNTERS LOSE DOLES BY NEW LAW Present Government Declares 17 Weeks Is Ample Time in ‘Which to Find Work. WARSAW (#).—The new Pilsudski cabinet, which was formed in April and consists mostly of army representatives, has no intention of weakening labor with doles. By the Polish law of 1924 all unem- g:oyed are entitled to a_dole varying tween 35 per cent and 50 per cent of their normal wages for 17 weeks follow- ing their release. When many of the idle did not find work after the elapse, of these 17 weeks, the government con- tinued to pay the doles under the idea that they were “‘extra doles necessitated by present conditions.” The present government has declared that 17 weeks is plenty of time in which to find a job and that doles will cease after that interval. Poland had 105,000 unem| rloyed at ation af- fected 3,000. 16 Hurt in Crash. NEW YORK, August 19 (#)—A 12- ar electric train on the Long Island ~ton bumper persons. Robbers Drop Church Loot. employe of the Chesapeake & Potomac hute jumper, phisged | Telephone Co, was removed o nis his death at Perry Airjhome at 1208 Fifth street northeast.| B; Fleld, , Ohio, near here, yesterday. | His condition was not regarded as crit- . o 1 parachute leap from an' ical. The possibility that gas had over- m‘ the parachute did mot come the man was discounted by fire- years ants. Police searched her room and W' found cash and bonds worth $14,000. —_— 's tremendous water system m since June, 1928. Samuel Bass; a daughter, Mrs. Hyman mrl\‘(ur. Lane was the author of “The |Garfinkle; four brothers, Harris, Sam - Business of Dairying” and numerous | and Ike Bass of New York and Jacob bulletins and magazine articles. Bass of Pittsburgh, Pa. Funeral serv- He is survived by his widow, two sons, | ices are being held at his daughter’s L. L. Lane and C. Bronson Lane, | home at 2 o'clock today. Tuneral services will be private. will follow at- Adas Israel BUENOS AIRES. August 19 (P)— urglars who stole a gold crown and gems from the image of San Roque in the Church of San Francisco were frightened into leaving their booty on the roof of the edifice. They escaped. Washi street, yes! morning .m"’f:"?m? by "The young worhan had Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt was told, d been no physician in at- . o 1 time, fa but there ha tendance recen rmers, make it court to name an |delivers, on an average, more than' airplane ant 1,000,000,000 gallons of water & day. open. o e 3 o