Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1929, Page 12

12 * PROBE 1S STARTED INTO'BUCKET SHOP OPERATIONS HERE Evidence of Alleged Fraudu- lent Deals Now in U. S. Attorney’s Hands. CETTER TRADE GROUPS PUSHING INVESTIGATION | Twenty Complaints From Virginia Against Buck & Co. Are Re- ported to Be on File. Complete investigation of alleged | “bucket shop” activities in the Capi- tal, which are allegzd to have fleeced Capital, Virginia and West Virginia in- vestors and market speculators of thousands of dollars, is under way by the United States district attorney’s of- fice here, assisted by the Washington Better Business Bureau, the Better Trade Association of Virginia and Representative Frank L. Bowman of ‘West Virginia. Evidence of fraudulent stock trans- actions by Capital brokers, involving the accounts of more than a score of | ‘Washington, Virginia and West Vir- ginia clients, already has been turned over to the district attorney’s office and is boing investigated by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney William A. Gallagher. One Firm Is Named. The district attorney's office names one firm, that of Buck & Co., whose activities are being fully investigated as the result of complaints by clients here and in ne‘ghboring States, and intimates that there are other brokers in the city whose accounts will be thoroughly investigated for evidence of fraudulent transactions. ‘Twenty complaints of Virginia resi- dents against Buck & Co., for the most | part charging misappropriation of funds, are in the hands of C. V. Werner of | the Virginia Better Trade Association, and four of these cases, in which evi- dence has been worked up, have been | turned over to Gallagher by Werner. Werner estimates that the cases in which he now has power of attorney | involve $50,000. total amount involved in complaints against Buck & Co. will reach $70,000, Gallagher states. | Between $3.000 and $4,000 is involved, | according to Representative Bowman, in the cases which he has turned over to the district attorney's office through his attorney, Lawrence L. Gourley, of | Washington. The evidence in one case, | worked up by Gourley, is reported com- | plete by Bowman, and extensive infor- yd Jones and Texas Youth Rides Into Capital With Message to Hoover Boy Who Visited Coolidge at Fishing Lodge Makes Trip on Horse, Mollie. Selling post cards to pay his way fishing lodge in Wisconsin, arrived in | Washington astride his horse, Mollie, late yesterday with messages for Presi- dent Hoover. Today, clad in a red silk shirt, green neckerchief, chaps and 10-gallon hat, the sandy-haired young Texan rode his horse to the White House to make an appointment to see the President. Although it is his first visit to Wash- mation in other cases which have come | to Bowman's attention has been given Gallagher. | i High Pressure Campaigns. | Representative Bowman intimated | that more than one firm may be in-| volved in the transactions in_which, he alleges. constitutents of his in West Virginia_have been fleeced. Washing- | ton brokers, he says, have been car- Tying on high-pressure salesmanship | campaigns through his _district, have flooded the sec with stock pros- pectuses, and have used telephones and telegraph service freely in building up | their business there. He also has turned | over information of the activities of the brokers to the Post Office Depart- | ment for investigation. | The Washington Better Business Bu- | reau for the last two years has been investigating alleged “bucket shop” con- | ditions in the Capital, making pur- | chases of stock from suspected brokers | and tracing the transactions through | the channels the stock has passed to delivery here in Washington. Officials of the bureau recently went before the | grand jury and gave testimony on | “bucketing” operations_here, Since that time other information has been collected and the bureau ex- pects to be ready at an early date to again go before the grand jury with evidence involving other firms. PEACOX TRIAL HALTS OVER THE WEEK END Evidence Admitted That Defendant Had Threatened Wife Whom He Confesses He Slew. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., September | 21—A week end adjournment brought the trial of Earl Francis Peacox to a standstill today. There was testimony vesterday that he had threatened “to get” his wife, whose murder he has confessed. Frances Newman, alias Murray, a red-haired young nomad of the dance halls, to whom Peacox gave some of his wife's clothes, testified that two months before the killing, the 21-year-old radio technician told her of his wife's con- duct with other men and uttered a threat. Mrs. Alphonse Heinzlelman, mother of the dead girl, testified that after one separation of Peacox and his wife, her son-in-law had threatened to “shoot up” the place unless he was told where his wife was staying. —e LIQUOR, MIXED WITH LYE, BLINDS COLORED MAN It was unanimously agreed in Police fodun yesterday that the whisky was a Susie Jelks, colored, said it - rible stuff. i Sam Armstrong, colored, swore it was ‘worse than that. Dr. J. C. Dowling said the liquor had affected Armstrong as strongly as lye. Since a glassful of the beverage in question, thrown by the Jelks woman into Armstrong’s face had put out the man's right eye, Judge Gus A. Schuldt was certain it must have been mean liquor. “Thirty days,” said Judge Schuldt, looking at the Jelks woman, “But judge,” she protested, “Arm- strong tried to make me drink that corn.” “Oh, that's different,” replied the court. “The sentence is suspended!” . YOUNG ROOSEVELT ILL. Nephew of New York Governor Is Suffering From Infected Leg. LANDER, Wyoming, September 21 () —Henry Roosevelt, 14, son of Mrs. Margaret R. Roosevelt of New York, and a nephew of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, was reported last night to be in a critical condition at Bishop Randall Hospital, here, where he has been a patient for several days. The youth is suffering from an infec- tion in his leg that had its origin in a blistered heel tct;used by wearing a heavy riding boot. “The boy, with his mother, his brother Daniel and sister Elinor, has been .a fummer guest at the C. M. Dude ranch, wrth of Lander. The family was pre- 7 to return to New York whem became {ll. & ington, Boyd seemed little awed with its governmental splendor and showed not the slightest fear or hesitancy con- cerning his visit to the White House and Mr, Hoover. He is worried, however, as to the fate of his horse. Starting from his home with cnly $50 for the 1,800-mile trip which consumed 78 days. he was able to do little more than eke out a | bare living by selling postcards of pic- tures, for which he posed with Mr. Coolidge last year, while traveling. As| a result he is short of funds and thinks he may have to sell Mollie since the freight rates to Texas are too high for his slender purse. “Of course, my father would help me if T asked him to,” the boy stoutly declared, “but I don't want to do that. I can’t ride back because I'm in a hurry to get back to school. It has already started, you know.” Boyd is in the third year at high school. He bears a good-will message from the Amarillo Chamber of Ccmmerce, an_invitation, to attend the Tri-State Fair and a book from Gene Howe, the | well known editor of the News-Globe of Amarillo. The book was written by Howe and is entitled, “Them Texans.” Mollie is a trick horse, trained by Boyd, and_ will answer questions with shakes of her head. SEEKS PADLOCK IN MURRAY CASE Government Takes Steps to Stop | Alleged Liquor Sales on Maryland evenue. Seeking by padlock proceedings to lock up the premises for a year, the Government today secured from Justice ‘Wendell P. Stafford in District Supreme Court a temporary injunction involving the three-story brick building at 496 Maryland avenue southwest on the ground that a number of alleged liquor violations occurred there. In its bill of complaint, the Government names as defendants Russell Murray, Jane Enke and Jeanette W. Hulse. Assistant District Attorney John B. Williams, working on the case with United States District Attorney Leo A. Rover, explained today that this is the first time that two padlock injunctions have been secured in the same week. The Government secured a temporary injunction earlier in the week against the premises located at 1126 Seventh street northwest. Attached to the bill in the Murray case and.affidavits of prohibition agents who contend they purchased liquor on the premises recently. KELLAR FUNERAL RITES AT RESIDENCE TONIGHT iInterment Will Be in Oak Hill Cemetery at Fredericks- burg, Va. Funeral services for Owen P. Kellar of 1914 Calvert street, who died sud- denly in his office .on the fourth floor of the Southern Railway Building, Thir- teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, yesterday morning, will be conducted at his residence tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, and Rev. Homer J. Councilor, assistant pastor, will officiate. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Va. Mr. Kellar, who was 72 years old, was employed as an attorney in a division of entry and appraisement of the Bu- reau of Customs. He was widely known in this city and had long been an active member of Calvary Baptist Church, having formerly served as deacon there and at one time, taught in the adult department of the Sunday school. ABANDONED CAR FOUND. Auto Reported Stolen' Was Strip- ped of All Accessories. What was left of the automobile of Mrs. Alice Rosasco, 1249 G _street southeast, reported stolen from Eighth and M streets southeast nearly a month ago, was found in the woods near Alabama avenue and Stanton road southeast yesterday. The car had been completelv stripped of all acces- sories. e o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1929, “Mollie,” here from Texas to see President Hoover. —Star Staff Photo. IFE BRINGS ST ATTACKING DVORCE | Asks Court to Set Aside De- -} cree Obtained by Hushand | in Chicago Court. | from his home in Amarillo, Tex., 15- | Other complaints from the District | year-old Boyd Jones, who last Summer | and West Virginia indicate that the!rode from Texas to President Coolidge's | Attacking the validity of an abso- lute divorce decree obtained in Chicago jon August 12, 1925, by Gordon W. | Benson, 1235 Newton street northeast, counsel representing Mrs. Gertrude M. | Benson today filed in the Ccurt of Ap- | peals a brief to sustain the action of the District Supreme Court in setting aside her husband’s divorce. Mrs. Benson filed suit here for di- vorce on statutory grounds in 1926, charging that Benson had deserted her | five years earlier and had taken up city. that a year previous to the filing of the wife’s bill he had obtained a valid di- vorce’ from her and had remarried. According to the brief of the wife, Benson married Miss Naomi Matthews in Chicago September 24, 1925, and re- turned to the District approximately a month later. ‘When the suit came on for trial Jus- tice Gordon refused to give fuli faith and credit to the Illinois proceedings | and awarded Mrs. Benson No. 1 a de- cree with permanent alimony. From that order Benson sucd out an appeal to the Court of Appeals, and the case will come up for argument in October. Mrs. Benson, repvesentcd by Attorneys Raymond Neudecker and William C. Ashford, charges In her brief in the Appellate Court that Benson vent to Chicago because it was the means of a divorce through the lines of easiest :e- sistance; that she was never notified of | the proceedings and given no chance to defend herself. She charged that the association of Benfon and wife No. 2 commenced before her separation from her husband in 1921. FIREFIGHTERS CHOOSE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Capt. Edward O’Connor of No. 1 Engine Co. . Elected President of District Group. Capt. Edward O'Connor of No. 1 En- gine Company was elected president of the Firefighters’ Association of the Dis- trict of Columbia at a meeting held last night in the Typographical Temple, Fourth and G streets, at the annual election of officers and board of direc- tors. Other officers elected were: Capt. J. R. Groves, No. 1 Rescue Squad, vice president; Pvt. F. J. Nesline, No. 14 Engine, financial secretary; Lieut. C. L. Satterfield, No. 2 Engine, recording sec- retary; Pvt, F. L. Kemper, No. 3 En- gine, treasurer, and Lieut. I. W. Lusky, No. 14 Engine, sergeant-at-arms. Battalion Chief J. D. Sims, Capt. H. A. Chapman, Lieut. R. E. Moreland and Pvt. R. V. Bronnell were elected to the board of directors. WOMAN FOUND GUILTY ON SHOPLIFTING CHARGE Olga M. Querry Fined $100 After Policewoman Arrests Her in Department Store. Olga M. Querry, 31, of Memphis, Tenn., was convicted of petit larceny by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court and sentenced to pay a $100 fine or serve 60 days in jail. She is said by police to be one of five “organized shoplifters” who have been “making the rounds” of local department stores dur- ing the last two weeks. The woman was arrested by Sergt. Cecelia B. Clarke of the Woman's Bu- reau after the latter had seen her pick up an article in a department store yesterday and attempt to conceal it under her purse. The defendant said in court that a sales girl was slow in waiting on her, so she picked up the piece of clothing and walked out with it. Sergt. Clarke said that after receiv- ing_complaints from several stores, she had shadowed five attractively dressed young women for two weeks. Seventy-Five Bottles Of Brew Ruled Limit For Home by Judge By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 21.—The legal dividing line between a home and a beer flat was set by Judge Joseph W. Schulman yes- terday at 75 bottles of brew. Mrs, Emily D. Dean, 36, was on trial because Sergt. Clarence Sweeney found 75 bottles in her apartment last week. She insisted they were for home use in connection with a forthcoming party. “Madam,” ~Judge Schulman ruled, “no home can have 75 bottles of beer and not be a beer flat. There is a beer capacity for homes and that is reached at 75_bottles.” But Mrs. Dean was freed, any- how, the police, it was found, had entered without a search warrant. { District of Columbia and a benefit to his home with the corespondent in this | Benson's answer set up the fact | 'BATTLE FORECAST |is the only Senator not a committee | member who has asked Chairman Mc- EFFORTS RENEWED 10 OBTAIN ZONING PERMIT FOR HOME 0. L. Helsley Sponsors Move | for Chiidren’s Building on Potomac Avenue. SAYS INSTITUTION WOULD AID COMMUNITY Requests Protest of Citizens’ As- sociation,” Now on File, Be Ignored. A new petition, urging a change of zoning of property fronting on the 5200 block of Potomac avenue to permit con- struction there of the Children's Coun- try Home, was forwarded to the Zoning Commission today by O. L. Helsley, 5729 Potomac avenue. At the hearing on the case before the commission Wadnesday, C. S. Bailey, president of the Conduit Road Citizens’ Association, entered vigorous protest against the change in zoning for the homesite. The commission is to meet in_executive session Monday to pass ! judgment on this and the long list of other changes sought. Supports Movement. In his letter to the commission today, Mr. Helsley charges that the Conduit Road Citizens' Association should not be allowed to influence the decision of the commission, since the location of the charitable institution is a city-wide, and not merely a community, matter. As a property owner near the proposed site. Mr. Helsley supports the proposed zoning chary from residential A- restricted to A area. “I can think of no better site for the institution, all "things considered,” he writes. “I believe that it would be an improvement, for this community, the humanity. T am convinced that despite the action of the Conduit Road Citi- zens' Association, a large majority of >ur people are in favor of the Children’s Home and its location on the beautiful knoll overlooking the Potomac Valley.” Mr. Helsley raised the question as to whether Prasident Bailey of the citi- zens body was speaking for the ma- jority of the citizens. Mr. Helsley volunteered to make a poll of residents of the section on the question of the location of the home there. 60 Names Presented. In opposing the proposed mningl change, to allow location of the chil- dren’s convalescent home on the site. Mr. Bailey presented a list of 60 names of residents of the community, said to object to the project there. It was| argued also that erection of the home on the proposed Potomac avenue site would likely interfere with plans of the National Capital Park and Plan-| ning Commission for development of a | drive along the Potomac River. Another objection was based on the | contention that already there are a| number of charitable and correctional | institutions in or near ‘the section and | {hat another should not be added to the Mr. Helsley contended in his letter, however, that erection of the children's home would result in enhancement of nearby property values. The projected building. he asserts, will be a credit to any community. It will cost about 125000 and b of French colonial architectural style. IN FARM HEARINGS Senator Brookhart and Chairman | Legge Prepare for Expected Tilt. By the Associated Press, All the signs appear to guarantee an active battle of wits with a full dis- closure of the Government's farm relief program when the Senate agriculture committee interrogates members of the Federal Farm Board at hearings begin- "‘-Ffl next ‘Tuesday. The liveliest contest of all undoubted!: will be between Chairman Legge nnfi Senator Brookhart of Iowa, since friends of both men are passing out the word that they are fortifying themselves with a mass of information in the hope of insuring themselves against being “stumped.” Senator Brookhart is not a member of the committee, but he will be permitted to question board members. So far, he Nary for this privilege. The committee itself, however, is well supplied with Senators closely in touch with the intricacies of agriculture. At present, it appears as if the examination will center in questions designed to de- velop what the board has in mind for wheat, and indications are that several Senators will demand reasons for the board’s declination to stabilize this prod- ucé by market operations, ommittee members principall, i terested in the wheat pl;ogrmgx o);' t‘l‘xe board include Senators Norris of Ne- braska, a relentless questioner, Norbecl of South Dakota, Frazier of North Da- kota, and Capper of Kansas. The com- mittee also includes several Senators from the cotton producing States, from whom there have been some rumblings that President Hoover failed to name a board member from a leading cotton producing section. The hearings will be conducted for two hours each morning. Since most of the interest is focused on Chairman Legge, fairly rapid progress is expected to be made once the chairman has fin- ished his testimony. Senator McNary has received several written complaints against some of the board members. These will be presented to the committee at an executive ses- sion and probably will not be made pub- lic unless the committee decides to in- vestigate them. Some of the complaints deal with business policies of the In- ternational Harvester Co., of which Mr. Legge was the head until his appoint- ment to the Farm Board. CREW GREE}S ECKENER. Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen Decorated for Return. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Sep- tember 21 (#)—Dr. Hugo Eckener ar- rived last night to find the Zeppelin Works, from which he had been absent for more than a month, gorgeously decorated in his honor with flags, bunt- ing and flowers. The officers and crew of the Graf Zeppelin had assembled in the hangar to greet him. In a press conference later, Dr. Eak- ener said he did not plan to participate in the flight to ‘the North Pole in 1930 which Dr. Fridtjof Nansen has planned | for the dirigible. I ‘The Zeppelin commander said it was | not true that the European terminal for the intended transatlantic air service would be situated in France, although it was not unlikely that an intermediate station would be erected near the French coast to enable airships to in+ terrupt their flights while waiting im- provement of possibly adverse meteoro- logical conditions. He sald the start- ing point for the German-American air corvice naturally would be in Germany. _MUSIC DIDN'T SOOTHE THESE WILD BEASTS s s . EATRIO: TRMBCERTR » When the Le Paradis Band gave a concert in the lionhouse at the Zoo yesterday the tigers lay close to the bars, lick- ink their chops hopefully for a piece of GUARD'S OFFICES MAY BE CHANGED Treasury Unit’s Leaders Con- | sider Moving of Headquarters. Possibility of moving the headquar- ters of the United States Coast Guard from its present locaiton, at Fourteenth | and E streets, to the monumental Treasury Annex, No. 1, on Pennsyl- vania avenue directly north across the street from the Treasury Department, is | being considered by officials among gen- eral plans for a shift of offices when the | Bureau of Internal Revenue goes into its new home next Spring. i The Coast Guard is located in a block which will be torn down to make | way for a new park and traffic arteries, | and Treasury Annex, No. 1, is in one of the most important and best Gov- | ernment-owned buildings to be vacated | by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in | the big move. | The Bureau of Internal Revenue, | which collects the Pederal taxes, is the | largest single unit in the Treasury and when it goes into its own home, now nearing completion south of the Post- | office Department, will vacate a number of buildings scattered over town. Among | the places which will be emptied are quarters in the National Press Building, headquarters of the bureau in the | Treasury Building itself, Annex No. 1, the Walker Johnson Building, New York avenue and Eighteenth; ~Temporary Building C, Temporary Building No. 5, at Twentieth and Virginia avenue; 1422 | Pennsylvania avenue, the local office of | the deputy collector of Internal Reve- nue, where Washingtonians pay their | income taxes, and the Board of Tax Ap- peals, in the Earle Building, which is not a part of the bureau, but will occupy | space in the new Revenue Building, according to present plans, CHILD HIT BY AUTO | AND SERIOUSLY HURT| Four Traffic Accidents in Police Record, Including Two Collisions. ; One Driver Bonded. | Seven-year-old Lee Gebicke, 1406 Trinidad avenue northeast, was knocked down and seriously injured in front of his home yesterday_afternoon by the | automobile ‘of Mrs. Elizabeth H. Cook, | 28 years old, of East Falls Church, | Va.” The child was taken to Casualty | Hospital. | Mrs. Cook was booked at No. 9 police station on a charge of reckless driving. | Bond of $300 was given for her appearance. Fifteen-year-old George Corder, 11 R street northeast, was knocked down at Channing and Third streets north- east about 11 o'clock last night by the | automobile of Alton R. Watkins, 2222 | Flagler place. He was taken to Sibley | Hospital. His condition was reported | undetermined. | Mrs. Mary J. Taltavull, 45 years old 617 Fourteenth street northeast, w: shocked and bruised yesterday after- noon in a collision at Benning road and | Seventeenth street northeast between a car in which she was riding and a motor truck driven by David M. Dees, 1352 Kenyon street. She was taken home. King Babe, colored, 36 years old. of | 1768 Florida avenue, and William J.| Skinner, 1625 Montello avenue north- east, were drivers of automobiles that | collided yesterday afternoon at Fifth and P_streets. Babe was treated at| Sibley Hospital. . REYNOLDS LISTED | AS STAR AIRMAN Youngest Licensed Pilot Scheduled for Demonstration at Com- | gressional Airport. The youngest licensed transport air- plane pilot in the United States, Alfred S. Reynolds, a student in the George- town University Foreign Service School, will be the star performer in flying| demonstrations at Congressional Air- port tomorrow morning afid afternoon. In connection with the flying demon- | strations, Chester H. Warrington, head | of the Warrington Motor Co., and a (B student at Congressional Airport, will demonstrate a new type of front-wheel drive automobile. Reynolds, who is only 20 years old has been flying since he was 14 years old and has put in more than 1,000 hours of flying time. He is known as the world’s voungest stunt flyer and will put cn demonstrations of aerial acrobatics. He holds the Chicago-New York speed record for light airplanes, made in October, 1927, in a total flying time of 6 hours and 54 minutes. A number of visiting planes are ex- pected, representing the various types of commercial cabin and training planes, PARLIAMENT MAY FALL. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, September 21 (#)—The Czechoslovakian Parlia- ment is reported about to be dissolved and a call for ew general election issued next week, as the result of a con- troversy between the Catholic People’s party and the Agrarians. Polling is ex- pected on October 27. Premier Udrzal will call upon Presi- dent Masaryk today to obtain his sanc- tion and signature. The immediate cause of the con- troversy was the appointment of Dr. Viskovsky as minister of defense, the lPfioplAe's Party claiming that mnsisxz e Agrarians a prepo; 2 ence in the capih‘!‘. o violinist, and the Music Lacks Charm For "Savage Beasts At Washington Zoo| Lions and Tigers Shrink | and Blink as Jazz Band Gives Serenade. La Paradis Jazz Band rather panicked them at the zoo yesterday, especially the lions. The animal serenade, if you must | know, was not a howling success. The | lions lent ear more because some one had locked their cage than any ab- original yearning to the saxaphone. Probably the lions would have left early, only every time they made for ;he exit they bolted smack into a barred loor. It may have sounded like a serenade to some people, but it was just another noise in so far as the lions were con- cerned. The tigers, however, seemed more ap- | preciative. When the band boys got | inside the safety guard rail, the tigers | crouched close to the bars and looked | hopeful. They seemed quite hungry. | Just to be on the safe side, though, the band boys stayed out of reach. The animal serenade was the La Paradis Night Club's own contribution | to science. The Thomas Circle organ- | ization thought it up unaided and car- | ried it through to the last note. PROPOSED BILL LIMITS | COURT CONTEMPT POWER | By the Associated Press, A bill proposing that a Federal judge may not both challenge and adjudicate | contempt ot court when the contempt is not in his immediate presence and | when it involves a personal issue touch- | ing on his character, reputation, or | exercise of power, was’ introduced ye terday by Senator Vandenberg, Repub- | lican, Michigan. | Vandenberg, in a statement, said, | “Courts as a whole gain power wherever | salutary rules save them from exposure | to needless popular doubts, articulate | or otherwise, regarding the quality o!‘ justice which they dispense.” “Popular confidence is the root of this power,” he added. THE WEATHER | | District of Columbia—Fair and mnot quite 50 cool tonight, with lowest tem- | perature about 50 degrees; cloudy to- morrow, probably followed by rain to- | morrow’ night; increasing northeast | winds. Maryland—Fair and not quite so cool | tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudi- | ness, probably rain in southeast por- tion; increasing northeast winds, prob. ably’ reaching gale on the coast. | Virginia—Increasing _cloudiness fol- lowed by rain on the coast tonight and in the southeast portion tomorrow; not much change in temperature; increas- ing northeast winds reaching gale on the coast. West_Virginia—Fair tonight and to- morrow; not much change in tempera~ ture. Records for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 63; 8 p.m., 55; 12 midnight, 53; 4 am, 48; 8 am., 50; 11_am., 59. Barometer—4 pm., 30.27; 8 pm. 30.31; 12 midnight, 30.31; 4 a.m., 30.31; 8 am,, 30.36; 11 am., 30.39. Highest temperature, 66, occurred at 2:10 pm. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 46, occurred at 16:30 a.m. today. ‘Temperature same date last Highest, 71; lowest, 58. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodcstic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 4 am. and 4:02 | p.m.; high tide, 9:30 am. and 9:51 p.m. | Tomorrow—Low tide, 4:39 am. and | 4:36 p.m.; high tide, 10:09 am. and | 10:31 p.m. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 5:54 am.; sun sets 6:08 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 5:55 a.m.; sun sots 6:07 p.m. Moon rises 7:39 p.m.; sets 8:34 am. Condition of the Water, Great Falls—Clear. Harpers Ferry—Very cloudy. Weather in Various Cities. - Temperature. year— aee Isamo sy} Statlons * 1939u0. e+ gUpINSAA “quan_ gsv) Abilene, Tex, Albany, N. Atlanta, ~ Ga. Atlantic_City... Baltimore.” Md.. 3 Birmingham smarck, N. Hass; Y. 32333388 i Boston. Chicago, i 0.36 Cinclnnati, Ghio 30.22 Cleveland, ‘Ohio. 30.42 Columbia, S. C. 30.20 Denver, Colo... 29.74 Detroit, Mich. . 30.4¢ El Paso, Tex 80 Galvestor, Tex. 30.00 Helena, _Hont.. 29.72 Huron,'S. Dak.. 29 Indianapolis.Ind 30.32 Jacksonville,Fla. 30.00 Kansas City, Mo 30.12 Los Angeles; . 2084 Miami. Fla 9,90 N. Orieans, La.. 30.04 New York, N.Y.3044 Oklahoma ' City. 30.04 San Diego, Calif 29.82 San _ Francisco, St. Louis, Mo. . St. Paul, Minn 50.20 Seattle, Wash 19.90 Spokane, Wi . 42 WASH., D, k) FOREIGN, (7 a.m., Greenwigh time, today.) ‘emperature. Weather. Londnnh!nlllnd 52 ain Paris Prance. (Noon, Green Horta (Fayal), Azores. (Cufrent observations.) Hamilton, Bermuda 82 Part cloudy Porto Ri Part cloudy Cloudy Fart cloudy ns retreated to the side of their cage. . | tiff as attorney. v {27, will give a benefit 500 and bridge —Star Stafl Photo, BUREAU CHARGES MISUSE OF FUND | Efficiency Chief Reports Gal- | linger Coal Appropriation Used for Jail. Misuse of the coal fund for Gallinger Municipal Hospital was charged yester- day by Herbert D. Brown, chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, in reporting to the District Commissioners on the results of an inquiry conducted by the bureau into expenditures at the institution. Brown questioned the propriety and wisdom of such methods on the part of the Board of Public Welfare in charg- ing that an appropriation to buy coal for the hospital had been used illegally in part for the benefit of the District asylum and jail. A lengthy report by J. W. Sanford and R. W. Maxwell, spe- 1 investigators, was submitted to sub- stantiate the charge. In a letter to Commi: erty, Brown said: “1 am submitting herewith a mem- orandum, dated September 16, 1929, relative to the purchase of coal and subsistence supplies from the Gallinger Municipal Hospital appropriation dur- ing the latter part of the fiscal year 1929, for use by the Washington Asy- lum and jail, to avoid the presentation of a sequest to Congress for a deficiency | appropriation. “The action taken in this case was clearly a misuse of the hospital appro- priation and a violation of the law. Attention s called to the facts set forth in this memorandum which indicate that had greater care been used by the jail in anticipating its needs during the fiscal year, the appropriations made for the jail would. in all likelihood, have been ample to enable all sub- sistence supplies required during May and June to be purchased without cre- ating a deficiency.” George S. Wilson, director of public welfare, informed the Commissioners in a letter, also made public yesterday, that he acknowledges the truth of the | charges, but added that there were no improper motives in the transaction and no loss to the District government. The whole transaction was known to the responsible officials, he said, and there was no effort at concealmént. 3 Wilson's explanation of the situation follows: “In the Fall of 1928, the Gallinger Buildings, up to that time heated from the jail plant, were connected with the main hospital plant, and in May, 1929, the hospital opened its own laundry, that the two institutions are now main- tained independently so far as appro- priations are concerned. “There is still co-operation in the matter of certain services which each can perform for the other to their mutual advantage. 3 “Under these circumstances it was deemed proper to allow the hospital |to furnish some supplies for the jail | | which it could do without detriment to its own service. The transaction may have been without specific author- |ity of iaw, but there is no implica- | tion of improper motives and no loss was incurred by the Government.” /SUIT FOR DAMAGES BASED ‘ ON ACCIDENT IN 1928 | william L. Browning and Bates War- | | ren, with offices in the Southern Build- | ing, ‘and the District of Columbia are named as defendants in a $20,000 suit, brought yesterday in District Supreme | Court by Lillie B. Moody of the Port- land Hotel. Claiming damages in this amount as the result of a fall upon the snowy and icy sidewalk at Fourteenth and K streets, the site of the former | Franklin Square Hotel, the plaintiff advises the court that the alleged in- juries grew out of the fall, which oc- curred on January 30, 1928. The suit describes Browning and Warren as owners of the premises at the time, and says the District failed in keeping the sidewalk in a reasonably safe condition at that period. She ad- vises the court that as a result of the injuries she says she suffered from the fall she has been unable to perform her customary duties of nurse and secretary as before and is “crippled permanently and disabled.” Ralph A. Cusick represents the plain- CIfY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party will be given by the ways | and means committee of St. John's Lodge Chapter tonight at the home of Past Patron Ted Lewis, 4739 Thirteenth street, at 8 o'clock. Judge Jacob Panken will speak on “How Brilish Workers Gained Control of Their Government” tonight at the Playhouse at 8:45. Clarence O. Sen'or, newly clected national secretary of the Socialist Party of America, will discuss “Problems and Prospects of American Socialism."” Order of the Eastern Star Temple committee of Joppa Lodge Chapter, No. party at the home of Miss Helen Seav- ers, 4129 New Hampshire avenue, to- night at 8 o'clock. Phone Mrs. Con- way for table reservations, Columbia 4083 FUTURE. Red Triangle Outing Club members | will meet tomorrow at the Rosslyn station at 8:45 am. to leave for Clark's Gap via the Great Falls line. Train leaves at 9 o'clock. Party will hike through Catoctin Mountains to Clarke's Gap. Bring mid-day and_ evening lunches, cup and spoon. Waldburg Hewitt, leader. North Capitol Citizens’ -Association will meet Monday evening, 8 o'clock, at McKinley High School, Second and T streets northeast, room No. 130. Mrs, Campbell Forrester, recently re- turned from a three-year tour of India, will speak on “My Experience in Ind! at the Washington Practical Psychol- ogy Club Monday evening at the Play- house, 8 o'clock. ssioner Dough- | | REPORT ON GAS COMPANY INQUIRY GUARDED SECRET Utilities Commission Wants Time to Study Findings of Justice Department. TRANSFER OF STOCK UNDER CONSIDERATION | Corporation Counsel Bride to Ex- amine Document Received by Gen. Patrick. PO With utmost secrecy the Public Util- {ities Commission today guarded a com- prehensive report of the Department of Justice on the result of its exhaustive investigation into_the ownership of the Washington Gas Light Co. and its sub- sidiaries. The report was received yes- terday afternoon by Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the commission. ‘The Department of Justice inquiry was made at the request of“the com- mission to determine whether-the re- cent transfer of gas company stock to the Seaboard Investment ‘Trust was in lviolalion of the La Follette anti-merger aw. Gen. Patrick declined to make the report public or to discuss its contents until it has been studied by the com- mission. A meeting of the commission will be held for that purpose Monday, and the report is expected to be given out for publication at that time. Bride to Examine Repaort. In the meantime, Corporation Coun- sel William W. Bride, the commission’s | general counsel, expects to examine the report to be in a position to advise the commission. Bride said that while he had not read the report he had been informed of its contents, but was mot yet prepared to reveal or discuss any phase of it. “It may be” he said, “that after studying the report I will want to confer with the Department of Justice over some of the questions involved. The Fed- eral Government is just as much in- volved in this case as the Public Utili- ties Commission.” ? Advised the Inquiry. It was upon Bride's advice that the commission asked the Department of Justice to make the investigation. In his capacity as general counsel he con- ducted a preliminary inquiry into the | stock sale, which satisfied him that a more thorough probe should be made before the case was dropped. Bride held several conferences with representatives of the new owners, and afterward intimated that certain in- formation he wanted had not been forthcoming. It was disclosed at these conferences that the stock was pur- chased by a New York investment securities corporation for & group of its clients who had formed the Sea- board Investment Trust for the purpose of holding it The commission is vitally concerned in the stock transfer because of a pro- vision in the La Follette anti-merger | act forbidding a foreign holding cor- | poration to purchase either directly or | indirectly, or to own or control more than 20 per cent of the stock in any {local utility corporation. According to information given the commission, the { Seaboard Investment Trust_owns proximately 110.000 of the 130.000 v ing shares of the gas company's stock. Representatives of the Seaboard In- | vestment Trust, however, have pointed {out that the beneficial interest in the | stock is equally divided among five holding corporations, and, therefore, each controls less than 20 per cent of the stock. The Investment Trust, it was claimed, is not itself a corpora- | tion, and, therefore. the holding is not in violation of the law. * WOMAN, U. S. WORKER, DIES OF POISONING Mrs. Emma Donohue Despondent Over Domestic Troubles, Mother Tells Police. | | | i Mrs. Edifa Donohue, 38-year-old Gov- ernment worker, died at Emergency Hospital last night from the effects of poison which, police said, she had swal- lowed in her apartment, at the All States Hotel, 514 Nineteenth street. ‘The woman’s mother, Mrs. Etta Nel- son of Pashtigo, Wis., is said to have told police” her daughter had threat- ened to take her life several times be- cause of domestic worries. She has been separated from her husband about eight years. Mrs. Nelson, who is visiting at her daughter’s apartment, called Dr. Joseph Jeffries, who ordered the woman's re- moval to the hospital, where she died. The coroner’s office was notified. CHILD OF 3 KILLED BY STRAY BULLET Man Intended to Hit Colored Woman During Argument, Police Are Informed. A bullet intended for Madge Reed. colored, 21, of 630 Third street north- east, late yesterday afternoon missed its mark and penetrated the head of Dorothy Kelly, colored, 3 years old. of 615 Gordon avenue northeast, inflicting a wound which resulted in the child's death at Casualty Hospital two hours later. o Henry Pratt, said by the police to be better known as “Buster,” is sought as_the child's slayer. Police declared that the man and woman became involved in a row in front of the former’s home at 619 Gordon avenue northeast. The child was standing near her home when the shot intended for the woman struck her. A motorist took the wounded child to the hospital. SISTER DORO:I' EA, HEAD OF GIRLS’ SCHOOL, DEAD Woman Died at Home Yesterday After Being Ill for Only Ten Days. Sister Dorothea, sister superior of the Sisterhood of the Epiphany, Episco- pal, and principal of the Epiphany School for Girls, conducted by the order at 3017 O street, died at her resi- dence at the O street address yester- day after a serious illness of about 10 days during which she failed to regain consciousness. Sister Dorothea was set asidd as a sister by the last Bishop Paret of the Diocese of Maryland in 1893. She founded the Epiphany School for Girls. Funeral services were conducted in St. Paul's Episcopal Church today at 11 o'clock. Interment will be in Green- mont Cemetery, Baltimore. = Sister Dorothea is survived by two w“