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4 " GROUPS FIGHT OUT BOUNDARIES ISSUES Police on “Clerical Duty”| Also Draw Fire Before Citizens’ Organizations. Conflict between two citizens' associ- ations over boundaries broke into the open at the Federation of Citizens' As- | sociations last night, while further con- sideration of the general question of | boundaries, d lively develop- . when a committee | was appointed to consider a pending | amendment to the constitution over | boundary lines. The fight broke when the applica- | tion of the new Columbia Park Citi- | make a i AGEN _ (Continued From PFirst Page) to have made to Fredericksburg, Va. with & companion before and after the discovery of his wife's body, the first informatfon of which was printed in The Star last Thursday, will be checked uP, While McPherson Thursday de- cline¢. to discuss the trips, declaring that he had already “taken tco many on the chin by talking,” it is under- stood that his companion was a friend who played with him on a foot ball team. The friend whose name is known could not be located last night. Pred- ericksburg dispatches Thursday said that McPherson frequently visited his grand parents near there, Last Monday before the grand jury returned the indictment McPherson and his companion, Robert Lyon, said that as they expected “this thing would soon be over,” they were planning to trip to Fredericksburg this week end. zens' Association came before the fed- eration and was vigorously opposed by | J. B. Hpokins of Chillum Heights As- | sociation, Hopkins threatened his as sociation would withdraw from the fed- | eration. and he would resign. if the new | association was admitted. taking over | what he contended was about half of the Chillum territory. Columbia Group Admitted. ‘The Columbia Park group was finally | admitted after a long fight by a vote of ! 43 to 22, and following spirited argu- | ments. E. F. Neagle, president of the | new group, who was present, defended | the right of his association to organize, especially to get municipal action on | flood prevention, which he said the as- | sociation was obtaining. Following the vote wdmitting Colum- | bia Park, Hopkins rose 1o declare he | “resigned” from the federation, but h2 continued to take part in the debate on other matters later. Columbia | Park's territory 1s fed by Emerson | street. Georgia avenus, Kennedy street | and Blair road. Other new associations admitted without debate included Burrcughs Citi- zens Association, with territory north of Rhode Island avenue, and east of Sixteenth street northeast: and Forest Hills, bounded by Davenport, Connecti- cut avenue, Rock Creek Park. Van Ness and Sedgewick streets. iat'e it was announced th: Patrick, of the Public sion is treasurer, Resolution Ofered. A pending amendment tc the con- stitution of the federation. which woi provide that new associatio are forming in territory partly covered | by old ones. must composs ny dif- ferences with neighboring assoc before the federation can “ote admissibility, was referred for sideration and report to a committes consisting of William McK. Clayton. E. J. Brennan, James G. Yaden, J. P. Leake, C. A. LaVigne. William A. Roberts. delegate from Conduit Road, raised a question agains: the ruling of the chair, Dr. George C. Havenner, that the federation could take no notice of boundary lines. Roo- | erts claimed that the question of bound- | ary lines frequently had been fought over in the federation, and if there was nothing said about it in the “legis- | Jation” of the federation it was high | time something should be done about it. | A letter of complaint to the fed- | eration from the Glover Park Asso- ! ciation against a representative of the Burleigh Association, who had appeared | ai & hearing of the Public Utilitics Commission opposing the Glover Park request for extensicn of & bus line was under discussion for some time, | but a motion to refer it to committee was defeated and the federation finaily decided to “file.” | There was diccussion of the recent amendment adopted by the Zoning Com- mission concerning the location of fire- | houses, police stations and other public | buildings in residential arees. The frderation finally adopted a motion au- | thorizing the recording seeretary to pre- | are a statement on existing regula- | ions, and the federation’s opposition | as expressed in the May meeting. with | instructions that this statement be ced in the hands of delegates to | take back to their associations. The delegates were asked to read the pre- pared statement to their associations | and put the matter before their associa- tions for action, | Comflain Atout Police, il Complaint befere the federation by | E B. Henderson that the city had too few policemen to protect life and prop- erty, especially in the outlying portions | of the city, drew from James G. Yaden | the comment that “a large number of | police are doing clerical duty.” “Unless there is a reorganization from within,” said Yaden, “I am afraid we can't hope for much relief from that score.” Yaden estimated that with 184 | police on the streets at any one time, and three shifts a day, this would no nearly account for the 1.300 police au- thorized for Washington. “We ought to find out where the po- | MBeemen are,” he declared. “They are acting as teiephone opera tors, when we could get better tele phone operators at less pay,” declared E. J. Brennen. | A comunication from the Columbia | Heights Citizens' Association _recom- mending the half holiday for Govern- ment employes the year round was re- ferred to both the federation committees ;m Jaw and legislation and public wei- are, i tilities Commis Seeks Hospital Probe. A communication from West End As- scciation asking an investigation of hos- | pitals in the city was referred to the public welfare committee. Drawn-out discussion over a report on trees from the committee on li- braries, parks aud waterways resulted in referring it back to the committee for a study, especially of the nursery at Occoquan, and repor’ back to the asso- ciation. H On motion of Charles I. Stengle and following complaint of inaction of a special federation committee on a mat- ter of street widfl\lnf of Benning road. the federation voted its “sympathy with the Trinidad Association in its efforts to get more equity in the establishment of street lines ” On recommendation of Chairman Yaden of the education committee, the federation reaffirmed its position in fi vor of election of the Board of Educa. tion by popular vote. ‘The federation was ordered. and citi- zens' associations and civie associations | and business men were requested to use the slogan, “Washington Bicen- | tennial, 1932, on letter heads, through adoption of a recommendation of Selden Ely of the committee on celebration, approving a proposal of the Columbia Heights Association, Pleads “Not Guilty.” McPhersen entered a formal “nof yesterday. Handcuffed to another prisoner, he was brought to the courthouse in’' the “black Maria” of the District jail and placed in a cell in the basement. When Judge Peyton Gordon opened court in Criminal Division 1 at 10 o'clock. the prisoner was released from his handcuffs and escorted upstairs by a deputy marshal. As he entered the courtroom from a side door, he glanced about the room and smiled a greeting to his parents, who were seated in the front row. William E. Leahy, McPherson's torney, was late in sappearing, Judge Gordon proceeded with sever: other cases, pending the lawyer's a: rival. When Leahy came in he walked and 0k hands with him, ahd engaged in hispered conference. When Judge Gordon said he was ready to hear the McPherson plea, Leahy walked to his client's chair, shook hands with McPherson and ushered him before the pench. The young man stood motionless, a slight smile playing about his lips. William 8. Adkins, clerk of the court, began reading the grand jury present- ment. In a monotone he read off the charge of first degree murder and the tailed allegations that McPherson eloniously, willfully, purposely and of his deliberate and premaditated malice” did “put. fasten and bind a certain strip of cloth about the neck" of his wife, choking and strangling her to death. Asked for Plea. ~ When he had finished reading the indictment Adkins asked the prisoner how he wished to plead “Not guilty,” the young man replied in firm tones The arraignment was over. McPher- son turned and smiled again at his father and mother and then allowed himself to be escorted back to the base- ment cell. A few minutes later he was hustled, handcuffed, into the jail van, which had been backed against the a | basement entrance, and was taken back to_the jail. Leahy and Laskey reached an agree- ment at court not to press for a trial | date until the Department of Justice has had an opportunity to complete its | investigation of the crime. The two at- torneys are pitted against each other for the first time in their careers, Leahy revealed to reporters. Leahy formerly was an assistant district attorney under Laskey when the latter was United States attorney for the District of Co- lumbia, some years ago. Both are known as experts at criminal law. Two Federal agents assigned to in- vestigate the McPherson case were in court when Judge Gordon heard Mc- Pherson’s plea. Allen Back at Work. Policeman Allen is o sta the pavements again today pounding ter a sus- force which began September 23, Po- liceman Allen will be on night duty at the eighth precinct under Capt. Robert E. Doyle Allen’s restoration to duty was ordered by the Board of Commissioners yester- day against the wishes of Maj. Henry G. ing their action the Commissioness ended the probicm that has been bofore them at three successive board mei- ings. Probably never b>for2 in the his- tory of the Poiice Department has a pri- vate caused the Beard of Commissionas so much concern. The action was taken out of the feeling that regardless of the merits of the charges made against Al- len by Inspector Shelby, on the basis of which he was suspended, it would be an injustice to deprive the policeman of his pay during the many weeks and per- haps months which will intervene be- fore the charges, which have not yet been drawn up, can come to trial. When Allen finally is tried, should tie hoard | find him guilty and sentence him 0 be dismissed from the force it would mear that unles he had been restored to ac- ive duty in the meantime ne would have lost all his pay from September 23 to the date of the trial. Owing to the extraordinary conditions surrounding Allen's case the city hcads are understood to have agreed that it would have been impossible to bring Allen to trial on the charges preferred by Shelby before the McPherson case s disposed of by the District Supreme Court. Shelby charged Allen with keeping from his superior officers knowledge of facts whizn the policeman had in his possession concerning eom- mission of a crime, and with faiiing to co-operate with other members of his department. Much of the testimony that went to the grand jury would probabiy be brought into Allen's trial either by Allen or by the prosecution, and this might have a prejudicial ef- fect not only on the trial of Allen, but._pessibiy later on the trial of the McPherson case. Commissioners’ Statement. In taking their ection, which was done on motiod of Proctor L. Dougherty, president of the board, the Commis- sloners issued a written siatemenc as follows: “Order that Robert J. Allen, a mem- ber of the Metropolitan Police force of the District of Columbia, who was sus- psnded from duty upon the recom- mendation of the major and superin- 1929, be restored to active duty as of this date, that he be paid during the period of suspension and that the major and superintendent of police be | directed to assign said Allen to active | duty. “My motion is predicated upon the unusual conditions that exist in this particular case which make it unwise to bring said Allen to trial on charges at this time, while investigations are ‘BLIND NOW READ BéOKS ‘ ON GIRLS’ GOOD LOOKS; Three volumes of books under the | title, “Any Girl Can Be Good Looking,” | are among the most frequently de- manded by the blind woman patrons of the New York Public Library, ac- cording to Lucille A, Goldthwaite, li- brarian for the blind. These volumes, reproduced in Braille, the raised printing method, are from a ,volume written some time ago by Hazel Rawson Cades, beauty editor of Wom- an's Home Companion, having to do with the care of the hair, skin, hands and posture, and outlining the correct methods of using cosmetics, The book was read by Mrs. Mary C. Oglesby of Bronxville, N. Y. She told her blind Ariends of it and the sightless women £howed a great interest. Mrs. Oglesby transcribed the work into Braille, three e volumes being required for the edition for the blind, and presented ‘them to the library. . A number of women and women's clubs recently have been devoting their spare time to the transeription of print- ed words into Braille for the benefit of the blind, but Miss Cades’ book is said the only one available to the that d-~'s with the subject in progress and because it seems un- reasonable to keep said Allen suspend- ed without pay and without an oppor- tunity for trial. “Signed. “P.L. DOUGHERTY, Commissioner.” After the Commissioner’s order had been given to Maj. Pratt he summoned | i Capt. Doyle and asked the captain to itake Allen into his precinct. Doyle | readily agreed and left immediately to supervise police arrangements at yes- terday's base ball game. When asked what he intended to do with Allen, he ‘ replied: Allen's New Duties, “I shall probably put him chasing ul balls at the ball park.” Since to- y's game is the last on the schedule, however, Capt. Doyle’s statement should not be taken too seriously. He re- { marked as he left the building that he 'had had a lot of “tough | his precinct before, and that he had always managed to get along with them well, Allen had ofte: complained about the | treatment given him t. Stott of +the third precinct, who had several | tim.s 'Rnlmld es against him be- fore the trial board, is may have iled to Maj. Pratt’s decision to switch ' Allen from the third precinct, although Pratt had nothing to say on the sub- ject to reporters. One possible_reason oEnt be Tehat Ghe Park Lane’ Apit guilty” plea when arraigned in court| RUSSIANS RENFW ta where Prosecutor Laskey was sitting, | pension from active duty on the police | Pratt, superintendent of police. In tak- | tendent of police on September 23, al customers” in || THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER ~6, 1929—PART 1. TS BEGIN INVESTIGATION TO SOLVE McPHERSON CASE ment, where Mrs. McPherson met her death, is in the third precinct, and there might have been a desire to re- mg'vle Allen from that territory for a while. Capt. Doyje, it will be recalled, had a “run_in” with Policeman Allen some months ago’ when the latter's car was “confiscated” by one of the captain's men for being parked in a restricted zone marked out in front of the hom~ | of Representative De Priest, colored, of | Iiinols. | “"Allen did not like this at all, and he told them so emphatically at the eighth precinct. As a result of his protests his | car was restored to him and Capt.| | Doyle was ordered to remove the “no | parking” signs in front of the Repre- | | sentative’s home. The Traffic Bureau | explained that no authority had been given for erection of the signs, and that | similar_requests for signs in front of | other legislators’ residences had been denied. Allen declared last night that he be- statement was due to the of Benators Capper, Blease, an with whom he | had conferred concerning his statu: | He said he went to Maj. Pratt’s office Friday and inquired whether he was to | be awarded the detective sergeantcy | promised by Inspector Shelby at the | instance of his fricnds in the Senate. Capper and Copeland wrote letters to | the Commissioners asking that Allen be reinstated when a police triad board recommended his dismissal after he | had wounded a colored man when h= | falled to stop on_ Allen’s demand when he apprehended him running down an | alley after shots had been fired. | | ~ IANGHULI ATTACK |Planes Direct Artillery Fire;] as Chinese Rush More | Troops to Scene. By Radio to The Star. SHANGHAL Octcber 5.—The Soviet | forces renewed today their attack on | | Manchuli. the western terminus of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria, on the Russian border. According to Harbin dispatches the situetion is critical. Soviet artillery fire, directed | /by five bombing planes. is encircling | the Chinese lines. Chinese reinforce- | ments are being rushed from Hailar | toward Manchuria. Civil officials of | the Manchuli. including the railway | and the custom house staff. have been | withdrawn from Hallar, awaiting the outcome of the present Soviet bom- bardment. Third Day of Attack. ] The attack, begun on the morning ! of the 2d, and continuing until the | afternoon of the 3d, was resumed on | he fourth. From Chinese sources | hundreds of casualties were reported and the captuer from the Soviets one | heavy artillerv gun and a machine gun | | battery of 250 rifles. China, it seems, | wishes to purchase the Russian in- terest in the Chinese Eastern Railway, !a statement accredited to Chou Lung | Kuan, chief of the Asiatic bureau of | the foreign office, prior to his departure ! yesterday for Peiping and toward Muk- den, to discuss the Sino-Russian con-l troversy. Chou declared that s00n | ins negotiations were started I‘ilh] | Chiia, he would propose a method | of catching up with the railroad ques- | tion and the appointment of new rail road officials would be necessary. Should Russia agree to negotiations | that difficulty would remove the neces- sity of the appointment of a new Rus- sian Ambassador. which contributes to the present deadlock. Government dis- | patches report the troops of Chang | Fah-Kwei in flight. Yo-Tso-Peh, the | deposed chairman of Kwangsi provinces leading the Kwangsi insurgents bor- derward to engage the Kwantung ex- pediticnary troeps. Kwangsi Forces Divided, According to Nanking dispatches, the Kwangsi * :ces were divided into two factions, :hose loyal to the central government under the leadership of | | Gen. Luhuahnken and Gen. Yang, { Tonghui, while those leagued with the | so-called reorganization party are led | by Yu-Tso-Peh, Gen. Li Mingsui. | cial representative of the central d | armament committee of Kwangsi pro ince. The Kwantung Government mani- festo charges that Tso-Peh is a tool of | | Soviet Russia. He has been cherged | with organizing armies among the | peasantry and among the Communists. Other charges were plotting with re- organizations to overthrow the cen- tral government defying the govern- ment’s orders of military cisbandment. (Copyright. 1920.1 THREE YEARS ORDERED FOR BARBER SHOP BREAK Tewis Walker, colored, sent to the penitentiary for three years yester- day by Chief Justice McCoy, in Crim- | inal Division 3. Walker broke into_ the | | barber shop of Jerome Johnson June | 22 last and stole clothing. | A term of three years’ imprisonment was also imposed on Thornton H. John- son, colored, who broke into a dining car of the Southern Railway in the | vards of the Washington Terminal Co. He got only a quantity of cigars and cigarettes, Justice Peyton Gordon, in Criminal Division 1, yesterday sent Charles Mills, colored, to the penitentiary for five years. He was before the court on two charges of housebreaking and larceny, and the court fixed the penalty in eacl case at five years, but allowed them to run concurrently. Mills broke into an apartment at 1014 Euclid street April 21 and stole wearing apparel and jewelry. He also stole a| qi m{'ol clothing from an apartment, street May 22. Let us estimate and save you money on allyour building needs (FOUNDATION T0 RO - 5 | money to the mz 3—Branches—3 Main Ofice Sixth and C Str Camp Meil | . Fifth and Florida Ave. N.E. Brightwood PROBE PLAN WILL BE WEIGHED SOON Blease Proposal to Investi- gate Police Will Go to Audit Group Early. ‘The Senate committee on audit and control will meet early this week, pos- sibly Tuesday, to consider the resolution drafted by Senator Blease, Democrat, of South Carolina, to direct the Senate District committee to investigate recent events in the police depariment and District attorney’s office. ‘The resolution would provide spe- cifically for an inquiry into the reasons for the suspension of Policeman Robert J. Allen, who took an active part in investigating tiie McPherson case. Po- liceman Allen was put back on duty yesterday by the Commissioners, It also sceks an inquiry into the is- suance of permits to carry concealed weapons in the District. Still another section would require an investigation of the steps taken by the grand jury and the District attorney's office in connection with the death several months ago of Lee King. a Chinese. As soon as the resolution was intro- duced it was sent to the audit and con- trol committee, of which Senator Deneen of Illinois is chairman, and ac- tlon will not be taken on it by the Senate until that committee reports. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY “Y” BILLS PROGRAM Home-Coming to Be Celebrated by Young Wemen This Afternoon. afternoon at the Phyl- ch of the Y. W. C. A, nd avenue, with open house for all present and former mem- bers. Mrs. Cleo Key is chairman of the committee in charge. has been prepared. Announcement of the Fall and Winter program for the Phyllis Wheatley Y ineludes studics i current events, short story writing and home meking, under the ‘direction of Miss Randolph: social usages, taught by Miss Elies Jones; physical education, including dancing. swimming, games and reducing. taught by Miss Ida M. Hall: talks on books worth reading and interracial lectures by Dr. Kelly Mille taught by Miss Marie James . by Miss Kapulani McCants : health talks by Mrs. Alice Boone Dumas: par- ables. public speaking and dramatic ex- pression by Mrs. Hallie Queen Jack- 4 child study by Mrs. Anna J. Thompson: V Crox‘on: dressmaking and apprecia- tion of clothes, by Mrs. Aldina Hawkins Haines Brown: successful hostesses and poster making, by Miss Nixon. and other business and historical studies under competent directors. . JUDGE FREES VIRGINIAN AND GIVES HIM MONEY Had Not Eaten in Week, Declares Man Seeking Job When Taken as Vagrant. A man who came into Police Court yesterday expecting to be sent to jail. | not only left the court a free man. but found himself 35 cents richer for the | experience, when Judge Robert E. Mat- tingly turned him loose and gave him the money to purchase food. Ira Cattlet of Winchester. Va.. faced the judge on a vagrancy charge. He told the magistrate that he had come to Washington to get a job. but had been unsuccessful. He said that he had not ecaten for over a_ week and was saving a dollar to enable him to return to his native city if he failed to find employment. The judge presented and releascd him Cattlet was arrcsted on Pennsylvania avenue Friday night by Policeman A, D. Mansfield of the first precinct. - N The municipal forest of Bitterfield, Germany, the city in which are situ- ated the largest world, must soon be felled, for it stands above rich coal veins. “Home-coming day” will be celebrated | Entertainment | sorial hvgiene, by Mrs. §. | bool [ i Deaths of -Mme. Dennis and Detective Sergeant Remam Unsolved Desplte Repeatcd Efforts of Police. Listed at police headquarters on cards thumbed many times over in the las! 20 years by uniform and plain clothes policemen are more than a score 1.7‘1 mysterious cases that developed out of death—death delivered suddenly, violently. Down through the years hundreds of persons have been taken to precinct stations and headquarters for questioning; many witnesses have appeared beforc coroners’ juries: countless days and nights have been spent in tracing thousands of clues, but in these unusual cases there still is no answer to the question “Who was the murderer?” o Who killed Madame Ada Gilbert Den- Oklahoma, where McBride had a back- [nis, the handsome, youthtul modiste | EISNG, A8 AL 1S CSGr un Tatian whose little shop on K street was well | foii4 ~ Several members of his ifkme- and favorably known to many of Wash- | diate family were ain mysteriously. ington's social set in 19097 One day | But there was nothing defin w 20 years ago she was found in an un- | °™ Trips to distant cities were made oo 1 by detectives, but they came back emp- conscious condition in & back room of |ty handed. Finslly, the police frankly her establishment, her pretty hu:l‘salg tht;y v\"ere ’r'!.g:;‘)lui% dhendqmnnr: rominent ai 2 S mashed in and a blood-stained PINO | detectives who worked on the case was 366 days she lay in a hespl | Arthur Scrivener. Feur years 1?;’1;;.0? deliriously and muttering many 5 Ig‘fir’v ;"‘f&];"h;‘,'flh:‘g:fd-_ obody some very prominent in the Capitais| P life, but nof an‘ce'jfld she regain con- Was to Be Married. s eelaTeomnaets Shortly atter 1 o'clock on the morn: i | ing of Octover 13, , his body was wore Guieenoned. 15 o wval "roms | found near the mouth of an alley on N Ada Gilbert Dennis died, “of wounds | 5treet east of Wisconsin avenue. He | infiicted by a person or persons un- | had been shot through the heart at [ known " the account of the attack un. | Close range. He had spent the evening | der which she fell died with her. before with two detective friends and | Since that year many strange cases | earlier had visited with his fiance, whom have challenged the ability and alert- | he Was to marry the following day. ness of detectives and policemen. In! A man "‘é"l . ‘;“: alley iy heare more recent years—exclusive of the | groan and called the seventh polic { vear 1927-~the number of unsolved mur- , Precinct station. The call was answercd i ders is well under 6 per cent of the totai | Promptly. FPolicemen found the body of number of persons slain. But in tha: & MAn prone on the alleyway. An out- 6 per cent, and not counting 9 of the | Stretched hand clutched a_ silk-and- 41 murders committed in 1927 that are | ®00L Wwrinkleproof gray necktie. Pre listed as “unsolved.~ are some of {he Sumably he had jerked it from the neck most sensational and confusing studies Of NiS assailant. One of the policemen in criminology ever to confouny the er. | dashed across the street to the nearby forts of & Metropolitan Police Depart. | OMe of Scrivener to get the detective ment. mmhzl;‘ A ll”l“ol;:d cycl; dpnhc;;na;x Three mysterious deaths since 1922 | Stooped over the body and drew back, He recognized Scrivener. Telephone have not been explained sAtiSTACOFIlY. | wires to headquarters and to precinct The McBride Case. stations throughout the city burned Who killed Barney A. McBride, the | Fiih, (e news: “Scrivener's been | | ealthy Indian oif operator, whose | Tne siain detective, one of the most | was Tound in°a elump of ushes meas | POPUIAr men on the force, apparently | Meadows, Md., a short distance from | o, carried out a plan he often had | 0 lfed Nites. Evmian k. a-70- | or 0 ANYbods ever gets me he had | year-old woman, who operated a littls | (OMd his friends, “Ill greb something | umbrella shop at 819 R street until ' '0M him to give the boys a lead to | January 2%, 19267 On that day her | fork on. It may be only a bution, but | trussed-up body was found, the hands |1l 8¢t something. and feer tied. and a plece of cord tight , Pistol Is Checked. around the neck. i War Sergt. Arthur “Mitt” Scrivener | Throughout the days that followed of the Detective Bureau murdered on ' the necktie he had left in #n out-, October 13, 1926. Was he shot down -:lr?'/ch;d hnn? = u: ltadh_inr ‘:-‘E ?.",’ by an “unknown acsailant.” : of | to work on” lea nothing tangi s riends believe. or did he take his | The best friend he had on the force, his friends believe, or did he take his own life? v of his acquaintances | concluded he was a suicide, but on the | books at police headquarters the ques- | tions are unanswered. The wealthy Indian, McBride, arrived | Detective Edward J. Kelly, who paired | with him on may cases, investigated. as did others, but to no avail. Much importance was attached to a .38 cali- ber pistol found near the body. Three | ::l:,e!dhflld. The case has not been Nine unsolved crimes of violence date from 1927. Three Chinese were killed in tong warfare at different times. The slayers have not been apprehended. Lin Chong, 40, one of the dead, was shot several times while in the kitchen of a restaurant at 1343 E street by an assaflant who jumped in & parked taxicab and made good his escape A 2)-year span police annals is marked by the mysterious deaths of the two women, Madame Dennis, 20 years ago, &nd Mrs. Virginia McPherson, scarcely 20 days ago. In the Iatter case progress has been more marked, an indictment has been returned. PRESIDENT GIVEN LOG OF GOOD-WILL VOYAGE Officers end Crew of Ship That Made South American Tour Present 100-Page Volume. President Hoover yesterday added the log of his South American tour to his library. The 100-page volume arrived yesterday as a present from Capt. Vic- tor A. Kimberly and the officers and crew of the U. 8. 8. Maryland, which carried the President’s party southward from San Pedro, Calif, to Valpariso, Chile, last year. The book is well printed on fine gloss paper, artistically bound and well filled with photographs by the ship’s pho- tographers depicting all phases of the historic trip. Many of the pictures show the deck pastimes, with several pages devoted to the Neptune day cere- monies when the battleship crossed the Equator with its cargo of pollyoogs. ‘Newspaper men who accompanied the President-elect were assigned to various incidents of the trip and the collection of 15 articles, suitably illustrated, make a complete record of the journey. The bock was edited by the officers of the Marylend and the cost of print- ing taken from the ship’s service fund. Each member ¢ the crew on the voyage as well as members of the party received A copy of the memorial. Liberians hi given the name per bird, which with the rising of the sun flutters to the housetops and fences and utters shrill cries. LONDON PRESS CLUB COMPLIMENTS DAWES Expressions of Good Will Ex- changed ' at Dinner to U. 8. Envoy . By the Associated Press. LONDON, . October 5.—The Precs | Club tonight entertained at dinrer United States Ambassador Charles G. Dawes. Lord Riddell, in toasting him, said that America always sent first- s Ambassadors here. | Gen. Dawes was responsible, he said, not only for the economic settlement but for the introduction of a peaceful spirit at a itme when it was much needed, and they couid not fail to be | proud of entertaining a man who would g0 down in history as the author of the Dawes plan for reparations. ’ Gen. Dawes in reply said he felt | rather sentimental and emotional and | was greatly moved when he read of the magnificent reception given Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald in New York and Washington, “When I read of the acclaim given bv hundreds of thousands of my fellow countrymen to one of the national fig- ures of Britain, the country of their kinsmen. I seemed to hear above the roar of the crowd the chimes of Trinity Church ringing out that old English hymn ‘I Love the Place, O Lord.'" v i CIGAR FROM “CRICKET.” Derivation of Word Traved to In- sect. om the Pathfinder. | The Spanish word for cigar is “ci- | garro.” “Cigarro” is balieved 10 be only gender variation of “cigarra.” which in | Spanish means the cicada or tree crickst. The early Spaniards thought they saw a resemblanco in the roll of tobacco and the tree cricket which is cylindrical in form with a conical apex. Borcia, the Spanish lexicographer. says “the cigar has the form of a cicada of paper.” This view of the derivation of “cigar” is supported by Murray’s New English dictionary and the Webster's Interna- | tional. The theory that it is derived | | | Pr e :"H\'Lng alarm clock” to the little pep- | from a native West Indian word hes been abandoned. “Cigarette” is merely |a diminutive of “cigar.” Literally it means “little cigar. Collateral Loans in Washington about five days before he was killed, put up at the home of Mrs. Mary E. Cone, in the 200 block of figures in the serial number had been |filed off and it was never traced. al- | |though the weapon was submitted to Third street, and in the next few days |the Bureau of Standards for examina- | This Bank makes loans lignite mines in the | was seen frequently at the headquarters | of the Washington Elks Club. McBride | was one of that group of Indians that | have realized wealth through the sale | of oil lands in the We: He had been | in Washington six years earlier to im- | prove the deed to properties he had ac- | quired through the death of his wife | and nothing about his conduct here aroused suspicion. He had plepty of | | money, earried large amounts on his | person, but was quiet by nature and | well mannered. | Rope Around Neck. | Somebody took Barney McBride “for a ride.” A pedestrian chanced to see two feet protruding ominously from a | 2 clump of bushes under a culvert near | Mcadows and investigated. He found | a body. A rope was knotted around the | neck and many knife wounds were in | the head and about the neck. A trail of blood led from the body several yards around a small farm dwelling toward the District line. There appeared no marks of identification. On the bodv. later. however, was found one cvidence of the Indian's fatalism. A small leather tag had been concealed by the dead man between the tongue and vemp of one shoe. It was | found accidentally and disclosed the | wording: _“McBride, New York, Lodge | No. 1. B. P. O. E,, 108-116 West Forty- third street.” The Washington police were active in | the investigation for many weeks, but | accomplished little. Information from tion and trips made to the factory that turned it out. The possibilty of suicide was sug- gested when Scrivener’s locker at head- quarters was found to contain more than a score of bullets of peculiar make that fitted the pistol. In face of this evidence, however, coroner’s jury, meeting 35 days after the body was found, returned a verdict of murder” by a person or persons unknown to the jury.” The investigation was con- tinued, and the District attorney's office later took it up. Developments were few. Clues were proved worthless. Finallv_the lice rnn?ldly stated they | SUPERIOR GARAGES IN ALL MATERIALS TIN ROOFS PORCHES BUILT WF_BUILD. 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