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e Washington News KELEHER LOSES FIGHT TO ESCAPE TERM IN PRISON District Appeals Court Rules He Must Serve 8 Years and 9 Months. McCOY SENTENCE HELD IN PENALTY LIMITS| Convicted on 23 Counts of Indict-| ment Charging Gaming and Race Betting. John B. Keleher, who was® convicted of conducting & place where bets could be made on horse races, at 1413 H street in November, 1926, must serve the term of eight years and nine months in the penitentiary imposed on him some months ago by Chief Justice Wal- ter I. McCoy. The District Court of Appeals today in an opinion by Justice Charles H. Robb, affirmed the conviction of Keleher | and declared the sentence could not be | disturbed since it did not exceed on any one count the maximum penalty pro- | vided by lh;oll'. He also must pay a ine of $7,500. néelehn had been convicted on all| 23 counts of an indictment charging | the setting up of a gaming table, per- mitting others to use the premises (orI gaming and for accepting separate bets on horse races at different times. Bets were placed. the opinion points out. by Robert L. Shivers, an agent of the De- partment of Justice in November, 1926, and in December, 1926, a raid Lo staged and a quantity of gambling equipment taken. | Sentence of Justice McCoy. The sentence as rendered by Chief Justice McCoy was for 5. years each | on 6 counts of the indictment, to run | concurrently, with 2 sentences of 1 y!lrf each on two other counts and 15 sen-| tences of 90 days and $500 each, to| run concurrently to each other and to the S-year term, making a total of 8 years and 9 months of imprisonment and a total fine of $7,500. The appellate court found that there was sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction and brushed aside as with- out merit a number of exceptions on behalf of the defendant. Justice Robb pointed out that it is not improper to join charges of felony and disdemean- ors in the same indictment in separate counts, since the District code in section 934 provides that “where the sentence is imprisonment for more than one year it shall be in the pentitentiary and cumulative sentences of more than one year shall be deemed one sentence for the purpose of this provision. No Abuse of Discretion. The court held there was no abuse of ‘difieretion in the -aetion of the trial judge in denying a bill of particulars a motion to require the Govern- ment-to elect on what counts-it would ssk 8 conviction. ©The action of the trial judge in- re! quash the search warrant which issued only against Charles D.” Payne, a co-de- fendant, is upheld by the appellate tribunal, which points out that Keleher failed to assert any interest in the P y seized and was not in a posi- tion to challenge the validity of the warrant nor to lss the return of the roperty to a third person. ’ Am&tylnt United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins conducted the prosecu- tion of Keleher and argued the appeal. Attorney Danlel Thew Wright repre- sented the prisoner at the trial, but withdrew _after the conviction and Keleher was represented on appeal by Attorney T. Morris Wampler. SCHOOL BUDGET UNDER DISCUSSION President of Board and Other Officials in Session With Members of Bureau. Headed by Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president, ‘members of the Board of Education and school officials are in session today with members of the Bu- reau of the Budget, discussing the 1931 school estimates of the District of Co- lumbia_appropriations. _ The ml:&ug Administration Building offices were virtually abandoned this morning with Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools. and his stafl of officers absent. Besides Dr. Ballou the school officials who are defending the school estimate with are Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant su- perintendent in charge of white high schools; J. J. Crane, first assistant su- perintendent in charge of buildings and grounds; Garnet C. Wilkinson, first } assistant _superintendent in charge of colored schools; Robert L. Haycock, as- sistant superintendent in chegge of elementary schools, and Maj. R. O. Wil- marth, assistant superintendent in charge of business affairs. With the school authorities are Dr. H. Barrett Learned and Mrs. Henry G. Doyle, both board members. LEADERSHIP COURSE T0 OPEN TOMORROW, Four Meetings Sponsored by Social Agencies’ Council to Be Held at Y. W. C. A. The first of a series of four meet\nll\l in a club leadership course for young| men and women, under the auspices of the Washington Council of Social | Agencies will be conducted. in the| SToung Women's Christian Association | Building, Seventeenth and K streets, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock when Mrs. Alice Sigworth Morse, director of the Morse School of Interpretation, will speak on “The Value of Dramatics in Club Worl The other meetings, all to be held in the Y. W. C. A. Building at 8 o'clock and their speakers, as sched- uled, are as follows: ‘Thesday, November 12, address by Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital and presi- dent of the Washington Institute of Mental Hyglene, whose subject will be “Indications in Problem Children”; ‘Tuesday, November 19, Thomas 8. Set. tie, formerly connected with the Recrea. ticn and Playground Association o America, on “Recreation and Health,” ernment.. Huge Rockfish C. J. STACKMAN, 764 Eleventh street southeast, with the 20-pound rockfish which he landed yes- terday oft Bloody Point. —Star Staff Photo. 82 HERE IN $100,000 INCOME TAX CLASS 1927 Figures Show Increase Over 1926 and 62 More Mil- lionaires in U. S. ‘The number of Washingtonians with incomes over $100,000 & year jumped from 74 1R 1926 to 82 in 1927, accord- ing to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. While the wealthy class was, thus in- g in the National Capital, the figures on income tax show that indi- viduals here paid a much larger total tax in 1927 than in 1926 and that they also reported a larger net income in 1927 than in 1926. Corporations here, on the other hand, | however, showed a falling off in gross income, net income and in the total tax paid from this city to the Federal Gov- For the country as a whole the! g;umnhwflutthnwulgunnt in the number of persons reporting the biggest incomes, of $1,000,000 or more, bringing this class up to 290. In the District of Columbia there was quite a change in the incomes of the wealthy. In 1926 there were two per- sons reporting annuai incomes between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, while in 1927 there was one person who reported an annual income of between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. Comparisons Interesting. ‘The comparison of the largest tax- ryera in this city reporting in 1926 and 927 is most interestingly shown, as follows: | i 38E ‘The largest number of taxpayers in | any one group in this city fell in the class reporting incomes between $1,000 | and $2,000 a year. ‘The number of individuals paying tax here dropped off from 40,024 in 1926 to 39,560 in 1927, but the total net income of those reporting grew during the same period from $198,055,- 768 to $198,938042, and the income tax paid also grew from $5526,436 to $6,027,133. 35,545 Increase of Payers. For the cauntry as a whole, the Treasury statistics showed an increase of 35,545 in the number of persons who paid an income tax as compared with the preceding year, with a correspond- ing increase of $586,594,904 in the total income of all persons paying the Fed- eral levy, an increase of $98,168,644 in the total tax paid, and an increase from $5,306 to $5,496 in the average net income of those filing returns. In this city the average net income for those filing was somewhat below the Nation in both years, rising from $4,- 948.43 in 1926 to $5,028.77 in 1927. Corporations in the District showed a drop in the number reporting a profit | for the year, also in the gross income and in the tax paid. The number of returns from corpor- ations here showing a net income fell from 1,077 in 1926 to 1,070 in 1927; while the gross total income of these concerns_dropped from $596,908,983 to $548,825,047 during the same period. Their tax, decreased from $8,671.069 to $7,225,128. $10,218,448,780 Total Ply.h For the country as a whole the re- turns showed a total of $10,218,449,780 received from wages and salaries; $3,- 287,421,204 from mfllvidusllg con- ducted businesses; $1,755,145,035 fl'Dllh businesses conducted in partnership; $1,813,395,955 from profits derived from the sale of real estate, stocks and bonds; $1,081,186,018 from capital net in from sales of assets held more than two yea: $1,302,275,981 from rents and royalties; $2.026,897,032 from in- vestments; $47,479,483 from interest on Government obligations not_ entirely exempt from taxation; $4.254,828,886 from dividends on stock of domestic corporations and $6,394,981 from fidu- ciaries, ‘Tax papers of the State of New York as usual showed the largest total of individual net incomes, with $5,398,- 451,005 and a total number of 766,974 returns; Illinols was second with $2. 093,908,578 and 378,859, and Pennsyl- vania third with $2,001,825217 and 381,374, HONORED BY FRIENDS. Watch Presented to Retiring Chief of Farm Board Division. and Monday, November 25, Mrs. Fereba B. Croxton, executive secretary Social Hygiene Society, on “Meeting Adol- escent Sex Problem.” . At the meeting tomorrow night Mrs. Morse will tell how to introduce dra- matics in club work. A watch and chain was presented to Reyburn A. Burklin, chief of the se- Federal | streets. | ready with their special equipment, the The Zoening Stap | Society and Gehera] WAS CRIPPLED CHILDREN BEGIN GLASS WORK AT2 SCHOOLS HERE Enroliment at Weightman Reaches 29, While Ma- gruder List Totals 18. PHYSIOTHERAPIST ROOMS LACK MUCH OF EQUIPMENT Busses Are Slightly Late Due to Pupils’ Lack of Familiarity ‘With Schedules. ‘The District officially opened sym- pathetic arms to its crippled children | today wben initial classes were held at the schools for these pupils in the ‘Weightman and Magruder buildings. Twenty-nine boys and girls were en- rolled ut the Weightman School, Twenty-third and M streets, the white cripple children’s school, while 18 were enlisted at the Magruder School ” for colored children at Seventeenth and M s While the classrooms themselves were | physiotherapist rooms lacked much of the equipment with which they will | afford treatment to the youngsters dur- ing the coming months. Mrs. A. T. Miller is the teacher in charge of the white crippled children's school, while her staff includes Miss Helen M. Moore, physiotherapist, and Mrs. H. P. Davis, assistant and matron. Mrs. L. S. Malone is the teacher in charge of the Magruder Building’s crip- ple children classes. Mrs. Edith | Menard is physiotherapist and Mrs. A!Ii't;’e Dlfifieflmn, matron. e cl ren in both schools toda; reached their classrooms slightly Iwhlni‘!’ schedule. The six busses which trans- ported the white - children to the Weightman building and the three which carried the colored children, had some difficulty in maintaining sched- ules, due in most instances to delays in meeting the children of the specified points. ' These delays, however, proba- bly will be overcome as the children be- come familiar with the schedules. In the Magruder School hospitality was extended by Miss K. U. Alexander, principal of the building, when cocoa w‘l‘-ls urve% enry Draper, supervising principal of the first division, in which the Weightman School is located, was pres- ent when the crippled children’s class was_launched in that building, and L. L. Perry, assistant superintendent in c?l."de dofthcolol’ed elemenury schools, attende e opening the Magruder building. g POLICE ASSOCIATION “ BOARD TO NOMINATE Five Members Reported to Be in Race for President, Including Sergt. Smith, Incumbent. ‘The general board of the Policemen's Association will hold a meeting in the Odd Fellows’ Temple, 419 Seventh street, Tuesday night to nominate the candidates for election to the offices of the association. Five members are reported to be in the race for president of the association. ‘They are: Sergt. Milton D. Smith, of the Traffic Bureau, who is now serving his third term as president; Capt. F. S. W. Burke, of the first precinct; Head- | quarters Detective Sergt. F. A. Varney. who opposed Smith last year; Pvt. W. F. McDuffie of the eleventh precinct the present first vice president, and Pvt. G. E. Strobel of the fourth pre-| cinct. | ‘W. J. Kerns, recording secretary; W. T. Hendrucks, financial secretary, and | W. J. Adcock, treasurer, face no op- | position for re-election. The general election will be held the first Tuesday in December. RITES FOR JUDGE GARD HELD AT HAMILTON, OHIO Former Representative, Who Died Friday, Was Strong Supporter of Wilson's Administration. Funeral services were conducted in Hamilton, Ohlo, today for Judge War- ren Gard. a member of the House from 1913 until 1921 and a strong supporter | of President Wilson. Judge Gard was 56 years old. He died last Friday of ;xl::emlc Ppoisoning at his home in Ham- n. As a member of the House judiciary committee, Judge Gard drafted much important war legislation. He also was the author of a bill which granted a national charter to the Boy Scouts of .IA'T:ricn. This measure was passed in In addition to being a member of the House from the third congres- slonal district of Ohio, Judge Gard, | formerly was on the common please | bench in his home State and prosecut- | ing attorney of Butler County. FOOTPADS ROB MAN. Four Slash Victim With Knife, Po- lice Are Told. How he was set upon by four colored men last night, who slashed him across the face with a sharp knife and robbed him of $10, was related to police of the fourth precinct early today by Ed- ward Speaks, colored, 49, of 134 Francis street southeast. Speaks was removed to Emergency Hospital in the ambulance, treated and | pronounced out of danger. He gave| police a good description of his assail- ants. Speaks said they attacked him | as he was passing Four-and-a-Half and | G streets southwest, |W00DS TO DISCUSS HINGTON, SCHOOL QUESTIONS 0 BE TAKEN UP BY CITIZENS' GROUPS Col. Grant to Address Six- teenth Street Association on Traffic Problem. P O, ELECTIVE BOARDx Many Other Meetings to Be Held Tonight, With Civic Matters to Be Studied. Improvement of traffic conditions, the Capper-Zihlman bill for an elec- tive board of education and the need | of new school buildings are among the questions to be discussed by various citizens’ associations which will hold monthly meetings tonight in widely sep- arated parts of the District. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, will address the Sixteenth Street High- lands Citizens’ Association tonight at the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Six- teenth and Kennedy streets. A dele- gation from this association recently called upon Col. Grant and urged him to consider the proposal to make the entrance to Rock Creek Park direclly west of Kennedy street to avold an awkward traffic turn now necessary a‘ the Brightwood Reservoir. CBntends Traffic Is Tangled. ‘The association contends that a traf- fic tangle results from the failure to have the park entrance due west of | Kennedy street. Another subject that will be discussed by the Sixteenth Strect | Highlands Association is a proposal to improve the reservolr property for | athletic_purposes. | ‘The Cathedral Heights Citizens’ M‘j sociation, which will meet tonight in St. Alban’s Guild Hall on Wisconsin | avenue will be addressed by Herbert Woods, president of the Public School Association. He will discuss the pro- posal for a Board of Education to be elected by the people, as provided in | the Capper-Zihlman bill. How to get much needed additional school facilities for Manor Park will be considered by the Manor Park Citi- zens' Association at a meeting tonight in the Whittier School, Fifth and Sheri- | dan streets. The association is expected to decide whether to take the matter up directly with Congress or with the Budget Bureau, i Other Meetings. Other meetings scheduled for tonight are as follows: ‘The Hillcrest Citizens’ Association, in the East Washington Heights Baptist Church, 3306 Alabama avenue south- east; the Takoma Park Citizens’ Asso- | clation, Takoma Public Library; the| Kenilworth Citizens’ Association, Kenil- | worth hool, and the Washi n | Highlands Citizens’ 1ation, | @tess Heights School, Nichols avenue and Raleigh street southeast. | ‘The Dupont Circle Citizens’ Associa- | tion will meet this afternoon at 4:45 o'clock in the Mayflower " Hotel. H e WILLIAMS TO RETIRE | FROM HOUSE NOV. 18 Illinois Legislator Will Assume | o Duties as U. §. Claims Court Judge. ! Representative Thomas S. Willlams of Tilinols, one of the best friends of the District of Cclumbia in Congress, one of the Republican leaders in‘farm relief work, a member of the House ! committee on committees, and a mem- | ber ot the committee on rules. which is the policy committee, said today that | he expects to resign formally on No- vember 18 to assume his new duties as a judge on the United States Court of Claims. On that date the court will start a new session, Mr. Willlams said. The nomination of the Illinois Representa- tive for that bench was confirmed last Friday by the Senate. The retirement of Representative ‘Williams from the House will leave two vacancies in the Illinois delegation, the other having been caused by the death of Representative King, also a Repub- lican, Both seats, according to Repre- sentative Williams, will be filled in the regular State elections next year, the primary coming in April. TRACTION COMPANY IS SUED FOR DAMAGES Woman and Husband Ask $35,000 Injuries Received Auto Collision. ‘The Capital Traction Co, is named as defendant in two suits aggregating $35,000 damages filed against it by Mrs. Bessie Goldman and her husband, Harry Goldman, of Rosemont, Va. The wife asks $25,000 damages for injuries sustained September 11, last, when an automobile in which she was a_passenger was struck by a car of the company at Second street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. ‘The husband wants an additional $10,000 for the loss of services of the | wife and the expense incident to her injuries. Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer appears for both plaintiffs. MISS M’COLLIGAN WEDS. Miss Sarah Poole McColligan, sec- retary to the director of the Washing- ton Better Business Bureau, was mar- ried Saturday to Malcolm W. Much- | more of this city and is now on leave | of absence for a honeymoon. The ceremony was performed in | Gaithersburg, Md., In St. Matthew's | Catholic Church. for in On Track by Hors John Hula, 21, of 2009 Benning road northeast was seriously injured this morning when hurled head first to the gravel on Benning race track by a two- | year-old horse he was exercising. Hula’s tongue was nearly torn off by the impact, his jaw was broken and hr! sustained a possible fracture of the skull. He was brought to Casualty Hos- pital, where Dr. Louls Jimal of the staff curities division of Farm Loan Board, by his subordinates on his retirement Saturday. Mr, Burklin has been appointed administrative official of the new Federal Farm Board. - sewed his tongue back into ition and reset his jaw. Unless complications set in, Hula is expected to recover. Hula was exercising & horse for the Rider Seriously Injured When Thrown e He Was Exercising Dixiana Stud Farms owned Admiral Cary T. Grayson. has Winter training quarters in the 2000 block of Benning road northeast. | His horse bolted suddenly, doctors were told, and Hula was hurled face down in the hard-packed gravel. His mouth was lacerated on the inside and his face badly cut. The injured youth was b ht to the hosglul by Dr. William P, llins of 2130 P street, a veterinarian, who has Lrgmuuotmmmltmmn stables. by Rear The farm €= MONDAY, %] C. NOVEMBER 4, 1929, HUGE STILL WRECKED BY PROHIBITION AGENTS PAGE 17 SRODKHART TOGNE PROHBIION DATA ON SENATEFLOO lowan Declines to Divulge Details of Speech He Plans to Make. {GRAND JURY TO HEAR HIS VIEWS WEDNESDAY What He Saw at Dinner for New and Re-Elected Legislators Will Be Bared. Senator Smith W. Brcokhart, Repub- | lican, of Iowa, who has been subpoenaed [to go before the District grand jury Wednesday morning to tell about a din- ner for re-elected and newly elected Senators at a local hotel in 1926 at which he said he saw flasks, will have something to say on the subject of pro- | hibition in the Senate before he tells his story to the grand jury. Senator Brookhart gave notice to this effect today, when he declared in the Senate: “I desire to give notice that upon to- morrow as soon as I can get recognition after the convening of the Senate I shall briefly discuss the enforcement o. the prohibition law in general and Wali Street booze parties in particular.” Withholds Details. . The Senator did not give any further | indication as to what the details of his | speech would be. Observing the utmost secrecy regard- | ing any plan the prohibition forces of the Treasury Department might have | for special agents' activities in and | about Washington, Harry J. Anslinger, | assistant prohibition commissioner, in i charge of the dry forces inr the absence from the city of Assistant Secretary of | the Treasury Seymour Lowman and Dr. + {James F. Doran. prohibition administra- Star staff photographers accompanied prohibition agents early yesterday morning when they found this huge still near Marlboro and destroyed it. the wires which led to the charge can be seen in the center of the picture. BRINKMAN 10 AID SENATE LAW BODY Subcommitete Lays Plans to| Study Need for Realty Statutes. Oscar H. Brinkman, former clerk of the Senate District committee, was en- gaged today to assist the Senate sub- committee investigating the need for new laws in Washington to regulate the sale of securities, to license real estate operators and to regulate the method of foreclosing mortgages. Senator Blaine, Republican of Wis- consin, chairman of the judiclary sub- committee of the Senate District com- mittee, said that Brinkman would gath- er all the information needed by the subcommittee and would assist in pre- paring tentative bills on the three sub- Jects referred to. ‘The Wisconsin Senator pointed out that in preparing this legislation the subcommittee would have the benefit of the information gathered a number of years ago by a committee headed by former Senator Ball of Delaware, and that it also would have information gathered more recently. He said the subcommittee would decide later what its program will be with regard to hold- ing public hearings. e proposed laws are to be con- sidered at the meeting of the board of directors .of the Washington Chamber of Commerce tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, at the offices of the organiza- ion. i A session of the committee on law and legislation is scheduled to precede the board meeting. There a special subcommittee, headed by Miss Pearl McCall, assistant District attorney, will recommend that the committee endorse the proposal to give the women's bu- reau of the police department a legal status. At present it exists only by departmental order. The measure would give Lieut. Nina Van Winkle, head of the bureau, the rank of inspector and assistant superintendent and provides for a nmmrund three assistants to be attached to the bureau. A partial report on the recent in- dustrial _exhibition is expected to made. President Charles W. Darr will preside. . FRATERNAL ORDER MEETS Celebrating the first anniversary of its organization, the Capital Greek- American Progressive Assoclation, a fraternal order of about 150 lodges, held a midday banquet at the Carlton Hotel yesterday and a mass meeting at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 920 Tenth street, last night. Speakers at the dinner included Lee Johnson of Pittsburgh, grand president of the organization; lo Anninos, Greek Minister to the United States, and James 'rhecty:uoe? “?‘t New RY:’RL oftciated. - be | gin at 10:30 and the afternoon sessions 1,000-Gallon-a-Day Still Is Dynamited By Federal Agents |Auto Loaded With Jars and Sugar Seized and 3 Men Held. Blown into bits by dynamite, a huge liquor still hidden in dense woods about {3 miles this side of Upper Marlboro, | Md., was destroyed early Sunday morn- | ing by Federal prohibition agents, who | also arrested on a country road not | far away three men in two automo- | biles which were loaded down with empty glass jars and sugar. The two automobiles, which bore Dis- trict of Columbia tags, were confiscated and _the three men today were taken to Baltimore, where they were ar- raigned before United States Commis-' sioner Supplee on charges of “manu- facture and possession of articles de- signed for use in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor.” The men are Emmett R. Warren, John B. Ogler and Donald Harvey. They were held in the Upper Marlboro jail over Sunday. The big still was believed by Federal agents to have supplied much liquor for the Washington bootleg trade. It was an 800-gallon still capable of turning out about 200 gallons of liquor at a “run” and when xulhed to capacity could have made five runs a day, or about 1,000 gallons of whisky. PLAN IS SELECTED s FEEE TN 54 Calvary Baptist Church Will Be Scene of Three-Day Institute. Selection of Calvary Baptist Church for the arnual missionary institute of the women's department of the Wash- ington Federation of Churches was an- nounced today. The sessions will start Wednesday and continue through Fri- day. The morning meetings will be- at_1:15. The program includes addresses and study classes conducted by Mrs. John Ferguson, chairman of the national commission of Protestant Church wom- en, and Mrs. Willlam H. Farmer, a Baptist leader. Mrs. James B. Horis- berg of Baltimore will be in charge of the Bible hours. ‘The members of the institute com- mittee are Mrs. Willlam L. Darby, gen- eral chairman; Mrs, William F. Mc- Dowell, Mrs. W. R. Metz, Miss Fanny G. Childs, Mrs. Charles Hall, Mrs. | Harvey S. Irwin, Mrs, H. M. Kendrick, | 'MISSIONARY MEETING |z Three men were arrested w hen they appeared on a road near the still while the Federal 'nts were there. Top: General view of the still, showing the 15-horsepower boiler which operated it. Center: Some of the 35 500-gallon vats of mash seized. Below: The wreck age after 70 sticks of dynamite had been exploded. One of | —Star Staff Photos. GROGERS T STUDY CONENTON LANS Manufacturers’ Association Directors Will Meet Tonight. Methods of reducing food distribution | costs will be inquired into by several hundred members at a three-day con- | vention of the Associated Grocery Man- | ufacturers of America starting tomor- row in the Mayflower Hotel. | Plans to make the convention the most successful in the history of the organization will be discussed tonight at R. Drackett of Cincinnati, president, | will preside. Program on Distribution. ‘The program f.. the convention has been so arranged that the manufac- turers will give their attention almost exclusively to distribution problems. ‘They will not-concern themselves with production except as it is indirectly af- fected. Divergent views are expected to | be advanced with the result that many phases of distribution may be consid- ered by the manufactures in making | their plans for improving methods and cutting costs. Among the organizations to partici- te and their representatives are: The ational Wholesale Grocers' Associa- tion, T. F. Branham, president; Na- tional Association of Retail Grocers, Eugene S. Berthiaume, president; Na- tional Chain Store Association, R. W. Lyons, executive secretary; National Food Brokers' Association, W. W. John- son, president, and the American Whole- sale Grocers' Association, R. H. Rowe, secretary. The probable effects of present trends toward, concentration in distribution will be interpreted b economists at a pub- lic meeting Wednesday night at which professors of marketing from five uni- versities will discuss developments in the food industry relating to distribution costs, prices to the public, quality of merchandise and service to the con- sumer. Dr. Copeland to Preside. Dr. Melvin T. Copeland, professor of marketing, graduate school of business administration, Harvard University, will preside. Other economists who will ‘s‘plzl.l are: C. E. Griffin, University of h- igan: W. C. Weidler, Ohio State Uni- versity W. Hess, University of Penn- lylvl'glln. and Ray Westerfield, Yale Uni- versity. Another speaker will be Loring A. Schuler, editor of the Ladies Horne Journal. He will voice his views on the effects of food distribution concentra- tion on the consumer at.a meeting Wednesday morning. Mrs. Lamont A. Willlams, Mrs. Donald Clement, Mrs. Arthur Briscoe, Mrs. A. B. Lank, Mrs Prank E. Edgington, Mrs. Willlam E. Boulter, Mrs. Harvey | . J. Nickels, Mrs. Carrie Officers will be elected Thursday aft- ernoon. The convention will close with the annual banquet Thursday night. the annual meeting of the directors. H. | | tor, retused to either affirm or deny | widespread rumors that dry forces are | being concentrated in the Capital for a | whirlwind campaign against the flow of liquor here. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover loday declared that he knows nothing {of any special plans of the Prohibition | Bureau of drying up Washington with agents imported from other fields, and /he declined to comment on the sugges- tion that such action might be needed in_the Capital. That Dr. Doran may have some such plan, or may at present be working it out, was admitted by Anslinger, but be- l}:zx;]dt that he refused to make any statc ent. Reports of Squad Gathering. Reports have it that there is being gathered in Washington a special corps of dry agents working under the prohi- bition administrator's orders and inde- pendently of the regular prohibition unit assigned to the Washington dis- | trict; and that. evidence is bsing gath- iered quietly by these agents in pre | ration for a series of raids and arrests. |, The mobilization of ' the dry forces, the reports indicate, would be under | the usual plan of the’ Prohibition Bu- | reau, where special action is deemed ! necessary, of bringing into the city a | group of men not known to the boot- legging trade, which would work under- | cover, apart, even, from their own col- :Leuguea of the regular unit assigned | here. | The prohibition commissioner fre- jquently has followed this licy with | success where cities have shown stub- | born resistance to the efforts of the )rzgularly assigned prohibition agents. {PRISONER TAKEN . AFTER FIST FIGHT | Officer Uses Blackjack to Subdue Man Arrested as Drunken i Driver. | | _ A spectacular battle between a police- {man and a man he had arrested on & charge of driving while drunk was wit- nessed last night at the corner of Fif- { teenth street and New York avenue by ; hundreds of excited theatergoers. | After an exchange of blows, the | poNceman subdued his captive, Carlyle C. Lomax, 24, of the 1800 block of Fif- teenth street, by bringing his blackjack | into _play. The man was taken to {Emerl!ncy Hospital to have scalp | lacerations treated, and then was lodged i" No. 1 precinct on charges of driv- .;‘ng Wwhile drunk and assaulting an of- { ficer. The policeman, J. O. Hite of the | Traffic Bureau, went to East Executive and Pennsylvania avenues to investi- gate a traffic accident. The car of Lomax, Hite said, had collided with | that of John Hennegan, 18, of Baiti- | more. Hite arrested Lomax and was walk- ing with him to a patrol box when his prisoner hit him on the jaw. Both | men rolled into the street during the fight and the policeman’s uniform was badly torn. For an hour after the battle police headquarters was beseiged by telephone calls from spectators asking for details of the incident. Inspector Albert J. Headley, then on duty as night super- | intendent, expressed the opinion that | the officer was justified in the use of | his blackjack. “Hite was ordered to make a complete statement of the case to Headley. DEATH HELD ACCIDENT. | Man Died From Effects of Fall From Taxicab. A verdict of accidental death was re- |lurned by a coroner's jury at the orgue this morning in the case of arl Hitchens, 31, colored, of the 1600 | block ‘of Kenyon street, who fell from |a taxicab at Sixth and I streets early s-trcard-ty n’g‘mm‘ and H%l:d s00n after- wal al ergenc; i Tracture of ‘the sk, 0 4from a John W. Shéars, 25, colored, of the 2000 block of Eighth street, who was driving the cab, said that Hitchens leaped from the machine and fell to the street. Charles H. Lafayette, 43, of the 1300 biock of Corcoran s L, e other occupant of the cab, was absolved of any blamie in the death of Hitchens by Shears’ testimony. Morrow Is Entertained. & uxxmxcta) Cl'tl‘mY.No'ember 4 (P).- ispatc] este! Ag:;uleo on the M&e S United States Ambassador Dwight W Morrow and his family are the week end, said he had Many members will attend a grocery trade conference at the Mayflower Fri- day, under the auspices of the Federal Trade Commission. # tained at an ber of