Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1929, Page 10

- DEFENDS CAPITAL ON GRIME QUESTION Schafer Finds Parliamentary Loophole to Censure. Critics. Vigorous declaration “to the pcople of the Nation” that “the District of Columbia, t seat of their Govern- ment, is much freer from crime than many other cities throughout America™ was made in the House late yesterday by Representative John Schafer, wet Republican, of Wisconsin, who squeezed through a parliamentary loophole to censure bitterly unjust critics in Con- gress of the Capital City. The lusty wet from Wisconsin had failed to obtain unanimous consent to make his remarks, so during debate on the Interior Department appropriation bill he made_some references to treat- ment of the Indians by way of leading up to a charge that the dry laws had “caused an increase in the intemperate us2 of alcoholic beverages.” Schafer Opens Speech. Debate on the supply bill was on under “the five-minute rule,” under which a representative can mention the subject at issue and expound his views on any question for the allotted period. Schafer did just that, and his dragging in of “the Indians” as a vehicle for his specch brought laughter from his col- leagues. The Wisconsin Republican flailed members of Congress who have recent- ly attacked prohibition enforcement in the District of Columbia. He said that “President Hoover was absolutely cor- rect when he stated in his message to Congress that the law enforcement con- ditions in Washington are much better than in many other cities. Citizens of America,” Mr. Schafer continued, “read- ing the Congressional Record and ex- cerpts from Washington newspapers in- corporated therein, may reach a con- clusion that the Nation’s Capital is a cesspool of crime and unsafe for them and their loved ones to visit, including the Indians. Notes Official Statistics. “T have been assembling official data | and statistics obtained from every State in the Union, which I expect in the near future to present to the Congress and the American people, indicating almost unbelievable and unwholesome conditions existing at the present time, clearly showing that the sumptuary pro- hibition laws have failed from a tem- perance standpoint and have caused an | g increase in the intemperate use of alco- holic beverages and liquors by our citi- zens, including the Indians. De: “Statesmen in the national legisla- tive body would be rendering better | D) service to the country if they would cease their crusading for the Anti- Saloon League policies and spend a portion of their time which they devote to attacking the Nation's Capital in considering the effects of prohibition generally throughout the country, and | K particularly in their own States.” After quoting statistics which he said showed that in Atlanta, Ga.; Omaha, Nebr., and Charleston, S. here were larger increases in arrests of intoxicated drivers of automobiles during the 10 years of prohibition, and that as com- pared with Washington they were greater per capita, the Wisconsin “wet” cited that the Supreme Court in South Carolina is considering a case in which the jury drank the evidence in a pr: hibition trial. Out at Bend, Oreg., he continued, a gallon jug of evidence only half full when the jury returned from its deliberations. Cites Increase in Arrests. Referring to the figures on the in- crease in arrests for drunkenness, Schafer said the life of “an American citizen traversing the highways of the | Capital City is in less danger of being snuffed out by an intoxicated automo- | Schenectad: bile driver than it would be in Atlanta, | ¢3! Omaha or Charleston.” “If a District of Cclumbia grand had been guilty of this reprehe: conduct,” protested Mr. Schafer, “doz- ens of pages of the Congressional Rec- ord would be filled with newspaper articles, costing taxpayers many thou- sands of dollars. I would suggest that the dry crusaders turn their oratorical guns from the District of Columbia to the State of South Carolina, and re- quest such State to make it a felony with penalties not less than the Jones law penalties in the case of jurors who hijack and consume the evidence brought before them in prohibition cases. General Situation Outlined. “The population estimated by the Bureau of the Census for the District of Columbia, as of July 1, 1928, is 552,- 000,” he pointed out. “There were 27 distilleries and 42 stills confiscated dur- ing the fiscal year ended June 30, 1929, by Federal prohibition agents, who made 342 arrests during said year for violation of the prohibition laws in the District of Columbia. “Do not forget,” he reminded his colleagues, “that these seizures and ar- rests in the report of the United States commissioner of prohibition do not in- clude those made by State and local law-enforcement officers. “The country is viewing with alarm the increase in crime and disrespect of law, ard I feel confident that the crime commission appointed by President Hoo- ver, after a careful survey and study of the existing conditions, will almost unanimously reach a conclusion that the existing sumptuary prohibition laws are responsible for the general law vio- lation and disrespect of law through- out the Nation, and recommend a liber- alization of the prohibition law as a solution of their problem.” FARNUM IS RE-ELECTED BAY STATE SOCIETY HEAD Assistant Attorney General Serve Third Consecutive Term as President of Group. to Assistant Attorney Gemeral George R. Farnum was re-elected president of the Massachusetts State Society for the third consecutive term last night at a meeting held in the ball room of the Wardman Park Hotel with more than 600 members of the society attending. Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty was elected first vice president; Charles A. Bowman, second vice president; Frank E. Hickey, third vice president; George A. Hernan, secretary; William T. Simpson, treas- urer. Charles F. Sharkey, Dr. William 1. Ogus and Miss Eleanor Carleton were named to serve on the executive com- mittee with the officers. Trustees elected for the new term are Representative Fred W. Dallinger, Rep- resentative Charles L. Gifford and Mrs. John A. Chamberlain, Miss Martha Gould, Albert Michaud, Mrs. Patrick J. Murray, Mrs. Robert H. Kempton. Following the election of officers the annual entertainment and dance of the society was held, while plans were begun for the annual congressional reception in January. SEEKS TO RECOVER LOAN. Asks Court to Help Collect From Dead Woman's Estate. Anna Fugitt has applied to the Dis- trict Supreme Court to help her collect an 1. O. U. for $200, said to have been given to her by Susie E. Christian, who died February 16. She says the note was given her in September, 1928, while she was nursing the sick woman. Suit was filed against Charles F. Walsh, executor of the estate of the dead woman, after he had refused payment of the note when offered in the Probate Court. Atterney J. D. Eason appears for the plaintiff. ARMY VETERAN DIES. Harry A. Sill Served in Many American War Campaigns. Harry A. Sill, 76 years old, U. 8. retired, veteran of the Spanish-Amer! can War and of numerous campaigns against the Indians in the West, died in Walter Reed Hospital yesterday after a short illness. Fort Sill, OKI i named after an ancestor of Mr. 8! Mr. Sill resided at 2100 I street. He is survived by a widow, Mrs.’ Anna E. Sill, of that address, and a daughter, Mrs. W. H. Lingenfelter of Philadelphia. ! Funeral services will be conducted at | Tabler's undertakers, Friday afternoon I at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in Ar- |lington Cemetery. .S, AUTO DEATHS UP 1159 IN YEAR Report Covers 78 Cities for 52 Weeks Ending on No- vember 30. By the Assoclated Press. In the 52 weeks ending November 30 accidents increased 1,159 over the cor- responding period in 1928. Fatalities in the 78 cities from motor car accidents within the city limits or outside in 1929 were 8528, a Depart- ment of Commerce report made public yesterday showed, as compared to 7,369 in 1928, an increase of 15 per cent. During the four weeks ending No- vember 30 there were 839 deaths from automobile accidents reported, as com- | pared to 738 in the same period in 1928, | Some of the deaths occurring, the re- port, said, were outside the corporate limits of the cities, but most were with- in_the city limits. . Deaths due to accidents within city Nmits for 1929 and 1928, respectively, as given by the Department of Com- merce in the 78 cities {0“0‘:11 029, 1928, altimor Birmingham Boston .. Bridgeport Buffalo Fort Worth. Grand Repid: Houston ... Indianapolis . | Jersey ~City. | Memp | o | i S 5508388 | i | RO <1 bt 88258! 2 WANT SCHOOL NEED SHOWN CONGRESS Sixteenth Street Citizens Request Census for District to Answer Summons. ) A resolution adopted last night by the Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens’ Association expressed disapproval at “having the community school needs misrepresented to ress and in the press” and requested that the Board of Education furnish Congress a school census of the locality. This was in answer to a speech by Representative Simmons of Nebraska in which he said there was no need of building the proposed $175,000 school at Fourteenth street and Kalmia road to replace the two portables now there, since there were only 31 children in the portables. In offering the resolution, Mrs. H. M. Phillips, chairman of the association’s | committee on education, pointed out that a large number of children are sent to distant schools or to private schools because of inadequacy of exist- ing facilities and because of dislike for the portables. Mrs. Phillips said that no kinder- | garten instruction is available at the portables, and that only four grades are taught there. She declared that the present enrollment in the ble schools is far short of the tal of children of school age living in the locality. Another resolution adopted by the association urged that a teacher be appointed to the Recelving Home for Children at 816 Potomac avenue south- east to comply with the compulsory school law. Rev. O. A. Braskamp, pastor of Northminster Presbyterian Chapel, spoke on China. J. H. Wilson, president, presided at the meeting g WALTER REED CORPORAL HELD IN STABBING CASE ‘Witnesses Report to Police That He Attacked Colored Man in Res- taurant. . Joseph Mena, 24 years old, a corporal in the Army, stationed at Walter Reed Hospital, is locked up at the sixth pre- cinct on a charge of investigation, pending the outcome of the condition of Robert Perkson, colored, who he is alleged to have stabbed over the heart following an argument last night. The colored man is said to be in a serious condition at Emergency Hospital today. According to Precinct Detective James F_Boxwell, several eye-witnesses to the affray report that Mena, who is a Mexi- can, had been drinking before he came to the lunch room of Henry Simms, 914 Fourth street, at about 11 o'clock last night. He got into an argument with Perkson, went to the kitchen and found a butcher's knife with a 12-inch blade | and returning to the lunch room stab- bed the man. Mena was later arrested at Walter Reed Hospital and denied stabbing Perkson. He said that the colored man had the knife and stabbed himself in a scuffie for, possession of the weapon. ~ deaths in 78 cities from automobile e 2 | bach, chairman, and 8 | Mrs. Grace L. Frede THE EVEN ICHRISTMAS SEAL SALE BROADENS | Booths Established by Junior League in Number of De- partment Stores. Joining forces with the Junior League's Christmas seal sale booth at the Woodward & Lothrop department store, opened Monday, today similar booths ~for the public sale of the health tokens of the Tubercul Assoc culosis iation were opened in several other department stores and bank lobbies by volun- teer groups of women desiring to ald in the fight against tu- berculosts by sup- porting the health activities of this association. ‘Where Booths Are Located. The location of the booths and those serving them for the sale of seals, are as follows: At 8. Kann Sons Co., the Senior Council of Jewish Women, represented y Mrs. Jerome Saks, captain; Mrs, Stanley Fisher, Mrs. Ted Peyser, Mrs. Melvin Gusderf, Mrs. Harry Ullman, Mrs. Gilbert Hahn, Mrs. Mark Gold- namer, Mrs. Milton Baum, Mrs. Joseph Solomon, Mrs, C. Newcomb, Mrs. Maurice Kaska, Mrs. Jerome Horwitz, Mrs. Harry Bernton, Mrs. William G. Ilich, Mrs. Arthur Neuman, Mrs. Leon Oppenheimer, Mrs. Aubrey _Fischer, Mrs. Herbert Rich, Mrs. Frederick Pelzman, Mrs. Jerome Myer and Mrs. ‘Willlam Wolf. At Lansburgh & Bro., a team from the Council of Jewish Juniors, headed by Miss Helene Klawans, captain, and assisted by Miss Lilllan Kleblatt, Mrs. Willlam Bush, Mrs. Stanford Abel, Miss Edna Lewis, Miss Henrietta May, Miss Maxine Schwartz, Mrs. Norman Luchs and Mrs. Levy. At the Hecht Co., team from the Congress of Parent-Teacher Associa- tions, headed by Mrs. George A. Linge- assisted by Mrs. Paul Eslchner, Mrs. A. D. Henry, Mrs. Walter Frisby, Mrs. Thomas Griffith, Mrs. J. P. Boswell, Mrs. W. Lyddane, Mrs. L. N. Magruder, Richardson, Mrs. R. E. 7B, Early, Mrs. E. A Griffith, Maude Meyers, Mrs. Townsend Tolson, Mrs. Ina Zens, Mrs. Jennie Sauls, Mrs. P. Thompson, Mrs. Brandson, Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Brothers. At Goldenberg's, a committee from ? | Priendship House, headed by Mrs. Helen and assisted by ck, Mrs. L. B. Pierson, Miss Harriet I. Hewitt, Mrs. Robert Beresford, Mrs. Jennie Wells, D. Krechting, captain, € | Mrs. R. H. Van Nest. Banks Lending Aid. At the American Security & Trust Co., the Stagmont Ald Association, % headed by Mrs. Andrew Stewart, cap- tain, assisted by Miss Alice Williams, | Miss Julia Karr, Miss Bessie Sensner, Mrs. Wymond Bradbury, Mrs. Henry A. Berliner, Mrs. Carter Keene, Mrs. Carl Clandy, Mrs. George Kohan, Mrs. De Witt Cieadinick, and Miss Letty Fisher. At the District National Bank, a 30 | group headed by Mrs. G. Nordlinger, captain, assisted by Miss M. Oettinger, Mrs. M. Eiseman, Mrs. R. B. Behrend, Mrs. S. Stineberger, Mrs. B. Walburg, Mrs, M. Strasburger, Mrs. H. Shapiro, Mrs. S. Bensinger, Mrs. M. Goodman, Mrs. L. Heigenfelder, Mrs. R. Kretchel, Mrs. L. David and Mrs. 8. Minster. At the National Savings & Trust Co. the social service committee from the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, ‘Hunter, ine Peck, Mrs. John Priszl nelia Smith, Mrs. Willlam H. Johnston, Mrs, Vivian Bradford, Mrs. H. C. Phil- 3 C. Reed, Mrs. J. W. T. Duvel, Mrs. B. A. Chandler, Mrs. Wil- liam Robey, Mrs. Theron C. Brooks, Mrs. Hiram Jones. At the Washington Loan & Trust Co. a group headed by Mrs. John Allen Hunson, captain and assisted by Mrs. Bessie Kengla, Miss Virginia Benjamin, Mrs. Edith Fitzgerald, Mrs. Francis ‘Williams, Mrs. Francis Thoms and Mrs. Lucille Fehl. Special Group Active. At Dulin & Martin's a special group of volunteers headed by Mrs. A. H. Ulm, captain, and assisted by the following: Mrs. 8. B. Woodbridge, Mrs. Henry Fenno, Mrs. Royal H. Brasel, M Frances Coles, Mrs. George B. Jenkins, Mrs. Peggy Schnephfe, Mrs. Frank B. Whittacre and Miss Cornelia Smith. For the rest of this week and half of next week these booths will be in service daily to accommodate the Christmas public desiring the Christ- mas seals to use on Christmas gifts and greeting cards and letters. Sales sta- tions will also be in service at numer- ous stores, restaurants, hotels and other public places. The headquarters of the seal sale is in the Social Service House, 1022 Eleventh street, where seals may be obtained in genon or by telephone to District 6883. Cash received and deposited by the Tuberculosis Associa- tion up to this morning represents the sale of more than 1,500, seals at a cent each. Pauline Frederick Stricken. LOS ANGELES, December 11 (#).— Pauline Frederick, stage and motion picture actress, was suffering today from to become violently Il last night just before she was to appear in a Los An- geles theate NG STAR, WASHINGTON, CITIZENS INDORSE FREE BOOK BILL Burroughs Association Urges Opening of New York i Avenue. | H M. ————— . | Amendment Governing Eligibility iss | in Congress. " | eriticizing the Burleith bus line, which ptomaine poisoning, which caused her | has Indorsement of the Capper free text ' book bill and the proposed opening of New York avenue northeast, giving a | trafic outlet to Bladensburg roa marked the meeting of the Burroughs Citizens’ Association last night in the | Burroughs School, Eighteenth and | Newton streets. . It was pointed out that New York avenue traffic en route to Bladensburg road is now necessarily diverted into Florida avenue, and luces conges- tion, If New York avenue continued di- rectly across its present terminus at Florida avenue to connect with Bladensburg road, the meeting declared, Northeast and downtown traffic con- gestion would be relieved. The meeting read a letter from Lieut. | Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buiidings and public parks, assuring added playground improvements for the Burroughs Recreation Park. Inci-| dental to the proposed dedication of the Burroughs Recreation Park on July 4, 1931, the office of Col. Grant has also issued a permit opening the park to the public on the evening of that date. It was announced that a card party, , arranged by the asosciation, will be held | tonight in the Chestnut Farms Dairy | Hall, Rhole Island avenue northeast. | _At the next meeting, the association | will be joined by the Burroughs Ama- | teur Athletic Club. i URGED T0 PROMOTE GOOD WILL IN WORLD Oscar Leonard of Jewish Welfare| Federation Addresses Women's Council at Hebrew Temple. ‘The promotion of good will througu co-operation among the social service organizations of the city was urged In an address made yesterday before the Council of Jewish Women at the He- brew Temple, by Oscar Leonard, ex- ecutive director of the Jewish Welfare Pederation. “Social service needs botn the trained professional worker and the trained volunteer worker,” Mr. Leonara declared, in stressing the importance of co-operation between the council and the federation. “There is room for the volunteer in social work, providing the volunteers are in earnest, for social service is u serious business. It deals with the lives and well being of men, women and children. It is an art and a science. It touches life and can help or hurt. It cannot be a ‘stop gap.’ It cannou be used to while away weary hours. Social engagements must never take precedence over social service. Thos: who can enlist in this spirit of service are ever welcome. There is a place for them in the organized social service of the country. The Council of Jewisn ‘Women has a tradition for service. 1n harmony with this tradition let us worx together in the truly Jewish spiric, which regards charity as a stepping stone toward social justice.” BURLEITH CITIZENS | INDORSE BOOK BILL! | Clause Is Favored by i | Association. i | | The Capper-Zihlman bill for election of members of the school rd was indorsed by the Burleith Citizens’ Asso- | ciation last night, with the proviso that a proposed amendment concerning the | eligibility clause be inserted. i ‘This proposed amendment, it was ex- plained by Mrs. Willlam T. Banner- | man, chairman of the joint committee for election of the Board of Education | who was one of the speakers of the evening, is drafted to enlarge the group | of eligible voters, and will be submitted There was lively discus- | sion. | The association adopted a resolution | it was claimed had been “impaired” by the extension of the line to Glover Park without sufficient increase in the serv-| ice, either in the schedule or in the number of busses added. The public utilities committee was authorized to! take up the matter directly with the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co., and the resolution was addressed not only to the company, but also to the Public | Utllities Commission. ‘The three years’ service of Miss Wil- helmena F. Rhode as secretary of the association was praised in a resolution submitted by Geoffrey Creyke and unanimously adopted. . Zone Hearing Postponed. Special Dispatch to The Star. 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