Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1929, Page 16

THE EVE DURHAM CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED INHIGHWAY CRASH Dies in Ambulance En Route to Hospital—Autoist Escapes Injury. TIRE MARKS INDICATE BLAME, SAYS OFFICER Motor Cycle Shown to Have Been on Wrong Side of Road, He Reports. Epecial Dispatch to The Star, ACCOTIN! Va.,, December 21.—S. Gale Lindsay of Durham, N. C., was killed this morning in a head-on col- Jision on the Richmond road in Prince | William County about a mile below Woodbridge. Lindsay, who was riding a motor cycle, was headed south from New York City for his home in Durham. The car with which he collided was also from Durham, N. C. Trailic Officer L. L. Finks of Fairfax County, who was gummoned to the scene of the accident, states that the marks on the road indi- cate that the motor cycle was traveling on the wrong side of the road at the time of the crash. J. E. Ormes of Durham, driver of the auto, was picked up by S. F. Chandler of Montross, Va. wk the &cene of the accident short h. Ormes was scratched, but not seriously injured. Chandler went to Fort Humphreys Hospital and an ambu- Jance was sent to carry in young Lind- ived on ad been badly burned by the | which followed the crash. head and 1 badly 1d he died en route to the cxplosion Lindsay's crushed hospital. 4 Leaving the Fort Humphreys hospital, Chandler took Ormes into Washington with him, leaving him at Union Sta- tion. Ormes has promised to file & re- port of the accident with the clerk of Prince William County. So far efforts to locate him in Washington in time {0 get him to the coroner’s examination, which is being held this morning at Fort Humphrey by County Coroner C. A. Ransom of Falls Church, have been unavailing. Chandler, however, called Fort Humphreys on the phone about 10 o'clock and gave Traffic Officer Finks his version of the accident. Both car and motor cycle were dam- aged so badly by the crash and fire that they are stated to be not worth salvag- ing. Lindsay was identified by papers in his pockets and by two suit cases he carried. DOUBLE JUBILEE T0 BE CELEBRATED Christmas Observance at Shrine of Immacnlate Conception Calls for Five Masses. The celebration of Christmas at National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will assume that of a double jubilee, the golden anniversary of the ordination of Pope Pius XI and the dia- mond anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, High mass will be celebrated at mid- night by Dr. Bernard A. McKenna. The preacher wiil be Rev. William A. Fincel. | Christian brothers from the novitiate at Ammendale, Md., will sing the mu- | sic of the mass. Other masses will fol- Jow at 8, 8:30, 9 and 9:30 am. The annual Christmas tree celebra- tion for the orphans from St. Vincent's | and St. Joseph's Homes will be held at 3:30 pm. Benediction of the most blessed sacrament will follow at 4 o'clock. MRS. ELLEN KEANE DIES AT WOODLEY ROAD HOME Funeral Services Will Be Conduct- ed at St. Paul's Catholic Church Monday Xorning. Mrs. Ellen T. Keane, 80 years old, widow of Thomas T. Keane. died at her | home, 3113 Woodley road, yesterday. after a short illness Funeral services will be conducted | at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Fifteenth | and V streets, Monday morning at 10| o'clock. Rev. C. J. Dacey, pastor of the | church and nephew of Mrs. Keane, will | officiate. Interment wili be in Mount Olivet Cemeter: A native of Ireland, Mrs. Keane was brought to this city by her parents when she was 2 years old. Until her death she maintained many vivid recol- lections of Civil War days here. he is survived by five s Thomas F.. Michael A., John C., Lawrence D. and William J. Keane; five daughters, Miss Kathrine Keane, Miss Nellie Keane, Mrs. Willlam D. McLaughlin, Mrs, William C. Rose and Mrs. Edward J. Walsh; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. MOVIE PICTURES HELD “DETERRENTS OF CRIME Dr. Wunder, Washington Church, Bubject in Address to Pen Women. Dr. Clinton Wunder of Rochester. Y., one time pastor of the Baptist Temple there, described motion pictures as a “powerful deterrent of crime” in an address before the National League of American Pen Women last night at Stoneleigh Court. Dr. Wunder's address Former Pastor of Discusses was the second in a series of six dealing | with phases of crime which the League 15 sponsoring Dr. Wunder gave statistics in sup. t of the assertion that on the screen hero: ne with it.” B the criminal never is ceeds in “getting awa The league's series of lecture S under the leadership of Dr. Frances Butts The meeting last night was in charge of a committee headed by Mrs, William Wolff Smith and including Mrs, Eli Helmick, Judge Kathryn Sel- lers and Mrs. Amos Fries. FATHER ASKS $10,000 FOR DEATH OF HIS SON William H. Furr Holds Southern Dairies Corporation Responsible for Accident Fatal to Boy. h: u rrydale, Va e from the Furr, Cl District Su $10.000 damage Inc. for the death of Furr. # years old a truck of the last and when ant shouted at ed and, falling hed to death h '8 N | mpa fr'ghisning v after the | the | EX-BOXER GOES BACK TO WORK AFTER FALLING FOUR STORIES Clings to Icy Rope for Sev- eral Minutes Until Rescued. Accident Happens While Working on New Internal Revenue Building. Falling a few floors along the face of a high buildmg, or from the top of a flagpole is all in the day’s work for Jack Torreyson, who is cleaning the walls of the new Internal Revenue Building with the cold steam process. Falling, as a matter of fact, has never bothered Torreyson greatly, for before he went into the building climbing and steeplejack business he was a light- weight and welterwelght prize fighter, and he admits he took several fails in that game. ‘Torreyson took & fall yesterday, & mere matter of dropping from the seventh to the third floor, while work- |ing 4n the C street side of the new | Internal Revenue Building, and today he was laughing and joking about it. Ropes, Coated With Ice, Slip. Torreyson was working on a stage at the seventh floor, on the outside of the building, using cold steam blasts to clean the limestone face of the struc- ture. He was lowering his end of the stage to start on a mew portion of the building when the ropes below the stage, coated with ice, started slipping through the control block on the stage. Desperate efforts to stop the fall of the stage failed, and Torreyson hung onto the icy ropes as the heavy platform gave way. Torreyson's end went down first and swung him heavily against the side of the building four floors be- low, where he had been working, cut- ting a three-inch gash in his head. Torreyson held on gamely as an avalanche of tools, with which he had been working on the stage, fell down upon him, most of them landing on his ead. He dangled there in his precarious position, 40 feet above the ground, for several minutes before he was rescued | | by other workmen on the building. The | former boxer took first-aid treatment in | | his firm's office on the job, and went | | back to cleaning the building. | JACK TORREYSON. tar Staff Photo. “That was nothing to the fall T had two years ago,” Torreyson said today. “That_time I was on top of a 65-foot flagpole on a high building, and_ it broke. I didn't get hurt much, though.” Met Some of Best in Game. The steeple-jeck and building climber has fought up and down the length and breadth of the land, getting his start under the management of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, as & lightwelght fighter and meeting some of the best in the game, He started fighting in 1902, and was still fighting, he says, when he was running the Du Pont Club at Hopewell during the war when the big powder | firm was building a big plant just out- ide of Petersburg, Va. That was the ast fighting he did, he says, deserting the ring for the safer game of climbing buildings, flagpoles and steeples, Being “taken for a fall” is a_whole lot different from taking a fall, Torrey ays, explaining that the “cleaning” | given him by the sporting fraternity of St. Louis, Mo, when he established a | boxing club there a dozen years ago, | was unlike any fall he has cver taken 'm not a ‘fall guy’ any more,” he declares vehemently. = “There's a Wite and two youngsters now.” TRUMBULL T0 AD DISTAT ARPORT Connecticut Governor Will Speak Before Trade Board on January 13. Speakers at the meeting of the Wash- ington Board of Trade, January 13, sponsored jointly by the National Aero- | | nautic Association and the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, will include Go! Trumbull of Connecticut, Charles Law- rence, inventor of the Whirlwind motor and president of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, and Col. Paul Henderson, vice president of the Transcontinental | Air Transport and the National Air| Transport Corporations, The chief purpose of the meeting is to arouse Nation-wide interest in the! movement to secure an_airport for | Washington. This is the first time two | nationally known and influential air | associations have combined with a local | civic body to arouse public opinion for the airport. The proceedings will be broadcast over the radio. Names of the speakers were an-| nounced yesterday at a luncheon of the aviation committee of the Board of| Trade in the Cosmos Club. At the same time, Lawrence Willlams, chairman, told | the members that arrangements had | been completed for the showing at the | January meeting of the 16 winning air- port drawings in a recent competition sponsored by a nationally known manu- | facturing concern. About 300 architects | from all parts of the country partici- | pated in the contest. Another feature of the meetthg will be the flying by three or four of the winners in the model aircraft contest | of their tiny craft in the ball room of | the Willard Hotel, where the meeting| will be held. The committee voted to send mes- sages of condolence and sympathy to the families of the men killed in the | airplane crash at Bolling Field yester- day morning. Albert I. Ober, jr, told of the plans of the Washington Air Terminal Cor- | poration for the development of the Washington Airport at the south end of | the Highway Bridge. He said that two| runways, each haif a mile in length, will probably be completed by Spring He said that the intention was to use the field only for passenger traffic and | to use the Hybla Valley Field, just out- | side of Alexandria, for training student | aviators. TWO ARMY OFFICERS GIVEN NEW POSTS Maj. Mehaffy Transferred to Pan- ama and Maj. Gillette Ordered Home From Alaska. An order was issued at the War De- partment today relieving Maj. Joseph C. Mehaffey, Corps of Engineers, from his present duty with the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission in this | city, effective early in April, and order- ing him to Panama for duty under the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. Another order relieved Maj. Douglas H. Gillette, Corps of Engineers, from duty as a member and engineer officer of the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska, with station in Juneau, ef- | fective March 1, and ordering him to this city for duty with the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, as the re- lief of Maj. Mehafley. WILL PRESENT PAGEANT. Calvary Methodist Christmas Af- fair Given by Young People. Christmas will be observed tomorrow at Calvary Methodist Church, Colum- bia road near Fifteenth street. At the morning service the minister, Dr, Mark Depp. will preach on the theme, “The ! Kings of Orient.” At the evening serv- fce a Christmas pageant will be given by members of the young people's de- partment, with assistants. Christmas eve there will be a spe- clal service of devotion beginning at 11 o'clock. Angel's Message Is Topic. Special Christr will be held at Mount E. Church, | Twenty-ninth street between Dumbar- ton avenue and O street, LOMOTTOW {11 am. the pastor, Rev. Julius 8 rol deliver the Chrisimas sermon The Angel's Message to the Shey here Praver and praise service | am ireh school, 630 am fih League, 5 30 pm . Mrotherh p mon by pastor. A p.m --suk What Will Christmas Mesn t Bervice Christmas morning, b 6 ¥y o Nou o Clock. | cuit Court here last night returned a | | court’s satisfaction the reason for the ARLINGTON SUIT 5 L0ST BY ALLEN Trial of $480 Case Against Realty Firm Marked by Numerous Incidents. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., December 21.—After de- | liberating 10 minutes, a_jury in Cir- | verdict for the defendant in a suit by Robert J. Allen, former Washingwon policeman, against the Brumback Real ty Co. of Clarendon. Allen demand.d { $480 for alleged breach of contract. In a trial punctuated by mang hu- | morous incidents, employes of the real estate company, for which Allen wor ed as a salesman for six weeks last Summer, attacked the character of the former policeman in proving to the dismissal of Allen from the sales staff before the expiration of the four months which officials set as a reasonable length of time to test Allen’s ability as a salesman. During the proceedings, which ended shortly after 7 o'clock last night, it was | testified that Allen tore up thick tele- phone directories to demonstrate his | strength to the office force of the | Brumback Co., talked to bookmakers over the office telephone, sang songs. recited pe told funny stories and orated during office hours and the staff of the firm by his Claim for Unfinished Time. In his claim for recovery of the $480, Allen said that amount represented the difference between the sum paid him | for the six weeks he worked for Brum- | back and the amount he would have, received had he worked the full four months, during which he was promised a weekly. drawing accouni of $40 to| offset the loss of $39.50 a week from | the police force during his absence | from the department. In his direct testimony, conducted by his attorney, Amos C. Crounse of | Clarendon, Allen explained to the court that he had obtained four months® leave from the force at the suggestion of Fred A. Gosnell, 2 representative of the Brumback company, when the latter suggested that he join the company a salesman. He began work two days| later, he said, and at the end of six weeks the company notified him of his discharge through Gosnell without as- signing any reason for so doing. | Replying to the charges of State| Senator Frank L. Ball of Clarendon, & | member of the defense counsel, who| told the jury that he would prove that | Allen had “telephoned bookmakers, | urged employes of the firm to let him | place bets for them on the races, sung | and bragged before employes of the | firm until the Brumback company, in its own defense, was forced to get rid | of him,” Allen admitted that on two oc- casions he had placed bets for a woman employe in a Clarendon lunch room. “I sang some Irish songs about the office, but no one ever complained,” he sald. “They may have been bad, but no one ever said so.” Hard Work and No Sales. Questioned concerning his sale of property during his term of employ- ment by the Brumback company, Allen said he had made no sales. “I can hon- estly say, however,” Allen told the court, “that I never worked so hard in my life. I did not have any luck in mak- ing sales, but I showed the properties to a thousand prospects.” He later ad- mitted this figure was caaggerated when cross-examined James E. Chinn, a reporter for The Evening Star. testified that Gosnell had approached Allen and suggested that the latter come with Brumback last May, when Chinn and Allen were in- specting & model home near the o porter’s residence in Lyon Village. Chinn sald that Gosnell mentioned that he was sure he could arrange to obtain Allen a $40 weekly drawing account to be charged against his commissions and proposed that he obtain leave from the police force for three or four months to try his hand at selling real estate. Tried to Sell Him Lot. Chinn was not permitted to say whether Allen ever entered the employ- ment of the Brumback company, but did state that Allen on several occasions tried to sell him a lot and that he had also observed Allen showing a house to & prospect. Allan R. Harrison of the Brumback office force opened the attack on Allen and told the court that Allen used the telephone to telephone bets and call women, one of whom he sald Allen called “Mary " When revalled to the stand later in the atternocon Allen sald that Mary was & woman to whom he had been trying a hous He sald he had called least 100 times then volunt tion that he had alm red the informa st sold the house he woman, but she changed her mind n ahe made n ascond insper { the place and wot “chiggers in her leg AL L the amall amembiage, which Alle | Mr | wite of the STRANGER INVADES CHILDREN'S HOME IN'NIGHT; ESCAPES | Police Investigating Possibil- ity of Kidnaping Motive of Man With Blanket. INTRUDER IS FOUND BY WOMAN ATTENDANT; Breaks Away From Institution’s Manager as He Rushes Down Fire Escape. Police today were investigating the possibility that kidnaping was the mo- tive of & young white man, surprised last midnight in a hiding place at the Recelving Home for Children, 816 Po- tomac avenue southeast. The intruder escaped down the fire escape with a large brown blanket tucked under his arm. Authorities said it was possible the man was the father or close relative of some young inmate of the home whose removal he sought. ‘There had been a Christmas party at the home last night and Mrs. Mar- garet McJones, 40-year-old attendant there, was late in getting to bed after serving the ice cream and cake and getting the children safely tucked away. Attendant Hears Noise. It was almost midnight when she | went up to her room on the fourth floor. She noticed nothing unusual | about the room before switching off the | lights and composing herseif for slee McJones had begun to doze wh she heard a faint creak. | She looked over the side of the bed and saw a pair of shoes in the dim light. “That's funny,” she mused, “I thought I took off my shoes on the other side.” Whereupon Mrs. McJones turned on her reading lamp. No sooner had the room been fllumi- nated than a young-looking stranger crawled out from beneath the bed. u don't need to start velling,” he admonished Mrs. McJones, “because I'm going Mrs. McJones, however, dashed into the hallway, screaming. As she did 50 the intruder went out the window. He started down the fire escape while the woman's cries awoke other occu- pants of the buflding. Fugitive Eludes Capture. In his bedroom two floors below, E. S Arnold, in charge of the Receiving Home, ‘raised his window just as the fugitive passed on the fire escape. Thinking 1t was one of the inmates trying to get away, Mr. Amold leaned far from his window and tried to collar | the other as he was descending to the next level. His fingers just missed their grasp, however, and Mr. Arnold, by this time | perceiving that the fleeing figure was that of a man, hastily rushed down- stairs in the hope of cutting him off. The intruder reached the ground and made good his escape before other attendants could get outside the build- | ing. Police of No. 5 precinct were noti- | fied and a search of the neighborhood begun. Lat: man left his cap and scarf in Mrs, Mc- | Jones' room in his haste to escape. When he left both the woman and Mr Arnold saw that he carried a blanket tucked under his arm. ‘This circumstance could not be ex- plained at the home. No blankets were found to be missing, and it was pre- sumed the man brought it in with him. | One attendant said she noticed & win- | dow thrown open on the ground floor earlier in the night, and it is thought he man came in that way. He was described as about 5 feet 7 inches tall, of medium build and dressed in a blue suit. The man had long hair, nd it was waving in the wind as he passed Mr. Arnold. A square buff- colored scarf and brown cap were left behind. Police took them to No. 5 pre- cinct. THREE GIVEN CROSSES. War Veterans Are Rewarded for | Bravery in France. Distinguished Service Crosses have been awarded by the War Department to Capt. George L. B. Rivers of Charleston, S. C.: First Lieut. Champ | Carry of Chicago and Sergt. Smith Ful- ler of Uniontown, Pa., for extraordinary heroism in action in France in the World War. Capt. Rivers and Lieut. Carry were attached to the 18th Fleld Artillery, 3d Division, and at the battle near Fismes, France, August 11, 1918, each went into a shell-swept area and car- | ried_wounded men to shelter behind the line: Sergt. Fuller, attached to the 110th Infantry, 28th Division, took command | of his platoon at a critical point in the engagement near Courmount July 30, 1918, while under severe artillery and machine gun fire and successfully re- pulsed the enemy. | had waited throughout the better part! of the day to catch a glimpse of the| famous policeman in action, roared in| amusement. Most of the audience had been in the court room since 10 o'clock in the morhing, the hour set for the opening of the case, but Allen was delayed in reaching the court house by his re-| appearance before the Shelby-Kelly trial board in Washington, and he did not, arrive until 12 o'clock. The case| got under way before Judge Howard W. Smith at 2:50 pm., following adjourn- ment for lunch and the hearing of two | minor cases. Following _Harrison to the stand, Richard F. Bassett, a salesman for the réalty company, told of Allen's mus- cular achievements. ' “Allen placed bets over the telephone, calling the man at the other end of the wire ‘Joe’” Bassett said that Allen never asked him to bet, and that he never did, but that the then policeman had issued “blan- ket invitations” to all the employes to bet on the races and named Miss Vir- ginia Eaton, a stenographer for the! company, as one of those who accepted. Miss Eaton asserted upon examination by Attorney Crounse that she placed only one bet with Allen, and that was the only one she had ever made on the races. “Mr. Allen did not ask me for any money.” she said. “He told me that bookmakers would accept bets from policemen over the phone without. the money. Mr. Allen said they were afrald not to take them that way.” Asked where Allen had called to place the bets Miss Eaton replied that she could not recall the number, but that the call had been made to some one in Washington. Others who were called upon to testi- regarding Allen’s connection with were Mrs. Norma Allen, plaintift, who acompanied her husband to the ‘courthouse; Keith A. Brumback, president of the Brum- back Realty Co. and Fred A Gosnell, who hited Allen for the realty com- fy the company { by Rev. 'FUNERAL SERVICES | his appointment to the Civil Service pAnY Inspector T R ngton Poliee De the crowd of Apecial Court Mo dressed 1n Jothes and left after Allen had testi fied Mo declined. however, to reveal bis puipose W atiending. Bean of the Wash- Nt was among in the Cireuit wan civilian | T AP g . PSR 5, RN T Scene as a 30-foot tree was lighted last night under the auspices of the business men of the upper Fourteenth street sec- tion. Assoclation, and Commissioner Dougherty, who pressed the button that emblazoned the tree. In the picture are W. L. Bishop, as Santa Claus; B. A. Levitan, president of the Columbia Heights Business Men's —Star Staff Photo, DOUGHERTY LIGHTS L7007 YULE TREE Santa Claus Lane Ceremony in Columbia Heights Largely Attended. Before a crowd of several hundred | Commisstoner Proctor L. Dougherty last night turned on the lights of a 30-foot Christmas tree erected under the aus- pices of the Columbia Heights Busi- | ness Men's Assoclation, at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets. The affair served as a climax to the decoration of Santa Claus lane, the brightly-illuminated half mile of Upper Fourteenth street arranged by the business men's group and was attended by District officials and repredentatives om citizens’ sssoclations and otl civic groups. Mr. Dougherty in a brief talk con- gratulated the business men of Ci lumbia Heights on their successful ar- | rangement for the celebration | Mr. Dougherty was introduced by B A. Levitan, president of the Columbia Heights' Business Men's Assoclation who presided. Mr. Levitan was pre- | sented with & testimonial in behalf of the cit Alton B. Carty Th ge was led in | g | “America” and Christmas carols by Roy . investigation reveaied that the | Cai During the course cf i mony Santa Claus, in the pers L. Bishop, supervised the ere- | n of W. distribution | of_prizes given by 73 merchants. eral chair- in charge of arrangements. Invocation was delivered Harvey Baker Smith, pastor of the Columbia Heights Christian Church The list of special guests included | Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, As- sistant Engineer Commissioner Davison, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, s ntendent | of police; William H. Harland, director | of ‘traffic; President Charles W. Darr | of the Washington Chamber of Com- | merce, President Anton Stephan of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, President Milton R. Vollmer of the Georgia Avenue Business Men's As- sociation, President C. Dwight Ma of the Mount Pleasant Citizens' A: ciation, President Burd W. Payne of the Citizens' Forum of Columbia Heights, President Christopher Lehmkuhl of the Petworth Citizens' Association, Pres ‘William F. Dismer was man of the committee | dent John S. Cole of the Park View Comdr. A. A.| American Co- Citizens' Association, Chenay of Lincoln'_Post, Legion; Rev. Harvey Baker Smith ! lumbia” Heights Christian Ch: Mark Depp. Calvary M. E. Churc Geofrey Chobot, ~ Sixth Presbyterian Church, and Rev. George A. Klingman, Fourteenth Street Church of Chris| | | HARRY C. BUTCHER, Who Is to become the Columbia Broad- casting System’s Washington represent- ative January 1 PRESIDENT SILENT ON CRIME STUDY Meanwhile Senate Leaders Demand Funds Stop Pending Report. By the Associated Press. The unexpected opposition of several Senate dry leaders to the policy of secrecy a pted by President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission was met | today by absolute silence from both the White House and the commission itself. | If either Mr. Hoover or George W. Wickersham, the commission chairman, intended to reply, they were keeping their prospective action well guarded and in many quarters of the Capital the opinion was expressed that the question must be settled by Congress without the guidance of a public utter- ance from either. Senator Harris of Georgia and Sena- | tor Glass of Virginia, both Democ: | have served notice that they FOR E. E GADDIS Former Government Employe and Real Estate Broker Buried This Afternoon. Funeral services for Eugene E. Gad- dis, 68 years old, former Government employe” and Washington real estate broker for 40 years, who died Thursday at Sibley Hospital, were held this after- noon at the Hysong funeral home. 1300 N street. Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Gaddis, & native of Attica, Ohlo, came to Washington in 1882, following | Commission. During his term of serv- ice on the commission, Mr. Gaddis was personally associated with Theodore Roosevelt. In 1885, with the advent of the Democratic regime under President Cleveland. Mr. Gaddis left the Govern- ment service and entered & local broker- age firm. At the time of his death he was actively engaged in the real estate and brokerage business, with offices at 1410 H street. He is survived by two daughters, | Mrs. Andrew Curry and Mrs. John W. | Lunsford of Washington, and two | brothers, Clarence Gaddis' of Indian- apolis, Ind., and John Gaddis of Akcon, Ohlo. ‘The Gaddis residence is at 2010 Kalorama road. The following friends and business assoclates of Mr. Gaddis served as| pallbearers at the funeral: Capt. Robert R. Bennett, Capt. Marshall McKibbin, Wade Hampton, Edgar A. Bennett, William_P. Irwin, Tracy L. Jeffords, Henry Schweinhaut and Eugene Tag- gart. I e 5 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. FUTURE. Red Triangle Outing Cliub will meet at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue at 3 o'clock tomorrow for a hike to Benning. No campfire. O. L. Simp- son, leader. Former Gov. Edwin P. Morrow will address the Kentucky Soclety Monday evening at the Willard Hotel. Receiv g lne forms at 8:15, Dancing will | follow address Annual Christmas dance of the Chi Beta Chl Praternity is scheduled for Monday evening at 9 o'clock at the | Arlington Hotel. A stag contest will be a feature of the evening W. Nusbaum chairman of dance committee of the ration Voting stockholder National Press Bullding ( will hold thelr annual meeting at_noon in the National Press Bullding Four. Gemath apd P streeta, | Chairman to withho!d funds for of the commission unless some sort of a report on its activi made. Harris is the author of a resolution under which Congress would aks Presi- dent Hoover to obtain a report from Wic m to be passed on to the legislators on Capitol Hill Glass contends that the commission is failing to give sufficient attention to the main purpose for which comm sion funds were authorized—the inv gation of prohibition enforcement. “I am going to insist,” he said, “that before we appropriate’ another dollar the commission or the President make contil | some report to Congress on what it pro- poses to do.” Senator Harris 1s of the opinion that the commission does not intend to make a report until four years have elapsed He asserted that “every enemy of the prohibition law s in favor of this com- mission staying just where they are— acting behind closed doors and conduct- ing their deliberations for years.” \ OFFICIAL SEALr -AADAOPTED. Park Body's Stamp Includes Wash- ington’s Coat of Arms. An official seal was adopted by the National Park and Planning Commis- slon late yesterday. but the actual de- ign has not yel been drawn up. The commission_adopted parts of three de- its consulting ge. ar the coat of arms ashington, the official title of the commission around the rim and in the center will be a map of the 10- mile square District of Columbia, show- ing the surrounding Maryland and Vir- ginia territory, over which the commis- | sion has advisory jurisdiction. The Po- tomac River occupies an outstanding place in the heart of the seal. The various parts of the three sug- gestions approved by the commission will be united by Mr. Partridge in the permanent design, in the immediate future. | o- CHRISTMASisflERVICE. “Glving Gifts With Meaning™ Ser-| supject of Dr. J. Milton Waldron at |at its town hous mon Subject at Lincoln Temple. | be Christmas services at regational Temple tomor row morning and evening. In the morning Rev. R. W. Brooks will speak from the subject g Gifts With Meaning " At the Christian Endeavor service nt 645 pm. the young peopls will render a program. Mis irn Shamwell will lend in the discussion How Chiristmns Seta the World Bing ng At There W Lincoln Cong 730 pm the church ¢ | wil present a_pantomime and ¢ ht pervice Thers will be & apecial Christ WA service oi CLratmas day at i am. | editor of the Fer eral executive assistant to the chief ex- | He also respondence ate Secre- Wallace's BUTCHER IS GIVEN CAPITAL RADID 10B Columbia.Broadcasting Sys- tem to Develop Washington Station Features. The appointment of Harry 0. Butcher as the Washington representative of the Columbia Broadcasting S; revealed today in an announcement Charles J. Brand, executive secreta of the National Fertilizer Assoclation, of Butcher's resignation from that or- ntion ping Columb; the Nation’s Capital. a new one, cr 1 Washington a headquarters ch will rank > the New nitment is to take e 3 coincidently with tF f the Washington headquar- ted to be located n Building, at Fi nce che oF gton by the Columbia Broadcas cher “will not the pleasant relationship and its local outlet, Praises Star Forum. “WMAL has been handling pick-ups in Washington, including the National Radio Forum arranged by The Star, which have rung the bell with listeners roughout the country. The Weshing- ton office will endeavor to heln con- tinue the good work in every way that can.” Butcher is a veteran in broadcasting circles as well as & prominent news- paper correspondent. Since 1924 he has in direct contact with radio work, staged radio programs for farm- ers on Sta WLS, KYW and WGN Chicago, and on & St. Louis station Towa State Graduate. A native of Springville, Towa, Butcher 8 years old. He is a graduate of the Towa State College in agrici nalism. After leaving college he be- came director of information and editor of the Illinois Agric Record, Agricultural _ Associatior joined the National Fe zer Assoct: tion, where he served as manag zer Review Later ecutive of the a handled the Washington co for the farm paper of the ¢ of Agriculture Wallace, sociation the Prairie Farmer, zation which operates Station WLS Butcher lives at 3016 Tilden strect and has an office in Building. He is married. FOUR ARE INJURED | WHEN HIT BY AUTO Baltimore Woman Is in Serious Condition After Being Struck by Car. Miss Mary Fausnaugh, 45, of Balti- more, Md.. and staying at the All Stz Hotel here, is in a serious condition at smergency Hospital as the result of injuries suffered yesterday when run down at Eighteenth and C streets by a hine driven by William V. Brown of 304 D street northeast. Miss Frances Burke, 70, 1740 F street, slightly injured 'last night when run down at Twentieth and K streets by an automobile operated by Elmer H. Sours of Marriefield, Va. She was ted at Emergency Hospital and sent me. homas Williams, 59, living at the Gospel Mission, was treated at Emel gency Hospital for injuries suffe terday when run down at and Pennsylvania avenue by a driven by Gerald S. Wormley of 211 treet, He went home after treatmen Seven-year-old Allen Gordon of 71 G street southwest, was slightly injured vesterday when struck at Seventh and G streets southwest by a machine oper- ated by Harvie Lewis of 1239 Sixth street southwest. The child was treated at Emergency Hospital. PROVIDENCE BAPTIST. J. M. Waldron Will Discuss “Freedom by Truth.” “Freedom by the Truth” will be the Dr. 11 a.m. tomorrow at Providence Bap! Church, M street between Four-and ha 1d Sixth streets southwest, vies is the pastor. flation of the officers P. U. will be held 5:30 pm Univer und Fternal Reign of will be the subject of the pa 0 pn Dr In of the Y The hirist at 1 B « t Meaning of Christmas," Topic A lect « | n enth The public M Wvited, weet WALKER APPEARS FOR SENTENCE IN MAIL FRAUD CASE Conviction in Connection With Organizing Club Over- comes Defendant. \MERCY IS ASKED IN JURY'S VERDICT Justice Hits Agrees to Speed Jus- n office in Wash-} tural jour- | official organ of the Illinois he the Investment tice by Imposing Penalty Despite Recess, Convicted of using the mails to de- fraud, in connection with efforts to organize the Union League Club here Lawrence Walker appeared in District Supreme Court today to hear Justice William Hitz pass seutence on him. Walker was overcome with emotion | yesterday when a jury, which hed | heard his case, returned a g | dict with a recommendation of mer With tears in his eves Walker appealed to Justice Hilz to pass sentence at once He explained he had been in fail fou months in default of $2.000 bond an was anxious to have his case disposed of As a result Justice Hitz agreed 1o pronounce sentence today regardless of the fact that the Christmas recess wa: to have started with adjournment yes- terday. 8 Two Alleged Victims. The indictment on which Walker war tried charged that he had_defrauded James A. Councilor and E. E. Baldwi in a scheme to establish a Union League Club in Washington which would ar- range for an interchange of privilege with Unlon League Club of other c Walker's arrest was post office inspectors. ‘The defendent entered pleas of not guilty, both at n preliminary hearing _before 1 States Commissioner Turnage and an arralgnment before Justice Hitz. At no time did he retain & lawyer. Speak- ing in his own defense, he attempted to convince the jury that the Government | had failed to obtain evidence to prove {he was guilty of using the malls defraud in any fashion. Promise of Privileges. Government witnesses testified Walk- er sent matter through the mails in which he represented himself to be the organizer of the club and promised | privileges he was in no position to as- sure. He was alleged to have malled literature which said & club house would be built on Fifteenth street be- tween L and M streets. The defendant also was charged with having claimed that the Union League Building Corporation had bought cer- tain properties and entered into a con- tract for erection of a building. It was alleged that an agreement whereby the Union League Club would obtain & fa- vorable lease from the Union League Building Corporation was claimed by Walker. Government witnesses gave testimony tending to prove that thesc ims were fals {c MISS DAVIDSON SERVED IN TREASURY 58 YEARS Funeral for Government Employe Held Here; Burial | | Baltimore. | | _Funeral Davidson, 7 | day. were cond 11309 Twentieth in i ‘at, the residence street, today at 11 o'clock. Rev. Dr. ngton A. McCal- lum, rector of & Paul's Episcopal Church, of which Miss David: member f f | terment will be in’Loudon Park Ceme- ery, Baltimore. Serving as clerk in the Treasury De- | partment for 58 vears, Miss Davidson | had the distii n of taking sick leave nly once prior to her recent illness At the time of he~ death she was serving in_the appointment divisi Miss Davidson was a native of Bal more. She leaves a niece. Miss Lav Lee Davidson of Baltimore. pencer L. Davidson, for many v onnected with the Baltimore Sun, was a nephew. GIRL COLLAPSES WHEN CHECKS BRING ARREST Detectives Declare She Posed as Millions re’s Daughter to Get Money Here. Estelle Wiley, attractive 21-year-old i brunette, living at the Chastleton Hotel | Sixteenth and R streets, is in Gallinger | Hospital today suffering from hysteria following her arrest at the hotel yes- | terday by Headquarters Detective B W. Thompson and Ira E. Keck on charges of passing worthless checks | totaling more than $1,000. She is ex- pected to have recovered sufficiently in |a few days to permit arraignment in ! Police Court. According to detectives, the girl, who | is said to have come to this city recently | from Baltimore, posed as the daughter of a wealthy Midwestern manufacturer | and induced hotel authorities to cash | worthless checks ranging in amounts from $50 to $100. | Police said the girl used a number of ficticious names and was arrested here | about @ year ago on simiiar charges. }BURGLAR DIDN'T CHOOSE. Precluded Error of Selection by Taking Both Glasses W{th Him. The burglar who jimmied his wav into_an apartment at 1114 F street northeast might have taken his choice but he didn't. As Paul V. Murray, plained to police ye found two gl cor side by side on a shelf. One contained cog most a quart of quarte and pennies The burglar could have chosen be- tween the two bottles, but he didn't. He took both. ORPHANS TO HAVE PARTY. League for Larger Life to Enter- the victim, ex- the burglar s of equal , the other , dimes, nicl tain Homeless Children Tonight The League for the Larger Life will give a Christmas party tc a number nf homeless orphans tonight at 8 o'clock , 1628 K street. The }\\Hl be a program dings, voea | and instrumenta! ons. danctr and a Christm len with pre s and delleacke tre Unconscious, Dies Man, Found E Clarke Feune o an0 Moat wite, M erry il afternoon,