Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1929, Page 13

A Washington News 5 MEN, 500 QUARTS OF HOLIDAY LIQUOR - SEIZED BY POLICE Two Men Injured When Car Overturns After 70-Mile- an-Hour Chase. CONTRABAND BROUGHT HERE FROM MARYLAND Expensive Car Also Taken, but Charges Not Yet Preferred ~gainst Suspects. Five prisoners and more than 500 quarts of Maryland corn whisky were seized by police early today when two Tumrunning outfits attempted to smug- gle the contraband into the Capital for the New Year eve revelry here tonight. A 70-mile-an-hour chase through the downtown section of the city with the liquor car eluding a hail of bullets net- ted William R. Laflin and William Mc- Ewen, eighth precinct dry officers, two prisoners, six gallons of whisky and a smoke screen when the rum car over- turned in making a left turn at Third and N streets southwest. Men in the Whisky Car. Both were cut by flying glass when their machine toppled over and were taken to Emergency Hospital, where they gave their names as Joseph Demar, 21, of the National Hotel, and Fred Cole, 28, of 1520 Ridge street, south- east. Cole, driver of the car, received a severe laceration of the right ear and minor lacerations of the face, while Demar escaped with a minor face laceration. Traced by Wheel Marks. Sergt. George M. Little and his liquor squad caught three prisoners and took 480 quarts of whisky as the result of rather involved and flurried activities featured by a speeding pursuit of a car, which when captured was found to contain no liquor, the tracking of an- ! other car by its wheel marks and the arrest of the three men. E Both captures resulted from “tips” passed on to police. Laflin had been advised that a delivery was to be made at Tenth and W streets, while Little had been tipped off that a load of liquor would be brought across the Dis- trict line about 6:30 o'clock this morn- ing. Laflin and McEwen took their posts near Tenth and W streets at 1:30 am. to arrest the bootleggers when they made the delivery, but left the scene after five hours of vigilance went un- rewarded. Laflin, however, returned to the point where the Jelivery was to be made nearly an hour later and found a large touring car pulled into the curbstone, with two white men handing cases of liquor from the car to a trio @af colored -men- o the sidewalk. Laflin stopped his car and dashed toward the liquor car. Observing the officer, the three colored men fled into a nearby residence and the two white men jumped to their posts in the front seat of the machine and started in re- verse up Tenth street, with the man beside driver opening up an attack with the smoke screen. Fires on Machine. Laflin plunged through the smoke on foot and fired several shots at the re- treating machine and succeeded in puncturing the radiator. He gave up the chase after pursuing the car two ‘blocks and ran back to his automobile, picked up a case of whisky which the colored men had left in their flight and drove four blocks to the home of Mc- Ewen, and started out in search of the bootleggers after obtaining McEwen. The two policemen returned to Florid: renue and Berry street, where Laflin had fired at the car, and found the trail of water left by the leaking | radiator. Laflin and McEwen followed the trail to John Marshall place and | C street, where they observed the liquor car coming.out of an alley. ! “'The bootleggers caught sight of the | policemen’s machine and set out down ! Third street, with the officers close be- | hind. At a speed reaching 70 miles an hour the two machines darted in and jout of traffic, over Pensylvania avenue and into the Southwest section of the | city without a let-up. i Reaching the end of Third street, | the rum car essayed a left turn, toppled i over once,‘righted itself and came to | a standstill. Demar was thrown 30 feet from the machine, and he regained his feet and started to run, but was overtaken by McEwen. Cole was sitting in a dazed condition in the driver’s seat with the crumpled steering wheel still held tight- ly in his hands. Taken to Hospital. The men were carried to Emergency Hospital, where they were treated and later taken to the eighth precinct, where they will be held until arraigned in Pg- lice Court. Both Cole and Demar are charged with possession of the whisky and smoke screen, while Cole is also charged with reckless driving. They explained to the police later that they had burned one car in South- ern Maryland late last night and had to return to the District, obtain an- other machine and return to Maryland for the load of whisky which they had Jeft by the roadside until they could get another conveyance to bring it into the Capital. Consequently they were greatly delayed in reaching the city. According to police the two men also told the officers that they had a full lcad of whisky in their car when first observed by Laflin and had driven to an address in Neal place and delivered the remainder of the load. The col- ored trio made off with two cases of the whisky in tHeir fiight, Cole and Demar said, leaving one of the three cases they had ordered when they escaped before Laflin return~d to the delivery point. Sergt. Little and the other members George Deyoe and Leo med themselves on Bla- densburg road at the Maryland State line at 6:30 o'clock this morning to await the appearance of the rum run- ner they were expecting. Their plans went awry, however, ‘when a scout car, preceding what they supposed to have been the liquor car, signaled back to the convoyed machine that danger was ahead. a result the loaded machine did not cross the Dt\éflet line, but turned down a side Toad. i i 1 i Fled in Machine. Not to be so easily eluded the police went to an address in the 1300 block of Fourth street northeast where they Above: The wreck at Third and N streets southwest, where a liquor car, being chased by police, overturned. Below: Fred Cole, held as the driver, being .led to a patrol wagon after his injuries were treated at Emergency Hospital. —Star Staff Photo. I the party who ran out of the house and | sped off in the machine. Sergt. Little and his men gave chase, | but did not overtake the fugitive car | until they were able to crowd it to the | curb on Massachusetts avenue between | Ninth and Tenth streets. There the driver leaped from the car, but was captured by Murray in a nearby alley. There was no liquor in the machine. | At the second precinct station he was booked as Martin J. Walsh of the 900 block H street and charged with carry- | ing a concealed weapon, a revolver hav- | ing been discovered in his pocket. In the course of the chase Sergt. Little had noted a car answering the descrip- tion of the machine for which he was looking parked at the curb at Fourth street and Massachusetts northeast. Re- turning, he found the car gone, so went back to the Fourth street address and arrested the three men who had been in the first machine and who were still loitering about the neighborhood. They were taken to the sixth precinct station and held for investigation. 480 Quarts Found. Again the police returned to Fourth street and New York avenue, where they had seen the supposed liquor car parked. A close inspection revealed tracks on the pavement. With eyes focused on the ground and bodies bent, the three officers trailed it to Fourth and L streets northeast, where they came upon the machine parked at the curb, locked, and with 480 quarts of corn whisky inside. Unable to move it, they went to the sixth precinct and found the key to it in the possession of one of the trio they had arrested for investigation. As yet, however, the officers have not de- cided on a charge they can place against them, since they welif not actually seen in possession of the liquor. Eight of thirteen persons arraigned in Police Court yesterday on charges of violating the prohibition law pleaded not guilty and demanded jury trials. One pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of whisky, while the office of the United States attorney refused to make out papers against four per- sons who were arrested by police. Invelve 400 Gallons. The cases involved about 400 gallons of whisky which the police seized over the week end. The largest valid case was made by Policemen W. R. Laflin and William McEwen of the eighth precinct, who reported 95 half-gallons seized from a car which was captured in the 1600 block of Florida avenue. Charles E. Cashion, 709 Fifth street, was apprehended in connection with the contraband. He demanded a jury lal. Approximately 208 half gallons of liquor was involved in one of the cases, which David A. Hart and James R. Kirkland held the arrest was made after an unlawful entry into private quarters. Policemen H. W. Beechner and J. T. Moore of the fourth precinct said that they heard a dog barking in a house in Brown's court southwest. Flashing a light into a window of the house to see what the disturbance was, they noted some “whisky boxes.” They entered, uncovered the liquor, and ar- rested Silas Hutchinson for possession. Sergt. Little and his squad brought John B. Gentles. 1400 block T street, into court. Police reported that 82 quarts of assorted liquors were discov- ered in the defendant’s home. John H. Brown, colored, 921 Fourth street, arrested by Sergt. Letterman and his squad, pleaded guilty to pos- session of one pint of whisky. He was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail in lieu of a $50 fine by Judge Ralph Given. BELLOC’S “RICHELIEU” SUBJECT OF LECTURE Rev. John K. Cartwright to Ad- Washington Chapter of dress Catholic Alumnae Federation. A review of Hillalre Belloc's “Riche- lieu” will be given by Rev. John Cartwright, assistant rector of St. Pat- rick’s Church, at a meeting Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock of the Washington Chapter of the International Federa- tion of Catholic Alumnae. The session will be held in the clubrooms of the American Pen Women at 1708 L street. Mrs. T. D. McCarthy will offer a re- view of notable Catholic events of the year. Miss Florence Yokum, Soprano of the Immaculate Conception Academy, will sing. As this is the first event of its kind scheduled for the new year, special ef- K.|ated by Motorman forts have been made to interest all members of the Afiiliated Catholic Schools. WASHINGTON, D. C, WRECKED RUM CAR AND INJURED DRIVER «; @he Foening 3 L) ar Society and General THREE ARE INJURED IN AUTO GOLLISION Crash on Massachusetts, Ave. Early Today—Children Hurt in Traffic Accidents. Three persons--were- injured early to- day as a result of a collision on the 3000 plock of Massachusetts avenue be- tween the automobiles of Miss Evelyn Gray of Bethesda, Md., and Robert Simpson of Clarendon, Va. Miss Gray received injuries to her knee and chin, while Simpson escaped injury, Lawrence Carson, jr., 25 years old, of 2112 O street, occupant the Maryland car, suffered injuries to his face and the loss of two teeth. Denman Rucker, 18 years old, of Lyon Park, Va., occupant of the Virginia car, was the third person injured. He re- ceived scalp lacerations. The injured were treated at Emergency Hospital. 6-Year-Old Child Seriously Hurt. Risna Pields, 6 years old, of 927 Golden street southeast, was injured seriously yesterday. She is reported to have run in front of the motor truck of Willlam L. Cammack, 317 First street southwest. ‘The child was bruised about the head and body. She is in Casualty Hospital. ‘William Robinson, colored, 11 years old, 903 S street, was injured yesterday while attempting to run across the road- way in front of 1801 Ninth street. He was struck by an automobile driven by Edward F. Cahill, 418 Taylor street, Chevy Chase, Md., and his skull frac- tured. He is in Garfield Hospital. Fireman Hit by Aute. Thomas H. Pilkerton, member of the Fire Department, residing 1400 ‘Twenty-fifth street northeas was knocked down at Fifteenth and H streets northeast early last night by an automobile of Ethel N. Grimes, 3402 Twenty-second street northeast. Te- ceived face and body bruises. Pilkerton received first aid at Casualty Hospital. ‘Walter Jackson, colored, 38 years old, 2536 Fourteenth street, was knocked down on Fourteenth between V and W streets last night by a street car oper- Worthington A, Booth. ~Jackson, severely shocked, was treated at Emergency Hospital and taken home. Printing Jubilee at Richmond. RICHMOND, Va., December 31 (Spe- cial).—Early printing devices, now on display at the Smithsonian Institution, will be brought to Richmond in March for an expoSition to be held in com- memoration of the 200th anniversary of the establishment by Willlam Parks of the printing press in Virginia. This will be one of the features of the exhi- bition to be held at the Acca Temple Mosque here March 18 to 22. i | By the Associated Press. | , CHICAGO, December 31.—The corn on the foot of Police Licut. Willlam Armstrong of the Los Angeles police was a sure enough pain to Samuel Sea- man of Chicago. Seaman, wanted here for bail jump- ing in a swindle case, is one of those persons who delight in a carpet of toes on which to walk when pursuing his way to his theater seat and such. It is said of him that he inclines to the unpopular practice of getting up at all intermissions, trampling as many toes had been informed the liquor would be delivered. They were just approach- ing the rear door when four men in a .Jarge expensive touring car drove up to th= front door and came in the house. The policemen managed to apprehend | one of the men inside, but imme- €iately abandoned their prisoner in 7} their haste to overtake another B as are crazy enough to be in his path and then returning to his seat in much the same fashion. The corn on the foot of Police Lieut. Armstrong now become pertinent. It had been troubling him more than usual this particular day in Los An- OF ALL PLACES NOT BOND JUMPER PICKED WORST Treads on Corn of Policeman Who Has Circular for His Arrest in Pocket. TO STEP ing match where he could park it com- fortably and forget his misery in watching young men in trunks smack each other with vim. Seaman also_ decided to go to the box fight. He had a seat in the same row as Armstrong. Little did he real- ize that Lieut, Armstrong had in his pocket a circular with Seaman's pic- GAS SUIT BROUGHT TOTEST D. C. LAW Designed to Force Foreign Holders to Sell Stock in Light Company. A test of & law which has been on the statute books 13 years without Jjudicial interpretation is the purpose of the suit filed by the District of Co- lumbia and the Public Utilities Com- mission yesterday to compel the pres- ent foreign holders of a majority of the stock of the Washington Gas Light Co. to sell their stock. The law referred to is the La Follette anti-merger act, passed as a rider to the District appropriation act in March, 1913. This act provides that “it shall be unlawful for any foreign public utility corporation or for any foreign or local holding corporation, or for any local street rallroad corporation, gas corporation, electric corporation, ' tele- phone tion, or other local public utility corporation, directly or indi- rectly, to own, control or hold, or vote stock or bonds of any public utility corporation organized under any gen- eral incorporation law or special act of the United States or authorized under any law of the United States to do business in the District of Columbia, except as heretofore or hereafter ex- pressly authorized by Congress.” Control Passed Last June. Control of the gas company, which had remained in Washington hands during the 81 years of the company’s existence, passed ‘last June to five for- eign corporations. The corporations, however, hold the stock through a “investment trust” organized under the laws of Massachusetts, which is the owner of record of the stock. Shortly after the control had been acquired by the outsiders, the Public Utilities Com- mission launched an inquiry into the sale, in which it enlisted the aid of the Department of Justice. That body, through its Bureau of Investigation, submitted a report on the transaction, stating that the investment trust had been set up as a means of avolding a strict interpretation of the anti-merger act, and revealing that the purchasers intended to work for the repeal of the act, and own the stock in their own names should their effort prove suc- cessful. ‘The commission, therefore, called on the corporation counsel’s office to bring suit to bring the gas company back to local control. After several months of preliminary . work, the suit wa¢ filed yesterday. It is the fir:' ever to be brought under the terms of the act. The suit alleges that the groups for whose beneficial interest held are the Harris Forbes Co., New York bankers and investment underwriters; the American Founders’ Corporation, a | Mar: Maryland corporation dealing in do- mestic and foreign securities; the Chase Securities _ Corporation, investment bankers; Schoelkopf, Hutton & Pome- roy, New York investment hankers and underwriters, and H. M. Byllesby & .. wholesale and retail investment and security distributors. Suit to Compel Sale. ‘The object of the suit is to compel the present owners of the stock to sell it. This is one remedy provided by the terms of the anti-merger law, the other being to compel the dissolution of the company. Besides asking the court to compel the sale. the petition asks that the present holders of the stock be for- bidden to vote the stock at any stock- holders’ meeting or at any election of directors. The petition alleges that the invest- ment trust owns 108,806 shares of the ture on it and telling that Seaman was wanted for m&nln: bond. With customary grace, Seaman to hldrym rough-shod , toward his seat. Lieut. Armstrong's corn was in e A e . M ut. ng up. ] thoughts doubtless surged through his mind. Any one who ever has had a corn stepped on by an expert corn- stepper-on will understand. Then he looked his tormenter in the face. He snatched the Seaman circu- lar from his pocket. He arrested Sam- uel Seaman. Seaman was brought back vesterday to face original of geles. He decided to take it to & box- Samuel n trial on the charge of swindling. company’s stock. ‘This represents a large mafority of the company's out- standing capital stock, which consists :;om.m hares, With a par value of each, Most of the purchases engineered by the {s-Forbes concern were made 8t $125 a share. The petition also states that the investment trust con- trols $5000 worth of the company'’s 1960 5 per cent gold bonds. This is the first intimation that there had been any buying into the company’s funded debt, Ten minutes in the coldest room of a cold storage plant will cure a cold or even the “flu,” says an English expert. TAXICABS FORGED 10 INSURE: FARES BY REVISED CODE Public Utilities Commission Order Will Go Into Effect February 1. CHANGES MADE SINCE HEARING DECEMBER 16 No Effort Now Made to Regulate Cars Which Hire by Hour for Special Trips. IR A new code placing taxicabs in all Trespects under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission will go into | effect February 1, 1930. The code is the stock is |1 _—_—-—u—_fl———‘_——*—n——— somewhat different from that proposed at a public hearing held December 16, but the principal feature, that referring to compulsory insurance for all cabs, remains unchanged. This much-dis- cussed provision reads as follows: “No person, firm or corporation shall operate any motor vehicle, as herein -| defined (taxicab), unless and until the person, firm or corporation shall— “(1) File with the commission a sworn statement showing the ability of the person, firm or corporation to pay all damages which may result from any and all accidents due to the negligent use or operation of such vehicle; or “(2) File with the commission se- curity, indemnity or a bond guaran- teeing the payment by the person, firm or corporation of all such damages; or *(3) Insure to a reasonable amount the person's, firm's or corporation’s liability to pay such damages; and un- less the person, firm or corporation shall “(4) File with the commission, as often as the commission shall in writ- ing demand, in form prescribed by the commission, evidence of the person’s, firm's or corporation's compliance with the provisions of this section.” Truck Reference Omitted. The principal difference between the order as it now stands and that as proposed at the public hearing is that all reference to trucks has been omitted, and the code applies only to taxicabs. Furthermore, the code applies only to metered cabs, the commission making no effort to regulate those cars which stand for hire by the hour or by the trip to well known spots, such as Mount Vernen and Arlington. The commission modified one of the sections of the order which would have compelled the cabs to draw up to the curb in all cases to take on and dis- charge passengers to read ‘“‘wherever possible,” thus allowing the cabs to park double while taking on or letting off its passengers, a privilege now accorded to mlfl loading or unloading merchan- Another modification was that to the original requirement that the gas tank of every cab should be “entirely on the outside’ of the body” of . the-.motor This was done by defining as “that part above the chassis and behind the cowl,” so as to sanction tanks located in front of the driver’s seat underneath the cowl. Fueling Prohibition Removed. One section, which prohibited the filling of the gas tank while passengers ‘,'tl;:e in the cab, was stricken out alto- gether, The regulations provide that no cab shall operate in the District without its owner first securing permission from the Public Utilitles Commission; that the owners shall file schedules of rates charged, and shall not depart from the schedules; that reports of all accidents in which the cabs are involved shall be made in writing to the commission; and that regular reports as to the concerns’ operating income and expenses, as well as capital outlay, shall be made in writ- ing to the commission. The order re- quiring permits from the commission for the operation of cabs does not apply to those cabs already plying the streets when the order takes effect, but only those put in operation after. TESTS ANNOUNCED. Open Examination Planned to Fill Civil Service Positions. Open competitive examinations were announced by the United States Civil ]servlce Commission yesterday, as fol- lows: Juhior aquatic biologist, $2,000 a year, | is Bureau of Fisheries: assistant com- puter, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Ma., $1,440 a year; chief engineering drafts- man, $2,600 a year; associate ecologist, $3,200 to $3,700 a year; probation of- ficer, $2,600 a year, Federal courts and penal and correctional institutions st sabion oL Marriage Licenses. . Benjamin H. Carroll G. Balderson, and Loulse D. Va.; Rev. John E. Brigss. Julius Brown, 32, and Gertrude Muse, e Alexander Linthicum. 31, Richmond, Va. and Estelle Brooks, 29, Regent, Va.; s Louls Krauss, York_ City, and Clara Begal, 31. N. J. il : Louis B. Wood, 30, and Rosetta Taylor, 24; W. Bundrant. 9: Rev. James M. Potte: Collin Bloomfield. 38, id Annle Minor, S hn Blogm n Hill, Md., and Re' throughout the country. Clyde Davis, 37. and Viola Jones, 32; Rev. ‘Whiting, giarke. 21, both of War: s, 2: Rey. James T. Hi Allan F. 36, New Atiantic City. N. J.i' Rev. William Rosenblu V. Joseph Pigliozzi, 21, and Anna Lippincott, B R W. arley, 18, Mitchellville, Md.;' Rev. . Thomas. Jame: Butler. 24, Oxor y E. ‘William J. Carrol Willlam . Frank, 23. and Helen M. Rupp, l“- both of Baltimo: Md.; Rev. John Weid- ey. Laurence W. Jackson, 35. and Edna V. Raymond, 30: v. P, A. 1. Bennet Albert A. Burgess, 2 land, 26; Rev. W. D. Thomas J. Prye, 23, and Gladys A. Rob- inson, 21; Rev. James L. McLain. Michael Eulo, ‘26, and Anna L. Gover, 22, both of Baltimore, Md.; Rev. John E. Brlggs. Robert L. Harrison, 25, and Georgia L. Robertson, 23; Rev. R. D. Grymes. John W. Belt, 23, and Marjorie F. Miller, 9: Rev. Robert 8. Barnes. d Mary E. Hen- h_D. Johnson. 24, arrol . Cosle. joseph E. Smothers, ‘75, this city, and Lizzle Washington, 65, Arlington, Va.; Rev. James L. Pinn. B. Clifford Hart. 23, marth, 22; Rev. Carol Myer Erdman, 26, af both of Robe; Baltimore, Md. T and Ruth Cowan, Deal nd Hortense Free- is. and Adelaide N. Wil- . McKinstry. Anna_Arenberg, 10, Bev, s T Loeb t P. Rice, 29, Bin ton. N. 1, this city; Rev. H. R. Joseph W. Fletcher. 26, and Hallle A. Smith, 21, both of Warrenton, Va.: wns. Howard F. Do Benjami) ‘Watkins, 21, and Florence game Py 23 and Amanda Fields, 20; Rev. Aauila Sayies s Oscar’ J. Stephens, 43, Gall . Md., e ‘Stephens aithersburg, Md. . Ball. d, 42, this city; Rev. John mett J. 3 Harrison, 19: Rev. £ afite, hatiotte James F. Smith. 25, and Anita L. Mather, Rey. M. J. Rior Ansel' Wold. 48, and Elsle L. Dogan, 29; Rey. John C. Ball. John P. “Ardeeser, 32. and Margaret B. LSt Sohavan. 48, aad e tha Butl obert _Johnson, 49, and Bertha Butler, 33; Rev. Frank Henso Charles L. 19, and Mildred Brown, . 32. Cardsville. Va.. da Sai . Staunton, Va.: Rev. d Harvey Dunham Robert Staples. 25 and Eudora Re: 3 19; Rev. E. Hes Swem. g | n-v| TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, | | 1929, “WE MUST PROTECT CRIMINAL FROM SOCIETY!" SAYS SCHOLAR FRF Psychiatrist Declares 10,000 Years of Punishment Proves Failure of Pain as Deterrent to Crime. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Lawyer and psychiatrist clashed be- fore the American Sociological Soclety yesterday afternoon. “The criminal must be protected against society,” declared Dr. Benjamin Karpman of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. “Society must be protected against the criminal,” said Gregory Hankin, Washington lawyer and writer on legal topics. Dr. Karpman, who refers {0 the mur- derers and degenerates with whom he works as “my criminals"—tenderly, as a father speaking of “my children"— insisted that soclety itself in its age-old ignorance is solely responsible for the anti-social conduct of some of its mem- bers and that the accepted forms of punishment are worse than useleds. Crime “Conditioned Hate.” Describing crime generally as “con- ditioned hate,” Dr. Karpman said that it was society’s duty, instead of punish- ing the offender to try to mend the mess it had made, or, failiag in that, to resort to a form of “segragation” which would be very different from present forms of imprisonment. The only effect of imprisonment, he sald, is to increase the very hate which was responsible for the original crime, 50 that when the man is released he is potentially more dangerous than before. ‘The alternative of imprisoning every criminal for life for society’s protection would do no good, he said, becauze while present socfal conditions continue there would be a continual crop of new crim- inals. The criminal, said Dr, Karpman, is generally the product of an unhappy childhood. The observation is based upon long study of the inter-psychic rocesses of criminals confined in St. lizabeth's famous Howard Hall. It is noteworthy, he said, that an only child, pampered and petted by parents, almost never becomes a criminal. He may be- come a neurotic, but that is something else. The criminal is usually the scape- goat of the family, jealous of the at- tention paid to more favored brothers and sisters or left almost completely un- noticed. Consequently, he seeks the emotional outlets denied in his normal environment elsewhere. This may lead to the reform school, and most crimi- nals, Dr. Karpman insisted, are the di- rect products of the reform school. Intelligence Small Factor. He denied that either physical condi- tion or intelligence has much to do with criminality. Low intelligence, he sald, doesn’t make the criminal, but it does make it easier to catch him, so that a survey of jails might show that the inmates were below normal. The curve of criminality, he sald, rises al- most directly as does that of the eco- nomic level of the families. Present forms of punishment, the psychiatrist insisted, are based on the worn-out theological concept of original sin. Punishment for anti-social be- havior starts in the nursery when, Dr. Karpman said, parents “take the pre- sumptuous prerogative of punishing be- fore the child learn the right or ‘wrong of its acts.” The result, he said, is not to teach the child that a certain form of behavior is wrong. It only arouses feelings of fear, injustice, anger and hatred against the punisher. It m.ll.lyt bring obedience, but no sense of guiit. Thus, he insisted, whipping a child simply aggravates the situation and de- velops a fertile soil for criminality. Re- venge motives make their appearance, and, if they are strong and persistent enough, lead to serious crimes later on, “There should be no punishment,” Dr. Karpman said, “until the child has learned the difference between good and bad. Then punishment will be neces- sary, unless hatred already has been conditioned into the little mind.” It is sometimes asserted, he said, that criminals have an insatiable craving for publicity, eagerly reading the newspaper accounts of their misdeeds and taking a vain delight in the attention focused on them. They often call eagerly for the papers, he explained, but for a very dif- ferent reason—pride In having “put over something” on the hated authorities. Conscience Is Protection. Soclety’s one great protection, Dr. Karpman said, is the individual's con- sclence—but he designated it the “‘su- per-ego or cultural imperative, the final result of the individual's cultural heritage, or his conditioning to the moral ideas of the social group of which he is a member. If this con- ditioning has been proper, he said, the “cultural imperative” must be obeyed and society has no need to punish any- body for wrongdoing. The criminal will be forced to punish himself, as shown by suicide following murder in s0 many cases. ‘The criminal himself has this “super- ego,” but its development has been so thwarted that it is obscured by strong emotions, according to Dr. Karpman. Thus murderers, he said, often are ex- cellent citizens W] “super-ego” is temporarily paralyzed by some strong emotion. He has found.among the criminals with whom he deals a high sense of honor, another expression of the “cultural imperative” which no hu- man being can_entirely escape. In this way Dr. Karpman arrived at his conclusion that “‘the criminal should be protected from soclety,” for society is no better than the cultural impera- tive which it imposes. Pain Not a Deterrent. The law, he said, has acted on the invalid assumption that pain, whether physical or mental, such as comes from imprisonment, is a deterrent to fulure crime. “We have certainly been gen- el'(‘)‘lim with pain for our criminals,” he said. This is done on the theory that the criminal is afraid that repetition of the pain will come with repeating the act. But, he said, pain conditions into the criminal another psychic factor, intense hate, which usually offsets the fear. The prisoners are forever plotting re- venge. “Words can't describe what emotions go on In the mind of A man confined in prison,” he, said. “Every factor in the prison surrounding is against arous- ing feelings of penitence. Sometimes sexual offenders are penitent in prison, but for more complicated intra-psychic reasons. Generally the man leaves prison with feelings of hate and venge. With everything thought for him, normal life denied him the assumption made that he has no feelings, he generally leaves prison on & lower intellectual and emotional level than when he entered.” Some improvement would be brought about, he said, by a prison industrial system where everything done would be for the benefit of the worker. His thesis that crime is the direct result of “conditioning,” Dr. Karpman sald, is supported by the specificity of crime. For example, some men only rob post offices. Such men could not be induced to pick pockets. Some only rob trains and nothing could induce them to take up housebreaking. Resentment Natural Reaction. Punishment is justified, he said, only when the criminal is convinced of the wrongness of bis acts, but even then, he holds, resentment instead of penitence is the natural reaction. Dr. Karpman took a fling at the well meaning prison chaplain, whose advice, he said, is often worse in its effects than the condition it is in- tended to correct. When one talks to a prisoner about moral behavior, he sald, the man is so consumed with hatred that he only pretends to listen. “But,” retorted Mr. Hankin, who fol- lowed Dr. Karpman, “soclety is in danger of being detroyed by the crimi- nal. I never understood that prison was intended to be a pleasant place. Would you have soclety discard the methods adopted for its protection for 10,000 years?" “Yes,” replied Dr. Karpman, “for so- re- out and ciety has just as consistently failed (or' 10,000 years.” All Criminals Insane. “Every criminal is insane. I make no exceptions. If criminality and in- sanity be separate entities, why do criminals show such a large percentage of insanity? They show ten times as much as any other class of persons.” Then the psychiatrist defined the criminal as one who, through some emotional drive, runs counter in his be- havior to the accepted social standard. “But,” he said, “I think the lawyer who abuses his client is a criminal and insane. I think the physician who overcharges his patient is in the same class. I don't think there is a human being living who hasn't committed some criminal act, but he may not have been caught at it Crime May Be Normal. Dr. W. I Thomas, noted sociologist, maintained that the sociological point of view is not that the criminal is ab- normal, but that crime is a normal de- velopment from certain environments. ‘Thus, he said, in one area of Cl 50 per cent of the boys are taken to juvenile court every year, while another area furnishes none at all. Thus, he said, crime becomes simply a part of a social behavior pattern. Among some tribes a boy who didn’t steal would not be a proper boy. “The adult gang of Chicago,” he said, “displays a separate culture just as the Quaker displays a rate cul- ture. Stealing is as natural an act as well-doing in a religious ‘environment. ‘The criminal is the result of group for- m}‘:"o&dfl tm‘t’e% Ir’x‘ ‘t‘.hi;e case the boy who In't sf might called - chopathic.” b 6. 0. P. WOMEN'S CLUB PLANNING ANNUAL FETE A number of Washington women are helping complete arrangements for the ninth annual luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club, to be held Saturday, January 11, at the Commo- dore Hotel, New York City. The luncheon will assemble some 1,500 men and women from all parts of Tt}r‘:e :;Iung)n e Washington women are M Mabel T. Bon.c’lt:nn, Mrs. F‘r'l'fub‘:: Davison, Miss Helen Amory Ernst, Mrs. Frederick C. Hicks, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Mrs. John Jay O’Connor, Mrs. James 8. Parker, Mrs. Thomas W. Phillips, jr, and Miss Lillian M. Thompson. FOREIGN SERVICE NOTES. Minor Officials Ordered Transferred to Other Posts. Recent changes in the United States foreign service include the assignment of Benjamin Thaw, jr, Pennsylvania, now on duty at the State Department, to be first secretary of embassy at Paris, France; the transfer of Alfred R. Thompson, Silver Spring, Md., con- sul, from Bradford, England, to Man- chester, England; Robert B. Macatee, Front Royal, Va., consul from London, England, to Bradford, England, and Robert F. Fernald, Maine, consul, from Lagos, Nigeria, to the State Depart- ment. Three 2-Cent Stamps Burglars’ Loot RICHMOND, Va., December 31 (Spe- cial) —Three 2-cent stamps was the loot cbtained by burglars who forced en- trance to the ticket office of the Balti- more & Ohio-Southern Rallway passen- ger station at Harrisonburg, Va. D. C. WOMAN TO BE BURIED BETWEEN GRAVES OF HUSBANDS Mrs. Anna Hellmuth Bohnke’s Often-Expressed Wish Will Be Carried Out in Prospect Hill. Mrs. Anna Hellmuth Bohnke, 87 years old, for many years a resident of the National Capital, who died at her home, 1531 Otis street northeast, yes- terday, will be buried tomorrow after- noon between the graves of her two husbands h: {ro-pxeec Hill Cemetery, CAITy] out her often expressed wish that & be done. i The services at the grave will fol- low funeral services to be conducted at her late residence tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock. Her first husband was Thomas Hell- muth, & Civil War veteran. Sometime after his death she was married to Hubert Bohnke, veteran of Indian Wars, who died some 28 years ago. Maintaining _an equal devotion for each of her husbands, Mrs. Bohnke often expressed the desire to be buried between them. In order that this could be done, Mr. Bohnke was buried near the grave of her first husband, Mr. Hellmuth. Mrs. Bohnke is survived by four children, three by her first marriage and one by the second. They are ‘Thomas R. Hellmuth, Mrs. Anna ler and Mrs. Nellie Gerkin, children of the late Mr. Hellmuth, and Hubert C. R. Bohnke. She also' leaves nine grand- children and eight great-grandc] Mrs. nke was the oldest livi: member of St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church and made contribu- tions recently to its building fund. She was a native of Germany and came to_this country at the age of 16 years. For many years, Mrs. Bohnke conducted a restaurant business on Bladensburg road. | dren. | ducted at PAGE 13 F. H. SMITH CHARTER REVOCATION ASKED INDELAWARE COURT Attorney General Takes Ac- tion Against District Firm. Receiver Is Asked. POWER ABUSE AND MISUSE CHARGED IN COMPLAINT Three Holders of Brokerage Issues Are Named Plaintiffs in Bill Filed at Wilmington. Special Dispatch to The Star. WILMINGTON, Del., December 31 Revocation of the charter of the F. H. Smith Co., investment brokerage con- cern, formerly having headquarters in Washington, D. C, is sought in a bill filed in Chancery Court here today by the attorney general on behalf of four holders of the Smith Co. issues, the complaint alleging abuse and misuse of the corporate powers of the concern. The F. H. Smith Co. is incorporated under the fenernl corporation laws of the State of Delaware and has operated in_a number of Eastern cities. The action today was brought by Attorney General Ruben Satterwaite, Jr, under & provision of the corpora- tion code of Delaware, after having re- ceived presentments in compliance with law from Morris A. Stewart, Andrew. 3. Caldwell and Grace Caldwell of Wash- ington. Affidavits are to be forwarded to Washington for the formal signature of these investors. Receiver Is Asked. The bill seeking revocation of the charter of the F. H. Smith Co. also asks appointment of a receiver for the con- cern. The action concerns the method of financing of real estate operations handled by the Smith company, which has been investigated by ment of Justice and the grand jury of the District of Columbia which re- cently returned indictments against officlals of the concern and the cor- poration, charging use of the malls to de(rlud.b : The bill recites that “the relators (meaning the Attorney General and the four complainants) ailege that the said defendant corporation for at least a period of two years has not conducted under its certificate of incorporation a legitimate business, but has been en- gaged solely in defraug the realtors and others of its stockholders and the fnnerll public by selling to them worth- less securities and by using the money 50 received for fraudulent purposes; that sald de- the corporation acts of the fendant corporation are against pubjin policy in violation of the laws of ths State of Delaware, the laws of other States of the Union in which they have operated, and in of the laws of the United States; that the defendant corporation has abused and misused its corporate pow- ers and privileges as aforesaid; Abuse Is Charged. “That the relators further aver that the said F. H. Smith Co., a corporation created under the general corporation law of the State of Delaware, has not been conducted and is not now being conducted for the transaction of any legitimate business, or to promote or conduct any legitimate objects or pur- Pposes within the meaning of section 1 of the general corporation law of Dela- ware, but that, on the contrary, said F. H. Smith Co. has been conducted, and is still being conducted, for the transaction of unlawful and to prorm)”ct-l t:dmd conduct !‘lile'&‘umnu ob- nd purposes, an ereby has abused lm? misused the cfll‘pflflw ition T by ot ?{:‘nfwm"“ ot ue of ration un- d!!rh the law otfl De;nH-ra." e new uction followed closely uj the filing December 28 in the W‘l{mim ton Chancery Court of a bill asking the appointment of a receiver for the com- pany. This earlier action was filed in the name of Morris A. Stewart and was a move to throw the company into involuntary bankruptey. Dividends Are Questioned. In that action, charges were made that Representative Frederick N. Zihl- man of Maryland, chairman of the House District committee, and Daniel R. Crissinger, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who were di- rectors of the F. H. Smith Co., author- ized unlawful payment of dividends by the Smith concern. In addition to Mr. Zihlman and Mr. Crissinger, the earlier receivership action named as defend- ants G. Bryan Pitts, chairman of the Smith company board, and Samuel J. Henry, president. The complaint in that case alleged that officials of the Smith company had promoted the sale of approximately $50,000,000 of securities, “a great ma- Jority of which are still outstanding, unlisu!dlted and unpaid.” The bill al- leged that dividends were paid contrary to the statute with the income from the sale of bonds instead of from actual earnings of the property involved. was charged that these dividends were authorized by Zihlman, Pitts, Crissinger and Henry. A. L. REINBURG FUNERAL HELD THIS AFTERNOON Deceased Was Retired Employe of Bureau of Engraving; Served 31 Years. Funeral services for Albert L. Rein« burg, 58 years old, for 31 years an em- iploye of the Bureau of Engraving, who died Saturday in a convalescent home at 1654 Columbia road, were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Deal's fu- neral home, 816 H street northeast. B;rill was in the Congressional Cem- etery. Mr. Reinburg, a life-long resident of ‘Washington, had been employed inter- mittently at the Bureau over a period of 31 years, entering the service in 1890 and retiring in 1927. At the time of his retirement, which was necessitated by illness, he was employed in the plate- printing division. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Ann Smith of Clarendon, V: . WEEDON FU;!ERAL HELD. Broker Was Well Known in D. C. Fraternal Circles. Funeral services for Thomas A. Weedon, 68 years old, general insurance broker and ‘general agent in the Dis- trict of Columbia for several insurance companies, who died Sunday, were con- his home, 1820 Monroe street, this morning at 10 o'clock. In- terment was in St. Mark’s Parish Cem- etery, near Petersville, Md. Mr. Weedon was widely known in this city. He was & member of the Wash- ington Board of Trade, a_thirty-second degree Mason and a former member of the Columbia Country Club. the Argyle Club and the Weshington City Club, Insurance