Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1930, Page 17

' WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, 'D. C, The Sunday Staf SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY GENERAL NEWS 5, 1930 » TRIO ADMITS FIVE ROBBERIES AND SHOOTING WOMAN Colored Men Taken After Wounding of Policeman Said to Have Confessed. HUGHES IMPROVING AT SIBLEY HOSPITAL Mrs. Mary Rosenberg, Wife of Grocer, Wounded in Hold- Up of Store. Three colored men captured Friday | night after one of their number had wounded Policeman Van D. Hughes of the second precinct in a gun battle in “Murderer’s Row,” admitted to head- quarters detectives yesterday to wound- ing a woman storckeeper and commit- ting five robberies New Year eve, ac- cording to Capt. Waiter Emerson, act- ing chief of the detective bureau. They are George Wharton, 19, of 2713 P street, who shot Policeman Hughes three times and in turn was | seriously wounded by Policeman Robert S. Bryant; Henry Jacobs, 20, of lll Hollbrook terrace northeast, and James | Stansbury, 19, of 430 Franklin strest. | Hughes’ condition is not regarded serious by authorities of Sibley Hos- pital, who said last night that the i was “resting comfortably,” it his colored assailant is in a serious condition at Gallinger Hospital. Wife of Grocer Shot. Police say the confessed men admit | they shot Mrs. Mary Rosenberg, wife of Louis Rosenberg, a grocer at 1415 Tenth street, on New Year eve. They | also admitted taking $25 in cash from the store. ‘The bullet grazed Mrs. Resenberg’s temple, and she was treated at Emer- gency Hospital. They also are said to have told De- tective Sergts. Dennis J. Cullinane and Lawrence A. O'Dea, to whom they made their confessions, that they held up Arthur C. Mason of 812 New Jersey ave- nue and George Christobas of 109 E street l‘ndl robbed them of $5 and $100, Tespectively. %y topped off the night by robbing two other stores, obtaining $18 at Abe Leventhals, 400 Twelfth street south- east, and $25 from Mollie Keiman'g, 1037 Second street southwest. Shot Pursuing Suspect. Policeman Hughes was shot while pursuing Wharton into !m'ehg L lsltreeé entrance of Logan court, alleges robber turning and firing seven shots ding Wharton Bryant, who followed Hughes and ‘Wharton into the alley, cornered Whar- ton, firing three shots. rton was in the neck, shoulder and left ‘Wharton's companions were later ar- TYested by second precinct police. Charges ©of robbery were placed against them by Headquarters Detectives O'Dea and Cul- linane following their confessions. FIREMEN CONQUER MENACING BLAZE Sparks Fly From $2,000 Fire| in Vacant Store Toward Other Buildings. Pire which caused approximately $2,000 damage in a vacant store at 807 Market space, was put out by firemen last night, only after sparks had threatened adjoining buildings. T‘he' blaze started in a pile of rubbish in the basement. Dense volumes of smoke rolled up and attracted a large crowd. which re- quired the control of a detail of police- men. The blaze was confined to the basement and first floor. No one was hurt. The fire was discovered by Ferdinand Ney, proprietor of the Milton Ney de- partment store, at 803 Market space. who turned in the alarm, bringing five engine companies and one truck com- pany. Battalion Chief Joseph Watt sponded and sounded a second alarm. Firemen entered from the front of | the building and found the fire ascend- ing by a rear stairway and elevator €haft. Lines of hose were run into the basement from the coal chute in the sidewalk and the basement was almost flooded. Chief George 5. Watson responded to the second alarm and took charge of the operations. He could offer no reason for the origin of the fire other than | #pontaneous combustion. VISITING CLERGY TO OPEN MISSION HERE TONIGHT Jesuit Preachers to Conduct Two Week's Services at St. Aloysius, Morning and Evening. Rev. Charles Connor and Rev. John Mattimore, Jesuit preachers of New York and Boston missionary bands, Te- #pectively, will begin a two-week mis sion in St. Aloysius Church tonight at 7:30 o'clock. They will preach on alternate nights and mornings The first week of the mission will | be for women. The mission for men | will begin next Sunday night, follow- | ing the close of the woman’s mission, Sunday afternoon, with solemn renewal f baptismal vows. | In addition to the evening exercises a special mass with sermon will be celebrated each morning at 5:30 o'clock. ‘The rector of the church, Father Michael F. Pitzpatrick, yesterday is- sued invitations to non-Catholic groups | 10 attend the mission services. APOSTOLIC DELEGATE TO PONTIFICATE SUNDAY Bslemn Benediction at Chevy Chase to Be in Presence of District Holy Name Members. Most Rev. Pietre Fumasoni-Biondi, edostolic delegate to the United States, will pontificate at solemn benediction next Sunday evening at the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament. Chevy Chase. in crlebration of the feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. The second Sunday of January has been designated by Pope Piux XI as that feast in the United States, and. on January 12 of this year, more than 2,000 ‘Washinzton members of the Holy Name s Coclety will attend the service. SMUDGE POTS AID STARLINGS WIN the smudge pots on window sills, SECOND ROUND Dislodged from %heir favorite roosting places in Pennsylvania avenue trees when the top branches were cut out of the trees, the starlings took to every available toehold on the District Building last night. Here they clung, despite as the photograph shows.—Star Staff Photos. STARLING WARFARE Ledges of District Building| Added to Area in Which Birds Are Fought. ‘The great starling offensive continued with redoubled fury last night when the ledges of the District Building were lined with smudge pots, pouring evil- smelling smoke into the unprotesting nostrils of the statues that adorn the building’s noble facades. The Star’s starling war correspondent noted that the unpopular birds had abandoned the sections of ledges and eaves immediately above each pot, but that they clustered in apparently greater numbers in the innumerable crannies to which the smoke did not penetrate. Apparently this sort of chemical warfare will not succeed with anything short of burning the entire bullding down or drowning it in such clouds of smoke that not only the starlings, but all persons will be driven away. Tender Twigs Cut Out. The idea of the smudge pots comes from Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parkings. It was he who solved the problem of getting the. star- lings out of their favorite trees by c ting out the tender twigs at the 125 of the trees and leaving nowhere for lf‘.rlz.nl's ;oot to r;.s'atntwm(orh ‘This great work proceeded at a rapid pace yesterday and about half of 51: trees on ylvania avenue and E street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets were rendered starling proof: several truckloads of the lopped-off twigs being carted away. The work on the trees, however, only increased the number of the obnoxious birds that roosted in the District Building and other adjoining structures. Hence the idea of the smudge pots, | filled with fuel ofl, old rags and rubber. | Tried at Theater. The smudge pots were also tried in the upper parts of the Fox Theater Building on F street between Fourteenth and Thirteenth. Mr. Lanham said that | the manager had agreed to give the | smoke warfare a_tryout. “But the only final solution is a load of buckshot,” he added. MAN BELIEVED WANTED IN'SOUTH CAROLINA HELD | D. C. Police Make Arrest on Infor- | mation From Newberry County Sheriff. Alleged to have escaped eight years 2go from a South Carolina chain gang, Where he was serving a 20-year sen- tence for manslaughter, a colored man, thought to be Eb Gallman, was arrested here yesterday afternoon, where he has lived since 1920. Acting on information conveyed in a letter from Sheriff Cannon G. Blease of Newberry County, S. C., Headquar- ters Detectives Frank Varney and H. E. Brodie went to an address in the 200 block of B street southwest and took the man into custody. He denied he was Gallman, but is said to answer the convict's description. His presence in Washington was learned through an inonymous letter sent Sheriff Blease from this city. Callmen was convicted in 1916 of killing Lizzie Bailey in South Carolina and was sentenced to serve 20 years for manslaughter. He escaped when only CAR, ALLEGED WHISKY AND DRIVER ARE TAKEN Cargo of 60 Gallons Passes to Pos- session of Police After Bladens- burg Road Race. An automobile containnig 60 gallons of alleged corn whisky and its colored driver were captured last night by Motor Cycle Policeman Watson Sal- keld of the twelfth precinct, after a chase at high speed along Bladensburg road near the Maryland State line. The man was beoked as Willlam Leo Larkins, the 300 block of Eighth street northeast, and was charged with speed- ing and illegal possession and trans- portation of liguor. His bond was set at $2500. A check-up revealed that the car belongs to a rental agency. Officers to Be Installed. Newly elected officers of the Police- four years of the sentence had elapsed. | With the finance group. {since the serving of BOARD OF TRADE WILL HONOR TWO Theodore W. Noyes and John Joy Edson to Be Paid Tribute. On February 5, the date set for the formal opening of its new offices on the second floor of The Star Building, the Washington Board of Trade will honor with fitting ceremonies Theodore W. Noyes and John Joy Edson, two of its oldest and most distinguished mem- bers, for their more than 50 years of outstanding service to the people of ashington. Wi n. Mr. Noyes .and Mr. Edson, both former presidents of the.board, will be presented with engrossed recitations of all their outstanding contfibutions and activities in the interest of the National Capital and its citizens during the long period of their membership in the or- ganization. The presentation to Mr, Noyes is to be made by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washing- ton, and to Mr. Edson by William But- terworth, president of the C| ber of Commerce of the United States. Plan Ceremony as Housewarming. Mr. Edson, as a director of the Board of Trade, was active in the formation of the national chamber, of which he is now treasurer. He is chairman of the board of the Washington Loan & Trust Co. and president of the Equitable Building Association. The presentations will take place in the evening in the new headquarters, Wwhich are considerably larger and are fitted up in more luxurious style than the former offices on the fifth floor of The Star Building. The ceremony will be in the nature of a housewarming. A special committee of past presi- dents, under chairmanship of the imme- diate past president, appointed by E. J. Murphy, current leader of the Board of Trade, has charge of arrangements for the event. It consists of W. W. Everett, chairman; Cuno H. Rudolph, Gen. George H. Harries, Arthur C. Moses, Ed- ward H. Droop, Edwin C. Brandenburg, Walter A. Brown, E. F. Colladay, Sam- uel J. Prescott, J. Harry Cunningham and Edward C. Graham. A distinguished gathering of govern- | mental and civic leaders and officials is expected to be present at the house- warming, significant of the advance- ment of the organization in its 40 years of existence. Among those who will be invited are various members of the cab- inet, of Congress, those prominent in the District government and in the civic affairs of the District and the Nation. Board Incorporated in 1889, Crosby 8. Noyes, father of Theodore W. Noyes, was among the group of men who incorporated the Board of Trade December 2, 1889. They were: Crosby S. Noyes, E. Kurtz Johnson, H. A. Willard, Brainard H. Warner, Myron M. Parker, S. E. Wheatley, Beriah Wilkins, S. Walter Woodward, W. B. Moses, John H. Magruder, James L. Barbour, Charles Baum, A. T. Brit- ton, Charles C. Glover, Isaac N. Jack- son, Thomas Somerville, George A. Mc- Dlhenny, F. L. Moore, O. G. Staples, L. G. Hine, Henry Wise Garrett, C. B, Church, Samuel Ross, George Trues- dell, John E. Herrell, Isidor Saks and Theodore J. Mayer. The board has grown from a mem- bership of 200 to 3,500 representative business and professional men of Wash- ington. Its efforts for civic betterment have been unceasing, and none of its members has been more active than the two who will be honored Feb- ! ruary 5. Both are original members of the | board, Mr. Noyes first serving on the railroads committee and Mr. Edson Durij e vears 1898 and 1899 Mr. Noyos v?;.s president. He was succeeded by Mr. Edson, who served for two successive years. Since then the two men have been directors the greater part of the time. A director is not eligible for re-clection until one year has elapsed two consecutive terms. At present Mr. Noyes is a di- rector. Although the formal opening will not take place until February 5, it is ex- pected that the board h-adquarters will be able to move into the new offices about January 15. The new home will include a club room and library, not present in the suite now being used. —_— Pedestrian Suffers Bruises When Knocked Down by Car. Knocked down by an automobile as she was crossing Sixth street near G street last evening, Mrs. Annie Porter, 52, of 409 G street, sustained bruises to her head and ‘shock. She was Assoclation will be installed ‘Tuesday night at a meeting of the as- +sociation in the Odd Fellows Temple, at 419 Seventh street. »~ | treated at Emergency Hospital by Dr. Lewis of the staff. Roy Alfred | night Rabbi Loeb said Judge Cayton's J. E | Willard, 1357 C street northeast, driver of the car, took the woman to the hospital. JUDGE 15 SCORED FOR USING PHRASE “JEW CRIME WAVE” Rabbi J. T. Loeb of Chuj Sholom Denounces Nathan Cayton in Interview. DECLARES JURIST’S LOGIC IS UNWORTHY OF BENCH Suggests Desire for Immortality May Have Prompted Criticism “Too Offensive” to Disregard. Declaring that Judge Nathan Cayton of Municipal Court has never been | known to mingle with the Jewish peo- ple sufficiently to know them, has not borne their burdens and has not there- fore been able to judge their deviations from the paths of rectitude and right- eousness, Rabbi J. T. Loeb of Ohev Sholom Congregation takes direct issue with the remarks of the judge, de- nouncing his statements regarding the Jewish crime wave as “too offensive” entirely to dmmfll'd. " In an_interview at his home last statements and implications appeared to have been inspired by lack of ex- geflmce and probably by lack of nowledge of the Jewish people, and scored them as ill befitting a man who has been called upon to administer the functions of justice. May Seek Immortality. “We regret,” Rabbi Loeb said, “that we are forced to take issue with Judge Cayton so that we may refute his in- correct statements. Possibly Cayton hopes to achieve immortality through his invention of the term ‘Jewish crime wave’ What a sweet morsel for the Jew-baiters and sensationalists! My answer to Judge Cayton's ques- tlon, ‘Why is there a Jewish crime wave?' is that there is none. Judge Cayton is smitten with a fanciful bit of imagery when he sees such a phe- nomenon. When he brands the Jews as a criminal class he deals with ex- gerations and generalities that have lutely no foundation in fact. “No one expects the Jews to be angels but Judge Cayton apparently believes that the sins of an individual or a few individuals extend to the whole race. What reason or logic can a man have for laying the sin of an individual at the door of an entire community? Jews may be found guilty of misconduct, just as others may be found so guilty, but we do not find Catholics or Methodists generally indicted for crime because an individual member of their church com- mits a crime. Jews Made to Serve. “I should like to ee with the se- vere critic who says the Jews have not the right to produce a single eriminal from their ranks, because of all Jewish laws the Jewish people were made to serve the world for peaceful comrade- | ship and useful endeavor. Yet, under present-day econditions, such a Utopia is impossible. The time when the Jews | lived in seclusion within their own ghetto walls has gone and Jewish life | today is interwoven with the social and political affairs of the world and thus is exposed to all the existing evils of society. It is quite obvious that, lacking the restrictions of the closely-knit so- ciety of the ghetto, an individual here and there may stray from the paths of rectitude and virtue, “Judge Cayton’s remarks are too pointed to ignore. Had they come from any but & man in so responsible a po- sition as a man on the bench we might dismiss them with the observation that the man does not know of what he speaks. But the fact that he is a mem- ber of the bench and is himself a Jew (which seems to lend force to the argu- ment) makes the situation far more | serious, “His statement that the Jews are preponderantly a criminal class is one that has not a shred of truth and can- not be proven. Rather, the facts prove otherwise. I do not agree with his judgment that post-war conditions have not. had much to do with the increase of crimes in this country and that pro- hibition is not a factor in lawlessness. “The judge must know that war psy- chology and the prohibition law have contributed largely to crime increase in this country: that corruption spreads through lack of observance and flaunt- ing of the prohibition law. Hoover Applauded. “The Jewish people heartily applaud- ed the statements of President Hoover in his inaugural address when he said he intended to sift to the bottom the misdoing connected with dry law en- forcement. We felt that his view of the situation was a correct one, and that the test of stability or fraiity of a nation lies ‘within the status of its citizenry. We never had had an inkling that President Hoover had in mind the Jewish people when he referred to the spread of crime. Had this been so, Nathan Cayton would not have been appointed a judge of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia. Such an outburst of defamation of the Jew- ish character as that of Judge Cayton cannot be called ‘friendly criticism’ in the sense of ‘open reproach from an inner love.’ I would call it directly an attack of an enemy from the inner ranks. 5 “Judge Cayton’s motives do not mat- | ter, but the manner of his speaking—as | a judge—does matter. His statement that the Jew is not loyal to this coun- try or that he is unwilling to contr!bult, to the welfare of the Nation is prepos- terous. Should we cringe and cower to | demonstrate our patriotism and willing- | ness to serve? ““The conditions described by Judge Cayton are not known in Washington. We do not find that Jewish offenders are out of proportion to their numbers. But we do find many social agencie: working among Jews to improve condi- tions of Jewish life. We have no de- spair of the future of Judaism in this country. Judaism will adjust itself and ' survive the present crisis.” 10,000 BOOKS SOUGHT FOR MARINE LIBRARY! Association Will Open Campaign for Reading Material for En- listed Men January 13. The American Merchant Marine Library Association will inaugurate a campaign here beginning January 13 to obtain 10,000 books for the use of men enlisted in that service. Campaign headquarters will be es- tablished at 1364 Connecticut avenue, where donations of books and maga- zines will be accepted. Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock will be in charge. The drive . Harrj | at Twentleth and Franklin will continue through January 25. President Hoover is honorary presi- dent of the association and T. V. O’Con- al nor, chairman of the United States’ Shipping Board, hongrary vice president. ADAMS BUILDING T0RECEIVE PUPILS MONDAY MORNING Opening of New Structure Will Relieve Congestion in Various Sections. PAUL JUNIOR SCHOOL READY BY FEBRUARY 1 Morgan School Will Become Col- ored Elementary Unit With Transfers Tomorrow. The new Adams School at Columbia road and Nineteenth street will be opened officially at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, when its first classes are called to order. ‘The opening of the school will mark the beginning of the long-anticipated mid-year relief of school congestion in various sections of the city which cur- rent construction is scheduled to bring. The Paul Junior High School will be opened February 1, while the Langdon School will receive its initial comple- ment of pupils within 10 days, although its official opening is set for February 1. Until the beginning of the second semester, February 3, the new Adams School will enroll only the seventh and eighth grade pupils of the Force School at Seventeenth street and Massachu- setts avenue, and the full enroliment of the Morgan School at California and V streets. On February 3 a general reor- ganization of the several schools affect- ed by the opening of Adams will take place. The old Adams School at Seven- teenth and R streets, which was recom- mended for abandonment years ago, ; will be taken out of service as a class room bullding. Transfer of Pupils. ‘The Du?fll now attending the old Adams will be transferred to the Force School next semester. At the same time the Morgan School will become a colored elementary school and the transfer of its present pupils tomor- row will enable the District repair shop to make renovation. Although the construction probably will not completed in time for the reopening of the Morgan School for colored pupils, its facilities will be virtually doubled by a new eight-room addition and as- sembly hall. The new Adams School Building contains 26 major rooms, an assembly hall and space for a cafeteria. It was designed by Albert L. Harris, munici- pal architect, with varying levels, so that while its “basement” is a full story above .the street level on the front, its playground is two sories higher, upon the top of a steep hill at its re: School officials praised Mr. solution of the problems which the hillside site presented, and they regard the building, which, they say might_easily have been an awkward- appearing school perched atop the hill, as one of the system's handsomest‘ structures. Plan Junior Unit. g Plans are being made now to in- corporate in the new Adams School next September a “junior high school unit” which would include the seventh and eighth grades of the Force, James F. Oyster, Cook and Morgan Schools. Such a consolidation of the two highest elementary. school grades would lend admirable relief to a larger territory than otherwise might have been served and at the same time would af- ford junior high school advantages to between 200 and 300 children sooner than they might have expected them In order to facilitate the opening of the Adams School tomorrow morning the pupils who will comprise th building’s initial roll were permitted to visit the structure last Thursda; No classes were held then, however, as the children were simply there to familiar- ize themselves with the plan‘of the building, so they will have no difficulty in reporting to the proper rooms. in the morning. ‘The new Langdon School, which now is virtually completed, will receive the enrollment of the old Langdon, nearby, streets northeast, as soon as classroom furni- northeast, as soon as class room furni- pected to be completed within the next 10 days and it will signal the passing of one of Washington's worst ‘“fir> traps.” The old Langdon School is of frame construction, and has been con- : demned bitterly as a menace for sev- eral years. The new school, ultimate plans for which make it a much larger school plant than its predecessor, will receive its first “outside” children with the beginning of the new semester. These “outside” children will come from the general Langdon-Woodridge- Dahlgren Terrace communities now served with congestion by other school buildings, and their transfer to the new school will bring obvious relief to that section of Northeast Washington, Paul School Opening. The Paul Junior High School will { open February 3, with an initial en- rollment of 400 pupils. Located at Con- cord avenue and Eighth streets, this school will provide considerable relief for congestion at the Brightwood Junior High School annex, at Thirteenth and Nicholson streets; the Takoma (ele- mentary school, at Piney Branch road and Dahlia streets: the Keene (ele- mentary School, at Blair and Riggs roads, and the Macfarland Junior High School, at Towa avenue and Webster street. When it is opened the Paul Junior High School will house 200 pupils less than its capacity, thus allowing for future class organization and school population increase in its neighborhood. BOYS SEIZE PURSE. Woman Returning From Store Loses $4 by Robbery. Mrs. Daisy Groves, 526 Ninth street southwest, reported to police last night that her purse, containing $4, was snatched from her hand by one of three colored boys as she was returning from & store near her home. Headquarters Detectives Frank Varney and H. E. Brodie, investigating the case, saw three colored boys, answering the description given by Mrs. Groves, walk- ing along Four-and-a-Half street south- west, half an hour later. They gave chase, but th: boys escaped. FORMER POL;CEMARI DIES. James J. McKeever Had Been Serving as Public Buildings Guard James J. McKeever, 60-year-old for- mer policeman, employed as a guard by the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks, fell unconscious to the floor in the Administration Bullding yester- day afternoon, and died before medical could be summoned. Death is said to have been due to heart disease, PAGE Bl C Experiment at St. Pers BY THOMAS R. HENRY. I reviewed a strange moving picture show yesterday afternoon. It is customary for a reviewer to note the names and technique of the actors, but in this case I neglected to do so because such details were of no consequence. No&mg that happened on the screen was of any consequence. Only the au- dience mattered. It was the first time that moving pictures had been sho inside the walls of Howard Hall, tI building for the criminal insane at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. It was the first time that about 25 of the inmates. whose occupancy of jalls and insane hospitals started more than a quarter { of a century ago, ever had seen a mov- ing picture. §n‘1‘e men who composed the audi- | ence were guilty of all sorts of crimes, from larceny to murder. Some famous criminals were among them. For the most part, under the scientific and kindly regime of the hospital, they are a quiet lot. They represent all sorts and grades of mental disease and a| wide range of intelligence. For all the character of some of its inmates, Howard Hall is a quiet place where each man is treated as an in- dividual and not as just a “number.” But due to the nature of the institu- tion there has been in the past a lack of recreation facilities. There is an excellent theater at the hospital where, under the auspices of the Red Cross, some of the latest moving picture re- leases are shown twice a week, attended by all patients whose condition is such as to allow them out of strict custody. Show Held in Barred Room. But obviously this did not apply to court sentences. Whatever recreation | they have must be brought to them. And neither the hospital nor the Red Cross up to now has had portable mov- ing picture machines. One Just been secured. So the barred windows of a room on the top floor of Howard Hall were darkened with blankets and a projection machine set up. The selection of pictures was a diffi- cult problem for the hospital and Red Cross officials. There is a rather defi- nite moving picture psychology. They wished to avoid pictures of the type which would excite these rather easily excitable men, which would suggest crime, which would lead the audience imaginatively to identify itself with men committing deeds of violence, or which would have a depressing effect such as might result from a tragic de- iction of a home-and-mother or child- 0od theme. It was decided to start with a slap-stick comedy. So this is a review of the effect of slap-stick comedy {on the population of Howard Hall—of | what men laugh at and why, There was no herding of prisoners, might have been the case in an ordi- nary prison. They came in by ones of workmen dropping into a moving picture from the street. When stood hg the door ,as. inconspicuously | as possible. RIMINALLY INSANE LAUGH AT SLAP-STICK MOVIE COMEDY Reaction Is Much as in Normal the men in Howard Hall who are under | and twos and threes, just like groups | "h?a were all in a couple of attendanfs Elizabeth’s Reveals I ons. dividual indicates merely normal intelli- gence. The picture showed that the popula- tion of Howard Hall, superficially least, constitutes just an ordinary movie audience. This impressed the Cross worker who had arranged for showing the picture. What the men want, she said afterward, is what the great majority of folks inside and out- side of an insane hospital want, and what the makers of movies know they want. That is what she will try to give them in the future. It is planned to give these shows frequently from now on for these men, so many of whom have been shut off from the out- side world for so long. Some of the men positively refused to attend the show yesterday. But those who did attend had a good time. “‘Give us some more pictures,” they begged the Red Cross worker as they | filed out. TRADE CONFERENCE AINIS ARE OUTLINED Darr in Radio Talk Explains Purpose of Meeting Called for January 27. The purposes and plans of the local | business = conference, called by the | Washington Chamber of Commerce for January 27, were explained last night by President Charles W. Darr in a radio address broadcast from station ‘WMAL. " The aim of the conference, he de- ciples evolved at the recent mesting of President Hoover with nationally known business executives and is in line with a serfes of conferences of trade groups held under auspices of Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Invited to the conference are Merle Thorpe, editor of the Nation’s Busi- ness, and Dr. Julius J. Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, as well as ap- proximately 500 representative men prominent in the industrial, commer- cial and financial affairs of the city. Speaking of the efforts of the na- tional chamber in the direction of business encouragement by means of conference, Mr. Darr declared: “This effort, on a nation-wide scale, for the as | co-ordination of business plans and | programs, s based upon the firm be- |lief that through such co-ordination we may effect a soundly belanced national prosperity. Within certain ticular industrial lines may be retarded or accelerated. If these rates of ex- pansion are harmonized to bridge over, in so far as possible, the slack periods New Experience for Men. The comedies shown had all familiar comic situations which | makers of mov! the the ing pictures expect folks ks do laugh at occasionally, | to the great perplexity of others. The inmates of Howard Hall might be con- sidered a very good experimental audi- ence. In the first place, it was a new jexperience for them. They had not {been disciplined to laugh "at certain situations, as most folks have through long attendance at the movies. Then again a presumed characteristic of some of the criminally insane is in- ability to repress the overt reaction to an emotional stimulus. For example, most of us have impulses to hit some annoying person now and then, but we meditate on the consequences, that is, delay our response to the stimulus, and decide not to do so. A character- istic of the insane-criminal is inability to delay this response, possibly be- bral cortex is folks, In any event, this audience might be expected to laugh at such visual stimull as in the nature of thihgs evoke laughter. It would not repress its haw-haws due to severe eritical { judgment. Now what happened was | that this audience laughed for the { most part at the very situations which would have caused the most laughter in a downtown theater. Its behavior, strange to say, was very little more in- telligent than that of an audience gathered in from the street. The only possible exception was that the greatest response came to a comedy bellboy beating up a comedy ‘“cop.” Naturally, anything discomforting that happens to a policeman, their eternal enemy, is grossly funny to these men. That might be called a special response due to the enviroment. thinner than in normal cause the pyramidal layer of the cere- | | upon Gen. Pershing. |in each field. a net gain is obtained | which benefits the entire economic | structure. It is this task of nation- | wide industrial co-ordination which clared, is to apply, locally, the prin- | limits the rate of expansion in par-! IGANBLERS CAUGHT RUNNING BIG HOUSE | POLICE SQUADS SAY Raiders Smash Three Doors, Heavily Barred, and Ar- rest Two Men. 40 WITNESSES BOOKED, BUT SIX MAKE GETAWAY Three Other Sorties Following Jail Scandal Clew Net Still, Mash and Liquor. Breaking through three heavily re- inforced doors of a building in the first block of H street, opposite the Gov- ernment Printing ice, a raiding party of sixth precinet police found what is claimed to be a large flmhllnx establishment in full operation terday afternoon. Two men were arrested on charges of permitting gaming, 40 were booked | as witnesses and 6 others escaped over an adjoining roof, Three Liquor Raids. About the same time Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman and his special investiga- tion squad were making three liquor raids in which they seized 140 quarts of alleged liquor, 5 quarts of alcohol, 50 gallons of mash and a 10-gallon still, Letterman was informed that one of the places was I.rnrl!el&gd in the recent Jail liquor scandal. The raid on the H street buildin was made by Sergt. J. C. Maloney lng Detective John 8. Boxwell of the sixth precinct. They attempted to enter by the front way, but after smashing the l?"t d:gr. munud thenuel lves \lnllfil to orce the second portal. Accordingly, they ran to the rear of the place, w! % they were able to break down the two doors guarding the approach' to the third-floor suite, alleged to be used for gambling. The two men booked on the charges were Louis Herevitz, 3: oll:l’, and Joseph A. Fitzgerald, ol aming years 27 years They were released under "$500 {bond each. The 40 patrons inside | when the raiders entered were released after Ll:he"f n:l{“'d were bnoled. A quantity of eged gamblin a- phernalia was seized. e Jail Scandal Brings Clue. A complaint growing out of the re- cent jail liquor scandal led to a raid by Sergt. Letterman in the 700 block of Fourth street, where a man and woman were arrested on charges of illegal possession of liquor and posses- | slon of property designed for the illegal manufacture of liquor. Twenty quarts {of alleged whisky, 50 galolns of mash jand a 10-gallon still were seized. The two prisoners were booked as Curtis M. Youngs, 30, and Mrs. Ella Florence Youngs, 31, They are said to have ostensibly conducted a print shop at the Fourth street address. Another maid, in &he 300 block of F street, resulted IS the arrest of Warren | Correil, 39, and the seizure of five quarts of alleged alcohol. The last place visited by the officers was in the 2300 block of Sherman avenue. James Edward Johnson, colored, 28, was ar- ational business conferences are iendenvormg to carry throug | 33D MASONIC DEGREE ‘.Ceremony at Scottish Rite Temple Tomorrow Night to Be Pre- ceded by Dinner. Incidental to impressive Masonic ceremonies, attended by distinguished Masons of Washington, Virginia and Maryland, Gen. John J. Pershing will be awarded an honorary Thirty-third Degree of Masonry tomorrow night at the Scottish Rite Temple, 1733 Six- teenth street. Gen. Pershing was elected to receive the degree last October at the biennial session of the Supreme Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free- masonry of the Southern Jurisdiction. Following the afternoon cerermony, which begins at 4:30 o'clock, of investi- ture of the rank and decoration of Knight Commander of the Court of Honor, a dinner will be served, at- tended bv Masons of national reputa- tion. -Among those invited are Sena- tors Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, McMaster of South Dakota, Allen and Capper of Kansas and Robinson of Indiana. Immediately afterward the Thirty-third Degree will be conferred “Chase” Brings Laughter. A wave of laughter spread through the darkened room at the familiar “chase” situation, where the actors | pursue each other through traffic- | crowded streets, falling into manholes, A pushing over piles of boxes, buckets ot ; whitewash, etc. It is just an amplifica- 1 tion of the pumpkin pie situation, and ! it goes over big. The laughter reached its climax when the unfortunate object of the chase was perched on top of the flag pole over a ten-story building and the pole was pushed over by the pur- suer, leaving the victim hanging help- lessly above the street and finally | dropping. { T’ms. glt was explained by one of the St. Elizabeth physicians, possibly was an expression of the saddest impulse, which finds its satisfaction in the dis- | comforture and pain of others. The | saddist nature of some of these men is | marked. But they took no more delight in the situation than the average audi- ence. Apparently most folks are im- pelled to laugh at the discomfort of their fellow men—or it may be & pro- cess of negative identification. One naturally identifies one's self with the | figures on the screen if they are attrac- | tive and suffers as they suffer. But| with the comic actor, with whom one | does not care to be identified, the pro- | cess is just the opposite. One Spectator Responds. o hl only incident in the picture which ; t}:f!hcpr:sZnt reviewer thought funny | brought a laugh from only one man— doubtless by far the most intelligent of the lot, whose next appeal for release and pardon should receive serious con- sideration. It suggests a great scientific discovery, the possibility of diagnosing the mental condition of men and women by what they laugh at. But Dr. William A. White may have a ifferent idea. 5 The situation was simply this: The lady in room 9 telephones to the clerk that she wants a bath. He dispaiches | a literal-minded bellboy to comply | with the request. The bellboy does so despite the protests of the guest. Now it seems to me that laughing at this is a sign not only of sanity, but of intelligence greater than that of 99 per cent of the population at large, whereas laughing at the overturning of & buckedrof whitevwsh on a hapless in- CLERKS TO EXTEND UNION. Federation Drive to Have as Goal Doubling Membership. Plans for a drive to double the mem- bership of the National Federation of Federal Employes will be mapped out tomorrow with the beginning of the Winter session of its executive council. ‘The council also will formulate plans M. N. for an appeal to Government workers to avail themselves of the advantages of collective appeal to Congress and the administrative agencies of the Govern- Keep Insecticides i Off Pantry Shelves, Housewives Warned If juvenile Johnny gets a pain in the region of the stomach because he reached up on a pantry shelf and ate from a package of insecticide which he thought was sugar or some other edible, it is the fault of the house- wife, according to the Depart- ment of Agriculture, which yes- terday warned against keeping insecticides where children can get at them. The warning was an aftermath of the poison fruit cake and turkey dressing inci- dent of the Christmas season. “A package of poison on a pan- try shelf is as dangerous as a loaded gun,” Dr. P. D. Dunbar, assistant chief of the food divi- sion, said. “Some one comes along who doesn't know that the package contains poison or that the gun is loaded and the result is injury or even death.” Dr.. Dunbar, who supervised the successful search for nine poisoned Christmas fruit cakes, which had been sold to the holi- day trade by a Virginia house- wife, pointed out that the poison had been purchased as an in- secticide several years before and rested for. alleged possession of 130 1quarts of whisky and on a charge of | maintaining a nuisance. Those besides | Sergt Letterman who were on the raids | were Detectives R. J. Cox, G. C. | Carron and J. A. Mostyn. TRAFFIC FORFEIT | SYSTEM IS SUCCESS i | Enormons Saving in Clerical Labor Reported by Police Court Attorney. Complete _success of Washington's present traffic collateral forfeiture sys- tem was reported to Corporation Coun- sel Willlam W. Bride yesterday by Ed- ward W. Thomas, his assistant in Po- lice Court. The present system was adopted last May. It allows those charged with violations of certain minor traffic reg- ulations to deposit specified sums of collateral at the various police precincts and to take an election as to whether they want to go to court or not. If the violators elect not to go to court the officer in the case is automatically ex- cused from attending court to testify. Since the new system went into ef- { fect there have been 36,382 such for- feitures and only 36 information papers for trial by the Traffic Court have been made out. The consequent saving in clerical labor at court has been enor- mous, Mr. Thomas reported. PSR b |POWER HEAD IS RETIRED | AFTER 15 YEARS’ SERVICE M. N. Lyon, Manager of Loudoun Light Co., Is Succeeded by R. B. Brown. Special Dispatch to The Star. 4 January 4.— ellville, for 15 years er of the Loudoun Light & Pow- ., has retired from the manage- ment of the company, and R. B. Brown, who has been an employe for a num- ber of years, succeeds him. The company was organized in 1912 by M. N. Lyon and E. A. Cockey, and in 1914 Mr. Lyon took over the entire management of the company. covers 800 square miles, mostly in Lou- doun County. with small territories in Fauquier and Clarke Counties. In June, 1929, the Potomac Edison Co. acquired the Loudoun Light 2« Power Co., but tHe latter still retamnc== its original name. Mr. Lyon will con- tinue as a director of the company, and also will manage his large estate on Black Oak. Two other glirectors in this county are D. C. Sands'of Middle- burg and H. C. Rogers of Hamilton. SUDDEN ILLNESS FATAL. Mrs. D. J. Downey of Clarendon Is Stricken in Store Here. Taken suddenly ill while in a five- and-ten-cent store in the 400 block of Seventh street yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Dennis J. Downey, 66 years old, of Clar- endon, Va., died en route to Emergency Hospital. Dr. Myers Buried at Martinsburg. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., January & (Special) —The body of Dr. S. N. Myers, for 50 years a practicing phy- siclan here; for 25 years head of a local bank and active in business circles, was brought here Friday from the home of his daughter, Mrs. R, 8. Hunter. Balti~ had not been safely put away after use. more, where he died suddenly Wedn day, and buried here with a Mason! Grand Lodge service.