Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1930, Page 17

@he Toening Staf STREET PAVENENT ASSESSENT PLAN CHANGE PROPLSE Method of Fixing Costs for! Replacing Developers’ IThree Claims Bills The bill to regulate the sale, posses- sion and use of firearms and other dan- gerous weapons in the District of Co- lumbia was ordered favorably reported BILL RESTRICTING FIREARMS ORDERED FAVORABLY REPORTED With Commissioners, House Group Decides. WASHINGTON, D. C., to Have Hearings in the District, was indefinitely post- ned. po“lh 'was decided that separate hear- ings shall be held on three pending Work Considered. PRESENT BORLAND LAW REGARDED INEQUITABLE “Whole-Cost” System Now in Use Would Be Altered by Contem- plated Amendment. Purther relief from some of the inequities of the present assessments for street improvements under the Bor- land law are being planned by the committee which is drafting an amendment for the District Commis- sioners, it was announced today. ‘The new development is relative to street pavements laid by suburban de- velopers under the “whole cost” sys-| tem. When a new territory is being opened up by a real estate developer it 1s frequently the practice for the developer to pave the streets dedicated in the section and pay for them him- self. Naturally the price of the street is fi into the cost of the houses sold. When this street comes to be repaved, however, it is now the prac- tice to T this as a new paving, as tar as the District is concerned, and to assess the abutting property owners for it as such under the Borland law. ‘Ome of the amendments being drafted by the committee, which has been ap- proved in principal by the Commission- ers, is to regard such “whole cost” work as having been assessed within the meaning of the law, so as to obviate any further assessments for paving under the Borland law. This would only apply where the developer had paved the street according to District government specifications and under the supervision of the highway department. This and other amendments to the Borland law are being whipped into shape a committee consisting of Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, chief en- gineer of the District; Corporation Counsel William W. Bride and William P. Richards, tax assessor. The Com- mssioners will forward the amend- ments to Congress when they are com- pleted with a request that they be enacted into law. FALL INTO CHANNEL IS FATAL TO MAN, 67 Watchman, Who Slipped From Plank Into Icy Water. Dies as Result of Exposure. wA fall intowthe ‘lt,s:l::':dm n{‘ct:e ashington Channel, ay night, proved fatal to Joseph Willlam Hardy, 67 years old, of 302 C street, last night, when he died at the Emergency Hos- pital as the result of exposure. Hardy was executing his duties as night watchman on the steamboat wharves at Water and M streets south- west. when he slipped from a plank running from a wharf to the Steamer es . He swam to a wharf pile, where he clung for 30 minutes be- fore police of the.nearby harbor pre- cinet heard his shouts and pulled him from the river. then removed Hardy to the Emergency Hospital. HEART DISEASE LEADS DEATH CAUSES IN CITY Nephritis Also at Top of List for | 1028 and 1920—Suicide and Alcoholism Decline. Organic heart disease and nephritis | led the list of causes of deaths in the District both in 1929 and in 1928, ac- cording to an analysis released today by the District Health Department. In 1928, cancer stood in third place among the list of causes of deaths, but | in 1929 it dropped to fourth.. Third | place in 1929 was taken by lobar pneu- monia, which stood in fifth place in 1928. Pulmonary tuberculosis dropped from fourth place in 1928 to sixth place in 1929. 9 Automobile fatalities rose from twelfth place in 1928 to ninth place in | 1929, and influenza from thirteenth place to twelfth. Homicide was in the fifteenth place in each year and suicide | declined from tenth to eleventh. = Alco- holism also showed a decline from twenty-first to twenty-third place. F. S. CAWSON RITES HELD. Conducted Ryland Methodist Church. Puneral services for Fred S. Cawson 71 years cid, who died at his home, 1014 Massachusetts avenue northeast, Sun- | day, were conducted in the Ryland Methodist Episcopal Church this after- noon. Interment was in Glenwood Cemetery. Mr. Cawson was a veteran employe of the Government Printing Office and previously at various times had been employed as mechanical superintendent for several local newspapers. He had Services in Jong been active in the Masonic fra- | ternity. plaintiffs. Attorney Gardiner for the plaintiff last ford for Cafritz, who had been named as co-defendant with Henry and the Smith Company to prevent him paying over any money to Henry under his guaranty of the bond issue. that time reported that he had re- signed from the presidency of the chief engineer of the New York Statc | today by the fudiclary subcommitice of | measures which are highly controver: the House District ~committee, with | sial. Representative McLeod of Michigan| One of these is the lan-shMikl law, presiding. Other members of the sub- (limiting the interest rate on small loans, commitiee are Representatives Lampert, | which will be given a hearing week after Wisconsin; Bowman, West, Virginia; | next. Another bill to change the nTn Whitehead, Virginia;' Hall, Mississippi, |on the amount of money that an in- and Patman, Texas. | jured person can sue for because of Three claiis bills were set for a hear- | personal injuries, The third bill pro- ing next Tuesday with the District | poses amendment of the District cfllh& Commissioners, the corporation coun- | A subcommitice on rules adopted the sel's office and the clainiants invited | same rules governing the meetings of to be present. ilh! House District committee as were ‘The bill to abolish capital punishment ' used in the last Congress. SVITH C0. LOSES |AUTO OWNERS HAVE LEGAL SKIRMISH 3 DAYS 0 BUY TAGS Wheat Denies Move to Dis-| Those Who Have Failed to miss Jones’ Suit—Cafritz Apply Estimated at - Made Apartment Receiver. 13,000. Two phases of the litigation aganist | the F. H. Smith Co. were disposed of | today in the District Supreme Court. Justice Stafford appointed Morris Ca- fritz receiver of the Corcoran Courts Apartment, 401 23d street, in a_suit brought by Attorney W. Gynn Gard- iner in behalf of Nancy De Land of Bethesda, Md. to have Samuel J. Henry, former president of the Smith company, removed as trustee under a deed of trust covering & bond issue of $700,000. Justice Wheat denied a motion of the Smith company to dismiss a suit instituted by Lucy I. Jones, Lilly M. Jones and Chapman W. Maupin to compel the Smith company to hold them harmless from any loss in con- nection with bonds of the New Am- sterdam Apartments held by the Three days remain after today in! which 1930 automobile tags may be pure chased, and it is estimated that about 13,000 automobile owners have not yet applied for their tags. Up to the close of business yestepday, according 'tb Wade H. Coombs, superintendent of licenses, 83,479 tags had been sold, of which 2,333 were sold yesterday. " Motorists who display 1929 tags after midnight Friday will be subject to ar- rest for driving with dead tags. In order to purchase a tag before this time they must present themselves at the District Building before 4 o'clock Fri- day afternoon. They must be prepared to pay the $1 fee for the tags plus a half year's personal property tax on the car. The average of such taxes as- sessed up to date is $2.21, making the average bill $3.21. The minimum half year's tax is 50 cents, no matter how ancient and commercially valueless the car may be. The tax is calculated at the rate of 85 cents per $100 valuation of the car. Those who have bought new cars since January 1 are not required to pay any tax on the cars until next year. BOY STRUCK BY AUTO WHILE SLED COASTING James Tradey Receives Arm In- jury—Others Treated After Falls and Trafic Mishaps. James Tradey, 10 years old, of 400 Twelfth street southwest received an injury to his right arm yesterday after- noon when an automobile, said 10 have been driven by Ernest R. Bacon of 413 Ninth street southwest, struck the youngster while he was sled coasting near his home. Miss Opile Madigan, 24 years old, of 2510 Q street was treated at Emergency Hospital for injuries she received in a fall upon an icy sidewalk. William H. Broze, colored, 60 years old, 142 Randolph 'place, was 'given | treatment for a similar accident. An automobile said to have been | driven by Schuyler H. Breford of 2363 | | Eighth street last night struck Georgia | Jacobs, colored, of 1632 Sixth street, at Florida avenue and V street. She was treatzd at Preedmen’s Hospital for back and leg injuries. MRS. DOROTHY E. TAYLOR ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE Claims She Surprised Husband in Act of Entertaining Woman in Apartment. Claiming that she surprised her hus- | band last Thursday in the act of en- tertaining another woman_ in _their apartment, Mrs. Dorothy E. Taylor, | 1401 _Colymbia road, today petitioned | the District Supreme Court to award her an absolute divorce from Robert | Taylor, said to be an employe of the Natfonal Museum. Mrs. Taylor, represented by Attorneys Raymond Neudecker and William C. Ashford, alleged that she had planned a trip to Baltimore to visit her moth- er's grave on the day when the sur- prise visit was discovered, and that she was compelled to get the janitor of the | apartment house to force the doors be- | fore she could re-enter her apartment. | There she found, it is averred, 8 woman hiding in a closet. She states she tried hard to find out the name of the other oman, but without success. The Taylors were married here on October 27, 1928, and have no children, The wife seeks to have the court award her alimony and an absolute divorce. | Cruelty and excessive drinking are also laid to the husband by Mrs. Taylor. In reference to the latter suit, Jus- tice Wheat said: “While the prayers of this bill go beyond what the court in any event probably would give, I am unable to say as against a motion to dismiss that the plaintiffs have not succeeded in stating facts, which if proved would entitle them to some form of relief in.equity within the limits of the pray- ers. The motion to dismiss, therefore, must be denied.” Justice Stafford heard arguments of Friday and Attorney Roger J. White- Henry at Smith company. The court first fixed the bond of Cafritz as a receiver at $75,000, but when Attorney Whiteford explained that his client had already paid out $100,000 under his guaranty the court reduced the bond to $60,000. Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert, R. H. Yeatman and George D. Horning, jr., | “me.nd for the Smith Company in both cases. MOTOR CYCLE IS SEIZED AS RUM SELLER’S CARRIER Half-Pint of Liquor Is Found in Side Car of Machine Abandoned on S Street. | A bootleggers' feud is believed by po- lice of the third precinct to have caused some one to send them a mysterious tip which led to the finding of an aban- doned liquor-running motor cycle last night. A telephone eall sent Policeman A. E. Brown into action, and hurrying to a | point on S street between New Hamp- | shire avenue and Eighteenth street he | found the motor cycle parked, and 1 | further _investigation , revealed a half pint of liquor in the side car. Brown requested a neighbor to tele- phone for the precinct patrol wagon to tow the motor cycle away, Wwhile he stood guard over the machine. At the third precinct police said they believed that the motor cycle was one used in a new and speedy system of delivering whisky and that the half pint was the remaining bit of a cargo stored in the | side car and delivered last night. | Police are endeavoring to trace the | owner of the motor cycle through the | license plates. COL. WILLIAM M. ACHESON WILL BE BURIED HERE The body of Col. Willlam M. Acheson, iy Department of Public Works and widely X 1 Army circies fuere, Who died| ENTERTAINMENT IS SET. Saturday at Albany, will be brought | &) to Washington for burial tomorrow at | 10 o'clock in Arlington National Ceme- When_the United States entered the World War, Col. Acheson became a| The annual entertainment of the So- member of the Corps of Engineers, serv- | ciety of Mayflower Descendants in the ing first as a captain and then being | District of Columbia will be held Tues- promoted to major. day night, February 18, at 8 o'clock, in Col. Acheson was cited by Gen. |the Lafayette Hotel. Miss Mary Woléott Pershing and by Maj. Gen. Langfitt, | Durham is chairman of the entertain- chief of Engineers. He entered public | ment committee, assisted by Thomas F. service in New York shortly after the | Whittelsey, Carter B. Keene, Mrs. Annie close of the war. Lucile Emiey and Mrs. Winifred Freiot. Society of Mayflower Descendants | Meets February 18. MRS. POMEROY BURIED. Services Are Held at First Con- gregational Church. Funeral services for Mrs. Fanny Gudgin Pomeroy, 83 years old, who died Saturday, were held this sfternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Congregational Church. Burial was in the Arlington National Cemetery. Besides a brother, Richard Gudgin, she is survived by a son, Noah W. Pomeroy, and two daughters, Mrs. Jen- nie . Pomeroy White and Mrs. May Pomeroy Gibbon. Mrs. Pomeroy resided at 9 Franklin street northeast. o AL, ‘Women Without Countries. LONDON, January 28 (#).—British women who marry Americans have no country. So far as Great Britain is concerned they are aliens. To become Americans they must be naturalized, Foreign Secretary Henderson elucidated when questioned in the House of Com- mons. There have been no indications of perturbation because of bachelors smong the American delegation to the $700 REGARDED AS BLESSING “BLESSED” AWAY BY GYPSY Colored Woman Discovers Newspapers Instead of Money Sewed Into Pillowcase. Up until yesterday Mary McGhee, | went on the gypsy. S | ‘good luck’ money.” colored, didn’t know how much it cost Mary listened, weakened, and then to get a stranger to bless $700 in cur- | complied. She produced the $700, rency. .| whereupon the visitor sewed it securely Up until day before yesterday Mary into a pillowcase, after a mystic impre+ supposed the $700 was a blessing in cation, itself. At least, Mary thought the gypsy sewed it info the pillowcase. The woman At about that time, however, a gypsy woman called at Mary’s house, in the “What you need is i | the forestry division of ‘the Department TU CARNIVAL SPIRIT RULES BAL BOHEME; THOUSAND ATTEND Vice President Curtis and Party Among Guests at Arts Club Affair. PRIZES ARE AWARDED : FOR BEST COSTUMES| | Annual Function Proves Brilliant Event, With Music, Dances and Other Features. More than 1,000 guests thronged the ball rooms at the Willard Hotel last night for the Bal Boheme of the Wash- ington Arts Club, arriving even before the opening hour of 10 and dancing and dining until 3 o'clock this morn- ing. Seldom in the Capital has_there | been such a magnificent array of bril- | and other features as the great ball of the Americas presented. The entrance through a jungle of green and gay lights led to the large ball room, where there burst upon the vision age-old subjects, beginning with the ancient Mayan temple and pro- ceeding down the ball room where near the end was .Hollywood, showing the picturesque in the motion picture age. Strangely enough, the vision of a young German artist, Hugo Inden, gave birth to the idea of decoration, while Anne Fuller Abbott and her pupils, without outside ald, carried the ideas to_success, The usual formality of a receiving line was dispensed with, so that the scene was in carnival spirit from the very door of the ball rooms through the | various supper rooms, where guests | were treated to the novelty of a sump- tuous ball supper served at small tables. | Vice President Arrives. The Vice President, Mr. Curtis, ar- rived early, accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, and his daughter, Mrs. Charles P. George, their entrance and departure being accompa- nied by the usual formality of an escort of members of the floor committee. The pageant had a genuine American snap to it, and, starting with the first scene of the Adventurers, the entrance of the well drilled floor committee, led by the Great Manitou, James Otis Por- ter, and followed by the Mayan Devil Dancers, held the vast audience en- thralled until the rakish bull fight sent the side lines scurrying out of danger, and not until the travesty of Chicago's greatest enterprise trotted out of the ball room was there real safety felt. In other words, La Corrida, with men from of Agriculture in the working parts of the animal, made a decided hit. The entrance of the Mayan Devil dancers from the McKinley dancers was a thing of beauty. "The climax of the masque, “The Adventurers,” was most beautiful, . The northwestern mounted police had dragged in on a big sled, the huge block of ice, in which were imprisoned a group of frost maidens—McKinley dancers. Flaming Youth (Orme Libbey), wear- ing his cloak of folly, had melted the ice with his flaming torch, and the huge ice block disappeared, and the gn;st Maidens were,released from cap- vity. Tiny Airship Makes Appearance. ‘They danced together, Flaming Youth believing that here was his great adventure, when suddenly the sound of an airship was heard, the lights blacked out, and across the ceiling in the air traveled a tiny ship, making its way to the huge ice bergs of the frozen north, at the south end of the room. Suddenly the lights came on and revealed the “ship of the skies,” depicted by Caroline McKinley in cloudy lights, flying high above the other’ adventurers grouped around. Miss McKinley wore a silver robe, fashioned like a big airship, with wide silver wings. As Miss McKinley danced on her high pedestal, Harold Snyder, to whom is due the lighting effects for the ball, cast over her a succession of vari- colored lights, and then the youthful) adventurer reached up his arms, and received the ship of the skies, and to- gether they came down to earth and led all the adventurers of the past in a great processional. Judging Costumes Difficult. ‘The judges, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy and Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. TucKerman, had great diffi- culty, the costumes were so varled and beautiful. The final awards went to Miss Mary Scaife and Archibald Det- weiler. Miss Scaife wore a long skirt with a white background and many figures, wide brass bracelets above the Ibows, many beads about her neck and brass breastplates. Mrs. H. M. Slater won second prize, that for the most original costume. She had a complete outfit of a burgher maid, the skirt of heavy material with large flowers woven and the fitted bodice being almost entirely hidden, with the deep shawl-like bertha of black lace over green, matching the material of the gown. ‘The third prize for the most effective was given to Miss Gene Beardsley and Russell Brobst, who called themselves a country couple. Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, who ap- peared in the pageant as the Pioncer Mother, was awarded the fourth prize for the most effective costume. A striking couple at the ball were Representative Carl R. Chindblom and Mrs. Chindblom, who impersonated an Indian chief and his squaw. Their young daughter wore an authentic Norwegian peasant costume. In Colonial Costume. Miss Margo Couzens, daughter of Senator and Mrs. James Couz:ns, wore an exquisite colonial costume of shell- pink satin. Miss Sybil Baker was in a quaint street costume of an early American period. A striking Russian Cossack costume was worn by Oliver Owen Kuhn. Mrs. Kuhn was a Spanish dancer in a gown of red satin with black lace flounces, a cream-color shawl with gay flowers worn Spanish style. Her lace mantilla was worn high over a shell comb and a red rose was in her hair. Mme. von Lewinski wore a gown of cream-color taffeta trimmed with old lace. Mrs. Mark Reld Yates was a lady of Spain, wearing a black taffeta gown, a hlack lace mantilla and black lace mits. Miss Hazel Grant Edgar im- personated “Peck’s Bad Boy,” wearing a gray flannel sult with a Norfolk jacket. had left instructions not to open the pillow until yesterday, and Mary car- 2700 block of Eleventh street. “Your money may bring you mis- ried them out. Yesterday she told her story to po- fortune,” began the visitor, “unless I |lice of No. 10 precinct. bless it for you.” When she went to look at her Mary, being one of the few unac- | “blessed” money. she sald, it had quainted with the ancient custom, | turned Into a rc'i of newspapers thought of thé hidden $700 and grew uneasy. Mary said troy were old newspapers. “You may be robbed or mupdered,” | tricig The police t~1 Mary #t wes an old Mrs. M. de Clare Berry was a “bride of old England in' the seventeenth century.” Miss Virginia Hunt imper- sonated a “lady of the Dutch court of the seventeenth century.” The costume was of heavy black brocade, Dr. Franklin Adams, counselor of the Pan-American Union, wore the or- nate costume of © a M liancy in color, detail of program, music | ; ESDAY. JANUARY 28, . Upper left: Miss Mary Scaife and Archibald Detweiler, who won the prize for the most beautifully dressed couple at the Bal Boheme last night. Upper right: Mrs. H. M. Siater, awarded the prize for the most original costume. Lower right: Miss Gene Beardsley and Russell Brobst, the most amusing couple. —Harris-Ewing Photos. | Mrs. Adams wore the dress of a Span- ish lady. Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberley wore a| costume _representing “the © Golden West.” It was a gold metal cloth | Tobe with a gold headdress. Mr. | Charles Binns Tebbs portrayed a “Caliph of Bagdad.” "Mrs, Tebbs' costume was of red taffeta. Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman was in a Colonial costume of flowered silk, trimmed with cream lace. Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy wore a conventional evening gown of blue taffeta and a white wig and carried an old-fashioned beuquet of roses. Mr. Tuckerman wore a long black robe and a wig, curled characteristic of the justices of other years, and Mr. Christy was a justice of a more modern period. Maj. and Mrs. Goring Bliss were an attractive coupie, Mrs. Bliss in a hand- some white .Spanish costume and the former in the uniform of a West Point cadet. Miss Elizabeth Milliken was a charm- ing figure as St. Rose of Lima. Dr, and Mrs. Harry Preston Gibson of Lees- rurg were a Spanish cavaller and his ady. Mr. and Mrs. Elmon A. Miller were a colonial couple. Mrs. Marjorie M. Hartford was a Spanish girl in a col- orful costume of black and red and a | black lace mantilla. Beverley H. Harris was Prince Kam- aralzman in a costume. of gray and silver metal cloth. Miss Louise Worden was in a crino- line costume of colonial days. Miss Vera Bloom was in black taffeta. John F. Kelly was in black and yel- low Spanish costume and Miss Mary Vaccaro was a Span! lady in black and red brocade with a lace mantilla. Robert D. Pearson was a Mexican gentleman, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bryant wore ef- fective costumes, Mrs. Bryant in a cos- tume of an Itlaian artist, and Mrs. Bry- ant in a Spanish costume. Dr. and Mrs. Willam G. Woodford Jore modernistic costumes in many ues. o Mrs. S. B. Milton was in a pirate cos- tume and her sister, Mrs. Milton S. Fronheiser, was a Flemish maiden. Other Costumes of Beauty. Mrs. Stokes-Halkett wore a black- trimmed costume with heavy silk net, over which she wore a black shawl. Mr. Clifford K. Berryman represented the spirit of Christopher CBlumbus. Mrs. Fulton Lewis wore an authentic Egyptian costume, brought last year from Egypt. Fulton Lewis, jr., was the Dutch bridegroom to the lovely Dutch girl, Miss Alice Huston. Mrs, Frederic E. Farrington wore one of the fashionable beach suits from the Lido, Venice. Miss Scudder represented Martha Washington. Mr. Farrington was an impressive figure dressed as Napolean III. Mrs. Warren Akers wore a colonial gown. Mrs, Will, Barnes was another Martha Washington. Mr. Barnes, who was in the pageant, was “Old Scout Buckskin.” Miss Mary B. Adams was in red and white. Her costume was colonial. Mrs. Gllbert Grosvenor was also a colonial lady. Miss Alys Downing wore one of the striking costumes, representing a Duteh girl. Col. Otto Johnson, repre- sented a North American Indian chief. Mrs. Townley .represented a lady of Southern California of the period of 1840, Mrs. Thomas Nolan was wearing a picturesque gown that had belonged to Mr. Nolan’s grandmother, and her hostess, Mrs. Ferguson, wore the wed- ding dress of Mr. Ferguson's mother. Chairman Occupies Box. ‘The chairman of the ball, Mrs. John Otto Johnson, was there in a box with her husband, Col. Johnson, and had as their guests the pageant judges. Mrs. Fulton Lewls, vice chairman, occupled a box, accompanied by Mr. Lewis, a member of the floor committee. With them were Dr. John Ryan Deve- reux and Mrs. Devereux, Miss Anne Devereux and her guest, Miss Polly MCcElroy of Rochester, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford K. Berryman were also guests. Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor's guests were Dr. and Mrs. John C. Merriam and Dr. and Mrs. Frederic Coville, and Mr. and Mrs. Melville Grosvenor. Senator Capper was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Henry, who also en- tertained Col.'and Mrs. Allen W. Gul- lion and Capt. John M. Weir. Sharing the box with Mr. and Mrs. Henry were Mrs. Warren Akers and Thomas Dex- ter Alden. Mr. and Mrs. Will C. Barnes enter- tained Dr. and Mrs. Louis Ecker, Mrs. "zfllhm Corse and Mrs. Charles Strat- n Miss Mary ‘B. Adams had Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn, Mr. and Mrs, Russell Young and Eben Comins as box guests Mr. and Mrs. Frederic E. Farrington entertained = Representative _Luce of Massachusetts and Miss Anne Scudder of New York. Wit Mrs, Beale R. Howard were | | - |berg and Mr, and Mrs. Herman Gasch. 1930. Mrs. Carlton Kear of Markham, Vn.:‘ Miss Ruth Eleanor Jones and Mrs. Howard’s daughter, Mrs. Manning; Harry K. Hickey, James Pettitt, Wil- liam Richey, Mrs. J. Harry McDowell and Paul McGahan. Mrs. Wailes Hostess. Mrs. J. T. Wailes was hostess to Miss Caroline Johnson and Thomas Wailes. Comdr. and Mis. Albert W. Stahle | had guests with them in their box, as| did Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose. Mrs. George W. Johnston was hostess to Dr. and Mrs. Lewis C. Ecker and Miss Friska Kaspar. Mrs. John Crayke Simpson was hostess In her box to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs, Victor Alfaro and Miss Mary McCauley. Mrs. William Wheatley had with her Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taylor Wheatley, Miss Katharine Dougal, Miss Margaret Herr of Philadelphia, Mrs. Holland Reavis of Paris and New York, H. Le- Roy Lewis, H. L. E. Johnson and Clarke Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Staley had as guests Representative and Mrs. Albert H. Johnson, Representative and Mrs. Carl Chindbloom, Judge and Mrs. Oscar C. Bland and Miss Hellen Bland. Mr. and Mrs. G. A, Lyon had with them Mrs. William F. Cush, Miss Cath- erine Davis and Rowland Lyon. Mr. and Mrs. Dalls McGrew were guests'of Lynch Luquer, who also enter- tained Miss Virginia Hunt, Miss Alys Downing, Miss Louise King, David E. Finley and Arthur Pickering. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Proctor had a box party which Included Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Morris, Daniel W. Knowlton and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wright. Guests From Paris Attend. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Ferguson enter- tained two guests from Paris, Mile. Dolonglee and Mile. Follalais. Their other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas | D. Nolan, Willlam Plerce and E. P. Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Droop's ‘guests were Representative and Mrs. Fred Pur- nell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Le Fevre and Comdr. and Mrs. Arthur Stott. Representative and Mrs. John W. Summers occupled a box with friends. Miss Anne Abbott had 10 guests. Among them were Mrs. J. S. Abbott, Mrs. Grace Minnick, Miss Eleanor Eck- hardt, Miss Marguerite Neale, Miss Elizabeth Hammond, Ray Schindler, Hal Cummings, Hugo Inden and Ken oyt. Mr. and Mrs. Christian Heurich had with them Mr. and Mrs. William Roden- | Mrs. J. T. Oliphant had with her a group which included Mrs. E. L. Huff- man and Mrs. Andrew Calhoun of At- lanta, Ga. Club Members Together. A group of Arts Club members shared a large box, in the cflmg;:ly being Miss Aline_Solomons, Miss ily R. Jones, Mrs. Edwin Etz and L. M. Leisenring. Mrs. Willilam PFitch Kelly entertained Miss Martha McClure, national com- mitteewoman, and sharing the box with them was Mrs. Mason Gray and a guest. Senator and Mrs. Willlam E. Borah were to have been there as guests of Alden Freeman, a_visitor to Washing- ton from Santa Barbara, Calif., and Miami Beach, Fla. His guests included Miss Toussaint Dubois, Miss Elizabeth Dubois, Mrs. Richard Lansing Taylor, Miss Careau Turner, Miss Katherine Lizaire, 4 mall, Lieut. Jackson Turner and Wil- liam King Olive. Mrs. Randolph Keith Forrest had as guests in her box Mrs. William Sturte- vant Moore and Miss Alice Munsey and Miss Katherine Scribner, both of New Bedford, Mass. $50 WORTH OF CHARITY RETURNED BY ‘COME-BACK’ Man Re-establishes Business After Getting Associated Chari- ties Loan. A $50 bill was returned: unexpectedly to the Associated Charities today, furn- ishing proof that charity is a good in- vestment. The money was given by a man who ; had received aid to that amount of cash about 18 months ago from the society. At the time he had lost all his means through the duplicity of a partner. He was sure that if the agency would provide his transportation to a State in the West, where he had friends, he would be able to re-establish his busi- ness. Today, after a lapse of a year and a half, he walked into the office of the Associated Charities to discharge what he regarded as an obligation. He has made good. ‘The man's name cannot be divulged, owing to the confidential relations maintained by the welfare organization and its clients. W. G. NEUMEYER RITES HELD AT HOME TODAY Served as Vice President of Motor Company He Helped Father and Brother Organize. Funeral services for William= G. Neumeyer, 43 years old, vice president of the Neumeyer Motor Co. who died Sunday at his residence, 3508 Thirty- fifth street, after a long iliness, were held this morning at 9:30 o’clock from the residence, followed, by requiem mass at St. Ann's Cathollc’ Church. Inter- ment ‘was in Congressional Cemetery. Mr. Neumeyer had organized the Neumeyer Motor Co. with his father, the late Maj. Edwin H. Neumeyer, and his brother, Edwin H. Neumeyer, presi= dent of the company. Besides his brother, he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Conlon Neumeyer; a 4-year-old daughter, Mary Virginia, and two sisters, Elizabeth and Ada Estelle Neumeyer. NO POOL SKATING TONIGHT Water on Ice at Lincoln Memorial Causes Ban. Skating on the reflecting ppol of the Lincoln Memorial was banned today by United States park police. The water on the ice, public parks officials, ex- plained, made it inadvisable. Officlals said thousands of persons have enjoyed skating on the reflecting pool during the last few days, and as much as 5 inches of ice have been reg- istered there. " I PAGE B—1 IGRAND JURY NAMES FIVE SECOND TIME IN BLACKMAIL CASE Three Men and Two Women Accused of Conspiracy Against Calhouns. FIRST FORMAL CHARGE VOIDED BY PENSIONER Investigating Body Also Finds True Bills in Murder and Liquor Cases. A new indictment charging a con- spiracy to blackmail Mrs. Cornelia D, B. Calhoun and her husband, Capt. Charles C. Calhoun, socially prominent officers of the Woman's Universal Al- llance, was reported today by the grand jury against W. Clark Noble, well known sculptor; his wife, Emilie B, No- ble, Anna M. Hillenbrand, a nurs Stephen A. Armstrong and James F. Bird. The accused were arrested last August and have been at liberty on bail, except Anna M. Hillenbrand, the nurse, who has been held in jail in default of a bond of $5,000. Armstrong filed a plea in abatement ;galnst t'he ;lg indictment that had en returned by the July grand 3 which included among its &mber‘!“l:l’;) a woman who was receiving a pension from the United States Government as the widow of a naval officer. United States Attorney Rover resubmitted the case to the January grand jury, which returned the new indictment. A torn -agreement which had been signed by the Nobles figured in the presentation of the case to the grand Jury, under the terms of which the five persons accused are said to have agreed in consideration of $30,000 not to form a rival organization to the Woman's Alliance and to refrain from publishing derogatory statements against the alli- ance and the Calhouns. Takes Habeas Corpus. Anna M. Hillenbrand, the nurse named in the conspiracy indictment, late yesterday afternoon obtained from Justice Stafford a writ of hal directed to Col. W. L. Peak, superin- tendent of the jail, to show cause to- morrow why he should not be required to release her. The petition was filed through Myrtle Montis, as next friend, and in it the court was told that the woman had- been detained since last August and asserted she did not know under what authority. United States Commissioner Turnage had set the bond of the nurse at $5,000 when she, with others accused, had been arraigned be- fore him last August. Murder in the first degree is charged in an _indictment rted against Isalah Potter, colored, in :connection with the death of Stanley T. Willlams, :‘llao“cl;flnrakbeleemm 10-last. The 0oting place at ises Ninth street. e i Eighteen persons are accused of vio- lations of the Jones-Stalker rohibition law in indictments reporte today to Justice Peyton Gordon and similar charges against James J. Cody and Nettie Wilson were ignored. Those accused are: €ecil ~ Johnson, De- lores B. Hoffman, Paul Smith, Jannie Gore, Nannie Berry, Medio Mannazzo, Hyman Levin, Marie Tapscott, John W. Sweeney, Ollie P. Briggs, Flossie V. Cody,” George Butler, George Carter, %o;n Byrd, !ll]nrll:y Hargrove, James wn, Maxwel Mitchell ang - mond Davis. i Accused Exonerated. George E. C. Hayes, colored, was ex- onerated by the grand jury on'a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Henry W. Moncure, who was struck by an automobile driven by the ;oc\:;ge t.:prllAll, "";'L.“ Eleventh and 3 manslaughter cha against Ann Clark, a white pu.ler'z‘x: at St. Elizabeth’'s Hospital, was also ignored. She was said to have caused the death of Augusta Wittman, another patient, July 20. The E{lnd Jurors also refused to indict Willlam F. charged with grand larceny; Reo, larceny after trust, and Bailey Lane, housebreaking and larceny. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Edward H. Clemons, Leonardi Gaetano, Charles R. Stebbins and Arthur M. Fones, non- support; Edward Green, Irving Parker, Russell L. Dodson, Kermit R. Croxton, grand larceny; George E. R. Shafer, joy- riding and robbery; Frank C. Smith, George J. H. Kidwell, James T. Kid- well, William R. Fox, Walter E. Pea- cock and John L. McDonough, house- breaking and larceny; Samuel McDan- iels, Frederick Hall, Vincent Reigle, as- sault with dangerous weapon:; Edwin A. Neville, alias Albert B. Carson, perjury. and Willlam B. Ross, violating " the Harrison anti-narcotic law. FROM COASTING INJURIES Clarence Lee Kelly Murphy Hurt ‘When His Sled Ran Into Path of Truck. SANDY SPRING, Md., January 28.— Clarence Lee Kelly Murphy, 11 years old, died at the Montgomery County General Hospital here today as a result of injuries received Friday near his home at Spencerville, Md. The boy was Injured when hit by a truck on the State Highway. He was coasting on his sled near his home and it ran onto the road in front of the truck, which was driven by Louis B. Craft of Brinklow. Following the report of an Investiga- tion made by Sergt. Guy Jones, in chatge of the northern district substa- tion of the Montgomery County Police, Sfate’s Attorney Robert Peter decided that the death was accidental and that | an inquest would not be necessary. The boy, is .a. son of Arlington. L. and Lyda E. Murphy. CLEAR T0M00RR0W AFTER | RAIN TONIGHT, FORECAST i { ‘Weather Bureau Predicts Drop in Temperature—Dense Envelops City. Washington was enveloped by a dense fog today. making the wet streets unusually treacherous for motorists, Weather Bureau officials re) the fog continued to hang over the city later in the day than customary be- cause of a g:;nl;lnutlfln of - cireum- stances. Almost freezing temperature, wet streets and cloudy skies contributed to_the condition. Forecasters issued the following pre- diction: “Rain tonight, possibly cle: ing anneld-{ morn 1 ter tonight about and Wednesday Weanesday Fog