Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1930, Page 17

Washington News D aQ, TUESDAY, @he Toening Star WASHINGTON, 25, FEBRUARY 1930. PAGE B-—1 CRAND JURY FINDS DREYFUS DEATH I ACCDENTS RESILT Extraordinary Report Made in Case After Investigation Lasting Month. PROSECUTOR LAUDED FOR PROBE CONDUCT Conflicting Testimony Reported Given by Witnesses Before Inquisitorial Body. An accident was responsible for the death of Mrs. Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus, attractive young divorcee, who plunged 20 feet to her death at the Potomac Boat Club the night of October 20 last, A grand jury reported today after spending more than a month investi- gating the case. The extraordinary report submitted to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District Supreme Court follows: “To the Honorable Justices: “We, the members of the grand ju; for the January term, 1930, now in ses- sion, beg leave to report to this honor- able court that we have thoroughly in- vestigated the facts, circumstances and conditions pertaining to the death of one Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus, whose death occurred at the Emergency Hos- pital on October 20, 1929. ‘That the members of this body began their investigation on the- 3rd day of February, 1930, during which time there appeared before us 41 wit- nesses, among whom were the members | of the Pischer family. Complimants Attorney. “That a most careful consideration was made through the questioning of | said witnesses as well as a visit of the grand jury to the scene of the accident which resulted in her death, “That the district attorney’s office left no stone unturned to bring before | LCOTY this body every witness who to its knowledge was familiar with any of the ‘lct';h:t c} ces. “That after full and ecareful de- liberation, we, the members of this body, arrived at the conclusion that the said Aurelia Pischer Dreyfus came to her death on said 20th day of October through accident. “Respectfully submitted for the grand Jury. “LESLIE B. FARMER, “Foreman.” The reference in the grand jury's - report to the district attorney’s office ‘was as a compliment to Neil J. Burkinshaw, assistant United States attorney in charge of the nd jury investigation. = Mr. Burl ‘W made several trips to New York and other cities in search of witnesses. Ordered by Rover. The investigation was ordered some e ago by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, after a series of affidavits had been submitted to him by members of the immediate family of Mrs. Drey- fus. The relatives hinted the young Wwoman had been slain because she “knew too much” about the murder of “Dot” King, New York night-club en- tertainer, several years ago. The affidavits charged Edmund J. Mc- Brien, New York broker, who escorted Mrs. Dreyfus to the boat club the night of the tragedy, had threatened her on | numerous occasions. The relatives also | argued McBrien had beaten and other- | wise abused Mrs. Dreyfus previously. McBrien was exonerated of any con- nection with Mrs. Dreyfus’ death at a coroner’s inquest last Fall, which also resulted in a verdict of accidental death. He explained at that time that he had left Mrs. Dreyfus on the boat house g’rth while he went after his hat and er wraps, only to return and learn she had fallen to the platform below. A young couple on the porch at the time corroborated McBrien's story. Testimony Conflicts. A large amount of conflicting testi- mony is reported to have been offered before the grand jury. Several wit nesses are said to have declared they were positive they had seen finger marks on Mrs. Dréyfus’ neck after she died. Others were equally certain there had been no marks of this character, Inciuded among the witnesses were numerous relatives of Mrs. Dreyfus, sev- eral physicians, an imposing array of | detectives and a group of boat club | employes. Mrs. Dreyfus was the divorced wife ©f Herbert' Dreyfus, millionaire New York financier and clubman. She was widely known for her beauty and charm. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fischer of Kenilworth, D. C. GREENWOOD TO ADDRESS OPTIMIST CLUB GROUP | Indiana Representative Principal Speaker at Luncheon Meeting Tomorrow Afternoon. Representative Arthur Greenwood of Indiana will be the principal speaker at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Optimist Club of Washington at the: Hamilton Hotel tomorrow afternoon, it wos announced today by Herbert B. Nevius, president of the club. Tomorrow’s luncheon will be a re- ception for the heads of the 12 other civic clubs of the Capital, and an ex- panded program has been arranged by the Optimists for the occasion. Rep- resented at the meeting will be the Rotary, Kiwanis, Civitan, Lions, Round Table, ' Thirteen, Exchange, American Business, Monarch, Quota, Sorcptimist and Zonta Clubs, The reception committee in charge of the meeting will Pierce, international vice president of the Optimist Club, chaifman; Hugh Phillips, Fenton Leith, Joseph Burkart, William Clarke, Adrian Waring and Wash B. Williams. CHORAL ASSOCIATION REHEARSAL ANNOUNCED Final Organization of 200 Voices Will Be Completed at Thomson Community Center Tonight. Organization of the Washington Choral Festival Association will be completed at a meeting tonight at Thomson Com- munity Center, Twelfth and L streets, scheduled for 7:45 o'clock. At that time the final enrollments in the choir of 200 volces will be received and a rehearsal will be conducted by Kurt Hetzel in the absence of Prof. Fred- erick Alexander, the regular conductor. The personnel of the choir is being made up under direction of Louls Pot- ter, while Mrs. Gertrude A. Lyons is secretary of the assoclation. After to- night rehearsals will be heid on April 8, April 22 and on May 5. the final practice prior to the choral festival's concert, on May 1, Belasco “Thea g at - SUSPECTED PLAGES | streets. This is the place where Motor | |STRANGER BUYS PAINED TO FIND Confidential Auction Athough the man in the oversize derby never guessed it. he was buying | an automobile which the District had | sold four times previously when he ! stepped from the auction ecrowd at | Twelfth and Water streets southwest | this morning and bid 25 cents for “the covered wagon.” “That,” announced the auctioneer. with & note of relief, “is what I call | a liberal offer. S °!" The man in ..~ derby produced a | quarter and regaraed his purchase with a proprietory gleam in his eye. “My name?” he said. “Oh, it's Henry —Henry Ford.” “Why Henry,” exclaimed the auction- eer, “I mever knew you bought them back." The man in the derby smiled weakly | and kicked at a tire. “Yes, I've got a | car now,” he said 3 | “And I hope vyou keep it,” an attend- | | ant remarked fervently. “I've towed | | ‘the covered wagon’ about till I've worn | it out. Two years ago they sold it ANCIENT CAR; IT WON'T GOFAR eer Tall(s TOO Much as Sale Is Near—Buyer Wearing Funny Hat Disappears and That Is That. over at No. 7, and the man left it on the street the next day. “Yeah. Last year we sold it up at Missouri avenue and Sixth street. Next day we had to go out and tow it in aguin.” } The owner regarded his purchase with a frown. “After that” the attendant said, “we sold it twice here, The last man didn’t aven take it off the dot. Wait a min- ute,” he called after the man in the derby, “where are you goin'?" “Oh, T'll be right back,” the man in the derby said over his shoulder. The attendant watched him go with a sigh. “Anyhow,” he said, “we sold 71 other cars today, and I guess they'll be taken off the lot. They went at a fair price, anywhere from $1 to $65.” The abandoned cars are auctioned by the Police Department after keeping them for six months unclaimed. The sale realized $569.35 for the District. PICKETS CHECKING Police Take Names of Per-| sons Entering House on | St. Causing Complaints. Inaugurating a new policy of picket- | ing places suspected of selling whisky to determine whether a raid is justi- fied, police of the first precinct station are maintaining a vigil at the entrance to a house in the 1300 block of I street in carrying out an order issued by Maj. G. Pratt, superintendent of po lice. Several complaints have been made against the place, according to police, and Maj. Pratt said today that a con- tinuous watch would be kept until evi- dence sufficient to warrant a raid has been obtained or until police are con- vinced the place is operating legally. The police pickets took their place outside the building last night and jot- ted down the names, addresses and occupations of persons entering the house. The information will be turned over to Maj. Pratt and a few may be | hailed into court in an effort to obtain | information to close the place .if it is| operating illegally. A few persons halted by police as they | prepared to walk into the building be- | came timid after being questioned by | the officers and walked away without entering the place, but the majority lnl'ere‘: the questions promptly and ssed in. That some have no intention of being picked up and questioned in court, however, is evidenced by some of the | names given, chief among which were | “Rudy Vallee,” “George Washington,” “Herbert Hoover.” Maj. Pratt declared that he has “is. | sued instructions to have every ques- tionable place in the District watched | and closed if sufficient evidence is ob-l tained.” | “Pickets will be placed at every place suspected by police of selling whisky,” | he added. PARKING REGULATIONS AMENDED BY D.C. HEADS | Commissioners Authorize Changes Affecting C Street Northeast and Q Street Northwest. ‘Two changes in the parking regula- tions were approved by the District Commissioners today. No parking will be allowed at any time on the north side of C street northeast between Fourth and Sixth Cycle Policeman Ross Kaylor was killed | when his motor cycle collided with a street car, and the Traffic Bureau has been studying the layout for some time in an effort to solve the complicated traffic problem there. The abolition of parking in this stretch was recom- mended by the coroner’s jury which in- quired into Kaylor’s death. ‘The other change was to prohibit parking on Q street from Twenty-second to Twenty-fifth streets on the south side from 8 to 9:15 am. and on the north side from 4 to 6 p.m. Q street is now being used as a bus route, and traffic lon this stretch has increased to the | point to make the restriction necessary, according to Traffic Director Willlam H. | Harland. {HUGUENOTS ARE URGED TO HONOR WASHINGTON | | Participation of the combined Hu- | guenot Societies of America in the | Washington birthday celebration in 1932 | was urged last night by Dr. John Baer | Stout at a meeting of the local Huguenot Society. Dr. Stout is historian general | of the national organization and was | the principal speaker at the meeting. | George Washington, he declared, was the descendant of Nicholas Marteau, a | Huguenot, who settled in Yorktown in 1620, and at one time occupied the | | property on which Gen. Cornwallis sur- | rendered. | " "Dr. Florian J. C. Vurpillot, chaiplain of the society, delivered an address on | “Voltaire and the Huguenots” and also {made a strong appeal for sid for the | cal Seminary. ORDERS CHANGE NAVAL OFFIGERS Navy Department Announces Shifts in Stations of High Ranking Personnel. Half a dozen high-ranking naval offi- cers were affected today in shifts in | station made known in naval orders at the department. Capt. Arthur P. Fairfield, who has kept tab on the movements of naval vessels day by day throughout the world from his desk in the office of naval operations at the Navy Depart- ment, will be detached about May 1 and proceed to duty in conjunction with the fitting out of the new 10,000-ton cruiser U. S. S. Chester, Capt. Fair- field will be in command of the U. S. 8. Chester when that vessel is commis- sloned. & Capt. Daniel T. Ghent will go on duty to the 12th Naval District, at San Francisco, while Capt. Burton H. Green will be detached from the Naval War College, at Newport, R. I, and go on duty to the Navy mine depot at York- town, Va.,, as inspector of ordnance in charge. Capt. Martin K. Metcalf will be de- tached from the Naval War College, at Newport, R. I, about Mayj 27 and come on duty in the Bureau of Navigation, at the department. Capt. William H. Bell of the Medical Corps will be detached from the naval hospital at Newport, R. I., and come on duty to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, in the department. Capt. Noel W. Grant of the Supply Corps will go on duty as disbursing of- ficer of the Navy purchasing and dis- bursing office, New York, N. Y. Comdr. Isaac C. Bogart is being de- tached from the Army War College here and will assume duty as a member of the naval examining board in the de- partment. Comdr. Frank J. Fletcher will be de- tached from the Naval War College about May 27, and will come on duty to the Army War College. Comdr. William A. Glassford, who s.rved as aide to President Machado of Cuba when he visited Washington be- fore he assumed office as the chief executive of the island, will be detached as a student of the Naval War College and will become a member of the college staff, about May 27. Comdr. Edwin A. Wolleson will be detached from the Naval War College | about May 27 and take up his post as professor of naval science and tactics at Northwestern University, Evanston, Il rvis ECONOMICS TEACHING VACANCY ADVERTISED Civil An- nounces Competitive Examina- tions for Wide Range of Jobs. ‘The Civil Service Commission an- nounces the following positions may be o’%tllned through competitive examina- tions: ‘Teacher of home economics, senlor high school, $1,860 a year; teacher of home economics, junior high school, $1,680 a year; inspector of weights and measures, $2,600 a year; assistant in- spector of weights and measures, $2,000 a year; three assoclate curators, asso- ciate in anthropology, $3,200 a year; head social worker, $2,100 a year; trained nurse, $168.75 a month; chief artistic lithographer, $2,600 a year; senior ar- tistic lithographer, $2,000 a year; artis- tic lithographer, $1,800 a year; assistant copperplate map engraver, $1,620 a year; inspector of locomotives, $3,800 & year; social worker, $2900 a year; junior social worker, $1,800 a year. Full information may be obtained from the commission. Service Commission THANK D. C. POLICE. Officials Appreciate Service on Washington's Birthday. City Manager Lawrence and Chief of Police Campbell of Alexandria yesterday called on Maj. Henry G. Pratt, chief of the Washington police force, to express their appreciation of the good police work rendered during Alexandria’s cele- bration of George Washington’s birth- day anniversary last Saturday by the Alexandria include Prank | endowment¥und of the Paris Theologi- |70 Washington policemen who volun- teered for duty in the Virginia city. | i It is dangerous business to wave a bottle about in public these days, even if it doesn't contain anything more harmful than kerosene, Jerome Smith, colored, will vouch for this. He was fined $10 for just this very thing. It seems that Smith, a faithful em- ploye of the Georgetown Gas Light Co. for 20 years, is somewhat of & masquerader. Although other employes of the gas firm said they knew the colot man never drinks, yesterday he filled a bottle half.full of red kero- sene and decided to have & little fun with the boys. He lufi‘red around the public util- ities establishment for almost an_hour, but no one noticed him.. Then | TEETOTALER, PLAYING DRUNK, PAYS §10 TO FIND IT IS THE BUNK Genial Worker, Full of Glee, Fools His Mates With Fake Whisky—Also Policeman. decided to venture outside with his antics. Just as he stepped out into Dum- barton avenue a burly policeman grabbed him by the collar and com- pelled him to go to the seventh pre- ecinct. . Chax ‘l’:u kInumusamm lnndfl possession whisky were place: against the ‘show man,” the latter charge being scratched from the books when one of the officers uricorked the liquid, preparatory to sending it to the ‘Treasury Department’s chemist for analysis, Despite Smith's of in- nocence he was Poli Court, where a policeman testified agamst him, and sul of protestations brought - into $10 for being drunk by Ju | Schulde ently fined ' ECONOMIC EXPERTS LAY PLANS TO HELP MOUNTAIN PEOPLE Educators Outline Tentative| Program for Survey to Cost $300,000. REAL SITUATION HELD PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN Type Areas Would Be Studied by State and Federal “Relief” Agenci BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The folk of the Appalachian hollows, | log cabin dwellers of the twentieth cen- | tury, and their more advanced neighbors | soon may be the subjects of an inte sive stygdy, the Department of Agricul ture, tht Bureau of Education, six or seven State colleges and experiment sta- | tons, church boards and research foun- | dations co-operating to solve their so- cial and economic problems. | Plans for this project were advanced | al a meeting here yesterday presided over by Dr. Thomas Cooper, dean of the University of Kentucky, and tentative programs were outlined to cost about $100,000 & year for three years. About half the necessary funds are | It is hoped to have worker: field this Spring, according to Dr. L. C. Gray, chief of the Bureau of Land Economics of the-Department of Agri- culture, Intensive Studies Planned. ‘The plan, as outlined by Dr. Gray, is | to solve the Southern Appalachian | problem, one of the most complicated now before the public, by intensive ag- ricultural, cconomic, educational, social and biological studies of type areas and co-ordinating all these in relief recommendations. The real situation in the approxi- mately 90,000 square miles of the area, Dr. Gray pointed out, is largely un- known. It has only been studied in patches. It is planned to concentrate the studies on about 6,000 square miles of type areas. For this purpose, it is hoped to have airplane surveys of the terrain under way in a few months. The pilots will photograph the forests, extent of cul- tivated land and the location of cabins, houses, schools and churches. Workers then will be sent into the field to deter- mine the point that will repay intensive investigation. This, it is expected, will take up the first year and probably will be the most costly part of the work. The remaining two years will be devoted largely to specific investigations. One-Sided Surveys Cited. In some areas, Dr. Gray said, there have been school surveys that failed to take in underlying economic and social causes. At pretent, he pointed out, one church is surveying the religious situation in a large section of the Southern mountains with the idea of relocating churches and establishing | new ones to meet the needs of the population, but the representative of this church at the conference yesterday said the survey meant little without economic data. ‘The anpflaed study, it was pointed out, will give a more accurate popula- tion estimate, the condition of the| people and where they live. ‘The forestry problem is of extreme importance and must be clearly under- | stood before there can be any real un- | derstanding of the problems of the mountain people. Originally their live- linood depended largely on the forest products, and processes of deforestation are directly related to the social, bio- logical and educational conditions. This affects also the marginal popula- tion of the mountain counties. First Conferred in December. ‘The first conference, at which the present plan was launched, was held at Knoxville in December, and the meet- ing yesterday indicated such encourag- ing progress that no doubt was felt of its success. Two outlines for the work have been | prepared under Dr. Gray's direction by C. F. Clayton of the Bureau of Land Economics. One states the specific problems to be studied in each area, including popula- tion, schools and churches and their locations, local industries, abandoned farms, operated farms, taxation, condi- water power, local markets, public health and opportunities for improve- ment in view of the whole situation. ‘The second outline is of the type areas such as the Blue Ridge, the east- ern Monadnocks and Pledmont Valleys, the Unaka range, which is the north- western member of the Southern Ap- palachian system, and the central mountains groups. Organjzations taking part in con- ference *work included the University | of Kentucky, the John C. Campbeil Folk School of North Carolina, the Home Missions Council, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, United States Office of Experiment Stations, Alabama Polytechnic Institution, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture, the University of Tennessee, Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Geor- gia State College of Agriculture, United States Forest Service, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Vir- ginia Agricultural Experiment Station, the United States Bureau of Education and the Bureau of Home Economics. In order to accomplish much this year, Dr. Gray pointed out, it will be necessary to have airplanes over the region this Spring and every effort is being made to arrange the finances so that this can be done. Several of the organizations which expect to take part have promised to contribute funds and the time of work- ers, which will amount to approximately half the cost. MAN AND WOMAN TO FACE HEARING AS SUSPECTS William A. Lodge and Barbara Lodge Brought From New York on Warrant Charging Forgery. Willlam Arthur Lodge, 41 years old, and Barbara Lodge, 22, both of the 300 block of East Capitol street, are being held by police on technical charges of investigation fol'wing their return to this eity from * w York last night in custody of D ctive B. W. Thompson. They we arrested in a New York hotel SatL .ay on a warrant charging them with forgery after Detectives Thompson and Ira Keck had traced them to that city. It was said approxi- mately $150 is involved on the forgery charge, but no specific charges will: be laced against them untll a complete vestigation has been magde of their case. ‘The woman is being held at the House of Detention while the man Is at No, 5 precinc! ' |for cuts and bruises sustained when | tion of the land, roads, family histories, | 7084 ‘calendars and time tables in an effort TRAFFIG MISHAPS | RESULT FATALLY Two Men and Girl Killed,| While Others Are Treated for Injuries. Victim of an unidentified hit-and- run driver, Ralph Coleman, 48 years | old, of 1815 S street died at Sibley Hospital late yesterday from injuries received Sunday, when a taxicab in| which he was riding was struck nt‘ North Capitol street and Rhode Island | avenue by a machine which falled to | stop. His death was attributed to a frac- | tured skull and shock, but an autopsy | is to be performed today. | Preston Wheeler of the 200 block of | C street, who was driving the taxicab, | told police the colliding car hit his| cab and escaped from the scene so | quickly he did not obtain the license number. Wheeler was unhurt. Injuries sustained in a traffic mishap also proved fatal to another man yes- terday, Robert Creigh, 29, colored, of 419 Maryland avenue southwest dying at Preedman's Hospital from a frac- tured skull and internal injuries. Creigh was hurt in a crash at Laurel, Md, Friday. Four Knocked Down by Cars. Four persons were knocked down by automobiles last night, one of whom, Frank Brook, 41, of 2116 O street, is in a serious condition at Sibley Hospi- tal with lacerations of the scalp and a possible skull fracture. The other three who were hurt escaped with minor injuries. Brook was hit by an automobile operated by Wayman E. Seth, 415 Var- num street, as he attempted to walk | across the street at Ninth and M shortly before 7 o'clock. Albion Tuck, 30, of the Park Lane Apartments was treated at Emergency Hospital for cuts above the right eye received when a machine driven by John R. Grim, 19, of 224 K street, hit him at Pennsylvania avenue and I street. Hiram Ward, 8, of 1720 Eighth street, | and Susie Elliott, 30, of 8 Lenox avenue, Chevy Chase, Md., both colored, were | given treatment at Freedman’s Hospitai | struck by automobiles. Girl Killed in Crash. Miss Irene McKendrie, 16 years old, of 1353 Otis place, was killed instantly and five other young people were seri- ously injured early Yenterdly morning when_their automobile crashed against culvert on the Chesapeake Beach The party was returning from the beach, where they celebrated Miss Mc- Kendrie's birthday, which she was to have observed yesterday, when they en- countered a heavy fog, which is be- lieved responsible for the crash. Those injured were: Miss Edith O'Dwyer, 18 years old, of 1101 Monroe street; Miss Leah Angerman, 17 years old, of 1016 Spring road; Donald Phelps, 19 years old, of Twenty-second and Evarts streets, Langdon; Joseph King, 18 years old, of 712 E street northeast, and Leonard West, 17 years old. King was driving the car. QuicfrTé‘legraphic Reply From Manila Is Puzzle to C. of C. Reply to MessageReceived | at City Club 26 Minutes After It Was Sent. Members of the Washington Chamber of Commerce were nursing headaches today following a baffling experiment in time-juggling performed before them during a demonstration of speed teleg- raphy in the City Club yesterday. ‘The business minds of the trade or- ganization are groping grogglly Wwith to convince themselves of the truth of the ditty: V“When it's 12 o'clock in Washington it's Tuesday over there,” in old Manila. Or, to be explicit, they want to kllowl why it is today in the Philippines when it's_yesterday over here. | These puzzles developed when it was | found that a telegram dispatched at 12:51 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the City Club did not reach Manila until this moring at 2 o'clock, Manila time, although a reply was received from there just 26 minutes after the message was sent. “It'’s as simple as can be,” one en- lightened member explained after the demonstration. “The message was sent today and arrived tomorrow. Tomor- row being today in Manila, the reply was dispatched yesterday, arriving here today, which, of course, is really tomor- row in the islands, Now, if we sent a message tomorrow——" "B'u.lflel:a l.“fi:‘ hbhrt .L'I‘zdl:!“cfr hl: s away for a brea air ang an aspirin, The interior of the Hoover school at Dark Hollow, Va., near the President’s fishing camp, which opened yesterday. rear. Miss Catherine Vest, the teacher, at the Ray Burracker, the mountain boy who interested the President in the school, is sitting in the front seat in foreground. Below: Little Miss Virginia Burracker, sister of Ray, accepts a compact from Miss Virginia Stagg of Washington. —Associated Press Photes. CHARGES AGAINST ELECTRICAL FIRM Papers Filed in 51 Cases for Installing Fixtures With- out Permits. Information papers in 51 cases charg- ing installation of electric fixtures and wiring in prominent local stores, shops and office buildings without District permits were flled today at Police Court against the General Illuminating Co., a New York corporation which has been subletting installation jobs to many local electrical contractors for several months, While Inspector E. B. Fetty, District Electrical Department, said that he had located 300 instances where the de- fending corporation had apparently failed to secure permits, Louis Mamo- riek of New York, president of the firm, was convicted of one charge by Judge Gus A. Schuldt today. The sentence was suspended for two weeks along with the other 50 cases to allow the defendants to prepare a defense at the request of Assistant Corporation Coun- sel Edward Thomas. Fetty said that he discovered that the electrical concern had been failing to secure official installation rights when numerous complaints of defective wiring on the part of the General Illuminating Co.’s agents came into his office. These complaints numbered in the hundreds and. consisted of failing to solder and tape joints in electric light wire and using an unimproved type of wire, Fetty said. Several weeks ago several collectors and salesmen said to have been em- ployed by the firm were arrested by Fetty. They were released when Mamoriek came to this city from New York and had the charges made out against his company and said that he personally would appear as defendant. Mamoriek blames trade rivalry for the charges. He declared that his concern had sublet the installation contracts to local firms and had not done the actual wiring. b The law requires that a defendant shall flly a fine of $25 when convicted of a charge of this nature, Sixty-three shops, office buildings and apartment houses where the Gen- eral Illuminaitng are alleged to have had fixtures installed without permits are located on Fourteetnh street. Twen- ty others are on Pennsylvania avenue, and Assistant Corporation Counsel Thomas said that more than the 51 cases may be made out against the de- fending corporation. Meanwhile Mamo- riek was released on $1,000 bond. TWO SPEAKERS LISTED. World Fellowship Group to Be Host at: Luncheon. 0 Lewis Lorwin of the Institute of Economics and Isha Hari, dean of a normal school at Takio, Japan, will be Speakers at the monthly meeting of the orld Fellowship over a luncheon Thursday, at 12:30 o'clock, in Barker Hall at the Y. W. C. A, r. Lorwin will speak on “The Kyoto Conference,” while Miss Hari will describe the work of her school, The speakers will be in- troduced by Miss Helen Hudson, who will preside. Another feature will be a serles of Japanese tableaux, arranged by Mme. Sotomatsu Kate nd Mrs. FORMER CADETS DEFEND CORPS | Contend People’s Lobby Sec- retary “Unfair and “Biased” in Letter. Aroused over a letter condemning the | Washington High School_Cadet Corps written to Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent of schools, by Benjamin C. Marsh, secretary of the People's Lobby, two former members of the corps today wrote a joint communication to The Star defending the corps. ‘The one-time cadets, Howard = D. Lerch and Robert A. Littleford, col tended Marsh was “unfair and biased. They added the cadet corps “turns boys into men—something that many indi- viduals fail to get out of high school. The Cadet Corps has a record that Mr. Marsh cannot destroy.” Belief was etfirmed by Lerch and Littleford that the “corps is the finest organization in the high schools. It pro- motes sportsmanship and good feeling among the students and between the high schools, It is an incentive to ex- ceptional scholarship of the boys in school. The physical benefits of the cadet corps are extremely valuable o the boy, who also is given training in the leadership of men, which he would not get otherwise. “It is & well recognized fact that the leaders in the cadets are invariably the leaders in the school. To cite an ex- ample we would be forced to call the roll of the cadet corps. The higher (y?e of American youth are those who join the cadet corps, usually of their own free will.” The former cadets took issue with a statement of Marsh that no intelligent educator advocates military training un- less he is “a kept tool.” It was pointed out that similar units are trained in numerous reputable colleges. . RABBI SILVER TO S—PEAK AT COMMUNITY CENTER “Is Judaism Adequate for Modern Man,” Topie Chosen for Ad- dress Tonight. Rabbi -Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland is to speak tonight before the National Forum at the Jewish Community Center on the subject “Is Judaism Adequate for the Modern Man?"” one that is being vigorously discussed in religious circles by fundamentalists and modernists. The speaker will be introduced by Charles A. Goldsmith, treasurer of the Jewish Community Center, who will preside. The event is under the au- spices of the educational committee of the center, of which Louis E. Splegler is chairman, and includes Mrs. Adolph Kahn, Mrs. Isadore Kahn, Miss Aline Solomons, Miss Sarah Roberts, Miss Jeanne Porton and Isidore Hershfield. EARRING LIST IN CAB. Mrs. Henrietta Brooks Asks Police to Search for $300 Pendant. Police today were asked by Mrs. Hen- rietta Brooks of 1737 K stieet to aid her in a search for a taxicab in which she lost a diamond pendant earring valued at_$300 last night. In a report to the third precinct sta- tlon Mrs, Brooks sald she lost the ear- ring in a cab which took her home from the Mayflower Hotel S The topic is ALLEGED NARCOTIC LAWVIOLATORS ARE INDITED BY Y True Bills Returned Against Mrs. Ethel C. Waller and Wong Yon. EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE - AGAINST OFFICE MANAGER Many Others Held for Trial, 20 of Whom Are for Liquor Law Violations. Mrs, Ethel Collins Waller, 40, was in- dicted today by the grand jury on charges of forging and uttering narcotic prescriptions by means of which, it is alleged, she obtained large quantities of morphine between September 4, lll!‘ and September 25, 1929. Narcotic Agent S. L. Rakussin report- ed that the name of a Virginia physi- cian was used in -the prescriptions, which were filled at a local drug store. Violation of the Harrison anti-nar- cotic law is also charged in an indict- ment against Wong Yon, 62-year-old | Chinese, as the result of a raid in lower Pennsylvania avenue. He is chal with selling a quantity of smoking opium and paraphernalia to & narcotic | informer. The Chinese is reported to be retired from the U. 8. Navy .after 30_years’ service. Louis Parker, former office manager for Brentano’s, is charged with em- bezzlement and grand larceny in con- nection with funds of the company said to have approximated $6,500 which | he is said to have appropriated to his own use prior to January 1, 1928. Ralph E. MacMichael, former agent of the Prudential Insurance Co., is alleged to have embezzled funds of the company to the extent of $600 which came into his hands during May and June, 1929, Charge Against Agent. Larceny after trust is charged in an indictment against C. Marion Rhodes, a real estate agent. He is said to have collected $89 from Ella Bryan, colored, as advance fees in the refinancing of loans on her home. . The money is al- leged to have been paid him August 20 and September 3, 1929, Albert Duvalle and Louis Martina are charged with grand larceny in connec- tion with a confidence game worked on a fellow-countryman, Letterio Briguglio, who had saved $1,300 from his shoe re- pairing business for a trip to Italy. The men persuaded the cobbler to tie his money in a handkerchif and place it in a box with money belonging to them. ‘When they had left the shoemaker 1 opened the box and found bits of plmr in a handkerchif instead of his life savings. Perjury is alleged against George H. Orfield, who made affidavit before United States Commissioner Turnage, it is charged, against twe. ‘whom he claimed had robbed a filling station where he was employed, to cover his own peculations, it is stated. Liquor law viol:et(llwm mtczl?’l!tfl:o fl indictments reported against 20 per: and were dismissed 6 others. Those accused include Benjamin | Cheservoir, James Cole, Horace Rowe. Robert E. Rucker, Sidney R. Wi chester, Willlam E. Walters, James F. Goddard, James L. O'Donnell, Norton Haley, Earl Maske, Rabert A. Wormley, James A. McGowan, Robert H. Battle, John J. Smith, Alphonzo Baylor, John | H. Johnson, William V. Greer, Wiiliam Washington, Charles Robinson and An- drew A. Lebolo. Those exonerated in- clude Thomas Snowden, Robert John- son, John Hogue, Lether Hogue, Mildred Wright and George Hood. Jury Refuses Indiciments. ‘The grand jurors refused to indict Roy T. Johnson, char with rfund larceny; Raymond Hitte, interfering with an officer, and Willlam C. Welsh, narcotic law violation. Others indicted and the charges against them include: George Shaw, assault with dangerous weapon: Wil- liam Bacon, embezziement; William E. Granger, forgery; Herman L. Wilson, grand larceny; Herman L. Wilson and Roy T. Johnson, grand larceny; Lrving Borrell, grand larceny and joyriding: Robert W. Carr, grand larceny, rob- bery and housebreaking and larceny; Elijah Jackson, housebreaking and lar- ceny and Tobbery (two cases); Charles W. L. Freeman, robbery; Richard N. Jackson, robbery; Robert Jones, house- breaking and larceny; Philip D. Lewis (alias Davey Hawkins), housebreaking and larceny; Philip D, Lewis, house- breaking and larceny; John Leo Sramek, housebreaking and larceny; Charles R. Bolton, housebreaking and larceny: Robert Duffel and David L. Russell (alins David L. Depass), housebreaking and larceny. STREET CAR PLATFORMS AROUSE DISPUTATION Controversy Marks Proposed Re- moval of Loading Facilities at | Intersection of Two Avenues. A controversy arose today between the Public Utilities Commission and traffic authorities over the usefulness of the street car loading platforms, which pro- Jject into the intersection of New Hamp- shire and Georgia avenues. Traffic officials urged the commission, which has jurisdiction over street rail- wary property, to order the removalsof the platiorms, in view of numerous | complaints following ‘the installation ot traffic lights at the intersection. -‘The commission, however, refused on. the ground that they serve a useful purpase and that it would be impractical to re- move them. ‘The chief objection to the platform is that, jutting as they do into the in- tersection, they interfere with vehicles making a left turn from New Hamp- shire into Georgia avenue to the north. ‘The commission contends that t> move them back would interfere with & turn- back switch near the intersection of Georgia and New Hampshire avenues, which is used extensively in ‘he base ball season, aside from making t(hem useless to street car riders, who wish to board and leave the cars at the mter- section. WOULD HONOR WRIGHTS. A monument in Wi to m. uate the work of Orvi and o ur Wright in the pioneer days of avi- ation was proposed in the Senate late yesterday by Senator Fess, Republican, of Ohio. He introduced a , which was referred to a committee, au- tharizing the creation of a commission to submit- detalled plans at the next session of Congress. ‘The commission would be provided with an approjriation of $10,000 and could ‘offer awards for the best sugges~