Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1930, Page 35

ANSWER IS FILED IN POLE SUTS Charge Death Benefit Funds Are Not Properly Safe- guarded Is Denied. Capt. C.L. Plemmons, president; Harry M. Luckett, secretary-treasurer, and Capt. Frank S. W. Burke, one of the trustees of the Metropolitan Police Re- lief Association, yesterday filed in the District Supreme Court the answer of the association to the suit of 67 retired policemen seeking to collect death bene- fits in advance of their demise. The officials of the association deny the charge that the funds are not properly safeguarded. Through Attorneys Whiteford, Mar- shall & Hart. the court is informed that the estimated income for 1930 will be about $43,442.50, and it is e: at least 26 members will die during the Yyear, which would call for the disburse- ment of $39,000 in death benefits. ‘There are 1,225 members of the associa- tion, it is stated, who pay monthly dues of $2 each, which are collected by the precinct commanders. All collections are deposited with the Riggs National Bank, the court is told. and all dis- bursements made by check. The assets of the association at the end of 1929 were $330,675.35, of which $320,000 is in Liberty .bonds, the offi- cers say. The bonds are in a safe de- posit box in the American Security & ‘Trust Co., of which there are only two keys. One of the keys is in the custody of the secretary-treasurer and the other Jocked in & safe at police headquarters, the court is advised.' ‘The retired officers are asking the court to require the association to ad- vance each of them $1,000 out of the $1,500 which would be coming to their dependents at their death. They are represented by ‘Attorneys Hosea B. Moulton and Robert H. McNeill. FAIRFAX D. A. R. MARKS WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY County Chapter Is Served With Luncheon at Home of First Vice Regent Mrs. Walters. sty meeting 3 Sounty Chap- ruary meeting of Fairfax y Chap- ter D. A. 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The community, which is self-govern- ing and communistic, has but one fire- arm, an old blunderbuss. There is no from comes doors have locks and there is no crime. ‘The principal crop is potatoes. They swarms of rats vented success of the crop, and now the islanders eat potatoes and such fish as they can catch. Every man works his own potato patch and does his own fishing. There are some cattle and sheep. When Lindsay first arrived on the is- land in 1927 he found the potato crop had failed and famine conditions pre- vailing. There was a good crop in 1928, | but this year again the single crop has failed and the inhabitants are threat- ened with distress. Half the population Hoover Requested Appropriation Is Reduced by Half Something, at least, has been done toward reducing P Ben Erestdent Hoover Fecently tion to a conference at The Hague next month on codification of international law. Yesterday the Senate foreign relations voted to cut the $50,000 allowance proposed by the Presi- dent exactly in half. 000 for expenses of the American delega currency and alcohol is unknown. No | used to raise wheat, but ravages of | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. BRITISH ISLE Inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha Live Sim- ply in Early Victorian Dress—14 Girls to Select Husbands From 21 Chances. By the Associated Press. suffered in an influenza epidemic last June and one died. Lindsay says the predominant char- acteristics of the people are their good humor, simplicity and industry. Though they have greatly intermarried, their mental soundness has not been affected. They love sports, and play foot ball and cricket according to their own rules. Running and jumping races also are frequent. Tristan da Cunha is a British posses- sion settled about 1816 by English. Some Americans, Scottish, Italians and South African Negroes since have gone there. 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