Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1930, Page 17

[ WASHI NGTON, D. C, HUGE RUM SUPPLY AND 10 PRISONERS TAKEN BY RAIDERS Pclice Activity in Every Sec- tion of City Nets 250 Gallons of Liquor. SALES TO BRIDGE CREW . CHARGED TO BROTHERS Officers Seize Car and Driver After Thrilling Chase Through Alleys. Prohibition enforcement units of the Police Department swung into action in every section of the city yesterday aft- | ernoon and more than 250 gallons of whisky was seized and 10 prisoners taken in numerous raids and chases. ‘The most important seizures were | made 'by Sergt. George M. Little’s dry squad, which during its activities con- fiscated more than 150 gallons of liquor and arrested five prisoners, in- cluding two youths said to have been supplying workmen engaged in con- structing the Memorial Bridge. In the most exciting chase Emerson D. Ensley, 27, of the 1200 block of Talbot street southeast, was appre- hended by Sergt. Little's detail and charged with transportation and pos- session of 84 gallons of whisky and operating a machine without a permit. Taken After Exciting Chase. wnsley was caught after a half-mile pursuit in automobiles and on foot, dur- ing which a driverless fish wagon con- taining 14 gallons of whisky was cap- tured and a garage believed to be the storehouse of a bootleg ring discovered. Twenty-six gallons of whisky was found in the garage. The chase in which Ensley was in- volved began at Fourth and O streets when the officer's attention was at- tracted by Ensley speeding away as they pulled alongside his automobile. Giving chase the police vainly strove to overhaul the car, which they said was driven recklessly through several alleys in the vicinity before finally halted by the fish wagon blocking one end of an alley in the rear of the 400 block of Ridge street. Nabbing Ensley, they then looked into. the fish wagon and discovered the nature of its cargo. Believing the driver of the wagon might be inside the private garage in front of which the wagon was standing, the police lcoked through an open door into the structure and spicd a large quantity of bottled whisky on a row of shelves. After booking Ensley at No. precinct, Little’s officers returned to the vicinity of the garage and learned the owner’s name. Police are on the look- out for Claim 'Two Destroyed Liquor. A short time before the same raided a garage sald to be operating as & speakeasy at the rear of the 100 block of G street and arrested Charles Kunowski, 41, of Hyattsville, Md., al- leged proprietor of the establishment, and Leo Berwick, 21, of Hyattsville, ‘when they found 12 gallons of whisky in the garage and a vacant house a joining connected to the garage by a Ppassageway. A large quantity of whisky was de- stroyed by Kunowski and Berwick, police say, before they could batter in the strongly reinforced door leading into the garage. Berwick saw police approaching through the alley and shouted a warning to Kunowski, police | reported. They were emptying the last of a lot of containers when police rushed into the room, the raiders said. ‘The men were charged with possession and maintaining a nuisance. A small portion of the whisky was scooped up while a subsequent search of the premises. led to. discovery of a passageway leading to an adjoining house in which 12 gallons of whisky un p” that two youths were openly selling whisky to workers on the Memo- rial Bridge let Sergt. Little and his squad to the bridge at noon. After waiting for a short while the police- men’s vigilance was rewarded when a car containing the two suspects drove up. Fleeing Youth Is Taken. of gin in the tonneau. Louis ¥ Man- cuso, 18, of the 1200 block of Tenth ! his brother, Joseph Mancuso 21, of the 4700 block of Ninth street, wrenched | overtcok him after a chase of over a quarter of a mile. The two were taken to No. 6 precinct and booked on charges | of transportation. leadership of Sergt. Oscar J. Letter- man by his transfer/ to the fizst pre- broke through two doors to gain en- nce to an all easy in an men escaped by way f a fire aficap just as the officers e las T, Among the fontraband taken from quarts of alcoh)l and one quart of rye. Julia Hayes/ colored, of the 2200 ‘The officers said they found 1E pints street readily submitted to arrest, but himself free and ran. Sergt. Little | The police vice squad, minus the cinct as a result of 4 warrantless raid, speaks jpartment houses in the 1400 block of W street. gh door, the apartment yas 36 quarts of gin, 12 block of Nintlf street, was arrested by for possession of seven | flicted y, which were reported found sewed fip in a number of over- coats scatter/d throughout her house. She was led at No. 8 precinct. A large qufntity of alleged whisky was dumped by he occupants of a home in the 2100 bpck of Ninth street, when the police vice squad broke into the house, butbne quart was nvedr&y po- , 60, , was a charge of possession. d /precinct d tives reported Whisky at the Getts, 24, colored, in the first block of G street, and booked him on ¢ possession charge. | Dog Killed in Raid. which bit Precinct Detective Wi R. Laflin during the raid'in the 21 block of Flagler street, netting two ners and one quart of “evi- dence,¥ was killed by the officer. CI Rob Prances inson, 20, and ‘Vance; 28, both colored, who live at the FI treet address, were arrested on :gtne of lon. A possess| DR, ROY TO BE HONORED One of the huge searchlights used in a demonstration by the 260th Anti- aircraft Battalion, District National Guard, at Burroughs Park last night. —Star Staff Photo. INCUNABULA SEEN | BOOST T0 CAPITAL Purchase by Congress Would Include Famous Gutenberg Bible. hington may become a world center for the study of medieval art, literature, science and philosophy if Congress enacts a bill introduced by Representative Ross A. Collins of M sissippi appropriating $1,500,000 to pul chase for the Library of Congress the collection of incunabula or ‘“cradle books” of Dr. Otto F. H. Vollbehr, cele- brated German collector. This _collection includes the earliest printed volumes in the world, including one of the 45 copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. Dr. Vollbehr has of~ fered the collection to the Government. for approximately half its market value, according to Mr. Collins, including the remaining $1,500,000 as a personal gift. It is orly a matter of time, according to prominent American book collectors, when tke Gutenberg Bible alone will have a conservative market price of $1,000,000, The collection contains 300 classics, the earliest printed editions | of Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Homer, | Horace, Livy, Catullus, Arisophanes, | Herodotus, Euripides, Plutarch, Senaca, | Ovid and Virgil, as well as of Dante, | Patrarch, Boccaccio and Erasmus. | Among the works on astronomy are the earliest editions of Ptolemy, Strabo and | Alfragan, the Arabian upon whose astronomical system Dante based his work. The medical works include the earliest. editions of Hippocrates, Celsus and Galen, while the religious section contains the works of St. Augustine, Savanarola, Thomas Aquinas, Cusanus and Duns Scotus as they first appeared in print. : Bible’s History: Colorful. ‘The Gutenberg Bible, printed on parchment, has a colorful history. This copy was first cl by the dictine Friars in Parls and prese in their monastery at St. Blasius in the Black Forest until the Napoleonic wars when they were forced to flee Carinthia in Austria. Here it remained until it was purchased by Dr. Vollbehr in 1926 for $300,000. The Nation in the past, Mr. Collins points out, has missed rare opportuni- ties to purchase collections. for the Li- | brary of Congress at a fraction of their real value. [Even the collection of Thomas Jefferson, which constitutes practically the foundation of the pres- ent collection, was not purchased with=- out bitter debate. Jefferson had spent 50 years in building up probably the finést private library in America. He offered it to Congress at “its own price.” A fragment of the debate is cited by Mr. Collins. One member declared that “it might be inferred from the char- acter of the man who collected it, and Prance, where the collection was made, that the library contains irreligious and immoral books, works of the French philosophers who caused and influenced the voicano of the French Revolution which had desolated Europe.” The ‘member was opposed to the “dissemina- tion of that infidel philosophy and of the principles of 8 man who had in- ic greater injury on_our_country than any other except Mr. Madison. The bill would put $23,900 in Jeffer- son’s pocket for about 6,000 books, good, bad and indifferent, in languages which many cannot read, and most ought not, which js true Jeffersonian philcsophy to bankrupt the Treasury, beggar the people and disgrace the Nation. Library of Washington. Jefferson’s books finally were pur- chased, infidelism and all, but failed to accept a liberal offer to buy the library of George Washington, the original manuscript- of his farewell ad- dress, or the ex ‘valuable library of George and former Secret & It would be appropriate’ to purchase the Vollbehr ‘collection, Mr. rial ton'.:u 30 Collins .says, as & memo! years' service of Dr. Herbert Putnam as Librarian of Congress, during which the library has increased from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 volumes and over 1,000,000 mp&.m 1,001‘)',1030 pleces o‘:d music, neéarly rints, uncounted manuscripts and tranteripts estimated at well over 000 Medfeal Soclety Meeting Wednes-| tue day to Hear Three Addres: ibute to the late Dr. Philip &%fiw former president and dele- gate to the American Medical Associa- + tion, will be Dfld‘l:h: g:un(&l& Societ; trict Mol theylood 718 's _building, 1' ht at 8 o’clock. by Dr. Johi manuscripts includes papers of nearly all the Presidents and many statesmen of the United States. The rare-book collection contains about 30,000 items, including about 1,500 incunabula and some 10,000 early American pamphlets.” The Vollbehr collection, Mr. Collins insists, represents the greatest oppor- tunity Congress ever has had to increase the value of the library at a compara- tively nominal cost. “This collection,” he says, “represents @ cross section of the thought and culture of the people of that period, a history of the great Renaissance, the period contemporan- eous with the discovery of America and ‘with the beginning of the Reformation. These books have a valu not as museum pleces alone, but to the historian, the student, the scholar, the printer and the bookbinder, and furnish material which is not otherwise at hand for historical, literary and tcchnical search work. Great and Rare Variety. “The collection contains not only numerous examples from all the great | Th European cities of the Middle Ages— Augsberg, Barcelona, Basel, Nuremberg, Paris, 3 Seville, Vienna and Venice—but it also numbers among its treasures books printed at Avignon, the seat of the popes in the fourteenth century and the home of Patrarch; Alost, where the first printing press in Belgium was set up; Burgos, the encient Moorish city where the remains of the Cid found their final resting place; Rouen, where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, and Swolle, where Thomas a Kempis lived and died. | . “In this remarkable collection one naturally finds many works on religion, such as missals, breviaries and patris- tic literatute, exclusive of 55 Bibles, but Dr. Vollbehr has brought together | an exceptionally well balanced library of the fifteenth century . containing more than 50 books on law, 159 on medicine, 34 on geography, 22 Orien- talia, 20 on the discovery of America out of a known total of 32, books on chess, cookery, history, matrimony, philosophy, travel, temperance and war. The collection contains a great variety of languages, including 48 books in Spanish, 10 in Hebrew, 52 in German dialects,, 100 in Italian, 17 in French, 1 in Slavanic, 1 in Chinese and 8 in English.” In 1769, Mr. Collins points out, & Gutenberg Bible on parchment sold for 400. The same book brought $1,182 in 1817, $16,190 in 1873, $50,000 in 1911 and $305,000 in 1926. A corre- sponding rise in value, he believes, can be expected in the future. iy 12 CITIZENS’ GROUPS TO MEET TOMORROW Various Associations Will Discuss Matters of Interest to Respec- tive Communities. A dozen citizens’ associations will meet tomorrow . night to discuss the welfare of the respective communities and advo- cate imprcvements in their localities. ‘The following have announced ings commencing at 8 p.am. Brookland Citizens’ Association, Northeast ic Hal Congress Heights Citizens’ Association, Congress Heights Baptist Church; Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ Association, All Souls’ Church; East Washington Heights Citi- zens' Association, Bradbury Heights M. E. Church; Edgewood Citizens’ Associa- tion, Lincoln Road M. E. Church: Hill- crest Citizens’ Association, East Wash- ington Heights Baptist Church; Piney Branch Citizens’ Association, ;o'l (A”v brary; tdwn, 1519 east ‘Wi Ludlow School, izens’ Church. FORMER POLICEMAN ‘Thirty-first street; Citizens’ Association, and the Kalorama Cit- fon, ~8t. Margaret’s Herbert Dodge, Hurt Week Ago ‘When Auto Turned * + Turtle ditch . along . the e'nlflered & compound . fracture leg, s skull. fracture re- | IARCHITECTS ASSAIL | SOMERVELL STAND - ON FALLS PROJECT Error 'in Quoting Olmsted Charged by Institute, Sup- porting Park Plan. POWER ALSO CONDEMNED BY LANDSCAPE EXPERTS Utility Interests Accused of “Potomac Be Damned” Atti- tude in Controversy. ‘That “the Potomac be damned” ex- presses the attitude of power interests toward the Great Falls Gorge, the Na-; | tional Capital's “greatest natural asset,” | was the charge made yesterday by the | American Institute ofArchitects in a | public statement issued in connection with the controversy aroused by dis- cussion of Capper-Cramton _ bill, which provides for preservation of the munl contours of the Potomac's ‘The institute’s charge is backed by the American Soclety of Landscape Archivects. In the statement of the institute, is- sued by the committee on the National Capital, of which Horace W. Peaslee of ‘Washingtom is c! an, sharp criti- cism also is made of the stand taken by Maj. Brehon Somervell, District En- | gineer for the War Department, who, in ' supporting a combination park-power | development, recently engaged in a| | sharp verbal duel with Lieut. Col. U. 8. ' Grant, 3d, vice chairman of the Na- | tional Capital Park- and Planning Com- | mission, and opponents of power devel- opment at the Falls. | | i Sees Error in Statement. i The Institute statement refers p-r-L ticularly to that portion of Somervell's most recent statement in which he “en- deavors to show that Frederick Law Olmsted, jr., one of the advisers of the McMillan committee on the Capper- Cramton . bill and now & member of the National Park and Planning Com- mission, was at one time a power ad- vn:u and has now changed his view- point.” Maj. Somervell, the Institute charges, quoted the Olmsted report favoring park | development in support of his own argu- ment for power development, disregard- ing the fact that-the Olmsted report; specifically mentioned power utilization | tonly as a future possibility, The portion of Maj. Sonfervell’s testi- mony to which the Institute objects es | pecially is quoted as follows: | __“I do not claim to be a park expert. e park laid out around the power development proposel by this office fol- lows exactly the report of the previous Senate committee under the chairman- ship of Senator McMillan, which in- cor ves matter. mmittee had as its advisers Daniel H. Burnham, Charles P. McKim, Augustus St. Gau- and Frederick Law Olmsted, jr. fering with the fu- ture utilization of the water power, the surroundings of Great Falls on both sides of the river should in our opinion be converted into a natural park to be connected with the city by a continuous river road.” ‘Mr. Olmsted, it seems, once advo- cated the development with power and | once without."” “Not in This Generation.” i “There was no intention then or now.” the institute statement says, “by those | favoring the creation of a natural park, for’ development of water power in this generation. The whole argument up to the present time has been for the utili- zatlon of water power only when and n “That need does not now exist. There is no reason why a government as rich as ours should have to barter away to private interests any such natural rights or beauty spots as the gorge of the Poto- mac, simply for a fi 1 considera- tion. The area his to the Nation in its present condition. “Mr. Olmsted has not faced about. He has never advocated power develop- ment, though he has with an n mind cons the possibilities of power development at some time in the future if the need should arise.” In the further statement, the insti- tute censures the assertion made by the power interests that $100,000,000 loss would be sustained from failure to de- velop fully all phases of the Potomac River, and cites the American Civic As- | sociation’s recent statement that the sum has grown from $48,000,000 in the course of a year, “merely by use of a pencil and paper The institute, like the civic assoéia- tion, pronounces itself as believing that the -estimated savings on the dif- ferential in cost between steam and water power, which is the situation con- fronting the Senate committee, are ex- tremely problematical. Landscape Architects’ Views. With regard to the argument recently adt by counsel for the power in- to the effect that a combined park and power development is for the best immediate interests of the pub- lic, the American Society of Landscape Architects issues its statement. ‘The statement follows: “The 'American Soclety of Landscape Architects, after a careful and intensive study of the territory involved, has gone on record both at the public hearings and In resolutions made public, i it is beyond a doubt for the best in. terests of the public to acquire imme- diately and develop the territory along the Potomac for park pu 4 representatives of this society point out that the area, aside from its fl‘elt historical significance, will lend itself admirably to scenic and recreational de- velo}mmm. “It is quite evident to this soclety that if a power project is carried out Sn i e presen scenic splendor ofu'z’h-loeuut:rendn 8 plant, in ‘any way possible at the present ‘The tement of both organizations concludes with a plea for keenly dis- development of the National criminating Capital as a city outstanding in char- acter, and an to the te. to MT. RAINIER GIRL SCUGHT WITH AID OF POLICE HERE bout and in- | 145 eomph”nl‘, police were told. far’ greater value | 5! Stone by stene, this classic example of Doric_architecture at the main en- trance of the Department of Commerce Building nears the top. The colonnaded facade overlooks to the east what will inken pools and splashing fountains. Stone setters are shown in photo below, taken yesterday, as they prepared to set a stone in the base of the parapet wall above the colonnade.—Star Staff Photo. COMMERCE FRONT RETIREMENT BIL _ CAPTAL HEASLR DECKSION SOUGHT, 10 BE CALLED P Senate and House Conferees May Meet This Week for Study. Senate conferees on the civil service retirement bill probably will arrange to meet with the House group some time this week in a further effort to reach an agrecment on this ‘egislation, which passed both branches of Congress in_widely different forms. In the 10 days which have elapsed since the two groups held their iirst meeting, at which nothing was agreed upon, the Senate members have been studying the question. Senator Dale, Republican, of Vermont, head of the Senate group, said yesterday he thought a joint conference was likely this week, but was not prepared to discuss the probable outcome. ‘The Senate bill followed the present tem, with higher annuities up to a maximum of $1,200, and the option of retiring two years earlier than under existing law. The House incorporated in the bill a new system of computing annyities. Under the House plan all employes would get a basic annuity of $30 a year for each year of service, not to exceed 30 years, making a maxi- mum basic annuity of $900. This would be met by the Govern- ment, plus a contribution of $1 a month from ‘each employe. tgn addition to this basic annuity the ploye would gt whatever additional annuity could be purchased by his own accumulated con- | tributions, after allowing for the $1 a | month deduction. It was further pro- vided by the House that if the total annuity under this formula should be less in any case than the employe would have received under the Senate bill, the difference would be added by the Gov- ernment. ‘The only definite development in' the retirement situation in the last few days was the announcement by Sen- ator Brookhart, ‘Republican of Iowa, that he had decided the House plan was ' the most advantageous. Senator Brookhart is not one of the conferees, but is an active member of the civil service committee. DICE GAME ARGUMENT BRINGS FATAL SHOOTING Body of Eli Meeks, 27, Colored Found on Floor of Home—Joseph Lawrence Arrested. Eli Meeks, 27 years old, dolored, of the 800 .block of Twenty-sixth street, was fatally wounded yesterday afternoon in an argument over a dice game. Joseph Lawrence, also colored, 46, of the Twenty-sixth street address, is be- ing held at the third precinct in con- nectlon- with - the killing. Police found Meek’s body slumped on a bullet- wound Em lead. de JEWISH GROUP TO MEET Bisgyer Will Represent Washing- ton Center. Maurice Bisgyer of Washington, a vice president of the National Asso- clation of Jewish Community Center Secretaries, will represent the Wash- annual eo:,re; precede the nation- al conference of Jewish Social Service, Soclation Tor & joint. meeting. . Topies or & g dealing with the underlying principles of center work will be discussed at ' meeting. . A. W. Rosenthal of New. York is' president of the assoclaf n the | cornet _solo by William rS McLeod Obtains Agreement for Action on Non-Con- troversial Bills. Acting Chairman McLeod of the | House District committee secured a | promise from House Leader Tilson late | yesterday that time will be given him tomorrow to call up for action in the House a number of District bills on w" 1 there is little or no controversy a. hich can be passed quickly. : agreement covers bills on the Housc calendar and not those on the union calendar. This means bills which do not involve any appropriation. This agreement prevents consideration of the police and firemen’s pay-increase bill, which is considered the most important District measure awaiting action. House Leader Tilson sald yesterday that the police and firemen’s pay bill will be al- lowed to come up for consideration on its merits when adequate time can be allowed for debate. He has been advised that there is considerable opposition, Bills to Be Ready. Representative McLeod said that he will have ready a list of 11 District bills, all of which he assured House Leader Tilson can be passed within an hour and a half. It was definitely decided at a con- ference of the Republican steering com- mittee and the Republican members of the rules committee with House Leader Tilson and Speaker Longworth | that tomorrow would not be designated as a District day and that no contro- | versial measures, such as the police and firemen’s pay bill, would be allowed to NEAR COMPLETION Impressive Facade Overlooks Park of Unusual Beauty in All Details. Featured by 23 huge columns, weigh- ing 75°tons each, the classic main front of the great Department of Commerce building on Fourteenth street is rising rapidly to completion. f th handiwork, the stone sotters vcsierday had finithed by far the greater part of this front, and werc placing stones in the base of the parapet wall above the colonnade. ‘The main entrance to the depArtment is designed after the Doric order of architecture, and presents a magnificent architectural end to what will be the grand plaza. This plaza will run from Fourteenth street eastward from the Department of Commerce building, so the besutiful facade, now under com- pletion, will overlook the park of sunken gardens, flowers, pools and fountains, Stone Seloctions. ‘The stone work of this main front of the Department of Commerce building rise sfrom the granite base at the bot- tom, sometimes known as the water table. This Stoney Creek granite, which comes from Connecticut, is used in the base of the building, the balustrades. copings and “approaches.” Virtually all the rest of t! xterfor is of Indian limestone of various textures, coming from several different quarries in Indiana and finished in different mills, |in the same general vicinity. On top of the granite base rests what is known as two stories of lime- stone-in variegated colors. It is cut in heavy blocks which appear to stand out from the building, and with a “stripping texture” known as “Scotch broaching.” This gives the first two storles a differ- ent aspect from the rest of the build- ing, and accents the difference in color and design between the first two stories and the upper. Use of Columns. From the top of the first two stories the columns start, each resting on both a plinth, or square stone, and also a circular base. These columns, of which there are 23 on the main front, consist of five great drums, each of which weighs 12 tons. On top of the column goes a cap, which i§ to be trimmed in rosettes carved on the neck. The ornamenta- | tion under the cap is known as an egg and dart mold. On top of the column ! cap goes a square stone known as an abacus. Above Yhe columns themselves then rises the entablature, which consists of come up for consideration. The prin- cipal objection to a District day is that the chairman of the House District committee has control of the time and can call up any pending District meas- ures in whatever order he chooses. ‘Wide Range to Debate. The experience in the past has been that the biggest part of the day 15 taken up with general debate on a wide range of subjects, most of which are entirely unrelated to the District legis- lation. In this way the District has had credit for having days in the House when as a matter of fact they were islation of importance to the District | 'Was _ transacted. 4 | * House Leader Tilson gave assufance |'yesterday that time will be found for !"consideration of any - meritorious Dis- trict measures on which the District | committee has reached an agreement, so that it will not be a subject for lengthy debate, and that all District measures for which there is pressingineed will be given oportpunity for prompt passage. “HALLELUJAH WEDDING” IS SET FOR WEDNESDAY Salvation Army Lieutenant and Captain Will :Be Married in Interesting Ceremony. Lieut. Ruth Bartlett of the Salvation I Army here will be married to Capt.| Harold oe, also of the army, in & "l‘llllalud’lnl't8 wedding” at the Salvation ‘Army Temple; 606 E street, at 8 o'clock ‘Wednesday ht. The ceremony will be performed by Col. Alfred Chandler of New York, chief secretary of the Salvation Army in the Eastern States. The bride-to-be was stationed at the Salvation Army headquarters in Atlanta, where she met Capt. Ingoe before she was ferred to the Capital. &; Among the features of the “hallelujah’ ceremony which may be accorded only Salvation Army officers, are the speeches ich the bride and m are re- quired to deliver follo their mar- B T o Parkins of New of the outstanding cornetists York, on in' the tion. not used on District bills and little leg- | witn soffits, the large stones stretching from column to column; the architrave, frieze and cornice. The soffits of the archi- trave are carved beneath with what is known as a guilloche ornament, and the frieze is embellished with tryglyphs and simple discs in the metopes. ‘The is decorated with what is known as dentil course, mutules, with carved panels between them. Over each mutule will be a lion’s head, to’be carved after the stone is set. Surmounting all this comes the - pet wall, the base of which was being set. ies'grdlm ‘This .wall will be about 10 feet in height and will be topped a decorative “belt course.”- The parapet wall is to be left blank for the Eereaent, s0 that a great inscription can carved on it later. This inscription has not as yet been comj but it is to be significant not only of the De- partment of Commerce itself, but also of the great architectural. composition known as the triangle and the signifi- cance of that group ot buildings in the life of the Nation. ‘The stone is being set on the entire building by expert artisans of Alex- fldz Howle, the stone-setting con- ctor. PITTS TO RETURN: OF OWN ACCORD Former Smith Co. Chairman Is to Defend Himself Against Embez- zlement Charge. G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the board -of the F. H. Smith Co., will be in wuhlnfwn tomorrow of own accord to defend himself against the charge that during the past two he embezzled more than -$1,000, "th:: company’s funds. ‘Wilton J. Lambert, of the firm of Lambert and Yeatman, rany in last week. DUE O GRADEPAY Dr. Reichelderfer and Gen. Crosby Must Divide $17,000 Annually. FORMER COMMISSIONERS RECEIVED $9,000 YEARLY Inequalities' Soon Are to Be Ad- - justed, Under Terms of 1931 Appropriation Bill. ‘The District’s two new civilian Com- missioners, Dr. Luther H. Reicehlderfer {and Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, are { faced with a reduction in salary be- i cause of the peculiar complications of | the classification act, it developed at | the District Building yesterday, when steps were taken to put their names on the official pay roll‘., Although Progtor L. Dougherty and Sidney F. Taliiferro, who retired as Commissioners on Thursd: were paid $9,000 a year each, Dr. Reichel- derfer and Gen. Crosby must split $17,000—the limit of the salary allo~ cation for the two positions. They have the option of voting $9,000 for one position and $8,000 for the other, or equalizing the amount, each drawing $8,500 a year. ‘The inequities of the salary situation, however, are to be adjusted. The House | subcorgmittee on appropriations in | anticipation of the difficulties that would arise when new Commissioners "took office, wrote into tho 1931 ap- | propriation’ bill a provision exempting the heads of the municipal government | from the salsry restricions of th | classification act so they could draw | $9,000 a year. g “Reduced” Pay to July 1. Nevertheless, Commissioners Reichel- derfer and Crosby must ltnlr‘le along on a reduced stipend until July 1, when the appropriation bill is to become ef- fective. any e;el:n. Gen. Crosby on it salary Commissioner. compensation tangle lllflfil ly on a provision in the classifi- cation act of 1923, which stipulates that the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau or office shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensatjon rates specified for | the grade. |~ The Commissioners received $7,500 ! until the Welch acs v into 1923 and Coruoller General | ruled that the saarizs of employss in | the group in which they had been allo- | cated automatically should be increased to $9,000. The decision applied to in- cumbents, however, making their suc- cessors subject to the minimum salary restrictions on new appointments. in MaCarl sioners cannot draw more than $17,000 a year, until the District appropriation |biil for 1931 becomes effective, al- though an appropriation is available to | pay them #18,000. | Col. William B. Ladue, Engincer Com- missioner, is not involved in the salacy | tangle. He was fortunate crough to have been in office when the controller general automatically placed him in the $9,000 group and will continue to draw thls amount until he leaves the District service. 'HEARING CONTINUED ON CASSIDY MOTION Action of Justice Gordon Taken on Request of Assistant U. 8. Attorney Shea. Justice Peyton Gordon yesterda; continued to a later date heirlnl oll'al jthe motions of George L. Cassidy, called the “man in the green hat,” and John T. Gately, said to be his father- in-law, for suppression of evidence taken from them and from an auto- mobile of Cassidy at the time of their arrest near the Senate Office Building on charges of violating the national prohibition act. While the motion was in progress a snag was struck during the testimony of one of the prohibition agents on the witness stand. He declared the arrest was made on a tip and admitted that he did not know either of the defend- ants by sight and did not know they were engaged in the lquor business. Gordon intimated that he did not think on the evidence presented that the search and seizure could be justified, mey M. Shea con- tinued the hearing. Shea said he expected to show that the agents were working on direct in- formation, and that the search and selzures were incident to the arrest, whicn he declared was justified if the agents believed a felony was being com- imitted in their presence. Attorney Myron G. Ehrlich appears for the de- fendants. CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL TO BE HELD ON MAY 3 Dramatics, Fencing, Music and Handicraft Exhibitions Are Planned. ‘The fifth annual children' canducted Dej at | festival by the Community Center it oo g mmi - Tigh unity ulmer. ‘Cen.