Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1930, Page 17

TWO MORE TRAFFIC FATALITIES RAISE DAY TOTALTO 10 Frank Wynne Killed When Blowout Causes Crash on Leonardtown Pike. The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, MRS. H. E. YARNELL RESIGNS AS MEMBER OF NAVY LEAGUE Wife of Adviser to U. S. Dele- gates Asserts Pact Enmity Is Detrimental. Father, Rear Admiral C. M. Thomas, Helped Found Organization. Considering the attitude of the Navy SECOND BERWYN WRECK VICTIM DIES OF INJURIES Three Girls and Two Men Are Hurt in Other Accidents—One Driver Leaves Scene. One autoist was instantly killed yes- terday, while another died at Casualty Hospital from injuries received Satur- day night, sending the death toll taken by traffic accidents over the three-day holiday period in the District and en- virons to ten. In addition another mo- torist was seriously hurt, while five others suffered minor injuries. The was reached on Saturday when six persons died, one from the effects of an“accident scveral weeks be- fore; two were killed on Memorial day. Frank Wynne, 40 years old, of 824 B street, southeast, was killed instantly and Andrew J. Alexander of 912 Grant place was severely injured yesterday aft- ernoon when a tire of Alexander’s car blew out on the Leonardtown pike near Harts Corner, Md,, causinz the ma- chine to overturn. Wynne's skull was crushed and he 'was pronounced dead when brought into Casualty Hospital. Alcxander, who was driving, was treated for abrasions. Pennsylvanian's Injuries Fatal. An accident which occurred Satur- day night near Berwyn, Md., claimed its second victim early yesterday morn- ing when Walter F. Eck, 55, of Chester, Pa., died at Casualty Hospital. His wife, Mrs. Nellie Eck, 85 years old, died four hours before at the same insti- tution. A possible skull fracture was received by Helen Christen, 12 years old, of 613 Morris street northeast, when a car driven by Edward L. Lee of 1808 M street northeast struck her while the was playing in front of her home. The girl was taken to Casualty Hos- pital. Lee was arrested by police of the ninth precinct station and cht wtih operating a .machine with bad hand brakes and reckless driving. Mary Seaton, 10, cf 725 Sixteenth street northeast, was cut about the head and body when a car driven by Russell M. Brooks of 1314 South Caro- lina avenue southeast felled her in 1ront of her home. The'girl was treated at Casualty Hospital and then sent home. Hit-and-Run Accident. Victim of & hit-and-run automobile, Frank B, Brewer, 25 years old, of 1527 Benning road northeast, was given treatment at Casualty Hospital for la- cerations of the scalp. The accident oc- curred at Fifteenth street and Benning road northeast as Brewer was walking across the intersection. I William Baker, 24 years old, golf pro- fessional at the Army and ng{; Coun- | try Club, and Miss Mildred ler, 16 old, of 1815 Varnum street, were ml::td when Baker’s car o the Baltimore Boulevard verturned on about 15 miles bone. She collar] od st Casualty for shock and sent home. MULLIN RITES ARE SET. Services for Auto Crash Victim to Be w Held Tomorrow. Funeral serivces for Philip Leon Mul- lin, 23 years old, brother and business associate of George B. Mullin, jr., local contractor, who was injured fatally in an automobile crash Saturday on the Chesapeake Beach highway, will be held tomorrow merning at 9 o'clock at the residence, 1734 Webster street. Requiem will follow at the Church of the Nativity, htwood. Interment will be ouat. Olver, Cemetery. his mother, Mrs. Mary ‘whom he resided at the Webster street ™ VERDICT AGAINST STORE SET ASIDE Appeals Court Holds Reasonable Care Shown in Case of Woman Hurt. Holding the proprietor of a store is not an insurer of the safety of his cus- floor of the 5 and 10 cent store of . W. Woolworth Co. October 5, 1926. ‘The the s Ei g EE htly raised above the floor and she had no doubt her heel went to this spot and caused her to slip. The defense furnished witnesses, in- uding the boy who was sweeping the aisles, who said he had just finished the aisle where the woman fell, and sistance, and examining the floor found it perfectly dry. Other witnesses told of examining the place shortly after- ward and finding the floor clean, with- F?._, ) League in opposing immediate ratifica- tion of the London naval treaty by the Senate as “detrimental to the Navy and the Nation,” Mrs. H. E. Yarnell, wife of the rear admiral who heads Bureau of Engineering at the Navy Department, has resigned from the organization, which her father aided in founding, it was disclosed today. Admiral Yarnell was one of the high ranking naval officials who accompanied the American delegation to London as one of its experts, and Mrs. Yarnell went with him. The matter was brought to a head by a radio address on Thursday eve- ning by William Howard Gardiner, president of the Navy League, advocat- ing that Senate action on the treaty be postponed until December. As an upshot of this, Mrs. Yarnell wrote a letter to Mr. Gardiner, saying: “Since reading in Friday's New York Herald Tribune the attitude of the Navy League in regard to the London treaty, 1 find I cannot longer remain a mem- ber and now ask that my name be taken off the list. “I think you soon will discover that the league has taken a wrong course and one that is quite unpatriotic. As I have been a member of the Navy League for many years and my father was_instrumental in the conception of its formation, you can well understand 1t 1s hard to find I can no longer approve of its activities, which at present I consider detrimental to the Navy and the Nation.” The father of Mrs. Yarnell was Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, who took the fleet around the world in 1908 of his immediate MRS. H. E. YARNELL. —Harris-Ewing Photo. superior officer, Admiral Robley D. Evans. Mrs. Yarnell told The Star toda “I am very much interested in ratifi- cation of the treaty. I feel that if there is no ratification it will throw the whole question of national defense into great confusion. This treaty is the best that it is humanly possible to devise. I can't understand why rea- sonable people will not support it.” Admiral Yarnell has submitted to the Senate foreign relations committee a memorandum designed to show the need for ratification of the treaty with- out delay. Mr. Gardiner contended that Admiral Yarnell, Admiral William V. Pratt, who is slated to become the new- chief of naval operations; Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, chief of staff of the United States fleet, who went as advisers to the American dele- gation in London, were “picked by the State Department,” while the general board and several other rear admirals were found opposed to certain phases of the treaty. DARLEY ON PARK MEASURE CALLED Substantial Appropriation in Deficiency Bill Will Be Sought. With the desire to carry into effect as promptly as possible the provisions of the Cramton bill, extending the Federal park system in the National Capital and in the surrounding terri- tories, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission, for a conference tomorrow with Pred W. Wight of the Bureau of the Budget, with the hope of getting & substantial appropriation included in the deficien 1l ready ing sufficient funds. Bill's Provisions Explained. He said the extension of the park system in the counties surrounding ‘Washington could be carried out with- S . ou w- planning commission a that the money must come , and that the commis- its funds whenever it assured there was money available from the State to match the Federal Government's contribution, no matter what the squrce. Definite Program Available. The funds now available under the appropriation, he said, can only be used for extension of the park system in the District of Columbia and nothing can be done in the way of ex- penditure of funds until money is pro- vided as authorized in the Cramton law. Col. Grant would not say just where the first expenditures would be made, owing to a policy of the commission not to divulge proposed land purchases, but he added there is a very definite program available which will be carried out if the -pmen.non is provided in the deficiency bill. SOLDIER HURT IN CRASH; WOMAN DRIVER HELD James Steele, Riding Motor Cycle, Hits Car Making Left-Turn on Rockville Pike. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 2.—Serious head injuries to James Steele, 27-year- old soldier stationed at Fort Washing- ton, sustained yesterday evening when his motor cycle crashed into an suto- mobile on the Rockville pike, near here, led to the arrest of Mrs. Annie B. Purdy of the 600 block of I street, the driver of the car, on charges of reckless driv- tbx::d She later was released under $500 wnmn.mpoznuotanymd""’ on it ‘The burden of proof, the court points :{uz,hmuuphmcmwmowm lack chases or Sotuy otherwise, Until 1t is estaplished that the accident was caused through the negligence of defendant’s employes or as a result of the existence of a condi- tion of which he had actual or con- structive notice there can be no recov- ery, the court declared. West Virginia Man Held. into custody by sixth Ed:t lice yesterday. Authorities at hos- pani he is said to have attempted to make & left, turn and Steele struck the front of her car. He was taken to the Hospital for medical attention. It is thought there that he will recover. SHOW JAPAN.ESE PRINTS Historic Wood Carvings on Exhibi- tion in Library of Congress. COURT REVERSES VETERANS DECISION Holds Bureau Director Em- powered to Change Ratings. Holding that the director of the United Siates Veterans' Bureau is clothed with authority to review ratings under the emergency officers’ retirement act of May 24, 1928, as under the World War veterans' act of 1924, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Chief Justice George E. Mar- tin today, reversed decisions in three cases in which the District Supreme Court had granted writs of mandamus requiring Gen. Frank T. Hines to place the names of three officers on the re- tired list created by the emergency of- ficers’ act. ‘The officers affected are Stanton K. Livingston, Robert A. Baird and Eric Nilan, ‘The lower court had held that since the bureau had rated the men disabled more than 30 per cent they were entitled to the benefit of the re- tired pay and the bureau was bound by its ntln,. ‘The appellate tribunal points out that the World War act provides that the bureau, upon its own motion or upon application, may at any time review an award and, in accordance with the facts found upon such review, may end, di- minish increase the compensation previously ‘awarded. The bureau is also authorized to fix the ratings under the emergency officers’ act, and the benefits granted by both acts arise from ratings made biem bureau. “It is not reason- lieve,” says Chief Justice Mar- tin, “that Congress intended to deprive the bureau when acting under the latter act of the power to review its rati s expressly granted to it by ! former act. “It is recited in the second proviso of the latter act that all officers, such as are described in the first paragraph of the act, ‘who have heretofore or may hereafter be rated less than 30 per centum or more than 10 per centum permanent disability by the United States Veterans’ Bureau shall be en- titled to certain benefits, but without retired pay.’ This provision authorizes the rating of all such officers by the bureau at any time after the passage of act. “We are convinced that it was the intent of Congress that the bureau should exercise the same authority to review ratings under this act which was conferred upon it by the World War veterans' act and that it was not the legislative intent that the bureau should become ‘functus officio’ so soon as its first rating was made in a case. It follows that the director was acting within his jurisdiction when he caused the ratings of the officers to be recon- sidered, and a writ of mandamus will not lie to control the exercise of his Jjudgment in such cases.” . THREE ARE ARRESTED IN “NUMBERS” RAID Colored Minister, in Place at Time, Tells Police He Was Seek- ing Text. ‘Three men were arrested by Detec- tive Sergt. Hubert Brodie this morning in a raid on an alleged “numbers” game establishment “fronted” by a shoe re- pair shop in the 400 block of Q street and a large quantity of gambling slips reported seized. The proprietor, Joseph Savia, 45; his son, Phillip Savia, 18, both of Brent- wood, Md.,, and the former’s brother, ‘Thomas Savia, 36, of Alexandria, Va., were taken into custody and charged ot T e numl of leg patrons caught in the shop were allowed to among them a colored minister. “What are you doing in a place like this?” Brodie asked he recognized the latter. “I was just getting the text for my next - Sunday’s sermon,” the minister meekly replied as he left. —_— APPEALS COURT RESTS Adjournment Taken Until First Monday in October. ‘The District Court of Aj s ad- Jjourned wd-.fl.tnr the Bumg::r:.rm The court disposed of all the cases which had been submitted with one ex- The decision in that case expected to be handed down later the week. Sessions of the court will resumed the first Monday in October. the minister when | thi is in| tion to be FILLING STATION ANOTHER TRIAL Crawford’s ‘Reputation Is Brought Up by Error, Court of Appeals Ruling. DISSENTING OPINION BY JUSTICE ROBB Colored Man Who Killed Bitner Given Death After Fair Chance, He Holds. James E. Crawford, colored, under sentence of death for the killing of Philbert (Jack) Bitner at the gas-filling station at Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue Thanksgiving night, 1928, was granted a new trial today by the Dis- trict Court of Appeals in an opinion by Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel. Justice Charles H. Robb dissented. ‘The majority opinion held that the lower court erred in permitting the Gayernment to offer testimony to show that previous to the killing the four men in the party had driven an auto- mobile, which had been stolen, into Maryland for the purpose of hi-jacking some rum-runners. The error con- sisted, the court poitned out, in placing the reputation of the defendant in issue on a matter not related to the commission of the crime of which he was convicteed. In a criminal trial, said Justice Van Orsdel, no one may place the reputation of a defendant in issue but the defendant himself. “Evidence Prejudicial.” “That the evidence here admitted,” said the court, “was most damaging and prejudicial, there can pe no doubt. The District attorney, in his opening statement to the jury, stated, with other things, ‘that he intended to prove that the defendants attempted to hijack some liquor in Maryland on the night of the shooting’ The evidence was not competent for the purpose of es- tablishing any material fact in con- nection with the crime charged against the defendants.” Three other persons, besides Craw- ford, were indicted for the murd one, Joseph Hardy, has never been a prehended; Carl M. Terry was acquit- ted by the jury which tried Crawford, and Benjamin Branson testified for the Government and later pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, now serving 20 years in the penitentiary. All the men were colored. Attorney John H. Wilson represented Crawford and carried his case to the appellate court, On Criminal Expedition. In his dissenting opinion Justice Robb said: “The four men who were in- dicted stole a car and embarked on a criminal expedition. They drove into Maryland, where theéy remained about three-quarters of an hour. On the way back Crawford suggested that they change the tags on the car and keep it for further use. Near Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue the car stopped because of lack of gasoline. Whereupon the plan was evolved to hold up the gasoline station. “In my view, no error was committed in permitting the Government to prove the circumstances leading up to and culminating in the murder. A large part of the evidence now objected to was admitted without exception and the detalls were developed by appellant’s counsel during the cross-examination of the Government’s witnesses. The guilt of appellant is clear, he has had a fair trial and I think the judgment should be affirmed.” BREWSTER FACING ARREST THIS WEEK Gloth Will Lodge Soldier Buspect in Baker Case in Arling- ton Jail. Howard L. Brewster, soldier suspect in the Mary Baker murder case, it was announced today, will be taken into custody some time this week by Com- monwealth Attorney William C. Gloth of Arlington County, Va. and held in the . Arlington County Jail pending further developments in the investiga- tions of the crime. Gloth did not reveal when he will ask military authorities to place Brew- ster in his custody, but it is believed he will wait until the official report of the special medical board appointed to inquire into the soldier’s sanity is turned over to the investigators. The report, coursing its way through official Army channels, is said to have reached headquarters of the 3d Army Corps in Baltimore, which embraces the District, but it has not been made public or been shown to authorities investigating the murder case. It is understood, however, that the examining board found the soldier to be sane and responsible for his acts. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, head of the Homicide Squad of the Washington Detective Bureau, sald it is unlikely that Brewster will be questioned again until he is in the custody of Arlington County authorities. The soldier is still confined in the guard house in the headquarters company to which he i» attached and spent a quiet week end while Lieut. Kelly, Gloth and Inspector ‘Willilam 8. Shelby in charge of the De- tective Bureau, were enjoying motor trips in widely separated sections of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The investigators have not-talked with the soldier since last Thursday. . EDGAR C. SNYDER BEGINS THIRD TERM AS MARSHAL Entire Force Renews Oaths, but Reorganization Is Scheduled During Coming Month. Edgar O. Snyder today began his ird term as United States marshal for the District of Columbia. The oath of office was administered in chambers by Justice Alfred A. Wheat in the pres- ence of former Chief Justice Walter 1. McCoy, representatives from the office of United States Attorney Frank E. Cunningham, clerk of the court, and other court officials. The entire force of 65 deputy mar- shals renewed their oaths of office, but Marshal Snyder announcer that a re- organization would be effected during the coming month. At least five deputies, it 1s reported, are to be allowed to re- sign, effective June 15. Senatorial pres- sure for appointments is said to be be- hind the force in addi- MONDAY, SCENES AT ANNUAL HIGH .SCHOOL CADET DRILL JUNE 2, 1930. Society and General PAGE B—-1 IDISTRICT MARKET ICONDITIONS SCORED Top: Company K of Western High School is undergoing detailed inspection at the opening in Griffith Stadium today of the competitive drill. Left to right: Lieut. Thomas H. Allen, Capt. Oscar Sugar of Company K, Lieut. James C. White and Capt. A. R. Bolling. The inspecting officers are from Headquarters Company, U. S. A. Lower left: Misses Marian Walker, Virginia Burnett and Thelma Soper of Eastern High School are waiting for their favorite company to appear on the field. Lower right is Pvt. George Bean, who lost an eye while practicing for the drill, and FADETS HOLDING Maj. COMPETITIVE DRILL { F. McCormick, First Lieut. Thomas H. Annual Tests for Prize Con-| clude in Griffith Stadium Tomorrow. ‘The annual company competitive drills, sugreme test which Washington high school cadets undergo each Spring, are under way at Griffith Stadium today. The all-important maneuvers were launched at 8:30 o'clock this morning by.£ompany L of Western High School, under command of Cadet Capt. John M. Jester, jr, and will continue until late tomorrow afternoon, when the winning unit will be awarded the frayed and tat- tered silk flag of victory. ‘Today’s drills, which paused at 12:15 for an hour’s recess, were not without their displays of courage on the part of the young cadets. George Bean, Cen- tral High School lad who lost the sight of his left eye early in May when he fell upon a pointed stick while practic- ing extended order drill for today's competition, is on duty with the first- aid staff. This unit, under command of Cadet Maj. Leonard Kaplan, is estab- lished to render aid to injured cadets or to those who succumb to the inevita- ble combination of heat, excitement and soda pop. Second Lieut. Talbert A. Smith of Company C, Eastern, insisted upon en- tering the drill despite the orders of his physician to rest a leg injured re- cently in a base ball game. Lieut. Smith held his post throughout the close-order drill, but was relieved from duty during the extended-order phase of the maneuvers. First Ald Man Injured. ‘The first and only casualty requiring the attention of the first aid staff this morning, was_an injury received by Sergt. Daniel Davis, a member of the first ald staff. Davis was assisting in the pitching of the first ald tent and slashed his left wrist with the axe with which he was driving in & tent peg. The injury was not particularly serious and he was given first aid treatment by his associates and remained on duty throughout the day. Besides Company L, first unit to take the fleld, other companies which drilled ;.odny, and their respective officers, fol- low: ‘This morning—Company M, Capt. ‘Willlam Dix, First Lieut. Charles Armes and Second Lieut. Edwin Morris; Com- pany G, Capt. Darrell Smith, Pirst Lieut. Joseph A. Thomas and second Lieut. Alan D, Clarke, and Company K, Capt. Oscar K. Sugar, First Lieut. Jack L. Derzavitz, Second Lieut. Jose L. Ardal, all of Western High School. Company C, Capt. Joseph W. Rabbitt, jr., First Lieut. Edward R. Speis, and Second Lieut. Talbert Smith; Company D, Capt. Charles W. Hart, Pirst Lieut. Morris M. Burka and Second Lieut. Arthur B. Willis; Company F, Capt. James P, Holloway, First Lieut. Robert H. Grant and Second Lieut. John H. Meads, and Company A, Capt. John W, Nally, First Lieut. Walter W. Bran- nock and Seécond Lieut. James N. May, all of Eastern High School! Recess at Noon. Follo an hour’s recess, the drill was resumed at 1:15 o’clock, twhm H, commanded by A A ‘White of School, took Leonard Kaplan of the first aid unit. —Star Staff Photos. the field. Other companies drilling this afternoon are: Company C. Capt. Winchester H. Zepp, t Lieut. Edward I. Lewis and Second Lieut. John W. Lambert; Com- pany D, Capt. Charles Y. Turner, First Lieut. James P. Marshall and Second Lieut. William Dodge; Company F, Capt. George S. Cawthorne, First Lieut. Dart W, Willlams, Second Lieut. Gran- ville.C. Dunn; Company B. Capt. Henry Zepp and Second Lieut. Robert A. Hilder; Company A, Capt. Henry A. Kroll, Pirst Lieut. John P. Harris and Second Lieut. Benson Taylor, id Company G, Capt. Lorimer E. Gerard, First Lieut. Richard Mellen and Second Lieut. Richard Graham, all of McKinley High School, and Company I, the Busi- ness High School battalion, Capt. W. Melville Stuart, Pirst Lieut. Robert P. g:?l and Second Lieut. Russell H. e. Company C of Central will begin to- morrow’s drill at 8:30 o'clock in the morning. ‘The judges are Capt. Alexander R. Bolling, U. 8. A, commanding officer of the headquarters company, district of Washington, and his two lieutenants, First Lieut. George C. White and Sec- ond Lieut. Thomas H. Allen. The final decision will be announced about 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Tomor- row's drill will be marked also by the annual non-commissioned officers’ com- petition, scheduled for 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon. BANDITS EFFECT HOLD-UP AND ESCAPE WITH CASH One Victim Robbed of $27, Another Loses $9.50 and Third Parts With $42. ‘Two white and two colored bandits operated here last night, taking $27 lam one vietim and $9.50 from the other. Ivan Nance, 1638 R street, was walk- ing north on Sixteenth near O street about midnight, he reported to the po- | A} lice, when two colored men held him up and relieved him of $27. Edward E. McEwan, driver of a May- flower taxicab, residing at 3014 Q street, was the other victim. He was held up by white men on Rhode Island avenue northeast near the railroad viaduct as he was about to board his car and robbed of $9.50. Shortly before 3 o'clock this morning William Jefferson, colored, 3220 Twelfth street, was attacked by three uniden- tified colored men and robbed of a money pouch containing $42. Jefferson told police of the eighth precinct that he was in the 1800 block of Seventh street at the time. NEVITT TO OMIT INQUEST . IN DEATH OF FISHER — Cornoner J. Ramsay Nevitt will not call an inquest into the death of Charles J. Fisher, 48, of 619 Eighth street south- east, who died at the .Providence Hos- pital Saturday night from injuries suf- fered when run down by an automobile May 12, he said today. Vincent J. Buettner, 21 years old, of 313 South Carolina avenue southeast, who was arrested after his machine struck Fisher and Mrs. Mary G. Koller, 45, %l!n B street southeast, at Thir- COMMITEE TALLS SHITH ED. BODS tection Proceedings for Holders. though the F. H. Smith Co.,” of which George E. Roosevelt of New York, it chairman, sent to every known hol today a call for the deposit of these bonds. The first eommittee was known as the Miller committee and was also formed in New York. The “call” sent out today is really a 20-page circular containing various information regarding the Smith bonds and is designed to prove of interest to the bondholders, regardless of whether they plan to deposit their bonds or to hold them. The committee announces that there are, or were, about 20,000 holders of Smith bonds. Probably there are not that many now, the committee adds, since brokers have bought large blocks of them. Sale of the bonds to street brokers at a great sacrifice is one of the things the Roosevelt committee is discouraging. This second committee has put in several weeks investigating the financial position of the bonds. This informa- tion is &relenbed in the circular, each issue being taken up separately. Exceptions Pointed Out. Attention of holders of the bonds on ‘Washington properties is called to the fact that the Roosevelt committee is not calling for bonds on the Investment Bullding, Riverside Apartments, Tivoli rtments and the Vermont Building. The committee considers that for the present at least these bonds are ade- quately secured. g “In the case of some of the other issues,” the committee added, “receivers have been appointed, or applications filed for their appointment. A number of issues are in default in the interest and the amortization payments due under the mortgages. In the case of a number of other issues the taxes have not been paid for several years, “In a number of issues,” the commit- tee states, “the earnings on the prop- erties are not sufficient to pay the in- terest and rtization on the bonds outstanding against such properties and some sort of readjustment or reorgani- zation will be necessary.” ‘The circular takes up each bond rately. Bondholders can obtain cop! if their names are not on the commit- tee's mailing list, by wplyln&to Charles D. Hilles, jr., secretary of the commit tee, 31 Nassau, New York. It is also stated that John W. Davis, the noted cc?ouuon lawyer, is to de- termine the fees of the committee, of its counsel and of the depository. Issues Listed in Call. ‘The committee is calling in bonds on the following issues: Algonquin Hotel, Cumberland, Md.; Al-Roy Apartments, Washington; Arlington _ Apartments, Pittsburgh; Cavalier and Cedric Apart- ments, Philadelphia; Courts, Washin ; _Crestshire IN BUDGET REPORT Roberts Requests $26,000 to Re-Equip Western Mart in 1932 Estimates. ADVISES OPERATION ‘IN RESPECTABLE MANNER’ Another Item of $20,000 Sought to Replace Wooden Wharf With Concrete Structure. Market conditions under the District Government were scored by G. M. Rob- erts, superintendent of weights and measures, in submitting his 1932 budget estimates, which were made public to- y. Asking $26,000 to complete repairs to the Western Market, Mr. Roberts said that “unless the District of Columbia can maintain its markets according to well recognized modern requirements, at least within a reasonable degree, it Hlumld not continue their operation at Al Previous requests for appropriations to re-equip the Western Market, Mr. Roberts reminded the Commissioners, have been eliminated by the Bureau of the Budget. “If the Western Market is to continue,” he added, “it is absolutely essential to maintain the market in a respectable manner.” The $26,000 requested would be ex- pended not only in .repairs, but for the installation of new, sanitary stands, repainting and repaving of walks about i e T er of $20,000 is requested to replace the worn out wmdemhlrt at the Municipal Fish Market with & modern concrete structure. This is in accordance with a recommendation made by C.-R. Whyte, engineer of bridges. The wharf at present, he said, is dangerous for heavy loads. It was estimated a concrete wharf would last for 25 years. 3 Personal services in the office of superintendent of weights and measures account of $49,020 of the estimates, an increase of about $2,000, which would add five junior inspectors by elimin- ating five laborers. Repairs to the fish market itself will require an addi- tional $10,000 and $6,000 is asked. for the purchase of a heavy truck for use l‘-:l ‘teigl:‘f ltletlhvytclyu:‘l’!y ‘sclles. ‘This est at was denied lasf s Mr. Roberts said. aTeen ILL FOR TWO YEARS, WOMAN SHOOTS SELF Mrs. Fannie Birch, 27, Is Taken to Georgetown Hospital in Serious Condition. Said to have been despondent over poor health, Mrs. Fannie Birch, 27, of 1710 Thirty-third street, shot herself over the heart with a .38-caliber pistol this She was removed to | Deposit Asked in Second Pro- | morning. Georgetown Hospital, where her condi= tion was described as serious. Shortly before the shooting, Mrs. Birch was conversing from the second floor of her home with two neighbors, Mrs. Rosle Rubin and Mrs, Florence Whalen. She told them she A few minutes later the neighbors heard the report of the pistol and ran into the house. They met Mrs, Birch coming down the stairs, her clothing. afire around the bullet hole. Mrs. Whalen smothered the flames with her hands and called an ambulance. At the hospital Mrs. Birch told doc- ments, Washington; Chatham Apart- | ton; tors attending her that she had been {ll for two years and did not want to get well. X-rays will be taken to detes e the extent of her injuries. Her husband, Joseph Birch, is in Vire ginia on a fishing trip. Their 9-year= old son, Joseph, jr., was in another part g! mlf house when the mother shof erself. et | NEW TRIAL DENIED TWO IN KIMBLE ROBBERY] District Court of Appeals Holds There Was No Reversible Error in Trial or Instructions. Harry Harris must serve 10 years in the penitentiary and Leo Rohan seven years and six months, according to an opinion of the District Court of Appeals rendered today by Chief Justice George E. Martin. The men were convicted of robbing S. T. Kimble, a public school official, of $235, November 17, 1928, at the Georgetown foot ball game at Griffith Stadium, and sought a new trial which the appellate court denied. Kimble's pocket was picked. ‘The conviction had been based en- tirely on circumstantial evidence and the appellate tribunal declared there was no reversible error in the trial or in the instructions of the trial justice, Assistant United States Attorney Wile liam H. Collins conducted the prosecu= tion and argued the case in the ape pellate court, DR. M’'CARTNEY LEAVES FOR CHURCH’S ASSEMBLY, Plans for National Presbyterian Edifice in Washington to Be Discussed. Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, has left for the General Assembly of the Pres~ byterian Church in the United States of America, now in session in Cincin« nati, where he will meet the Commis< sion for the Establishment of a Nae tional Presbyterian Church in ington. From Cincinnati he will proceed ta Chicago, where he will preach a bace calaureate sermon on Thursday, returns ing here in time to occupy his pulpit next Sunday. The midweek service at the Church of the Covenant next Thursday evening will be conducted by Dr. Charles Wood, former pastor of the church. —— Orange, Va.; Jefferson Apartment: Washington; New Anuurdn?-’ Aplrt’- ments, Washington; Overbrook Arms, Philadelphia; Royalton Apartments, fon:" Stknley “Arms, - Wshisgton, asd ley 3 a Massachusetts avenue, Wm o First and second the. Fairfax, Philadel) 2100 ton. bonds on Fairfax, and Pinance - | Pittsburgh, and . .La mmnmmn.'mmm