Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1930, Page 17

Washington News RUM RUNNER FLEES HEAVLY LADEN CAR SHOT AT BY POLIE Shakes Off Pursuers Through Smoke Screen, but Aban- dons Auto. OFFICERS’ BULLETS SHATTER WINDSHIELD Beveral Liquor Containers Are Pierced in Chase Starting on Massachusetts Avenue. Racing ahead of a smoke screen in a wild dash through the northwest resi- dential section early today, a rum run- mer, whose machine had been shot into several times by motor cycle po- licemen, lost his nerve and abandoned the car and 102 gallons of corn whisky, BULLET HOLES IN RUM MACHINE WASHINGTON, D. C ¢ Foening Star FRIDAY, JUNE 1 21, CAPT.R. . MERRICK OF RICHMOND NEW DISTRICT DRY CHIEF Will Take Office Tuesday. Here Today Conferring With Officials. NEW DRY ENFORCEMENT DISTRICTS ANNOUNCED ber From 27 to 12 in Nam- ing Administrators. Plans for the transfer of prohibition enforcement trom the Treasury Depart- ment to the Department of Justice, as officially announced by these two de- partments last night, places this city under a new prohibition chief, Capt R. Q Merrick of Richmond, Va, be ginning next Tuesday morning. Justice Department Reduces Num- | Society and General 930. The heavy lines in the map abqve show how the Department of Justice, which is to take over the administration of the prohibition laws, has divided up the coun- | try into new districts. Below: R. Q. Merrick, the new administrator for No. 4 PAGE GRAVELY DEMOTED FOR WITHHOLDING PRISONER'S MONEY $23.43 in Suspect’s Satchel Turned in After Delay, Is Charge. | DISCHARGING OF DAVIS BY TRIAL BOARD UPHELD B—1 | District Commissioners Sustain Finding of Guilt in Intoxication Case Against Officer. His delay in turning over a sum of money taken from a prisoner was the reason for yesterday's demotion of Pvt. Spottswood F. Gravely, liquor enforce- ment officer at the third precinct, to uniform man at the second precinct, it Permissive work for distribution of | liquor permits will be handled by | Thomas E. Stone, the present prohibi- was learned today. district, which includes Washington. The action was taken on recom apparently unaware of the fact that he | had shaken off his pursuers Policeman S. 1. Young of No. 2 pre- einct was patrolling his beat in the vicinity of Fourteenth and S streets when he heard the shots. He saw the rum car speed down Fourteenth street and turn west into R street. Young followed on foot through an ®lley and conducted a systematic search of the neighborhood. On Swan street near Fourteenth he found the abandoned car with its cargo of 17 cases of corn whisky. The driver hod fled. Speeds as Officers Near. The chase began at Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenuss, when Policemen Eslie Williams and Cleota Langdon of the Traffic Bureau, goin east on Mas- sachusetts avenue, saw a heavily-laden sedan just ahead of them. As the policemen drew up, the auto- mobile put on speed and the chase was on. Almost immediately the lone occu- pant of the fugitive car turned on a smoke screen and fled ahead of it down Masachusetts avenue into Thirty-fifth place and then across to Sixteenth reet. & Several times during the pursuit the officers managed to draw abreast of the fugitive car and each time, Officer Lang- don said, the rum runner swerved his machine and tried to run them into the curb. Approaching Sixteenth and S streets, ooy “Langdon tried three times to ghoot down a tire on the sedan. The car succeeded in drawing away, how- ever, and escaped down a side street. Shot Shatters Windshield. Young searched the car and tele- phonedglhg precinct. The whisky and automobile were taken to the station house and there it was found that one bullet had pierced the right rear fender, another ahd gone through the back ot‘ the car, apparently shattering the wind- shield. and a third had hit the chassis near the right rear wheel. 4 The sedan was equipped with an elaborate smoke-screen device and all seats save the driver's had been re- moved to make room for the cargo. | Several containers had been shattered by a bullet, a circumstance which prob- ebly saved the rum-runner from injury. The car bore District tags and a extra set of Maryland plates, and efforts sre being made to trace ownership through them. The officers said the car probably was coming in from Balti- more by a roundabout way to avoid the more heavily guarded route through the Northeast section. “KIDNAPED” YOUTH RETURNS TO HOME Exciting Vacation Tale of Abduc- tion by Gangsters Proves to Be False. John M. Thomas, 20, of Chester. Pa was back home today, his “little vaca- tion” in the Capital in scarch of ex- citement completed. 3 Thomas was placed on a train for| Chester by Detective Sergt. Clarence Tally last night after he had signed a statement declaring the kidnaping story | he hold police Tuesday was a myth and | that he had “left home to go on a little | wacation and have some excitement.” | The youth had been held at the first | precinct since Tuesday, when he un- | wound a 1antastic tale of having beer | kidnaped by gangsters in Chester | threatened with death and finally tossed from the machine of the gun-| men in_this city when they decided to “spare him.” His father, however, had other ideas | when he heard of his son’s plight and @ letter to police explaining that the | boy once before had run away and come | to Washington resulted in a grilling; which ended with the youth admitting e had concocted the wild tale 50 police would furnish money for his return fare home. The boy's father yesterday forwarded | money for his transportation back tc Chester. DRY ADMINISTRATOR REFUSES BOSTON POST| Maj. Campbell of New York Office Declines to Say Whether He ‘Will Quit Service. NEW YORK. June 27 (P).—Maj. Maurice Campbell, prohibition admin- istrator here, who has becn ordered transferred to Boston as permit super- visor in the Industrial Alcohol Bureau, last night laconically announced, “I'm not_going to Boston.” He telephoned his announcement to the Assoclated Press. When asked whether he meant that the Treasury Department list was incorrect he said, He refused to answer a question as to whether he intended to withdraw from the service. $50,000 DAMAGES ASKED Personal Injury Suit Filed Against Terminal Company. August Westberg, 600 I street south- ea-t, a boilermaker’s helper, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $50,000 damages from the Wash- ington Terminal Co. for alleged per- sonal injuries. He charges that an electric light bulb had been removed from a socket above the boiler which he had been sent to repair and in the dark- ness he fell from the top of the boiler a distance of 10 feet, breaking all the ribs on his right side and sustaining oiher injuries. He also charges the company failed to provide proper med- ical attention for him and he is per- manently disfigured, he as: erts. as the This automobile was capture] in an alley last night after the driver had successfully eluded police by turning loose a smoke screen cloud in the Northwest residential district. The bullet holes in the back were made by the pursuing policemen, who reported that the rum machine driver tried to force them into the curb. ~—Star Staff Photo. WEAPON ALLOWED D.C. SECURITY LAW RFCER SUSPEET NEED EAPHASED Baltimorean to Face Dry Better Business Bureau Law Charge, but Black- Hears Report on Activi- jack Overlooked. ties of Year Past. The need of a securities law for the District of Columbia—"any securities An officer of the law from another State, although he might be violating the prohibition law in the District, has a right to carry a weapon in the Dis- trict. This was the ruling handed down law"—was emphasized by the Better Business Bureau today at the annual meeting, which was held at the Na- by the district attorney’s Police Court | office in the case of Edward A. Ham- ilton, claiming to be a Baltimore deputy | ¢, sheriff, arrested for transporting liq and carrying a concealed blackjack. While Hamilton's identification was, accepted by authorities here, it Was| prevented under a securities law. said in Baltimore that there is no| The bureau handled 4.721 cases in deputy sheriff by that name. the year, of which 2,080 were shop- Hamilton was arrested yesterday on | ping investigations; 1,746 other investi- Bladensburg road, along Wwith Richard | gations and 895 consumer complaints Lusby, also of Baltimore. by Sergt. of a merchandise nature. The bureau George Little and his liquor squad. Po- | has kept within its budget, Mr. Roths- lice reported finding 143 half-gallons of | child reported, and handled 240 more liquor if the car. cases than in'the preceding year. Sergt. Little recognized the car as| Advertising Accuracy Is Aim. it came toward him yesterday as one! «“Our aim has been more than just which he had seized for carrying liquor | truth in advertising,” he sald. “We last Winter, when a man and his wife | have striven for complete accuracy, the were arrested. He stopped it and then | whole truth, and nothing but the truth, ordered Hamilton to drive to the sixth|and thanks to harmonious, constructive precinct, where the two were held for | support by advertising mediums and investigation while police obtained a|merchants themselves, much has been search warrant for the car from United | accomplished.” States Commissioner ~Needham “Probably the most constructive step Turnage. of the past year's activities,” said Mr. Hamilton and Lusby were bound over | Rothschild, s the opposition to the to the grand jury under $2,500 bond | uyse of superlative and extravagant from Police Court today by Judge John | statements in advertising. While sel- P. McMahon. | dom actually misleading to the intel- Despite protests by the airesting | ligent public, such advertising is def- police, Assistant District _ Attorney | initely - destructive because it inspires Charles B. Murray, after consulting | disbeilef. appears ridiculous and tears other authorities at court, decided not | down public confidence, * * * Particu- to press the charge of carrying a con- | jarly, the subpect of bureau objections cealed weapon against Hamilton. | were claims of underselling in price all The two Baltimoreans were repre-| competitors. Experience, not only in sented by Attorney F. J. Donohue. | Washington. but through the country, definitely shows that it is a physical jm- tional Press Club. Louis Rothschild, director, reported the meeting that notwithstanding UOr | efforts of the organization, thousands of dollars were lost through frauds dur- Ing the year past that could have been possibility for any retail esfablishment | | t0 Tive up to such an announced policy.” Mr. Rothschild said that the bureau | was “still hampered by the lack cf cny ITEM ADDED T0 BILL | specific 1aw to prevent fraud in security transactions,” but that it had met un- S e 2 | precedented’ success in_ its campaign against promoters and salesmen of securities and agains: confi- Amendment to Second Deficiency s schemes. d Measure Provides $250,000 to | B < ‘ bureau is not opposed to speculation as Eliminate Rail Crossing. such. “The bureau does fecl that when a — ~culates, or buys a speculative An item of $250,000 to climinate an- | § that individual should know other of Washingfon's railroad grade | the risks involved and should not be crossings by building a subway under | Mislead into thinking that gilt edged, the Baltimore & Ohio tracks at or near | conservative investment is being made, Fern street, which is one of the projects | he_said. tied up in the deadlocked District ap- |, The report of the treasurer was made propriation bill, was added as an |t fthe annual meeting by F. C. Ad- %0 & i v discn, jr., president of the Security amendment to the second defictency bill | Eyviios ' dommercial Bank, . . The bureaws nominating committee, This action was taken without de- | Thig] 2 g bate on motion of Senator Tydings, | O, Which B. B. Burgunder is chair- Democrat, of Maryland, The purpose is | T1o0. “eROrted the nominations of 34 to abolish the Chestnut street crossing. | Serve s the noard of tristecs tor tin It will still have to o to conference, | fiuca) ‘vear ended June 30. 1031 CThie since the House has not acted on it. | were elccted as follows: " g = | F’ 6. Addison, ir: Bdward c. Baits, IVER INJURED | }ac Bebrend. 'Y 'E" Booker, B. B! TRUCK DR Burgunder, A. E. Case, Joshua Evans, jr: James Hardey, William G. Galli- tasd - her, M. G. Gibbs, Ral, 5 After Accident in Northeast. }H. Hahn, H. G. Hoskinson, Thomas E. Jarrell and Sylvan King. Benjamin Marshall, 27 years old, of |" M. A. Leese, Louis Levay, John D. 330 T street, was taken to Casualty|leonard, H. H. Levi, R. B. H. Lyon, Hospital for 'minor injuries yesterday | C. H. Pope, Herbert J. Rich, L. E. when a bread truck he was driving was | Rubel, H. L. Rust, Herman M. Shapiro, in a collision with an automobile at| Abraham Sigmund, W. W. Spaid ¥, Second street and Massachusetts avenue i P H. Siddons, Anton Stephan, Arthur northeast. Sundlun, Ben T. Webster and Claude The operator of the automobile, Put- : = nam Togers, 38 years: ol of %4 T H. Woodward and Phillp L. Baldwin. street northeast, escaped unhurt. e First aid treatment was administered | to Willis Johnson, 10 years old, of 141i | FRENCH HORSE WINNER North Carolina_avenue, when the chilc| PARIS, June 27 /4. —Strelitz, Viscount was taken to Casualty Hospital yester-|de Rivaud's crack 4-year-old steeple- | day with lacerations of the right leg |chaser, todar won the ciassic Prix Des sustained when an automobile driven | Drags of two and thirteen-sixteenths by Laurence Crawford, 24, of 1602 | miles. Ames place northeast, struck him at| Alfonso was Fifteenth and C streets northeast. | third. second and Telegram Piccolo Pete, or Moaning Mose, May Have Taken Clarinet, Which Still Is Missing. Thieves got an E-flat clarinet from|Eppard, he might have seized clothing, the Suburban Gardens yesterday, but‘gg‘.’;::ll;y- or silver before he took to the Metropolitan Police Department 15{ e R e happy to report that the ukelele of | made for an open door with his prize. 236 Rhode Island avenue has been re-| “He must be late for his music les- covered. | son!" exclaimed a passerby, who joined The E-flat clarinet probably is lost | the pursuit 2 moment later when mem- forever. The thief left no clue when he | bers of the Eppard family issued to the departed from the colored amusement re- | street. Rothschild emphasized that the | who will | sort, on Benning road, nor does Fred- erick W Day of 1438 D street, who re- ported the theft, have an inkling of his_identity. ‘The recovery of the ukelele, however, was almost immediate. When a col- result of such alleged negligence. At- f~rmev Alvin L. Newmyer appears for ored youth in college-cut clothes was surprised at 236 Rhode Island avenue, rummsging about the Rome of Vernon Seeing that every one seemed deter- mined to recover the ukuleie, the fugi- tive despaired of making his «scape with it and threw it down. While the others stopped to pick up the ukulele, the colored boy whizzed around a corner and was gons, The ukulele was undamaged, the po- lice reported. tion administrator at Baltimore, who will become permit supervisor in the new Bureau of Industrial Alcohol in the Treasury Department. These changes are in line with the shifts made throughout the country when the new Bureau of Prohibition will be set up in the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol in the Treasury. In making its announcement the De- | partment of Justice made public its new | list of prohibition districts, reducing the ! number from 27 to 12, and_announced the names of the prohibition admin- istrators. At the Treasury it was ex- plained that in its permissive work the Treasury will operate in the 12 new districts. The permit supervisors were announced. Mitchell Makes Statement. Attorney General Mitchell aiso made public a statement on prohibition en- forcement, in which he pointed ont the responsibilities resting on States for enforcement and the co-operation con- sidered as needed between Federal and State authorities. He said, however their - enforcement statutes there were “grave defictencies in enforcement.” Capt. Merrick, the new chief in charge here, will have a new prohibi- tion district, including Maryland, Vir- ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and the District of Co- lumba. Capt. Merrick was in Washington to- day conferring with officials at the Treasury and Justice Departments, but planned to leave this afternoon for his headquarters in Richmond. He has had 25 years service in the Government, in- cluding many years in the old Internal Revenue Service, operating against moonshiners in the South for evading the revenue tax laws long before pro- hibition became effective. Capt. rick has held responsible Po: in sav- eral parts of the country, including New York Buffalo, Chicago, Savannah and Richmond. The District of Columbia is now ad- ministered from Baltimore, in an area l;(;‘!gpgsllnz m"ll\{7 the District, Marvland elaware, by Mr. Stone, administrator. ¢ R apt. Merrick, the new prohibiti chief under the Dppan,mpntpn{ Juslxr()‘l: in charge of this city, is a veteran of the prohibition service, and recently has been in charge of the district in- ;l{:):[i:zcvlrf‘inln. North Carolina_and S arolina, with u 9 R, headquarters ‘n . R. Blandford, the deputy - bition administrator in .S‘K'J.'.’JFJ,‘Q: district, will remain here in charge, ac- cording to officials of the Department of Justice, under whom he will operate after July 1. Blandford and all similar prohibition administrators were con- tmL‘md in their present posts, the De- pariment of Justice announced, Col. Woodcock New Head. The new Bureau of Prohibition is being set up in the Department of Jis- tice, to be headed by Col. A. W. W | Woodcock, who will act as director of the bureau. under supervision of Attor- JIH‘,\' General Mitchell and the Assistant ‘Allorne_v General in charge of prohibi- | tion, Aaron Youngquist. Howard T. Jones will serve as agsistant director. The present Bureau of Prohibition in the Treasury Department will be changed into the.Bureau of Industrial Alcohol. ~While the official announce- ment has been made to the effect. i is known that_the present prohibition | commissioner, Dr. James M. Doran, will | become the commissioner of inductrial alcohol. This bureau, under Dr. Doran retains the duty of issuing permits for {the manufacture and use of alcohol |and other intoxi ’b«,vernge pur] { the activities . Mer- Poses and of supervising of the permittees, The 27 prohibition districts now ex- Z‘s’t‘;i‘ rhavg(l);chrrarrnngrd into 12 new stricts, wi undaries corre T es_corresponding circuits. In addition to the local district, know: as No. 4. which is in charge of thjr: bition Administrator Merrick, under the | Department, of Justice, and Mr. Stone, | permit supervisor under the Treasury | Department, th. other new districts, with their prohibition administrators and permit supervisors, are as follows: Other New Districts. District 1 includes the New England States, with headquarters at Bosto Jonathan S. Lewis, prohibition admini: trator; Maurice Campbell, permit super- visor. District 2 consists of the State of |New York, with headquarters at New York City, to which Porto Rico will be {attached for purposes of administration: | Andrew McCampbell, administrator, and W. D. Moss, supervisor. District 3—Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, with headquarters at Philadelphia; John D. Pennington, ad- ministrator, and S. O. Wynne, super- visor. District 5—Florida, Georgia, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas, with headquarters at New Orleans; Rob- ert E Tuttle, administrator, and O. D. Jackson, supervisor. District 6—Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, with headquarters at Cincinnati; W. N. Woodruff, adminis- trator, and R. E. Joyce, sup-rvisor. District 7—Illinois, Indiana and Wi: consin, with headquarters at Chicag: ; Col. John F. J. Herbert, administrator, and E. C. Yellowly, supervisor. District 8—Minnesota. North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, with headquarters at St. Paul; M. L. Harney, administrator, and S. B. Quale, super- visor. District 9—Missouri, Arkansas, Kan- sas and Oklahoma, with headquarters Kansas City: George H. Wark, ad- ministrator, and S. H. Haley, supervisor. District 10—Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. New Mexico and Arizona, with head- quarters at Denver; John F. Vivian, ad- ministrator, and G. A. Zllsworth, supe: - visor. District 11—California and Nevr 1a with headquarters at San Francisco, t which the Hawaiian Islands will be a tached, for purposu‘ of administratio that in some States which had repealed | PAY BILL SENT 10 CONFERENCE Brookhart Seeks Agreement, on Retroactive Clause Killed by House. Carrying out plans he announced jearlier in the day, Senator Brookhart |of Iowa this afternoon had sent to conference with the House the bill to correct inequalities in Government em- | | ployes’ salary schedules, The purpose in seeking a conference | was to discuss the House amendment DEVELOPG SLAND FS RVER PLANS Purchase of Analostan by Roosevelt Memorial Group Stirs Interest. | | Officials of the National Capital Park | and Planning Commission expressed interest today in the news that the Roosevelt Memorial Commission has under consideration the purchase of | Analostan Island and pointed out that this would fit into the proposed general development on the Virginia side of the Potomac River. At present the Arlington Memorial striking out the retroactive feature of | Bridge Commission, which is headed by cating liquor for non- | measure with' the 10 judicial | the bill. The conferees may meet later today in an effort to speed up the final agreement on the bill. As passed by the House, the bill| would grant increases totaling about $1,500,000 to those Federal employes, both in Washington and in the field service, who were advanced only one step under the Welch law. Senator Brookhart said it would cost about $3,000,000 additional to have these ad- justments in salary date back to 1928, | but he said he feels that if it was intended to give these employes an in- crease of two steps originally, an effort should be made tc retain the retro- active claus Senator Brookhart re- turned to the city this morning for the purpose of helping to complete the enactment of this measure. Another House amendment remaining to be settled restores to the personnel classification board the authority to review and revise allocations under the classification law, which authority was affected by a decision af the controller general some time age. In most cases, the Brookhart-Lehlbach bill Would mean an increase of $60 a | year to those clerks who received only $60 In 1928, p FALSE REPORT CHARGED Man Arrested After Ambulance Speeds an False Alarm. A man_describing himself as Harry Chester Smith, 26-year-old bondsman of Leesburg, Va., was to be arraigned in Police Court today on charges of making a false police report and in- toxication following his arrest by fourth | precinct officers last night. | A report that a woman had been shot | was sent police of No. 4 station and | the Emergency Hospital ambulance | speeded to lower Four-and-a-half street only to-find it a fake. | President Hoover, is proceeding with plans for development of Columbia Is- land, which lies just southward of Analostan Island. The main Arlington Memorial Bridge has its westerly termi- nus on Columbia Island and there is ¢ short bridge across Boundary Channel, carrying the project to the Virginia shore and up toward Arlington National Cemetery. The Park Commission recently urged that the Lee Highway approach on Co- lumbia Jsland be made in the form of a long, easy curve, rather than have it come into a circle on the northerly end | of the island Tenative plans drawn up by the park commission provide for a bridge from Columbia Island to Analostan with a roadway crossing the latter, linked up with a bridge from Analostan Island to the Virginia shore. While no official action has becn taken by the Park and Planning Com- mission on the Analostan Island proj- | ect, it is belleved in quarters close to the commission that it will be favor- able to the proposed development of Analostan Islard as a great recreation- al center to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt, who was a lover of the out- of-doors. The unofficial understand- ing at the commission now is that the proposal to erect a stadium in honor of Rooseveit, suggested at one time to be located in the Anacostia Park region, in the vicinity of East Capitol street, has been abandoned. Chisolm Recalls Visit. Capt. E. N. Chisholm, jr. the Park Commission’s engineer, who recalled to- CARTER REFUSES T0 EXPLAN A Is Reported to Be Result of Gambling Drive. | While refusing to comment on a rumor that his action was a disciplinary measure, Public Printer George H. Carter, who has been warring on al- leged gambling #n and around the Gov- ernment Printing Office, today an- | nounced that most of the employes in | his office have been given an extra hour |of work a day, some of them getting | paid for the extra work and some not. |~ Except those who work in the cata logue division, all employes of the Gov- | e work at 8 o'clock in the morning in- stead of 9 and working until the regu- lar quitting time, 4:30. 1 A large number of Printing Office | employes work on an hourly basis, so the Public Printer's new order puts more money in their pockets, but there day that Herman Hagedorn, secretary |are stenographers and clerks there who of the Roosevelt Memorial Commission, | work on a yearly salary, and the extra in company with a number of the com- | work is just another hour for which mission’s staff, visited Analostan Island | some time ago and seemed pleased with it. The commission has received mno | official information recently about the plans of the Roosevelt Commission to acquire the island. Capt, Chisnolm explained that the | The telenhone message was traced to a candy shop at Four-and-a-half street | and Clark alley southwest and Smith was placed under arrest on a descrip- tion furnished by the candy shop oper- ator. He was found on t| | nearby house. Sk | PEACE GRIPS SEVILLE SEVILLE. June 27 (P).—This city torn by strike riots earlier in the week. | which accounted for 1 death and some 250 injuries, returned to its normal condition today. All stores were open, transportation ystems were operating and factory | workers were returning to their jobs, D A William G. Walker, administrator, and | William R. Woods, jr., supervisor. | - | he porch of a | | District 12 — Washington, Oregon, | Montana and Idaho. with headquarters | at Seattle, to which Alaska will be at- | tached for purposes of administration; | Carl Jackson, administrator, and F. R. | McReynolds, supervisor. | Plan Close Co-operation. | The Department of Justice will be | represented by a prohibition adminis- trator and the Treasury Department by a permit supervisor at the headquar- ters of each district. “The direct responsibility for the actual work of enforcement will rest primarily on the deputy administrators, of whom there will be, as now, one in each of the 87 judicial dlistricts of the United States, other than Alaska. where the United States marshals per- form that duty,” said the statement. “The offices of deputy administrator and United States attorney in each judicial district will be closely co- ordinated to obtain a maximum of efficiency in enforcement work. “While all assignments of admin- istrators and deputy administrators are temporary,” continued the Justice statement, “most of them will be made permanent, although a few changes and readjustments are likely to oceur within the next two or three months.” Mitchell's Statement. The Attorney General, in his formal statement said, in part: “Whilé the object of transferring pro- hibition enforcement to the Department of Justice iIs to secure close co-ordina- tion between the investigating and the prosecuting officers of the Federal Gov- ernment, it will be the a'm of the de- partment to encourage greater activity and effectiveness on the part of State and local governmental ag-ncies in en- forcing the liquor laws, both Federal i and State. When the eighteenth | H i bridge, from the northward end of Analostan Island would connect with | the road leading up the valley, under | tentative study made by the commis- | sion’s staff, and would cross on land | contemplated to be purchased by the Sun Oil Co. of Philadelphia, which is ! now seeking to secure a permit from | the chief of Army Engineers to con- | struct a whar{ in that vicinity. f The Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- | mission expects to start active develop- | ments on Columbia Island some time| this Fall as the bascule draw span is| scheduled to be completed about Sep- | bling by employes of the office he di-: tember 1. After the completion of that link in the center of the main bridge it | will be possible to have trucks move | small-construction _equipment to Co- | lumbia Island, so that materials can be put in place to carry the development forward. The Mount Vernon memorial highway will also connect at Columbia Island with the road system at that point, giving another traffic artery in| that region. Commissions Co-operate. The Fine Arts Commission, which is interested in bringing Analostan Island | into the general scheme for the develop- ment of the park area by linking it with Columbia Island, it was said today, 1s working in co-operation with the Roose- velt Memorial Commission. | It has approved the plan of the lat- Island. a 77-acre tract south of the | Key Bridge. in connection with its proposed Roosevelt Memorial. While the Roosevelt body has discarded its original plans for a stadium, it s un. derstood that it is proposed. among other developments on Analostan Tsland, to erect a beautiful memorial fountain. The design for the foun- tain, drawn by John Russell Pope, New York architect. has already been ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission. Mr. Pope is one of the foremost archi- tects in the country and is a member of Secretary Mellon’s board of archi- te cts The Washington Gas Light Co., it was said by the Fine Arls Commis- sion, cordially agreed to refrain from erecting gas tanks on _Analostan Island out of a regard to the welfare of Washington and the proposed plans to include the island in the general park_scheme. Whether the Roosevelt Commission intends to go ahead with the erection | of a fountain on the island, if the | gas company agrees to sell if, was not known definitely in the absence of Mr. Hegedorn, its secretary. The design was selected as a result of a general competition of architects some time | ago they are not paid. Refuses to Discuss Action. Declaring he did not want to get into a newspaper controversy over the | conduct of his office, Mr. Carter today refused to discuss the reasons for add- ing the extra hour of work to his em- ployes’ day, other than to say: “I don’t see any reason why the white-collar workers shouldn’t work eight hours a day as well as other peo- ple. I wish I could work eight hours a day.” Mr. Carter also refused to discuss his reasons for not working eight hours a day. He comes to work as usual at 9 o'clock. ‘The Public Printer, for the past sev- eral months, has been conducting a single-handed campaign against gam- rects. He has under suspension two employes, ane a supervisor, while he investigates their activities. The super- visor is accused of issuing fictitious passes for employes under him to leave their work during office hours. The other employe is accused of leaving work without first getting permission. Criticizes Police Force, When the men were suspended a week ago Mr. Carter refused to say whether the men had been suspected of gambling. He said: 2 “1 don't want to convict any one until I have proof. I have enough to suspend them on.” At the time of the men's suspension, the Public Printer for a second time during his anti-gambling campaign criticized the local police force for lack | ter body for the purchase of Analostan |Of Activity against gambling. Several months ago the public printer and Maj. Pratt, superintendent of police, were in a heated public con- troversy over ,Carter’s anti-gambling campaign. The controversy resulted in both, with Disirict Attorney Leo A. Rover, appearing before the Senate District committee in a gambling hear- ing, and the subsequent framing of bills designed to give the Capital more dras- tic_gambling laws by Senator Robsion of Kentucky. At _the time of the first clash with the police, Mr. Carter received threat- en'ng letters from alleged gamblers, and for his protection Maj. Pratt as- signed police to watch the Carter home. at 1661 Hobart street, and ‘to escort the public printer to and from his home and office. Varfous explanations for the addi- ! tion of the extra hour of work to Print- | ing Office employes' days were given by the employes themselves today One, a clerk, who is on a yearly salary and does not get extra money from the extra hour of work, said ¢he knew of no increase in the business of the office which would necessitate an extra_hour of work a_day. She said she had heard that Mr. Carter had aken the action as a result of gambling activities among the employes. Another said Le had heard among amendment’ was adopied it Wwas - not —_— contemplaf e leral Govern- i juri ment would assume the entire burden Recovering From Injuries. of enforcement, or that the Pederal| DANVILLE, Va., June 27 (Speclal) — Government would create an enormous | George A. Myers' and Charles Taylor, police force duplicating that of the | both of this city, are recovering from his fellow workers that in one office the public printer had come upon an employe reading racing news in a daily newspaper. Orders have been standing for a week at the Government Printing Office bar- States, such as would be necessary to ' painful injuries sustained Wednesday ‘easurably enforce the law if State au- night, when their car collided with # *‘es d d nothing." large ofl truck near the city. ring therefrom any publication con- taining racing or other gambling in-! formation, tips, rorrm,‘v-ntrlen or results, mendation of Inspector Thaddeus R. Bean, who reported the incident to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police. According to Bean's report, Gravely arrested a man last May 27 on suspicion that the man was operat- ing a “numbers” game. The arrest was made in the sixth precinct, but Gravely booked the man at the first precinct. The prisoner was subsequently trans- ferred to the third precinct. When he got to court, the report continues, Gravely notified the prosecuting at- torney that he had no warrant for the arrest and no evidence of any “play” by the man, and so0 the case was dropped. . $13.000 Rumored in Satchel. Investigating a rumor that this op- erator had $13,000 in the satchel which was seized, and that when he got it back there was $5,000 missing, Bean looked up the records, which showed that one dollar and a few cents had been found in the prisoner's pockets and $23.43 in the satchel which he car- ried, but that the $23.43 had not been turned over to the property clsgk of the department, as required by th® po- lice manual ‘When questioned about this, the re- port says, Gravely told Bean that he was under the impression that the case had been continued, and that he was carrying around the money in the pocket of his automobile. This con- versation took place June 23 and | Gravely then turned the money over o Capt. Stott of the third precinct. Bean reported a conversation he had with the prisoner in the case, in which the prisoner not only denied the report | of the missing $5,000, but also main- ‘ tained that all the money he had when arrested was one dollar. In Recent Shooting Trouble. Gravely was recently in trouble over the shooting of James Crotts near an apartment in the 1900 block of First street. As a result of complications growing out of this affair three police- men were brought before the courts and two before the Trial Board. Gravely was acquitted at both appearhnces. The District Commissioners yesterday upheld the action of the Police Trial Board in dismissing Motor Cycle Po- liceman William D. Davis, Traffic Bu- reau, after finding him guilty on & charge of intoxicaticn. i’ case has been hanging fire 'y 10, when he was arrested |in an spartment on Rhode Isi ave- nue, the residents of which accused him of robbery and assault. When his case was called before the Trial Board, he and his counsel stated that their rights were being prejudiced, because the trial was being held while a grand jury investigation into Davis’ activities was under way, and then walked out of the room. Flatly Denies Charges. Later Davis appeared before the board and flatly denied all of the charges. He said that he had gone to the apartment with a man who prom- ised him some information on a rum runner. He admitted that he had had one or two drinks, but said he had not robbed anybody, nor seen any money in the apartment, nor attempted any assault. The Commissioners rejected all bids for the construction of the Nurses’ Home at Gallinger Hospital, none of the bids having come within the appre- priation. The plans will be redrawn and other bids advertised. [COLORED MAN CONVICTED OF SHOOTING WIFE Zacheus White Claimed Death Ac- cidental—May Receive Life Imprisonment. Zacheus White. colored, was convicted of murder in the second degree late yesterday afternoon by a jury in Crim- inal Division 2 before Justice Willlam Hitz after several hours of deliberation. He had been indicted for murder in the first degree in connection with the death of his wife, Alice, July 14 last at 545 Twenty-fourth street. Through Attorneys James A. O'Shea and John H. Burnett the prisoner claimed that his wife had been shot accidentally as he was repulsing an at- tack on him from Edward Hall, also colored, whom he found at the home of his wife in company with Edwards Chambers. Hall was killed and Cham- bers was injured in the melee. Assistant United States Attorney James F. Hughes conducted the prose- cution and asked the jury for the ex- treme penalty.. White was remanded to await sentence, which may be anve !hlng from 20 years to life imprison- ment. SOUNDS FALSE ALARM Attempt of Woman to Post Letter in Fire Box Blamed. The efforts of a woman to turn a fire alarm box into a mail box brought three engines and a truck company on the run to Sixth and A streets north- east late yesterday. Amused bystanders laughingly told police the woman, a letter in her hand, walked up to the new type alarm box, which has no glass, and fumbled with the box for several minutes before giv- ing up in disgust. She left the scene before the fire apparatus arrived. Officer Hurt Cranking Car. Patrolman Oscar Allen of the fourth precinct, suffered a severe cut of his right hand last night while cranking his car on Seventh street near F street southwest, the machine backfiring when he spun the crank handle. Allen was treated at the Emergency Hospital and ordered to the police clinic st George ‘Washington Hospital today.