Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1930, Page 17

Washington News RECEIVERS SOUGHT | IN SMITH G0. CASE * REFUSED BY COURT Chief Justice Follows Action by Naming Trustee, Regis- trar and Depository. | | FINANCED BY THE FIRM 2] Decision Held Important Step in 2 Legal Battle Between Officials and Stockholders. Motion for the appointment of re- | ecivers for a number of properties financed through the F. H. Smith Co. were denied today by Chief Justice Al- fred A. Wheat in District Supreme Court. At the same time the court named the American Security & Trust Co. as | trustee, registrar and depositary under | certain deeds of trust and the National | Savings & Trust Co. as fiduciary under | further trust. The new trustees supplanted F. H. $mith Co. appointees. Chief Justice’s Statement, i Chief Justice Wheat declared in a memorancum that “the appointment of a new trustee whose competency, im- | partiality and integrity are beyond Question makes it unnecessary and in- advisable to appoint a receiver. For | obvious reasons, a receivership is to be | avoided in cases like this unless the conservation of the property emphat- ically demands it. I am not persuaded | that such a condition now confronts us. | Motion to appoint a receiver will, there. fore, be denied. Motion to strike out | the affidavit filed in support of the mo- sion for receiver will also be denied.” The requested appointment of re- eivers was denled to security holders f the New Amsterdam Co.. Hilltop Manor Co. and the Properties Invest- _qInent Corporation. The actions were $brought recently by John H. Baggs, Charles D. Robbins and others. Backed by Ownership Corporations The local banks were appointed trustees, registrars and depositaries as| a result of actions brought by repre. sentatives of the ownership corpora- tions in their capacity as “friends of the | court.” Chief Justice Wheat, in a separate action. declined to grant motions ask- ing that amendments to one of the| bills of complaint against the F. H.| Smith Co. be stricken out. The pro- | Desed amendments contained directions | for the trustces. This litigation was brought by Lucy I Jones and other bond and stock holders. The court’s action was considered an fmportant phase of the legal battie be- tween the officials and stockholders of the F. H. Smith Co., which began fol- | lowing indictment of numerous officials ©f the company last December. |} EX-SOLBIER-IS HELD, ACCUSED OF THEFTS| Stealing Casket Illuminator From Undertaker Among Charges Fm:ed.\l Hospital Nurses’ Losses Included. | \ Arrested for several alleged thefts, Including a casket illuminator from n undertaking establishment, Leslie J. Shumate, 26 years old, a former soldier, was bound over to the, grand | Jury under $1,500 bonds from’ Police | Court today by Judge John P. McMahon. On two charges of petty larceny Shumate demanded jury trial upon entry of a plea of not guilty. Most ef the property reported stolen irom nur: at Walter Recd | Hospital. Detectives T. C. Bragg and | E. F. Lewis of the thirteenth precinct declared they recovered most of it from Shumate’s home, in Ballston, Va. | It was valued at $300. Police said that Shumate, a soldier, | had been stationed at Walter Reed and | \ was discharged immediately before the alleged thefts for unknown reasons. He told police he had been drunk and didn’t remember anything about the time the property is said to have been taken. Nurses’ uniforms, bathing suits, a typewriter, silverware and various ar- ticles of clothing were sad to have been taken from the hospital. Police reported that Shumate, while drunk, entered the Schippert funeral | home, 2008 Pennsylvania avenue, and | carried away an illuminator from a cas- ket which was on display. ELEVATOR MAN ROBBED ‘ OF TWO MASTER KEYS! ®air Flee Building After Attempt! a to Get Into Office of Local Attorney. Police are looking for two young men who last night attacked and robbed an elevator operator in the Munsey Build- | ing, Hardy B. Harris, 26 years old, of 418 Warner street, after failing twice to | gain access to offices of Wilton J. Lam- bert, local attorney, on the seventh floor of the building. The pair first appeared in the build- ing at 6:30 o'clock, representing th selves as employes of Mr. Lambart, #sked the operator for the keys to the attorney's offices. Upon being informed | that the operator had no keys they left. Two hours later they returned and went up in the elevator to the seventh oor. Then one of the men pointed a %‘sm at Harris, demanding turn the keys over. Harris den ing any, whereupon *hey att robbed him of $1 i master keys. Instead of trying into the affrse L, r_ they fied down ne stalrway and out of t:e building ‘ihey kept the clevator mman's money, but dropped the keys in their flight [ COLORED M.AN ACCUSED | His | 48 Jars of Liquor Found in Possession. Prohibition Enforcement Officers W | R. laflin and William McEwen of the eighth precinct police station yesterday rrested Joscph M. Suber, colored, 22 ®eors old, of 208 Morgan street, and | hocked him on charges of transporta- n and illegal possession of whisky Suber was taken into custody in an alley at the rear of the 100 block of V7 street when a search of his truck | plane. i Girl Scouts Sudie Rodier and Barbara Fries of Troop 20 smiie as they anticipate the pleasant time awaiting them at Camp May Flather, Stokesville, Va., for which point they left with other Girl Scouts this morning. —Star Staff Photo. ONEAMAN SEARCH ON N BAKER CASE Police Have Definite Suspect in Mind in Girl’s Brutal Murder. Police officials investigating the mur- der of Mary Baker indicated today that they have but one definite suspect in mind. Reports that a_new suspect, whose name has not hitherto been brought into the case, is now believed to have committed the crime were em- phatically denied at police headquarters. It is known that the authoritics are concentrating every effort on the ap- prehension of this suspect. That police have in their possession definite in- formation linking him with the murder was indicated by one official, who sald: “If we did not have good reason to be- lieve he committed the crime we would not have spent so much monsy and time trying to find him.” Tests Made of Pistol. Tests of the pistol turned over to police have proved conclusively, ac- cording to Inspector William S. Shelby, that this was the weapon used in the murder. It was believed the authorities have recently received additional in- formation indicating that the man they suspect of the crime had this pistol in Government cletk was slain. While the local authorities concen- trated their efforts on tracing the pistol, agents of the Department of Justice were pushing a Nation-wide search for Herman H. Barrere, who, police believe, will play an important part in clearing up the crime. Efforts were being _made today to verify reports that Barrere went to Bolling Field some time after the girl had been killed and attempted to secure transportation from the city in an Army Police were also trying to learn whether he ever kept an automobile at _the flying field. Several men stationed at the field told police that Barrere had come there a few days after the murder and that he attempted to borrow money trom them. Trail Lost in South. Barrere, after he left Washington, was traced to Philadelphia and then to New Orleans. The trail was lost in the | Southern city and, according to In- spector Shelby, police have received no information concerning his whereabouts since that time. It is understood that the weapon police have in their possession was loyer of Barrere. This man said the pistol was usually kept in his home, but that subsequent to the murder he missed it and then found it later in a desk at his office. Police would not di- vulge the reasons why the owner of the | gun, after finding it at his office, was led 'to believe it may have figured in the crime. Police avthorities were not inclined’to take serlously reports that Barrere had been scen recently in the vicinity of Washington. They expressed the opin- fon that he has probably left country. CHICKENS ARE STOLEN Prowler Gets Fowls From Hen House Without Disturbance. Just how an intruder, who was on the premises of Clarence O. Tavenner, 1310 Forty-fourth street, last night pre- vented hens from cackling and roosters from crowing probably never will be known. This morning it was discovered that the chickens which were there last evening had disappeared. Six grown chickens and 50 young ones were taken. The lued them at $60. his possession on the day the young| turned over to them by a former em- | the | 14 ARE INJURED NALTO e | Collision Brings Hurts to| Man—Boy Is Victim of Crash. | A E. Smith, 38 years old, of the | Union_Station Y. M. C. A, was cut about the face and head yesterday when an automobile, which the police reported was driven by George R.,Brantley, 22 | years old, of 2142 Wyoming avenue, leaped a loading platform at Connec- ticut avenue and R street and struck | him. A commandeered machine carried | Smith to the Emergency Hospital, where he was admitted for treatment. Brant- ley was taken into custody by Patrol- man W. T. Taff of the third precinct station and charged with reckless | driving. A collision between a motor cycle and an automobile at Massachusetts avenue and S strect sent the operator of the motor cycle, Bruce Hedger, 23, of 244 Sixteenth street southeast, to the | Emergency Hospital with lacerations of the left foot, forehead and bruises of the legs and arms. Louis Thomas, colored, 43 years old, | of 1305 S street, who was driving the automobile, was not held by police. Six-Year Old Boy Hurt. Minor head injuries were suffered by | 6-year-old Donald Reulin of 1112 Mon- | tello avenue northeast yesterday after- noon when run down by an automobile at Twellth street and Maryland avenue northeast. ' The child was admitted to Casualty Hospital for treatment and was to be discharged from that in- stitution today. The driver of the car, Marie Walker, coloed, 33 years old, of 2108 Second colored, 33 ‘years old, of 2108 Second held at the hinth precinct on a charge of reckless driving. Miss Jean N. Meloy, 20 years old, | of 5207 Fourteenth strcet, daughter of Dr. Arthur N. Meloy, was treated af Casualty Hospital for slight lacera- | tions of the forehead and chin yi | terday after an accident at the inter. section of Crane Highway and Cen- tral avenue, m Prince Georges County, | Md. 2 Miss Meloy was riding in a ma- chine operated by her cousin, Jack Hall, of the Fourteenth street address, | when it was in a collision with another car, Four D. C. Men in Auto Crash, Four District men were injured yes- terday when a car in which they were riding crashed into a culvert about 5 | miles from the District line, in South- ermn Maryland. They were taken to | Providence Hospital and given first-aid treatment. The men and their injuries were | Ferdinand Haddaway, 30 years old, of 5415 Georgia avenue, lacerations of the forehead and sprained rignt ankle: William E. Hall, 24 years old, of 1423 M street, lacerations of the forehead |and sprained right ankle; Charles Mayne, 19 years old, of 5835 Colorado avenue, sprained left ankle, and Clifton Dameron, 24 years old, of 1625 Monroe street, sprained left shoulder, George Travers, 20 years old, of Alex- | andria, was taken to Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital last night and treated | for cuts sustained when the motor cycle he was riding collided with an | autemobile on Conduit road. Runs in Path of Passing Car. Leon W. Bowie, colored, 6, of 606 K | street southwes an into the path of a machine in the 1000 block of Sixth street southwest yesterday and was struck down. He was removed to Emer- gency Hospital and treated for minor bruises. Four colored persons were treated at the Georgetown University Hospital last night following an automobile accident | on the Lee Highway near Hamilton, Va. i Their car overturned when the driver lost control. 'DAYZTON TO BE LAUMDRY MAN OF WORK HOUSE AT OCCOQUAN Smith, Who Got Life for Slaying Daughter, Also May | Be Sent There. Begin ng tomorrow, Dexter Churchill Dayton, youthful slayer of Marjorie O'Donnell, will have a lifetime job as a laundryman in the Distriet Workhouse at Occoquan, Va., today. In announcing his plans to have Day- ton transferred to Occoquan from the District Jail, Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent of District penal institu- tions, disclosed he also was considering sending Franklin Elsworth Smith to Occoquan. It had been expected that Dayton and Smith, both under life sentence for murder. would be incar- officials announced | Dayton will make an exceptionally good | prisoner,” he said. “One thing in his | | favor isthat he had no criminal record | prior to his arrest for the O'Donnel' | killing.” t Dayton has been in the District Jail | | since he killed his 19-year-old sweet- heart last October in the Roosevelt | Hotel while under the infiuence of | liquor. 'He was sentenced to life im- | priscnment. after he entered a plea of | guilty to second-degree murder. A | forceful plea for mercy was made by | Daniel S. Ring, chief of defense counsel. | Smith, once sentenced to die, | given a’life term recently in Dist HINGTON, - D. B MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1 930. THOUSANDS T0 SEE FIREWORKS SHOW ONFOURTHOF ALY Patriotic Exercises to Begin on Monument Grounds at 7:30 P.M. Friday. SENATOR FESS TO GIVE INDEPENDENCE ORATION “Portraits” of President and Others to Be Depicted High in Air at Festival. Commissioners Ask Capital to Fly Flag On July 4 as Tribute Fly the American flag on July 4, the District Commissioners ask the public. ‘The emblem should be flown over homes and business houses as well as on flagstaffs along the street, the Commissioners suggest, in their proclamation, as a mark “of gratitude to the fore- fathers, who, by their signal act, bequeathed to the public a sovereign nation, in which to en- Joy the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The Commissioners also urged a fitting observance of the Fourth as a “tribute to the hosts who have served this Nation.” Thousands of persons are expected to attend Washington's official Fourth of July celebration on the Monument Grounds Friday evening, to be featured by patriotic exercises in the Sylvan Theater at 7:30 o'clock, followed by & gigantic fireworks display at 9. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio will deliver the Independence day oration at the Sylvan Theater. His address will be preceded by the reading of the Decla- ration of Independence by Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer, pastor of the Wash- ington Heights Presbyterian Church. The exercises will be opened with a concert by the United States Marine Band. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, chair- man of the Board of District Commis- sioners, will deliver official greetings to the assemblage. The ceremonies will conclude with a massing of the colors under the direction of patriotic and veterans' organizations. There will be a_torchlight parade from the Slyvan Theater to the base of the Washington Monument. Benediction will be given at the exercises at the theater by Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Im- maculate Conception Catholic Church, Fireworks a Feature, “Promptly at 9 o'clock, on the north side of the Washington Monument the fireworks display will get under way, to be featured by a spectacular presenta- tion. Among the scenes to be presented will be “portraits” of George Washing- ton, President Hoover, Betsy Ross, mak- ing the first American flag, and “Miss Columbia.” An innovation will be the display from 500 feet in the air of an American flag, suspended by a parachute and illuminated simultaneously by flares of 35,000 candle power. The Graf Zeppelin and Niagara Falls also will be depicted. The climax will be two devices, “The Battle in the Coluds,” spreading. 2,500 feet in the heavens to form a scene of rare beauty and a battle reproduction marked by a realistic representation of a terrific_encounter. There will be the quick rattle of musketry, the boom of heavy cannon and the flash and smoke | of battle. Some Tickets on Sale. Tickets for a limited number of seats, to be placed on the north side of the Washington Monument for the fire- works display, were put on sale today at 9 o'clock at 1417 G street, under the supervision of H. R. Helwig, vice chair- man of the fireworks committee, which is headed by A. K. Shipe. The tickets sell for 25 and 50 cents, Other members of the fireworks’ com- mittee are Claude W. Owen and Luther W. Linkins, vice chairmen; Jerome F. Barnard, EQwin H. Bayly, Elmore T. Burdette, Herman F. Carl, Robert J. Cottrell, 'James B. Edmunds, Thomas L. Egan, William Ellis, W. E. Johnson, Rufus Lusk, Joseph McGarraghy, Edgar Morris, J. Mitchell Owens, W. E. Reed, O. W. Riley, Milton F. Schwab and Dwight Terry, The committee on patriotic and veterans organizations, which will have charge of the massing of colors ce mony, will meet in the Franklin Ad- ministration Building tomorrow after- | noon at 4:45 o'clock. The committee is headed by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, retired. Other members of the com- mittee include: Capt. Charles J. Painter, i Maj. W. W. Burns, Mrs. Pedro Capo-Rodriguez, Roscoe J. S. Dorsey, Selden M. Ely, Capt. Louis M. Gosorn, Brig. Gen. F. R. Keefer, Miss Dorothy Greene, Mrs. James Henry Harper, A. G. Liebman, Everett S. Looker, Col. Willlam McKelvy, Samuel J. McWilliams, jr.; Ben de Mier Miller, Col. E. L. Mattice, Mrs. Bryan K. Ogden, Judge John H. Shepherd, L. Harold Sothoron and J. Franklin Wilson. Final Meeting Wednesday. The final meeting of the committee of 100 citizens appointed by the Com- missioners, with E. J. Murphy as chatr- | man, will take place Wednesday | morning. The executive committee for the celebration follows: E. J. Murphy, chairman; vice chair- men—Miss Sibyl Baker, Charles W, Darr, E. C. Graham, George C. Haven- ner, Mark Lansburgh, George PIlitt; treasurer, Miss Etta B. Taggart, and the following chairmen of subcommit- | tees, Charles W. Darr, city decorations and illumination; George C. Havenner, community participation; A. K. Shipe, fireworks; Lieut. F. B. Butler, grounds: Edgar C. Snyder, invitations; Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, military partici- pation; Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, pa- triotic and veterans organizations; Capt. Ray C. Montgomery and Maj. Henry C. Pratt, traffic and public safety: Brig. Gen., F, Keefer and Charles J. Painter. Members of the honorary committee for the celebration are: Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools; Sena- tor Arthur Capper, chairman of the District committee of the U. S. Senate; Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education; Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners; Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks in the Na- tional Capital: Col. Willlam 4B. Ladue, S. A., District Commissioner; Dr. Luther Halsey Reichelderfer, president of the Board of Commissioners; Gen. Charles P. Summerall, U. 8. A. and Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, chairman of the District Committee of the House of Representatives. PAGE B—1 PLANE PASSENGER FORESAW DEATH William W. Kerr, Killed in Crash, Jokingly Fore- told End. Barely an hour after he had jokingly suggested to his friends that it might be necessary to send him home “in a basket,” Willlam Wilfred Kerr, 30 years old, 1300 block of Monroe street, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon in an airplane crash that may also cost the life of Edward Yeatman, 21, of 215 Walnut street, Lyon Park, Va. Kerr died at Providence Hospital without regaining consciousness, while Yeatman, pilot of the plane, was re- ported in a critical condition at Gar- fleld Hospital this morning. James Dunn of Woodridge, D. C., one of the score of eyewitnesses to the fatal crash, said the plane, a two- seater Waco, went into a sudden spin about 300 feet from the ground and made a “flat” landing before the pilot could right it. Yeatman is a private pilot, having received his license only last Yesterday he and Kerr rented the plane for & pleasure hop over nearby Mary- land. As the engine was being tuned up, changing his residence, and cheerfully added that it might be necessary to send him home in a basket. The two flew to the Congressional Airport, near Rockville, and then re- turned to College Park. After the crash the men were so tightly pinned in the crumpled cockpit that it took several minutes to extricate them from the wreckage. The Prince, Georges County Fire Rescue Squad was called, but before it arrived, G. W. Babcock, manager of the field, started to drive the men to a hospital. The squad, Chief H. L. Leonard, met Babcock's car at Riverdale, where Kerr was trans- ferred to the firemen's ambulance Babcock continued with Yeatman to Garfield Hospital. Leonard d Kerr had a compound fracture of the skull and fractures of the arms and legs. His body was re- moved to S. H. Hines funeral parlor, at 2901 Fourteenth street. Kerr was a salesman for a large air- plane company and had frequently been aloft. Some months ago he obtained a student pilot’s license. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Brownie Hood Kerr. Yeatman's leg was so badly mangled in the crash it was necessary to ampu- tate the portion below the knee. He is also sald to be suffering from a frac- | tured skull and internal injuries. Yeatman Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Yeatman and made his home with them. He is a mechanic for an electrical refrigerator company. The plane in which the fwo men crashed had just been thoroughly over- hauled, it was-said at the airport. A sudden cross-wind that tipped ~the wings was the generally accepted cause of the accident. Jess Lankford of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of Commerce, is conducting an investiga- ton. APPROVAL IS GIVEN LUHRING AND COX Committee Reports Favorable on Nominees for District Supreme Court Justices, The Senate Judiciary Committee to- day voted to report favorably the nomi- nations of Oscar R. Luhring and Jo- seph W. Cox to be associate justices of | the District Supreme Court to fill the two newly created positions on the court. The report probably will be filed during the afternoon and favorable ac- tion by the Senate is expected to- motraw. “The Judiciary Committee indorsed both appointments after receiving a re- port from & subcommittee composed of Senators Blaine, Republican, of Wiscon- sin: Herbert, Republican, of Rhode Is- land; Walsh, Democrat, of Montana. Mr. Luhring is 51 years old and has been an Assistant Atforney General for the past 5 years. He was formerly a member of the House of Represent- atives from Indiana. Mr. Cox is 54 years old and has been a practicing attorney in Washington for many years. He also served at one time” as a special assistant to the At- torney General from 1914 to 1917. He is & graduate of the George Washington week. | Kerr is said to have mentioned | commanded by | Remains of an airplane that crashed 300 feet while attempting to land at the College Park Airport yesterday, killing William W. Kerr of Washington. Edward Yeatman of Lyon Park, Va. (inset), pilot of the plane, was critically injured. ~—Star Staff Photos. 1S, EXPORTS NEAR AVERAGE RECORD But Comparison With Peak! Figures of 1929 Shows 20 Per Cent Loss. By the Assoclated Press. The United States Chamber of Com- merce announced today a statistical study of American foreign trade show- | Ing_exports for the first three months of 1930 to be but 4 per cent less than the average of similar periods be- tween 1924 and 1928. A decline of 20 per cent was noted, however, in comparison with the first | three months of 1929, | ~“This decrease in the volume of and | dollar value of American exports,” the chamber said, “is a reflection of the world-wide business recession and fall of commodity prices, with the conse- ‘quont lowered purchasing power of our foreign markets. “For the first time since 1922, the export figures show a preponderance of declines. The values of only 14 of our 50 chief exports (28 per cent of the total value of exports) were larger in the first quarter of 1930 | than in the corresponding period of | 1929. Five of these 14 were machinery | items. In quantity only 26 out of 95 | articles recorded increases.” Export prices of many principal American exports, including manufac- tured cotton, automobiles, gasoline and | naphtha decreased; while gains were | noted in some others, including lubri- | cating oil, refined copper, wheat and | boards. —— 'RITES FOR MRS. STOKES ARE HELD AT RIDGEFIELD | Mother of Canon of Washington Cathedral Dies in Boston at Age of 83. Funeral services for Mrs. Helen | Louisa Phcips Stokes, mother of Rev. Dr. Anson Fhelps Stokes, canon of the | Washington Cathedral, were conducted | | in_St. Stephn’s Church, Ricpefield, | | Conn., this afternoon, according to word | received here. Mrs, Stokes died in | Boston Friday. Dr. Stokes is vacationing in Ger- A message of sympathy from | sociates at the Cathedral was | | cabled him. Mrs. Stokes was 83 years old. She | | visited her son, Dr. Stokes, in this city frequently and had many friends here. During the World War she turned over her home in New York City to the Young Women's Christian Association, to be used as a club for young women volunteering for overseas duty with that organization. | TWO FAIL AT SUICIDE | Woman, Despondent Over Illness, | Escapes Serious Poison Effects. | Two persons were recovering today | | from what police describe as attempts | fo end their lives at their homes last night. | _Woodley L. Stoddard, 57, of 1108 Ninth street was revived by Fire Rescue | | s . 1, after 90 minutes’ work | when he was found by relatives un- | conscious in his room. He was later | | removed to Emergency Hospital for | further attention. | Despondent over illness, Mrs. Jeanette Bass, 55, of 813 I street northeast en- | deavored to end her life by Lakmg" poison, according-to police. Her con- | dition is not serious. She remained | at home. i Assigned to Plans Division of Navy‘ | Air Bureau. Announcement was made today at the ‘ Navy Department that Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, former com- | manding officer of the Navy dirigible | Los Angeles, will come to the Bureau of Aeronautics for duty in the plans di- [ vision, | __Rosendahl relieves Lieut. Comdr. V.| | H. Ragsdale, who is assigned to the | | Battle Fleet, in command of the Patrol | Squadron VP-9B. Rosendahl's new duties here will | | bring him into contact with the prep- | aration of data and advice on the ordination of aviation and naval war plans. set for such cases. | 1,300 MOTORISTS GIVEN SUMMONSES Police Tightening Up Watch on Traffic Law Violators Throughout City. The first move in what may become a vigorous city-wide drive against traf- fic law violators, particularly those who leave their cars on the streets over- night without the required parking | light, was made today after police of the third precinct station had issued approximately 1500 summonses to motorists for parking without lights in an intensive week-end campaign. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, said this morning that a campaign against traffic viclators is not contemplated at this*time, but declared that “captains of the precincts will be held responsible for the enforcement of the District laws in their commands. However, the Daily Bulletin, official publication of the Police Department, yesterday carried a special message from Maj. .Pratt ordering members of the force to “strictly enforce regulations governing lights, stopping behind street cars, right of way and all other trafic regulations.” Capt. Willlam G. Stott, commander of No. 3 station, tock the initiative when he disbursed an' enormous quantity of traffic summonses to his men with in- structions to serve them upon all vio- lators. Between 1,000 and 2,000 of the piak slips were handed out by the patrolmen of No. 3 over the week end, and a long procession of motorists filed in and out of the station to post the $2 collateral VIRGINIA FAN DIES WATCHING BALL GAME Heart Attack Is Fatal to Spectator at Yesterday's Tilt in Griffith Stadium. William Kersey, 60 years old, of Aurora Hills, Va., was stricken with an attack of heart disease while attending the base ball game at Griffith Stadium yesterday afternoon and died before a physician could reach him. Mr. Kersey, a former resident of Bal- timore, resided at the home of a mar- ried daughter, 208 Greene avenue, Aurora Hills, and was accompanied b; two of his grandsons when he W stricken. Dr. A. M. MacDonald pronounced him ural causes was given. SEA SCOUTS ON CRUISE | Fourteen in Group Sail for Initial| Training Period. Fourteen Sea Scouts and their lead- ers left the local Sea Scout base aboard the . S. S. Argo on the initial train- ing cruise of the organization down the Potomac River early yesterday. The vessel set sail at 4:10 a.m., with Pirst Mate J. Jack Dunnington at the wheel. D. Verner Smythe is captain of the cruise. Others aboard the Argo include John Evans, second mate; Carl Ackeman, boatswain; Malcolh Cam- bourn, ship's steward: Harold Bix boatswain's mate, and Rowland Kirks, boatswain's mate, in addition to the Sea Scout BLAZE DRAWS CROWD Small Fire in Restaurant Kitchen | Quickly Extinguished. Fire starting in the kitchen of a res- taurant at 1113 Pennsylvania avenue | last night attracted a crowd of nearly | 1,000 persons, while firemen from No. 16 Engine Company extinguished the flames, with only slight damage. The fire began in a pan of grease on the kitchen stove, it was thought. Policeman Falls, Sprains Ankle. Policeman Hiram C. McDaniel of the seventh precinct sprained his right ankle early yesterday at Conduit and | Chain Bridge roads when he fell while chasing a youth he believed to be Charles Burgess, 14-year-old escaped inmate of the Industrial Home School. McDaniel was treated at the police clinic at George Washington Hospital. That tiresome wait in line for dog | |tags will be eliminated this year for | the canine owners who wish to avail | themselves of the kind offer of the col- lector of taxes and the poundmaster to license dogs by mail. As described by Walter R. Smith, poundmaster, all dog owners have to do to get the new tags for the fiscal year that begins tomorrow is to mail to the collector of taxes a general description 'DOG LICENSES WILL BE MAILED BY TAX COLLECTOR TO OWNERS!| | Tiresome Wait in Line Will Be Eliminated for Those | | Who Accept Courteous Offer of Service. the picking up of all unlicensed dogs and sometimes, when careless owners do not call for their pets, to put them to deatn, actually is a [riend of dogs. He is no more anxious to kill Wash- ington’s pet dogs than their owners are to have them killed, but the law in- sists that all dogs, regardless of age or whether they are penned up or per- mitted to run at large, must be license.. In order to give dog owners every /i~ vantage this year, he told The Star tha/ WOMEN INDICTED INDEATH OF YOUTH THROWN FROM BIKE Martha L. Russell and Lil- lian E. Walsh Face Count of Manslaughter. 37 ARE ACCUSED ON DRY LAW CHARGES 21 Are Named in One Bill—Two Chinese Are Exonerated in Lee King Killing. Martha Louise Russell and Lillian E. Walsh, young white women, were in- dicted today by the grand jury on a charge of manslaughter in_connection with the death of Fillmore Ray, jr., 21, colored. The accused were riding in an automobile April 28 on the Canal road and met the colored boy riding a bi- cycle. It is charged that they collided with him, causing him to be thrown from his bicycle into the canal, where he was drowned. It is said the body was dragged 100 feet before being thrown into the canal. A conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act is charged in an indict- | ment against 21 persons, who are said to have operated a still in nearby Maryland for the redistillation of al- cohol, which is said to have been trans- ported into the District and sold from a number of places in this city. Those accused are Alfred George Mendelson, Roy Beasley, Ida Mendel- son, Harry Kushner, Corbin Shields, Jerry Charteres, Milton J. Lerner, Jack Gordon, Roy Ahern, alias Bozo; Thomas McNichols, Andrew Lobolo, Edwatd T. Croghan, Jack Bain, Frank E. Baker, Eugene L. Sanders, Maurice Glasser, Earl Harbin, James P. Clarke, Nettie M. Clarke, Nathan Cosman and Philadel- phia Jake. Padlock Suit Is Pending, The alleged conspiracy began Janu- ary 1, 1929, and continued down to a recent raid on some of the places said to have been used by the “ring” as depots for the sale of the intoxicants. Among the places used, it is said, were premises 3442 Fourteenth street, which was conducted as a malt and hops depot, and apartments in the buildings at 1477 Newion street and 1441 Spring road. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States At- torney Harold W. Orcutt have insti- tuted “padlock” proceedings against the premises 3442 Fourteenth street, which jare still pending. Sixteen other persons are charged with various violations of the national prohibition act in the grand jury's re- port, which concluded the labors of the grand jurors. A mnew grand jury will be empaneled tomorrow or the next day. Those accused of the various violations are Paul Hern, George Hadder, William D. Williams, James W. Shell, Thomas Restifo, Masso Veyio, Louis Rinaldi, Matilda di Domenico, Joseph Johnson, Cephas Coleman, Roosevelt Wilson, Fannie Wilson and Isalah Herndon. Chinese Are Exonerated. The grand jurors exonerated Lee Guen Sing and Lee Poy, Chinese, who were held in connection with the kill- |ing of Lee King, a Chinaman suj to have been a narcotic informer, last June near Eleventh and M streets. Lee Din and another Chinaman are under indictment for the alleged murder. Others exonerated by the grand jury include William H. Hawkins, violating postal laws; William D. Davis, Raymond O. Conrad and Edward 8. Johnson, rob- bery; Hiram Wright and Richard Wil- liams, housebreaking and larceny; Mas vin L. Whiteford, iarceny after tru: Charles Bell and Herman O. Downing, Mann act charges, Conspiracy to use the mails to defraud is charged in three indictments, one against Sidney Glaser and Alexander Matthews, another against Glaser, Mat- | thews and Julius Rosenberg, and a | dead. A certificate of death from nat- | third against Max Garfinkle and Mat- thews. They are alleged to have placed letters in the mails ordering goods from Jobbers under the names of M. Gar- { finkle and J. Rosenberg, both of whom are said to have high credit ratings. A, separate indictment, charging the us s of the mails to defraud, was reporte d against Glaser individually. | Violation of the national bankrupt gy |act is alleged in an indictment agair gt Willlam H. Olmstead, who was adjudig d bankrupt March 28, 1928. After ChaJles E. Ford had been appointed trustee, for the creditors, it is charged, Olmspead concealed from the trustee assets v:v,ued at more than $7,000. Embezzelment Is Charged, Lawrence M. Hurdle, former fcashies {in the office of the superlnte'gu?n:uo; | documents at the Government Printing | Office, was named in two inc fjctments, On: charges that he embezzle 4 the sum of $199 coming into his han s and the | other alleges the presentatior s of a false | voucher against the Govern ment. Violations of the Manm 7act in the transporting of young wom.en to this city are alleged against Johs, Allen, Eu- gene Soper, l-;er*r{nln O Dpwning, Fran- cf en and Howard C, Lester Lobr, R e e Others accused and/ th against them include: (farolg nc_hgum"! | joy-riding: John Henry ‘Pryor, bigamy: | William L. Curry anfi Axel W. Boye. housebreaking and Ya¥ceny; Axel W | Boye, grand larceny Frances Mohre, | Jack Rags, alias Jekin Evans; Marie | Elizabeth Thomas va1d Samuel Henson, violation Harrison yarcotic act: John Schubert, ‘violation national motor ve- hicle theft act; Gecirge P. McKeon and {John G. Yates, Jarceny after trust; Thomas F. Simmor s, embezzlement and {larceny after trw t;' Henry P. Crouch jand Alfred Prerd.ice Sheild, embezzle- | ment; Thomas Iveunier and Hugh P. | McGraw, granci larceny and embezzle- ment, and Pa'si Hern and George W, Hadder, smokes screen, ORPHAN BOY ARRESTED ON LARCENY CHARGES Alleged 'Ehefts Involve Taking of $80 =and Set of Golf Clubs Valued at $75. year-old orphan boy, who told A 17f. |P0|écc he was Edmond Branson Burke i an roomed on Twanty-ninth street neax | Cathedral avenue, was arrested Sa) _{\xany afternoon by Detective J. L. BVdman and Joseph De Palma of the 11 frteenth precinct in connection with th ¥ investigation of thefts in and about Wh/dman Park Hotel, 4.5 a result of their investigation the def.ectives yesterday filed two charges of gYand larceny and two of petit larceny ¥gainst him. One of the grand larceny charges involves the taking of $80 from the room of M. Vasquez, the other in- volving the taking of a set of golf clubs valued at $75 from the aul of E. Mink of Harrisbu , Pa, ‘The petit larceny 13.“'" deal with the taking of books and a kodak from other persons. “Police report the recov- ery of $53 of the money taken from the Vasquez room. ) k! of their dogs, giving the breed, sex and | name, and home address. The $2 fee | should be mailed with the application everal fire statlons are to be erect- | The tags will be matiled in short crder by Jehannesburg, South Africa, a “reasonable time™ will elapse beiore he begins the strict enforcement of the | license Jaw for the new year. The mail | licensing propesal, h» says, is just™ gn. Mr. Smith, whose duly it 1s to cause cther evidence of cons 5 «iclosed 48 half-gallon jars of alleged Teuor. The truck was confiseated and | 1 %en’ with the whisky to the e Atinta, . N ¢ was to be [ . @ St Cowure today. with D=y University Law School. ‘rated in the Pederal Penitentiary in | Supreme ‘Court for slaying his 19- d daughter Becsic last Sepleinbe apartment on New Jersey av American cars and trucks far out- numbered all others at the recent auto- mehile show in t‘ep 'nhagen, Denmark. ) rd rov