Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1930, Page 13

REVENUE RECEIPTS SHOW BIG GAINS IN LOGAL DISTRICT) $54,203,335, Compared to $51,741,488 Previous Year, Collection Record. TOTAL FOR NATION IS $2,939,054,375 Increase Optimistic in View of Recent Market Crash, De- pression, Rate Cut. Despite the Wall street collapse, the eurrent depression and & decrease in the income tax rate, internal revenue receipts from the local district, includ- ing both the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia, showed a gain in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, as compared with the previous fiscal year 1929, according to_figures made public last night by the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue, Treasury Department. Collections for this district rose from $51,741,488.72 in the fiscal year 1929, to $54,203,335.93 in 1930, which was in line with the general increase through- out the country. The totals for the Nation showed a gain from $2,939,054.375.43 in 1929 w! $3,038.498,929.61 in 1930. In view of the three principal factors, | which might have indicated a decrease | in internal revenue receipts, the gain was interpreted in official quarters as optimistic. Two Payments Included. Included in the returns are two in- come tax payments, in March and June, on business for the past calendar year, including the crash on the stock market last Autumn. ‘While a number of States through- out the country showed decreases in- stead of increases, the gains more than offset the losses, so the Government shows a net increase in 1930 as com- pared with 1929 of $99,444,554.18. Of this $78,956,460.45 is due to income tax gains, and $20,488,093.73 is due to miscellaneous taxes increase. Collections in the local district in- cluding Maryland and the District of Columbia for the year 1930 are shown to include $24,851,452.39 corporation taxes, $25.887,479.36 individoal income taxes, making a total of $50,738,931.75 income taxes; and $3,464,404.18 mis- cellaneous taxes for the year. District Retains Record. As usual the sscond New York district paid the largest amount of taxes, in- creasing its internal revenue contribu- tion to the Federal Government, from $461,274.391.90 in 1929, to more than half a billion dollars—s538,430,979.76. Virginia showed a gain in total pay- ments, from $87,484.287.39 in 1929, to $96,693,897.68 in 1930, the latter figures, including $14,364.897.09. corporation; ; $4,226.665.16, individuai, making a total income tax of $18,501,562.25, and miscellaneous taxes amounting to $78,102,335.43. BREWSTER RELEASE DELAYED BY GLOTH Arlington Prosecutor Absent From | Office and Baker Case Prisoner Is Still in Jail. Having been absent from his office most of yesterday, Commonwealth At- | torney William C. Gloth of Arlington County was unable to complete arrange- ments last night for the release of Har- old L. Brewster, who has beem held in | the Arlington County Jail for the last| several weeks on a warrant charging | him with the murder of Miss Mary | Baker. Gloth had stated that if he completed his out-of-town business early enough he would communicate with Capt. A. R. Bolling, Brewster's commanding officer, | with respect to the latter’'s immediate release. Gloth sees no reason for longer keeping the soldier in jail, since he is now convinced that Brewster, despite his original alleged confession, had nothing to do with the murder. There is some question, however, as to what the military authorities may decide to do with the soldier, in view of the un- favorable publicity resulting from his incarceration. HEALTH TES'I:S ORDERED FOR EXPERTS IN SCHOOLS Competitive examinations will be held by the District Health Department to fill 10 new positions in the District public school system, made available by the current appropriation act, July 21, ac- cording to an announcement yesterday. ‘The positions open call for medical inspectors, who will be required to give 2 minimum of three hours daily for $1,800 to $2,100 a year; dental opera- tors, three and a haif hours a day mini- § mum,. for $1,620 to $1,920; graduate| nurses, full time, $1,800 to $2,100 a year, and dental hygienists, full time, 1,440 10 $1,740 a year. All applicants who want to take the examinations should call at the Health Department, District Building, for ap- plication blanks, which should be filed not later than July 17. CARNIVAL TO DEVELOP INTO CITY-WIDE AFFAIR Arrangements were completed last night for the annual carnival of St. Gabriel's Parish, to be held at Grant Circle, August 25 to September 6. Al- though the affair bégan as a neighbor hood event 10 years ago, plans were made to develop this year’s event into a ecity-wide celebration. The carnival will be directed by Rev. Joseph M. assistant X aided by Re Baker, Miss Laura Luff, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Saffran, Mrs. C. E. Nichols, e Wal . P. M. A The Sundiy Star [oovem v | WASHINGTON, D. C, CAPITOL'S SETTING 10 GOST MILLIONS INNEXT FEW YEARS |Hapid Progress Is Expected Eddie Mormann, dead several years, once conducted this bar room at Fitth and I streets. His widow insists that the sign be kept above the door in memory of her husband, despite the fact that the fittings have been stored in the cellar and the place has not been open since two years before prohibition. —Star Staff Photo. WIDOW PRESERVES OLD MORMANN BAR Gilded Sign and Rare Fixtures Hold Memories of Pic- turesque Days. In a quaint brick house on Fifth street, amid the hallowed memories of a colorful past, sits a little gray- haired widow, whose veneration of the dead has led her to preserve to this day the old mahogany bar, brass rail, beer mugs and other accessories of her late husband’s pre-prohibition calling. “Morman’s” once was a name with which to conjure. Mention of the name will quicken long dormant mem- ABBOT T0 DELIVER NOTED BBLE HERE $1,500,000 Gutenberg Edition to Be Put in Library of Congress in September. The abbot of the Benedictine Monas- | tery of St. Paul, in Carinthia, is expected | to come to Washington early in Septem- | ber to deliver formally the vellum copy |of the Gutenberg Bible just purchased | by the Government from Dr. Otto F. | H. Vollbehr for the Library of Congress. | 'This Bible, valued conservately af |$1.500,000, has been continuously in the | possession of this Benedictine com- | munity for more than 400 years. It was | purchased by the monks when they were | located in Paris from Johann Fust, or | Faust, the magician, who had been orles of many a veteran of the in- | Gutenberg's partner in this first print- teresting days when horse cars passed |ing venture and had received the book down the Avenue, gas lamps flickered | 8s part of his share when the firm above the heads of the old corner |Split up “gang” and conviviality reigned be-| It was one of the three Bibles printed hind inviting swinging doors. | by Gutenberg and Faust on vellum. Few old-timers who once tilted mugs | After the break-up of the firm Faust— and exchanged pleasantries over the | Whode alleged sale of his soul to the hospitable bar which Eddie Mormann | devil hds' become one of the classical kept on the alley corner near Fifth |legends of literature—wandered over and I streets know that the self-same | EUrope selling his Bibles, driving hard sign, emblazoned with the single word, | Dargains wherever he could, and gain- “Mormann’s,” remains today—ablaze 108 & generally bad reputation. Aflmmfionmno: with the new gilt of a recent over- hauling. Painters whom Mrs. Mormann en- gaged to redecorate the old house this Summer sought to dismantle the ven- erable sign, but the kindly old lady stood her ground and today the sign cient good cheer. Remnants Carefully Stored. ‘There was something Mrs. Mormann did not tell the painters, and that she has not divulged to many of her friends. In a room in the basement of her hcme, behind lock and key, are stored all remnants of the glory that once was Mormann’s. If prohibition were to be lifted today the old bar room could be promptly re- stored to its appearance of more than a decade ago. Not that Mrs. Mormann believes and desires that the old days might return—neither she nor her hus- band were opponents of prohibition. In fact, it was not the prohibition law that caused Eddie Mormann to lock his doors and draw his shades and store his bar room equipment. Mormann's closed two years before the prohibition era because of a regulation against proximity of saloons to churches. There were two churches of different denominations within a few blocks of Mormann's place. Room Eventually Shorn. Eddie Mormann left things pretty much as they were in the old bar room for several years, but eventually he had the room shorn of all its familiar furnishings with the exception of two cut-glass pendant chandeliers, which once shed their mellow gas light upon the joyous scenes below. The long bar was divided into sections, the rail was removed, the sturdy tables and chairs were packed up, mugs and glasses were boxed and even the inevitable froth stick was preserved. Everything was piled high in the improvised storage room, the door was padlocked and Eddie Mormann turned to less interest- ing pursuits in a friend’s restaurant. Mr. Mormann passed away in the old house of his former associations about three years ago, at the ripe age of 76 years. Fifty-three years he had been in the bar room: business—all but 15 of those years being spent on the Fifth street_alley corner. He bequeathed the old house, with all its glamorous possessions, to his beloved and faithful companion of those happy years—a companior who, behind the scenes, had helped him with the oysters and the free lunches and had been his faithful helpmeet through times of early stress and of later prosperity. Now Mrs. Mormann, who is 73 years old, lives in the house with her only child, a daughter, who has a grown, married daughter of her own. Recently the daughter went to California to visit her daughter and the latter's husband, and Mrs. Mormann was left alcne, save for the presence of several roomers on the ’;!ooru ‘:bovm “Yes,” the soft-voiced old lady sighed when visited by a reporter, “it’s pretty lonesome here without my daughter and without Eddie. But the knowledge that Eddie’s most prized belongings are mnearby is a thought that consoles and comforts me as nothing else can,” FIGHTS COMPLAINED OF ) Havenner Protest Goes Into Inci- dental Book in No. 11 Precinet. A complaint made by Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation continues to spread its message of an- | Rated Printing Black Art. This practitioner of the black art— it was really the art of printing—ap- parently was somewhat of a charlatan. He represented his product to the Bene- dictine community as a manuscript. They probably had never heard of printing. He thought he was putting over a clever fraud. It was fortunate for the peace of Faust’s mind that he could not see into the future for four centuries, when his fraudulent manu- script would be by far the most val- uable book in the world because of & merit which neither he nor the monks realized. Dr. Vollbehr, who has practically completed the transfer of the rest of his incunabula to the Library of Con- gress, leaving for Europe next Thursday. He will go at once to the |left since he purchased it four years ago. There, with a ceremony which has been arranged, the head of the | community will transfer possession of | the Bible to him and then he and the | abbot will set out with it for America. | He plans to have the abbot accompany | him, dressed in the medieval monastic | robes of his order, to preserve the | medieval atmosphere at the ceremony here in September when the precious volume is handed over formally to . Herbert Putnam, librarian of Congress. Shipment Came Friday. ‘The rest of Dr. Vollbehr's collection of incunabula, or books printed in Europe in the fifteenth century just after the invention of printing, arrived in Washington Friday from New York, where they have been in storage. The truck, —insured for $1,000,000, came over the road with armed guards. Even without the Bible and the more valu- able books and manuscripts which Dr. Vollbehr always has kept with him in Washington, it was by far the most valuable book shipment ever made in America. Having ‘finally' disposed of the col- lection, the gathering of which has been his life work, the German scholar, who practically made a gift of $1,500,- 000 to the United States Governmen! said yeatetdntyfl that he considered the urchase a visible symbol of “the com- g of a renaissance of learning in America.” When he first came to the United States with his collection to_attend the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago three years ago, at the invitation of Cardinal Mundelein, Dr. Vollbehr saw many in- dications of a growing spirit which re- minded him of that of Europe in the fifteenth century, but it was struggling for expression. ~ Now, he believes, the new renaissance is fully launched, and that his books will mark only the be- ginning of the official recognition of this great movement, Many Send Thanks. Dr. Vollbehr and his official sponsor, Representative Collins of Mississippl, have received a flood of grateful mes- sages from colleges, learned societies, libraries and individual scholars during the past few days. kept together as ction, now are be- ing unpacked, checked and catalogued. The Bible, Dr. Vollbehr said yester- day, never really has been out of the possession of the monks and when the abbot brings it to Washington it will be almost a direct transfer O.hmugl a .!‘hn:uh intermediary the han of Citizens’ Associations, to the effect brought that a crowd has been loitering sround the corner . | Nichols avenue charged nf Lieut. 8. J. ‘The entry on the incidental book de- clared Dr. Havenner had a “vig- orous complaint” and had said that e would complain to Commissioner Crosby improved. The entry also stated that Dr. Havenner that n‘:lw';l‘:’:w- had been throug] area lights. ] Toward Good Showing at Big Washington Event. COSTLY BUILDINGS ADDED TO LANDSCAPE PROJECTS Extension of Capitol Grounds to Union Station Has Been in Pub- lic Mind Two Decades. Rapid progress is expected during the next year on. a group of Federal im- provement projects in the area sur- rounding the Capitol Bullding, includ- ing enlargement of the Capitol grounds, relocation of the Botanic Gardens, be- ginning of the United States Supreme Court Building and the new House Of- fice Building. David Lynn, Capitol architect, who has supervision over thess undertak- ings, prepared a statement yesterday showing that Congress has made avail- able for expenditure during 1931 on im- provements under his direction, $12,- 206,558.08, and that additional appro- priations to be made later will result in a total outlay of $35,000,000 on these projects by the end of 1933. Every effort will be made to complete as much of this program as possible for the 109!;7;” Washington Bicentermial in Extension of Capitol Grounds. For extending the Capitol Grounds to Union Station, an improvement looked forward to for a score of years, Mr. Lynn has available $4,763,893, of which about $3,000,000 is for addi- tional land west of the original plaza, and the balance for the beautification of the entire area. Another step in the carrying out of this project will be taken this week, when the firm of S. M. Oshorn & Co. of Perryville, Md.,, b:gins tearing down the last group of war-time Govern- ment hotels directly in front of the Station, together with the heating plant and laundry near New Jersey avenue and C street. The plaza improvement, including a Union Station to Pennsylvania avenue | between second and Third streets, will be completed in 1932, Mr. Lynn pre- dicted. 3 Office. Building Approach. For improving the north approach to with the plaza project, Mr. Lynn has $500,000 avaflable and plans to com- plete this work within the year. The total cost of the new House Of- fice Building, including the site, is esti- mated at $8400.000, of which’ $2,347- | 654.90 is available for expenditure in 1931. The greater part of the balance is expected to be asked for in the com- ing year, and Mr. Lynn expects this new avenue running diagonally from | the Senate Office Building, to fit in | 00 PERSONS INLOGAL SHOOLS REPORT REVEALS Trade Board Annoum:emenl| Lauds Educational Facil- ities Here. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS EMPHASIZED Advantages Offered in All Grades and in Wide Variety of Sub- jects in Washington. More than 142,000 persons attend schools in Washington and its metro- politan area, according to figures con- tained in the educational section of the Board of Trade's master community survey, which is being made by Rufus Lusk. ‘The educational section of the sur- vey, which has just been completed, was made by Dr. E. G. Kimball, former supervising principal of the third di- vision of public schools, who was re- tired a year ago. Including schools ranging from those of elementary grade through institu- tions of college grade and special schools, 142,146 boys and girls and men | and women were in attendance during | the past academic year under the di-| rection of 6,296 instructors. These to- tals include, besides the National Cap- ital itseif, the nearby towns of Mont- gomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, all of Arlington County, :nd] the City of Alexandria in Virginia. Lists Wide Variety, ‘The schools listed in Dr. Kimball's survey include not only public schools and the major universities, but prepara- | tory and g schools, business, | secretarial and accountancy schools; schools of drawing, painting and sculo- ture; schools of llng\ll‘u. music, self- | expression and physical education; schools of commercial art, designing and interior decorating, and the various industrial, professional and trade schools. ‘The survey shows marked progress in school house construction in public | schools, particularly as applied to those | of the neighboring Maryland and Vir- ginia counties. In announcing the findings of Dr. Kimball, Mr. Lusk paid tribute to the Capital as an educational center. “Naturally, Washington is a center | for development of private schools,” Mr. | Lusk declared. “A few of these have | been in successful operation for half a, | century or longer. Others have come| |into the fleld with the growth and de- | velopment of the city. The Capital now | has a very considerable group of pri- | vate schools of outstanding worth, thor- | oughly established, enjoying enviable reputations, drawing students from near ‘lndkfnr and doing effective educational work. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 13, .1930. * ALT FAMILY Above: Below: Left to right, Mrs. Alt and PAGE B—1 AT INQUEST Henry Alt, 15-year-old youth who was exonerated by a coroner’s Jury yesterday for the slaying of his father. On the right is Frieda, his sister. Henrj’s younger sister, Elsie. i —Star Staff Photos. NAME STREET LIST T0°BE SURFACED - STAGED BY POLICE Contract Already Been Let for Work to Be Done by Heater Method. | | | | | TWO LIQUOR RAIDS Warrant Versions Differ; Search for Felony Sus- pect Claimed. The list of streets to be resurfaced | Washington police made the second project to be completed in two years. Standards Lifted. 1 The work of clearing the site and exca- | “Recent years have witnessed a lifting vating is under way. The new House |of standards in most local colleges and | Office Building is to be on the south | professional schools. Their standing to- of the Capitol, just west of the present |day, by comparison with such institu- office building. | tions throughout the country, is very The Supreme Court Building, to be |good. Very unusual opportunities for erected between First and Second |students are here found in the remark- streets, East Capitol and Maryland ave- }lble library advantages which the city nue, will cost $9,740,000, of which $1,- | affords.” 500,000 is available for 1931. The site, | Listed according to character and lo- by the heater method was announced by Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, chief engineer of the District, yesterday. | The contract for the work has already | been let. The streets, which will be | resurfaced in the order named, are: | In the southeast section—Pennsyl- | vania avenue, south side, Tenth to Fourteenth street; Seward square, south side, Fourth to Sixth street; | dry-law raid in recent months under disputed authority yesterday at 4038 K street. As a result, 260 botiles of beer were seized and two persons arrested. Mrs. Minnie M. Bagett, 53 years old, and Oliver E. Crampton, 49, both resi- dents of the K street address, were charged with illegal possession. They were released from the seventh police precinct after posting $500 cash col- lateral each. The raid was made by Adam Tolson monastery where the Bible has been | costing $1,758,741, was acquired some | cation, the schools’ enrollments and time ago, and the work of clearing it has begun. ~Approximately $5,250,000 will be asked for to continue the build- ing next year. Botanic Gardens. For enlarging and relocating the Botanic Gardens, on the squares from Maryland avenue to Canal street, First and Second streets, the architect oi the Capitol has the following sums: For the site, $1,004,190.68; for conservatory buildings, $300,000; and for relocating the fountain, $5,000. The authorized cost of the conservatories is $876,398, the balance of which will be asked for at the next session. It is planned to complete this project next year. When the Botanic Gardens have been re- located to the southward, the existing gardens facing on Pennsylvania avenue will become a part of the Mall park de- velopment. For expansion of the Library of Congress, $600,000 has been appropri- ated to buy property east of the library building, and $10,000 is available to pre- pare preliminary plans for an additional library structure. Congress has author- ized $6,500,000 for iml]llh“ry bu:l(gfll program, and an appropriation under the authorization will be sought at the coming session. For reconstruction of the Senate wing of the Capitol there is $459,502.79 avail- able, but it is not the intention to ex- pend this appropriation in 1931, the work. having been temporarily deferred. For ent and new from the Capitol power plant to the steam lines | teacher staffs follow: Public schools of the District of Co- lumbia, 74,843 students and 2,891 in- structors; District of Columbia paro- chial schools, 8,770 students and 268 in- structors; private schools of the District and metropolitan area, 4,850 students |and 547 instructors; colleges and uni- | versities in the District of Columbia and metropolitan area, 20,191 students and 1511 instructors; special schools in the District of Columbia, 2,407 students ,and 108 instructors; District of Colum- | bia commercial schools, 5,335 students |and 217 instructors, and metropolitan i | area public schools, 25,750 students and 756 instructors. . |SALESMAN IS ARRES_TED ON 12 CHECK CHARGES Charles R. Schroth Taken in Gro- cery on Tip After Police Search for Him. Twelve charges of passing worthless | checks were filed against Charles R. Schroth, 33-year-old salesman, of 829 Quincy place, by gol!ce last night fol- lowing his arrest by Precinct Detective Dennis Murphy of No. 13 station. Schroth was taken into custody in a | grocery on a tip furnished Murphy that | the man had just entered the establish- ment. Schroth had been sought for the ! past month, police say, in connection | Pennsylvania avenue, south side, Sec- |and J. E. Burke, both of the seventh ond to Seventh street; Seward square, | Precinct. Different police gave two north side, Fourth to Sixth street, and | Versions of the affair. ‘One explana- Pennsylvania avenue, north side, Third |tion was that the policemen entered to Fourth street. | the home in search for a man for In the northeast section—East Capi- | Whom they had a warrant charging tol street (both sides), Thirteenth to 8 felony, as was done in a similar case Fifteenth street; C street, south side, |ecently. Fourth to Sixth street; Massachusetts | Another account given reporters was avenue, Seventh to Eleventh street, and | that the policemen entered the premises Fifth street, G to I street. without either an arrest or search war- In the southeast saction—Pennsyl- |rant. vania avenue, north side, Sixth to| Meanwhile the police vice squad, op- new buildings, Mr. Lynn has a fund of $716,316.71. In additioh to these large projects, there is appropriated under the archi- tect of the Capitol for maintenance, re- pair and improvements for the build- ings under his care, including the con- gressional group, the Columbia Hospital, the District Supreme Court Building, Court of Appeals Building and Court of Claims, $1,482,000. NAMED TO FACULTY A. W. Heinmiller to Succeed Her- bert Angel. A. W. Heinmiller has been appointed to the faculty of Strayer Business Col- lege to succeed Herbert Angel as direc- iradunte of Gorge Weshingion Upi: a uate of n Uni- versity, now is associate editor of the Pan-American Magazine. WARNING ON TAX RETURN FILINGS IS ISSUED BY ASSESSOR RICHARDS Current Fiscal Year Reports on All Property Except Autos‘ Due This Month. with the passing of alleged worthless checks on business acquaintances in amounts varying from $3 to $15. Eight charges were placed against the prisoner on the blotter at the thirteenth precinct, where he is being held pending arraignment in Police Court tomorrow morning, while four other charges were lodged against him at the ive Bureau by the check squad. AUTOIST ACCUSED Reckless Driving Charged After Park Road Collision. Slyvan A. Sheridan, 34 years old, of 3123 Warder street, was charged with reckless driving at No. 10 precinct late yesterday, after colliding with an auto- mobile pwned by Joseph Gordon, 3544 Fourteenth street, when coming out of an alley on Park road near Sherman avenue. No one was injured. Richards said ximately 40,000 returns should be f ‘Thus ! far, however, only 7,000 have been re- ceived. Returns must be made on all tangible and intangible pro, mobiles are not to be in return, hnm, as the tax on collected a time Richardsche identification tags. personal, . Auto- in the was of the issuance of. e 2 body, of which Irving C. Hand is president. ley High was an outstanding student in extra- curricular activities. will :Eurlu leading to & degree of bachelor Leavenworth, Maj. Johnson From Hawaii. Col. Frederick McG. Hartsock, Med- ical Corps, at Baltimore, has been or- dered to this city for duty at the United States Soldiers’ Home; Maj. Walter P. Tyler, Infantry, has been transferred from’ New Orleans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Maj. Edwin J. O'Hara, Finance Department, from Fort Leavenworth, | Kans, to the Militia Bureau, War De- | partment; Capt. Oscar R. Rand, Judge | Advocate General's Department, from the War Department to Hawaii; Maj. Elza C. Johnson, Judge Advocate Gen- eral’s Department, from Hawali to the War Department; Chaplain C. F. Grae- ser from Riverside, Calif., to the Canal Zone; Chaplain John T. Axton, jr., from the Canal Zone to Riverside, Calif.; Capt. C. 8. Hendrickson, Infan- try, from. Fort Snelling, Minn, to Quincy, IIl.; First Lieut. J. M. McMillan, Chemical Warfare Service, from_the War Department to Hawali; Capt. B. K. Erdman, Infantry, from Miller Field, New York, to Lexington, Ky. Master Sergt. Clark J. Rainey, Quar- termaster Corps, at Baltimore, has been | placed on the retired list on his own| -p‘_]:}lluuon after more than 30 years'| service. The resignation of Second Lieut.! George L. Brittingham, Cavalry, i cently stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex., has, :‘e!ee:t lc:epted by the President, to take once. WINS SCHOLARSHIP Raymond M. Meiners of 3626 Georgia ivenue has been awarded the Washing- ton Alumni Association scholarship to nion College, to an an- last night by Dr. Frank 'Ooe Barnes, secretary of the he | Meiners was chosen by Meiners was graduated from McKin- last month, where he | He take at Eighth street. | erating under the leadership of its new In the northwest section—Seaton | Chieftain, Sergt. J. R. Leach, yesterday place, First to Second street: Twelfth | AITested 'a mother and son in a raid place, W street to Florida avenue. |iD the 1600 block of I street. The squad Fairmont street, Eleventh to Fourteenth | Sonfiscated 273 bottles of beer. 34 quarts street; Irving street, Eleventh to ©f Wine and 80 gallons of wine mash. Fourteenth streets, and Sunderland |, EMMa Margis, 46, and her son, place, Nineteenth {0 Twentieth street, | Fromas Margls, 24, were placed in the Capt. Whitehurst also announced | ISt precinct on charges of manufac- that there was an error in the previous | {UI¢ 8nd possession of liquor. announcement s fo street widening, | Folice entered the Margis home with The only job this year Involving widen- | & SCAICh warrant issued by Needham C. ing is H street from Seventh to Thir. Turnage, United States commissioner. teenth Street. Twelfth street from B | ST T e street nor street south and Georg” avenie “trom mock_creet |SHORT TORRID SPELL urch roa uchanan street will | be paved, but not widened, as erron- | DUE |N CAPITAL TODAY eously announced. | S Ry | Weather Bureau Predicts Heat Will CAPT. OSCAR R. RAND | Be Banished by Thunderstorms | TO LEAVE POST HERE | Later in Day. Ges}lem;o:tzheflyd breezes ;vltl}I V.l‘:'l s into Was] n today some of e tor- Maj. O'Hara Ordered From Fort| i oinel which has shatcered al previous heat records in the South. The hot spell will be short-lived, however, for the Weather Bureau predicts that thundershowers late this afternoon or evening will bring cooler weather. The thermometer will reach 90 and perhaps 92 degrees in Washington to- day, according to the Weather Bureau, but’ the weather here will be cool in comparison ~ with some _sections of Georgia and Tennessee, which reported temperatures yesterday ranging from 104 to 106 degrees. Breezes from the north kept Wash- ington comparatively cool yesterday, while the South, Northwest and Middle West sweltered under a blazing sun. The maximum temperature here was 85 degrees, which is about normal for the Nation'’s Capital in July. One of 5 Defendants Booked Third Time in as Many Days in Police Drive. In a continued effort to clear the streets of “puth-cart” venders, police of the first precinct yesterday afternoon arrested five hucksters for selling their wares in restricted zones. They were all subsequently released under $20 col- lateral. Others brough! into the precinct were Gus Vakos, 48, 600 block of F street southwest; Pete Speros, 38 years old, Sixth street near H; Thomas Elias, 56, Pennsylvania ave- nue near Seventeenth street, and Milton Aravanas, 36, Seventh street near N. Capt. Burke, commander of the first precinct, gave notice that due to the apparent disrespect of the regulation governing these selling’ zones, the maxi- mum collateral of $50 will be required before the hucksters arrested in the future are released. Police in making the arrests escorted the carts and wares as wgil as the men to the precinct. HENRY ALT FREED BY CORONER'S JURY INFATHER'S DEATH Inquest Reveals Drink-Crazed Threats Against Lives of Family. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE VERDICT IS RENDERED Witnesses Agree Contractor on Way to Shoot Wife at Time Boy Stabbed Him. Deliberating less than 30 minutes, a coroner’s jury yesterday decided the slaying Friday of John Alt, contractor, by his 15-year-old son Henry was a Justifiable homicide and ordered the release of the boy. The verdict was announced after several witnesses had testified during the three-hour inquest concerning numer- ous threats the drink-crazed contractor had made to take the lives of members of his family. Witnesses agreed he was on his way to the home of a neighbor on the announced mission of shooting his wife when the boy plunged a long butcher knife into his back. Not even a whisper was audible in the inquest room when Mrs. Lena Alt, widow of the dead man, walked to the witness stand to tell a pathetic story. Sobbing, she told in a faltering voice of the martial strife which had culminated in the death of the 55-year-old con- tractor. Drank Heavily for Several Months. “My husband had been drinking heavily for two or three months,” the widow began. ‘“He frightened me ter- ribly by drinking so much. He awak- ened Henry yesterday morning and made him go down stairs with him. He told Henry he never would be any good because he slept too much and that he ought to go out to look for work. “I told him, ‘John, don't talk to theI boy because you've been drinking.'’ This made him even more mad. He turned on me and said, ‘I'm going to kill you. I'm going to finish you right now.' I ran out of the door while ‘P:e went to the dresser to get his pistol’ Mrs. Alt appeared on the verge of a collapse at this point, Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, the coroner, intervened, ex- cusing the witness. Lleat. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, read a statement signed by Henry after the boy's attor- ney, John C. Foster, had decided to abandon his original plan to place him on the witness stand. The graphic statement follows, in part: “My father had been drinking heavily for & long time. He came to my foom yesterday morning and after arousing me from sleep upbrigded me for not going to work and sfid that I was a loafer. My mother came into the room at this time and tried to quiet my fa- ther, but could not. My fathcr thon went downstairs, where a second argu- ment with my mother started. I came down just as he was reacling for my mother and made an effort to stop him.” Boy Pursued Father. The statement added that Mrs. Alu ran to the home of a neighbor while the boy attempted unsuccessfully to prevent his father from giving chase. Panic-striken, Henry obtained a long knife in the kitchen and pursued his father into the back yard. “When I reached the rear woodshed,” the statement read, “I grabbed my fa- ther and stabbed him with the knife.” Alt then stumbled back into the house and fell unconscious. Dr. George H. Baier of 1326 Harvard street, one of the witnesses, figured in several sharp verbal exchanges with Charles B. Murray, assistant United States attorney, as the latter sought to learn the origin of a report that Alt had committed suicide. On direct examination, Dr. Baicr said he had been the Alt family physi- cian more than 18 years. He addec that when he reached the sccne at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning he was told Alt had shot himself. “I inquired where the gun was and was told he might have thrown it out the window,” Dr. Baier testified. The physician told of finding the | man’s body lying face downward in a | rear room of the Alt home. Life was extinet. Murray, on cross-examination, at- tempted to force the witness to say who had told him the man had killed him- self. Dr. Baler at first testified h> was uncertain and then asserted Henry was the first member of the family he had seen on arriving at the home. The physician said he presumed the boy was the one who had told him the father had taken his own life. “Did you examine Murray inquired, “No, sir,” Dr. Baier replied. “Don’t you think it was your busi- ness to find out where the wound was?" “I minister to the living, not the dead.” Dr. Baler sald he learned several months ago that Alt was in a serious condition from heavy drinking. He said he advised relatives of the man to have him placed in an institution. “They refused,” he said, “telling me they were afraid he would kill them all when he got out.” Neighbor Takes Stand. Mrs. Lena Troger, a next-door neigh- bor of the Alts, declared Mrs. Alt sought refuge in the Troger home more than a month ago when the contractor chased her with a pistol. “I held his arm at my kitchen door for half an hour before I could per- suade him to go home and go to bed,” the aged witness said. “He had a loaded pistol in his hand. He was very in- toxicated. I told him he never would take another drink of liquor if he could only see himself as I did.” Numerous school teachers, ministers, and neighbors of Henry, who appeared at the inquest to testify as character witnesses, but were not called to the stand, gathered about the boy to con- gratulate him on his release. a Alt had been a prominent figure in Washington German fraternal and benevolent circles for many years. He had served more than a decade on the board of the directors of the German Orphan Asylum in Anacostia. - STOPS CAR; FINDS LIQUOR Officer Acting on Hunch Discovers 30 Gallons of Alcohol. Policeman William McEwen of the eighth precinct, acting on a “hunch,” stopped an automobile at Sixteenth and Euclid streets yesterday morning and discoyered 30 gallons of alcohol in the rear of the machine. Theodore Chaconas, 200 Massachu- setts avenue, the driver, was arrested and ueotot:d to the police st«ltl:n. where cl transportation and posses- slon were placed against him, s the wound?”