Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 17

FIREBUG SUSPECT SENTTO GALLINGER BY POLICE COURT Police Report Lingan A. But- ler Has Signed Full Confession. FIRE LOSS DECLARED MORE THAN $250,000 Alleged Incendiary Fled to Escape Flames—Says Discarded Matches Started Blaze. Lingan Asbury Butler, 47-year-old truck loader of the Hub Furniture Co., who, police said, confessed starting four fires in Hub warehouses in the past year, was committed to Gallinger Hos- pital today for observation by Judge Gus A. Schuldt of Police Court. Members of Butler's family of 1453 U street southeast informed Judge Schuldt that they believed the man of | unsound mind and requested the magis- trate to have him examined. Hearing | of the charge of arson against Butler was postponed until the court receives the report of the Gallinger doctors. There was no testimony in Police Court today. Butler stood in court, a small, unshaven, unkempt man who seemed unable to realize what went on about him. He seemed satisfied to leave his fate to others. Said to Have Confessed. He is said to have signed a full con- fession late yesterday for Inspector Wil- liam S. Shelby, chief of detectives. The four fires caused a loss of more than $250,000, according to official re- ports on file at Fire Department head- quarters. Police are still investigating a sifth fire at the Hub Co,, in which But- 1-r, a shipping clerk and a Hub employe Tor more than six years, has denied tak- ing any part. Butler in signing a con- fession ended an extensive investigation conducted by the homicide squad of the Detective Bureau for the past nine days, and in which Detective Sergts. Carlton ‘Talley and George E. Darnall played the leading roles, working under the direc- tion of Lieut. Edward J. Kelly. They were assisted by Detective Sergt. Thom- as F. Sweeney. Sergts. Talley and Darnall were as- signed to the case by police officials Lingan Asbury Butler, employe of WASHINGTON, | NOT ADAPTED T0 | 8O, FRIDAY, PLATOON SYSTEM PARK VIEW SITE School Survey Includes Praise of Program of Past Ten Years. BOARD WILL CONSIDER FINDINGS OF WOMAN Waste Cubage in Structure Would Entail Greater Cost to Change to New Mode. Criticism of the Park View School Building and its new 15-room addition as affording unsatisfactory accommoda~ tions for a platoon type of elementary school and praise for the program which has been in operation there for the past 10 years are contained in a tentative] report on the survey of the school which the United States office of education i is making at the request of the District | of Columbia Board of Education. the Hub Furniture Co, in custody of Policeman M, P. Lewis of the sixth precinct yesterday after he had admitted that he was responsible for four of the five fires which have caused damage of more than $250,000 in the company's warchouses in the last two years.—Star Staff Photo, ARLINGTON BRIDGE RECEIVED BY U.S. Engineering Work on $700,- after a fire wrecked the ware house of the Hub Co. at 80 L street northeast on September 24, ca $50,000 damage, wcordlng‘m fire icials. The blaze was the fifth on Hub Co. property with- ih two years. ’ Arrested After Week. - The detectives arrest:d Butler after! more than a week of work on the case. He was questioned at length Wednesday npight and again yesterday. Shortly aft:r noon, police announced, he began to unfold the story of how he started the ' four fires. Butler was taken to the sixth precinct station and héld overnight for arraign- ment in court today after he reputedly had compleied his confession and signed a statement for police records. In his confession, Butler, as quoted by lice, said: “I want no cloud of suspicion to attach itself to my working mates.” Butler is sald to have admitted start- ing three of the four fires which ap- structure. He told detectives that each blaze was set off without any pre- ! plans and in & careless manner, probers rported. Blaze Started by Match. ‘The first, Butler reputedly said, was siarted accidentaily on September 16, 1929, when he struck a match to retd" the serial numbers on a kitchen cabinet and then tossed it into a pile of papers at the M street warehouse. The second blaze was begun in a similar manner on November 21, 1929. Butler, according to- police, said he was afraid to tell any one of striking the matches because he was aware that in de 20 he was breaking & strict rule of his company. The told detectives that there was & good deal of discussion among officials and employes of the furniture company as to the possible cause of the :;xond fire and that he joined in the It wasn't exactly amusing, but I ®ot satisfaction out of the fact that they didn’t know I had caused the fire,” Butler is quoted as telling his interrogators. Ran to Escape Flames. i The third fire, which followed on | July 29 of this year, had its origin in! a pile of excelsior and papers, accord- | ing to the man, who said the fire was started with a match from which he had just lit a cigarette. Butler told police he had to run for his life to escape the flames. The most recent and perhaps the most spectacular of the Hub Co. fires, occurred ‘on September 24 last, about 11 am., at the L street warehouse. “I loaded & wagon and went to the office and wrote a sheet for Henderson, a wagon driver, before he left,” Butler sald, according to the report on the case. “While talking to Henderson 1 100k out s cigarette, but did not light it. later going inside, where I struck a match on the wall and threw it into &ome excelsior.” Fire Was Ignored. ‘The man, police said, explained that he ret off three of the fires near quitting time and walked around in the vicinity of the building until they were discovered by some one else. He also waited for some one else to discover the blaze nine days ago, which caused Acting Pire Chief P, W. Nicholson to ask for a police investigation. ‘District Highway Engineer to Re- 000 Memorial Structure Ac- cepted as Satisfactory. ‘The Federal Government today ac- complished one of the first major steps in perfecting the Arlington Memorial | Bridge program when it accepted from | the contractor as satisfactory the bridge that spans Boundary Channel, carrying the project from Columbia Island to the Virginia shore. F. B. Riaenour, Washington mlnlg!l" of the N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago, the contractor, on behalf of the firm, formally transmitted the great en- gineering job to the of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commis- nted by Lieut. Col. U. S. its executive officer. There ony, the Govern- ment merely taking over after its inspectors were satisfied that ".:w job came up to contract specifica- ons. Cost Approximately $700,000. The bridge, a three-span structure, cost. apprcximately $700,000. ,The cen- ter rpan parses over Boundory Chan- nel, while the two side tpans are to be used as underpasscs for roads. One road will pass under the zbutment on Columbia Island, as part of the road program in conjunction with the park development there, the foundations of which are now being laid, by raising the level of Columbia Island to the height of the bridge floor. The second road will run along the fringe of the Vir- ginia shore and pass beneath the west- erly underpass of the new bridge. ‘Boun« Channel Bridge is 403 feet , and s total width of 94 feet, with & 60-foot roadway and a sidewslk on either side, each about 14 feet wide. On the (Jolmubhl lflmfl& side, flutlx\!idlem ~ has two great pylons that are feature of the artistic circle that will be built later on the island. Moving of Spur Proposed. The Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- mission proposes that the Pennsylvania Rallroad spur to Rossiyn, Va., which passes just to the west of the Boundary Channel Bridge, be moved somewhat to accommodate the new development, and the tiacks will be depressed several feet and und-rpass the road that will lead from the bridge up to tne Virginia slopes, on the way to Arlington National Cemetery. The commission hopes to start haul- ing out from the Virginia side this Fall, to aid in raising the level of Co- lumbia Island, so that it will be flush with the bridge. With the completion of the bascule draw span in the center of the river soon, earth will be dumped onto Columbia Island from the Wash- ington side. In addition, the United States l:ngneer office, 1n its process of deeping the Georgetown Channel, is pumping sand and gravel onto Colum- bia Island, to turn this waste into & picturesque parkland. COMMITTEES TO REPORT ON TRAFFIC PROBLEMS ceive SBuggestions on Street Light- ing Parking and Other Regulations. ‘Three of the fires are entered on fire »sc0ords as major conflagrations, each requiring virtually every resource of the departzc®rh before they were brought under control. Several firemen were injured, while the lives of many others were endangered. The first fire of the Hub Co. series, which occurred on February 8, 1929, with a loss estimated at $78,300, is the only one to which Butler did not con- fess when questioned yesterday, it was said. Police are hopeful of some de- “elt;m.lenl that might solve the mystery of first fire, if it was of incenliary origin. Losses in the four fires mentioned in Butler’s confession were re] at $400, $497, $149,294 and $50,000. Postman 40 Years Retires. HAGERSTOWN, Md., October 3 S ‘(Special) —Ellis M, Stouffer, veteran during his service he roximately 124,800 miles, or near] gve times around the world, during which time he carried approximately 1,115 tons of mail. Reports from all of the subcommit- tees of the Trafic Advisory Council and the Commissioners’ Traffic Committee are expected to be filed with Capt. Her- bert C. Whitehurst, District highway engineer and chairman of the commit- tee, tomorrow. The reports will be gone over at an executive meeting of the committee and council Monday. Fol- lowing this there will be a public meet- ing of the committee and council next Friday at which the final report of the bodies will be adopted for transmission to the District Commissioners. Among the subjects under considera- tion by the various subcommittees are reorganization of the traffic director's office and Police Trafic Bureau, trafic urh!s‘ the left-turn problem, disposal of ancient automobiles and the various parking questions. Cherrydale - Firemen ; Meet. CHERRYDALE, Va., October 3 (Spe- clal) —The Volunteer it hold ir DOYLE FUNERAL SET FOR TUESDAY Commander of Eighth Police Precinct Was Fatally Stricken Yesterday. Pinal rites for Capt. Robert Emmett Doyle, veteran commander of the eighth precinct who died while-on duty yesterday, have been arranged for ‘2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, 1410 Columbia road, with interment follow- ing at the Cedar Hill Cemstery. It was at first planned to hold fu- neral seryices on Monday, but members of the officer's family moved the Tites back a day, in order that relatives now on their way from California may at- tend. Inspector Stoll Assists. Inspector Louis J. Stoll, who has been appointed by Ma). Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of -police, to assist the family with arrangements for the fu- neral, said that six members of the Metropolitan Police Department will be selected today to serve as honorary palibearers. The active pallbearers will be named by Capt. Doyle’s family, while Inspector Stoll will pick two police captains, two lieutenants and iwo sergeants for the honorary escort. As many members of No. 8 station as can pe spared from duty will attend the rites, as will other members of the force. The services will be conducted by Rev. Moses R. Lovell, pastor of Mount Pleasant_Congregational Church. Capt. Doyle, who was 59 years of age, died yesterday afternoon while being rushed to Garfield Hospital after he had collapsed in a lunchroom at Four- teenth and U streets. Died as He Desired. The picturesque commander of No. 8 and his precinct detective, J. E. Kenny, had been investigating s case earlier in the day and stopped off at the lunch room for & bite to eat before returning to_their station. The captain has been ill for some time and was aieting for high-blood pressure. Capt. Doyle had been advised of his condition by police surgeons, but dis- missed all suggestions of retirement. He met death as he had always ex- pressad a desire to do—"on duty.” Capt. Doyle had been a member of the force for 39 years. Acting Capt. Walter Emerson, at- tached to the Detective Bureau, stands first on the list of lieutenants eligible for promotion to the rank of captain, it is said, and in all probability will be made commander of No. 8 stati lon. Lieut. Michael Ready of the eighth precinct will serve as commander of that ‘station until an appointment is made by the District Commissioners. SEEKS TO TRANSFER TUBERCULAR CLINIC —_— District Asked by Association to Take Over Service to Children and Hospital Patients. committee from the Washington "hnfierculmix ‘Association waited on the District Commissioners at their regular pemi-weekly board meeting this morn- ing to ask that certaln work now financed by the association be taken over by the Dktflctulnd paid for out f District appropriations. 9 ‘The workpwuz t to be transferred consists of the activities of the Chil- dren’s Tuberculosis Clinic and the oc- y service 1':1" patients ‘Hospital. are now financed by the sale of Christ- mas seals. The hospital work has been carried on with approval of the hospital au- thorities for nine years. The clinic work_has bzen conducted jointly with the District Health Depertment since April 1, 1929. Up to September 1 of this year 4,189 visits had ‘been made by children to this clinic, and in the same 1,150 new eg:‘uznu ‘were listed, with nearly 200 dren found to be infected with tuberculosis. ‘Those who represented the associa- were Dr. M. Kober, presi- Dr. F. g e at the firehouse tonight. Sev- eral important matters are to be con- sidered and members are urged to be present. A tion dent; Grant, Walter 8. Pratt, jr.; Miss Ger- trude Bowling, Wallace Hatch and Dr. Vicla Anderson, secretary. ‘These | Board Given Report. Coples of the report, which was made by Miss Alice Barrows, specialist in school building in the Federal educa- tion office, are in the hands of school board members today for their study in preparation for the official consideration at a future meeting of the board. As sent to the school authorities by Miss Barrows, the report covers three of the four phases requested for study by Dr. Charles F. Carusi, School Board president, last Spring. These are the capacity of the school, including both old building and new addition, the lat- ter structure opened for the first time this Fall; figures giving the enrollment by grade groups in the Park View School and the Monroe School, and a platoon school program for the Park View School for this year, planned on the basis of using the school to full capacity. Rooms Not Uniform. At the outset, in considering the capacity of the platoon school, Miss Barrows declared that the building as designed by Albert L. Harris, municipal architect of the District, presents an unfair basis of cost comparison between Tentative sketch of the main front of the new building Twentieth streets for United States Public Health Service. These plans and even the location are subject to change and OCTOBER 3, 1930. GODDARD TO AKE ADDED GUN TESTS Ballistics Expert to Supply Campbell Prosecution With New Prints. Col. Calvin H. Goddard, noted au- thority on forensic ballistics, left here today for his scientific crime-detection laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, to make another micro-pho- tographic examination of the gun he says was used by the slayer of Mary Baker. Additional photographs showing the tiny scratches or striations on the fa- tal bullets removed from the Baker girl's body—markings which Col. God- dard characterized as “fingerprints” left by the revolver of Herbert M. Campbell—have been requested by the District attorney's office. Before returning to Chics Col. Goddard cleared up a point that ap- pears to have been in doubt in earlier stages of the Baker investigation, the make of the gun turned over to police by Campbell, who since has been charged with murder. Spanish Type Gun. “The gun is & .32-caliber revolver of Spanish manufacture,” Col. Goddard declared. “It is of a cheap type, such as can be purchased readily abroad for less than $2. Revolvers of this make are exported in large quantities to America and are sold widely in the platoon and _traditional schools. The | United States.” class rooms in the old section of the building are too large, being 34 by 26 feet, whereas they should be, according to the Federal school building expert, 30 by 22 or 30 by 23 feet. These di- mensions, she said, are understandable since the building was erected more than 10 years ago, “but, unfortunately, the class rooms in the new addition are also distinctly larger than is considered desirable, and, furthermore, they are not uniform,” one being 32 by 22, another 33 by 22 and a third 34 by 22 feet. Three small rooms in the basement of the brand-new addition, which are designated as class rooms by Mr. Har- ris, Miss Barrows holds, are useless for platoon school work. They are 22 by 16 fect, cannot be used as class rooms and are not needed for dressing or store rooms. . The total cubage of these rooms is 13,241.68, or equal to nearly one and one-half class rooms. In considering the capacity of the Park View School, Miss Barrows has eliminated these three Tooms and & room used as a branch post office of the city depart- ment entirely. Accommodation Outlined. On the basis of the remaining 30 rooms, 2 kindergartens, 1 auditorium, 2 gymnasiums and 2 play rooms, the school will accommodate 10 non-platoon classes in grades 1 and 2 and 24 classes in grades 3 and 8, plus the 2 kinder- garten classes, giving a total of 34 classes and 2 kindergartens. This es- timate is based by Miss Barrows upon 40 pupils per class, which, she pointed out, is a much higher average than the number of pupils per class for the Dis- trict school system as a whole or for any of the schools in the neighborhood of Park View, where the highest number of children per class is in the Raymond- Hubbard School, where the average is 328. In total enrollment, the school could accommodate 1,276 pupils in its 34 classes. ‘g school program which “The platoon has bet: in existence at the Park View School for nearly 10_years is an excellent D) ,” Miss Barrows’ re- port declared. “The principal knows ihe needs of her school and is well equipped to plan an admirable platoon school program. Hence the present program (the program suggested in the survey report) is merely suggestive, and, for its successful operation, it is very important that full latitude be given to the principal to change or modify it in any way that seems best to her or to substitute a different pro- gram. The principal agrees with the survey staff as to the capacity of the school and she has proved her ability in the past to plan an excellent platoon program.” Program Was Asked. In presenting_the suggested program in response to Dr. Carusi's request for suggestions “which would enable the board to set up & platoon type of or- ganization in the Park View School that will represent the best current practice in such schools,” Miss Barrows pointed out that there i no “best’ platoon school program. “One of the characteristics of the platoon school plan that is considered important by those who have operated platoon schools,” she said, “is that 1t {5 possible to operate each school so as to meet its particular needs. There is no one best platoon school program. The Detroit program is different from the Pittsburgh program, which, in turn, is different from the Gary program. Plan in Summary. In brief, Miss Barrows suggests a program which would divide _the platooned grades of the Park View School into an A and B school. While one of these groups is in the home room studying -academic subjects the other would be engaged in special activities, including nature studies, art, music, sclence and geography, dramatics, manual training and domestic science, and in the auditorium and gymnasiums. The special activities- could be 80 programed that pupils will have all of them during the week for the entire year or they can have certain special activities for one term and others for the ne ‘The -advantage of the latter plan, the report specifies, is that the pupil will have the same subject every day for a given Jength of time instead of having one subject one day and another the next. Will Make Final Report. “The cost of a platoon school in the Park View building on the basis of the cost of hufldlnfll.ll they stand and the capacity avallable would not represent the cost of a platoon school of an equal capacity according to platoon ‘scheol bullding plans in other gmn. Nor is it possible Col. Goddard laughed at one report that suggested the revolver was made by the Remington factory. The report apparently arose from the announce- ment by the defense of plans for hav- ing an official of the Remington Co. testify for Campbell at the forthcoming trial. This plan, it was learned, has been abandoned. Goddard is a recognized expert on small arms of all types, and has a col- lection of more than 1,000 different makes in his university laboratory. ‘Wanted by Prosecution. The additional photographs of the fatal bullets and of test bullets fired from Campbell's revolver arc wanted by the prosecution to strength- en the technical evidence to used against Campbell in the murder trial. Additional photographs also have been made by Dr. Wilmer Souder, bal- listics expert of the Bureau of Stand- ards. When Col. Goddard completes his second examination, the gun and bul- lets will be turned over to Albert H. Hamilton, defense ballistics expert. Hamilton’s tests will be conducted in the presence of Dr. Souder and Lieut. John Fowler, gun expert of the Police Department. Lieut. Fowler also identi- fled Campbell's gun as the one that fired the bullets into Mary Baker's body. ZONE INNOVATION PLAN IS DROPPED Residential Sections Will Not Be Used by Even High-Grade Business. ‘The jposed creation of s limited mmmervctr:.\ zoning classification, which would permit the establishment of & certain class of high-grade business in certain residential areas, such as lower Sixteenth street, has been dropped the Zoning Commission for lack of sup- port by the public, it was announced to- day by Mnf. D. A. Davison, executive officer of the commission. This plan was suggested by the com- mission for consideration by the public as one contemplated means of solving conditions in certain areas now zoned residential, but which are faced with conditions held not favorable to resi- dential vse only. Several citizens' associations were di- vided on the question. Eight property owners on lower Sixteenth street were for the plan, and the Fine Arts Com- ‘mission, the Board of Trade Zoning Committee and the American Civic As- sociation went on record opposing it. The Zoning Commission also has adopted & rule setting a time limit on the rehearing of petitions denied by the body, Maj. Davison reported. Un- Jess conditions in areas in question are definitely changed, a petition once de- nied cannot be subject of a rehearing for one year, a second rehearing can- not be held for two years and a third rehearing cannot be held for four years after the original hearing. BRITISH CRUISER DANAE DUE TO DOCK HERE TODAY Warship Recently on Duty in Mediterranean Will Spend Week in Navy Yard Harbor. Pushing ahead of schedule, the Brit- ish cruiser Danae was scheduled to ar- rive at the Washington Navy Yard this afternoon at 2 o'clock, instead of to- morrow, as first announced. Under the command of Capt. E. R. Bent of the Royal Navy, who holds the Distinguished Service Cross, the vessel nosed up the Potomac River this morn- ing and prepared to tie up at the navy yard, launching a serles of social events for the entertainment of the visiting vessel's mmml:cumed officers and en- listed personnel. Thex}: are about 425 aboard the Brit- ish cruiser, which has been on duty recently in the Meditteranean, and comes to Washington from Bermuda. The oraft is slated to spend a week here. the cost of & traditional school of the same number of classes, owing to the amount of waste cubage in both the old and new sddition at Park View.” Further detalls on the office of edu- cation’s survey of the school will tra the District nsmitted to to compare the cost of the platoon ' thorities when the final report isscom- school in the Park Vipw School with pleted. school au- | five days, Recaptured Twice, Promises to Stay Away From D. C. Colored Convict Will Go South During Next Jail “Vacation.” The constabulary hereabouts won't have to bother about sending Alexander Rich, colored, back to North Carolina any more—they have Alexander's own word for it. Alexander redlly is supposed to be doing 30 years at the State Prison in Raleigh for murder. Still he manages to work in a few trips to the National Capital, just to relieve the tedium. Six weeks ago Alexander was visit- ing here when his stay was cut short by W. E. Stein, superintendent of the prison wharf. Stein has a good memory for faces. The traveler returned to prison forth- with, but wearied of the life there in two days, he said. So Alexander, with- out even waiting for permission, left again and bought a return ticket to ‘Washington. Stein happened to be at No, 2 pre- cinct yesterday when Pvt. J. A. Hunt telephoned that a fight had recently been in progress at First and Plerce streets—it had, Hunt said, ¥n1fl he arrested one large colored many Stein went along in the patrol wagon to return the man in question. Sure enough, it was Alexander. “What!"” said Stein, “back again?” Alexander admitted that he was. “And I guess after we send you down there once more, you'll just turn around and come right back?” “No, boss,” sald Alexander, who was on his way to North Carolina via Gal- lenger Hospital because the fight had marked him. “— when I leaves down yonder, I teil you man, I ain't comin’ to Washington—I'se headin’ Souf!” (. OF C. CAMPAIG OPENS WEDNESDAY Five-Year Expansion Pro- gram Will Be Inaugurated by Week-Long Drive. ‘Wednesday of next week has been set for the opening day of the week-long campaign which will officially inau- gurate the five-year expansion program of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce, it was announced todsy by Ru- dolph Jose, chairman of the Program Committee. A luncheon at the Willard Hotel to- day of the general campaign organiza- | tion, headed by Thomas P. Littlepage, | building up team organization for the intensive membership and expansion drive. Edward G. Bliss, lieutenant colonel in charge of campaign organization, and his team captains, H. A. Brooks, George E. Kneipp, Ernest J. Spitzer and Dar- rell P. Aub, arranged to meet at this sesslon to discuss a plan of action for the campaign. Littlepage is scheduled to make a radio address in behalf of the expan- sion program over Statlon WRC at 6:24 o'clock tonight. It will mark his sixth by | talk over the air since the five-year program was announced. A talk outiining the immediate plans for the intensive drive will be made over station WMAL Saturday at 6:45 p.m. by Mr. Jose. |\ The program chairman wiil discuss the high lights of the cham- ber's plan for expansion and to build up the local body to a standard “com- parable to institutions of its kind throughout the country.” Distribution of 5,000 pamphlets chamber and among Washington busi- ness and professional men marked yes- terday’s developments in the drive. The circulars set forth the objective of the expansion program, outlined past accomplishments of the chamber and stated the new policy of bureau oper- ation adopted. DEAD MAN FOUND NEAR B. & 0. TRACKS Discovered in Ravine at Muirkirk by Two Boys—Un- identified. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LAUREL, Md., October 3.—Maryland learn the identity of a white man, ap- parently about 40 years old, who was found in & ravine between the Baltimore and Ohio Rallway tracks and the Bal- timore Boulevard, near Mulrkirk, yes- terday. Death had been caused by a broken neck and broken back, police say, but State Patrolman C. charge of the investigation, said the man was also bruised about the face and body, and could have met his death either by accident or violence. Police were chiefly mystified because of the lack of means of identification. ‘The only clue available was a Maine chauffeur’s badge, with the number 13472. Maine authorities were wired in an effort to establish identity through the hlm but no reply had been re- ceived morning. ‘The body was discovered by two boys w:: ve their names as Vivian White d about Justice of Peace H. M. Scott ordered L an inquest at 1:;0 tonight, dertaker- sal man had apparently been dead local attorney, was for the purpose of | throughout the membership of the local | State police were today attempting to | April, which may be located on B street between Nineteenth and ‘The building would be 260 feet long and 245 feet deep. approval by the Public Buildings Commission. HEALTH BUILDING PLANS UNDER WAY Architect Including Sugges- tions Recently Made by Arts Commission. ‘Tentative sketches are well under way for the new Public Health Service Bullding, which is proposed to be located on the site bounded by B and C, Ninetenth and Twentieth streets. The sketches were approved in-prin- ciple by the Fine Arts Commission at a recent meeting, and certain sugges- tions made by the commission are be- ing incorporated into the plans. ‘The architect is J. H..de Sibour of this ecity, who was commissioned by the ‘Treasury Department, under authority of law, to prepare sketches for the new building. For Early Development. Pinal decision has not as yet been reached by either the Treasury Depart- ment, the Fine Arts Commission nor the Public Buildings Commission con- cerning this new project in the public buildings program for Washington, but the building is listed for early develop- ment, and is expected to be one of | the next new structures to rise here. It will_probably. follow the new Post Office Department Building, which is to go on location bounded by Tweifth and Thirteenth streets, Pennsylvania avenue and approximately C street. Congress has appropriated a total of $865,000 for the Public Health Service Building. It is to be three stories and may be constructed of marble, as it may face the great ceremonial ave- nue of Washington, B street. E Shape Construction. ‘The building would face B street and would be constructed in almost the exact shape of the letter E, with the wings running northward from the main wing along B street. The Public Buildings Commission must approve the whole project yet. ‘The Public Helath Service now is located in two temporary buildings, € and F buildings at Seventh and B streets southwest. The service also has a relief station in the Post Office De- partment Building, and the great laboratory, National Institute of Health, at Twenty-fourth and E streets. three phases of the work probably will continue as at present, the new build- ing being for administration. $299,181 BEHIND IN CHEST PLEDGES Deficit for Year Foreseen if Sup- port Is Not Fulfilled, Says Director. Unless Washington fulfills more ad-| equately its pledged support, the Com- munity Chest, confronted with hun- |dreds of outstanding pledges, must face a deficit for the year, according to a report by Elwood Street, director of the Chest. 1930,” the report, based on a nine- month compilation, states, “amount to $1.313,135.90, as compared with the total of $1,612,337 pledged.” ‘The 1930 budgets, the report shows, were based upon the expectation of maximum payment of pledges, which, at the present date, remain unfulfille to the amount of $299,181.30. Unless this balance is cleared off, the opera- tions of the Chest must necessarily face a serious curtailment. “Subscribers who have not paid their subscriptions because they think they are ‘hard up' should reflect upon the plight of the thousands of poor in the Capital,” the report concludes. “Prompt and full payments are necessary | order to make possible the proper con- | tinuance of this service throughout the remainder of the year.” in 'D. C. AND BALTIMORE PLAN SPELLING BEE |Clubs of Two Oities Will Meet Tuesday Night in Fourth Con- test of History. | ‘The Capital City Spelling Club of Washington and the Waverly Spelling Club of Baltimore, rival vivisectors of the English dictionary, will stage an old-fashioned spelling bee Tuesday eve- ning at 8 o'clock at the Stuart Junior ngc School, Fifth and E streets north- east. The Capital City Spelling Club, or- ganized two years ago, defeated the Baltimore club, a 32-year-old organi- zation, in two hes last year. This pril, however, the Baltimore Webster- ites gained the decision. Thegl jes of the contest will be Henry , member of the Board of Education; K. W. Krause and an un- named Baltimore judge. C. E. Nelson, Sunday editor of The Evening Star, will preside. 3 A silver cug_hvul be awarded the win- ning team. e contest is open, free of in | charge, to the public. BETHESDA BODY TO MEET Chamber of Commerce Will Elect New President. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md.,, October 3.—The first meeting since Spring of % Bethesda Chamber of mmerce be held Menday at 8 p.m. in the County Building here, according to a notice ;m“ all members by Thomas E. Hamp- The business to be trans- election of a pres! ident to succeed J. J. Miller, who has moved to German:; activities will be ¢ “Payments on pledges for the year|p, PAGE B—1 MAN SOUGHT SINGE 1328 1S ARRESTED IN BITNER SLAYING Gas Station Hold-up Suspect, Held in Baltimore, Due to Return Today. FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CHARGE CONFRONTS HIM Police Are Tipped Off by Prisoner ‘Who Overheard Story of Shooting Here, The fourth man sought in the slay~ ing of Philbert Bitner, in a hold-up at the Lord Baltimore gasoline filling sta- tion, Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue, nearly two years ago, was to be returned to the District today, following his capture in Baltimore. The man is Joseph Hardy, colored, 32 years old, who is under indictment here for first degree murder in the killing of the 32-year-old gasoline station man- ager, on November '29, 1928. Hardy, at that time, was living at 603 T street, but_disappeared from Washington im- mediately after the slaying. Information supplied Baltimore police by & prisoner in a jail at the Maryland city, who overheard Hardy telling a fel- low inmate of the hold-up and shoot- lfia‘:l:dgwdwhneledwmeumtot Sought Nearly Two Years. His arrest ended a search of nearly two years. Hardy had been picked up in Baltimore as a suspicious character, local authorities were advised. A bench warrant, charging Hardy with murder, was obtained in Criminal Court this morning when police learned of his arrest, and Detective Sergts. ‘Thomas Sweeney of the homicide squad and Paul W. Jones were sent to Balti- more to return him to this jurisdiction. James E. Crawford and Benjamin A. Branson are serving sentences for their part in the crime, while a third par- ticipant in the hold-up, Carl Terry, was acquitted on the murder charge Crawe= ford is under life sentence, while Bran- son is serving a 20-year term. Arrested Within 24 Hours. Orawford, Branson and Terry were arrested by detectives within 24 hours after four colored men, riding in & stolen machine, drove jnto the gaso- line station and shot Bitner when he resisted their efforts to rob the place. They escaped at the time, but were rounded up the next day. An indictment charging first-deg murder was returned against Crawford on October 24, 1929, and his execution was set for February 26, 1030. The ex- ecution was later reset for May 2, 1930, but the death sentence was changed to life imprisonment in the meantime. Branson was, indicted February 2, 1929, for first-degree murder and was sen- :e’ncle:aow 20 years in jail on February MERLE THORPE FILES RIGHT OF WAY SUIT Nation’s Business Editor Seeks to Stop Neighbor From Using Part of His Estate Near Bethesda. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 3.—Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business, owner of a fine estate of 46 acres on the Rockville pike, near Bethesda, has instituted suit in the Circuit Court here inst Daisy L. Whiton, owner of ad ing property, to restrain her from using a strip of the plaintiff’s land as a right of way or for any other to use part laintifi’s land as a gly Sending And on Sepiaber 10 removed perk on 10 removed s fence which the complainant had ';h:tm that %ude use this as a roadway. Mrs. Whiton declared !od:y"mt the filing of the suit was entirely that of & community interest and that owners in the vicinity had p.m ‘the county commissioners some time ago that the road be kept open. SELLERS OF SAWDUST FERTILIZER ARE HELD Rockville Police Judge Remands Two for Grand Jury Action, led mdmhhpm‘pen ‘The plaintiff fendant has no right Specisl Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 3.—When Joseph Huston, 43, and his son, Ray- mond, 18, both of Washington, n{d sawdust to residents of the Silver Spring neighborhood for use on flowers, shrubbery, etc, they made the mis- take, so it was claimed, of representing it to be sheep manure, the result being that both were before Judge Charles W. Woodward in the Police Court hes yesterday on charges of money under false pretenses. Two of the purchasers, Mrs. Dorothy H. Moore and Mrs. Willlam Ourand, tes- tifled that they paid $1 a sack for the commodity and did not discover what had actually been delivered to them }l.x;:irl they started to apply it some time Judge Woodward held the pair for the action of the November grand jury, fixing bond at $500 sach, © 5 CIRCUIT JUDGES’ PARLEY, BROUGHT TO CONCLUSION By the Assoclated Press. The conference of senior ecircult Jjudges, after spending three days study- ing conditions in the Federal courts, adjourned today after drafting recom- mendations aimed to expedite the final sposition of cases. The changes proposed were based upon the experience of Federal judges throughout the country and estions from " Attorney ‘General Mitchell her of the De- y. ‘The ensuing year's discussed. .~ Hy