Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1930, Page 17

WAS HINGTON, D. C MONDAY, The Toening Star OCTOBER 6, 1930. BUDGET'S GONTROL OF DISTRICT MONEY| CITED BY DONOVAN Auditor in 1922 Called Sys- tem First Adopted lllogical and Contrary to Law. Gen. Lord, However, Said Differ- ences Due to “Point of View" Rather Than Principles. BY J. A. O'LEARY. There have been three distinct eras in *he history of budget-making at the Dis- trict Building. First, the peried prior to 1909, in which the Commissioners de- ! cided upon the total and make-up of the local estimates; second. the interval | from 1910 to 1923, during which' time Congress impossd the restriction that vhe estimates must not 2xceed twice the estimated revenue, and, third, the present arrangement, which began with tie creation of the Federal Budget Bu- reau In the old days the completed esti- mates went from the District Building to0 the committees of Congress by way of the Treasury Department, but this de- tour was merely one of routine pro- cedure. The local budget was incorpo- | rated in the large book of governmental | estimates, but without ihe revision | which now takes place uuder the Budget Burcau system. ‘The restriction enacted by Congress in 1909 iimited the total amount the Com- missioners could ask for but it still left the hicads of the municival government | as tie arbiters of how ihis total should ¢ be allocated to various municipal func- | ‘ions, subject, of course, o the changes | which always are made the Cong gional Committees in the process of acument. Repealed Limit on Total. For a number of years prior to the Commisisoners urged Congress to re- | peal the limitation on the tetal of Di trict estimates, so that they could pre- sent to the legislators a complete picture of the city's needs: In enacking the ap- propiation act for the fiscal year 192 1923 Congress removed the restriction. ut the District had already been made ameneble to the Federal Bucget Burean | by the budget and accounting act of | June, 1921. i “Fhe same year that Congress repealed | the Jmitation on District. estimates the | Budget Bureau, then ' *he second year of its cxistence, fixed a tentative limit on what the Commissioners could ask for that was even lower than they would Rave been able to submit under the limi- tation formerly imposed hv Congress. In August, 1922, Auditor Daniel J.| Tes- | en- | | | 1922 | | Donovan, as District budeet officer, sent | States attorney in charge of the case, declared he would tor of the budget, taking the view that | entirely to the discretion of the court. This was the first time the prosecutor had made known whether he would make an active fight against the de- fendant’s temporary release. a ietter to Gen. H. M. Lord, then direc- the present practice iz treating the District as a Federal departmegt is ab- solutely wrong.” The auditor’s letter, written one year after the budget law had been enacted, outlincd the problem as_follows: “The District of Colmbia is, as you | know, a municipal corposation, and 0 | chief of defense counsel, announced his | recejved ““which might even indicate the It is | client would enter a plea of not guilty - | on arraignment before Associate Justice established by an act of Congr not £ department of ‘he Federal G ernment nor an independent establ ment of the Government. stategnent is in consonance with deci- | sions of the ' prame Court of the United States. the | Attorney General and the Comptroller of the Treasury. Practice Called Tllogical. “Ii is true that Congress appropriates for the needs of the District, and that all receipts of the Districi must be de- posited in the United States Treasury 2nd may only be paid out pursuant to appropriations made by Congress. It is also true that the budget plan in terms requires appropriation estimates of the District to be submitted to the Budget Bureau. But in none of these require- ments is the status of the District as a | municipal corporation disturbed or de- | stroyed. | “If I may be permitted the expression, 1 believe the present practice in consid- ering District receipts and appropriation estimates is illogical and contrary to the | plain language of law. To illustrate this | thought I wish to refer briefly to the | treatment of the receipts and estimates | of the District for the fiscal year 1924. | I will take up the matter of receipts first. Some time prior to your advice 0 the Commissioners that they must limit thelr estimates to $24,532,515 your burean has called upon me to indicate ihe estimated receipts of the District for 1524. The figure I furnished was $18,- »00,000, representing collections from all local sources, including revenue proper, | water fund receipts and trust and me-i clal fund receipts. The total of $18.- 500,000 was predicated upon an approxi- mate budget maximum for the District of $20,000,000. “When the amount was weduced to slightly more than $24,500,000, it meant tha: the estimated receipts of the Dis- iric previously reported to you were cor- | Tespondingly wrong: and, moreover, the | Actitious difference apparently was used | in allocating totals to Federal depart-| ments. In this connection you probably | knos that the amount of money to be | raised by the District in any one year depends entirely upon the total appro- | priations for that year, as the tax rate is not fixed until the appropriation bill has | ssed intd law | On page 22 of vour printed address of July 11, 1922, before the Business Or-{ ganization of the Government, you show the estimated receipts of the Federal| Government for the fiscal year 1924. Included in the total is this item: Dis- trict of Columbia. $18.500,000. In other | words, all moneys collected by the Dis- trist from whatever source and for ever purpose are treated as part of the receipts of the National Government. | This, T submit, is not only illogical, but &t variance with law. . Explains Source of Funds. “The receipts of the District of Co- Inmbia may be divided ander three heads, namely, (1) revenue derived from taxation and privileges and miscellane- | ous sources; (2) revenues derived from “the use of water, and (3) moneys re- eeived on account of trust and special | funds. Moneys of the first class are available for appropriations for general | municipal purposes, and it is only for | appropriations pavable from such moneys that the United States contrib- utes 40 per centum. No part of the moneys. received from the use of water is paid by the Federal Government or the District government, the entire amount ng paid by private consum- «rs. The third class of recelpts, for the trust and special funds, is made up, as the term implies, of purely trust moneys, no part of which is paid by the United | e morrow on a charge of slaying Mary trict attorney’s office. This Jatter | be courts, including the Su- | { | | | | : | RESENTED TREATING CITY | AS FEDERAL DEPARTMENT! WILLIAM JEFFRIES CHEWNING, ' Hushand of the former Margo Couzens, daughter of Senator Couzens, took over | his new duties today as assistant manager of the Mayflower Hotel. He will have charge of social affairs at the hotel and in the photograph is in the kitchen giving instructions to the chef. —Star Staff Photo. BAIL FOR CAMPBELL BOND COLLUSION | NOT T0 BE OPPOSED CHARGE DROPPED Prosecutor in Baker Case Bondsmen, Police and Law- Declares He Will Leave | yers Exonerated by Matter Up to Court. Grand Jury. Decision to offer no opposition to forts of -counsel for the defense to obtain continued liberty under bond for Herbert M.’ Campbell at his arraign- ment in District Supreme Court fto- Professional bondsmen, members of | the Police Force and certain lawyers were given a clean bill of health today by the District grand jury in a special | report to the District Supreme Court. Foreman Ernest Colliflower reported that the evidence of alleged collusion in " | connection with the bonding of prison- crs which was Jaid before the grand jury by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover was “not thought to be of suffi- clent merit to warrant action by the grand jury.” No Evidence Received. Despite an invitation from the prose- | cutor to the public to present evidence | WiN Enter Not Guilty Plea. | of reputed collusion between bondsmen, g police officers and certain lawyers, the | Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria, ' report declares that no evidence was Baker was reached today by the dis: William H. Collins, assistant United leave the matter existence of such collusion.” ¢¢| The inquiry followed a request to Jesse Adkins. He added the court Wil Rover by Milton 8 Kronhelm peecidens asked to continue in force the bond of the Professional Bondsmen Associa- of $30,000 on which Campbell was Te- tjon, for an investigation by the grand eased from jail a fortnight ago After | jury' of reported improper dealings by | he had agreed to voluntarily come 10 bondsmen with police officers and cer- | Washington from Alexandria to face | tain attorneys trial. The grand jury reports reads: The only other question expected t0| “The question nlp(:llegnd collusion be decided by the justice will be the | petween members of the Metropolitan date for the trial. It was indicated in | police Department, profeséional bonds- official quarters that the trial would |men and attorneys was presented to| be set for some time in the latter part| this body by United States Attorney of November, the crowded cbndition | Leo A. Rover. of the court dockets making an earlier Statements Considered. date impracticable, ¥ iiies In announcing his plans for the| “Careful consideration was given to arrajgnment, Collins said the law pro- | the statements made by the witnesses, | Vided & prisoner held on a murder but the information which such wit- | charge in the District might be released | Nesses were able to present was not | under bond. He pointed out that he | thought to be of sufficient merit to war- had failed to oppose the original re- rant action by the giand jury. ! lease of Campbell under bail by Federal | _“However, in order thai full informa- | Jidge D. Lawrence Groner of Norfolk, | tion might be brought before it, this | Va. | bedy, tggether with the United States | 1 LE | attorney, extended an invitation to all Weapon Now in Chicago. | persons to appear and give such infor- Meanwhile, news dispatches tuld of |mation. This invitation was given wide | the arrival in-Chicago of Sam Hardy, | circulation through the press, but no a Department of Justice agent, sent|one volunteered and no complaints, or there by Collins. In his custody was a | letters, were received which might even | revolver - submitted to authorities by | indicate the existence of such collu- | Campbell, which experts have declared | 510n." was used in the slaying. Additional e - pictures of the weapon are to be taken o) & ON JAPAN WINS ‘ APPLAUSE OF MASONS! by Col. Calvin Goddard, chiel of the Crime Detection Laboratory of North- western University. It already has been arranged for Al- bert H. Hamilton of Auburn, N. Y., tc . examine the pistol and death builets Gideon A. Lyon Illustrates Lecture | here Priday or Saturday. He will be|, i ¥ brought to Washington by the defense. | INAREDR S INuSA Ty Colcted | Lantern Slides, COLORED MEN WOUNDED | shasing more. tran 1 aiticany| IN STRUGGLE FOR PISTOL |graphs taken by himsell” Gideon . | graphs taken by himself, Gideon A. Pt Lyon, associate editor of The Star, gave | An unusual, instructive and sntertaining talk, entitled a “Journalistic Jaunt in | Japan,” at the October meeting of the High Priests' Association of 1930, in Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue, : Two men were shot o 32 . |" The members of the association were et entiy vesterday whin & yimo)®iar | reinforced by the other officers of the | which they were strugging was dis- | Royal Arch chapters, their families and ; charged in a poolroom at 1739 Seventh | friends. The talk was punctuated by street applause, and at its conclusion Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, 49 vears old of Lyon was personally thanked by Grand 739 Seventh streel, and Carl Webb, 36 | High Priest L. Whiting Estes and, indi- years old of 2525 Georgia avenue, both | vidually, by most of the others present. colored, are the men who were wounded, | It was explained to the audience that Police allege that Thomas held the ! Mr. Lyon visited Japan, Manchuria and pistol at the time the shot was fired, | China last year as a memb!{ of the the bullet passing through his left hand | party of American journalists who went and lodging in Webb's right shoulder. |to the countries mentioned under escort Surgical aid was given at Freedmen's |of the Carnegle Endowment for Inter- Hospifal, Thomas later being held by | national Peace, in_co-operation with the police for investigation. the governments of Japan and China. CHILDREN’S BUREAU PLANNING TO “MAKE PECK’S BAD BOY GOOD” Weapon Is Discharged as Pair En- gage in Tussle in Seventh Street Pool Room. Labor Department Unit Suggests Ways and Means in List of Suggestions Addressed to Parents. “Do not say ‘No' one time and ‘Yes' | he next time for the same thing. Your child will never learn that way what is Teau. | good to do and what is bad. Explaining that “to be a good father | ~ “Break up bad habits by keeping the or mother is one of the hardest jobs'child so busy with interesting things on earth,” but that “it is the finest. to do that he forgets the old habit. est, job, t00,” the bureau made the| “Pay no attention to him when he Ways and means of making Peck's bad boy good were advanced today the Labor Department’s Children's Bu. States. Under this last class we have tomporary guarantee deposits made in connection with proposals for public works, deposits in connection with pri- yate bullding operations, moneys de- Aucted from salaries of school teachers for the teachers' retirement fund, " (Continued on Fourth Page) & following suggestions to parents: tries to get what he wants by temper Tell and act the truth to your chil- | tantrums, by whining, or by vomiting. dren. | “Sce that he gets things (if they are “Keep your promises, good or bad. | good for him) only when he is quiet “Decide which things are most im- ' and happy and polite. portant for a child to do and then be| “Keep and quiet yourself. Speak | Jeged misrepresentations, : 000 was missed by the company CARSON INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Alleged to Have Threatened Woman and Held Police at Bay With Pistol. |EMBEZZLEMENT COUNT AGAINST BOOKKEEPER Eleven Indictments Are Reported Against Four Said to Be Im- plicated in Dope Ring. Assault with intent to kill is charged in an indictment reported today by the grand jury against Howard L. Carson, who is said to have held at bay a squad of policemen from the second precinct while he threatened Miss Annie B. Jen- nings with a pistol September 9 last at 60 S street while striving to persuade her to marry him. Policeman Eari L. Baker crawled across an ironing board into the second-story window of the into custody. Miss Jennings was a boarder at the j carson home and young Carson had learned of an engagement with another man for the evening, and in a fit of Jealousy is said to have forced the other man to flec the house and to have com- pelled the young woman to go to a room on the second floor, where behind closed doors he is deciared to have threatened her life. Carson’s father asked for a lunacy hearing when the prisoner was ar- raigned in Police Court, and Judge Gus A. Schuldt, at the request of Assistant United States Attorney Michael F. Keogh, sent, the man to Gallinger Hos- pital for observation. Indicted on Five Counts. Five indictments for housebreaking. four of them also having larceny counts, were returned against Willlam Sullivan, known to the police as the “book thief” because of the number of valuable books taken as loot from sev- eral houses in West Washintgon. The homes alleged to have been visited by Sullivan include those of Willilam S. Conant, 1402 Thirty-first street; Ross A. Collins, representative from Missis- =ippl, 2643 Wisconsin avenue; Edwin N. Lewis, 3100 Wisconsin avenue; Parker Croning, 1529 Twenty-ninth street. and John M. Sternhagen, 3328 O street. was prevented by the refusal of Herr Rudolph Leitner, first secretary of the German embassy, to appear before the grand ‘jury, from whcse home many removed, This claim of diplomatic im- munity- also resulted in the grand jury ignoring a charge of receiving stolen property against John L. Sullivan, a nephew of Willlam Sullivan, who was apprehended while trying to dispose of some of the German books. The uncle also exonerated his nephew to the police it is reported. Embezzlement Charged. charged in four indictments against Joseph T. Barry, a stock salesman, who is sald to have claimed to be connected with the Merchants Bank & Trust Co. One indictment alleges that December 14, 1928, he obtained $778.75 from Hazel H. Feagans to be invested, but which he is said to have appropriated to his own use. Another indictment alleges that May 171929, he got $1250 from Margaret Cresdon and July 12, 1929, received ! 8308 to be Invested in the Bankstock Corporation of Maryland. which, it is claimed, was all used by him for his own benefit. A third charge is that he secured $890 from Miss L. I. McCandless De- cember 1, 1928, for investment. but need for himself, it is alleged. The fourth indictment deals with alleged embezzlc~ ment of stock certificates and checks totaling several thousand dollars, from Sophia P. Given, November 15, 1928. False pretenses is charged in an in- dictment against John R. Walsh, a stock salesman, who is said to have repre- sented to Sarah A. Guthrie that th Bankers' Insured System, Inc. was backed by the Riggs National Bank and by Francis Biggs of the Mount Vernon Savings Bank. Replying on these al- Mrs. Guthrie is said to have parted with $350 and notes for $150 December 15, 1929, and with $74270 February 24, 1930. Bookkeeper Indicted. Albert M. Woolwprth, former - book- | keeper for Barber & Ross, was indicted for embezzlement. While the indict- ment charges only taking of $15,000 it is reported that a total of nearly $40,- ‘Wool- worth had been in the employ of the firm for 10 years and is sald to have begun the alleged defalcations May 6, 1925. Five additional charges of false pre- president of the Joseph Shapiro Realty Co., for sales of real estate on which were “hidden trusts.” The new in- dictments charge that he soid premises 1718 Hobart place to Florance G. Hur- ley with a hidden trust of $2,500. premises 419 Madison strect to Horace Hullinger with a hidden trust of $1,209; premises 422 Marietta place to Joseph G. Pugers with an undisclosed trust of $1.271.91; house No. 420 Marletta place to Howard M. Carter with a hid- Hobart street trust of $2,500. Ernest Richardson, colcred, was in- dicted for manslaughter, and Eddie Tol- son, Sylvester Lincoln, Thomas Wash- to Daisy Kelly with were exonerated after tney had testified against Richardson. The quintet had been held by the coroner’s jury for the death of Willlam Smith, the stepfather of Richardson, August 24. _ First, degree murder is charged in an indictment against Frank Cozzens, ored, in connection with the death of his wife, Fannle. The woman was rid- ing in a taxicab with a “boy friend,” it is stated, when Cozzens saw her and ordered her from the conveyance. He then dragged her from the vehicle, it was reported, and shot her to death. The tragedy occurred August 11 at Sec- ond and B streets northeast. Manslaughter Is Charged. Manslaughter is charged other indictments, two of them against i John V. Buettner, und the third against John B. Bluford, colored. Buettner was driving an automobile which is said to have struck and killed Nellie G. Koller and Charles J. Fisher May 12 near Lincoln Park, causing their death. Bluford, an employe of the Roosevelt Hotel, is sald to have stabbed to death Fred Howard, another employe, Sep- tember 3 in the rear of the hostelry. Sadie S. Brooks, colored, is accused of second-degree murder in connection with the death of Willlam Edmonston July 23 at a house on Warren street northeast. consistent about seeing that he does | in a quiet voice them. Do not nag him about little| “Show (he child you are pleased when things thet do not raatter mu?". | e triea” - Eleven indictments charging viola- tioni of the Harrison narcotic law were reported, four involving four persons house and disarmed Carson, taking him ; A sixth indictment against Sullivan | valuable books are said to have been | Embezzlement from four women is tenses are made against Jacob Shapiro, | " | rape; ol den trust of $1,300 and premises 1708 | aj ington and Freddie Doe, also colored, | col- | in three { Couple Arrested, '$1,000 in Spurious Man and Wife Captured After Auto Pursuit Police. | | What the police described as a plot to flood the Capital and nearby Mary- land race tracks with spurious money was belleved frustrated last night with the arrest of a man.and his wife after | detectives and secret service operatives . tralled them for more than a week. | "One thousand dollars in counterfeit bills and & number of photoplates used in the manufacture of spurious money were confiscated by First Precinct De- tective James A. Mostyn, at the rooms of the couple, 1213 Rhode Island avenue. Pursuit Takes Place. A “tip” from & merchant in the first precinct that a woman had come to his store and told a story of flooding this city with counterfeit bills and of a spectacular attempt to circulate the money at nearby racing resorts precipi- | tated the investigation. The couple, Mr, and Mrs. Raymond Lane, is now being held at the first precinct station fos the United States Secret Service, “for investigation.” “The arrests came last night after De- tective Mostyn had trafled the pair throughout the downtown section of the city. At Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue they saw the pursuing policeman and increased the speed of their automobile. The pursued machine is said to have sped past a ved traffic light and raced down Rhode Island I avenue with the police car speeding be- i hind them. Money Declared Spurious. The pursued car was halted only when Detective Mostyn leaped from his automobile to the running board of the other. Police said the couple resisted arrest and made an effort to destroy counter- feit, bills which were later taken from them by policc. Mostyn was forced to subdue the couple. They were then tawen to the precinct. With the confiscation of the money Secret Service Agent James A. Hol- linger was called in to definitely ascer- tain if the money was counterfeit. Hollinger declared thé money spurious and said that one of the $50 bills con- | fiscated was “the most perfect dupli- cation he had ever seen.” Ring Is Suspected. Ten, 20 and 50 dollar bills made up the $1,000 in spurious money. Capt. William Burke of the first precinct said today that operatives of the secret service are making a further investigation of the activities of the ar- rested couple in an effort to determine whether they are the agents of a larger | ring operating on the East Coast. Capt. Burke is inclined to believe the coyple are merely agents for some “négher up.” PORCH FALL IS FATAL Youth's Body Is Found Wedged Between Verandas of Houses. Faliing from the front porch of 1227 Owens place northeast, the home of his | sister, Mrs. Alma V. Ficklen, Willlam Taylor Rédd. 21 years old, a Navy Yard employe, was instantly killed last night. Redd,” according to neighbors,: had been starfding on the porch some time before he fell. When found his body | was wedged between the Ficklen porch i and the porch of the adjoining home. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt, after an | examination, sald that death had un- | questionably been accidental. An ay- | topsy will be performed today to de- { termine the exact cause of death. ——————————— { alleged -to have been implicated in gigantic dope ring which was broken {up here, New York City and other places several weeks ago, when agents { made a simultaneous swoop. | Peter D. Agistono and Joseph Anzo- lone were “jointly named in one bill, while Robert Janney and his mother, :Jouphme Harris Graham, also were | jointly named. Separate indictments 1also were returned against Janney and {his mother. All four are alleged to have been arrested in a drive on a | {house on New York avenue northwest | near Ninth street. Others indicted and the "charges | against them . incluge: Frank . V.| | Passeno, ron-support of minor child; Roy Marks, violation white slave trafic {act: Edward M. Dodge and Louise | Dodge, forgery and uttering; Alvin G | Thornten, violation” postal laws; Louis { Johnson, forgery of Government se- curity; -James - Houzell, - housebreaking: | Raymond_Bell,” Herman L. Blackwell, | Joseph ‘R. Farrell and Wilbur W. | Hastead, alias Wilbur W. Halstead, alias | | William W. Halstead, housebreaking and {larceny; Anthony B. Fennell, larceny after trust; John T. Gant, larceny after trust; . Bernice Albro Bixby, alias Bernice Avis Albro, _embezzlement; Louis Bacon (alias Louls Simms), Benjamin _Pygate, Walter Golden and John H. Ford, assault with dangerous weapon; Samuel Henson, James Everett Brawner, James Thomas Plerce (alias Mammie), Peter D. Agistino (alias Pete D'Agistino), Joseph Anzolone (alias Joe Angellone), Robert Janney, Josephine | Harris Graham, Robert Janney, Roy | W. Sorrell, Richard H. Epps, Lee Gong, Lem Wey Hing (alias Lee Tung) and | Morris Lee, violation Harrison narcotic | act; Willlam Hope (alias Wilife Hope), Iden Posey, carnal knowledge, incest, assault with intent to commit carnal knowledge, assault with™ intent |to commit incest; Dominic ' Espisto, carnal knowledge; Dominic Espisto, | attempt to commit carnal knowledge; | Emmett Warren, carnal knowledge. Walter _ Lavorette Roberts, Charles Henry Neal, Calvatore Guartieri, alias Sam~ Walter, and Temple Hill, alias Alvin Barnes, violation national pro- hibition act; Sidney Glaser (two cases), fulse pritenses; James R. Walsh, false | pretenses; John W. Smeltzer, false pre- ! tenses; Prank C. Lombardy and Ernest | B, Reed, embezzlement; Stephen G. Clements, alias Edward A. Moore, | false pretenses; Joseph H. Coates and | Willlam H. Simms, alias Willlam H. Adams, joy riding; Joseph Arthur Mills, robbery; Alfred D. McCerley and Reuben Rose, assault with intent to rob; Walter Miles, grand larceny: Marie Ruff, grand larceny; Benny Garrison, grand larceny; Roy H. Kinloch, alias Kenneth M. | Nelson, allas R. D. Hamilton, alias Rob- ert Dwight Hamilton, and Virginia Hamilton, alias Blanche, Kinloch, alias Mrs, Roy H. Kinloch, forgery and utter- | ing; Robert A. Dunn, forgery and utter- ing; John Shaw, forgery and uttering Arthur Henry Below, alias S. T. Dun. lap, false pretenses and forgery and uttering. The grand jurors declined to indict in the following cases: Eugene A. Marshall, ~carnal knowledge:” Robert Joseph Janney. violation Harrison nar- cotic act; ,John L. Sullivan, receiving stolen property; ‘William Sullivan, grand larceny: R. J. Atkinson, alias John "Atkinson, grand larceny; Jesse Harrison_and Alfred K. Sullivan, joy- riding; Clarence E. Lane, alias C. E. Laney, violation of postal iaws: Harry L. Velhmeyer and Louis E. Weaver, grand larceny; Otls Harris and James H. Walker, violation of policy law; Ed- d D. Barnes and Sarah Drazus, violation of policy law; Charles Crager, larceny after trust; Harold W. Ruther. ford, joy-riding; John Byroads, viola tion national prohibition act. | | RS, CREECY DIES ONASSAULTCHARGE Money 1= Sesed " WATCHE (TS, IN COMA T0 LAST Provision in Joint Will for Burial of Couple in West- minster Not to Be Granted. MARINE OFFICER’S WIFE MADE EFFORT TO TALK Funeral Services for Slain Woman Will Be Held Tomorrow, With Interment Beside Mother. A strange request in the joint will of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Richard Ben- nett Creecy, that, if they died together, they be burled together beside the grave of Mrs, Creecy's mother in West- minster, Md., Cemetery, will not be granted. The will was drawn up last December. Mrs. Creecy, her lips sealed in uncon- sclousness since she was attacked with | a hatchet by her husband a week ago in the Mayflower Hotel, will be buried tomorrow afternoon where she re- quested in the will, but her husband's body will remain in the grave at Ar- lington National Cemetery, where it was laid with full military honors last Wednesday by fellow officers of the Marine Corps. The strange request in the joint will of the Marine officer and his wife was discovered the day after Col. Creec; funeral, when members of Mrs. Cree- cy's family were notified of it by the Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Baltimore, | trustee for a legacy of Mrs. Creecy and depository for the will, Tried to Talk. The 45-year-old wife of the Marine officer died without reviving from the coma which had persited since she was found a week ago Sunday in a room at the Mayflower Hotel, her skull fractur- ed by three hatchet Blows, ol. Creecy’s body lay nearby, shot through the heart, The police, iike a Marine board of inquiry, concluded that Col Creecy had gone suddenly in- sane and attacked his wife before shoot- ing himself. Authorities expected that Mrs. Creecy would revive sufficiently to clear up what mystery remained. Only last Saturday night Mrs. Creecy gave signs of regaining consciousness, and doctors pronounced her “much im- proved.” She rolled half over and her lips framed incoherent words. Hospital attendants said the patient seemed to be trying désperately to talk. Every effort was made without avai to make some sense of what the delirious woman wanted ‘to say. She died, physicians said, without making a single intelligible utterance. Burial to Be Tomorrew. Mrs. Creecy's funeral will be con- gx;:ud (.L 2:3:)hn'clock lun’l’:rmw after- n {rom e Ascension Episcopal Church in Westminster, and lehe Dvei‘ll be buried in the family plot in West- minster Cemetery beside her mother's grave. The services ‘will- be* conducted Rev. H. J. C. Martin, pastor of Ascension Church, and Rev. S. Hilton Orrick of Baitimore, an old friend of Mrs. Creecy's family. The pallbearers, all friends, will f'flends of Mrs. Creecy since her girlhood days in Westminster, be Guy W. Steele, Mrs. Creecy's at- torney; W. Frank Thomas, Dr. Louis K. Woodward, Joseph N. Shriver, John L. Be&;\‘eu lgd Benton Gehr. . and Mrs. Creecy had regarded Westminster as their home, lndeglt the time of the tragedy were negotiating to buy a home there and return to it after Col. Creecy completed his tour of duty at Haitl. Col. and Mrs. Creecy came here when the officer. received a furlough. They had planned to return to Haiti and held reservations to sall from New York on the day the tragedy was dis- | covered by hotel attendants. The police were able to locate the man who sold Col. Creecy the gun which lay beside his body. A clerk in a hardware store later dentified the dead man as a stranger who had bought a hatchet from him a week ago Saturday. Board to Meet Again. ™ Another meeting of the special board of inquest, inquiring into the death of Col. Creecy, will be held before the final report is drawn up, about the latter part of the week, and made *o Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, commandant of the Marine Corps, who appointed it. The board, under the chairmanship of Col. Louis McCarty Little, in charge of the Division of Operations and Training, | Marine Corp headquarters, held a meet- ing this morning and went over the in- formation it has thus far compiled. No information on 1ts deliberations was made public. The board has been holding meetings and adjourning from time to time, in the hope that Mrs. Cueecy might be able to throw some light on the motive for the tragedy. Now that she has died, this avenue of information is shut off and the board has compiled all other available information. Lieut. Comdr, George P. Carr of the Naval Medical Corps, a member of the board, has been studying Col. Creecy's medical ecord closely and the board has lis- tened to testimony from Dr. Edward J. Cummings of 1835 I street, a former of- ficer of the Naval Medical Corps, who treated Col. Creecy and is now in private practice here. The board’s report, which is expected to be made late this week, will be sent to Gen. Fuller, who will forward it to Secretary Adams and Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, the judge advocate general of the Navy. who will pass on the legality of the proceedings. Marine Corps officials sald that Secretary Adame would likely make public the findings of the board if that course is deemed desirable. D. C. RED CROSS CHAPTER PLANNING BIG EXHIBIT Program Being Outlined for an Ex- tensive Display at C. of C. Industrial Exposition. ‘The District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross is preparing final plans for its exhibit in the Sixth Annual Industrial Exposition of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, to be staged next month at the Washing- ton Auditorium. The Red Cross exhibit will be on a larger and more pretentious scale than heretofore, according to Mrs. William 8. Spencer. It will feature, in addition to the occupational therapy of the vari- ous local hospitals interested in such work, a large exhibit depicting “The Red Cross in the Home,” showing what that organization is doing to dissem- inate information regarding personal hygiene and sanitation in the home, it 1s announced. ¥ by | will | its | LL L PAGE B—1 MRS. RICHARD B. CREECY. BYEAR EXPANSION | ] - Preparations Made for Inau- gurating Commerce Cham- ber’s “Forward Movement.” | | Last minute preparations for the week-long campaign, which begins Wednesday, to officially inaugurate the five-year cxpansion program of the Washington Chamber of Commerce were being made by . officers of the chamber today. Final plans for a course of action will be mapped out today and tomorrow, with a meeting of a com- mittee of the chamber scheduled to take place at the Washington Hotel this afternoon and a session of the board nf‘ directors to be held tomor- row evening. . Basing its expansion program upon the successful experience of over 800 chamber activities into a new com- munity-wide program, according to Ru- doiph Jose, general chairman of the Expansion Committee. Statement by Jose. Declaring the reorganization move- ment will provide definite machinery for carrying this program into effect, Mr. Jose said today: “The expansion program aims to im- prove civic-Federal relations by keeping in close touch with our friends on Capitol Hill and by securing favorable consideration for needed District | legislation. The campaign for national | representation in co-operation with the | Citizens’ Joint Committee will be speed- |ed up, and special attention will be given to solving the fiscal relations controversy. In this field efforts will be { made alo to provide for a well | balanced plan of public improvements in connection with the activities of all branches of the Government of the District of Columbia.” Aims for Future Development. Mr. Jose explained that the cham- ber's program might be translated into what may be called a “Washington Forward Movement,” born of “a deep and abiding faith in the great things which the future has in store for our city.” The “Forward Washington Move- | ment” aims to restore business confi- {dence and normal expenditure, with { preference for local products, in the belief that such a change will promote a return to normal business conditions with resulting benefits to all members of the community, according to the general chairman of the program. i ! R 'THREE BOUND OVER ON LIQUOR CHARGE Assistant District Attorney Re- leases Two Others Because of Meagerness of Evidence. ‘Three rsons ‘were bound over to the grand jury in Police Court today on charges of transporting liquor, while two others whom police had accused of possession were freed when David A. Hart, assistant district attorney, de- clared the amounts of whisky seized by police were insufficient to warrant prosecution. Willlam L. Shaw, colored, 18 years old, 1800 block of Twelfth street, ar- rested by Policeman R. M. Kesselring and Lester Parks of the second precinct Saturday, was held for the higher court. ‘The officers reported that 48 half gallons of alleged liquor were found in Shaw's car. They halted the car after seeing it on a one-way' street traveling against traffic. Shaw speeded up his machine in an effort to escape, but was soon overtaken, police said. Samuel’ W. Settlers, colored, 25, also was apprehended by second precinct police after a chase. The car was spotted at Ninth and O streets and stopped at Vermont avenue near U street. Forty-eight half-gallons of al- leged liquor were also found in this machine, police reported. Theodore Robinson and William Allen, both colored, of the 700 block of Virginia avenue southeast, were stopped by Policeman J. E. Bennett of the Traffic Bureau when the officer saw that one of the car's license plates was obstructed from view. Tweny-four half-gallons of alleged whisky were seized. Bonds in all of the cases were fixed at $1,500 by Judge Gus A. Schuldt. Police of the liquor and vice squad searched the home of Bertha Reed, colored, 2300 block of Champlain street and seized a gill of alleged whisky. Prosecutor Hart said the seizure was insufficient. For the same reason he refused to prosecute Elizabeth Barton, colored, 1100 block V street, in whose home police discovered a -half-pint of liquor. E—— She Prefers Cat to I;hnd‘ Rather than leave her cat in an- tine, Mrs. L. M. b n has up her visit to the Irish Free States. When she arrived from Geneva, Dublin au- thorities said her pet would have to be quarantined six months. Unable to obtain an exception to the rule, Mrs. Robinson left by the first boat for Cher- bourg; France. PLANS UNDER AY chambers of commerce throughout the | United States, .the drive will represent ! a_co-ordination and expansion of past | FIVE DEAD, MANY HURT IN WEEK END TRAFFIC MISHAPS Leland 0. Wright Expires of Skull Fracture After Being Hit Near Soldiers’ Home. MRS. MARY MILLS, 57, KILLED IN MARYLAND Miss Mabel Campbell of Harrison- burg, Va., Dies After Motor Cycle Crash. Five are dead and many injured from A series of automobile accidents in Washington and nearby Maryland and Virginia over the week end Leland Oscar Wright, 55, of 3686 Bates road northeast died in Emergency Hospital shortly after 4 o'clock this morning of a fractured skull received when he was knocked down by an aue tomobile while crossing Rock Cieek Church road near Soldiers’ Home last night, Mrs. Mary Scott Mills, 57 years old, of this city, was among three persons killed yesterday in a crash on the Frederick. Md. pike, 4 miles south of Thurmont. Others fatally injured in this wreck were Mrs. John Hearne of Salisbury, Md,, and Fleming Millizan of Baltimore. E Miss Mabel Campbell, 18, of Harrison= burg, Va., is dead from a wreck in which three girls were riding on a motor cycle and collided with an automobile | this morning at Harrisonburg. The others were seriously injured. Wright Inquest Tomorrow. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt will con- duct an inquest tomorrow morning into the death of Wright, who was first taken to Walter Reed Hospital and later to Emergency. He was fatally injured When hit by a car driven by Raymond Perry Leizear, 44 years old, of 821 Philadelphia_street, “Silver Spring, Md. Leizear was held on a technical charge of manslaughter until he posted $1,000 collateral. He also was charged with 2‘:;-{13 faulty brakes on his car and re- el quired 'posit $25 additional -col- | James Bryan, 19 years old, 718 Var- {num street,”suffered a fractire of ‘ihe left leg when struck by a passing auto- mobile early this morning while repair- ing a tire on the road between Silver Spring and Wheaton, Md. He was taken to Walter Reed Hospital. The driver of the car that struck Bryan is reported to have fafled to stop Consul Duke, 25, of Leonardtown, Md., was treated at Emergency Hospital {for a fractured jawbone, He was in a traffic accident near Waldorf, Md carly today. Another accldent on the road near nour Mile Run. Va. last ! ed in minor ' injuries to John ‘Smith, color | John ed, 33, of 1333 Ninth . Five-year-old Pauline Roll ’ | knocked down 1n front of her hows at 1011 Fofrth street southeast by the automobile of William H. Grey, 21 years old, of 932 Virginia avenue southeast, Her lower lip and right leg were cut, She was treated at Casualty Hospital, Injured in Virginia. | Denton Spier, 22, of 7019 Georgla avenue, received an’ injury to his hip yesterday_afternoon, aiso, in an scci- dent at Fordham, Va. He was brought to the Emergency Hospital. A motor truck driven by Norman Simims, colored, 2323 N street, struck George B, Hedges 62 years old, of 10 Fourth street. south- east. He was given first aid treatment at Garfleld for a fractured ankle, Everett J. Wolfe, 10 years old, 1319 Queen street northeast, suffered a lacerated scalp in an accident at Twenty-ninth and R streets. He was @ passenger in his father's car which was in a collision with another ma~ e. e was treated at Geo V] University Hospital. T Others who received minor injuries yesterday were Maj. Henderson, col- ored, 50 years old, of 1728%, Sixth '»!reek: John Minor, colored, 12 years ;nld. who was hit while crossing O {street near Pirst street, and John Smith,, colored, 33, of 1233 Ninth street, who was treated at Emergency Hospital for slight injuries received in an accident near Four-mile Run, Va. Five Seriously Hurt. Of those injured in the wreek near i Thurmont five were considered to be seriously hurt. These were Dr, John Monroe, Arlington County, Va. phiirmacist; 'Mrs. Margaret Hutch ings, 54, 1637 Webster street, Washing=- ton, a sister of Mrs. Mills; John S, Scott, 39, a brother of Mrs. Mills, also of the Webster street address; Russell A. Cheezum of Baltimore and Edward Pemberton of Baltimore. A spoke of the shattered steering vheel pierced the head of Mrs. Mills when her automobile crashed into a tree near Catoctin Purnace. Mrs. Hutchings sustained a lacerated throat from flying glass and bruises about the body. Her brother received a broken hip. They are at the Freder- ick City Hospital, where it is said their condition, while serious, is not fatal. Mrs. Mills, whom it is said was op- erating the car, lost control when & rear tire blew out, the machine leaving the road and crashing with great force against a tree. - Mrs, Mills was thrown forward on the steering wheel, which had broken, a spoke entering her face and coming out at the base of her skull, She was removed from the car by pass- ing motorists ‘and died in about half an hour, a few minutes after the ar- rival of a physiclan. Scott and Mrs. Hutchings were removed to the Fred- erick Hospital in an ambulance. Sherman P, Bowers, Frederick, act- ing coroner, following an investigation by county and State officers, deemed the accident unavoidable and an in- quest unnecessary. Miss Campbell, 18, .a school girl, was killed and her cousins, Carl and Opal Grant, were seriously injured at Har- risonburg this morning in the collision of their motor cycls with- an auto~ mobile. They were riding the machine triple, Opal Grant, 19, was taken to a hos~ Jital unconsclous, suffering from & frac- tured jaw and arm and probably con- cussion of the brain. Carl Grant, 23, was cut on the face and his wrist was roken. Robert Gaines of Harrisonburg, driver of the automobile, said the motor cycle turning into a main thoroughfare from a side street ran into the side of his car. No inquest was held. Shot in Leg at Dance. Golden Dyson, colored, 18 years old, residing on Bryant road, Md., was brought to Providence Hospital early yesterday suffering from two bullet wounds, one in the left thigh and the other in the calf of his left leg. The wounded man told police he was shot while attending a dance at Acco- keek. Md. He received first aid at Indian Head dispensary before being brought to the local hospital. named * alleged assailant.