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| \CL INDICTED O ROBBERY COUNT INHOSPITAL CASE ‘Walter 0. Jones, Earl Roberts ’ " and Unidentified Man, Al " Uncaptured, Named. S GOMR CENSUS CLERK ACCUSED OF FORGERY AT, SRR 85 Accused by Grand Jury for Alleged Liquor Law Violations. As the result of a daylight hold-up of the woman cashier of the Children's at the door of the hospital July last, grand jury today returned .w’ for robbery inst Wal- . Peer, the cashier, was bringing to the hospital from a bank. The brief case when found later another section of the city had $150 in compartment, which the thieves had\overlooked. The cashier said shé had_left her car and was walking on W toward the hospital when she heard some one'.running behind , who ed her so that she fell on her face. ming by his accomplices. None of the +accused has been apprehended. Preston S. Hoyt, 38, former clerk in ‘Census Bureau, was indicted for y and- uttering. He is accused of ' the mames of three other clerks ¥ monthly pay roll of the ofiice September 2. The indictmeat six’ counts, two each relating to three clerks, ;vhose names that ti was the genuine ture in each case. The three clerks, whose names are to have been forged are Warner S. ond, Raymond A. Winne and v R. Littleton. The pay roll was for the month of Augusig | 35 Indieted on Rum Charge. Thirty-five persons were indicted for wvhhuom of the national pro- act. Most of the offenses are been committed within months. Those acéused t (alias. Daniel Riley), in a separate jfi' C. ‘Washington ¥l will be & cars and billboards, from movie screen Louis Rinaldi, Masso Simrel “(alias Anna Hoo- Weathers and Charles the to ignored 20 other them being -.;:xut Alfred Aw ‘colored, W] ‘was con- of first-degre> murder and is on from the death sentence ort with the killing cf Police- at Seventeenth and Q ‘Three of the an assault w|\:: mwnt to 5“5 Other ‘cases dropped e grand jury clude: Richard Downey, receiving stolen property; Otis W. Hamlett, grand lar- ceny; Clarke, Meyer Shapiro, Ralph Holford, Elmer Shepherd Johnson, George Fowler and Francis street | ®| of contact throughout a solid week of b | o'clock Saturday, when the Washington Aldridge charges | ; persas for housebreaking and the other | %", tivity in and about Washington. | Trace bodies, eivic groups, professiorale 1 The driver had fallengasieep. BUYING CAMPAIG BEGINS SATURDAY Public to Get Prosperity Mes- sage Through Every Kind of Medium. + | ‘The slogan uy-Now-{or-Better- | I Busincss) will be flung at Washing- | tonians via every conceivable medium llntenslw campaignifig by the Washing- ton Chamber of Commerce, according to tentative plans being drafted by George A, G. Wood, preiident of the Gas Light Co. and chair- g Committee. .gun_in the week-iong campezign wiil be jn the form of a radio over Station WRC, at 7:15 man of Gas Light Company’s weekly program devoted to featuring the pros- perity campaign. ‘Through pulpit and press, from street and shop window, on .correspondence letter heads and statements of accounts, and into every home where there is a radio receiving set, a rem'nder of “Buy- Now-for-Better-Business” will be seen or heard. ‘Tcday the leaders of lgcal church de- ncminations of all erecds were. being asked to co-operate in the intensive drive by preaching the song of pros- ’perny from their pulpits to the congre- gations. The committee of five members of mittee to approximately 25 or more | ns in order to embrace every line and business clubs, merchants an manufacturers’ organizaticns—all wifi be asked to co-operate in this concerted drive to put business back on itsfect again. ewe are going forward energetically with plans for the drive,” Mr. Wood said today, “and so far the reaction to- ward the ‘buy-now-for-better-business’ ‘The two occupants of this automol fell 70 feet from Conduit road to the tracks of the B. & O. Railroad last night. ihis companion were thrown clear of the Chamber of Commerce, which is, organizing the campaign, will meet t2- | ing morrow to discuss expanding the com- | WASHINGTON, D <, escaped unhurt when the machine —Star Staff Photo. ? UNKURT AS GAR- PLUNGES 70 FEET Roadster Is Badly Smashed| After Driver Falls Asleep at Wheel. ; Plunging down a 70-foot embank- | ment while asleep at the wheel of hi- | automobile, on Condult road near the | District line, early this morning, Lanceferd B. Pruitt, jr, of Takoma | Park, Md., and a ycung woman com- | ‘panion - escaped unhurt. The machine left the road near the Conduit Road Garege aend hurtled down onto the tracks of the Baltimore | & Ohio freight brznch to Cumberland. It was thrown over cn its top and | partly demolished. Both Pruitt and (the car when it struck the railroad | tracks. Pruitt subsequently awakened C. W. Bonfield, garage owner, who, with the| help of his sons, moved the wrecked | |car from the tracks. Then Pruitt | calmly called a taxi and escorted the | young woman to her home. Bonficld declared that the only ap- parent injury to either occupant of the | car was a scratch on Pruitt’s ankle. While the car, a smaj roadster, ap- peared to be a total wreck, the garage | | man reported that its engine would still run and only one tire was “blownout” in the fall. Pruitt and his companion were re- | turning from a trip into Maryland. He is employed at the Government Print- Office. TWO GIRLS VICTIMS OF SEPTIC POISON| Coroner Orders Autopsies as Neces- sary to Determine Circumstances | | | campaign is outstandingly encouraging.” The chamber committee includes, in addition to Mr. Wood, Charles W. Darr, Axel | ;Thomas P. Littlépage, Martin A. Leese rick Yates, violating narcotic act; uel Satterfield, joy-riding, and John Courtney, robbery. Indicled on Murder Charge. Harry Brown, colored, is aceused of miurder In the first degree in connection with the death of James Taylor, also to death 500 block A charge of homicide in with the death of Reginald Jackson, colored, of which Clay R. Bundy was accused, was ignored by the jurors. Richard E. Welton was indicted on a charge of robbery. It is claimed that he took $8.97 from Percy Nicholson al colored messenger who was delivering groceries which he had ordered to be sent with change for a $10 bill. Nichol- son refused to surrender the change withiout the $10 bill, but Welton is said to have assaulted him and to have taken the money from him. Groceries .%o the extent of $1.03 had been ordered by telephone from the store of Solomon Knitlin, 1000 Twenty-fifth street. Four young white men are accusd of breaking into a Peoples Drug Store, $550 Connecticut avenue, October 4 and igars and cig- tes. They are Richard E. Cozzens. race W. Trice, Robert E. ry R Rattew. It is cliimed thc, forced' locks on a rear door to enter | ce'l until Brooklyn euthorities sond for 49 him th stere. * Others in Rosena Newman, false prc Curry, Chester Johnson, Richa Welton, Leroy C. Ashion and John | Smith, alias James H. Smith, alias robbery; Wilmer Donahue, Ed- Hawkins, Walter C. Pahel. alias C. Henderson; Richard M. Luzier Delor’s de Veney, aMas Rose Hen- n, alias Dolul’rcm alias Daisy ny; Harry Brown, Carl J. Morders, dicted’by the grand jury in- | and Nicholas J. Whelan. {RELIEF OF MURDER CURE FOR INSOMNIA . Colered Man, Bleepless, Surrenders to Police and Gets Real Night of Rest. The police don't recommend it cure for insomnia, but ihey cured B | ley Foster, colored, of slecpless nights by advising him this morning tiat he is wanted for felenfous assaull. Considering that r was convinced | he was wanted for murder, the lesser ‘charge wes quite a tonic 4 Foster, 31 years old and a resident of | Brooklyn. called at Nc. 6 precinct | station, attracted the attention of a | police sergeant without much difficuity, ! 2nd declared himself, “I'm almost crzzy.” he said b introduction.. “I killed my w hatchet nine m:nths 2go and h ept much since.” e municating with the Bfookisn | police, the sergeant was informed that | Foster had a wife, all right, and that nine months. ago he. clubbed her with a | hatchet and left in & hurry. But, e this was what cured Foster, the wife re- ! covered. |~ Foster will way of with a aven't \ be allowed ta sleep in a | ARCHBISHOP CURLEY T0 BLESS NEW SCHOO L Prelate-Will Officiate at Dedication " of Sacred Heart Institu- tion Tonight. Archbishop Curley is to officiate to- night at the formal dedication of the . | new Sacred Heart Parochial School, on Park road between Sixteenth and Sev- entzenth streets, at 8 o'clock. n, | arehbishop will bless the new school Diom- Stanley Ariderson, vio ve traffic act; Wilbur Irving Dorsey and deliver an address to the parish- iomers and their friends. ‘The mew school building was by Murphy & Olms ‘With ] par- /% | of a cardboard model of t. The | 1| designed Attending the Deaths. | | Autopsics were scheduled to. be -per- | formed this afternoon on two young | women from nearby Maryland who died | | last night in Providence Hospital, sup- | | posedly of septic poisoning, as the first | step in an investigation into the cir- | cumsian The t d | rolls as Josephine Vandi years old, of Capitol Heights, Md., and Mrs. Susie Brown, colored, 20, of Bla- Md. s were ordered by Cor- ay Nevitt, after a prelim- | inary investigation showed little was known .at the hospital concerning the history of the two. Neither Sheriff Charles S. Early nor | State's Attorney J. Frank Parran of | Prince Georges County had been noti- fied of their deaths this gorning. CT IS AWARDED [CONTRA \ |Ricci Studio of New York to Do | Construction for Cost of l $6,200. | The District Commissioners today awarded a contract for the construction | | Municipal | Center to Liseo V. Ricei, trading as e | Ricci . Studio of New Yo: 1 was an app for the job. cond time that b'ds for All| e It 1 there was a bid withi propriation for a plaster of paris mod-l Munic'pal Architect Albert L. Harris |recommended that the bids be readver- | ‘The model will be built to the same scale as the model of tha Federal build- ings which will go up in the Penisyl- vania avenue-Mall triangle, so that the two may be fitted together to furnish a | three-dim=nsional picture of the future |app-ara; of the new public stinctures | 0 Washington. e R R PRATT ISSUES ORDER { lic Utilities Commission requiring that | FOR MODEL OF CENTER|g TANS MUSTSHOW NAHE ANDNUWBER ORPAY PENALTES Utilities Rule of 1929 Will Be Enforced, Says Corpora- tion Counsel. OPERATORS INFORMED AS TO ORDER STATUS Future Convictions to Be Followed by Demand for Heavy Penal- ties From Courts. Notice was served by Assistant Cor- poration Counsel William A. Roberts today that would seck heavy penal- ties on all future convictions of taxi- cab crivers for violation of the police regulation_calling for the names and numbers of their cabs on the body of the machines. Those. convicted so far have been’ lét off on their personal bonds not to repeat the offense. “I¢ appears that many operators of taxicabs,” Mr, Roberts said in a writ- ton statement, “have been misinformed e status of the orderwof the Pub- ! the name and the number of the opera- tor or owner must be painted on each ¢ab.” Ofte man was convicted Saturday, October 25, for violating this police reg- ulation, and five more were convicted terday. ; “This order has been in effect since December 30, 1929, and complete in- formation with respect thereto has been available at the offires. of the Public Utilities Commission. Although those convicted yesterday' were released on giving their personal bonds to com- ply with the police regulation enforc- ng this order, it s my intention to sk for substantial fines in future prosecutions. “There is no excuse for further non- compliance. The order requires that every taxicab shall carry on. each side | in painted letters not less than 2 inches high the trade name of the operating | company, or if there is no such trade name, the name of the individudl own- | ing or operating the cab. In addlfl')n] | there must be on each side and on the ear a numeral distinguishing the cab rom others operated by the same parties. If only one cab i5 operated the number ‘1’ must be used.” SHOP“EARLY DRIVE BEGUN BY MERCHANTS Co-operative “Buy Now” paign Joined by Traction Com- panies and Post Office Officials. Cam- Under the slogan of “Buy Now, Shop Early for Christmas,” the Merchants and ‘Manufacturers’ Association of, the District today officially launched its annual campaign for co-operation with the Post Office Department and Dis- trict merchants in the early handling of the Yuletide rush of gift mail. A meeting of the committee of the trade group having the campaign in charge met this morning at the organization's headquarters in The Star Building to discuss plans for the drive. Ralph | Goidsmith chairman of the committee, | presided. The traction companies of the Dis- trict have signified their, intention of co-operating with the association in advertising the “shop early” campaign. Signs carrying the slogan of the drive will be carried on the outside of street cars in the District. Officials of the Post Office Depart- ment have indorsed the campaign, ex- plaining that in past years it has been | highly successful in ‘bringing tos the attention .of the public of the advant- age of making purchases early and mailing in ample time for Christmas. " GOLTL REMARRIAGE HELD | ILLEGAL BY D. C. COURT Justice Jennings Bailey Denies Full Faith and Credit to Vir- ginia Divorce Decree. Denying full faith and credit to a divorce of the Virginia courts, Justice Jennings Bailey of the District Supreme Court has held illegal the remarriage of Albert von Steinner Goltl and anted an absolute divorce to his first wife. Alma Desio von Steinner Geltl, | local golfer. The court decided that no | proof was shown of misconduct with | the present wife before the remarriage, | although she had been named as co- | respondent. The husband is a manu- | facturing jeweler | The former wife had tried to prevent the prosecution of the divorce action | in Virginia and Justice Peyton Gordon had enjoined the husband, but the de- cree was granted the next day. Con- tempt of court proceedings weie issued | against the husband and are ‘still under | consideration by the court. Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, husband, has annqunced his intention to appeal from the ruling of Justice for the | | | The wife was represented by Attorney Raymond Neudecke: B DR. WHITE TO SPEAK St. Elizabeth’'s Head and Wife to Be Honored by University Women. | William White, superintendent ¢ St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, and Mrs. Viaite will be honor guests at a din- ne evening given by the ciation of University American Wogen, Dr. White will speak after the din- ner on the “First International Con- gress on Mental Hygiene,” which met n_Washingion last May Miss Anna Pearl Cooper is in charge of dinner arrangements, and Mrs O. L. 'DISTRICT TO HELP "I bozrd, and also is the membzr to whom : P E TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930. ¥ Stranger Buried For Second Time | Among Strangers| Efforts to Identify Man,} Formerly Interred as Robert Marcey, Fail. No uniforms, no volleys, no taps to- day—just a minister and a handful of strangers standing beside an open grave in Cedar Hill Cemetery. The man they were burying had been buried once before, six weeks ago in Arlington, National Cemetery. Then there had been full military honors end . many monrners who supposed themselves relatives and friends. But he had been misidentified, was exhumed and for weeks lay at the Dis- trict Morgue, while hungreds shuffied in and peered at his face, half fearful he might be known to them. Tdentity Remains Unknown. None of them could recognize the man, however, and today he took his identity into the grave with him./ In the little group at the cemstery this morning were several who stirred uneasily as the casket was lowered, as if they had been unable quite to as- sure themselves.the man was unknown to them. v ‘Ye# the undertaker in charge—W. W. ‘hembers—felt, as did morgue officials, that everything possible had been done. They have -answered innumerable quertes by telephone, letter or in person. Every time a decision was reached to bury the man, some likely query would come in, and interment was postponed. He was killed in an automobile crash near Upper Falls, Md., September 19 while driving with a man from whom he had obtained a lift and who knew him only as “Bob.” “Dead” Man Reappeared. ‘The family of Robert Marcey, a war veteran of Lyonhurst, Va., mistakenly identified the stranger as Marcey, and he was accordingly buried as Marcey, who later reappeared in the best of health. The War Department removed the body after it had been established through fingerprints that it was not that of a veteran. ‘The seryice today was conducted by Rev. Gerhard E. Lenski of the Grace Lutheran Church. W. H. Harrison, su- perintendent of the cemetery, donated the burial plot, and the undertaker, re- fusing to let the man go to the potters’ field, paid the expenses of both funerals. HOUSE JOBLESS Vacant Buildings Will Be U:;d Under Nominal Rental Chnrge:. The District Commissioners are pre- pared to rent for nominal sums, vacant buildings owned by them in the new Municipal Center area to institutions needing quarters to house the unem- ployed during the Winter, Commissioner Luther H. Reichelderfer said today. Dr. Reichelderfer is chairman of the the Board of Public Welfare teports di- rectly. He said that the Beard of Wel- fare had not made any requests for extraordinary measures, but that one | such request had come from the Cen- tral Union Mission. The Commission- ers turned over to the mission the build- Jng on Sixth street formerly owned by the Washington News Co., and the mis- sion is using it to house those applying to it for help who cannot be accommo- dated in the main building. Vnder the law the bufiding may not be turned over free, 50 a nominal rental of $25 per month is charged, Dr. Reich- elderfer said. The District’s institutions under the | Board of Public Welfare probably will | weather_the Winter without any great strain, Dr. Reichelderfer forecast, but he said that scme of the privately financed institutions, which depend on the Community Chest and other sources for their expenses probably will be hit hard by the continued business depres- sion. The Commissioners will be glad to do nnythingl they can to help, he said, although the request of the Centrdl Union Mission is th2 cnly call for aid to develop up to date. HOWARD PARK LAND | PRICES HELD HIGH Development of Colored Recreation Center -Halted Temporarily: 80 Pct. Acquired. Development of a colored recreption center in the vicinity of Howard Uni- versity. that will ultimately entail the expenditure of $800,000 for the ground in the area between Ninth street and Georgia avenue and between Barry and uclid_streets, has been halted tempo- rarily by the alleged attitude of certain land-owners in that vicinity, holding out for reputedly exorbitant prices. This was made known today by H. T. Morsell, land-purchasing officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who said that the Real Estate Board has put its valuation on the lots in dispute and that he himself has set what he considers to be a fair figure, much below what the I -own- ers desire. Details of the figures were not made public. About 80 per cent of the land re- quited for this development has now been acquired by the Government, Mr. Morsell said, and in a few days the filling in of some 20,000 cubic yards .f earth will be started in the program of making a terrace development. “‘We have been fair, but the owners who are holding out for higher prices haven't shown a disposition to play ball,” Mr. Morsell explained today, add- ing that it would probably be neces- sary to start condemnation proceed- ings, so that the Government may ac- quire title to this property, needed for th:: complete development of the proj- ect. The Howard ‘Recreation Center will provide foot ball, base ball and tennis facilities, as well as enable the use of this area for people of all ages, from small children to adults. There is a section set apart for girl's and women's activities. Tentative plans of the Na- i Veerhoff, president of the club, will preside. A reception will be held after the dwmner on the first floor of the club house. i PLAN HEALTH MEETING Board of Trade Committee to Hear Dr. Ps L. Benjamin. | Women arrested on liquor charges will be sent to the Women's Bureau as ish chureh, the Shrine of the Sacred 'soon as they are taken into custody, H2art, it commands the view of the city 'undcr an order issued to the police he top of the Sixieenth stre: from “ti hill. % ractor of the parish, Mgr. P. C. Gaval will present the bishop and will aet as host to the visitors in the new paro- | violators force by Maj Henry Pratt, superintend- | ent of ‘police yesterday. | Maj. Pratt’s order also directed po~ licemen arresting woman lquor law to fingerprint their captives Detective Bureau fles. A meeting of the Public Health Com- mittee of the Washington Board of Trade will be held at 8 pm. Thursday at the Board of Trade headquarters, in The Star Bullding, Dr. D. Percy Hick- iing, chairman of the committce, has announced. Dr. Paul L. Benjamin will add the meeting His subject will be ‘4 Cost. of Medical Care.” 4 Uonal Capital Park and Planning Com- mission call for the erection of the Na- tional memorial as a tribute to the Negroes’ contribution to America, to be located near the recreation area. LEAVES HOSPITAL TODAY Jobless Painter Reported to Have Taken Poison. Robert Lee, 35-year-old painter of 1919 Thirty-fifth street, reported by po- lice to have taken poison yesterday be- cause of despondency over his unem- ployment, will be released from George- town Hospital today, physicians said. | Police sald Lee was found uncon- scious on the floor of his e after he called his wife, ‘Mrs. Virginia Lee, at ber work and announced his intention o his life, | the country last year to this exceedingly HL COMMONTY MAYENENENKEY INGHLD RESEARGH Corbin Hollow Provides Ap- proach to Law’s Underlying Civilization’s Evolution. MOON APPEARS INVOLVED IN ONLY SUPERSTITIONS Fears and Beliefs Seem to Be In- creasefl Through Contact With Outside World. ‘The primitive community of Corbin Hollow, Va., in the Blue Ridge Moun- tains, may have provided a new ap- proach to a determination of the laws undéwiying the evolution of civilization, Dr. Mandel Sherman, director of the Washington Child Research Center, has just reported to the Child Study As- sociation, of America. Dr., Sherman is directing an inten- sive study of Corbin Hollow, other near- by mountain communities in closer con- tact with® the outside world, and a border ‘town with practically all the ad- vantages of modern civilization. While covering a wide range, Dr. Sherman reported especially on the curious vari- ations in intelligence and in fears and superstitions. In, Corbin Hollow, he said, there ap- pears to be only one general fear—of water. The only discernible supersti- tions relate to the moon, the people having held over some old English be- liefs regarding the effect of the posi- tion of that body on the giving of medicines and planting of crops. Progression Found. * In three other “hollow” communities progressively beiter in the spcial scale he found a similar progression in the fears and. superstitions, evidently due to contact without understanding with the institutions of the outside world. Most notable was fear of hell, which was entirely absent in the most primi- tive community, But in the country town, where the contact with the out- side” world was not only greater but accompanied by more understanding, there was a very sharp decline in bst fears and superstitions. The most notable findings, he said, were in the variation of supposedly in- herent intelligence with environment. Standard tests showed that the younger children of Corbin Hollow did not differ markedly from those of a city. It was slightly below the norms established for the population as a whole at those age levels. But from the lowest age levels upwards there was an increasing divergence between the mental age and the chronological age. Thus a child of 4 might have a mental age of 35, a child of 6 a mental age of 4 and a child of 10 a mental age of 6. The results did nct show the divergance between families such as wou'd have been ex- peted if it was a case of inherent low mentality and the inieiligence curve for the whole population “fiattened out” at about the 7-year level. Community Basic Fagtor. In the more advanced communities there was, says Dr. Sherman, “a steady decreas? In this progressive increase of the gap between coronojgical and mental age until in the #Wn the find- ings struck ebout hte norm for the eountry as a whole.” Analysis of the results, Dr. Sherman says, shows that the tables do not fit with the superficial theory that the less able stock is forced by the compe- tition in society to isolation in the least desirable place and that a community is advanced primarily according to the basic intelligence of its people. The conclusion is rather that the status of a community itself is a basic factor in intelligence, the 10-year-old child in Washington passing standard tests at a higher level than the Corbin Hollow child because the whole “set” of the environment in Washington itself stim- ulates the intelligence. The tests used reduced the influence of education on the standing of the children to & minimum. They appar- ently measured, says Dr. Sherman, the subtle indirect effects of education. Previgus studies of the Southern high- landers, he said, have confined them- selves to single communities without trying to cotrelate the condition of the people in one environment with that in a slightly different environment. Complimentary Factors. The study seems to show, he pointed out, that basic intelligence find culture arc’ comylementary factors, each react- ing upon the other, but With d strong tendency for the native intelligence to strike a balance with the cultural level rather than to raise or lower it. He be- lieves the method developed in the Blue Ridge Hollows is applicable to the study of the cultures of primitive peoples everywhere. The study is being conducted, Sherman reported. with frequent visits of trained psychologists to the various communities for the measurements and with a worker familiar with the moun- tain people living among them contin- uously. This *worker is Miss Miriam Sizer, University of Virginia graduate, who opened the first school in Corbin Hollow, which attracted the attention of primitive community within a few hours of Washington. THREE TO FACE POLICE TRIAL BOARD HEARINGS Detective Mansfield and Pvts. Burke and Griggs to Plead Tomorrow. Detective A. D. Mansfield, of the first precinct, ‘and two sixth precinct policemen, William F. Burke and W. I. Griggs. are scheduled ‘to appear. before the trial board tomorrow morning. Mansfield is to be tried on com- plaint of E. Groomes, colored Treasury Department chauffeur, who was ac- quitted in court several days ago onj a traffic charge preferred by the detec- | tive, who Groomes says beat him at the time of the arrest Burke, a former detective, and Griggs are to be tried on charges of having been. under influence of liquor. Griggs, | on duty in the vicinity of Fourth and H streets several days ago, is alleged to have been found under the influence of liquor, where Burke was found by his superior officer and suspended. TOWERS ILL IN HOSPITAL Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers is in Providence Hospital suffering from a sickness not yet diagnosed. Mr, Towers was returning by boat from Baltimore yesterday morning when he was taken ill. He was transferred at Alexandria to the Alexandria Hos- pital and moved to Providence Hospital { resenting the this morning. X-ray examinations are being made to disccver the nature of his *JOHN L. MAURAN, St. Louis architect, who has been named a member of the Fine Arts Commission by President Hoover to succeed Abram Garfield of Cleveland. —Underwood Photo. RAZING OF CENTER MARKET IS FOUGHT Probable Increase of Idle Ranks to Be Dealers’ Chief Argument. With about a hundred dealers of Center Market signed up to move into Convention Hall Market, at Fifth and K streets, when Center Market is torn down in the Government bullding pro- gram, it was learned today that another group of dealers in the mar- ket have renewed their efforts to post- pone again demolition of the old build- ing and to secure a new Government- awned msrket through act of Con~ gress. The Treasury plans to raze old Center Market in January. Attorney Considers Matter. Overtures have been made to 8 inent attorney here, who has taken the matter under adviement, and he will hold a meeting with the marketmen soon to go over the whole matter. Identical bills are pending in the District Committees of the Senate and House to provide for Government erec- tion of a new public center market, to be financed by sums to be “charged against the generzl funds in the Trcas- ury and against the.revenues for the District of Columbia, in the same pro- portion as are other npg:opflmom to cover the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia.” A hearing was held on the Capper bill on the Senate side, but the House District Co has not yet reached a hearing. site of this market would be picke® by commissioners - u‘lfl ot Ct:’lutl;:z.\l, e Secretary of Agriculture an diree- tor of ihe Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital. Convention Hall Considered. Meantime, with prospects that their place of business may be torn down !irom over them in January, more than 100 marketmen have signed leases with the Washington Convention Hall Co. These leases, according to some who have signed them, are dated November 1, but -the actual rent will start, they say, when the merchants move in as old Center Market is torn down. hen old Center Market is torn down, according to John S. Blick, presi- dent of the Washington Convention Hall Co., the nam eof his institution, at Fifth and K streets, will be changed to Center Market. A new cold-storage plant has been installed at Convention | Hall Market and plans completed tq take care of the influx of merchants from Center Market. The Downtown Market Co., of which F. W. Loetsch, a dealer in Center Mar- ket, is president, is still working on plans for a_aew Downtown Center Mar- ket, near the retail shopping area. Fear Jobless Increase. ‘Those behind the movement to save old Center Market for a few months until ucuonhcm be obtained hgm C:‘l}fi gress on the pending ion feel that it would be bad to close the old building in the dead of Winter, De- spite the fact that dealers are signi contracts to move to Convention Hall, they still beiieve that many persons would be thrown out of work, and will use this argument in their fight to save the old building Among some of those who are all ready to move to Convention HaHeMar- | ket, it was said today that “pcople have to eit,” and ave expected to follow their favorite merchant from the old stands to the new location. VICE SQUAD I{RRES?S TWO UNDER “GAS LAW OF 1878” Raiders Reported Finding Quanti- ty of Mash and 87 Gallons of Alleged Liquor. ‘The vice squad late yesterday ar- rested John L. Aberson, 30 years old, of Kensington, Md.. and Miss Myrtle Moore, 36 years old, of 2300 First street on charges of violating the “gas law of 1878” and manufacture and possession of liquor, following a raid at the First street address. The squad reported they confiscated 375 gallons.of mash, along with 150 gal- lons of .additional mash which was “working” in a 150-gallon still. Near the still police reported, they found 87 lgallon: of alleged liquor, packed for des ivery. PAGE B—1 GRLE D ROAD PEANS APPROVED ASID.C. CATEWAY . Governmental Agencies Set Aside Proposed Oval on Wisconsin Avenue. BUILDING RESTRICTION IS SET BACK FIVE FEET Park Improvement Plan Is Not Thought Justified at Garfield Street Location. A circle at the mp(sed gateway to the District at Wisconsin avenue and the Maryland line, with the preservation | of the present 60-fcot paved rcadway | through the center for arterial traffic, 1 was approved today by the Co-ordi- !munn Committee, consisting of inter- ested District and Federal Government | agencies. ‘The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission previously suggested an oval, rather than a circle, to be placed at Wisconsin avenue and the District line, but after studying several plans, the Co-ordinating Com- mittee decided that the circie plan is best. Accordingly, it will recommena that a circle of 115-foot inner radius and 175-foct outer radius be estab- lished. Plans, except for minor details, drawn up by Melvin C. Hazen, District surveyor, were approved by the commit- tee. program calls for setting back for five feet the present building restriction line. Copies of the plans approved will be forwarded to the National Capital Park and Planning ion and to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, as soon as.the minor changes are inserted in the first draft. None of the representatives of the Maryland Jc:mmlulon was present at today’s meeting. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., engineer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commissioni and the chairmgn of the Co-ordinatihg Committes, ekplained that, if deemed desirable in the future, the present roadway through the pro- jected circle and the street car tracks can be ciosed. This Is one of the reasons why the additional. five-foot building re.i!rleucnvlllne hllwmetn Inurvtgi én:‘l!s; approved plans. Western avenu Military road traffic will be diverted around the circle, to be established, an- der the plan, with park land. ‘The cirele will be furnished with side- walks for pedestrians, and the sugges- tion has been advanced that the street car stops be placed on the circle as & safety measure. The committee decided that park im- provement is not at present justified in the area at Garfield street, New Mexico ayenue and Forty-third street. The Chestnut street grade crossing was brought up by Capt. H. C. White- hurst, co-ordinator for the District of Columbia, but it was decided to put over consideration of this matter until the next meeting, twp weeks hence, when Mr. Hazen and Charles W. Eliot, 1I, director of planning for the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion, can be present. IVER HIT-RUN DR FREE UNDER BOND William Gray Charged With Reck- less Driving After Sur- * rendering to Police. Willilam Gray, 25 years old of 756 Fifth street, hunted for 48 hours in con- ion with an automobile accident Sunday in which one woman was criti- cally hurt and several other TSONS slightly injured, was charged with reck- less driving last night after he gave himself up to first precinct police. Hsz ‘was released on $500 bond pending trial in Police Court. Gray demanded jury trial in Polies Court today upon his® arraignment on charges of leaving after colliding and reckless driving. Judge Given fixed bond at $700. The trial was postponed indefinitely, pending the recovery of the injured persons. ‘The seriously injured woman, Miss Gertrude Harris, 20 years old, of 525 Eleventh street, a passenger in Gray's automobile, which police say collided with a taxicab at Twelfth and G streets, is suffering from peritonitis and a frac- tured jaw at Emergency Hospital. Doc- tors said her condition is critical. X According to police, Gray took the in- jured woman to the hospital and failed o leave his name or make his identity known. Unable to gain information from Miss Harris, police began a search for Gray. Mrs, Eleanor Yate, 44 years old, of 1831 California street, an occupant of the taxicab, who suffered a broken back in the crash, will ‘recover, doctors at Emergency Hospital reported. ‘Three others hurt in the crash—Merle Blair, taxi driver, of 731 Second street southeast; Miss Margaret Armandi, 21 yeaks old of 3708 Georgla avenue and Joseph Daley, 24 years old, of 211 First street, received first-aid treatment fol- lowing the accident and were sent home from the hospital. FIVE HOMES AND OFFICE ENTERED BY BURGLARS Six burglaries, involving the theft of cash, jewelry, wearing apparel and other p.rcdperty to the amount of $803, were under police investigation today. In only one of the six instances was the burglar seen. He was discovered in a room on the second floor of the home of Dr. Ferdinand H. Mistretta, 2871 ‘The charge of violating the gas law ['Woodland drive, early last night. was placed against the couple when in- vestigators found a tube apparently Members of the family were at din- ner about 7:20 o'clock when the bur- used to divert gas from the regular gas pipes so it would not pass through the meter and register. The device was de- tachable, police said. Aberson, who gave his occupation as a painter, and the woman were released from the eighth precinct station on bond ‘of $1,500 each. PENSION IS INCREASED Maj. Hesse Granted Boost to $4,000 by Commissioners. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, former super- intendent of police, was granted an in- crease in pension today from $2,600 to $4,000 a year. The increase was made possible under the recent I tion raising the salaries of policemen and firemen. When the list of pensioners, whose pensions h n increased, was made public ‘was not among_then d that he had pi g his applicatio rom the increi his applicati nussionel N posely omitted mal not desiring to benet e. However, he sent October- 17, and the O granted it today. glar, a white man about 25 or 30 years 1d, gained entrance to a room on the second floor by climbing a ladder. Mrs, Mistretta saw the intruder in the hall- way and when she made an outery he descended the ladder and disappeared. A gold cigarette case valued at $150 was taken. - Hurley Offenbacher, 1426 Trinidad avenue northeast, told police an intruder yesterday gained entrance to his home through a cellar door and and jewelry valred at $288, Forcing a cellar door, some one gained entrance to the home of Henry Wold, 4618 Thirty-eighth street, d the-absence of the family yesterday stole jewelry valued at $190. George 9. Smith, 2614 Woodley place, reported his home was entered the past three and a radio silk bedspread val at $100 taken, Henry Ross, 1707 H street, tald of the taking of a safe weigh 250 pounds from his premises several days ago. The safe contained about in a check and books. Enircace was gained with a duplicate key. Jewell Hayes, 304 Massachus:tis ave- nue northeest, reported the loss of a typewriter, Y