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D.C. APPROPRIATIO 1S CAPITAL'S CHIEF ISSUE IN CONGRESS Mapes and Simmons Indicate Fiscal Relations Change Unlikely Now. | EIGHT SENATE MEASURES FAVORABLY REPORTED City Heads Plan to Ask Traffic Legislation and Revision of Borland Assessment Law. The final session of the Seventy-first Congress gets under way tomorrow, with & number of important District bills on the calendars of the House m&uu awaiting action, several other local measures due for early con- sideration in committees, and indica- tions that municipal authorities may have a few x&e‘w legllshtlve proposals to present as the session progresses. ‘The outstanding feature of the ses- sion from a local standpoint will be the shaping of the annual District appro- priation bill. This is certain to be acted on. After six years of adherence to the arbitrary $9.000,000 lump sum. as the Federal contribution, Congress, at the 1ast session, raised Uncle Sam's share to $0,500,000 upon the insistence of the Senate. After accepting this com- :uuhe for the current fiscal year, the jouse, on July 3, created a special committee of seven members to inquire nto the fiscal relations question. Mapes and Simmons Doubt Change. al House Committee will Chairman Mapes of the Fiscal lations Committee, appointed by Speaker Longworth and Chairman Simmons of District appropriation bill, have express- ed their convictions that the study to be made of fiscal relations will not be completed in time to effect any change in method of dividing the cost of maintaining the Nligonl':llll Capital in this year’s priation bill ‘Sentor Bingnam, Republican, of Con- necticut, as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on District appropria- tions, will have charge of the local supply bill when it reaches the Senate. Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- Committee -;;nounLfiedny?manly that he hopes to have the first meet- ing of his committee sometime this week. The House District Committee probably will hold its first session next week. Rail Merger on Calendar. The following eight bills are on the Senate calendar, having been favorably from committee at the last to give public school em- of absence with half pay of educational improve- will receive a letter n giving its present views the several public util- ity bills now pe: nding. Of_the bills still awaiting action in the Senate committee the one to allow & reduced rate of street car fare for school children will be among the first taken up when the committee convenes. 'l‘humbl.fl passed the House at the last n. Benator Capper said yesterday he had learned that the Commissioners also are ing to submit for consideration some new traffic legislation and a pro- he Sundiy Staf WASHINGTON, D. C STREET CAR AND FIRE ENGINE -CRASH: TWO FIREMEN INJURED Men Thrown to Street From Truck Answering Alarm for Small Blaze. Machine Chassis and Ladders | Put Out of Commission by Smashup. Piremen Charles J. Moffitt, 50 years cld, 233 Ninth street southeast, and Warren Mose, 23 years old, of 1240 Neal street northeast, were injured slightly last night when the truck on which they were riding to a fire was reported to have been struck by a Capital Traction Co. street car at Seventh and K streets southwest. The firemen and apparatus were at- tached to No. 10 Fire Station. Moffitt and Mose were taken to Emergency Hospital, where Moffitt was dismissed after treatment, while Mose was ad- mitted for further observation. The truck’s chassis and ladders were damaged and the apparatus was tem- porarily put out of commission. The machine was responding to a fire alarm at 934 C street southwest, which proved to be trivial, firemen said. The truck, driven by Pvt. J. E. Bryan, 36 years old, of 2030 Twelfth street northeast, was proceeding west on K street with its siren open when the CHARLES J. MOFFITT. street car, proceeding north on Seventh street struck the rear end of the ap- paratus as it crossed the tracks, ac- cording to a police report. Motorman J. S. Speicht was operating the street car. Moffitt, who was clinging to the side of the truck, and Mose, who was stand- ing on the running board near the driver's seat, were both thrown into the street when the truck swerved into a spin after the crash. DELINQUENT TAXES 10 BE ADVERTISED Realty Owners Crowd in Dis- trict Building to Pay at Last Minute. Owners of real estate crowded to the District Bullding yesterday to avold having their properties advertised as delinquent in tax payments. The ad- vertisements will be published in local papers December 5 and 12, and the auction sale of tax titles will be held at the District Building January 6 to 13. After the sale of a tax title, the de- linquent taxpayer is given two years in which to pay up his taxes, with inter- est penalties and costs of the sale. If he has not paid within two years, then at the end of that time the purchaser of the tax title is given a certificate, which, when recorded, becomes a cloud upon the title to the realty, which can be removed only by bargaining with the holder of the certificate. Al mth property is advertised, the tax may id at any time before the sale and such properties will be stricken from the list offered for sale. The auc- tion takes place in the office of the col- lector of taxes, on the first floor of the building. GRAND LARCENY CHARGED Man Said to Have Confessed to Bobbing House of $200. Precinct Detective Elmer F. Lewis filed charges of housebreaking and grand larceny against Arthur Emer- son_Jackson, colored, 20 years old, of 1325 V street, at No. 13 station last night after Jackson is said to have confessed to entering the home of A. 8. Ostrow at 5100 Georgia avenue on August 20. Articles valued at $200 were stolen in the robbery, while more than $150 worth of the loot has been recovered following the colored man’s confession, Lewis sald The theft was committed while the Ostrow family was away. Jackson will be arraigned in Police Court tomorrow. C.0F C. MEMBERSHIP PLEA BROADCAST Committee Chairman Outlines Five-Year Organization Program. An appeal for new members for the ‘Washington Chamber of Commerce, to assist in carrying out the organization's new five-year program for bullding up of the National Capital, was made by A. Ewaldsen, chairman of the Chamber Membership Committee, in a radio ad- dress last night from station WMAL. leading feature of the program, Mr. Bwaldsen said, is a drive to obtain the right of representation in Congress for the District citizens and a fair set- tlement of the fiscal relationship is- sue between the Pederal and District governments. ‘The program also calls for the support of legislation for improvement of schools, parks, libraries, streets, bridges, public health facilities, hospitals; capi- talization of the Capital's advantages as a tourist and convention center; creation of more local employment op- portunities; better means of regulating traffic, improvement of streets and bridges, modernization of the port of ‘Washington, extension of airmail, pas- senger and express service, and co- operation with local wholesale and retail business through advertising and ex- tension of the local trade area, Mr. Ewaldeen said. GAME BIRDS TO SUFFER Biological Survey Reports on Re- duced Food Supplies. Game birds will have their share of suffering this Winter as a result of the drought last Summer. The Blological Survey of the Depart- ment of Agriculture pointed yesterday to Srelfly reduced food supplies for quail, grouse, pheasants and other up- land game birds. It urged that farm- ers, sportsmen and bird lovers put out | feed for the birds during the coming ‘Winter. revision of the Borland street paving assessment law, which has been successfully attacked in the courts by taxpayers several times. Senator Cap- has said he favors full public hear- on the of what should be done about street paving asssess- ment law. ‘Twenty-six District measures are action on various House cal- endars. Among the important meas- ures on the House calendar are both the taxicab responsibility bill, which has passed the Senate, and the one as fa- vorably reported by the House com- mittee. The motion will be made when the opportunity affords for substituting the Senate bill for the House bill. Airport Bill Awaits Action. Awaiting action before the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds is the municipal airport bill, which has been passed by the Senate. A highly controversial measure on the House calendar is the so-called anti-vivisection bill, which would pro- hibit experiments on living dogs. Two measures on the House calendar have been passed by the Senate. These are the bill to amend the District corpora- tion law code. The other is a Senate resolution prohibiting the erection of ‘wharves or docks in the Potomac River. ‘This was designed especially to prevent the erection of oil tanks on the Virginia shore. On_the Union calendar of the House are the bill to legalize boxing in the District, the real estate bill to license proposed elimination of grade crossings, Widening of Wisconsin avenue. and spe- cific legislation for the elimination of ‘Michigan avenue grade crossing Brookland. Five of these measures are also car- on the consent calendar of the Private Calendar Measures. the private calendar are the fol- District measures: Tax exemp- tion on y Sons of American Rev- olution, relief of Jennie Bruce Galla- han, relief of J. W. Anderson, relief of certain widows of policemen and fire- men, relief of Della Ladendecker, au- thorize Commissioners to settle Coal Co. the | elaborate works printed in Germany in lications at the Capitol yesterday this measure i5 not likely to Omz accompanied by a full descriptive card. In | than that of Martin Luther. Congress for Folks were beginning to get excited over prohibition 500 years ago. One of the most curious of the late fifteenth century books contained, to- gether with the Gutenberg Bible, in the Vollbehr collection now being cata- logued at the Library of Congress, is a lengthy poem in the Italian vernacular | entitled, “Contrasto dell’ Acqua e del Vino.” by an unknown author and from an unknown press at Florence. It is described as “a potetic debate on pro- hibition.” This literary curiosity is decorated with highly artistic borders. While interest is focused on the Gutenberg Bible, examination of the collection at the library has revealed 8 large number of curious books which | be of interest to scholars concerned with the life and thinking of the Mid- dle Ages. Whether by design or other- wise, it was stated at the library, Vollbehr succeeded in gathering cross-section of the thought of a cen- tury” which still is understood only vaguely. . Soon to Be Exhibited. ‘The cataloguing and .arrangement of the volumes are proceeding rapidly and | they probably will be placed on exhibit within the next two weeks, each item Besides the Gutenberg Bible the col- lection contains more than 50 different fifteenth century Bibles, among them several German translations earlier ‘The books range all the way from weighty reli- glous and scientific treatises to the lightest reading of the age for which the itinerant peddlers who handled the product of the newly established presses could find & market. A gem of the collection is an {llus- trated “Life of Christ,” believed to have been ted at Ulm in 1485. This work is considered of great im- portance for the history of art because of its 100 wood cuts. Another is the “Pilgrimage to the Holy Land,” earliest of all printed books of travel, which was ted at Mainz and contains probably the best executed wood cuts of any mediseval book. The earliest wood cut maps are contained in a copy of the “Cosmographia” of the Egyptian astronomer Ptolomy, one of the most the fifteenth century. First Printed Newspapers. There are samples of what probably were the first printed newspapers in the world, although handwritten sheets 500-YEAR-OLD LIQUOR DEBATE IS REVEALED IN RARE VOLUME Book Is One of Vollbehr Collection Now Being Catalogued at Library of Exhibition. ing press ecclesiastical politics sharply divided the citizens of Mainz. Each faction in the struggle for control of the archbishopric had placards printed and posted or distributed on the streets giving the texts of communications, pepal bulls and official decrees design to influence the citizens to choose one side or the other. Most of these quickly disappeared. But old paper was used in making book covers by pasting the shects together. Some of these have been separated to serve as examples of medieval journal- ism, and the art of coloring news which developed so early. In the Middle Ages publishing was 4s much a “business” as today, and the printers only manufactured such books as they judged would have a good mar- ket. There were popular novels, deal- ing mostly with romantic love. One such in the collection is the Historia de duobus amantibus (Story of Two Lovers), which went through many editions. It was written by a priest who long afterwards became Pope. Cook Book in Collection. ‘There is also the first cook book, “De Re Coquinaria,” by Marcus Gablus Apicius Caelius. It was intended as a medical book, but is largely devoted to recipes for appetizing dishes. Among the other rare treasures found in the collection is a Chinese book printed at least a generation before the appearance of printing in Europe. It bears a Chinese date corresponding to 1405. It is an “exhortation to virtue compiled by command of the Empress Jen Hsiao.” It is the only specimen of this classic in an European or American library. A very rare book is the humorous “Ob einem Mann sei Nehmen ein Weib oder nidt"—or “Should a Man Marry?” ed | erty history has known. SUNDAY oy POLICE END NURMI DEATH INQUIRY T0 AWAIT NEW CLUES Manslaughter Charge Against Two Companions of Victim Depends on Bullet Tests. SERGT. BURDINE QUIZZES 2 IMPORTANT WITNESSES Written Report to Be Made in Few Days to State’s Attorney at Rockville. The police investigation into the death of Aarvi Nurmi, 24-year-old Cen- sus Bureau clerk, has been closed, and the manslaughter case against Nurmi's two companions on the drinking party which preceded his death still hinges on the outcome of tests to determine whether the fatal bullet was fired from the dead man’s gun, Sergt. Earl H. Bur- dine of the Montgomery County force announced last night. The officer sald he interviewed two important witnesses yesterday and ran down all clues in his possession. A number of these, he declared, led to no information pertinent to the investiga- tion. Who the witnesses are or the details of what they told him Burdine refused to reveal, saying he would make a writ- ten report of all facts of which he has knowledge to State’s Attorney Robert B. Peter, jr., within a few days. Companion Had Gun. Meanwhile he let it be known that one of the men, both of whom live in ‘Washington, informed him that one of Nurmi's companions the day he was killed possessed a 25-caliber gun from which the bullet found embedded in his skull could have been fired. The officer refused to say whether the gun belonged to Henry W. McGuire, John J. O'Brien or Arthur -Murphy, all of whom are said to have in Nurmi's company. The first two mentioned are charged with manslaughter, while Murphy was ques- tioned by police but allowed to remain at liberty when he convinced them he knew nothing of Nurmi's death. Murphy told authorities he visited the dead man's Takoma Park home Wednesday afternoon a week ago, the date of the shooting, but was in bed asleep that evening when Nurmi was killed. McGuire and O'Brien admitted attending the drinking party at Nurmi's home Wednesday night, but denied knowledge of the shooting. Burdine said last night he intends to do nothing further in the case unless new clues are brought to 'his attention. Fourth Man Rumor False. ‘The rumor of a fourth man at Nurmi's home Wednesday night was proved false, he declared, after questioning the taxicab driver who was sald to have carried the man to Takoma Park from Washington. Burdine said the man in question alighted from the cab more than a mile from Nurmi’s home and could not have walked there by the time the shooting occurred. The report that Nurmi had quarreled with some one shortly before his death also proved groundless, the officer as- serted. ‘The tests of the gun found beside the dead man probably will be made next week, according to Stedman Pres- cott, State's attorney-elect, who will be called upon to present the case to the March grand jury. He sald he and Mr. Peter, the present State’s attorney, plan to take the weapon to the Bureau of Standards for examination. He agrees with Sergt. Burdine that the gun tests will prove the most important factor in the case. . BOLIVAR'S MEMORY T0 BE HONORED HERE| Exercises Planned at Georgetown University on 100th Anniversary of Soldier's Death. Observance of the 100th anniversary of the death of Gen. Simon Bolivar, liberator of Spanish South America, which occurred December 17, 1830, will be made a special occasion at George- town University. Academic exercises will be held in Gaston Hall on the evening of the an- niversary, President W. Coleman Nevils, S. J. announced yesterday, at which { Latin American diplomats generally will join with Georgetown in paying honor to one of the greatest defenders of lib- ‘Two men prominently identified with the promotion of friendly relations be- tween the Americas, Dr. Esteban Gil Borges, assistant director of the Pan- American Union, and Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace, will be the principal speakers. Dr. Scott also is professor of international law and foreign relations of the United States at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. Dr. Nevils and the directors of Georgetown University will hold a re- ception after the. ceremonies. Among the guests of honor will be the envoys of what are known as the Bolivarian countries, Peru, Panama, Bolivia, Ecu- ador, Venezuela and Colombia, who owe their independence from Spain to the great soldier-statesman. Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1783, and died at the age of 47, near Santa Marta, in which is now the Re- public of Colombia. He is invested with the title of Liberator by the Congresses of all the Bolivarian countries, where his memory is revered similar to that of George Washington in this country. YANGTZE MEDAL TO BE SUBMITTED TO ART GROUP Award Will Be Given to Marine Corps and Navy Enlisted Men for Service in China. —by Albertus de Eyb. It is an amusing discussion of the advantages and dis- advantages of matrimony. The collec- ton contains the first edition of the earliest book on witcheraft, “De Laniis et Phytonicis Mulieribus,” Strassburg in 1489. There first book ever printed at Rome, the “Epistles of St. Jerome,” m two vol- ‘1‘?(‘5’1‘ which came from the press about A gruesome relic, coming from the dark side of life ir the Middle Ages, which otherwise appears from the col- lection on a much higher level than it generally is pictured in history, is a religlous tract bound in a tanned human skin. It was aimed against the Jews and written by a Jew converted to containing the news of the day are be- to have circulsted in ancient In the early yegge of the print- Christianity. There can be little doubt of the race of the unfortunate Wl skin was used. porting hose ceived I3, from ‘The Fine Arts Commission will be requested shortly to pass upon the artistic qualities of the Navy Depart- ment’s proposed Yangtze Campaign Medal, which will be given to officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps and Navy who have seen service in that section of China. ‘The Navy Department, through the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, has been negotiating for designs for the proposed medal. Rear Admiral Prank B. Upham, chief of the Bureau of Nav- igation, Navy Department, is arrang- ing to consider designs submitted by a number of artists. ‘The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, which features an anchor su] an eagle, is expected to be re- at the Navy Department, short- the w Mint, MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1930. * POLICE SCHOOL GRADUATES HONOR INSTRUCTOR New graduates of the Police School last night held a banquet at the ¥. M. C. A. in honor of Sergt. Harvey C. Cal- lahan, instructor of the school. In the photo, left to right: Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police; Jack Currier, master of ceremonies; Sergt. Callahan, Commissioner Crosby and Inspector William S. Shelby. —Star Staff Photo. BLAINE HOPEFUL FOR REALTY BILLS Senator Expects Action Dur- ing Short Session on New Local Measures. Arriving back in Washington last| night, Senator Blaine, Republican, of | ‘Wisconsin, said he was hopeful of ob-| taining action at this session of Con- gress on proposed legislation to regulate the real estate business, to control the sale of securities and to define the pro- cedure to be followed in the fore- closure of mortgages in the District. Senator Blaine is chairman of a Senate subcommittee which was in- structed at the last session to make inquiry into the need for legislation along these lines in the District. Arrangements were made some time ago to have the subcommittee hold its first meeting Thursday morning, De- cember 4, and Senator Blaine sald last night he had not heard of any change in_this plan. During the Senator's absence from the city Oscar H. Brinkman, attorney for the subcommittee, has been gather- ing data for the information of the subcommittee upon its return. Senator Blaine was not prepared last night to discuss his plans for the immediate future, beyond saying he hoped to ob- tain action on the legislative questions on which the subcommittee was ditected to work. Senator Blaine pointed out that one of the bills, namely, to pro- vide a system for licensing real estate brokers and salesmen, passed the Senate at the last session and is await- ing House action. The subcommittee still has before it the proposals to govern the sale of se- curities and to regulate the foreclosure of mortgages. Several weeks ago Brink- man held an informal conference with a group of representatives of various local organizations to discuss the scope of the proposed legislation, and ar- rargements were made to have sugg tions and recommendations submitted. AFRICAN EXPLORER WILL GIVE LECTURE Illustrated Talk to Be Presented for Benefit of Auxiliary of St. John’s Church. Dr. James W. Inches of Detroit, Mich., famous African explorer and big- game hunter, will give an illustrated lecture, “From Cape to Cairo,” for the benefit of the Woman's Auxiliary of St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, to- morrow evening at 8:30 o'clock in the ball room of the Shoreham Hotel. For the last 10 years Dr. Inches, re- tired from the practice of medicine, has been exploring little-known sections of Africa. He has conducted three special expeditions to the continent and has lectured extensively on his experiences. One of these, resulting in a shipwreck while homeward bound last year, nearly cost him his life. Forced to take to the lifeboats, pas- sengers and crew lost nearly all their possessions. Dr. Inches took with him only one thing, a tube containing 5,000 feet of motion picture film. It is this film, showing his experiences and dis- coveries on the long trek from the Cape to Cairo, that the explorer will show in connection with his lecture to- morrow evening. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary, with Mrs. James E. Freeman, wife of Bishop Freeman, heading the list of patron- esses. The other patronesses include Mrs. Mackay-Smith, Mrs. Taft, Mrs. David A. Reed, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. George B. McClellan, Miss Hege- man, Mrs. Robert Johnston, Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, Miss Boardman, Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Mrs. Charles H. Woodhull, Mrs. Montgomery Blair and Mrs, Duncan Phillips. COLONIAL WAR SOCIETY BANQUET IS ARRANGED 38th Annual Meeting and Election of Officers Will Be Held at Willard Hotel Tuesday. The Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia will hold its thirty-eighth annual meeting and ban- quet in the Willard Hotel Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Election of offi- cers and transaction of other business will follow the banquet. Daniel Richard Randall, deputy gov- ernor general of the Society of Colonial Wars and representing it in Maryland; Gen. Louis H. Bash of the Quarter- master Department, U. 8. A, and Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, will be guests of the soclety at the meeting. MAN FOUND DEAD Edward Wellington White, 45 years old, was found dead in his room, at 1345 [<) street, yesterday afternoon when Joseph W. Cranford, a fellow lodger at that address, called to pay him a visit. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt issued a cer- tificate of death from natural causes. A wife, Mrs. Mary E. White of 1400 Fairmont street, survives. o Chemicals Halt Blaze. A blaze, starting between the wall and a flue of a residence at 927 N STUDLEY | their | disappearance of Willlam L. Studley, street, was extinguished by en with chemicals last .&nnm negligible, fire i was hmoehulntwlt.h TWO BOYS DISAPPEAR Police Asked to Find William Read and “Bud” Willis. ‘Two 15-year-old boys, William Allen Read, son of Dr. Boyd R. Read of 3645 ‘Warren street, and “Bud” Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Willis of 3601 War- ren street, were reported last night as being missing from their homes. They disappeared, according to a police re- port, two days ago. The Read boy is described as being 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 100 pounds, with blue eyes and light brown hair. “Bud” Willis 1s 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 115 pounds and has black hair, police were told. ABSENCE INQUIRY 1S DROPPED Wealthy Capital Man Found to Have Registered at Boston Hotel. ‘Washington police yesterday dropped investigation into the strange wealthy Capital man, convinced that foul play does not figure in his falure to return to his home at 1302 Eight- eenth street after attending the Yale- Harvard foot ball game at New Haven eight days ago. Boston police reported yesterday that the missing man registered at the Ritz- Carlton Hotel there last Sunday night and checked out the following morn- ing without informing any one as to his destination. Unaccompanied in Boston. . sta,dleyuvivn umc:ox;np;néedimwd- ng to a’telegram receive pector lliam S. Shelby, chief otydeuctlvu. from James McDevitt, deputy super- intendent of Boston police. The in- quiry instituted here at the request of relatives was instantly dropped as a result of this information. Studley entered the Boston hotel 10 hours after he had telegraphed his wife from New York City that he was catch- ing the noon train from New York and would reach Washington at 5:05 p.m. Neither Mrs. Studley nor the missing man’s attorney, Arthur Hellen, could be reached yesterday. It was said at the Studley home that Mrs. Studley’s physicians had forbidden ‘her to use the telephone or discuss her husband’s disappearance, fearing that she might developed a nervous breakdown while Hellen is out of the city. Employes at Hellen's law offices in the Colorado Building sald that the attorney left Washington several days ago, presumably to work on the Studley case. Check Reveals Whereabouts. A check which Studley cashed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston Sunday night, and which subsequently was honored at his local bank, led to the discovery that the missing man had gone to Boston instead of coming on to Washington Sunday. Studley, who is 47 years old, came here with his wife from Providence, R. I, several years ago. They have a young daughter. The husband man- -g::“prnpeny left him from his father's estate. LIBRARY LISTS LECTURES Wide Variety of Talks Are on Pro- gram for December. Lectures on as wide a variety of sub- jects as the development of the egg and the Gutenberg Bible are to be given in Washington during the month of December. These, and courses of study and exhibits of unusual interest, are listed in the bulletin of informal educational opportunities in Washing- ton for December, just issued by the Public Library. Copies of this convenient index to recreational events of an educational nature may be obtained at the central building of the Public Library at Eighth and K streets or at any branch or sub- branch. THis number and the four remaining numbers for the season 1930-31 will be | matled for 10 cents to cover the postage, or a year's subscription will be mailed for 15 cents. INCOME TAX BLANKS READY FOR PUBLIC Revenue Bureau Information Re- quired for Check-Up on Annual Collection. Information returns through which the Internal Revenue Bureau keeps check upon the amount of income re- ceived by taxpayers have been made avallable to employers and others. The Internal Revenue Bureau said they must be filed on or before Feb- ruary 15, 1931. “These returns, millions of which are filed annually, are carefully compared with the individual returns of taxpayers to whom the payments are made,” the bureau said. “Many delinquent returns and additional revenue amounting hundreds of thousands of dollars are secured as the result of the examination of information returns.” e S A Diamond Brooch Stolen. Theft of a diamond brooch valued at | $1,000 was reported to thirteenth pre- cinct police yesterday by Mrs. Kitty Reiner of 5519 Seventh street, who sald that the pin had been taken from her home either Friday night or early yes- terday. Mrs. id that the SAVINGS PAYMENTS T0 SPEED SHOPPING, 92,000 Washingtonians to Be Paid $7,500,000 Within Next Few Days. The early Christmas shopping cam- paign. inaugurated by Washington mer- chants. was given an impetus with the announcement that mail carriers will bring to 92,000 Washingtonians within the next few days checks for Christmas savings amounting to $7,500,000. This is the largest amount of Christ- mas savings and the greatest number of depositors in these savings clubs in the history of Washington, and in keep- with the shop-early movement, checks are being distributed earlier than in former years when the funds were released December 15 In the opinion of Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association, the early distri- bution of this large fund augurs well for the public, individually and collec- tively, by enabling the Christmas shop- per to do his buying well ahead of the last-minute congestion. 2 Figures obtained by the association from local banks show that one out of every five persons in Washington will recelve a Christmas savings check. Washington leads the country on the proportional number and total amount of depositors, Mr. Shaw points out. The statistics show that in 1924 the amount of Christmas savings for 49,000 depositors totaled $3,000,000. This year there are 92,197 depositors and the amount is $7,500,233. The deposits average $81. SIX ASSOCIATIONS TO MEET TOMORROW Dupont Circle Citizens May Rec- ommend Reform in Some Traffic Regulations. Six_citizens’ associations will hold their December meetings tomorrow, five of them tomorrow night and one, the Dupont Circle Citizens' Association, to- morrow afternoon. The associations meeting tomorrow night at 8 o'clock are: The Sixteenth Street Highlands Citi- zens’ Association, which meets in the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth and Kennedy streets; the Cathedral Heights Citizens’ Association, which meets in St. Alban’s Chapel in the Washington _Cathedral grounds; the Washington Highlands Citizens' Associ- ation, in the Congress Heights School; the Manor Park Citizens' Association, in the Whittier School, and the Kenil- worth Citizens’ Association, which meets in the Kenilworth School. At the session of the Dupont Cir¢le Cltizens’ Association, to be held in the Maryland Hotel at 4 o'clock, it is ex- pected by the members to make recom- mendations for reform in some of the local traffic regulations. Miss Harlean James. of the American Civic Associa- tlon. is to address the Dupont group on the work her organization has been accomplishing in the elimination of of- ;,e:a;:ve sign boards along arterial high- FIVE PERSONS ARRESTED IN RAIDS BY VICE SQUAD Quantity of “Numbers” Slips Seized in One Place—Liquor Violations Charged in Second. ‘Two persons were arrested and a large quantity of “numbers” slips seized by members of Inspector T. R. Bean's special vice squad yesterday aft- ernoon in a raid on what police describe as one of the most active colored gam- ing houses in-the city. Led by Detective Floyd Truscott, the squad entered 617 C street southeast and arrested Lilly Owens, colored, 33, gfizmlflnil "é"“'} .Efww‘)k ‘Theresa , colored, 23, cus as ng‘ovemr&em wnn"esss.l e ree other arrests, all colored, were made by the vice squad yesterday. Ananis Dyson, 42, and Clara E. Dyson, 30, were arrested at their home, 135 P street southwest, for alleged illegal possession of one quart of whisky, while Mary Rudd, 38, was taken into custody for alleged illegal possession of one gal- lon and one pint of whisky in a raid on her home, 928 O street. GIRLS’ SCHOOL ROBBED DURING DINNER PERIOD Watches, Jewelry and Clothing Left by Thief Who Takes $10 at Gunston Hall. While students and teachers were at dinner last night, a thief broke a glass- front door of a dormitory of Gunston Hall, clusive girls’ school at 1904 Florida avenue, ransacked the rooms and escaped unnoticed with a small amount ‘?rthmona‘y. i The returned from dinner and found glass from the smashed door scattered on the front steps. A rock had been thrown through the door and the night latch turned. Fur coats, dresses and .clothing had been GOVERNMENT CASE FOUNDATION IS LAID IN SMITH C0. TRIAL Both Judge and Counsel Co- operate to Expedite Em- bezzlement Hearing. DEFENDANTS TO GRILL ACCOUNTING EXPERTS Prosecution Backbone Is Interpre- tation to Jury of Documentary Evidence—Ex-Employes Called. With the foundations of the Gove ernment's case laid, the trial of three former officers of the F. H. Smith Co. on conspiracy charges will go into its second week tomcrrow in District Sue preme Court. The prosecution is asking for the conviction of G. Bryan Pitts, John H., Edwards, jr, and C. Elbert Anadale, all formerly Smith Co. officers, under an indictment charging them with s conspiracy to embezzle $5,000,000 of the company’s funds and to destroy al- legedly incriminating records. Judge and Counsel Expedite Case. Justice Willlam Hitz and counsel on both sides have been making every ef- fort to ex ite the case. Nugent Dodds, special assistant to the Attor- ney General, and Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw have held their direct examinations to the minimum, and cross-questioning has been correspondingly brief. One of the unusual aspects of the trial so far has been the efficiency with which Justice Hitz disposes of objections by counsel. He rules promptly, permitting the losing side an exception if desired. Approximately 20 of the Governs ment’s 120 odd witnesses have tes fled in the day and a half since th jury was impanelled. A great deal of this time, however, has n con- sumed in identification of the great mass of documentary evidence to be produced. The defendants are represented by Wilton J. Lambert, Frank G. Raichle, George D. Horning, jr., and Edmund Toland. A considerable number of defense moves, however, are diret by Pitts, who follows every detail of the procedure and evinces no hesitancy in telling his counsel what questions to ask and when to ask them. Will Quiz Experts Closely. The defendants have indicated they will call in their own behalf less than half as many witnesses as the Govern- ment expects to use, but it is expected they will devote considerable time to cross examining the Government's ac case. The Government has called & number of former Smith employes for the pur~ pose of showing what they describe as the preliminary steps to the acts con- stituting the conspiracy. Testimony has been given to the effect that cer- tain records, for the most part une identified, were removed from the Smith company offices on Fifteenth street, and that money derived from checks made out to “cash” was turned over to some of the defendants. The prosecution has also introduced testimony that one em- ploye, acting under instructions, de- posited money to Pitt's account with the Southern Maryland Trust Co. Records Kept from Crissinger. It was brought out by the Govern- ment just before court adjourned yes- terday that records which might have disclosed the alleged criminal acts were kept from Daniel R. Crissinger by the defendants while he was chairman of the Smith company Executive Com- mittee. The prosecutors refused to divulge their purpose in introducing this testimony. Crissinger, formerly controller of the currency, was indicted last Deccmber with the present de- fendants on a mail fraud charge, but he has no connection with the case now on trial. ‘The jury, which is being locked up in the Metropolitan Hotel for the duration of the trial, was taken for a long auto= mobile ride yesterday afternoon. — THERE’S B’AR IN BRUNK HOME AND SHENANDOAH ‘Washington Contractor Returns From Successful Hunt With Raleigh Springs Club. There’s b'ar meat in the home of George F. Brunk, 806 K street, and there are plenty of b'ars in them thar mountains down around the Shenan- doah Valley. Brunk, a local contractor, has just returned from two weeks' bear hunting down in the Shenandoah Mountains and reports the hills are full of black bears and the sport is better than i has been for years. o Brunk, a member of the Raleigh Springs Hunt Club, was with the party that shot four bears, averaging about 130 pounds apiece, during the two weeks he was hunting. He hunted them, he said, with his two fine Walker hounds, some mixed breed hounds and with high-powered rifles. EXPLORER WILL SPEAK TO MINNESOTA GROUP Evelyn Briggs Baldwin to Present Norwegian Minister With Mes- sage Left by Nansen. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin will give an u:umud \‘A|.kr B o at a meeting of nesota State Society Friday night at 8:30 o'clock in the Willard® Hotel. The meeting will be followed by 3 » The Minister of Norway and Mme. Bachke will be guests of the society, and following his address Mr. Baldwin will present the Norwegian Minister & Nansen in Franz-Josef Land, and lat picked up by Mr. Baldwin in 19032, Plans for the meeting are are ranged by Miss Bede Johnson, of the soclety, and Assistant Attorney General G. Aaron Youngquist,' vice president. Miss Elizabeth M. Barnes of uz&é}olumbh road is secretary of thé society. Thieves Raid Law Offices. Thieves yesterday entered five law other thrown about, but & rried check showed that only about been stolen, the property of an instructress. %&m&m-flafl ‘and other valuables been ‘wdtouched. ¢ offices of the Evans Building, 1420 New York avenue, by “jimmying” the doors. On! -m:‘um ef case and a smal} Tee it stam| poried missing. afier '8 cheokeip