Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1930, Page 17

@he Foening Star JURY DUTY SEEN AS POSSIBLE AID ~+ FORUNEMPLOYED Edgar C. Snyder, U. S. Mar- shal, to Place Plan Before D. C. Jury Commission. +PROPOSAL’S ACCEPTANCE WOULD BENEFIT 700 IDLE List of Probable Eligibles to Be Taken From Unemployment Files of Chambef of Commerce. A plan to further stimulate unem- oyn!pe'nt relief in the District of Co- bia by placing approximately 700 men and women on jury duty ‘will be proposed shortly to the District Jury Commission by Edgar C. Snyder, United States Marshal for the District, it was made known at & meeting of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce at the Mayflower Hotel last night. Mr. Sny- = der has asked the chamber to submit to * him a list of names of probable eligi- bles for jury duty selected from the unemployment files of the trade group. Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the ‘District Unemployment Committee, and ©. Francis Jenkins, inventor of tele- vision, were guest speakers at the cham- ber meeting. Delano Outlines Problem. The work of the District Unemploy- ment Committee and the manner in which it is endeavoring to cope with the jobless problem in Washington was outlined to the members by Mr. Delano. He disclosed that a survey of this city re..aled that approximately 12,000 per- sons were unemployed, including the more thad 6,000 who in th schools of the District last month dur- ogmmit . ittee’s jobless registra- of the work of several ittee | manufacture guns and mounts for all R Delne 3%, vy the chamber - ‘sponso ,000 was added to the ot fund. - The . Marine- ~ Coast Guard e last Saturday, which initiated by the chamber, will real- 'fl“hflm $13,000 and $14,000 for the E of Central > enables that office to hire 4 who contribute vajusble ‘aid- S beenees of 4 H g E i £ % I £l i "I TRANSIENT STORES' interesting discourse on the origin development of television, illus- with a series of lantern slides o | Columbia .Heights Body Charges Jmotion picture reels, showing action uced 200 times below actual L were taken by a maci his he With the Jury Commission to select about 1,000 jurors lor the ganuary-February-March pan- = :x?uay mpl;}ygdhmin o ¢ _ o e drawn from their jobs when those without jobs might zerve just as well. Approve Water Policies. With the exception of two clauses, the Nt!umba"l Committee on National Leg- &m through Oswald F. ~ chairman, reported it had " the meeting. shall Mrs. enter | Md., had WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930. SUICIDE WILLS OWN SKIN TO COVER HIS FAREWELL | ! Writer’s Body Left Just a Friends collecting his effects pre- paratory to returning the body of Mar- Itin Calhoun Burghard to his Georgia homs later today uncovered, in the | ehilly attic room where Burghard endsd | his life yesterday, a will in which the aspiring writer asked that a book of verse he had written be bound in his own skin. | The 30-year-old writer's body was ! discovered In a top-floor room in the | 1400 block of Massachusetts avenue yesterday afternoon, the head muffled in the folds of a blanket ben-ath ¥hich BOOK OF POETRY Will Be Sent to His Home, Which He Year Ago. illuminating gas was pouring from an open rubber tube. Burghard was a graduate of Mercer University, in his home town of Macon, Ga. and a m:mber of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He came here a year 2g0 to study for a foreign service exam- ination, failing recently tw pass the tests. Police were told that he had been staying with Edward Price, an employe of the place. Burghard called in Ed- ward Abbott to witness the will. He did not intimate that he was planning to end his life, Abbott said. A certificat> of suicide was signed by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt. CONTROL OF WORK STUDIED AT YARD Navy Ordnance Chief Seeks | Method to Equalize Sea- sonal Employment. Assurance that “every effort is being made to predict the work load” at the Washington Navy Yard in order {to maintain a steady flow of work through the shops and to stabilize the | number of employes was given by Rear | Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of the | Bureau of Ordnance, in his annual | report, made public today. { He emphasized that the Navy De- . partment was endeavoring to reach the | maximum economy of expenditures for labor and “to avoid discharges incident to variation in the work load.” Decrease Is Explained. In explaining the curtailment already taken place here, Admiral Leahy said: “Dué to the completion of a large ‘ml::mguflm a nducuom ;he cruiser-| g program, e has during the year been a reduction in | the number of employes from 4,756 on | June 30, 1929, to 4,362 on June 30, | 1930. It is estimated that decrease in the work load will in the next half- | year necessitate a further reduction | of about 200 employes.” The bureau chief said the naval gun factory here was in_excellent,physical shape and has sufficient capacity to new construction contemplated at the present time. He added that the per- sonnel is skilled and efficient, and the cost of production during the past mflm year was satisfactory, as com- previous years. Admiral Leahy pointed out that the first of the 186-inch. ships, the Maryland, was regunned, and the work of relining eight 16-inch guns removed from zhelulryllnd was in and s 5-inch 25-caliber guns were like- ‘wise manufactured. “Upon the of three battle- , in accordance with the terms of London treaty, there will, in addi- |y Pyt 13 nen cana. wih sixty- -inch guns, mmu"mmm:h a1 13- inch ‘and 8inch -1 and 8-inc] s and breech mechanisms held for United States Army have been transferred. thirteen 4-inch guns. Forty. HIT BY MERCHANTS | Vacant Spaces Let and U. 8. Clerks Sell Goods. Protest against the sale of miscel- laneous merchandise by Government clerks and the renting of vacant stores to “transient” merchants .during the holiday n, was voiced by the Co- lumbia Helghts Business Men's As- sociation at its meeting last night at | 3310 Fourteenth street. The resolution of protest charged that both these holiday practices resulted in unfair competition with the estab- | lished merchants who maintain their | business houses throughout the year. The association seek an im-| mediate return to the former schedule, which gave its community four mail collections and three deliveries a day. In its petition, the association will ask that the mail schedule be planned to include earlier morning and later night collections than are provided under the present curtailed schedule. The association agreed also to hold a community Christmas tree celebration at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets at 8 p.m., December 19. Various organiza- fln'xiuu:! the Columbia Heights will be i to participate. Eugene Minoux, nt of the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Asso- ciation, addressed the Columbia Heights body at its meeting last night. He com- mendeg‘hls l.ud;en:e upon its “Santa Claus Lane” project. . New members admitted to the asso- clation included the Savoy Theater, ‘Tivoli Studios, Walsh Bros and Collins 0. Lamb, B. A. Levitan, president, presided over MRS. DANIEL KLEIN DIES Mrs. Daniel Klein of 517 Kentu Monday at stbcig 1 H ter & dfiu‘ week She was 61 years old. Klein, & nl'.{ve of Baltimore, B e S . She was a me o ternational Auxiliary of the Brother- hood of Ralls Memorial iliness. of the ordnance for new con- |- MISS MARJORIE LOWE, Playing the leading role in “A Man With a Load of Mischief,” to be given by the Arts Club Players at 2017 I street tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock. ~—Star Staff Photo, FOODSTUFF PRICES PROBE URGED HERE Capper Generalizes Proposal First Made Concerning Washington Bread. ‘When the Senate District Committee meets at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after- noon it will take up the resolution drafted by Chairman Capper, asking for an investigation into the prices of all foodstuffs in Washington. Capper began last week an uiry into bread prices here and d"ecid yu'f‘:dly l‘o l.ntlm(il.l‘lu] a resolution pre g & formal inquiry by the mnm In preparing . his resolution, the Senator made it broad enough to cover a study of food prices generdlly. Upon introducing his resolution yes- tercay afternoon Scnator Capper did not seek immediate action on it by the Senat>, but asked that it be referred to the District Committee for report. This was done without debate. Resolution Asks Recommendations. ‘The resolution reads as follows: 5 e past_year the prices of wheat and wheat flour have appreciably decreased throughout the United States, and whereas in many cities throughout the United States the reduction in the ces of wheat and wheat flour has to a fair reduc- tion in the retail price of bread in such cities, and whereas the Committee on the District of Columbis has received complajnts stating that the public of sald District has received no benefit from the reduced prices of wheat and wheat flour, as reflected in the retail cost of bread to the consumer, but is paying as much for this commodity as |in years when wheat and flour prices were much higher than at present, and whereas Congress has seen fit in the past to authorize inquiries and investi- gations by its committees into alleged exorbitant prices of foodstuffs in the District of Columbia; “Resolved, That the Committee on the District of Columbia or & duly author- ized subcommittee thereof be and it is hereby authorized and directed to make 8 full and complete investigation of prices of bread and other foodstuffs in the District of Columbia and to report to the Senate as soon as practicable the result of its Investigation, together with its recommendations, if any, for neces- sary legislation.” In addition to this 1 for an inquiry in Washington, it became known yesterday that the Department of Jus- tice has “started a natjonal investiga- tion to ascertain reasons for the differ- ence in prices between wheat and bread. CHINESE DRINK HELD NO VIOLATION OF LAW Jury Frees Dealer Who Sold Bev- erage Made Partly of Lizards and Reptiles. Because a Police Court jury did not believe that a “tasty” Chinese drink was “fit for beverage purposes,” Charles SEVEN GAB DRIVERS ARE ROBBED OF 953 INHOLD-UP SERIES ;Grocer Loses $288 to Armed Bandits Who Enter Store 3 Early Today. MACHINES ARE TAKEN BY HACK PASSENGERS | Pair Who Rifled Merchant’s Pockets Answer Description of Men ‘Who Prey on Taxis. Continuing their attacks upon taxi- cabs, bandits held up seven drivers and robbed them of $53 Iate last night and early today. The cars taken were all later recovered. Meantime, two colored men answering the description of a pair who have rob- bed several cab drivers in the Capital this week entered the grocery store of Morris Freedman at Second and D streets southwest early this morning and escaped with $288. Driver Pushed from Car. west, a driver for the Astor Cab Co., re- ported to police he was held yp and re- lieved of $9.15 by two colored men in the 2900 block of Macomb street, after which he was driven into Maryland and pushed from his machine. A short time later a white man hailed Willlam J Mitchell of Bladens- burg, Md., at New York avenue near Ninth street and forced him to drive into Rock Creek Park, where he took $6.90 from the hacker:at pistol point and fled. The robbery was staged at Military and Ridge roads, Mitchell said. At Sixteenth and Reservoir streets, ‘William Lane, 1124, Fifth street north- east, turned over $5 in change to a hoid-up man and then watched the robber drive off in his machine, He reported to police. Fourteerith_precinct police weré told by Andrew Wilkins of 1430 G street northeast, that he had been robbed of $9 on Connecticut avenue at Chevy Chase Circle after driving his passenger from Fourteenth and K streets, Car Found Abandoned. Sherman Wiley, 2902 Porter street, told police he had a pistol pointed at him when he turned toward ®the back seat to collect his fare from a man he had picked up at Fourteenth and L streets and taken to the Soldiers’ Home grounds. Wiley relinquished $9.65 and his taxi, Six dollars were turned over to a bandit at the foot of Good Hope Hill by James T. Healy, 619 A street north- east, who was forcel to quit his cab at the point of a pistol, lccm‘d]nf to a report made to police of the eleventh Teport & robber m:\dm'&m to ccor [ mflu 1.0 the rear of a taxi Israel of 2804 sat nonchalantly operated by George Fourteenth street, and trained a pistol on Israel's back while the hacker car- ried out an order to drive him from downtown Washington to Mount Ver- non avenue, at & point near the Army and Navy Country Club, in Arlington There he took Israel's collections for the night—amounting to $7—a rain- coat and the cab, leaving the taxi driver to walk back to the city. Robber Takes Overcoat. The series of taxicab hold-ups were preceeded last night by a robbery in which an armed colored youth accosted Joseph Goldsmith of 1828 Four-and-a half street southwest, at Sixth and I streets southwest, and took the latter’s overcoat. Freedman, the grocer victim, told Bollce he had opened his store at day- ight, when two colored men strolled in and ordered Freedman to keep quiet while he searched his pockets. The robbers found $288 in cash, which Preedman had on his person, and then backed for the door, still keeping the store proprietor covered with a pistol. e Freedman heard an automobile start off from the curb. He did not venture to go to the window, however, and never saw the machine in question. Freedman’s wife and son were up- stairs at the time and knew nothing of the hold-up until it was over. Other robberies reported included the following _victims: Willlam M. Free- ney, $10.50, and Irvin Abrams, $1.50, both of the Cathedral Mansions; Miss Clara Charice, $10, and Miss Rhoda Watkins, $8, both teachers at McKinley High School; Mrs. Anna Bradley, 143 Carroll street southeast, two rings val- ued at $33; Dumas Redmond, 1929 Thirteenth street, clothing and jewelyy valued at $100 and $8 in cash; Jarhes Kalonturos, 927 Quincy street, wearing apparel valued at $300, and Walter L. Carter, 1109 O street, clothing and jew- eley valued at $75, 2 Among others who reported thefts to the police were: John Marshall, Belle- vue southeast; Charles Brown, 1901 Fifth street; Benjamin Jeweler, 2400 Georgia avenue; Mrs, Louise Ha- den, Mendota Apartments; Mary Boyd, 3307 Eighteenth street, and Joseph Iskow, 3305 Forty-fifth street. e PEACE-TIME WORK ARMY FAVORED BY DR. ELY Economist Urges Organization Along Military Lines to Block Unemployment. Discussing “Hard Times; the Way In and the Way Out,” Dr. Richard T. Ely, economist, in a lecture delieved the Graduate School Lee, 50 years old, 300 block of Pennsyl- | reliev vania avenue, was declared not guilty of illegal possession of liquor late yes- terday. Lee was arrested May 26 when Lieut. Oscar J. Letterman, as mediately available and lic benefit. O 87 SRR s As half of the cost ‘of the London Lord Mayor’s Banquet Noah Lee Best of 929 H street south- world, to the American Red American citizens of Swiss origin toda; Cross museum. The Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes presiding. man, cxecutive secrefary of the Red Cross; Minister Peter and Gen. John J. Pershing. sary of his birth was celebrated by Red Cross societies throughout the world. y presented a marble bust of Henry Duran preséntation was made through the Above shows the bust in the group of, left to right, Miss Mabel T. Board. Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the Red Durant started the Red Cross movement in 1859, t, founder of the Red Cross of the Swiss Minister, Marc Peter, with Cross; Chief Justice Hughes, Last year the 100th anniver- —Star Staff Photo. EMPLOYERS ASKED - TOAIDWITH J0BS Chairman Delano Says Com-| mittee Needs Co-operation in Situation Herg. An appeal to.the employers of Wash- ington to cc-operate with the District of Columbia Employment Agency in the listing of jobs that might .give work to Washington’s idle was sounded today | by Prederic A. Delano, chairman of the | District Committee on Employment. Following careful organization .and co-ordination work, Mr. Delano pointed out to the employers, the District Com- mittee on Emg‘loyment is now prepared to offer a highly satisfactory service in “the proper fitting together of jobs and men.” Declaring that what i primarily needed now,to meet the unemployment situation 1s”jobs, the committee chair- man sald that the employment group has listed thousands of names of un- employed in classified order, according to their capabilities. “These capabilities range all the way from those of the husky ‘lgborer to the highly skilled artisan and the intelligent brain work- er,” Mr. Delano said*® - “We have greatly enlarged the Dis- trict of Columbia Employment Agency at 480 Louislana avenue. Already large and well managed, it has been given ad- ditional equipment and trained assist- ants, and made the official clearing house for applicants and jobs. We have done this because we know the employer does not care to be flooded with appli- cants from numerous agencies, nel does he care to have ‘jack-of-all-trades’ sent to fill positions requiring specific Appeal in Circular Form. The appeal was distributed among | employers of the city today in circular form. Mr. Delano pointed out t the service of the District agency is gratis. Meanwhile it was made known today that the Marines are coming to the aid of the needy here. Fifty thousand cords of firewood, the remains of the demolished wooden barracks at Quantico, Va., will be trans- ported to Washington and given away 'fl‘;u th;u unemployed to keep the home The wood was donated by Maj. Gen. Smediey D. Butler, commandant of the Marines. Not only did he give the wood, but he put the Marines to work sawing it up into 12-inch lengths, ready for use in the stove. The wood will he sransported in a lighter towed by a Navy tug. It will be unloaded at the Dis trict’s sand and brick wharf, on Water street southwest, through the courtesy of the Board of Public Welfare. W. A. Stein, in charge of the wharf, will s pervise the work of unloading the barge s his contribution to the unemployed. The Salvation Army will trans) the wood to eight distributing points, from which it will be distributed to the unemployed. The points at which it will be given away are Eighth and I streets northeast, Seventh and P streets, Eighth and T streets southeast, Sixth and E streets, Tenth and B streets southwest and M street between Thir- tieth and Thirty-first streets. To Be No Red Tape. ‘The distribution will be in charge of Maj. James Asher of the Salvation Army. He said that there would be no “red tape” connected with giving away the wood, that anybody who needed it could come and get it. The only re- striction will be -that it must not be taken away in wholesale lots for sale; it must be taken home by those who need it. : The Salvation Army is now endeav- oring to secure the loan of trucks from charitably inclined business men to take the wood from the wharf to the dis- tributing points. The Balvation Army has no funds of its own with which to do_this work. The first lighter load of wood is ex- pected at the wharf nm; ht and it will probably be ready for tion next Monday. Arrangements for the transfer/of the wood are being made 5 Adams, secretary of the Committee on Unemployment, and Haworth, secretary to District sioner Luther H. Reichelderfer. DATA GIVEN ON INDUSTRIES. Ross tribu- | lo H Killed by Truck ‘WILLIAM D. VEACH. —_— e on the other hand, out of 7,338 gainful workers, only 138, or 1.9 'f" cent, were Jobless, and 59 Iaid off without pay. In the public service group, the di- rector sald, 52,712 gainful workers are employed here, 365, or less than 1 per cent, were jobless. In domestic and personal service, there were 49,185 gain- ful workers in the District, of whom 2,124 were jobless, and 262 laid off without pay, Of the jobless in this in- dustry group, 661 were male and 1,463 female, constituting 4.1 per cent of the male and 4.4 per cent of the female gainful workers. Industry groups here, with the num- ber of gainful workers in qualified by the director: Manufactur- ing and mechanical industries, 42,440, of which 17,228 were in the building in- dustry, 2,124 in the clothing industries, 1,656 in bakeries, 1,512 in automobile repair shops, 7,041 engaged in printing, pubiishing and engraving, whie 12,879 wire in other manufacturing indus- tries. Under the head of transportation, 21,- 428 were registered in the census, 1,231 of them engaged in the construction and maintenance of streets, roads and sew- ers; 5,643 on steam railroads, and 14,554 2‘: ther transportation and communica- n. Under the category of trade, 41,915 were listed, 7,920 of them engaged in ba insurance and real estate; 32,519 in wholesale and retail trade, and 1,476 in other trade industries. Public service (not elsewhere classl- fled) ll;c&l,l‘:'fid for 5’:.;11 gainful work- ers, group, 28,363 were engaged in professional service, 2,795 in recrea- tion and amusements and 25,568 in nthelxé professional and semi-professional service. Under the grouping of domestic and personal service, 49,185 were enumer- ated. Of these, 12,897 were employed | do in hotels, restaurants, boarding houses; rt | 600 in laundries and cleaning, dyeing and pressing shops, while 32,222 were listed under other domestic and per- sonal service. The Census Bureau was stumped in the case of 7,816 ul workers, so they were placed under the heading of “industry not specified.” WILLIAM E. SHANNON RITES TO BE TOMORROW Realtor Who Died in Florida to Be Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery After Services at Home. Funeral services xuntwmhm Edward ction Fort Myers, Fla., Mon- day, will be conducted at his home here, at 3200 Woodley road, tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. G. G. John- son, pastor of the National Baptist Memorial Churéh, will officiate. ment will be in Rock Creek etery. Honorary pallbearers will be as fol- ws: M, |Gy of the F.F. STUDENT KILLED BY TRUCK WHEEL Youth Was on Way to Tech High School—Street " Cars in Crash. While on: his way to attend High School this morning, 16-year-old William D. Veach of 801 L. street was almost instantly killed when thrown from his bicycle beneath the wheels of & heavy truck at North Capital and tru km;fly H. g\}rwelL m!:‘ Lo ck, 2 col years old, of 1483 Florida avenue, was held at the second police station for a coro- ner’s inquest, probably tomorrow morn- urwell and another occupant of the truck, Willlam Hicks, colored, of No. 48 Patterson street northeast, said the youth pedaled from driveway and somehow was thrown be- neath a rear wheel as the motor vehicle swung to turn right into Decatur street while moving out North Capitol street. The wheel, Hicks said, apparently passed over the youth’s body. Dies o Way to Hospital. The truck was halted and young Veach placed in the automobile of Har- ry H. Cohen of 927 Fifteenth street. The victim died en route to Emergency Hospital. Burwell and Hicks then were taken to the precinct for tioning and to have the brakes tested. The test, police sald, was satisfactory, ick was the property of ‘When Veach was not with his at the huhm where he was i;. his um“"r;hye‘n, hom organi routes an one him- self for Star. He is survived by his mother and fa- ther, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Veach, and by an elder brother, Naylor Veach, and an _elder sister, Ruth Veach. PAGE B-1 IBALLOU OUTLINES D.C. SCHOOL NEEDS AT JOINT SESSION Holds Enroliment Demands 2 New Senior High Schools Every 3 Years. CHARACTERIZES BUDGET ESTIMATE “VERY FINE” Cites Need for Junior Imstitution and Five Elementaries Annually, Annual increased enrollment’ alone demands a bullding program which would make available to the District public school system two new senior high schools every three years, better than a junior high school a year, and four or five elementary schools annual- 1y, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent ©of schools, told the civic body repre- sentatives at the semi-annual joint con- ference between school authorities and the citizens at the Franklin Administra= tion Building last night, At the same’ time, Dr. Ballou char- acterized the 1932 budget as submitted to Congress by the Bureau of the Budget as “very fine.” “It provides us with a lot of addi- tional class rooms, and it distributes the facilities where there is greatest need for relief.” Dr. Ballou observed further ‘that un. der present prices it should be possible to get more school house accommoda~ tion per dollar than during any year since enactment of the five-year school bullding program ‘act. Budget Based on Needs. But while the 1932 budget is gener- ous, Dr. Ballou pointed out that, after all, it is based on existing needs and affords rellef of congestion alr a_filling station | opened TWo_strcet ' cars were damaged, a|D® passe! hurt and traffic interrupted 'y afternoon as a result of a "utum. Florida avenue and Fourth street. One of the cars was of the one-man gpeinch-moaJmuxenMo!m Railway & Electric Oo., while Capital Traction car in the was operated by Motorman Henry Cusick. Womad Is Injured. ‘The former car was northbound on Fourth street, while the latter was mo ing west on Florida avenue. Le l.evam. 38 years old, 719 C street north- eas car, receh treated at Garfleld Hospital. Eleven-year-old Harry Williams, col- ored, 1537 Marion street, while at play near Jowa Circle last night was knocked Armstrong, 3004 Wi in avenue. Physicians at Sibley Hospital, where he was taken in Armstrong’s car, found Harry suffering only from fright. George Baden Pfeiffer, 19 years old, 4335 Reno road, was arrested last night by seventh precinct police and charged with failing to give right éf way to & to & fire alarm. at avenue and W place. Pfeiffer was re- leased on in Police CLAYTON HONORED mfibvnd for his appearance | later. arenm who formerly attended them. response to expressed concern over the $295,000 included in the lefleflrln-tl- mates for d_electricity in of '.h"c mnmmmm'- request {fll $315,000 for that Dr. Bal- the Winter is extremely severe, the al- lowed sum will be A b B hl.dem&num the present year. Vote for Joint Conferences. ‘Mf.mm ference, Dr. Ballou, acting on instruc. tions given him by the school Mruc at the last meeting, asked the body representatives whether they sired the semi-annual joint meeting to be continued. The vote was unanimous in favor of the conferences. Last. night's Wn by an automobile of Donald P.|confe iscons i WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY 3 Says Husband Beat Her When She Told Him He Was Unfaithful. that' her John had learned of his alleged BY D. C. CREDIT MEN ek i 2 | Re-elected President of Association for Sixth Term—Other Officers Named—Trustees Chosen. The Washington Clayton it of the ent Bureau of the organization for the sixth Mr. Clayton is secre- Hardware Co.