Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1930, Page 17

Washington News CARNELL-MAHONEY | TRIAL ON MURDER | INDIGTMENT BEGUN Afternoon Likely to Be Used in Obtaining Jury in Bush Slaying. PROSPECTIVE JURORS OPPOSE DEATH PENALTY Third Indicted Man Granted Sep- arate Trial on Charge of Killing Bus Magnate in Hold-up. ‘William J. Carnell and Frank Ma- honey were placed on trial shortly after noon today before Justice Peyton Gordon in Criminal Division 1 to answer an indictment for murder in the first degree in connection with the fatal shooting of Louis Bush, motor bus mag- nate, at the garage of his home, 3534 Fulton street, on the might of October 6, last. Mahoney Blamed as Driver. Carnell is said to have attempted to hold up Bush as the latter entered his garage and in the struggle it is alleged Bush was shot and died two days later. Mahoney is all-ged to have driven Car- nell in an automobile to a point near the scene of the crime. Both men fled the city and Mahoney ‘was taken into custody as he alighted from a bus at Pittsburgh, but Carnell slipped through ths police cordon. He was apprehended last week and re- turned to this city without demanding reguisition papers. William C. McKay, who was jointly indicted with the two men, was granted a separate trial and may be used as a witness for the prosecution. His name appears on the list of proposed Gov- ernment witnesses. Four Opposed Death Penalty. The afternoon session of the court will be occupied, it is expected, in an effort to secure a jury, as the prose- cution and defense each have 20 chal- lenges. Four of the first 12 called to the jury box had conscientious scruples against capital punishment and were excused. Assistant U. S. Attorney William H. Collins is conducting the prosecution, while Carnell is represented by Attor- neys L. L. Whitestone and Willlam R. Lichtenberg, and Mahoney by Attor- neys F. Joseph Donahue and Cedric F. Johnson. ! | HOLIDAY LIQUORS AND 2 AUTOS SEIZED Fleeing Drivers Use Smoke Screen. Police Arrest One Suspect—Two Others Are Sought. by the fact that it draws not only un- employed, but also some of the poorly remunerated employed and a large per- centage of what are known as “floaters,” drifting knights of the road, who stop over to “make expenses” along to the next town. Two lots of holiday liquor and two automobiles, one equipped with & smoke screen, were seized last night by police. One suspect was arrested and two oth- ers are being sought. Policemen C. A. Cartmill and N. T. Imlay of the second precinct were on dutq at North Capitol and O streets about 1:45 o'clock when a large automo- bile sped by, smoke billowing from its exhaust. As the police gave chase the sus- pected car turned through O to Third street and north to Florida avenue, where it crashed into the parked ma- chine of Eugene Dickerson, 235 Florida avenue. Before he could escape, Gerald Howard, 21, of 1212 Ninth street, was arrested. Another occupant of the machine got away. Sixty half-gallon Jjars of liguor were confiscated. Howard was charged with illegal | possession, reckless driving and illegal | Possession of a smoke screen Three half-gallon jars of liquor were seized near Eleventh and Fairmont streets by Policeman L. H. Wehrle, of the tenth precinct. Wehrle saw an automobile drive up to a private residence near the corner stop. A young colored man got out, but when he saw the policeman he disappeared down the street and did 1ot return. An examination of the car liquor. D. C. HEADS TO CONSIDER CENTER MARKET PROBLEM | Counsel for Owners of Stands to| Argue for Postponing Closing Date to July 1. ict Commissioners will give | Charles W. Darr, counsel for numerous | owners of stands in Center Market, a hearing at their board meeting today is request to have the Commission- | support a proposition to extend the | date of razing the market until July 1. ‘There is a bill for this purpose, in- troduced by Representative Christopher- | son of South Carolina, pending in Con- | gress, although the present plans of the | chitect of the Treasury are to raze | nter Market structure January 1 way for the new Federal build- i WILL HONOR PILGRIMS D. A. R. Will Observe Anniver- sary of Landing in 1620. T anniversary of the landing of the | #igrims, December sowerved by the D. A. R. December over Station Sta nt of Columbia 21 with a radio pro- WMAL as_former governor of district of Columbia = Mayflower Society, will deliver an address from 5 to 5:15 pm NOVEL TO BE REVIEWED ion Emanuel, young Jewish ed- ucator ew “The Great Craze,” a Hebrew war novel, before a meeting of th: Round Table, at 9 o'clock to- morrow night, in the Jewish Com- munity Ce ‘The book is considered Be newly graduated college man has noth- ¥rom a monetary viewpoint, and that the Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street a few minutes before noon Friday, I must confess I presented a paragon of shab- i ployed apple” vender, I am convinced jand I want to put them in a bag for will be | WRITER FINDS APPLE VENDING IS ATTRACTIVE AND LUCRATIVE Learns Profits of $4 to $6 Offered Without Bother- some Overhead. Office Employes Pour Past Vender Heedlessly—Fire Crowd Best. Note—Washington’s kindness for the “down and outer” has made the “unemployed apple” business profitable. A Star reporter joined the ranks and sold apples for two days. He tells his cxpericnces below. BY VINCENT TUTCHING. If the street corners, apples and cus- tomers only hold out, Washington's army of unemployed men before long may be reduced to a straggling rem- nant of idle ones who don’t want work, anyway, or who have too much pride to enter sidewalk trade or who haven't vet heard the good news. Two days of successful plunging in the “Unemployed Apples” market have impelled me to add my voice to the growing throng of those who gleefully want to know how long this thing has been going on. Statistics are not available at this writing, but my experiences Friday and Saturday as an alleged “unemployed” apple vender lead me to conclude that if all the “unemployed apples” so far sold have been effective in keeping their respective doctors away, the medical profession must be experiencing a bad slump, ONE OF THE UNEMPLOYED. —Sketched by R. E. Towers. sole thought must have been catching a street car or bus and getting home. I sold eight apples in front of the Veterans' Bureau. Had Made “Killing.” ‘There were still quite a number of “nice juicy winesaps” left in my baskets When I moved along to Fifteenth and H streets, intending to catch the office crowds there. I remained at this sta- tion until 6:30 o'clock, by which time I had sold all but one apple, and this I digested myself as I trudged homre- ward. I had made a “killing,” I told myself, having cleared $3.71 for a little more than half a day's work. Saturday, which I had expected to be fast and furious in tk = apple-selling world, proved to be slower than the day before, since it required from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., or 815 hours, to sell two cases of apples, whereas it had required but 6. hours Friday. However, I believe that I could have sold another case had I continued until 8 o'clock Saturday evening. On Saturday I started out at the same point as on the previous day, moving arcund noon toward Fifteenth and H streets again, and clearing the first case by 1 o'clock. The afternoon proved slow, and, although I moved all the way from Pennsylvania avenue to H street and from Seventh to Fifteenth streets, it was 5 o'clock before I was Offers $4 to $6 Daily. It is a business which has no rent or license fees or other overhead, beyond a market basket and a penciled card- board sign, but which offers profits of from $4 to $6 and more a day. And that's more than some of the venders have been in the habit of making at their previous pursuits. From noon Friday, when, armed with a sign purporting to depict my plight (or that of the apples, for it read “Un- employed Apples, 5 Cents”), I made my unceremonious debut into the great army of apple sellers, until 5 p.m. Sat- urday, when I relieved myself of the beggar attire I had adopted, more for disguise than effect in this apple-vend- ing job, I netted a sum in the neigh- borhood of $8. I had sold out by 6:30 pm. Friday and returned to the job next morning at 8:30. The apple seller makes his base of operations wherever he chooses, in most cases, out of courtesy for his fellow worker, selecting a vacant corner. As to “racketeering,” I failed to scent even a semblance of it during my two days on the job. No vending license was necessary, and no proof of my unem- ployed status was asked. Without exaggeration, have but found a vacant spot among the downtown shopping throngs I am | positive sales would have been more l’n&id. As it was, I was forced to out- lying business sections, where offices for the most part were closed during the afternoon. During the day, as I happened along H street near Eleventh, I noticed smoke pouring from a cellar of a vacant build- ing. Another man observed it at the same time, and we decided that where there’s smoke there's fire and decided to summon fire fighting apparatus. It appeared to be of little consequerte, so I dispelled of the idea of telephoning the news room about the fire in favor of what I deemed the wiser plan of guarding my merchandise. At the same time, past experience had caused me to predict that the presence of fire engines would draw a crowd, and 50 it was with gusto that I polished off a number of my reddest apples and set them on display on a corner near where the smoke was now belching forth. As the whine of the sirens was heard in the distance, I made sure that I was out of the way of all fire hose connec- tions, and made ready for a big clean up. As I had surmised, with the fire en- gines came the crowds, the best crowds 1 had experienced since the night be- fore when that mob poured out of the Veterans' Bureau, and I managed to sell a number of my apples. The smoke bothered me, however, and I was forced to move about among the throng. RITES FOR MISS TRAPIER ARE SET FOR TOMORROW Young Woman Who Committed Suicide Will Be Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. the average ing on the man selling apples today, | “profession” is attractive is evidence before moving When I took up my first stand at biness, and must have incited more sym- pathy than appetite for apples in effect- ing my sales. Minus an overcoat and with a growth of beard on my coun- tenance, I was attired in a pair of black trousers two inches too long for me and the light tan coat and siouch hat certainly had seen their day. Apples Cost $2.25 for 72. | The apples I displayed on my initial venture 1 had procured at a cost of | $2.25 for a case of 72. They were of | the Roman beauty variety and, retailed at 5 cents each, would bring $3.60, or a profit of $1.35 on the case. Within two hoars of the time I purchased them I had sold out all but 10 and returned to Center Market to replenish my supply. While I do not believe established re- | tail fruit dealers of the city have risen | in organized opposition to the “unem- that there is at least one who is not wholly sympathetic to their cause. | It all happened when, peddling at | Ninth and E streets, a lady placed an | order for five apples. “But I must have them in a bag” sald she. At the outset, I had failed to provide myself with paper bags, and 80, not wishing to loose the sale for the | lack of them, I asked her to wait whilst I procured one. Glancing hur- | riedly aboit my gaze fell upon a deli- catessen store, and, without paying | much attention to the goods on sale | there, I dashed inside and asked a man, evidently the proprietor, if he would let me have a paper bag. The bags were hanging on a nail just inside the door, and my hand was already on them, only awaiting his assent. “Why you want da bag”? he asked. “Why, I just sold a lady some apples, Miss Alicia Trapier, who committed suicide by shooting herself in the head at an Aldie, Va., tea house Saturday night, will be buried in Rock Creek Cemetcry at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon. The funeral services will be con- ducted in St. Paul's Chapel within the cemetery. Miss Trapier took her life while friends were searching frantically for her after they had found a suicide note. The party was scouring the tea room property when the shot marking the young woman's death rang out nearby. Mrs. Gasket di Zeriga, a friend of Miss Trapier, is proprietor of the tea room. Il health is believed to be responsible for the tragedy. The young woman is survived by her mother, Mus. Richard S. Trapier, and a brother, P. A. Trapler, living together in the Marlboro Apartments, and an aunt, Miss Edith Trapler. TREE-LIGHTING PLANS her,” I blurted out. Perhaps it was the look in his eye, or it might have been the menacing grim- ace of his countenance that enabled me to leave this particular store just a little bit ahead of an extended arm whose fingers sought to clutch the collar of my coat. As I ran out I caught a fleeting glance of big red apples in a display window. able to sell the second case. Could I|te REPORTED COMPLETE Officials to Attend Christmas Event on Fourteenth Street Friday Night. in"the apple selling field, Who stopped | to ask about business and advise me | Plans of the Columbia Heights Busi- to get an overcoat, as it was getting | ness Men's Association for lighting of cold, to sympathetic old ladies who |the annual community Christmas tree wanted to know just how the unem- |2t Fourteenth and Kenyon streets Fri- ployed apple helped the unemployed. | 92y night today were reported com- A “big-shot, small-town tangerine | Pléte. “Public officials, including the King” thumbs in armholes and puffing | District Commissioners’ and officers of a big, fat cigar, outlined to me me\b“‘?mf;h and clvic groups, have been great potentialities in the tangerine re- | "\'x“‘s to participate in_the exercises. tailing business and tried to induce me | 1A Santa Claus Lane Children’s Gift into working for him. He had six or | pund, for the benefit of poor children seven strect sellers, he told me, who n lnaugurated by the Mount d Pleasant School for Secretaries, which were making $4 to $7 a day selling tan- | contribiiieq o tre st proy T | Eerines, and he would pey me 20 cents | lumbia, Helgitts Bustudse sor's acoqs: | on the dollar for all I sold. tion added $100 to the fung. Rt e The second case of apples I procured i h { cost me $2.50 and were of the Btayman | contributions are b ded. The ing ad fund will Winesap variety, 80 to the case. They be administered by a joint filled almost to overflowing the two gommitice of the association and the zens' Fo Col | baskets I carried, 50 that it was with 1T - — ! difficulty that I proceeded up Pennysl- ——— vania_avenue past the Post Office and the District Building in the general PRESIDENT TAKES WALK direction of the Treasury. I stopped Mr. and Mrs. Hoover Stroll With My inquisitors were many, mostly jobless chaps inquiring how well I fared at the work, where I procured the apples, and if I needed a permit, etc. “Buddies” Advise Overcoat. My questioners varied from “buddies” | a most ing phase of modern y work now being created in Palestine, Escaped Prisoner Caught. Marian Harlow, 25 years old, who ped from Lorton, Va. workhcuse ptember 12. was arrested Friday at t ome of his parents, at Falmouth, Va. He has been Teturned to the work- nouse. The young man was sentenced to three years in fail on a charge of joy- riding October 19, 1929. At the time of his arrest he said he was Robert Stuart, but later admitted his right name was Hariow. at Pourteenth street and Pennsylvania Two Grandchildren. avenue on the way for my first sale out of the second case and conu;ued up to a stand at Fourteenth and F streets, President and Mrs. Hoover yesterday afternoon took Peggy Anne and Her- bert, 3d, their grandchildren, Who are in frent of the Willard Hotel. Business was poor on this corner, so I continued living temporarily af the White House, for a walk. Little Joan, who hasn’t along F street to Fifteenth, and thence on to a point on Pennsylvania avenue reached the walking stage yet, was left back at the White House. and Madison place. This family group walked part way 1 remained at this location until after 4 o'clock, when I moved up to the around the Ellipse and then went to the Commerce ) nearby, now corner of Vermont avenue and H street, that nearing completion. ernment employes at the etetl;lni' ‘Bureau hlv!nlu:lorkbllt 4:30 might help my sales considerably. N In t.hl.u‘% was n‘.’ore or less dlsl?polnbed. Mrs. Herbert, jr., mother of the chil- for immediately following the ringing of | dren, left the White House Friday night a bell somewhere in the building, count- | to rejoin her husband in the cottage less throngs of humanity poured out of | whichi they have rented on the outskirts the bureau like 50 many ants, but thew | of Asheville, N, @y . D0, CENTRAL HOSPITAL NURSES' EXCHANGE SYSTEM ARRANGED Johns Hopkins and Sibley Af- filiations Considered Aid to Curriculum. LARGE GAIN IS SHOWN IN PATIENTS TREATED Unusual Amount of Charity Work Is Made Necessary Because of Present Depression, An affiliation with Johns Hopkins | Hospital of Baltimore, which will enable Emergency Hcespital staff nurses to en- large upon their training, was an- nounced today by B. B. Sandidge, sup- erintendent of the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, in connection with the making public of the annual report of the hospital's activities. ‘This affiliation, Sandidge said, is in addition to that maintained by the in- stitution with Sibley Hospital, and is in line with the hospital’s policy of making the curriculum for its nurses as compre- hensive as possible. Gain Is Exceptional, In the fiscal year ending June 30 last there were treated in the hospital proper 5,618 persons, and in the emergency department and dispensary, 31,969, a total of 37,687, as compared with a total of 32,434 for the preceding year. This report was contained in the report pre- sented to the board of directors at its last meeting of the calendar year last Friday. Woodley Blair is chairman of the board. The total number of operations per- formed was 4,083, and the number of ambulance calls answered, 5969. In each instance an increase was noted. The total number of patients increased by 5,253, and the number of deaths re- ported was 239, a total of 22 more than in the last fiscal year. Charity Work Necessary. Members of the board were taken on a tour of inspection of the hos- pital and recorded praise of the new additions, the motlern eqUipment and general color schemes and the home- like atmosphere in the private quar- TS, The hospital is active, being called on to do an unusual amount of charity work because of the depression, San- didge said. With the assistance ren- dered by the Community Chest, the in- stitution has been able to meet the de- mand so far, he stated. He presented to the board of directors a year book containing detailed reports of all de- partments of the hospital. - GORE’S BROTHER-IN-LAW DROPS DEAD ON STREET H. M. Kay, Employe of Blind Sen- ator-Elect Will Be Buried Here Tomorrow. Howard M. Kay, 54 years old, brother-in-law of the blind Senator- elect, Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, fell dead yesterday afternoon while standing at Thirteenth and F streets. Crippled by paralysis about five years ago, Mr. Kay had continued in the employ of Senator-elect Gore in his law offices in the Woodward Building. In addition to his sister, Mrs. Gore, who resides at 3930 Connecticut avenue, he is survived by a brother in Texas. Private funeral services will be held tomorrow, with interment in Glenwood Cemetery. M. T. MALONEY DIES Owner of Auto Supply Business Was Widely Known Here. Martin Thomas Maloney, 56 years old, proprietor of an automobile supply busi- ness at 1703 Sixth street, died at his home, 723 Fourth street southeast, yes- terday after a long illness Mr. Maloney was widely known in this city. He was a member of the ‘Washington Lodge of Elks and the Eagles. As a young man he served in the United States Navy. ¥ Funeral services will be conducted in St. Peter's Catholic Church Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, following brief services at the home of his brother, J. C. Maloney, at 415 Third street. Intes ment will be in Arlington Cemetery. Special services will be rendered at the grace by the Elks and Eagles. He is survived by his brother. D. C. ASKED TO HONOR MEMORY OF BOLIVAR Merchants Requested to thlay American Flags on Anniversary of Noted Liberator’s Death. Merchants of Washington were asked today to display American flags along the streets of the business section on Wednesday in commemoration of the centenary anniversary of the death of Gen. Simon Bolivar, South American liberator. The request was made by Mark Lansburgh, president of _the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation. Functions commemorating the anni- versary Wednesday are being arranged to take place at St. Matthew's Church, at the Pan-American Union and at Georgetown University. The District Commissioners have given their sanction to the flag display here, the merchants’ association stated. The Foening Star WASHINGTO: LAGUARDIA ASSAILS OFFICIAL BCOKLET FROM DRY BURCAU Suppression Urged on Ground of Misrepresentations and Misleading Statements. PROPAGANDA CHARGED TO USE OF U. S. SEAL Distorted Facts Alleged in Effort to Stop Circulation—Says Public Funds Are Wasted. Suppression of the Prohibition Bu- | reau’s booklet, “The Value of Law Ob- servance,” was urged today by Repre- sentative La Guardia, Republican, of New York, on the ground that it con- tained misrepresentations gnd mislead- ing statements. La Guardia’s request was made in a letter to Attorney General Mitchell. He cited what he termed “glaring pieces of deception,” and added that “perhaps it was a desperate attempt to conceal the total breakdown of prohibition.” Claims Facts Distorted. At the same time he announced he would oppose & $50,000 appropriation proposed for “propaganda and educa- tional purposes” for the Prihibition | Bureau. Attacking the bureau's booklet, La Guardia said it “would have no im- portance were it not for the fact that on the cover it bears the legend ‘The Department of Justice’ and on the title page a facsimile of the seal of the great Department of Justice.” “This gives it authority which its con- tents do not warrant,” he added. “Sure- ly the good name of the Department of Justice and the good faith of the United States Government carmot be used to indorse a stupid compilation of dis- torted facts written in poor English con- taining mispresentation and willful mis- statements for propaganda purposes. Cites Washington Figures. La Guardia said he was informed 50,000 copies had been printed at a cost of $1,800, and declared it to be “a ‘waste of public funds.” ‘The booklet, the New Yorker said, contained a “startling statement at- tempting to convey the information as a matter of fact that inebriety is de- jcreasing,” while, he added, in the city | of Washington, under the “nose of the Prohibition Bureau,” an increase is shown. He said arrests for drunken- ness had increased in the Capital from 8,837 in 1914 to 14,409 in 1930. If inebriety were decreasing, he asked, “why has it been necessary for Congress to provide since prohibition for the building of additional peniten- tiaries, additional detention jails and additional correction institutions?” Y. M. C. A. WILL ELECT OFFICERS TONIGHT Nominations to Be Submitted by Special Committee—Annual Reports Will Be Heard. Annual election of officers of the Young Men’s Christian Association will take place tonight at a meeting of the Board of Managers of association in the Central Y. M. C. A. Building, 1736 G street, 7:30 o'clock. Nominations will be submitted by a special committee composed of William | Hurd Hill, chairman; Dr. A. C. Chris- tle, Worth Shoults, A. W. Defenderfer and Dr. E. J. Grass. In addition to filling posts of officers | whose terms expire, the board must se- lect a recording secretary to succeed the late Willlam H. Kerr. Mr. Kerr died several weeks ago. Two new directors also mu 2.-hosen. Husto) ompson, president of the | associatfon, will preside. Other present officers are Dr. A. C. Christie, first vice president: Willlam H. Hill, second vice president; John Poole, treasurer; George W. Offutt, assistant treasurer, and John B. Larner, general counsel. Leonard W. De Gast, general secretary, holds an appointive position, not in- volved in the annual elections. Annual reports of various officers and heads of departments will be presented at the meeting, which will be held in the board room of the association head- quarters. HOLIDAY WREATHS SALE TO AID UNEMPLOYED Veterans of Foreign Wars Au- thorize Effort in Christmas Period to Benefit the Needy. As a means of providing work for unemployed veterans and to obtain funds to aid in its work for the needy, Equality-Walter Reed Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, has undertaken the sale of holiday and memorial wreaths and Christmas trees. Letters of identification on post sta- tionary have been furnished to those authorized to solicit orders by the post commander. It was stated the relief fund of the post has been subject to numerous calls and as the organization is not a member of the Community Chest the sale of wreaths and trees has been undertaken to replenish the fund. DESPONDENT YOUTH NOW HAPPY IN HOSPITAL, WITH JOB ASSURED Johnnie Cobb, Victim of Poison, Gets Three Offers of Positions and Donation of Cash. “Life,” philosophized 19-year-old John- ny Cobb from his bed at Emergency Hospital “after all is worth living.” It was a different Johnny who today chatted happily with nurses than the Johnny who was found lying on the steps of the Church of the Epiphany Saturday afternoon, broken in spirit and hoping that he might die from the poison he had taken. For today he has his choice of launch- ing on a musical career, working in the home of a kindly middle-aged woman, or being an attendant at a gasoline fill- ine station, A story in The Sunday Star described Johnny's plight—he had wearily walk- ed the streets for months, hunting for a job—he was hungry and despondent. ‘Thei: kindly people called ihe hospital and wanted to give him assistance. Nurses told him this morning to take his choice. He has decided to leave the hospital this afternoon to take the position offered by the middle-aged woman, who declined to give doctors her name. Now nurses are having difficulty keep- ing Johnny in bed—he wanted to get up this morning, they said, and “do something for the hospital.” “Let me wash the windows here or wait on the other patients,” Johnny pleaded with nurses. But they told him he had Dlent{“ work ahead and to rest until this after- mn, when his benefactor will call for Another worhan, who asked that her name be withheld, mailed him a check for $10 through The Star today. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930. PAGE B—1 AUTO INJURY FATAL JOAN HOOVER, Youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr., gives the photographer a big laugh when she posed for the first time at the White House. Joan arrived here last week with her sister and brother to visit their grandparents while their mother is attending their ill father, recuperating at Asheville, N. C. —Underwood Photo. COMMUNITY CHEST LEADERS T0 MEET Session Tonight Will Lay Plans for January Campaign Before Capital Public. Officials of various groups affiliated with the Community Chest will meet at 8:15 o'clock tonight at the United States Chamber of Commerce Building to place before Washington the intents and purposes of the Chest campaign which is to be inaugurated January 26. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, will be the principal speaker, and John Poole, president of the Chest, will preside. Efforts will be made to have each religious, fraternal, civic or commercial group in the city hear a campaign speaker before the drive begins. Speak- ers will be furnished by the Speakers’ Bureau of the Chest. Officials of 2,100 organizations have been invited to be present at tonight's meeting. In addition to Dr. Reichelderfer, the speakers, each of whom is allotted five minutes, will be Edward F. Colladay, campaign chairman of the Community Chest; Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Wash- ington; Dr. Abram Simon, rabbi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation; Rev. Dr. Coleman Nevils, president of George- town University; Mrs. Edgar B. Meritt, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs; George Plitt, president of the Board of Trade; John B. Colpoys, editor of the Trade Unionist; Dr. Mordecai Johnson, pres- ident of Howard University; Thomas P. Littlepage, director of the Cham- ber of Commerce;. Mark Lansburgh, president of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association; Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and Elwqod Street, director of the Communlty Chest. The mecting will be broadcast by Radio Station WOL. PLANS TO PROTECT AIDERS OF JOBLESS Senator Wagner Proposes Exemp- tion From Income Tax Moneys Reserved for the Unemployed. With a view to encouraging the es- tablishment of unemployment reserve funds in industry, a bill will be intro- duced today by Senator Wagner, Demo- crat, of New York providing that any funds set aside by employers or em- ployes for that purpose would be d ductable from incomes subject to tax- ation. The earnings from such funds also would be tax exempt. “The unemployment reserve fund,” said Senator Wagner, “will tend to re- duce the insecurity of employment and it is, therefore, proper that the Gov- ernment should encourage it. “It also will tend to promote the regularization of the industries estab- lishing such reserves and thus to re- duce the amount of unemployment very much as workmen’s compensation laws tended to reduce the number of indus- trial accidents. “The management will have its at- tention focused on the problem of regu- larization, since an instability will be reflected in the contributions to and distributions from the unemployment reserve fund.” . CAPT. McCANDLESS GIVEN COMMAND OF RALEIGH ‘World War Aide of Navy Secretary Won Cross for Hazardous Duty in Patrol Work. Capt. Byron McCandless, who is now on duty in the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, was ordered today to command the U. S. S. Raleigh. Capt. McCandless, who served as aide to the Secretary of the Navy dur- ing part of the World War period, also has seen service as director of athletics at the Naval Academy. ‘The Navy Cross was bestowed upon Capt McCandless for his service as commanding officer of the U. S. S. Caldwell while “engaged in the im- portant, exacting and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, in es- corting and protecting vitally impor- tant convoys of troops and supplies through these waters and in offencive and defensive action, unremittingly forms of enemy or naval activity. Capt. McCandless came to Washing- ton on his present tour of duty fol- lowing Instruction at the Naval War JEWELRY WINDOW BROKEN BY THIEVES Burglars Hurl Brick to Gain Entry and Get $400 in Loot. Hurling a brick through the plate- glass window of the Marx Jewelry Store, at 701 Seventh street, thieves robbed the place of jewelry valued at $400 early yesterday or late Saturday night, accoramng wo a report to police. More than a dozen other thefts were reported over the week end. Cab Driver Beaten. Wiliam A. Murray, taxicab driver, residing at 1317 Farragut street, told police he was beaten by an unidentified man who engaged him to drive to the vicinity of the District Jail last night. In an attempted hold-up, the driver said, his fare struck him on the head and escaped after a struggle. Murray was treated at Casualty Hos- pital for a wound on the head. Herbert M. Cornwell, manager of the tailoring estabiishment in the Shoreham Hotel, reported poli that thieves entered his shop eatly yes- terday or Saturday night and robbed tl;:es place of wearing apparel valued at_$690. Two white men, one shielding his face with a scarf, stopped and searched Clarence Lee, colored, of 1216 Half street southeast at South Capitol and M streets southeast last night, but found no money and left in an auto- ‘mobile. Clothes Stolen. Loss of a suit of clothes, overcoat and diamond ring valued at $145 was reported by Dick Johnson, 331 Tenth street southeast. The clothing and ring were stolen from his place of em- plo(:’rmenz, 1218 Wisconsin avenue, he sai aid. Others listed by the police as victims of thieves were Edgar R. Boyd, 316 East Capitol street; Paul R. Gray, 3221 Connecticut ~ avenue; Mrs. Aretha Howard, 2711 Sheridan road southeast; Irene Claybourne, 1114 Q street; Ringlo Rovado, 1105 Nineteenth street; Lloyd Brown, 14 S street northeast; Helen Burton, 1310 Spring road; Mrs. Sarah E. Bowles, 3301 Thirteenth street; Eunice Templeman, 1420 Chapin street, and Edna May Myers, 1925 L street. TRACTION MEN DISCUSS ECONOMY SUBSTITUTION Bus Service on F and G Streets Between 17th and 26th Con- sidered—No Decision Reached. The Capital Traction Co. has been discussing plans to ask for a discon- tinuance of street car service on F and G streets between Seventeenth and ‘Twenty-sixth streets and for the sub- stitution of bus service as an economy measure, it was learned today. President John H. Hanna of the com- pany in answer to inquiries, today said that the matter had been under discus- sion, but that no decision had been reached. COMMITTEE TO MEET 0 VIRGINIAN, 72 OTHERS ARE HURT Frederick Ockershausen Sugc- cumbs in Hospital From Blow December 3. CAR IS KNOCKED OVER; SECOND DRIVER FLEES Four Are in Accident on Colesville Pike in Collision With Culvert. Seven persons were injured, one seri- ously, in traffic accidents here and in nearby Maryland and Virginia yester day, and one man died at Georgetown Hospital from injuries received in an accident December 3. The dead man, Frederick Ockershau- sen, 72 years old, of McLean, Va. was hurt when the automobile in which he was riding collided with a truck near his home. Following the mishap he was taken to his home, and after a week, Wwhen his condition became worse, he was brought here for treatment. He died of a skull fracture. €N an automobile which, say, failed to stop clipped his bile and turned it over tw! Ernest Bradford, a plumber of 609 Third street, was thréwn from his machine and injured seriously on ‘Washington street, Alexandria, Va., late yesterday, Bradford is in the Alexandria Hospital, Two sisters, Lilllan and Jeanette Cohen of 1855 Calvert street, and Joseph A. Petty and his wife, Mrs. Teresa Petty, were hurt when the automobila Mr. Petty was driving struck a cule vert on the Colesville pike yesterday near Four Corners, Md. The sisters are in Emergency Hospital. Colliding with an automobile which, police say, failed to stop at Sixth and S street, Frank Trigg, 21, colored, driver, 1605 Fifteenth street, and Louise Andrews, 21, colored, of 603 Third street, his companion, were slightly in- jured. 's automobile was over- turned. Both were treated at Emer- zenc{‘nflosplhl. John M. Matthews, 17 years old, col- ored, of Fort Wi n, Md, was brought to Providence Hospital last night in a reported critical condition after his automobile overturned on a road near his home, DRIVER AWAITS X-RAY. police automo= Condition of Accident Victim Yet to Be Determined. By a Stalt Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 15.— The condition of Elbert Bradford of 609 Third street northwest, Washington, D. C., who received serious injuries when his auto was in collision with an alleged hit-and-run driver on the 600 block North Washington street late yester day afternoon, was reported as good at the Alexandria Hospital this morning. Bradford is sunenn¥ from back injuries, téhe'e‘eu‘::dzxurhtl of which will not be ¢ Tm| uni ~ray pictures taken fiodny.dfl Y e auto driven by Bradford tu; over twice fouowlnlyl,slde-sr:"lpe nc.:)!l? lision ~ with another ~machine ~which police say Bradford had been racing, The other machine sped off withoul stopping. The injured man, who: is plumber by trade, was treated at the Alexandria Hospital by Dr, M. D. De- laney following the accident, DIRECT AIR SERVICE OPERATING TO BOSTON 34 Mail or Passenger Planes Now Flying Between ‘Washington and New York, The National Capital was given di- rect air passenger service to Boston and Hartford, Conn., today when giant 18- passenger transport planes were put into operation between this city and New York by Eastern Air Transport, cflnll‘dlctt’nlrm&‘li] line, and two new round trips a day were ad schedule. e g With today's increase in schedule there now are 34 mail or passenger Planes flying over the airway between New York and Washington every day, making what is believed to be the fl::vleut alr travel over any interstate The first of the 18. to operate under the Washington-Hoover airport at 7:55 o'clock this morning with E, H. “Pete” Parker as chief pilot. The schedules have been co-ordinated with those of g:é?{'m Aitrwr:ys tokprwide direct con- ons af ewark airport, Yflll:k tum:{nm. rport, the New ast week Eastern Air Transport be- gan its New York-Atlanta p{’lssen‘g’gr service. South of the National Capital twin-engined 8-passenger monoplanes are used. On January 1 the passenger service will be extended from Atlanta to Miami, Fla., including Palm Beach, and across the State of Florida from Daytona Beach to St. Petersburg, The pascenger planes will carry mail -passenger planes new schedule left Senators Will Take Up Industrial Insurance Measure. The subcommittee on Banks and In- surance of the Senate District Commit- tee will meet at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning to consider a bill introduced by Senator Blaine, Republican, of ‘Wisconsin, for the protection of holders of industrial insurance policies in the District. The bill sets forth conditions which would have to be complied with by companies in order to declare such an insurance policy void, o il DAVID A. HART TO SPEA Assistant U. 8. Attorney Will Ad- dress Anti-Saloon League. David A. Hart, assistant United States attorney, will address the annual meet- ing of the Anti-Saloon League of the District of Columbia, to be held in the Grace Reformed Church, Fifteenth and O streets, tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Part of the meeting will be devoted to business reports and election of officers and trustees for the year 1931, following which will be Hart's talk and addresses by several other well known persons. Lindbergh Visits Capital. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh d an unheralded 0s \mlmtlt:‘:d1 visit to the National Capftébgesterday, re- turning lew York durinj after. noon alghe in Mrs. Lindber| College and Newport, R. I. Capt. Mc- Candless is a_native of Nebraska and entered the Naval Academy in 1901 from the State of Colorado. visit ang meet, two-plagé open plane. He left at Boll Field as to the natur there was no one in addition to the regular nigh - mall schedules which the compglnty :::.! operated for the Post Office Depart- ment for three years. When the new services are inaugurated this line will ge operating a total of 10,500 miles per With the inauguration of today's - ice it is possible to fly from ;«{s'm'x:"{o Los Angeles via the National Capital In planes operated on co-ordinated schedules by Colonial Airways, Eastern g’l(l;r'l‘;;amfion nnxd Southern Air Fast ess, all carrying mail po L Tying l under postal With the establishment of Florida service January 1 connection will be made for air passengers with the Pan- American Airways system, giving un- broken air passenger service North and South for a distance of more than 7,000 miles, MRS. WARREN AT HEAD Elected Councillor of Daughters of America Organization, Mrs. Ruth Warren elected coun- cillor of Golden Hulev%!ouncll. No. !x:J. Daughters "of America, at a meeting l_zx_eld Friday in the Northeast Masonic emple, Other officers elected include Joseph Candelieri, associate councillor; u.; Josephine Thornhill, vice councillor; Mrs. Ruth Locke, associate vice. coun- cillor; Miss Eva_Cunningham, Junior past councillor; Louis Barnes, ate j T past councillor; ette Meyers, assista 's liti tary: Mrs. Mignonet wg'rl; ductress; Mrs. Maria)