Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1930, Page 28

B-12 & - BOY BANDIT NAMED BY EIGHT VICTIMS Youthful Robber to Face New Group Recently Held Up Tonight. DR. BALLOU INTERVIEWS CANDIDATES FOR POSITION Wilson Teachers’ “College Presi- dency Selection Awaits Visits to Two Other Cities. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, is conferring with candidates for the presidency of the Wilson Teach- ers’ College today at Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York. The superintendent left the Capital late last night following his attendance at the meet ng of the Board of Educa- tion late yesterday. His visit to New York at this time is made to permit him to attend the sessions Friday of the @ seemingly endless line of hold-up |Committee on Tests of the Commission | wvictims seeking to identify him, Thomas |on Social Studies of the American His- J. Higgins, 18-year-old self-confessed torical Association. bandit, was still being held in a cell On his return to Washington Dr. at the sixth precinct station today while | Ballou probably will visit Buffalo and detectives rushed forward their investi- | Cleveland to interview other candidates gation of his connection with recent|for the position. Dr. Ballou expects to | robberies. return to Washington by next Tuesday The youth, who twomyx\récggl.“;sz at the “‘“ff' i BANKRUPTCY PROBE OF U. S. GETS BACKING ready has been identified by eight per- Five National Business Associa- sons and formal charges were lodged against him on the arrest book at| tions Offer Services to Govern- ment to Improve Laws. Worn down by the ordeal of facing police headquarters when he confessed to_the “jobs.” i 1t is planned to take him into Police | Court for arraignment either tomorrow or Saturday morning. Meanwhile an other parade of persons held up sinc the youth started on his lone cam- paign two weeks ago will view the lad at the 7 o'clock roll call of headquar- ters detectives tonight. Higgins, who lives with his mother at 1719 Lincoln road northeast, told Detective Sergeants Cole and Robert| 1n an effort to solve problems pre- | Barrett when they arrested him early | sented by bankruptcy in America, five | yesterday morning that he had staged | of the largest national business asso- nearly 20 holdups of gasoline slatmns‘cxauun.s yesterday tendered their serv- and taxicab drivers in the Capital since | jces to the Government in its bank- ‘l"‘e made his debut in the hom-up!rupwy investigation by the Department Tacket. !oxFJu] ice. . z ollowing a meeting at the Chamber ST of Commerce of the United States with Efforts are being made to clear up |Solicitor General Thomas D. Thacher allyof those cases before his arraign- |who is conducting the Government's ment and every one who has reported a | probe, the committee representing the robbery in the past two weeks Las been | business associations met with President summoned to view the boy. Higgins | Hoover, who expressed his appreciation said he could remember oniy a few of |of the committes's co-operation. the persons he held up and detectives | Robert V. Fleming, president of the must resort to the identification system | Riggs National Bank, represented the to build up a complete histery of his | American Bankers' Association on the work. | committee, which included Julius H. The boy seems to worry little and |Barnes, chairman of the board of the wants only “to get the whole thing over | United States Chamber of Commerce; with and face the judge.” | James R. Hewitt, chairman of the Leg- His main concern is his mother, | islative Committee of the National Re- Higgins had hoped to spare her the|tail Credit Association; William C. grief of learning that he was a bandit | Fraser, president of the National Asso- and broke down and cried when police | ciation of Credit Men, and F. H. Burns, notified his relattves. president of the Maryland Casualty Co., Girl Is Released. representing the National Association of Manufacturers. Coincident with the filing of the eight | Gen. Thacher stated that during robbery charges against the boy, police | the last five years nearly $4,000,000,000 this morning released Miss Attilee May | Of claims were wiped out in bankruptcy Simmons, 20 years old, of the Southern and that the losses had greatly in- Apartments, whom Higgins named as | creased in the last 10 years. his “frien Listed as_complainants in the eight | cases are Walter P. Hildebrand, 1730 | K street; Victor Johnson, North Capitol and I streets; Bert A. Ayers, 118 Fifth street northeast; Moses M. Wilson, 123 D street southwest; Thomas Healey 619 A street northeast; William Lane, 1124 Fifth street mortheast; Clarence F. Murray, 2401 Ainger street south. east, and John M. Ward, 1519 Thirty- fifth street, all of whom are taxicab | drivers or gasoline station employes, | Ayres, a taxi driver, is the hero of the arrest of the youthful bandit. In a cool and calcalating manner, he gained Higgins' confidence when the latter held him up Tuesday night, promised to join him in his robbers mm :\rndw then led Detectives Cole a& re v endezvous he had VIRULENT GERMS FOUND LEXINGTON, Ky., December 18 (). —A disease_which has killed several mules in Southwestern Kentucky is caused by a bacteria of which a tea- spoonful would kill all the people on earth, Dr. W. W. 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The Senate District Committee yes- terday afternoon voted'a favorable re- port on a proposed amendment to the | Federal condemnation law here, after Attorney General Mitchell had ex- | plained that it would expedite ac- | quisition of sites for several public | buildings. Congress passed a law last year en- | abling the Government to obtain im- mediate possession of property needed | in the District by paying the owners the estimated value, any balance found to be due by the jury to be paid at the | close of the proceedings. | The Attorney General said the amendment is intended to let the Gov- | which cannot be taken over under the law as it stands, because preliminaty condemnation steps had | been started prior to passage of the present law .in March, 1929. | He explained to the committee that if Congress adopts the amendment and | allows the Government to get immedi- ate possession, the property owners will not be stopped from litigating their claims to a final conclusion in the courts, and in the meantime the build- ing program will be speeded up. The Attorney General said the amend- ment is needed to expedite obtaining sites for the new Post Office and Inter- | | | | ate Commerce buildings, in the area | south of Pennsylvania avenue and west of Twelfth street; the site for an ex- tension to the Department of Agricul- ture, and the site for relocation of the Botanic Gardens near the foot of Cap- itol Hill. The committee also reported favorably a bill to enable the secretary of the Board of District Commissioners to per- | form certain routine duties now re- | auired to be done only by the Commis- sioners. Bald Eagle Shot at Accokeek. ACCOKEEK, Md., December 18 (Spe- | cial).—George Rennoe ‘of this place| shot a bald eagle near his home. 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Foreign students living in Washing- ton will be tendered their third annual Christmas dinner by the World Fellow- ship Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association tomorrow at 6:30 pm. in Barker Hall, Seventeenth and K streets. American college students and alumni are inviting foreign guests, and, according to present calcuations, it is expected the number will exceed 150. “Following the dinner, the guests will entertain with “skits” becoming their own country. The singing of Christmas carols by the entire assemblage will conclude the program. An_International toll show will be staged tomorrow night by the Silverolle Club of the Business and Professional Women's Department of the Y. W. C. A. Following the doll display, they will be distributed to children in' the vari- ous agencies affiliated with the Com- munity Chest. Christmas at School. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 18 | (Special).—There will be a Christmas program at Maryhurst School tomorrow tcrnoon. 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Gun Metal Gun Metal HOSIERY— STREET FLOOR change should be taken in part from the east side of the road so as not to remove fine shade trees growing on the improved property on the west side. Decision on this case was delayéd for 30 days. The other changes, as to which there was no discussion, involved: 1. Territory bounded by Cathedral avenue, Bellevue terrace, Tunlaw road and New Mexico avenue. 2. Property bounded by Broad Branch road, Rock Creek Park, Davenport street and Linnean avenue. 3. Preperty in the northeast section, bounded by Randolph street, Twentieth street. Otis street, Queen’s Chapel road and Eighteenth street. 4. Property bounded by Fessenden street, Reno road, Chesapeake street and Forty-first street. 5. Property along the line of Alabama avenue southeast between Twenty-third | ¢ street and Irving street and along the line of Twenty-fifth street between Ala- bama avenue and the District line. AUSTIN LAMONT WEDS |Son of Thomas W. Lamont and| Bride Sail for England. I | MRS. SANTA CLAUS’ ASKS DIVORCE FROM SPOUSE Charges He Became 8o Annoyed by Donning Garb to Entertain Children That He Struck Her. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 18 .— “Mrs, Santa Claus”.is in the divorce court. NEW YORK, December 18 (@)- Her real name is Mrs. Carrie Budd, Austin Lamont, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, and Miss Nancy and she charged in an application for | L. Sullivan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | divorce, filed in Superior Court, that | James Amory Sullivan of Boston and | her husband, John, was so annoyed Asolo, Italy, were married yesterday. |when she put on the red-and-white They plan to sail today for England |garb and whiskers to amuse their chil- so Lamgent may continue his studies at | dren that he struck her. Incidents of I New College, Oxford, where he is | this nature on five successiv student. eves were alleged. 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