Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1930, Page 17

Washington News EFFORT 10 [lBTAIN PAY FOR PERDIEN e o 5 st e EMPLOYES FAILS Commissiocners Will Refer Case of District Work- ers to McCarl. 36 HOURS SPENT TRYING TO END DISCRIMINATION Complication Faced if Controller | General Announces Decision After February 28. The last-minute effort to obtain pay for 3,000 District workers employed on the “per diem” basis for Christmas eve falled this morning when the Commis- sioners decided not to adopt an order that the amount should be paid. The Commissioners decided to refer the | matter to Controller General McCarl for decision. \District Government officials put in & hectic 36 hours in an effort to smooth out_ the discrimination existing be- tween per diem employes of the Navy Yard, who will be paid for Christmas eve, and per diem workers of the Dis- trict, who will not. Corporation Counsel é‘:fl.‘.',‘.& - w. Assistant Engineer By, B Oran and Assistant Auditor ur R. Pilkerton unearthed a de- cision by the then Controller of the ‘Treasurer in 1901, holding that em- ployes paid by the day, but who are reg- ularly employed for long pe'lod! of time could not be considered “per diem"” workers. This decision was made in order to authorize payment to most of the Federal workers during the three- day cessation of public work following the assassination of President McKinley. Attorney General's Advice Asked. jmportant still was information received by Mr. Pilkerson from the De- partment of Justice that President Hoo- ver last year had asked the Attorney chn.l M' he should word his exec- ive order for a holiday on Christmas s0 as not to discriminate against diem mkm ‘The Attorney Gen- his decision on the 1901 rion, formed the President that it not be necessary to refer to per workers in the order as the opin- jon justified their being paid. i further learned that last year, nw ::uu upon this opinion, all of navy yard per diem: employes were wld for their Christmas eve holiday, although the pay was not forthcoming until some time in January. It is un- derstood that this year the navy.yard workers will be paid for Christmas.eve in As the matter stands at present those per diem workers, who have a day of annual leave coming to them must take Christmas eve on -nnu‘:i le:'ve 'l;h::: e it as les ita m" - g“b:fl"]d the Controller be hvm;l?le tfi the day as annual leave Pt y’eml leave and those as leave without pay will mweur, & knotty problem way of those who take the annual leave. The year for begins March 1 and 28.. Annual leave is not uhuve. --. that if the controller should be handed m‘l hbflllr’ 28 those who have taken Christmas eve on annual leave in nrn h must be used up before February 28 if mmphnuvgmumuau H'KAY,BUSH H SUSPECT, RELEASED ON BOND & Case Against Government Witness in Trial May Be Dropped Soon, + Collins Admits. William C. McKay, who was jointly indicted with Willam J. Carnell and Frank Mahoney in connection with the death of Louis Bush, motor bus presi- dent, last October, was released from | Jall today on his personal bonds by order of Assistant United States Attor- ney William H. Collins. The assistant prosecutor admitted the indictment mxm be nolle prossed shortly. McKay testified for the Government and aided in the conviction of the other two men of murder in the second degree. Carnell hornzy are awnlun‘ sentence. WELL KNOWN HUCKSTER SAVED AS HOME BURNS George Webster Awakened by Fire- men, Who Befriend Him After Personal Effects Are Lost. George Webster, 56 years old, a huckster well known in the Southeast sction, was saved last night by firemen, who awakened him a few minutes be- fore flames completely demolished his two-room home on the Robey estate, Fairlawn avenue southeast. Roused and apprised of the peril, Webster was humed out without ume to save any of his personal effects. Nor could firemen save anything. ‘Webster, rendered homeless and with- out personal effects, was befriended by of No. 11 precinct and warmed 1f in the station house until a broke out shortly before midnight, and-a passer-by turned in an alarm. i MAKING OF GOLD COINS By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, December 23.— The world doesn’t want gold coins, Ca- Mhn officlals have decided, so their manufacture has stopped. Not. nnee 1918, it was revealed yes- fl]" IS STOPPED IN CANADA' | @hg znfining %I&f u General News H WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, FATHER, BURNED IN ATTEMPTING TO SAVE SON, ATTENDS RITES to Stand Pain of Ugly Wounds From Fire. Sympathetic Doctors Plan- | ning to Keep Him in Bed During Christmas Day. Government red tape, hospital regula- | tions and grave personal injuries were not a strong enough combination to prevent a broken-hearted father from | attending the funeral today of his young son, killed in Christmas tree | fire at his home last Sunday. Bandaged by sympath:tic physicians of the Naval Hospital, John De Spears steeled himself to the pain of numerous ugly burns and forsook a hospital cot to be present while 2-year-old Willlam De Spears was lowercd into a grave in Mount Olivet Cemetery this afternoon. Hospital attaches and physicians had sought to keep the distracted father confined to his bed until his burns have had a chance to heal, but D: S insisted on attending the funeral services, regardless of his condition. The father received his burns in a | trantic fight to save his son from the | flames of an evergreen tree which the child had ignited with matches while his parents slept in thejr home, at JOHN DE SPEARS. —Star Staff Photo. | 1334 Four-and-a-half street southwest. When the father was awakened by the crackling fire he found the tree and furniture in the living room a mass of flames. He was unable to reach the boy in time to save him. The little body was found later beneath the charred tree. Attendants at the hospital will seek to keep the father from leaving his cot to be with his family Christmas day. BANDITS GET §200 IN FOUR HOLD-UPS One Taxicab Driver and Three *Pedestrians Report Loss to Police. Four m including a taxicab driver and three pedestrians, ‘were robbed by bandits in a series of ? staged early jorthwest section of thieves fled with nearly $200. Stephen P. Sophos of 944 Kenyon street was accosted by two colored men on Twentieth near O street a short time after leaving his restaurant at Dupont Circle and was relieved of $117. Two checks, one for $5 -and the other for nzs were also taken by the robbers. ‘Three men trailed Charles Roy Wood of 616 G street. to the Pension Office in#Judiciary Square after he drew a roll of bills from his pocket to pay a check at a nearby lunch room and took $78.30 at the point of a pistol. One member of the essayed the “job” in single-handed fashion but was leuod by & smuhlnl blow to the jaw ‘hen he ordered Wi to halt. His Henry R. Wilson of 1214 Virginia avenue southwest, w‘:: mll;y b:t gun- man wmh walking ween Chlle about 10 ochck last ni B DL l el on! ‘Ten ml{'l‘u'fl betcrr{ Willlam F. Berts, a taxicab driver living at 1005 I strect nonheut 'n by two men at H streets northeast and ordered w drive to Seventeenth and Webster, where they drew guns and took $3.40 and the cab. The machine was found lbnndflnzd by police n R nreet “fi‘d Lincoln road northeast lat ni OAKS WILL BE PLANTED - IN PLAZA SECTION SOON ‘Workmen Digging Holes for 700, First Step in Landscaping New Park Area. Seven hundred red oak trees will be planted soon in the new section of the Olvllol ds, now bei devel Capitol lnd Ui on S'A D!vld Lynn, architect of announced today. ‘Workmen hlve begun digging holes for the trees, marking the first step in the hndmplnu of this new park area. f the trees will be planted along | in mo{unlk!pofmundmn- ning diagonally across the plaza from Union Station, which is to become a new boulevard from the ‘station to Pennsylvania avenue. The work of landscaping the g will go further next Spring and Sum- mer with the planting of sg'tru The work of relocating the lu'ut “car tracks in the area between the Capitol and Union Station also is expected to be undertaken in the Spring or Sum- mer of the coming year. TWO D. C. TAXI COMPANIES | PLAN NEW TEN-CENT ZONE Pennsylvania Avenue, 7th and 15th Streets Northwest. The City Cab Corporation and the 8top-Me Cab Co, two of the principal operators in the 35-cent zone cab in- dustry, today notified the Public Utility Commission that they would introduce a new 10-cent zone beginning Friday. The zone is bounded on the north by K street, on the south by Pennsyl- vania avenue, on the east by Seventh street and on the west by Fifteenth street It leaves undisturbed the other zones now In effect, and as soon as a cab crosses one of the streets mentioned the fare becomes 35 cents. The notice of the new rate was filed with the commission by Albert W, Jacobson, attorney for the two cab com- panies. Territory Bounded by K Street, |mo CHILDREN'S FRIEND INJURED BY AUTO Miss Emma Neale Has for|ve Years Served as Assistant Santa Claus. The anticipation Miss Emma Neale had of enjoying another Christmas with “her” children Thursday was shattered last night when the beloved employe of the Washington Home for Children, who celebrated her 79th birthday anniversary December 15, was run down by an auto- mobile as she walked on River road near the home. For 34 years Miss Neale has helped plan Christmas at the home, and her joy yesterday was unbounded as she thought of the holiday which she was to celebrate with the 53 youngsters at the institution this year. As she walked down the dark road about 8 o'clock last night she was struck by an automobi’e iven by Raymond Charles McGee, 37 years Oldy, of 4213 Brandywine street. Miss Neale was taken to Garfield Hos- ital. She received a severe fracture of e left and several broken body bones, with hun ons. ‘The in woman is widely known in as a friend of the little cha: of the Washington Home for Children. As word of her injuries was | wi received in various quarters last night and today many inquiries were received . She has lived in Wash- ington since prior to the Civil War. Another victim of an automobile ac- cident last night was Sidney Houstop, 36, of 718 Nineteenth street, who wi taken to Emergency Hospital with a fractured knee after he drove his car into s street car loading platform at ©Connecticut avenue and L street. The automobile received damage estimated in the | 8¢ $50. BOY SCOUTS FORESEE ROUND OF ACTIVITIES February Program Includes Cere- monies in Commemoration of Or- ganization's 21st Birthday. Boy Bcouts from the Dlau'i‘c.t and will nlc!pll the ““Bcouting With Washington” pageant to be held in commemoration o( the twenty-first birthday of scouting America. The pageant includes 21 scenes and songs and dances will be given. Troops to be represented gpllow: Troop 69 of the Columbia Heights Christian Church, Troop 23 of the East- ern Presbyterian Church, Troop 79 of the ~Albright Memorial Evangelical Church, Troop 9 of the Douglas M. E. Church, Troop 133 of Kensington, Md.; 12 of the Sherwood Presbyterian Church, Troop 43 of the National Bap- tist Memorial Church, Troop 48 of the Anacostia M. E. Church, Troop 28 of the Lincoln Road M. E. Church, Troop 85 of the Washington Boys' Club. Sea Scouts also will take part. The committee n charge includes Commodore W. E. Longfellow of the American Red Cross, chairman; Samuel J. Wallace P. Hovey, Charles A. Bell, Lester G. Wilson, H. L. Webster, E. C. Hartung, William A. Van Doren, jr,, and D, D. Withers. LYNN APPROVES LIST Subcontractors for House Office Building Passed On. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, has approved a list of approximately 20 subcontractors who will do special work in connection with the erection of the new House Office Building, under the neral contractor, the Consolidated gineering Co. of Baltimore. The gen- eral contract was awarded some time ago. The list of subcontractors was submitted by the general contractor and includes several local firms. Admits, They Say, ‘The hardest-boiled policemen admitted that Charles Roy Wood of 616 G street was in a quandary. ‘n:xlr objection was because Wood's attempi to explain his way out of it reflected no especial credit on the force. Amon‘ hold-ups reported last night ‘Wood's account of having been re lleved of $78.30 near the Pension Office by a gunman trio. Phey saw the money when he was in a lunch room, he said, and followed him to the spot. ‘Wood's account went into the LACK OF FUNDS FOR LADY’S GIFT PROMPTS MAN’S HOLD-UP STORY iz Police Object to Reflection and Charles Réy Wood He Conjured Tale. At headquarters today Wood was asked to elucidate, This is the sequel, or rather the substitute lwry he gave in a med statement today: He bad promised Chblstmas pres- ent to ady friend. As Christmas drew nm he found himself without the money with which to fulfill the promise. Wood did not want the friend to think he had gone back on his promise without due cause—an emergency. He conjured the hold-up story out of his head. he , in the hope she would the missing preseat. PRESIDENT 10 LIGHT CHRISTMAS TREE TOMORROW NIGHT Brilliant Gathering to Attend Ceremony” as Dusk Falls on Nation’s Capital. BROADCAST FOR YULE MESSAGE IS ARRANGED Children to Wish Hoovers Merry ! Holiday and Will Call on Grand- children Visiting in White House. Thousands of Washingtonians will participate in brilliant exercises at dusk tomorrow, to be marked by the lighting of the national community Christmas tree in Sherman Square by President Hoover. An exceptional program of Yuletide music will be provided by the Marine ‘Band, conducted by Capt. Taylor Bran- son. The ceremonies will climax a series of celebrations in schools and churches throughout the city. Hoover Due at 6 p.m. Numbers to be included in the open- ing 30-minute concert of the Marine Band will be, “March of the Toys,” from “Babes in Toyland,” by Victor Herbert; “Yuletide,” by Kappey; “H: lelujah Chorus.” from “The Ms!l&h by Handel; “The Bells of St. Mary’ by Adams, and “March Mllllm," by ambers. The arrival of President and Mrs. Hoover and il'lletr E.Qrty l:t 16 nelxock w:ll the signal for playing of a cor- net solo, “Cantique de Noel” by Arthur 8. w!wombl 'li;‘h‘emntheflTz Ll;;?h v:"i‘l)l oin in carol singing, opening i:ome All Ye Faithful” Distributed throughout the gathering will be groups of carolers 'fil:c la"'zr in the evening will around the city singing Christmas "c;ro]s for the unfortunates in hospitals, orphanages and other institutions. President to Greet Nation. Speaking over a Nation-wide radio hook-up, Lieut. Ccl. U. 8. Grant, 3d, chairman of the committee in charge, will explain the purpose of the affair. President Hoover then will illuminate the living spruce by pressing a button. A signal flare will brighten the sky at this moment and buglers will herald the event. buglers will be Boy Scouts, Laing Sibbet, Troop 43, and John*Ste- phenson, Troop 75. At this point the President will face a microphone to extend the season's greetings to the populace. . His voice will be broadcast from coast to coast. After the President has finished, '.he audience will join in singin Cam Em a Midnight Clear” and “Suent Distinguished Guests Expected. Drawing the program to a close, Beny Jane Oswald, Troop 28, Girl Seouts, and Henry Bowles, 'h'oop 17, Bo! Bemm. il wish the President and the l‘dy a merry cm-m.mu n’ distinguished guests will be Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justice Harlan Piske Stone, Secretary Hurley, Attorney General Mitchell, Secretary Adams, Secretary Hyde, Secretary Lamont, Secretary | Doak, Senator Arthur Capper, Senator | Hiram Bingham, Commissioner Luther H. Reichelderfer, Frederic A. Delano, | Maj. R. Y. Stuart, Horace M. Albright, Charles F. Carusi, Henry Gilligan, Mrl Henry Grattan Doyle, Mrs. Phil g ney Smith, Mrs. William orbin, Joshua Evans, jr.; Maj. Gen Ben H. Fuller, Dr. George C. H-venner. Frank R. Jelleff, Mrs. Edgar B. Meritt, Mrs. Gerrit 8. Miller, jr.; E. J. Murphy, Ml] Julius Peyser, John Poole, Mrs. O. Veerhoff, Mrs. John F. Sippel and Dr Cloyd Heck Marvin. Will Welcome Children. ‘Two Washington children will call at the White House tomorrow morning to present_a hand-painted Christmas card to the President’s grandchildren, Peggy Ann and Joan Hoover and Herbert Hoo- ver, 3d, on behalf of the youngsters of ‘Washington. The two children, selected from representative groups of the mu- mlylmunds and eommunlw be Harry G. Helme, jr., old., of 5510 Thirteenth street, l.nd {(my ' Murray, 6 years old, of 1440 Co- lumbia road. by 6 inches in size, wu painted by ‘Miss Eleanor Reading, s artist of the American Automobile Aa- sociation. An art panel depicting a snow scene against a blue sky, with the reindeer of Santa Claus visible in the background, forms the front of the card with the inscription, “A Merry Christ- mas to Peggy Ann, Herbert, 3d, and Joan from the children of Washing- ton, 1930.” Mrs. Hoover to Aid Poor. Mrs. Hoover will give away the first of 600 baskets of food to be distributed by the Salvation Army tomorrow after- noon at 2:30 o'clock at Temple Corps, 606 E street. The other baskets will be presented to the poor after a talk by the First Lady. A concert will be given by the Marine Blnd prior to the arrival of the honor gut On the plltform with Mrs. Hoover will be Rudolph Joss, Isaac Gans, G. A. G. Wood, Dr. William L. Darby, Elwood Street and Maj. and Mrs. James Asher, - Glee clubs from the Young Christian Association will sin; mas carols tomorrow at dren’s Hospital, Emergency Hospital, Union Station and Casualty Hospital. The singers will be entertained after they finish at thé home of Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, chairman of the “Y” Music Committee. Youngsters Get Gifts. Countless gifts for underprivil ch!ldren were distributed today by he ht district offices of the Associated itles. ‘The presents came from various sources, including church, busi- ness and professional o tions, Participal in the gift distribution were Miss Elizabeth Northcutt, Mrs. Albertine Osgood, Miss Marjorie Johns, Miss Eunice Rohr, the Gunston Mem rial Church, through Mrs. L. H. Dewe; the Wesley Methodist Church, through Mrs. Harry Hoskinson; the Business and Pro!emom! ‘Women’s Club of the Y. W. C. A, through Miss Gen.nlde Ml-l-ley and glfl m;rvu of the Y. . C. A, and Phillip Meanwhile, the lufl of the Dodge Hotel abandoned the snnual custom of having - chmtmn party in nrrder to devote generally this pu m ity. Ten chudren were tiven mew clothes, while 10 others will be provided with milk for a month. Many Parties Planned. Christmas_festivities began today ‘Women'’s Christ- | Friendship House, 326 Virginia lnnue, southeast, with a program of singing and nnry-telllng The_entertainers in- cluded Dorls Tucker, Harry and Elsie Reaper, Catherine Evans, Alleen umm Margaret Watts i91d Florence Dea! ‘The Yuletide be nburv:d at thedral with five . A festival service, b= at 1 o'cwmumnm. PARLEY ON TRABKS IN PATH OF MALL Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington Counsel Seeks Solution of Problem. WILL DISCUSS MEASURE INVOLVING RIGHT OF WAY Copy of Bill Drafted by Company Regarding Route and Condemna- tion Price Submitted. The Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington Railway Co., through At- torney Gardner Boothe, today sought a conference of interested officials to ef- fect a solution of what to do with the tracks of that company which will eventually be moved out of the area involved in the Federal Government's building program. The tracks of the concern enter ‘Washington over Highway Bridge and proceed to a terminal at Twelfth and D streets. The effect of the Federal building program will be to prevent the use of any track east of Fourteenth street and south of Pennsylvania ave- nue, and to compel the concern to seek some other terminal. Bride to Call Parley. Mr. Boothe wrote to Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Util- ities Commission, asking him to pruentorwbereex;esenudnlm- future, which will be attended by coun- sel for the company and representa- tives of the Park and Planning Com- mission and the Treasury Department, which has charge of the bullding pro- gram. At this conference a bill giving the Government the right to condemn the company’s right-of-way in the area mentioned will be discussed. Mr. Boothe submitted a copy of a bill drafted by the company, which gives to the District Commissioners the power to change and relocate the route of the street cars to mflt the portion of the streets in the leral building territory to be vacated and the tracks locawd elsewhere “as may be to the best interest and convenience of the public and with as little injury as practicable to the property of the company,” and giving the Supreme Court of the District the mm w udludlule the condemnation be paid by the Federal Govern- | the menz '.o the company in case the parties are unable to agree on the price. The relocation is to be subject to the ap- proval of the Federal Public Buildings Commission. Bill Contains No Details. One of the routes under discussion, it was learned today, was to take the cars north on Fourteenth street to G street, east on G street, south on Eleventh street-to E street, west on E street back to Four- teenth street, with a terminal at some undetermined point on this loop. Such 8 loop would necessitate the construc- Mon of special work at Eleventh and G streets to enable the cars to turn at that point. Another scheme is to have the cars stop at the south end of the Highway Bridge and there discharge their pas- sengers and transfer them to busses. The bill contains no mention of any definite route, being intended merely as an authorizing act and le:vtn( de- tails to be worked flufi later. i s WHITE CHHISTIAS HOPES BLASTED BY FORECAST jOutlook Here Is for Fair Weather With Little Change in Tem- perature. With no indication of snow for Christ- mas day this year promises to be & conunu-uon of the fair weather preva- lent in the National Capital today, with little in temperature, according to the forecaster at the w:ut.her B\ll’elll ‘The mercury, which rose to a high of 37 degrees yesterda y.dmwedtafl'l this morning, and prospects are that it will remain within this margin through- out Christmas day, the forecaster said. No . disturbances are indicated as ad- vancing irr this’ direction, and although it may be slightly cloudy at times, Old Man Sol will h-vn the situation pretty w!ll in hand, the weather man pre- Licensed to Wed. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., December 23 (Special). —Marriage licenses have been_ issued. here. to- the. following: John 8. Stubbs, 21, Kensington, Md., and Thelma L. Borden. 18, Wl&hlng- ton, D. C.; Jacob Ter Verr, 40, and Catherine Lee Clay, 28, both of Col- lege Park, Md.; Eyerett E. Wright, 26, Cl.plwl Hel[‘hfil and Dorothy B. Henderson, 21, uhlnm D. C; Kenneth Fornshill, 24, Alexandria, Va., nd Blanche Johnson, 20, Leesburg, a.; Willlam A. Fowler, 35, and Irma Swann, 30, both of Silver Hill, Md. Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of ‘Washington, will pmleh #pecial music has been arranged. A gayly trimmed community Christ- mas tree will be lighted this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock on the Janney School grounds at Wisconsin avenue and Al- bemarle street. The living spruce was decorated through voluntary contribu- tions by business men of the neighbor- ‘Taki representatives of the PFriendship Citi- zens’ Association, the Janney nt- teachers’ Association, ministers of com- munity churches and school children. The invocation will be asked by Rev. Clarence Ferguson, pastor of the Wis- consin Avenue Baptist Church. Chimes to Peal Joy. 3~ Among the speakers will be m.nun H. Rice, president of the PFriendshi Citizens” Association, Miss Bllnche Pulizzi, principal of the Janney School; Mrs. Miner Buell, president of the -Yl ney Parent-teachers’ nuo 8. Carrol Coale, pastor of Methodist I'Dlleonl.l Chlu'ch and Plflwr Francis J. Egan of St Ann's O-Lhonc Church. ~Carols wm be sung by the school children. A recital of Christmas lnd carols will be given by G. Spence tomorrow afternoon lt 4:30 o:lnck on the McKim memorial chimes from the tower of Epiphany Church, for the benefit of those in the shopping district. The church will be thrown cpen to those who care to listen from within, The pmtnm will Im:lude “0, Come All Ye ] uwurmfim Right Are” £ ENTER GUILTY PLEA 1930. FRP Ammmonummlymnmnmmm“.my lrd'ei in Washington yesterday for distribution to ‘Timmons children. Miss K. PAGE B-—1 [ povis oressen s wowan emsoves | [{AN GLEARED ONGE . { N ROBBERY CHARGE INDIGTED IN SECOND Declared One of Three Who Held Up Two in Apartment, Getting Small Loot. EX-POLICEMAN ACCUSED OF HAVING BAD MONEY Grand Jury Cites Two for Man- slaughter and Refuses to Act Against Ten Others. Edward Bunch, 1301 Belmont street, who was saved from one charge of rob- bery when Willlam J. Mitchell, a taxi driver, changed his testimony and as- sured the grand jurors that he was mis- taken in his former identification, was indicted today on another charge of robbery. He 1s accused of connection (left) and Mrs. Isabel Ward, elfl‘ll of the Board of Public | With Frank L. Barham and Tillle But- Weliare, ace holding o few of the dofte —Star Staff Photo. ‘BUCKET SHOP' MEN Two Perry & 001 Operatives | Await Sentence Before Justice Gordon. Norman A. Genaro and Frederick W. Langhorst entered pleas of guilty in| District Supreme Court today immedi- ately after separate indictments had been returned against them by the grand jury charging them with the operation | of a “bucket shop” in the Washington Building last July. They were said to have been in part- nership with Walter Perry in conduct- ing an alleged brokerage business under name of Perry & Co., which was raided July 16 last by representatives of the office of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. The officers were armed with war- rants -against Perry, Ivan S. Puller. Genaro and Langhorst charging the with operating the alleged bucket lhup Perry could not be found, but the others ‘were taken into custody and gave bond. Arraigned in Court. Assistant United States Attorney Willam A. Gall r, in chuge of fraud prosecutions, presented the testi- mony to the grand jury yesterday. Ollluher had bzen advised by Attorney Perry, for Genaro and Lang- hol‘t! that his clients would plead gullty, so he called the case to the atten- tion of Justice Peyton Gordon imme- diately after the indictments had been returned. Justice Gordon allowed Genaro and Langhorst to continue at liberty in bail while Probation Officer Steele made an investigation and npon to '.he court. Gallagher said against Exellgr and Perry vjmld be Md before mulry jury. The Pe! (g offices were raided after comvl-.lnu had been received by the Better Business Bureau of Washi of alleged stock losses through bucket- shop methods. Plans for the raid upon the luxuriously furnished suite of rooms were laid jointly by Mr. Gallagher and Louis Rothschild, director of the local business bureau. Three woman and three man clerks of the concern were part in the exercises will be | dead not held. D. C. BILL HEARING TO START JANUARY 5 Chairman’ Simmons of Subcommit- tee Will Retire at End of Session. Heuings u-e w start on Monday,\ January 5, fl%m The tion bill {or July 1 next. tions for the D]ltflcl Of Columbh total $44,535,047, excluding permanent and indefinite appropriations, compared with $45,914,932 appropriated for the current fiscal year. Chairman Simmons of the subcom- mittee which conducts these hearings will retire as chairman at the close of the present Congress to bgcome chair- man of the Subcommittee on Agriculy tural Appropriations, so this is probably the last District appropriation bill of which he will be in charge. It is ex- pected, however, that he will continue on the subcommittee. He will be suc- ceeded as chairman by Representative William P. Holoday of Illinois. Chairman Simmons said today that the District Commissioners will be the first witnesses, accompanied by the chiefs of the various divisions of work in the District government. Conductor Found Dead. Robert Sinlay, 60 yelfl old a Pullman cnnduewr‘ of bl:lyonne wu mnnd 'd at the 12 minal Y M A. this morning when & porter Iflemp&d to arouse him. Cor- oner J. Ramsay Nevitt said death was n | Cases in Montgomery Not in Epi- GUNMAN'S FUNERAL TAKES PLAGE TODAY James Powers, Recently Slain by Police, Is Given Christian Burial. A veteran gunman and safe cracker- whose career was ended by a bullet from a gun fired by the police he held so long in contempt will be laid to rest today in Congressional Cemetery, while those he hdd flaunted stand by with lowered 5| heads. James Powers now rests in a casket bought by those same police, and at 2 o'clock today that casket will be carried from Lee's undertaking establishment, 332 Pennsylvania avenue, by those who hunted him. Powers was killed in an alley & week ago when police surprised him and his partner in crime in uu act of breaking into a local store. Powers instant- ly—his pal, Walter Moran, who fell also with a policeman’s bullet in his body, died a day later. ‘The whose bullets btoll(ht to an end two careers of hich stretc] from the East eo-n to the West from the South to Canada, & wuuommedmntumnvomdu given a (':h;‘l)sdfiln burial by Catholics. Powers’ T Potters’ fleld—but the police felt sorrow for him—and today in full uniform they will watch his bu!let-rldden body low- ered into its final resting place in a casket nurchued with money from their own' pockets. e O T S COUNTY NOT ALARMED demic Form and Health Officer Scouts Spread. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 23.— Although scarlet fever Is considerably mere Ermlent in Montgomery County usual at this time of the year, whlch is the uuon for that disease, Dr. Willlam T. Pratt, coupty healtn that there is no danger of an epidemic and no occasion for nhrm th the last six weeks, according to Dr. Pratt, something like 25 cases hlve duvel in the county, most of , and more in the Bemudl ln. unn in’any other section, All of u:zm. he suted, have been rather type and he considers that the pe-k hu ery'.h!n‘ possible to prevent spread of the disease is done, S: Pratt said. Not onmlll :h}:mv::( wll!.éx the {ev!]r, or sus) of ha promptly quarantined, but their contacts as well, and as a further J:rmuunn the county health officer and Miss E. Claire Tur- ner, county health nurse, visit all chii- dren absent from the schools of the neighborhoods where there are or have been cases of the disease and given thorough examinations. It is no longer deemed necessary advisable to close ac 'hools because of scarlet fever, and such steps are not eo;ld‘hmphbed in t-hll county. Dr. Pratt sal or WED IN SMITH’S SHOP LONDON December 23 (#).—Amidst the shades of night and within the old blacksmith’s shop at Gretna Green, Dr. Alexander Sinclalr of Glasgow and Miss ret Macfarlane of Gourock were marrieds last night, a Glasgow dispatch to_the Express said today. ‘The ceremony was per(urmed over the anvil by the Blacksmith Rennison, with only a small electric torch to illuminate the scene. There was no suggestion of the traditional runaway match. “For the romance of it,” (.he bride due to natural causes. sald when asked why they chose the place and hour for the celebration. SANTA WILL DROP FROM SKIES IN PARACHUTE ON CAPITAL VISIT He Is to Pay Call to Children at Bolling Field Today and SEE Anacostia Christmas Morning. Santa <Claus will drop out of the skies over the National Capital again this year. He is to pay a visit at 3 o'clock this afternoon to the children of officers and men at Bolling Fleld, and will arrive, in accordance with annual custom, beneath a parachute at the Naval Air Station Christmas morning. So swift will be Santa’s flight on both occasions that he will arrive at his destination 'l'.hl.n a minute or so after taking off from wherever it is Santa nuku his po!m. of departure. Land- ld operations oon.ilnuwtl.ldh- h’lbuh to children of Christmas momlng the Scott, chlel lv‘huon ‘machinist’s m-u and champion chute }umpcr will visit Anacostia, where, In accordance with established cumm some 200 orphans, gathered by e Red Cross from various local in- amuunm. wlll be assembled. Santa wil op out of his plane and landing, if luck front of the distribute gifts and children then will go to dinner at the @eld meus P!lot doomed to dismal | W! BY SCARLET FEVER |z Jm . R-lymond officer, who is in charge of the situation, | Ut stated’ ler in the hold-up of two men in the Belmont street apartment, who are ale leged to have been bmugm there by the woman, December 11. w ln.l‘nlnml. f the robbery Snld 'Ao h.lve been an envelope taken from Elmer T. Ros3, 310 Buchanan street, and valued at 3 cents; an xdemmcamn CAM Wmh 1 cent, lnd alued at 1 cent uch from oyd k3 Rynn 3613 Eleventh t. The alleged victims claim that Bum:h Lhreutened them with a pistol while woman went through their pockets ‘lm being told they had no money. Frank Jewett, a former policeman, who is serving a Police Court sentence for throwing fire crackers into an tomobile July 4 when a child burned, was indicted on a charge of at- tempting to pass counterfeit money. According to the indictment, Jewen. concealed and had in his spurious $20 Federal Reserve note which Tie 18 seld o have attempted to pass on Clarence F. Swaw of Landale, Ariz, May 27. Manslaughter is in two in- dictments. Lawrence ks, colored, is charged with the fatal stabbing of Julia Johnson November 2 at 1247 Ninth street. The woman died December 13. Willie Barnes, colored, is held respon- sible for the death of Mrs. Julia Dun- lop, & white woman, who was struck by an automobile driven by Barnes at Fifteenth and L streets December 10 The woman died the next day. Joe Lee Barlow, colored, & passenger in the car, was exonerated by the grand jury. Decline to Indict 10, jurors also declined t: bert L. Lewis, grand larceny; ne Hum?hreyl Joyriding; Albert Joe N. Greenstein, Henry Gilmore and Hardee W. Barham, liquor law violation. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Edward Pearce Wfllllm.! Charles Tyler and Francis J. Hayes, nonsupport of minor children; Arthur I. Daniels, Clarence Minor and Theophil Tiverny, joyriding: Theophil Tiverny and Abner McKinley Franklin, alias William Franklin, mnd lll’oeny. Trotts E. Jackson and Butler R. Carey, ‘breaking; Frank Jones, Harry W. Ritter, Evm R. Quick, Arthur I. Stew- Arthur I. Daniels and Louis Mc- Coy Hicks, housebreaking and larceny; Robert McFarland and John William Caves, robbery; Robert McFarland, as- sault with intent to rob; Harland Cook and Lindsay Bunting, assault with dangerous weapon and robhbery; Leroy Morrison, carnal knowledge; Leroy Theodore Prue and Herman violation naticnal prohibition act; Gerald Howard, smoke screen. Willis _J. Morrison, embeulemem George F. Narrington, alias Geom Moy. forgery and uttering; Raymond Harry Hammer, ting law; Harry Hlmmer. mery and ring; Dorothea L. Ebert, & tenses; John W. c.mphell dwredn !dwll’d Miller,” alias Junius Richard- ‘Tony Rivera and Tony Rivera, hauumg-fln‘ and h.roeny. DENIAL OF SPECIAL POLI APPEAL ASKED Necessity for Rebuilding Theater Cited in Rover Brief Oppos- ing Petitoin. Declaring that the question of the razing of Poli's Theater, which the Dis- trict Court of Appeals is being asked by Sylvester Z. Poli and the Shubert Brothers of New York, to prevent, is now moot because the destruction of the property has proceeded for six weeks since the decision of Justice Jesse C. Adkins of the District Supreme Court, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, representing Secretary of the Treas: Mellon, today filed opposition to 'fll ;:{ tition for a special appeal from the de-* cision of the lower court. Rover pointed out that practic: all the roof and of the sidewalls have been rem and the building could not be used again for theater purposes 'without reconstruction at an enormous cost lnd could not be accomplished :55 an appropriation from Con- The Secretary of the Treasury recalls the points decided in his favor by Jus- tice Adkins; that the suit is t tice that the vmua States needed the pxopercy and that notice was given Xo d July 1 last. He asks the tldon !or the special appeal be di d. KS SON’S CUSTODY Laurel Mother Asks Writ to Ob- tain Child From Father. By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. ER MARLBORO, Md., December 23.—A suit for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain custody of her son, Richard Warren Beall, has been filed in Circuit Court here by Mrs. Ellen D. Beall. The suit names her husband, Andrew D. Beall, as defendant, and claims thell‘ son is being "unhwrullv detained” in the custody of Mr. Beall. All ofi the principals in the case live in Laurel, m uggle having been separated a Tt ,m:fim% wifes pouuoi 18 Qgle Marbury represents