Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1930, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. 0, TUESDAY, WOMAN WUST FACE| SO CTE T [\EE T0 2 SHITS JURY IN SLAYING Defendant Given Unfavorable Verdict by Group of Her Own Sex. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 30.—A jury of . 'women, passing judgment on one of their own sex in a homicide case here, . for the first time in the history of Cook County returned a verdict unfavorable to the woman. Mrs. Viola Miller was ordered held to the grand jury yesterday for man- slaughter by a coroner’s ju y of six women who investigated the death last Saturday of George Gleichaus, her cousin and suitor. Gleichaus was shot to death. "The announcement of the verdict ap- parently came as a shock to woman relatives and friends of Mrs. Miller. They burst into tears. Mrs. Miller, however, appeared to be more self- than any of her partisans. She maintained she did not know the weapon was loaded. “I thought it was like one he threat- ened me with once be!ore that didn't have any bullets in it,” she said. ‘The women's jury was the second to serve here since adoption in November of a referendum to permit them to act as jurors. The previous case involved an accidental death. PN = (conunued From Fourth Page.) daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mcg:l:n of Wl!hlngton. ok or of Mr, and Mrs. Stephen M. Jones, in their home at the East End. Miss Mary Agnes Dixon of Washing- ton is spending her Christmas vacation as & guest of her mother, Mrs. Thomas A. McKay, in her home, Arlington, in the South End, on Brettons Bay. Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Belle of Edmon- ston, Md., are guests during the Yule- tide of Mrs. Rosa M. Clements of Leon- ardtown. During the Christmas season Mrs. Arthur Briggs of Washington will spend several days as the house guest of her xEster Mrs. E. J. Waring, of the North Sergt. N. J. Callahan of Fort Myer and Miss Elizabeth Preudenrich of Washing- ton were guests in whose honor Mrs. J. Fenner Lee of Lee's Crest entertained at dinner Saturday evening. WILL EXT.END LINES Telephone Company Directors Or- der $411,992 for Improvements. Extensions to telephone service in Washington costing $411,992 were ordered today by the board of directors of the Cheasapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. This order will bring the total authorization for similar improve- ments in the District of Columrbia this year to $3,309,812. Included in the approvriation is the routine estimate for the first quarter of 1931, Under this project additional pole lines, wire, underground conduit and cable, aerial cable, switchboards, FOR WESTERN HIGH Parents and Teachers Decide Plan Is Only Relief for Congestion. Following & complete review of the facts associated with congestion at their school, the Executive Committee and in- vited members of the Western High School Home and School Association last night agreed to resign themselves to the double-shift plan scheduled to go into effect at Western February 1 as the only means of coping with the heavy enrollment. The committee, which met under chairmanship of its president, Charles V. Imlay, reviewed enroliment figures of the present and anticipated numbers of the coming semester. Dr. Elmer S. Newton, principal of Western, who at- tended the meeting of parents and teachers, provided data upon which the executive group based its action. The Board of Education, in ordering the Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star every day. The great ma- jority have the paper delivered regularly every evening and Sun- day morning at a cost of 1% cents daily and 5 cents Sunday. If you are not taking advan- tage of this regular service at double-shift plan, the associa cided, took the only course open to it if Western High School is to approach the accommodation of the great num- ber of students assigned to it. Already approximately 300 more stu- dents than it is equipped to accommo- date attend Western High School. While 50 of these will be graduated February 1, another 300-odd elementary and junior high school graduates are known to be headed for Western. The double- shift plan which the school board has ordered into effect with the beginning of the new semester will send the senior and junior class students to school from 8:30 am. to 12:30 p.m. and the fresh- man and sophomore classes from 1 p.m. to 4:30 pm. The board further decided that no new non-resldent children wfll be admitted to Western. In taking action the board pointed out that whfle the school now has an excess enrollment of approximately 300, there are 280 non-resident students in the school at this time. New Year's Bay DINNER Noon to 8 P.M. At Mrs. K’s BRICK WALL INN 1905 K St. N.W. One of Wash- places for tasty foods. Roast Turkey, French Fried Chicken gnd Stesks’ prepared and served by Woman Cooks in the unique Dining Rooms of this auatnt old Bnelish Homme are a real treat. DECEMBER 30, 1930. L ANSBURGH’S 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 No Connection With Any Other Washington Store this low cost, telephone Natlom'l 5000 now ang service will sta tomorrow. 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