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A2 MELTED GUN FOUND INLIMERICK STOVE Martha Bargfrede, First-to Mention Weapon, Placed Under Arrest. PP (Continued From first_Page.) startled spectators fully realized who! was taking place she had been hustled from the room and was on her way. to police headquarters. She was being grilled this afternoon behind the closed doors of the homicide squad room. Detective Talley took the woman info custody after talking this morning with her husband, who is being held at the - tenth precinct. While Mrs. Bargfrede was still on the stand, Talley came in and held a whispered conversation with Capt. Edward J. Kelly, chief investi- gator. Kelly, in turn, conferred with Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt was then called down from the bench and entered into the discussion. ‘Talley then grasped Mrs. Bargfrede's arm and hurried her from the room before the startled spectators realized what was taking place. When first placed on the stand this morning, Mrs. Bargfrede told the cor- oner’s jury that Beulah's brother, David Limerick, on one occasicn last Summer beat his sister so violently that she was unconscious for severa hours afterward. She said Beulah w very much in fear of him from tha time. Hardly Knew Beulah. Collins fired repeated questions at Mrs. Bargfrede in an effort to secure admission from her that her husband was angry at the dead girl because of the friendship between his wife and her. Mrs. Bargfrede insisted, however. that her husband harbored no ill will toward Beulah. “Why, he hardly knew Beulah,” she declared. “He didn't object to my going with her and he and I never quarreled on this point.” Ten minutes later, however, under persistent _questioning by Collins, she changed this statement and admitted that she and her hvsband quarreled about a month ago because she had spent the night with Beulah. On that occasion, she said, she went to Beulah's home at No. 18 Nineteenth street southeast and stayed all night. About 5 o'clock the following afterr.oon, she testified, her husband came for her. She said they quarreled, but insisted the real reason for the dispute was the fact that she had not told him in ad- vance that she was going to spend the night away from home. Told to Stay Away. “Did you ever tell your husband that David Limerick had assaulted you?” Collins asked. “Yes.” *“Well, whef did he say about that?” Mrs. Bargfiede hesitated for a min- ute and then quoted her husband as saying, “Well, why don't you stay away from there then?” Collins’ next questions were designed to find out from Mrs. Bargfrede where her husband was on the night of De- cember 30, when Beulah met her death. The witness said she left her home at 6 o'clock in the evening to attend a dance with Beulah and some other {friends. Her husband was home at that time, she said. She then testified that he was also home when sheretumed that night about 12:30 o'clock. She said she stayed home with him the rest of the night. At this point Collins asked her if she ‘was afraid to tell all she knew. 1y, Mrs. Ba Teplied a named Rouse had told one of ber friends she might be “bumped off because she knew too much about this case.” She said that she -did not go home last night, preferring to stay with her mother because the latter lived nearer to the District Bu'sling. where ‘the in- S:n is being held. She denied that ‘was afraid to stay at home. Relations Were Unbappy. Mrs. Bargfrede told the jury that| Beulah's association with her own fam- | ily was most unhappy. “Her mother, Mrs. Dora Limerick, | frequently quarreled with Beulah,” the witness declared. “She objected to Beulah having dates at home and she also fussed with her for bringing me there. Her brother David also made her life miserable, On one occasion last Summer he struck her and it took them hours to revive her. She once told me that she couldn't live with her mother as long as David was there. She also sald once that David had threatened to beat me if 1 ever came to the house | again.” Mrs. Bargfrede quoted Mrs. Limerick as saving that she did not know of | any enemies who might have killed | her daughter, Mrs, Bargfrede said she first saw | Marion Ashford, cne of Beulah's male | acquaintances, who testified yesterday, | while she and her friend were waiting | for a street car at Seventh and E| streets some time ago. Not Now on Good Terms. ‘The witness said that she was not on good terms now with the members of the Limerick family. She said that Mrs. Limerick has not spoken to her since the occasion when she requested her not to say anything about a gun which had been found in a stove in the house where the girl died. George Bargfrede was arrested after police had searched a trunk belonging to Beulah. They found 19 letters in the trunk, all in the same handwriting, addressed to “Mrs. Beulah Limerick."” Cosmetics and wearing apparel were also foupd in the trunk. Mrs. Bargfrede, at one point in her testimony, said Beulah had told her she was afraid of Policeman Robert F. Langdon, who is under arrest in con- nection with the case. She declared, however, that she was not personally afraid of Langdon, but feared him be- cause she thought he was trying to| arrest her brother on a liquor charge. Questicned About Gun. ‘When Mrs. Bargfrede was asked by James O'Shea, defense eounsel, to state the name of the woman who, she said, told her a policeman had advised her “to be careful or she might be bumped off." the witness replied “Mrs. Rose Payne of 305 Massa- chusetts avenue.” At this point Attorney O'Shea abrupt- 1y changed his line of questioning when e asked if it were positively true that Mre. Ethel Limerick had warned her not to say anything about a gun said to have been found in the stove at the murder house. “Yes, it is true” repiied the witness. “I asked her what kind ‘of gun it W Mrs. Bargfrede volunteered. Why did you ask that?” O'She: “Because I had seen two guns at the house before,” sald Mrs. Bargfrede. “Did you think at the time you had the conversation with Mrs. Limerick that one of those guns might have been used to kill Beulah?” askeZ”O'Shea. “Yes,” she repit Mentioned Langdon Once. Attorréy Whelan then took up the cross-examination. He asked the witness if Langdon’s name had been mentioned during the mm&ign at the Limerick home New Year night. “No,” replied the witness, “I tell you the only time Beulah ever mentioned Langdon was when she told me he had been watching her house with apother policeman and that at one time had visi! home.” - asked who has described herself as Beulah arrested Right—William Limerick, another broths Top: Mrs. Martha Bargfrede, president of the Sky High Whoopee Club and today during the coromer’s inquiry into Miss Limerick’s death. husband was detained for questioning last night. ; Lower: Left—Vernon Limerick, brother of Beulah, who is being held. | THE EVEXING Limerick's “closest chum,” was ordered Her er, on the witness stand. —Star Staff Photos. | Langdon had sald something about looking under the couch and finding a half-gallon of liquor. Beulah told me later that she explained to Langdon that if he did look he would only find some cider.” Again the line of questioning was et “Did Beulah have a comb and brush and mirror upstairs at her home?” asked Whela: . “Yes,” replied the witness. Bhe was asked if she had ever seen the comb and brush and mirror down- stairs, and she said she did not re- mem Reason for Trip. O'Shea then . asked Mr;. Bargfrede why Beulah had made a trip to Kansas several years ago. The girl replied: “Beulah said she wanted to get away from her brother David.” “Did she say anything about wanting to get away from her father?” asked O'Shea “No,” replied the witness. After Mrs. Bargfrede finished testify- ing yesterday, she remarked to friends that she was surprised that she had not been questioned about Beulah's rela- tions with her family. This remark was responsible for her being recalled. She created a sensation at the inquiry yes- terday with her testimony to the effect that she had been asked to say nothing about the gun in the stove. She said she overheard this remark when it was made by Mrs. Ethel Lim- eriek, a sister-in. v of the dead girl, and that Mrs. Dora Limerick then asked her not to repeat it. Mrs. Bargfrede told police that the gun referred to must havg been in a Goal stove known to have heen burning in the death room at about the time the conversation took place. (COPYRIGHT REVISION Measure Provides U. 8. Entrance Into International Union and Al- lows Divisable Royalties. B the Associated Press. The House today passed the Vestal bill to revise the copyright laws. The vote was 185 to 34. The bill now goes to the Senate. United States in the International Copy- right Union, divisible royalties from sales of separate rights of copy and au- tomatic copyright. An eflort by Representative Stafford, Republican, Wis., to send the bill back to the House Patents Committee failed, 165 to 26. . Portes Gil Not in Politics. MEXICO CITY, January 13 (P).— Emilio Portes Gil, former President of Mexico, today cabled his secretary from Malaga, Spain, directing a denial of published reports that he intended to re-enter politics. When he comes home, | he said, he will enter the practice of law. BILL PASSED BY HOUSE It would provide entrance of the | CITIZENS DISCUSS WIDENING OF ROAD | Takoma ‘Park E A;sociatiom Takes Up-Proposal for Im- proving Piney Branch. The propesal of the District Commis- | sioners to widen Piney Branch road from Butternut strect to the contem- | plated underpass beneath the tracks of | the Baltimore and_ Ohio Rallroad at | Fern street from 33 feet to 90 feet | instead of 120 feet, as recommended | by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, was discussed at | | the meeting of the Takoma Park Citi- | zens’ Association at the Takoma Park | branch of the Washington Public Li- brary last night. | | Areport_on the widening was pre- sented by Burt W. Andrews, chairman | | of the Streets and Lights Committee of the assoctation. The association voted | to protest against assessing the cost of | the improvement against property own- | ers in the vicinity of Piney Branch |road, in view of the fact that the en- | | tire ‘District, they said, is to be bene- | fited. 8. E. Blassingham reported that the sum of $3,000 had been included in the | | estimates for improving the grounds of the Takoma Park public school. As chairman of the School Committee, he stated that the new Paul Junior High School was being taxed to its utmost and that the February classes would | occupy the old Brightwood School, in | addition to the Paul School. Efforts | were now under way, he said, for se- | curing an additional wing to_the new | high school, which was completed last year. Louis Dautona was elected & mem- ber of the association. President Herbert Walton Rutledge | announced that Dr. George Havenner, president of the Federation of Citi- | zens’ Associations, would be the guest speaker at the February meeting ,of the association. The Chesapeake & | Potomac Telephone Glee Club, with | telephone talkies, will be at the same | meeting. Joseph D. Kaufman of the Com- munity Chest Speakers’ Bureau told of | | the work of the Chest during the past | year, of its accomplishments and the | need of increased donations in the drive now under way. Communists Sentenced. VILNA, Lithuania, January 13 (P).— | Four former ‘member§ of the Lithuan- | n Diet today were sentenced to eight | rs' imprisonment after they had | | been convicted of Communist activities. | Six others were sentenced to from two | to four years. in Wall to E { By the Associated Press. ored. got bunkered last night. 1..He companion, Mitchell Hamilton, out to be Detectives Edward Hazzard and Kenneth Ebey. The next was that he removed his clothing at his home after he had fled from the detectives and before he crawled into the top of the chimney. His intention was to hold onto the top with his hands, but the bricks were 50 hot he had to let go, and he started to slide the down toward basement, 'CHIMNEY HIDING PLACE TOO HOT 'FOR HOLD-UP MAN EVADING POLICE! "Dete.ctivea Put Out Furnace Fire and Firemen Cut Hole | CHICAGO, January 13— There was entirely too much heat in the chimney | second floors the chimney makes a cou- in which Charles Benjamin Jones, col- | ple of right and left furns, wedging got there by a series of mistakes. 3 The st was the fact that he and his o g temppted to hold up two men who turned ffect Capture. where a red-hot fire was burning’ in the furnace. Between the third and him firmly in his uncomfortable posi- “Help,” came a faint cry from the chimney. If was heard by the detec- | tives. “OK.,” said one of the officers. “Hurry,” sald Mr. Jones, “it's B“lm-l ing down here. Have them put out that fire.” & Ebey did. The Fire Department cut a section from the side of the building and extracted Jones, who was wrapped in a blanket, taken to & hospital and. then to a police autfn. | October to help House candidates. X STAR, WANINGTON RASKOB DEFENDS HS CHARMANSHP Denies Columnist’s Charge He Practically “Bought and Paid for Party.” By the Associated Press. A direct defense against criticism of his chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee was made last night by John J. Raskob. He made Public a letter addressed to Prank R. Kent, columnist for the Bal- timore Sun, terming untrue statements Kent had written concerning him in a recent article. The chairman summed up Kent's assertions as “* * * in short, that I have bought and paid for the party.” “None of these statements is true,” said the statement. “I am one of & group of men indorsing the only com- mittee note outstanding. I have as- sumed none of the liabilities and none of the debts of the committee. Mr. (Jouett) Shouse was unknown to me previous to the 1928 campaign, and was sclected as chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee by members of that com- mittee after long and careful consid- eration of several important namcs and after consulting with other strong party | leaders. “The million-dollar reduction in the party debt,” he continued, “was made | not by me, but by clos: friends and | assoclates of Gov. Smith, who felt great responsibility for a large part of our defiicit and met it. I am loaning money to the National Committee, which will be repaid.” | Raskob sald the party’s defeat in| 1928 and current depress:d conditions | had made fund raising hard, but that | his confidence in the party’s’ principles gave him a “great sense of security” in its virility and ability to repay. o APOLOGY BY LUCAS FOR WET CARTOON ASKED BY AL SMITH (Continued From First Page.) an independent in Alabama in the last election, ordered all but one of the edi- tions sent to Alabama and paid for them himself. | Those sent to Montana were described | as intended in behalf of Judge Albert | J. Galen, Republican, who was defeated by Senator Walsh, Democrat. | Asked by Nye why allegedly wet Democratic cartoons should be sent into Montana for Galen when he w: garded as “wet” and Walsh as a Creetch said the talk was Walsh a little bit more sense and probably would be more dangerous.” It was possible that Walsh was op- posed in such a manner, he added, be- cause of other considerations—"possibly power.” Creetch Quotes Stengle. | Creetch said Charles 1. Stengle of the publishing company had told him he had_advised Lucas early in December that he (Lucas) would have to “give some name to stand responsible” for the anti-Norris literature because the transaction was to be investigated. i Stengle sald Lucas “pulled down a book” and selected the name “John M. Petters” from a list of names which might have been “county or precinct committeemen.” Creetch said Stengle told him “Lucas didn't get the name ‘Fotters' from. a letter, as he had testified.” J. Matt Chilton, Republican natioual committeeman for Kentucky, testified regarding receipt and expenditure of | $6.500 from Lucas for use in five con- gressional districts. This money was part of & $50,000 special campaign account set up by the Republican _National Committee last He | said he kept no records of receipts and expenditures but turned over the $6.500 to persons, all of the names of whom he cculd not rémember, for election day expenses, auto hire, etc. Says Report Unnecessary. _ The money, he said, was distributed as follows: $1,000 each in the fourth | and sixth districts and $1,500 each in the seventh, eighth and ninth districts. He said he made no report to the secretary of state of Kentucky of the | expenditures because the law does nct require it. He filed a report to the clerk of the House, but learned this Was unnecessary. The parties to whom the mongy was given by him were not included in the House report. Nye said the House candidates re- | celving the money had not fevealed | such receipts in their reports. | “The money was not given to the candidates; it was distributed in the districts,” Chilton rejoined. DROUGHT MEASURE GOES TO CONFEREES AS HOOVER APPEALS (Continued From First Page.) $10,000,000 drought relief fund cam- paign, Brig. Gen. F. R. Keefer, chair- man of the District Chapter, said today. “Of course, we haven't made & definite program as yet,” Gen. Keefer said, “but we plan to in the very near future. We are verv anxious to co- operate with the Cummunity Chest campaign, now being conducied, and are especially desirous that our emer- gency campaign be arranged so that it will not interfere with the Chest.” Campaign Quotas Assigned. In a telegram notifying chapters that President Hoover had authorized a public_appeal for the fund, Chairman John Barton Payne said last night: “Greatly increased demands during last 10 days have made imperative an immediate campaign for a Red Cross relief fund to meet the emergency situ- ation through parts of 21 States in the drought stricken area. A minimum of $10.000,000 is needed to prevent untold suffering and actual starvation by thou- sands of families. Polution of water supply caused by dying cattle has been | added to Winter hardships in some | sections. We are confident your people will not fail to meet their share of this humanitarian nced. We must not fail.” ‘The Red Cross had spent, or au- thorized cash grants in drought relief up to last night totaling $1,254,000, it was announced. Of this sum, $510,000 was in cash spent by chapters in counties in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisi- ana, Mi.mnstl. Alabama, West Vir-| ginia, Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Mis- sourl, Oklahoma, Texas and Montana. TALKS ON JOURNALISM J. L. Stewart Explains Relations of Press to Government Work. John L. Stewart, editor of Foreign Crops and Markets of the Department of Agriculture, spoke before the George Washington University class in jour- nalism yesterday, explaining the rela- tlons between the department and the ress. » “Agriculture is news,” he said, “be- cause people are interested in the sub- ject, many of them as a life work. I the last few years its importance has greatly increased.” . ‘That 138 of its 450 members are pllots who never had a crash, is the boast of the Midland Aero Club of Birmingham, England. \|' Architect’s sketch of the new five-story office building for the American Red Cross, to be located on the west side of the block, fronting on Eighteenth street, at E street. Construction will get under way early in the Summer and bids will be opened early next month. This building will take the place of the present temporary office structure on D street and on old church will be demolished to make way for the improvement program. The nurses of the Nation, in memory of the World War nurses, propose to erect a memorial in the rear of the new building. BROSSARD SCORED FOR SUGAR TARIF Rebinson Blames Hoover Ap- pointee for “Disrepute” of Former Commission. By the Associated Press. 4 Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, declared in the Senate today that the “disrepute” which came to the former Tariff Commission and necessi- tated its reorganization was “attribut- able in part at least to the proceedings, methods and acts” of Edgar B. Bros- sard, Republican, member from Utah. Resuming the Democratic-Republican independent contest against Brossard's confirmation, the Democratic chieftain assailed the Tariff Commission and its administration of the flexible provision. He criticized Brossard’s connection with the sugar tariff. “The breakdown, and I might say scandal, which required a reorganiza- largely by bad appointments to the commission. “I don't mean dishonesty by the term bad,” h: added, “but I use it in the sense they did not possess the capacity for the performance of their duties as the statutes required.” Four of the Tariff Commission nom- iness were confirmed yesterday. Bros- fard was. the fifth to be considered. With his appointment acted on, only one other remained to be considered— Lincoln Dixon, Democrat, of Indiana— and the latter faces no opposition. Republican leaders claimed Brossard would be confirmed, but looked for a close vote. Robinson said if the Tariff Commis- sion “is to serve a material part of the end for which it was intended—that of political and economic shock absorber— only men of impartiality, frankness and unquestioned ability are to become members.” CITIZENS ASK REMOVAL OF OLD AQUEDUCT BRIDGE Georgetown Progressives Anticipat- ing Bicentennial—Woman Urged for Juvenile Court. ‘The Progressive "Citizens’ Association of Georgetown last night adopted a resolution requesting that the old Aque- duct Bridge of Georgetown be removed before the Washington Bicentennial next year. Ancther resolution requested that an increase in salary be given teachers in vocational schools. A letter written by the secretary to President Hoover re- questing that Mrs. Etta Taggart be con- sidered as a candidate to fill the next vacancy occuring on the Juvenile Court bench, was indorsed by the as- sociation. Mrs, Elizabeth Sullivan, president, presided at the meeting, which was held at the Hyde School, O street near Wisconsin avenue. RELATIVES OF DEAD MAN TO BE SOUGHT BY POLICE Son, Daughter and Twin Brother of Frank T. Finch Believed Residing in Middle West. A Nation-wide effort is being made by Washington police to locate rela- tives of Frank T. Finch, 62-year-old contracting engineer, who died five days ago at the Georgetown University Hospital. His body still lies unclaimed at_the District Morgue. Pinch came here recently from Cleve- land and was rooming at 3521 New Hampshire avenue when taken ill with pneumonia on December 30. Coroner J. Ramesay Neviti issued a certificate of | death from natural causes when he died Thursday. The man worked for Stroman & Co., in Cleveland, prior to coming to the Capital in a futile search for employ- ment. Detectives learned that Finch, a native of Iowa. has a son, a daughter and a twin brother living somewhere in the Middle West. Finch resided for some time in Kansas City, Mo. PARIS DIVORCES BINDING IF NOT PROVED CORRUPT | State Department Decides Them Le- gal in Certain Conditions—Mex- ican Decrees Declared Problem. Paris divorces, the legality of which recently aroused so much criticism, may be considered binding, in the ab- sence of proof of charges of sharp practice among American attorneys practicing in the French divorce courts, the State Department has ruled. But the issue is not so clear in the matter of Mexican divorces, which have -of- fered a more complex problem to the department. The French government has investi- gated the charges of sharp practice leveled at American attorneys prac- ticing in the Paris courts, but the in- quiries have failed to bring proof. The investigation was closely watched by the American embassy in Paris, since proof of the charges might have re- sulted in invalidation of cases in which the alleged irrgularities occurred. GIRL ROUTS THUGS Fells Armed Man With Blow and Companion Flees. SACRAMENTO, <Calif., January 13 ().—Miss Ruby Potter, 27, was halted on her way to a grocery last night by two youths, one of whom pressed a re- volver against her. Miss Potter side- stepped and landed a right hook om the armed one’s jaw. He fell and, as she continued to pummel him, his compan- fon fled. The victim ran away when Miss Potter w¢nt to summon police. CORPORATIONS BAR USE OF BILLBOARDS NEAR DISTRICT LINE (Continued From First Page.) f:- . <L A dressed to Frederic A. Delano, president of the Civic Assoclation. Hotel Company’s Letter. From W. H. Barse, president of the Carvel Hall Hotel Corporation, the fol- lowing assurance of co-operation was received: “The subject matter of your letter is of great interest to me. I have al- ways deplored the many advertising signs which spoil the beauty of the landscape on the highway between | Washington and Annapolis. | as there were so many other signs, we erected a_few. “It will, however, give me great pleasure to co-operate with you and your orgapization in the beautifying | of the landscape by the removal of signs and we will within a very short time remove all of our signs within 20 miles of the District Line.” As pleasing to the American Civic Association as these assurances to abandon billboard advertising, it was said today, was the fine spirit of civic consciousness that the letters dis- played. Communications also have | been received from several other firms { which notified the association that the | matter would be put up to their boards | tion,” he asserted, “was brought about |of directors. | CITIZENS' GROUPS FIGHT SIGNS. | Five Associations Decisively Support | Clean-up Campaign. | Public sentiment in opposition to the | defacement of Washington's highway | entrances by billboards and other un- sightly structures was reflected last | night” in actions taken by five local | citizens’ associations. Decisive action in support of the campaign of th: American Civic Asso- ciation in co-operation with The Eve- ning Star was taken by all except the Stanton Park Citizens' Association. At | its meeting, communications from the | American Civic Association . were re- | ferred to conmimittee for future action | after William W. Keeler, president, had | explained the purpose of the campaign. | Those associations which adopted resclutions favoring slimination of bill- boards and improvement of roadside conditions in the Washington region were the Burrough, Piney Branch, |'Northeast Washington and the Pro- gressive Citizens' Associations, |~ At a meeting of the Women's Club | of Bethesda, Md.. today, a movement will be initiated to improve conditions | at that important entrance to Wash- ington. «. ZONING MANAGER ACTS. As long | HOLDS S, AVIATION 5'SECOND TONONE Assistant Secretary Young Compares Records in Com- merce Development. | By the Associated Press. | Although the United States has been developing its scheduled commercial air transportation for only four years, while | European nations have besn at it 10, | Clarence M. Young, assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, believes | American aviation is second to none. “The airways system which we have {in the United States ahd are building, | has given us a pre-eminent position in the matter of air transportation,” he told the House Appropriations Commit- tee appearing at hearings on the $10,342,300 allotted to his branch today | in the four-department supply bill Rare, He Says, Young sald last year there was only | one fatal accident for each 2,800,000 mil-s flown, and that the United States | had achieved aerial superiority despite | subsidies by European countries, which he gave as follows for 1930: United | Kingdom, $2.240,000: Germany, $11.- 500,000 '~ France, ~ $80,500,000; Italy, $40,000,000. The bill carried $8,972,640 with which the branch will establish and maintain civil airways, Two thousand miles will be selected from the following for in- stallation of air navigation aids: Los Angeles-Kansas City (partial); San An- | tonio-Big Spring, Dallas-Louisville, Fort Worth-Birmingham, San _Antonio-New Orleans, Amarillo-Oklahoma City, Tulsa-St. Louis: Weather Systems in Program. In addition, weather reporting sys- tems are to bz established on 4,400 miles of the following routes: Miami- Atlanta, New York-Albany, Chicago- Twin Cities, Dallas-Kansas City, Dallas- Louisville, Dallas, Atlanta, Brownsvill New Orleans, New Orleans-Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City-Seattle and Salt Lake City-Great Falls. i -— LT SUPPLY BILL GOES TO HOUSE WITH BIG DRY LAW INCREASE (Continued From First Page.) Proposes Special Permits for Highway Billboards in Fairfax County. Removal of signboard regulation from the zoning ordinance to the Board of | County Supervisors will be recommend- |ed at tomorrow's meeting of the gov- | erning body of Arlington County by | Robert H: Forman, county zoning ad- | ministrator. While the Board of Supervisors now has the power to deny permits in any under the zoning ordinance, Forman be- |lieves that since signboards are at all | times controversial, they should be 1placed under special permit and possi- |bly taxed high enough to curb their general erection. Although _ biliboards are permitted snly in commercial areas, Forman point- ed out, their elimination generally from the approaches to Washington is sought, |and these approaches are for the most | part zoned commercial. The land surrounding the approaches |to the new Arlington Memorial Bridge, with_the exception of that owned by the Federal Government, he said, was designed as commercial, and the ‘erec- tion of billboards there would be ‘pos- sible under the zoning ordinance. The | same situation exists with respect to the Key Bridge and to all of the main high- ways, since these, being generally trav- |eled,” have a number of commercial sections in which billboard erection is | permitted under the ordinance. |QUINCY ADAMS SCHOOL ACCIDENTS PROTESTED Kalorama Citizens’ Association Asks Traffic Director to Improve Highway Conditions_ Pointing out that three accidents have occurred recently in front of the | Citizens’ Association, meeting last night at the school, passed a resolution ask- ing_the director of traffic to improve trafic conditions at that point. The purchase of the Smith estate at Nineteenth and Columbia road for .a public park and branch of the Public Library was favored in a resolution | passed by the group. | _The association was told by Dr. Geor F. Bowerman that a library “would be appropriate” in the section and pointed out that one-third of the Bopulation of the District lacks proper ibrary facilities and that a number of communities are asking for branch li- braries. A. O. Stanley, former Governor of Kentucky and former Senator from that “State, spoke for the Community Chest. Tracey Ansell was indorsed as & new member of the group. Mrs. Edna L. Johnson presided. HIGHW:AY~E—ROUP STARTS JOBLESS REPORT TASK Diversion of Gasoline Tax to Uses Other Than Road Work Ex- pected to Be Opposed. By the Assoclatgd Press. ST. LOUIS, January 13.—A com- mittee appointed by the American Road Bullders’ Association, in session here, to devise ways and means to alleviate unemployment through highway con- struction began the task of drafting its report today. i One of the recommendations con- sidered likely will be that the diversion of gasoline tax funds to purposes other than road construction cease in all States, and that particularly in 1931 all :}xch funds be used for road construe- ion. MacDonald explained that States use part of their gasoline tax funds for schools. i area in which they might be permitted | Quincy Adams School, the Kalorama | some | CI “commercial, large-scale sale of grape juice concentrates that become 14 per cent wine by addition of air and water” | by Tinkham. He declined to discuss it. | The Attorney General testified there was congestion in a “limited number” of Pederal courts and explained the ad- dition of prohibition agents would mean | some increase in court business. Favors Wire Tapping. Woodcock, asked by Tinkham wheth- er he approved the practice of tapping wires to obtain information on dry law violations, replied: “I do. I have no qualms at all about that, sir. I think the telephone and telegraph franchises gre given for the transaction of lawful business and the promotion of lawful commerce. I do not think that the unlawful have any | right to use them with impunity. At | least I do not think that I can run this bureau on any other basis than the Su- preme Court has described as lawful.” Questioned as to whether “stool pigeons” were used, the prohibition di- Tector said abcut 101 “special employes” were employed temporarily to furnish information. He said the bureau main- tained a group of nine special officers to investigate its fleld personnel. The annual outlay for the purchase of alcoholic evidence amounted to $250,- 000, he testified. In the Justice Department items, in- creased court busfness and crowded penal institutions #aused increases of $1,583,000 and $1,661,000, respectively. Mitchell testified in the year ended July 1, 1930, the Federal prison popula- tion increased 20 per cent to more than 13,000. On December 1, 1930, there were 26469 Federal prisoners in peni- tentiaries, jalls and reformatories. The judiciary ' received $20,370,000. Deportations Cost $63 Each. | Immigration Bureau received $10,034,~ 000, of which $500,000 was for deport- |ing’ aliens and $400,000 for improve- | ments at Ellis Island. The committee recorded that 16,631 aliens were de- ported in 1930 at an average cost of $63 each. A greater number is to be sent off this year. The committee allotted a total of 75,400 for the Woman's Bureau and the Children’s Bureau, an_increase of 448,900. The Woman's Bureau will employ its share of the increase, $21,- 400, to continue investigation of haz- ards to women in industry. The Chil- dren’s Bureau increase will go to new personnel for the statistical and social with child welfare organizations in or- ganizing_studies. The Commerce Department section included a Census Bureau appropriation cut to $6,270,000; the aeronautics branch was allowed $10,342,000, an in- crease of $1,137,000 to improve air navi- gation facilities, and the $12,072,000 Lighthouse Bureau allotment included $1,870,000 for two new lightships and public works. Other commerce allotments were: $5,181,000 for the Foreign and Domestic Bureau, $6,236,000 for the Patent Office, $2,905,000 for the Fisheries Bureau, $3,063,000 for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, $2,874,000 for the Bureau of Standards, $2,278,000 for the Bureau of Mines and $1,395,000 for the Steamboat Inspection Service. Allotments for Prisons. ‘Thé State Department appropriation carried $11,612,000, an $175,000, for the foreign service. For- eign service buildings were allowed $1,200,000, There is an unexpended balance of $3,100,000. Under the Justice Department allot- ments for penal institutions were: Leavenworth, Kans., $1,942,000; McNeil Island, Wash., $730,000; New Northeast- ern Penl k¥ (construction), Penn- sylvanisy” 0003 ederal Industrial Instil@tion for Won Alderson, W. Va., $352,000; Industrria¥gReformatory, icothe, Ohio, $1,798000; New western Reformatory , * $800000; Natio Under the - Labor Department the ! service divisions, which will* co-operate ! increase ' of | We IPARK BODY T0 PLOT SITE OF MEMC”“i Decision Will Be Reached at Three-Day Meeting Start- ing Thursday. The exact location, near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, of the Dise trict of Columbia World War Memorial will be taken up by the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission during its three-day meeting, commenc- ing Thursday. The commission will inaugurate a new policy by taking a field inspection trip, as a body, along the proposed fort drive, that will link up with the old Civil War forts eneir- cling Washington. A special committee, consisting of Frederic A. Delano, commission chair- man; Maj. John C. Gottwals, Engineer Commissioner of the District, and Lieut Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the commission, is expected to report on proposals for the location of the new War and Navy Department Buildings. To Discuss Legislation, The legislative program, embracing the proposed omnibus street closing bill, rearrangement of traffic control and elimination of alley dwellings, will be brought before the commission and discussed. The present status of the proposed acts, and -the likelihood of their being passed at the present ses- sion of Congress, will receive attention, The transit situation of the triangle will be submitted to the commission by Col. Grant and the recently formulated Beeler report, prepared at the instance of the transportation companies, will form the basis of the discussion. Charles W. Eliot, 2d, director of plan- ning, will acquaint the - commijssion with the plans for development ‘of B street south. William T. Partridge, con- sulting atchitect of ‘the commssion, will discuss the present status of the pro- posed sunken gardens surrounding the Washington Monument. Mr. Eliot will bring forward the proposal to establisn another museum in the National Cap- ital, depicting objects of particular in- terest to Washingtonians, and mechani- cal advances, and he will discourse on additional plans for the creation of the proposed Avenue of The States, which wtn\lle take the place of East Capitol street. Consider Monumental Entrances. Additional attention will be given to the proposed monumental entrances to the District of Columbia, and the com- mission will discuss the comments of the Fine Arts Commission upon this plan. The Garden Club of America is sponsoring this project, and Mrs. Frank B. Noyes has brought the matter to the attention of the commission. Studies made by the staff of the commission of plazas, squares and cir- cles all over the city will be produced for the commission's discussion by Mr. Eliot. Maj. Gottwals will bring to the commission’s attention the various high- way changes that have been recently Pproposed. Following his recent presentation of the trend of population of the District of Columbia, Mr. Eliot will direct the interest of the commission to the s of population in adjacent Mai hnd'::: Vlrfln}l. ‘C:EL E. N. CI olm, jr., engineer of e commission, lained today that this information flxpnecu- sary in the planning of streets and of sewer and water development and other municipal improvements. AMERICAN MONEY FLOW TO EUROPE UNABATED Assistant State Secretary Declares 1830 Investments Abroad Great- er Than 1929 by Billion. Hard times have not stemmed the flow of American money and tourists abroad. Assistant Secretary of State Carr told the Appropriations Committee in hearings on the State supply bill report- ed to the House today that American investments in foreign countries in 1930 were estimated at $15,000,000.000, or about a billion more than in 1929, Passports issued in 1930 reached the record figure of 209,211, an increase of over 15,000, he said. RSy i T \ |Speakers Listed for Meeting of Geological Society. The Geological Society of Washing~ ton will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in the assembly hall of the Cosmos Club. The drought will be discussed by seve eral speakers, including A. H. Horton, Miss M. D. Foster, Carl J. Lauter, W. N. White, H. B. Humphrey and M. I. Goldman, BAND CONCERT. By the U. S. Soldiers’ Home Band, this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. Zimmermann, band- masted; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “The Fighting Yanks” Overture, “A Hunt for Fortune Entracte— “By the Wates B oo Berceuse—"Sing, Smile, e Excerpts from musical “The Rose of Algeria”. Fox trot, “Lucky Little De Waltz suite, “Over the Waves”. Finale, “Flufly Ruffles”...... “The Star Spangled Banner. Rosas Green Chinese Pirates Hold Captives. HONKONG, January 13 (#).—~Pirates who Saturday attacked and captured the China Merchants’ Steam Naviga- tion steamer Hsing Ming today took her into Honghai Bay, where they disem- barked, taking three Chinese passen- gers and a compradore captive. They also removed a-part of the cargo before allowing the vessel to proceed to Foo- chow. There were no casualties, ing School for Bovs, Washingten, D. C., $458,000, and Atlanta Penitentiary, Georgia, $1,298,000 WILL USE 40 AG) NTS HERE. Fourth ' District Includes D. €, Mary- land, Two Virginias and Two Carolinas. Forty additional Federal agents for enforcement of prohibition are to be placed in the fourth district, which in- cludes the District of Columbis, Mary- land, the two Virginias and the two Carolinas, under the increase of $2,- 369,500 in appropriations for ‘prohibi tion enforcement asked by the Depart- ment of Justice and indorsed by the House Appropriations Committee in its report on the bill today. - new agents will be in addition to Ee pres= ent force of 147 agents and five inves- tigators in the same area. This information was made public to day as disclosed in hearings on pros posed appropriation when Amos W. W. ‘ood , director of the Bureau of Prohibition was questioned in regard to_the 500 additional agents. Col. Woodcock declined to tell how many employes of his bureau are ac- tive in the enforcement of the prohibie tion law of the District of Columba, ‘when quest tative ‘Tinkham, Republican, of chusetts, recognized as a wet leader In the House, who is a member of the subcommittee which conducted the hearings. Woodcock said he thought it would be detrli‘l'nenl:ll to enmrceme“nv. uuvml:s ,&o discl oW many agents are empl i this particuia: piaces ’