Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1931, Page 17

Washington News SENATORS, IN TOUR, SEE CITY PROJECTS OF WIDE VARIETY Subcommittee te Decide To- day on Changes in D. C. Fund Measure. ACTION MAY BE TAKEN ON BILL NEXT WEEK Schools, Streets, Sewers and Bridge Approach Among Improve- ments Considered. Following an automobile tour of the city today, the District subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Commit- tee will hold an executive session at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon to decide what changes it will make in the local appropriation bill for the next fiscal year. 1If the subcommittee finishes its work this ning, the bill probably will be -mde‘:n hy‘ the Senate Appropriations Committee wmgmwkmd taken up in Senate next week. m:inded by Senator Bingham, Repub- lican, of Connecticut, and accompanied by District of Columbia officials, the subcommittee made a complete circle of Washington this morning to look at the more important street lm“reovemen'. projects and school sites. In the North- cast the’ subcommittee looked at Ben- ning road, which is to be paved under the House bill from Fifteenth street to the lake in Anacostia Park, at a cost of $154,400, and the street car tracks moved from the side to the center of the roadway. Traffic Relief mwg‘d e e subcommittee also ook ew Yo& avenue extended, which is to be ved under the House bill from the gldn at Florida avenue to Bll:;vembug road, therel up a new artel ‘into the m‘? that wil relleve 3:: mv_: bottle-neck now m.unzfl o g ‘The subcommittee Bmoklul‘n looking over the area where groups of citizens have taken different viewpoints as to the school needs on w sides unio: g u.b”::l .:g in E e:omnrodm%‘(l Queens Chapel road Bflc‘;:hm; % the otner side of Soldiers’ , the subcommittee stopped at v Park, where a request has been then motored ‘Woodridge and wing nasium at the Paul Junior High Scnool. The subcommittee also looked at a pro- posed site for a future senior high school some distance north of Manor Park in the vicinity of Van Buren street. ¢ Look at Keene School. ear Concord avenue and Rock Creek Cl:'mh road the subcommittee looked at the Keene School, where it is pro- posed to relocate the school across the ‘The subcommittee visited the Calvert Street Briage over Rock Creek in con- nection witn a suggestion that an allow- ance be made to araw plans for a new structure later on that would cost bout $1,500,000. e ‘nu‘subccmmitue inspected the Ben Murch School, which benator Nye of Dakota believes should be en- larged dupnlu w school at Thirty-ninth and Fessen- @ In the same vicinity the subcommittee looked at a senior high school site. for the Reno section. From there the subcommittee visited a school site in Foxhall Village. Trip Ends at Bridge. ‘The subcommittee also looked at sew- er conditions in the Piney Branch Val- ley and rode through B street, which is to be widened and paved between Four- teenth street and Virginia avenue. The trip ended at the south end of High- way Bridge, where thé Commissioners desire to improve the roadway that is under their . ‘The subcommittee followed a rule this year of not looking at proposed street im) nts where the street is less than 75 per cent built up, unless such a street forms a part of a main traffic POLICE BOARD TO TRY LANGDON TOMORROW Charges of Unbecoming Conduct Against Limerick Suspect Re- sult of Finding Still. Robert F. Langdon, suspended fifth precinct patrolman, now held as a sus- pect in the Beulah Limerick slaying, will be arraigned before the Police Trial Board tomorrow on a charge of con- duct unbecoming an officer. ‘The charge against Langdon was placed against him after police discov- ered a dismantled still in the basement of his home during the investigation of the Limerick case. Langdon has been held at the Dis- trict Jafl without bond since the early stages of the investigation into the girl's death. The policeman had been assigned to the beat on which the girl was killed. He denied complicity in the murder. Capt. O. T. Davis, commander of the second precinct, will preside over the Trial Board in the absence of Inspector - | practice of permitting bondsmen to WASHINGTON, B0y Fails in Hold-Up Attempt OSEPH SCANLON, alias Joseph ‘Wilson, 19 years old, who is re- ported by police to be wanted in Huntington, W. Va., following a spectacular escape from a court room, where he faced arraignment on a housebreaking charge, failed in an at- tempted hold-up here last night and was captured in a chase on F street. Clement Atkinson, a barber, of 508 Twelfth street, the intended victim last night, took away Scanlon’s gun when the youth, with a companion, ac- costed him in an automobile in front of the shop and set out in pursuit when the highwaymen broke and ran. The chase attracted others, and Richard Harlow, of 1024 Twenty-fifth street, nabbed Scanlon on F street just below Twelfth street. His companion &scaped. Atkinson told police he had closeq his shop about 8 o'clock and entered the automobile, when the two men tapped on the glass. Opening the door, he was confronted with the pistol and ordered to move over. As the pair entered the car, Atkinson snatched the gun, but before he could use it the men were on him with their fists. Apparently sensing a losing fight, the bandits sud- denly leaped from the car, and Atkin- son started in pursuit. Passersby joined in the chase, and the capture followed. Atkinson told police he had only about $10 at the time. Scanlon, who first said his name was Wilson, was taken to the first police precinct and booked for investigation. It was there he told the Huntington story to Detective A. D. Mansfield and gave what he said was his right name. He was booked for investigation while police. look into other possible opera- tions here. PASSER-BY NABS YOUTH IN CHASE. | JOSEPH SCANLON. —Star Staff Photo. METHOD OF SIGNING | BONDS CRITICIZED Justice Luhring Gives View During Trial of Glassman and Ten Others. Justice Oscar R. Luhring, who is presiding at the trial of Herbert Glass- |man and 10 others charged with con- spiracy to violate the national prohibi- tion law, suggested yesterday that the sign bonds in advance of the signing by the accused should be discontinued. The court’s attention was called to the fact that this condition sometimes happens, when Milton S. Kronheim, who was surety of the bond of Samuel Goldstein, one of the defendants, was not prepared to swear that the signa- ture on the bond was that of the de- fendant, explaining that he might not have been present when it was signed. “You mean to say,” queried the court, “that it is the practice in this juris- diction to sign bonds in that fashion?” ‘When the witness had answered in the affirmative, the court continued, “Well, it ought to be changed.” ‘The proceedings were enlivened when United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, after identifying the signa- ture of Goldstein to a bond given before him, pointed to Herbert Glassman when asked which - of the defendants was Goldstein. J. Frank Supplee, United States Com- missioner of Baltimore, was also a wit- ness for the Government yesterday to testify to the signature of one of the defendants to a bond given before him. A number of policemen and prohibi- REPORT SOON DU ONPUPLS LUNGHES School Principals Given Plan for Getting Facts in Sur- vey in District. Definite plans for the survey of ‘Washington's public schools to deter- mine the number of children in need of more adequate meals were laid be- fore the supervising principals and the principals of junior and senior high| schools by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- | intendent, in an executive meeting of the staff at the Franklin Administration | Building today. As planned by Dr. Ballou, the re-| ports from each division of elementary schools and trom each junior and senior high school will contain the following information: i “1. Approximate number of pupils in | the division or in junior or senior high school who now are being given break- fast or lunch. How many more, if any, who need food are not now being served. Information on Menus. “2. Indicate the menu, in general, for | breakfast and for lunch, who now serves it and how and where. “3. The present cost per day by di- vision or junior or senior high school of furnishing food to children, and how that cost is being met.” Although the meeting at which the whole question of underprivileged chil- dren was discussed was executive, it be- came known that no opinions were ex- pressed by any of the school officers a to the extent of need for food for Dis- trict pupils. The discussions centered tion officers will testify today of alleged violations of the national prohibition act by several of the defendants named in the alleged conspiracy. ‘The prosecution is being conducted y Assistant United States Attorneys fh{‘old W. Orcutt and James R. Kirk- and. FATHER AND SON GET PRISON SENTENCES T. Oliver and James Milton Probey Appeal Convictions on Tire Fraud Charge. ‘T. Oliver Probey, 56, and his son, James Milton Probey, 26, were sen- tenced today by Justice Jesse C. Adkins following their recent conviction on an indictment charging a conspiracy to violate the bankruptcy law by conceal- ing a quantity of assets belonging to the firm of Probey’s, Inc., engaged in the tire business, and with attempting to secrete a large number of tires from the trustee in bankruptcy. The com- pany went into bankruptcy in 1926. ‘The father was given a term of one year and nine months in the peniten- tary and the son one year and one day in prison. Both noted appeals, through Attorney S. McComas Hawken. _Assist- ant United Sttaes Attorney William H. | Collins conducted the prosecution. The Government was aided in its in- vestigation which led to the indictment by a special auditor of B. F. Goodrich & Co. of Akron, Ohio. BOY, 5, HURT BY AUTO Slight injurics were suffered late yes- terday by Henry Hollls, 5 years old, of 115 D street southeast, when he was struck by an automobile at Second street and North Carolina avenue south- He was removed to Providence Physicians said he would be | permitted to return home soon. The car involved was driven by Eliza- beth Coon of the 600 block G street southeast. about the manner in which the survey, which Dr. Ballou decided upon yester- day, is to be made. Tact in Making Survey. The chief concern centered about the possibilities of getting such intimate information as whether children re- ceived breakfast before they left home without violating the privacy of the children’s homes, and without causing embarrassmen} to the needy children. Dr. Ballou declared yesterday and re- iterated today that he would not ex- press an opinion on the advisability of | congressional appropriation to provide lunches and possibly breakfasts for needy children until the actual need had been learned through the survey. He is of the opinion, however, that un- less there is an acute need for financial aid the whole guestion should remain the prohlem of Washington’s school of- ficers and teachers and of the parent- teacher associations. The survey will be completed as soon as possible, and reports are expected to reach the Frank- ldln Administration Building within a few ays. NEW 25-CENT PIECE APPROVED BY HOUSE Committee Reports Bill to Put Washington Head on Quar- ter-Dollar. The proposed new quarter-dollar, bearing the head of George Washington in commemoration of the Washington | Bicentennial, today received the ap- proval of the House Committee on Coin- age, Weights and Measures. A similar bill authorizing the issu- ance of the new coin has been passed by the Senate. It was understood the bill in the House will be pressed for early-action. According to Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon the present quarter wears badly, and the design in difficult to manufacture. The old quarters will not be called in, however, if the new ones are issued. The new quarter would bear on one side a portrait of George Washington and on the other an appropriate design to commemorate the Bicentennial. Louis J. Stoll. The other two members of the board will be Capt. S. F. W. Burke and Capt. W G. Stott. WRIST SLASHES FATAL 69-Year-0ld Suicide Found After Door Is Battered Down. hing his wrists with a razor blade ins:“ basement bath room at his home, flliam Kinsey' Young, 69 years old, of treet, rday a few g-ma time, was Paskel, a_roomer Young collapse and fall to the fcor. He was alive when found, but was pro- Emer- nounced dead a few moments later staff physicians summoned from B an watchman A wite, g: umu.:!mm. lives at Norwood, Md., learned. Young was employed as b, L. | until next weel tions are being made at the Anacostia Naval Air Station for the flight testing of a tiny Navy Loening folding plane, which is designed for carrying rd submarines. The plane was delivered at the local station late m:g.yiau robably will not begin P ly RS, Dvie £ s ‘wel and' cen of grav] and other factors determined. ’rm plane is one of the smallest ever to undergo flight tests at the Anacostia station, which now conducts all work of this character for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. 4 3 ‘The uu:u are to hot cted secret- ly under terms, orders, applied ‘both Army, PLANE FOR USE ON SUBMARINE;—S TO BE GIVEN FLIGHT TESTS HERE Tiny Craft’s Details Kept Secret as Navy Also Prepares to Try Out New Single-Seater Fighter. that the new planes are to be safe- guarded from the public during testing periods, and, if adopted for service use, for a year after approval. Orders were issued that no photographs were to be made of the plane. Results of the flight tests also are to be withheld. ‘The flight-test section expects deliv- ery next week of a new Curtiss single. seater fighter which, according to ad- vence reports received here, is expected to have sensational performance. Of- ficors of the flight-test section said they h-'e no officlal information regarding tle plane and vtoblbgfi'fil not know | much about it until flight testing . The plane probably will be to the on hy automo- D.C. WHOLE-WHEAT |GRAVELLY POINT LOAF T0 BE CUT SITE IS ACQUIRED ONE-CENT MONDAY N HIGHWAY PLAN M. Lee Marshall, Head of|Land to Be Developed as if Continental Baking Corpora- tion, Tells Senators Aim. WAGE SCALE PREVENTS GENERAL REDUCTION Frank Wheeler, E. A. Wireback and Leon S. Ulman Other District Witnesses. Discussion of bread prices in Wash- ington took up a considerable part of the senatorial food inquiry again yes- terday, during which M. Lee Marshall, chairman of the board of the Conti- nental Baking Corporation, which op- erates the Corby Bakery here, prom- ised a reduction of 1 cent in its whole- wheat bread in the District Monday to equalize it with the white bread. Mr. Marshall testified there has been no general decrease in the price of bread in Washington because of the wage scale paid here to bakeshop and delivery employes, but he contended the quality of the bread has been in- creased by better ingredients and longer baking time. He said he found the whole-wheat bread has been selling 1 cent higher than white bread here, | adding: “I am glad this committee has called attention to this subject. I shall see that the price is reduced next Monday. If the same differential obtains in_any other city where Continental owns bak- eries I shall equalize it on my return to my office.” Other Witnesses Heard. Other witnesses whose testimony dealt partly with Washington were Frank Wheeler, assistant to the president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; E. A. Wireback, superintendent of bak- eries of the American Stores Co., and Leon S. Ulman, vice president of the Hclmes Bakery. Senator Capper of Kansas, chairman of the Agricultural subcommittee con- ducting the hearings, questioned the witnesses in detail regarding District prices. Mr. Wheeler said his company does not have one of its own bakeries in Washington, that it pays 8 cents for bread here and sells it for 9 cents. Senator Capper said the wholesale price of bread .has not gone down in Washington- in the past five years and asked Mr. Wheeler for his opinion on the subject. The witness replied that he was not familiar with the cost figures of local bakeries. Mr. Wheeler said his company has its own bakery in Baltimore. Senators Frazier of North Dakota and Townsend of Delaware sug- gested they might bring bread here from the Baltimore plant. Mr. Wheeler sald he had no doubt but that in time the company would have a bakery in ‘Washington. Mr. Wireback said the American Stores Co. has its own bakery in Wash- mgton and that since March, 1928, has been selling a 5-cent loaf of bread. ‘When Capper asked what the company made on that price, the witness replied that in Washington it cost 5.21 cents to make this bread. Mr. Wireback said the 5-cent price was inaugurated here to conform to the company’s other dis- tricts. Mr. Wireback said underproduc- tion is one of the factors entering into the cost figure he gave, explaining that the company has provided a baking plant here capable of a much larger output, Prvious Price Cuts. Mr. Ulman of the Holmes bakery told Senator Capper there have been several reductions in bread prices in Washing- ton in the last 10 years. In 1922, he said, the price went as low as 6 cents a pound wholesale and 7 cents retail. He said that might have been due to a bread war, which, he said, lasted about 18 months at that time and cost local bakeries between $2,000,000 and $3,- 000,000. Mr. Ulman gave the present price as 9 cents a loaf, wrapped and delivered. Asked by Senator Capper about the prospect of a reduction, Mr. Ulman said if he had reduced the price 1 cent last year he would have operated in red figures. Testimony that the general level of food prices has dropped 15.3 per cent since September, 1929, was presented at yesterday's hearing. The committee virtually completed its inquiry into bread prices with several manufacturers denying excessive profits and cont:nding the lower prices of wheat and flour had been fully re- flected in the cost of bread. Today several sugar refiners will testify on the cost of sugar, with par- ticular reference to the difference be- tween the price of white and brown sugar. Next week the committee will inquire into the prices of milk and dairy products and meats. Good Bread Prices Low. Mr. Marshall told the committee “the price of good bread is lower today than it has been since before the war.” Dur- ing 1930, he sald, his company had generally reduced the price of bread or increased weights in the loaves. Marshall said the company was spending $2,000,000 a year more for better ingredients than formerly. He denied his company had ever attempted to fix prices, declaring it did less than 5 per cent of the total bread business of the country. Admitting there was little justifica- tion for selling whole wheat bread at higher prices than white bread, Mar- shall told the committee his company would reduce the price of the former to correspond to the cost of white bread, beginning Monday. Alvin E. Dodd of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. another chain group, testified that the prices of many foods had declined from 20 to 25 per cent since October, 1929. He said his comfinny was. selli bread for 5 cents a loaf, as compar with 6 in°1929, a reduction of 162 per cent, which, he sald, more than ;epresemed the decreased price of our. ATTORNEY WI'-iO ESCAPED ALLEN SHOTS DYING Dexter Goad, Court Clerk When Clan Was Tried, in Criti- cal State. By the Associated Press. GALAX, February 13.—Dexter Goad, Hillsville attorney and former Intended for Great Capital Airport. WHOLE AREA LINKED WITH NEW BOULEVARD Department of Commerce Places Beacon Nearby in Case Field Is Later Established. All the land necessary for the con- struction of the much-disputed Gravelly Point airport for the National Capital has been acquired as a part of the Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard project, it was said today by Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of :’ubllc Roads, Department of Agricul- ure. Regardless of whether or not Con- j gress authorizes the airport at this site, the area of flats and marshes compris. ing the major part of the site will be filled and graded as a part of the regular harbor work of the Army Corps of Engineers, according to pres- ent plans. If not used for airport pur- poses, this filled area probably will be- come part of the memorial parkway bordering the Potomac from Mount Vernon to Great Falls. \ Access by Underpass. * Latest plans for the boulevard show the Gravelly Point area filled and marked “Available municipal airport.” Access to the Gravelly Poipt tract from the boulevard will be vided by & grade separation and underpass at a point near the site of Abington, the colonial home of the Custis family. ‘The Capital airport situation still re- mains unsolved. A joint congressional committee, after prolonged hearings, reported a bill providing for the estab- lishment of a governmental airport on the Washington-Hoover Airport site, now operated commercially as an air terminal. The bill designated the Grav- elly Point area for future airport devel- opment. ‘The Mount Vernon boulevard develop- ment is being carried on with a view te the creation of a great airport at Grav- elly Point, according to plans of the Bureau of Public Roads. These plans provide for a great double airport site, with two systems of runways, connected near their ends by taxi strips forming two great circles. Hotel Site Designated. Between these circles, at the point where the grade separation and under- pass now are being constructed near Abingdon, is a site laid off for the field administration building and parking space for 500 automobiles. Hangar sites are designated around arcs of the circles on either side of the administra- tion building. On the land side of the boulevard the plans show an area marked available for airport services, including freight siding and storage, supply yards and repair shops. An available airport hotel site is shown near Abingdon. At_the south end of the airport site is a large basin marked as available for seaplane harbor purposes. Park areas and roadways surround the entire air- port area. Despite the failure of Congress to go ahead with the Gravelly Point airport plan, the area will be developed just as though an airport were to be built, it was indicated. The Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Com- merce, in line with the Gravelly Point airport plan, has located the radio bea- con station for the National Capital airway system near Abingdon, adjacent to the Gravelly Point area. This - con is in a position to serve the Gravelly Point area and is more than a mile away from the Washington-Hoover Air- port site. W. W'GEE BEALL SUCCUMBS AT 68 Retired” Employe of Telephone Company Prominent in Ma- sonic Circles. ‘William McGee Beall, retired employe of . the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co., with which he had held a number of important positions, died in Georgetown University Hospital yes- terday after a short illness. Beall was born in this city in 1863 and entered the service of the telephone company in 1895. He was connected with the engineering de- partment of. the company for many years. In 1915 he was transferred to West Virginia as rights of way agent, having his headquarters at Charleston. Returning to this city in 1921, he served here as rights of way agent until retired last month. Mr. Beall was prominent in organi- zations and was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He was a mem- mac No. 5, A. 5 Potomac Commandery, its Templar, here; Columbia Council and Beni Kedem Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Charleston, W. Va. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ida Fairfax Newman Beall; four daugh- ters, Miss Mary A. Beall and Mrs. R. A Randall of this city; Mrs. M. W. rry of New York Philip A. Hale of Balboa, Canal Zone; three sons, Ninian Beall of this city, John A. Beall of Aurora Heights, Va., ;ndk ‘William Lawrence Beall of New ork. A brief service wHl be conducted at the family residence, 3404 Dent place, tomorrow at 2 p.m., with additional services in Oak Hill Cemetery. Rev. H. A. Kester will officlate. The services will be in charge of the Masonic order and members of Potomac Commandery serve as escorts. PUPILS’ CAR FARE BILL IS SENT TO CONFERENCE House Wants Level Set at 2 Cents Applying to All Children At- tending School. clerk of the court, there, who narrowly | dren. escaped death’ when the Allen clan “shot up” the court house in 1912, is seriously ill with pneumonia. His son, Dr. Ted said here yes- terday that little tertaing for Mr. Goad’ re: received today was I Maryland, McLeod of Michigan and Norton of New Jersey. The House conferees will endeavor to get approval from the Senate con- ferees on the rate for N - @he Poening Star RIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931. ‘Babes in Wood’ Returned | 47 HOLD-UPS HERE POLICE RESTORE TWO FOUND IN PARK. Charles Luria, aged 4, and Ruth Milstone, 3, his companion on a hike through Rock Creek Park. 3, were found by park police early yesterday afternoon trudg- ing wearily along Morrow road in Rock Creek Park, far from their usual haunts around Fifteenth and Crittenden streets. Charles Lurig of 4607 Fifteenth street and Ruth MilStone of 1432 Crittenden street, tired of playing at 11 o'clock and decided they would take a stroll in the park. When they were found by Offi- cers Robert Howell and C. T. Gillespie, their shoes were muddy and like two lost “babes in the woods” they had lost their bearings. WO adventuresomelittle playmates, a boy of 4 years and a girl of SINCE JAN. T SET MARK; IDLE BLAMED 29 in Corresponding Period Last Year, Say Police, Scor- ing Vagrancy Law. RESULTS EXPECTED FROM NEW LEGISLATION Soup Kitchens Attract “Floaters” and Suspects Are Kept Under Watch. Police officials checked up today and discovered that since January 1 there have been 47 hold-ups in Washington, compared with 29 in the corresponding period of 1930. The increase is attributed to the un- employment situation, which police point out has brought to Washington many strangers in search of work as well as undesirable “floaters,” who oftentimes resort to robbery when pan- handling proves unprofitable. In fact, police officials pointed out that a great majority of the hold-ups this year were perpetrated by the unwelcome visitors, The police records show there were 30 hold-ups in January and 17 thus far this month. In January last year there were 13 hold-ups, and February's total was 16, one less than reported for the first 12 days of the same month this year. Characters Under Watch. The entire police force, at the direc- tion of Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- tendent, is making an unusually stren- Charlie wasn't so frightened that he couldn’t tell the kind policemen his name. Then their fears were forgot- ten in the thrill of a dash through the park in the sidecar of a police motor cycle that took them to the thirteenth precinct station. There it was found that two anxious parents had been look- t, ing lunra th “;nd the};'h:ar:w whisked | away homeward on another ride. Dolics ol z Ruth, her mother says, wants to stnel out 'and play with Charles again to- | (or, \Oltering on the streets and in this day, but she is being kept in for being “absent without leave.” The children were none the worse for their three- hour sauntering and displayed amazing appetites over delayed luncheons. way either put them in jail them away from Washington. only weapon now in possession of police for curbing the activities of handlers and “floaters,” it was the somewhat toothless vagrancy act, DETECTIVE FREED IN ASSAULT CASE Officer May Face Police Trial Board on Dual Charge, However. Assault charges against Detective Sid- ney H. Miles of the sixth precinct, who is alleged to have attempted to tear a dress from Margaret Henderson, 1631 S street, in a Massachusetts ave- nue drug store last night, were dropped in Police Court today, when Mrs. Hen- derson refused to prosecute. However, formal charges of intoxica- tion while on active duty and conduct unbecoming an officer will filed against the detective for presentation before the Police Trial Board, it was learned today. Capt. William G. Scott, sixth precinct commander, recommend- ed in a report to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of - police, that the charges be placed against Miles, who was suspended when pronounced intox- icated and unfit for duty by a police surgeon. Miles Placed Under Arrest. Miles, a husky 6-footer recently as- signed to plainclothes duty at Union Station, walked into the Harrison Hotel Pharmacy, 17 Massachusetts avenue, about 11 o'clock last night, drew his re- volver and went from customer to cus- tomer, ripping buttons from their clothes, according to evidence offered. Reaching Mrs. Henderson, Miles at- tempted to tear off her dress, the re- port said. Several of the customers in- tervened and the detective released his grip on the woman and walked away. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson reported Miles to his superiors. Alfred E. Johnson, jr., 1517 C street southeast, and Guild Barber, 1103 Ver- mont avenue, who told police Miles ripped several buttons from his over- coat, substantiated Mrs. Henderson’s story. Miles was ordered placed under arrest and suspended. May Face Tribunal. Miles is 35 years old and was ap- pointed to the force on January 8, 1921. He Iives with his wife and several chil- dren at 4446,0rd street northeast. It is expec that the detective will be called before the police tribunal on February 21, his fifth appearance before that body. He was con on a charge of intoxication and neglect of duty on May 10, 1924, and fined $120. On’ another occasion he was'tried for conduct unbecoming an officer and was let off with a warning. He was found not guilty on charges when arraigned on two other occasions. 3 Four commendations for meritorious under which the police have found it difficult to get a conviction unless s vert act b5 violation of b oy e a law or regulation. s REPORT WILL URGE INSURANGE CHANGE “Legal Reserve” Clause in il . e ! bad Code' of District Favored | csusit soiciting on the siest. - "~ by House Group. it New Law May Help. Maj. Pratt believes that the proposed new vagrancy law now pens in Con- gress would be of valuable ce to the police at the present time in Washington of the undesirable “floaters™ before'they have an opportunity to com- of 't caieieg £y v, howeves, and clare, are at the same time having effect of keep some of the unde- A favorable report to the House Dis- | sirables in Wash! , who trict Committee on the bill to amend | ¥Ould move on to another trict of Columbia to maintain a *I reserve” for protection of u_;p:licy hold- o e ve| One official of the Police Department y by subcommittee, of which Representative id, blican, of Illinois, is chair-|cited a personal experience in support et - c opinion. A man claiming to be led to him one day man. of this This measure passed the Senate last|out of work a June, and, according to testimony at a | for money for food. He was given $1 brief hearing today, no objection has|and, through the influence of the offi- been recorded to the proposed change.|cial, found temporary employment. A Among those who testified were Thomas | few days later he returned and asked M. Baldwin, jr., District superintendent | fcr $5 more, saying that he had given of insurance; Thomas P. Cameron, as- | up the job because the work was tiring sistant corporation counsel; Frank B.|on his fingers. Bryan, jr.; deputy superintendent of in- L. Lea, chairman of the ‘The latter told the that his organization had not considered the bill and that he was attending the hearing principally as an observer, but that he was confident the Board of Trade would endorse the measure. Other witnesses testified that practi- cally all of the old-line companies have been maintaining “legal reserves” with- out such specific requirements by law, ;.s Lheymt‘\inve “i:uThed that the District W WOl juire them. ator nd of New York wiil Chatiman Reld of the subeommittes | e o ot oAby 5 & MemOril quoted from the Senate report on this | service observing the 111th anniversary- measure as follows: of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, ‘The object of this bill is to require | pioneer suffrage leader, to be held at life insurance companies in the District | Plerce Hall, All Souls’ to maintain a legal reserve. The Dis- | Church, at Sixteenth and trict now has no law requiring such a |streets, Sunday afternoon at 5:30 reserve, which is a vitally important | o'clock. The services will be conducted element in the life insurance contract. | under the auspices of the Susan B. It is the insured’s only assurance that|Anthony Foundation. the contract will be satisfied by the| Other speakers will include Janet company. Richards, publicist, and Mrs. Bertha “Discovery of this serious defect in|Yoder Werthner, educator and presi- the District law was made by the cor-|dent of the foundation, who will review poration counsel in a recent case. Thejthe “Life and Work of Susan B. District Commissioners urged the in-|Anthony,” by Ida Husted Harper, as: troduction of this bill and recommended | well as “The Great Woman Statesman,"” its adoption. The Senate Committee|a short biography of Miss Anthony by knows of no opposition to the bill.” the late Nannette B. Paul. Chairman Reld also included in the| Mrs. Anna E. Hendley will preside at records of the subcommittee a letter|the service, at which friends of Miss from District Commissioner Reichelder- | Anthony and other prominent persons fer, which stated that in reviewing an|have been invited to sit on the platform. appeal from a small life insurance com- | Dr. Ulysses G. B. Pierce will offer the pany here the corporation counsel found | invocation, and the benediction will be that there was no actual law for a|given by Dr. William T. Sneed of the ANTHONY SERVICE TO HEAR COPELAND Annijversary of Feminist's Birth to Be Observed at Church Sunday. legal reserve under the existing code of some years ago. service appear on Miles’ record. MAN IS HELD ON CHARGE OF SETTING STABLE FIRE Desire to See Engines “Go By” Re- sulted in Death of Five Horses. A year-old colored man, who is accused of set! fire to a stable and Col to death SLUGGED WITH HAMMER, 1 Diocese of Philadelphia. As a special number on the ram Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer sing Battle Hymn of the Republic, companied by Lewis Corning Atwater. musical pre of a half hour's Episcopal the service, WITNESS GOES TO COURT ':fiflh v 5 o'clock. All churches and many of the city's tions have been Man Struck With 10-Pound Sledge gllviudm ueze a . both the nfit‘flz sng Able to Appear to Attest a;_!o':mg ‘Unitarian Chureh ¢ - Assault Warrant. - n, of Capts. Pagan and D. H. Last Saturday a 10-pound sledge hammer descended with mighty force on the skull of Wiliam Frazter, 20| REPRESENTATIVE BETTER years old, colored, of 1428 Sixth street, EPR during an altercation in a garage in the Representative J. Lincoln Newhall of seriously rear of 2241 avenue. Frazier, fresh from Preedmen'’s | Covington, Ky, who has been ill of pneumonia, today was on the road Ka , will act wiel the sledge hammer %m The de!end‘;rdxt plead charge deman tfllu'“fle was held on $500 “Sergt. R. C. Speith of No. 8 pi arrested Stackhouse f k Charles W. Eliot, director of plan- ’g gmalthzmfima’l"c-plum ju lanning Commissio: a" for | the speaier of the ‘Oivies Bection Twentieth Century Club. Mr, of inct | Eliot outlined for the of the