Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1931, Page 12

A—12 = PROBESAREBEGUN BF 4 AUTO DEATS .'I’hrée Die in Crashes and Fourth Succumbs to Previous Injuries. Investigations were in progress today to determine responsibility in a serics; of weektend automobile accidents in ! and around Washington that caused | three deaths. A’ fourth person died | of injuries suffered | February 1. The dead: H Eugene Payne, 63 years old of Ballston, Va. | Robert V. Coo- | gan, 21 vears old, | of Westport, Md Mrs. Mary Sch-} warlz, 84 years old, of 457 1 strect| southwest. Clarence E. Johnson, colored, 20 years old, of North Brentwood, Md. The Arlington County grand jury, meeting today for the opening of the February term of the Circuit Court, was asked by Commonwealth’s Attor- ney William C. Gloth to consider tht{ circumstances surrounding the death early vesterday of Payne, a volunteer firrman Payne wes almost instantly kill:'d when struck by an automobile said to have bcen operated by Paul Schmidt of the 7700 block Alaska ave- nue, Washington. Stand Taken by Gloth. In announcing that the case would be presented to the grand jury, Gloth said that the facts as presented to him indicated that Schmidt had failed to see Payne until after the latter had been struck and that because of the uncertainty as to liability he decided that it was best to let all of the facts be_brought out in this manner. Payne, who was one of the founders and oldest members of the Ballston Volunteer Fire Department, had been attending a small fire and was helping to roll up hose along Wilson Boulevard when Schmidt, who said he had been attending a wedding party at Falls Church and was proceeding east toward ‘Washington, siruck him. The injured man was placed in the fire engine and rushed to Georgetown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Released on Bond. After going to the hospital Schmidt returned to Arlington County, where he | was ordered released under a $2,000 bond by Gloth. Payne was not only one of the or-| ganizers of the fire department but of | the Ballston Citizens’ Association as| well. He was also a member of Balls- ton Council, No, 36, Ord:r of Fraternal Americans. Three members of the lat- ter organization and three members of the fire department will constitute the pallbearers. Surviving him are his mother, Mrs. Columbia Payne; his widow, Mrs. Ida | Hen:on Payne and four children, Mrs. Lillie Hartke of Washington, Mrs. Ber- tha Darnell of Norfolk; Willlam E Payne of Ballston and Elmer J. Payne of ‘Washington. Payne's death is the first to occur since the volunteer firemen of the county were placed under an insurance policy. Previous to this time the of county supervisors has assumed re- eponsibility under an act which au- thorizes the protection of volunteer fire- men. The board of directors of the Arling- ton-Fairfax Volunteer Firemen's Asso- ciation met yesterday and voted an ap- propriation of $200 to the widow, the usual death award made by the asso- ciation Payn: was a guard at the Treasury Department. Struck in Mount Rainier. Johnson was fatally injured yester- day when struck by a speeding automo- bile believed to bear liquor as he was about to board a street car at Thirty- fourth street and Rhode Island avenue In Mount Rainier. The automobile con- tinued on its way toward Washington without stopping. The death car, which was being chased by two Prince Georges County | policemen, was said to be making be-| tween 60 and 70 miles an hour when it | struck Johnson. The chase bgan at| Laurel. | Johnson was thrown 80 feet, accord- ing to witnesses. His body was picked up by two motorists and rushed to Sibley Hospital, Washington, where he was pronounced dead. County Policemar: Claud: Reese said that he and another officer had been unable to overtake the death car at which they said they fired several shots, two of which pi-rced the rear of the machine, The officers anticipate the arTest of the occupants of the car as they believe their identity to be known. Johnson's body was identifi‘d by re- latives at the hospital. He was employed as a chef in a lunch room at Mount Rainier. Injured February 1. Mrs. Schwartz, who was injured in an automobile accident, February 1, at| Sixth and I streets northwest, died of | her injuries vesterday at the Sacred| Heart Home, Hyattsville, Md. | Mrs. Schwartz was a passenger in an | automobile operated by Mrs. Cora | Rowan of th: 200 block of V street, when the machine crashed into another operated by Thomas Simmons, 21 years old of the 400 block of F street south- west. Simmons will appear before a coroner’s jury today | Machines Collide. Coogan was fatally hurt yesterday | moming when the machine in which he.was a passenger collided with an- other and overturned at Fourteenth ! street and South Carolina avenue| southeast Coogan was riding in an automobile operat-d by Walter Groves, 40 years old of Westport, when the machine crashed into one driven by Sylvester Small, colored. 18 years old of 219 T street northeast. Coogan was pinned beneath the overturned machine. He! di"d at Casualty Hospital of h"ad‘ injuries Bmall was taken into custody by fifth recinct police and will testify at the nquest into the death at the District Morgue today 1 Forced From Road. Robert Reno, 22 years old, of K street near Eleventh street. Washington. suf- fered cuts to the forehead, which re- quired several stitches at Emergency Hospital, as the result of his car being forced from the road near Laurel, Md., by an automobile which failed to stop. CLAFLIN Optician—Optometrist 922 14th St. N'W. Established 1889 Eugene Payne. W IS THE TIME TO GO . New_Orleans, Houston, San | tonio’ and El Paso to Los Angeles and Ban Prancisco. Use the tourist sleeping ew Write coaches beyond. booklet R PASSENGER AGENT, Justice, died early today at his apart- ment in the La Fayette Hotel. struck by an automobile, were given as the cause of his death. studied Jaw at the University of Vir- ginia. Treaty Claims Commission. Wickersham, who then held the office connected with _the Justice to defend the Government in | the Court of Claims, o sition until his death. | d active in the political affairs of his native State. tor-at-large on the national ticket and | a member of the Electoral College. August 22, relatives are a grand nephew, William | Walker of Louisville, Ky.; & niece, Mrs. | Joseph V. Breitwelser of Grand Forks, | N. Dak., and Fred A. Rose of Muncie, o'clock tomorrow chapel of Almus R. Speare, 1623 Con- | THE EVENING STOCK FEED LOANS TERMS BROADENED Farmers Now Can Get Funds to Supplement Those Given Under Original Plan. Words Are Spoken By Synthetic Voice Invented in London By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 16.—Words never formed by human lips and spoken by a voice that never ex- isted were heard last nighv in the London office of an American film company. It was a synthetic voice, in- vented by the young Englishman, E. A. Humphriss, who, the Ex- press said, found it possible to reproduce word sounds by copy- ing the impressions from the sound track of a talkie film. He chose the words “all of a tremble” and by analyzing the “peaks and valleys” of the sound track was able to dissect them inta their various sounds. After- ward drawing them separately on cardboard strips and joining the strips together to form the words, he photographed them on a celluloid film which when run through a talkie projector repro- duced the words in a decp base tone Humphriss said the job took 100 hours. CHARLES F. JONES DIES FROM HURTS Injuries Received When Car| Struck Him Are Fatal to U. S. Attorney. By the Associcted Press. National Drought Relief Committee, | sald today, farmers could not obtain loans for fezd for live stock supple- mentary to loans for feeding work stock from the original $45,000,000 emergency appropriation. He said he believed the $20,000,000 additional appropriation, approved Sat- urday by Presid:nt Hoover. changed | the $45,000,000 meesure in that respect, as well as applying to the $20,000,000 fund. | ‘Will Not Question Past Loans. Warburten, who has administrative | charge of the loans, added that the d°- partment “would not question whether loans for feed already made were used for work or for other live stock.” Under the original appropriation loans for feed for non-working stock was prohibited. Farmers, who have already received loans within the original limitations of the $45,000,000 measure, may now apply for additional loans, dependent on their security. Bank Officials Called. Warburton sa.d that he and other officials of the Department < | Agriculture had conferred with Panl Bestor, chairman of the Farm Loan Board, regarding the administrative | set-up which must be created for ih= Charles F. Jones, attached to the handling of loans from the $20,000,000 legal staff of the Department of Iundulhrough agricultural credit cor- rations. poOfflclaL! of various intermediate credit Injuries | banks thmlxgcgm'l; m&tww have received April last, w been summont n to con- . Tenihe e fer on the subject this week. At this conference the allocation of the amounts to be used for direct loans Born near Brookville, Ind., Mr. Jones | for food, clothing and medicine as op- posed to indirect loans through credit He came to Washington in 1901 | corporations will be determined. In to represent the Government in de- administering loans through credit cor- 1 { claims before th porations the department_will collabo- ey et o orey e Spanish PO Cith the Fafm Loan Board, Dr. Sent to Spain. ' " Twenty-five ships were launched from In 1904 Mr. Jones went to Spain.|pelfast, Ireland, shipyards in 1930, as where he continued his work for the|compared with 18 in 1929 commission. The following year he = went to Cuba for the same purpose | When the commission was dissolved in 1910, he was designated by George W nd Iurelhrqa As Singers Do Don't throat e of Attorney General, to close its busi- ness and report the activities of its entire existence. Later he became Department of | suffer with for days. e pain a3 profestional singers e KONDON'S Catarrhal Jeily. Just rub a little on outside of thro; a drop. Soreness, hoarseness zet_relief richt ‘away. known concert singer savs. ' When “throat troubles arise I Just use KONDON'Sl and my t gver the tep.” Doctors sore He held this po-| An ardent Republican, Mr. Jones was | In 1896, he was an elec- Burial in Indiana. His wife, Mrs. Mary Rose Jones, died 1909. His only surviving | ot cents from drugeist KONDON'S g for today. few Telephone National 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate of 1% cents per days and 5 cents Sunday. d. | Funeral services will be held at 4 afternoon in the necticut avenue, with Rev. Dr. Frederick | Brown Harris of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will be in Brookville, Ind. ! A Select Group of 161 Pairs of Men's Footmodel SHOES Regularly Selling for $ NOW OST of these shoes are of black imported calfskin, on the desirable French last. Choice of two toe widths. Leather soles of oak bend, and rubber heels. We also include heavier-type shoes of tan leathers at $3.95. 2 Seconds by Direct Elevators to the Men’s Shop—Second Floor THE HECHT CO. F STREET AT SEVENTH Free Auto Parking for Customers —E Street bet. 6th & 7th Dr. C. W. Warburton, secretary of the | {Judge Civen STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. Girls Take Up Printing APPRENTICES YOUNG WOMEN G. P. O. Miss Blanche Boisvert (left), 1124 Abbey place northeast, and Miss Beulah A. Fairall, Odenton, Md, have the distinction of being the first two girls to be appointed apprentices in the printing trade at the Government Printing Office. They were both appointed last Thursday. Miss Boisvert came here from Manchester, N. H. —Star Staff Photo. TAXI CRUISERS FINED | charged with_violating the regulation today in Traffic Court before Ralph E Giv men, John P. McGolbrick and Eugene Southam, were first fined $5 by iJudRc Given. Then Suspends Sen- tence cn First Offenders. The first test case since the ban | 5 against taxicab cruising in the shopping district along F and G streets between |adelphia was demolished recently it certain hours was ordered, resulted in ‘mark!d the passing of the last perm: suspended sentences for two drivers nent home of minstrelsy in the worl ‘When the old Dime Museum in Phil- FEBRUARY 16, 1931 §20,105,000 1S ASKED INBUILDING PLANS Allocations Sought by Hoover Leaves $80,120,000 Yet to Be Assigned. By the Associated Press. Allocaticns for public building projects aggregating $20,105,000 were submitted to Congress today by President Hoover. They are the first to be recommended under the public building program out- side the District of Columbia since the Elliotty bill increasing the nrogram from $315,08,000 to $415,000,000 was ap- proved by the Chief Executive. The Elliott bill, sponsored by the adminis- | tration, was seni to the President last week by Congress. These allocations, along with others aggrogating $49.515.000 submitted by the President on February 2. are to be in- cluded in the seccnd deficiency bill now being drafted by the House Appropria- tions Committee. Practically all of the items are expected to receive final con- gressional approval this session. so the Treasury can carry on its plan to com- plete a 10-year building program in about five years. The purpose of the allocations is to authorize Secretary Mellon to enter into contracts in amounts not exceeding the limit of cost recommended for each project and to provide that tte lump- sum building appropriations carried in the supply and d>ficiency bills can be made available for carrying out the authorizations Director Roop of the budget did not ask for an increase in the lump-sum appropriations, _expressing the belief that sufficient funds were on hand to meet demands until the next budget is transmitted to Congress. The allocations leave $80,120,000 yet to be assigned. H. S. MORRIS BURIED New Yorker Who Died Here Wed- nesday Composed Marches. Harry Sanderson Morris, who died | Wednesday at his home in the Ward- man Park Hotel, was buried Friday in Brooklyn, N. Y. A native of New York, Mr. Morris | was a member of that city'’s Chamber | of Commerce, as well as of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Produce, Cot- | ton and Coffee Exchange. Mr. Morris had lived in Washington for the last five years. He was com- Doser of a number of marches, one of them having been played by the Army | Orchestra and broadcast over the radio. | He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Ingalls Morris. | \PHILADELPHIA MAYOR FEARS IDLE MAY RIOT Asks Relief Donations to Avoid Calling Out State Militia. 1 250,000 Are Jobless. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA February 16— | Mayor Harry A. Mackey told a radio audience last night that “unless the city meets its obligation to the unem- ployed” it would be necessary to “call upon the State Militia to preserve order.” Pleading for contributions to the| Lloyd Committee for the Relief of Needy | Unemployed Men and Women, he said | there were at least 250,000 persons, 50,000 of them children. in this city without the bare necessit'es of life. “I am not an alarmist” he added. “and am not overemphasizing, what I know to be the facts. Unless funds are immediately procured with which not only to carry on the great work started by the Lloyd committee, but to | give employment to the thousands on the eligible list and to those who are | daily seeking relief, there will be a| condition in the city of Philadelphia whereby it will be necessary to call upon the State Militia to preserve The committee has been giving 7,500 Jobless men and women three days’ work a week in “made” positions and has several thousand more on it§ ap- proved list. THEATER CENSORSHIP OPPONENTS ORGANIZED Committee of 100 Formed in New York to Co-operate With Actors and Stage Organizations. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. February 16.—Forma- ion of a citizens' committee of 100 prominent persons to oppose censorship of the stage in any form was announced yesterday by the American Civil Liber- tles Union The group will co-operate with actors and theater organizations in opposing a proposal to create a boafd under the State Department of Education to license plays and will attempt to bring repeal of the law which allows pad- locking of the theaters. Among those on the committee are Walter Lippmann, Elmer Rice, Fannie Hurst, H. L. Mencken, Rabbi Sidney Goldstein, Darothy Kenyon, the Rev. Robert Norwood, and Kenneth Mac- Gowan. Last year 18651 tourists visited the Hawaiian Islands. OYSTER BAR in connection with the Restaurant Pierre Breakfast, Lunch $1.00 Dinner $1.25, $1.50 Tea VEIE Connecticut Ave. at Q St. Anchorage Cuisine — Rauschers Give a Neighbor a Job Look carefully about your own neighbor- hood and you will realize that for every person out of a job, there are eight or nine of your friends and neighbors working. Now, if you eight or nine who are work- ing will only get together and to the extent you can afford it, give that one out of work something to do, you will be contributing the most helpful, constructive service possi- ble toward breaking up unemployment. For instance, there are plenty of ways, right in your own home, of investing your money in labor and materials, putting in needed improvements, repairs, additions. .. and doing these things under most favorable circumstances. You are not wasting a penny. You are putting idle money to work profit- 100 N YIS 5 ERE are 100 jobs. Not all are prac- tical at this time. But give the jobs you can— today—and add others as soon as weather permits. 19 Rehang windows 20 Reglaze broken windows 21 Renovate electric light system 22 Install new electric outlets 23 Clean chimneys 24 Paint woodwork 25 Refinish picture frames 26 Paint stair treads 27 Repair locks 28 Replace broken ware 29 Repair luggage 30 Construct sun parlor 381 Construct sleeping porch 32 Mend cellar stairway 33 Whitewash cellar 34 Whitewash out- buildings 35 Install curtain rods 36 Repair shades 37 Insulate attic 38 Clean grease traps 39 Rebuild coal bins 40 Paint cement floor Construction, Repairs and Painting Inside the House - 1 Repair furniture 2 Reupholster furniture 8 Refinish furniture 4 Recover mat- tresses, etc. 5 Stain fleors 6 Varnish floors 7 Lay linoleum 8 Build shelves 9 Build bookcases 10 Build cupboards 11 Construct new partitions 12 Construct wood boxes, etc. 13 Repair walls 14 Paper walls 15 Paint walls 16 Renovate plumbing 17 Renovate water supply system 18 Rebuild water tanks hard preperty. [ strips doors boxes 4% Patch roof 42 Reshingle roof 43 Repair fences 44 Paint fences 45 Paint house 46 Paint trim 47 Mend shutters 43 Paint shutters 49 Mend gutters 50 Mend leaders 51 Repair siding 52 Point brickwork 53 Renew weather- 54 Repair garage 55 Rehang garage 56 Heat garage 57 Construct oute buildings 58 Construct sheds 59 Build window 60 Repair footboards 61 Build clothes reel 62 Grade terrace, etc. 63 Build concrete walks 64 Build brick walks 65 Move young trees 66 Cut down brush 67 Plow garden 68 Renew sewage dis- posal system 69 Mend cellar doors ‘70 Repair flashing Yeur duty as a citizen Be:active in all community work which is meeting present conditions. Let your Mayor know you are behind him in all organized action providing employment. rooms 75 Wash floors 76 Polish floors 80 Wash ceilings 81 Wash clothes 82 Iron clothes 83 Wash househol linen ably, productively, and patriotically—if'it is premptly done. $Suppose you talk this over with your em- ployéd neighbors and arrange right away to divide between you the labor of a man or twc, for however long you can. Yeur opportunity as an individual Maice all proper purchases possible. Give employment by starting repairs, painting, etc., which add to the value of your (b) Outside the House Cleuln:," Washing Personal Services 71 Clean out cellar 72 Disinfect cellar 73 Clean out attic 74 Clean out store= 77 Wash windows 78 Clean woodwork 79 Clean wallpaper’ 1d 84 Iron household linen 86 Beat rugs 87 Shovel snow 88 Tidy up yard 85 Polish metalware 89 Wash and polish automobile 92 Run errands clothes 96 Deliver packag 97 Bring up coal 98 Wash dishes he Zoening Star in cooperation with 90 Clean shoes daily 91 Saw and pile wood 93 Sew and mend 94 Press outer clothes 95 Darn stockings, etc. 99 Care for children 100 Act as companion President Hoover’s Emergency Committee for Employment Arthur Woods, Chairman Washington, D. C.