Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1931, Page 5

"MAN IS INDICTED INPRINTER'S DEATH Accused of First-Degree Mur- der.in Slaying Which Fol- lowed Card Game. Ernest Carroll, colored, was indicted today for murder in the first degree in connection with the death of Albert A. Galbreath, a printer, February 16. The tragedy occurred at Carroll's store, 110 L street, the deceased having been shot in a fight over a game of cards. Carroll called the police and reported he had been robbed and that he had shot the man. To carry out this story he is said to have placed a number of dollar bills in the hand of the victim and to have strewn other bills near the body. Following his arrest he changed | the story and admitted there had been ' & quarrel over a game of cards. Held on Assault Charge. Assault with a dangerous weapon and robbery are chargeq in an indictment 8gainsc Cline Ray Teegarden, said to be a Marine, who is alleged to have struck William B. Lumsden, Raleigh, N. C, over the head, taken $6 from | him 8% the point of & pistol and to have stolen the car of his victim, valued at gfi‘t’)n. Lumsden reported to police e was near his hotel and was attract- ed by a woman, who seemed to be look- ing at him shortly after midnight Feb- Tuary 2, when Teegarden, approaching, inquired how he liked her and sug- gested that she would take a ride with them. When they had driven outside the city limits near Branch avenue and « Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Lums- | den said he felt a blow on his head | and, jumping out of the car was con- fronted by Teegarden with a pistol, who | took $6 from him. Later they strug- | gled and Lumsden became unconscious. | n he recovered he found his car was | 8one, he said. | Joseph J. Scanlon and Louis Diskin are accused of attempted robbery. They are said to have pointed a pistol at Clement E. Atkinson, a barber, as he ¥agentering his car in front of his shop, &% 506 Twelith street, Pebruary 12. The Darber grabbed the pistol, wrenched it from his assailant and pursued them for several blocks. Scanlon was caught by 8 bystander who had joined the chase. Diskin was arrested later. Accused of Larceny. ‘William Horace Smith, colored, is in- | dicted in two cases of housebreaking and larceny. He is accused of breaking into the home of Senator N. B. Dial, 1852 Kalorama road, January 31, and taking & pocketbook containing $52. He is also s2id to have entered the home of Aman- | da L. Fenton, 1775 Church street, No- vember 5 last, and to have taken a watch worth $35 and 85 in cash belong- ing to her and $120 of a roomer in the use. The grand jury exonerated James W. Callan of a charge of criminally as- ! saulting Jeanette L. Dorsch when they ‘were guests at a party in the home of Harris J. Atchinson. 3634 Thirteenth street, February 12. The young woman Jjumped out of a window and was picked up by Charles §. and Thomas C. Marshall, 1925 North pitol street, who were passing in an automobile. ‘The gzand jury heard testimony from other guests at the party and ignored \ the charge. Other Charges Ignored. ‘The grand jurors also ignored a charge of carnal knowledge preferred inst Joseph Allen when the girl thdrew her charge. Others indicted and the charges against them include Thurston McNairy Lewis, Thomas Vincet Neylan a James Robinson Johnson, non-support; Lawrence Braxton, John Able Bryan, John Hill (2 cases), and Bernard Heil, housebreaking and larceny; Charles H. Davis, arson: Bradley Taylor, joy-rid- ’d‘i&: Christopher Wallace, Emil B. Cun- (2 cases), Charles Wilbur (alias Otis Freeman) and Hobart Stowers (2 cases), robbery; Marion L. Scott, assault with dangerous weapon bert A Dunn, forgery and utter Lawrence Johnson, violation national prohibition act; Charles Grant (alias Jack Neu- \ feld, alias Jack Little) (2 cases), viola- tion national motor vehicle theft act, and Alfred Roland Mears, carnal knowledge. R HOMICIDE CHARGED TO TOLEDO MERCHANT B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 24.—Accused of driving an automobile which figured §n a fatal accident last night, Avery ‘Wright, 36-year-old lumber dealer of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested early today en a charge of homicide. Miss Harriet Hathaway, 24, was in- stantly killed when her car collided with two others in the Bronx and over- turned, pinning her beneath it. Her sister, Helen, 26, and two friends, Wil- Uam Leroy Hixon, 34, Toledo glass manufacturer, and Wright, also were caught under the car and received minor injuries. The Hathaway car struck one occu- jed by Max Just, president of the Al jullding Corporation; Mrs. Just and a chauffeur, who were returning from Atlantic City, N. J. They escaped in- jury. Both cars were wrecked and one parked at the curb was damaged The sisters had lived at the Barbizon Club fcr two years, one being a stud and the other an employ of a Fifth avenue store. Wright and Hixon were on a periodical visit to the city and were staying at the Hotel Marguery on Park avenue Helen Hathaway gave her home ad- Park Lane Hotel, Toledo socially prominent in the formerly in Indianapolis and Detroit SEVEN PIST(.)LS STOLEN Seven pistols, valued at $172.25, were stolen from the sporting goods store of Simon Atlas. 927 D street, late last nignt. The guns were displayed in the window of the store, which the robbers broke to enter. Noise of the crashing glass was heard by people on the street and police were today searching for two white men, said to have been seen leaving the vicinity shortly after the crash Excursion MIAMI $41.83 ROUND TRIP THE EVENING Heirloom of Colonial Days QUILT OF GENERATIONS AGO HAS LIKENESS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. Josephine Owen of 4002 Kansas avenue with a quilt said to have been handed down in her family for the past four or five generations. The likenesses of George Washington and the colcrs on the coverlet are still unblemished through the wear of time. Antique dealers say the quilt is priceless. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, SOCIALISTS PLAN CONFERENCE HERE Leaders to Assemble Satur-! day for Two-Day Session of ; Executive Committee. Leaders of the Socialist Party will assemble here for a two-day confer- | ence beginning next Saturday at ses- sions of their National Executive Com- mittee. ‘The principal topic to be considered, it was announced by Marx Lewis, chair- man of the local Socialist organization, will be the status of the drive the party is conducting to secure adoption of un- employment insurance measures as a means of relieving distress caused by widespread unemployment. Model meas- ures, providing for a system of unem- ployment insurance in the States, have | been prepared for introduction in a number of State Legislatures. Clarence Senior, national secretary, will report on the progress that has been made in the campaign to increase | the membership and on the prepara- | tions for a national Socialist confer- | ence to be held in Milwaukee in June. Sunday evening the Victor L. Berger National Foundation will tender a din- ner in honor of the committee at the | National Press Club. Morris Hillquit, present national chairman; Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, Mrs. Meta Berger, James H. Maurer, Joseph W. Sharts, Mrs. Lillith Wilson, Rev. | Elliot White and Alfred Baker Lewis will speak. | ‘The local Arrangements Committee is headed by Charles Edward Russell. | | DR. FURFEY IS SPEAKER | Dr. Paul Hanly Furfey, professor of criminology and psychiatry of Catholic University, will discuss “Adolescent | Problems" before the round table at the Jewish Community Center tonight. The talk will commence at 9 pm. Dr. Furfey has made a close study of the subjects he will discuss snd has | written several books on problems af- | fecting social organization. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931. From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washindton'a Theaters. “The Lonely Way” Long and Sombre Life Study. HADES of “A Month in the Country” and similar works of neuroticism were reminiscent last night at the Guild production of “The Lonely Way” at the National. The way, in fact, was lonelier than had been antici- pated. Arthur Schnitzler's “ tragi-comedy” Froved long and angorous ~and infinitely more tragic than comic. The first smile came a half hour after the first cur- tain. The sec- ond after the third curtain. After that, there was_none. The Guild, of course, has treat- ed this theatric antigue with customary veneration. Mounted with skill by that past-master of design, Lee Simonson, it weaves out its melancholy fable with elegance and occasional brilliance. The Guild, furthermore, has endowed the cast with Violet Kemble Cooper and Glenn Anders, and one or two others who uphold the Schnitzler torch vahantly. But, and in spite of these obvious " assets, and the extremely sensitive direction of Philip Moeller, would it be sacriledge to say that “we" yawned once, twice and even again before the five acts had come to a close? This play, which takes place in Vienna back in the days of 1904, is concerned with a strange family whose love for living is tucked away in the ancestral cupboard. There is the mother, white-faced, who anxiously whom no the sister, who seeks death in a pool the son who discovers that he isn't the son of his “father,” but of a famous artist, and finally the artist, who is robbed of his son through having confessed the secret of his ‘Theater Violet Kemble Cooper. birth. There is sickness of body or of mind in every one of them. Scarcely a word is spoken in which there is so much as a breath of healthy living. Although many of the lines are lyrically fine, and some of the scenes convincing—especially the one in which Glenn Anders tells the boy that he is his real father—there is apparent over the whole not only certain mustiness of age, but an unreality more thickly convery than even an O'Neill could wish for. Each one of the characters takes time out to muse on the beauties of the past. One hears about an end- less assortment of adolescent meas ows and flelds and acacia trees and hills on which castles and their tur- rets reached up into the sky. Poetic as these may be, and as well read by their interpreters, they slow down the whole to such a degree as could make one wish to throw them out bodily. In construing this languid whole, Miss Cooper injects a ray of light. She is the only character who so much tries to smile over the burdens that she as well as every one else has. Mr. Anders is splendid in & more sombre role, and so is Wal- ter Coy as the youth who is pretty thoroughly disiliusioned before the play is over. Of them all only Helen Carew, as the stricken mother, seems to lack the necessary spark. E. de 8. CHER. PRI, | HORSES LEAD TO ARREST CHICAGO, February 24 (#).—By fol- lowing his race horses, authorities were able to catch up with Frank Flower, former bank official. indicted in con- nection with the closing of the Roosevelt Bankers State Bank, Assistant State's Attorney Henry Ayers said today. Mr. Ayers sald Flower's arrest in S8an Diego, Calif., resulted from information that he had entered his three horses in the races at Agua Caliente, Calif. At San Diego Flower denied there was “anything hanging over him” in Chicago. Officials here said they plan- ned to try him and three others on charges of receiving deposits while knowing the bank was insolvent. ONE KILLED, 2 SHOT INSTRIKE DISORDER Mill Workers Surrender After Three Are Wounded at Stroudsburg, Pa. By the Associated Press. STROUDSBURG, Pa. February 24 —Miss Alberta Bachman, 20, & mem- ber of the striking employes of the Mammoth Hosiery Mill here, died today from a gunshot wound received last| night during a strike disturbance. | Two others, members of the United | Textile Workers of America, an organi- zation said by police to be in sympathy with the strikers, were wounded. They are Mrs. Elsle Bachman, sister-in-law of the dead girl, bullet wound in the right ankle, and Ruseell Hastle, shot in the hip. The strike began three weeks ago because of a wage disagreement The shooting occurred in front of the home of Clark Miller and Russell Arnold, employes of the mill who re fused to join the strike. They were awakened by stones thrown . through their bed room windows, police said. Arming themselves they investigated and saw several pe sons fleeing toward an automobile. In- stead of obeying Miller's order to stop, the persons jumped into the car, which started away as Miller and Arnold fired. Miss Bachman and the other | wounded were taken to a hospital Miller and Arnold surrendered. They | told police their fire was intended only to frighten the fleeing party. WARDENS ORDERED HELD Vernon J. Dreisch and Raymond Powers, Maryland game wardens, who are accused of having shot and killed George Lee when he was in the act of spearing fish in the Severn River, were ordered held to the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County today, following the sitting of the jury of inquest. * MONUMENT SOCIETY RE-ELECTS OFFICERS Justice Van Devanter, C. C. Glover, W. R. Harr and Theodore W. Noyes Honored at 98th Meeting. A-5 . Re-election of the entire slate of officers yesterday marked the ninty- eighth annual meeting of the Washing- ton National Monument Soclety at the Metropolitan Club. They are: Justice Willis Van Devan- ter, first vice president, Charles C. Glover, second vice president: William g Harr, secretary, and Theodore W. oyes. treasurer. President Hoover is president ex-officio. * Mr. Harr reported that in accordance with ‘an annual custom, a_wreath had | been placed at the base of the Wash- ington Monument by the society. members discussed proposed ment of the Monument grounds. Members present in addition to Mr. Justice Van Devanter were Dr. Herbert Putman, Maj. Gen. William M. Black, Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Frederic A. Delano. John Barton Payne, Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, and Mr. Harr., Mr. Glover and Mr. Noyes were unable to be present. After the meeting the members and other guests were entertained by Justice Van Devanter at luncheon in the Metropolitan Club. The WHOLE-MILK CHEESE FOOD | was “still under investigaton” and they | LU OFF FORCE Woodcock Orders Inquiry as to Why U. S. Agents Were at Party. Two colored proh'bition agents, Har- old Maxwell and Eugene Jackson, re- | mained under suspension today after | a coroner’s jury yesterday afternoon absolved Maxwell of blame in the fatal sh of Henry Baker, colored, 41 years old, during a drinking party at 136 W street early Wednesday. Prohibition Director Woodcock said | the presence of the agents at the party would not be reinstated unless cleared by_the Prohibition Bureau's inquiry. Inquest witnesses agreed that Baker was hit as he stood on a staircase land- lnl" by a bullet from the gun of Max- well. A conflict developed, however, in the testimony of the only person who ad- | mitted seeing the shooiing, Loretta | Young, 19, colored, an occupant of the | premises. The jury, after a hearing | continued from "Saturday, agreed on the verdict in a few minutes. Testimony of Girl. Loretta Young testified that Maxwell | shot Baker when the latter remon- strated with him for “scaring the girls” | with his revolver. She said Baker "ui killed while begging Maxwell to return the gun to its holster. Maxwell explained to police that lhe‘ gun slipped from his shoulder holster while he was talking to Baker, and | that it was discharged accidently when | he grabbed for the falling weapon. ‘ The conflict in Loretta Young's testi- | mony developed, police charged, over | her versions of her actions following the | Just Arrived These fine Ital- ian hats, her- alds of warmer dayscarry their usual air of s!yle leader- ship. Light in weight, smart in shape and attractive- ly toned in the correct shades. new From WASHINGTON Feb. 28, March 1, 2,3 Return Limit March 20 SPORTING EVENTS City Ticket Office 714 14th St. N. W. Telephone National 0637 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY $rirough the Heart of the South” | "W 12 the party. The young woman at first admitted, -I'wfl FREEI] |N RUM | shooting and as to whisky drinking at | and later denied, police testified, that Maxwell and Jackson had had several rounds of drinks with herself and ai other girl living at the W street ad- dress. Tells of Drinking. On the witness stand she asserted that both agents purchased and drank sev- eral glasses of whisky. She was corrob- orated in this by another colored girl's testimony. Loretta Young at first told police she hurried from the premises through a rear window and down the roof of a porch. Later she testified she locked herself in an upstairs room, coming downstairs after the excitement abated. Jackson told the jury that he and Maxwell attended the party to obtain information against dry law violators. WILL MAP JOB PROGRAM To work out a program to help re- lieve unemployment, there will be & meeting of pastors and laymen_inter- ested in the problem at Calvary Baptist Church, Baker Hall, tonight at 8 o'clock. The meeting has been called by the Committee on Employment and Indus- trial Relations of the Washington Fed- eration of Churches, whose chairman is R. Spencer Palmer. The speakers at the session will be Francis 1. Jones, director general of the United States Employment Bureau, and a representative of the District service unit. Plans for future activity on the part of the protestant churches will be discussed. . PR = Whether London will have Sunday movies is to be tested in court. Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 1!5c per day and 5c Sund2y. Can you afford to be withcut this service at this cost? ‘Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. Eron\,‘ NEW YORK AVENUE of FIFTEEN ia @ Kesping Washington Men Well Dressed ® Spring Barbisios From Italy W N Exclusively in Washington at— Bt Gridp? New York Avenue at Fifteenth ) NATIONALLY KNOWN @ Insured and Assured Metropolitan policyholders—including about one-fifth of the total populations of United States and Canada— have built up their reserves from millions into billions. HE financial story below is a record of achievement by men and women who are planning to avert want or to build estates. You may admire their steadfastness of purpose last year under handicaps which tested courage. These people—policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company—are building for their future. They would like to know what the future holds in store for them and for the country as a whole. Let them, and other citizens, examine any chart of our country’s unparalleled prosperity over the past hundred years. It appears, not merely as a jagged line, but as a series of toweting steps which rise steadily onward and upward. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Financial Report to Policyholders for Year Ending December 31, 1930 ARt o . oo oovsoeo. oo 'S3310/021BIBA7 ( Larger than any other financial institution in the world) Liabilities Statutory Reserve . . . . . $2,870,453,034.00 Reserve for Dividends payable in 1931 upon Industrial Policies . . . 44,568,156.00 Ordinary Policies . . 48,028,166.72 Accident and Health Policies_2,029,150.00 Total Dividends . . 94,625,472.72 All Other Liabilities ., . . . 142,783,551.75 Unassigned Funds . . . & . _ 202,159,759.70 $1,310,021,818.17 363,230,995.31 299,461,766.79 3,305,037,927.00 Incomein 1930 . . . . . . Increase in Assets during 1930 . Paid-for Life Insurance Issued, Revivedand Increasedin 1930 . (Escluding Increase on Group Policies) Total Bonuses and Dividends to Policyholders from 1897 to and . including 1931 . . . 622,966,910.29 Life Insurance Outstanding Ordinary Insurance . . . . . $ 9,286,568,051.00 Industrial Insurance (premiums payable weekly or monthly) . 6,821,768,687.00 2,702,629,646.00 Group Insurance . . . . . . Total Insurance Outstanding . . 18,810,966,384.00 (Larger than any other life insurance company in the world) Policies in Force (Iscluding . . . 44,826,363 1,492,052 Growp Certificates) (More thaw any other life insurance company) Accident and Health Insurance Outstanding Principal Sum Benefit . . . . . $1,402,110,601.00 Weekly Indemnity . . . . . . 15,172,026.00 Vg It is heartening now to recall that, after each” depression, our country has always gone forward * to greater heights of prosperity and better, soundes” standards of living. Today this country has more riches and better facilities than ever before with’ ’ which to commence her next great period of - development. States since it was founded in 1783 should turn any pessimist into an optimist. The Metropolitan will gladly mail, fres, a book= let,“The Development of Prosperity in America”, telling of past ups and downs—and ups again— and how soon the “ups” followed. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Some Noteworthy Daily Averages of the Company’s Business During 1930 2,144 per day in Number of Claims Paid. 19,639 per day in Number of Life Insurance Policies Issued and Revived. $10,907,716 per day in Amount of Life Insurance Issued, Revived and Increased. $2,093,529 per day in Payments to Policyholders and Addition to Reserve. $988,323 per day in Increase in Assets. Growth in Ten-Year Periods Number of Life Insurance Policies in Force at Endof Year 1870 . . .9331 . . $13,335,108 ., . 1880 . . 117,088 . . 19,167,349 . . 1,947,821.79 1890 . 2,099,882 . . 235,037,926 . . 19,781,173.01 1900 . 5,494,057 . . 923,877917 . . 62,158,034.33 11,288,054 . 2,215,851,388 , 313,915,172.39 24,176,752 . 6,380,012,514 . 980,913,087.17 44,826,363 . 18,810,966,384 . 3,310,021,818.1i Outstanding Life Insurance at End of Year Assets at End of Year $833,914.19 This Company is a mutual organization. It has no stock and no stockholders. All of its assets are held forits Policyholders. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY - NEW f“DERICK H. ECKER, President YORK unsel Co / A review of the financial history of the United