Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1931, Page 15

FAMILY OF SIMMS UNSATISFIED WITH FINDING OF SUICIDE Foul Play Suspected in Death of Salesman in Patomac River. WIFE SAYS HUSBAND HAD MONEY BEFORE TRAGEDY Purse and Pockets Found Empty ‘When Body Was Recovered; May Reopen Case. Although Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt yesterday issued a certificate of suicide in the death of Frank Lee Simms, 28, bakery salesman, of 1021 Duke street, Alexandria, whose body was found floating in the Potomac Rliver, near Highway Bridge, Simm's widow and his two brothers are not satisiied that he leaped to his death of his own accord. A number of factors in the case, they say, tend to indicate that Simms might have met with foul play, even though no marks of violence were found on his body at the Morgue or at the under- taking establishment in Alexandria, where & further examination of it was made last night at the request of the family. Raymond W. Simms, brother of the dead man, said last night that no one connected with the Washington police force had visited Alexandria to ques- tion the family. No Money Was Found. Coroner Nevitt said that a jury, sworn in over the body, would be sub- Ject to recall if new evidence was.un- coyered. Mrs. Ruth Simms, wife of the dead man, declared that her husband had some money in his n when he left home and might have collected an additional $40 the previous evening be- fore he started for work. No money ‘was found in"his pocketbook, which was lying on the ledge in the rear of his automobile when it was found parked on Highway Bridge, and no money was found in his pockets when his body ‘was examined. Her husband had no Jewelry other than a ring, she said. The ring was found on his finger. Mrs. Simms further stated that her husband was in the best of spirits when he left home. He is said to have been devoted to his wife and baby son, who will be 1 year old Friday. Officials of the bakery company, where Simms had been employed for more than a year past, stated that he was an excellent employe, had always turned in his collections promptly, and they could assign no reason which might eause him to commit suicide. Funeral Tomorrow. Puneral services for Simms will be afternoon at 3 o'clock tomorrow m 'I\nmle on King street and will be in charge of been due to 5 o'clock yes- work as usual. 5 o'clock his brother, Raymopd, a street car motor- man, saw his automobile parked on the right side of Highway Bridge, headed into Washington, but supposing that the car had run out of gas, attached no significance to it. About 7 o'clock a fellow employe, erossing the e to Virginia to make deliveries, recognized the car. Seeing mohting of Simms, he notified E. L. Hoff- man, business agent of the Charles Bchneider Baking Co. of 413 I street, #where Simms was employed, and Hoff- fman in turn called police. Found in Shallow Water. Simms’ empty pocketbook and his eye- flasses, without which it has been wtated he could not even see to drive an automobile, were in the car on a! ledge behind the seat. Keys to the au-) 4omobile were in the ignition switch and the car was in operating condition. | The harbor precinct boat, Maj. Syl- wester, was called into service, as was the yescue squad. Meanwhile a trio of em- ployes of the Merritt-Chapman-Scott «Construction Co., engaged in work at the south end of the bridge, volunteered their aid and, obtaining a small boat, r1owed to a point opposite the parked automobile, Te Simms’ body was found floating about midway between the Highway and railroad bridges, in about 4 feet of water. The body was transferred to the pa- trol boat and brought to the Virginia shore, where members of the rescue squad endeavored unsuccessfully to re- store life, pending the arrival of a doc- tor from Emergency Hospital, who pro- nounced Simms dead. 4:4 HALF-HOLIDAY POINT Holds U. S. Workers May Combine Two Saturday Periods Taking Six Hours Same Day. There is nothing in- the Saturday fhaif holiday law to prevent Government #mployes who have been forced to work two Sefurday afternoons, from com- them and taking six hours off duty on one single day, according to & decision by Controller General McCarl, given Public Printer Carter. It would not be necessary to split the he Sunday Staf WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1931. =* Dies in Potomac FRANK LEE SIMMS. several persons whose names appeared | ithe case. -NEW MAIL DELIVERY time repaid to the employes for work- fng two Saturday afterncons into two gifferent days, McCarl ruled. “The law contemplates a shortening of one other workday for each Saturday ‘on which an employe may be required to work more than four hours” said Mc- Carl, “and in so far as the exigencies o©f the service will permit, such com- Bay daring the- week "m“’""’.a."éu"gfi the Saturday on which more Sour irs was required.” No decision has been rendered by the controller general in the much dis- cussed as to whether time taken off duty on Saturday morning shall be cha: hour for hour, on leave, or whether the four hours off Saturday smorning should be considered an entire day off duty. This question, it was said Jast night, has not yet been submitted to the controller general, but is ex- Fected to be shortly. CORDON INQURY SHIFTS T0 CAPTAL Member of Bronx Homicide Squad to Quiz Persons Dead Woman Mentioned. The investigation of the murder’ of Vivian Gordon, Broadway “butterfly,” shifted to the outskirts of the Capital last night as a member of the Bronx homicide squad sought for questioning| in the slain woman's diary. Detective Sergt, Donald Carey of the New York City homicide squad, left police headquarters last night alone for what police here describe “as parts un- known but nearby.” Diary Names Traced. 1t was learned, however, that Sergt. Carey has along with him several names found in the diary of Miss Gor- don of certain persons who live on the outskirts of the Capital. The detective wishes to question these persons in hope that new light may be shed on the baffiing murder. It i‘s further learned that John Bischof!, estranged husband of the dead woman and superintendent of industries at the Lorton, Va., reformatory, has been cleared of any connection with Alibi is Checked. Sergt. Carey and Sergt. C. E. Mans- field of the local homicide squad, spent the better part of Friday at the reforma- tory, where they were said to have checked Bischoff’s alibl. Sergt. Carey spent several hours yesterday afternoon at the War Department heré, but just what he sought there could not be learned. Bischoff entered the case shortly after his daughter Benita, committed suicide. Investigators learned that at that time Vivian Gordon had written him a letter threatening to expose his alleged con- nection in a “frame-up” in her arrest on a vice charge in 1922. | | - SERVICE IS LAUDED Mount Pleasant Citizens Hear Dr. . C. B. Campbell on “Clean-up Week.” i | ‘The Mount Pleasant Citizens' Asso- clation last night adopted a resolution commending the Postoffice Department | b for increasing the mail delivery in their | section at a meeting held in the Mount | Pleasant Public Library. | The association, however, offered ob- jections to the removal of some ma boxes in the area. | Dr. Charles B. Campbell addressed | the meeting on “clean-up week.” He| stressed the fact that unemployed resi- | dents of the city should be given work | during this campaign. | The School Committee was authorized | to join with the Bancroft School| Parent-Teacher Association in an ap-, peal to the Board of Education for in-| clusion of an appropriation for an ad- | dition to the Bancroft School in the| 1933 budget. A motion offered D. D. Caldwell to} appoint a special committce to nb(.:\m{ information for a history of the Mount | Pleasant district was adopted. W. D. Sutherland_was accepted 8s a new member. Earl E. Dillon, president, presided. D. C. SUPREME COURT EMPLOYES HONORED| Alfred G. Buhrman and Miss Eliz- abeth Meigs Have Served Office for 40 Years. Frank E. Cunningham, clerk of the District Supreme Court, with his entjre staff of clerks, yesterday paid honor | to two of the assistant clerks who have seen 40 years of service with the court. Alfred G. Buhrman entered the office April 1, 1890, and Miss Elizabeth Meigs, a granddaughter of the first clerk of the court, R. J. Meigs, was ap- pointed by her grandfather in the Spring of 1891. Both have remained in continuous service throughout the years. After the office had been closed for the day Mr. Cunringham, his wife and the entire force gathered at a lunch- eon in the file room of the clerk’s office and made congratulatory speeches to the honored guests. Both of them responded and detailed some of the interesting events that have occurred at the court and the many changes that have takes place within the past 40 years. SERVICE STATION ROBBED Thief Gets $60 While Attendants Are Busy With Car. Sl quietly into the Orrison &M‘gg‘%‘hmn at 601 H street north- east last night while attendants were at work on a patron’s machine, [ f rifled the cash drawer of the WATERS INCOVR BOTTLING PLANT AND AREST FIVE Tip Leads to Finding Alleged Liquor and Label Stock in Apartment. | | | FIRST MAN, IN AUTO, * CHASED AND CAUGHT Other Four Busy at Capping When Taken—All Are Held for Investigation. Production of “Golden W:dding," which police declare is a so-called Canadian whisky selling at $5 a pint here, was struck a serious blow yester- 4 MORE FINALISTS NAMED IN STAR'S ORATORICAL AREA Selections Made in Leonard- town, Lovettsville, Rockville and Washington. TWO PROMINENT SCHOOL ATHLETES ARE ON LIST Preliminaries Will Be Held This ‘Week at Upperville, Hyattsville and in This City. The names of two prominent second- ary school athletes are among the four acded to the list of contestants who day when police raided an apartment at 1474 Chapin street, where thcy ar- rested five men and confiscated large quantities of alleged grain alcohol, al- leged liquor, fancy labels and other paraphernalia. Acting on a “tip,” Manning and S. F. eighth precinct, drove to the house just as a man was leaving in an automobile. The policemen pursued the man, who, they said, broke several bottles of al- leged liquor whon he found he could not elude them. Four Busy Bottling. After capturing the man, who identi- fied himself as Francis C. Elder, 20 years old, 831 Rock Creek Church road, the policemen returned to th: apart- ment, where they said they found the other four men busily engaged in bot- tling and capping the alleged liquor. The men gave their names as Fred- erick Redmond, 28, of 1142 Seventh street northeast; Stanley H. Mullin, 29, of 1409 Chapin street; William, E. Fowler, 20, of Camp Spring, Md., and Gladstone Harmon of Brentwood, Md. The five men were h:ld for investiga- tion. The seizure, according to police, in- cluded seven 5-gallon tins of alleged alcohol, enough bottled alleged liquor to fill two trunks and such it:ms of equipment as corks, bottles, capping de- vices, glycerin, etc. The liquor and paraphernalia were confiscated by Capt. H. H. Grove of the eighth precinct and headquarters polic>. It was taken to the Eighth Precinct Police Station. Had “3-Star” Labels. None of the men admitted having rented the apartment, which apparently was not usd for living quarters. Aside from a few tables and chairs, a single bed was the only piece of ordinary household furniture in the apartment. ‘The seized bottles bore such labels as “Bacardl” and “Thre:-Star Hen- nessy,” in addition to “Golden Wed- ding,” police said. CLEAN-UP JOBS DRAW Policeman R. L. Malon?, of the will compete in the higher stages of the National Oratorical Contest in The Evening Star ares As a result of elimination held at the Leonard Hall School, Leonardtown, Md., and the Rockville High School, Rock-| ville, Md., William Beitzel Burch, a soph- omore, 16 years of age, and Alvin T. Perkins, a senior, also 16 years old, will represent those schools at the St Marys County and Montgomery County finals, respectively. Both boys are identified with four varied sports in their respec- tive schools. Two Girls Win. Miss Mary Josephine Kelly, a 16-year- old junior of Holy Trinity High School, | ‘Washington, and Miss Winifred Grove, | 17-year-old_senior in the Lovettsville, | Va., High School, were the other two | winners selected. Seven pupils participated in the Leonard Hall event, which was held in the school auditorium, with Rev. Broth- ers Sylvan, Theophane and Cosmas act- ing as judges. In addition to Burch there were two sophomores, James E.| Law and J. Ford Loker, 2d; one junior, Andrew Ryan, and three senicrs, Ken- neth J. Lynch, Charles A. Cassidy and Paul F. Russeli, competing. Burch's gpeech was entitled “The Sig- nificance of the Constitution.” He is the son of Mrs. Bernadette C. Burch of Baltimore, Ma., and has been promi- nently identified in athletics in the| school as a member of the basket ball, base ball, foot ball and track teams. The Holy Trinity High School winner is eligible next to compete in the pri- vate and parochial district finals, which will take place April 13. Miss Kelly used as her topic “The Individual and the Copstitution.” and delivered her oration with such force and clarity as to overcome the strong opposition offered by Miss Blanche Lyddons, the school victdr of 1930, and Miss Lida Crockett and Mary Hymes, the other students competing. The judges were Sister M. Josepa, Sister M. Austin and Sister M. de Lourdes. Sister Placide, principal of the school, presided. Expects to Become Teacher, Miss Kelly is the daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. A. George Kelly of 3012 Q street northwest. Her father is a construction 1,052 AS APPLICANTS Employment Committee Lists! Names of College Grads and Will Aid Needy. As a result of its four-day enroliment of applicants for work during the 1931 clean-up campaign, District of Columbia Committee on Employment now has in its files the names of 1,052 persons, the committee announced yes- terday. The applicants were of all types. There were even a few college gradu- ates among them, together with a fair sprinkling of high school graduates. The names of the applicants will be tabulated, then references will be in- vestigated, and in every instance an ef- fort will be made to secure a work record of the applicant. The committee ex- ects to be able to satisfly many em- ployers of the more particular type who apply to it for labor in connection with the clean-up campaign next month. Although some of the applicants were esperately in need of work, not all of them' were unemployed, the committee announced. Some persons were tem- porarily employed, while some enrolled in the hope of securing future work not needed at present. Those reported as desperately needing work will be given precedence in filling valuable jobs. | HIBERNIANS TO HONOR ST. PATRICK TUESDAY Prominent Catholics to Speak nt' Society's and Auxiliary Group's Banquet. The Ancient Order of Hibernians| and its Ladies’ Auxiliary will celebrate St. Patrick’s day with a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Earlier in the day—10 o'clock in the morning, to be exact—members of the organization will hear solemn high mass at St. Patrick'’s Church, Tenth and G streets. Rev. James Smith of Baltimore, former assistant pastor of the church, will preach. The mass will be followed by a reception in the rectory. Among those scheauled to speak at the banquet are Judge Martin L. Sweeney of Cleveland, national presi- dent of the Hibernians; Right Rev. John T. McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore; Miss Agnes Reagen, sec- retary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; Miss Elizabeth Lynn, presi- dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary, and Patrick H. O'Dea, president of the District branch of the Hiberntans and chairman of the committee in charge of the day'’s program. Patrick J. Halti- gan will act as toastmaster. STUDENTS WAGE DEBATE ON MODESTY OF SOCKS Youthful @Girl Editor Declares Misses Over Eight Should Cover Their Knees. By the Ass6ciated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—Socks, stockings and bare knees. Those were the points on which de- bate raged today at a round tabe dis- cussion of the Columbia Scholastic Press Assoclation Convention at Colum- | ! bla University. office and escaped with $60, according to report to police. Allen B. Orrison of lfisbflllnnll; l"::- nue, manager of the station, said that he and his assistant, Aloysius Gallagher, 1431 Montello avenue, were out of the office for only a moment. ‘The station is owned by B. T. Orri- son, brother of the manager. The lat- ter reported that the loss i insured. A "Oll'll‘hofv‘er :. yu? old hd'uoulcl not expose their bare knees by wearing socks. They are old enoug modestly,” isted 14-year-old Gladys Lewin, school newspaper editor from |representation of alumni in the Depart- | now goes to Egbert, Wyo. Other girls, some of them 9 to 12 years old, not. they wore socks in thought it perfectly all right. CALDWELL TO HEAD engineer. Following her graduation in 1932 she expects to become a teacher. At present she is an assistant editor of the Mission Chatter, a school publica- tion. Miss Winifred Grove took first honors in the decision of Judges L. A. Womel- dorph, Miss Laura Cross and Miss Rym- ple Cross at the Lovettsville meeting, with her oration on “The Origin of the Constitution.” Three other pupils, Miss Helen Tobler and Harold Warner of the junior class and Miss Nannie Frye, a senlor, competed in this event. Miss Grove is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Guy T. Grove of Lovettsville. Her father is a clerk in the trainmas- ter's office of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad. Following her graduation in June of this year, Miss Grove plans to pursue bookkeeping as a vocation. The second athiete to distinguish him- self in this year's contest by marked | forensic powers is Alvin Perkins, a | member of the basket ball, oase ball, track _and soccer squads at the Rock- ville High School, Rockville, Md. Per- | kins also is the president of the school’s dramatic club. His only competitor in the finals was Schley Bowie, a junior, the other entrants having been elimi- nated in preliminary stages of the intra- school competition. Miss Catherine Hall, teacher in charge of the contest work, | presided at the meeting, and judges| were Mrs. Sterling Edwards, Mrs. Nut- ter and Miss Thelma Pyle. Perkins is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Alvin T. Perkins of Washington Grove, Md. He plans to attend Duke Univer- | sity next year and to prepare himself to become a’ chemist. During the coming week the prelimi- naries at Upperville, Va., High School, the Hyattsville, Md., and Sacred Heart, Washington high schools will be held and the school representatives chosen. DRUG PARLEY GROUP Hoover Names U. S. Delegates to Geneva Conference on Narcotic Ban. By the Assoclated Press. John K. Caldwell was selected by President Hoover yesterday as chair- man of the American drlegation to the Conference on Limitation of Manufac- ture of Narcotic Drugs at Geneva on May 17. Other members of the delegation will be Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of | narcotics; Dr. W. L. Treadway, chief | of th> Bureau of Mental Hyglene of | the Public Health Service, and San-| | born Young of California, chairman | | of the California State Narcotic Com- | mission. Participation by this Government was authorized in a resolution approved by the last Congress. Caldwell is a foreign service officer and for many years has bzen a repre- sentative of the Secretary of State on the Federal Narcotics Board. He also has represented the United States at | the last four annual s:ssions of the League of Nations Opium Advisory | Committee. o ALUMNI PLAN FETE The National Capital Chapter of the General Alumni Association of Iowa State College will celebrate the seventy- third anniversary pf the founding of sc! the Ames. Iowa, institution at & dinner session Friday evening at the Bur- ington Hotel. Alumni chapters throughout the country will celebrate Founders’ day on GENERAL NEWS One Day Left to File Tax Returns PERIOD CLOSES TOMORROW MIDNIGHT. 1y B street), where taxpayers are receiving expert guidance in making out their income tax returns. Deputy col- lectors are cn hand to help explain the intricacles of the tax blank. ‘There is a nice new cashier’s cage in the SCENE yesterday in the new Internal Revenue Bureau Building, at Twelfth street and Constitution avenue (former- corner where the money is received. Washingtonians also may mail their returns to the Collector ¢of Internal Reve- nue, Baltimore, Md., which is headquarters for this city. —Star Staff Photo. MONTH'S REVENUE ON TAVES SLUNS Collections in Period Decline| From February, 1930, but Total Rises. ‘Taxes collected by the District of Columbia showed a decline in February, as compared with February, 1930, ac- cording to Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers. The collections for the 1931 fiscal year to date, however, show an increase of more than $500,000 over the comparable 1930 fiscal year period. During February, 1931, the collections amounted to $1,854,577.20, as compared with $2,118,425.33 'in February, 1930. The collections for the first eight months of the present fiscal year, in- cluding February, are $21,457,200.62. The comparable figure for the 1930 fiscal year is $20892,427.84—an increase this year of $564,732.78. Mr. Towers attributes the low February collections this year to a falling off in the amount realized from the sale of tax titles to property on which pa ments are in arrears. Of the total of February _collections, $270,580.92 _was for 1931 real estate taxes, $598,094.77 in 1930 taxes, and payments of taxes for other years brought the total real estate tax collection up to $870,038.56. Other collections were: Personal tangible tax, $15973.81; personal in- tangible tax, $44,350.36; insurance corporations, $219,714.20; gasoline tax, $132,000.28, and water rents, $174,198.23. BETHESDA OPPOSES FIRE TAX EXTENSION Board Authorizes $23,000 for New Equipment and Home Addition. By = Staff Correspondent of The Star, BETHESDA, Md., March 14.—The Bethesda Ffre Board went on record tonight as opposed to the extension of the Bethesda fire tax area to include | the Conduit road section of Montgom- crv County at this time. alsc authorized the immediate expendi- ture ol approximately $23,000 for new equipment and an addition to the fire house. ‘The communities of the Conduit road district had taken violent stand on the question of affillation with Bethesda for more than two months. The action of the fire board tonight is thought to have definitely ended all controversy, since the Maryland Legislature probably will not force the Bethesda department to take in more territory against its ex- pressed wishes. A bill proposing the inclusion of the Conduit road com- munities in the Bethesda fire area al- ready had been prepared by citizens groups and was awaiting the decision of the fire board tonight before being presented at Annapolis. C. A. Korbley, leader of the fight for affiliation with Bethesda, stated several days ago that the bill would not be urged if opposed by the Bethesda department. A bill providing for an independent fire taxing area for the Conduit road section is now before the Legislature. "It was stated that the fire board was influenced largely in arriving at its decision by the opposition of the volun- teer firemen to serving the Conduit road communities. ‘The vote to appropriate $23,000 was on recommendation of a special equip- ment committee headed by Rutland D. Beard. The items include $10,500 for a 750-gallon pumper, $6,650 for a 500- gallon pumper and hose wagon, $320 for the purchase of additional land, $800 for additional hose to meet re- quirements of fire underwriters, $2,000 for purchasing and equipping fire rescue apparatus, and $750 for miscellaneous equipment, The fire board gave assurance that the expenditure can be made without necessitating an increase in taxes. Gt i HEARING DATE IS SET ON BUS ROUTE SHIFT Transient Line Asks Its Potomac Park Vehicles Be Routed South of White House. ‘The Public Utilities Commission will hold a public hearing March 25 on a request by the Washington Rapid Transit Co. for permission to change the route of its Potomac Park bus line. This is the same date as has been set for hearing on the Capital Traction .’s application for permission to sub- stitute bus for street car service on its Potomac Park loop and to make numerous changes in its routings and The Washington Rapid Transit Co. desires to route its busses south of the ‘White House, Treasury nt, and State, War and Navy Bullding, so as to obtain a more direct access to the the same day. The Iowa college is one ' to dress | of the largest of the Federal-State land | present. grant institutions. It has a large ment of Agriculture. Dr. R. A. Pear- ton, president of the University of Maryland, was president of the Iowa ng to Maryland. Potomac Park arca than is possible at ‘The line, which starts at Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue, the Potomac Park area by way of Twelfth street, K street d Nineteenth street. the discretion of the ion. ‘The board | | 55, of 1008 3 id No definite route is asked for in the the operator of the second 'fi'wflflf» ‘:nd Colleg for many years prior to his company’s petition, that being left to was'arrested on a charge of comi) commissi Child Lost in Store Later Found Minus/ Both Coat and Hatf Girl, 3, Strays From Mother and Waits on! Curb, but Loss is Mystery. | ‘When Prances Cook, 3 years old, left her ‘mother in a downtown 5-and-10- cent store yesterday afternoon and de- cided to do a bit of shopping on her own hook, she was wearing her best coat- and hat. When she was found nearly two hours later, the coat and hat were gone and she couldn't explain what had become of them. Prances had accompanied her mother, Mrs. Nettie May Cook of Capitol Heights, Md., to a store on Seventh street between D and E streets. Mrs. Cook stopped at a counter to examine an article in which she was interested, and when she turned around a few minutes later, Frances had disappeared. ‘The worried mother notified the first precinct police, asking them to inform her husband, John B. Cook, if they succeeded in finding Frances, Mrs. Cook was walking on Seventh street near D strect when she found Frances standing on the curb, glancing up and down the street. The child said she had been touring a nearby department store, but she did not re- member what had become of her coat and hat. WOMAN IS KILLED, 2 CHILDREN HURT Colored Victim Ran in Front of Auto, Says Miss' Ethel Blair, Driver. An Inquest will be held tomorrow in the death of Annie Thompson, colored, 60 years old, of the 800 block of Twen- ty-third sireet, fatally injured yester- day when she was struck by an automo- bile at Connecticut avenue and R street. Miss Ethel Frances Blair, 26-year-old Government employe of 2301 Cathedral ayenue, driver of the car involved, was taken to the third precinct, where she was released in the custody of an at- torney on the instructions of Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, District coroner. Sev- eral witnesses were summoned to ap- pear before the coroner’s jury. ‘The accident occurred during the aft- ernoon rush hour, as Miss Blair was driving morth on Connecticut avenue. Miss Blair told police the woman and two, children, Lilllan Herneon, 7 years old, and Clarence Baker, 2 years old, ran into the path of the machine with- out warning. The children were only slightly hurt. They were removed to Emergency Hospital in an ambulance with the Thompson woman. Miss Blair's automobile crashed into g;n parked machines after striking the 0. NEW PHILATELIC SOCIETY FOR YOUTHS IS FORMED Capital Group to Offer Prizes for Best Collection in Coming Exhibit. Stamp collectors under the age- of 21 are invited to join a junior organization of the youth of the city interested in this avocation, to be known as the Capital Philatelic Society, which was established at an initial meeting yes- terday at the Thomson School. John K. Hedler of 1429 G street northeast, was elected president and Maurice Ullman, acting - secretary. A second meeting will be held at the ‘Thomson School next Friday evening to perfect plans. Tentative plans call for a monthly meeting, to be addressed by expert col- lectors, and a large exhibition by junior philatelists in June. Prizes are to be awarded for meritorius collections at this display. Dr. Ellis Haworth, Albert F. Kunze, Francis B. Leech and C. H. Vaughn are advisers to the junior soclety. o CRASH INJURES WOMAN GIVING AID TO SICK Sadie Jones, Colored, Victim of Ac- cident at Fourteenth Street and Rhode Island Ave. ‘While assisting & taxicab driver to re- move an ill woman, colored, to Emer- gency Hospital, Sadle Jones, colored, 49, of the 2600 block of Georgia avenue, suffered abrasions-of the left leg last night when the cab collided with an automobile at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue. The cab was driven by Thomas Crockett, colored, 24, of 2626 Georgia avenue, who continued on to the hospital with both wome! Police reported that Shuler Steadman, Massachusetts avenue, was TWO GET 10 YEARS INHOLD-UP CASE Another Sentenced to 15 Years for Manslaughter. Others Sent to Prison. Samuel A. Johnson and Clarence Paul House, former Marines, who se- lected the same man to rob on two occaslons, were sentenced yesterday by Justice Peyton Gordon to serve 10 years each in the itentiary. On the occasion they took $2,100 from Benjamin F. Burch, a col- lector at the Lord Baltimore filling sta- tion near the Capitol, and about eight months later robbed the same man at another station of the company at Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue, secur- ing $1,043. A third charge of robbery also was admitted and the court fixed the penalty in each case at 10 years and allowed the sentences to run con- currently. Three Sentenced for Deaths. Ludy Robinson, colored, was sent to the penitentiary yesterday by Justice Peyton Gordon' for 15 years for man- slaughter. He had been indicted for murder in the first degree, but the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. The court remarked that the jury had ex- tended all possible leniency and im- posed the maximum sentence for man- slaughter. Robinson shot to death ht'r:en'lf Lioyd December 28, at 701 S st Benjamin Pruitt, colored, was given a term of 10 years in the penitentiary for manslaughter. He caused the death of Elmer Neverson, also colored, Jan- uary 18 last, at 2006 Green's Court. David , colored, will serve seven years for manslaughter. He was held ruggnuue for the death of Dan- lel Taylor January 16, at 442 Grace Court southwest. Gets 10 Years for Robbery. Sames & righe ored W ames A. colored, who held uj Sr:‘hn -Px:'ltkl Ohinu‘er,u .Z.I.Aly 14, at mevg enyon s 3 85_cents. f Emil Cundiff was sentenced to serve six years in the penitentiary on two charges of robbery. He received six years on one charge and one year on the other, but the sentences were al- lowed to run concurrently. Other sentences included five years each for Clarence Mack, colored, as- sault with dangerous weapon; Augustus f:z:zi l.:;)y ttldml: Arthur J. Young, ement, arry iy and H Redmond, BLAINE FORESEES REALTY BILLS’ 0. K. Expects Congress to Pass Several Securities Measures for D. C. in Winter. Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wi 3 3 is- consin, chairman of the District sub- committee which investigated real es- tate, securities and foreclosure transac- t , is confident that when Co; several bills 4 poriter .o recommended by the sub- returns in December it will enact the | . PAGE B-—1 RAILWAY WILL SUE T0 RETAIN TRACKS THROUGH TRIANGLE R. L. May Refuses to Vacafe U. S. Building Area Unless Repaid. GOVERNMENT LACKING FUNDS TO AVOID SUIT Other Public Utilities Move Out of Section; Action Due This Week. Petition for an injunction to prevent the Government from forcing a removal of the tracks of the Mount Vernon, Alex- andria & Washington Railway Co. from the Federal building triangle without reimbursement to the owner probably will be filed in a local court early this week, it was indicated last night. Conferences recently between Distrid}, Federal and rallway officials Jooking to- ward a solution of the question at one time pointed to introduction of a bill in Congress to repay the railway, but no bill was presented. The Alexandria railway is the only one of several public utilities which has refused to comply with the order of the Public Utilities Commission of the District to vacate certain streets in the triangle to make way for the Federal Government building program. All other utilities have either already va- cated their property in the streets, or made arrangements to do so, except the rallway. United States “Sitting Tight.” Meantime Government officials last night were “sitting tight” and awaite ing developments. The order to vacate the triangle was given as a result of ram to and bullding over others which are now uszd by the railway and other utilities. If and when the railway leaves the triangle, Congress might pass legisla- tion repaying the railway owner, R. L. May. in some way for abandonment of the line, it has been predicted, but there is no one who has authority to pledge the action of Congress in this "‘f},’f‘"m Department is pushing e Treasury ent is pusl forward the building program under authority of Congress, which gave ex- plicit instructions for such a project in its building acts. ings requires the utilization of contigu- ous squares as sites for buildi; authority is given the Government “for closing and vacating such portions of streets as lie between such squares such alleys as intersect such squares, and the portions of such streets and alleys so closed and vacated,” the law continues, “shall thereupon become parts of such sites.” Properiy Closed. With this authority the Treasury called upon the District Commissioners to close the streets ieeded and notified the public utllities to remove their property from the streets at their own expense. The attitude recently adopted by R. L. May, owner of the Alexandria line, {is the culmination of a long fight with | the Public Utilities Commission for & new terminal suitable to the use of the line and for a re-routing of tracks to the new terminal site. Such a terminal, May has contended, should be near Pennsylvania avenue or north of the avenue, as any other place available would be so far removed from the business center that the line would carry no traffic. Permission to cross Pennsylvania ave- nue at Fourteenth street was refused the line by the Public Utllities Com- mission some weeks ago, and May was given to understand, he stated at that time, that he would have to establish his terminal near Fourteenth and Water streets. Offers to Abandon Line. Following this announcement May stated that he would abandon his line into the District, which would also carry with it the abandonment of the Virginia portion, provided he was re- imbursed for his proj A bill giving him i perty. $200,000, of which $98,000 was to corne from the District of Columbia, was then drawn up for presentation to Congress, but no action was taken on it after local organizations began to fight the proposal that a m tion of the money come from Dis unds. If May is forced out of the triangle and no provision is made for a re- One would license and regulate the real estate business; another s“ould give the Public Utilities Commission super- Vvision over the issuance and sale of stocks and bonds, and the third would outline a method of foreclosing mort- gages. All three bills passed the Sen- ate, but did not get through the House. Although they will have to be re- introduced and start over in the new Congress, it is expected the Senate will pass them without delay in view of its previous action and send them to the House, The Senate before adjourning did not act on the Brookhart resolution which would have continued available the unexpended balance of the sub- committee's appropriation, but Senator Blaine points out that this would not prevent the subcommittee from holding further hearings if it should deem it necessary. All regular committees of the Senate, he sald uing bodies. The chairman has not ind cated, however, that he has any plans for holding further hearings during the recess. G. W. U. SINGERS THIRD Honor in Close Contest. George' Washington University was awarded third place in the National Intercollegiate Glee Club contest held Pirst place was won the glee club of New York Unlvenlt;? second m:m— going to Y: ale, George Washington University cap- ::rod first honor in a similar :’:’-unnnl of the mnnm"lu clubs auto. He op-rating an automobi out & permit. e Bniversity, 259.6; Yale, 35 George Washington, 247.9, and Laf ette,-247.3," N. Y. U. Wins First Glee Club!and local routing of his line to bring it near the business section of the city it will prob- ably be abandoned and he has threat- ened to seek an injunction to prevent this unless he is reimbursed for his franchise and equipment. ‘The Arlington-Fairfax line operates its cars into the Twelfth street terminal over May's tracks and any decision af- fecting the Alexandria line will also affect the other road. Civic organiza- tions in Alexandria and in Arlington and Pairfax Counties are fighting the proposal that the line be abandoned. BERLIN, MD., BLAST FOLLOWED BY ARREST Son of Jarvis, Whose Home Was Damaged When 8 Were Hurled From Beds, Held. § By ihe Associated Press. tion by two Baitimore police detectives officials of the bomb explo~ sion which hurled eight persons tmg their beds at the home of .George Jarvis, sr., resulted of G. Dun Yo for