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1. 5. WITHDRAWS PERIURY EVIDENCE * N PROBE OF PITTS New Facts Are Reported Found, Necessitating Change in Action. CASE TO BE PRESENTED AGAIN BY NEXT WEEK New Indictment Will Be Asked by Government, Says Prose- cution's Office. TImpelled by the last-minute discovery of alleged new evidence, Government prosecutors today withdrew from con- sideration of the grand jury evidence he Zp WASHINGTON, D. C, INFLUX OF EASTER ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION VISTORS BECUN V00 EXPECTD Pennsylvania and B. & 0. Railroads Planning Many Special Trains. WHITE HOUSE CROWDS HELD GOOD BAROMETER More Than 1,000 at Executive| Mansion Yesterday Despite Bad Weather. The annual Easter parade, expected | to bring between 100,000 and 120,000 | visitors to Washington, has begun. The early arrivals are coming prin- THURSDAY, APRIL 9 ening Star 1931. PAGE B—1 Who Cares About Bullets? POLICE TEST BULLET-PROOF VESTS. SHAPRD INDITED ACAIN ON “HODEN TRUST AGCUSKTION Four Charges of False Pre- tense and One of Mail Fraud Made by Grand Jury. |EARLIER INDICTMENTS QUASHED BY GORDON Colored Man Formally Named for Second-Degree Murder—Others Are Ignored. Jacob B. Shapiro, president of the | Shapiro Construction Co. and of Joseph Shapiro Co., Inc., a realty concern, was indicted today by the grand jury on { cipally by railroad and automobile. D | spite inclement weather, more _than | 17,000 visitcrs were brought here by 14 | | special trains from the Middle West. | These visitors were from Milwaukee and | | Beloit, Wis.; Chicago. Indianapolis and four charges of fals> pretenses and one jof using the mails to defraud in con- nection with the sales of real estate without advising clients of the exist- they had presented in a perjury charge ; against G. Bryan Pitts, former officer of the F. H. Smith Co. The grand, jury was asked not to take action in the case by Assistant Attor- ney General Nugent Dodds and former Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, who was appointed a spe- cial assistant to the Attorney General yesterday. Indictments Sought. ‘When the case first arose, Mr. Dodds filed with the court a notice that the Government was seeking perjury indict- ments against Pitts and “others asso- ciated with him” In the recent trial of three Smith Co. officials on charges of conspiring to embezzle $5,000,000 from the company and to destroy allegedly incriminating records. Pitts, with C. Elbert Anadale and John H. Edwards, jr., was convicted and sentenced to 14 Jears in the penitentiary. The others Teceived lighter sentences. Pitts filed an appeal and while his ease was pending the Government in- stituted its action on the perjury count. After the initial presentation of evi- dence, however, there was a o able interval when the matter was held in abeyance, and the prosecutors de- ecided to re-present the entire case. This Iatter presentation, it was understood, involved only Pitts. Fake Evidence Charged. He is alleged to have participated in the preparation and presentation at the trial of fraudulent documentary evi- dence. ‘The counsel for the Government said the new evidence had come into its hands very recently and that it would be futile to present it now to this gand jury, which expires today. It was said the new evidence may slter the complexion of the case and might have the effect of nullifying any indict- ment. returned until the new material had been considered by the jury. Burkinshaw said every effort would “be made to present the entire case to :;'! new grand jury & week from' Mon- #day. BY GRETCHEN SMIT | Assiniboine Indian, exhi’ ROM the Golden West, that vast region of America’s most color- | ful epoch in history, once the haunt of red-skinned warriors, | roaming herds of buffalo and | elk, a tall, copper - hued young man, | “Ma-to-pe-ta,” known to his English- | speaking brethren as William Standing, | has arrived in Washington with one| of the most interesting art exhibits to | be shown in the Capital for some time. The great-grandson of the last of the real chieft2ins of the Assiniboine Indians, Red Stone. Mr. Standing is the only artist ever to have arisen from the Assiniboines, a tribe of warriors, hunters and herdsmen. Educated in the school on the In- dian_reservation, where he was born. the young Indian artist early developed & taste for lines and color, although he has never taken a lesson from an art instructor. Following the pursuits of his tribesmen, hunting, trapping and } cow punching, Mr. Standing grew up in an atmosphere far removed from the tranquil haunts of artists and stu- 0. Style Is Original. But the old saying, that “genius will out, again proved itself in the great- grandson of the Indian chieftain, “Ma- to-pe-ta.” or Pire Bear. carly taught tn ride a pony and handle a rifle, who could WILLIAM STANDING, ng one of his paintings t> Vice President Curtis —Star Staff Pho loving people, to express himself through the medium of art. Among the paintings exhibited by Mr. Standing are “The Passing of Millions,” { depicting the days when the buffalos provided the Indians with food: t “Danger of Hunters,” to which is at- tached a true story of a fight with a grizzly bear, and “The War Leaders,” an impressive group of the last of the old chieftains | Mr. Standfng has never been east of | Chicago before. As a cow-puncher, | and the member of a Wild West show, he traveled considerably throughout the | West. His first painting made in 1916/ led to a continued desire to paint.| Through his own perseverance and| work, the artist attained to an in-| | dividuality which prompted friends to| encourage him to exhibit in cities of the East. % Disclaims Knowledge of Art. A quiet, modest young man, Mr, Standing denies a present knowledge of painting. “By the time I am 50" he smiled, “I may know something about it. I do know the legends of my people, how- ever, and I like to paint the country and the places I know.” v Mr. Standing's works are a real| contribution to American history. They | preserve the romance, the life, and the | pursuits of America’s first citizens. not | as visualized by an outside observer,' | | row. neighboring communities, 1 Many Special Trains. | Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad | said they would run between 15 and 20 | spectals ‘during this week. The Balti- | more & Ohio is expected to run a like | number. It was pointed out that in addition to the specials many smaller parties come in on the regular trains. | A large number of visitors have come | by autompbile, and the American Auto- | mobile Association estimates the fotal | of out-of-town cars here for Easter will | exceed that of last year. | Visitors from Northern New York and Pennsylvania are expected tomor- The last of the special trains is expected to run Saturday and will bring visitors from as far north as Canada. There will be several of these trains. | Hotels Filling Rapidly. | Officials of bus lines are looking for- ward to capacity loads as high schocl | siudents on Spring vacation prepare | for their customary Easter trip to the Capital. Hotels expect that all rooms will be filled by the end of the week. The in- flux of newcomers has already been felt, it was said reservations are coming in rapidly by telegraph and mail More than 1,000 persons were shown through the reception and public rooms of the White House yesterday. This is | viewed as a good barometer of the an- | nual Easter influx. Long lines of vis- | itors, most of them of high school age, | waited to be taken to the top of the | ‘Washington Monument and the various | Government departments were overrun | with callers. An unusual number of visitors also was reported from the mu- seums and art galleries. Weather Not Promising. Officially Washington gave a warm ception, but atmospherically it was & | alling in- e waistcoats? B . B ULLETS don't worry Jack Schuster and Leo Krause, as the above photograph reveals. The reason they can appear | so nonchalant while Inspectors Bean and Headley fire at them, however, is that they're wearing bullet-proof vests | —and, under the circumstances, what are a few bullets, more or less, so long as they're aimed only at the Left to righg: Maj. Pratt, superintendent of police; Headley, Bean, Schuster and Krause. I | —Star Staff Photo. JEWELRY. CLOTHES AND CASH STOLE Checks Also Taken in Series of Thefts in Capital During Week. Jewelry and clothing valued at $447 and cash and checks totaling $308 were stolen by thieves who were active in Washington yesterday. . A wrist watch worth $212 was taken from Golden & Co.'s jewelry store, 1419 FEDERAL JGBS OPEN Appraisers T Special- ists Are Needed. The Civil Service Commission today announced examinaticns for the fol- lowing appointments: Associate marketing specialist (can- ned foods), $3,200 to $3,800 a year: as- sistant marketing specialist (canned foods), $2,600 to $3,200 a year, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Land appraiser, $3,800 a year: asco- ciate land appraiser. $3,200 a year, In- terstate Commerce Commission. Full information thay be obtained at jthe office of the commission, 1724 F| street. UTILITIES AWAIT HOLDAUP NO JOKE, ROBBER TAKES §13 Second Robbery Is Prevented | as Girl’s Cries Frighten Bandits Away. | ;‘ A hold-up thought to be “just an | April fool joke” proved to be the real thing last night, when George Hillow, proprietor of a delicatessen at 813 | Thirteenth street, of $13 by an armed bandit, who promised to | ence of “hidden” trusts. “The alleged fraudulent use of the mails is a new tack by the prosecution after District Supreme Court Justice Peyton Gordon had quashed an indicte ment for false pretenses when Shapire was called for trial last December. At that time there were pending 12 in- dictments of false pretense inst Shapiro, but United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney John W. Fihelly de- cided to resubmit some cases to the grand jury and to reframe the charges in an effort to get around the decision of the court as to defects in the other inaictments. Mall Fraud Charges, The mail fraud. indictment . alleges that Shapiro sent through theé m‘:n literature in furtherance of an alleged scheme for soliciting and inducing per- sons to purchase from him, either as owner or agent for the Shapiro Con- struction Co., upon representations which he would make to such persons that the encumbrance on the real estate was only a definite figure when in truth and in fact he well knew such encum- brance to be of much greater amount. By this artifice, it is alleged, purchasers were to be induced to buy, paying an initial sum, assuming the payment of the stated indebtedness and executing notes for the balance of the agreed pur- chase price, when by means of deceitful and fraudulent concealment they would only later learn of the “hidden” trust. The charge is made that it was Shapiro’s scheme to keep purchasers ignorant as long as possible of the “hidden” trust so that they would not take steps to rectify the alleged fraud and prevent further loss and likewise enable Shapiro to make other sales. Among the persons named in the in- dictment who are alleged to have been Yot by hie S = bit chilly with cold showers f | - A 4 y not silence tie voice of the artist which | Y o a0y as known and lived | fermittently all day. . Or was the |H street, by a man who posed as a pros- tee him again. Al Suded &v whout 36 koesh seident GRADING JOB SOUGHT | BY TEN CONTRACTORS Bids Opened for Work at Arling- ton Bridge Develop- ment. ‘Ten firms are secking the contract for the grading work incident to relo- cation of the tracks of the Rosslyn, Va., branch of th: Pennylvania Raiiroad, on the banks of the Potomac River just west of Boundary Channel at the Ar- lington Memorial Bridge development. Bids were opened yest: and are being_studied by associates of Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, €xecutive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- mission. The commission is expected to make the award shortly. The' lowest bid was from Marye & Blankenship, Shawsville, Va., who of- fered to do the work for 32 cents a cublc yard. The next lowest was the Grier-Lowrance Co:, Statesville, N. C., which did some of the work at the ‘Washington terminus of the bridge and offered to do the grading for 339-10 centa per cubic yard. The bids ran as high as 80 cents per cubic yard. hifting of the railroad tracks is nec- essary to avoid a grade crossing on the Virginia shore. A concrete tunnel will be constructed in a cut which has now been made near the present tracks. On April 8 bids will be opened for the con- struction of the concrete tunnel and Col. Grant will supervise the awarding of the contract. WRECKERS TAKE OVER OLD PEPCO BUILDING Two Blocks of Property Vacated to Clear Sites for Labor Depart- ment and Auditorinm. The Potomac Electric Power Co. now has entirely moved out of its old prop- erty between Thirteenth and Pourteenth streets on Constitution avenue and the wreckers of the Washington Iron & Metal Co. have a clean sweep at two blocks of buildings. Rapid progress is being made in tear- ing down the first block, between Thir- teenth and Thirteen and a Half streets, and another group of workmen is now dismantling the big power house ma- chinery in the old substation at the corner of Fourteenth street and Con- stitution avenue. Most of these old ma chines are being dismantled, but a few of the best will be salvaged and sold to b* used again The office building at Fourteenth and C streets is completely empty now, the Jast bullding of the grcup to be va- cated. All offices of the power company have been moved to the new location, at Tenth and E streets. On_these blocks will be erected the new Department of Labor and the Gov- ernment Auditorium. e PLAN CHERRY RUSH Bpecial Traffic Rules’to Be Worked Out for Potomac Park. A conference is being arranged for 1.morrow between Representative Frank 1. Bowman, West Virginia, Republican, and member of the House District Committee, and Capt. R. C. Montgom- ery, superintendent of the United States park pelice, with reference to working out a program for handling the traffic in Potomac Park during the cherry blossom season. Mr. Bowman yesterday expressed a desire to have the traffic speeded up by dividing it into two streams, to di h congestion at E:t. where automobiles come out ef i Potomac Park, ' demanded its right to express, through the medium of color. the legends, the pursuits and the haunts of his people. ‘With force and vigor Mr. Standing has caught on the canvas the spirit of his people. He has not, however, in any way, imitated the style of others. He has brought an originality to the world of art which might be expected from the first son of a great, nature- in his own life and through the spirit of his ancestors, that which he places on the canvas in colors. | "Mr. Standing's paintings, which will [be on exhibit in the National Press | Building for a week, have already re- ceived the recognition of Vice President Curtis and Henry Bush-Brown, first president of the Washington Arts Club, :\'hdu viewed them for the first time yes- erday. CHURCHES PLAN GO FRIDAY MU Varied Programs Arr:;mged by Congregations for An- nual Observance. Washington churches will celebrate Good Friday tomorrow with special musi¢ ‘at their’ various services. Many interesting cantatas and hymns are be- ing sung -by-the -choirs and their solo- ists threughout the city. At Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church tomorrow .evening the cantata “The Crucifixion,” by Stainer, will be given by the choir, with tenor solos by John B. Switzer and baritone solos by Erbin Thomas. The solo quartet for this occasion will include Ruby Potter, Bertha Leonard, John Switzer and Erbin Thomas. Louis Potter, prominent local musician, will direct the music and also will assist at the organ. This same cantata will be given to- morrow evening by the quartet choir of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, which includes Mary S. Bowie, Adessa Ehrhart, J. F. M. Bowie and J. E. 8. Kinsella, with Anton Kaspar, violinist and director, and Mabel Linton Wil- liams, organist At Mount Pleasant Church. “The Crucifixion” also will be sung at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church at 8 o'clock by the chorus chofr, of which Norton M. Little is the leader and Claude Robeson director and or- ganist. The solo parts will be sung by Willlam P. Shannahan and Herman Fakler. The cantata “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” by Mercadante, will be given tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the Church of the Ascension by the church choir, with organ and orchestrap ac- companiment. The string orchestra will be led by Hermann Rakemann, with Walter Nash at the piano. Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee wiil conduct the singers One of the most interesting of the oratorios, Mendelssohn’s “St. Paul,” will be given by the vested choir of Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church tomorrow at 8 pm., with R. Deane | ing. The soloists will be Esther Cloyd, Mathilde Kolb, John I. Mitchell and Arthur M. Tabbutt. Edith Gottwals will be at the organ. National Baptist Presentation. ‘The National Baptist Church choir will present Stainer’s “Crucifixion” to- morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The solo- ridge and Henry Magrueson. Emily G. Dickinson is organist and choir director. Other notable musical programs will be offered tomorrow evening by Grace Lutheran Church, which will present Stainer’s “Crucifixion” under the direc- tion of Marion St. John Aldridge; Con- cordia Lutheran Church, which will offer the cantata by Dubois, “The Seven Last Words of Christ”; Takoma Park Baptist Church, in a special musical service, sung by the cholr, and many other churches throughout the city. ‘The Three Hour's ony, & service commemorating the last hours of Christ on the cross, will be presented at the Fourteenth | Church of the Immaculate Conception, | of Hansville, La.; a sister Mrs. Mary Eighth and N streets. of which Rev. Francis J, Hurney is pastor, Shure, local composer of note, conduct- | ists will be Inez Miller, Herbert Ald- | G 7 | Rev. Joseph V. Buckley will preach on “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” A | musical progrant will be rendered under the direction of Prof. Harry Wheaton Howard, ‘with the following soloists Miss Mary O'Doncghue, Miss Florence | Yocum, Miss Kathryn Bowers, William Cross, Lawrence Downey and Prederick Nclan. Father Hurney will preside at| the zervice, which will be broadcast | from the church through Station WOL. | pews will be reserved for this! ce. No servi | Cathedral Program. Tenebrae will be sung tomorrow night by the Priars of the ‘Atonement at the Immaculate Conception Church at 7:30 o'clock. Father Hurney will preach. Selections from the.sacred cantata, “The Crueifixion,” will be sung by the | Washington Cathedral Choir during the special- service tomorrow at 3 o'clock in Bethlehem Chapel. Right Rev. |James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washing- | |ton's sermon will be broadcast through | |Station WMAL _ over thy Colurhbia | | coast-to-ecast network. Blshop Free- man will deliver seven interpretative | addresses on “The Meaning of Calvary.” | _The service tomorrow afternoon will | be conducted by Rev. Raymond L. | Wolven, Canon “of Washington and | chaplain to the Bishop of Washington. |Edgar Priest, chcirmaster, will direct | the singing. | ~Other services to be hrld at Wash- ington Cathedral tomorrow include a celebration of the holy communion at | 7:30 o'clock, with Rev. Willlam L. De Vries, precentor of the Cathedral, as | the celebrant; morning, prayer and lit- {any, at 11 o'clock, with Rev. G. Free- |land Peter, chancellor, conducting, and evening praver, at 4 c'clock, with Rev. | Alfred J. Wilder officiating Program at Sacred Heart, Canon Edward S. Dunlop of the Washing‘on Cathedral will conduct the 3 o'clock service tomorrow at St. John's | Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md | There will be special music. | _The “Three Hours Service” will be observed at the Shrine of the Sacred | Heart, Sixteenth street and Park road, ‘mmm‘row from noon to 3 o'elock. The ‘d!xourc:s will be given by Father Bonaventure, O. F. M., and Dubois’ | “Seven Last Words of Christ” will be | sung by the chofr. At St. Paul's Church, Rock Creek parish, there will be a special morning prayer and sermon by the rectcr, Dr. F. J. Bohanan, at 10 o'clock. Tonight at 8 o'clock at the Petworth M. E. Church, in Grant Circle, there will be a holy week service. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals wfll‘%elk. His subject 0 iwm be “The Man Was Sifted by Saved.” N R | Widow of Former D. C. Resident Buccumbs in Louisiana. Mrs. Gertrude L. Cornish, widow of William F. Cornish and mother of Jo- | seph 8. Cornish of Washington, died at | the home of her son, J. M. Cornish, at | Plain Dealing, La., last Monday, follow- ing a brief illness. She was a descendant of Gov. Rut- lecge of North Carolina, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Daniel | D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States. Beside the two sons named, she is | survived by another, William J. Cornish | Weather Bureau too optimistic about the w o | | Today and tomorro were expected to be fair, with n change in temperature, but no one would venture a prediction as to Easter Sunday. There was considerable doubt as to whether the Japanese cherry trees would be in bloom for the holiday. The blossoms are in bud, but the warm weather necessary to bring out the blooms has not been forthcoming. David Saunders of the Department of Agriculture said it would take at least two successive warm days to bring the | buds out. In any event, he said, the trees would not be at their best before the middle of next week BONES ARE EXCAVATED days to come. ‘The bones dug up by a_steam- shovel on the site of the new United States Supreme Court Building are not hu- man, but are from the skeleton of an animal, in the opinion of Dr. George W. Calver, thfilclln at the Capitol. OM- cials believe they are the bones of a Workmen dog. digging the foundation were asked some time ago to watch for possible evidence of graves as a result of a request made to the Capitol archi- tect last vear by the Quartermaster Corps of the War Department. The Old Brick Capitol formerly stood on the Supreme Court site and the War Department, was asked last August to | find out whether any Civil War soldiers had been buried at that place. | LEFT $146,414 ESTATE Rear Admiral Thomas Slidell, who | died February 28. left an estate valued | at $146.414.89, according to the petition of the National Savings & Trust Co., his executor, for the probate of his will. | He owned nd real estate. | The admiral was unmarried and is survived by a sister, Mrs. Anne P. R. Neilson of New York; a brother, Col. | Alexander Rogers, this c! | and Julla §. | Rodgers, a niece, residing in Parls, Prance. FUGITIVE SOUGHT HERE Police throughout the city were searching for Preston Lovell, 23, who escaped yesterday from the District work house, at Lorton, Va Officials at the penal institution have been unable to determine how he made his getaway. Lovell was clad in the regulation prison garb when last seen. | yesterday. | where he had been a retail shoe dealer (at Constitution Hall at 8:15 p.m. April pective customer and asked to examine several timepieces. The man left the store while Edwin Gold*n, a member of the firm, was getting more watches from the safe. Man's Pocket Picked. I A pickpocket “lifted” $77 in cash and | travelers' checks worth $100 from Leung | Yickpan's pockets. The victim, a New | Yorker, accompanied by several Chi-| nese friends, was in a Fourteenth street restaurant at the time. A colored boy snatched a purse con- taining $30 from Elizabeth Lacey, 1305 T street, while she was walking on R street, between Twelfth ard Thirteenth. Purse Is Stolen. Marion Smith of Baltimore told police her purse, which contained $91. was stolen from her seat in a Fifteenth | street theater. ! Clothing and jewelry valued at $172| were stolen from the apartments of Miss | Elizabeth Thomas, Miss Mae Cross and | Howard Pope at 3828 Military road. A burglar stole clothing worth $275 and $10 in cash from the home of Dr. | Charles D. Cole. 5305 Forty-fifst street. Another burglar was fired at twice | by James O. Mathis, who saw him| climbing through a window of the apartment of Mrs. Marcella Hennessy at 2115 C street, PACKARD BURIAL IS SET FOR TROY TOMORROW | S . | Services Are Conducted at Home Here and Body Is Sent to New York. Funeral services of August Palmer | Packard, 85 years old, was held at his | residence, 1926 Newton street northeast, |a PEPCO RATE ACTION Electric Company Head De- clines to Make Decision of Directors Public. ‘The Public Utilities Commission is expecting to receive today or tomorrow reply from tte Potomac Electric Power Co. on the commission’s request for a prompt decision as to whether the company will or will not co-oncrate with the commission in reducing Wash- ingtcn's electric rates without resorting to_litigation. ‘The commission's letter was studied at a meeting of the board of directors | of the company yesterday, which lasted more than two hours. At the end of the meeting, President Willlam F. Ham of the company stated a letter would be sent the commission today or tomor- Tow. He declined to make it public in ad- vance of notifying the commission. The leiter had not been received up to noon y. e commission has prepared a pe- tition to Equity Court for modification of the court’s decree, under which the electric rates are now annually ad- | justed, but the filing of the petition has been held up in an effort to avoid litigation, if posssible by compromise with the company. At the latest public hearing on elec- tric rates, the commission found that under the present scheme, the rate of returp earned by the company is ex- cessive. IN CAPITAL APRIL 11 at 1 o'clock this afternoon, with Rev. Charles Raymond Barnes, rector of the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, of- ficlating. Interment will be in Troy, N. Y., tomorrow | Mr. Packard, who had lived in Wash- | ington for eight years, died at his homs | He ‘came here from Troy, for more than 50 years and head of a | firm which had been managed for more than 100 years by members of the Pack- ard family. He was a member of the 0Odd Fellows fraternity in that city. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. C. M. Zepp and Marjorie Packard of :‘l;lollv city, and Robert C. Parkard of PROBERS SEEK “NICKEL RACKETEER” TAKING COINS DUE PHONE USERS System Is to Plug Return Slot, Coming Back Later, to| Get Money Refunded on Busy Signals. Egecm investigators for the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. are probing the activities of a “nickel rack- eteer,” who is collecting money from coin boxes in the downtown section, it was learned today. The racketeer apparently is operating on the “small-profit-und-quick-turn- over” principle, for he seems to have built up a “route” of his own, which he covers at regular intervals. His method is to insert wads of paper | in the coin-return boxes of telephones, preventing the return of coins deposited | for calls which bring only a “busy” or | a “don’t-answer” signal. ‘Telephone users, of course, blame the company, the thought they may be the victims of a new “racket” not accurring to them. As a matter of fact, however, the telephone company is on th~ look-out Lole Wills of Memphis, Tex. and a daughter, Mrs. Estelle H. Thompkins, for the racketeer, and the watchfulness of investigations has & decided crimp in his business, 'T | | | The racketeer's collection method is to make the rounds of the public tele- phones in which he has inserted h “coin-catchers,” removing thp p-rr wads and pocketing the coins when they drop into the “return” slot. * Storekeepers and others who have public telephones are co-operating with the company by examining the coin | boxes at regular intervals every day. The racketeer has made three at- tempts to establish himself in the public telephone on the first floor of The Star Building, but each time his plans have been nipped in the bud by the dis- covery of his “coin catchers.” Until recently, it was said at the offices of the Chesapeake & Potomac, the racketeer was quite active, but the watchfulness of the investigators, together -with' the co-operation of busi- ness establishments in which there are public telephones, has caused consider- able decrease in his revenues. operaling, howey Noted British Writer Will Give Address Under Community Institute Auspices. John Galsworthy, noted English nov- elist, dramatist and essayist, will spea 11 on “Six Favorite Authors,” under auspices of the Community Institute. Among the prominent Washingto- nians on the list of guarantors of the institute in presenting Galworthy are Byran 8. Adams, Judge Jesse Adkins, Clarence Aspinwall, Henry P. Blair, Henry N. Brawner, jr.; Henry K. Bush- Brown, E. F. Colladay, William Knowles Cooper, Frederic A. Delano, John Joy Edson. W. W. Everett, Robert V. Flem- ing, Isaac ' Gans, Julius Garfinckel, Henry Gilligan, E. C. Graham, Frank Jelleff, R. M. Kauffmann, Dr. Vernon Kellogg, John B. Larner, Dr. A. B. Learned, M. A. Leese, Gideon A. Lyon, Dr. Edward B. Meigs, Frank B. Noyes, John Poole, Maj. Julius Peyser, E. C. Snyder, Cuno H. Rudolph, Gen. Anton S':&):n, Corcoran Thom and George wi . TRUCK DRIVER INJURED IN COLLISION WITH CAR Hjalmar Hanson Seriously Hurt, but Occupant of Second Machine Escapes. Hjalmar Hanson, 36 years old, of 1418 U street southeast was seriously hurt last night in an automobile accident. A truck he was driving overturned at Thirteenth and U streets southeast in & collision with an automobile operated by Donald Bryan Buck, 30, of the Naval Alr Station. The truck driver is being treated at Casualty Hospital for contusions, shock and a fracture of the left leg. His con- dition was sald to be undetermined to- di Buck. who was returning to the Narval Alr Station about 11 o'clock, when red, was uninjured, No And two robbers who attempted to hold up Mrs. Ida Golubotzsky, owner of a grocery at 433 Ninth street south- west, showed they meant business by firing a bullet through the show window | of the store after the screams of the proprietress’ 8-year-old daughter, Eva, had frightened them away. Bandit Demands Cash. Only one customer was in the Thir- teenth street establishment when the bandit entered. The robber purchased | a_package of chewing gum and gave Hillow a dime. Turning from the cash register to give the bandit his change, | Hillow found himself gazing into the “business end” of a reve T, “Give me your mo: the robber nded. All Tight,” Hillow acquiesced, proffer- | ing the nickel. | "I don't want that,” the bandit re- | | torted. “I mean the money in the cash | register.” | “Well, you'll have to take it yourself,” | Hillow replied, refusing to take the | Tobber seriously. Thief Takes $13 in Bills. ‘The bandit demonstrated his earnest- ness, however, by warning Hillow he would' shoot him if he did not ‘mové away from the register immediately. | Still thinking the affair a joke, Hil- | low stepped from behind the counter. | The robber opened the register, grabbed all the bills in sight—about $13 in all —and jammed them into his pockets. He scorned about $10 in change, ex- }glll'g\}pl it was “too heavy to bother Keeping Hillow covered with his| pistol, the bandit told him, “I may see you again some time,” and backed {rom the delicatessen, ducked into an alley and disappeared. It was not until the robber had fled with Hillow's money that the store- keeper realized'the hold-up was not a Jjoke. Before telephoning police head- quarters, he and the customer, who had been a silent witness to the rob- bery, searched the' alley, but found no trace of the bandit. Screams Thwart Robbers. | Mrs. Golubotzsky's daughter was | playing with a colored boy in a corner | of the Ninth street grocery when two | young men of about 18 or 20 years of | | age. walked in. { _ When they asked Mrs. Golubotzsky | for her money. she “thougit they were kidding"—until one of them produced “a great big gun” and then she was willing to concede they meant busi- ness. The sight of the weapon was too much for Eva, who began screaming. Taking one look at the girl, the rob- bers fled — pausing outside, however, | long enough to put a bullet hole in| | the show window. o= \TEMPTATION IS SUBJECT OF BISHOP’S SERMON | M'Dowell Cites Christ's Life as Evi- dence of Unselfishness at Noonday Services. By the way a man resists tempta- tions may be determined his course of action through life, Bishop William F. McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal Church declared at mid-day Lenten services in the New York Avenue Pres- byterian Church yesterday. Speaking on the subject “Temptations of Jesus,” Bishop McDowell developed the thought that Christ by the manner | in which He resisted temptations showed | His unselfishness and the fact that He was using His power to serve others. Likewise, true Christians should fol- low the example set by Christ and use their power to ald others, Bishop Mc- Dowell said. Rev. Dr. H. P. Baker, pas- tor of Mounb fer M. E. Church, presided at yester rvices. Bishop McDowell wil ver the final | sermom of the midday Lerfign services |in the New York Avenue sbyterian The four separate indictments for false pretenses are in connection with sale of 1718 Irving street to W. S. Frisbie; sale of 419 Madison street to Horace W. Hullinger, known as Happy Walker; of premises 1734 Irving street to Mrs. Minnie W. Reed. and of ises. 1716 Hobart street to W. cuhm;%rr Indicted for Murder. Boyd Bennett, colored, was indicted on a charge of murder in the second degree. He is said to have caused the death of Stanley L. Jones, colored, by shooting him in the chest March 7 in an Lllley near 4224 Benning road north- eat. A charge of homicide against Merle E. Heilman, white, and Robert Dixon, colored, was ignored by the grand Jurors. The men were drivers of two automobiles which were in collision February 22, last, at Third and P streets. One of the machines mounted the sidewalk and struck and killed Elizabeth Mitchell, a pedestrian: The grand jurors also declined to indict Sidney Glaser, false pretenses; Ger- trude Smith, robbery, and Inez Means, grand larceny. indicted and the charges against them include: Raymond Riggs, Nick Macchiarello, Abe Zinberg, Adolph R. Moder, De Witt Wilson and Horace Bird, violating liquor Jaw; Samuel Bouk~ night, assault with dangerous weapon; Oliver Jones, John L. Rose, William P, Little and Marshall Rice, joy-riding; David Welss, assault to rob; David Weiss, robbery; Willlam E. Thomas and Robert Morris, grand larceny; Maude E. Voss, false pretenses and embezzlement; Max Miller, false pretenses, and Nore man R. Nolan, violating postal laws. . PARKS TO BE PICTURED “Forgotten Shenandoah People” to Be Subject of Sexton Talk. “The Forgotten People of the Shenan- doah Valley” will be the topic of an fl- lustrated lecture to be given by Dr. Lyman Sexton before the Men's Club of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Epis- copal Church in Dudley Hall of the parish house on April 9. The meeting will start at 8:45 o'clock. Dr. Sexton will be introduced. by Hor- acs M. Albright, director National Park | service. Moving pictures will be shown, along with the lecture, of scenes in the new Shenandoah Park, Virginia; the Ever- glades Park, Florida, and the Great Smokey Park, in North Carolina and Tennessee, and will include a game of Indian ball played by Cherokee Indians. GETS $5,000 DAMAGES Wompn Wins Verdict From Apart- ment House Owner. Pauline Needle was awarded a verdict today ‘for $5000 damages against Charles M. Nash, owner of an apayt- ment at 1234 Thirty-fourth street, for injuries sustained when a portion of the ceiling of her apartment fell, strik- ing her on the head, March 14, 1928. The verdict was rendered by a jury in Circuit Division 3 before Justice leq Attorneys Hawken & Havell for the plaintiff, Casey represent while Attorney wflm 3 ted the owner of the premises. . e RAZOR BRINGS JAIL TERM Man Who Drew Weapon on Polige Gets Six Months. An attempt to draw a razor on a po- liceman, brought Henry C. Johnson, colored, 100 block of M street southeast, a six-month jail sentence when he was brought before Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court today, charged with car- rying a deadly weapon. Johnson, according to Policemen R. E. Burton and J. E. Bennett, drew & razor when they stopped him for a traf- | Chui tomorrow. The servicey are un- der auspices of * '\e_y gton | Fedegation of Church ¥ fic offense Jas: night. Burton wrested e weapon frem the man after a briel struggle,