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he Fp ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, TUGKER INCAPTAL ASKS 0 BE SHOWN HE KILLED WOMAN Man Who “Confessed” Kirk Murder Now Denies Sign- } ing Any Statement. ASKS IF FINGERPRINTS ARE INFALLIBLE PROOF Expresses Sincere Belief in Guilt, Then Says He Did Not Commit Crime. George P. Tucker, 32 years old, who was returned here last night from Los | Angeles, after professing the belief that he murdered Miss Emma Kirk during a mental lapse five years ago, asks only to be convinced of his guilt before sign- ing a complete confession of the crime. A transcript of Tucker’s statement, made during a two-hour questioning at headquarters, was being prepared for submissicn to the prisoner at the Dis- trict Jail. He has indicated, police say, that he will sign the statement. The young man will be arraigned, probably next week, after the District attorney's office can review the case. Officials would not predict when they | would seek to bring Tucker to trial under the murder indictment returned | some time ago. Denies Signing Statement. “Tucker insists he hsa signed no state- ment either in Los Angeles, where he | voluntarily surrendered, or en route by ! train to Washington in custody of! deputy marshals from Los Angeles. i This was due, t! e prisoner sald, to a recurring doubt’tf 1t he committed the crime. At times Tucker expresses a| sincere belief in his guilt and at others ' he doubts it apparently with equal sin- cerity. He said he made the original confes- sion because he was obsessed with the | conviction that he was a murderer and ridden by fear that he might commit a | similar crime, this time on “some one| near and dear.” | The prisoner related 3 fantastic | story of mental delusion. which have| troubled him since his skill was frac- tured while driving a racing car in Salem, Oreg, in 1923. Describes Night Club. Police say ke was able, however, to give an accurate description of a color- ed night club which he professed to have visited near the umbrella shop at 813 R street, where the garroted body cf the 68-year-old spinster was found. At the same time Tucker pointed out to Insp:ctor W. S. Shelby, Capt. Ed-| ward Kelly and Sergt. John Flaherty, who examined him, that he had no pos- &ible motive in committing the crime. Tucker obviously was perplexed when shown how identical was the impression of his own left thumb with another left on the eycglasses of the dead wvoman. Hears Method Is Infallible. He asked if identification by this| m:othed was infallible ahd when in-| formed it was, replied: ‘If that is so, | my belief must be true. That is why| I am here.” Tucker was shown police photographs | of the body and room in which the murder was committed, but said he could recognize nothing familiar. He mngle« the photographs with a steady nd. The prisoner showed some irritation over reports that he was picked up by Los Angeles police while walking the | streets mumbling that he had mur- dered a woman in Washington. Tucker explained he voluntarily ap- | proached a traffic officer, who was busy | %uxmnl tickets on parked automobiles. | cker asked the officer, he said, if he wished to make “several hundred dol- | lars,” and then expressed his belief of | having committed a crime. The traffic_policeman called a com- panion and Tucker was escorted to de- tective headquarters where he repeat- | ed his story. Acquaintances Found. Several persons have been found here, Shelby said, who knew Tucker while | the latter was in Washington, just prior | to the murder. Through them police ! were able to establish Tucker's presence here two months before the murder, ! but not at the time it was committed. Police do not consider it necessary to have Tucker's acquaintances identify him at this time. An effort may be made later to find a woman in Cali- fornia—Beatrice Kolick—said to have seen a man leaving the vicinity of the Kirk home near the time of the murder The woman moved from Washington several years ago and friends here hav: been unable to tell police what city| she moved to on the West Coast. Tucker said he remained in Washing- | ton almost a year after the crime and Temembered having confessed it to an acquaintance here, whom he refused to name. He admitted his “confession” may have been colored by newspaper 2ccounts of the slaying, The prisoner was calm and self-as- sured as the Southern Railroad train drew into Union Station. He was dressed | | cide after Dr. Lyman J. Green of C Left, Deputy United States Marshal custody George Pierce Tucker, wh> has fession, to the slaying herz in 1926 of Emma Kirk, umbrella mender. Gus Cerimele, who last night took into confessed, but later repudiated his con- —Star Staff Photo. WOMAN IS FOUND SHOT NEAR HEART Leaves Note Hinting of Sui-i cide Attempt—73-Year-0ld | Man Takes Life With Gas. ©One suicide and an attempt were in- vestigated today by police. Mrs. Betty Warner, 40-year-old State Department clerk, was found shot near | the heart in an apartment at 1526 Sev-| enteenth street early today, while Thom- | as J. Lee, 73 years old, a mysterious figure, asphyxiated himself in a room- | ing house at 405 Massachuseits avenue. | Mrs. Warner was found lying on a | day-bed by Jesse Nelson, a jenitor, after | he was attracted by groans. She was | removed to Emergency Hospital by the fire rescue squad. Physicians described the woman’s condition as serious. Finds Life Difficult, She left a note scribbled on the back of an envelope which said, “Life is too hard.” Friends said she had been ill about a week. She entered the State Department about two years ago after | a short period in the Veterans’ Bureau. Mrs. Warner came to Washington from Watertown, Fla No message was discovered in Lee's room. . Police, however, found papers in his personal effects revealing he had in- vented an airplane heater, formerly operated a drug-distributing company in Detroit and had published pamphlets assailing the eighteenth amendment and advocating Government control of the liquor traffic. Miss Blanche Simmons, manager of the rooming house, who discovered his body, reported Lee had been reticent about his personal affairs. He had been renting a room from Mrs. Simmons | about six months. | Issues Suicide Ruling. | Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, District coro- ner, issued 2 certificate of death by sui- ualty Hospital reported Lee dead on his arrival. The pamphiet ten by Lee over his own signature suggested Govern- ment control of liquor be substituted for the present form of prohibition and was sent to high-ranking Federal officials throughout the country. Mrs. Simmons called poilce when she was unable to open the door to Lee's room aft:r detecting the odor of gas and the body was found on the floor after a patrolman broke through the in a brown suit, and his hair—growing thin on top—was neatly combed He had a pleasant trip, he said, play ing “black jack” with his captors mos of the way. These were Untied States| Deputy Marshal Henry Lessner and | Nat Bernbaum, sttached to a Los An- | bond office. low passengers were not aware thet Tucker was a priconer until ap- priced of the fact by the boom of flash- lights as the party alighted about 8:30 o'clock =t Union Station. S: Johr ¥laherty of the homicide rquad escorted the prisoner to detective headquarters. Tucker was taken to the District Jail later. BOY, 2.AWH0 .ATE POISON 'S IN SERIOUS CONDITION Child, Mis dy, Is Treated by Fire Rescue king Tablets for Can- Squad. « condition of Bernard Gleeson, ir. 2 years cld, who mistook a drug for candy while visiting his grand- parents yesterday afternoon and swal- Jowed 17 of the 'tablets, continues serious today, according to physicians at Casualty Hospital, where he is being treated for poisoning. Bernard and his 4-year-old sister, Katherine, were visiting at their grand- father's residence, 827 Fourth street northeast, when the former discsvered the tablets. Sampling two or three, he found them to his liking and ate 13 more. ‘The child, who lives at 162 T street northeast, was seized with stomach pains shortly afterward and the grand- father, Andrew J. Gleeson, summoned the Pire Rescue Squad when his con- dition steadily became worse, Members of the rescue squad rushed the boy to Casualty after administering emergency locked door. WAR CRIPPLE ENDS LIFE AT MOUNT ALTO {Joseph B. Hoffer of San Antonio Uses Revolver Purchased ! Through Mail. Helplessly crippled, Joseph B. Hoffer, 30-year-old war veteran from San An- tonio, Tex., this morning ended his life with a revolver in a bed at Mount Alto ital, where he had been confined more than a year. Hoffer shot himself in the head with a weapon that he had bought in New | York, and which reached him through the mail yesterday. Hoffer was alone in a Toom on the third floor of B ward at the time. He had attempted to deaden the sound of the weapon by Wrapping it in a towel, but others on the floor heard the scharge. Capt. Maurice Collins and Pvt. H. A Reed of the seventh precinct investi- gated the case with Detective Sergt. |Charles Mansfield of headquarters. Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate of suicide. Information in the case was refused at the hospital, questions being referred to the police. 'Other men in the ward sald they understood Hoffer was being treated for injuries received in a fall. He was paralyzed from the waist down. Swedish Poet Dies. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 8 (#).— Arik Axel Karfeldt, poet and permanent secretary of the Swodish Academy, died | here_suddenly today at the age of 66. *1In 1919 he declined to accept, the Nobel prize for literature. « | | | ALIBIS CHECKED N AYNES CASE Police Hope to Solve Tea Shop Crime Through Man Seen in Roadster. With the failure to identify positively any of the six suspects held in the slaying of Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes, Garden T Shoppe cashier, investigators | today are checking their alibis. At present police hope for solution of the crime rests with a policeman’s iden- tification of one of the suspects as the man he saw sitting in a roadster of the same type used by the bandits, within half a block of the tea shop about 5 minutes before the cashier was shot. Policeman Identifies Car. Last night the policeman, H. M.| Heathcote of the fourth precinct, also| identified the stolen roadster used in| the slaying as the one in which he says | he saw the suspect sitfing. Yester- day morning when Heathcote picked the man from a line-up, investigators said the latter “drooped and asked for a glass of water. Three employes of the Garden T Shoppe, 1835 Columbia road, where Mrs Jaynes was shot, were uncertain as to vhether any one of the six suspects participated in the holdzup and shoot- ing. Difficulty in identification lies in the | fact that both bandits wore masks and had bathing caps drawn tightly over their heads. Yesterday the three suspects first ar- rested in the case were fingerprinted. Their prints failed to compare with the fingerprints found on the tags of the automobile used in the hold-up and murder. _The three suspects arrested last night in Baltimore in connection with an automobile theft will be fingerprinted today and a comparison made with the prints on the tags. Brought From Baltimore. The latter three were brought here | from Ealtimore after police there found a gun on one of them at the line-up last night. The three employes of the | tea shop failed to identify them, but Dr. Charles D. Remsberg and Louis Norman partially identified two of them last night as the men, who participated in an attempted hold-up at the Cava- lier Apartments March 20. All six of the suspects will be grillef police in an attempt to break their alibis. 1t was learned that police are work- ing on a new lead, but they declined,! | to talk about it. v TWO MORE CHURCHES ANNOUNCE ELECTIONS | Albans and Church of Ascen-! sion, Silver Spring, Officers tot it St. | and Vestrymen Chosen. | The following elections of officers and vestrymen, in connection with the an- nual elections of the Episcopal Churches in the Diocese of Washington, are re- ported, in addition to those announced in The Star yesterday and Monday St. Alban's_Church—Officers: Senior warden, W. Peter Bisset; junior war- den, W. P. B. Fletcher, sr.; vestry, Henry N. Brawner, jr.. W. L. Brown- ing, Dr. William 'Eari Clark, G. B. Craighill, Victor B. Deyber, George R. Wales, E. M. Wecks and James E. Eck- loff; treasurer, C. H. Korts; registrar, John Brawner; delegates to convention W. S. Bowen, W. M. Dougal and G. E. | Ferguson, and alternates, C. A. Amman |and Col.'W. R. Pick The Church of the Ascension, Sil* Spring, elected the following as on Auxiliary Committez of the Department | of Missions: Senjor warden, W. S. Whitehead; junior warden, George L. McCallum; Vestry, Charles E. Lizear, Henry P. Al- Gen, Arthur Sabin, T. C. Taylor, Lloyd T. Clark and Fred N. Oden; treasurer, Alfred T. Newbold; treasurer of build- ing fund, William E. Perry; registrar, Mr. McCallum, Tulips to Bloom Soon. LYNCHBURG, Va., April 8 (Spe- BINEHAN SUGGESTS RUSHAOUR TRAFF PLAN FOR DISTRCT | Two-Thirds of Road Would Be One-Way Lane in Heavy Periods. SENATOR URGES STREET WIDENING BE CONTINUED Crowds at Easter and Inaugura- tion Cited as Showing Value of Program. The large number of motorists who drove to Washington for Easter week to see the sights of the National Cap- ital led Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, to express the belief today that the program of widening streets, inaugurated several years ago, should’ be continued. Senator Bingham, chairman of the subcommittee which handles local ap- propriations in the Senate, pointed out that there are many occasions, such as cherry blossom time, inaugu- rations and large conventions, which draw crowds of motoring tourists to the District. He has in mind widening ad- ditional streets that flow into the downtown section, to carry more of the traffic load to and from the heart of the city. Rush-Hour Plan. Mr. Bingham also suggested that traffic officials consider marking some of the main arteries in such a way that in-coming traffic could use two- thirds of the street in the morning rush period and, by reversing the rule, let out-going traffic use two-thirds of street in the evening rush hour. The Senator indicated he had in mind especially those places where the Traffic Bureau already had a single white line painted down the center of certain streets. The Senator said if three lines were painted on such streets it would create four lanes, three of which, he believes, could be used by traffic’ coming_down in the mornings and three machines going home in the evenings. Street Widening Projects. There are two short street widening projects in the appropriation act for the fiscal year beginning July 1. One is to continue the widening of H street in the downtown section as far east as Massachusetts avenue. The other is to begin the widening of Constitution avenue, as an approach to the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Memorial Bridge. In the coming year this avenue will be widened to 80 feet from Four- teenth street to Virginia avenue. The views expressed by Senator Bing- ham today indicated he is considering the advisability of other street widening projects in succeeding appropriation bills. Urges More One-Way Streets. Another suggestion advanced by Senator Bingham today was that some of the north and south bound streets be made one-way during the morning and evening rush periods as a means of expediting the movement of traffic to and from the downtown section. The Senator said several streets could be reserved for south bound traffic dur- ing the morning rush period and for north bound traffic in the evening rush. He emphasized, however, that he would not advocate making any of these streets one-way throughout the day. WIFE IMPRISONED, BEATEN IN HOME Husband Said to Have Kicked ‘Woman During Protracted Intoxication. own home for two weeks at the mercy of her intoxicated husband, according to police, Mrs. Rose May Hamilton, 49, of 228 C street northeast is mfle!inx from contusions about the body an other injuries at Emergency Hospital. Her husbapd, Charles Franklin Hamil- ton, 50, is being held by police of the ninth precinct, pending determination of Mrs. Hamilton's injuries. Patrolmen Victor H. Landrum and R. D. Jett, summoned to the Hamilton home by & telephone call from a neigh- bor late last night, said they found the woman, bruised and bleeding, after heving battered down the door to gain entrance. She was lying on a bed, they said, too weak to talk, and Hamilton showed signs of protracted intoxication. The woman’s body showed hand and foot marks, police said, where she had been beaten, kicked and stamped upon. Neighbors told police they had heard moans and screams from the house for the last two weeks, and, at intervals during the past few days, the woman had been heard to plead, “Don’t kill me.” ‘The woman told hospital officials she had been beaten by her husband, but was too weak to talk much, they said. DISTRICT BOUNDARY CASE OPENS MONDAY Supreme Court to Decide if Vir- ginia Line Is at Low or High Water Mark. A brief in support of its contention that the District of Columbia is bound- ginia side of the Potomac has been filed in the United States Supreme Court by counsel for the Washington Airport, Inc. ‘The highest court is scheduled to hear arguments Monday in the boundary case, which arose originally in litigation between the airport company and the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation, but in which the Federal Government is an interested party because of the extensive Government improvements in progress on the Virginia side of the river. Briefs previously have been filed on behalf of the sand and gravel company and the Federal Government in sup- port of the contention that the District boundary Jine extends to high-water mark on the Virginia side. Conservatives Gain in Argentina. LA PLATA, Argentina, April 8 (#).— The Conservatives showed a gain as ithe official count cf votes from Sun- y's election in the Provinc: cf Buenos cial) —About 60,000 tuiips wiill b2 in | ds | bloom at Miller Park by April 20. T { beds are mow tion prior to Y al cultiva. l The coua‘ in ves, 855, WEDNESDAY, Apparently held a prisoner in her | ed by the low water mark on the Vir-| APRIL 8, 1931. DOUBLED BUDGET FORHEALTH WORK N CAPTAL URGED Social Agencies’ Report Holds Funds Must Be Increased if City Is to Keep Pace. REFORM IN ALLEY HOME SITUATION NECESSARY Milk Supply Administration Is Ap- proved—Cancer Control Dis- cussed in Survey. The public health budget.must be more than doubled if Washington is to keep pace with other large cities in this respect, according to the fourth section of a health and hospital survey which is being completed under auspices of the Council of Social Agencles. “Education of the public in the prin- ciples of healthy living is a most im- portant function of a health depart- ment,” the report sald. “Unfortunately in Washington the Health Department has been handicapped by lack of funds and personnel necessary to develop an organized program of popular health education. Chance for Development. “The voluntary agencies in some in- stances have supplemented the official agencies in this field, but there is an { opportunity for the development of a more extensive and better correlated program. At present this service seems only about half adequate.” ‘The new report, compiled by Amer- ican Public Health Association in co- | operation with the Council’s Interpreta- ticn Committee, covers food and milk control, sanitation, laboratory service and a popular health program, complet- ing part 1 of a general survey on “public health activities.” Part 2 on public health nursing probably will be ready for publication Monday. Among the more important subjects for reform was the alley situation. The | report quoted a survey of 1927, setting | out that while some improvement was | noted, the general condition among alley dwellers was “similar to that of 15 years ago.” 10,000 Live in Alleys. It was estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 persons still live in alley dwellings, many of which are “dilap- idated and filthy.” On food and milk control, the report said that “approximately 97 per cent of the milk supply is pasteurized, some 2 per cent is of certified grade and all comes ircm dairy herds which have been tuberculin tested. The work is, in general, well administered.” The committee recommended the 1i- censing of food establishmgents on the basis of a scoring system, and increase in the facilities for testing milk and the marking of milk bottles with the date of production. Sanitation work in the District is well organized under the Health Depart- ment, although it was pointed out that the services of a sanitary engineer are required in handling public health engi- neering problems. Urges Combined Laboratory. About 95 per cent of Washington's dwellings are connected with city water and sewer systems, the report showed, in recommending tbat the remaining 5 per cent be connected as rapidly as possible. The report recommended early elimi- nation of alley dwellings and the adop- tion of a sound policy to guide new housing developments. ‘With regard to laboratory service, the report suggested that the functions of the Heaith Department’s divisions of bacteriology, serology and chemistry be combined under one laboratory director. It was suggested further that funds and personnel be provided for a popu- {lar health instruction bureau or divi- sion in the Health Department. Cancer Problem Studied. r the heading of “special prob- " the report sald the chief weak- ness of cancer control lay in lack of diagnostic service in clinics, in the small number of patients admitted to hospitals for early treatment and in the lack of nursing personnel for home treatment of the disease. Attention was called to the lack of convalescent home facilities for indigent cases and for patients of moderate means. Most of the 141 beds for such cases are available only at moderately high rates. It was estimated that 200 | more beds are needed at moderate | arices. Plans were urged for a comprehen- sive development of mental hygiene and clinic services. Community Health Program. The repcrt had this to say on the | subject of a community health program: “The basis of satisfactory health preservation work in a community is a well organized health department, ade- quately financed and staffed with trained personnel, and supported by the local medical profession, proper laws and favorable public opinion. In gen- eral, the health laws and regulations of the city, if broadly interpreted, are i nearly sufficlent for present needs, al- though it is desirable that health regu- lations be periodically reviewed and oc- casionally revised to comply with mod- ern knowledge and experience. The medical profession apparently co-oper- ates well with the health department. The funds and personnel provided, however, are entirely inadequate to meet even minimum standards of bud- getary allotments to modern health functions, with the exception of those activities, as sanitation and food super- vision, which were conceded to be es- sential a half century ago. Even the staff for communicable disease control, which is commonly accepted as a pri- mary health function, is entirely too small to permit the carrying out of routine activities to a degree considered desirable for the instruction of cases and contacts in measures for prevention or spread. . And tuberculosls continued to take an excessive toll among the colorad. ‘The medical and nursing staffs of the official and voluntary agencies combined are only about half adequate to pro- vide for a well rounded child hygiene program reaching from the prenatal pe- riod through school life, Due to lack of funds and personnel there is no or- ganized program, on a community-wide basis, of popular health mstruction to acquaint the public with existing knowl- edge regarding positive health and how to keep well. Yet sclentists tell us that years could be added to the average life span if available public health knowledge were more generall; led. ly applled. Most Lack Funds. “True it is, the various official and voluntary agencies are, the most part, utilizing the avallable resources in an effective manner. But most of the agencles are working under severe handicaps of lack of adequate funds and of sufiicient trained personnel. Pub- lic health is a purchasable commodity. President Hoover has wisely stated that ' public heslth service should be as fully FH¥ Cronin Youngsters’ Favorite NAT SHORTSTOP MOBBED BY KIDS ON ARRIVAL HERE. Joe Cronin, shortstop for the Washington Nationals, and the “best in the business,” according to this group cf admiring youngsters, was nearly mobbed for his autograph upon his arrival at the Union Station this morning, when, with the other members of the Griffmen, he arrived to begin the home stand that Walter Johnson hcpes will put his charges out a step in front of the pack for the American League pennant. In the group are, left to right: Boyce Luckett, Billy McCarthy, Joe Cronin, John Poston and Earl Le Grow. —Star Staff Photo. BRIDGE IS NANED INTAFT'S HONOR Commissioners Make Con- necticut Avenue Span Me- morial to Its Admirer. The District Commissioners yester- day changed the name of the Connecti- cui Avenue Bridge to the William Howard Taft Bridge in honor of the late President and Chief Justice of the United States. The bridge has been popularly known as the “Million Dol- lar Bridge” The suggestion for the change was made by the Women's City Club in March, 1930. ‘The text of the order changing the name of the bridge is: “Whereas, the late Chief Justice, Wil- liam Howard Taft, whose residence was in the vicinity of the Connecticut Ave- nue Bridge over Rock Creek, was a great admirer of sald brifige, over which it was his custom to walk several times a week, especially on Sunday after- noons, at which times he would stop to talk to friends and acquaintances, and especially with groups of children whom he met; and “Whereas, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia desire to honor the memory of this great American cit- izen by making a slight tribute of af- fection from the people of the District of Columbia to one who as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States had so endeared himself to them, it is hereby “Ordered that the bridge across Rock Creek in the line of Connecticut ave- nue shall be officially designated the ‘Willlam Howard Taft Bridge.'” organized and as universally incorpor- | ated into our governmental system as is public education. “The returns are a thousandfold in economic benefits and infinitely more in reduction of su fering and promotion of human happi- ness.” The public health budget for the City of Washington needs to be more than_doubled to provide for the type of public health work, which will compare with that of the leading cities in the United States, and the type of program which the citizens deserve. “There is apparent opportunity for increased correlation of activities of voluntary and official agencles and for the development of somewhat more complete_working relationships. Sev- eral of the activities of the voluntary agencies have proven their value and might well be assumed by appropriate official organizations. The survey rec- ommendations will need careful study and_consideration leading to practical means of execution. May Plan Health Council. “The Health Committee of the Coun- cil of Social Agencies would seem to provide an excellent representative body for such deliberations. Other health committees mentioned are likewise in position to contribute much to the so- lution of the problems considersd. In the course of a year or two, it may be anticipated that the health committee of the Council of Social Agencies will have reached a point where serious con- sideration might well be given to the organization of a Health Council, either under the auspices of the Council of Social Agencies or as a separate organ- ization. It is not recommended that such an organization be formed, how- ever, until a wel ltrained public health worker on a full time basis may be se- cured as executive. “The chief objectives of a health council have been outlined in a recent editorial in the American Journal of Public Health in the following terms: “1. To promote the co-ordination of public and private health work. “2. To serve as a forum for the dis- cussion of health and sickness problems, policies and plans. “3. To develop new and to improve present standards of service through joint study of special problems. “4. To secure improvement of existing health facilities and services and the establishment of new or additional h‘nne!:‘ facilities or services where ‘To give moral support to the ex- isting department of hoalth In co-opers 2tion with Jocal dental and medical FAMOUS OLD HOME NCLUDED IN TOUR .‘Bellevue to Be Opened to | Public for St. John’s Church Georgetown Pilgrimage. Bellevue, one of the most famous old hiomes in Colonial Georgetown, built in 1760 by Charles Carroll (one of the Carrolls of Carrollton), will be opened to all those making the historic tour of Georgetown for the benefit of St. g:hn's Church, on Saturday and Sun- y. The present occupants of the lovely house, at 2715 Q street, Representative and Mrs. Charles A. Eaton, are co- operating in helping to make the tour a success by opening the doors of the | famous edifice for the first time to the public. ‘Tradition had it that the old Carroll | home was the place of refuge for Dolly Madison during the War of 1812. In recent years the house was pur- chased by the Colonial Dames of Amer- ica, who are planning to open the place next year as a museum. In addition to Bellevue, the home of the last mayor of Georgetown, situated | at the corner of Potomac and N strects, now owned by Mrs. A. Blair Thaw, will |also be opened to thos: making the The tours will start every half hour | after 2 o'clock from the Peck Memorial at Twenty-eighth street and Pennsyl- vania avenue and will be made by ::l:;“b:vgt:l !tvau-;nfle rc;:ne. Tickets n rom the guides at the start of the tours. 73 H. G. INSCOE TO HEAD DISTRICT GRAND JURY Justice Peyton Gordon Names Eight Women and 15 Men on Group. Horace G. Inscoe, 235 Twelfth street southeast, has been’ selected by Justice Pegton Gordon to serve as foreman of the grand jury for the ensuing three months. With him are 8 women and 14 men. The other grand jurors are: Enoch H. Waters, 539 Randolph street; Mrs. George A. Buchanan, 2800 Ontario road; Nathan H. Worth, 423 DUpshur street; Mrs. Regina E. Chandler, 1714 Ninth street; Mrs. Sarah E. Nolph, 731 Ken- tucky avenue southeast; Charles O. Chisley, 603 Four-and-a-half _street southwest; John E. Callan, 108 Eighth street northeast; Leonard H. Hancock, 1424 Ames place northeast; Edwin Tel- lou, 243 Tenth street northeast; Edward W. Parker, 1630 T street southeast; Mrs. Mary S. Tew, 3614 Connecticut avenue; Joseph C. Mallon, 1132 Twenty-ninth street; John E. Palmer, 2521 University place; Edward L. Beall, 641 Fourteenth street northeast; Mrs. Ollie E. Reh, 2613 Bladensburg road northeast; Martin J. Schroen, 231 Eleventh street northeast; Mrs. Florence C. Crouch, 1207 Quincy street; Willlam Halam, 1325 Madison streed; Stephen Badurski, 621 Girard street northeast; J. Henry Bailey, 1335 Irving street northeast, and Mrs. Rose Jacobson, 3700 Massachusetts avenue. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY NEW YORK SOCIETY Group to Hear Rochester Universi. ty’s Musical Clubs Monday in §eason’s Final Fete. Dr. W. J. Davis was elected presi- dent of the New York Stave Society last evening at a meeting at the Willard Hotel. s et Other officers elected were as follows: vice presidents, F. W. Krichelt, Mrs. William A. Carr, C. F. Hammerly; sec- retary, George Winkle; treasurer, G. Kibby Munson; historian, Miss Helen Brown; trustees, John Taber, M. C.; Harry J. Hunt, Willlam A. Carr, ise Evansom, D lance. gfangements were dety’s last entertain .t be given at the 30 p.m., ced nt of ol ening Shap [ cenerst vews ] PAGE B—1 BLBOARDPARLEY TOGETMODELLAW PROPOSAL FRIAY Few of Public Interest Groups at First Session to At- tend Meeting. PROPOSITION CAUSED SPLIT AT PHILADELPHIA Easements of View Along Scenio Roads Crux of Plan to Be Offered. Another session of the Washington Conference called by the outdoor ad- vertising industry and the National As- sociation of Real Estate Board to reach accord with public interests on legis- lative proposals for the protection and preservation of roadside scenery will be held here Friday. At this session the so-called Con- tinuation Committee formed last Janu- ary—what is left of it—will place be- fore the conference a “model law” pro- posed by Herbert U. Nelson, executive secretary of the Real Estate Boards, the same proposal which proved the rock on which the Philadelphia session of the committee split. His sugges- tion, in effect, proposes to deal with the rural billboard problem through the do- nation of easements of view by private owners along scenic roads, plus- con- demnation of and payment for such easements in such cases as the owners will not make the public a present of them. Few, if any, of the public interest groups which attended the first Wash- ington session, it was learned, will be represented at Friday's conference. The only two public representatives who at- tended the Philadelphia meeting, withdrew* when it was seen that no common ground existed for an agree- ment. The other public members of the committee did not attend. Pepper Headed Group. ‘The Continuation Committee was originally composed of former Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsyl- vania, as chairman, and representa- tives of the American Automobile As- sociation, American Nature Association, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Association of Real Estate Boards, National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty, National Grange and the Outdoor Advertising Associa- tion of America, with two places left open for the Jetroleum Institute and the American Civic Association if they would accept them. The American Civic Association continued to refuse to join; the General Federation of Women's Clubs_declined to serve, and the American Nature Association and the National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty, later withdrew. ‘The two vacancies on the committee remained unfilled when the Philadel- phia conference was called. At this session the two public rep- resentatives, Albert S. Bard of the Na- tional Council for Protection of Road- side Beauty, and Arthur N. Pack, presi- dent of the American Nature Associa- tion, made a counter proposal which they frankly admitted was intended to eliminate the rural billboards, estimated by the outdoor advertising industry as representing about 5 per cent of the total billboard units. In a statement issued in connection with the forthcoming conference, Mr. Pack said: “The withdrawing organiza- tions also resent having mere discussion, ‘with unreconciled, if not irreconcilable, differences made a handle for the post- ponement of restrictive legislation upon the n1|e$ ground that the ‘lion and the lamb’ are on the point of lying down together. We think those gen- uinely interested in a solution of the billboard problem and in the protection of the beauty of American highways will be likely to consider this proposal (for easement of view) merely a red herring drawn across the trail.” Provisions of Proposal. Mr. Nelson's proposal involved the creation of immune stretches of high- ways, not less than three miles in length, which would be free from commercial developments, including billboards, on the vote of 75 per cent of the abutting owners. Provision would be made to accord some preference in the expen- diture of public funds for the develop- ment of these zones, as an inducement for their creation. This suggestion contemplated an enforcement of the plan against the non-consenting 25 per cent of abutting cwners through con- demnation proceedings, with compen- sation to owners. The other roads would remain open to commercial de- velopment, including billboards. Mr. Pack and Mr. Bard took the position that the admission of outdoor advertising to private lands along rural highways on a certificate of public convenience is a contradiction of the public view concerning the industry and is contrary to the public interest. The proposal, they declared would leave all the highways of the State, except those selected for preferential treatment, open to unlimited commercial development not only by enterprises serving the traveling public and other industries having a natural relation to the loca- tion, but also vo others, including the billboards, which have neither quality. GIRLS ADMIT FAKING STORY OF KIDNAPING 13-Year-Old Cousins Say They Feared Whipping for Play- ing “Hookey.” Fear of being spanked for having played “hookey” from George Mason School, Alexandria, Va., was given by Edna Cummings and Winifred Emmons, 13-year-old cousins, as an excuse for relating a story of having been kid- naped yesterday morning. Leaving their homes in AM: w ttend school, the cousins changed their minds and came to this city instead, spending most of the day window shop- ping and sightseeing in the snow and rain, and when found at the bus sta- -, Miss | by & middle- mar Harris and | mobile tion, Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street last night they were wet, tired and hungry. Their disappearance was reported to police of the first precinct by Mrs. Edith Saul, Hume Spring, Va., sister of the Emmons child, and it was shortly after leaving the police station that she found the runaways at the bus station. ‘Taken to the police station, the chil- dren related a story of having been kidnaped while on their way to school -aged white man in an auto- . and Detective James A. Mostyn separated the chil- dren and a short questioning resulted in their admitting having invented the @ kidnaping story for fear of soankinggior not having gone ‘%