Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1931, Page 16

CAEATER CAPTAL GROUP LEAVES T0 ATTRACT VISITORS Party of 25 Goes to Virginia Cities in Interest of Drawing Tourists. WASHINGTON’S FEATURES SUBJECT OF LITERATURE rd of Trade Members to Re- turn After Two Days—Fund Drive Continues. A personal message of invitation to eome to Washington and see the changes that are taking place here as its development program and steady expansion proceeds is being carried to residents of many points in Virginia by a delegation of the Board of Trade who left this morning on a tour of cities of the Old Dominion. Headed litt, president; Charles W. Morris, secretary, and Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary, 25 mem- bers of the trade body boarded a parlor coach in front of The Star Building at 9 o'clock armed with a large quantity of literature telling of things of inter- est in the National Capital. Will Return Monday. The party will visit Norfolk. Rich- mond, Fredericksburg and many other points in Virginia, returning to Washing- ton Monday morning. The tour was inspired by the recently | inaugurated movement to advertise Washington nationally under the au- spices of the Greater National Capital Committee, now engaged in completing the raising of a fund to promote Wash- ington's interest throughout the coun- try. ‘Thousands of residents of Virginia eome to the National Capital each year, it is pointed out by Mr. Plitt, but it was felt that a personal invitation by an official delegation from the trade body would emphasize the friendly feeling that exists toward State and city offi- cials of Virginia. Pollard Co-operating. Gov. John Garland Pollard of Vir- ginia and other officials of the neigh- horing State have pledged co-operation in the Greater National Capital move- ment, under which historic points of in- terest in the Old Dominion will be a part of literature to be sent broadcast through the country, advertising the pre-eminent advantages of this section of the country as a tourists’ mecca. ‘While the Board of Trade delegation is making the two-day tour of Virginia, members of the Greater National Capi- tal Fund Committee, headed by Robert V. Fleming, bank lent, are engaged in ccmpleting tation of business houses here for the minimum budget of £55,000 and an expected budget of $112,- 000 to be used in advertising Washing- ton in this program. Committee workers will meet next Friday for reports on funds raised by the various solicitation groups. MERCHANTS PROTEST VENDING ON STREETS Association Will Shortly Call on District Heads Asking Ban on Practice. A committee of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association soon will call on the District Commissioners to formally protest the selling of ficwers, vegetables. fruit, balloons, etc., by ven- ders on the sidewalks of the business section of the city. This action was decided at a meeting of the board of governors of the association, at its headquarters in The Star Building yes- terday. The board, in protesting the street selling, stated its opinion that the downtown section was made unsightly by the street venders and tended to im- pede traffic. A resolution expressing the Tegret of the association cn the death of Repre- sentative Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was adopted by the board. “The people of | ‘Washington have lcst a great friend | and the Nation a great statesman,” the | Tesolution read in part. Members of the merchants’ organiza- tion were urged to co-operate in_the displaying of flags on April 14, Pan- | American da; SMITHSONIAN WILLED { $75,000 FOR SUN STUDY | James Arthur, Machinery Manu- facturer, Also Provides for Hu- man Brain Research. B the Associated Press. H NEW YORK. April 11.—Inatitutions | will receive $424.974 under the will of James Arthur, machinery manufacturer, tn study the sun and the human brain and to form and maintain a collection of watches ‘and clocks. New York University will be given $209,974 to be devoted to “the care 2nd keeping in perfect condition as well as making additions to clocks and watches forming the James Arthur | collection of clocks and watches.” To provide for an annual lzcture on time | and its mysteries, $250 was set aside. Of a net estate of $851922 the Smithsonian Institution” will get $75,000 for investigation and study of the sun The American Museum of Natural | History receives $50,000 for study of | the brain. ASKS $30,000 DAMAGES Mrs. Hunter D. Hfl;l:kers Files Suit Against Michael Tretick. Mrs. Hunter D. McVickers- and her husband, John McVickers, 2719 Thir- teenth street, yesterday filed suits total- ng $30,000 damages against Michael Tretick, 1015 New York avenue, for injuries sustained by Mrs. McVickers in a traffic mishap December 8 last. Mrs. McVickers places her damages at $25.- 000 and the husband wants an addi- tional $5,000 for the loss of the services of his wife and for the expense incident { 'Story of Shooting Was Good Enough Until “Blood” Is| to her illness. Mrs. McVickers was alighting from a street car, the court is told, at Four- teenth and Newton streets when the ‘Tretick car struck her and knocked her down. Attorney Norman B. Lan- dreau represents the plaintiffs. THE EVENING STAR, The Beard of Trade Greater Washington campaign group. which left this morning under the leadership of George Plitt. president of the trade body, for a week end tour ¢f Virginia to tell the residents of the Old Dominion of the plans for the development and cxpansion of Greater Washington. ADVISORY COUNC) DISOLUTON URGED Brightwood Citizens Decline to Vote for Members Hereafter. After a lengthy discussion last night the Brightwood Citizens’ Association adopted a resolution opposing continu- ance of the Citizens’ Advisory Council and declining to vote for members of the council hereafter. The result of the recent meeting of | the Federation of Citizens' Associations was reported by William McK. Clay- ton, one of the Brightwood representa- tives to the federation. He told of the inactivity of the council and that the present Board of District Commissior ers had not consulted with that body. John A. Saul, the other delegate from the association and who was elected a member of the council, spoke against the resolution. ‘The resolution. which was amended by L. P. Randoiph and as . finally adopted, provided “that the delegates elected to the Federation of thluns: Association be again instructed to d cline to vote for members of the ad- visory council hereafter.” Honor for W. V. Cox Asked. ‘The association adopted a resolution requesting the Federation of Citizens’ Associations to ask the Public Utilities Commission why 50 cents is charged for telephone e.tensions where the service is limited and 75 cents where the serv- ice is unlimited. ‘The Board cf Education is to be re- quested to name the new northern high school after the late Willlam V. Cox, former president of the Board of Education, former president of the Brightwod Citizens’ Association, former president of the Washington Bcard of Trade and for many years one of the leading civic workers in the National Capital. Improvement of the triangie parks at Seventh and Eighth streets, Marietta place and Concord avenve: Fifth and Seventh, Madison streets and Concord avenue: Madison street between Seventh and Eighth streeis, will be recommended to tne District Commis- sioners, % The association adopted a resolution urging the District Commissioners to provide new and larger quarters in the Brightwood vicinit.. A committee to Tepresent the asso- ciation on the District bicentennial Committee was appoiated by President Charles W. Ray as follows: Mr. Clay- ton, chairman; Mr. Saul, and Elmer Johnson. Reservoir Report Made. Announcement was made of the death of the father of C. E. Bogardus, secretary of the association. zens’ Associations Telative to the use of the old Sixteenth Stree Reservoir, at Sixteenth _and _Kennedy atreets, was made by Prof. L. J. Cantrel. in whiich he stated the general sentiment was in favor of using the land in that vicinity for the development of a modern public recreation center. The commitiee was continued and will attend future meet- ings of the Joint Committee. Stop signs will be requested at Eighth { street and Concord avenue, with a view | to stopping speeding of motorists on Eighth street. Charles W. Ray presided at the meeting, which was held in the Paul Junior High School, Eighth and Nich- olson streets acting secretary. GIRL, 11, WEDS MAN, 49 Ceremony n;;ick EEdA of Juvenile Home Inmate Asked by Her. OMAHA, Nebr.. April 11 marriage last week of an ar-old grammar school girl to a man 29 years her senior, was under investigation to- day, while the girl bride lay ill with mumps at a juvenile home Rosetta Copling is the bride Bryan, the bridegroom. Bryan the county jall. The girl sald marriage was at her behest TRIP TO U. S. PLANNED Countess Chambrun, Sister of Long- Albert is in the worth, and Son Sail Wednesday. PARIS, April 11 (#).—Rene Cham- brun, nephew of the late Nicholas Longworth, left here today seilles to meet his mother, the Countess Clara de Chambrun, sister of Long worth, when she arrives by air Sunday afternoon from Tunis Chambrun will accompany his mother to the United States aboard the liner Tie de France, on which they will embark Wednesday. A report of the joint meeting of Citi- with Vincent P. Russo| for Mar-| Boy Easter Visitor | Staging Courageous l Fight for Life Here | |Lad, Hurt onWay toWash- ington, Near Death as Re- sult of Many Fractures. A 13-year-old boy, who left his New York home a week ago to visit Wash- ington over the Easter holidays, is fight- ing a courageous but losing battle for 4is life at Casualty Hospital He is Jack Oppenheimer, who suffered a compound fracture of the skull, frac- tures of both legs, cuts and bruises, in an accident near Beltsville while en | Toute to the Capital. Three companions escaped with_minor injuries. | The boy, son of a Crestwood, N. Y., attorney. was bearing a note from his father to a Washington man, who was supposed to make arrangements for | young Oppenheiner and his_compan- ions to shake hands with the President Casualty Hospital physicians said to- day the boy's condition is steadily be- coming worse. NO TRACE IS FOUND | OF SLAYING FUGITIVE Search in Caroline County, Va., for Albert C. Baker, Wanted in Wife's Death, Futile. A search in Caroline County by Wash- | ington and Virginia police had failed | today to substantiate a report of the | presence near Predericksburg yesterday of Albert C. Baker, 45, wanted here | | for the killing of his wife, May, in | their home at 807 O street, April 2./ ‘Thl’ Bakers had four children. | Officers visited the home of & brother of Baker's in Caroline County, but were | | told the fugitive had not been in that | vicinity. A man, who said he was a| | “life-long acquaintance” of Baker's | previously had reported seeing Baker | on a road near Predericksburg yester- | day morning. | - The information was relayed to Wash- | ington by Fredericksburg police, and! | virginia authorities were asked fo in- stitute a search while local police were enroute to the scene. 'DR. FOWLER TO STUDY OUTSIDE HOSPITALS New York and Philadelphia Trip to Aid Building Plan for Contagious Diseases. ‘The District Commissioners yester- | day authorized Health Officcr William | C."Fowler to go to New York and Phil- | adelphia to study the structure and maintenance of the municipal hospitals | for contagious diseases in those cities. | The trip is preparatory to drawing up | estimatzs for such a hospital in Wash- | ington. At present the municipality takes care of iis contagious disease cases by sending them to Garfield and Provi- dence Hospitals, which have annexes restricted to the housing of contagious disease patients. - These hospitals are given bounties of $17,000 and $10,000, Tespectively, pex annum for this ser- vice. Dr. Fowler for many years has urged establishment of a contagious disease hospital here. On the inspection trip, which prob- ably will b2 made in the middle of next week, Dr. Fowler will companied 'by Dr. Edgar A. Bocock superintendent of Gallinger Hospital, and by Merrell A. Coe of the municipal | architect’s office. MRS. ALTA MAY COLEMAN OF NEW YORK DIES HERE Advance Agent-for “Street Scene” Stricken While. nection With Production. Here in Con- Mrs. Alta May Coleman, who came nere several weeks ago as advance agent for the play, “Street Scene,” and sub- sequently was taken ill here, died at | Emergenicy Hospital yesterday. She was 46 years old and a resident of New York City. Funeral services will be held, prob- ably Monday, at the home of her mother. Mrs, Mary F. Coultas, of Clin- ton, Iil, it was said today by Mrs. | Coleman’s husband, Pierre. He came | here from New York when she was | stricken. The couple had no children. | She was in the employ of Willlam ' A. Brady, New York producer. HUSBAN D’g IiUSE Revealed as CITIZENS WILL MEET Masy Important Questions to Be Discussed Monday. Several important community mat- ters will be brought before the North- cast Wi Citizens’ Assoclation at its meel at 8 o'clock Monday night in Ludlow School, Sixth and G streets northeast. These include the Northeast Branch Library, manual training in the junior high schools, and y bark ’d traffic improvements, ¥ the wife of Richard Bumbrey, col- ored, entertained any suspicions, Rich- azd was prepared to lull them when he tiptoed into his home at 632 Q street about 3 o'clock this morning. Bumbrey, it appeared, had been shot; his wife was furious, but not at Rich- ard. “If T catch him,” she promised, ex- amining an ugly-looking stain of crim- | son on Richard's I U fix .. flinchicg. Richar Richard went on to explaij . quit it was & stranger m& him, a total st . Hia' The policeman wasn't a miarried man. 'aboard the U. 8. 8. Cl TO QUIET WIFE RUINED BY UNWED POLICEMAN | Disinfectant. | wife reassured him, however, she would | find the man. Shortly thereafter, Richard was un- der orders to rush himself to the hos- pital while his wife hurried over to*No. 2 precinct. Everything was quiet at the station, and no one had heard of the shooting. Richard's wife asked for an investiga- tion, and.got one. She and a policeman found Richard Vat home. ““There. look at that blood,” said Rich- | ard’s wife. “Yeah?" replied the policeman. “That's not blood, that's iadine.” be' ac- LAARDETS ML S LW Condemnation Features Cause Aide to Quit Road Scenery Conference. Following the lead of other public groups, the American Automobile As- sociation has refused to subscribe to the legislative panacea proposed by representatives of organized businesses as a method of conserving to the public both the esthetic value and proper commercial values along rural high- ways. Without discriminating against any business using the highways for com- mercial advantage, A. J. Montgomery, representative of the American Auto- mcbile Association on the Continuation Committee of the Washington confer- ence, indicated that indorsement of the proposed model law by his organiza- tion would be a surrender of its own legislative program, designed to meet the same ends Unable to subscribe to the condem- nation features of the “model law, Mr. Montgomery withdrew {rom mem- bership on the Continuation Commit- tee, the object of that committee be- ing to obtain formal indorsement of the legislative proposal by the directors of the various organizations represented at the conference. The action of the American Aut mobile Association in this respect leaves in the membership of the Continuation Committee only one public group—the National Grange—all others withdrawn because of recognized fu- tlity of active co-op:ration. While making it plain that he ccuid no longer serve on the committee. Mr. Montgom- y volunteered to co-operate in other “But we do not wani to commit ourselves to this particular measure,” he added. One Public “Prop” Left. With only one public prop remaining. the Continuation Committee, with lit- tle hope of success, will endeavor to re- tain the membership of the Federation of Women's Clubs, whose representatives, as on a previous occa- sion, failed to atiend yesterday's ses- sion Al interasted OTganizations be invited to attend a later confer ence, at which reports will be made on the actions of the afiiliated business or- ganizations with respect to its model law. The objection of the automobile as-| sociation hit at the essence of the plan for the creation df State scenic highway systel ‘The initiation of this effort centers in voluntary action by owners of three-fourths of the abutting prop- erty in_making gifts of easements of view. In the case of the rematning one-fourth of the abutting owners, con- Gemnation proceedings would be insti- tuted and compensation made for the | land thus confiscated. We will have.no part in any pro- gram which deprives the public from property by confiscation, condemnation or taxation,” Mr. Montgomery said. “To depend on action by volition of the land owner is & very slow and unce:-tain method. Maybe it is something to “shoot at,’ but it is not what the American Automobile Association would like in a program.” - Mr. Montgomery, in explaining wh: he did not wish to vote for thc indorsed by of preserving rural beauty and regulat ing roadside commerce. This plan, he said, embodied three | main proposals based.on the principles of safety, sanitation and regulation The first would prohibit structures on curves or at intersections which would | endanger the safety of the traveling public. The second would impose State supervision over the sanitation of all | kinds of business catering to the public on the roads. The third, that of regula- tion, is designed to preserve the beauty of rural landscape by -a reasonable and fair regulation of billboards and other businesses, Mr. Montgomery declared that the problem before the conference goes far beyond the scope of its limited “*model” w. “My personal opinion,” he said, that this plan, based on voluntary | action, will not meet the situation.” | " "The conference approved the plan on the ground that a method based on the | right of eminent domain would prove the line of least resistance in the courts. | Representatives of the outdoor adver- | tising industry and the National As- sociation of Real Estate Boards, whose executive secretary, Herbert U. Nelson, | drafted the proposal. turned thumbs {down on any suggestion involving the | exercise of the State police powers | Is for Police Regulation. { In their view that methods involving policcpowers would get, nowhere at this time. Mr. Montgomery was disin- clined to agree. He said he believed in a reasonable amount of police power in meeting the situation. | Association believed in treating com- | merce on the highways as an entity subject to regulation in some degree. His assoclation does not subscribe to the view that billboards should be singled out for regulation exclusive of other roadside commerce. In dealing with the subject of regulation he stressed that if any differentiation should be made between kinds of busi- ness it should be based on public con- venience and necessity. “We do not desire to be put on rec- ord by calling any single business an outlaw business,” he said. Several amendments were made in the draft of the so-called “model” law | which George W. Kleiser, president of the Outdoor Association of America suggested be put before a State Legis- | lature and enacted as an experiment at | the earliest opportunity. These changes were chiefly in phraseology and did not alter the intent of the bill. —_— Will Command Submarine. ‘The Navy Department today directed Lieut. John E. Rezner, commanding officer of the Naval Torpedo Station at | Alexandria, Va., to assume command of the submarine §-22. His placa andria_will bs taken by Licut. John N Opie, 3d, who has been gurmery officer WASHINGTON, having | General | pro- Sosed “model” Jaw, outlined the program | his group in the interest | Mr. Montgomery said the Automobile | D. C., SATURDAY, IHERD MILK VARIES | ON' DIGESTIBILITY, CURD TESTS SHOW Cracked Milk for Bahies Held Possible Nutritional Need by White House Study. TENSION OF GLOBULES CAUSES DIETARY ILLS Homogenization, or Forced Filter Process, Seen as Method to Break Up Hard Fats. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Cracked milk may be the next re-| quirement for the nurser: | The possibility of the need of such a | process is contained in the report of | the subcommittee on the nutritional aspects of milk of the White House | Conference on Child Health and Pro- | tection, headed by Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins University, which has just been issued through the Public Health Service. | Not all cow'’s milk, the report pcints out, is equally easy for children to di- gest, although there is no discernible difference in the chemieal composition. An infant may thrive on milk from cne cow while digestive disturbances are caused by the product of another cow, even from the same herd. A possible explanation, it is pointed out, is the difference in toughness and coarseness of the curds of milk from different cows, regardless of what they have been fed. The curd is what is left of the milk after the whey has been extracted Curd Toughness Varies. Experiments show, the report says, that not only is the curd from some breeds of cows tougher than that from others, but that there are differences in the product of individual cows of the same breed and in the same herd. The curd property is believed to be an in- heritable property of the cow. “Experience scems to have shown,” the report says, “that an infant fed| soft curd milk may thrive, whereas it| may have digestive disturbances when | fed tough curd milk. Studies on curd' | tension seem to have established a| unique value of soft curd milks in in- | fant feeding. This property also ap- plies to older children and to adults! whose digestive powers are not vig- | orous.” | There 18 reason to believe, the report |says. that the curd can be softened | greatly by putting the milk through the | process of homogenization. This co sists of forcing the milk through an ex- tremely fine filter at very high pressure. | By this means the fat globules in_the composition of the milk are cracked up | into finer globules. Colostrum Wards Off Tiis. The committee stresses the need of | further study of this curd property and |also of more information on the prop- erties of colostrum, the milk which comes from a cow during the first three or four days of her milking perfod. It is a thicker, yellower substance than what is sold as milk and is not “milk" | in the strict definition of the chemist. Its sale is forbidden in most States. It| differs from milk chiefly in having cer- | tain large cells, known as colostrum | bodies. | But recent studies have shown, the | report points out, that the young of | certain species are susceptible 1o vari- ous infectious diseases, when colostrum 15 not given them, whereas they are relatively immune when fed from the | mother immediately after birth. It has not been shown that this applies to human infants, and the nature of the immunity is unknowh Contradictory findings of investigators on the effects | of this substance, the repor: says, make | further studies desirable. | Emphasizing their _conclusion that | the consumption of milk is stll far too | Iow in the United States, the committee explains that it is an almost complete food, especially for its protein-building qualities and because it contains cal- cium in a form whica (an be most eadlly assimilated. The absolute amount of calcium daily retaincd by children, it states, increases as the milk in the diet is increased, up to approximately a quart a day. Milk Lacks Iron. The most striking deficiency of milk vs the committee, is in iron. Infants and young animals restricted to milk for ‘a considerabie period develop | anemia. “The proportion of iron in the body,” the report states, “!s higher at birth than at any subsequent time. As the body grows in weight and size, the proportion decreases if the food is deficent in fron.” While the food value of milk is es- tablished, the committee holds, there is need of much further study of the chemistry of milk and of the qualities of its constituent substances, especially the animo acids, and of metabolism studies of children to determine the proper proportions of milk in the diet. There §s much disagreement, the report points ‘out. between scientific workers and physicians on the best dietary pro- portions between milk and other foods. Among the points ot fully understood, it is pointed out, are calcium assimila- tion, the effect of the ratio of calcium to phosphorus, and the adequacy of various vitamins in the diet. COLORED MAN ARRESTED AFTER ANOTHER IS SHOT Detective Finds Him Packing Suit Case Ten Migutes After Altercation. | | | James Butler, colored, 23, had gone | home and was packing his suitcase early | today for a long journey when members of the police radio patrol arrested him in connection with the shooting, a few minutes _previously, of 19-year-old Claudius Wright, colored, of 1240 Fifth street. Wright was severely wounded during an altercation in a house of the 1600 block of First street. A radio alarm brought Detectives Dennis J. Murphy to the scene, where he was informed But- ler had gone to his rooms in the 600 b)%ck of New Jersey avenue in a taxi- cab. The officer said he surprised Butler packing his things, and the colored man admitted he shot Wright three times. Butler came here from Jackson. | S. C. The arrest was effected, police | estimated, within 10 minutes ~after| Wright fell. LAND PURCHASE ORDERED Southwest Block Wil‘l Be Used as Farmers’ Market. Purchase for $150,000 of the land bounded by Tenth and Eleventh, E and F streets southwest was authorized yes- terday by the District Commissioners. This block will furnish half the site necessary for the building of the South- west Farmers' Market. Condemnation proceedings have been started to ac- quirs the other bleck, bound-d by Tenth and Eleventh, P and G streets south- west. An appropriation of $300.000 is avaliable for agguisition of both blocks, : Baker, a young clerk of the Na APRIL 11, 1931, Beauties and Blossoms NEW YORK VISITORS SEE BUDDING CHERRY TREES. ISSES GERTRUDE HOGAN and Evelyn Shella of New Ycrk, who are appearing at the Palace Theater, snapped yesterday in the course of a stroll among the cherry trees on the Tidal Basin. The warm weather has induced the cherry buds to MARY BAKER DEATH REMAINS MYSTERY Federal Clerk Last Seen Alive at 5:40 0’Clock One Year Ago Today. ¢ De- partment was slain, and the murderer has baffied the greatest crime detec- tion forces in the countr: The Department of Justice, Col. Cal- vin Goddard, world-renowned criminol- ogist of Northwestern University, the Washington Police Bepartment and Atlington County authorities have vig- tually abandoned their search for the murderer, which once assumed inter- national ‘proportions.. With thousands of clues checked and failing to lead anywhere, the authorities were no closer to a solution of the crime today than they were a year ago. Last Seen at 5:40 0'Clock. It was on April 11 last ar that Miss Baker was last seen alive. . She attended late afternoon services at the Epiphany Church with a friend, Miss Inez Eyre. She left Miss Eyre at Fourteenth and G streets about 5:40 o'clock that afternoon,. explaining she intended to walk to Seventeenth and B streets, obtain her automobile, parked | there, and drive to. Kann's Department Store, where she had an appointment | with another friend, Miss Mildred Sperry at 6 o'clock. Miss Sperry later told investigators she waited for Miss Baker more than 30 minutes, but the young woman failed {o appear. Meanwhile, it later was established by police, Miss Baker was attacked at about 5:30 o'clock by an unidentified man when she stepped into hor parked car. It was not until the next day that her body was discovered lying face downward in a culvert near the Sheri- dan Gat» of Arlington National Ceme: tery. She had been shot thre: times and strangled. Her bloodstained automobile was found about three- quarters of & mile from the body. Many Suspects Questioned. Suspect after suspect was arrested during the early months of the investi- gation. The search ultimately culmi- nated in trial on a murder charge of Herbert M. Campbell, Virginia High- lands real estate dealer. A District Supreme Court jury cxoncrated Camp- bell. He returned to his real estate office and the case gradually began to be_forgotten Perhaps: this s one of t stories that ever will be written about a girl who leaped from obscurity to be- com> the most talked of person in the recent_history of Washington. At any rate, Police Department records read “Mary Baker, murdered April 11, 1930, by a person or persons unknown.” HOSPITALS NAMED IN HOFFMAN WILL Church and Home for Children Also Benefit From Estate of Late Leesburg Resident. last news Special Dispatch to T! r LEESBURG, Va. April 11.—Ths sum of $15,000 is left to the Loudoun Coun- ty Hospital to become a part of the en- dowment fund of that _institution | through the will of Miss Gertrude L. Hoffman, long a resident of Leesburg, who died recently in Washington. The will, executed in April, 1930, also directs that $10,000 be invested by the Loudoun National Bank, as trustee, for the benefit of St. James' Episcopal Church, Leesburg, the income to be paid semi-annually and to be used in perpetuity for the general expenses of the church. The Children's Hospital, Washington. is bequeatbed $10.000 and $20.000 is willed to Hudson Stuck Memorial Hos- pital, Fort Yukon, Alaska. Other bequests include sums of from $1,000 to $20,000 to friends and rela- | tives. The residue of the estate is left | to Norma Pennell, wife of Maj. R. M.| Pennell, U. S. A.: Louisa Heineker and | the Episcopal Home for Children, ‘Washington. | T. Blackwell Smith of Washington | was named executor of the estate by| Miss Hoffman. | ATTACK TRIAL ENDS | IN DEADLOCKED JURY Panel Deliberates Two Days With- | out Reaching Verdict in Assault Case. Special Dispatch the The Star. DANVILLE, Va., April 11.—The case of L. C. Noeil of Lynchburg, charged with a criminal attack on Mrs. Garnett Viest, well known Axton woman, ended in a mistrial in the Henry County Cir- cult at Martinsville yesterday, when the jury was_dismissed, after reporting it was hopelessly deadlocked, after deitb- erations of two days. The alleged attack tock place March 21. Mrs. Wost ident'fied Nocl'. a mem- ber of a read force, as her <ailant. He denied the charge and sought te esiab- lish an | a note saying he breturned & 3 commence openjug. —Star Staft Photo. CLERGY TO DEFEND HONARD L. HEAD Name Committee to Draft Resolution in Support of Dr. Johnson. A group of colored clergymen has rallied to the defense of Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard Uni- v , who has been under fire from sources during the past few Gricvances against the university head are to be presented to the board of trustees of the institution at a mest- ing Tuesday, it has been announced. Members of the medical faculty are among the leaders in the so-called ‘revolt.” A number of ministers and laymen friendly to Dr. Johnsen met at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church last night and appointed a committee to draw up suitable resolutions in support of Dr. Johnson. A mass meeting was called for Mon- day night at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, R street between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. The _university agitation will be discussed, it was stated. Bishop E. D. W. Jones of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church criticized Repre- sentative Will Wood of Indiana for th» latter’s verbal attack on Dr. Johnson yesterday. Representative Wood. who is chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, charged that Dr. John- son was voicing improper doctrines ‘at the university. H: threatened a con- gressional ' inquiry unless the trustees took suitable action. characterized Repre- statement an at- tempt to throttle free speech. Other speakers at the mass meeting included Revs. H. T. Gaskin: C. Smith, George A, Parker, W. D. Battle, W. A. Taylor, George W. Brent, William A. Gray and R. A. Falrley. All are re- ported t> have deplored tiie attacks on Dr. Johnson. SLAYER OF VIRGINIAN IS GIVEN 20 YEARS Special Grand Jury to Further In- vestigate Story of Colored Man He Was Offered Pay. By the Associated Press. AMELIA, Va, April 11.—Richard Le2, colored farmhand, was convicted of first degree murder late yesterday in Circuit Court for the slaying of J. Will Jones, prominent dairyman. Lee was sentenced to 20 years in the State peni- tentiary. Shortly afterward Judge Edwin P. Cox, at the request of Commonwealth's Attorney George K. Taylor, ordered a special grand jury to be convened to- day “for further investigation of the Jones case.” Jones was killed with a shotgun last January 8 as he slept. Three Amelia officers were allowed to testify Lee told them he killed Jones after Mrs. Jones and Oscar Jones, wife and son of the man killed, had offered-him $25 for | the crime. Lee took the stand in his own defense | vesterday and repudiated the truth of the confession, although admitting lit was made. and reiterated the state- ment that Mrs. Jones offered him $25 to kill her husband. SEEK COURT APPROVAL T0 BUY BANK’S ASSETS Representative of Chatham Depos- itors Files Petition in Reor- ganization Plan. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va. April 11.—S. J White, chairman of a committee rep- resenting 90 per cent of the depositors of the Chatham Savings Bank, which closed in December, has filed a petition in the Pittsylvania County Circuit Court, at Chatham, asking permission of the court to purchase assets of the bank for the organization of & new in- stitution. This action is the result of a move- ment on the part of the depositors to reorganize the bank or to form a new cne, the latter course being decided upon. SEUCReE TENANT FARMER KILLS SELF NEAR HILLSBORO Returns Suicide Verdict. Bad Health Held Reason for Victim’'s Act. Special Dispatch to The Star. HILLSBORO, Va., April 11.—Leaving d to cic some time,” Carroll H. Goode, 33, was found dead yesterday with a gun shot wound in the forehead in the barn on the farm of Dr. W. H. Grubb, near Hillsboro. His brother, Stanley Goode, both tenant farmers on the Grubb plage, found the body with the gun by the side l‘ 1t"when_he went to milk this ng. » ) oode, who live ith his mother, Mrs. Harry Goode, anf, three brothers, bad bacn mn bad h'am\s om»_time County Coroner Dr. A. Gibsom Coroner yerdict of . ITHORNE DEATH GUN IDENTIFIED, POLICE QUIZ NEW SUSPECT Fatal Bullets Fired From Pis- tol in Possession of D. C. Poiice Two Months. THIRD LORTON INMATE IS BROUGHT INTO CASE Was Granted Leave From Marine Barracks January 16—‘“Man in Saratoga, N. Y.,” Sought. Discovery that the four bullets which caused the death of Pvt. Emanuel Thorne, 25-year-old victim of one of the most mysterious murders in the history of Prince Georges County, was fired from a revolver in the possession of Washington police for two months resulted today in the questioning of Cline Ray Teegarden, 21 years old, a prisoner at the District Reformatory, Lorton, Va. Thorne is believed to have been slain about January 14. Teegarden, the third Lorton inmate to be brought into the investigation of the baMing slaying. was to be taken to the District Jail this morning to b~ quizzed. by Chief Deputy Sherift Thomas Garrison of Prince Georges County and members of the Capital homicide squad. : Garrison, with customary reticence. refused to reveal what other steps, if any, were being taken in the probe, other than to say he was “interested in & man in Saratoga, N. ¥.” A look-out has been posted, the chief deputy added, and an effort will be made to appre- hend the man and question him in con- nection with the murder. Teegarden Serving Five Years. As for Teegarden, he was arrested February 3 by Detective Sergts. T. E. |Bragg and Steve Brodic on a charge of assaulting Wiliam Lumsden of Raleigh, N. C. Three days later, the charge was changed to one of assault with a dangerous weapon, and Tee- garden subsequently was sentenced to five years in the reformatory. A .32-caliber gun found near the #cene of the assault, which occurred in the Southeast section of the city, has been held at police headquarters since Tc:al:‘cden's arrest. . Garrison’s request. it was exam- ined by Lieut. John J. Fowler, ballistics expert of the Police Department, who declared the bullets taken from Thorne's body were fired from the same kind of revolver. Although Garrison refused to disclose the name of the man he planned to question, Capt. M. M. Barnard, super- intendent of District penal institutions, declared Teegarden was the man, Said to be Former Marine, Teegarden, it is sald, is & former Marine. Thorne failed to return to the Marine Barracks here after being %::2:% a l:‘:\‘e of absence January 16 len, it was pointes nb_errty nt”:hn‘ e T Ry e W0 other inmates of the reforma- tory recently were questioned, “r‘;m"' was from them that police said they obtained the information, which re- sulted In the examination of the gun. The prisoners, Clarence P. Hulse, 24, jand Samuel A. Johnston, 23, are serv- ing 10-year sentences for robbery. Justice of the Peace Thomas Grif- fith of Forestville will conduct an in- quest into Thorne's death in the fire house at Greater Capitol - day night. e SEES SOVIET AS MENACE TO U. S. Farm Board Member Holds Plan to Increase Acreage Coi.- stitutes Threat. Russia's plan to increase its cotton producntlm constitutes a serious threat erican growers competing 1 world markets, In the opIRIORCof Carl Willlams, Federal Farm Board member. Russia jtself, Williams said yester- day, has been lost permanently as a market for American exports. He added that the Un States would face serious competition from the Soviet in wheat, lumber and oil, n.!u'\‘?&dlx cotton. n! States cotton exports t ;Iml; have Ll‘\'ersged 350,000 bales an? . Sometimes reaching as h as 600,000. Recently, howe\*‘er, \g!lfillm*- said, Russia has exported 160,000 bales and imported considerably less than that amount from this country. Russian cotton, he said, was of good quality and sold at Liverpool at half a cent a pound lower than world prices. A substantial reduction in cctton acreage of the United States this Spring is in prospect, Williams said. He added, however, he saw mo imme- diate rice in prices. Rather, he said this would come with a revival of busi- ness and increased consumption. DEMOCRATS LINKED WITH GRAIN CHARGES Similarity of Shouse's and Chicago Trade Board Head's Attacks Cited in Talk. ‘The Democratic National Committce ppears to have joined hands with the grain speculators of the country in the common cause of warring on the Fed- eral Farm Board,” Representative Pur- nell. Republican, of Indiana, said last night. In a statement made thrcugh the Republican National Committee, Mr. Purnell said: “In the same newspapers we find similar statements by Jouctt Shouse, Democratic national executive chairman, and James C. Murray, presi- dent of the Chicago Board of Trade, assailing the board and all its works.” “Can it be,” the Indiana Republican asked, “that the Democratic party is to be swung into line with the grain gam- blers of the country? What is the community of interest between the pres- ident of the Chicago Grain Exchange and the party organization bought and paid for by Mr. John J. Raskob? They sing h:\‘ chorus, if not in complete har- mony. BROKER DIES SUDDENLY Heart Attack Fatal During Auto Ride in California. LOS ANGELES, April 11 (#)—Walter Content, 62, New York broker, died yesterday during a ride through Bev- erley Hills in_the motor car of Mrs. Carrie Guggenheim. Heart disease was responsible, physicians said. The broker came here two days agn with his wife. Mcs. Charlotte Content, who was in the car when he died. Content was a member of his broth-r's ™ firm. the Harry Content Co. The 3 will be returned to New York next