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Foening Fhar oo v | B5—1 e The WASHINGTON, D. GOTWALS PONDERS CHECK OF WORK ON ROOSEVELT HIGH cial, Who Asks Steel Por- tion Be Halted. P ’ Jey * AGE CAPITAL MAN KLLS WIFE, SHOOTS SELF INRCHMOND HONE 18-Year-0ld Bri;ie Slain When She Refuses His Plea’ for Rec~ -iliatir LEFT NOTE ASKING PRESS FOR “REAL PUBLICITY” MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931. D. C. War Mothers Leave on European Trip 0LD CONSTRUCTION *CENTER SLATEDFOR EARLY DEMOLTON Just a Puff or Two SECREST HAS BIG ASSIGNMENT FROM BROTHER OFFICER. PLAN PILGRIMAGE TO GRAVES OF SONS IN FRANCE. Treastry Asks Bids on Clear- ing C Street Square From' 12th to 13th Streets. BLOCK ONCE HOUSED CITY BUILDING INDUSTRY NO FALLT OF LABOR Marriage After Five-Day Courtship Ended in Estrangement Less Than Three Months Later. Commissioner to Act in Regard to Inspection. | Engineer Will Form Site of New I C. C. Later ‘Edifice, Part of Huge Group From 10th to 15th Streets. Donald W. Sagle’s craving for “som real publicity” was being gratified today as he lay in Memorial Hospital, Rich- mond, with a bullet wound in his abdo- men, inflicted after he had shot and Ikilled Eis 18-year-old bride of fou: months, Mrs. Agnes Jenkins Sagle. The shooting occurred last night in the home of the young wife's grand- mother, Mrs. Annie Loew, with whem she had been living since March 12, when she left her husband and went to Engineer Commissioner John C. Got- | wals today took under advisement the | | request by John Locher, bugin2ss rep- i resentative of the bridge and structural | iron workers' local, that & thorough ! | check be made of the plans for the!" | Rocseveit High School and_that work The former center of the building in- dustry in Washington was doomed to destruction today when the Treasury Department advertised for bids to be opened May 19 for tearing down all wtructures on the site bounded by o e [ on the steel portion of the building be This area is to bs used by the Gov- | halted until such a check assures satety snment for the erection of a monu- | N i : | i 0 o] | of the workmen on the Job. = {mental building for the Interstate Com- : : | Work was not ordered stopped today | merce Commission, which Tow is housed 4 | and workmen continued removing the | 3n a rented structure at Pennsylvania | bent, steel pleces damaged when a brisk { wind blew down 70 tons of the steel , UION STATION was the scene of farewells today as four members of the District Chapter of American War Mothers started cn the annual pilgrimage. Mrs. W. W. Morrison, president of the chapter (extreme left), and others came to see them off. Others in the group, left to right, are: Mrs. Pennilla Carll, Mrs. Gertrude L. Reed, Mrs. Virgil McClure, national president; Mrs. Willlam Hamilton Bayley, Mrs. Clara Doocy, Mrs. Rob- ert Stevens and Mrs. Lucy Cash. The War Mothers who are making the trip are Mrs. Carll, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. —Star Staff Photo. mvenue and Eighteenth street. L sald he would take some action in re- gard to the inspection of the job later today, but declined to reveal the na- ture of the step before actually issuing the order. Plans to Be Checked. He also said he would make the check of the plans asked for by Mr. Locher, and that he would have a fin: announcement to be made on the sub- ject on Wednesday. Locher said in a letter to the Com- missioners: 1 personally have had 25 years’ ex-, perience in the erection of structural steel and on various occasions have | worked directly with the men now em- | ployed by the Heron Todd Construction | Co. who helped to put up the steel on the Roosevelt High School and know them to be competent. I deem it my duty to correct any false iffipressions that may,be gathered from newspaper reports that the steel at the school was Property owners and tenants are now moving out of the old terriiory, which at one time was the heart of the prin- cipal building industry of the city, around which centered not only the woodworking mills, but many of the ‘Jeading contractors. Plant Being Moved. Three of the largest structures in the frea were formerly woodworking or planing mills, but only one of these is ‘now active, the Washington ‘Woodwork- ing Co., at the corner of Twelfth street and Constitution avenue. This com- pany is now busily engaged in moving o its new location at 912 Fourth street, Plure it will be completely installed by Gune 1. The extensive machinery of ghe old mill is all being moved to the w location. “Thn first mill erected on the site of ‘the Washington Woodworking Co. planf ated by Dan Smith, according ers connected with the com- ‘peny, and this building was burned down in about 1885, A new plant was “erected on the site and has been op- erated continuously since as & wood- working plant. mrmerp Gov. Jackson . of Maryland wvas once the operator of a mill located on the corner of Thirteenth street and Ohio avenue, but this old stiucture, alt- er through several hands, Jain idle for several years. The shell only i was %0 ol-f remains, the machinery having Peen removed years ago. The yard for some time has been used as an automo- ‘ile parking space. Riding Sehool o Move. The third former woodworking mill in ! $he area, at the corner of Thirteenth and C streets, was at one time operated Py Belt & Dver, it was recalled today, but for many years it has been the| Shater Co. wholesale | jumbing and heating supplies. This| #ome of E. G. y is now moving to its new four- warehouse and office bullding, at e corner of Rhole Island avenue and ourth street northeast, and will be pletely out of its old structure be- ore demolition starts. Th Potomac Riding School, vhich horses and he bridle paths of downtown Washing- on, ueenpm part of one of the former swoodworking plants at the corner of *rwelfth street and Ohio avenue. The riding school will move to a new loca- tion at 2622 E street, between Twenty- sixth street and the Potomac River. A large number of other business houses in the area are also moving or making plans for early moving, as all buildings in the area will be torn down hortly after contract is let. The Treas- y usually considers bids for a few vs after opening, lets contract, and the case of demolition jobs, the work lly starts very soon Afterward. Part of Huge Strueture. One reason for speed on the uares for the 1. C. C. Bullding is that hit new building is to be & part of the hree-part structure facing Constitution venue, and extending from Twelfth to eurteenth streets, to occupy all the intervening space between the mew In- rnal Revenue Bullding and the new partment of Commerce Building. Al- eady an entire block of buildings be- ween Thirteenth and Thirteen-and- -half streets on_ Constitution avenue Jpas been demolished for part of this xtensive bullding. Workmen are now usily engaged in %earing down Jhe office building and the old_sub- ‘station of the Potomac Electric Power 0. .n the block bounded by Comstitu- srm avenue, Fourteenth street, C street #d Thirteen-and-a-half street. + The 1, C. C. site will thus be needed soon as possible, 0 that the next fimun 10 be let can be for the exca- from tion of the entire site, stretching from elfth to Pourteenth street along Con- ftution avenue. Plans for this three- rt bulldiag, to house the Interstate erce Commission, Government jBrown, jr. of Sam Prancisco, architect, Attached to the Interstate Com- orth, guriously shaped Post Office Depart- jon_of bulldings and excavation on ennsylvania avenue and C street, POLICEMAN DISARMED uditorium and the Department of {Labor, are being completed by Arthur who is & member .af,the, Treasury Board Architectural Consultants. :’lefl!‘ Commission Building on the nhn‘fu‘n'emh street. will be the ent Building, plans for which now % well along. Bids for both the demo- e Post Office Department site, be- veen Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, robably will be asked soon by the easury Department. Peeking to Arrest Colored Woman, He Is Thrown Down- stairs by Men. ‘There was no ceremony to the recep- | n Policeman Robert E. Talbott. third ecinct rookie, got when he called at 122Unjon court last night. It was extemporaneous affair and closed {with the policeman at the bottom of the ptairway after a rolling descent, with- t his service pistol, bearing numerous ulses and cuts received in a beating, rhich was all a part of the event. Talbot_went to the house to arrest ¢ Rebecca Ward, colored, but colored male pecupants of the house objected, arrang- gng of their objection. eated at Emergency Hospital for cuts d_bruises. The woman, escaping during the Prederick to have from the red. , 28, said by /mdmitted taking the pis policeman’s pocket, zlso was arrested. Tigver 1o Henry Perry, colored, 30, another wccupant of the Union court hoyre, but »pthe lat {g#n. The two men an held for further investigation. ponies “take off” for | wi: | CAPITAL GIR ‘West told police he turned the pistol ter denied any knowledge of the |off the train. d the woman are - in_silver, leaving the rest of, the pay | R Sergt. James Springman, who J. F. Waters of Marietta, Ohio. ETECTIVE SERGT. H. D. SECREST was given quite an usurm-neml yesterday—one that had little or no connection with his regular work as chief clerk of the Detective Bureau. Secrest’s task was smoking the 12-inch cigar shown above, and the job was given to him by Detective | received the oversized perfecto from —Star Staff Photo. ISTIEE STAFFORD FORMALLY RESAS {Former Representative Letts Expected to Get D. C. Appointment. - President Hoover received today the formal resignation of Wendell Phillips Stafford, who has been an associat> jus- tice of the District of Columbia Supreme has | Court for 27 years and who before that gervéd four vears on the bench of the Vermont Supreme Court. It ‘was said in the President's behalf that Justice Stafford’s request that his resignation be accepted would be com- plied with. It was said also that Presi- soon, It is understood that former Rep- resentative P. Dickinson Letts, Repub- lcan, of Davenport, Iowa, has been vir- tually decided upon es Justice Stafford's successor. Justice Stafford on May 1 became 70 years old, which entitled him to retire or resign with full pay for the balance of his life. At the time he decided to |give up his duties at the court the ! docket was in a condition which would {make it possible for him to lay aside his robes without reluctance. Justice Stafford recently was the honor guest at a banquet celebrating his birthday and at which his intention to retire to private life was revealed. On that occasion he was lauded for his distin- guished service as a jurist. Justice Stafford was appointed to the local court by President Roosevelt and took office June 9, 1904. He has presided in many celebrated cases, and throughout the many years at court he has made numerous personal friends and has distinguished himself in his fairness and knowledge of the law. Now that he is to retire to private life, Justice Stafford has confided o | friends that he is looking ‘forward en- { thusiastically to the leisure that will be | his. | Former Representative Letts after serving three terms in Congress from | the second lowa district, was defeated for re-election last November. Before his election to Congress in 1924 he had | served for 13 years as a district judge in Jowa. He has a thorough knowledg> of the Jaw and the experience and per- sonalty to make him valuable as a member of the local bench, according to the opinions of those who have rec- ommended his appointment to the President. L WINS U. S. POSTER CONTEST Miss Janice Holland of Corcoran School of Art First in Latham Foundation Awards, | | | Miss Janice Holland, 17-year-old stu- dent of the Corcoran School of Art, has been awarded first poster prize in a humane poster contest conducted throughout the Nation sponsored by the Latham Foundation, whose headquar- ters are in Oakland, Calif. This was anndunced by a statement from the foundation, which sald thousands of students competed in the contest. The winning n}mm by the Washing- ton girl was highly praised by Edith Latham, president of the Latham Poundation, who declared that Miss Holland's work received “special com- mendation” by the art critics that acted as_judges in the contest. Scholarships in England, TFrance, Spain, Germany, Austria, China and Japen have been established as awards for art school pupils in their respective nations, winning outstanding places in the contest, it was announced in a statement from the foundation. The exact nature of the award to bs received by Miss Holland, however, was not dis- closed. Miss Holland graduated from West- ern High School last year. She was cartoonist, art editor and special writer for the high school paper, Western Breeze, and had won prizes previously in other contests conducted by maga- of Art and the Corcoran School of, Art. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Micheal J. Holland of 3508 Morriscn treet, Chevy Chase. She is a student at_George Waskington University. Her winning dycxur in the humane poster contest depicted a l’ugd little girl sitting in a recessed window of a house on the street hugging a little dog to her breast. Two Die, Army Pay Stolen. WARSAW, Poland, May 4 (#)— Capt. Lopatko, army paymaster, and serf‘(\ Brojko were slain during the night in a railway train between Kowel and Sarny while they were carrying a $2.750 pay roll. The bodles were thrown ‘The slayers fook $275 roll, in bank notes, behind, dent Hoover would name a successor Zines, newspapers, the National Sehool {jgry 955,000 PLEDGED .~ FOR ORCHESTRA Chairman Howe of Commit- | tee Sees Symphony Project Now Assured. With more than $55,000 already pledged toward the project, this city is assured of having its own symphony or- chestra, to be known as the National | Symphony Orchestra of Washington, it | was announced today by Walt:r Bruce Howe, chairman of the Organization Committee handling the details of financing for the establishment of the | orchestra here. | Other members of the nittee with | Mr. Howe are Corcoran Thom, George Hewitt Myers and Myron .W. Whitney. The late Nicholas Longworth, Speaker | | of the Howse, was a member of thz com- | mittee up to the time of his death. Although zact sum of 555,530 has | been pledged, & total of approximately | $80,000 will be required for the orches- | tra’s expenses the first season. The re- | maining sum - necessary, it is staved, is | expected to be realized through the sale | of tickets to the 24 concerts the or- | chestra is to give. A number of other pledges from prominent Washing- tonians, however, are exuected hefore June 1, the time set for the completion of the drive. Kindler {0 Be Conductor. Hans Kindler, internationally famed cellist and conductor, has been offi cially as conductor of the orchestra, which is to be under the of- ficial business management of Mrs. Wil- | son-Greene, widely known Washington concert manager. An orchestra of 75 men is contemplated at the outset. The season is expected to cover a period of | 16 ‘weeks, with the first concert in No- vember and the last one in March. The concerts will be divided into! three groups of eight concerts each. Eight of these will be symphony affairs, | to be given on afternoons at 4:30 o'clock. It is planned to give the symphony ! congerts on alternate wecks. The in-| bethveen weeks will be devoted to a pop- | ular concert and a children’s concert, eight each of the children’s and pop-' | ular concerts being scheduled. The | popular concerts all will be given on | Sunday afternoons. The plans for the | children’s concerts have not been com- pleted. Care has been taken to avold con- flict with the dates of other concerts, both orchestral and artists, it is stated, {and it is expected that Mrs. Wilson- | Greene will announce the dates of the | whole 24 concerts just as soon as these | have been definitely fixed. Mr. Kind- ler, prior to his sailing for Europe last | week, closed arrangements with va- rious outstanding musiclans both of | Washington and elsewhere for key posi- | tions in the new orchestra and the personnel will be finally selected on Mr. Kindler's return to the United States | In Beptember. Aid of Philadeiphla. | _Of the total amount pledged, &p- | proximately $25,000 was received as a result of the offer of William J. Turner, Philadelphia capitalist and music_lover and former vice president of the Phila~ delphia Orchestra, who offered a dona- tion of $5,000 if four other guarantors would contribute a like amount. Mr. Turner's offer was quickly met by four other guarantors, only three of whom would permit their names to be made public. Those three are Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Mrs. Anne Archbold and the Friday Morning Club. The Organization Committee empha- sized, in making public its list of guar- antors, that no less than five substantial | contributions had been made by out-of- town guarantors. These included, in addition to Mr. Turned of Philadelphia, Mrs. Norman James of Baltimore, Miss Anne Hull of New York, Frederick Al- exander of Ypsilanti, Mich.,, and Mrs. B. G. Huntington of Columbus, Ohio. ‘The complete list of guarantors made W;}:&:flc kd‘A'?e follows: xander, Ypsilanti, Mich.; Mrs. H. T. Allen, District of Columbia | Chapter, American Guild of Organists; Mrs. Anne Archbold, P. L. Atherton. Mrs. Willlam H. Baldwin, Mrs. Lammot Belin, Mrs. Truxton Beale. Mrs. Hiram Bingham, Mis; Mabel T. Boardman, . Kate Willard Boyd, Princess Mar- garet- Boncompagni, Mr. and Mrs. Lee fl, Butler, Mrs. Willilam Butterworth, rs. Calderon Carlisle, E. N. Carpen- ter, Mrs. Dwight Chester, Miss Alice J. Cllpg. Friday Morning Music Club, W. L. Crounse. Others of List. J. Prost, Julius Garfinckel, Mr. Mrs. Leander McCormick - Goodhart, Mrs. C. C. Glover, jr.; Mrs, U. S. Grant, 3d; Mrs. G. D. Goff, Miss G. D. Guest, Mrs. Mary Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Harrison, Mrs. Frederick Hicks, Mrs. J. | W. Holcolm, Mrs. B. G. Huntington, | Mr. and Mrs. Christian Heurich, Prank Jelleff. Mrs. Norman .James. Mrs. {Karl Klemm, Mrs, Henry Leonard, Mrs. - construction April 22. ! improperly erected. The steel on this | gion building was properly amd efficiently | erected by the steel erectors.” Rigorous Tests Required. Locher explained persons qualifying for membership in his organization were required to pass rigorous tests. He | praised the men employed on the Roose- | velt project for their efficiency. | “Local Union No. 5, he sald, “feels | that in order to have the steel | safely and properly erected the plans for the Roosevelt steel work should be thoroughly gone over, and, if found nec- essary, proper bracing and rods should be added to the steel work, thus insur- ing the safety of workmen while en- gaged In the erection of the same and 50 as to have a building that is sa and properly erected when it is finished. “We sincerely hope and trust that! further erection on the Roosevelt High School will not be permitted until the plans are checked and found to be safe, 50 that the safety of workmen engaged in erection work and the safety of the building is insured when it is finished.” INSANITY TO SAVE KILLER FROM TRIAL Wife-Slayer Sent to St. Elizabeth's| ‘When Found to Be Mentally Unsound. Sidney A. Skinner, former State De- partment employe, who killed his wife, Dorothy, and later attacked his celi-| mate at the District Jail. has been; found of unsound mind and ordered to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The ruling will make it unnecessary | for him to face a charge of first-degree murder, as Skinner will be incarcerated in Howard Hall, the Government's place of detention for the criminally insanc. ‘The order committing him to St. abeth's was signed by Justice Peyton Gordon of Criminal Court as a result of a jury finding in the case. Skinner frequently interrupted pro- ceedings during the hearing by calling upon court officials to go to his home, at 4007 Twenty-first street northeast, to look for his wife. “My wife is there at home and she is alright,” he declared repeatedly. No opposition was made by the Gov- ernment to the efforts of Willlam E. Leahy and James F. Reilly, attorney fcr Skinner, to have the slayer ad- judged insane. Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alienist, recommended that he be committed to St. Elizabeth'’s. Mrs. Skinner was killed on the night of March 12. While in the District Jall, S8kinner made a vicious attack on bis cell mate, Alfred C. Baker. SPANISH FARMS TOPIC Botanical Society to Hear F. L. Goll Wednesday. An illustrated lecture on “Glimpses of Agriculture in Southern Spain” will be given by F. L. Goll at Wednesday's meeting of the Botanical Soclety of ‘Washington in the auditorium of the Agriculture Bullding of the University of Maryland. A special dinner will be served the guests in the university din- ing hall at 6:30 o'clock. ‘Another speaker will be Dr. J. Hen- derson-8mith, in charge of virus dis- eases of plants, Rothamsted Experi- mental Station, England. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. Arthur Leverkus, A. Lisner, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose. Mrs. Adolph C. Miller, Mrs. Mary H. Myers, George Hewitt Myers, Hon. A. W. Mellon, Miss Mary L. McQuade, Mrs. Florence B. Moseley, Mrs, J. O. Mur- dock, Edward C. Potter, Mrs. L. C. Phipps, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Mrs, John L. tor, Mrs, Armistead Peter, 3rd; Armistead Peter, 3rd; Duncan Phillips, Mrs. J, R. Patterson, | Miss Katherine Phillips, Mrs. Thomas Phillips, Mrs. C. J. Rhoades, Mrs. E. E. Robbins, Mrs. W. M. Ritter, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. van Royen, Russina Shop, Mrs. H. A. Strong, Countess Szechenyi, H. C. Sheridan, The Evening Star, Mrs. William F. Sowers, Miss Elena de Seyn, William J. Turner of Philadelphia, Mrs. Clarence Williams, Mrs. Joseph E. Washington, Mr. and Mrs. R, H. Wil- mer, Mrs. Edward C. Walker, Mrs, J. T. Watles and Mrs. M. Reld Yates, In announcing the success of the orchestra’s Organization Committee in glving Washington its own symphony orchestra next Fall, Mr. Howe extended the committee’s thanks to a committee of Washington women who helped in raising the necessary funds. This com- mittee of women disolvedson comple- tion of its work. Bayly and Mrs. Doocy. WORKMEN CIRCLE ATTENDED BY 20 Second Day of Convention Includes Social Activi- ties and Business. Social activities and welcoming of delegates marked the second day's ses- of the ihirty-first convention of the Workmen's Circle, Socialist frater- nal organization, in the auditorium of the National Press Club today. More than 200 deleghtes from every State were in attendance. Routine business will occupy the at- tention of the conference this afternoon and_tomorrow. Not until Wednesday or Thursday, when the program calls for the {ntroduction of resolutions, will the' conference shift its attention to new business. Election of officers will be held Saturday. Revision to Be Made. During the:conference, which is con- tongue, slight revisions will be made in the constitution of the organization. fttacks on the Republican and Democratic parties by Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, were made at the open- ing session yesterday in the Belasco Theater. Mr. Thomas, candidate for President in 1928, accused the major political groups of indifference with re- gard to the cardinal questions of the country’s foreign policy and toward un- employment. “Along_those lines where Federal ac- tion might have improved the outlook for peace, freedom and prosperity,” Mr. Thomas_declared, “the present admins- tration has failed to do the right thing or has done what evidently is the wrong thing. And at no outstanding point has the Democratic attitude ered from the Republican attitude.” No Communistic Affiliation. Morris Hillquit’s statement that the Workmen's Circle is strictly a Socialii organization and is positively not iden- tified with Communism brought ap-| plause from the more than 1,600 per- sons in attendance at the opening ses- sion. He said that at no time would the convention give indication of so- celled “red” tendencies. Other addresses at yesterday's ses- sion were made by Benjamin Meiman, Washington correspendent for ine Jew- |ish Daily Porward, and Abraham Ca- han, editor of the Forward. FOUR FROM D. C. HURT IN TRIPLE CRASH De Witt Patton, Mrs. Martha Tal- cott, Joseph Clark and Robert Purchase Taken to Hospital. Four Washington residents were be- ing treated in Trenton, N. J., hospitals today for injurfes suffered yesterday when their automobile was in a three- cornered collision on® the Brunswick Pike near the Rockfeller Institute at Princeton. The injured, who were en route to New York on a business trip, were: De Witt Patton, 28, an electrician, of 1223 Randolph street; Mrs. Martha Talcott, 35, same address; Joseph Clark, 25, who gave an in the 1200 block of Rahdolph street, and Robert Purchase, 33, of the 1400 block of Rhode Island avenue. Mrs. Talcott sufferd a broken leg and bruises, Clark a fractured wrist and wrenched ankle, Patton & broken ankle hase a fractured wrist and and Pure] bruises. ' The automobile containing the washington party, driven by Purchase, was in a collision with another operated by Herman Kobe, 36, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Kobe recelved a fractured thigh and bruises. A third machine driven by Onur Smith of Wrightstown, N. J, added to the wreckage by crashing into the other two. Passing motorists took the injured to Trenton hospitals. POLICEMAN IS INJURED WHEN CYCLE OVERTURNS Twelve Others 8lightly Hurt in Series of Sunday Traffic Accidents Here. Zeno R. Wright, 30, Traffic Bureau policeman, was slightly injured yester- day when his motor cycle overturned at Ninth and E streets. ‘Wright and Policeman E. C. Spauld- ing, also of the Traffic Bureau, were rid- ing on Ninth street when the former turned sharply into E street. Wright's vehicle overturned, pinning him under it. Spaulding extricated Wright, halled a passing automobile and took the injured | policeman to the hospital. Twelve Cther parzons were hurt slightly in auto- mobile accidents yesterday, \ HEADS UNION ALUMNI | Dr. Edgar Brown New President of College Group in Capital. . Edgar Brown was elected presi- |dent of the Washington Alumni of | Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., at the organization's annual meeting in the Cosmos Club Saturday night, Rev. !J. Harvey Dunham was elected vice | president and F. H. Powell secretary. | Brief addresses were given by Frank | Parker Day, president of Union College, and Charles A. Richmond, president, who now is a resident of the | Capital. ARG EXPLANATIONIS T Woman’s Party Leader Says Labor Department Had | Power to Delay Action. The Labor Department’s statement fely | ducted almost entirely in the Yiddish | that it had no alternative under the |1aw in deporting Mrs, Lillian Larch, | American-born widow of a Canadian, | and her children, from Detroit to Wal- | laceburg, Ontario, was challenged to- day by Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews, | chatrman of the’ Lawyers' Council of | the National Woman's Party. | "'She declared in a prepared statement that the Labor Department “had ample authority to_postpone deportation and thus allow Mrs, Larch time to make application for resumption of her United States citizenship.” “Mrs. Larch is said to be illiterate.” she added. “If that be true, there is all the more reason why the Depart- ment of Labor should have pursued the humane policy of advising this poor | woman, who had no way of finding ou | for herself, that she might make ap- plication to regain the citizenship of | which she had been deprived without her own consent upon marriage to a | Canadian. “‘Her poverty is an argument brought | forward by the Department of Labor |to excuse the ‘harsh action taken against her. Her poverty is undeniable; yet she was not even allowed time to sell her few household belonging before bing hurried out of her native country across the border. Such haste was in- cusable. | “Extensions of time before deporta- | tion had been allowed to men aliens of foreign birth, even when they had been charged with serlous offenses. The most serious offense of this American- | born woman, mother of four children, | 1s poverty.” —_— WOMEN TO CELEBRATE | Catholic Benovolent Legion Will Observe 31st Anniversary. The Catholic Women's Benevolent Legion, Liberty Circle, will celebrate its thirty-first ‘anniversary at a dimner in | the Dodge Hotel tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock. Mi . H. C. F. McMahon, vice president; Mrs. M. T. Brady, chancellor; Mrs. R. Kolb, : Mrs. M. John, collector; Mrs. Mrs. M. Burke and Road Association to Meet. BOWIE, Md, May 4 (Special).— Officers for the ensuing year will elected at a regular meeting of the Lanham-Severn Road Association to- night at the Bowle School. Delegates from each of the nine towns represented in the assoclation are asked to attend. former | HDEPORTATION The officers of the organization Te- | e be | terday in DOUTHITT DEPARTS Attack Vietim Quits Hospital Early—Kelly Thinks Man Visits in Philadelphia. ‘The whereabouts of Harry N. Dout- hitt, editor of the Bluecoat, unofficial organ of the Police Department, were kept secret today, following his dis- charge from Casualty Hospital, where he had been a patient since two men at- tacked him more than a week ago. At Douthitt’s apartment in the Port- ner, Fifteenth U streets, it was said he was “not at home.” The informa- tion was given over the telephone by a man who had refused to answer the door bell just & few moments before. Left Hospital Early. | The man, who identified ‘himself simply as “Roamer,” said Douthitt had given him “strict orders not to tell any- body where he is or when he will return home.” He sald he expects to see Dout- hitt tomorrow, but refused to say where. i | pital also was shrouded in secrecy. While it had been announced he prob- ably would be ‘ischarged from the in- stitution today, he left early yesterday. According to employes of the hospital, | he did not say whore he was going. | Capt. Edward Kelly, assistant to In- | spector William S. Shelby, chief of de- tactives, said he has mot heard from Douthitt since the 45-year-old forme. prohibition investigator left the insti wution. Held Gone to Philadelphia. . Kelly said, however, that he under- stood Douthitt had gone to Philadelphia to_visit his daughter and son-in-law. Interviewed at the hospital a few days ago, Douthitt declared he would find assailants when he was discharged. “1 have several ways of finding out who beat me,” he said. According to United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, Douthitt will be sub- poenaed to appear before the grand jury | 724 tell what he knows, if anything, | auout the activities of gamblers in the first precinet. |WOMAN IS ARRESTED ON LIQUOR CHARGES Miss Frances Polly, Indicted With 23 Other Persons, Gets Bond of $2,000. In hiding since last June, when the Federal Government swore out & war- rant for her arrest on charges of con- spiracy to violate the liquor laws, Miss Frances Polly was arrested today by United States deputy marshals at 202 L street southeast. She had been in- dicted with 23 otHer persons on con- spiracy charges. The woman was released on $2.000 bond to appear in District Supreme Court May 13, when the Capital's third liquor conspiracy trial is scheduled to gin. The arrest was made by Deputy Mar- . | shals John J. Clarkson, Harold Scott and Gus Cerimele. GAS DEATH ACCIDENTAL Certificate Issued by Coroner in Case of Mrs. Mulholland. A certificate of accident was issued today in the death of Mrs. Minnie Mt holland, 72, whese body was found yes- the gas-filled bed room of her home, 812 Twelfth street. Discovered by her son John, who forced a rear bed room window, after repeated knocking on the door failed to bring a response. Chemical warfare, once abandoned in | the pursuit of the rats on the old Cen- | ter Market sector, probably will be re- sumed later, on account of disappoint- | ment of the general staff of the rat cru- | sade with the result of the trap opera- | tions recently. On Saturday night the casualties amounted to about 80 rats. About two dozen rodents were turned over to the Department of Agriculture for research Adams, jr, who personally in a silk hat and & cane, great dis- appointment today. He said he would once more try to e the sympathies | of Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler in & poison crusade. The last time there | was talk of Mr. Fowler wasadam- | ant. He =21d tRat poison might be all |right if its effects could be confined to George J. RAT CATCHER PLANS NEW EFFORT TO GET POISON USE APPROVAL 80 Rodents Captured Saturday Night, But Market Pied Piper Wants to Make Them Thirsty. by its staff of zoological experts. But | death. | rats, but that it was likely to spread to human beings, domestic animals and what not. These objections were made to the projected use of poison gas. However, Mr. Adams is going to seek a compro- mise on barium carbonate, a substance whlc‘h innoculates the rodents with a greal 3 are, the rats are ‘with which to qus ings and literally drink themselves to . Barium carbonate has the same effect on humans and domestic ani- mals, but only if taken in enormous quantities. It is not expected that any one except the rats will go on a INSTRET SECRECY Douthitt's departure from the hos- | the Virginia Capital. According to Richmond police, Sagle, who is 26, admitted killing his wife and attempting to end his own life, explain- ing she had refused to live with him. . Wed After Brief Courtship. ‘The Sagles were married here De- cember 29, after a five-day courtship. They lived at 213 H street until Mrs. Sagle, whoee mother died when she was a child, went to Richmond to attend the funeral of her father, William L. { Jenkins. i Sagle went to the . Virginia city yes- terday after telling his father and step- mother, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sagle, with whom he had been staying since bis wife left him, that he would either “bring her back or kill her.” Mrs. Sagle's uncle, Walker O. Jen- kins, told police the girl ran from the kitchen into a bed room with her hus- band close behind her. Shot in Back of Head. | As she entered the bed room, her un- | cle said, Sagle drew a revolver and fired With a bullet wound in the back of her head, she sank to the floor. Sagle whirled, ran back into_the kitchen and turned the gun upon him- self, firing a bullet into his stomach. Police, arriving a few minutes later, found him sitting in a chair, the pistol still in his hand. That Sagle had plan- ned to kill both his wife and himself. police pointed out, was indicated by ithree notes found in the Richmond Hotel, at which he had registered. One of the letters, addressed “To the | Press Only,” said: “I've always wanted to be s racketeer, and this is my oniy l]t‘hll.nce. Now, give me some real pub- city." A note directed to Sagle's father, who lives at 827 Pifth street, urged him to “rush, for when you receive this I prob- 1 ably will be dead.” Made Funeral Plans. ‘The letter also contained instruc- | tions to bury Sagle in a tuxedo. with a white flower in the lapel. Sagles | revolver, the note conciuded, should be | placed in the casket. { " Inclosed with the letter was a photo- graph of Sagle and his bride bearing the inscription, “A romance thats a | failure.” ‘The third note was addressed to Mrs. Sagle at the H street house at which the couple had lived immediately after their age. This note, according to Capt. A. Wright, chief of Richmond detectives, was four or five pages in length and was devoted to a rambling description of Sagle’s “crushed ro- mance.” Had Tried Suicide. Mrs. Sagle, who was raised by her grandmother, after her mother’s death, attempted suicide here February 28, ac- cording to Washington police. At that time, Mrs. Sagle, who gave her address as 630 I street southwest, was treated at Emergency Hospital. Physicians at the institution said she had swallowed several poison tablets. According to the elder Sagle, the couple met while the young woman was working as a waitress in a G street Testaurant. For a while, he said, they stayed with him at his home in Hagerstown and then moved to the H street address. The young man was “not over fond of work,” his father admitted. Ths bride's grandmother told Rich- mond police the girl was “only visiting Washington” when she met Sagle. Mrs. Loew said she knew little about Sagle. but that she had not approved of her granddaughter’'s marriage to him. l i CODE CHANGE NOTICE ASKED BY BUILDERS Letter to Commissioners Complains of Lack of Time in Conform- ing to Regulations. A request that the District Commis- ‘sioners advise builders of contemplated changes in_ the building code before they are adopted so builders will not have to make last-minute changes in plans was laid before the city heads today by the Operative Builders’ Associ- ation. The point arose, it is brought out in a letter written for the Builders’ Asso- ciation by Rufus S. Lusk, executive sec- retary, over the recent adoption of a new regulation forbidding the inclosure of back porches of houses. While not protesting against the changes, the Operative Builders’ letter states these “went into effect without any notification to builders whatsoever. “Some of them (the builders) had planned houses in the same way they had been building them for years and discovered when they applied for a per- mit, that owing to a change in the regu- lations, a permit could not be granted,” the builders point out. ‘While the change in regulations was not the resylf of ‘hasty action” on the part of the Commissfoners, builders say, the change went into effect “over- night” so far as the builders were con- cerned. "'BURGLARS ROB SAFE $185 Cash, $45 in Jewelry and Check Taken From Store. Burglars stole $185 in cash, $45 in jewelry and a check for $15.90 last night, when they entered the store of Samuel Saidman, 729 Eighth street, he berium carbonate jag if this method of warfare is a L Dr. Fowler is out of town today, but the effort to enlist him in the poison wer will be made on his jurn to- | morrow. re] to police. The articles were , taken from the unlocked safe. Jewelry, clothing and a clock, valued at $73, were reported stolen from the. apartment of Maude A. Bishop, v Beward square,