Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1931, Page 17

WASHINGTON, The Foen * WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D, €, BRIDGE ESTIMATE. OFFSETS REDUCED | HIGHWAY DEMANDS, Slight Cut Expected in Street Work, to Be Financed by Gas Tax. $3,393,980 REQUESTED FOR SURFACE DIVISION $1.272,500 Sought for Bridges Is Nearly Three Times $460,0C0 Appropriation in 1932. Estimates of the cost of new highways in 1933, made public today, show a de- | crease from the 1932 appropriations, | which is more than made up, however, | by a large increase in the estimates for | bridges. The street work estimates de- | pend principally on money secured from | the gasoline tax and not from general | taxation, and probably will not be ma-| terfally cut. Substantial reduciions are | expected, however, in the bridge est:-| m; For the surface division the request s for $3.393.980, a decrease cf 515!.120 over the 1932 appropriations. This is made up as follows: 10328 » £3'600'c00 1175.000 1 250,000 o= mates £1.800,000 000 | 250,000 | gngwn«.vi Ttems. Gasoline tax work Mainterance & placements Milezs and perm! tem paving d Widening an - S 101100 133980 ok 30.000 30.000 Condemnation Total .. Unpaved Gap Must Wait. The Censtitution avenue item will undoubtedly stay in the budget, as this is being done in conjunction with the Federal Government to provide an ap- proach to the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The stretch to be widened and paved, lies between Delaware and Penn- | sylvania avenues. The widening s | paid for by the Federal Government| and the paving by the District. This year B street, or Constitution avenue, its present official name, will be wid- ened and paved between Fourteenth street and Virginia avenue. The gap Jeft unpaved will have to wait until work on the Federal buildings in that section 15 done, as it would be throwing money away, according to Highway Engineer H. C. Whitehurst, to pave the roadway and then allow it to be cut up for services for the new buildings. Personal services in the department | will cost $220,830 in 1932, and the esti- mate for 1933 is $226,050, the small increase representing step-ups, which| will probebly be eliminated. For bridges the 1933 estimate is| $1,272,500, nearly triple the 1932 appro- | priation of $460,000. The ax is expected | to fall heavily on these estimates, al-| though they contain some items which | have generally been regarded as highly desirable. Among them are a mew P treet bridge over Rock Creek ($300,000). | and attention is being giv Fm‘;eeoverp:n on Fourteenth street m:sxblllly of placing these acc Potomac Park to help solve the traffic tangle caused by the cherry blossom tourists ($210,000). replacement of the Benning Bridge ($400,000) and $100,000 for a start on & new Calvert smezI Bridge and $102,500 for care and repair ©f structures now standing. Watson Asks $61,000 Increase. An increase of $61,000 is asked in the estimates of the needs of the Fire | Public Parks J. E. S. Kinsella, and Two men were caught by police safe in an automotive supp nue carly today FIGHT MOSQUITOES District to Continue Through- out Summer Months. Coincident with {frcm the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks today that the mosquito control campaign is now in full swing came the information that a Southern fish, known as the Gambusia, with a fondness for mosquitoes in the mak- ing, may be utilized in Rock Creek and elsewhere to curb the pests that an- noyed President Hcover in the White House. Particular attention is being paid to th: Executive Mansion and its environs in the campaign The Gambusia. which finds mosquito larvae highly delectable, is found in the Carolinas and a stock supply was brought here and placed in the waters | of the National Zo-logical Park of the Smithsonian Inctitution. They have weathered the past Winter successfull® 1 to the po mated fish in_the streams and ponds in this lo- | cality to aid in keeping down the mosquitoes. Dispense With Oil. If the fish can be trusted to eat the dispense with oiling some of the streams ls. pools. In the Office of Public Buildings and nitary Department for 1933, as compared With | inspector in the mosquito contic the appropriation for 1932. estimates total $2,645,020. Fire Chief George S. Watson asked | for apparatus for an additional rescuc squad. and salaries for an additional | battalion commander. two captail two licutenants, two sergeants and privates. Half of the mew personnel asked be assigned to the new rescue squad which will take over the work of the No. 2 squad with head quarters at No. 11 Engine Company, | Fourteenth street near Kenyon street No. 2 is at present working Wwith a made-over hose wagon, which has been declared unsatisfactory for the task. The remainder of the personnel is | to man a new truck company to be| housed on Rhode Island avenue north- ! east near Brentwood road. The new ! battalion chief will be quartered in a in the congested downtown to assure the presence of a two battalion chiefs at all fires the high-value downtown district. $92,000 Sought for Fire House. new fire truck house mentioned w Island avenue will be built |, appropriation of $93,000 The house will be a truck and engine house. | the engine and hose wagon will no be added until 1934 Other new apparatus sought by the partment includes two hook-and-lad- der pieces at $15,500 each. five combina- 1 hose wagons at $8,000, one water $22,000 a two pumpers at e Wagons n point out, zr Fiftee ca mum useful life, PARKING SITE BIDS ASKED BY GRANT: is considered Government Land to Be Rented| to Concessionaires on Tem- porary Basis 2 | at a r‘lffi‘nu‘n" Government rentzl of ¢ sicn The colonel | i iting bids, whi ill be opened on May 20 H An estimate has been made that 400 cars may be parked on the site of the old Fede Trade Commission Bullding, which was burned last year, and which is to be made available un- der the prospective contract. Rental of this property will be solely for parking automobiles. The second plot to be thrown open to automobile parking by the successful! bidder is between Ohio avenue, C and Thirteenth streets. This ground, for- merly occupied by Bethany Chapel, must likewise be used only for automo- bile parking. In inviting bids today, the colonel gaid: “These spaces will be rented by the month, with a 30-day notice on either party of the intent to cancel the Tental agreement, that such rental agreement provides no right for the erection of oil stations or buildings of any nature thereon. The 1933 l‘ is cred | Martin, it being understood | ited with devising an spray lever for knapsack: man to spray oil {ast os instead of using the old 1 have been combed for mosquito lla explained, and sume lar found. but none of pests on the wing have bee Pupae, the stage pricr to oduit ment, Mr. Kinsella said, have likewl been found. Congress sliced the mosquito control appropriation from last year's $16,000 to $11,000 for the current scason, but Kinsella and his aides have been to do extensive work ng a number of streams r areas and spreading a low grade of kerosene, to ke from breeding. They have b quictly since March 1 1g the Winter, men wer ing out debris in the upy of Rock Creek Park and this i beneficlal in destroying potential ding places. Campalgn to Continue. “maul the mosquito” cam by The continue in full force and cff itll about the middle of October as long as there is need for it public buildings under construction heir dangerous a fine breed.ng smearec 0squitos . tracke h ! ir bree through first hand work mosquito fighters are g of information to make cas in flight s to the d plac the field. the ring a wealth Washington g o catch the { safe this Summer from mosquito bites The culex, Mr. Kinsclla cxplains, is the big biter in these parts, and the female of the species is the one that bites. The public is asked to co-opcrate by disposing of all cans and other rc- ceptacles that might hold stagnant water, affording the mosquitoes a good brecding place Rey of COL. WALTER F. MARTIN BURIED IN ARLINGTON Reserve Officer Who Died in New York Tuesday Served in Span- ish and World Wars. Funeral services were held in Arling- ton National Cemetery for Col. Walter F. Martin, Military In- telligence Reserve Corps, Tuesday . in New York who served in the Regul Army during the Spanish War Philippine insurrcction and the War, resigned from Army in to ergage in private b He apponted a colonel in the Army serve in January, 1923 Honorary palibearers at his funeral were Brig. Gen. E. L. King and Col Alfred T. Smith of the War Department general stafl; Brig. Gen. H. J. City. Col, World va! Re- the most important of the I network, will shortly be entirely cked. United States Reserves; Lieut. Cols. J. P. Swift and W. W. Gordon, Cavalry. ndfl Lieut. Col. W. E. Shedd, general staft. F the announcement this afternoon who ~ died 1919 Reilly, in the act of taking money from this | tore at Twenty-first street and Pennsylvania ave- | robberies of the same type. Policcman M. C. Barco is guarding the safe.—Star Staff Photo. FISH FROM SOUTH METHODISTS PLAN S50 DRIE |Campaign Against Pests in Protestant Church Confer- ence Expected to Favor June as Best Time. | 3 A recommendation that the Metho- dist Protestant Church conduct a cam- paign during June to raise $500,000 for the 1932 budget is expected to be voted tonight at the church’s closing con- | vention session by its Committee on Findings. The campalgn is expected to be_conducted in all conferences. The report of this important com- mittee 1S to be read by its chairman, |Dr. A. N. Ward, president of the West- n Maryland College. Westminster, Md. Discussions on the report’s con- tents will be lead by Dr. J. C. Willlams of Columbus, Ohio, president of the Ohio Conference; Dr. J. H. Straughn, exccutive secretary-treasurer of the gen-ral conferc promotional work with headquarters @ Baltimore, and b: Dr. Ward. The reading of the report and the discussions will be broadcast over Radio Station WJSV, starting at 8:15 o'clock. It is understood that the church's | finances are in good condition, but that members of the committee feel that | this money should be ralsed prior to the meeting of the general conference mosquito eggs, it may be possible to |this Fall + Cuts Not Necessary. There will be no material cut in the | church’s ~ budget, according to Dr | Straughn, and 'its work in China, Japan and India, together with its vast home missionary activities, will be carried on by full staffs uring the morning ot made by Dr. L. B more, Md., Conference, on ‘ian E Dr. H. H. Price of Baltimor the Recorder, the official organ church, on “Living Pages”; by F. Day, pastor of the Inwood Long Isiand, N. Y., ardship.” end by W. C. Perkins of Pitts- burgh,.Pa., on “The Efficient Church.” | Dr. Price appealed for a general in- crease in circulation of the church's organ, citing that its distribution now numbered 7,000 and placed the circula- ion goal at 20,000. He said a church wspaper was essential because of the the daily religious news. See Less Pessimism. last night's session Dr. Charles . t, president of Woostcr College C said youth was rounding { pessimism and_ deserving the w view was taken by Dr. Li sccretary of the Education with Smith of Balti- pres a larger pa A similar rence Litt Board of headquarte Dr. W Byronic routh of five vears ago 1s pas ir leader, Memcken,” he added king his old gods; he has married and is planning a bigger and better Mercu true Rotarian fashion.’ r thet the youth of e has had the reputation c s but he cbs:rved there Dr. Litue 67.5 per cent of bership con: show school mem ons under 2. church mem- under 25 1 will defeat the h it is being at- Joseph R. Siz00, York Avenue Pry He added that n no more wipe out the name of st and his religion than you can rays shi on our Dr » was a speaker at the afternoon session, as was Dr. R. 1 Farmer of High Point, N. C., and Rev J. W. Shell of Pittsburgh, Pa. TRUNNELL RITES SET Widow of Polic>man to Be Buried Baturday. Funeral Trunnell ices for Mrs. Mary A. 89 years ol who died at her residence, 3413 P sircet, Wednesday night, will be held at Holy Trinity Chureh, Georgetown, Saturday morning |at 9 o'clock. Interment will be Rood Cemet. i Mrs. Trunnell, the widow of Willlam | H. Trunpell, a member of the metro- politan police force, had lived in Wash- ington for nearly 60 years. She is sur- vived by two daughters, Mrs, Francis P. Nichols of Washington and M rge B. Ewell, Indianapolis, Ind.; a J. Arthur Trunnell, of this city and grandchildren, Boonsboro Home Burned. HAGERSTOWN, Md., May 15 (Spe- cial) —The home of James Kirby, along the Washington Highway, near Boons- boro, was destroyed by fire yesterday. | One’ fireman, Joseph Beeler,” sr., was injured while en route to the fire,'when he failed to duck his head as the Boonshoro fire engine was leaving its Guarters her addresses | t of the Maryland | press in publishing | k of the church. | gotten | | that | own | THO ROBBING SAFE GALEHT A WOAN PHONES FOR POLCE Mrs. Miriam Tucker’s Quick Work Averts Escape With $1,100 Loot. SEEK TO CONNECT PAIR WITH OTHER ROBBERIES Officers Note Similar Methods in Attempt to Rob Blossom Inn Made During Night. A woman’s quick thinking early today resulted in the capture of whem police caught as they were pre- paring to escape with approximately in the cffice of the Automotive Supj Co., Pernsylvania avenue and Twenty- first street The yeggmen—Charles E. Smith, 20 years old, 2220 Washington circle. and Francis D. Carman, also 20, of 2108 K strect—are being held at the third pre- cinct, and police are endeavoring to conncet them with an attempt to rob a safe in the office of the Blossom Inn, 1315 New York avenue, last night or carly today. An effort also is being made to link them with other recent Smith and Carman were captured as they were scooping up the money they had taken from the Pennsylvania ave- nue concern’s safe. Policemen A. T. Davis, F. P. Martin and E. R. Pranklin of the third precinct and S. F. Gravely. of the first precinct, who arrested them, said they offered no resistance. ‘Woman Phones Police, The men were captured about 3 am., | after Mrs, Mirlam Tucker, 2105 I street, {who was awakened by the noise they | made in their efforts to break open the | safe, telephoned police headquarters. | _ Mrs. Tucker, whose home adjoins a service station operated by the com- | pany, heard the men pummeling the {safe with a sledge hammer and a chisel Has w ly dressing, she ren to th wing of a workshop in the rear of th {office. Finding the window broken an i the room shrouded in darkness, despite the sounds emanating from it, she con- cluded a robbery was in progress. The alarm was brcadcast, and Davis, Martin, Franklin and Gravely were or- dered 'to investigate. Shining their | Bashlights into the workshop, they saw | Smith and Carman crouched on the floor beside the safe, hastily scooping {up the money. Police Break Open Door. ‘The policemen broke open the door {and ordered the men to surrender. Ex- { plaining they were unarmed, the pair ‘:n;]cluaea a heavy siedge hammer and a chiszl. | The safe had been carried from the |office to the workshop, where its com- | bination had been chiseled off. Failing { to break open th> door, the rcbbers had | turned the safe upside down and ham- mered a hole in the bottom. Their loot consisted of about $800 in cash and about $300 in checks. In carrying the safe down the short | flight of steps leading from th: office to the workship, the men had dropped it. Smith’s foot was crushed when the safe fell on it, and he was treated at Emergency Hospital before being taken to the police station. Nearly $50 was found in Smith’s shoe when it was re- moved at the hospital, police said. The nolse made by the yeggmen also was heard by F. W. Krichelt, an attor- ney for the Veoterans' Bureau, who rooms at Mrs. Tucker's home Some time ego” Krichelt said, “I heard similar nolses and in gated them, only to find electriclans were at work in the place. This time, I con- i cluded something similar was in prog- ress and paid no attention to the ham- mering.” Auto With Stolen Top Found. Smith's automobile was found parked nearby, and an investigation revealed, police said, that the tcp had been stolen from another car. Smith, it was added, has a police record, hav- | ing_been implicated in the robbery of a Pennsylvania avenue pool room less than two years ago. He is on proba- tion for that offense. The_attempted robbery of the Blos- som Inn's safe was discovered this | morning when William Aiken, chief steward, opened the place. After sum- moning police, he notified Mrs. Vir- ginia Fenwick, owner of the establish- ment. The combination had been broken off, but the door still was intact, al- though an effort had been made to | chisel a hole in the concrete after part | of the steel jacket had been removed. | According to Mrs. Fenwick, the safe contalned about $200. Headquarters detectives will examine it for finger- | prints, and if any are found, they will | be compared with those of Smith and | Carman The safe was robbed of about lact Summer, Mrs. Fenwick said. Similar methods were used in both the Pennsylvania svenue and the New | York avenue “jobs.” police pointed |out. In both instances, the yeggmen gained entrance by forcing a window, and a hammer and a chisel were used on both safes. $200 First Meeting of Dry Research Council May Be Delayed. | To permit tre attendance of Pro- hibition Director Woodcock, who now is on the Pacific Coast, the first meet- ing of the newly formed Bureau of Prohibition Advisory | may be postponed to the first or second { week in Jnne. tion of the council to direct research into prehibition in graduate schools of the country said the first meeting would be held here the latter part of May. Woodcock will not return, however, until about June 1 = TWO PLAYS LISTED “Fourteen” and “Between Trains” . to Be Presented at Women's Club Two plays, “Fourteen” and “Between Trains,” will be presented at the Wom- en’s City Cluo next Friday night to raise money for stage equipment. Fourteen” will be given by Ida Garrett Mattingly, Marie C. Willis and |Louise Massey, a cast which recently won first place in the play tournament of the Montgomery County Women's Clubs. “Between Trains” will be offered by Grace Ross Chamberlin, Edith Oriani Pitzgerald, Violet Ann Hambleton and Ruth H. Snodgrass. Mrs. Edith Sears is chairman of the drama unit at the Women's Club, FRIDAY, two men | $1,100 obtained by breaking open a safe | handed the policemen their tools, which | Research Counci] | | The recent announcement of forma- MAY 15, 1931. ny Starf FINANGING ON COST OF MEDICAL CARE URGED BY WILBUR Professional and Social Men Meet to Report Progress of Expense Study. U. S. HEALTH BILL NOW $3,000,000,000 YEARLY Better Treatment Seen as Outcome of Secretary's Plan to Aid More Sick People. Group financing for the organization, administration and distribution of bet- ter medical care to more people was fhe suggestion put forward today at the semi-annual meeting of the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care by its chairman, Dr. Ray Lyman Wibur, Secretary of the Interior. “We lack sufficient facilities and or- ganization to meet the situation of to- day or of the future,” Dr. Wilbur de- clared in his opening address at the meeting at the Hotel Mayflower, which was attended by 50 leaders in the fields of medicine, dentistry, public health, economics and the social sciences, to report on progress made in the five-year study of the problems involved in the costs of this service, which has run up to $3,000,000,000 annually. “It is our function to propose plans that will be effective and that will meet with popular and professional favor. There is now much duplication and waste of time, effort and money. Or- with group financing can distribute better medical care to more people Wwith better returns to those who care for the sick.” Plan Is Personal View. This suggestion of Dr. Wilbur's for “group financing” was put out as his own personal view, it was said, and rep- resents no formal action or opinion of the committee. “We must not fear further experi- ments, some of them of bold character ! Secrctary Wilbur said in referring his suggestion. “Our people, rich and 00r, want the best of care when they re sick. We must show them how such care can be financed.” Dr. Wilbur did not suggest how this idea of group financing should be car- ried into effect, but he expressed the belief that the benefits that would de- \rive from it would greatly enhance the | effectiveness of the care of the sick. “even within the present expenditures. ‘Will Study Proposal. Dr. Wilbur's suggestion probably will be studied by the official committee, organized in 1927 to probe “the econom- ic aspects of the prevention and care of sickness, including the adequacy, availability and compensation of the persons and agencles involved.” “The present widespread dislocation overcome largely Secretary ~Wilbur stated. “Certainly from a social stand- point, we well can afford to pay a larger proportion of our present annual in- come for the protection of health, both public and private. With an expanded national expenditure we should endeavor to see that a larger proportion of it is brought into the health service of the human being.” On the basis of its flve-year studies the committee eventually will formulate concrete recommendations looking to- ward organization and distribution of medical facilities to provide adequate scientific care to a'l people, rich and | poor, and to assure adequate returns to | those who furnish this cave. At today's meeting the group broke up into five subcommittees to study various phases. Of chief public interest was the ques- {tion to what exten‘ payment for medi- cal services should be based upon in- dividual purchase or upon group pur- chases. Since estimates place annual medical expenditures at $3,000,000,000, this ques- tion involves others, such as payment on an annual basis for all or certain agreed services, the extension of install- ment payment of bills to medical serv- ice and the extent to which popular education may induce individuals to avail themselves more fully of existing facilities, both preventive and curative. Preventive Work Studied. Consideration also was being given to the methods of group purchase and the extension of such methods. This involves the extent to which additional services of preventive character should be furnished out of the taxpayer's money . Practically all preventive work along organized lines, it was declared, is now financed from public funds, 4 | cluding in its scope preventive meas- ures for acute and chronic illness among indigents, for practically all mental disease cases and for most | cases of tuberculosis | Sessions of the committee will end [mmnrrn". In additlon to Secretary Wilbur, its chairman, the executive lr)fl"lcerx are Dr. C. E. A. Winslow | Yale University Medical School, vice | chairman; Winthrop W. Aldrich, presi- |dent of the Chase National Bank of | New York, treasurer, and Dr. Harry H Moore, director of studies. The office of the last named is in Washington. The study has been under way for three and one-half years, and by the time it is concluded more than 1, 000.000 will have been expended by the philanthropic agencies financing it. S. CLERK DIES Ellen S. Barnett Buried in Peterboro, N. Y. Miss Ellen S. Barnett, a clerk in the Pension Office from 1880 to 1923, died Sunday at Bay City, Mich., where she had lived since her retirement from the Government s ice. Miss Barnett was a member of the First Presbyterian Church here, and served as a Sunday School teacher there for many years. She had taught in the high school at Bay City previous to coming to Wash- ington to enter the Government serv- ice. Surviving is & niece, Mrs. William Benjamin, Norwalk, Conn, Burial was in Peterboro, N. Y. F. H. SMITH CO. SUED William F. Thyson Asks $81,377, Claimed for Alleged Services. ‘William Frank Thyson, described as a buyer, seller, manager and appraiser of apartment houses, has filed suit in District Supreme Court to recover $91,- 377 from the F. H. Smith Co., allegedly due for services rendered the company between 1925 and 1928. ‘Through Attorneys John W, Price and Leslle G. Garnett, the plaintiff says he attended for the company the ;uetlnn of the Hamilton Hotel, March i construction of apartments cities for the corporation and has not been paid. FORMER U. Miss ganization and proper administration | between need and medical care can be | Society and General Academy. ing with Hartford, Conn. with Ottawa. Lendon. day program arranged by the World the National Council for Prevention ¢ TORCH CLUB GROUP Professional Men Hear Talk on Social Injustice by Pennsylvania Scientist. Members of the International Asso- | ciation of Tcreh Clubs, in annual con- | vention here, paid a visit to President { Hoover today at the White Hous: The visit followed a meeting of the associaticn _at the Mayflower Hotel where Dr. George H. Ashley of Harrs- burg, Pa., State geologist, spok:. The Torch Clubs are composed of profes- sional men. ‘With the economic unrest brought on by unemployment, there is a growing demand for social justice &nd a better industrial system, Dr. Ashley said. Removal of brighter children from the class rooms of the masses also was adyocated by Dr. Ashley. In the discussion that followed, Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Public Library here, commented on the j{lack cf leadership shown in Congress during the past session. ‘Tn> annual banquet will be held to- | | night, with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, | director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and Dr. William Knowles Cooper as principal speakers. | Dr. Bowerman was elected president | of the club-at a meeting of the Board | {of Directors last evening. Dr. Hardee Chambliss, professor of chemistry and dean of engineering, Catholic University of America, was elected vice president, and Elwood Street, director of the Com- munity Chest, secretary-treasurer, FRANK KERSEY RITES ~ SET FOR WEDNESDAY Son and Daughter Coming Here | From Panama for Funeral. Frank Reed | sandlot Funeral | Kersey, services for 53, District | Alexandria, Va. Complete arrangements have not. been | made, pending the arrival Tucsday by plane of his son and daughter, Vin- cent M. Kersey and Mrs. Leo M. Peter- son, from Christobal, Canal Zone, where they sre connected with Pan- American Airways. . Mr. Kersey was a well known figure in sandlot sports activities in Washing- | ton. He had been manager of the old Georgetown Athletic Club, of the Wav- erly Athletic Club's foot ball and base ball teams, at one time was manager | Alexandria and had been identified with sports in the city for the past 15 years. Members of his family said he be- came suddenly ill early yesterday., and !a physiclan was summoned. Later, when he was again stricken, the fire rescue squad was called, but he was pronounced dead shortly after its ar- rival. He had been manager of the McGill Building, in which he lived, for about 13 years Mr. Kersey was born in Alexandria, !and became a marine engineer, in which | occupation he engaged until he became manager of the McGill Bullding. During the war he was offered & com- mission in the Navy, but he declined. Mr. Kersey is survived by his widow, Mrs. Katherine A. Kersey; three daughters, Irene and Mary Kersey of this city, and Mrs. Peterson of the Canal Zone; two sons, Vincent, of the nal Zone, and John R. Kersey of Washington, and three grandchildren. A brother. Park A. Kersey of Alex- andria, also survives. BABY SUFFERS SKULL FRACTURE IN FALL Fourteen-month-old Joseph Farrell was in a serious condition at Children’s | Hospital today, having suffered a frac- tured skull iast night when accidentally pulled from his carriage in the rear of his home, 417 I street northeast. The child was sitting in the carriage when one of a group of small children playing in the yard pulled him out. He was taken to Casualty Hospital by his father, Willilam Farrell, and later re- moved to Children’s Hospital for further treatment, £ — Fed 4 War. WASHINGTON CHILDREN TO TAKE PART IN WORLDWIDE EVENT. OUR of the students who will relay a round-the-world conversation Mon- day from Washington to Europe and South America. They are, upper, left to right: Dorcas Cole, Eastern High School, and Dorothy Burch, Notre Dame Lower, left to rignt: Robert Hild, Business High School, and Elinore Powers, Macfarland Junior High School. cities with which the children will talk were determined. final link in the American conversation originating on the Pacfic Coast, talk- Miss Burch will talk with Chile and Miss Powers Hild will relay the American message from Washington to The telephone relay will be a feature of the International Good Will eration of Education Associations and By drawing Icts, the Cole will be the ~—=Star Staft Photo. ner, | sion to ples HOOVER RECEIVES /15 RUM PLOTTERS BIVEN SENTENCES | Pair Get Two Years and Fine of $5,000 Each—Married Couples on Probation. Alfred G. Mendelson and Milton Ler- two of the 11 men convicted two weeks ago by a jury in Criminal Divi- 3 of ccnspiracy to violate the na- | tional prohibition law, were sentenced | today by Justice Oscar R. Luhring to serve two years each in the penitentiary and to pay fines of $5,000 each. Roy Beasley, ‘Thomas McNichols each was given a term of 18 months in the penitentiary and fined $2,500. Corbin Shields, Ed- ward T. Croghan and Jack Baum will each serve 15 months in the peniten- tlary without fine. given one year and one day in the pen- itentiary without fine. and Frank A. Baker each was sent to jail for four months. Two young married couples, indicted in the huge liquor conspiracy ! redistill Harry Kushner and Roy Ahern was Andrew Lobolo jointly d make potable alcohol perfumery and _disinfectants, d guilty at the trial table. They end his Elizabeth. Clarke was sentenced sentences of the married who noted appeals. After conference imposing sentence Justice ‘Three of the jurors had ‘The other nine made ‘The the law does "PAGE B—1 onored iq Go?d Will Program GALHU”NS’ m,[m AGREEMENT HELD TORN BY ACCUSED Justice Agent Says Man Tried to Destroy Paper When Deputy Marshals Came. SAID TO HA\;E~()—FFERED NOT TO DAMAGE NAME Hardy Tells Court Mrs. Hillenbrand Thought She Could Get $200,000 if Bird Would Withdraw. A vivid word picture of a conference at which the defendants were arrested was unfolded to a District Supreme Court, jury today by Samuel W. Hardy, Department of Justice agent and prin- cipal Government witness against five persons charged with conspiracy to blackmail Capt. and Mrs. C. C. Calhoun. Hardy testified James F. Bird, one of the’ defendants, hurriedly tore an alleged agreement in half when two deputy marshals raided the conference in a downtown office building on a signal from the agent. The mutilated aper was identified by Hardy after in Goldstein, an assistant United States attorney, had introduced it.in evidence. It contained the signatures of Mr. and Mrs. W. Clark Noble. The | other defendants, Bird, Mrs. Anna Hil- lenbrand and Stephen A. Armstrong, Jr, had not signed the contract. Says $3 Was Promised. The agreement. prepared by Hards contained the stipulation the defend: ants would not make public charges derogatory to the character of Oapt. and Mrs. Clarence C. Calhoun, com- plaining witnesses. The agent testified they were to have received a check for :rsf,l:oo in exchange for signing the con- ct. Goldstein also read to the jury an agreement of similar nature, which Hardy declared had been offered by Bird." The outstanding clause in this contract was that the defendants would refrain from making statements dam- aging the reputations of the Calhouns. Objected to Phrasing. The agent pointed out Bird had prepared the proposed substitute for Hardy's agreement because he was op- Doug to the use of the word “deroga- tory” and certain other phrasing in the ol al document. e agent said Bird declared he :ogu not sign the joint agreement but 0 d enter into a separate contract on receiving the check, Hardy told of an earlier conference at which Armstrong said Mrs. Hillen- brand had told him she could obtain $200,000 from the Calhouns if Bird should withdraw from the picture. The witness added both Bird and Armstrong appeared unusually nervous during the last of several conferences he had with them while posing as the persanal rep- resentative of Calhoun. Alleges Threats by Bird. Hardy first disclosed the basis of the alleged blackmail demands late yester- day. He quoted Bird as threatening to publish charges that Capt. and Mrs. Calhoun had diverted to their own use millions of dollars belonging to the Woman's Universal Alliance. Hardy added Bird had flatly refused his countless invitations to examine the crganization’s books and learn whether the charges could be true. “Bird said,” Hardy related, “investi- gation of the books meant nothing to him; it was either pay that money or stand the consequences.” Hardy quoted Bird as contending the Calhouns owed Noble between $270.- 1 were James P. Clarke and his wife,{ 000 and $300,000. The agent said Bir Nettle. and Jerry Charteres i o wife, to serve 18 months in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $2.500, and Char- teres was given 15 months in the pen- itentiary. Each of the women was sentenced | houn his post-dated checks would be to serve one year and one day in the penitentiary. All the couples were suspended and they were placed on probation. Clarke and Char- teres hoth testified for the Government. All of the 11 convicted men were com- mitted to jail to await filing of appeal bonds for some Kushner asked the court to give him one more day of liberty to complete a job on which he had been engaged and for which he said he would not be paid until completion. He declared his wife needed the money. with the prosecutors the court decided there was no legal way to grant the re- quest. Before sports | Luhring announced that he had given: figure, who died at his home at 908 no consideration to the affidavits of G street, yesterday, will be held Wednes- | jurors seeking to attack the validity of day morning at St. Patrick's Church. | their verdict. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, | charged that they were coerced, because | of iliness of two of them, into agreeing to the verdict. statements denying these chargs court pointed out that | premised Noble w-uld not become af- | filiated with & rival mothers’ memorial %glmunnn if the Calhouns paid $30,- 0. At one stage of the negotiations, Hardy reported, Armstrong told Cal accepted if he did nct have $30,000 on deposit at that time. The agent said Armstrong declared he was s financial agent and could “handle” such checks. CHANGES ORDERED IN SCHOOL PLANS signs of Four Will Be Altered to_Conform to Letter of Code. Minor changes in the plans of four schools to be built during the coming ‘working season were ordefed by Assist- ant Engineer Commissioner Holland L. Robo yesterday in order to make the plans conform to the letter of the Dis- trict building code. The schcols, plans not permit jurors to be heard in at-| for which will be changed, are the tempts to Impeach their verdicts. Assistant United States Attorneys ! Phoebe Hearst, Burleith-Glover Park #nd the additions to the Woodridge and James R. Kirkland and John J. Wilson | Janney Schools. conducted the prosecution. | ARTILLERY MAIOR -DIES of the St. Mary's Celtics eleven in|Attache of Fort Leavenworth Staff School Is Dead There. Maj. James M. Crane, United States Field Artillery, attached to the General | Staft School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., died in that city Wednesday, ac- cording to War Department advices. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Anne Mitchell Crane, and dren and a brother, Crane, Field Artiller: three minor chil- Maj. William C. of the War De- partment general staff. Born at Fort Bayard, N. Mex., May 26, 1894, Maj. J. M. Crane was gradu ated from the West Point Military Academy in June, 1916, and from the Field Artillery School in 1923. During the World War he served in France'as a major in the National Army, and reached the same grade in the Regular Army in January, 1927. KILLED BY GAS LEAK Henry R. Nicholson, 35 years old, colored, 723 Kenyon street, was found dead from the effects of illuminating gas by his brother, Dr. Harvey Nichol- | service, to be operated under the son, | street today. | caping from a jet on a radiator. in the latter's office at 1200 U Police say was es- No. 2 rescue sguad and an ambu- lance from Freedmen's Hospital summoned and Nicholson were, was pro- ‘This action was the first result of the new system, initiated by Engineer Commissioner John C. Gotwals, of sub- Jecting plans for municipal buildings drawn by the municipal architect's office to the scrutiny of inspectors in the building inspector’'s office. Maj. Robb said the plans complied with the spirit of the code, but that in some particulars the exact letter had been overlooked. The changes will require only a few days to make, he explained. ‘The order was made at a conference late vesterday afternoon in Maj. Robb's office. Those present included Muniei- pal Architect Albert L. Harris, Assiste ant Municipal Architect S. B. Walsh, H. H. Marsh. engineer of Mr. Harris’ office: Building Inspector John W. Ochmann and Deputy Fire Marshal Charles G. Achstetter, VETERANS ORGANIZE GUIDE SERVICE HERE Adams Plans to Extend Scope of Employment to Other Fields of Work. About 50 veterans attended the or- ganization meeting of a veterans’ guide rection of George J. Adams, jr., held in the board room of the District Bullding today. Mr. Adams, secretary of the Dis- trict Committee on Employment, is planning to organize a guide service for the crowds expected to visit Washington nounced d!l('l by Dr. H. W. Mickey of | for the 1932 Bicentennial celebration. that Dr. times Hospital:“ The coroner was sum- icholson said pent nights in the T office when he discove: The guides will charge 50 cents an hour, and Mr. Adams will get them the work. At the meeting today to extend the scope of the