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CThe Foe WITH SUNDAY MOKNING EDITION WASHINGTON, B E, ning Skar MONDAY, MAY 25, 1931. -DEFENGE T0 CLAIM THAT HAYNES TRIED T0 PROTECT BANK, Counsel Expects to Tell Jury He Had Nothing to Do With' False Entries Charged. DEFENSE PRESENTS CASE AS GOVERNMENT RESTS Two Former Directors Questioned | Before Prcsecution Closes After 11 Days. The defense of Harry V. Haynes against the charges growing out of his acts as president of the Farmers & | Mechanics National Bank will be that | he sought to “protect, not defraud” the institution. | This was_brought out today by his counsel, H. Winship Wheatley, after the , Government had rested its case and the ! defense began preséntation of its own. | Wheatley told the jury “the defense expects to show to you that the de- fendant had nothing to do with the | false entries charged; that he did not | wilfully misapply any funds and that | he did not wilfully abstract securities.” It is these charges that are alleged against the banker. | Haynes First Witness. | Wheatley said Haynes will be the first witness, that he intends to take | him over every item covered in the 14 counts of the indictment l[lmt‘ | im. Pointing to the fact there are “two, experts” in bank matters on the jury, | Wheatley said they could have been re- | moved had the defense seen fit to chal- lenge them, but “we left them on be- | cause we want to clear this up.” | | asked any | — 'MRS. CALHOUN THREATENED NOBLE, HIS WIFE TESTIFIES Witness Quotes Woman as Saying “South- ern Gentleman" WOuld Shoot Architect If He Sued. Quoting Mrs. Clarence C. Calhoun as saying her husband was a “Southern gentleman” and would shoot W. Clark Noble if h brought suit against the Ca'houns, Mrs. Emilie Noble was the first witness today at the trial of four persons on blackmail extortion charges. Mrs. Noble declared Mrs. Calhoun made the threat late in 1925 after she disag-eed with Noble over the type of design he had drafted as a memorial to motherhood, planned by the Woman's Universal Alliance, sponsored by Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs. Noble said the split resulted from he fact Mrs. Calhoun “changed her mind about every other day on what she wanted done. Raised Original Cost. The witness said Noble originally estmated it would cost $5.000.000 to build the memorial he had drafted M:s. Noble contended Mrs. Calhoun ordered changes which would have m2de the cost aggregate between $10,- 000,000 and $12,000,000. Mrs, Noble said Mrs. Calhoun had made numerous promises to pay Noble for his work, but failed t> live up to | the agreements. The witness was not the amount stipulated. Mrs.| Calhoun previously had testified she never reached an agreement with Noble concerning the compensation he would Teceive. | Mr: STUDENT IS SOUGHT Noble declared the negotiations | a Government witness. between her husband and the Calhouns began in April, 1924. She said Mrs Calhoun repcrted two months later that all the committees of her organization had examined and accepted his model. The witness quoted Mrs. Calhoun as declaring his design would be “the crowning piece of the memorial.” Defense Move Fails. Richard L. Merrick of defense coun- se. failed in an effort to obtain per- mission from Justice Jesse C. Adkins to introduce in evidence a copy of a proposed contract, which the lawyer «aid would contradict the testimony of Mrs. Calhoun that Noble had demand- ed $500,000 fcr his work. Mrs. Noble testified Mrs. Calboun had been a frequent visitor at the Noble studio. She declared Mrs. Calhoun once entertained about 80 persons there. She added subscriptions to the proposed memorial were solicited at the function. Merrick insisted in his cpening state- ment to the jury that there had been no conspiracy to extort blackmail from the Calboun’s on the part of the de- fendants, Noble, James F. Bird, Mrs. Anna Hillenbrand, and Stephen A. Armstrong, jr. Justice Adkins carried out an inten- tion announced Saturday by overruling a defense motion for a mistrial, based cn_the contention that Irving Gold- stein, the prosecutor, had intimidated HEALTH BUILDING INMYSTERY SHOTS SITE WORK IS LET Groans and Running Report-:Treasury Contracts for — | Cou UTILITY ATTORNEY IATTACKS PROPRIETY OF POWER HEARING No Complaint on Present Rate Structure Is Basis for Contention. ! COMMISS“IONVOVERRULES MOTION FOR DISMISSAL iConsent Decree of 1925 Is Held Up by Bowen as Perpetual. ing session of the hearing before the | Pubiic Utilitles Commission on the | question of changing the method of | making rates for the Potomac Electric | Power Co. Practically the entire morn- | ing was given over to an attack by . | Russell Bowen, the company's lawyer, lon the propriety of holding such a hearing at all, and to counter attacks by William W. Bride and W. A. Rob- | erts for the commission and People's el Richmond B. Keech. The hearing is to consider tke slid- of District Supreme Curt, effective | January 1, 1925, and possibie changes l'of it to achieve reduced rates. Moves to Dismiss. | filed an answer and motion to dismiss. | He said that gross business of the cor- poration for the first four months of 1931 showed an increase of $43,198.13 over the same months in 1930, whereas the 1930 months had showed a gain | of $213,357.06 over the corresponding | months "in "1929. Lawyers had a field day at the morn- | ing scale embraced in a_consent decree | At the outset of the case Mr. Bowen | PAGE B—1 Inspection Arms, and Make It Snappy! | | | CADET COMPANIES MEET IN DRILS EMedaI and Pennant Are Prizes in Forty-Fourth Annual Competition. % i | \ \ \ | [ \ The forty-fourth annual company | competitive drill of the Washington | High School Cadet Corps was launched at Griffith Stadium today. Company IK of McKinley High School com- | manded by Cadet Capt. Ralph D. Don- [ nelly was first on the field to bid for | the coveted Allison Naylor Medal and the ribbonede pennant now held by | HIGH SCHOOL CADETS ARE VIEWED BY ARMY OFFICERS. MARTZ IS CHARGED | WITH MURDERING TIRKLE IN BRAWL Desire to Be “Real Tough Guy” Held Motive for Pool Room Slaying. [FAIL TO LINK CRIME WITH OTHER KILLINGS ‘Acc\ued Was Drunk When He Fired Fatal Bullet, Police Say. . One Witness Being Detained. Robert E. Martz, 20, was charged with first-degree murder today in the shooting of Irving Zirkle, 27, who died at Emergency Hospital several hours after he had been wounded in a Ninth street pool room Saturday night. The charge was placed against Martz jat the first precinct police station, | where the youthful gunman has been held since the shooting. Meanwhile police are continuing their efforts to learn what prompted the shooting by the diminutive young man, who described himself as a com-- mercial photographer. At present they arc adhering to the theory a desire to be “a real tough guy,” inflamed by overindulgence in liquor, caused Martz to shoot Zirkle. Drunkenness Blamed. After a thorough investigation. begun while Zirkle still was fighting for his life at the hospital, police have con- cluded the shocting had no connection with any other killings which have oc- curred here recently, with the possible exception of the slaying of Jack H. Cun- ningham, police informer. In a statement obtained by Detectives Also, net operating ; Company H of Western. J. A. Mostyn and A. D. Mar.sfleld, first reverues for the first four mcnths of | Wheatley also sald that in general the charges revolved around tramsac- tions between the bank and Mrs. Louise T. Chambers. It was in this connection he asserted that “whatever Haynes did ‘was Lo protect, not defraud the bank.” He likewise saild he would show the jury how the bank had grown under Haynes' leaderskip, that he intended to bring out also Haynes' position in the banking world, emphasizing the various posts he held, including a d rectorship in the American Bankers' Association. As the Government wound up its case after 11° days, two former mem- bers of the board of directors of the bank were called to the stand. They were Robert D. Weaver and George L. Nicolson. Both were also vice presidents cf the bank. It was brought out by Nicolson that he con- ferred with Paul C. Ransdell, a bank examiner, in September, 1928, after certain alleged transattions of Haynes' had come out as & result of a direc- tors' meeting. Minutes Introduced. It was after attention was drawn to these reputed transactions that W. P. Folger, chief bank examiner, called the meeting of the board which resuited in Haynes tendering his resignation. The minutes of the meeting were introduced into the trial, showing Haynes was given leave of absence with pay, with the understanding he was 10 make every effort to “adjust mat- ters.” Both Nicolson and Weayer were asked if they knew anything of Haynes' stock transactions, and both answered in the negative. Nicolson also fed the testi- mony given by 1] that when the question of an excessive overdraft was brought up, Haynes did not admit it was his, but said it was a temporary matter only and would bz adjusted. ‘Burnside Quest.oned. Other witnesses were H. W. Burnside wh» was assistant cashier of th> banl who was asked to identify records bea ing on th= account of Mrs. Chambers, who, it had previoulsy been show: owed the bank approximately $140.000. 10 liquidate which approxinately $90,000 was obtained by selling collateral she had on hand at the bank. D. keeper at Riggs National, which took over the Farmers & Mechanics, was called to identify records, as was John J. Wilson, assistant United States ai torrey, who is aiding United States At- torney Leo A. Rover in the prosecution. HUNTING CREEK FILL T0 BE DONE BY JULY U. S. Engineer Says Dredge Has Reached Last Unit Crossing Water on Mount Vernon Project. Having finished its $1.000,000 hy- draulic pipe-line job on the new Mount Vernon Memorial Highvay, in pumping up sand and gravel from the boitom of the Potomac River to form a solid the United States Engineer Office 15 looking forward to completing supplemental work on Little Hunting Creek bv July and sending back the dredge Welatka to Jacksonville, Fla., in & few weeks. E. A. Schmitt, engineer in the United Btates Engineer Office, said today that work is now being done on the last unit in road fills across the water. All the regular work has been done on Hunting Creek, Four-Mile Run, Roaches Run, Gravelly Iniet and the basin in the vicinity of the Highway Bridge. By July 1 it is expected that work on Little Hunting Crees will be finished The dredge Welatka has been in the Washington area since October. 1629 and will leave during July for Florida to be returned to the engineering dis- trict of the War Department for work on which she is regularly engaged During the Summer it is expected, Mr, Schmitt said. that the dredge Tal- cott will return from the southern por tion of the Washington district an remove some of the deposi's at Little Hunting Creek and replace them in the basin there, putting the fina] touches on the roadway that spans that arm of water. GRANT’S BICENTENNIAL POST STILL VACANT Selection of & successor to Lieut. Col U. 8. Grant, 3d. as assoclate director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission has been postponed for two weeks. Lack of a quroum at sh Executive Committee meeting today at the office of Eenator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the commission. necessitated the del Senator Fess sald another meeting will be held June 8. Col. Grant’s successor will be asso- ciated with Representative Sol Bloom of New York in directing the affairs of the commission. C. Wisecarver, an assistant book- | ed Heard in Alley Back of | Connecticut Avenue. A student at a collgge here was | | sought for questioning today in connec- | tion with what police believe was a | shooting about 8 o'clock last night in an alley behind 3620 Connecticut ave- | nue, Several residents of the vicinity heard three shots, follcwed by & man’s | groans, and saw a youth sprint down i the alley with a revolver in his hand { just before he and several companions | jumped into a green roadster and sped away. Shortly afterward a girl, who would not tell her name, telephoned No. 14 precinct three times, saying she “knew | abcut” the shooting, but refused to re- veal information to any one except Lieut. H. R. Lohman. The girl hung up each time on learning the lleuten- ant was not at the precinct. Search Proves Futile. Police made a careful but futile search of the scene for possible blood, bullet holes or discharged shells. They | also searched the woods of the vicinity | to see if any one had disposed of a | body. | The officers obtained the license i number of the automobile and broad- | cast a lockout for it. It belonged to woman living in New York, who told | newspaper men by telephone last night that the car was being used by her | son, attending college here. | The woman refused to say what | school her son was attendin | supply his name. | Saw Six Men in Alley. | Paul Vogenitz, 3614 Connecticut ave- nue, t:1d Lieut. Lohman, when several | officers responded to an alarm from the neighborhood, that he drove his car into the alley about 15 minutes before | the shooting to park in his garage there. Vogenitz sald he found his way |blocked by two men in a light green roadster, and they were so reluctant to pull over he wrote down the license number of the car. Walking back [through the alley, Vogenitz sald he Inoticed the original pair had been joined by four other men, who were grouped about the car. When the shots rang out, all of the men hurriedly entered the car and drove west on Porter street. Others who heard the shots, groans 8nd workmen are now demolishing the |and sound of running feet were Bob,Potomac Electric Power Plant, betwe:n !Lyman of 3616 Connecticut avenue and Edward Dewey of 2026 Porter Streets street. Says She Saw Man. A woman who refused to reveal her name said that when she heard the shots she hastened to a window in time to see a youth run through the alley with a gun in his hand and jump into the automobile. Police were unable to Jearn if the automobile had been stolen from the student. Lieut. Lohman said he was making every effor: to get in touch with the young man. Detective T. M_ Bragg of headquar- ters was assigned to Investigate this morning. He wired New York police to interview the owner of the automobile, but has not heird from them. ANNULMENT. SUIT FILED Prenuptial Fraud Is Charged by John 8. Wessella. fraud, John | Charging & prenuptial S Wessella, 15 N street, filed suit in District Supreme Court today. asking annulment of his marriage to Verna V. Gray, which took place January 12, 926 Wessella said they separated May 24, {1926 and have not since lived together He declares his wife's precent where- abouts are unknown. Attorneys Hawken | & Havell appear for the husband | TO POLO PONY TRAFFIC ONLY | | Permission to Take Mounts Across Issued After They; Hinder Travel on Highway Span. l Arlington Memorial Bridge has been, that it was necessary to provide them i | opened to pony traffic, but not to any | other kind. it was learned today. The span, which still is under con- struction, is being used by polo ponies traveling between Fort Myer and the polo fleld in Potomac Park. | site | Nineteenth, Twentieth and C streets. ' NEW ARLINGTON BRIDGE OPEN It was decided to permit the animals | to use the bridge, according to First | Lieut. P. B. Butler, assistant director of public buildings and public parks, | becat use they were clutte: up traffic on Highway Bridge to an extent Clearing—Archives Ex- cavation to Begin. With plans virtually complete for the new Public Health Service Building, the | Treasury today advertised for bids, to|begin it. be opened June 16, for clearing the bounded by Constitution avenue, Two buildings on the northeast cor- | ner of the location, including the quar- | termaster garage used for housing the, White House automobiles, will be left | which is not to be used for the Publlcl Health Bervice structure itself. Later, the | make way for grounds. andscaping of Excavation Job Let. Another important step in the build- ing program here was taken today by the Treasury Department in letting a ! | contract to the Udelson Excavating & | Wrecking Co. of Cleveland, low bid for preliminary excavation of the sff | for the Archives Building on the old Center Market land. The old market has_entirely disappeared now and the | property is ready for the excavators, who are expected to begin work shortly. When the excavation is completed in about 60 days it is expected plans will | be sufficiently advenced to proceed with | the foundation contract and later on with the rest of the building. In the meantime, it is expected that ! the Hechinger Engineering Corporation | will start soon to wreck the site of the | Interstate Commerce Building, bounded by Constitution avenue, Twelfth, Thir- 8 or to teenth and C streets. Gontract for this | work was let Saturday. Hldings Soon Gone. Thus & clean sweep of all old build- | ings in the Pederal triangle along Con- | stitution avenue from Seventh to Fif- | tecnth streets will be accomplished soon | under work for which contracts have | already been let. : | The Center Market site from Seventh to Ninth streets is clear. The Justice Department site from Ninth to Tenth | is rapidly being cleared. The new In- | ternal squares Streets The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion site demolition will start soon be- tween Twelfth and Thirteenth strests The square between Thirteenth and | Thirteenth-and-a-half streets is already cleared for the Government Auditorium, | between Tenth and Twelfth | Thirteenth-and-a-half and Fourteenth | The new Commerce Depart- | ment Building, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets is being beautified by grading the lawn on the south. The| old board fense of the contractors has| been torn away and strzet contractors are at work on the business of widening | Constitution avenue in that area. | GARDEN CLUB TO HOLD | SECOND FLOWER EXHIBIT| Contest to Take Place Tomorrow and Wednesday at Mt. Tabor Church. The Burleith Garden Club- will 'hold | its second exhibition of Spring flowers tomortow and Wednesday at Mount Tabor Church, Thirty-fifth and Wis- consin avenue The show will be open tomorrow from | 7:30 to 9 pm., and on Wednesday from | 2to 9 o'clock. Entries will be received at the church tomorrow from 1:30 t, 4:30 o'clock. The exhibition is announced to be | “open to all” but all flowers must be grown by exhibitors The judges will be A. B, Carter, Wil- liam H. Gray and W. P. Reinohl The show is in charge of Mrs. Louls A. Dellwig, president of the club, and Mrs. Gertrude W. Moser, chairman of the Show Committee with & police escort Groups of ponies utilizing the new | span_must be under the supervision of an officer. They are transported at the risk of Army officlals, and the move- ments are restricted as to time, so that they will not interfere with construction | work on the ends of the bridge or onernlon‘nl m;:el \gn’“ span. ‘The paving of Lincoln Memori; the placing of 1arge blocks ap runre i the monumental entrances on ‘Washin, terminus of the bridge proper taken in the mear future, Revenue Building occuples the | H this year show a decrease of $80,488.8' over the same months in 1930, which in turn had shown an increase of $161,- 356.71 over the 1929 months. Arguing from this, h> said that if any change is to be made in the agree- ment, this is not an auspicious time to No complaint has been made, he said, that rates are unreasonable or discriminatory. He added that the consent agrrement is the only basis of regulating the company's rates; that there is nothing before the commission that would justify the present inquiry; that the proceedings amount to an a | standing until after the new building 13 | tempt to impeach the decree, and that | { completed, as this garage is on land | the decree is binding until reversed by a superior court. Mr. Bowen also contended that the | however, the garage will be razed to| proceedings sought to be undertaken amount to an attempt to inflict & wrong under the guise of regulation. Quotes Utility Act. People’s Counsel Keech pointed out that the act creating the Public Utilities [Commission, which authorizes the com- mission to set up sliding scales for rate regulation, expressly reserves to the commission the right and power to “make such other and further changes in rates, charges and regulations as the commission may asceriain, and deter- mine to be necessary and reasonable, | notwithstand.ng any such arrangement and mutual agreement.” Mr. Bowen contended that this power simply reserved to the commission the | right to set up the new rates from year to year as is now done under the | decree. He insisted that the commission, un- der the authority of the act, had en- tered into a contract with the com- | pany, on the company had parted with over $3,000,- 000 to consumers of electricity, and that the commission had no power to | escape from this contract. | Commissioner Harleigh H. Hartman asked Mr. Bow:n if there was not many decisions in the United States Supreme Court to the eflect that a legislature or municipality or commission exercis- ing legislative functions cannot bart'r away its rights under the general police power, which includes the power to regulate rates. Mr. Bowen and Mr. nearly half an hour. Motion Overruled. Shortly before the luncheon recess the commission overruled Mr. Bower’s mo- tion as far as it concerned dismissing the proceedings, but let his answer stand. Byers McK. Bachman, chief account- nt for the commission, was then called a witness and introduced a blueprint showing increases in gross revenues, net operating income and sales of electric- ity during the period beginning January 1, 1925, and ending March 31, 1931. In 1931, however, the figures for the first three months showed decreases in some cases under the corresponding figures for 1930. Gross revenues in January show a de- | cline from $955.000 to $952,000; in Feb- ruary, from $920,000 to $895.000; in March. an increase’ from $854,000 to | $892.000. Net operating income in Janu- ary shows a decrease from $487,000 to $468,000; in February, from $504,000 to $448,000, and in March an increase from $425,000 to $435,000. Argue Over Decree. i Another argument occurred over | Boven’s claim that the act of 1925, set- | ting up & new commission, made the | consent decree perpetual because of | section stating that the act shall not be | construed to invalidate any subpoena, | valuation or order issued by the com- | mission prior to the date on which the commissioners first appointed under the | new act take office. { Mr. Roberts and Mr. Keech both con- tended that this operated simply as a “saving clause” to prevent confusion through having to start law suits in which the commission was involved again in the names of the new com- missioners. If it had the effect that | Mr. Bowen claimed, they argued, then every act taken by the commission prev- fous to the passage of this act in 1925 would be “frozen, and incapable of later modification.” D. C. FISCAL PROBERS TO MEET HERE JUNE 9 Chairman Calls House Committee Studying Lump Sum Question for Report on Taxes. Representative Mapes, chairman of the Special House Committee studying tiecal relations between the Federal Covernment and the District of Colum- bia and what support from the Federal Treasu:v should be allowed by Congress to the Czpital City, has called a meeting of that committee here for Tuesday, June 9. George Lord, tax expert engaged by the Mapes committee to make certain comparative studies, has this work well in hand and expects to be able to report “some very interesting statistics” to the committee, he reports. He has compiled comparative statisties from large cities threughout the country, ength of which the | tman sparred on this question for | [STONE BLOCK INJURES Performing for the judgment of a board of Army Infantry officers, eight | ompanies, all of McKinley, had taken | the feld at half-hour intervals before | the luncheon recess. The drill was re- i sumed this afternoon by Company F of | Central, under Cadet Capt. Herbert A. Burkart. | Birthday for Professor. | Today's drills, which will continue through tomorrow afternoon, consti- | tute a birthday celebration for Lieut. | Col. Wallace M. Craigie, U. S. A., pro- | fessor of military science and tactics. Col. Craigie is directing the admini-' stration of the competitive drills, and he_will continue tomorrow. | The judges of the forty-fourth an- | nual competitive drills are Capt. Alex- | ander R. Bolling, First Lieut. James C. | White and Pirst Lieut. Thomas H. Allen, all of the Regular Army. | Late today the annual non-commis- | sioned officers’ competitive drill was to be held between the five sergeants who survived stiff elimination contests in | their respective schools. The winner of this drill will receive the Distin- {guishrd ~ Non-eémmissioned Officer's | Medal. The competing officers are First Sergt. Fiorelle P. Oddone of Com- pany E, Business High School: Sergt Carl H. Hennige of Company D, Cen- | tral High School; Sergt. Major W | Robb, Company E, McKinley High | School; Sergt. Lloyd T, Mockabee, | Company F, of Eastern fiigh School. |and Sergt. Stanley Van Brunt. The | medal will be presented with the other | awards In the ceremony tomorrow aft- | ernoon by Maj. Gen. Fred W. Sladen, | 3d Corps Area, U. 8.'A. | The companies which drilled this morning besides Company K and their respective schools and commanding officers were Company G, Capt. Charles S. Coakley; Company B, Capt. Frank | J. Murphy; Company C, Capt. Thomas P. Corwin; Company F. Capt. Richard Graham: Company D, Capt. Willlam R. | Dodge; Company E, Capt. Pelham Wal- {ton, and Company A, Capt. Henry M. | Chick, all of McKinley High School. Seven Drill This Afternoon. | | The compantes drilling this afternoon, | besides Company F, are Company E, Capt. Harold N. Groves; Company A. Capt. Thomas S. Hinkel: Company G. Capt. Thomas Berry; Company D, Capt. Perley G.” Nutting; Company B, Capt. Henry B. Stuffer, all of Central High School, and . Company E of Business | High School, Capt. Ralph Cole., The final exercises of the competitive {drill_will be broadcast by Radio Sta tion WOL at 4:45 o'clock tomorrow aft- ernoon. A description will be given of | the brigade review by Gen. Sladen and | the presentation of the prizes to the | | winning companies. This is the first | time that a radio broadcast of the drill has been attempted. EX-CONVICT I:IELD HERE ON HOTEL BILL CHARGE | i | Accused of Failing to Pay in Capi- tal—Wanted in Baltimore in Similar Case. Leonard Imboden, alias Walker Hull, 66, was in jail here today charged with failing to pay a bill at the Arlington Hotel. Imboden, also wanted in Baltimore for not paying a bill at the Lord Balti- | more Hotel, was arrested here Saturday for investigation. He had been released by police Wednesdzy on $1,000 bohd on a bad check charge. Information from the warden of the State prison at Canon City, Colo., said | Imboden was convicted in Denver for | a bank swindle and sentenced to from 9 to 10 years there. The prisoner, who 15 said to be a former resident of Texas, gave his address as University, Va., when arrested by Washington police. MASON ON CATHEDRAL A stonemason working 90 feet above ground on the Washington Cathedral narrowly escaped death today when a large block of white Indiana limestone was lowered on him. | The man, C. Finnacorn, Mount | Rainier, Md., was taken to Emergency | Hospital in & police car. An examina- tion disclosed that his ankle was broken. PADLOCK IS GRANTED . ON SEVENTH ST. HOUSE Justice Jennings Balley today granted & temporary “padlock” injuncticn against the premisss at 222 Seventh street southeast, sald to be occupied as a cafe and saloon and to have be- come a nuisance under the national prohibiticn act. The injunction was directed against Harry Talbott, Mary A. Thompson, Ethel Herndon, Samuel A. Robinette, Marie Robinette, Bettle Harris and John Byroads as tenants and against Ella F. Rock as ocwner of the property. ‘The petition for the padlock was filed by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt. | |any cause funds and ‘Top: Company A of the McKinley High School regiment is shown beirg inspected by Low judges at Griffith Stadium today. : It was not all work for the boys in blue, for they had their fair rooters along t> cheer them up. Left to right: Miss Louis Hege of Central High School and Miss Ethel Potts of Business High School were among the many spectators at the stadium during the annual drill. ANSWER OF RHEEM ‘SCHAFER T0 PUSH | DENIES INSOLVENCY | —Star Staff Photos. GAVBLING AT Individual Bankruptcy ClaimlRepresentative Says He Will by Women Is Protested. Jury Trial Asked. Edmund D. Rheem, executive vice president of the bankrupt investment Use Every Weapon Federal Employes Practice. “I'm going through with my purpose to stop gambling in Government offices,” | firm of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., sald Representative John C. Schafer, filed an answer in District Supreme Republican, | Court today to the involuntary peti- | plaining his first-move in suggesting to |tion in bankruptey filed sgainst him | Walter H. Newton, | individually February 10 by two women | President, that the administrative offi- holding notes of the firm. of Wisconsin, today, ex- secretary to the | cers warn all employes that they will | precinct, Martz is said to have confessed the shooting, declaring: “I don't know why I did it.” |, Martz, according to the detectives, was intoxicated when he swaggered into the | pool room, operated by Zirkle's brother, Ben, in the 900 block of Nir.th strect. Weaving with uncertain steps to & | radiator 2gainst which Vernon Hawks, | 28, was leaning, Martz is said to have {slapped him. Then, according to wit- | nesses, Martz drew a revolver and fired. Meanwhile Zirkle is said to have stepped between the two in an effort to prevent any fighting. The bullet tore through Zirkle's body and struck Milton Knight, who was standing nearby. As Zirkle fell, another brother, Melvin, scized Martz, but not until after the youth had discarded his pistol and ran outside, where he is said to have smashed a pint bottle of gin. Life Fight Futile. Irving Zirkle was taken to the hos- pital, where friends offered to supply blood for transfusions in the hope life could be saved. Nevertheless he died a few hours . Knight, who suffered only a slight wound, did not 80 to the hospital. Martz was taken to the first precinct, { where he was questioned by Mostyn, Mansfield and Sergt. H. W. Lineburg. When_he sobered he nervously paced his c2ll, seemingly appalled at the seri- ousness of his predicament. The assertion that the shooting was accidental was made by Martz's attor- ney, O. W. H. Hughes. Martz, accord- inz to the lawyer, was handing the weapon to Harry Burch, who had ac- companied him to the pool room, when it was accidentally discharged. Both Burch and Hawks were arrested in connection with the shooting, but the latter was released after being ques- tion at the first precinct. Hawks Just Released. Only a short time before the shooting Hawks had been liberated after ques- tioning in connection with the shooting | of Burt Smith, who was wounded in a Twelfth street speakeasy Saturday a week ago. Although Smith declared he had accidentally shot himself police regarded this explanation with consid- erable skepticism. Burch, who is 27, is being held at the first precinct, where he is booked for “investigation.” Police believe he may be able to shed additional light on | Martz’s activities. Three other men | who were arrested in connection with i i | | I Rheem denied that the petitioners be dismissed unless they discontinue | the case have been released. are creditors or have provable claims ! thejr gambling in office hours. | against him. He said he has committed no act of bankruptcy, and asserted he should not be declared bankrupt for alleged in Attorneys the former vice ‘Through and Graham, asked for a jury trial of the issues raised by his answer before any action declaring him individually bankrupt be taken by the court. ‘The complaining creditors are repre- sented by Attorney E. Hilton Jackson, who recently obtained an order from ‘Tobriner | Justice Jesse C. Adkins overruling a motion of Rheem's counsel to dismiss the bankruptcy proceeding. The court | House to prevent this wholesale, preva- | directed that Rheem answer the petition. SUICIDE IN JAIL CELL DUE FOR TWO PROBES Inquest Ordered for Tomorrow and Police Trial Board Quiz Ex- pected in Case. An inguest into the death of Joseph A. Welch, 32 years old, of 1111 Park place, who hanged himself in a cell at a police station Saturday night, will be held in the District Morgue at 11:30 am. tomorrow. The Police Trial Board also is ex- pected to make an investigation.of the suicide, which is sald to have resulted from the failure of & policeman to re- move Welch’s belt. Regulations call for the removal of belts and neckties when prisoners are searched before being locked In cells, it is pointed out. Welch, who was arrested on a drunk- enness charge, is said to have threat- ened to kill himself on several oc- casions. FATHER, R e president | | | | “Every one knows that this evil is going on; the officials cannot deny it. the petition. | 1f it is not stopped by those in charge of the executive departments by the time Congress meets it will be my duty to get corrective action through the| Commtitee on Expenditures, of which I am a member. I will use every weapon at my command to win this fig! “I am not doing this as a crusade,” | emphasized Mr. Schafer, “but as my | duty on the Auditing Committee of the lent gambling on Government time by those who are paid good salaries. They are impeding Government business by using the Government telephones and lhe){‘ cannot have their minds on their work. “If they care to throw their money away on the stock market, in base bail pools, to bookmakers on horse races, or any other kind of lotteries, outside of office hours, I will not make it any of my business. If they want to do that they had better resign from the Govern- ment pay roll and then they will have a full day to devote to such pastimes.” Representative Schafer today receiv- ed further detailed information regard- ing the spread and scope of “gambling” in the Government offices and said that he will have all this information checked. He also received anonymous letters asking him to enlarge the scope of his study and to prevent “stock mar- ket gambling” by Government employes. Kicked by Horse, Leg Broken. Kicked by his horse when the animal became frightened yesterday, Richard Henson, col , of 339 G street southwest, taken to Emergency Hospital with a broken leg. POLICE OFFICER, RELENTS ON SEEING SON AND PALS IN CELL Lieut. Grove Takes Runaway Quartet to Niagara Falls After Their Arrest for Taking His Car. Having journeyed all the way to Buf- falo, N. Y., to round up his runaway son and three youthful companions, Lieut, McGill' Grove of the fourteenth police precinct was back home today. Lieut. Grove's son Earl, 18 years old, left his home at 1425 Thirty-third street last week ing Buffaloyyoung Grove ran short of wited his father. The father - car.’ On_reach- | ard replied with a wire to police requesting the arrest of the quartet. The police officer then went to Buf- falo. On seeing the boys in a cell he melted, obtal release and took 1t-seel p to Niagara original destMgtion. He them home. ve's R!cg- Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt will hold an | inquest into Zirkle's death tomorrow | morning. The only link between the Zirkle slay- ing and the Cunningham murder, it is said, is the fact the revolver with which Smith was wounded was turned over to first precinct police by Cunningham a short time before the infornmer was shot, 1 2nd the bullet which felled Zirkle is be- lieved to have been intended for Hawks. Police are making an effort to clear up mts ‘phas of the Zitkie shooting before 2. inquest. THREE GRILLED AT INQUEST. Companions of Cunningham Tell of Events on Night of Shooting. ‘Three men who were with Jack Cun- ningham on the night he was murdered | were grilled before a coroner's jury this | afternoon in an effort to trace the movements of the slain police informer | Just before he fell before a fusillade fired from an automobile. How Cunningham had spent the early part of last Monday night, having “a few drinks” with 8 or 10 men in an apartment in the 1200 block of H street northwest, was related to the jury by George W. Mattingly, chauffeur, of the 500 block of Sixth street; Edward S. Tipton of the 600 block of F street northeast, who also occupies the Twelfth | street apartment, and Joseph Harvey, a salesman, of 917 Twelfth street. Mattingly said Cunningham left the apartment twice during the evening to 80 to No. 1 precinct—once about 10 o'clock and the last time around mid- night. Mattingly said Cunningham had had a few drinks, but was not drunk. He explained Cunningham had a gun, which the police wanted, that had been involved in the accidental shoot- ing of Burt Smith in a speakeasy of the 900 block of Twelfth street a week ago. Mattingly said Cunningham first went to the precinct accompanied by Tipton to deliver the gun and later re- turned with a man whom he knew only as Ballard. o The inquest was adjourned after 14 | witnesses had been heard until 11 o'clock tomorrow morning by Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rodgers. The wrdow of the slain man, Mrs. Helen Cunning- ham, wore a long veil when she took the stand to recite the circumstances of her husband’s death in a low voice. Both she and Mattingly said they asked Cumningham who shot him, and that he refused to tell. Injured Thumb Amputated. % Surgeons at Casualty Hospital ampue tated the left thumb of Harry 3 21 years old, of 1403 F street. n¢ yesterday after it was t in an amusement devise at Sul , | dens. colored park, on northeast.