Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1931, Page 17

WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, CROSBY SAYS WAR ON GAMBLING HERE WL BE CONTIUED Commissioner Declares No Let-up in Drive on Resorts Is Contemplated. NEW LEGISLATION MAY BE | SOUGHT TO AID CLEAN-UP Speakeasies and Suspected Houses Are Virtually Deserted During Holiday, Raiders Report. B & Stafl Correspondent of The Biar. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., May 30— Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, District Commissioner in charge of the Police Department, announced today that as long as he has ansthing to do with police activities in Washington, there would be no let-up in the present cru- sade against speakeasies and gambling houses. Here at this seaside resort on a three- day cruise with the Washington Board of Trade, Commissioner Crosby indi- cated his concern over the gambling and liquor situation in Washington, and deciared that every weapon at the command of the police would be used to stamp it out. New Laws Planned. Gen. Crosby also revealed that Dis- trict officials already have begun con- sideration of plans {0 get legisiation at the next session of Congress to give the police easier access to places where it is believed the gambling and liquor laws ave being violated. The advice of Cor- poration Counsel William W. Bride, he said. has been sought. The present practice of raiding the gambling and liguor _establishments without warrants, Commissioner Cros- by said, had been discussed with United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, but he did not discloss the outcome of the con- ferences. At any rate, he pointed out. the raids are still going on, and there is consternation in the ranks of the gamblers and bootleggers. Gen. Crosby declared that Maj Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of po- lice, is handling the gambling and! liquor situation to his satisfaction. He New Memorials Adorn Potomac Banks NAVY AND MARINE AMONG FOUR NEW pointed out that it was not his policy to interfere with the details of police administration, and confined his super- vision of the department strictly to matters relating to policies. Will Visit Williamsburg. The Board of Trade cruising party | sbo-rd the 8. S. Southland, arrived at | N-rfolk todav. and after an entertain- ment aboard the U. S. S. Arizona at | the navy went, to Ocean View Im'} & dip in the sw? and then came to Virginia Beech. The closing event of | the dav was & moonlight trip on Chesa- | peake Bey on the S. §. Southland. The steamer will take the party to Jame<town Island tomorrow morning and from there the members will go ta historic Willlamsburg to view the restoration work undertaken there with Rockefeller funds. A stop also Wwill be made at Yorktown. The schedule then calls for another moonlight cruise on the bay before the return to Wash- ington, where the Southland will dock Monday morning. Gambling Houses Deserted. Washington's _ suspected gambling houses and speakeasies, were deserted vesterday, according to the four head- quarters detectives who have terrorized these places in the past week. The four officers, Detectives Howard Ogle, Larry O'Dea, Oscar Mansfield and Arthur Pihelly, made a tour of inspec- tion of the places they raided, and some others that are on their list for in- vestigation, but found no signs of ac- tivity. Whether the establishments had | closed for the holiday. or merely shut up as & precaution, the detectives did not know. They are inclined to think. | however. that the proprietors knew that | police don't stop work on a holiday. SILVER SPRING HIGH | PLANS GRADUATION Commencement Exercises at School | June 9—American University Dean to Speak. ®oecial Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING. Md. May 30— Walter Marshall William Splawn, dean of American University, will deliver the address to the graduates of the Ta- koma-Silver Spring High School at the commencement exercises which will take place June 9 at 8 p.m. The program will include the salu- tatory by Miss Doris Buddecke, the vale- dictory by Miss Louise Beall, the pres- entation of dipiomas by Dr. George L. Edmonds of ‘Rockville, member of the county Board of Education, and the rendering of several songs by the sen- lor class. ‘The baccalaureate sermon will be preached June 7 by Rev. William R. Moody, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, Woodside, at 11 a.m. On Tues- day the graduates. of which there are 54, will have their annual outing at Beverly Beach. The senior prom will take place on the following night at the school, with class night sceduled for Thursday. Approximately 100 members of the junjor high school will receive their diplomas on the morning of June 10. DELAY ASKED IN CLOSING OF RIVERDALE STATION| Town Mayor Offers to Work Out Co-operation Plan Next Fall. Bpecial Dispatch to The 8¢ RIVERDALE, Md., May 30.—Mayor Max Vollberg has requested the Balti- mare & Ohio Railroad to defer action in reference to the local agency until the Fall, when the matter will be gone into tharou.{:hly in an effort to co- operate with the company. At a recent conference with officials at which Mayor Vollberg represented the people of the town he asked that no change be made in the present sys- tem here. However, it was pointed out by B. & O. officials that, in the interest of economy, some change would ulti- mately have to be undertaken. The original plan was to have closed the agency April 20, but this action by the company was postponed following a uest from the town for a hearing @m: the Public Service Commiasion, hieh was also postponed. F FEATURES OF PARK SYSTEM. Upper left: Marble urn presented to President Coolidge by President Machado of Cuba. Upper right: The Ericsson Memorial. OUR new memorials. representing widely divergent men and events have a place along tne banks of the Pot-mac River. as #n inter- esting feature of the park system of the National Capital. The newest of these, the Navy and Marine Memorial. is under construction on the south end of Coiumbia Island Plans for the foundation hive recently been approved by the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks and the contractor s now at work preparing the pedestal for the unusual monu- ment which will feature gulls in fiight, on the crest of a wave. The Navy and Marine Memorial will be dedicated to thcse that lost their lives afloat. Secretary Adams, as honorary chairman of the sponsoring organizaticn, turned tne first sod in th: construction cf the memorial sev- eral months ago. The Fine Arts Com- mission hos approved tne design of the monument and the construction pro- gram will go forward during the Sum- mer and Fall. A date for unveiling this memorial has not yet been set. Rear Admiral Frank B. Upham. chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Nivy De- partment. recently issued an appeal to the servie» to contrioute voluntarily funds for c:nstruction of tne memorial The a-sociation lackea about $18.000 Lower left: The Titanic Memorial. Lower right: The Navy and Marine Memoria —Underwood and Harris-Ewing Photos. toward completion when the appeal was issued and naval cfficials said ves- terday that ships ana suore stations have been contributing w the sugcess cf the enterprise. No figures Tepr sentative of the request ior contribu- tions from the naval service were available at the Navy Department, Admiral Upham explaining that he de- sired the response to be entirely volun- tary. The money is being forwarded by ‘the various commanding officers to | William Fellows Morgan, executive | secretary of the Navy and Marine | Memorial Association in New York. | A companion monument to the Navy and Marine Memorial is that erected | in honor of the brave men who gave | ' their lives in the sinking of the liner | | Titanic on April 15, 1912 This is con- | structed in the Rock Creek and Poto- | mac Parkway, at the foot of New | Hampshire avenue, and was unveiled by Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft during the last week at a ceremony attended | by President and Mrs. Hoover and other | dignitaries. This was erected by the | Women's Titanic Memorial Association | and authorized in a public Tesolution approved March 29, 1918. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney of New York is the sculptor of this memorial, depicting a man with arms extended, typifying the Spirit of Sacrifice. The memorial in honor of John BULLET-RIDDLED CAR PROBE OF MYSTERY “SHOOTING"| IS FOUND ABANDONED REVEALS FRATERNAL INITIATION| Man Renting Garage Dilcoven}-pistol" Turns Out to Bc Auto Pierced by Shots and With Windows Shattered. A bullet-riddied automobile was found yesterday in a supposedly empty garage in the rear of 3905 Morrison street. The discovery was made by a man who rented the garage from lts owner and went there to park his car. . He notified fourteenth precinct police. who took possession of the machine and began an investigation. The automobile bears 1920 Maryland license plates. ~There is a bullet hole in the top and both back-seat windows are shattered. Residents of the neighborhood told police two colored men drove the car into the garage about a month ago. The neighbors thought nothing of it, they said, because they assumed the man had rented the garage. When they did not see the machine again, they added, they concluded the garage still was unoccupied and that the strangers had been sent there by its owner. Police believe the automobile may have been used by bootleggers. FLOWER SHOW SET Barcroft Garden Club Will Hold First Annual Exhibit. Special Dispateh to The Star. BARCROFT, Va.. May 30.—The Bar- croft Garden Club will hold its first an- nual flower show at the community house June 2 and 3. There will be classes for peonies, iris. roses, larkspur, garden flowers artistically arranged and baskets of wild flowers. * Three awards are to be given: besides the bulbs, roots and other prizes. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Hike, Wanderluster Club, meet termi- nus Soldiers’ Home car line, 2:45 p.m. Meeting, Upsilcn Lambda Phi Frater- nity. Hamilton Hotel, 4 p.m. FUTURE. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi, Univer- sity Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Meeting, Orient Commandery, No. 5, K. T. Temple, Fourth street and Penn- sylvania avenue wulhmt.bwmonow. ¢ pm. . Ericsson, the inventor, is located down- stream from the Arlington Memorial Bridge. It is the work of the York sculptor. James E. Fraser, is legorical group in the background. vis- ualizing the arts and sciences in which Ericsson was proficient during his ca- reer. and $25,000 was received in private do- nations. Ericsson is best known as the inventor of the monitor. One of Washington's little known memorials is that known as the Cuban Friendship. located in the rose garden in West Potomac Park and taking the | form of a giant urn. Congress acccept- ed it by public resolution, approved May 22, 1928. It was presented as & gift to President Coolidge from Presi- dent Machado of Cuba. The urn was made from a fragment of oné of the columns of the monument to the U. & S. Maine in Havana, Cuba. It is of marble, weighing seven tons, and was set in the rose garden about December | 15, 1928 Friendship. disaster. inventive genius, | heroism and hunger—these are sirange- Iy intermingled in the quartet of me- [ morials that grace the vellow Potomac from Georgetown to the railroad bridge, and they depict man in his various moods, sacrifice, cordiality, fearlessness and study. Elcctric Light i Bulb and Fleeing “Gunmen™ ‘The mysterious “shooting” in the rear of the 3600 block of Connecticut avenue last Sundav night was nothing more | than an initiation ceremony conducted by members of a collegiate fraternity, it was learned last night. | And the supposed revolver shots | which sent residents of the section to their telephones to notify fourteenth | precinct police were only a few electric | light bulbs exploding, it was said at the police station. As for the screams which caused the terrified residents to conclude that another murder had been committed— they were emitted by the college stu- dent being initiated into the fraternity, who thought he had been shot when one of the bulbs struck his abdomen, police said. Sent Out Alone. The victim of the taken to an alley in the rear of the| 3600 block of Connecticut avenue and | told to march through it alone, accord: | ing_to police. He bad about reached the half-way | mark, police related, when the bulbs were thrown. The nolse that they made when they struck the concrete brought occupants of nearby houses | ! and apartments to their windows to see | “what the shooting was about.” They heard the new fraternity broth- er yell and saw him ryn down the alley. Further up. six men leaped into an au- tomobile, which disappeared around # corner. A bulb gleamed in the hand | of one of the group, and a woman, gaz- |ing from the window of her home, de- ‘rldfid that it was a pistol and telephoned police. Another resident of the neighborhood | Jotted down the license number of the car and turned it over to police. In- name of a New York Woman, Jumped to Wrong Conclusion. Interviewed by a reporter for & Gotham newspaper, the woman is said to have explained that the machine was being used by her son, who is & student at a college here. She refused to disclose the young man's full name tending, however. Searching the alley for bullet holes, discharged shells and other evidences | of shooting. police found only the rem- nants of the bulbs. finally succeeded in locating They vestigation revealed it. was listed in the | |or the name of the college he is at- Just Coll ege Boys. | one witness who knew that the “shoot- |ing” was only an initiagion ceremony, however. Although he was unable to | disclose the name of the students in- olved, he convinced police that other | the wrong conclusion. STORE OWNE.R ROBBED BY TWO ARMED BANDITS Leon Baumer Describes Visitors ‘Who Forced Him to Back in Room and Took $35. ‘Two men who forced him into the back room of his store at 1452 D “shooting” was | street northeast last night robbed Leon Baumer of $35, he reported to police. The storeowner sald both men were rmed with pistels. ‘The store was empty of customers at the time, Baumer said, and Mrs. Baumer had just Jeft for a few minutes, leaving him alone in ‘the establishment. The pair left in a buff-colored roadster. Baumer told police he could identify old. of light bulld and dark complex- ioned. HOPE TO SAVE EYE Georgetown Hospital Attaches Say Injured Girl Improving. Six-year-old Sarah E. Aiken, 5147 Conduit road, who caught a fish hook in her eye as she played near her home ‘Thursday, was resting comfortably in Georgetown Hospital last night after an operation which physicians hoped will save the eye sight. Although the barbed hook tore the eye ball, hospitel attaches were con. fident the operation will keep her sight intact, although they will not know definitely for some days whether it was completely successful. At firsy | they fearéd Sarah would be blind in the damaged optic. Sarah is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Alken, * New | and | deplcts the inventor sitting with an al- Congress gave $35.000 for this| | residents of the section had jumped to | the men. who were both about 25 years | PRVATETERESS PROPLSEERECTN O BUS TERMINA Project Awaits Commission’s Plans for Regulating Lines En’tering City. STEPS TAKEN TO ACQUIRE OPTION ON SUITABLE SITE Problem of Control Will Come Up at Public Hearing Sched- uled This Week. A union motor bus terminal. long advocated for Washington, will be erected by private interests as soon as the Public Utilities Commission definite- Iy announces its plans for regulating the 21 interstate bus lines operating in and out of Washington. This assurance has been given cffi- clals concerned with the interstate bus transportation problem, it was learned yesterday at the District Bullding. In fact, sieps already have been taken, it was said, to get an option cn a suit- able site, where the terminal will be built. if the bus operators agree to use it. The location sought for the proposed terminal has not been revealed, but| District cfficials believe the site desired is near the business section and in close proximity to Washington's lead- ing hotels. Neither have the interests planning to finance the project bezn | disclosed, and the only inkling fl\‘en' District officials is that the money will come from New York. There have been persistent rumors however, that the Pennsylvania Rail- | road was interested in the unicn bus; terminal idea, but these have been met | with equally persistent denials. These | | reporta were to the effect that the rail- | road was the mysterious purchaser of | the valuable property on the northeast ! | corner of Thirteenth street and Penn- | sylvania avenue. | i Other Sites Mentioned. TFour other sites also have bee: tioned as the probable locati'n proposed terminal. These are i the vicinity of Thirteenth and H sireris,| | Eleventh street and New York avenue. Tenth and E streets and Tenth and, G streets. Whatever the outcome of the nego- tiations for the erection of a terminal might be, the Utilities Commission is | contemplating drastic acticn to banish | the score of sidewalk terminals scat tered throughout the business area and keep the big Interstate busses out of | the congested zone. The plans of the ! commission will be unfolded this week | { at public hearings it has called to con- | sider the problem of interstate bus: regulation and ctntrol. Operators of the 21 interstate lines| and the seven interurban lines have! been requested fo attend these hear- | ings, at which. it is believed. the steps| actually taken toward the construction of a union bus terminal may be out- lined in detail. H At these hearings all phases of lht’ bus operations from the standpoint of traffic interference, will be discussed ! and consideration will be given to a proposal of the commission that the interstate busses be prohibited from| entering the area bounded by Seventh! | street on the east, Seventeenth street; on the west. Constitution avenue on the | south and K street on the north. Drastic. Step Held Unlikely. The commission, under the new traf- fic act which becomes effective July 1. believes it has authority to keep the busses out of this area by regulating their routes through the District. Such | drastic steps likelv would not be taken, however, should the bus operators give the commission definite assurance that | a terminal would be built where pass-: engers would be loaded and unloaded | ! off the streets. In this event. it was| said. the commission might allow the, busses to run through the congested | section over a prescribed route, should the terminal be located in this area. The commission, it is indicated. will be more lenient with the interurban bus lines, realizing that the busses in this service are accommodating resi- dents of nearby Maryland and Virginia who work in Washington and whose places of employment are largely in the so-called congested rzone. In the case of the interstate busses, however, it was pointed out, there is no actual necessity for them to run through the business section, as the passengers they bring to Washington go in far-flung di- rections after their arrival and the point of debarkation is not important to_them. Richmond B. Keech, people's counsel before the commission, who has urged | stricter regulation and control of the interstate busses and the establishment of & union terminal ever since he took office, will take an active part in the bus hearings. He plans to show the hazards and the jams caused bv oper- ation of the big busses in the congested | zone, and the amount of parking space utilized by the big vehicles while berth- ed in Washington for a lay-over period. “Congestion within the downtown area,” Keech declared, “renders it es- sential that those in authority exert all of their facilities to render the highways and streets of the District of Columbia more passable by remov- S pede progress, zee that c streets, more particularly those within the strictly business district, are re- lieved of all cumbersome vehicles, both in movement and at rest, which must not, of necessity. make use of them. Most notable among these are busses used in the transportation of persons from one jurisdiction to another. Mecca for Interstate Busses. “Washington has become a mecca for | interstate busses. Operators of these busses have. through their desire to | compete more keenly with the steam iand electric railways, endeavored to route their vehicles so as to pass through the heart of the downtown section, making calls at the principal hotels and ultimately reaching a fixed point designated as a_depot. “Apart’ from the effect generally of these busses upon the safety and facil- ity of travel within the congested area, the merchants of the business area, in- directly at least, suffer a loss of rev- enue due to the fact that many ‘would men- of the | ing of these vehicles within the con- area and their circulation in , the business area may be relleved of the large busses engaged in interstate commerce and that the operators of them will, within a short time, see the necessity of establishing a bus terminal. thus permitting the streets of the District of Columbia to revert to the use for which they- are intended.” A The Sundiy Stat SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1931, ‘x Just Before “Anchors Aweigh” AS BOARD OF TRADE BEGAN THREE-DAY POTOMAC CRI George W. Offutt (left), president of the Washington Board of Trade, with Capt. William A. Geohegan and Mrs. .ruise down the Potomac to Virginia Beach Friday. Offutt, as the trade body began its —Star Staff Photo, Public Asked to Aid Second Tentative List of Sea Heroes Given and Corrections or Additions Are Invited for Memorial. § the District of Columbia World | War Memorial is under con- struction in West Potomac Park, | with prospects of dedication | next Armistice day. the special | committes which is compiling the list of the dead to be engraved on the memorial made public last night its second tentative list of nar s of those who died during the World War while erving in the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. The commiittee, headed by Mal. Gist Blair, previously had made public the list of names from the War Depari- ment list and has been receiving many helpful suggestions from the public. Considered Tentative. The list below is considered as a ten- tative list only. It is published by the committee with a view to discovering through its perusal by the public wheth- er there are any corrections, additions or omissions which should be made The committee asks the co-operation of the public and announces that persons having suggestions to make submit them to Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, secre- tary of the committee, National Guard Armory, Sixth streel and Pennsylvania avepue. All suggestions will be inves- tigated by the committee, which hopes to compile a complete and correct list before the names are finally placed on the memorial. The period fixed by the committee in selecting the following names from the Navy and Marine Cotps lists is that of actual participation by the Unifed States in the World War, from April 6, | 1917, to November 11, 1918. The com- mittee authorized to prepare the lists of nemes for the memorial includes Maj. Blair, cheirman: Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan. Dr. B. C. MacNell. Frederick H. Brooke. architect and associate mem- ber. and Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, secre- tary. Appreciates Help. ‘The committee, said Maj. Blair, “takes this occasion to publicly thank | those who have written to them as to names published or omitted from the | War Department list which was pub- lished in The Sunday Star on May 17. Those writing in have done much to help the committee to ascertain the names of those who should be honored. All citizens of Washington and others interested are urged to unite in assist- ing the committee to find the names of others of the deserving dead who, be- cause of their supreme sacrifice for our | country, should have their names carved in this lasting memorial to Dis- trict of Columbia citizens.” | The tentative list from the Navy and Marine Corps is as follows: Navy. John Thomas Banks. Morris Robert Barsock. Benjamin Baylor. Wilber H. Boteler. Elmer Prancis_Boyd. John Francis X. R. Brennan. Charles Joseph Brewer. Harold Flournoy Brooks. Charles La Ray Brown. Edward Joseph Brown. ‘William Luck Chinn, John Cole. John Crilly, jr. JAIO}I‘I;I‘I Elliott g;vl& George Egerton. Foster Cabert Felton. Franklin Edward Fletcher. Raymond Lydane Gordon. Robert Ridgley Griffith. John Randolph Harman. Bertha Ryan Hayes. Enrique Hernandez. Maron Lester Hodgson. Frank Willard Hollow James William Hurle, James Lewin G. King. Maurice James Hutton. Hubert Alfred Johnson. George Emmett Killeen, Joseph Gabriel McDonald. John Allen R. McFadden. Lemuel B. Miller, jr, Samuel Miller, jr. Edward Scott Morgan, jr. Evans Elloitt Murray. Helen Orchard. John Manly Pickrell. Blanche Eleanor Pierce. Willlam Aubrey Reed. ‘Willlam Hedrick Ritenour. Paul Bartley Schwegler. Valentine Sellers. Willlam Patrick Slattery. FPrancis Marion Smith. Louis Lulu May Thrift. Russell D. Tibbitts. Benjamin Warner. Edwin Earl Wilkerson. Survain Austin Williams. John Boyd Wolverton. Marine Corps. John Irving Burns. g:r;ry Eugene Chandler. illiam rey Dillon, James Rawlings Jones. James Keeley. Ernest Smith. Allen M. Sumner. Henry Peirce Torrey. Charles Ashby Towson. Coast Guard. Maurice James Hutton. Paul Bartley Schwegler. William Patrick Slatrery. Const Guardsmen Were listed as serv- in; with the Navy, during the war. JAPAN FELT 0UT ON SILVER PARLEY American Interest Reflected in‘"Communication by State Department. American interest in an early interna- tional conference on silver as a possi- ble means to ald business recovery was reflected yesterday in a disclosure that the State Department has sounded out Japan to see if the Tokio government intended to take the initiative in calling such a parley. While the reply indi- cated divided sentiment on the point in the Japanese government. Washington continues to look to that quarter for | leadership in view of word that any action by China was not to be expected before Fall. The correspondence with Japanese officials was said to have been carried on through William R. Castle, ir., the Undersecretary of State, who was tem- porary United States Ambassador to Japan during the London Naval Confer- ence last year. It is understood that the Japanese secretary of the treasury is among_those favorable to an imme- diate conference, but that his influence is counterbalanced by doubts of others in_the Japanese government. In the absence of any announcement on the point by the State Department. the incident was regarded as suggest- ing that the United States Government hoped Japan would summon the confer- ence. The Washington administration itself is reluctant to take the lead, even though requested by the Senate, partly | for f:ar of leaving itself open to sup- | plemental proposals by European gov- ernments for the reopening of the’ques- tion of war debts and reparations. |INVESTIGATION ORDERED IN MAIMING OF HORSE Winchester Grand Jury to Probe Alleged Hacking of Animal With an Ax. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., May 30.—The grand jury investigation of the alleged maiming of a horse by Lester Shillin- burg of Powells Fort, Shenandoah County, is to be made h Monday, it was said by court officials today, fol- lowing the arrest of Shillinburg by deputies. Shillinburg, employed by G. N. Funk in sawing a tract of timber near Marl- boro, Frederick County, became infuri- ated,’it was charged, when a horse did not work to suit him and he seized a sharp ax and struck the animal a and gashes on its body. It was said he fled from the scene and was captured by officers at his mountain home and taken to jail at Woodstock. Maiming an animal is a felony in Virginia, pun- ishable by a prison term. RAT BITES KILL BABY Dies in Hospital Ten Days After Attack in Crib. c.Pohol'lh‘l‘ from rat bites inflicted 10 ys old infant of Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder of 3613 O street, who died Priday at the town University Hospital. The infant, then 17 days old, was taken to the hospital for treatment after a viclous rat jumped into his improvised box crib and completely chewed off the infant's nose before its eries awakened Mrs. Snyder, sleeping nearby. Coroner Nevitt issued s ecertificate of accidental death. Y nunl;:er of blows, inflicting long cuts ! PAGE B—1 HOFFMAN AND SHE TRIED TO END LIVES, SAYS HRS. WILSON Drank Poison Night Before She Shot Him, Police Officer Asserts. STAGED DRINKING PARTY DURING WIFE’S ABSENCE Changes Story, Admitting Treat- ment at Hospital Under Name of “Sarah Young." Mrs. Tillie Wilson, 23, and Leonard Hoffman, 25, also married, attempted to end their lives by swallowing poison the -night before she shot him with a policeman’s revolver in a field near Rhode Island avenue and Fourteenth street northeast, she declared yesterday. The statement was made to Sergt. B. H. Jones, who questioned Mrs. Wil- son, the mother of a year-old son, at the House of Detention, where she has been held since the shooting, which occurred shortly after 4 o'clock Priday morning. Hoffma, still is in a serious condition ergency Hospital. ad-+ mitted that Mrs. Wilson attempted suicide, but denied having swallowed any of the poison himself, according to_the detective. Mrs. Wilson said that she visited Hoffman's apartment at 1321 Belmont street Thursday afternoon, while his wife, who is sald to be a telephone operator, was at work. Says Hoffman Proposed Suicide. After she and Hoffman. the father of a 3-vear.old son. had consumed two pints of whisky, Mrs. Wilson related, Hoffman went into the bath room. and returned a few moments later with a | bottle of medicant. Telling her thatehe loved her and pointing out that, s.%e they were mar- ried. they could never be happy to- gether, Hoffman, according to Mrs. Wilson, proposed that they kil them- selves. Hoffman proffered her the bottle of poison, Mrs. Wilson said. and she swal- lowed some of it. She handed it back o him, she added, and he also drank a quantity of it. Alarmed, Mrs. Wilon called the telephone operator on duty in the apart- ment house, she went on, and asked her to summon an ambulance. Discrepancy in Story. At this point in Mrs. Wilson's story, an unexplained discrepancy appeared. She said that the poison failed to make her or Hoffman ill, and that they finally decided to go for a ride in h | automobile. ~ Before leaving the apart- ment house, she added. sne informed the telephone operator that the request for an ambulance was “only a joke According to Hofiman, however, Mrs. | Wilson was treated the hospital under the name of ‘Sarah Young." Sergt. Jones checked the institution's records, he said. and found that a woman by that name received treat- { ment for poisoning. Confronted with this fact. Mrs. Wil- son. according to the detective, ad- mitied that she was the “Sarah Young” in question, but did not explain why she had failed to say so in her previous statement. Adheres to Shooting Story. In her interview with Sergt. Jones, Mrs. Wilson adhered to_the account of the shooting which she gave Sergt. Thomas Sweeney of the homicide squad the previous day. That story was that she, Hoffman and Policeman Charles B. Kimball of the twelfth precinct were staging & | “drinking party” in the field when the | shooting occurred. | Thus far, Kimball's superiors have | taken no action against him. And inone will be taken. it was explained |at police headquarters, until investiga- | gat.on of the case has been completed. Upon completion of the probe. it was added. a rcpor. will be submitted to |Mai. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent. of police, who will decide what action, if any, should be taken. OFFICER ON EMERGENCY CALL IS HURT IN CRASH E. E. Baar ;l '(—Y!O:élr Collision While Helping to Rush Oxy- gen to Patient. who i | | | | While convoying a car carrying oxy- gen to save the life of 6-year-old Ruth | Hall, ill with pneumonia at 1138 Fourth {street _northeast, Motor Cycle Police- {man E. E. Saar. 3¢ vears old. of the | United States Park Police. was hurled some 10 feet vecterday afternoon in collision with a west bound street ear on D street at Fourth street north- east. Mitchell A. Philips of 510 C street | ncrtheast, took the officer to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated for | bruises on the right leg and thigh and permitted to leave after his injuries were dressed. Saar was assigned to duty on Military road in Virginia, in conjunction with Memorial day ceremones, when the oxy- gen car, from the Co.’s pl . requestedi his essistance to get it to its destination speedily. Saar used his siren and was en route when the ac- cident occurred. Ruth Hall, the patient for whom the oxygen was intended, broke out with measles last Sunday and pneumonia set in Thursday morning. Dr. E. W. {Burch of 336 Maryland avenue north< | east, the attending physician, put in {a hurry-up call for the oxygen. Last night the child was slightly better after oxygen had been used for about: two hours. and a supply is being kept on tap at her home in case it is needed | further. JURY TRIAL- DEMANDED Evelyn N. Jordan Provides Bond on Reckless Driving Charge. Evelyn N. Jordan, 19 years old. wha was arrested by police of the eighth precinct Friday night and charged with driving her car recklessly and without a permit, demanded a jury trial when arraigned before Judge John P. Mc- Mahon yesterday in Police Court. ‘The girl was arrested by Policeman 8. F. Malone. She was bond of $300. Flower Vendor Fined. Charged with obstructing an F street sidewalk by selling Memorial day flow- ers, Jack A. Martin, a basket vender, was fined $5 in Police Court yesterday. ‘Thé man was arrested by Policeman G. R. Wallrodt- of - the first preeinot after recef complaints from several merchuu.m e