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he Sundiy Staf STOCKTOAT.&T. FAGES COURT TEST Utilities Board Moves for Prosecution Under Anti- Merger Act. CHANGE IN RELATIONS DENIED BY COMPANY Commission Order Approving Issue Declared Phrased to Bar Trans- fer to Outside Interests. The Public Utilities Commission yes- terday took definite steps to test the validity of the sale of $5.000,000 of capital stock of the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. In a memorandum to its general eounsel the commission directed that the company be prosecuted for alleged violation of the La Follette anti-merger act. This act is designed to prevent control of District public utility cor- porations by foreign utility or holding corporations. Officials_of the telephone company maintain that the sale was not in vio- lation of the La Follette act. since there has been no change in its rela- tionship with the A. T. & T. Before the stock was issued the company de- clared it was owned entirely by the A. . & T. and it is still entirely owned by the same corporation. Act Limits Transfer. The La Follette act. it was pointed out. expressly forbids a District public | utility to sell or transfer more than 20 | per cent of its stock to a foreign utility | or holding corporation without the au- thority of Congr ‘The commission’s general counsel contend the A. T. & T.} is a foreign corporation, and the sale therefore was unauthorized In answer to the argument of the telephone company, it was explained that while there may be no change in| relationship between the two companies | since the stock sale the A. T. & T. ac: quired its original holdings prior to en- | actment of the La Follette act, in 1914 The recent stock issue, it was pointed out, was the first since the law became effective and thereby provided the Dis- trict with grounds for suit in view of the contention of the legal experts that the A. T. & T. is a foreign corporation. A previous issue of $2000.000 in stock to the A. T. & T. was ruled illegal by the commission because the tele- })hone company did not get authority for its issuance as required under e isting regulations. The company sub- sequently canceled this issue and the asked the commission for authority to| suthority was granted June 23 last. Order Purposely Phrased. The order of the commission author- | izing the $7,000,000 issue was purposely phrased, it was said, to_preclude its| sale to the A. T. & T. The order | cifically stated that the authority to! issue and sell the stock is granted on condition that the sale “shall conform in all respects to all laws and all regu- lations of the commissio The La Follette act gives the District Supreme Court, on application by the Commissioners, jurisdiction in equity to dissolve_any public utility corporation in the District for violation of any of its provisions. The act also imposes in the court authority to require a for- eign corporation to sell or dispoge of any illegally acquired stock in a Dis- trict public utility. WOLL SEES SUPPORT | FOR INDUSTRY PLAN Vice President of Federation of Labor Is Gratified Responses. at By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. July 18—Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, tonight announced he had received favorable responses to his proposed 10-year plan for restora- tion of “order and balance” fo’ Ameri- can industry. The plan was submitted recently by Mr. Woll to James W. Gerard, chair- man of the Commission on Industrial Inquiry of the National Civic Federa- tion, who in turn referred it to national and international trade union organiza- tions and trade associations. “I am happy to state that the re- sponses thus far received have been highly encouraging in respect both to the number and importance of the or- ganizations which have expressed inter- est in the undertaking,” Mr. Will said CHURCH UNITY URGED FOR COMBATTING GREED Concordia Seminary 'Hend Tells Luther Day Gathering Chris- tianity Is Weakened. By the Assoclated Press. OCEAN GROVE, NJ., July 18—Dr. ‘Walter A. Maier, president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, tonight declared a “united church is needed” to combat wealth and organizations “such as the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.” Dr. Maier spoke before more than 5,000 persons at the annual Luther day activities here. He charged that the Federal Council had “worked to the detriment of the Cross, and that means | to the damage of souls and retardation of our national welfare.” Urging a “dynamic church, not one of the machine age,” he said the time come for all to realize that “the church’s usefulness is weakened and its energy is dissipated by the tragic divisions into which American Christianity is split.” AIR CARRIERS ORGANIZE Beven Companies Unite to Fight for Mail Contracts. KANSAS CITY, July 18 (#)—The Independent Air Passenger Association, through which seven air lines scek to protest the awarding of 16 Federal airmail contract extensions to oper- ators already holding other contracts, was_organized here today The lines, covering territory from Dallas, Tex.. to New York end Wash- ington, include Century Air Lines, Braniff Airways, Midland Air Express, Tuxhorn Airline, Western Alr Service, Bowen Airlines and Pittsburgh, New York & Western Airways. The group plans to meet July 28 at Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MOR HE venerable bones of Slewfoot Washington's oldest horse, are | beginning to show through his | scarred hide as he refuses to| eat in his grief at the disap- | pearance of his friend, a small chow | dog. | Slewfoot is 35 years old, solitary by nature and made more so by age Until two months ago when his pas- ture was changed at his home in Rock Creek Park he showed little affection for animals or humans, The change marked the beginning of a strange and strong friendship be- tween the old horse and Chin, an un- dersized chow dog owned by Joseph J. Quinn, resident foreman of the park The two were inseparable and Slew- foot would tolerate no other dog in his pasture. Last Tuesday Chin was badly frightened by the electrical storm and disappeared from home. She has not been seen_since. The next day, Slewfoot showed lit- tle interest in food and the day after could not be coaxed to eat. Mr. Quinn became convinced the old animal was grieving for the dog and redoubled his efforts to find her, offering a Te- ward and enlisting the services of his friends in the search. The only clue to her whereabouts was received when Mr. Quinn was told that a dog anseer- ing the description of Chin was seen in the vicinity of Observatory Circle Thursday. When the owner arrived, { the dog had gone. Meanwhile, more and more the small dog’s rollic ing companionship and daily grow more dejected. The horse is a veteran of the Fire Department, and was_ retired from service before Barney, Gene and Tom, | who drew fire engines through Wash- | ington streets for many years, were born. | He was foaled in 1896 and begnn‘ service with the Fire Department as| soon as he attained maturity. In 1905 | he was retired and sent to Rock Creek | Park, where he continued to work until about two years ago when his joints became stiff and he was unfit for further service. Then he was put in | pasture and. allowed to rest. Hi ture was changed two m make way for a new building and in the new pasture he became acquainted with Chin BOY DROWNS IN POND NEAR RAILROAD SPAN| Rescue Squad Fails to Revive Victim Taken From Stag- nant Water. A 14-year-old colored boy was drowned last night in a stagnant pond off the Pctomac River near the rail- road bridge, just south of the site of the new George Washington Memorial Boulevard. The boy, Henry Howlett, 602 Morton street, was bathing close to the bank when he slipped off and sank in 12 feet of water. ‘Albert Young, 12, aiso colored. 638 Morton street, ran to a_ signal tower on the raflroad line, where aid was cummoned. The fire rescue squad dragged the pond for half an hour be- fore the body was located by Jesse Sprouse, 814 Connecticut avenue, & volunteer diver. Members cf the squad worked over | the body for some time in a vain effort | tr save the boy. He was pronounced dead by a physician summoned from | Emergency He tal 1 FACES FOUR CHARGES | Harry Cliff Arrested In Alleged Stolen Car. Harry P. Cliff, 16 years old, colored, of 104 Fiftieth street northeast was arrested yesterday by Policemen L. H. Gentry and R. L. Hamman, fourteenth precinct, and charged with unauthor- ized use of an automobile, grand lar- ceny of $600 worth of wearing apparel, driving without a permit and reckless driving. Cliff was taken into custody at Thir- ty-fourth.and Quebec streets. The au- | tomobile he is alleged to have taken is the property of George S. Reeder, | 2101 New Hampshire avenue. The wearing apparel, three sample cases of sweaters, wes the property of Arthur | L. Goldburg, 2733 Connecticut avenue, from in front of whose place the ma- chine was removed. | Georgetown University ohtervlwzn'. —Star Staff Photo. PARKING PROVIDED FORU. . OFFICALS Space Near Public' Buildings Will Be “Reserved for Official Business.” ‘Washington curbs are about to break out in paint again. This time it will be with the signs called for by the new traffic act, which went into effect July 1. The signs will read: “Reserved for official business—Police Department.” In these spaces members of Congress and Government officials in the various executive departments and independent establishments will be allowed to leave their cars when they go aroupd on busi- ness free from any worries about pink tickets. A list of the spaces, made ‘public at the District Building vesterday, follows: State, War and Navy Building—#rom driveway to driveway on the east side of Seventeenth street—about 10 cars. Treasury Department—From lamp post to lamp post in front of the east entrance to the ouilding on the west side of Fifteenth street—3 to 10 cars. Department of Justice—Bus stop to alley on east side of Vermont avenue— seven cars. Interior Department—Space between three entrances on novth side of build- ing—15 cars. Commerce Department —Entrance to east wall on north side of H street, south front of building—six to seven cars. Labor Department—Entire frontage of building on G street—about six_cars. Civil Service Commission—Entire F street frontage—about six cars. Government Printing Office—West curb of North Capitol street, entire frontage of building except entrance— | about 12 cars. i Interstate Commerce Commission— East curb of Eighteenth street, between taxi stand and alley—9 cars. Veterans' Bureau—West curb of Ver- mont avenue from main entrance to H street—8 cars. Southern Railway BuiMing - ¢hous- ing several Government establishments) —Entire north front of building, Thir- teenth to Thirteen-and-a-half street except entrance—12 cars. Post Office Department—Entire north | front of building, except entrance and | bus stop—6 cars. Each official entitled to spaces will be given two cards. One is to be kept in his possession and certifies, over the signature of Daniel E. Garges, secretary to the Board of Commissioners, that the possessor is entitled to leave his car in the favored zones. The other is a card to be stuck in the windshields, anouncing in rather large letters that the car is an official car. These spaces are to be used only on official visits. Thus the car of the Sec- retary of State may not park in_the space marked off at the State, War and Navy Building, which must be re- served for the cars of other qualified officials visiting that building on official business. The cards are numbered in sequence according to official .precedence, the Secretary of State gettifig No. 1. They are not yet ready for distribution, but will be sent around to the officials early this week. QUAKES RECORDED Two rather severe earthquakes were recorded ‘yesterday on seismographs at various The first began at 12:37 am, with a second phase at 12:45:24 am.,, and was estimated to have been cen. tered about 4,050 miles south of Wash- ington, probably in. central South America. The second began at 6:35:26 am., and was of greater intensity than the first. Its location was undetermined. Collision Cripples Ship. BALBOA, Canal Zone, July 18 (P).— The freighter Langleetarn, bound from Vancouver, British _Columbia, for Queenstown, was ordefed irto drydock here today for repairs after a collision with the steamerf, Vulcan City, bound for Seattle from Queenstown. Firehouse Enlarged. BOULEVARD HEIGHTS, Md., July 18 (Special).—Boulevard Heights Volunteer Fire Department has ccmpleted a 25- foot addition on the firehouse. Chief william Smith_sald tbe new addition will be used to house a new engine which' the company is contemplating buying in the near future. A new cable for the siren has also been put into operation by the firemen. COMMISSIONERS PLAN TO INSTALL AIR SYSTEMS IN NEW BUILDINGS | asoter w. | use these ! FIREMAN GROPES VAINLY TO RECALL HOURS OF ABSENCE Charles G. Limerick, Found After 24-Hour Search, Without Memory. DOCTORS SEE SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL AILMENT Fail to Find Any Marks of Vio-| lence or Evidence of Heat Pros- tration on Weakened Victim. Charles G. Limerick, 46-year-old fire- man of No. 20 Engine Company, is under observation at Gallinger Munici- pal Hospital, hopelessly groping about in his mind to account for even a single ct in 24 blank hours that elapsed be tween the time he left home for work Friday morning and when he was found unconscious yesterday afternoon in his parked automobile on Cedar lane near Bethesda, Md. While Limerick remains at Gallinger | until his memory returns the two lit- tle Limerick children, a boy 11 and a girl 9, are being cared for at their home, 4116 Verplanck place, by & col- ored 'servant. Their mother is in a Petersburg, _Va, _hospital, without knowledge of her husband’s condition She has been a patient there for the last seven months. Fails to Answer Roll. When Limerick fatled to appear at 8 o'clock roll call, Capt. Frederick M. Ed- wards, commanding the company. dis- patched a member of his command t»n Limerick's home. All the children could tell of the whereabouts of their father was that he had left home as usual for the fire quarters. And that is all that| Limerick himself recalls. Restored to consciousness by the fire rescue squad. he was umable to tell the movements except that he had left his home for work, as the children said To all other questions concerned with those blank hours, he shakes his head bewilderedly and replies, “I don't know.” At ‘the hospital vesterday afternoon it was said the fireman would be kept under observation for at least three days. In that time physicians hope he will regain his memory. No Marks of Violence. An examination disclosed no marks of violence on his body or any other symptom that would indicate anything other than a sick mental case. At first it was believed he had been prostrated by the heat. but this was doubted by { physicians after a more thorough ex- amination. Limerick's car was seen parked in Cedar lane by William Darcy, a mail carrier. ~Before then Capt. Edwards had called for police aid in_a search for the missing fireman. They had patrolled the wooded sections of the Northwest without finding any trace of him or the car. Police even communi- cated with relatives in Richmond, Fredericksburg and other Virginia citfes Gallinger officials believe it will be some time before Limerick will be able to leave the hospital even though he does recover his memory soon. He is in a very weakened condition, 49,456 DISPARITY IN DISTRICT CENSU {U. S. and Trade Board Use Dif- ferent Calculations in Mak- ing Count. area of Greater Washington, placed vesterday by the Bureau of the Census officially at 621,059, is exactly 49.456 less than the figure compiled last year by the Washington Board of Trade in its master survey of Washington and its environs, a comparison of figures reveals. ‘The difference, however, can be ex- plained by the fact that the Board of Trade made no effort to definitely establish the boundaries of the metro- politan area, basing its calculations on the populations of neighboring coun- ties. The method employed by the Government organization was to make its count on the basis of density of population, including all surrounding contiguous minor civil divisions, elec- tion districts, etc., having density of nolti less than 150 inhabitants per square mile, The population of the City of Wash- ington proper, placed by the Census Bureau at 7,852.7 per square mile, or of 113 per cent over the population i of the Capital in 1920. The Board of Trade found the population in 1930 to be 485716, or an increase of 11 per cent over 1920. The trade body's survey, which was compiled by Rufus Lusk, statistician, Tevealed also that the gain in popula- tion in the metropolitan area in 1930 was 17 per cent, while the census re- port placed it at 18.4 per cent for the metropolitan district included in its count. According to the census report, made public through Dorsey W. Hyde, jr. secretary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, the gain in population in the district outside of the City of Wash- | ington in the terrritory included in the | metropolitan area for the 10 vears is 544 per cent. Of this gain, 647 per cent was in Maryland and 43.1 per cent in Virginia. The Lusk report stated that the gain in Arlington Coun- ty, Va., was 62.5 per cent for the 10- year period; Montgomery County, 40 | per cent; Prince Georges County, 38.6 per cent; Alexandria City; 33.9 per cent, and Fairfax County, 16.5 per cent. POLICE KILL SRIKER wnde‘d ‘When Group in Spain Is Fired On. Architects Ordered to Consider Inclusion of Cooling | sm tis sarin: suly 18.—One man Plants at Municipal Center. tict employes who will be called | on to work in the buildings in the Mu- | nicipal Center, when built, breathed an | anticipatory _sigh of relief vesterday | when the District Commissioners fol- | lowed the lead of the Federal Govern- ment and instructed the munlclpnl‘ architect to consider the feasibility of including air-cooling systems for the four buildings of the group. The plans for the first, puilding, to house the courts and police headquar- ters, are already far advanced, but could be altered to include the cooling system if the expense could be met. It is understood that the systems can be installed for about $300,000. The present District Building is like a bakehouse when the thermometer climbs up to the high 90s, particularly on the fifth floor, where the Commis- sions have their offices, employes complain. The order was issued in the interests of securing better working conditions for the employes in the new bulldings if possibie, i was killed and another seriously wound- ed tonight when police fired on a group of strikers attempting to ~persuade other workers to join them. ! Three hundred civil guards were | called out to reinforce police in main- taining order. Named. to Princeton Staff. PRINCETON, N. J., July 18—Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of Pflnaz.; ton University, today announ . appointment of Dr. Henry Eyring, t;‘ the University of &lflmm as researc! tyo it of - don. H focociate In the QPACL Sttt Couniry ast Gallinger physicians anything of his| ‘The population of the metropolitan | 486,869 for the city, shows an increase | | | ) | | i | | 1306F | weeks duration of the campaign. | : | G, JULY 19, 1931. =* Thousands Apply for Government Jobs CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION SWAMPED BY POSITION SEEKERS. One corner of a roomful of desks piled high with applications for the file clerk examination at the Civil Service The délugeé dbf applications, breaking all records, is a commentary on the unemployment situation. Commission. BY REX COLLIER. HE unemployment situation has swamped Ungle Sam with an unprecedented avalanche of civil service applicants, thou- sands of whom are doomed to disappointment. A dearth of jobs in private industry has caused a vast army of ynemployed men and women to turn to the Federal Government. for ajd, with the result that all-time records of the Civil Serv- | ie> Commission .are tumbling right and eft. The crest of the tidal wave was reached within the past few days, when more than 25,000 applications poured into the commission from residents of many States desiring to take a forth- coming examination for file clerk. All Records Broken. This total is more than three times that recorded for any similar examina- tion in the history of the commission. A year ago the total number of appli- cants was but 2,210. So great was the influx of applications just before the period for filing closed last Wednesday that commission clesks have not com- pleted tabulating them, despite many hours of overtime work Only a “comparatively small per- centage” of those who pass the exam- ination can hope to be appointed, it was declared yesterday by Herbert E. Morgan, sssistant chief of the editing ILE NAMES ON JOBLESS ROLL Three-Day Enroliment of Work Campaign.Betters March Totals. A total of 1.506 persons applied for work during the three-day enroliment preliminary to the District of Columbia Committee on Uncmployment's Mid- summer Job Campaign which gets under way tomorrow and continues through August 15, it was announced yesterday by George J. Adams, executive secretary of the committee. ‘The number, aceording to Adams, ex- ceeds by 454 persons the total who ap- plied for work during the four-day en roliment prior to the 1931 clean-up campaign last March, and exceeds by more than 100 the total number of job- less who sought work daring ‘the five of the total who applied for work in the Midsummer job capaign, slightly more than 47 per cent were white and the rest colored. More than 91 per cent were males. Conditions Not Best. Employment conditions in Washing. ton, according to the campaign secre- tary, are not very encouraging at the present time, as compared with the situation in March. “However, it must be taken into con- sideration,” said Adams, “that a factor in the employment situation in Wash- ington lay is the large number of out-of-town persons who are in the Capital in search of jobs.” Approximately 35 per cent of the per- sons who applied for work during the past three days, according to Adams indicated that their residence in Wash. ington has been of less than six months' duration. Many of them stated in re- sponse to questions that their only pla(;{e of residence was a bench in the ark. K Conditions May Be Worse. Mr. Adams, in issuing an appeal for jobs for the unemployed, stated the be- lief of the Employment Committee that conditions among the joblesze 3]2!(! Winter may be even more acuf an they were during the past Winter sea- son. P “Every temporary job which an un- employed person gets during the Sum- mer aids him to prepare for the Win- ter,” said Adams. “Most jobless men and women do not want ‘relie{’. They want work. They are anxious to con- tributg their share of effort in over- coming the so-called economic depres- sion through the medium of good hard labor.” Applications for work in the Mid- summer job campaign are being taken in the old St. James Hotel at Pennsyl- vania avenue and Sixth street. — EMBEZZLING SUSPECT TELLS OF WORLD TRIP Police Say Man Admits Charges Relating Trips to London and Australia. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 28.—A man who told police he was Edward I. Chisholm, sought for two years for the alleged cmbezzlement of $10,000 from a Los Angeles concern, was arrested here to- ay. Police said he admitted the em- bezzlement _and also that he was wanted in Boston for passing a worth- less $3,500 check for an automobile. Chisholm told police, they said, that ne embezzled $10,000 from the Aero Corporation of California at Los Ange- les in August, 1929, and went to Tia Juana, Mexico, where he increased it to $15,000. Then, he said, he went to Australia, and later to Lon- e said he returned to this Sydney, |and recruiting division of the commis- sion. The exact number of vacancies ! was not available, due to the fact that | the demand for employes varies daily. | | “The file clerk position pays from 181,260 to $1,440 a year. On the basis | of the commission’s past experience, it | is estimated that about two-thirds of | | those who will take the examination | will fail to pass. A considerable num- | ber of the applicants will be eliminated before the examination for ineligibility. The burden of correspondence of the commission has more than doubled in the past year, it was stated. Technical Jobs Popular. Indicative of the effect of the de- pression in employment fields. where the Government formerly met the keenest of competition from private industry, is the marked increase in the number of applicants for technical positions in the Federal departments. In past years Uncle Sam has had difficulty in obtaining suitable appli- cants for vacancies in the grades of junior engineer, junior chemist and Junior physicist. The average Govern- | ment_entrance salary in these grades is $2,000, and private corporations | | therefore have been in the habit of out- | bidding the Government for young| scientists just out of college. So seri- ous did this competition grow that the | Civil Service Commission changed its examination dates so that they came | were, for example, —Star Staff Photo. before graduation, thereby gaining an| early foothold, 5o to speak, on the field of eligibles. Last year, under this system, there were 1244 ‘applicants for junior en-| gineer. This Spring the number was 4370. There were 625 applicants for junior chemist last year, as compared with 1,397 this year. -Last year's appli- cants for junior physicist totaled 201, while this year's total was 358. Prohibition Offices Swamped. The increased demand for jobs has been feit all along the line. There| 16,500 - applications from 31 States for the examination for| prohibition agent, just being completed. ! This was more than twice the number | ever before recorded for a similar num- ber of States. The examination for printer (mono- type operator and proofreader) attract-| ed 415 applicants this year, as compared | with 198 last year. . _ Because of the treméndous increase | in applicants for all Federal positions,| the commission has strengthened and | reinforced the barriers to applicants, Mr. Morgan disclosed. incompietely filled out applications now are being rejected automatically, in lieu of the previous policy of extending leniency and permitting later amendments. The commissicn also is managing to keep abreast of the work by instituting a re- organization of procedure. | SEA SCOUTS END CRUISE | Group of Nine Spend 22 Days on 1,200-Mile Trip. | Seven colored Sea Scouts, their | skipper and mate, all of Washington, | returned last night from a 22-day | cruise which carried them about 1.200 j miles down Chesapeake Bay and along | the East Coast in a 40-foot auxiliary sloop. | The Scouts visited Roanoke Island, Kittyhawk Bay, Nags Head, Powhatan, | Elizabeth City, Portsmouth and Rappa- | hannock, and came up the bay to An- napolis and Baltimore before returning to Washington last night. H. K. Howerton was skipper and | | Clarence Gross mate. Ralph Jackson was engineer; Harold Cousins, yeoman, and the members of the crew were Ro- land Hughes. Harold Terry. Benjamin Cole, Percy Taylor and Ralph Quailes. INJUNCTION IS ASKED ON SALE OF GUN FIRM Stockholder Asks Court to Halt, | Claiming of Option Given Re- | cently to Purchaser. Automatic Guns, Inc., the firm which | recently reported the disappearance of alleged secret plans, causing Justice Department agents and District police |an anxious 24 hours, was named de- | fendant in a suit filed yesterday in| District Supreme Court. An injunction petition was filed by attorneys for Mary E. Moore, New York City, to prevent the gun corporation and members of its directorate from selling its assets to Edward Van As- mus, who is said to hold an option of | purchase. The plaintiff, asserting she was a| stockholder in the company, further in- formed the court that stockholders had voted to sell the corporation's assets for a sum sufficient to meet its liabili- ties. However, when an_ option was | given recently. the plaintiff charged, it | called for a sum less than the amount of the debts. The corporation has offices in the | Albee Building. | Two_months ago the firm reported plans had been removed from a safe. After Federal agents and District police worked on the case for 24 hours, they were told by officials that the plans had been turned over to an attorney and forgotten. The plans called for an anti-aircraft gun which the United States Navy had contracted for, sub- ject to tests. | FVEPERSONSHELD | N DRY LAW RADS Police Activities Staged With- out Use of Hired Liguor Informers. i The Police Department's first raids without the aid of hired informers re- | sulted in the arrest of five persons on | liquor charges last night. | The policemen who figured raids did their own “informing.” with | the result that two white men and three colored persons were taken into custody. Members of the police force furnished the information on which the raids were made after two informers had | been dismissed several days before by | Inspector T. A. Bean, chief of the vic2 squad. _Early discontinuance of the use of informers in enforcing the _gambling | in the! night following the five arrests. William E. Winstead, 40, of 1220 D street and Clyde Shaft, 25, of the same address were arrested on charges of possession of 5 gallons of liquor. The arrests were made in a raid on a house in the 500 block of H street after Po- liceman T. M. McVearry had made a purchase,_of alleged liquor. Two unidentified coloreq peysons were arrested in a house In the 2600 block of Sherman avenue after Policeman Herbert G. Wanamaker had bought a small quantity of alleged whisky. Another person arrested on liquor charges was William Jones, 37, colored, 2100 block of Tenth street, who was taken into custody after a policeman bad made a purchase at his home. BUTLER HELD IN THEFT Carl Swinson, 25, colored. a butler for Mrs. Elizabeth Kahn, 5709 Six- teenth street, was arrested yesterday on complaint of his employer on a charge of grand larceny. He was leged to have stolen a pocketbook con- taining $40 from an automobile in the rear of the Kahn home. According to Precinct Detective Elmer F. Lewis, Swinson confessed stealing the pocketbook, and $25.78 was re- covered on his person. ON REL Secretary Adams of D. C. E Ernst Beelitz, 58-year-old German immigrant farmer, victim of the Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. fail- ure, will have a job waiting for him when he steps out of the District Jail Tuesday. orge J. Adams, secretary of the District Committee on Employment, promised to see to that yesterday after he had read in the newspapers the story of the unfortunate German who sought a term in jail rather than turn to pan- handling. If Beelitz really wants to work, Adams said, he will give him a job as porter at his committee’s headquarters in the District Building. And if the German makes good on this job after a month's probationary tenure, Adams intends to put him to work on his farm in Montgomery County, Md., and give an opportunity to recover some of his losses on & profit-sharing arrangement. Beelitz claims he's a farmer par excel- lence, and feels that if his are and Beelitz RHEEM VICTIM OFFERED JOB Man Who Lost $10,000 Investment Shall Have Chance. koth! bave pothing to lve oo/t EASE FROM JAIL mployment Committee Says can make money from the farm. Beelitz lost $10,000, his life savings, accumumated through years of toil on a small Florida farm, which he had invested in the bankrupt firm of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey. Unable to find work and despairing, he went into the first precinct station and demanded to be arrested. Re- luctantly mc: booked him -on e technical c! of vagrancy, and when arraigned in Police Court yesterday he pleaded to be sent to jail for 30 days. Judge Ralph Given continued the case until Tuesday, and allowed Beelitz to go to jail, hoping that somebody would come along in the meantime and offer to help the despondent man. “I am guilty,” Beelitz pleaded to the charge of vagrancy when arraigned be- fore Judge Given, “but it's not my fault. What am I to do? I have no monea no ho‘l;l!. S?I“ thh:l- I hld‘ left I gave to my wife. She's in Georgla, and I'm afraid to let her know how things are with me. I can’t find work and and liquor laws appeared probable last GENERAL NEWS ROVER SETS COURT MARK IN HANDLING 1815 CRIME CASES Clears Docket of All but 225 Actions—Many Not Arrested. BUSIEST CRIMINAL YEAR IN HISTORY OF COURT U. S. Attorney Personally Conducts Important Trials—Accredits Showing to Aides. A new record for the disposition of criminal cases in the District Supreme Court was established by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover in the year just clcsed. “He disposed of 1815 cases and left only 225 pending when the courts closed for the Summer recess. Many of the pending cases involve defendants who hive never been apprehended. The past court year was the busiest in the criminal annals of the District. Only 37 cases were ready for trial and not reached on the court docket June 30. Of these only 13 defendants were in jail. an unprecedently small number to be held in confinement dur- ing the recess. Defendants in the other 24 cases are at liberty on bail bond: Rover secured 68 padlock injunctions during the past court year. There were pending July 1, 1930, 41 prcceed- ings for padlocks and 42 more were instituted during the year, making a total of 83, Of these 68 were termi- nated and there remain only 15 cases 10 be heard next October. 734 Cases on Docket. When the Criminal Ccurts convened t October there were pending 734 ses on the docket. During the court car 1,306 new cases were filed, mak- ing a total of 2,040 cases. Of these 1.815 were terminated in various ways, leaving only 225 Pleas of guilty were obtained in 870 cases: there were 168 convictions and 82 acquittals: 10 cases were dismissed on_motion and 685 were nolle prossed. Five murder cases are included in the 13 in which the derendants are o remain in jail until October. One is charged with manslaughter; one with carnal knowledge: two for housebreak- ing; one for joy-riding; one for violat- Mg Harrlson narcctic law; one for violating section 32, United States Penal Code: one for conspiracy Of the 24 bond cases ready for trial but not reached were: Carnal knowi- edge, two; housebrezking, cne; grand larceny, one: embezzlement, two; false pretenses, two; larcel after trust, two: arson, one; forgery. one; bribe one: national prohibition law, fous Harrison narcotic law, one; section 35, United States Penal Code, one; con- spiracy, three; Federal corrupt’ prac- tice act. one, and violaticn of bank- ruptcy law, one. Trials Are Reduced. ‘The cases were handled so expedi- tiously by the justices and Rover's as- sistants that it was necessary to hold but few trials in July. Last year one of the Criminal Courts was held open for three weeks in July. Rover accredits the wonderful show- ing of the past year to the fact that his corps of assistants was complete and that a number of cases could be prepared for trial by the examination of witnesses by the varicus assistants, who took turns in presenting the cases in _court. By means of an_efficient corps of assistant prosecutors. the courts were kept occupied throughcut the year. 3 Rover Handles Cases. The United States attorney per- | sonally conducted a numver of trials, chief of which were Har former bank presideni: Robert E Whalen, lawyer, charged with em- bezzling funds from a woman pensioner, and a man and his wife from Scranton, Pa., charged with using the mails %0 defraud. All were convicted. Justice Peyton Gordon in Criminal Division 1 disposed of the 870 pleas of guilty as well as presiaing in a num- ber of the important trials. Justices Jesse C. Adkins and Oscar R. Luhring also tried a number of the criminal cases, and Justice Luhring gave over the whole month of January to the con- sideration of the “padlock” cases. Of the 870 pleas of guilty Justice Gordon referred 674 to Probation Officer Amos A. Steele for investigation and report. Of this number 366 were placed on probation and sentence im- posed on the others. TRANSIT VALUATION TO BEGIN TOMORROW L. Ingoldsby, Cost Engineer, Will Be Shifted to Staff Work- ing on Bus Assets. ~ Work on the valuation of the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co., recently or- dered by the Public Utilities Commis- sion, will start tomorrow. John Leroy Ingoldsby, cost engineer with the staff making a valuation of the two street car companies, will be transferred to the bus valuation. The work will have to be done very economically, as the maximum assess- ment against the utility for the cost of the work is one-half of 1 per cent of the value found. The bus company claims a value of $800.000, so that the commission is limited to spending $4,000 on the valuation. An assessment of $2,500 has been made against the company to start the work. The valuation is to be used in combatting the legal fight of the bus and car companies against the 3-cent fare for scheol children. V. Haynes, J. SNYDER HOUSE SOLD New York Woman Will Remodel Former Chinese Legation Site. The old Snyder house, at Eighteenth and Q streets, formerly occupied as the Chinese legation, yesterday was sold to Mrs. S. Labouchere Hillyer of 30 East Seventy-sixth street, New York City. ‘The praperty was sold by the National Savings & Trust Co. The purchase figure was not divulged. It was announced here in behalf of Mrs. Hillyer, however, that she plans to spend $35,000 in renovation and re- modeling work on the mansion. The purchaser is the owner of the Woodson Hospital in New York. The improve- ment work on the house will be under he direction of E. St. Cyr Barrington, architect. Heat Overcomes Man. Overcome by heat while working in a filling station at Eighth and C streets northeast, Samuel Huett, 28 years old, of 533 Eighth street northeast was re- moved to Casualty Hospital yes d:z afternobn. Staff physicians k onditdon, was nob serious,