Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1931, Page 17

HENDERSON WILL PROBATE IS ASKED INSUPREME COURT Edelin, Executor, Submits Last Testament—Audit of Real Estate Asked. ESTATE IS ESTIMATED TO EXCEED $1,000,000 @pposition to Seay as Collector Is Reported Brewing—Debts Are Placed at $35,000. Estimating the real estate of Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, widow of John B. Henderson, sr.. former Senator from Missourl, as “in excess of $1,000,000,” George E. Edelin, executor under the will of April 8, 1931, today asked the District Supreme Court to admit the will to probate. He places a total es- timate of $275,000 on the personal property. Attorney Julius T. Peyser, ‘represent- i ing the executor, said that it will re- quire an audit to straighten out the portions of the real estate belonging to the widow and to the estate of her dead son, John B. Henderson, jr. Asked if Edelin will oppose the peti- tion of Harry A. Seay to be appointed collector of the estate, Peyser said he would wait until a rule had been issued by the court before making any state- ment. Rumors about the court house, however, indicate that opposition to Beay as collector is brewing. Asks for Citations. ‘The executor asks for citations against Henry N. Arnold, Frances Arnold, Beatrice Henderson Wholean, Harry A. Seay, Jesse 8. Shima, C. K. Hasegawa, Wllllam Carter and the Na- tional Gallery of Art, all named as beneficiaries under the will of Novem- ber 17, 1930. He asks that the will of latest date be admitted to probate and ;hll letters testamentary be issued to The court is informed that the only heirs at law and next of kin of Mrs. Henderson are Henry N. Arnold and Prances Arnold, both of New York, a ‘ nephew and niece of the deceased. The petition declares that Mrs. Henderson also left surviving her Beatrice Hender- son Wholean, an adult, who is the per- son named in the adoption proceeding in the District Supreme Court in which an order was passed December 30, 1924, purporting to legalize her adoption by the decedent, and making her the heir at law of Mrs. Henderson. This adop- tion was attacked by Mrs. Henderson, February 21, 1931, and a motion to dismiss ‘Mrs. Henderson's petition was made by counsel for Mrs. Wholean and was overruled in _a memorandum opinion by Justice Proctor. Before a motion to rehear the matter could be passed on, Mrs. Henderson died. $22,000 Lien Pending. ‘Edelin says he is unable to state the exact amount and value of the real estate left by Mrs. Henderson, but esti- mates it in excess of $1,000,000. He approximates her holdings of securities at $175,000, in addition to automobiles, furniture, works of art and other tan- gible property worth $100,000. The debts of the estate will not exceed $35,000, the executor estimates. He also calls attention to a pending suit to enforce a mechanics’ lien of $22,000 brought by the W. P. Lipscomb Co. as a balance due on the erection of a house at Sixteenth and Lamont streets. ‘The court is told that the will of April 8, 1931, has been proved by the subscribing witnesses. er wills have been filed, the petitioner states, latest of which bears date of November 17, 1930, and all the beneficlaries there- under are asked to be brought into OLDEST RAILROAD TO BE ABANDONED ! Zine Over Which the Stourbridge | Rion Ran Succumbs to Competi- ‘:3 tion of Motor Trucks. By the Associated Press. The oldest steam railroad in the country has succumbed t6 motor truck competition. The Interstate Commerce Commission today authorized the Delaware & Hud- son Railroad to abandon 24 miles of its Honesdale branch. The road, built about 1829, was the one over which Proposed City Entrance ARCHITECTS SUGGEST SIXTEENTH STREET PORTAL. E Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Al’thlfkfl‘ has sub- mitted this plan for the development of the Sixteenth street entrance to the Natfonal Capital. The upper vie which is featured by two massive col shows the profile of the scheme, columns crowned by vertical beam lights, between which traffic would pass the instant it crosses the Dis- trict of Columbil Maryland line. The lower view shows the plan of the proposed evelo{ment with its series of terraces and sunken garden. DIAMOND ACTION MAY END CAB WAR If Company Accepts 25-35- Cent Rate Agreement Is Expected. ‘The outcome of Washington's taxi- cab rate war hinged to a great extent today on the action taken at this after- noon’s meeting of the Diamond Taxicab Co.'s board of directors. Richmond B. Keech, people's counsel, and members of the Public Utilities Commission” were inactive, hoping they would not be forced to bring the com- panies into line. No comment was forthcoming from officials of four other large taxicab concerns, who have noti- fied the commission they favored oper- ating on a 25-cent minimum or 35- cent maximum rate. The present Diamond scale of 20 cents, observed by its 750 cabs, gen- erally was regarded as the last obstacle in the path of an amicable agreement among all the principal operators. Should the Diamond group agree to the 25-35 proposal it would not be neces- sary for the commission to intervene. One angle of the situation stressed by those most vitally concerned was that aff agreement by the Diamond cabs to join the 25-35 group probably would end the war because no further prlee- then could be made by company without consent of the Publlc U mu Commission. et Tt b pen announcement of Diamond policy. Should the Diamond company file a schedule of tariffs fall- ing within the 25-35 classification, such a hearing probably would not be neces- sary. GRANGE MEETING " SET-NEXT WEEK LR Lecturers From Seven States Will Attend Sessions at University of Maryland. . By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, COLLEGE PARK, Md., August 3- Grange lecturers from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland will attend the fifth annual Middle At- lantic Grange Lecturers’ Conference at the University of Maryland, August 11 ran the Stourbridge Lion, the first lo- |to 14. comotive to pull a train in this country. The road extends from Honesdale Junction to Lookout Junction, in Car- bondale, Pa. Today's order authorized abandonment of all except 4 miles on the Carbondale end of the line. ‘The road originally was built to haul coal out of the Pennsylvania hills. It has been operated at a loss for several years, and the commission said “the road seems, in the main, to have out- lived its usefulness.” It added that through coal traffic, for which the line was originally built, has long moved to the northeast by other channels and “now so much of the other traffic is ma{vln by motor truck that what is left for the ralliroad is inadequate for its support.” ° Passenger trafic on the line was sbandoned sevexal months ago, and freight trains have been operated only three times a week. INDIAN HEAD BOY HURT IN CRASH NEAR MUIRKIRK Joseph Bolger in Casualty Hos- pital, Washington, 'With Frac- tured Skull and Broken Jaw. By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. MUIRKIRK, Md., August 3.—Joseph Bolger, 12 yers old, of Indian Head, was serjously lnjured early today in & collision on the Batimore Boulevud used by the heavy fog, mrm.n' & critical con: Alfonso Wl!lllml ol th»e 1200 Ebck of Bxth street. h State police had not com- pmed &eu investigation, they said the car in which the.trio were riding collided with a plrked machine. and me-ml! billion stars are oot the - 100-inch telescope at Speakers at the opening session, to be held the evening of August 11, include Taber, master of the National Gl‘lnle State Senator A. B. Ensor of Harford County, mastor of the Mary- land Grange; Howard G. Eisemai president of the Middle Atlantic Grange Lecturers’ Conference, and President Raymond A. Pearson of the university. August 12 will be Maryland day. At that time the regular schedule of classes, which will continue the remainder of the week, will start. Some of the out- standing individuals who have been placed on the program for the week are: Elizabeth L. Arthur. Lowville Grange, Umveéalty of James C. rmer, Na- tional Grange; J. W. Sprowls, Uni- versity of Maryland;- E. B. Dorsett, master Pennsylvania State Grange; Dr.|Col Robert G. Foster; United States De- partment of Agriculture; Howard G. Eiseman, East Springfield Grange, Pennsylvania; Dr. Walter H. Whiton, Dls'. lecuu'er, New Jersey Stfite Grange; B. Pedenl hrm Bo;rd “and Dr. T. B. Symons, of the extension service, Unlvermy ol Maryland. In addition to the lectures, it is planned-to visit Mount Vernon, Belts- ville experimental farms, Annapolis Naval Academy and the Washington Zoological Park. Also, on Friday eve- ning, one-act plays will be put on by the members of Delaware, West Vir- flnh Virginia and Pennsylvania Granges. CAPITAL WOMAN DIES Mrs. Lawrence M. Green Succumbs in Wickford, R. I. years a resident of this city, died today in wuxrom, R. I, after a long mnul according to wi s;d gone to Wickf spend the mmer. Mrs. Greene was the wife of Dr. Lawrence M. Greene, formerly chief of a division in the Pension Bureau here. She is survived by her husband and & daughter, Miss Frances Marion Greene. Punenl arrangements’ b T ¥ ord recelved here. She | pal ford to FUGITIVE SLAYER WILL BE RETURNED Mexican’s Plea at Embassy After Nebraska Escape to Be Disregarded. Nebraska police are expected here to- morrow to return Jose Rodriguez, 29- year-old Mexican, who was arrested at the Mexican embassy Saturday, to the Ingleside Penal Hospital at Hastings, where he escaped July 21, while serving a life sentence for the slaying of & youth three years ago. Meanwhile, he is being held under guard at Gallinger Hospital. Denies Guilt In Crime. Rodriguez was taken into by police al the tenth precinet tion when he appeared in an agitated con- dition, explained that he had escaped from the hospital and beat his way across the country to ask for aid in hav- ing his sentence lightened. When told to surrender himself to local authorities, the Mexican is said to have declared that he would never be captured alive for a murder which he did not commit and begged attaches to ask for his release through the Depart- ment of Justice. By means of a ruse, he was induced to remain lt uu emb.-! until police followed a few u-n:h thing disclosed him to be unarmed. It was sald at the embassy that no intercession would be instituted in be- half of the man. Identified in Records. A comparison cf fingerprints, photo- graphs and other marks of identifica- tion with records on file at police head- quarters last night revealed that Rodri- guez was convicted by a court at Lin- coln for slaying a youth during a brawl there three years ago. He was sen- t’e.l;ged to life imprisonment in July, 49 PERSONS SEIZED IN ROAD HOUSE RAIDS Hundred Others Flee as Prince Georges Police Descend on Tavern. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., August ’. —Forty-nine persons, all but two of whom were colored, were arrested by Prince jes County pouu in two raids here over the week en A white couple and 43 eolored men and women were arrested on disorderly charges when a road house on, Sheriff road was raided Saturday night. Police said about 150 persons were in the house when they arrived, but many fled. Returning to the resort yesterday, the officers found & quantity of liquor in an adjoining corn field lnd arrested Albert Myer, colored, as the proprietor of the uub;kl!&ment.‘:‘hnfin(“gl‘m ';l’l.h possession of liquor operating a dis- orderly house. His set at $1,000 by Justice ntmomm Ten men mm the raiding squad, including Sergt. H. ‘Patrol- men Claude Reese md Ralph Brown, nstables Howard Slater, Jack Wilson Blackwell and Deputy bering ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D: C, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931. THIEF ROBS WOMAN OF $2775 JEWELRY IN HOTEL QUARTERS Pgss Key Used to Gain En- trance During Guest’s Absence. SEVERAL OTHER THEFTS REPORTED TO POLICE Burglars, Pickpockets and Swin- dlers Take Cash, Clothing and. Valuables in Operations. ‘The theft ol’ Jewelry valued at $2,775 from a downtown hotel room was re- last night to police, who were m?r‘m:l” “:v:; t.h; b:no;k end with nu- cal ol and attem; mg!;hcerm i jewelry was stolen from the handbag of Miss Nellle Baldwin, Rochester, Minn.,, who said she left it on the dresser of her hotel room during her absence. The door was lccked when she left her room, she declared, ‘-::uw:‘:‘:uu {':eek:g u\kahgn she returned, al pol that a pass ki was used to obtain entrance. . Miss Baldwin said the contents of the room were not disturbed. Her sus- piclons that the room had been entered were aroused by the finding of a re. ligious medal on the floor. She anem- gated and found the jewelry gone. platinum dinner ring- valued at nooo was the most.expensive article stolen. There were several other rings and other pieces of jewelry taken. Miss Baldwin was on a tour of the country with relatives. Burglars Steal Clothing. Climbing through a transom over the front door of the store of Harry Cohen, 2008 Fourteenth street, after closing hour Saturday night, burglars escaped with mrlng apparel valued at $270. A story of being robbed of $22 fol- lowing a gambling game in an Oncon avenue apartment house was told po- lice by Benjamin Bradley, 2146 I nl’efl Bradley said the game broke up early this morning. When he left, he de- clared, two of the players followed him to the street, pushed him Inw ‘an alley and took the money from hi Benny H. Best, colored, 1037 Eieventh street, nked police yesterday to arrest two men, one white and one colored, who, he said, assaulted and robbed him of $39 Saturday afternoon. He said he met the men and told them he was looking for a truck to hire. They offered to help him and the trio went to Sixty-first and Dix streets northeast, where, he declared, the white man hit him on the head with a bottle and the colored man robbed him. Furniture Store Robbed. Clothes valued at $175 were stolen from the Home Furniture Co., enth and M streets, between c|oun¢ m Mon Saturday and ysterdny morning, po- lice were informed. Entrance was pmed through a window. pockets took a bill folder con- hlnln. $180, two checks and an automo- bile registration card from John H. Leath, 1829 Corcoran street, while he was in a Ninth street theater, he re- ported last night. He said he thinks he was robbed when two men passed him in the aisle and one momentarily blocked his way. Marcel Pelc, 215 E street, also re- ported his pocket was picked. He thinks the theft occurred wi he was riding on a street car in ‘the vicinity of Fif- teenth and H streets. Descriptions of his | suspects in both cases were police. Loses Portfolio. A neatly dressed young ma: leaving through a window, is thoulm to have stolen g portfolio mnutrunz tax receipts from the apartment of Ruth Graham, 2109 F street, Saturday night, she reported. Two stnnfierl he met in Judiciary Square swindled him out of $26, Joseph Stearn, 23, 205 D street, complained to police. l{e said one of the men in- veigled into a betting scheme ‘whereby h: qulckly lost his monq. GERMAN WHEAT DEAL AWAITS REICH ACTION Castle Thinks U. 8. Offer to” Sell Could Be Taken by Parley "Direct With Farm Board. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The United States Government con- siders its suggestion that Germany buy cotton and wheat from the Farm Board on long-term credit a business propo- sition which requires no further diplo- matic negotistions. Acting Secretary of State Castle nld today no reply had been received from Germany on the proposal, and added that if "t Reich decides to adopt the plan, & robebly would nqotllu dmwy wl the Farm Board or its sul District War Memorial Rising e Stap TEMPLE WILL BE COMPLETED FOR ARMISTICE DAY. HITE marble columns of the National Capital War Memorial have been erected and the superstructure is here shown to be prepared next for the dome ceilling and the roof. The classic design of this part of the Greek- Dorfc Temple in the grove of trees between the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and the Tidal Basin reflects the beauty and dignity which will mark the completed structure. ACCORD REACHE ON 15TH ST. WORK City Authorities and Planners Back Program for Relieving Potomac Park Jam. District authorities and those of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission are in accord as to plans for development of Fourteenth and Pifteenth - streets through Potomac Park to relieve the congestion on Four- I&nlh street ll the irk drive from \pt. Herbert C. Wmtehu.rsl. Dmrm highway engineer, said today. . Whitehurst said he agreed with the Planning Commission that Fif- teenth t should be cut through from itution avenue across the Grounds up to a bridge to k blltll across the narrow end of the Basin, and that the eflect o( '.hl.l additional roadway on the on Fourteenth street should be ltutl'd before any decision is made as whether to separate the grades at Fourteenth street and the Erk road. If possible, the Highway Department would prefer to work out a solution without resort to a grade separation. If the grade separation must built, it would mean that persons returnin to town from East Potomac Park, who now make a right turn into Fourteenth street and eontinue north, would be compelled instead to make a left turn and get home by way ot flu inlet , an extremely sition. It would be impossib] m— vide a grade np-utlon and .d!l al the homebound traffic to make right turns out of the park, he said. Fourteenth street will be repaved at some undetermined date in the near future, Capt. Whitehurst said. If the car tracks remain where they are the street will be widened from 45 to 60 feet by adding 15 feet on the east side of the road, leaving the tracks ln Lhe mlddla It would take an act authorize the street wldmi?w m cost would remain the t. whluhul'fi said, as if the car tracks Te the railway com-’| E:nyu;m hvebuilwmm ,.é. the roadway will be repaved n its prelent ‘width. ELKS FROM 15 TOWNS TO MARCH AUGUST 12 Many Lodges Will Participate in Parade at Convention in Cumberland. Special Dispatch to The St CUMBERLAND, Md., August 3.— Besides the 12 lodm embraced Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia Elks’ Association, exclusive of Cumberlagd, the host lodge, 15 nearby Pennsylvahia lodges and 10 West Vir- ginia lodges will be represented in the pu-de Wednesday, August 12, the final day of the meet, according to advices Ambassador Sackett suggested to the | g w German government last week, with President Hoover's approval, that it buy on easy credit terms some of the wheat and cotton now held by the Farm Board egencies. . Relief Corps Will Ieel The Lincoln { Corps, No. Cvlllmeetlt IELIM Wnllht FORMER S.LAVE DIES Prince Georges Man Believed to Be ‘ Nearly 100 Years Old. Special Dispatch to The Star. ik o8 - B are t0 be an- ‘home, at 8 o'clock. irginia ord that he will be pl'uent tion, sent we Bob ‘Weisenfeld, & member of ' *|FIRST LADY SWAMPED BY MAIL ' OFFERING BOOKS ON OLD D. C. Mrs. Hoover May Have Local Etchings Made as Addi- dition to Early Capital Collection. flnbnnmb-nlnrudm Little Green House To Become Office After Remodeling Harding K St. Rendezvous for Poker to Be Used by Realty Groups. ‘The little green house on K street, Mnflmmu of former President Harding his intimates, which later became llonl.\l known during the oil lease lnve]::lzluom is to be given a new lease on life. After standing tenantless for several mon this old stone residence at 1625 K street now is being converted into a modern building and- receiving a general refurbishing, inside and out. ‘The building where President Hard- ing and his friends played poker and | talked over administration affairs in former days soon will house a group of business people engaged in drafting plans and specifications for new build- ing opeut.Ionl and transacting realty | tem l.u"e aperture has been made In |are the facade of the building, where large al’.u glass windows will let light into The property has been used in recent 10| years as the headquarters of several college fraternities. It is owned by the Washington operative building firm of Baer & Scholz, which will occupy quar- ters there jointly with the realty firm of J. A. McKeever Co. $ RHODE ISLAND AVE. LIGHTS TO BE CHANGED Trafic Signal Adjustment to Allow 22-Mile Speed—Amber to Be Removed. The traffic-light system on Rhode | Island avenue northwest and northeast will be present scheme, in wi all t.he the M‘ '.s clnn‘e colors llmnluneouny, xible progressive” system, under 'hlch each light is timed l&nuly. 8s to take into account of the blocks. lights will be timed so as to allow an even of about 22 miles r hour along Y one less the new goes will be no amber light between the red | qu! and green cycles. This is to pment impatient motorists from “inching up” on the gmber. ‘The amber light will be retained, however, between the green and red cycles, s0 as to give the motorists a chmee to clear the intersection before ted by t-hc red. At night, to warn late travelers that they are coming to intersections. A traffic count is now being made on Rhode Island avenue, on the basis hwhlehunmwmmmwfllbeumed. NAVY ANSWERS PROTEST AGAINST FOREIGN CIGARS | ethods Smokes Only Bought by Ships in Alien Ports, U. 8. Makers Are Told. By the Associated Press. con- ted States unless in cost was “unreason- It added that vessels in foreign sta- other supplies in foreign countries, but their consumption in the United States Sumption in the the difference changed in a week or two Xrom; —Star Staff Photo. REPRISAL SUSPECT IS HELD FOR JURY Gordon Charged in Assault on Pair Arrested After Attack on Woman. ‘William H. Gordon of Wheaton, Md.,, 'nrr sted for beating two men with a ]bhckjnck Saturday after they are |said to have attacked a woman in nearby Maryland, was bound over to the grand jury under $3,000 bond by Judge Ralph Given in Police Court today and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. ‘The two alleged victims, Willlam P. Dermott and Howell R. Boulden, both 23 years old, were held for Prince Georges County authorities, charged with at- Tud criminal assault on Mrs. Apn Nob) pun 1101 Clifton street, and also accused of taking her pocket- bonk contaning $300 in jewelry. Thwarted in an attempt to assault Mrs. Sparks, Maryland authorities said Dermott and Boulden took her purse and pushed her from their car, causing the woman to be seriously injured by a passing machine. Dermott told Detective Sergt. How- ard Ogle, who arrested him, that he was_severely beaten by Gordon after he had been escorted at pistol point to the first block of M street. Later, he said, both he and Boulden were driven to a point near Eighteenth street and Columbia road, where they ‘were ted by Gordon with a b!u‘.k fi.u’i’ollu 'ms{‘u}led and {heporud man was beating the when they arrived. i Dermott, Boulden and Gordon were arrested after residents of the neigh- borhood, hearing their screams, had telephoned police. The three men said to have been with Gordon escaped, | nowever. | Gordon, who is 33, was convicted | under the name of Jordan of possession | of liquor in 1923 and was given a $100 fine or 45 days in jail, according to the records at police headquarters. Since then, the records disclosed, he has been sentenced to 90 days in jail 80 | for & wortlless check in Nash- varying | ville, N. C., hubeennvmlymin jail and placed on probation as a result of a larceny charge, has been arrested | ;- on similar charges several times by the automobile squad and also has faced a petty hruny chnrxe Some of the ch-rxu against him resulted in ac- RITES AT MORGANTOWN FOR DR. C. F. ANDERSON Methodist Episcopal Conference Superintendent Suc- cumbs in Walkersville. Mm Dln-uh to The at-r ANTOWN, W. August 3.— Punenl urvices 'were eld this after- the Pirst Methodist Episcopal E‘h\u'ch lfrloruflfll Dr. C. Pred A:del’s::l. superintendent of the Morgantown district, West _Virginia Conference, hodist Episcopal Church, who died Friday at the home of his sister, near ‘Walkersville. Burial will be at Dela- ware, Ohio. Bishop Herbert Welch, Pittsburgh, and superintendents of other districts in the conference, took part in the services. superintendent Dr. Anderson became ot u intown district lnt. _September m that he was superintendent ‘Wheeling district and for six ears was pastor of the First Methodist ipucopll Church, Parkersburg. Dr. Anderson was a member of the board of trustees of West Vlmnh Wesleyan College. He was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan and Bolmn 'nleo- logical Seminary. Amon; torates were those at Beck hll flnt ; Zane Street, at Wheel ferences .at Des Kansas , Kans.» Four Licensed to Wed. -LEONARDTOWN, Md,, August (Special) —Two licenses PAGE B—1 ITWO MEN HUNTED AFTER GONFESSION INHACKER'S DEATH News of Slaying of Solomon Kept From His Sister, Who Is Seriously W. ALLEGED SLAYER'’S PALS ARE KNOWN TO POLICE Prisoner Says Chauffeur Was Shot ‘When He Tried to Flee From Hold-up. Although a man said to have confessed the murder of Mannie Solomon, 29- year-old taxicab driver, was under ar- rest today and his two accomplices were exmcud to be captured momen- tarily, the slain man's sister, seriously i1, still was ignorant of his death. ‘The man reported to have confessed shooting Solomon during an _attempted hold-up last Wednesday night is Wil- liam C. Robinson, alias Robertson, 19, golored, 124 E street southwest. According to Inspector Frank 8. W. Burke, chief of detectives, the names of the two colored men with Robinson IL Lhe time Solomon was killed were in possession of members of the homlnide squad several days ago. Says Four Attempted Hold Quesuoned at police headquarters, Robinson is said to have admitted he and three other men attempted to hold up Isadore Koblem, proprietor of a gro- cery at 1356 South Capitol street, about two hours before the murder. Previously it had been thought only three men figured in the South Capi- tol street robbery attempt. According to Robinson, however, the fourth mem- ber of the group left them shortly be- fore the slaying. The foursome, Robinson told detec- tives, styled themselves the “Silent Four.” Armed with this mtormnuum police said they expected to men with between 15 and 20 mr hold- ups staged here recently. Robinson was arrested the day lfler the murder, when Policeman B. Crooke, second precinct, captured hll'll after he was surprised in the alleged act of breaking into a house on W street near Ninth. Sought While in Jail. Not knowing Robinson already was in custody, members of the homicide squad continued their quest for hlm. and the fact that he was lodged in the second precinct, station did not be- come known to them until yesterday. At Crocke's suggestion, Precinct De- tective M. J. Mahaney quizzed Rob= inson. Finding he answered the de- scription of one of the men wanted in connection with the slaying, the detec- tive notified Detective Sergts. Thomas Sweeney and Carlton Talley. Robinson was grilled by Sweeney and Talley, who reported they obtained a signed confession from him. In his statement to the detectives, Pobinson is said to have told tha= following story: He and the three other men were thwarted in’ an attempt to rob Koblem. After firing a shot when the storekeeper and his wife screamed, the three fled, taking a taxi and going to a restaurant at Seventh and M streets southwest. Hailed Solomon’s Cab. From the lunch room three of the men went to Ninth street and New York avenue, where they hailed Solomon's cab, the driver to take them to Union and O streets southwest. ‘When they reached their destination they paid Solomon the fare. Robinson then drew his gun, a .45-caliber auto- matic, and commanded the driver to hand over his money. Solomon'’s response was to throw his automobile into gear and speed eway. Alarmed, Robinson shot the c'river, the tullet piercing his neck and severing his jugular vein. The car crashed into a tree, the three bandits leaped out and ran to the Seventh Street Wharves, where Robinson tossed the pistol into the river. At the time of the slaying, one of Solomon’s two sisters, who is said to have a heart dy, was critically Il and the news was kept from her. The driver's 75-year-old mother, over- whelmed by grief when she learned of his death, also is said to have become Quiet Signs Posted. Fearing the shock might cause the sister's death, other members of the family prevented her from seeing news- paper accounts of the killing. Neverthe- less, the sister’s condition is said to have grown worse, with the result that tenth precinct police were asked to prevent motorists and others from mlun[ any more noise than necessary vicinity of the Solomon home nv, 101 Quincy street. The Solomons’ telephone also was ordered disconnected tempo- rarily. A short time later the Traffic Bureau was urged to cloce the street. This be!nl impossible, “quiet” signs of the type posted in pital zones were placed h'l the block in which the Solo- mens live. They will not be taken down, it was said at the Traffic Bureau, until the sister is out of danger. Meanwhile, detectives apparently are skeptical concerning Robinson's asser- tion he does not know the whereabouts of his accomplices. They also are in- clined to doubt his statement that he threw his gun into the river, but that one of his accomplices also was armed. TWO MEN AND WOMAN HELD ON RUM CHARGE Raid at 919 New York Avenue Re- “veals Quantity of Alleged Al- cohol and Beer. Two men and a ‘woman and | the first inspection district’s vice in a raid on an apartment at 9! York avenue yesterday were raigned in Police Court charges of illegal They are Mrs. into e\utod{ itity of alleged I.leohnl lnd & search warrant for the Bem. R. A. John-ou. who m‘-’ ing party, said. CARNIVAL TO BE PLANNED et Fairfax Firemen’s Group Will Hold Joint Session Tonight. BALLSTON, Va., August 3 (w). —There will be a joint Carnival o:umm— and the