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Features and Classified 1931. AUGUST 10, FHH > PAGE B—1 SPRINGMANN GETS WASHINGTON, i , 'HISTORIC LANSING RESIDENCE INJUNCTION DENIED GRAND JURY HEARS SCHEN K e HENDERSON ESTATE . C. GOVERNMENT ™50 ciasED For coLusbus u. | COLLECTOR NAMING D. C, MONDAY, MORTGAGEES IN 107 RANCH ROW Efforts to Return Equipment, to Oklahoma Await Hear- ing Tomorrow. 400 EMPLOYES ARE AMONG DEFENDANTS Justice Cox Orders Alleged Inter- ferers to Show Cause. The troubles of 400 unpaid workers of the 101 Ranch Wild Wsst Show moved definitely into court today, when its mortgagees asked the District Supreme Court to fssue an_injunction, without | notice to the workers, forbidding the employes to interefere with the ship ment of the show back to Oklahom The application was denied by Justice Cox. Tre court, however, ordered the defendants to aspear at 1 o'clock to- morrow afternoon to show cause why an_injunction should not be issued. The employes, unpaid for various pe- riods ranging from three to eight. weeks, are seeking to prevent the movement of | the show before they get their back wages. It is believed they will count-r by attaching the physical property of ths show, excepting the live stock, and |Former Pcliceman Is Heavily Guarded From Attempt on Life. | Smiles at Defendants Ac- cused of Perjury in Of- ficer’s Trial. f Jaunty and smiling behind thick- lensed spectacles, Frederick A. Schenck, | former Washington _ policeman, now serving a 20-year sentence in Leaven- worth for robbery, was taken before the District grand jury today to testify concerning charges he has made against the district attorney’s office and the | Police Department. | Schenck left the grand jury room % about 1:30 o'clock after having testified | é for nearly three hours. He was taken | FREDERICK A. SCHENCK. back to the District Jail | United States Attorney Leo A. Rover swers questions he expects to put to said that about 10 more witnesses would | him, | be heard. He added that Bchenck's| —Schenck's charges. which concern ! testimony had not revealed anything ' principally the Police Trial Board con- | which would necessitate calling any wit- | viction of former Policeman Orville A. | nesces other than those already sub- liquor _ charges, | poenaed. were set forth in a letier to Repre- Schenck was brought to the Court| sentative Thomas Blanton of Texas, House from the District Jail under| member of the House District Com- | heavy guard. For half an hour prior | mittee in the last session of Congress. to his arrival Department of Justice|In the letter, Schenck is said to have agents stationed in the corridors around | stated that testimony damaging to the grand jury room darted back and| Staples at_his trial was manufactured forth, carefully scrutinizing the hand- and that witnesses perjured themselves. ful of spectators walting for Schenck It is also known that he has accused to make his appearance. | certain members of the district attor- | Corridor Is Cleared. | ney's staff of quashing serious charges | | againet suspects in return for large | Chicf Deputy United States Marshal | sums of money. Stephen B. Callahan instructed his as- | Ten to Testifs. sistants to permit no one to stand in | v v tog- the corridor near the entrance to the | AMORE the wltnesses wallng to foe jury room. Callahan sald he had is- | former Police Capt. Guy Burlingame, ra Staples on graft snd | | i ARGUED IN COURT Justice Cox Hears Application of A. Seay. Pleas on Harry JUDGE’S ACTION IS PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW | | o AT e l Metropolitan National Bank De- clines to Serve—George E. Edelin Also Suggested. @upreme Court today heard arguments Senator John B. Henderson of Mis-' souri, that he be appointed collector | of the estate of the Senator's widow. Mrs. Mary F. Henderson. The court reached the conclusion that it is very probable that a caveat will be filed to! the last will of the widow, in which her adopted daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Hen- Gerson Wholean, i disinherited, and | strongly intimated that a collector for| the estate will be appointed, .and that his selection will probably fall on a | trust company. The court asked counsel to suggest| SLIGHTLY HIGHER Per Capita Expenditures in Year to June 30, 1931, Are $62.94. !CENSUS BUREAU SAYS TOTAL IS $44,819,967) Figures Vary With Report of D. J.| Donovan—Property Value $1,834,858,008. | Justice Joseph W. Cox of the District| Payments per capita for maintenance | of the general departments of the Dis- triet’s city government for the fiscal | of counsel in the application of HArTy | year ended June 30, 1930, amounted to | A. Seay, former secretary to the late| $62.94, a slight increase over the $61.01 1929, and an enormous increase over the $28.42 for 1918, according to a study of the city’s financial statistics released today by the Bureau of the Census. The total payments for maintenance reported by the bureau was $30.567,904. Payments for public service enterprises totaled $1,183.178: interest on debt, $55; outlays for public improvements, $13.- 068,830, a total aliogether of $44,819,967. Figures at Variance. The figures as set up do not agree with the figures in the annual report names to him during the day and in-| for that year by the District auditor, timated that he would take action to-| Daniel J. Donovan. because different COSTS ARE SHOWN Is.crears of States Home. Where Kguss tant Visitors Din The former residence of Robert Lans- ing Secretary of State during the Wil- son administration, located at 1323 Eighteenth street, has been purchased by Columbus University as its future home. it was disclosed today with com- pletion of the transaction The property was acquired from war-tire Secretary, Edith Foster Dulles. Building to Be Remodeled. ‘The residential building on the prop- erty is a large brick, English basement home of four floors, standing on a site containing 12,222 square feet. The building is to be remodeled ex- tensively to convert its rooms and recep- tion halls into class rooms and lecture halls, to be used by the university for its law and accountancy teaching. The university. now located in rented quar- |ters, at 1314 Massachusetts avenue, WOMAN AT SIBLEY | INJURED IN PLUNGE | Attempts Flight After “Hear- ' i ing” Three Died in Room She Occupied. HOMICIDE SQUAD IN Be Uscd ‘EOX' Class Rooms. Eleanor Foster Lansing, widow of the| and her sister, | ed in Wartime, to 1 | hopes to move into its new quarters by the opening of the Fall term | The Eighteenth street mansion was built by Mrs. Lansing's father, John Foster, who_served as Secretary of State under President Harrison, serving also in other diplomatic posts at estlier | dates. Important in War-Time. | While Secretary of State, Mr. Lan- | sing, who died several years ago, en- |tertained at the Eighteenth street resi- {dence on a large scale. During war- time he held many diplomatic break- fasts there when strained diplomatic relations existing between some repre- | sentatives of foreign nations made more official or state functions difficult. ‘The remodeled building and improve- ments to be made in the property for |its use, Columbus University officials said today, will make the property in‘o & $100,000 plant. Charles W. Darr is| president of the university organization. | DEANHELDINFIFTH| SUICIDE. ATTEMPT Youth Faces Sanity Test After He Is Treated for Slashed Wrists. POLICE: SHAKE-UP Five Members of Unit Moved to Other Duties Under Burke's Orders. Flaherty to Remain in Group De- spite Request to Be Relieved. Headed by the appointment of De- tective Sergt. James M. Springmann as jchief of the homicide squad, the reor- ganization plan of the Detective Bureau was announced today by Inspector Frank S. W. Burke. Transfer of Sergt. Springmann to be head of the homicide squad and of five veteran members of that unit to other duties constitute a shake-up which po- lice circles believe is the result of the lnld squad's failure to solve several sen- sational murder mysteries. The men transferred from the homi- cide squad are Sergts. Thomas Sweency, Joseph A. Waldron, Carlton Talley, Charles E. Mansfield and James o lins. Sweeney and Waldron, it was learned, ‘were transferred at their own request. As chief of the h thus tie it up here until their claims | sued these instructions wnder orders | ggwin B. Hesse, former chief of police. | TOTTO% morning. methods of setting up the accounts are | squad, Sergt. Springmann takes to that are satisfied. Col. Zach T. Miller, owner of the wired from Oklahoma to deny thet there was any reason why the em- ployes should not go ba~k to Oklahoma and blaming their troubles on a ‘“red element.” He failed to mention any- thing about the back wages. The wire was in reply to one sent Saturday by George J. Adams, secretary “of the Dis- trict Commit'ee on Employment, ask- ing Miller to pay off his hands and take them back to Oklahoma. “Red” Charge Denied. The troopers indignantly denied the ¢harge that they were in the grip of the “red” element. They say that all they want is their pay and that they will pack up and go peaceably if they sho t it . The petition for the injunction was filed by W. Rice, trustee under & mortgage of $150,000 securcd on the show’s property. The defendants named ars the Western Show Co. of Marland, C~la.; Jack Brown, Perry Plank, Bib ‘Wade and Dr. W. R, Davis, all empioyes, sued as representatives of the 400 em- loves of the show, who are prevening its movement. Alleging that the mortgage has al- ready sufiered damages and that mors are threatened unless the court inter- venss, p'aintiff sets up that the claims of the emploves f°r back wages aie ezainst the Western Show Co., and cannot be enforced sgainst the equip- ment becaus® of the morigage. He says that he has offored to ir nsport the workers back to Oklah ma If they will pack the show up, and that they have refued. He alleges trat the mincr em- frora some unidentified Department of | | Staples, Assistant United Stat>s Attor- Acquainted With Estate. { followed. | | Justice official. |ney David Hart, Arthur N. Cresmont | As Schenck was being led before the | gng Samuel Hawkins, both former as- { grand jury he smiled at several of his | gjstant district attorneys, and Police | former associates in the Police Depart- | Capts. Ira Shoetz and Michael Raedy. | ment whom he has accused cf taking | ~Guarded better than a foreign po | graft. The former policeman Wwas tentate Scheick returned to Washing- taken before the grand jury at 10 |ton from Leavenworth Penitentiary yes {o'clock and had not been brought out |terday morning. surounded by Justice | by noon. United States Attorney Leo 'Department agents. deputy United | A. Rover, who is presenting the case, | States marshals and police detectiv i said he did not know how long Shenck | Accompanied here by two deputy | would be required as a witness, He n- | marshals, he was met at the train 'y | dicated that members of the grand jury |15 officers, a precaution taken because ! might want to question the witness on lof rumors that an attempt would be| their own initiative after Schenck an- |made on his life. | WOMAN 5 SUEDE OVER L HEALTH | | . . WOMAN DIES | | 1 ] | Former Trade CommissionlWashington Policeman Hurt! } i and Recent Bride Killed : in New Jersey. Policeman Charles J. Sullivan of No. | 4 precinct is believed recovering in s | | Woodbury, N. J., hosprial from a pos- | sible fracture of the skull and other | Employe Takes Life With Gas. ‘The coroner's office has issued a cer- | tificate of suicide in the death of Miss | Laura E. Ruckdaeschel, 40 years old, & AFTER AUTO CRASH Attorney Norman 'B. Landreau pre- My Dogovan. expatied thel senled the application of Mr. Seay and explained thei Seay was well acquaint- ed with the estate and had been nared 5 executor and a legatee under one of the wills which have been offered for probate. Attorney Julius 1. Peyser ob- jected to the appointment of Seay and urged that George E. Edelin, the execu- tor under the latest will, be named as' collector. He also opposed A sugges- tion that the National Metropolitan | Bank be appointed. quired to set up accounis showing the | source of the money expended, and that ithe Census Bureau has standard tables {of its own, into which it “breaks down" the entries from all .of his books. The Census Bureau is interested in total the money altogether. As an example, M Donovan ex- plained that the bureau takes into its { sccount for expenses for the Police De partment the salaries of crossing offi- Attorneys Covington, Burling and | cers which are paid by the local street Rublee appeared for Henry N. Arnold|rajlway companies. On the District's and his sister. Prances Arnold, of New | ook~ however, these expenses are | York, the residuary legatees under the | charged to “miscellaneous trust fund latest will, and expressed satisfaction | geposits,” along with expenses for po- with the naming of Edelin, but opposed | jice pensions and many other items. the bank. Later they suggested the | = . s names of three trust companies, any | gcpengion, iy Hip g o one of which, they said, would be sat-| According to Donovan's 1930 report, A | the total expenditures were $40,214,- Attorney Stanton C. Peelle, for the | 171.65, instead of the $44,819.967. The Metropolitan Bank, told the court that | bureau’s figure, however, in addition to the bank has already taken steps to|the expenditures from general appro- conserve the portion of the estate | priations, takes in payments from the which belonged to John B. Henderson, | trust funds, the special funds, the gaso- jr., since at the death of Mrs. Hender- | line tax, the water rents and other son the bank became ‘the trustee of the ! items, which are set out separately in son's estate. One-half of the rents be- | th> Donovan report. This lists expendi- ing collected are being held for the per- | tures from the water fund at $1,426,- son to be named as collector, he sald.|852.01; miscellaneous trust fund de- The bank declined to serve as collector | posits, $669,709.87; teachers’ retirement of Mrs. Henderson's estate because of | fund, $403,422.82; policemen’s and fire- its position as trustee under the will men's relief fumd, $639,193.07; gasoline of her son. | tax, $1738,05292, and many other Mrs. Wholean Tgnored. | smalter items Attorney H. Prescott Gatley told the | The $55 mentioned in the Census Bu- court that all the arguments seemed to | reau’s rcport as interest on debt, al- ignore the only heir of Mrs. Henderson, | taough actually paid out during 1930, Mrs. Beatrice Henderson Wholean, | was charged of under | !the law governing his office. he is re- | payments. and disregards the source of | ployes have threatensa to, and that | former employe of the Federal Trade they will, unless restrained, desiroy | Commission, whose bod; was found |injuries suffered in an automobile acci- called by John B. Henderson, jr., in his the property. Morale Is Maintained. Meanwhile the morale of the troupers seemed undisturbed as they _entered the sixth day of their strike. There is enough food on hand to carry on for quite a few days on the two-meals-a- day basis, which started last Wednes- day. Of the fund of $560 subscribed for the workers by the American Legion there is still $161.17 in cash and $255.46 in pledges left, according to District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan. who s handling the funds for the Legion. The money has been used to buy coal, ice and foodstuffs, Washington merchants are supplying large amounts of food- tufls free of charge Salvation Army evangelists conducted services at the camp grounds yester day and the employes amused them- selves by putting on a show of their own. Everybody who wanted to ride A steer or a bucking broncho was given an opportunity to do so. Strangely enough, many accepted the qu tionable honor, and Charles Tate, & tentman, who handles a tent peg some- what better than a Tunaway steer, wound up the day with & broken arm | when the steer proved a little meaner | than he had expected Shortly after the show the storm broke and the employes hustled the stock under canvas and hurried there themselves. Free Return Offered. ‘The wire from Col. Miller was as fol- Jows “All employes of 101 Ranch will be brought here on show train free of expense un / prevail in holding up the m of the train, My agent there on the grounds, as ell & Mr. Bo vare, lesses of the sho Al do everything possible to effect s m here. These people can find em- yvment in this country in the har- vesting of the enormous crops. 1 be- lieve they ere being led by a red eic- ment which has been around the show all Summer, No reason for them to remain in Washington.” ‘The show's appropriation for medical supplies has long since run out, but its physician, Dr. Welter Davis has stayed with it in order to care for the health of the emploves. Today he feared the increasing)y insanitary con- ditions would 1l outbreak of disease and left to consult with Healt Officer William C. T to s°e if he could persuade Dr er to compel the ghow OWners to visions for ke ping Me said he hag_po fun rehase d sinle WA'Y"IG" there ha of diseases due t the eamp. 50 “Y” GIRLS WILL HELP STAGE FOLK FESTIVAL sidents of at-Home, " ipate in the Midsummer f grounds clean. with which to boen several cases y troubles at festival Wednesday night at the Sylven &Theater. The festival will be staged un- der the joint auspices of the Community Center Department of the public schools and the Office of Public Bulldings and Public Parks. The U. S. Army Ba rection of William J. Sia provide musie for the pro M. Burnett of the 3 arranged the song: snc the music was sco.c nd. J mas F. Da will be the band's col-ist in a prelimic nary concert Rehearsals for the festival ave be-| year, due to his frailty, oniy his family conducted todey and tomorrow. ‘Twenty-five-cent tickets for chairs are on sale at the Community Center head. in the Franklin last night in a gas-filled kitchen at dent Saturday in which his bride of three months, Mrs. will, as his daughter and who had been ’ 'the books long ago. The District has no bonded or floating in- debtedness. It is on a strictly cash basis. 1361 Meridian place. Barbara Sullivan, Miss Ruckdaeschel, doctors said, had jbeen dead about 48 hours when her The Sullivans were en route to visit | { body was di: covered on tne return home | Mrs. Sullivan's parents in Boston, Mass., | was fatally injured. adopted by Mrs. Henderson as her- heir December 30, 1924. He declared that Seay and Edelin were both antagonistic to Mrs. Wholean and should not be The last of i3 bonds were retired on August 1, 1924 by setting aside a fund in the Unitsd States Treasury for the payment of alj bonds then outstanding {of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. when their car was in collision with {and Mrs. George W. Johnson. | another operated by Charles Galbusers | | _Notes were found in which Miss |of Lynwood, Pa., who was held by police | | Ruckdaeschel requested her relatives to | under $1,000 bond. : | “please forgive me for this act,” which | Mrs. Sullivan, 23 years old, an em- | | gh> ascribed to her despalr at ever re- | ploye of the Census Bureau, died nrlyi | gaining her health. Mics Ruciidaeschel | vesterday at Underwood Hospital in | also directed the disposition of her Woodbury, where her husband fs | personal effects. thought to be rccovering. The Sulli- | 1t is believed she died P.iday night or vans lived at the Stanton Manor Apart- | early Saturday while other residents of | ments, 644 Mas-achusetts avenue north- | the home were at a Maryland beach for |east. The eaccident occurred near | the week end. Swedesboro, N. J \ Dr. Frank Shea of 2344 California | Sullivan, who joined the police force | street was hastily summoned and pro- |in January. had obtained leave of ab- {nounced Miss Ruckdaeschel dead. Her |sence to make the trip. Relatives of | body was seated upright in a chair be- the couple left for New Jersey last |fore a stove, draped with a blanket night to arrange for the funeral of Mrs. | which also inclosed two open gas jets. | Sullivan, either in Wdlhington or in S ‘ Boston. | 1SENTENCE COMMUTED IN PROBING MURDER CASE | | Pred C. Croxton, acting chairman of | the Emergency Committee for Employ- PASS $43,000,000 MARK TN named as collector. . Attorney Edmund L. Jones appeared for the Battle Creek College and op- d the naming of Seay and Edelin said his client will probably file a caveat to the latest will. It is named a3 principal legatee in three earlier wills of Mrs. Henderson. POLICE BATTER DOOR TO PREVENT SUICIDE with interest (o that date, There still remain about $102,900 of these bonds which have never been surrendered, al- Ithmllh they ceased to draw interest in 1924. Every now and then on® of them is presented to the Treasury, and it is promptly paid off. No Net Debt. The Census Bureau report on this feature says: “There was no net debt for Washington, June 30, 1930, the {amount of the assets in the sinking fund exceeding the small funded debt outstanding. The same condition existed in 1929. but in 1918 | the per capita debt was $9.40.” ‘The assessed valuation of property in ‘Washington subject to ad valorem taxes is given as $1,.834,858,008. The levy for all purposes was $24,650,329, or $50.75 per capita, all for the “city cor- poration.” The per capita tax levy was $49.35 in 1929 and $20.68 in 1918. He |Former Dry Informer Rescued From Gas™After Argument With His Wife. amount of | By the Associated Press. | A commutation of sentence for Earl Ogden, Peoria, 1L, liquor law violater, | {{fltfl ive more than two weeks ago, in order that he might heip apprchend a | murderer, was announced today by the ment, announced today that public and semi-public works contract awards amounting to $43,312.878 had been re- ported to his committee last week. This brought the total reported since % |tice Department authorities would not said he | adequate yro- | nder the di-| of the Army i Thursday—his 102d. Vol Deeember 1, 1930, to $2,140.404.814 The report for the week covers 335 proiects in 45 States and 1-in the Dis- irict of Columbia. This was the Orr School, where the contract calls for an expenditure of $68.897. In Maryland en expenditure of $48,300 is shown for improvements to the terrace at the Naval Academy * VOTES MOST POPULAR Spectal Dispatch (0 The Star. BALLSTON, Va. August 10.—Miss Jeanette Spitzer was the winner of the popularity contest staged at the annual carnival of the Arlington County So- cial Club for the benefit of its buildirg fund. which closed Saturday evening Mrs. 8. O. Harrls and Miss Eleanor Brust were the winners of the $30 and $20 gold prizes | Justice Department Ogden's sentence was commuted on | July 23, after a direct reguest to the Ju: tice Department for such action by Iowa | officials who said they desired his heip {in the solution of & murder case. Jus- | comment cn the murd:r cese Ogden was s-nitenced to Leavenworth for three years, with a fine of $2.500, for operating a still Virginia Couple Weds. HILLSBORO. Va. August 10 (Spe-. cial) —Miss Ruth Crim, daughter of r. and Mrs. E. T. Crim of Hillsboro, d E. Neville Bradfield. assistant tiust officer of the People's National Bank cf Leesburg and formerly of Uppervilie, . were married in the Luthersn par- conage. Brunswick, Md., by the Rev. C W. Hess Ex-Postmaster Is Buried. PAW PAW., W. Va, August 10 (Spe cial.—Eervices were held for George A. Flora, 72. who died at his home after a brief illness. He was recently retired as postmaster here after 20 vears of service. Suiviving are two daughters Mrs. Walter Robinette, Baltimore. and Miss Myrtle, at home. He was a son of the late Maurice and Elizabeth Ann Plora. Believed Victim of Foul Play. LYNCHBURG. Va. August 10 clal).—Acting under the belief that his son, Ernest E. Harper. 17. met with foul play, J. E. Harper of Pairview Heights here has offered $100 reward for in- Tormation which may result In con- | viction of his assailant or assaflants. { Young Hrper was found Ju'y 27 in the {canal hore and it is thought he was! drowned the night of ‘July 25 (Spe- K | MAJ. S. W. SAXTON WILL OBSERVE HIS 102D BIRTHDAY THURSDAY Habits and Outdoor Exercise in Earlier Years. Maj. Saxton, a Civil War veteran, D lives with his family at 1347 Harvard street. He was retired 10 y'ars ego after more than 50 years in Govern- ment service, From his sixtesrth ninty-Alth year M. Saxton kept a faithful account of his caily Ife and personal observations of some of the st interesting events in American t He aitributes his long life to method- habits and the mode; The major's interests, however, like the cirele of his old frieads, have u'r- i rowed with the passing years. This mul:m%fl;lfl:fl_twhm Ignaq.nnm | Washingtonian Attributes Long Life to Methodical | Battering down a heavily barricaded door, police broke into the room of John Shymanski, 26, of 344 Sixth street suicide attempt Shymanski, a former Prohibition Bu- reau informer, shortly after an argument with his wi Isabelle, police were told. He placed a | tube leading from a nearby gas jet in | his mouth atter reinforring the door | with an iron stove and bed | His wife detected the odor of gas and called police. Patrolmen A. Friedberg d A L. Dull knocked down the door and removed Shymanski snd he later | was revived by the fire rescue squad. | Shymanski then was taken to Gal- {linger Hospital for mental observation. | While being led from the house, he | broke away from police to chase a pho- tographer who had taken = picture of him. He was ovcrtaken after a short | chase. i Shymanski, a former taxicab driver, | | was employed as an informer for ‘the | | Prohibition Bureau for ahout a month, | {-rcnrdmg to W. R. Blandford, in charge | |of the Washington-Baltimore district. | His services were terminated last July, | Blandford said. ot |HOSPTAL TAKES STEPS | TO TREAT BABY DISEASE | | A mild outbreak of tmpetigo. irritating iskin disease. which especially aficts babies in hot weather, has caused the | temporary closing cf the obstetrical { ward at Walter Reed Hospital and the | treatment of these cases in another building This move, it was announced at the hospital foday. was taken t give the { ward a very thorough cleaning, although | the outbreak itself was well under con- |trol and there are no more cases. The { disease is especially apt to attack the tender skin of the new-born and is | | drritating, but not dangerous, GELHAR INQUEST SET | | Probe of Policeman's Death in Crash to Be Held Tomorrow. An inquest into the death of Police- msn Arthur H. Gelhar, who was fatally infured Friday when a police car, in i ' thrcush his | entzance to the Zoc, has been aet Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt at 11:30 loclock tomorrew morning st the District Morgue, | southeast last night and frustrated a | ‘ Architect Dead | had gone to his room | JOHN M. DO! —Harris-| LAST RITES HELD FOR JOHN M. DONN Prominent Architect of Washing- ton, Who Died at Baltimore, Is Buried There. Ewing Photo, ‘The funeral of John M. Donn, 59 years old, prominent architect of this city, who died in Union Memorial Hos- , Baltimore, Saturday, was held in Baltimore this afterncon. Interment was in the family plot in Greenmount Ceme- tery there. Mr. Donn had been in fail- ing health for several months. Mr. Donn was a member of the Chevy Chase Club and for a number of years was chairman of the Racquet Club House Committee. He was a graduate of Cornell University, and was widely known in this city. He resided at the Bachelor Apartments on H street. Mr. Donn was descended from an old Maryland family. His father was for many years inently identified with the United S archiiectof Ghevy Gaase, Mr. Donn never martied, | After “hearing” that several previous , batients had died in the room she oc- cupied at Sibley Hospital, Mrs. Isabelle Walden, 56, tied two sheets together early today and attempted to lower her- self to the ground from a third-story window. Ske fell to the sidewalk be- low and was seriously injured. Miss Phyllis Plyler, student nurse, heard Mrs. Walden remove the screen from the window and rushed into the rcom. She found Mrs. Walden hang- ing from the windowsill by her finger- | tips. with the improvised rope tied to a \glrce of furniture and dangling beside er. The nurse leaned from the window, grasped Mrs. Walden's arms and at- tempted to pull her back into the room. The woman proved too heavy for her, however, and slipped from her grasp, dropping to the pavement on the North Capitol street side of the building. X-ray Pictures to Be Taken. Mrs. Walden, said by hospital offi- cials to be the mother of 10 children, was taken to the operating room, where a severe cut on her head was stitched. Although examination failed to reveal any broken bones, doctors said X-ray photographs would be taken to deter- mine whether she had suffered a skull fracture or intermal injuries. They termed her condition serious. She “entered the institution & few days ago for diagnosis. they said, and the nature of her iliness had not been definitely determined. Son Notified of Injury. It was about 4:30 am. and Miss Plyler had just left the room when Mrs. Walden, who lives at 1036 Otis street northeast, crept from her bed, knotted the sheets together, raised the screen and climbed out. Mrs. Walden's home was locked up today, and residents of the neighbor- hood said they understood members of the family were out of the city. A son, Andrew, living at 2824 Twelfth street northeast, was notified. BLAMES SELFISHNESS IN PART FOR SLUM |Dr. Henry Mankin, Jr., Speaks at Church Service Sponsored by Masons, “Judgment and Authority” was the theme of a sermon yesterday afternoon by Rev. Dr. Henry Mankin, jr., pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Incarna- tion, at special services on Temple Heights, held under auspices of the Grand Lodge of Masons. The musical program was directed by J. Walter Humphrey, and Arthur Tabbutt, bass soloist of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church, sang several num- | bers, It was announced that next Sunday aft:rnoon's guest speaker will be Rev. | Dr. Hugh T. Stephenson of the Bethany Baptist Church. The services begin at 4 o'clock. Dr. Mankin's sermon was based upon two texts—"Sabbath w:s made for man and not man for the Sabbath” and “For God will bring every work to judgment, with every hidden thing, Whether it be good or whether it be “We can.blame the present depression to some ext:nt,” Dr. Mankin said, “on | the selfishness and the profit-seeking of | regarded the ever-important service motive.” Among lodges represented Naval, No. 4; Joseph H. Milans, No. 38; Temple-Noyes, No. 32, and Pentalpha, [No. 23. Eastern Star chapters with members in attendance included Acacia, No. 28; La Fayette, No. 37, and H. Milans, No. 41. Joseph . Because of the losses of men i1 the 1 World War, Europe now has a greater |percentage of unmarried women be- tween the ages of 30 and 50 than ever before. unit the experience of one of the long- William Harper Dean. jr., 21, son of | an officia] of the Unitad St Cham- | est service records in the buresu. Unsolved Crimes Listed. ber of Commerce, was being held for mental observation at Gallinger Hos- pital today after what is said to have been his fifth attempt at suicide. , who recently obtained a writ of habeas corpus to require the parents | of his 19-year-old bride to produce her | in court and show cause why she should not live with him, is said to have made | | his latest suicide try Saturday night, wh:n he slashed his wrists. After receiving treatment at Gar- field Hospital, he returned to his home |at 2057 Park road, where he was ar- rested by tenth precinct police and | taken to Gallinger. Physiclans at the latter institution said he was “doing nicely” today. Married in December. Dean married Miss Elizabeth Love | Burnett, Love of the. Rockville last December 24. later, ¢hlr|'lng his wife was from him by her parents, Mr. | James Burnett, he obtained an ord | from Justice Jennings Bailey, requiring | the girl to be produced in court. Mr. snd ‘Mrs. Burnett, who lived 11701 Sixteenth street, testified their | daughter was confined to a sanitarium in Laurel, where she was Al | swallowiny A not - 1y, uufie They . cl Dean | ported their daughter p | had been sentenced to 10 days in jail | for drunken driving about two weeks after the wedding and that he attempt- ed to end his life by swallowing poison about three weeks later. Girl in San Antonlo. Advising Dean to institute habeas corpus proceedings ‘in Maryland, Justice | Bailey continued the case for a month. | It later was continued until September |3, when Mr. and Mrs. Burnett again | will be required to show cause why | their daughter should not be returned ito her husband. Meanwhile, the girl |and her mother are said to be in San Antonlo, Tex. Dean’s second alleged suicide at- tempt. was made last Tbursday, when he is said to have slashed bhis left fore- arm with a razor blade. Physiclans at | Emergency Hospital took 16 stitches in | the wound. | The next day Dean is said to have | slashed his arm again, doctors at Gar- fleld taking four stitches in the cut. He returned to the hospital again the | next day, this time to be treated for poisoning. He denied having made an- other attempt to end his life, how- ever, insisting he had swallowed the poison accidentally. It was shortly after his distha | from the institution that he | slashed both wrists. Among the unsolved murders blamed 'or the shake-up are these of Beulah { Limerick, who was shot at her home last New Year eve; Mary H rtment clerk, who was crim: {attacked and killed April 12, { Elizabeth Jaynes, Garden-T- | cashier, who was slain by bandits April 3, 1931, and Jick Cunningham, rack- eteer and police informer, who was “put on the spot” May 19, 1931. | "Waldron and Sweeney were members lot uad during investi the sensational death of - tective Sergt. Arthur Scrivener, ginia McPherson and Mrs. Al Dreyfus, all three of whom were o as “suicides” after long inquiries. 4 Flaherty to Remain. ki hy ferred to the homicide squad al with ann from other e 1 the vacancies created by ting - on nn's ap+ Inspector e said: “In gmann whe have one of the Commen pointment, Sergt. !m petent and thorough investigator, & man who has the confidence and re- spect of the community, and a man who, personslly, comes from a line of people who have been successful in lh'eolr undertakings for several gener- ations.” Burrett, a nephew of Detective Capt. Edward J. Kelly, former head of the homicide squad, and now assistant chief of detectives, and Dalglish, for~ merly worked on general assignments under Lieut. Clement J. Cox, Dalglish as the partner of Sergt. Springmann. Earned Reputations. Truscott and Murphy formerly were members of the clothing squad, and earned enviable reputations as in- vestigators while working with that | anit. Truscott, yous headquarters, recently attended school of scientific crime solution held by Maj. Calvin Goddard, famous bal- listics expert, at Detective Sergt. George Darnell is the only member of the homicide squad, be- -alflretle ty. reappointed by Inspector Talley will work on the ¢lothing-squad in the future. while Waldron, Sweeney, Mansfleld and Collins will shift Eril assignments, a large group of people who have dis- | were | 'HEART ATTACK KILLS BERTRAM BREWSTER | | Bertram A. Brewster, 35, representa-| | tive of the Marlowe & Iwaya Co., New | York, died suddenly today at his resi-| dence, in the East Clifton Terrace | Apartments. Death was attributed to| & heart attack. | Brewster, & World War veteran, had weeney as partners. ld _will Ana-Colibs with Delccie Sereh. Ve an s ive Van Doran Hughes. Others Are Transferred. Detective Sergts. J. J. Tolson and Chester Stepp, who have been general assignment detectives, have been trans- ferred to the clothing squad to All the vacancies caused by the shifting of Murphy and Truscott. Detective Sergt. D. G. Fletcher will continue as head of the clothing squad, | been married only five weeks. He is| | survived by his widow, formerly Miss | Josephine Lent of city, and two brothers, George Brewster of Brooklyn | and Charles Brewster of Ohio. Funeral | | services will be held at W. W. Cham-| | bers' funeral parlors, 1400 Chapin street, | Wednesday at 2:30 o'clock. Burial will | be in Arlington National Cemetery. | L e | RESIGNATIONS ACCEPTED ‘The President has ac the resig- | nation of William W. Andrews of Cleve- |land, Ohio, first secretary of legation |at Oslo, Norway, who is going into pri- | vate business. Mr. Andrews is a gradu- | ate of Yale University and served in! the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in the) Spanish-American War of 1898. He en- | tered the diplomatic service March, 1911, and since then has served at Panama, Lisbon, Berne, Bucharest, The Hague, Paris, Oslo, and at the State Department. ! ROOM’ ENDS 5 Meeting Place of Envoys De The ornate diplomatic Toom of the State Department, for more than 50 years one of the principal “show- places” in the National Capital, .has fallen from its high estate. Denuded of its two lonz ebony tables, large ebony chairs, richly carved and upholstered in black leather, and large painted por- traits of former Secretaries of State, it has been entirely reconstructed into two rooms of ordinary size. designed as offices for the use of special assistants to the Secretarv, added to the official force to meet - demands of the diplomatic es- for the Biate, Wt and Navy nto an architectural replics of the provide for a gand ISTATE DEPARTMENT ‘DIPLOMATIC 0 YEARS’ SERVICE| while other holdovers are Detective Sergts. Curtis Trammell. Thomas Sul- livan and Charles Warfield. Trammel was transferred from the automobile squad last week to make room on that squad for' Detective Sergt. James E. Kenney, former precinct detective at No. 2 station. Detective Sergt. A. D. Mansfield, for- mer precinct de:e;uve at No. 1, who was promoted with Kenney last weel when Detective Sergts. James Kane l; J. L. Billman were demoted for “in- efficiency,” succeeds Barrett as the part- ner of Detective Sergt. Harry Cole on No changes are to be made In the personnel of the check and business fraud. automobile and narcotic squads, the detective chief announced. INMATE RECAPTURED Fugitive From St Elizabeth's Found by Park Police. o T s, 4 28 rom St. Elizal 's u’z week, oYeS, spprehended b afternoon by park police and returned the hospital. nuded of Ornate Furnishings and Remodeled Into Two Offices for Aldu salon for holding international confer- ences and the us: and enter- gmntotmmmmk exclusive use of the will not ?um The new bullding, designed f