Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1931, Page 13

INUNCTION SUT THREATENED N BUSPARKING RON 'Attbmey for Property Owners Near Rented Lot Complains to Commissioners. RIVALRY FOR SPACE BLAMED BY MAJOR Manager of Greyhound Lines Says New York Avenue Location Is Temporary. Complaints of all-night parking of interstate busses on the streets of Wash- Commission, charging _the ia Greyhound Lines with lbpmvmon f'i the zoning regulations by parking busses on a ‘vacant lot which is in first mercial H g %:3 i §e £ gkl -4 % i3 it d g B it i ! ‘busses for an injunction. Also, he said, it is the intention of property owners to ask for damages. attorney before making the move, and | had been advised that he was not violating the szoning regulations in doing so. Not to Be Permanent. It is mot the intention of the bus to utilize the lot permanently, | he added. Its bus garage now nt‘l!c‘:: on Ne;v York avenue ex wi ready for occupancy January 1, 1932, he said, and will be ly-.rge enoug] to take care of all the company’s . After Labor day, when the peak of { tourist travel is reached, he said, ¢ company will have very little need the the M street lot affords. company respect to complaints. ‘Whether the. problem of night park- | ©f busses on the streets can be con- | t under the present and | regulations is doubted by District offi- | cial. In the general overhauling of the ! regulations, it was said, the question will be taken up for solution. EIGHT ARE CONVICTED FOR COUNTY FRAUD Four Sentenced to Five- Year Terms and Fined $5,000 WASHINGTON, D. C, MRS. HENDERSON CHAUFFEUR GETS THREATENING LETTER Told to “Tell the Truth”| -About Mrs. Wholean’s Parentage. Note Bears Ominous Sign: and Promises Dire Punish- ; ment. | S | William H. Carter, colored chauffeur | for the late Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, has recelved an anonymous letter threstening him with dire but unspeci- fled consequences unless he “tells the truth” ‘about the parentage of Mrs. Beatrice F, Wholean, reputed grand- daughter of Mrs, Henderson. | The letter was signed with letters of ® secret organization and, by way of adding to its terrorizing black imprint of & human palm its face. Carter was Mrs. Henderson's coach- man at the time of Mrs. WILLIAM H. CARTER. —sStar Staff Photo. over to an attorney, he was inclined to dismiss it as the work of a crank. Carter was bequeathed $3,000 in Mrs. Henderson’s last will, which has been filed for probate in District Supreme Court. “The will left $200,000 to Shima, half In cash and half in trust, and en- tirely disinherited Mrs. Wholean. ner Suppcecd peandduigiier B, e 5 ughter - cante known the latter asked the B Court to prevent Mrs. lving a valuable resi- Government as & dence here to permanent home for the Vice Presi- dent. Mrs. Henderson then brought suit to annul a court decree adopting Mrs. ing to run L Henderson subsequently told “Don’t you are away. No.mmw you be watched day and night from the hour this letter s received. { secret proceeding in District Supreme “If the confession is not made by the Court in 1924 by which she adcpted 8th_of this month we are to | Mrs, Wholean and made her her heir- know the reason why. The Jap at-law. After Mrs. Henderson's latest will was filed shortly after her death, five other been | wills and two codicils were brought into that a prolongea develop among the under the in- LOVETTE FORE. 0.P. Tennessee Republican Con- tradicts Reports He'd Support Democrat. for Two Weeks of Field Training. Denying & report that he was unde- cided as to whether he would cast his vote with the Republican or Democratic y in the reorganization of mu when Congreéss convenes Fall, tative O. nessec B. publican, of Ten: night in a statement issued through his son and secretary, Frank H. Lovette, [T as saying that he would vote Democrats in the election of a Speaker to succeed the late Nicholas Long- worth. “I did not say I was undecided about how ¥ tative lican caucas. “Since his death I have been non- commital as between the Republicans the speakership, and that is 1 very much u-:m" that S steamer is scheduled to dock . Va., a suburb of Norfolk. ® k tomorrow morning, and the | fore debarked at 8 o'clock. Trains =iy waiting nearby and the soldiers |y harmony have some chance for nsfer the %:e::::'&;;lmflwslu‘!tg c:.mmugt work, and it will be for them. t erest ‘of the coun he Ik is scheduled to start at 10| continued. “The problems wten must o'clock, so that the troops will be in the | face both at home and abroad demand fore noon. Two meals Will be | the hearty co-operation of the execu- the boat. supper this evening | tive and legislative branches of the and breakfast tomorrow morning. | Government. I therefore hope to see o mmmm ’Efi’."‘zfiflg:'” House organize so that such co- within & week, the 20th | PeTRHOn oan be had - CHILE HOLDS OFFICER IN IBANEZ COUP PLOT Army Man Grilled Constantly on “DUTCH” IRWIN FREED | wotes Proposing Revolt Re- ON VAGRANCY CHARGE | ported Smuggled. | By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, August 15.—Tt was reported here today that several resolutions, sald to have been signed by officers of the air corps and the army and navy proposing a coup d'etat on behalf of former President Carlos were found on the person of an army officer who was apprehended yesterday while trying to pass the border into Argentina Authorities here were making no statements today, but it was understood the officer was being questioned day and night. i F £ o 8% i éii i & { Judge Schuldt Holds Case of Gov- ernment Too Weak for’ Conviction. Vagrancy charges against Morris E. | (Dutch) Irwin, one of ‘the first of a| dozen men arrested several months ago | in a police drive designed to “annoy” | members of ‘the gambling fraternity, | were dismissed yesterday by Police Court RASKOB CHANGE URGED !Calnndo Chairman Would Give National Post to Shouse. ENVER, August 15 (#).—Replace- jobn J. Raskob as national | ) i Mr: reporters she had no recollection of & | SPEAKER CHOICE - this | the stature of their descendants wher- country may be seftied. 1“5«1““,«; and the President are | SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST Ousting of 4,000 In Census Bureau Proves Difficult| PAST LEAVES MARK| INVARIED STATURE OF VIRGINA PEDPLE| ™+ e o Prof. R. B. Bean DiSCOVErS| -ne task of adding 4,000 persons as | graduall Influence of History in Eeimployes has devolved upon Censue Survey. Distances From Homes Director Willlam M. Steuart. ‘Where last year he had hundreds of temporary jobs to offer those fitted by manual dexterity and mental t,rllnln{ to help in the census count, he musf these workers as fast as ANCESTRY AND LOCALITY HAVE TELLING EFFECTS him to dis- pense with the services of his present Residents Along Coast Are Shorter Than Those Living Back in Western Hills. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The story of Virginia's ploneer days | 15 recapituiated in the present stature | 1 of its people, according to a repcrt just | must work with,’ made-to the American Physical Anthro- | added. logy Association by Prof. Robert B. —— n of the University cf Virginia. Dr, Bean measured more than 3,000 ‘old Virginians,” individuals whose an- cestors had been in the State for at ] least two generations. His subjects ’ ’ were students at the university, mem- lben of the faculty and their wives, stydents of Sweetbriar and Randolph- Macon Colleges, soldiers from Camp | Lee, business men and farmers around i Charlottesville, and the poor whites of i the. helebt of ‘these groups With. that e 0! ese groups e of 1022 other population groups upon | William L. Stevenson Arrest- ! ;:leh mmu;er;xr;nu tr;’-ve hbere':‘ 'uken. | ! lese ran| m e sho peo- H il '. Dle on sarth the Africen Negrinos, o a | €d in Washington on Balti ’:'tvuxll o:u;l:ou:n farmers of which ml Frau d Cha scientific record, 3 He found that Virginia has far from more Fral rge a homogeneous population, as deter- mined by stature. Students from the from Baltimore last night L. Stevenson, 63-year- old mining engineer, arrested here last week for Baltimore authorities, had ! obtained $20,000 from Wi in- vestors, were being investigaf by the police last tht. counties. The average heijght for all Virginians was 173.7 centimeters, The average for the tide- water people was 170.7. That for the farmers around Charlottesville, l'" 1 6.2, ians A ference } of approximately an inch in both direc- tions from average. Ancestry Is Reflected. him ‘The differences, he said, may repre- police. sent primarily the ancestry of the peo- | Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth ?lt. sw‘c‘flnh J‘;‘le( bem‘ :l‘r!el:tdhl?sy street, where the arrest was made. WO en! rom two § Pirst came the English settlers who Charged With Swindling. Izmh“fihed their villages along the| Stevenson, who described himself as Chesapeake Bay coast and from there|a California mini engineer, was spread along the rivers into the north- | turned over to Baltimore detectives ern neck country and the Pledmont|less than two hours later. Taken to reglon. They were of medium stature. | Baltimore, he ias charged with ! Then the Scotch-Irish, Germans and | swindling Dr. J. M. T. Finney, noted | Dutch from Pennsylvania and Mary- | Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon, and land came into the western sections. 29 other Baltimoreans. including the Notable among these were the | doctor's three sons, out of a total of Scoteh-Irish who left their imprint in to an Associated nited | dispatch, timore deteotives an~ States. During the Revolution, Dr. |nounced Stevenson also was wanted Bean points out, the tallest men in the | here. He likewise was said to be wanted colonies were those from the Western |in Philadeiphia, where he allegedly ob- Virginia counties, notably the soldiers | tained $8,000 by fradulent methods, as in Morgan's Rangers. Wi . | well as in several other cities. oAl B Sock s wee cu, | wanias mert ‘or o nepecior, Franlk stock, also were ex- | e un'“:nm. but represented | Burke, chief of the Detective Bureau, still = rfl:ovment &h;t hlulmctm- 1.;!4' “This is the first I've heard of rib . . o different ta o the fo. 0TS 1A similar statement was made by By the of the Civil War, he | Sergt. Mansfield, who added: “I'll look points out, the tallest men came from | it up Monday. There may be some- Kentucky. The Scotch. in dis- | thing in that. advantageous ver they settled in the Eastern Us SO0 $5,000 Bond Set. however, Stevenson was by Baltimore of the presen 3 break of the World War the frontier of tallness had shifted West again, and the tallest soldiers came from Missouri and Alabama. Sees Other Factors. But, Dr. Bean explains in his report, the stature of the original settlers is not the only factor that keeps the Tide | water people short. | tlements they were afficted with m | Taria and_ dysentery, which seemed to have a selective. effect, eliminating the {lean, lanky families and leaving those who' were shorter and stockier. Be- sides, the tall men seemed to be the more_restléss, “Pushig Westward ' irfto the Pledmont, There is some indica- b tion that proximity to the sea and subsistence on sea food has a tendency Sttt T ol | BICENTENNIAL HELD | decty PO Swouh ® R HIGHLY EDUCATIONAL ton Theological Seminary, finally induc- ing the surgeon, his sons and their friends to invest $195 cach, to be used to file mining claims i Canada. After obtaining the money, Stevenson | disappeared, but later was arrested in | Miami, Fla., where he fumped bond of | |$1,000. Rearrested in Tucson, Ariz, he | again skipped bond, and his whereabouts | were unknown until he appeared here to transact business with the Veterans’ Bureau. Despite his age, he said he is | |a World War veteran. effect. Dr. Bean found the business men of Charlottesville measurably shorter, on the average, than the surrounding farm owners and their clerks shorter than the farm workers. This, he says, is in keeping with the phenomenon noted clsewhere. The tall, restless ploneer fends to develop the countryside. and leaves his mark so long as his descend- ants continue to the sofl. The smaller, sedentary citizen follows him and d‘zelons z:-'emwm. The flzmumnee ot - remains even many genera . | slon, radio address delivered last He found. he said, the children of nu—m‘?zv:e s«-u.: WMAL, visualized loped | the 1932 celebration as a grest educa- tional W‘m ““The visitor to this city next year will take away with him a sharper, clearer mun of what Government means to , and what it actually does for him, here at its source, and elsewhere, than fidhll probably ever had before,” he ‘The essence of the celebration, Mr. Kruckman declared, is also to be in- spirational. With all the materials and resources, here in Washington, the big Kruckman Stresses Informative Phase of Fete in Radio Ad- dress Last Night. Arnold Kruckman, executive director Lh: District Bicentennial Commis & whole, especiaily the girls, he found, grow more rapidly up to the age of 12 than those of any other of the tion fi:“p. for which statistics are avallable. Their growth, however, is| practically complete, so far as stature | 1s concerned, at 15. VATICAN FILMING DEAL | BRINGS $115,000 SUIT I!‘nixm—e g ‘u14 Agreement Charged Against Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. to By the Associated Press. » LOS ANGELES, August 15.—Suit for $115000 was filed today against th Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mot tion by H. A. Martin, failure to keep an agreement to make Mr. pictures ‘Within the walls of the | radio Vatican at 3 Martin is the assignee of R. M. Lawrence, who claimed he negotiated James Slevin for rights, under suthority then possessed by Slevin, to | tdke the Vatican pictures. alleged the -uaewbz'goxny of the Washington LEAPING TO SAVE LIFE, ition I“O poret COrporal Was $15,000 and 2 per cent olp:fi e taken. HAWKS IN MONTREAL Flyer Hops from Sunbary, Stopping Once en Reute. 8. D. Matthews, 60, Slightly Hurt in Muddy Bottom of Houff’s Run as Car Passes. Forced to from the street car Station, i 5 i 3 i i i § | : § LK i in 35 lifi %fi ENERAL NEWS 16, 1931. =* CAPITOL MAILS HEAD IN RUM NET: ALLEGES FRAME-UP Sidney W. Mitchell, Edward Cannon, Latter of Claren- don, Under $500 Bail. ARRESTS FOLLOW STRANGER’S VISIT said, B Defendant in Case, Set for August 31, Says Money Was Forced on Him. Sidney W. Mitchell, 42, superintend- ¥ | ent of the matling division at the Capi- tol, at liberty on $500 boad on a liquor charge, declared last night that his arrest Friday night was the result of a “frame-up” by members of the police vice squad. ' Mitchell and Edward Cannon, 23, of Clarendon, who was arrested with him, were arraigned in Police Court on sale charges yesterday. H of the case was postponed until August 31, how- ever, and they were released on $500 bond each. When arrested, Mitchell gave his name as Prank W. Mitchell. Hhhltdentlfiy ‘was not revealed until last laining his assertion he was the victim of a “frame-up,” Mitchell said two men called his home at 1419 R street Wednesday night and convinced his flancee, who admitted them, that they were old friends of his. The vis- itors, Mitchell learned later, were mem- bers of the vice squad. Courteous to Strangers. ‘The men appeared surprised, Mitchell related, when he told them he did not remember having met them before. They seemed “pretty nice chaps,” how- ever, he said, 5o when asiced for “something to drink,” he net hesi- tate to give it to them. | i ! FOR ROUTE FILING =2 Several Bus Lines Fail to Present Papers to D. C. Utility Board. ‘The time limit for filing of routes jand schedules of class A interstate | busses expired yesterday with several of the lines reported as not having filed their papers with the Public Utilities Commission. An order adopted last June by the ‘Commissions Utili- the men were about to leave | . tted. altogether &t not to compensate him for the d 3 Mitchell went on, one of the men pressed two $1 bills into his hand. Arrests Follow Phoning. ‘The pair returned two nights later. acompanied by another man, Mitchell said. They induced him to telephon® for two pints of liquor, he said, and when Cannon arived with it, two other men suddenly appeared. ‘The newcomers—Policemen H. G. ‘Wanamaker and J. Auffenberg—seized the liquor and the $5 Mitchell had paid Cannon and placed the two under ar- 1, which they operate in congested zone No. 1. B Commission Defled. Most_interest attaches to the state- ment of routes filed by the Great East- ern Stages and the Chester Valley Lines, which operate out of a terminal estab- {lished at 1349 E street, in open defi- {ance of the Utilities ‘Commission, which turned down a request for permission concern operating ouf s terminal, | the Mountain Stages, failed to file its rest, the mailing diyision superintendent, } gy 's auto- mobile. Acco! to the vice squad members, however, Mitchell and Cannon were arrested in the usual manner. The of- ficers purchased liquor from Mitchell on their first and second visits to mqme, they declared. B “ TWO HELD IN LIQUOR RAID. Second Pair Arrested as Police Find Alleged Rum in Auto. Mrs. Dora Smith, 64 years old, of 1017 Thirty-first street, and George Edward Landon, colored, 432, of 313¢ South illegal possession :‘eu:wm of T by the second police inspec vice squad. The raiding party, led by Sergt. A.I. Bullock, reported finding 54 botts of home brew and 6}, pints of colored whisky. In a raid on Mrs. Smith's residence. Lawson McClain, colored, 22, of 1915 Twelfth street, and Milton Walter, colored, 44, of 1726 Seaton street, were charged with illegal possession of 44 | gallons of liquor when Policeman W. D. Perry and William McEwin searched an automobile in which they were riding yesterday. An additional charge of failing to exhibit a registration card was placed against McClain. The two men were released under bond of $500 each for appearance in Police Court tomorrow morning. MEXICANS GATHER FOR FOOD PROTEST High Prices Attributed to Act Altering Exchange Value of Peso Irk 10,000. By the Associated Press. EAGLE PASS, Tex., August 15.—A seemingly endless stream of Mexican farmers and workers poured into Pied- ras Negras, across the border from here it to join in hu.t huge demonstration W agal pre- vailing prices of food. Leaders estimated that fully 10,000 would join n the protest against high cost of living. The demonstra- tion will take the form of a parade, | by the followed by a vigorous speaking pro- gram at which city and state officials will be asked to appoint a board to late food prices. Ufloll:l have been circulated in the farly. all other articles of !oog are censidered out MAN LANDS IN STREAM |7 SPANISH DRAFT READY Constitutional Proposals to Be Presented Tuesday. 15 ()—The Con- MADRID, August 15 (#)—The night it of the new htemdmm tion district & Maryland Coach Co., with lines to Bluemont, Va., leaving from a terminal at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Among those which filed yesterday are the Tidewater Lines, Inc. operat- the Greyhound Lines, with six differ- ent operating subsidiaries, with a terminal at 1336 New York avenue. Although no meeting of the joint board has been called. it is expected that one will be held tomorrow to de- cide on what course to follow in en- forcing its orders. GAINS 15-YEAR-OLD AIR MODEL HONOR Hand-Launched Plane of Edward Grannis Soars 4 Minutes 44 Seconds. Edward Grannis, 15-year-old model aircraft builder, proved the sensation of the day at Stuart Junior th School aduitorium y.sterday when he graduated from the lowest rating class to the highest in the D. C. Model Aircraft Lea 3 Phe | ““The feat was accomplished by virtue of a flight of 4 minutes and 44 seconds model sclentific_hand-launched plane conpe- tition. This was held as a preliminary to the championship contests to be con- ducted under auspices of the Community Center Department August 31 to Sep- tember 4. Other results in this event follow: :0! rew How:, ing from the W., B. & A. terminal, and | & which he entered in the | traci SUSPECT ARRESTED IN ATLANTIC CITY Thomas Jordan Questioned on Jaynes Murder Dur- ing Robbery. BURKE THINKS SOLUTION OF KILLING CASE NEAR Surfll for Two Men Mentioned by Woman Prisoner Goes on by Police. With & new suspect in the baffing Jaynes slaying under arrest last night, members of the homicide squad were making an intensive effort to “clean up” the case. The new suspect, Thomas Jordan, 30, by Sergt. [ ‘ashington Detective Bureau, act. ing on information indicating Jordan lnrnlthl know something about the kill- The nature of the inf and the source irom which it was obtained were withheld l:‘y Inspector Burke, who explained publication at this time might interfere with the investigation. “Near Solution.” Eag P T I it W f ) g% Jordan ‘Work on Woman's Tip. Meanwhile, police were continul their quest for two men named as killers 3 & woman arrested in connec- tion with another ‘While in jail a action, the woman is detectiy E hhnm witnesses to Baitimore serutinize the pair, TERMINAL PROPERTY $15,050,000 IN 1915 Final Value for Rate Making Will Be Brought Up to Date Soon. The final value for rate-) pur- poses of property of the Wm.km Terminal So owned and used for com- mon _carrier purposes, was it at Sepors yestertay by the Interstat Gom: Te, e Inf - merce Oommlllhny y ‘The value of erty .owned but not used was at ‘Terminal Co. oper- Union Station here has besldkal the station about 17 miles of The valuation on the property used for common carrier purposes was in- creased by $3.525,000 over ‘the tentative valuation I‘;{nn which the carrier had E e principal g lfnw the increase was u.mm- ted the Government toward the