Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1931, Page 17

CHICAGO INTERESTS The KIND DETECTIVE LOSES PRISONER HE PERMITTED TO TAKE A “"NAP GRANT ANSWERS Foening Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1931. FAR Note to Comrade Explains Gas Tragedy PAGE B—1 SCHEME TO EXTORT RUSSIAN EMIGRE. 'l‘o"c.lll FOR SURVIVING PETRENKO CHILDREN. SAW IN BERT PECK A “HELPFUL" MAN) Officials There Suggested Hiring Former Utilities Commission Engineer. QUESTION BROUGHT UP IN SEPTEMBER, 1930 Wildes' Message to Head of Local Gas Company Referred to “Qur Legislation.” " Information that the Central Public Service Corporation -of Chicago was considering hiring of Bert H. Peck, chief engineer of the Public Utilities Com- misson, .as early as September, 1930, was receved by the commission today in the ‘form ‘of a bopy of 2 Jetter from Vice President Williem H. Wildes of the Chis ‘goncern to Eresident George A G W .oxmew;shmmp‘:: hints e #m& Seo“hyp':'ulmme local company pending his employment, in the com- pany’s problems with the commission. Peck was finally hired by the local Yesterday he xpert Wltl'l\‘w the company when o Gounsel oL ehmond B, Keech port made last October by Mr. in which he favored pressures of 4 or 5 inches. The company is now contending” for a ' 10-inch maximum pressure. Wood Admits Letter. Man, Said to Have Confessed 61 Burglaries, Flees Witness Room. George Hicks Was Freed of Former Charge When De- clared Mentally Unsound. ' George Emmett Hicks, 36, sald to have admitted 61 burglaries back in March, 1930, was at liberty today, thanks to a headquarters detective, who, instead of resorting to third-degree methods in an effort to obtain another confession, kindly gave the prisoner questioned. Hicks, freed of the old housebreaking charges after he was declared mentally unsound, was arrested last night in connection with a new series of similar | robberies. Sergt. Michael Dowd, who made the arrest, took Hicks to the twelfth pre- cinct police station. “Please don’t lock me in a cell” the ner is said to have begged Dowd. “I don't feel very well and I'm tired. ‘awhile, I'll tell you every- thing you want to know.” The detective arranged to have Hicks Jocked in the witness room, where he could do his resting in comparative comfort. “I'll come back and talk to him later,” Dowd remarked as he left. Prisoner Disappears. Shortly after midnight, Pvt. W. M. Rosson, on duty in the station, discov- ered two panes of glass had been re- moved from the witness room door. He reported his discovery to Acting' Lieut. Cyrus E. Perry, who, after a brief in- vestigation, concluded Lieut. J. W. Mc- Cormick or some other officer, whose Ficw oh Shaut”the ‘mising gass, ew all abou 5 “The bars still were on the door,” Perry ra “ was At 2:10 reported A the bars. He tried the door and it was locked. Fifteen minutes later: Perry made his customary inspection of the cell room. On his way back to the front office he his surprise, he found the prisoner had disappeared. Investigation revealed Hicks had re- moved a metal suj from a post in zmpn:mfl itwflmmyt-h; r. Perry notified headquarters an was ordered to broadcast a lookout for § ¥ § i ¥ 8isfy il ia§§ e 25k tl to produce records re ': adjustments to ~ appliances the company between Octo- ber 1, 1930, and Benum“ mbernl.. g:} These records, Now e - offices, will be produced later. practical demonstration of the ef- has not been set. Tells of Complaints. i:‘:emflkhnuum sually by us! over] the service pipe with too many and may be corrected either ind the distributor line or by additional service part from the dis- tributor, the latter done partly at the expense of the customer according to a regular schedule of charges, Mr. Mc- Queen said. He then described the methods making adjustments which consists largely of either ¢leaning the orifice through which gas is admitted to a burner or adjusting the air shut- ter which admits air 40 mix with the gas for proper combustion or both. When Mr. McQueen was excused to get records from his company’s offices, Mr. Reynolds took the stand and intro- duced additional charts made by the commission showing weekly and month- ly fluctuations in gas pressures. SIX YOUNG ORATORS LAND IN NEW YORK Capital Boy Remains Abroad to Attend School After Making Prize Tour. en%fl-h Six winners in last Spring’s Na- tional Oratorical Contest have landed in New Ycrk following their European tour, Randloph Leigh, director general et headquarters here, was advised today. Word of their return this morning ‘was contained in a telegram from Dr. and Mrs, Glen Levin Swiggett, chap- erons of the party of students. ‘The orators the erossing cn the K 8. George Washing- ton, after a 10-week prize tour of Eng- Jand, France, Ireland, Switzerland and Italy. Jamés A. , ‘ashington youth, who won in The Star area of the national contest, remained in Parls . school in Switzerland prior to entering r. gb!!t Rae- the national which he will attend next Those returning w iimplon, who will Tepresent ths Dsad «l Ip! represent n! in the international contest the fugutive. A “sentimental” error is said to have in the e\myn’ 4 of police permission to take a nap before being If you'll just | beg: decided to look in on Hicks. Much to | the GEORGE EMMETT HICKS. —Star Staff Photo. Shortly thereafter, police said, Hicks an telephoning Miss Owings “nelrlx every night, begging her for a “date. She finally consented to have dinner with Hicks, who called for her at her rtment. .p%nknown to him, Detectives Buck Jones and Aubrey Tolson, tenth pre- cinct, were secreted in the kitchenette, watching him through a crack in the door. After listening to his conversa- tion for about 30 minutes, they steppéd from their hiding place and arrested hi ntl;:cks. cording to records cn file at headqua , readily admitted 54 burg- Iaries and later- made another confes- sion, in which he raised the number to 61. Sent to St. Elizabeth’s. four charges were placed against mgfu Bowever, and he was committed to the District jail to await trial. While there he began acting strangely and wa: sent to Gallinger Hospital for men observatio tion. Declared mentally unsound as a re- sult of "pflnngychom," he was com- mitted to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and the charges were nolle prossed. After less than a !dyurd there, lh. was pro- nounced cured and was rele In his alleged housebreaking activi- ties, Hicks is said to have lized in homes of women, offensive notes as souvenirs of his visits. Recently Hicks, according to Dowd, was seen breaking into an apartment by a woman, who reported the incident to police. She identified his photo- graph, on file at headquarters, Dow nhr. and a search was begun immedi- ately. Dowd picked his quarry up near the Post Office, where he is said to have been receiving mail in care of the gen- to | eral delivery section. A report of Hicks’ escape from the By & Bract, superimiendtnt of po- Henry G. , super ndtnt of Hee, '::o immediately began an inves- NOW TOTAL 2952 Slight Increase in Ten Years Shown by 1930 Census. Russia Leads List. There were 20,932 foreign-born white persons in the District of Columbia when the population count was taken 4n April, 1930, the Census Bureau an- nounced today, and of the total number 4,914 were Russians. Ttalians held sec- ond place and former residents of Great Britain and Northern Ireland third. Only a slight increase was shown in the total figures made public today, for in 1920 the total number of foreign- born whites in this city was 28,548, with Russia_holding first place with a count of 5,181, The figures show that in 1930 there were 7,354 persons from the United Kingdom and Ireland residing here, & decrease in the past 10 years of 855. A total of 556 more Italians were located here in 1930 than in 1920, when the count stood at 3,764, while the increased during German 59 members, the census z‘!:l::u‘ge ago showing there were 3,382 | Gernrans-residing here. Lithuanians Here Increase. There aere 3,026 former Irish Free State residents here in 1930. The pop- ulations drawn rr::l other countries H jweden ant e o era Y 563; Caechoslovakia, 183: 493; Hungary, 228; Yugoslavia, 55; Lithuania, 286; Greece, 1,347; Can- ada, 1,681, and all other countries, 3,216. The greatest increase here in the last decade was the count of 256 Lithu- anians. In 1920, the records show, there were only 38 of these residents here. This little country also led the | list of increased percentage in the nn’- tional compilation with a total of 43.3. On April 1, 1930, there were 13,366,407 foreign-born white persons in the total population of this country, an increase to the Census Bureau. were represented by more than 500,000 persons. included 1,608,814 persons bo-l‘:l‘li')g tx:m‘:)uemlny, 1,790,422 born in Italy, 1,278,421 born in , 1,268,~ 5 Poland, 1,153,624 born in Russia, 808,672 born in England, 774,810 born in the Irish Free State and 595,250 born in Sweden. New York Foreign-Born Lead. New York led all States with a total of 3,191,549 foreign-born whites, Penn- sylvania was second with 1,233,051, Il- linois was third Massachusetts was fourth with 1,054,636. South Carolina had the fewest foreign- born whites in her population—only 5,266, & total of 1,783 less than Missis- sippl. The rest of the Southern States were sparsely sprinkled with European communities, In fact, the South has but 532,175 foreign-born whites, as t 111,286,553 for the North and 1,447,679 for the West. Countries with less than 100,000 rep- resentation in the United States melt- per cent decrease in the ds and Esthonia, with 24,223 with 23,743, ‘The with 1,218,158 and | NAVY COMMENDED Great Britain Joins Adams in Praise—26 Americans Sail for Home. The British government joined yes- terday with Secretary Adams in com- mending United States naval units for their outstanding assistance in relief work in hurricane-stricken Belize in British Honduras. Having extended his own compli- ments, Secretary Adams forwarded this ?me from the British Ambassador ere: “T have the honor, under instructions from his majesty's secretary of state for foreign affairs, to request you to convey to the United States Govern- ment the grateful thanks of his maj- esty’s government in the United King- dom for the generous offer of assist- ance in the disaster in British Hon- duras. 26 Americans Embark. “The timely help rendered by United States ships and airplanes and by the American Red Cross is very gratefully appreciated by his majesty’s govern- ment and by the governor of British Honduras, from whom I have also re- ceived a message to this effect this morning. I shall be grateful if you will kindly convey the thanks of his majesty’s government and the governor of Belize to the United States Gov- ernment officials concerned, to the Ammgflmd Al{wnys Co.” leparture of 26 A i Belize for New Orleans Wn::rrg.bormm frflg the State Department yesterday. Others to Sail Tomorrow. The dispatch from Vice Consul Ott sald they sailed Wednesday morning aboard the steamship Parismina and that other Americans would leave Sept- ember 19 for New Orleans. The home addresses of only two of the 26 en route were available at the department—J. M. Otero, West Tampa, Fla., and A. Gould, New Orleans. Others were: O. L. Hargrave, A. 5. Aldren, L. Cothern, Mrs. J. C. Lewis, C. R. Schmid, Mrs.” A. Hargrave, Mrs. J. R. Minty ‘and four children, Mrs. Otto Hofius, George O. Hoflus, Ernestine Hoflus, Mrs. Dorothy Hall and baby, Lynette Masson, J. Stuub, J. Traas- | dahl, Joyce Pilling, L. E. Tripp, Mrs. (s;:;glrdson' Arturo Gomez lan. B. er. |ARLINGTON SPAN FLOOR LIKELY TO BE GRANITE Decision on Pavement Material Waits Conference With De- signers. The Arlington ‘Memorial Bridge and its short companion across Boundary Channel to the Virginia shore probably will be bl This scantiest Staté ‘répresentations | yjy were 6 Lithuanians, in Nevada; 7 from jucalav':‘ in North Carolina. Heads Attorneys General. in Delaware, and 9 from | Doug- ON AID FOR BELIZE|= American Red Cross and to the Pan-| PROTEST AGAINST SITE OF MEMORIAL Holds Planes Will Endanger Traffic if Shaft Men- aces Craft. SAYS RUNWAY PLAN WAS CHANGED FOR POOL Also Deems Lamp-posts and Trees Obstructions if Monument Is Hazard. 3 If ‘the projected Navy and Marine Memorial will be a menace to landing and departing airplanes, as protested i yesterday by Wasl n-Hoover Air- port officials, then the airplanes them- selves flying at such a low altitude will be a menace to traffic on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. is was indicated today by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, who ex- flllned that the monument will be well low the danger line established by the highway now under construction. ‘The monument is being erected at the southeast corner of Columbia Island. 300 Feet From Bridge. The monument, the colonel said, is approximately 300 feet away from the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway Bridge, over Boundary Channel, and offers a clearance height for air- off and landing at the time the monument site was decided upon, it is understood that the airports runway program called for construction downstream. Later, after | Secretary Adams, as honorary national chairman of the association that is sponsoring construction of the Navy and Marine Memorial, had turned the first spade of earth and construction proceeded, the airport authorities, due to the erection of a swimming pool near the field, altered the runway, Col. Grant has been informed. The tip .of the monument is con- sidered to be less than 50 feet high and the roadway elevation, opposite the Monument, is approximately 23 feet. Lamp-posts which are being erected | under the Bureau of Public Roads d velopment of the Mount Vernon Me- morial Highway likewise are deemed aerial obstructions if the monument is a hazard to air navigation. ‘Would Menace Traffic. Col. Grant and his associates feel that if an airplane would be in danger of hitting the monument, it would like- wise probably hit the lamp-posts and be a distinct menace to any automobiles, - | traveling on that section of the highway. While at present the trees are negli- gible, as time goes on they will grow above the monument level. " Planes fly- ing so low as to hit the menument would be considered a menace to peo- ple using the park on Columbia Island, officials of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks think, and in the course of time would likely injure the s, which will grow to a height of about 35 feet. The bridge and the road are nearer the flying fleld than the ‘memorial, they point out, and if a, plane can clear the road and fixtures the bridge parapet, it should safely have sufficient clearance above monu- ment, if observing ent of Com- merce regulations. The site for the memorial was announced in the press long before the change in the runway were made public, the officials MAN BADLY BURNED IN GAS STATION BLAST Accident Laid to Explosion Caused by Short Circuit Igniting , Fuel. Leroy Bilbo, 26 years old, manager of a filling station at 625 T street, was se- verely burned about the body and arms when an explosion occurred in the office of the station early today. Bilbo, who lives at 409 Third street, went to the station shortly after 4:30 o'clock this morning to turn off the electric light, which had been left burn- ing when the establishment was closed last night. It is believed that a short circuit in the lighting system set off accumulated gasoline fumes. The man’s clothing was burned from his body by the flames. Neighbors, at- tracted by the noise of the explosion, beat out the fire and rushed Bilbo to Garfleld Hospital, where he is reported to be in a_critical condition. He was treated by Dr. R. M. Bolton. An alarm was turned in from a eor- ner fire box and five companies re- sponded. The building, however, was not damaged and they returned to their quarters without going into service. COSMOPOLITAN CLUBS OFFER AID TO JOBLESS International Federation to Use Its Resources to Improve Situation. ‘The services of the International Federation of Cosmopolitan Clubs in the fight to relieve the unemplogmem. situation were pledged last night by Judge Michael Doyle, international ington Cosmopolitan Club at the Wash- ingtori Golf and Country Club. Judge Doyle told of the recent con- ventlon at Winnipeg, Canada, at which the delegates were thoroughly in earn- est-about throwing the resources of the entire international organization into the fight to bring about better condi- tion and to aid every way possible in finding jobs for the unemployed. Judge Doyle said he Would visit many of the clubs during the coming Winter for the purpose of holding conferences on _relief. The session last night was “stag I night,” and was arranged by a commit- tee of 10 headed by James E. Colli- LIBERTY SOUGHT Paul DilVernal Barry today- filed in o District Supreme Court a writ of habeas corpus seeking his release from St. and | he was elected president, and said that | p, ERGE PETRENKO and his wife chose the uncertainty of eternity because they feared the uncer- tainty of life. That was the story between the lines of a note left to a former comrade-at- erms by the one-time officer of the Czar’s army, whose body, with that of his wife, Mary Petrenko, and their. youngest son, Vadim, 15, were found yesterday afternoon in a gas-filled room cf their vine-clad home at 4824 Forty- first street. ~ Life had not been kind to the Pe- trenkos, so when they lay down to die they took with them, as he slept, the ,child for whom they had once braved imprisonment—possible death—at the hands of an enraged Red mob, that he might be brought into the world on the soil of their Russian homeland. Alexander Krynitsky, himself a Rus- sian emigre, knows the constant longing for the old scenes that moved the Pe- trenkos. Then there was that fear of advanc- ing age and what it might be in an alien land, unhappy letters from Kkin | still across the seas and a wound left | trom the Russo-Japanese WAr that con- tinued to torture Petrenko. Some of these things Petrenko spoke of in the note he left for Krynitsky, in which he asked that the friend and his wife look out for the two Petrenko children left behind—the girl, Adriadna, 18, and her brother Eugene, 17. They were away from home on an outing at the time of the tngedy, So Krynitzky understands the tragedy that is entered on police records as “homicide and suicide.” Petrenko home at 4822 Forty-first street, was attracted by the scratching at her door of a Persian cat which she recognized as the pet of the Petrenkos. She had noticed there was no sign of occupancy at the next house, so she fed the animal as she had done on a previous oc then went over to e wae unsble oot e was unable to gel response; tried a door to find it lnck‘g, then was attracted by the fact that all the win- dows but those in a back room upstairs were _open. She notified police. Officers from the fourteenth precinct found the front door key lflll& oh the sill between the screen and the door. The odor of gas was plainly evident as they entered.” Confronting them on a stairway leading to the upper floor was a note, penciled in red: “Do not light matches.” It was weighted down with a small iron dog desk weight. Over the staircase were two hoses, | door of the closed Toom upstairs. On mattresses, on the floor, lay Petrenko and his wife, nis left arm locked in her right arm, and one of the gas tubes beneath them. On the bed, V‘ludim lay, one of the tubes under his pillow, Five Notes Found. ‘The child was in his night clothes. A light on a cord lay beside him, as though he had fallen asleep reading. ‘The mother was clad in a house dress, the father partly disrobed. Members of the homicide headed by Capt. Edward J. Kelly, as- sistant chief of detectives, and Capt. J. E. Bowers of the fourteenth precinct, were quickly on the scene. On & table in the 1i found five notes. One of dressed to the police. It read: “I, 8. N. Petrenko, did consent of my wife. my act do not concern the Police De- partment. Please do not ask my chil- dren. We are taking with us our little boy to save him from the cruel world. Please notify immediately I. Ki Bureau of Standards.” (The “L” Krynitsky’s middle initial.) Reconstructing the , the vestigators came to the conclusion that Petrenko and his wife had waited until the boy was asleep, then had led the gas lines into the room, assured themselves that Vadim was un , then lay down, embraced, and awaited death. Note Dated Tuesday. The note wps dated Tuesday, and from the condition of the bodies, death could easily have occured at that time. In a bed room upstairs they had care- fully laid out the clothes for their burial and in one box was mourning garb for was ad- Serge Petrenko (above) and his wife, Mary (lower right), preferred death to the uncertainties of life away from their native Russia, they wrote Alexander Krynitsky, a compatriot, before and themselves several days ago. ‘The note asphyxiating their youngest child, Vadim, 15, to Krynitsky, a fellow officer of Petrenko's in the Czar’s army, asked him to look out for the two children who survived the tragedy, Eugene, l'l: —Edmonston Photos. and Adriadna, 18 (lower left). the girl, bought on August 28. A note with it, addressed to her and written in Russian, read: “Choose only what is useful.” ‘There were other notes to the son and daughter, a note to a friend at the Bu-~ reau of Standards where Petrenko was squad [ an associate mechanical engineer and the note to Krynitsky. To also Petrenko left the keys dollars. In the note to Krynitsky Petrenko uldtluttheyhzdno!nrwo’nw “the gth'er"hewwrld."uln‘d‘ told the anguish of parents at feeling obliged to take the life of the boy. ‘They could not leave him to face the world, however, the note sald, as he told of his despondency, anc- asked that the other children be cared for. Adriadna and Eugene, recent grad- uates of Western High School, had been visiting at the Krynitsky Summer cottage at North Beach. They were informed of the tragedy and returned last night. Will Care for Children. Krynitsky, who was a colonel in the Czar's army, and now is custodian at the old Russian embassy, 1125 Six- teenth street, as well as ed u in a scientific caj today he and his wife would take the children of their dead friends. At the time of the World War, Pe- trenko, then a captain, and Col. Kry- nitsky were sent to this country as 1043 tron with the take Krynitskys at the embassy. BLAIR CANDIDATES NAMED ON BOARD Preferred Stockholders’ Di- rectors Elected in Smith } Company Vote. By the Assoclated Press. WILMINGTON, Del., September 18.— The Tesult of the election on Tuesday for directors of the F. H. Smith Co. of Washington and New York, deakrs in mortgage securities, shows the ticket sponsored by the present management was defeated, it was made known today. The candidates supported by & group of preferred stockholders, headed by Harry M. Blair of New York, were elected in a three-cornered contest. The new directors announced as elected, in addition tovBlair, are F. Edwards, Joseph W. Lawrence, ir., and Clarence F. president, at a meeting of the Wash- | &% ment, and which was made up of John R. Waller, ton; Raymond W. Markley, Peeksk N. Y.; James A. Bogan, Paterson, N. . Hanley and Charles J. Geiser, both of New York; George J. BoX, Washington, and Theodore Weed, Wil- mington. . A third ticket was sponsored by & group of common stockholders. ney ap y Chancellor J. O. Wol- coit to conduct the election, declined to make the election figures public. Keedy said he would re] to_the chancellor, probably next week. The meeting was ordered by the directed There are still before the m‘mn applications for the appointment the | District, has been 000 | years. New Cotton Paper To Insure Records Hundreds of Years Bureau of Standards An- nounces Improvement in Durability. ‘The Bureau of Standards announced yesterday it has successfully manufac- tured a type of paper made solely of cotton fiber in its mill here that will insure the safe keeping of records, par- ticularly those placed in corner stones, for hundreds of years, Bureau officials said their research started when records from a box in the corner stone f the old Poli Theater, razed here last Spring, were found to have been for the most part indecipher- able. They had been in the box for 47 years. Learning of the fate of these records, officials sald they were a] to by a. committee in charge of the corner stone records of the District of Colum- bia’s War Memorial in West Potomac paper on which the names of 26,048 men of the District who had served in the World War, were printed. ‘The records were then sealed in an air-tight cepper box from which the lll: had m’l:lc’:\ml:'::l I‘Tfl laced with nitrogen, wi atively niche containing the box was so ar- :'rge‘g that water would not drain ‘While these precautions seem quite adequate, Bureau officials said, they are dwarfed by those recently used in Japan to the names of the victims of the 1923 i A - tion has been perfected and by the use of chemicals and mumfl.hflt preservatives, it is that these vecords will be kept intact for 10,000 " PAUL BENJAMIN NAMED ) of the Family Welfare Committee of Frank L. Ach of Thirteenth Precinct Accused of Being Drunk and Disorderly. Policeman Frank'L. Ach of the thir- e g g g . J., on cl and disorderly, resulting from a melee e last night, in the detective bufeau today. licemen®and a blow on the it was learned Seven head with a blackjack are said to have been required to quiet the Washington According to word received from At- lantic City, Ach went‘to the detective bureau t night and demanded that some clothes stolen from him be returned immediately. He was informed by Detective Casey that the clothes had 10t been recovered. ~Ach became in. who yelled for help. Detective Furnello came on the run and finally grappled with Casey, | k¢ * FEES T0‘PROTECT ALIENS CHARGED Doak Reports Discovery of Racket Aimed at Foreign- ers Legally in U. S. SO-CALLED DETECTIVE AGENCIES ARE ACCUSED Thousands Declared Collected From Victims Made to Think They Face Deportation. What is described as & wholesale extortion scheme, whereby certain so- called detective agencies in New York and elsewhere have mulcted aliens of thousands of dollars, was being investi- gated today by the Labor Department as a result of discoveries made during its inquiries into alien smuggling rings. Special agents of the department, working under Murray W. Garsson, Assistant Secretary of Labor, unearthed the new racketeering scheme. They found that certain detective agencies, claiming to have influence with immi- g e egips -3 ] ¢ 5 ; ik i LCENAN D e AN O B t agents dis- covered yesterday that six different sets of papers are gone. U. S. WOMAN LAWYER NAMED BY BAR GROUP Netional Association Convention Names Miss Grace Rohleder as New Official. Miss 5 street, Washington attorney and an em- ploye in the retirement records section Post Office it, ational Asso- La ‘meeting Wyers, at Atlantic City, N. J,, in connection with the convention of the coming ': the Pon“&?nw Department e early in July this year. e |R. W. BURNSIDE FUNERAL the Council of Social Agencies, Miss Grace Abbott, president, announced today Mr. Benjamin is a soclal worker of national reputation. of repre- “of all family HELD AT RESIDENCE Veteran Printer Buried at Prospect Hill Following Serv- ieces, Rites for Robert W. tive of this city, who had iter for more than- 40 eld this afternoon 3636 Warder street. Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Mr. Burnside