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he WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MOR! SEEK EXHUMATION FOR NEW INQUIRY INWOMAN'S DEATH Relatives of Mrs. M. L. Sut- " ton, Contesting Will, Ask Thorough Probe. ROVER DESAIN FILES FOR MEDICAL REPORT Verdict That Pneumonia Caused Death of 89-Year-Old Recluse Fails to Lull Suspicions. Exhumation of the body of Mrs. Mary L. S. Sutton, 89-year-old recluse, who died at her home at 632 Randolph street. more than a year ago, will be asked by | relatives contesting the will disposing of | her .estate, said to be worth $100,000, / United States Attormey Leo A. Rover! was informed today. The body is buried | at_Greenwich, Conn. Describing the circumstances sur- rounding the aged widow's death as “very mysterious,” John A. Ross, & spe- cial investigator, who said he was em- ployed by those contesting the will, called on Mr. Rover yesterday and re- quested that a thorough inquiry be made. After hearing Ross' account of Mrs. Sutton’s death, Rover sent for records on file at the morgue. These, he said, included a report by Dzputy Coroner Joseph A. Rogers, who performad an| autopsy on Mrs. Sutton's body following | her death, on August 23, 1930, This) Teport, Rover added, gave bronchial| pneumonia as the cause of Mrs. Sut- ton's death. Will Confer With Rogers. evertheless, the District attorney de- fared he would confer with Dr. Rogers ! New Baby Gorilla at the Zoo OKERO ARRIVES TO Okero, the new gorilla at the 200, Teddy is on the keeper's knee. KEEP N'GI COMPANY. with Teddy, his champanzee playmate, —Star Staff Photo. HGHVAY BRIGE TRAFI DELAYED BY ROAD REPARS Vehicles Jammed Half-Mile on Either Side of Tempo- rary Wooden Span. ALTERNATING ONE-WAY SYSTEM ESTABLISHED Plan Necessary to Connect Mt. Vernon Boulevard Overpass With Bridge. Traffic jams stretching more than one-half mile on either side of the temporary wooden span at the south end of the Highway Bridge leading into Virginia resulted this morning when alternating one-way traffic was estab- lished on the wooden bridge to allow workmen to begin_connecting the new overpass over the Mount Vernon Boulevard with Highway Bridge. More than one-half hour was re- quired during the peak of the morning Tush hour traffic to travel from the beginning of the tie-up on one side of the bridge to the end on the other side of the wooden span. Traffic policemen and employes of the electric railway Who were also directing traffic did their best to keep the vehicles moving, but because of the sharp turn from the wooden bridge into the Mili- tary - road ftraffic frequently became locked and moved in neither direction. River Road Closed. Coincident with the establishment of one-way travel on the wooden span, the | lower, or River, road to Alexandria was | closed from the Potomac River to the | plant of the Southern Oxygen Co. and all traffic routed around to the Mili- TUESDAY, Foening Star NING EDITION SEPTEMBER IN MAN'S FATAL PLUNGE AT HOTEL Victim Tentatively Identified as E. L. Gunnell of East Point, Ga. MANY ASK FOR BULLDOG THAT WITNESSED DEATH Plates on Auto Said to Have Been Issued to Woman, Now Missing. X A coroner's inquest probably will be held tomorrow in the case of a man tentatively identified as E. L. Gunnell, 28, of East Point, Ga., a former resident of Washington, who either leaped or fell Sunday night from a fire escape in the rear of a hotel at 482 Pennsylvania ave- nue to his death in a paved alley three floors below. While police were completing their investigation No. 1 precinct was be- sleged with calls from persons offering a home to a Boston bull pup which was found in the man’s room when the tragedy was discovered. The dog was turned over, however to the District Pound, where it will receive special at- tention until it can be learned if the man's survivors will send for it. Receipt Gives Clue. The partial identification was made after headquarters detectives discovered in the man's effects a receipt for auto- mobile repair work by a Meridian, Miss., garage. The job was done for Gunnell, and police learned from the latter's stepfather, W. O. MacKenzie, a deputy sheriff of East Point, that the young i 2, 1931. | Left to right: “Bouncing Betty,” Andy Mack and Bill Lange. P the turnpike, down the road, across the mountains and over the plains for 8,000 miles, a —Siar Staff Photo. “That,” wrote Andy, who, incidental- tervizwing himself on an office “is the sort of appreciation PAGE B—1 HEARIG ORDERED ONTAH STUATON BY UTLITES BODY Merchants’ Group Demands Regulation of Business and Protests Chaos. GEN. PATRICK OUTLINES PROBLEMS OF CONTROL Chairman of Commission Seeks Financial Responsibility for Cab Operators. Notice will be sent out today by the' Public Utilities Commission of a pub- lic hearing to consider Washington's fangled taxicab situation. The decision was made by the commission late yester- day on receipt of a communication from the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Association demanding regulation of the taxicab industry and complaining of chaotic conditions now affecting it. Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the commission, said today that the notice would be couched carefully in lan- guage which will make the scope of the hearing as wide as possible. Patrick Outlines Problem. “Just what the solution of the prob- lem, or, rather, the many problems, is,” he said, “I have no idea. I have al- ways thought that there should be a regulation requiring financial responsi- bility of taxicab operators. It does not seem proper that anybody with a small down payment should be able to solicit the public for common carrier service.” ‘The commissiory once before tried to solve this problem by a regulation re- quiring a showing of financial respon- sibility, insurance or bond before taxi- cabs would be allowed to operate, but | ly, was R s l l typewr: as soon as the latter returns to Wash Boun sty gets. man was missing from home. 10-year-old flivver called Boun- | the move was defeated in the courts. | tary road which runs through the ington. The deputy coroner, who has been out of the city since the latter part of last week, is expected to return to- In the meantime, Rover suggested | that Ross ask authorities in Greenyich, Conn., to issue an order for exhumation ©of her body. Since Mrs. Sutton was buried in | ich, Rover pointed out, any steps | d exhuming the body would have | te with officials of that city. owing his interview with Rover, Ross announced a request for exhuma- tion of the body would be filed with| h authorities within the next | Sutton, according to Ross, died a_ brief illness. A colored phy- he safd. declared death was due nchial pneumonia and a colored rtaker prepared her body for ship- | ment to Greenwich. Body Held at Station. Resicents of the neighborhood in ! thich Mrs. Sutton lived asked poiice | ta investigate her ceath, however, and | h* body wes held up at Union Su-l t Corcner J. Ramsay Nevitt con- | sidered the circumstances surrounding her death sufficiently suspicious to warrant an autopsy. After Dr. Rogers pronounced Mrs. Sutton's death due 17 bronchial pneumonia, howcver, her bocy wis released. A short t'me later, Ross related, a cuted by her on May 26, 1930, yas filed for probate in the Supsrior Court. Fairfax County, Conn. The dozument, Ross explained, be- Mrs. Suiton's estatz to her ece, Mrs. Matilda Johnson of Morris- ville, N. J The bulk cf the estate, Ross said, was divided among employes and friends of Mrs. Sutton. C BY GRETCHEN SMITH. URIOSITY consumes a certain black-faced young gentleman of the Zoo these days. N'gi, Washington's gorilla, now no longer a baby, is just dying to know what's going on in the cage next to his. Although he can't seé, he bears, and he knows that last Thurs- day neighbors. moved in next door. Some day scon, perhaps, a window the one next door and then he can get a peep at his newly arrived cousin, little 2-year-old Okero, who came with | a chimpanzee playmate, Teddy, from | New York last week. Has Had Lots of Thrills. | Okero has had lots of thrills packed | into his short span of life. Perhaps when he met Mrs. Martin Johnson on her way trrough the Belgian Kongo with her photograper-explorer hi band. The Jchnsons already had a| young gorilla for whom they had secured a permit to bring back to the | United States for the Smithsonian. As they were passing through a native village, Okero, a sick, puny little thing scarcely a year old, who had been picked up in the jungles by unsym- pathetic natives, was brought to them for sale. Martin Johnson looked at the tiny creature and shook his head. They didn't want any more gorillas, and besides, the little fellow was so sick he couldn’t poseibly live. The Johnsons started to move on | when Okero gave Mrs. Johnson a piti- ful Jook and held out his hairy little arms. Gesture Saves Okero’s Life. That gesture saved Okero's life. Mrs. Johnson adopted him immediately, nursing him back to health on their long trek through the Dark Continent Niece and Nephew Ignored. Ancther njece and nephew, Mrs. Carolyn Dunham and Charles M. Price, both of Trenion, N. J.. were fg- d in the will. They employed Ro:s estigat> their aunt’s d After his talk with Ross plained any action to b2 ta by him would depend on the result of his con- ference with Dr. Rogers. Such action, be added, would begin wiih an order that an inquest be held, with neighbore who asked the police to hold up the Sutton body at Union Station sum- moned as witnesses. —— e | ASSOCIATIONS PLAN | MEETS IN ALEXANDRIA aih, ver ex- | e | Annual Conventions to Be Held in Virgina City During 1932 Celebration. Epecial Dispatch to The ALEXANDRIA, Va | | September 22— With the announcement today of two ! trict Supreme Court today sst down for | OPerations, involving a total expenditure more conventicns schcduled for this | city during the next Alexandria | now has a total of 18 organizations coming here for their annual conclaves | and over the ccean to the United States. Last week the Johnsons presented the bzhy ,gorilla and his inseparable companion, Teddy, to the Smithsonian, 'and a private van was sent with two keepers to bring the two little fellows back 1o the Washington Zoo. will be cut between N'gi's house and | the “greatest was about a year 2go, | | | In a large, brightly lighted cage in the lion house Okero and Teddy pass | the hours happily swinging on bars, or wrestling with each other on the side next to N'gi's cage Sounds of all this merriment come to N'gi, swinging his dumbbells, con- | tented until now in his solitude. He pauses a moment, gazing indifferently | upon the humans gazing impolitely into | his_cage. : The sounds of thumping feet and rolling bodies next door finally get the better of his indifference and, running to the blank wall separating him from the newcomers next to him, he crouches down, cocks his head to one side and | vainly tries to peer through a tiny crack into the opposite cage. Curiosity Unsatisfied. So far, his curiosity remains unsatis- fied. oZo officials think it wiser to let | Okero and Teddy become accustomed to their surrcundings before allowing them to be disturbed by the knowledge that an older member of the family like N'gi.is close by to spy upon. their be- havior. 5 am Maybe, when the little fellows have learned to drink milk from a pan in- stead of a bottle and to eat their fruits and vegetables politely, like Cousin | N'gl, they may be permitted to ex- | change greetings through a specially | cut window. In fact, they may even be | permitted to play together in the same cage. But boys, they like to fight, |and it is feared that N'gi might get too rough and really hurt Okero, who is | not yet past the age where his health |is an assured thing. This will be Okero’s first Winter away from Africa. There is not much anxiety felt, however, about his ability to stand the cold, as he was born in the moun- tainous regions of the Belgian Kongo, where the temperature rarely rises above 60 di . Cousin N'gl is, on the contrary, a lowlander, hailing from the low, hot ! plains of Western Africa. Cold or hot nights, however, alll | three—N'gi, Okero and Teddy—roll! themseives up in blankets when bed- time arrives and sleep soundly until morning. 1 HEARING ON PITTS FOUR BIG PROJECTS OR OCTOBER S SETF {U. S. Motion to Dismiss Plea|New Theater in Northwest in Abatement to Come Up in Embezzlement Case. Justice Jesse C. Adkins of the Dis- hearing October 9, the motion of the United States to dismiss pleas in abate- ment filed by G. Bryan Pitts, former | | head of the F. H. Smith Co., to the nd Council of Virginia, Order | will come here | cording to a| er ‘of Commerce announccment. ( v are expected to bring 300 dele- rden Club of Virginia | recently announced its intention of holding its endria next Spring i Dan S. Holi:nga, business manager of the local Chember cf Commerce, has also invited the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers and Piremen and their Ladies Society to come here next year. This organization is holding its atheoring this year in Jacksonville, [ Fla., from October 7 to 9. WARNS OF F;ARK THIEVES The business depression has brought t» Washington a number of people who are out of work and hungry, and as a result the amount of petty thieving in the parks has materially increased in the last few weeks, Capt. R. C. Mont- gomery, U. S. A., superintendent of the United States park police, said today in warning Washingtonians and vis? jtors not to leave valuables in their parked automobiles. 7 In an effort to combat this thievery the captain said the number of plain- clothes men in the parks is being in- creased. QUARTET ROB VISITOR Raleigh, N. C., Man Forced to Give Vest, Shoes, €oat and $12 Cash. Police todey were seeking four men who last night robbed Frank Simms of Raleigh, N. C, of more than $12 and part of his clothing, including shoes, yest and coat, at Pirst street and Mary- land avenue southwest. walked into No. 4 police sta- tion, where he reported the incident to liee, Y - el T e i & i 1932 convention in Alex- | embezzlement indictment returned against him miore than a ycar ago. Pitts has since been tried on a con- spiracy indictment. has been convicted and is under sentence of 14 years in | the penitentialy. An appeal from that conviction 1s pending in the Court of Appeals, Defense Counsel Unnamed. Special Assistant Attorney General Neil Burkinshaw told Justice Adkins that the pleas had been pending for many months and the Government is anxious to try Piits on the embezzle- ment charge during October. Before trial it is essential that the pleas be heard and pessed on by the court Burkinshaw declared he had not been Pitts expected to have to appear for him at the trial . He had served notice on Attorneys wilton J. Lambert and Frank G. Reichle, who had appeared for Pitts at the conspiracy trial, but was informed they no longer represented him. At- torneys Leon Tobriner and Dozier A. De Vane, who are appearing for the ac- cused in preliminary matters, he under- stood, are not prepared to conduct his defense at a court trial in October. Pitts Taken to Court House. Pitts had been brought to the court house from the jail, but remained in the cell room and was not taken into court. . Burkinshaw had hoped to have the court call on Pitts to announce his counsels name or have the court am action was taken along those lines. Attorneys Tobriner and De Vane wi in court when the date was fixed for the hearing on the pleas in abatement, (;rid i'o‘ lé Tnl;n;. CHESTER, Pa. U®.—Thirteen is ta- “Thi) boo at Pennsylvania Military College |a brother, Joseph Rafferty. three sis- | Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. as a foot ball player's number. Since 1926 three rnl.yzn wearing the numeral have been injured in games which the cadets lost. k3 able to learn what lawyer or lawyers | sign some lawyer to defend him, but ms | FORBUILDING FILED Leads Four Operations to Cost $400,000. | | Specifications for four major building of nearly $400,000, were filed with the joffice of Col. John Ochmann, District | building inspector, today. | The group was'led by plans for the | new theater to be erected by the Cran- | dall Theaters Corporation at 3420 Con- necticut averue, which will cost $150,- |000. The structure, designed by John J. Zink, Baltimore architect, will occupy | a lot 200 by 140 feet between Ordway and Porter strects on the west sidy Connecticut avenue. |, Plans for a $95.000 structure for | the Young Women's Christian Home, | at present located at 311 C stret, also | were filed. ‘This building Will be erect- | avenue northeast. A four-story binld- Hng: containing 84 rooms, it will be buiit by Davis, Wick & Rosengarten, local contractors, from plans drawn by | Porter & Lockie, architects, | _The third major project in the plans | filed today is for a $90,000 additional wing the Washington Episcopal Cathedral, Wisconsin avenue _and Woodley road d on Second street near Maryland | man, Rebb & Little are the architects. | The Hecht Co. filed specifications for | extensive remodeling of a recently ac- | Quired property at 613 G street, to cost $60.000. The building, seven storles in ‘r‘rmh', will be made over into & ware- ouse. e of : the The structure will be | built by George A. Fuller Co. Froe-| GIBBONS FUNERAL RITES Resident Here 30 Years Buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Helen C. Gibbons, who died Sunday-.at her home, 516 Shepherd street, were held this morning at 8:30 o'clock at the 'ruldence. Mass was said at St. Gabriel's Church l | | ere " at 9 o'clock, followed by burial in Mount | peiphian ~ Society, Willard Hotel, Olivet Cemetery. Mrs, Gibbens, who had been a resi- | dent of this city about 30 years, was a | native of New York City. She is sur | vived by her husband, Thomsas J. Gib- ! bons: her mother, Mrs. Nora Rafferty; |ters, Mrs. John Holbert, Mrs Donohoe 8! Prances | saughter, | sons, Government experimental farm. The portion of the River road which has been closed willgbe widened and Te- surfaced before 3t is reopened. Th2 wooden span, constructed and placed into service last Winter, so that the overpass and new approach to Highway Bridge from the Virginia side could be built, will be used for about 10 days longer, contractors state, while the street car switch-over to the new tracks on the overpass is made and the connection of the overpass with High- way Bridge is completed. After the new overpass is put into use one-way traffic only will be allowed on it for a few days pending the completion of other work. Cars and Busses Delayed. During the neight of the traffic fam this morning as many as 12 street cars of the two Virginia electric lines were tied up north of the plow-pits on the District of Columbia side of the bridge at one time and were not sent on the bridgs until th> jam had partly cleared. Bus_traffic between Washington and virginia_was also_considerably delayed { by the tie-ups and schedules could not MRS. ELSA EMMONS GETS RENO DIVORCE Employe in Bureau of Internal Revenue Claims Husband Went About With Other Women. Mrs. Elsa P. Emmons, 1361 Irving street, has been awarded a decree of absolute divorce in Reno, Nev., from Otto Emmons, to whom she was mar- ried March 24, 1927, in Alexandria, Va., it was announced today. Mrs, Emmons, employed in the Bu- reau of Internal Revenue, brought suit against her husband upon the ground of cruelty and failure to provide, charg- ing also that he went about with other women and humiliated and embarrassed er. Under the terms of the decree, Mrs. Emmons was permitted to resume the use of her maiden name of Elsa P. Newquest. Mrs. Emmons was repre- sented in the Nevada proceeding by Raymond Neudecker of this. city and George Springmeyer of the Nevada bar. WIFE SUES SECOND TIME IN 5 YEARS FOR DIVORCE | Failure of Husband to Pay Main- tenance for Child Is Charged in Marlboro Action. 4 By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., September 22— For the second time in five years, Mrs. Emma Smith_ yesterday brought suit against Edward Thayer Smith of the 3800 block of Baker street, Mount Rainier, Md. In her latest suit the wife alleges abandonment. In 1926 she petitioned for a limited divorce on grounds of cruelty, but this 2111 was subsequently dismissed, although wife was awarded custody of their son, Robert Smith, and the husband ordered to pay $15 a month toward the child’s support. Mrs. Smith alleges her husband has 1ot fulfilled the court order in this re- spect. She now asks an absolute divorce and custody of the child. She is repre- sented by Attorney Campbell Howard. ASKS CONFERENCE DATE U. S. Suggests October 1 for Dis- cussion of Non-Aggression Pact. The United States has asked Bolivia and Paraguay whether October 1 would be a satisfactory date for opening dis- cussion her2 of a non-aggression® pact in their Chaco boundary dispute. ‘The inquiry was on behalf of the five neutral powers attempting to help Bo- livia and Paraguay settle their dif- ferences. The neutrals are the United States, Columbia, Cuba, Uruguay. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party, benefit St. James' Cath- olic Church, Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, 8 p.m. FUTURE. Mexico and \ Meeting, National Capital Chapter, to- morrow, 9:45 a.m. Luncheon, Exchange Club, Carlton Hotel, tomorrew, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayflower Blng party, Pythian Sisters, No. 9, hip Temple, 804 Seventh street thwest, tomorrow, 8 p.m. License plates on a sedan which the dead man had left parked near the hotel were issued in 1930 to Gunnell | and last year to a Miss Mildred E. Felix of Atlanta, whom police there were un- able to locate, according to a wire re- ceived at Washington headquarters this morning. Neither the telephone nor city direc- tories listed the woman, and she was! not known, according to the telegram. at an office building which she gave as & ;ddress when the plates were issued er. Gave Another Name. ‘The man registered at the hotel on the morning preceding his death as E. J. Janes of Macon, Ga. No such name was known in Macon and cards on the man's person, which bore the name of Willlam M. Todd, Dobbs Tire Co., also gave no clue. Although the police investigation has i uncovered no suspicious circumstances, Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt sald an inquest probably would be necessary to clear up several unexplained details. The man's money—over $30 in bills and change—lay scattered about his rocm, but there was no further evi- dence of disorder. He reached the fire escape, from which he fell, through a bath room window, some distance from the room he had rented. ‘The theory that the victim is Gunnell is strengthened by the fact the man wore a belt initialed with the letter “G.” AR HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL DETAILS PLANNED Co-ordinating Committees Named at Meeting of General Group Last Night. { [ Formation of co-ordinating groups and working subcommittees to plan the first organization of the National Cap- ital's Halloween celebration marked the initial meeting last night of the Gen- eral Committee in charge of arrange- ments for the observance of October 31. ‘The meeting, presided over by Assistant Corporation Counsel Willlam A. Rob- +erts, general chairman, was held in the board room of the District Building. Representatives of member bodies of the Federation of Citizens’' Associations, which, with the Greater National Capi- tal Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, is sponsoring the movement, were present at the session. It is planned to co-ordinate the cus- | tomarily unorganized community. and city celebrations on Halloween night into one grand parade and carnivai, shifting the center of activity from its usual location on F street to Pennsyl- vania and Constitution avenues. Joseph S. Gamell was named chair- man of a committee to co-ordinate the work of the representatives. These in- clude: A. C. Case, chairman of the Greater National Capital Committee, and A. K. Shipe, both of the Board of Trade; Col. Edward Goring Bliss and W. C. Miller of the Washington Cham- | ber of Commerce, and Willlam E. Rus- sell and Dewey Zirkin of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association. Other committee chairman named last night include L. S. Trundle, chair- man of the committee on local citi- zens’ assoclations; W. I. Swanton, chairman of the committee on_ parade arrangements and formation; Mrs. E. C. Rittue, chairman of the committee on children’s activities, and a commit- tee on information and publicity, com- posed of Mr. Roberts, chairman; Miss Edith L. Grosvenor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan_and C. A. Hodges. Mrs. E.'K. Peebles, director of tHe Community Center Department, as- sured the committee of her organiza- tion's co-operation. Efforts will be made to enlist the 1 full support of the public schools, espe= clally the high schools, in the move- ment. Participation of high school bands in the parade and carnival is especially sought. Other organizations also are invited to take active part in the celebration. Prizes will be awarded for outstanding costumes and other en- tries in the parade, according to the committee, HIT-RUN CAR HURTS BOY Cecil Darden, 11, Has Broken Leg After Being Run Down. Cecil Darden, 11 years cld, of 1214 U street southeast, was taken to Cas- ualty Hospital with a fracture of the leg and cuts about the head late yester- day after being run down on Nichols avenue near Good road sout 3 o Hit-and run by a truck operated driver, ‘The truck driver, police of the elev- enth precinct station reported, picked the boy up, placed him in a machine dnvrr!l"by James J. Gal 2042 Benn X hat he would follow, the Car te tne hoh He was not seen again. hospital. cing Betty, rolled, but she did not rattle. It may be just sales talk, but Bouncing Betty’s boastful proprietors, Andy Mack and Bill Lange, claimed in unison yesterday they never heard a squeak out of their flivver all Summer. In view of this performance, ihe proprietors felt their automobile was worthy of a museum. They Henry Ford for an offer, No Place in Museum. ‘The reply, in effect, was that while the manufacturer was “glad to hear” how well and long the machine had | run, there nevertheless was no place for it in the museum. This was much the same answer given the motorists when they drove up to the Smithsonian Institution yesterday and made an informal tender of Bounc- ing Betty. period on his interview. “We never heard the motor skip a | beat nor knock once, and we drove all | ths way to my home in San Pedro, | Cal the way to Bill's in Al- | bany, N. Y. ‘Wil Consider Offer. “Now we'r2 back at school again, and | we can't keep ths car on the campus. ‘wrote | Since the car is no use to science, we'll consider anybody's offer.” Andy was aboss to put the final “Of course,” Ihe ‘wrote, with a wide grin, “while the | filvver sounded O. K. to Bill and me, that possioly may be because of the fact that we've been stone deaf since | we were 10 years old.” ‘When Andy and Bill drove off, on their way to Gallaudet College, more | | pedestrians in the vicinity of Eleventh | sireet and the Avenue were able to hear !then to see Bouncing Betty. RECEVER IS ASKED INWOODWARD SALE Francis H. Dushay Co., Own- * ing/ Building, Asks Court Halt Disposal Tomorrow. The Prancis H. Duehay Co., through its president, Francis H. Duehay, to- day appealed to the District Supreme Court to prevent the advertised sale of the Woodward Building, at Fifteenth and H streets, which is scheduled for tomorrow. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat cited ths defendants to show cause tomorrow why the sale should not be halted and why receivers should not be appointed for the property. Named as defendants are George N. Everett and Brainard W. Parker, trus- tees under the second deed of trust, which is being foreclosed; Randall H. Hagner and James J. Becker, trustees under a first deed of trust for $2,000,- 000; Helen Woodward Wilson, Irene ‘Woodward Parker, Donald Woodward and Catherine Woodward Tyssowski, holders of the second trust notes, and the New York Life Insurance Co., hold- er of the first trust. Through Attorney John E. Laskey, the plaintiff says it bought the property from the Woodward heirs and it has an equity of $1,600,000 in the property. Business conditions have made it im- possible, the court is told, for the com- pany to meet 1ts obligations under both trusts. The charge is made that the Woodwards are being given an unfair advantage under the advertisement concerning the sale, which purports to be subject to a prior trust of $2,000,- 000, which might have some period to Fun. The court is told that the real fact is that the first trust is in default and a purchaser would have to see to the refinancing of the property. The only fair thing, the company claims, is to name .a receiver and have a sale under the authority of the court where every one would have the full notice of the conditions. FIVE PLEAD NOT GUILTY T0 LIQUOR POSSESSION Police Vice Squad Stages Boozeless De- Arrested yesterday police “of the vice squad in a liquor-less raid at 815 Vermont avenue, five men entered pleas of not guilty before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in police court today and de- manded jury trials, on charges of nui- sancc and ion of liquor. ‘The men, Patrick J. O'Hern, Lester Simmons, Joseph Hall, colored; Willlam H. Woods and John Peyton, were re- leased on $500 bail for trial October 6. The men were changed with main- taining a nuisance since July 1 and possession of whisky mber 2 when a l‘flpolllv:e informer is alleged to have made a “‘buy.” Assistant United States Attorney Julian Richards will prosecute the case. ‘The vice squad headed by Sergt. N. O. Holmes raided the Vermont avenue place, but failed to find whisky. LEE RITES ARRANGED Oliver Melvin Lee, who died r- day at his residence, 811 Quackenbos after a short iliness, will be buried in the Towson, Md., cemetery tomorrow, after services at the ceme- tery. rl{e had been employed as an engineer for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for the last 39 years. He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. B, A. Conlan, Rose E. and Fl Lee, and three broth- Charles W. and Howard James E. BROOKHART HITS WOOD WAGE PLAN 'Denounces House Leader’s Plea for Drastic Cuts in U. S. Salaries. Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Jowa, author of the salary step-up plan for Government employes, took direct issue today with the propesal of Representa- tive Will R. Wood of Indiana, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, that there should be a 5 to 10 per cent reduction in the salaries of Government employes, including members of Con- gress. Brookhart took the stand that the! accumulators of great wealth must be taxed severely and that source of reve- nue depleted before he would counte- ! nance any reduction in salaries of the Government workers.. He and others who have been in close touch with the Government pay roll and salary sched- ules, members of Congress, leaders among the federated employes and Gov- ernment officials, when interviewed to- day, declared they saw little, if any, chance of Congress passing any of the proposals that are to be made for cut- ting the Government salaries, Alarmed by Wood. ‘The rank and e of Government workers had been al ed earlier by an interview granted by Chairman Wood to a group of newspaper men late yester- day. This followed receipt of dispatches ' from Detroit reporting President Hoo- ver's lapell to the Americdn Legion Convention to support no measures that would increase the costs of Government. ‘Wood advocated a 10 per cent reduc- tion of all Government salaries in ex- cess of $10,000, including the salaries of members of Congress. He favored a reduction of 8 per cent in salaries tween $5,000 and $10,000 and 5 per cent on salaries between $3,000 and $5,000. He emphasized that “there are many in the Government service whose salaries ar:u twice those of members of Con- He said ‘that “every country except the United States has reduced the sal- aries of Government employes, nine- tenths of the States have cut the sal- aries of State employes and the City of New York reduced the pay of mu- nicipal employes.”, . “All this has been done without any great furore and -in the present dis- Stressing emergency I think no one should object to a reasonable reduction in salary,” concluded Mr. Wood. He expressed the opinion that . ‘“every member of Congress ought to feel kindly to such-a proposal” to reduce their salaries from $10,000 to $9,000. Brookhart Is Aroused. ‘The chairman of the Appropriations Committee has no present intention to introduce a bill providing for this re- duction. He pointed out that the re duction should be authorized by a law 1| after consideration by a legislative com~ mittee. His committee is not rated as “legislative.” and so he feels that the chairman of some such legislative com- mittee as Ways and Means or provi ing l‘f’m' vlrdloua Gér,va‘rnmenz depart- ments should offer the proj % Aroused this oy ‘which he nt that the un:. have not been tax: e g G Yo g o A %m:finmo«‘v:m : em- ployes through their national organi- “Then,” he added, “there is the un- employment situation, and perhaps we thould not take away from persons oth- erwise unable to work the chance to earn an honest living. Hearing to Be in October. “However, I am convinced that the industry ne some sort of control or regulation, call it what you will, and I believe it to be the duty of the com= mission to seek to accomplish this end.” According to the law governing the commission, 20 days must be- tween the publication of the no- tice and the hearing, so that date B hearing will not be before elh T, ‘The present decision was hastened by notice served on the commission. by certain independent hackers that rates had been increased in the central zone by splitting this zone into two parts, and also increased in the old second and third zones, Theoretically, the com- mission ‘governs the matter of rates charged in the District by common carriers, but in practice -the taxicab operators have been charging what- they pl sometimes, but not always, notif the commission of their fres quent changes in rates. zations have been advocating that no special effort should be made for in- creases in salaries during the coming session, as their contribution toward velief of unemployment and the busi- ness depression. There is pending before Congr now the am reported by the Per- sonnel ification Board for auto- matic salary increases, with revised ratings on a basis of merit. The Per- sonnel Classification Board -advocated that such sweeping changes in the ¢l ition act would end the average provision that has caused so much mis- understanding and injustice. Warned Against Increases. It can be safely predicted that as “good litics” no serious effort will be made in the coming session to get this new legislation for automatic pay increases passed. Those who afe most closely associated with this legislation advise that “present conditions e it impracticable for any attempt be made to bring up that or any other salary increase measure. ¢ “It would be extremely unfortunate to try to liberalize the Government pay roll,” they say, “under present condi- tions when unemployment is so com- mon and where pay rates in private employment have in many cases been reduced below the Government rries.” ‘The general opinion .today among friends of the Government employes and Government officials is that Con- gress will probably “let well enough alone.” Congress is not -expected to make & successful effort to reduce Government salaries and the Govern- ment employes are harking to wise counsels not to make efforts to have salaries increased at -this time. URGES CUTS FOR CONGRESS. Treadway Will Ask That Both Houses Reduce Salaries $2,000, PITTSFIELD, Mass., September 23 (#).—Representative Allen T. Treadway of Stockbridge, Republican, today ad- vocated a reduction of $2,000 in the annual salaries of members of Congress as evidence of their willingness to aid the country during the present de- prglos. % eadway, who is the rank = ber of the House Ways and Me‘:‘gx mComem- mittee, said he would introduce a reso- lutien in Congress in December to carry out this plan. He will also rec- ommend lngm increase in the surtax ;-tek ummvmw incomes in the upper brackets as & meaxs of bal the national budget. e LA GUARDIA SCORNS IDEA. Replies to Will Wood That Reduction Now Is Impossible. NEW YORK, September 22 (#)— Representative P. H. La Guardia, Re- publican, of New York, believes there is little likllhood of any cut in the !exdnerul pqgi roll, a statement today re) Representative “Will_R. ywao&.ly‘gfuu‘: man of the Appropriations Commi of the House, he -plg. "fu “Only a combination of Demoerats and Republicans could bring about a cut in Federal salaries, and such a com. bination is highly improbable. out of