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! ¢ i GAS . OWNERSHP SUTRECDMMENDED BY UTLITY BOARD Violation ;f La Follette Anti- Merger Act Would Be Charged. CENTRAL PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION IS NAMED Court Action Is Decided After Com- plete Study of Record in Recent Hearings. The Public Utilities Commission has idecided to recommend to the District ‘Commissioners that suit be instituted in Equity Court charging the Central Fublic Service Corporation of Chicago with violation of the La Follette anti- merger act in acquiring ownership of the Washington & Georgetown Gas Light Companies Gen. Mason M. Patrick, the chair- said the commission had deter- mincd upon this drastic course of ac- tion after a complete study of the ord in the recent hearings con- gucted in connection with the inquiry into the ownership of the local gas companies. The Public Utilities Com- mmission was today preparing to send the record of the hearings to the Dis- Rrict Commissioners. Letter Ordered Draft.’. ‘This voluminous record. it was ex- plained, would be accompanied by a letter recommending in effect that the Commissioners institute the suit against the Chicago utility company.. The letter was ordered drafted today. Under the La Follette anti-merger act, a foreign utility company is pro- hibited from owning, controlling, hold- ing or voting more than 20 per cent of the stock or bonds of any public utility company of the District of Co- Jumbia. The whole purpose of the act is to leave the control entirely in the hands of the local company without outside dictatorship. Gen. Patrick said the letter recommending the suit be instituted in the name of the Commi: sioners was necessitated by fhe law, which states that such suits be brought by the Commissioners, rather than by the Public Utilities Commission. Evidence developed by William A Roberts, assistant corporation counsel in utility matte; at the recent hearings brought out some amazing facts re- garding the alleged ownership of the Jocal gas light companies. This evi- dence tended to show that virtually the ‘whole ownership and dictatorship lies with the Central Public Service Corpo- Fation of Chicago. Peirce Sole Owner, Mr. Roberts developed through evi- dence that the Washington & Suburban Co.. always regarded as the owner of the’ local gas light companies since the organization, was in effect owned by the Westfield Trust of Illinois, and that Col, Albert E. Peirce, who is president of the Central Public Service Corporation, was the sole owner of the Westfield Trust Corporation. Other facts in the maize of inter- locking control of the local companies showed that the Central Public Sery- ice Corporation holds a $13,750,000 mortgage on the Westfield Trust. Should the District Commissioncrs in- stitute suit under the anti-merger act and the District Supreme Court hold that the Chicago company ownership is illegal, the result would have the effect, it was said, of throwing the Washing ton and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. into control of the minority stockholders. The minority stockholders at present. it is understood, hold virtually 16 per cent of the stock. In event the District is successful in the outcome of the court proceedings, the law provides that the court shall be empowered to either dissolve the corporation or force the forelgn utility company to dispose of its stock. It can also restrain the Central Public Serv- ce Corporation from voting its stock. Gen. Patrick also said today that no Wccision had been reached regarding (the petition of the Washington Gas Light Co. for a maximum pressure of gbetween 8 and 10 inches. It is probable the question will be under consideration ‘for some time to come. The prevailing opinion in District of- ficial circles appears to be that the commission would allow the company at least an 8-inch maximum pressure 4n its mains. JOB AGENT'S TRIAL FOR FRAUD IS SET Jury Will Hear Charges of Woman Against Bureau Oc- tober 14. John D. Kendall, operator of the Washington Business Bureau, an em- ployment agency in the Bond Building, demanded, a jury trial on charges of false pretenses when arfaigned in Po- lice Court yesterday. His case will be heard October 14. He was liberated under bond of $500. which was fixed at_the time of his arrest Saturday. Kendall is charged by Fannie Lytle, colored, with having taken $2 from the ‘woman on the promise of obtaining her a job as a maid, but failed to do so. Appearing in the office of Assistant United States Attorney Willlam A. Gal- | Jagher last week, the woman swore out ® warrant charging false pretenses. ‘This method of prosecution was de- cided upon by Mr. Gallagher since the employment_agency act in the District Code has been rendered unconstitu- tional by an adverse ruling of the Su- preme Court of the United States. The colored woman is one of & group who complained first to the Better ‘Business Bureau concerning the em- ployment agency. She was selected by the prosecutor.as having the best case, since her dealing had been directly with Kendall, while the others had dealt with clerks in the agency. RETIRED ENGINEER DIES Pioneer Railroad Man Succumbs at Cambridge, Md. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Md.,, October 6.— ‘William H. Landon, pioneer Eastern Shore railroad man, died last night at his home here at the age of 79. He had been ill a short time. At the time of his retirement a few years ago he was the oldest engineer in point of service on the Norfolk division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He entered the railroad service as fireman of & wood-burning locomotive in 1871 and a few years later was ad- vanced to engineer, a position he held * watil his retirement, . l l Che WASHINGTON, D. C, New Traffic Signal Installed COMPLICATED S¥STEM AT INTERSECTION. | DeparTment o VEuicues STuarne TRAFFIC DEMAND -SiIGNAL INSTALLATION MASSACHUSETTS € Wisc. Aves. LeFT Turw OMAM S . e SouTHBOUND For Wisconsw Are Aeow Siswaes He ‘The above chart shows how the ne: of Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenue: turns and through traffic are regulated. I I ‘ officially Thursday morning at 10 o'clock by Gen. Herbert B. | Crosby, Commissioner in charge of police and traffic. Other heads of Dis- | trict departments will be in attendance. | The ughts have three features. One is the magnetic detector, by which a change is made by the approach of any vehicle. The second is the arrow sys- tem, by which left-hand turns may be made while through traffic is stopped, 'and the third is the apparatus which | allows pedestrians to push a button and cause the lights to enable them to cross the intersection in safety. actuated traffic signal system is in line with systems now being used in other large cities and its use is provided for in the national code. Unlike most signal installations, the arrangements at Massachusetts and at Massachusetts and Wiscon- sin avenues will be turned on WISCONSTN ‘This vehicle- | LFosw anc 7ok PEOESTRINS, Praporad by A G SELER Zngrew Keep mionT OF SAFETY ZONE. 'w traffic light system at the intersection s is intended to operate. Right and left & HE new system of traffic lights.| Wisconsie avenues provides for three | distinct movements of vehicles. The | first allows southbound straight through and Teft turntraffic from Wisconsin | |avenue to move on standard green ar- | rows, one pointing upward for straight to Georgetown- and. one, pointing left for the turn eastward down Massa- chusetts avenue. At the same time, trafic west bound on Massachusetts avenue is permitted to turn right into Wisconsin avenue on the green arrow which points right. | The second movement allows north- |bound and southbound. straight | through only, traffic to move, holding | | the left-turn movement down Massa- | chustetts avenue. ‘The third movement permits Massa- chusetts avenue traffic to cross Wiscon- |sin avenue in both directions. Push- | buttons are provided for pedestrians | desiring to cross Wisconsin avenue. | It is most important that all vehicles keep in their proper lanes. |19 National Groups to Take Part in Co-ordination Program. Affiliation of 19 groups of the con- struction industry, having more than 100,000 constituent members and rep- resenting billions in total capital, shortly will be effected through the organization of a co-ordinating body designed to “co-operate for the com- mon good of the industry and to better serve the Nation.” Headquarters will be maintained here. These groyps, it was announced to- day by the American Institute of Ar- chitects, will be united shortly for co- operative efforts through an organiza- tion to be known as the Construction League, which is shortly to be incor- porated in Washington. While the affiliated groups have not tive body to propose actions deemed to be of economic advantage to the Na- tion and the construction industry, be- hind which the affiliated groups might unite. Urge U. S. Building. For instance, it is explained, organ- | ized architects and contractors, since | i | | the coming of the depression, have | | been urging expansion of Government building programs as a means of reliev- ing unemployment and hastening a re- tull'n to prosperous conditions nation- ally. Robert D. Kohn of New York, presi- dent of the American Institute of | Architects, has been chosen general | chairman of the proposed organization at a recent meeting of spokesmen for the interested groups. ‘The scope of the membership of the affiliated bodies will embrace a vast army of workers, as well as professional interests, it is reported. since the League is to include the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor. In addition to Chairman Kohn, the following officers have been chosen for the provisional organization: Francis L. Stuart, New York, presi- dent of the American Society of Civil Engineers, first vice chairman; A. P. Greensfelder, St. Louls, president of the Associated General Contractors, second vice chairman! H. H. Sherman, Boston, president of the Producers’ Council, treasurer, and P. W. Dono- ghue, Washington, national president of the National Association of Master Plumbers cf the United States, gen- eral secretary. A joint secretariat will be composed of E. J. Harding, Washington, manag- ing director of the Associated General Contractors; E. C. Kemper, Washing- ton, executive secretary of the Ameri- can Institute of Architects, and L. W. Wallace, Washington, executive secre- tary of the American Engineering Council. Action for the formation of the co- ordinating league was taken on the in- itiative ot the Committee on Industrial Relations of the Institute of Architects, with the approval of officers of the As- sociated General Contractors and the Producers’ Council. The Producers’ Council is composed of 60 companizs and essociations of manufacturers in the field of building materials and appli- ances with a combined capital of $22,- 500,000,000. ““An effort is to be made to create a medium for co-ordinated action with- in the building industry,” said Mr. Kohn. “Each member organization will send representatives to periodic confer- ences, at which reports aimed to' im- prove the public service of the industry will be submitted. “The league, it is belieyed, phould as yet set up any specific objectives, the | plan is for the league as a representa- | BULDING INDUSTRY CASE OF WINBLEY WILL SEEK UNITY, ~ SHAPED FOR JURY | FRES - | Suspects in Dual Drownings Are Picked by Witnesses in Line-up at Jail. ‘The case of Harry C. Wimbley, 32, | and John Crowder, 24, accused by po- lice of murdering Wimbley's wife and/ stepdaughter, will be brought before the grand jury within 10_days, according to present plans %f District Attorney Leo Rover's office. Wimbley and Crowder have jeen held without bail in District Jail” for the last two weeks, since a coroner’s jury| decided grand jury agtion should be taken against them. The two men were confronted yes- terday by 25 witnesses, upon whose testimony police hope to convict the pair on first-degree murder charges. The witnesses were taken to the jail in a group and identified Wimbley and Crowder out of a line-up of other pris- oners. 2 Among those who viewed the men were witnesses from Virginia, expected by police to corroborate Crowder’s con- fession that Wimbley plotted to burn to death Mrs. Elizabeth Traylor Wim- bley and her 3-year-old daughter, Wilma Traylor, on the eve of the mother's twenty-sixth birthday. ‘When the plot failed, according to | Crowder’s confession, he and Wimbley drove the woman and baby to Wash- ington and took them on a birthday outing on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, where Crowder said he accidentally upset their canoe, drowning the pair. AIR CHIEF GETS PLANE Ship Capable of 200-Mile Speed Acquired by Adams. Not satisfled with cruising around op official business at speeds of 180 miles per hcur, David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, has gotten himself a new airplane with which he expects to get around at 200 miles per Nour or better. ‘The new plane, a low-wing, all-metal monoplane, with retractable landing gear which folds up into the wings, was flown to the Anacostia Naval Alr Sta- tion from Burbank, Calif., by Marshall Headle, test pilot for the manufactur- ers, arriving here yesterday afternoon. The ship is finished in gold and black and will carry the name and insignia of the, naval aviation chief. do nationally what has been done in many cities by local building congresses. Many constructive policies are hcing carried out, but need co-ordination. Committees have been organized by the league, and the following chairmen selected: Membership, W. G. Luce, New York, representing the Assoclated General Contractors of America; plan, Merritt Harrison, Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Building Congress; employ- ment, Roy V. Wright, New York, pres- ident of the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers; correlation, L. K. Comstock, New York, president of the Electrical’ Guild of America: research, George 1. Ray, Charlotte, N. C., pres- ident of the National Association of Sheet Metal Contractors; merchandis. ing, A. W. Berresford, New York, pres- ident of the National Electricai Manu- facturers’ Association; public relations, Horace W. Peaslee, Washington, D. C., vice president of the American Insti- tute of Architects. A policy committee has also been formed, its members representing arch- general contractors, . abricators, | distibutors and labor. PLEA T0 FORECLOSE ON NINE WARDMAN BUILDINGS WEIGHED Ruling Expected Next Week on $16,000,000 Mortgage Motion. REORGANIZATION IS AIM OF GROUP MAKING FIGHT Opponents Declare Move Inexpe- dient, Contending Selfish Rea- sons Are Back of It. A motion to foreclose a $16,000,000 mortgage on nine so-called Wardman properties here was being considered to- day by Justice Jesse C. Adkins of the District Supreme Court. Justice Adkins heard argument of counsel for and against the motion vesterday, and took the matter under advisement. He is expected to an- nounce his ruling next week. The motion for foreclosure is being pressed by a committee representing 86 per cent of the purchasers of approxi- mately $11.000,000 worth of bonds issued under the mortgage. This group, after the foreclosure, would put into effect a plan for reorganizing the properties. Bondholders Opposed. Some of the bondholders who have not deposited their bonds with the so- called protective committee vigorously opposed the foreclosure at yesterday's hearing, contending such a move would be. inexpedient now, in view: of current market conditions, and would prove detrimental to the interests of all the security holders. ‘They also complained that the fore- closure plan is being sponsored by Hal- sey, Stuart & Co., a member of the banking group through whom the, bonds were sold, for selfish reasons, and that the proposed substitute securities are inadequate. In addition to the $11,000.000 in bonds, there were issued approximately $2,500,000 of senior gold debentures and more than $2,000.000 in junior gold debentures, the latter being turned over to Emory L. Coblentz, Frederick, Md., banker, in exchange for his equities in four of the properties. Both the bonds and debentures are now in cefault. There are also outstanding $220.000 of two-year notes of the Wardman Real Estate Properties, Inc. Propose “Income” Bonds. ‘The proposed plan of reorganization would substitute for the present inter- est-bearing bonds an equal amount of 7 per cent “income” bonds, or bonds on which interest would be paid only as the earnings of the properties justified {such a step. It has been contended | bonds of this character would minimize the danger of another interest default and foreclosure. These income bonds would be sccured by a new mortgage on _the nine properties. For each $500 of senior gold deben- tures there would be exchanged five shares of common stock in a new cor- poration to be formed to take over the properties and assume the obligations. It has not been disclosed to what ex- tent the scnior debentures have been sold to the public. The two-year notes will be taken care of by the issuance of one share of com- mon stock in exchange for each $200 block of notes. Coblentz Faces Loss. ‘The plan makes no. provision what- soever for the junior debentures issued Coblentz. If it is put into effect, it will mean a paper loss of more than $2,000.000 to the Maryland banker. Under the reorganization plan a sum jnot to exceed $2,400,000 would be bor- rowed to renovate some of the proper- ties and to provide an operating cash fund. “This proposed loan would be secured by a mortgage on the properc ties, which would be a prior lien to the mortgage which would secure the issue { of income bonds. It was contended on behalf of thoge sponsoring the foreclosure that such a move is imperative, and that the best interests of all the security holders will be served by a prompt acceptance ot the proposed reorganization plan. The properties involved are the Ward- man Park Hotel, the Carlton Hotel, the Chastleton Hotel, the Department of Justice Building and the Boulevard, Cathedral Mansions (north and cen- ter), Stoneleigh Court, Davenport Ter- race and 2700 Connecticut avenue apartments. D. C. SUED FOR $50,000 | Plaintiff Asks Damage for Fall Injuries. The District of Columbia and_John B. Rubino, a contractor, 2020 Rhode Island avenue northeast, were jointly sued today for $50,000 damages by Daniel A. Kohr, a former employe of the District Engineering Department residing at 1906 Jackson street north- east, for alleged personal injuries. Kohr says Rubino was digging a trench for block of Monroe street northeast and he stepped when passing in front of premises 797 Monroe street at 11 o'clock at night May 15 last. He fell into the depression and sustained serious in jury, he alleges. Attorneys Whiteford, Marshall & Hart appear for the plaintiff. & sewer for the Disfrict in the 700 | had left unguarded a hole into which | %455 ENROLLED N SEADOLS HERE IGREASEOF 40 Total for the Day Classes Reaches _ 80,314—Junior Highs Show Biggest Gain. 14,584 ARE ATTENDING SENIOR INSTITUTIONS Evening Courses Opened Last Night, With 4,508 White and 2,633 Colored Pupils. A total of 86455 are enrolled to | date in the District public school sys- tem’s day and evening classes, IDOGI':- | ing to res made public at the Frank- H: Schfl‘o:l Administration Building_to- day. This is nearly 4,000 more than ever attended the schools on a com- parable date in any previous school year. The day school total has reached 80,314, which is 3,367 more than were | enrolled in the day schools at the be- | ginning of the second week of last school year. The greatest gain is in | the junior high schools, where the en- | rollment now stands at 13,083, which is | 2,481 above last year. A gain of 1,145 was recorded in the senior high schools, where the enrollment stands at 14,584. The vocational schools, with an enroll- | ment of 945, are 85 ahead of their last | year total, while the teachers' college: | with a total enrollment of 699, are 84 | higher than the second week of last | year. | Evening Schools Opened. | Opening of the evening schools last | night showed an enrollment of 4,508 white persons. The colored school open- ing number wis 2,633. The colored school total represented a decrease of 347. compared with the opening enroll- ment a year ago, but this number is expected to be changed to a marked !increase within the next week. The white evening school enrollment, the director of those schools explained, rep- resents an increase, but just how much he was unable to say becouse, he as- serted, he has been unable to find the files containing last year's opening en- rollment. The files of the director’s office have not been placed in order, following the moving of his office from the Franklin Building to the old Adams School. He was appointed during the Summer. 2,972 Study at Central. McKinley has the largest night school enrollment with 1,657. Business is sec- ond with 1,548. ' Central High School, operating only day classes, is struggling with a near capacity enrollment of 2972, which is 300 more than it was required to take a year ago. McKinley. built originally to house only 1,800 children, now has a roll of 2,775, or 241 more than it had | Business High School has | a year ago. an increase of only 65, with its total enrollment of 1,288. Western still is 57 below its comparable figure of a year ago, with a total roll of 1,745, 'MODERNISM SCORED AT CATHOLIC SESSION | Primitive Cult Blinds | Groups, Woman Speaker [ Asserts. Peace Modernism was condemned by Mrs, Anna Dill Gamble of York, Pa., chair- man of the Committee on Representa- tion. in a talk today before the National Council of Catholic Women in the May- flower Hotel. “The cult of the primitive blinds peace groups, as it does other modern- ists, to the benefits of a Christian cul- ture,” Mrs. Gamble said. Mrs. Gamble explained she had made | a study of the peace situation since the outbreak of the World War. She said the preparedness movement preceding the war was repelling. She said the activities of pacifists who 'med to have begn the instruments of pro-Ger- man propaganda were equally dis- gusting. “Today,” she declared, “the con- | scfence of mankind demands that its statesmen solve the problem of inter- | national disputes by some other method than warfare, if civilization itself is to | endure. American women everywhere | are eager to participate in the peace movement if only they can be sure of not being misled.” \ GUILD TO HEAR HINTON | Pilot of NC-4 to Address Members i of Church Organization. | _Lleut. Walter Hinton, pilot of the NC-4 on its transatlantic fiight, will address the bimonthly meeting of the Women's Guild of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Lieut. Hinton will | relate some of his experiences with the |NC-4 and on other flights. Herman Fakler of the Mount Pleas- 'lnt‘:thurch quartet will be the guest .soloist. WOMAN CHASES BANDIT SUSPECT, CAUSING ARREST AFTER SHOOTING Witness to Delicatessen Hold-Up Attempt, Armed Only With Towel, Pursues Man With Pistol. A woman, armed with only a towel, chased an .armed man, who was charged with having fired a pistol at a delicatessen proprietor in an attempted hold-up, for several clty blocks early today. aiding police to capture him. Mrs. Harriet Moose, who resides across the street from the store of Samuel Wiesenberg, 1413 C street northeast, at 7 o'clock this morning was cleaning the front porch of her home. She heard a pistol shot and a scream in the delicatessen. Mrs. Moose said she ran to the store door just in time to see a colored man dash out. Wiesenberg was still scream- ing and she said she believed he had been shot. She followed the fleeing man, waving the towel above her head and screaming for help. South on Capitol, Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. They gave chase, and the man dashed through the back door of a house a few feet ahead of Rehbein. Marlar ran around to ti® front of the house and headed him off. | Following the arrest the suspect gave | his name as Ernest Thompson, 19 years old, of Third street near Virginia ave- | nue. Police are holding him pending further invest] . Police _said Thompson admitted the attempted hold- up and said he had thrown the gun away while being chased by Mrs. Moore. ‘Wiesenberg was alone in the delicates- sen when the colored man came in and Fourteenth place the man and woman | firs ran. At North Carolina avenue they turned and along that thoroughfare the chase continued umtil Mrs, outdistanced. But her cries had attracted the atten- tion of police, and Officers O. E. Reh- bein and F. E. Marl hted the Moose was |his lar, ting, .‘al‘l’q} nmrthu.‘. counter. ‘Weisenberg said he heard the ham- merofmeu'x: ,b\ltthau‘r,:; failed e . _ Then n ran out of the store, without tak- Foening Staf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1931. Restoring Ancient Dugout BOAT ONCE USED ON GEORGE WASHINGTON CANAL. James Dee and Everett Bedtty ‘Washington Canal, near Great Falls, N old “dugout more than 130 years old, which used to make trips to Wash- ington by way of the locks of George ~ Washington's canal, near Great Falls, was presented to the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks today by William T. Partridge, consulting architect of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, ancient craft is now at the store yard at Fifteenth and C streets southwest, and an effort will be made to repair it, with a view to utilizing it either on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, when that becomes a part of the Na. tional Capital’s park system, or on the restored George Washington Canal. The craft is about 27 feet long and 4 feet wide and appeared to be made repairing the old dugout ' " believed to be | g | used on the George —Star Staff Photo. of poplar. = Mr Partridge advised Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, that the dugout was found on the south branch of the Potomac River and he secured it from a family in ‘Romney, W. Va., in which, tradition said, it was for more | than 130 years. The old river craft was supposed to have been built by a colored slave and made trips to Washington before the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal was con- structed. -The dugout is cut on the lines similar to those in use on flat boats of that period. It has, however, the distinction of a high projecting bow and provision for polling = operations astern. and was evidently used in run- ning the rapids, Mr. Pariridge sald. M.E. CONFERENCE NAMES PASTORS Dr. W. A Shelton Again Put in Charge of Mount Vernon Place Church. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., October 6.—Dr William A. Shelton, recently cleared of | immorality charges based on a com- plaint by his former secretary, Miss Carrie A. Williams, was reappointed pastor of the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South of Washington at the regular conference of the church here | yesterday. Rev. H. R. Deal, jr.. was renamed by the conference as assistant pastor of the Mount Vernon Place Church. garded as a final vindication of Dr. Shelton, who was tried by a church trial committee of 13 preachers ap- pointed by Bishop E. D. Mouzon. Rev. Dr. J. Howard Wells, pastor of the Trinity M. E. Church South of Baltimore was appointed presiding elder of the Washington district of the Bal- | timore Conference, Rev. Dr. F. J. Prettyman, pastor of Alpheus Wilson Memorial Church, was transferred to Fredericksburg, Va. He will be succeeded at Wilson Memorial Church by Rev. Embree H. Blackard, pastor of Melrose Church, Kansas City Mo., who was transferred from the Southwest Missouri Conference to the Baltimore Conference. Rev. D. L. Snyder, pastor of the | Washington Street Church, Alexandria, | Va., will sueceed Dr. Wells at Trinity Church. Rev. John Paul Tyler, pastor at Clif- | ton Forge, Va., will succeed Rev. Dr. | T. J. Lambert as presiding elder of the Baltimore district. e following assignments were made: Washington District. Presiding elder, J. Howard Wells. Beltsville-Branchville, T. J. Lambert; | Bethesda, C. C. Burruss: Brentwood, F. A. Holden: Brunswick,-R. L. Wittig: Calvert, H. Q. Burr: Ringer; CI ‘burg, E. W. Jordan; Colesville, A. B. Sapp; Frederick, Nat G. Barnhart; Gaithersburg, D. L. Fringer; Goshen-Emory, R. B. Proctor; Hyattsville, C. I Flory; La Plata, Welch; Mount Rainier, H. P. Baker\ Poolesville, W. D. King; Potomac, P. C, Helimneller, jr.; Prince George, S. J. L. Dulaney; Rockville, Frank A. Tyler. Washington—Calvary, D. A. Beery; Emory, H. V. Wheeler; Epworth, J. C. Copenhaver; Francis Asbury, & J. Rives; Marvin, A. E. Owens; Mount Vernon Place, W. A. Shelton and H. R. Deel, jr.; St. Paul, W. W. McIntyre. issionary pastor to Japan, J. T. Meyers; executive secretary Board of Christian Education, H. H. Sherman; superintendent Home for Aged, H. M. Wilson; associate editor General Board %X“E.hrlstiln Education, Charles D. ul Alexandria District. Presiding elder, J. H. Balthis. Alex- andria, Washington Street, E. W. Aaron; Del Ray, E. V. Regester; Ballston, A. Vanoovander; supply, Paul Warner: Chesterbrook-Langley, R. A. Bergdoll; Clarendon, J. H. Pearson; Community Church, C. F. Linger; East Fairfax, W. H. Grey; Fairfax, R. A. Rice; Falls Church, C. H. Cannon; Fauquier, E. T. Harrison; Fredericksburg, I'. J. Pret- tyman; Hamilton-Purcellville, George Hasel;: Herndon, D. M. Brown; Hills- boro-Bluemont, I. G. Michael: Lees- burg, W. M. Compton: Loudon, J. W. Seay; Manassas, O. L. Cocheneur; Mar- shall, J. C. Dugger; Middleburg, G. W. Richardson; Nokesville, C. B. Larrick: Occoquan, H. H. Hoyt; Quantico, A. H. Shumate; Remington, S. C. Stickley; | Stafford, Walter Smith Sterling, W. C. Sponaugle; Surley, D. Swecker; ‘Warrenton, Glenn J. Cooper; confer- ence director, H. L. Hout. Winchester District, Presiding elder, E. L. Woolf. Berkeley, W. W. Sheets; Berryville, R. L. Brucetown, C. J. Clark; Charlestown, J. W. Rosenberger; Edin- burg, C. T. Collyer; Frederick, H. S. Myerly; Frent Royal, R. L. Fultz; Jef- ferson, C. E. Kirby; Linden, R. V. ‘Whitehurst; Martinsburg, W. S. Ham- mond; Middletown, W. P. Saunders; Mount Jackson, G. R. Mays; New Mar- ket, W. O. Luttrell; Ridgeway, William Stevens; Shenandoah, S. F. Fridley; Shenandoah Junctiom J. D. Russell; Shepherdstown, C. W. Fink; Stephens City, E. A. Roades; Strasburg, F. B Wyand; _Toms Brook, Warren-Riverton, t, R. L. M . A Lambert; Woodstock, W. E. Holley; transferred to Western North Carolina Conference, Wade Johnson. Baltimore District. Presiding elder, Rev. John Paul Tyler, Aberdeen, C. E. Brant; Annapolis, C. R. Curtis; Asbury, Allen Gillis. Balti- more—Alpheus Wilson Memorial, Em- bree H. Blackard; Andrew Chapel, C. F. Phillips: Arlington, W. H. Best; Cen- M. D. Mitchell; Epworth, C. St. John’s of Hamilton, R. C. Meeker; Sudbrook, J. H. Davidson; Trinity, D. L. Bnydegh Wm’ uA"v;enue. l& R Rudasill. Churc! -Millington, W. A. Clark; . R. Hardesty; Fern- dale, G. M. Butt; Freedom, liott; Goldsbozo, W. M. Waters; The two reappointments were re- | Chesapeake. J. 7. | J. E. McDonald; Laurel-Savage, Homer | Wendell Allen; Ingleside, C. W. Jordan; | Jarrettsville, R. D. McNear; Mount Airy, A. L. Mernesberger; Odenton, C. L. Robson; Patuxent, William Clew | Perry Hall, G. W. Cobb; e |W. C. Smith; Reisterstown, L. H. Richereek; Royal Oak-Tilghman, J. A. Reed; Trappe, F. T. Fairbank: Wesley Grove, A, O. Lyons. _Editor, Baltimore Southern Methodist, N. D. Harmon, jr. Moorefield District. Presiding elder, C. M. Hesser. Alaska, E. W. Dolan, supply; Burlington. J. F.| | Owens; Capon Bridge, B. ¥. Wright.| Cumberland—Central. J. W. Legett; Emanuel, D. R. Cleckner; Trinity, W. D. Keene. ‘Elk Garden-Garrett, V. R. Gilliam; Finston, A. A. P. Neel; Frank- lin, W. G. Grooch; Frostburg, D. N. Calvert; Gainsboro, Charles Wagner; Hampshire, J. C. Spidler; Hardy, A Hunter; Highland, M. Thomason; | H. S. Coffey; Listonburg, C. G Monterey, 'F. L. Morrison , A. I Orndorfl; Morgan, L. Russell; Moorefield Pied- | ; ‘Spring- | field-Augusta, J. S. Schwartz one to| be supplied; Wardensville, J. R. Corro. | Roanoke District. Presiding elder, W. F. Locke. Beth- any, W. D. Eye; Blackburg, F. M. Rich- | ardson; Buchanan, F. T. Ridge: Buena Vista, L. B. Bobbitt: Cambrie, Louls W. Griggs: Catawbas, J. | Hodges, supply; Christiansburg, J Hobbs: Eagle Rock, W. J. Whitesell H. EL Morgan; Newport, F. E. Lbroke, R. Moorman; Parker, and Belmont, S. R. Neel; L. Lawson; Grace, Memorial, C. K. Ray E. S. Sheppe, jr.; Melrose, G. H ing: Raleigh Court, E. C. Beery: T. A. | Jordan, supply; South Roanoke, R. K. | Nevitt; Trinity, H. Sydenstricker; West End, S. K. Cockrell: Roanoke Circuit, B. T. Price; Rockbridge, E. B. Cock; Salem, J. R. Wood; Vinton, J. H. Bean | missionary to Japan, Gearge L. Walters. | Rockingham District. | _Presiding elder, H. H. Canter. Bath, J. B. Hedrick; Blue Ridge, D. W. Cobb; i Bridgewater, O. D. Lambert; Calvery, | Fisherville, C. L. Board: Churchville, Paul H. Grozclose; Elkton, E. A. Wil- cher; Fairfield, F. L. Baker, jr.. Goshen- Craigsville, L. O. Rose; Greenville, N. C. Rice; Harrisonburg, G. G. Martin; | Gaither, P. Warfield, missionary pastor | to Poland; Keeseletown-McGaheysville, | L. S. Smallwood: Lexington. J. A. John- scn: Luray, R. G. Maxweli; Mounters- | ford, H. Strieby lount Solon, J. B. | Grimies; Newhope, H. L. Goffman; Page- | Stanley, A. W. Henton; Port Republic, W. A. Lynch: Rockbridge Baths-Coliers- 2; Pem: Roanoke | Fairview, W. | C. Bush; Greene | Huntington Court, { | town, H. W. Craver: Shenandoah, R. E. | Musser; Stauntcn-Central, B, . Sw zer; Marquis Memorial, M. L. Fearnow: Waynesboro-Basic, R. B. Claggett; Main Street, H. C. Marsh: post chaplain Staunton ' Military Academy, W. S. Thomas. Lewisburg District. Presiding elder, D. L. Blakemore. Aldesor, B. W. Johnson; Alvin, G. M. Bell; Blue Sulphur, J. T. Brown; Cal- laghans, G. Heydrick; Clifton Forge, T. M. Swa Covington Epworth, L. L. Lowance; Granbery, J. H. Haley; South Covington, L. S. Shires; Durbin, W. M. Reynolds; Frankford-Richlands, A. A. McNeer; Greenbank, R. D. Mar- shall; Greenville, W. P. Good; Hills- boro, G. H. Fringer; Hinton, C. L. Delong: Hot Springs, Palmer Eubank: Huntersville, M. P. Weikel; Levelton, E. G. Helmiller; Lewisburg, J. Harry Smith; Marlinson, G. G. Olivex; Paint- bank, A. W. Groscup; Peterstown, G. E. Pope; Riverview, N. W. Russell; Conce- verte, J. M. Yo rk; Selma, C. L. Reiter; Talcott-Belle Point, J. P. Atkins; Union, C. A. York; White Sulphur, J. H. Bil- lingslet; Williamsburg, W. H.-Hodges, TRADE GROUP PLAN GRAND JURY STUDY | Means to Prevent Selection of Unqualified Talesmen Will Be Sought. Means of preventing the formation ofy illegal grand juries, which in the re- cent past have hampered administra- tion of justice, will be sought by the Law Committee of the Washington Board of Trade in a study of the mat- ter to be started this week. Joseph A. Burkart, chairman of the group, has called his committee to meet Thursday to begin a study of methods for the selection of grand jury mem- bers in the hope that some means can be found to forestall selection of tales- men who cannot legally serve. Jhe trade body Law Committee has a roster of 133 Washington attorneys. Paul E. Lesh is vice chairman; Ray- mond B. Keech, people’s counsel before the Public Utilities Commission, is sec- retary, “and Beverly M. Coleman is treasurer. . Members of the committee decided to seek an improved method for formation of the grand juries after the July grand Jury, which had returned scores of in- dictments, including a number in the investigation of use of “third degree” tactics by members of the Police De- partment, had been found to be illegal. ‘This was due to the presence on the jury of a member who, it was discov- ered was the recipient of a Government pension, which made him ineligible. Members of the Board of Trade point out that ruch happenings are costly, in time, money and , _since much of the work of an illegal jury must be dens over, as well as a han cap to the administration of justice, PAGE B—1 DOUBLE TEST GIVEN JURORS T0 BAR ANY INELIGIBLE CITIZEN Written Set of Questions and Two Oral Examinations Put to New Panel. U. S. PENSIONER IN GROUP VOIDED 180 INDICTMENTS Court Attaches Determined to Pre- vent Repetition of Error So Costly to District. Determined to avert another grand Jury flasco, court officials raised what they believed to be an impenetrable barrier to ineligible jurors as they began selection today of 'a new grand jury and half a dozen petit juries. Extraordinary precautions were taken to see that no person with Government affiliation slipped by the examiners, in view of the recent disruption of the third degree inquiry with the last-min- ute discovery of a pensioner on the July grand jury. The new grand jury, selection of which was expected to be completed late today, is faced with a number of unusually important cases, including election charges against Bishop James Cannon, jr., and brutality ac- cusations against more than a score of ‘Washington policemen. Double Precautions, Taking cognizance of the bad lesson presented in the disqualification of the last grand jury after it had handed down nearly 180 indictments during the Summer, court attaches subjected each prospective member of the new grand Jury to a double-barreled examination as to qualifications. An innovation re- sulting directly from the recent nul fication of the grand jury proceedings was the requirement that each pro- spective member of the inquisitorial body sign and swear to & carefully worded questionnaire. The questioning process was begun at 10 o'clock this morning before Just- ice James M. Proctor of Criminal Divi- sion 1 and choosing of the grand jury was made the last event of the court chedule for the day. When court ad- journed for lunch at 12:30, two panels for petit jury service, each 26 strong, had been completed. Four more panels of 26 members each and 23 members of the grand jury will be chosen this afternoon. ‘The prospective jurors were brought before the court in groups of 30 and questioned orally by William Adkins, clerk of the Criminal Court. In this pre- liminary weeding-out process, many were excused for sundry reasons. Questioned Second Time. Those who survived the first ques- tioning in open court were taken into nother room and questioned carefully again individually by Charles Cofiin, chief assistant clerk of the District Supreme Court. The petit jurors were not asked to fill out the written ques- | tionnaire, The questionnaire, prepared with the assistance of the District attorney’s of- fice. contained a list of vital questions designed to determine the eligibility of the signer. Prominent in the list were two questions concerning pensions snd other Government pay. It was such a question that Henry L. Johnson. Span- ish War Veteran, said he failed to hear asked when being sworn in last Jul The error was a disastrous one. The court summoned 550 citizens for possible jury duty, and from this group was to select 179 men and women f various juries. COMMITTEE QUIZZES STAPLES. Former Policeman Closeted With Group For More Than Hour. The special committee of lawvers in- vestigating for the Commissioners the grand jury’s charges against the Police Department, today questioned former Policeman Orville Staples, alleged to have been removed from the force three years ago as the result of a “frame up.” Staples was closeted -with the com- mittee for more than an hour, and is understood to have repeated the te<ti- mony he gave the grand jury several montps ago. Reinstatement Sought. The grand jury not only held that Staples was the victim of a “frame up.” but recommended his reinstatement on the police force, retroactive to the date of his dismissal in May, 1928, which would entitle him to claim approximate- ly $7.000 in accumulated salary. While the committee of lawyers is conducting its investigation secretly, re- ports reaching the District Building in- dicate that the inquiry is progressing satisfactorily and that the findings probably will be in the possession of the Commissioners the latter part of next week. The committee, however, has not yet questioned former Policeman Frederick A. Schenck, key witness in the case, due to his refusal to testify unless wit- nesses are present. There has been no disposition on the part of the committee to call in witnesses when Schenck is interviewed, and the belief prevails that he will ultimately change his attitude and talk to the lawyers in privacy. Have Report of Speech. District officials are understood to have been provided with a stenographic report of the sensational charges Staples made against the Police Department in a public address Saturday night, but virtually all of his statements, it was said, are similar to those made at his trial 3 years ago. An investigation was made by police officials of the charge that a safe in a police station had been “cracked” and robbed of between $250 and $300, which was replaced through personal contribu- tions by men attached to the precinct. The officials declared they could not find one policeman who had ever heard the story before. 10 WOMEN JOIN CLUB TO AID MARYLAND PARK Improvements for Town Will Re- ceive Support—Work on Roads to Be PusHed. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. MARYLAND PARK, Md., October 6. —Ten women, including several mem- bers of the Ladies’ Community Club, joined the Maryland Park Citizens’ Association at its meeting last night. They intend to assist the men of the community to further needed improve- ments for the town. ‘The women who joined are Mrs. Fred Stoffel, Mrs. W. J. Grissam, Mrs. Norvel Carrick, Mrs. Lillian Richard- son, Mrs. Olive Smith, Mrs. Laura Vaughan, Mrs. Bessle Scimidt, Mrs. Anna_Myer, Mrs. Grace Close and Mrs. Frank , ‘The hody decided to have its tractor and road scraper put in condition so side roads may be fixed as soon a8 the ney State highway is ¢