Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1931, Page 17

Washington News ¢ Fpe ning Sfaf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Society and General WASH INGTON, D. C, THUR SDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931. PAGE B—1 PLANS 70 PROTECT MARCHERS FINSHED BY CAPITAL POLICE Co-operation Will Signalize | Joint Efforts for Quiet Jobless Protest. GEN. GLASSFORD GRANTS SEVERAL CONCESSIONS Motor Cycle Officers Will Convoy Procession on Wisconsin Avenue and Bladensburg Road of Details protecting the 1,500 unempioyment relief marchers scheduled to arrive in Washington Sun- day were being completed today by off cials of the Metropolitan, Park and Capitol police forces, as Herbert Ben- jamin, who is supervising arrangements for the demonstration, scurried about in quest of housing accommodations for the prospective visitors. In close co-operation, officials of the three independent police forces already have worked out a tentative plan for | handling the marchers, in which the | metropolitan department is to be the | dominating factor. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, major and superintendent, | worked until 3 o'clock this morning chiefly on police arrangements in con- nection with the demonstration, and his aides picked up the details this morning where he left off plans for Concessions are Made. Prevention of disorder of any kind is the theme of the police plans. Every detail has that end in view. In fact | the police propose to make several im- | portant concessions to the marchers in | order to prevent the setting off of a spark that might lead to a conflict The chief concession to the marchers will be permission to enter the Capitcl Grounds if they parade in an orderly manner. The marchers, however, will not be permitted to carry banners into the Capitol Grounds, but no objection is to be made to arm bands the dem- onstrators intend to wear to distinguish them Housing of the 1,500 demonstrators continues to remain as Benjamin's most perplexing problem. Two places are under consideration—the tourist camp in East Potomac Park and the old Government-owned St. James Hotel— | but thus fer Benjamin has been un- | o to get permission to use either. | tourist camp, he said, s prefcr- because it will provide accommo- | ons for the trucks in which the | monstretors are coming to Washing- and it also has facilities for cook- | { | Promises Peaceful Protest. ans for the demonstration worked out at a series of | erences between Gen. Glassford, | spector Lewis 1. H. Edwards, per- | nel cfficer of the police department, representatives of the park ~nd 1" police forces. Benjamin also | has conferred with these officials, and | has given them his solemn promise that monstration is to be a peaceful and dignified protest against unemploy- ment conditions. | These plans provide for protection to | the 1,500 marchers from the time they | cross the District line Sunday until they | depart Monday night for their homes in all parts of the country. According to present arrangements, the delegations of demonstrators will come into Washington over the two | main arteries to the north—Wisconsin | avenue and Bladensburg road. Special details of motor cycle officers will meet them at the boundary and escort them to the place selected for their head- quarters, using a route that will afford the least interference to traffic. Plan Mass Meeting. { Other squads of police officers will be | stationed in the vicinity of the head- quarters of the marchers as well as| around the Washington Auditorium, | where a mass meeting is to be held Sunday at which a committee will be selected to present a petition to en it convenes Monday, de- manding relief for the unemployed. The 1 of the procession to the Capitol Monday also is to be heavily patrolled. The route has not yet been determined, because the marchers will start from headquarters, but the leaders propose to follow Pennsylvania avenue | in ar While ever march leaders have not plan- ned any demonstration at the White | House, either Sunday or Monday, the | park police will be prepared should one | develop F ing the lead of Metro- | politan police officials, Capt. R. C. Mont- | gomery of the Park Police has concel:ed | s entire force over the The Metropolitan police charge of the demonstra ments at the Capitol with the Capitol police assisting. Gen. Glassford will have a large detail on duty in the Cap- itol Grounds. He also has planned to place a number of officers in the Cap- Building to_augment the regular tbl force of 70 men 3enjamin has not it for a parade f police officials said 1pon request. He with Gen. Gla bably wil k for a permit Seeks Tourist Camp. efforts to provide housing ac- t the marchers, Ben: g the aid of North Dakota use tourist much better for he declared, “to tered in of them arrange to concerned hom: Ben)>min said he is that the marc] and this has been b distributed 1 in_advance of the com- rchers, calling for ow of the Government the District unit of party a forgery ate confusion concemm- e unemployed couricil ng to Charles he ited by e cir Smite, secret are being vocateu Fish Addresses Council. The marchers should not be permit- ted any acts of violence, Hamilton Pish, jr., of declared yesterddy at & “patriotic tea” of the National Patriotic Council in the Hay-Adams House. This Nation of ours,” Mr. Fish said. is big gh and rich ejcugh to dequate core of every hungry itute mon within our national If the musicipal goverrments and the private and organized chari- ble and civic and social organizations prove inadequate to the rather huge task now before us, then the United dis “agents pro- York organizaticn, | The front of the store at 5536 Connecticut avenue which was swept by flames last night. Three children and a NOISE 15 GETTNG ONNATIONSHERVES Psychiatrist Addresses Engi- neers on Results of Useless Clamor in Daily Life. The human race is becoming more nervous and high-strung as the result | of increased noises caused by the in- ventive age, Dr. Nolan Lewis, psychia- trist at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, said in a “Symposium on Needless Noises,” con- ducted in the Cosmos Club last night by Dr. F. H. Newell, president of the Research Service. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Wash- ington Society of Engineer: An explanation of this increased ten- sion was that the machine and motor age is increasing the volume of noise | more rapidly than the nervous system can adapt itself in compensation In describing the reaction of individ- uals to the sounds that may be term:d “needless noises,” Dr. Lewis said that | i while the drone of machinery may be music to the ears of the machinist, on the other hand, it may be a painful dis- tubance to the ear drums of the ave age layman. The groans of a doctor's patient, however, he said, while wel- come to the physician’s ears as a means of revealing the location of an ailment usually would prove repulsive to the machinist. Environment Important. “Noise” was defined generally as “any sound that disturbs or annoys.” It was pointed out that while the strains of a jazz band sound very much out cf place during working hours they may harmonize with a person’s frame of mind late in the evening or in the small hours of the morning when the working man's environment has shifted. Street cars were generally accepted as nolsy. It was revealed, however, that definite steps are under way to mizimize the clatter of the -wheels on rails by use of rubber insulation be- tween the wheel hubs and axle. Further evidence of the reaction of individuals to noise was pointed out in the example of an inexperienced typist in a room full of clicking type- writers and the veteran operator in the same room. The novice, it was stated, would probably find solace in the clat- ter of other machines to cover up his own “greenness,” traction. Sirens Most Annoying. Members agreed that the most nerve- wracking of all noises is the shrill call of the fire or ambulance siren. An economic phase of the discussion was touched upon when the question of how noise affects the value of property. It was contended that street cars, which are said to cause 97 per cent of street noi often prove injurious to the pocketbook Other speakers Vi1 of physicist standards, who demonstrated the audiometer”, an instrument used in | measuring sound, and R. H. Dalgleish, | chief engineer of the Capital Traction of developments in included Dr of the Bureau |Co. who told " progress to create less noisy street cars. | TERMS OVEREATING BAD AS OVERDRINKING Eating possibilities of greater abuse th iking alcoholic bev- erages, Dr. Wallace M_ Yater, profes- of medicine at the Georgetown versity Medical School, believes. “Everybody eats, but not every one drinks"” Dr. Yater explained, “and ex- cesses in eatir re apt to be as bad, if not worse, than drinking.” Che harm of the daily before-dinner cocktail or all, Dr. Yater says, is dependent upon the indulging individual who fecl “let- after a drink or two, bability should not ink at all because the liquor is harm- o th'm Ur solely experience an ex- ng effect from a bzfore dinner, the will result in more highball or a cocktal procedure probabl: n harm im- | will step in and job. understcod that not one s country need go hungry food or shelter. Our Gov- equate to the task of p:o- its citizens, And_while we must not make martyrs of the so- called hunger marchers, on the other hand, we shall per it no acts of vio lence or subversion from any of them. Mr. Wish said that should the police Tind thems:lves unable to cope with any situation that may arise, “then we will call on the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Na- tional rd. Violence and overt acts az2inct the Covernment will not be per- mitted. is hunger march ond mect of the other agitation has its inception in Commurism. Our chief national danger is not e enemy from without. but the insigious encroach: ments of the enemy within our borders.” while the veLeran[ would be aflected to a degree of dis- | business | woman were rescued from the fire and FOLR AR RESCLED INAPARTMENT FIRE Three Childrens and Grand- mother Saved When Flames Sweep Chevy Chase Store. Three children and a middle-aged woman were rescued last night, when fire of undetermined origin swept a two-st-ry building at 5536 Connect: avenue, wrecking a 5-and-10-cent store on the first floor ‘and badly damaging an_apartment above. The blaze apparently broke out in the basement of the building. It had spread to the People’s 5-and-10-cent Store, on the grcund floor, when it was discovered by Bernard Goldstein, occupant of the apartment Four Are Rescued. Goldstein ran into the street to turn in an alarm and was followed by his wife. When Mrs. Goldstein realized hiw much progress the flames had made, bystanders had to hold her to prevent her from returning to the building for her children After sounding the alarm, Goldstein, assisted by spectators, carried the chil- dren—Marcine, 9; Selma, 4, and Mor- ton, 16 months—and his ‘mother-in- law, Mrs. ‘Celia Lachman, frcm the building Woman Suffers From Smoke. Mrs. Lachman, who is 55, was par- overcome by smoke and was John A. Logan, 5437 She was still p n's care this morn- in but her conaition was said not to be serious. She and the other mem- bers of the Iamily are staying with neighbors The fir ch attracted a large crowd. is believed to have been caused by a furnace pereath the store. Stock stored there was destroyed, as were merchandise and fixtures in the store. was estimated at about necticut under the A cleaning and dyeing establishment next door, opera W. Ulman, also was damaged e and water, but the Ulmans, v.ho live above the shop, were away at time. | TWO DRIVERS OVERCOME | INCAB BY CARBON GAS | Left Motor Running to Keep Them ‘ Warm—Third Man, Becoming h | Dizzy, Gets Out. Two taxicab drivers were overcome | by carbon monoxide gas about 6 o'clock this morning while they were sitting in | & cab with the motor running in front of North Cathedr 1sions, on Con- necticut avenue condition is not serious. | The men, John Church, Va!, and J | 26 of 609 I street, were sent home after | treatment by the F Department | rescue squad and at Emergency Hos- pital Lee and Thompson told attaches at the hospital they were sit with another driver e and had the motor them warm. The third man became dizzy and got out and walked away they said. After a few minutes one of them lost conscious fell against the handle of the car door, causing t door to open, and tumbled 'to the side- walk A pedestrian dragged both men into the apartment house COLORED MAN FINED Driving on a permit which had been issued to a man now d cost William Marshall, colored Nichols avenue southeast, $25 when he was brought into Traffic Court yesterday. Thirty-first ‘street Tues without lights, d to be driving 'S permit Lee of Falls Thompson arly this morning running to keep ess for Marshall was discover: with his cead uncle | |RESPONSE IS GENEROUS, y! ting in a cab | 9472, S, WORKERS SUBSCRIBE §17 EACH N CHEST CAMPAIGN :Civil Service Commissioner Thomas E. Campbell Re- ports Federal Gifts. STATEMENT DECLARES Government Departments and In- dependent Establishments Give $164,480. | Employes of Government departments | | and of independent establishments have | responded generously to the Communi- ty Chest campaign, it was said today by | Commissioner Thomas E. Campbell, | | president of the Civil Service Commis- | sion | The 9472 employes contacted, ac- cording to the first reports, subscribed $164,480.06, an average of almost $17 | each. 7 | ch statement t follows Commissioner Thomas E. Campbell, president of the Civil Service Commis- sion, announces the first reports from ' the 'departm nd independent es- tablishments which have already begun the taking of subscriptions show clearly the generous response of employes to this opportunity to aid in unemploy- | ment and dependency relief. Departments Are Listed. “A number of larger departments and | establishments have completed their | organization and started the requests for subscription this week. These of- fices have not yet submitted any re- ports. The departments and offices which have made their first progress reports showing the number of em- | Ployes contacted and the total amount subscribed are released today by the f ¢ House | . Depart contacted white e 46 797 Boul nission ¢ Claims Commission r Dept. (civilians) tice Department Post_Office Department Inter; Agric Givil Alien Property Cu Federal Board for tion “Traini| dary 38699 51,66 651 85 646,53 233.18 ission 5 Classification Personnel Board Smithso Record Pan-Am Labor Tax Appeals Boar | Radio” Commission Farm Board Shipping Board Bureau of Efficiency Nat'l Adv. Com. for Total Gen. Pershing Appolnted. Reappointment of Gen. John J Pershing as _vice chairman of the Community Chest was announced to- day. The war-time commander was given much of the credit for the success of the governmental unit, which he head- ed in last year's drive. The Govern- {ment departments far exceeded their | quota. In accepting his reappointment Gen. Pershing wrote to Edward F. Col- laway, campaign chairman, stating he appreciated the honor and would be glad to serve. At the same time Chest officials re- vealed that Commissioner Campbell has accepted & post as vice chairman of the General Campaign Committee. He also was named a member of the | | Chest Executive Committee and will | have a voice in handling the funds he | helped to raise | Mr Colladay expressed satisfaction over the acceptances of both Gen. Pershing and Mr. Campbell. He said they would be invaluable because of | their outstanding ability as organizers He pointed to Gen. Pershing’s war rec- ord and Campbell’s experience as Gov- ernor of Arizona. Should the goal of $1,000,000 in the governmental campaign now in progress be reached, as generally expected, the Chest will need only to raise an addi- tional $1,601,000 next month to com- }mcw its quota for the campalgn. The n' Institution . Aéro increased budget resulted from addition of the District Employment Committee to the Chest and the unusual demands of family welfare organizations. TARIFFS REVISED Hoover Approves Two Increases and Five Reductions. President Hoover yesterday approved tariffi increases on two commodities and decreases on five others. The increases, recommended by the Tarifl Commission and_effective Janu- ary 1, 1932, were on McKay sewed shoes and on fresh green peas. The duty on shoes was increased from 20 per cent ad valorem to 30 per cent ad valorem The peas levy was raised from 3 to 3.9 cents per pound. The decreases approved were on win- | dow glass, turned shoes, crude feldspar, green peppers and eggplants. JOSLIN GETS COXEY PLAN Hoover Secretary Is Given “New Legal Tender” Proposal. Jacob . Coxey, who in 1894 led the famous “Coxey army” to Washington, vesterday laid before Theodore Joslin, | one of President Hoover’s secretaries, u plan for improving the economic situa- tion Coxey, now mayor-elect of Massillon, suggested what he called a “new legal | tender plan” is which the Government | would issue money without the support of the customary gold backing, and | with it would pay additional bonus | money to ex-service men. 5,000 SEEK 705 GALLERY SEATS TO WATCH HOUSE-CONTROL FIGHT Tickets to Monday’s “*Show” Will Be Parceled Out at By the Associated Press | At least seven persons to each seat have applied for admissicn to the House | next Monday to witness the clash be- tween the Democrats and the Repub- over who shall control that branch of Congres: There are 5,000 ; 705 seats that are | publie. | The parcelin; place Saturday doorkeeper Bert will b plicants for the available to the 8 out of tickets will take me}f(mng in the office of ennedy. About 700 Shaken up in a basket Capitol Saturday. In the presence of members to assure istribution IR one- wil be admitted to the gal- | leries who does not possess & ticket. | The steps in the galleries are to be used | to_supplement the regular seats. Each of the 435 members of the House is entitled to one seat in the galleries for his wife. The Speaker's gallery is reserved for the wives and | Jerusa | tion,” | saturday night program of the Eighth |POWER HEARING DATE children of former Speakers, and the District of Columbiag, Commissioners | have reserved seats. g | Many nppllcamns for seats have been on file since the end of the last Con- | gress. “Ichabod Crane” Is Hit at Jefferson High MUSICAL COMEDY TO BE REPEATED TONIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT. HESE junior high school players, who gave the first per formance of “Ichabod Cran sons why the show is proving popular. Left to right, Reese Phillips, Evelyn Hughes, Russell Dant, Ester Baritz, | Herbert Sturger and Henry Otis, JEWISH FESTVAL WL BE OBSERVED 'Eight-Day Chanukah Rites to Open in Capital Tomorrow. | | | | Opening with a double program of holiday celebration, observance by Wash- ington Jews of the eight-day Chanukah | Festival will begin here tomorrow. The | annual religious festival commemorates a victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians in 165 B. C. and the subse- quent rededication of the temple of em. The Brotherhood of Adas Tsrael Congregation will hold a service at the | synagogue tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, while the Eighth Street Temple will have Jewish University Night, with Jewish college students as special guests on the same evening | Rabbi Metz to Speak. | Rabbi Simon Metz will address the former audience on “The New Educa- | while Rabbi Abram Simon will | k to the university group on/ outh and Its Many Coat of Colors.” | On the Adas Israel program also will | be Paul M. Segal, former associate counsel for the Radio Commission and t one time president of the Denver, Colo, B'nai Brith Lodge The Knights of the Maccabees will present a pageant depicting the historic | victory over the Syrians, as part of the pe Street Temple Brotherhood at the Jew- | ish Community Center. John Fletcher, | degree master of the order, will be in | charge of the costumed performance. | Invocation at the ceremony will be | offered by Rabbi Simon and benedic- | tion by Rabbi Metz. The meeting will | be addressed by Irving Diener. The musical program for the evening will include songs by Cantor L. Novick and the congregation and a piano solo by | Miss Dora Minovich | The Hevrah Kadisha of the Adas| Israel Congregation will hold a Chanu- kah supper Sunday night at 6:30 p'clock. Monday afternoon at 2:30 the sisterhood of the Eighth Street Temple wil present the annual Chanukah program. De- cember 11, the final night of the cele- bration, will be Brotherhood night for the Adas Congregation. FIGHTS ADVANCING Commission Objects to Speeding Writ Plea Involving Plan of Fixing 1932 Rates. The Public Utilities Commission to- day filed in District Supreme Court an objection to advancing the date for final hearing of the petition of the Potomac Electric Power Co. for an in- junction to restrain the commission from putting its new sliding scal method for determining electric rates | into effect. A motion to speed the hearing was filed by the company last week. The only reason, according to the | objection, for advancing the date of | the hearings, is based on the continued | exislence of the consent decree regu- lating electric rates entered by the court in 1924, which is no longer bind- ing, and consequently there is no rea- son for hearing the case in court be- fore the public hearing to be held be- for the commission on the 1932 rates, about January 21. The commission was represented by Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, Assistant Corporation Counsel William A. Roberts and People’s Counsel Rich- mond B. Keech. FOUND DEAD IN HOME William H. Alexander, colored, 37, was found dead on the kitchen floor of his apartment at 1603 U street this morn- ing. His wife, attracted to the kitchen by the odor of gas, summoned Benjamin Harristor,, the janitor, and he sent & call for medical aid Physicians from Emergency and | Freedmen’s Hospitals, and a Fire Rescue Squad responded and made unsuccessful efforts to revive the gas victim, Alex- ander’s life insurance papers were found in the gas-filled kitchen His death is being investigated by the coroner. Speaker Assails Modern School. Undermining of children’s nervous systems, characters and morals were attributed to imprcper methods of edu- cation employed in modern schools, Miss Marietta Johnson, head of the School of Organic Education of Fair- hope, Ala,, said in an address last night belore the Wesley Heights Community | R | pa Capital Reporter To Begin His 63d Year of Service Shuey’s Continued Good Health Revives Interest in Unusual Record. Still known for his good health, an old man who has become a virtual fix- ture at the Capitol plans to enter his | sixty-third year as an official reporter there Monday. Since 1868, tnree years after he came home from the Civil War, Theodore F. Shuey has been taking down Senats speeches in shorthand. Still fit at 86, he sees no reason to_quit. Three years ago a move was launch- ed to have the Sen- ate chamber re- modeled to pro- vide ~ better light and ventilation Much medical test- imony was mar- shaled to show that the lack of sun- light and fresh air was dangerous to senatorial health It all sounded most convincing until a Senator dramatically point- ed out the excel- lent health of the veteran reporter after 60 years of Senate service. The remod- eling plan was dropped. Theodore F. Shuey. A veritable encyclopedia of informa- | tion, Mr. Shuey is often called upon by historians or by Senators writing their memoirs to supply information avail- able nowhere else. From the Fortieth Congress to the Seventy-second, he has noted little change in the Senate as a deliberative body. To him the standard of ability and oratory is as high as in his younger | days when the words of such men as Charles Sumner, Oliver Morton and oscoe Conkling filled his shorthand ds. YULE SALE ARRANGED Neighborhood House to Open An- nual Arts Bazaar Saturday. Neighborhood House, 470 N street southwest, will hold its annual Christ- mas sale of arts and crafts articles to- morrow and Saturday. The sale will be conducted each day from 10 am. to 10 p.m. The proceeds are to be used for the purchase of ma- terials and equipment used in the arts and crafts departments. The articles on sale include hooked rugs, fancy towels, decorated flower pots and fruit cake, Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro is chairman of the committee in charge of the sale. She is assisted by Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin and Mrs. Wallace H. White. The sale is authorized by the Community Chest, of which Neighborhood House is a member. FOUR JOIN LIONS CLUB New Membe;lnhinted at Weekly Luncheon Meeting. Four new members were initiated by the Washington Lions’ Club yesterday |ac the weekly lupcheon meeting at the | Mayflower Hotel. Dr. Guy Leadbetter conducted the in- itiation ceremonies, which added to the club membership Ed Morton Willis, D, C. Crain, E. H. Bauer and J. E. Casson. President Edgar N. Brawner presided at the meeting. ‘Tuesday night, are several rea- | T4RBBERESNET 51964 TOTALLOD |Gypsy Fortune-Telling Rack- | et, Safe Crackirg and Or- | dinary Thefts Reported. Fourteen cases of thefts and bur- glaries, including an old “gypsy for- | tune-telling swindle game and a safe| cracking, were being investigated today by the police. Altogether $1,964.50 were reported stolen or missing. The fortune telling-victim, Pearly Johnson, 603 Eighteenth street north- east, told of being swindled of $100 by a gypsy man. Pearly was told to wrap $100 in a piece of paper, wait one hour and unwrap the package which would contain a forecast of the future in |addition to the money, according to the | police. Only a few slips of worthless |paper were found by Pearly when the | package was unwrapped. | Safe Dynamited; $100 Taken. | Dynamiting a safe in the ofice of | the ‘Electric Sanitary Laundry, 1310 H | street northeast, yeggs obtained $100 last night, John H. Bell, a special | watchman, reported to police. En- | trance was gained through a rear door |of the laundry. Nearly half the money | belonged to employ | Theft of eight pumps, worth $690, from the Standard Oil Co., in the 200 block of L street southwest, was re- | ported by the manager of the plant. Two furs, valued at $350, were stolen | from the home of Thomas E. Jarrell, 1420 Ingram street, by burglars who | smashed in a glass door panel with an | electric iron wrapped in a towel. A {8100 coat was reported stolen from the | store of Louis Gold, 1214 F street, Finds $100 Is Missing. George H. Jones, 1630 Fifteenth street, told police he missed $100 after | | being”driven home in a taxicab and as- sisted into the house Ten thousand cigarettes worth $61.50 were stolen from the sidewalk in front of & Peoples Drug Store at Georgia avenue and Farragut street, according to a report to police by Engel R, Gled- hill, manager. Theft of $138 in cash and a small quantity of whisky from Max Kossan's drug store, 1748 Seventh street, also| was reported. Others reporting thefts included Pearl Brown, 337 Armory court south- west, $140 worth of furniture; Helen 3. Coon, Grafton Hotel, pocketbook con- | | taining $40, driver's ‘permit and ke: Mount Airy Church, 17 L street, a $20 pitcher; Guy B. Oldaker, 81 H street; | | Louise Hughes, 1506 Spring place; Dr | John W. " Bonbrest, 605 Fourteenth | street; Jacob Rosenberg. 1020 Seventh | street: John Murphy, 316 K street, and | Virginia Carelton, 1617 Lawrence street | northeast. | | FEDERAL WORKERS VOTE T0 BE KNOWN TOMORROW The result of the vote in the National | Pederation of Federal Employes on the | proposal to withdraw from the Amer- ican Federation of Labor will be made public tomorrow. Returns from all but two locals have been received at national headquarters here and it was said these were in the mail and would be here by tomorrow. Federation officers decided against glving information on the balloting until all the votes were in. The breach was occasioned by the American Federation of Labor opposing proposed new classification legislation desired by the Federal employes. BRICKLAYER WHO DIED IN CAFE FOUND TO BE WORTH §25,000 Detectives Send Telegrams % Made for Extensive efforts to locate relatives of Emmet Horgan, well-to-do 70-year- old bricklayer, who died in a Ninth street restaurant Tuesday afternoon, were being made today by headquar- ters detectives, under the direction of Sergt. James Springmann, chief of the Homicide Squad. Information received by Springmann this morning led him to send a wire to Seattle, Wash., police In hopes of locat- ing relatives there. Springmann said he recetved word that a number of Hor- gan's relatives probably could be located in Seattle. He also sent a wire to Jo- seph S. Mazza, financial secretary of the Bricl ers, Masons and Plasterers’ Union in Francisco, where Horgan first joined“the union. Horgan's bank books and other creden- to West Coast as Search Is Relatives. tlals showed him to be worth approxi- mately $25.000. Horgan lived at 607 Sixth street. He had been there since about 1925, it was said, and had spoken but little about his personal affairs. ‘When Horgan was stricken the fire rescue squad was summoned and at- tempted to revive him. He was pro- nounced dead by a physician from Casualty Hospital, and a certificate | of death by natural causes was is- sued by Coroner Joseph D. Rogers. | ~Horgan's body was taken to Han- lon’s, undertaker, at 641 H street north- | east, and in the event no relatives are located, the local of the union of which Horgan was a member is prepared to o forward with funeral arrangement gt. i said. ot | rant MURDER WARRANTS FOR TWO FILED IN TEA HOUSE SLAYING Manager and Owner Named. Charges Also Due for “Trigger” Suspect. PHILADELPHIA COMBED AFTER ABBOTT ARREST Reputed Leader Ready With Alibi as Police Seek Four Gunmen Described by Witnesses. With the alleged “trigger man” the Old Colonial Tea House under arrest in Philadelphia, first-de- gree murder warrants were issued here today against Charles Levitt, manager of the Blacensburg resort, and Norman Garey, an employe, both of whom are recovering from bullet wounds at Cas- ualty Hospital. The warrants, which describe Levitt and Garey as fugitives from justice, were issued by Assistant United States Attorney Milford F. Schwartz. They were sworn out by Detective J. W. Wise, who said he was acting at the request of Constable Andrew Gasch of Hyattsville. Guard Against Escape. The object of the warrants, it explained, was to guard against was the { Possibility of the men leaving the hos- | pital when they have recovered from their wounds. Both are said to be re- covering rapidly. Chief Jeremiah J. Crowley of the Prince Georges County police denied that the warrants were issued at | Gasch's request and insisted his inves- | tigators knew nothing of them Crowley said, however, that a war- probably ' will be ' issued today against Peter Abbott, alleged Philadel- phia gangster, who has been named as the “trigger 'man” in the shooting, Abbott, Crowley said, will be charged with murder and robbery in connection with the shooting, in which Grover Amick, 27-year-old Washington gaso- line station employe, was killed and five other persons were ‘wounded early last veek. The warrant will be obtained, Crow- ley said, as soon as Sergt. William | Feehley, one of the two Baltimore de- tectives working from Philadelphia. Feehley went to Philadelphia yester- day to question Abbott, who was arrest- ed there Tuesday night, after a battle with two detectives. Alibi Reported Ready. Abbott is reported to have declared that he can prove he was in Phila- delphia at the time of the shooting. Feehley is said to have picked Abbott from a group of prisoners at the Phila- delphia police headquarters, asserting he answers the description of the “trigger man” in the shooting. A man | of the same general appearance as Ab- bott is reported to have been seen in | Bladensburg, a short distance from the | Defense Highway tea house, the day before the shooting. Arraigned before a Philadelphia magistrate yesterday, Abbott was held without bail, pending an extradition hearing next Wednesday. Meanwhile, Lieut. Cornelius Roche, the other Baltimore detective assigned to the case, is busy running down all available clues to the identity of the four gunmen still sought Underworld Is Searched. One alleged member of the bandit gang, Charles Simone, was wounded during the gunplay and is under treat- ment at Casualty. The others are be- lieved to have gone to Philadelphia. The Philadelphia “tenderloin” is being searched by detectives, and all the known haunts of underworld char- acters are under police surveillance. Gasch, who has been working with the Baltimore detectives, will requestion Miss Anna Lechlider, 1116 Monroe on the case, returns | street, one of the most important w nesses, according to Crowley. Miss Lechlider, who accompanied Amick to the tea house, was sitting in an automobile parked in the rear yard, when the gunmen arrived. She saw them remove the distributors from other cars parked in the yard and enter the tea house. There for Delivery. Amick, an employe of a Washington gasoline staticn, is said to have gone to the road house to deliver a machine to one of the habitues of the place. On his way, it is said, he and a friend, George Osborne, called for Miss Lech- lider, who had been visiting in the county, 105 MEMBERS ADDED BY CENTRAL CITIZENS Installation One of Largest on Record—Group Protests Against “Hoodlums.” One hundred and five new members were inducted into membership at & meeting of the Central Citizens’ Asso- ciation last night in the North Capitol Savings Bank. The installation was one of the largest ever reported at a citizens’ association meeting. Complaint was made of the “Insulting conduct” of a “gang of hoodlums” that frequents the corners of First and H streets and North Capitol and K streets, committing depredations and insulting passers-by. The police apparently are unable to cope with the situation, it was stated. Charles Laios, proprietor of a lunch room on H street, complained that the ang” had broken a large show window in his establishment and had caused many fights and disturbances in his place of business. Other merchants aired similar complaints. It was moved that unless proper steps are taken to curb these disturbances the matter be called to the attention of the Commis- sioners or Congress. A resolution will be presented to school authorities seeking {mprovement of playground facilities at the Blake School, Vice President John G. McMahon presided at the meeting in the absence of the president, Francis De Sales Ryan. NON-RESIDENTS OPPOSED FOR DISTRICT POSITIONS The North Cleveland Park Citizens’ Association meeting Tuesday . night adopted a resolution expressing” disap- proval of appointing persons to District government positions who were not res- idents of the District. Plans were formulated for a get-to- gether meeting to be held in January. The eeting was held at 3923 Windom place.” John B. Dickman, sr.