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Washington News WAS @he Zoeni WITH SUNDAY MOR! NING EDITION HINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931. ny Stap Society and General * JRY WL REGENE TEAHOLSE SLAYIG FUDENGE TONEHT State’s Attorney Bowie to! Ask That Three Be Held for Grand Body. WARRANT FOR ABBOTT WILL BE SWORN TODAY Man Held by Philadelphia Police Is Identified by Witnesses as | One With Pistol. Evidence against three men charged with first-degree murder in connection | with the holdup and shooting last week | at the OIld Colonial Tea House will be | presented to a coroner's jury wnight‘\ at the Bladensburg, Md., fire house State's Attorney Alan Bowie of Prince Georges County will ask the jury to hold the three men—Peter Abbott, alleged | “trigger man” in the slaying of Grover Amick, 27-year-old Washington filling | station employe; Charles Levitt, man- | ager of the tea house, and Norman | Garey, his assistant—for action of the | grand jury. O A warrant for Abbott, who is being | held by Philadelphia authorities, was to | be sworn out today by Jeremiah Crow- | ley, chief of police of Prince Georges | County. Warrants against Levitt and Garey, ‘who were committed to Dis- trict jall here last night, were issued yesterday by Assistant United States Attorney Milford F. Schwartz. Idenified by Picture. Crowley wired Chief of - Detectives Michael Hanley at Philadelphia this morning that the warrant for Abbott | would be forwarded there by special | delivery mall, according to dispatches | from the Pennsylvania city. = Crowley | said Abbott had been identified from | photographs by witnesses to the shoot- ing as the first man to enter the tea | house early in the morning of Novem- ber 23 and brandish a revolver. He advised Hanley extradition proceedings would be begun immediately for the return of Abbott to Prince Georges County. Meanwhile, the four women picked up here yesterday by Justice Depart- ment agents in connection with the in- vestigation of white slave activities throughout the East were taken to Baltimore and remanded to jail there | after questioning by United States At- | torney Simon E. Sobelofl. They are being held as material witnesses against four men charged with viclation of the Mann act—William Hancock, John J. (Man O' War) Bartlett, Chester Clarke, | alias Renzulli, and Levitt, tea house manager, Women Ordered Held. | The women, Miss Jean Gordon, Miss | Mae Dix, Miss Susan Reynolds and Miss Margle Kushner, all of whom were free | on bond as State's witnesses to the | £hooting, were ordered held as Federal | witnesses in defau't of $5,000 bond each | by District Attorney Sobeloff. | Two of the five wounded in the tea house shooting were transferred last night from Casualty to Gallinger Hos- pital, while the remaining three, Levitt, | Garey and Mrs. Verne Edwards, were | sent to jail. Those at Gallinger are Thomas “Simone 2nd Bartlett, alias Felix Bocchicchio, the former said to be one of the hold-up men and the latter a guard at the tea house. Simone’s wife and mother visited | him yesterday at the hospital and upon leaving, insisted “He's just a big, playful boy.” The two women came here from Philadelphia by bus and stopped off at Hyattsville to receive permission from Crowley to visit Simone. Two Are Requestioned. Two of the witnesses in the case, Miss Anna Lechlider and Samuel Kush- ner, were requestioned yesterday, but gave no further information of im- portance. A phone call to the tea house from & nearby home was traced yesterday. It came from the home of Mrs. Louise Talbott, who lives only a few hundred feet away. Mrs. Talbott said she was awakened early Monday morning by a barrage of hots, and shortly afterward heard s woman screaming at her back door: “Let me in—for God's sake let me in.” The girl stumbled into the kitchen, gasping, according to Mrs. Talbott, “We've been held up, on the hill.” The §irl, who police said fits the description af Relen Conley, one of the occupants @f the house, asked permission to use fue telephone, according to Mrs. Tal- | Bott. “Bhe then called & number, wiich | Mrs. Talbott did not hear, asked f | everything was all right and said she | would be “right back up.” g DAWES '32 BOOM ‘ REPORTS IN DOUBT Glenn of Illinois and Fess of Ohio| Without Knowledge of Movement. i By the Associated Press. Republican leaders are skeptical of reports of a boom for Ambassador Charles G. Dawes for President Neither Senator Glenn, Ilinois, the home State of Dawes, nor Senator Fess of Ohio, the Republican national chair- man, have heard of any movement to nominate the former Vice President in place of Herbert Hoover. | It was recalled by friends of Dawes today that upon his visit here last Sum- mer he declined offers to re-enter poli- tics. He was then urgently requested to become the Republican nationdl | chairman and refused it to return to' his post in England Mr. Dawes also did not permit his me to be used in the 1928 campaign | vhen his associates were active in op- | position to the Hoover candidacy. RADIO RECdVERS AUTO Officer Hears Report of Theft While Watching It. While watching a suspiciously parked car yesterday afternoon on Constitution avenue, east of Seventeenth street, Offi- cer Oren Spears of the United States park police, who was in plain clothes, heard a lookout broadcast over his police radio set in the machine notify. ing him that the very car he was watching had been stolen. The car, which bore the Maryland tags 303-703, allegedly stolen from Mad- ison and H streets during the morning, Rejects Own Advice FAMOUS AUTHOR FAVORS MARRIAGE—FOR OTHERS. | have written, I described an old house BY GRETCHEN SMITH. AKE a chance” is the ad- i« vice offered to matrimonial | shrinkers, timid souls with | wedlock inhibitions, by | America’s popular novelist, Edna Ferber, who admits she neve: | took a chance herself, because she has been too busy working to heed the siren call of matrimony. Smartly attired in a Paris gown and close-fitting toque of Lanvin green, Miss | Ferber reclined in_corner of her settee | at the Mayflower Hotel, and shook her | head emphatically as she reiterated | her statement. “Yes, every one should marry once,” she declared. “No one has known life fully, who has only lived one of lifes | experiences. Of course, even after thousands of years, I don't think we've struck the right marriage combination. But then, present-day marriage is the | best solution worked out yet for men | and women to live together properly and have families, and I think every one should have the experience. Noth- ing is as sad as an old maid,” she added. “It's silly to be an old maid. Women should marry and have chll>‘ dren.” The writer of “Cimarron,” “Show Boat,” “So Big” and innumerable other portrayals of American life, paused a | _ moment and_leaned her head back against her chair. Too Occupied Writing. EDNA FERBER. —Star Staff Photo. land, said one reviewer, ‘which really | possessed 20 rooms instead of 10. “I never married,” she explained, | Started as Reporter. “because all my life since my seven- | “Not one character I have ever teenth year, I have been too occupled | created,” continued Miss Ferber, “ever writing. | really existed. Some passing remark, “Of course, I love my work,” she|or something I see by accident, sug- continued, her dark eyes lighting en- | gested an idea, or a character. ' After thusiastically. “I love to write of |1 have created my characters they America because I think we are the |really live for me—they become living last country left which is possessed With | people. I love them and am interested vitality.” in them. They become as much & “Are my characters real?” Miss| part of me as my eyes, ears or mouth.” Ferber sighed at the old, old question, |~ Miss Ferber, who started her literary always asked of writers of fiction. career as a hewspaper reporter on a “Why is it,” she responded, “that|Milwaukee paper at the age of 17, be- no fiction writer is given credit for the | lieves that a journalistic training is of possession of imagination. I write fic- | inexpressible “value to the literary tion—not history. And yet after prac- | aspirant, tically every book I have written I| “I wouldn't exchange my newspaper receive hundreds of letters saying ‘You | experience for any other I have ever didn’t describe so-and-so right—I knew | had in life,” she added. “It teaches one | him (or her) personally—he had brown | to know and read character, and that | is necessary to write fiction.” Miss Ferber, who came to Washing- | ton to attend the cabinet dinner at the | White House last night, left for her | home in New York this morning. At | present she is seriously considering the purchase of a home in nearby Virginia, a section of the country which the ver- eyes and not blue. ¢ my last book, ‘American " she continued, “which, inci- I consider the best thing I in which I had lived in New York Even the_critics pretended to ‘recog- {nize’ the home, some actually claiming | to know it. ‘An old house in New Eng- satile authoress has not as yet explored. EXPECTS WORK 10 KEEP FORCE INTACT Rear Admiral Larimer Tells Adams Plans Made to Curtail Discharges. PLANT HAS WORKED OUT LABOR SUPPLY PROBLEM Chief of Ordnance Says Apprentice System Has Trained Competent Men to Meet Needs. Rear Admiral E. B. Larimer, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy partment, told Secretary Adams in his annual report today that he hoped “sufficient new work may soon be put in_ production which may prevent any further material reduction in the work-| ing forces of the naval gun factory” |at the Washington Navy Yard. “The work load is being carefully anticipated, as far as practicable, to assure a steady flow of work through the shops in order that discharges may be prevented or minimized as much as possible,” said Admiral Larimer. Use Apprentice System. Naval Gun Factory, with its diverse skill and versatility, it has been diffi- chanic in sufficient numbers. The trend of the times toward mass production | has tended to create specialists in branches of the various trades rather than mechanics skilled in all com- ponents. The apprentice system as now practiced in the Naval Gun Factory is an outgrowth of this condition. Dur- ing the past few years, through the | close co-operation of shops and schools, it has been possible to elevate the edu- cational standards of apprentices. In the shops, by systematic attention, in- terest and example, the new apprentice rapidly becomes an asset. “Due to the peculiar needs of the| activities requiring a high degree of | cult to secure the desired type of me- | 0. C. JOBLESS AID - ISNEAR SOLUTION |District Heads Favorable. 300 Expected to Get Jobs Next Week. {CO-ORDINATION FAILURE NOT TO STAND IN WAY Reichelderfer Uninformed on De- tails, but Will Support Program | for $240,000 Expenditure. | The plan to put 300 unemployed men to work on various District governmen- tal propects with funds from the Com- munity Chest apparently will go through despite the reported failure of co-ordination and co-operation be- tween the District Committee on Em- ployment and various District agencies. Matters at the District Building were expected to be straightened out and the men put to work late next week. It had first been planned to start work Monday, or in some cases to- morrow. The plans were first discussed last | Monday at a meeting of the appropri- ations subcimmittee of the Committee on Employment. It was agreed to ask the Chest for monthly commitments of $50,000 in December, and $60,000 each in January, February and March, a total of $230,000 for the pay of unemployed ‘workmen to be put to work doing grad- ing, sodding and other such tasks various District departments and in the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks. In addition, $10,000 is to be | obtained from another source. The request, it is understood, did not reach the Community Chest until | yesterday. Meanwhile George J. Adams, secretary of the Employment Commit- | tee, had approached several District officials with a view to putting the ‘M “Numerous instances may be cited of [ T¢R to work, and at a meeting Tues- ex-apprentices of the naval gun factory | 9&Y F. M. Davison, District main- holding responsible positions, both out- | tenance _engineer, announced detailed side and within the yard, such'as mas- | PIans for putting the men to work. | 1t developed vesterday, however, that lTh’ree Charge Discrimination LAND DWNERS SEEK SANTA CLAUS LANE TONING, IIONCTION CEREMONY TONEHT Columbia Heights Yule Lights and Trees Display to Open With Parade. in Officials’ Refusal to Per- | mit Row Houses. Suit for tmunczim lem.sbte (hp(]j'.tgn; trict of Columbia, the members of the | Association Santa Clause Lane will open Zoning Commission and John W. Oeh- | = Fann building inspector, was asked to- | 1OnIght at a ceremony attended by Maj. dey in the District Supreme Court by | D. A. Davison, acting Engineer Com- Benjamin H. Gruver, vngfi‘gmng missioner; Maj. Pelham D. Glassford, street, and Charles E. an I i, | Superintendent of metrooolitan police, Cooley, 1405 K street. The plaintiffs St othier Dronilsst iMiele. Preceding the formal opening of the own a large tract of land on Calvert street between Thirty-ninth street and Fortieth streets, which the Zoning Com- | lighted lane from Fairmont street to mission refused to zone as residential Meridian place on Fourteenth street B restricted. there will be a colorful parade headed The owners have applied for permits by officers of the association and dis- to erect row houses on the Fortieth |tinguished guests, and including in its street frontage and on Thirty-ninth | units the Overseas Military Band and place. which runs through the square. |Drum Corps of the Veterans of Foreign Oehmann has refused the permits be- | Wars, the Boy Scout Drum and Bugle cause of the action of the commission | Corps, mounted Fort Myer troop color in refusing an application to change the | bearers and a host of other groups. zoning to permit row housé construc- | At 8 o'clock Maj. Davison will throw tion. The court is told that permis- |the switch illuminating the -elaborate sion to erect similar houses on the |network of vari-colored lights glowing Thirty-ninth street frontage of the |against a background of evergreen trees square had been granted and the claim |and overhanging garlands of laurel. is made that the refusal of the Zoning | Guests in the reviewing stand will Commission to make a similar change | include Inspector. Ernest Brown, Fire in zoning is arbitrary, discriminatory | Chief George S. Watson, Dr. George C. and violative of the owners' rights to | Ilavenner, A. Guy Reber, Burd W. the use of their property. Payne, A. E. Westrater, John 8. Cole, Through Attorneys Joseph T. Sher- | Horace J. Phelps, Arthur C. Smith, fer and Relph B. Fleharty, the owners | Eugene Minoux and others point out that 171 row houses may| The General Committee in charge ‘The Columbia Heights Business Men’s | ter mechanics, quartermen, leadingmen, draftsmen, planners-estimators, etc. It is thus evident that a self-sustaining source of labor of more desirable qual- ity than usually obtainable elsewhere has been developed and has established a nucleus of potential leaders familiar with the plant, specifically trained in its methods, aims and needs and_capable of carrying on in times of rapid expan- sion such as have occurred in the past. Investigations Made. “Design, experimentation, manufac- ture and test of ordnance material have progressed satisfactorily. Improvements in machinery have been provided for increased production at reduced costs. “A number of important investiga- tions were undertaken by the inspec- | tion, metallurgical and testing divisions, special attention having been directed to corrosion problems and to cartridge case manufacture. “Work of considerable was performed by the naval gun fac- tory for other departments of the Gov- ernment and for other bureaus of the Navy Department.” Admiral Larimer pointed out that | “due to the completion of work in hand and not sufficient new work started, it has been necessary to reduce further the force of the naval gun factory.” “The total force is less, by 576 em- ployes of various ratings, than it was at the ending of the previous fiscal year,” the admiral asserted. VINSON DRAFTS BILL FOR “TREATY” NAVY Due to Be Committee Chairman, He Plans Ten-Year Program to Buid Up U. S. Fleets. importance | the Commissioners had never been | notified of the plans, and several of the officlals withdrew, apparently on | the theory the plans did not have ‘omchfl sanction. Richelderfer Ready to Help. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, presi- dent of the Board of Commissioners, sald today that all he knew of the plans was what he had read in the papers. He said, however, that as they | appeared there he was heartily in favor | of them, and far from feeling ired that | he had not been notified, he would do everything in his power to make the plans a success. At a meeting of the Employment | Committee yesterday E. C. Graham, | chairman, said he would send an offi- | cial communication to the Commission- | ers asking them to co-operate. | _The plans call for the assignment of | about 200 workers each to maintenance work on District roads and park roads and 100 to school playground work. | The men will be paid 45 cents an hour | for an’ eight-hour day three days a | week. WOMAN, 62, IS INJURED Driver Booked for Investigation. Newsboy Slightly Hurt When Struck by Auto. Mrs. Blanche Sawyer, 62 years old, of 921 Nineteenth street, was hurt seriously last night when a taxicab driven by Marcus Aaronson, 28, of 4124 Third | street, struck her at Seventeenth and | K streets. She was treated at Emergency Hospital for head injuries. The hacker was booked for investiga- tlon at the third precinct, but was SERIOUSLY BY TAXICAB | be erected on the vacant land owned by them, but only 123 houses could be built under the ruling of the Zoning of Santa Claus lane consists of B. A. Levitan, chairman; William F. Dismer, H. C. Phillips, Ralph Wallace, A. R. released a short time later in custody of his attorney. Police were told Mrs. By the Assoclated Press. Sawyer was crossing the intersection | out that all the properties in the vicin- Swan and Frank J. Sobotka. o e WELL KNOWN COUPLE AND CHAUFFEUR KILLED Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Murray, Prom- inent in New York Society, Die in Auto Wreck Near Camden, . C. CAMDEN, 8. C., December 4 (#)— | Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Murray of New | York City and their chauffeur, Charles | W. Vickers, were killed near here yes- terdaefi, \;'Ern their automobile over- turns ttie Nurmburg, a maid, was Route to Complete | seriously injured. The car apparently Linking of Places Visited on | §kldded on the highway, wet from a Commission. They will be deprived, they say, of the full use of a large part of their land and will suffer a loss of many thousand dollars, They point ity of their holdings are of the row- house type and are owned by people who can afford to pay the purchase price of a row house who would not feel justified in a larger expenditure of a detached, semi-detached or com- munity home. AIR LINE TO COVER LAST GAP IN “LINDY CIRCLE” to Yucatan Famous 1928 Tour. NEW YORK, December 4 (#)—Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Murray, killed with | their chauffeur in a mofor accident | near Camden, §. C. yesterday | prominent in New York society. |~ Mr. Murray, president of the Lion | Breweries, Inc. was the father-in-law of Frederic R. Condert, jr., an interna- tional lawyer, and Mrs Murray, for- merly Pauline Schmid. was a daughter of the Princess Del Drago, whose hus- band is the grandson of Dowager Queen Maria Christina of Spain, P.-T. A. LEADERS MEET y Attending Homes Parley Gather Socially at Luncheon. Thirty leaders in parent-teacher activities who are attending the Presi- The last gap in the “Lindbergh Cir- cle,” blazed around the Caribbean Sea on the famous fiyer's good-will tour in 1928, will be closed tomorrow, when regular airmail and passenger service will be inaugurated by Pan-American Airways between the commercial cen- ters of Yucatan and the Eastern sea- board of the United States. According to an announcement re- ceived by the Post Office Department, the new service will provide a {ast route to Merida end other points in Yucatan cn a direct airway from Miami to Hav- | ona and across Yucatan Straits to | Merida | The National Capital will have direct | Thirt connection with the new line at Miami, with & two-day schedule in effect, rep- resenting a saving of six days for com- | mercial lrnrrcspcm}mcr and travelers be- tween this city and Merida. | dent The line will pass near Chichen Itza, | :;S‘f{og‘;“g{;“gi,n‘l‘f‘m*:{”;‘f]B“'}‘]d‘,zfl one of the most famous of the old Maya | day in the Occidental Hote. 'n“‘gcgmu‘; capitals, which has been partially re- | d os ¢ stored by the Carnegie Institution and .'g}“’%hidfi;i?é‘?;‘?“c?xn;‘fif‘“ff"?“"’"72 the Mexican government. The TOUYe | and Teachers and. sevdha). mosicors Wil pass within a few miles of the | chairmen and associate chatrmer " jlost cities” discovered by Charles A.| “Elwood Baker, general seereisry at Lindbergh on an aerial exploration of | headquarters of the national corl;yr 58 | this then unknown territory three Years here, was in charge of the mncgu;n | ago. which was purely social and entirely Radio and weather stations have | wity usiness iransac 2 been “located anenther stations have | without business transactions. jroute across Cuba and the Yucatan | FlUP[NOS.TO ORATE | Straits. l Six Speakers Will Compete Here TREE-PLANTING DELAYED for Medals Sunday Night., Planting of 10 trees at the iniersec- | tion of New York avenue and Bladens- burg road northeast by the District| The Filipino Club will hold its eleventh “ederation of Women's' Clubs, sched- |annual oratorical contest Sunday night led to take place at 11 o'clock this at 8 oclock at the Y. M. C, A, 1136 morning, has been postponed until Mon- | G street. day morning at 11 o'clock because of | Six speakers will compete for the the inclement weather, . gold, sllver and bronz> mezals denated The program is in line with efforts | by Mr. and Mrs. James M. Byrnes, was listed to Louis Chaubourd of the 6600 block of East avenue, Chevy Chase, Md The park police notified the owner through the Mazyland authorities. of th: George Washington Biceatennial | Mauro Baradi, winner of the competi- Commission to beautify the city for the | tion for the past two vears, will ;rezfd& celebration. The trees were to be| The judges are Judge Charles 5. Hat. iplanted cn the new boujevard entering | fleld, chairman; Prof. E. Curran and Washington from the & |Dr. H. E. Caln of Catholic University. The man who is due to be chair- man of the House Naval Committee thinks it may take 10 years to make the United States Navy as big as treaties permit. Representative Vinson, Georgia, Dem- ocrat, who is in line for the committee leadership, said today he was unwilling to agree to the treaty Navy bill ad- vanced by Chairman Hale of the Senate Naval Committee and was drafting a program of his own. He sald he objected to Hale's plan because it would authorize sufficient ships to reach treaty limits without specifying what kind of vessels should be built or when. Vinson will suggest a program in- volving about $760,000,000 worth of con- struction. He thinks the building should be spread over ‘“possibly 10 years, since we couldn’t finish the work in much less time than that.” He added, “We intend to have real parity, not paper parity. WILL PRESENT PLAY Curley Club Will Give Second Pre- sentation Tomorrow. A second presentation of “The Thir- teenth Chair” by the Curley Club will be given in Carroll Hall tomorrow night. The first presentation, early this week, was given in St. Paul's auditorium. Tomorrow’s performance will be for the benefit of the Church of the As- sumption, in Congress Heights. against a red traffic signal. Clinton Phillips, 12-year-old newsboy, of 3531 Fourteenth street, escaped with minor injuries yesterday afternoon when he was knocked down at Sixteenth street and Meridan place by a machine driven by Joseph Famans, 19 years old, of Lawrence, N. J,, a student at George- town University. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party, St. Francis de Sales | Church, Twentieth street and Rhode | Island avenue northeast, 8 p.m. Dance, Aloysian Club, 47 T street, 10 pm. Meeting, Covenan Evening Mission- ary Society, Covenant-First Presby- terian Church, Eighteenth and N streets, 8 p.m. Dance, Catholic Daughters of Amer- ica, 601 E street, 9 p.m, Benefit dance, Patrons’ League of Oc- coquan, District High School, Occoquan, Va, 9 pm. Dance, Natlonal University Law School, ~senior class, Willard Hotel, 10:30 p.m. n Meeting and dance, Tllinols State So- | clety, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m, Benefit card party, Lady of Per- petual Help, Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast, tomor- row, 8:30 p.m. MAY BE TAKEN Denied an audience with Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of police, with whom he sought to lodge complaint against treatment he had :ecnvepd at t‘;lgt hands of pollc»; while attempting to report & robbery, Rob- ert J. Richardson, 50, of 615 Penn- sylvania avenue, is considering laying his case before a Police Trial Board. Richardson, in company Wwith & re- porter for The Star, went to police headquarters yesterday to report to Gen. Glassford the failure of police to act promptly on a complaint by Rich- ardson last Monday that his auto- mobile had been broken into and robs bed while pafket‘ll on Sixth street jus below Pennsylvania avenue. ‘Without hearing _Richardson, Gen. Glassford instructed his secretary, to PARKING TICKET-ROBBERY CASE TO TRIAL BOARD Denied Audience With Glassford to Complain of Treatment, Citizen Considers Plan. | send the complaint to Capt. B. A. Lamb, commander of the Traffic ‘ Bureau. | Capt. Lamb heard Richardson ex- plain how he had parked his car for about 5 minutes while he went into the St, James Branch Post Office, how he d returned to find the glass broken out and valuable papers stolen and how he was treated discourteous! and given a traffic ticket for parking in a restricted zome when he went to Iizollce headquarters to report the affair. “But,” said Capt. Lamb, after Rich- ardson had finished his story, “there is nothing I can do. Under the law | your only redress is to cite the officer, Sergt. W. L. Passour, before the Police Trial Board for conduct unbecomin 'an officer,” y . NAVY CON FACTORY TANGLE BLOGKING || A« the Columbien ot Show PRIZE FELINES EXHIBITED BY FANCIERS. RS. W. P. MARTIN holding solid red male Persian cat owned by Mrs. Garden Davie, 312 Maryland avenue northeast, one of the entrants in the Cat Show of the Columbian Caf, Fanciers at the Lee House. The show will be conducted again tomorrow for the benefit of a milk fund for children of the unemployed. —=Star Staff Photo. CHAMBER T0 SEEK ADDED MEMBERS “1,932 Members for 1932” Is Slogan for Drive Planned Soon. The Washington Chamber of Com- merce yesterday announced plans for | launching a drive for new members, commencing Monday, as the second year'’s step in the five-year expansion program adopted in 1930. The slogan, “1,932 members for 1932” has been adopted by the Cam- paign Committee, headed by Creed W. Fulton, which will concentrate its activities over a week-long period be- fore Christmas and resume the drive after December 25, if the quota of 1,932 members is not filled by that time. Divided Into Groups. ‘The campaign has been divided into four departments, eack headed by a “major.” The chairmen of these groups include Fenton M. Fadelev, James B. Lutts, Willlam O. Tufts and Harry T. Peters. Organization of teams under individual captains is being worked out at a series of meetings scheduled to take place between now and Monday. George E. Keneipp, chairman of the plural committee, has called a luncheon meeting in the Raleigh Hotel tomorrow to discuss plans for the campaign. The drive was approved at a meeting of the board of directors of the cham- ber Tuesday. Associated in Drive. Associated with Mr. Fulton in launch- ing the second year's step of the cx- pansion program are Dr. George C Havenner, Oscar Coolican, Robert H. Dalgleish, Fenton F. Fadeley. Edmund F. Jewell, George E. Keneipp, Louls Levay, James B. Luttes, Alfred G. Neal, | Harry T. Peters, A. Lee Thompson, Wil- liam O. Tufts and Leon S. Ulman, Harry King, president of the cham- ber, in summarizing the results of the first year of the program, said the- chamber had completed reorganization of activities under a broader plan and had elected in the last year more than 630 new members. MAL. F. H. GOFF CHOSEN ARLINGTON CLUB HEAD New Monarch President and Other Officers Will Be Installed Thursday. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., December 4.— Maj. F. H. Goff of Clarendon was yes- terday elected president of the Arling- ton County Monarch Club. Other offi- cers elected were Dr. E. R. Hagan, first vice president; H. W. Beattie, second vice president; H. W. Sharpe, secretary; Walter U. Varney, treasurer, and Gray- son A. Ahalt, sergeant at arms. They will be installed at next Thursday’s meeting. The club voted to have the Unem- ployment Committee take up with the other county service clubs the ques- tion of a joint meeting for consideration of the unemployment situation. The Interclub Unemployment Committee, which was formed at the instance of the Monarch Club, has already obtained work for 15 people, Joseph C. Anderson, chairman, announced. A committee headed by the new president, was appointed by President Albert H. Cohen to arrange a Christmas party for poor children. Maj. Goff will select the members of his own com- mittee. A resolution was passed congratu- lating the Business and Professional Women's Club of Arlington County for its efforts in behalf of higher education for girls not financially able to continue their studies. GLARE BRINGS FIREMEN Apparatus Rushed to Residence to Find Man at Ease by Fire. The glare from a roaring blaze in an open fireplace sent firemen on the run to the home of Willlam Flory of 2401 Pennsylvania avenue last night. A park policeman, who noticed the red glare against & second-story win- ly | dow, turned in an alarm after knock- ing on the door in a vain attempt to arouse those within the building. Firemen forced the door and found Flory resting comfortably before the open fireplace. He told the firefighters he was hard of hearing and had not heard the policeman pounding on the door. It was the second time within a week the glare from the hearth had | brought uxn the PFire Department, he | sald. A Heads Drive CREED W. FULTON, | Who will direct the second year's step in the Washington Chamber of Com- merce expansion program, which will |get_under way with the launching of |a membership drive Monday. | —Harris-Ewing Photo. BIDS ARE RECEIVED ONMOVING OFFICES Five Low Offers Total $19,- 000 to Place Equipment in New Commerce Building. Details of the moving of various gov- ernmental units into the new Depart- ment of Commerce Bullding next month were being stualeu wo.a, o, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the Public Buildings Com- mission, who has before him a number of bids from %r.ospecuve contractors who want the jobs. The five low bids total about $19,000 for moving the various bureaus into the new structure. The Baltimore Transfer Co. submit- ted the low bid of $4,190 for moving the Department of Commerce from the old building at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue: The Fidelity Storage Co. tendered a low bid of $2,725 for moving Department of Com- merce group from the Hurley-Wright Building, at Eighteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and temporary building No. 5. The Kane Transfer Co. offered to move the equipment from the Patent Office and old Land Office Buildings, at Seventh and F streets, for $5,425.75. This same company agreed to move the Coast and Geodetic Survey from 119 D street northeast for $4375.25. The Smith Transfer & Storage Co. agreed for $2,913 to move the Bureau of Fisheries from Buildings C and D. Col. Grant is expected to make the awards within a week, although, unger thedspré:mcnuom, he can take 30 days ecide. FIRE CAPTAII‘J GIVEN PROMOTION TO CHIEF Police Inspector Beckett Relleved of Trial Board Assignment. Capt. Morgan Succeeds Him. The District Commissioners today promoted Capt. P. J. Sullivan of the Fire Department to battalion chief en- glneer to flll the vacancy created by the recent retirement of Battalion Chief A. H. Wolter. Lieut. Eugene J. Trainor was pro- moted to captain, Sergt. William H. Fidler and George W. McGowan were elevated to Meutenants and Pvts. A. H. Schwenk and L. F. Price made ser- geants. The Commissioners relieved Inspector James F. Beckett from his assignment as & member of the Police Trial Board and appointed Capt. Joseph E. Morgan in his stgl:it.ed c-pt,ul':md J. Kelly ‘was appol an rnate member of the board. China Gets More U, 5. Wheat, A o e e A Sec €] American wheat. for rellef of Chinese flood suffer- | have arrived by April, ers arrived here today. The consign- ment totaled 4,000 tons. It is part of PAGE B—1 $30.763 PLEDGED BYD. C. EMPLOYES FOR CHEST DRIVE Total Subscribed for 1932 Is Five Times Larger Than Last Year. ADDED FUNDS ASKED FOR TWO CHARITIES Increase of $81,182 Urged for 1932 by Relief Association and Associated Charities. District government employes con- tacted thus far in the three-day salary campaign for the Community Chest have pledged $90,763, five times more than the contribution of $18,730 by these workers in the Community Chest drive last year, according to a report filed with the District Commissioners today by Auditor Daniel J. Donovan, divisional chairman of the drive. Mr. Donovan’s report said that out of 10,172 employes, 7,308 have been contacted and of the latter number 5,102 signed the three-day pledge, 21 signed for more than three days and 534 for less than three days. The monthly pay roll for the entire number of employes is $1,711,286, s0 & three-day pledge for all employes would total $171,128. Large Gain Shown. “By way of comparison,” the report says, “it may be noted that the Com- munity €hest campaign in 1930 included 1,237 contributors from the variol branches and departments of the Dis- trict_government. The total amount contributed by District employes in 1930 was $18,730. The total amount of the pledges so far obtained from District employes in the current campaign— namely, $90,763—is five times greater than the total of $18,730 obtained last year.” Increased demands for relief caused n_charities today to ask the Chest for larger budgets for the coming year. iated Charities and the Cit- two Wi The Assoc| izens’ Relief Association requested a combined increase of $81,182.02 in their 1932 budgets. This was made neces- sary, it was said, “not alone by an in- crease in demands for relief, but by increased relief needed by families al- {:ldy under care of the two organiza- lons.” An lpfroprhuon of $172,460, an in- crease of $31,820.24, was asked by the Associated Charities. The Citizens’ Rellef Association, whose funds are administered by the former organiza- tion, requested $165,571 for the coming year, or $49,361.78 more than was ap- propriated for the current year. The requests were turned over to the Chest’s Budget Committee, of which Joshua Evans, jr., District National Bank president, is chairman. Increase for 1932 Asked, ‘Walter S. Ufford, general secretary of the Associated f highe: priations 1o mmz, 53 ‘T Approj or thénfloft%g Statement : getting requests for help from -more families. The amount of relief fi family is increasing, too, due to aftermath of the unemployment situa~ tion. Many families which were able to get along for a time now find them- selves at the end of their resources, with savings and credit exhausted and nowhere to turn for aid except to us, Others, who needed only a little relief at first, must now have more by reason of worn-out clothes and shoes which must be replaced, fuel which must be bought and replacement of other items which have finally worn out. Material Relief Gain. “For example, we used to figure that only 50 per cent of the families coming to us would need material relief, the others requiring only advice or the as- sistance of one of our workers in solving some family problem. In 1930 we found that 54 per cent needed material relief, and in 1931 this had increased to 64 per cent, a gain of 17 per cent over the ?(uper cent needing material relief in ‘Demands for relief have increased Sflrr cent at the Associated Char'isy | and 50 per cent at the Citizens’ Relief | Association, and with Winter at hand, and our knowledge of conditions that are {onowlnz ;:flfie wake of this un- employment, , we anticipate a much larger increase in need for mate= rial relief during the coming year, That is why both organizations have estimated the above increases in their budgets for 1932.” P FORMER POLICEMAN HELD IN LIQUOR CASE Joseph De Palma Posts $500 Bond on Charge of Illegal of Possession. Arrested while alleged to have been delivering four pints of whisky last pight, former Policeman Joseph De Pl!uuh‘ wurf;fi: oxlz mnd !od!\y on a charge of ga on of jor, De Palma, who was dismissed Tom the Police Force last April after he failed to appear for duty at the four- teenth precinct station, where he had been transferred from the liquor Wwas taken in custody by members ol the police prohibition squad at Elabse eenth street and Belmont road. He is alleged by police to have made the delivery and accepted marked money in payment. De Palma gave his address to arresting officers as Conduit road near the District line, TRAVELER WILL SPEAK Mrs. Daniel M. Paul to Lecture Tonight on Foreign Lands. Mrs. Daniel Melroy Paul of Pitts- burgh, world travelcr, writer and lec- turer, will address a meeting under aus- pices of the Covenant Evening Mission- ary Society in the Covenant-First ! Presbyterian Church, Eighteenth and N streets, tonight at 8 o'clock. The pub- lic is invited. Mrs. Paul, who has just returned from a trip to the Far East, will talk on China and exhibit curios collected on visits to a number of foreign coun- tries. She will dress in the costumes of several countries she has visited. . Wife Is Awarded $15,000. MOBILE, Ala,, December 4 (#).—Mrs. Ebba Boe of Baltimore, Md., yesterday Wwas awarded $15,000 es against Mrs, Theresa McBroom of New Orleans in a suit in which she alleged Mrs. Broom had allenated the affections of the 135,000 tons which s expected to < Capt. Rolf Boe, her husband. The Boes have been separated six years,,