Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 17

WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ] @he Zpening 3 Society and General fare * WASHINGTON, D. C, FPRU )AY, DECEMBER 11, == 1931. ———————y PAGE B—1 MRS. NORTON ASKS LAW FOR DISTRICT TAX MORATORIUM Cites 17,000 Properties Ad- vertised for Sale in Intro- ducing Bill. HOUSE MEMBER CITES RELIEF FOR GERMANY Prospective Chairman of D. C Committee Introduces Two Other Capital Measures. Mrs. Mary the prospective cha ittee, ir te {a should be granted year of grace Norton empl entirely an_emergency said today, “I understan mately 17,000 pieces of re advertised on December January 12 for failure to pay taxes view of the President's 1 of the moratorium for Ge many, similar grace ought to be allowed the people of Washington, who are like- wise unable to meet thelr obligations account of the peculiar c tion existing where the people lack rep- resentation in the selection of their offi- cers and where they have no oppor- tunity for appeal to get an extension of time when unable to meet their taxes as in other cities, I believe this is unfair especially in view of the present depres- slon, to sell out their homes. Warranted by Conditions. “So 1 have reached the conclusion that conditions at this time warrant such emergency legislation granting District tax dEthYdEGYA murz{\nrmm simi- T rante ermany. I s the Government would lose ing, and in fact would gain, of the 1 per cent per month pen- exacted while the Govern- to borrow money at & much that approxi- 1 estate were to be sold not Norton has gathered information regarding the system of tax sales in the District, and points out that it is generally known that property can be repossessed by the original owners within two years after its sale for non-payment of faxes. She explained, however, that many of the deeds of trust upon real estate also have provision that will permit the sale of the home and cther real estate under deeds of trust if and when they have been sold for taxes Two Bills Introduced. Mrs. Norton late yesterday introduced n one of which the House is ed to grant the District Police and Fire Department Trial Boards authority to subpoena witnesses. 1In the other sure srs. Norton seeks to relieve the rict_ Commissioners of certain ministerial duties and would authorize the secretary of the board to execute deeds, contracts and other papers in their name. Another bill introduced in the House sterday by Representative Cochran of Yissours asks that the battleship Olym- pia, which was Admiral Dewey's flag- ship at Manila Bay in 1898, be given a permanent port in the Potothac River, in Washington, and that it be anchored near the Tidal Basin or Potomac Park conside D. C. UNDERWORLD DEPRIVED OF DRUGS ; U. 8. Narcotic Agents Have Made Aoquisition of Dope Nearly Impoasible. A “shortage” of drugs exists in Wash- ington’s underworld as a result of cur- taflment in supplies due to activities of the Bureau of Narcotics, Harry J. An- slinger, commissioner of narcotl night told the Sigma Nu Phi " y street-corner ped- noticed by the after big game,” be ut except by well ts, and then ly in small quantities During the past year he rep Government had confiscated m: of narcotics La Guardia bill now pending h would give the Customs Bureau examifie all im- tificate treaty ROSSLYN BUSINESS MEN RE-ELECT SPILLE HEAD is Annual Election was approved by Mr Assotiation Hol —Pledge Bicenten- Aid nial mber 11 —B. W president of the Association at County Bicentennial Com- the 1932 celebration of birth was adopted. SLATED FOR FARM GROUP Mrs. Caraway Due to Get Place | on Mrs 1 Important Committee. Caraway, the lone woman member slated given her late husband's plece important Agriculture Committee The plans of Democratic leaders alsc call for committees—library and enrolled bills Mrs Hattie w on the cotfon. The bers of the commijtee and a practics] s be- | together | last | Fraternity. | Senate’s | to be her assignment to two minor Caraway is keenly interested in sgriculture, particularly as it relates to late Senator Thaddeus way, whom she was appointed to succeed, was one of the foremost mem- 1 | | MODERN | stores NEW TICKETS DUE - INTRAF ASE ':Triphcate System Provides i for White Cards After | Next Wednesday. ticket issued by police ion of the traffic regu- | 1ations will give way Wednesday to a | new type white ticket to be made out in triplicate, according to an announce- ment today by Inspector E. W. Brown, | commander of the Traffic Bureau Issuance of the new ticket in tripli- i | cate is intencded to bring about better | | compliance with the traffic regulations | and minimize the opportunities of vio- | lators to escape penalties. A recent | check by police officiels showed that | approximately 50 per cent of violators {to whom tickets had been issued es- | caped penalties by either ignoring the ticket or “fixing it” with the policeman who signed the ticket Held Strictly to Account. Under the new system police officers will be held to strict account for dis- position of traffic violation cases. One of the three duplicate tickets will be kept on file with a notation as to the disposition of the case. This will pre- vent_officers from destroying _tickets unwittingly issued to friends or under | duress of influence ; e new tickets, headed “Traffic Vio- | 1ation Notice,” direct the offender to | appear at any police bureau or precinct {in the District and deposit collateral It also gives the violator the option of forfeiting _collateral appearing 1 the Traffic Court the day fc e date positing collateral | specifically stated on the ticket | that failure to de three days from result in’ ap) warrant Adopted After Study. Traffic officials originally planned to begin the issuance of the new form of tickets coincident with the establish- ment of a traffic violations bureau, which would handle all such cases, re- lieving the pre stations of this work. The I Commissioners, however, approved the | traffic violatia The new modeled after or {1t was designed |after a study of States About_double the siz date of issuance will ion being made for a ct " California. ector Brown used in many of the present provide informa- ‘ender. Aside r of the car, driver, type there is the permit number c car, name and space on the tick age, color, nativity, sex, whether the offender can read or write, whether ma the vocation | Plans Fine Schedule. When the Traffic V ished, Inspectc ) & fixed sc var to draw cover c of fines to f Che take the case up r offenses Such a plan, I would greatly of the minor t | of “officers as | centralize the problems. rown believes, sposition well violators, and ss Insurance. $80,000,000 is in- against $80,000,000 Gla Plate glass in the v est of four youths, en- pie battle” last night nch, Wisconsin ice rounded up boys who earlier from the Indus- With the a Rushing quest of the ex precinct e | to r at the re- d prop-ietor, seventh the walls and ment covered with what once had been the fillings of choice pies and pastries Robert Burrows. and Harry Kalivotinos, Bennie Petrario, 14, 0 | all 15, and four of the six 1 | t collateral within | Santa Claus Shows Toys KRIS COLLECTS TRINKETS FOR POOR. donations until Christmas of 1110 F street r Staff Photo. ARBORETUN B S REINTRODUSED on Senator McNary Seeks Au-| thorization of $200,000 for Land Purchase. The bill to authorize an additional $200,000 to complete the purchase of land for the National Arboretum being developed by the Federal Government in Washington, which was considered but not finally acted on in the last Congress, has been reintroduced in the | Senate by Senator McNary, Republican, of Oregon The measure was introduced late y terday and referred to the Committes on Agriculture and Forestry, of which Senator McNary is chairman, for a report A similar bill passed the Senate last year, but did not get through the House. This being a new Congress, it was nec- essary to reintrcduce the measure, When the original law providing for the arborflum was being considered in 26, it contemplated an authorization $500,000. Before it became a law, | however, the amount was reduced to| $300,00. The Department of Agricul- ture, under which the arboretum is be- ing 'developed, found that this appro- priation wos not sufficient to buy all of the area required The additional $200,000 being re- quested in the pending bill, therefore, would bring the total up to the sum originally deemed necessary when the first law was being drafted The arboretum is being developed in a wooded area cast of Bladensburg road in the vicinity of the Anacostia Park- way PARK ROAD BUS mE REROUTING IS DENIED Utilities Commission Decision Ends Neighborhood Controversy in Mount Pleasant Area. The Public Utilities Commission yes- terday denied all applications for change in the routing of the Park road bus line, thus settling a t Yy whid Pleasant section for months. ‘The order leaves the line on Kenyon street, between Eighteenth and Nine- teenth streets, residents that dusty and dar The action was taken on r dation of the Traffic Advisc ouncil, of which William A. Van Duzer, direc- tor of vehicles and traffic, is chairman. 18 ON COMMITTEE Golden Rule F lation List An- nounced by Dr. Clarke. ur either pay | gnowles Coope to stand | Rey ave the time | g, J.” Murphy, Dr. Z enforcement | Dr. 'PIE BATTLE CORRALS SIX BOYS% WHO FLED INDUSTRIAL HOME William Sweeny | escaped inmates, were overtaken a short | ber of the group, distance from the lunch room and ar- | returned to the ins Tesled, They denied having - pertiol- alter he appeared Appoi nt of to the District of of the Gold announced tox Clarke, secret named: Dr. W shingtonians mmittee on was Calvitt William J. Crabtree, a) Gen. W. G Fleming, Bishop Isaac Gans, Rev Frank Morrison, Barney T. Phil- lips, Dr. S. J. Porter, Dr Abram Simon, Joseph K. Sizoo, Dr. Allen G Stockdale, Mrs. Henry A. Strong and Mrs. A Watkins. Dr Clarke, who | ferring on matt wide obsery December lin the mc Dr M v w. | Everson, Robert James E. Freen Henry O. Millin; L Darby on New York con- relating to a Nation- e of Golden Rule week -20—reports wide interest Police Find Lunch Room Messed With Pastries and | Round Up Missing Members of Band. pated in the battle and said they were on_their way back to the school Police were told by the proprietor that the four boys strode into his place of business and ordered dinner, A few moments the fight st one of th ber heaved a pie at companion four pitcl kept up a heavy ba and pies until the enti hausted. Earlier in the nighi detective headquart Arthur Martin, 18, escaped from the sc | street and Park r re & cruiser from s had arrested hnm; of those who 00l at Fourteenth oad. The sixth mem- John Booker, 13, was ation by his mother &% his homa, arted when | NAVY HEALTH RATE. BETTER LAST YEAR THAN ANY SINGE Surgeon General Says Motor Accidents Were Leading Factor in Causing Deaths. AGAINST DANGER OF GAS| Tonsilitis and Catarrhal Fever Rank With Auto Mishaps in Loss of Men's Time d a healthy year. | all diseases and ¥ ‘The Navy has e The sick | injuries d than a it is pointed out of the surgeo njoye 1 | r acci- out, | den! as and such things automobil tonsilitis r parison between N basis of hospital adm | miral Riggs expla s cause conditions of life a | men often must b: | comparatively t | would be treated ol |in cwilian life. On the way of life is such the sick rat 389 Deaths in Year There 389 such tnat pitalized for | 1 as| ing hours | accidents thousand e of death accidents. in this while on | to to The per | since cau | has cl killed them bee: ght all Drowr ace with | the preceedi; aviation d | one pe ities carbon in airplanes been perfected hundredths of ount of the gas in any gi this instrun matic alarm has be constructed for installajion on the | | Akron. | | Two_pres problems have devel- | oped, Rear £ Riggs reports, in connection aspects | |of the subma . the | “lung.” One is the likelihood of in-| incident to is the typ yed wit escape from subma- lung training. of decompressi minimum risk i ; rines. The othi be { | | n Wants Uniform Changes. e cap worn by enlisted found inadequate as a from the sun's rays in the tropics. The officer's cap is a little better, but is open to much the same objection. A ventilated helmet has been recommended, not as a substitu- tion, but as an addition to equipment Other experiments are being conducted to modily the clothing for ground service in aviation The cost of hospitalization and medi- cal care, the report states, has been | reduced from $324 per man per day {in 1924 to $2.57 in 1931. This has re- | sulted largely from economies in ad- | ministration The total sick days in naval hos- pitals was 2115220 in 1931, as com- | pared to 1999774 in 1930. The total | net operatiny cost was $5,450,690.86. | (PADLOCK 1S SOUGHT FOR MAGAZINE SHOP Petition Alleges Cafe at 433 Elev- enth Street Has Become Public Nuisance. | tection A padlock injunction was sought in| District Supreme Court today against a | magazine shop and cafe at 433 Eleventh street, which was raided recently by police who arrested 10 men and reported the seizure of a small amount of liquor and considerable gambling paraphernalia. The application was filed by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and his assistant, Harold W. Orcutt, who told the court the.liquor law had been violated in the place since November 11 and that the place had become a nuisance within the meaning of the law. Federal agents and metropolitan police broke in four doors and made apertures in the walls during the raid. Those named as occupants of the place in today's petition were William (Jew | Boy) Dietz, Samuel Melnicoy, Ruben | Greenberg, Shellie Rowe and Benjamin | Cohen. The property belongs to James | | W., Charles H., Kdgar and Gardner P. Orme, the petition said Attached to the petition were affida- vits of Mortimer M. Marshall, a prohi- | bition agent, and George C. Deyoe, metropolitan policeman, who told of | finding liquor on the premises when a | rald was staged December 4 MURAL PAINTINGS TOPIC Barney Phillips and Other Artists at Architects Dinner. Barney Phillips of New York, who painted the mural decorations in the | new Commerce Department Building, and Carl Rakeman and Henry W. Moore, mural decoration leaders, dis- cussed the subject of mural paintings at a dinner meeting of the Washington | | Chapter of the American Institute of Architects last night at the Cosmos | Club. After the meeting the members and | guests went to the Commerce Depart- ment Building, where Mr. Phillips dis- played and explained the murals. MARKS 36TH BIRTHDAY International Reform Body to Ob- serve Anniversary Today. The International Reform Federation celebrate its 36th anniversary to- y a meeting in the Methodist | ding, 100 Maryland avenue north- | ) | Scheduled for 4:30 o'clock, the meet- ing will be addressed by Bishop Wil- Jiam F. McDowell. Supt. William Sheafe Chase will preside. A banquet will be held in the Methodist Building at 6:30 o’'clock, when Dr. fi?llrenfi‘e True Wilson, Vi resident, will preside. o:dsre:s‘; on "\Flcmnes Over the Lawless Liquor 'rnm_" will feature & seasion ariing ab § o'0oske vVis:t Is Also for Purpose of Ex- | charge of Lie AKRON CRUSES OVERD. L. TESTG D0 EQUPHENT Calibration of Airship’s Com- pass Is Being Completed for Western Trip. GIANT CRAFT TO RETURN TO BASE LATE TODAY perimental Work in Position The turned skies above the Capital were| ar ory for | y second | sit of s glant new airship | this cit Appearing over the city through early | morning mists and low clouds before 7| o'clock, the Akron began circling lazily, part of the time on only one engine, | while she began a day of radio calibra- tion tests in co-operation with the Naval Research Laboratory at Bellevue, D. C.| The Akron was expected to remain | in the vicinity until midafternoon, when ! he will head back to her home base, at | Lakehurst, N. J. | to Will Rely on Radio Compass. Today's tests, being run so thorough | alibration of the big airship’s radio | compass may be completed, will be of great ance in view of the coming Western cruise of the Akron. This trip may take her over the Pacific to Hawaii, during which nce must_bs placed on the radio compass and other to navigation | The Akron left Lakehurst at pm. yesterday, spending the cruising Jeisurely along the coast The work aboard the airship was in M. Redfield, radio offi- Alfred M. Granum, radio Research and Design Sec- Bureau of Aeronautics, observer. Plot Airship’s Position. 1 day's cruise serving to in the Akron's compass; also is permitting al Re- search Laboratory to ¢ mental and test T findi t 5:01 night Lieut expert of thy tion, Navy aboard as an ron as a targe rectional equipment the laboratory is maintaining a contin- uous plot of the Akron’s position during the day ‘Th= Akron’s visit here today brought | er in her new role as a fighting air- ft. On the first visit she had none of her military gear aboard and carried | press repressentatives. Today she has part of her military equipment installed, and it is unlikely that in the future any civilian will be permitted to sot foot aboard, as the' new combat equipment is | regarded as an absolute military secret. Some of the gear aboard during to- day's cruis: over the Capital has been installed in preparation for the taking aboard of fighting airplanes, which will be carried in the Akron’s hold during Western cruise. CLIFTON TERRACE APARTMENTS SOLD New York Life Insurance Co. Ac- quires Large Capital Property With Bid of $750,000. Clifton ‘Terrace Apartments, of Clifton strect between nd Fourteenth streets, was | auction yesterday afternoon York Life Insurance Co., | represe by Spencer Gordon, local { attorney, as bidding agent. The bid of $750,000 was the only one offered. The insurance company holds the first trust on the property, which consists of a group of three five-story brick buildings containing 276 apart- ment units and seven stores. The property has a current assessed valution of $1,358,833 for land and buildings. The Jand has an area of approximately 163,105 square feet. The auction was held under the first trust, at the direction of the Wash- ington Loan & Trust Co. as trustee, the sale being conducted by Vernon G. Owen, auctioneer. The buildings were erected by Harry Wardman, the original owner, in 1914 and 1915. Title since has been passed to a number of different individuals and corporations, a bough by th TEXANS WILL MEET The Texas State Society will meet to- morrow night at 8:30 o'clock at Me- ridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth street, when the guests of monor will be the three new members of Congress from Texas—Representative R. Ewing Thomp- son and Mrs. Thompson, Representative Martin Dies, jr. and Mrs. Dies and Rep- resentative and Mrs. Richard Kleberg. There will be a short program of music, The next meeting of the soclety will be in honor of the Speaker of the House and Mrs. John N. Garner and will be held some time in January. Actress SEEN IN SHAKESPEAREAN ROLE AT ART GALLERY. MRS. GERTRUDE LELACHEUR, Who played the role of Queen Margaret in scenes from King Henry VI, pre- sented last Monday night at the Cor- coran Art Gallery under auspices of the Shakespearean Society. e~Blox Mol Fhate |in that area. Yeggmen Blow Big Safe ILKINS COFFEE CO. safe, blown last night by men believed to be | expert safe crackers. In the J. W. McCormack of the twelfth precinct. BIDS ARE SOUGHT 500 T0 ET WORK TO REMOVE TREES AS CHRISTMAS 200 in Vicinity of Lincoln District Committee Has List M<morial to Be Transplant- ed After New Year. More than 200 trees in the vicinity of the Lincoln Memorial will be moved early in the New Year, under a program designed to improve the landscaping Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, today in- vited bids for this task and these will 2 opened on December 30. Fifteen white pines, southwest of the Neval Hospital, will have to be moved $0'clear space for the eventual widening of Constitution avenue. Some 193 elms, out of a total of 386 in that area, will be moved to other locations in the vicinity of the Lincoln Memorial, so that the project may be carried out. Ma). D. H. Gillette, assistant execu- tive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, today made it plain that the moving of these trees carries out the original plan, as the trees were originally planted too close together, in order to ald the appearance of the grounds, at first. The present, removal program has the approval in writing of the Fine Arts Commission and the landscape archi- tects of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The trees will be placed on roads leading to the Lincoln Memorial and Rows will be placed along the future line of Consti- tution avenue. The white pines will be moved near the balustrade of the wing walls of the bridge project, near the | underpass road, on both sides. FOUR ARRESTS CLEAR UP TWO BURGLARIES\ Clarendon Police Charge Looting of Stores to Quartet of Youths. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., December 11.—Two re- cent burglaries in_Clarendon are said by police to have been cleared up last night by the arrest of four youths, two fram Falls Church, one from Clarendon and one from Washington. loot in one case was recovered. Those under arrest are John Shaffer, 17, and Joseph Sharkey, 18, both of Falls Church; Raymond Galioway, 18, of Clarendon’ and Charles Keefer, 18, of Washington, The stores robbed wege the Boyer drug_store and the Quality Shop. Shaffer, Galloway and Keefer have confessed to the drug store rob- bery and Shaffer and Sharkey to the robbery of the clothing store. All were arrested by Arlington County police and are charged with housebreaking. Loot taken from the drug store, con- sisting of cigars, cigarettes, fountain pens, flash lights and candy to the amount of about $500, was found in a vacant house on Garrison road, less than a block form the drug store. It was packed in a barrel and baskets. Shaffer and Galloway were the first two arrested, and it was through in- formation gained from them, police say, that the other two arrests were made. R. Boyer, who owned the drug store, recently 'died. and the place is being operated by his heirs FORMER HAGERSTOWN CHIEF OF POLICE DIES T. H. Barber Had Retired Recently After 33 Years of Service. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 11. ‘Thomas H. Barber, chief of police for many years until his retirement recently because of 1ll health, died at his home here, aged 68. He, had spent 33 years in police work and gerved as chief since 1918. He was also ‘a former sheriff for Washington | County. r= vive, A widow and three sons s Commissioned in Reserve. ‘Two more residents of the District have been commissioned in the Army Reserve Corps. Edka C. Moore, 2054 Thirty-seventh street, is appointed a captain of Infantry and Henry T. Win- te, Agriculture Department, a first im A A are claimed by Sheriff Howard B. Fields to | safe are Sergt. Floyd Truscott and Lieut —Star Staff Photo. { for Employment of Five Days. | Pive days of work for the unem- ployed—that is the Christmas gift which the District Committee on Em- ployment is planning for 500 jobless men next week. The plan was outlined at a meeting in the board room of the District Build- ing yesterday by Herbert L. Willett, § acting executive secretary of the com- mittee. Mr. Willett explained that the names of the men to be employed at 45 cents an hour, six hours a day, have been supplied by the United States Employ- | ment Bureau and various welfare | agencies. | 'Their employment will be arranged | with the co-operation of the District Commissioners through the offices of | Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant En- | gineer Commissioner, and Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, superintendent of public | bulldings and public parks. It was agreed the work would be dis- tributed among as many men as prac- tical rather than among a few who might be permarently employed. Leonard W. De Gast, chairman of the Fact-finding Committee, reported there were 20,552 persons une District on the 1st of last month, with 950 men and 2,260 women out of work in the professional and clerical class Of approximately 7,000 transignts who applied for work last month, Mr. De Gast | reported, some 1,071 received some sort | of temporary work. | e 'GOES TO SENATOR’S OFFICE WITH KNIFE Woman Seeking to Present Claim to Davis Is Sent to Gal- linger Hospital. | A woman who went to the office of | Senator Davis of Pennsylvania yester- | day to discuss a claim she wanted to | file against the Government was sent | to_ Gallinger Hospital for mental ob- ‘The entire | servation after she informed clerks in | | the office she had a knife. | " She was recorded at the hospital as Mrs. Katherine M. Chadwick, 53, of McKeesport, Pa Wken the calldr indicated she ‘had a knife in her possession in case any one annoyed her, a Department of Justics agent was sent for. The agent and a representative of the Woman's Bureau of the Police Department arranged to have the woman sent to the hospital Senator Davis was in an adjolning of- fice at the time. | TWO INCINERATOR BIDS ACCEPTED BY DISTRICT Contract Conditional on Congress Providing Fund Aggregating Nearly $500,000. ‘The District Commissioners today ac- cepted the two low bids for contracts to build two high-temperature incin- erators for combustible refuse, but made thelr acceptance conditional upon the appropriation by Congress for money to pay for them. The money had been available for more than a year, but lapsed last June 30 because the Commissioners had not entered into a contract by that date Irregularities in bidding for the first contract resulted in the rejection of all bids and hence the delay. The Rust Engineering Co., Inc., of Pittsburgh put in the low bid of $321,- | 416 for the incinerator to be built at First and O streets southeast and the | Northeastern Construction Co., Inc., of | Baltimore submitted a low bid of $169,- | 268 for the one at Thirty-first and K streets, Georgetown. Drill Team to Confer Degrees. | (BALLSTON, Va., December 11 (Spe- cial) —The drill team of Ballston | Council, No. 20, Daughters of America, | have accepted an invitation to confer the degrees at the institution of a new council of the organization at Riverton, Va., tomorrow evening. Miss Sophie Mann, State councilor of Vir- ginia, will heed the delegation leav- - mmmummlmum He will come ployed in the | YEGES GET $750 BY CRACKING S 0F COFFEE FAM Experts Use High Explosive and Electric Fuses to Complete Job. 1/ THREE OTHER ATTEMPTS TO ROB COMPANY FAIL | Head of Firm Believes Most of Loot Was in Checks—Fuse Is Only Clue. Using high | fuses, exps | the safe of in coffee, explosives and electric yeggmen last night robbed H. Wilkins Co., dealers Rhode Island avenue of approximately $7,500 in cash and checks John H. Wilkins, president of the firm, said a count would be nade today to df‘!v:‘mu'.; 21he exact amount taken. essed the view the greate; ) i of it Was in checks. S ast night's robbery marked the | fourth but only successtul attempt to Iob the company safe in the past severai S, each of the other jel 2 | been bungled. it oy | The robbers [ trance through 1n the rear of ¢ last night gained en- a skylight on the rcof he building. Break Through Skylight. reaking a glass in the skylight they cked it and succeeded in climbing to the floor. They then gained entrancs to the Sffces on the second floor by akin e glass in a do e head of the stz pivdi-iy Inside, they believed nitroglycs door to t the _explo B 1 ployed the explosive, erin, to blcw off the he largeisnfe and then used sive again to gain entrance fo the smaller safe inside the large one. Retracing their floor of the buildin an empty metal were found on which detectives divide their spoils, to have left the build: door on the first floor. Glass broken out of the door led detectives t> believe they had first attempted to enter there, but were unable to do so because of the way the door was fastenes D d on the steps to the firs g, the rchbers left box and footprints a bag of coffee, on believe they sat to They are thcught ing through a rear Leave Piece of Fuse. The only tool left by the robber: was a plece of the fuse. was taken by headquarters detectives, Fred ‘Sanberg, fingerprint expert of the local police, said he had failed to find any fingerprints around the safe and expressed the belief the robbers were experts. A plece of broken glass, |on which it was believed there mignt be the fingerprints of the robbers, was taken to pclice headquarters for ex- | amination |, Due to the skill with which the rob- bers apparently operated, detectives were of the opinion the robbery was | committed by a band of experts who have been responsible for a number of other safecrackings within the past weel Surrounded by Brick Walls, The broken safe was discovered by Harry W. Pike, superintendent of ware- houses, when’ he entered the office shortly before 7 o'clock this morning. The fact that the safe is immediately surrounded by heavy brick walls was believed to have kept any persons from hearing - the explosions when the safe doors were blown. Lieut. J. W. McCor- mack of No. 12 police station was aid- ing the headquarters detectives in their investigation of the affai: {914 SEEK POSITIONS ON POLICE FORCES That Number Apply to Take Ex- amination to Be Held Early in 1932, | The civil Service Commisston had re- ‘celved 914 applications for the forthe coming examination for Metropolitan and park pelice when the lists closed last night, it was announced today. The tests will be held after the first of the year, at a date to be set later, On the basis of past performances, about 15 per cent of those seeking ap- pointment will pass the required mental, physical and character examinations, Appointees to the metropolitan force must reside in the District, but park (Police may be named from Alexandria and Fairfax and Arlington counties in Virginia, and Prince Georges and Mont- gomery counties in Maryland, where the jflrisdiction of the force extends. | There is a proviso, however, that their | eligibility is confined to the State | wherein they reside. | When an e nation was announced last August, 1,570 applications resulted. The entrance salary is $1,900, ; POLL QUIZ FUNDS ASKED | 875,000 Sought to Press Congres- sional Inquiries. Resolutions asking for appropriations to further consideration of the election contests against Senators Bailey of North Carolina and Bankhead of Ala- bama were introduced yesterday by Chairman Shortridge of the Senate Elections Committee. Shortridge requested $25,000 to cover the costs of the contest against Bailey | by former Representative C. M. Pritch- (ard, which has been held up since the |last session because of lack of funds, and $50,000 additional for completing consideration of the contest against ‘g:\gfiwad by former Senator Thomas eflin, ART LECTURE PLANNED Cabinet Members Sponsor Talk by Dr. Lawrence P. Jacks. “Leisure, Recreation and Art” will the subject of a lecture next | Wednesday evening by Dr. Lawrence | Pearsall Jacks, former ~principal of | Manchester College, Oxford, England, at | the home of Mrs. Henry F. Dimogk, | Scott circle The talk will be sponscred by Sec- retary of the Treasury Mellon, Under- secretary Mills and Mrs. Mills, Secre- tary of the Interior ‘Wilbur, Assistant | Secretary of War Davison and Mrs. | Davison, Federal Reserve Board Chaire man Meyer and Mrs. Meyer, Repre- sentative Pratt and Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Park and Planning Commissicn. Dr. Jacks is making s lecture touc of this country under the auspices of the National ~Recreation Association, Lere o Puadeipbise ]