Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1931, Page 16

"A—16 o2 EW JURY SOUGHT 10 PROBE DEATH OF D. C. MAN FROM GAS Brother-in-Law Demands Re- hearing of Suicide Verdict in H. D. Kizer Inquest. DECLARES INVESTIGATION RESULT INCONCEIVABLE Coroner to Decide Later Today Whether to Reopen Inquiry Into Auditor’s Case. Indignant because a coroner's jury returned an “inconceivable” suicide ver- dict in the death of his brother-in-law William O. Tufts demanded today that another jury be sworn in over the body of the dead man, Harry D. Kizer, 53, who died at Emergency Hospital Thurs day of pneumonia developing after he had been overcome by carbon monoxide gas. In a letter to The who ' lives at 1635 Madison street, severely criticized the jury v\mrl\; Yendered the suicide verdict yesterday, | following an inquest in the Distric Morgue. Star, Mr. Tufts, THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1931. |CAPITAL ENTRANCE MARKERS DISCUSSED BY GARDEN CLUB IMrs. Noyes’ Committee Stud- | ies Beautification Plans | | for Bicentennial. | Five Shafts Set in Floral ‘ Plots Is Chief Project for Adorning Gateways. Five principal entrances to the Dis- | trict of Columbia will be marked this Spring with stone shafts 5 feet high, | surrounded by approbriate plants | or shrubbery, to be ready for the visitors | expected to come to the National Cap- ital during the Washington Bicentennial In connection with this marker pro- gram, to be carried out by the Com- mittee of the National Capital of the Garden Club of America, a plan also was reported under way for the develop- SALESMAN 1S SHOT AS BANDITS STAGE THREE HOLD-UPS Chase Nets Suspect in $138 Gas Station Robbery. Two Others Seized. FOURTH ATTEMPT FAILS AS GUNMAN IS ROUTED | Cab Commandee.sd and Bullets Fired in Pursuit Past White House Into Park. | ment of Chevy Chase Circle, one of tha entrances to be marked, with a me- morial pool fountain and planting in addition to the markers, These projects were discussed at a meeting of the committee yesterday in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District, presided over by Mrs Frank B. Noyes, chairmar Other Projects Considered. Several other proposals for beautifi- | | | | hour An automobile sslesman is in Emer- gency Hospital with a bullet wound in his shoulder, three alleged bandits are under arrest, and three others are sought by police following & two-and-a-half- “crime wave.” in which three hold-ups and an attempted robbery of the same type werc staged last night. The salesman, John Renfrew, 40, of 723 Jefferson streei. was shot when he cation ond cevelopment of the national | capital were considered, including pro- | tection of street trees, planting of a| memorial grove about the new District t Columbia World War Memorial, im- provement of parks of the city and the of a garden «f natural | | attempted to capture a gunman who had fled with about $138 after holding up a_gasoline station at Seventeenth and M streets, conducted by his em- ployers, Emerson & Orme William Ernest Caddes, 22, was cap- Arlington Bridge May Be Open in 3 Weeks ! WORK ON APPROACHES TO $14,000,000 STRUCTURE RUSHED. CHRISTMAS LANE OPENING COLORFUL 'Parade Features Fourteenth CARNEGIE TRUSTEES PONDER SECRET OF RARE MAYAN URN . Highest Aboriginal Art Is Revealed in Recently Dis- covered Tomb. MYSTERY IS PRESENTED BY 104 DEAD SHREWS Placed Beside Body of Person of Great Importance in Ornate Grave. The mystery of an ancient sorrow in- trigued trustees of the Carnegle Insti- tution of Washington at their annual meeting here last week. Some time near the beginning of the Christian era a great prince or priest | died in the old Mava City of Uaxactun and was laid away in a stone vault. Beside his body was placed an urn containing the bodies of 104 shrews. | This tomb constitutes perhaps the most notable find of Carnegie archeologists during the past year. The decorations on the urn, shown the trustees, represented the highest development of the artistic genius of aboriginal Ameri- ca. It was a veritable King Tut-Ank- Amen’s tomb 1 the New World. Three skeletons were found in the tomb, two on one side of the vault and the third, stretched out at full length in royal dignity on the other. It was the skeleton of a young man and obviously, from the ornateness of he tomb and the funeral vase beside nim, of a person of very great im- portance. New Excavations Started. Why a vase should be filled with i(!n'l'd a short time later after a taxicab | chase, in which a policeman fired four |shots’ at him. The chase, which led | down Seventeenth sireet, past the White | House and through Potomac Park, end- ed when the seconrl ~ab which the ban | dit had commandetrd was wrecked op- | posite the Bureau of Engraving Salesman Pursues Bandit. | Wilfred Miller, 1%, of Hollywood, Md., | w alone in the . flling station when .| the bandit entered; Covering the youth [ yith a .32-caliber ievolver, the stranger | demanded money. Miller opened the \y(]\s'\ register and handed the gunman The epistle elaborated on a statement | development made to the jurors after they had an- | beauty in the old quarry site in Rock nounced their decision. At that i Creek Park ; Mr. Tufts objected to the verdict The proposal for designating the en- asked the jury to reconsider the case. | trances to the District of Columbia by 1 stone markers was ex ed to the committee by Mrs. Noyes. The five | entranc » be marked at the present time are the intersection of Georgia and Alaska avenues where a single marker is to be placed, and these others, where two markers will be placed: Chevy le, Sixteenth Street Circle, Bridge and the Highway Street Event, With Award i } of Prizes. PPER: With good weather for the completion of road construction, the | Arlington Memorial Bridge may be opened to public traffic in three ‘This shows the last stages of building the Mount Vernon Memo- ‘ Highway southward on Columbia Island from the peint where it | jeins the bridge project. The Mount Vernon Highway is nearly com- pleted and the paving of the Arlington Memorial Bridge is practically finished, so that soon it will be possible to ride from the Lincoln Memorial, across the Arlington Bridge, turning left on Columbia Island, to the Mount Vernon Memo- | tae, 2"5P! & P deco- rial Highway and ride along the Potomac River ali the way down to the old home | Mele Association. A parade of decol of the Father of his Country. groups and “mummers” preceded the Stuck to Decision With the permission of Coroner Joseph D. Rogers, the jurors reheard a portion of the testimony, but, after 15 or 20 minutes' additional delibera tion, announced they would stand their original decision markers to be erected at entrances to e L A I e gl RS the District of Columbia will be taken - g st for other inquest | ~ rom i - M. Tufts Tequast: for another dnquest | B0/0E ione markers are: o be.5 feet | foom tils old. stone; shatt, Which for Colorful exercises marked the open- ing of the “Christmas Bazaar” lane on Fourteenth street, from Thomas Clrrl?? to Florida avenue, last night, under | | the auspices of the Central Business The final, approved design for s noon Mr. Tufts said the body is being kept in & vault, awaiting the swearing-in of the new jury Mr. Kizer, a War Department audi- tor, was overcome Sunday in the base- ment garage of his home at 5702 Colo- rado avenue. His wife dragged him from the garage and summoned the rescue squad. He was taken to the Dbospital, where pneumonia developed the following day. Mr. Tuft's letter follows Mr. Tufts’ Letter. *“Editor of The Evening Star, “Dear Sir “I am quoted in your paper cf last night as protesting against the verdict of a coroner’s jury May I further emphasize this protest by stating that no intelligent citizen could possibly have brought in a verdict of suicide in the case of Mr. Harry D. Kizer. It is a sad and pitiful ccmment on the kind of men who serve in these cases| to realize that vital facts were entirely disregarded. It seems that the jury went out of its way to place the stigma | of suicide upon a dead man’s name ‘The vital facts that could not be ex- plained on the theory of suicide were entirely thrcwn aside. “I make this statement frankly and without hesitation.” The family physi- clan and the specialist who attended M. Kizer at Emergency Hospital do not believe there was a possibility of suicide in this case. The friends who have known him for many years in Wash- ington refuse utterly = to believe it. ‘There is no conceivabletmotivé that can | be found for such an act. He was in moderate circumstances, but did not carry enough life insurance “to make | such an act a benefit to his familly. He had an ideally happy home life and enjoyed his work. He had everything | to live for. He had a quiet but happy | and sunny disposition. The whole sit- | uation makes the verdict of suicide in- | conceivable, except in the minds of | these jurymen, who apparently desired 10 make some one suffer. ‘Il the cause of justicc were to be served or some criminal vas likely to | be freed by a different verdict, the ac- | tion might be understood. . In this case | only the good name of the family was t Is it true that a coroner's jury > of barbarirm? Circumstances of Case. time, | ougk Mrs houss iscov back | by rubbing | the alled | Emer- ly dead. am., De- conscious- the was © until Thursday 10, never regain The fact difficult to explain is that | the alley door of the garage was found locked with a padlock on e out: s the only way it can On the other hand no possihle suicide can account for the his head, which was seve require X examinatior man desired to comm numerous easy ways more simple ¢ comfortable tha to throw a concrete floor with suffic to stun mself while axphyxiatic Theory of Friends. “The explanation which meets ‘all bruise on enough to An suicide th | few weeks high, of sandstone, and designed after | merly stood on the Mason and Dixon the historic old stone shafts along the |line and which now reposes in the Mason and Dixon Line. They will carry | Maryland Historical Saciety Muscum at the ccats of arms of the States of | Baltimore. The new markers are to be vland and Virginia and the District feet high. made of Acquia sand- | of Columbia, and will cost $300 each. | Stone and carved with the coats of arms The markers are presented by the Gar- |of the States of Maryland or Virginia den Club of America, and funds for the |&nd the District of Columbia. planting have been raised by the Vir- | ginia Garden Clubs and the Maryland Carden Clubs. A letter was read from | the American Automobile Association, which is interested in the planting. Will Push Resolution. Mrs. Noyes explained that for de- velopment of Chevy Chase Circle a| Mrs. McNary said she had been joint resolution is in the hands of two | formed by Clifford Lanham, superin members of Congress and will be urged | tendent of trees and planting of tr as a Bicentennial measure. District of Columbia, that the silver “If this is passed,” she sald “we may | maple trees, for instance, along Ver- | have all in order in the Spring. mont avenue and in many other | The memorial fountain, Mrs. Noyes | neighborhoods, should be replaced with explained, will be a round, flat pool, 120 | larger, more shade-giving trees. This feet in circumference, with a high jet work was predicted to start in the near of water in the center and a low mar- | future. ble rim. Grass will surround this witn | Mrs. F. Har a border of low evergreens and a gravel | Committez on walk outside. Washington, said that “The markers are to be placed at the | extent of the terriiory to be m intersection of the District line outside | tained, 670 reservations with a tot the planting which will be slightly | 4.539.87 acres, and in view of raised behind it. It is proposed to use |it2d funds available for the c the broadleafed evergreens which are |Tenewal of the planting in the small hardy, such as privet lucidum, ilex, etc. | parks it would seem advisable to re- | “At the District line of Sixteenth |move all deciduous shrubs and bed- street is a circle, also three small is- | ding plants from these parks and when | lands to separate traffic,” Mrs. Noyes | replanting use more material having an | explained. “We think four large red |all-the-year-round value, as holly, box, | oaks in the circle with a border similar | yew and the evergreen thorns and to that used at Chevy Chase is desir- | privets. able, the same evergreens to cover the | “The public has taken pride and| islands, and the markers placed on the | pleasure in the rose beds” said Mrs. | outside of the circle on a grass border. | Harrison. “It is, therefore, recommend- We hope to move the trees within a |ed that wherever possible more rose beds be added. specially as they are 3 etter suited than any other flower to 0 e Ah—. Washington climatic conditions “The intersection of Georgia and| “When replanting trees,” she con- Alaska avenues will have a Bed of V¥ | tinyed, “it should prove more interest- | surrounding the single marker and pos- | ing to’ continue the variety already es- sibly chains covered with the ivy. tablished in any particular park. As “Conditions at the Highway Bridge | for example, in Farragut Square are are still in & bad way, but the daily im- | founq beautiful specimens of the Jap- provement is encouraging and e have | sncge pagoua tree and in Laiayetis met with every courtesy from both the ' Square ‘are wonderful beeches. In ad- Engineer Commissioner’s office and the | gition, ceratin beautiful flowering tree officer in charge of the Mount Vernon | are especially adapted to this locality. Highway, who have had blueprints | for jnstance, deciduous magnolias, var- | made to show us where we may place | njsh trees, mimosa and others. It | ur markers in_connection with ‘their | yould seem wise also in smaller areas, | own planting. We will probably place | guchy as street intersections, to limit the hem in a bed of ivy with chains and | planting to trees, posts to protect them. “The present plan of opening up vis- | ‘Two areas under control of the En- | 455 and larger areas for grass is com- gincer Commissioner adjoln the Key | mended. An open lawn is an essential Bridge on the Virginia side. We Will | hrinciple in a park and it is suggested | place two of our markers there and |that means be found to keep them | have proposed the planting of high and | green a1l winter. low arborvitae as a background With a | ° “The committee also wishes to com- ass of yucca in the foreground. mend the successful use of evergreen If we are granted permission We |privet in Farragut Square and cther would like o place another pair Of ' [iaces where it is replacing the box markers between the Memorial Bridge | heqges which seldom survive city con- nd Arlington Cemetery at the District | gigione line and donate the planting for these In streets with central planting from the Committee of the National h as Maryland avenue, it would | Capital em more economical and effective to | Mrs. Noyes explained that the mark- | p1an: o row of trees in the center or ers had been approved by the officers | nacced evergreen or deciducus shrubs, of the Garden Club of America and bY | one varioty (o a biock the Fine Arts Commission. The committee wishes to ask the Gen. Cheatham Speaks. authorities to consider seriously the use Maj. Gen. B, F. Cheatham, chairman | ©f More water in the parks. o the Committee on the Memorial el % Ims and A fi’a‘f‘i}pi";fi:fimplgmnadl?neme grove | Mrs. Harrison expressed appreclation prior to the dedication of the District |for the tour of the park system ca:l- of Columbia World War Memorial on ranged for the committee by )L Armistice day. Many offers of trees Grant and his assistants. Col. Gran have been received, he said, and raoney | s2id the suggestions of thc'lc‘?mmllgce donations for planting three trees have | had proved very helpful. While it “?S been made, with a definite promise of | not possible at the present time tz three mere in the Spring. The Sorop- | carry all of these into effect on account timist Society of Washington, Gen. Of shortage of funds, Col. Grant *& Cheatham repotted. has planied 70 he hoped Mrs. Harrisons commitice young pink dogwood trees on the east | Would meet with officials of his office side of the grove in accordance with l:/;‘for;' the planting program starts nexi the plan. In time, Gen. Cheatham Marc oreditted, “this dogwood walk will cqual | Agreeing with Mrs. Noyes that there he beauty of the famous magnolia | Was insufficient money for maintenance drive nearby.” The general plan cf the |0f the present parks, Col. Grant said grove, Gen. Cheatham explained, is | hc would welcome support for more make it national in character, with | maintenance funds. He said that value portunity to individuals, as well as | Was being lost in the present par ks now the veteran organizations, to donate because of inadequate upkeep. " s as living memorials to those who | _ Plans for the garden in Rock&fdfi served in the World War. Plans for | Park were proposed by C. Phelps ge, Mrs. McNary quoted extensively from | former President Taft as to the need for supervision of corporations en- gaged in the operations of public utili- | ties and the value of adding to the beauty of the city rison the re for the Suggestions Prove Helpful. | taxi about $98 in cash and checks for a total of approximaiely $40. Pocketing his loot, the robber fled. Miller's shouts attracted Renfrew, who was standing inside the company’s salesroom, adjoining the station. Told what had happened, the salesman started after the disappearing gunman Renfrew overlook Caddes at Con- necticut avenue snd M street, where the latter was about to enter a taxi, When the bandit saw Renfrew ap- | proaching he fired through his coat, the bullet sho pil or. driver ng The to the salesman's left banuit then forced the start his cab. As Renfrew started to walk back to | the station he met Policeman Phelps, third precinct, who started in pursuit of the bandit, officer took the wounded man to t station, where Representative Edith N. Rogers' chauffeur was preparing to leave. Phelps placed Renfrew in the car and the chauffeur drove the wounded man to the hospital, Phy- sicians said his condition was not serious. Meanwhile, the fugitive had changed cabs, ordering the driver to speed pa traflic lights and stop signs to Seven teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue The driver of the first taxi, however, picked up Policeman J. L. Hall, Trafiic Bureau, at Seventernth street and the Avenue, and followed the other cab, with Hall standing on the running board, firing at the tires A machine operated by of the Fidelity Investment Association got in the path of the gunman's taxi| at the edge of Twining Lake, and forced it from the road, causing it to crash into a tree. Hall ran to the wrecked cab and ordered the fugitive to surrender Dropping his revolver on the floor of { the taxi, Caddes raised his hands and | | stepped out After being booked at the fou precinct station, Caddes was taken to headquarters, where e is said to have confessed the hold-up -and shooting. He is reported to have told Inspector Frank S. W. Burke he is the father of a 3-year-old girl and his wife 18 critically ill in a Canton, Ohio, hospital, Out of work for sx months, he said, came to Washington Thursday night 1o cek employment, Caddes, police reported, is wanted on Tobbery charges in several Ohio towns. About an hour before this hold-up a colored man entered the tire depart- ment of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. store on Bladensburg road northeast, drew a gun on James W, Copeland. salesman, and orded him to open the cash register. Copeland refused While he and the bandit ing, a customer, Charles P, Cilifornia street, entered pled with the robber and disarm him. The g however. and fled At about the time of Caddes’ cap- ture, three colored men haled Homer A. Bohannon, Pierce street, Clar- endon, who cruising in his cab near Colorado avenue and Sherman avenve. He drove the men to Nichols H\i’lcl'.un lilmd Ll;mg\n,u oad southeast, where they robbe n 5 . SoE d him of $5 at the taxi Two eleventh precinct mobiles, summoned by Boh up Lv.hr‘ dll'all of the robbe captured at Highview and Maple placss, One of the three leap h 3 Onfotitne | aped from the cab The two arrested are Branch, 18, of were argu- Smith, 1840 Smith grap- attempted to unman broke away, police auto- nnon, picked . who were Alphonso J. 2004 Ninth street, and Theodore Harris, 17, of 81 Florida ave- nue. The gun used in the hold-up was found on the fioor of the tax e re- o) e taxi, police re. About an hour later colored, 2252 Ontario road, in his rear d and robbe a silver watch chain was i d of $35 and White Man Eaten by Lion. Returning riderless to Lady Eleanor Cole’s farm near Rumuruti, in Leikipia district of Africa, the pony of Theodsre John Hauber | th | Pistol and drove off in his | amuel Preston, | eld up | rial Bridge Comm assistant executive officer of the b; likely to te early in the Spring. LANDRUM FOUND BUILTY OF ASSAULT Jury Scales Down Charge Against Policeman—Sirola Is Acquitted. | | Vivian H. Landrum, a ninth precinct policeman, was convicted of a simple assault a prisoner by a District Su- preme Court jury last night, while his co-defendant, John Sirola, another po- liceman, was acquitted. In Landrum’s case the jury scaled down the charge from an assault with a dangerous weapon. Sentence probably will be imposed by Justice James M Proctor within a week or 10 days. The maximum penalty is either a year in. | Jail and $250 fine or both, E. Russel Kelly, defense attorney, to- day announced he would demand a new | trial : | The jury reported last night at 9:15 io'clock " after deliberating five hours. | Before an agreement was reached the | Jury asked permission to examine a 3-foot club resembling a base ball bat | which the prosecution cherged had been used as a weapon by one or both of the policemen in arresting Henry Johnson, colored laborer, at his home, 1734 Mon. tello avenue northeast, August 5, last. The request was denied by Justice Proc- tor. | a Wife Principal Witness. Johnson’s wife, the principal Govern- ment witness, testified she left her home, the night of August 5 after a quarrel with her husband. She said she was accosted nearby by Landrum and Sirola. She testified they went to the Johnson home on their own 4niti- ative and attacked her husband with- out provocatiol The wife said Johnson held a club | in his hands as he ordered the police- men out of the house. She added Lan- drum grabbed the weapon and began striking Johnson with it. She ran from the house, ard a few minutes later the | policemen’ emerged with Johnson’s un- | conscious form. He was removed to| Casualty Hospital and rezovered. | Both defendants denied striking | Johnson with the club. They said they | | went to the house on complaint of the | wife that Johnson was gassed during the World War, was subjeét to “spells’ and had chased her from the dwelling. | They said Johnson resisted arrest, mak- | ing the use of force necessary. | Conflicting Testimony. There was conflicting testimony con- cerning the defense contention that Johnson had been drinking. Johnson insisted he hac not. James R. Kirkland, United States attorney, case. Meanwhile an assistant rosecuted the 1stice Proctor postponed | | until next Friday a hearing on motion | for a new trial made in behalf of James Mostyn and William R. Laflin, other policemen under conviction on’ third- | degree charges. Jhey were found Lower: Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the Arlington Memo- ission; Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, vice chairman of the National George Washington Bicentennial Commission, and Maj D. H. Gillette, e commission, making an inspection tour of the projec’ yesterday on Columbia Island. tion of the Arlington Memorial Bridge has not been determined upon, but it is The final date of the formal dedica- Star Staff Photos. URGES CATHEDRAL WORK BE PUSHED Bishop Freeman Hopes Serv- ices May Be Held on Main Floor in 1932. That work on Washington Cathedral will be advanced so that regular serv- ices might be held on the main floor in the choir during 1932 was the hope expressed by Right Rev. James E. Free- man, Bishop of Washington, at a meet- ing yesterday afternoon of the Wash- ington Committee of the Cathedral. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Hennen Jennings. Bishop Freeman declared in times of national crisis a revival of religious feel- | ing is necessary. For this reason, he said, the call to complete Washington Cathedral to this extent as soon as pos- sible was more imperative than any other enterprise now under way in the Capital. He was seconded by Right Rev. Philip Rhinelander, warden of the College of Preachers f the Cathedral, who de- clared that the cathedral was not a monument, but a spiritual power house and that there was need of such high spirited utterances in these grave days from the cathedral pulpit. The warden also pointed out the need of additional facilities for services in connection with the Bicentennial of George Washington when many patriotic organizations are planning to hold special services. The Very Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl, an of Washington, rcviewed the ogress in construction, and told of what is planned along these lines within the months to come. He reported th:t the North ‘Transept will be completed in the coming year and that through an anonymous gift of $100,000 it hzd becn possible to begin werk on the Scuth Transept. Due to the absence of Mrs. William C. Rives, chairman of the ‘Washington Committee, Dean Bratenahl presided At the conclusion of the final address by Edwin N. L-wis, editor of the Cathedral Age, a resolution was passed in which the committee felicitated Bishop Freeman and his associates for keeping the Cathedral program moving fo;’ward The committes accepted a minimum of $10,000 to be reised in Washington towards a total of $150,000 for the general maintenance fund of the Cathedral, FUNERAL OF MAJ. NIX IS HELD AT ARLINGTON Ordnance Department Officer, Who Died in Chicago, Was a Native of South Carolina. Funeral services, including military honors, were held at the Arlington N tional Cemetery this morning for Maj Raphael R. Nix, Ordnance Depari- ment, who died at his station in Chi- cago last Wednesday, in his forty-fifth vear. His widow, Mrs. Louise M. Nix | official opening of that section of Four- teenth street to Christmas trade by Corporation Counsel Willlam W. Bride Mr. Bride, as guest of the business men’s group, turned the switch which lit a mammoth Christmas tree at Thomas_Circle immediately after the | last unit of the parade passed the judges’ reviewing stand at Fourteenth | the 206th Coast Artillery, District Na- second prizes, respectively, in the mili- ;scmnd prizes in the truck class. iof the Edward Cooper hardware store, given second place. Winners of first Safety Service Corporation. | clown. National Committee of Red Cross strcet and Vermont avenue. The Central High School Cadets and tional Guard, were awarded first and | tary division. Pidelity Storage Co. and | Southern Dairies, Inc., took first and The outstanding float, according to the decision of the judges, was that |while a float entered by Edward Brandstater, landscape gardener, was and second prizes in the decorated auto groups were the Bell Cab Co. and ‘ The “mummer” class was won by | Frank Partillo, who was attired as a |GRAY LADIES GAIN Acts During Two-Day Session. | | | | The Red Cross National Committee on Volunteer Service voted its sup- | port of the Gray Ladies’ work, car- ried on in veterans’ and Army hos- pitals for some time by volunteer work- ers, and urged its development to in- | clude extension to civilian hospitals, where authorities desire it, at the clos- ing meeting of a two-day session here yesterday. The work of women volunteers in Red Cross work in distributing gar- ments to schcol children was cited | | Thursday before the commiitee as an | | example of what can be done this Winter to enable children to remain in | school. The District report was made by| | Mrs. Theodore Richards of the Dis- | | trict Chapter. garments had been distributed here by | | the Red Cross through the Parent. | Teacher Association during October | and November. Many were new gar- | ments and tome were reconditioned. Shoes were mended in cobbling classes | conducted fn a District colored school. | Miss Mabel Boardman, who presided | at the meeting, reported increased in- | terest in many of the volunteer activi- ties of woman workers for the Red Qr{) , notably in the motor €orps serv- cie where many women are giving use of their cars to aid in unemployment relief work. Members of the National Committee present were Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilsol, Miss E. G. Buck- | land, New Haven; Mrs. Austin R. Bald- ! win, New York: Mrs. Walter Shaw| Brewster, Brooklyn; Mrs. De Wolf | Clark, New York: Mrs, John Allan Dougherty, Washington; Mrs. G. W. C. Drexel, Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Mrs. C. G. Edgar, Detroit; Mrs. Julius W. Free- man, Baltimore; Mrs. Graham Mac- | ane. jr, Asheville, N. C.; Mrs. T. A. Mellon, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Henry R. Rea, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Theodore W. Richards, Washington: Mrs. Bowen Tufts, Winchester, Mass.; Mrs. Thomas S. Wheelwright, Buckhead Springs, Va.; Mrs. Clifford A. Atkinson, Washington' Mrs. Henry Brinton Coxe, Philadelphia’ Mrs. George B. Evans, Rosemont, Pa., and Miss Catherine S. Leverich, New York City. The group was entertained at lunch- con by Miss Boardman in the District of Columbia Chapter House. Last eve- wing they were guests of Miss Board- man at dinner at her home, 1801 P street. | fi She stated about 1,200 | dead shrews and placed in a great man’s tomb, according to Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley of the Carnegie staff, can- not be explained. The only clue comes from the number, 104, which may have | had some astronomical significance. It jean be associated with the Maya, “Venus year calendar, and possibly refers to the date of the young man’s death or to his age. During the year the Carnegie arche- ologists in Yucatan started excavations of another ancient city, Yaxchilan, a few miles from their headquarters at Chichen Itza. The ruins of this old metropolis, long since covered with thick jungle growth, have been known to archeologists for a long time, but the Carnegie excavators made some rich finds in a few weeks and plan to follow up the work. Missing Symbols Found. The' ruined temples and palaces of Yaxchilan stretch for a mile along the bend of a river. Behind them, between the river and the hills, lay wide plazas which evidently were places of great beauty in their day. Then the tops of the hills themselves were leveled off and more palaces and temples erected, the ruins of which still can be found. Yaxchilan, Dr. Morley said, was flour- ishing at least in the third century AD. The most notable find during the two weeks spent there was a door lintel upon which was carved the date of the building. It gave the arcneologists al- most a complete list of the number symbols of the Mayas. Only two sym- bols now are missing, those for 2 and 11. The Maya, Dr. Morley explained, had two ways of writing numbers—one by dots and bars and one by a stand- ardized series of animel figures, prob- ably representing the gods suppesed to preside over the days. It was in this last series, Dr. Morley explained in showing the exhibit yester- day, that the Indian mathematicians, who had carried the science of numbers far beyond any other people in the world at the time, introduced a weird concept, They had separate symbols up to 15. The figure 10 was a skull. It was prac= | tically the equivalent of the Arabic zero. So the figure 11 could be written in two ways—either by its own symbol or by combining the symbol for the figure 1 with a skull, Moon Study Method Shown. The Mayas, Dr, Morley said, were the t people to establish a fixed started t for time, as the basis of a chro- nology which Wwas more accurate than any used in the Old World until the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582. With this system they recorded the chief astronomical and historical events. Monuments were erected at in- tervals of 1800 days, and may be likened to great stone almanacs. So fixed was this custom that it has been possible in some cities to predict the existence of unknown monuments on | the basis of gaps in the 1,800-day se- quence. Another exhibit shown the Carnegie trustees yesterday was of the method by which the institution's Committee on the Study of the Moon is finding out the surface materials on this satellite, more than 250,000 miles away. Rays of sunlight reflected from the moon reach the earth in about a second. They are compared with rays of sunlight re- flected from rock surface on earth, and the changes in the nature of the light compared. 120 Above to 100 Below Zero. This method of ccmparison shows that the moon’s surface must be covered with rocks that have very little polariza- tion effect on light, which limits them to granites, sandstones and other l'ght rocks. It has been observed during an eclipse of the moon, however, that the surface temperature falls rapidly from about 120 degrees above zero to 100 de- grees below zero. Therefore the moon's rocks can have little power of absorbing heat. This almost eliminates everything but pumice and volcanic ash. The Carnegie scientists, it was announced, now are planning to explore the moon’s surface in more detail. Powys, a white farmhand, [ rges Of a simple assault | accompanied th s these difficulties is that advanced by his search which revesie, , caused guilty on charg D! D e funeral party to this The exhibit will be thrown open to friends, as follows: Upon returning to his basement garage at home he was feeling ill and forgot to shut off the motor when he drove into the garag Following his usual custom, he went out into the alley and locked the door on the outside. He then entered the houss through the back door and sat down to rest. He still had his cap and coat on when found. He then reaiized the en- gine was running, either by sound or smell, and went down through the cel- lar to the inside garage entrance to shut it off. He then either had an at- tack of dizziness and fell. or ga’ was sufficiently sircng to induce the collapse 1" struggling, he scrubbed his way across the floor toward the door too late This accc o the door It is the theory and has no intima- tion of suicide, only & most deplorable “These facts and theories were pre- sented to the jury as effectively as po sible. Mrs. Kizer was unable to be present and testify owing to illness. It is to be hoped that this most outrageous verdict of suicide will be corrected by the coroner's office next week “Very sincerely yours (Signed ) “WILLIAM O. TUFTS.” SHOW CLOSES TONIGHT The Troubadours of George Washing- the grove were developed after con- |volunteer director of the George Wash- ferentes with 3. L Greenleal, scting | ington Memorial Parkway project. He landscape architect, and with Lieut, |recommended the garden be developed Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Of- | in an old stone quarry about 500 feet fice of Public Buildings and FPublic | West of the south eni of the Connec- Parks tient Avenue Bridge i Mrs. McNary, wife of Senator M “Its natural beauty is superb.” said | Nary of Oregon. chairman of the cc M. Dodge. “A great semi-circle of | tice on strest trees, sharply criti- clffs, 40 to 50 feet high, surround on the cestruction of elm trees | three sides an open area about 150 fee! recently on Eest Capitol street and|across by 200 feet deep, with an open recommended that steps should be | &pproach on the fourih side. A natural taken to prevent a recurrence. depression, perhaps 50 feet —across, # ¢ somewhat limited survey of | against the hase of the cliffs on one the city of the new tree | side makes a perfect basin for a pool, planting. t has been most | Which could easily be emptied into the disheartening to note the ruthless de- |creek nearby. The introduction of struction of many of the city's most | Water to dash over the face of the cliff beautiful trees—in particular, those on | Would be a comparatively simple mat- East Capitol street, beginning at the |ter. The background of rock is already Congressional Library. I am informed | perfect, and even the setting of trees is that the tree cutting in this parti~ular | almost complete. As a site for a rock neighborhood is due to a lack of co- |garden in which native plants would ordination of Government agencies in | predominate it is almost perfect.. the laying of the new steam tunnel abeatel which hes been constructed nearest the | Oaxen ExicusienSSugses “If the quarry site is selected,” he tree side of the street, to provide steam | heat for the new Supreme Court Build- | said, “the committee suggests the pos- |sibility of extending the rock garden {Ing, the Library of Congress and the new annex to the Library of Congress, | development from the Connecticut ave- Tesulting in the destruction of rows of | nue bridge to the quarry and beyond 50-year-old elm trees along this street. | the quarry as far as the rocks extend This could have been entirely avolded |in the other direction, beginning gradu- had the prover supervision been made |ally, working up to a climax in the of the work by a responsible head.|quarry, and reducing the number and With the present lack of co-ordination | variety of plants again beyond the which exists in the District govern- |quarry to blend naturally into the ex ment, destruction will probably con- |isting woodland. It suggests the de- Unue, and it is therefore hoped that|velopment of & rock garden which some plan or suggestion can be made | would be capable of extension, and con- that his mas‘er had been killed by a lion. ~After the search, in which airplanes took part, Powys body, half eaten by the beast, was found. —_— ficient seclusion to add to its beauty 2nd to give it some measure of protec- tion After discussion of the project it was ranged that a conf ould be held on the matter between Mr. Dodge, Miss Rose I Greely of the committee, Frederick Law Olmsted of the Park and Planning Commission and James L. Greenleaf, consulting landscape archi- tect of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, formerly of the Commis- sion of Fine Arts, Mrs. Noyes announced the addition of two new members of the committee of the Natlonal Capital of the Garden Club of Amevica, Mrs. Daniel O. Hastings, wife of the Senator from Delaware, and Mrs Frederick Payne, wife of the As- sistant Secretary of War. Among those present at the meeting were the chairman, Mrs. Noyes; Mrs. Robert Bacon, jr.; Mrs. Frederick Brooke, Miss Anna M. Carrere, Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham, Clarence Phelps Dodge, Miss Rose 1. Greely, Mrs. Daniel O. Hastings, Mrs. Hamilton Kean, Mrs. T. H. B. McKnight, Mrs. Charles L. McNary, Mrs. Jesse Metcalf, Mrs. Prederick H. Payne, Mrs. Charles D, Walcott, Mrs. Alanson Houghton, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d; Dr. A. F. Woods, director of scientific work, ton University will present the third by this committee whereby a central- | siders the fact that this site lends itself and final performance of “Happy Land- ized control of the supervision of trees | to such & treatment, éne of its great e -mwnum tonight at 8:15 o'elock. T b in the McKinley High School and smi all parks in the District may |advantages. It may be made accessible from both ends and yet will have suf- > e had. Department of Agriculture; Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, chief engineer of t%e El!r;rlct of E’olumbu, and Clifford Lan- am, superintendent of trees and parking of the District, lon James Henry Harker, young baker. | A similar motion of Robert J. Bar- | rett, a detective sergeant, also was | deferred. He was convicted of beating Gecrge M. Baber with his fists. Trial Set for Monday. Another allcged police brutalily cass s scheduled for trial Monday before | ustice F. D. Letts in Criminal Division | |2. An indictment of six counts charges | | Charles H. Bremerman and Hollis H. Clark, suspended policemen of the old No. 2 precinct, with assaulting Thofnas M. Williams, colored, 17 years old, with a wooden club while Williams was in | custody on-a charge of suspicion on three separate dates in June last. United States Atiorney Rover has as |signed Assistant United States Atto | neys William A. Gallagher and John R | Fitzpatrick to conduct the prosecution. Attorneys James A. O'Shea and John H. Burnett will defend the policemen. Williams with seven other colored | boys had been corralled by officers on suspicion Thursdey June 24 and the indictment alleges separate charges of assaults with o wooden ciud on each of the following three days by the officers. The first count charges ihat Bremer- man held the club when the boy was beaten June 25. The second count puts the club in the hands of Clark on the same day. The third count deals with an alleged assault with a wooden club June 26, with Bremerman holding the Weapon. The fourth charges the sam> assault on the same aay with Clark Wielding the club. The fifth count charges that Bremerman again beat the boy with the club June 27, while the sixth count puts the ciub in Clark’s hands on that dats | city. Maj. Nix was a native of Greenville. S. C, and was graduated from the Uniled States Military Academy in June, 1909; the General Staff Schosl In 1924, the Army Industrial College in this city in 1925 and the Army War College in 1926. Most cf his service was in the Coast Artillery and the Ordnance Department end he reached the grade of major in the Regular Army in October, 1917. During the World War he served as a colonel of Ordnance in the National Army. D.C. RELATIVES BEREAVED News Received of Death in Wis- consin of Thomas B. C. Dennis. Thomas Bennett Carter Dennis, 70, of Chicago, brother of George E. Den- nis and stepson of Frances E. Smith, both of this eity, died yesterday at the Wisconsin General Hospital, Madi- son, Wis. Burial will be in Montrose Cemetery, Chicago. MOTORISTS MAY Commissioners Decide 1932 USE NEW TAGS Licenses Can Be Displayed if Owners Wish. District of Columbia motorists may | put on their new 1932 tags at once, if they so desire, according to the ac- 3:11 of the Commissioners taken to- y. Information on the envelopes con- taining the license plates may be dis- regarded, William A. Van Duzer, di- rector of the Department of Motor Ve- hicles and Traffic, stated. Some time ago the Commissioners moved the time Testrictions up to December 15, but now all restrictions are off. Maryland 1932 tags may be put on next Tuesday, but the new Virginia | tags will not be legal until January 1. The 1931 District tags will be good until micnight of January 31 a title certificate bas been obtained by January 1. Hcwever, the motorists may find a freedom from fines if they are not picked up for other traffic violations, | as it will be impossible for the police to know whether a driver with a 1931 tag has & title or not. The month of January may see care- ful driving &' many motorists. the public today, Sunday and Monday. ‘There will be public lectures explaining the exhibits this afternoon and every evening. Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Senator Walcott of Con- necticut were elected to tike board of trustess of the institution yesterday. ‘The trustees appropriated $1,673,432 for the work of the institution during the coming year. This consists mostly cf scientific researches. Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the institution, reported on the activities of the past year. The following trustees attended the meeting at which Dr. Henry S. Prit- chett presided, in the absence of Elihu Root, chairman of the board: Dr. W. W. Campbell, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Gen. John J. Carty, Whiteford R. Cole, Fred- eric A. Delano, Cass Gilbert, Prederick H. Gillett, Andrew J. Montague, Wil- liam Barclay Parsons, Stewart Paton, Theobald Smith, William Benson Storey, Willlam S. Thayer, William H. Welch and George W. Wickersham, Following the luncheon after the meeting the trustees viewed the annual exhibit, which will be open to the pub- lic today. The annual reception by the president and trustees was held at the Administration Building, Sixteenth and P streets, last evening. Penny Worth $310. ‘Three hun:red and ten doll recently paid for a penny in London, England. It was called a Fitzjohn” penny and was minted in the twelfth century.