Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1931, Page 17

Washington News NEW WHITE SLAVE | DRIVE BEGINS HERE; FALS OF RESULT Jmporant Information Found in Pennsylvania War by Justice Agents. t DISCOVERY HAS BEARING ON BLADENSBURG CASE Pay Rolls of Establishments in Three States Are Bared—Minor Officials Implicated. The Justice Department’s campaign against white slavery—begun November 23, after one man was killed and five other persons wounded in the Old Colonial Tea House shooting—was cen- tered in Washington today with agents of the department’s Bureau of Investi- gation co-operating with Police De- partment detectives and patrolmen and members of the Women's Bureau. Although the new vice drive, which got under way here shortly after mid- night, was fruitiess, important infor- mation was obtained in a similar cam- paign in Pgnnsylvenia. This infosma- tion is understood to have considerable bearing on the Justice Department’s investigation of the activities of a tri- State vhite slave ring revealed as a result of the Bladensburg gun play. Federal operatives, it is understood, already have unearihed evidence against | many suspected disorderly houses in |all parts of Maryland, as well as in Pennsylvania and New Jerse; Pay Rolls Found. Information concerning the owner- ship of several of the establishments also has been obtained, it is said, and the pay rolls of some of the places are in the possession of investigators. These pay rolls, it is understood, contain the names of certain minor officials of the counties in which the resorts are lo- cated. The Penuisylvania campaign waged in eo-cperation with the Justice Depart- ment. resulted in the confiscation of records reputed to be of great import- ance in the Federal Government's probe of white slave activities. Several raids were made in Columbia Pa.. not far from Bethlehem, about 1 o'clock this morning, shortly after the vice drive got under way here. The raids_were made after a number of “tips” had been received by the Justice Department. More than 50 investigators, including Justice Department agents, precinct de- tectives, reau attaches, reported to Lieut. Charles ‘Weber, night chief of detectives, short- 1y after midnight. Envelopes containing secret orders were given each of the several groups into which the investigators were di- vided, and the campaign started. Although great secrecy surrounded the investigators' activities, it is un- derstood they visited every suspected disorderly house in the city. as well as | a number of alleged drinking and gam- | bling establishments. Despite their surveillance., however, the information they obtained was negligible, both J. Edgar Hoover. head of the Bureau of Investigation, and In- spector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of the Detective Bureau, declared today. Will Continue Quietly. While this morning’s intensive activ- ities probably will not be repeated for some time, Inspector Burke said, the drive is likely to be continued quietly. One of the objects of the campaign, it is understood. is to obtain evidence against a Washinglon man said to have been the secret proprietor of the Old Colonial. Although Charles Levitt, one of those wounded when a gang of gunmen raided the tea house, is described as manager of the resort by Prince Georges County police, Federal investigators are re- ported to have unearthed information indicating he was merely the hireling of “a man higher up.” This man is said to conduct a similar establishment in the Capital, and an intensive effort 1is being made to learn his whereabouts. 40 PERSONS ARRESTED. LANCASTER, Pa. December 14.— Federal agents and State police today arrested 40 persons, including 15 wom- en, in 15 raids in Columbia, Marietta and Elizabethtown. Liquor was seized at several places. Federal authorities made the raids because they received several complaints regarding operation of certain establishments. Same per- sons arrested will be charged with pos- session of liquor or operating disorderly houses. Others will be held as wit- nesses pending_ investigation. Sergt. R. W. Fritchie said it queer that several places were dark. won't say the occupants were tipped off, but it looks odd,” he said. was CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting. Kalorama Citizens' Associ- ation, John Quincy = Adams School Nineteenth and California streets, 8 pm Meeting. Hillcrest Citizens' Associ- ation, East Washington Heights Bap- tist Church, Alabama and Branch ave- nues southeast, 8 p.m. Meeting, Brookland Citizens' Associ- stion, Masonic Temple, 8 p.m. Meeting. Dupont Circle Citizens' As- | sociation, Mayflower Hotel, 4:45 p.m. | Meeting. Stanton Park Citizens' As- | sociation, Peabody School, Fifth and C streets northeast, 8 p.m. Meeting. Washington Real Estate Board, Willard Hotel, 8 pm. Dance, Southern Society, Willard Ho- | tel, 8 pm. Meeting, Burroughs Citizens' Associ- ation, John Burroughs School, 8 p.m. | Meeting, Northeast Washington Citi- | rens' Association, Ludlow School, Sixth! and G streets northeast, 8 p.m. | Meeting, Piney Branch Citizens' As- ' sociation, Hamline M. E. Church, Six- teenth and Allison streets, 8 p.m. Meeting, Drama Guild of Washing- ton, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. FUTURE. Luncheon, Women's National Press Club, Willard Hotel, tomorrow, 1 p.m. Luncheon, Washington Assoclation of Credit Men, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. “Minick,” modern comedy, American University Dramatic Club, American University auditorium-gymnasium, to- morrow, 8 p.m. Man Found Dead in Room. A man identified as R. J. Reynolds, 54, was found dead in his room at 235 Pennsylvania avenue yestercay. Death resulted from natural causes. The body is being held at the istrict morgue while police seek relative: The man had lived at the address for a few weeks, policemen _and Women's Bu- | | Proctor due ¢o_the inability of Attor- Tough Monkey Shines When a monkey got tough on Sixth street yesterday they gave him a ride in the city pound patrol wagon—when ke got tougher, they gave him several | Tides, but when he got toughest, they | let him keep the wagon all night. | And this morning, the bitter, bitter | morning after the night before, ‘he was | still in charge of the vehicle, although obviously sa victim of remorse. ~Mean- | while, the police looked in vain for his | master to bail him out. | Allen A. Colbert, colored helper at | the pound, responded with his big patrol wagon when some one tele-| phoned that a monkey was on a spree near 1104 Sixth street. | ‘When he arrived, however, !hP‘ monkey was in the highest treetop | thereabouts, having bitten Mrs. Mar- garet Williams on a forefinger when she | offered him a banana and then sought | to make him captive. ‘The monkey chattered at his pursuers | from a tossing limb until some adven- | turous boys climbed too close, then leaped to a garage roof, skipped merrily | over a few housetops and finally swung | down to Sixth street. | By that time two policemen, half & | hurdred pedestrians and a swarm of yelling boys were following the fugitive, Who keep just far enough ahead to en- tice them on, grinning derision as he avoided their ruses. The monkey at length sought refuge in a tree, which was quickly surrounded. A boy climbed after him, and the mon- key, having no place to jump except into the crowd below, was muffied in | an overcoat and brought chattering to earth, In captivity, however, he was as big a problem as at liberty. He showed his | teeth fiercely at Colbert while en route to the pound, and hepped about shaking | the bars of his prison ) This persuaded Colbert to leave him in the patrol wagon until a proper pen | could be prepared. Meanwhile, other calls came in and the monkey, still de- 500 JOBLESS GET FVEDAYS, WORK D. C. Employment Committee Will Rotate Groups for Month. Five hundred men out of jobs were put to work this morning by the Dis- trict of Columbia Employment Com: "mittee with pick and shovel and rake laround United States buildings and | parks and the District playgrounds. They were assured employment through Friday. ~Next week another | | crew of similar size will be given their | {jobs. The Employment Committee Sees its way clear to continue this for | lat least a month, it was sald this mornin | | ™ he Tiring of the unemployed men ! marks the largest scale creation of jobs vet undertaken by the committee and is intended to take care of bona fide residents of Washington who have | lost their jobs through on fault of their own. Fach man wi 1 11 work six hours a day | and five days a week. He will be paid 45 cents an hour or $13.50 for the week Funds to pay the men come out | of the $450,000 allotted the Employ- | ment Committee by the Community | hest. Cl'fhe workers were carefully selected by the Community Chest, and each bore a letter stating that he had lived in Washington for the past two years and that he lost his job here. The work to which they have been { assigned does not interfere in any way { with the employment of the regular staffs of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks or of the District Playgrounds Department, it was stated. | The jobs were created solely to give | work in deserving cases. RILEY CRUELTY TRIAL DELAYED TWO DAYS Attorneys for Suspended Policemen“ Bremerman and Clark Try in Vain for Priority. The trial of Elsie M. and Harry N:| Riley on charges of cruelty to 12-year- | old Edith Riley, allegedly incarcerated in a dark bath room closet at inter- vals over a period of four years, has| been postponed from today until Wed- | | nesday. The trial was set for Wednesday de- | spite the protests of Attorney James A. | | O'Shea that two suspended second pre- | | cinct policemen, Charles H. Bremerman and Hollis H. Clark, charged with beat- ing a 17-year-old colored prisoner, should be tried before the Rileys. The case of the policemen was struck from the assignment list today by Jus- | tice F. D. Letts in District Supreme Court. It probably will not be tried until after the Christmas holidays. “I must oppose any postponement of | the Bremerman and Clark case,” as-| s-rted O'Shea. “These men are sus- | pended and have received no wages since October, and they are dependent on their wages. I think it unfair to them to displace the trial of their case | for the Riley trial, especially since it | will take them over the Christmas holi- | days without trial.” | Justice Letts said he appreciated the position of the two policemen, but said | there were “reasons” why the Riley trial should he heard first. Assistant United States Attorney William A. Gal- lagher told the court Justice James M. Proctor, before whom the Riley case was to have been tried, had transferred | the trial to Justice Letts’ docket, and that it probably would occupy the court's time for the rest of the week. Postponement of the Riley trial until Wednesday was granted by Justice ney Bertrand Emerson, jr. chief de- fense counsel, who is suffering with a broken jaw, to appear today. Attor- ney H. R. Stepherson, an associate of Emerson, will take charge of the de- | fense, while Assistant United States At- torney William H. Collins will handle the prosecution. GOOD, POLICEMAN FINDS STREET CORNER HUNTING The vicinity of Eleventh street and Maryland avenue northeast isn't sup- | posed to be a particularly good place | to_hunt ’possum, bui— Policeman E. H. Braxton expects to have an opossum dinner tonight, and :le did all his hunting at that corner, 00. Of course, Braxton was not exactly on a hunting expedition when he reached Eleventh and Maryland ave- i Due yesterday. He and Policeman B. H. Allen were returning to the second precinct station after having taken ‘a prisoner to Gallinger Hospital They found the animal iggthe middle of the street and after & chase captured it, TAKES POSSESSION OF PATROL WAGON AFTER PURSUIT. flant, went abroad several times in the pound's wagon after dogs which were imprisoned In a separate compartment. The monkey continued to stalk an- grily about his cage, baring teeth at attendants and voicing disapproval of the whole proceedings. “Anybody,” said Colbert, “would be onery after a spree like that. He bet- ter be glad, though, he don't have to 20 to Police Court this morning.” DEPLORES INCREASE - INCHILD CRIMES U. S. Probation Group Urges| Financial Help to Remedy Evils. Faced with increasing crime among | children and those of adolescent years, the National Probation Association to- day sounded a call for financial assist- ance to bolster its efforts to curb ju- venile delinquency. In presenting the cause of the as- sociation, Newbold Noyes, chairman of the local campaign, pointed out that the organization “has given its services freely to Washington and the District of Columbia and promises considerable future co-operation.” With his appeal is a statement from Charles Evans Hughes, jr., president of the association, discussing the problem presented by the juvenile delinquent, and adding that in at least 80 per cent of the cases, early corrective measures prove efficacious. Blames Economic Ilis. Blaming the present economic situa- tion for the growth of criminality among the young, Mr. Noyes asserts that “enforced free time rather than the usual leisure hours has placed upon the shoulders of growing youths a bur- den which in many instances they have been unable to bear, and the results are crime, delinquency and appearance in court.” “The facilities of our courts and character building agencies have not been able to meet this increasing prob- lem,” he continues. *“Well trained pro- bation officers, adequate clinical facili- ties and other necessary equipment are essential if we are to handle success- fully the situation caused by our eco- nomic upheaval. This is the time for all good citizens to come forward and not only protect children, but afford growing youth its chance to make good. ‘What we do now will determine the ex- tent of our crime problem in the next two decades.” .Calling attention to Mr. Hughes' statement, Mr. Noyes says that “to remedy these conditions, the National Probation Association asks your help in establishing probation and juvenile courts in every city and county and in improving methods in the services now existing.” Explains Association’s Aim. He explains the work of the associa- tion locally, and emphasizes that “the association is entirely dependent upon voluntary contributions for its Nation- wide program of crime prevention and treatment.” Gifts to aid in this national program of “building and saving human beings.” as it is described, may be made out to the National Probation Association, and maliled in care of Mr. Noyes at The Evening Star. In his statement in behalf of the association, Mr. Hughes declares that “almost all criminals start as juvenile delinquents and come from bad homes or bad environments.” “Thorough work when the boy first goes wrong,” it continues, “adjusting him in his home and environment, finding a new home when necessary. watching over him until he is on the right road, succeeds in at least 80 per cent of these cases. Many Without Aid. “There are many cities and rural regions today without juvenile courts or effective probation service. In such places as these children are either sent to jail along with hardened criminals or they are neglected and evil tendencies allowed to develop unchecked.” The assoclation, which has head- quarters in New York, is headed by George W. Wickersham, - Girl, Saving Baby From Collapsing Ceiling, Is Injured Miss Cooper Leans Over Crib So Falling Plaster Will Strike Her. Shiclding the infant with her body, Miss Eleanor May Cooper, 23, of 1225 E street southeast, saved 3-month-old Junijor Fugitt from possible serious in- jury yesterday when the ceiling in the dining room at the E street address collapsed ov:r the baby's crib, Miss Cooper was standing near the crib when the ceiling fell. She suffered a sprained back when she flung her body across the crib and was struck by the deluge of plaster. She refused hospital treatment and was given medical attention by a private phy- sician. The child is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otls Walter Pugitt of the E street addrests The Fne WASHINGTON, D. C, WASHINGTON PAYS | MORE THAN SHARE ning Stap WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0F .. REVENLE .61 Per Cent of Nation’s Total Paid by .40 Per Cent of Its F"opulation. FIGURES ARE EXCLUSIVE OF FEDERAL CITY TAXES Work of Bureau Speeded Up This Year Through Personnel Centralization. Although it contains only .40 per cent of the population of the United States, the District of Columbia paid | .61 per cent of the total internal reve- | nue of the Government in the fiscal | vear 1931, it was disclosed today in the { annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue, David Burnet ‘This indication of the prominence of the District in supporting the Federal Government emphasizes again that this city is paying more than its share per capita in internal revenue. This con- tribution is over and above the taxes which the District pays for support of ’the Federal city on the basis of 60 per | j cent from the city and 40 per cent from | the Federal Government. Pays $14,684,853 Total. ‘Washington turned in a total of $14.- | 684,853.43 in internal revenue for 1931, composed of $12,716.156.42 income tax | | and $1,968.697 miscellaneous taxcs The population of the city, based on | he fifteenth census, as of April 1, 1930, | is given as 486,869, or 40 per cent of | the total population of the United States, which contributed 61 per cent | of the' total internal revenue. The total collections of the country for 1931 were $2.428.228,754.22, accord- | Ing to finally revised figures, showing a decrease from the previous year of | $611,916,978.95. | The cost of collecting taxes rose from $1.13 a hundred dollars in 1930 to $1.40 for each $100 collected in 1931, the report showed | The amount expended and obligated | in_administering the internal revenue tax laws for the fiscal year 1931 was | $33.997,785.84, not including the amount expended for refunding taxes illegally | or_erroneously collected, which is in no sense an administrative expense. Tap Work Increased. Centralization of personnel in the new Internal Revenue Building was credited with helping substantially to increase the output of the income tax unit. The number of returns examined and closed during the fiscal year 1931 was J,140,024, of which 2,496,188 were filed by in- dividuals and partnerships and 643836 by _corporations. This exceeds the production of the previous year by 842,673. “In part, the increased production may be attributed to the reorganization of the unit during the year 1930 and to the centralization | i 4 the commissioner. The number of employes in the internal revenue service on June 30, 1931, was 11,833, compared with 11,979 on June 30, 1930, a decrease of 146. The number of employes in Washington on June 30, 1931, was 3,461, compared with 3,448 on June 30, 1930, an increase of 13. \CITIZENS TO MEET ON SCHOOL BUDGET Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle to Pre- side at Parley of School Heads and Civic Groups. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, vice president of the Board of Education, will preside over the semi-annual con- ference between school authorities and representatives of District citizens' and civic associations, in the Franklin Ad- | ministration Building, Thirteenth and | K streets, at 8 o'clock tonight. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, will discuss the budget for 1933 as it went to Congress from the Federal Budget Bureau, comparing it with the estimates transmitted by the School Board itself to the Commis- sioners. Thus, for the first time, will be revealed which of the items were i eliminated and whether they were elim- | inated by the Commissioners or by the | Budget Bureau itself. Particular in- terest in the forthcoming revelation centers on the buildings and grounds items which were cut from nearly $900,- 000 for ground alone to $95,000 for a single parcel of land. Beside Dr. Ballou, school officers who will attend the conference include Stephen E. Kramer, Garnet C. Wilkin- son and Jere J. Crane, first assistant superintendents, and Robert L. Hay- cock, assistant superintendent. P e 'UNABLE TO FIX CAUSE OF FATAL HOTEL FIRE Marshall Calvin G. Lauber Blames Defective Wiring, Match or Cigarette. | ‘The fire at the Franklin Hotel, 623 Pennsylvania avenue, Saturday after- noon, which cost two lives, was caused either by defective wiring or a discard- ed match or cigarette, Fire Marshal Calvin G. Lauber reported today after a careful inspection of the premises. The destruction in the vicinity of the third-floor room, where the blaze start- ed, was so great, Mr. Lauber said, that it was impossible to fix the cause defin- itely. Electric wires there led to the suspicion that they may have been re- sponsible. * pifler surveying the damage and the amount of furnishings salvaged, Mr. Lauber placed the total loss at $15,000. 6. 0. P. WOMEN TO ELECT Montgomery Federation to Hold Annual Meeting About Jan. 13. | Special Dispateh to The Star. y { TAKOMA PARK, Md., December 14— | The annual meeting and election of offi- icers of the Federation of Republican ‘Women of Montgomery County will be held here about January 13, the date 'depending upon the availability of cer- ain speakers. : Mn?eunr W. Moore of Kensington has been made chairman of the Nomi- nating Committee, and members are re- quested to send her the names of pro- spective candidates. of personnel in the new building,” said | ed Society and General MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931, PAGE B—1 NEW HOLSED. . COMMITEE HEA PREENTS 4 BILS Two Introduced by Mrs. Mary T. Norton Concern Con- demnations. OPENING OF GALLINGER WARD TO PUBLIC ASKED Fourth Measure Deals With Roads on District Workhouse Prop- erty at Occoquan. Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, the new chairman of the | House District Committee, today intro- duced four District bills, two of which deal with condemnation proceedings. One of these measures provides that the petitioners may file at any time before judgment a declaration of taking, signed by the Commissioners, declaring the lands are taken for use by the Dis- trict of Columbia. This would include a statement of the authority under which, and the pub- lic use for which, the lands are taken: a description of the lands; a statement of the estate or interest in such land; a plan showing the lands taken, and a statement of the sum of money esti- mated by the Commissioners to be just compensation for the land A second bill would authorize the assessor of the District to testify in condemnation proceedings as an ex- pert witness to the market value of such land and as to benefit. The third bill would authorize pay patients to be admitted to the con- tagious disease ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital. The fourth bill provides for the open- Work House proj fax County, Va. INDUSTRIES OPPOSED AT CHILLUM HEIGHTS Citizens’ perty at Occoquan, Fair- Association Protests Erection of Gas Tanks and Other Projects. A letter reaffirming the opposition of the Chillum Heights Citizens' As- sociation to erection of gas tanks or the beginning of other industrial de- velopment in the residential area cov- ered by the association has been sent to E. V. Fisher, executive secretary of the Public Utilities Commission. A public hearing on the issue was re-| quested. The letter, signec. by Thomas R. Joy, by a special committee, composed of John R. Dixon, chairman; Arthur W. Clime and Cyrus T. Bright. stated in effect that practically all citizens in the area are opposed to the | gas tank project of the Washington | Gas Light Co. contending the tanks would hinder development of that sec- tion along desired residential lines. One paragraph of the letter reads: “It is entirely possible if this area is permitted to develop industrially with no restrictions, that activities may be established in that area so ob- Jectionable as to even destroy the park and recreational possibilities, Many thousands of people are vitally inter- ested in this park development. The plans for the development of the Keene School are progressing and this com- ing year's school budget carries an ap- propriation of $115000 for the new building. This school development is badly needed in this area, and in this development is it not possible to pro- tect it from dangers of glue factories, stock yards, etc., that might be de- veloped only a few hundred feet away?” st HENDERSON RENTAL ACCOUNTING ASKED Collectors of Widow’s Estate Seek Ruling to Force Seay to Report on Funds. Harry L. Rust and Ralph B. Fleharty, collectors of the estate of Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, wealthy society leader, asked District Supreme Court today for a rule to show cause against Harry A. Seay, former rental agent of Mrs, Hen- derson. The collectors requested thai Mr. Seay be required to disclose the amount of money in his possession belonging to the estate and especially as to the whereabouts of two promisory notes, totaling $199,780 representing deferred payments on property at Sixteenth and Lamont streets. The claim was made that Seay was acting as agent of Mrs. Henderson when he received last January $11,000 in cash and two notes, one for $79.763 and the other for $120,017. The col- lectors say the money and securities belong to the estate and should bc surrendered to them, The court was told that about the same time Mr. Seay purchased for Mrs, Henderson premises at 1478 Clifton strezt, on which he made a down pay- ment of $6,102.32, which he is said to have claimed to have paid out of the $11,000 cash payment in the other sale, If this is accurate, the collectors ask that the balance of $4,897.68 be paid over to them and that the two promis- sory notes be surrendered, SPELLING CLUB PLANS ITS MONTHLY “BEE” Practices for Annual Tournament With Waverly Club of Baltimore. The regular monthly spelling “bee” of the Capital City Spelling Clgb will be held in the Mount Pleasant Public Library Wednesday evening at 7:30 oc{gck. with approximately 20 contest- ants. The club holds 12 contests through- out the year as practice for the two “bees” staged annually with the Waver- ly Spelling Club of Baltimore. The next intercity contest will be in April. The clubs have been rivals for three years, and each has won three of the six matches. The words given the contestants Wednesday_evening will be taken from Eldridge’s Business Speller and will be pronounced by J. Louis Bixler, 500 A street southeast, wha will also act as Judge. The contest will be open to any one, and there will be a cash prizé for the winner as well as.other- awards, president of the association, was drm-l It | Santa Claus Happy Town INDIANA TOWN HAS NO UM Santa Claus is more to the Post Office Department than the name of a good- natured, mythical saint. Santa Claus jis to the Post Office Department not the name of a person but of a place— a place where the postal service is wag- ing a part of its Christmas struggle against a sea of mail. Santa Claus to the Post Office De- | partment means Santa Claus, Ind., a tiny town whose 60 inhabitants are scattered in farm houses over an area of sevemal square miles. | During 11 months of the year Santa Claus is one of the quietest and most peaceful rural farming communities to be found. It is 160 miles from Indian- apolis and there is no large town with- in many miles. It is off the beaten path and has no railroad, or even a paved road to connect it with the world. There is a tiny church on the main street of the town, a little dirt lane| which, appropriately enough, boasts a | double row of Christmas trees which have been growing there for years since the days when Santa Claus was nothing but a name hidden obscurely in the fine type of the Postal Register. There is a single general store run by Jim Ma tin, the tiny town's leading citizen. | Martin also runs the town post office, a little cubbyhole in the corner of his store. That is Santa Claus during 11 months of the year. During the twelfth month, Decem- ber, Santa Claus is the center of a| maelstrom. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail are sent there from all parts of the world solely for the sake of the magical postal can- cellation mark which bears the name ‘Santa Claus.” | The tiny post office, which normally handles little more than a single sack | of mail, even on good days, is flooded with the mail of a large city. One single firm this year had planned to | send 7,500,000 pieces of mail to Santa | Claus to get the magic name on Christ- mas greeting messages. There is no unemployment problem |in Santa Claus or the country round | about this year. One out of every four | inhabitants of the region has™ be:n | drafted for daty in the pcst office under the direction of Charles F. An- | | ing and closing of roads within the | derson, sent cut from the National Cap- | boundaries of the District of Columbia | ital by the Post Office Department and other postal officials, who are helping out Pcstmaster Martin and his deugh- ter. Helen Two electrically driven cancelling HOLD-UPS CHARGED TOHAWTH TA i Capture of David Levien After Chase Made hy Officer Listed for Demotion. David Levien, 22 years old, of New York City, who was arrested after he is alleged to have staged a series of hold- ups early yesterday. is being held at the third precinct station whil= police en- deavor to learn whether he is connected with any similar robberies reported here recently. 1 | By a twist of fate Detective Sergt Charles E. Mansfield arrested the armed | suspect after a short chase on S street, {only four hours after Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, had sent through a recommendation for Mansfield's demotion to uniform duty. Sergt. Mansfield and Policeman Jo- seph W. Caw. a headquarters chauffeur were investigating the work of a_lone bandit, who stole a taxicab from L. H Smith of Capitol Heights, Md., shortly atter midnight, and started on a series of hold-ups in which ho scorned small ! sums of money carried by four intended victims. when they spotted the cab taken from Smith and gave chase. | Two Victims of Hold-up. The two officers were on their way to 1718 Webster street to interview Mar- garet Mannix and E. L. Sollenberger. who had ben held up by the pseudo hacker, armed with a pistol. when they came upon the cab near Fourteenth and U streets. They pursued it to Seventeenth and S streets, where the operator stopped | and fled on foot. Cruising in the neigh- borhood, the officers sighted the man walking on_Fourteenth street near S, and Sergt. Mansfield caught him after & foot race of nearly & block. Levien told police he had been em- ployed as master of ceremonies at a local’ dance marathon and is said to have admitted taking the cab from | Smith at the point of a pistol at Four- | teenth and Webster streets, starting then, he said, on his hold-up foray.| He turned down a small sum of cash | Smith had at the time. Couple’s Money Refused. | He sald he picked up Miss Mannlxl and Sollenberger at the Astor Restau- | rant, Fourteenth and H streets, haif an hour later. He said he drove to Six- teenth and R streets, where he held them up. He let them go without taking their money when they said | they possessed only a small amount of | change. A short time later, he said, he was | hailed by Osborn Jackson, colored. 22, | at Fourteenth and V streets. He ston- | ped the cab at Eleventh and V streets and told Jackson to “give me your money.” He put Jackson out of the cab, he said. and told him to “beat it" when the colored youth said he had only $1. | | | FOUR MEN HELDUP | IN FIVE ROBBERIES Two Taxi Drivers Among Victims‘ of Bandits Obtaining $110. Burglar Loots Gas Station. Four hold-ups and a burglary involv- ing the loss of 3190, which were re-| ported in the past 24 hours, were be- ing investigated today by police. Two of the hold-up victims were taxi drivers. Otearl Pickett, colored, of 819 Forty-eighth place northeast was rob- bed of $10 early this morning by a col- ord fare whom he drove from Four- teenth and P streets to a Corcoran street address. Harry R. Terry of Alex- | :andria was robbed of $8 last night in the 1200 block of Delaware avenue southwest by two colored men. Others held up were Porter R. Beale, 905 Sligo avenue, Silver Spring, Md.. manager of a gasoline station at 2301 Fourteenth street, with $47 taken from the cash register by a lone bandit, and Earl C. Griffith, 32, 5124 Seventh street, who reported he was held up in South ‘Washington by a tall colored man and robbed of a $30 watch and $3 in cash. He was booked on an intoxication charge after making the report. A burglar robbed a line station at Upshur street a Rock Creek Church road edrly yesterday of $80. En- trance was lass from & rear | MPLOYED AMONG ITS 60 INHABITANTS. CHARLES F. ANDERSON. —Star Staff Photo. machines have been sent out to Santa Claus. On the day they arrived and were uncrated and ers for miles around closed up shop and came into the post office to watch the operaticn, according to word re- ceived here from Mr. Anderson. It was a gala day. the beginning of many days of employment and extra revenues for the good folk of the community. The postal fficials who have gone to Santa Claus to stem the avalanche of mail, which is engulfling the tiny town, are being quartered in the homes of the farmers. They have to walk across fields and through woods to and from wer Asked whether they have found the name of their town a source of trouble and whether they plan to change it, now that Santa Claus has become more than just a name in the postal register, the residents of the tiny Indiana ham- let reply emphatically in the negative. They like the bustle which turns their town tcpsy-turvy each Christmas. ‘They like. even more. the extra employment which is giving Christmas a real mean- ing in their little village. To them Santa Claus is more than just a name. They are convinced that there really is a Santa Claus SENATE RECENE APPOINTMENT LIST Hoover Nominations in Navy and Health Service Are Dispatched. President Hoover today sent to the Senate a number of nominations, prin- cipally covering promotions in the Navy and the United States Public Health Service. nominees received recess appointment The more important ones were Rear Admiral O. G. Murfin, to be judge ad- vocate of the Navy; Capt. Edgar B. Larimer, to be chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. with the rank of rear ad- | miral: Capt. Samuel M. Robinson, to be chief of the Bureau of Engineering, with the rank of rear admiral. New Rear Admirals. The following captains were ap- vointed to be rear admirals: William C. Watts, Joseph K. Taussig. Edward C Kalbfus, Yancey S. Willlams, Claude C. Bloch and Clark H. Woodward The following commanders were named to be captains: Thomas Wither: Jjr.. Frank H. Roberts, Charles C. Har tigan, Roland M. Brainard. John T, G. Stapler. John S. McCain, Alex- ander Sharp, jr.; Aubrey W. Fitch, Fred F. Rogers, Edwin A. Wooleson, Harry L. Pence, Andrew S. Mickey, George A. Alexander, Sherwoode, A. Tafinder, Leslie B. Anderson, Mat- thias E. Manly, Hollis Cooley, Edward D. Washtburn, jr. and Claude A. Bon- villian and James F. Leys. Charles P. Kingleberger, to be medi- cal director with the rank of rear admiral, Pay Inspectors. The following medical inspectors to be medical directors with the rank of captain: Myron C, Baker, Ernest W. Brown. Ralph W. McDowell, Alfred L. Clifton, George F. Cottell, John E. Ziegler Howard F. Lawrence, Harry H. Lane, George C. Thomas, Lucius W. Johnson and William L. Mann, jr. Pay inspectors with the rank of cap- tain, Charles E. Parsons and Robert K. Van Mater. James O. Gawne, to be naval.con- structor with the rank of captain, Col. Frederick L. Bradman, to be brigadier general, United States Marine Corps. Ralph Gregg, to be past assistant surgeon, United States Public Health Service. The following doctors to be assitant surgeons of the same service: Benton O. Lewis, Charles T. Meacham, Henry L. Wollenwebe: ind Davi h Elliott, i e MRS. M. C. HERFURTH WILL BE BURIED HERE Capital ChaMr ‘Who Died on Visit to Wheeling, W. Va., to Get Rites Tomorrow. Plans were completed today for the funeral tomorrow of Mrs. Mary Chris- tine Herfurth, 68 years old, a well known Washington charity worker, who %}edv?rldny while visiting in Wheeling, . Va. Mrs. Herfurth suffered an attack of pneumonia about 10 days ago. She had been weak, however, since the death of her husband, John N. Herfurth, a local merchant, last February. Their home was at 3427 Thirteenth street. Funeral services will be conducted to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Calvary Baptist Church, Eighth and H streets. Mrs. Herfurth had been a member of this church for many years, Dr. William S. Abernethy, the pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Glen- wood Cemetery. Mrs. Herfurth is survived by a son, Harry St. John Herfurth of New York. She was born_in Baltimore, a daugh- ter of George D. York and Geraldine Mathews York. She had resided in Washington for more than half a cen- tury. She was prominently identified with the work of the Florence Critten- ton Home, serving as a member of the board of directors for many years. She also was active in the Wheel Club, an organization of women interested in so- cial and charitable causes. rth considered selfishness the curse the world, Known for her generosity, Mrs. Her- by cutting a pane of Lt‘u‘ window, embled the farm- | With few exceptions, these | DR IRA LANDRITH 10 ADDRESS DRYS AT MASS MEETING Allied Forces Wage Intensive Three-Day Campaign in Capital. COLLEGIANS DEFENDED BY ROPP IN ADDRESS Robins Hits Otherwise Law-Abid- ing Citizens Who Reject Eight- eenth Amendment. Addresses by leaders of organizations | for prohibition featured the opening yes- terday of a three-day intensive cam- i paign in the National Capital in bes {half of the eighteenth amendment by | the Allied Forces for Prohibition. | _Dr. Ira Landrith, former president of | Ward Belmont College, at Nashville Tenn., and president of the National | Temperance Council, was to address a | mass meeting in Calvary Baptist Church | this afternoon, and former Representa- tive Grant M. Hudson of Michigan is to speak at a meeting in the church i tonight | _The campaign consists principally of speeches at mass meetings by membefs | of the allied group. Washington is tfle | ninety-sixth city of some 271 cities te | be visited during a 10-month campaign to conclude in June. Afternoon and evening meetings were | held yesterday in Calvary Baptist Church while a night meeting was held !in the Willard Hotel, Col. Robins Speaks. | o The speakers at the meeting in the { Willard were Col. Raymond Robins. vice j chairman of the National Citizens' Com- { mittee of One Thousand, and Dr. Oliver | W. Stewart. president of the Flying Squadron Foundation. Col. Robins also had spoken at Calvary Church during the afternoon. Col. Robins termed in his address last night as “elective anarchy” any effort to select one portion of the Constitu- tion cr the public law for loyalty and | obedience and reject other portions. He | declared those who want to reject the | eighteenth amendment have no icea what law should be substituted for pro- hibition or how liquor traffic should be | contrelled if the law should be changed. | Robert C. Ropp, editor of the “Voice 1of Allled Youth,” and Miss Norma | Brown. secretary of the Allied Forces | for Prohibition, were speakers at Calvary Church last night, and Mr. Ropp also spoke at the afternoon session in the church with Col. Robbins. Mr. Ropp in the course of his address last night declared young pecple have suffered greviously from certain “vellow sheets,” whose sole source of informa- tion is the week-end foot ball game, to which townspeople bring liquor and the college youth get the blame for the | drinking. Fraternities Defended. | Pointing out that drinking and | athletic excellence do not go together, Mr. Ropp asserted one of the greatest thrills an athlete gets out of athletics is honest achievement and a go#d record made possible by faithful training and clean living. He also defended fra- ternities, asserting that the members of them who drink are far in the minority. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, | coauthor of the eighteenth amendment. | presided at the afternoon meeting in | the church and Dr. A istie, | president of the District of Columbia | Medical Society, presided at the meet- | ing in the church last night. Senator i Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa presided at the night meeting in the Willard Col. Robins during the course of one lof his addresses received a thunder of | applause when he asserted that “the | nineteenth amendment granting woman jsuffrage is the best guarantee that - | the eighteenth amendment will never ! be repealed.” Dr. Poling to Be Honored. Dr. Danfel C. Poling. manager of the J. C. Penny Foundation and editor of | the Christian Herald, will be tendered a luncheon by the allied forces group in the Mayflower Hotel tomorrow after- noon at 12:30 o'clock. He is to ad- dress the group there and afterward de- liver an address in Calvary Baptist Church. The majority of the speakers are af- filiated with a number of organizations working for the cause of prohibition, most of them holding offices in several. Daniel C. Roper is chairman of the committee for the campaign in this | city. 'DR. HAVENNER NAMED TRUSTEE OF LIBRARY Succeeds Late John B. Larner for Full Six-Year Term as Member of Board. Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens” Associations, has been made a member of the board of trustees of the Public Library by the Commissioners. Dr. Havenner was named to replace the late John Bell Larner. His term, however, will be for the full six years, since under the law the Commissioners are not restricted to making nomina- tions to fill unexpired terms. The nomination was made at the rec- ommendation of Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, under whose jurisdiction the library’s affairs are placed. Dr. Havenner has been president of the Anacostia Citizens' Association for more than 30 years. He is serving his fourth term as president of the federa- tion. He also is executive vice chair- man of the District of Columbia Com- mission on the George Washington Bi- centennial, WEATHER PERILS FLIGHT Representative Takes Risk Coming From North Carolina. Thick weather, which played havoe today with most of the air transport schedules along the Eastern seaboard, failed to deter Representative Frank Hancock, Democrat, of North Carolina, who came through rains and mist from his home in Oxford, N. C., this morn- ing in a Marine Corps plane, piloted by Sergt. Robert Lillie, Quantico, Va. Sergt. Lillie encountered scattered showers during a large part of the trip, but reported no real difficulty. Landing was made at the Anacostia Naval Air Station. The airway between Washington and New York was so solidly fogged trans- port operaticns were canceled. South of Greensboro, N. C., the airways also were cl ‘Transport_operations over the moulpins between Washington gnd Pittsbu were halted by :‘u ‘weather, e ot - Hancock