Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1931, Page 17

Washington News w. SENATE APPROVES 1Y HOLIDAYS | FORU. . WORKERS Measure Must Go to House. Otker D. C. Bills Pass Committee. CAPPER DELIVERS PLEA TO DOWN OPPOSITION District Senate Committee Organ- ized—Subcommittees Are Named by Chairman Capper. Government employes will have three- | day holidays for Christmas and New Year under a bill passed today by the Senate. The measure, declaring December 26 and January 2 legal holidays, must be passed by the House, however, beforeyit | becomes law. The Senate passed the measure following a short debate after it had been introduced by Senator Capper, chairman of the District Com- mittee, on the recommendation of the | committee. Since Christmas and New Year day both fall on Friday, the bill was pro posed in order to eliminate the nec sity for banks opening for only a few hours on the fellowing Saturday morn- ings. Both Saturdays would be virtual holidays, bui banks would have to open unless the legislation was passed. Capper Explains Purpose. In the debate preceding passage of the bill, ‘Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, inquired why Cengress should discriminate in favor of Government employes in the District as against those outside. Senator Capper explained that the bill was intended merely to enable the limited number of per diem employes to be paid for those two Satur- days as all other employes will be paid Senator Dill, Democrat, of Wash-; ington said he was in favor of a legal | holiday for the Saturday following | Christmas, but thought the bill went too | far in fixing another legal holiday for the Saturday after New Year. Supporters of the bill peinted out that | Government employes have a half day on Saturday, anyhow, and that the bill merely relieves them from the necessity | of going to their offices for a few hours | on those two Saturday mornings. Pleads for Employes. Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari- zona, author of the original bill, de- clared that inasmuch as the Senate had reached a deadlock over the election of a President Pro Tempore and was planning to adjourn for 12 days, he said he could not see why there should be objection “to granting faithful, over- worked and underpaid employes in the District an additional half day.” | Scnator Barkley, Democrat, of Ken- | tucky, supporting the bill, pointed out it was only being proposed this year because Christmas and New Year fall on Fridays. The bill was then passed and sent to the House. Committee Organized. The Senate District Committee, with | Chairman Capper presiding, organized into subcommittees at its first meeting | today and reported favorably on three | measures, including the bill to make | December 26 and January 2 legal holi- days in Washington this year. The! other two bills approved were one to authorize incorporation of the District of Columbia George Washington Bi- centennial Commission, to enable it to make contracts for the erection of re- viewing stands and to regulate other concessions during 1932, and a bill to relieve the Commissioners of certain routine ministerial duties by permit- ting the secretary of the board to sign official papers. 4 The legal holiday bill was introduced by Senator Ashurst. Democrat, of Arizona, to relieve banks of the neces- sity of opening for a few hours on the day after Christmas, which they would have to do unless Congress declared it a holiday. The committee decided to include also the Saturday following New | Year day, together with an aml‘ndn‘.ent' to provide for the paying of per diem employes of the Government for those two holidays. Objection Ts Answered. The Bicentennial incorporation bill was amended to make sure that the District Commissioners and the director of public buildings and grounds would have ample authority to supervise the erection of platforms and stands. The amendment was m after Senater Blaine, Repiblican. of Wisconsin, had expressed the view that, as origina l‘.I presented, the bill would make it pos- sible to surround Government areas with temporary “hot dog stands” and similar structures Corporation Counsel Bride and Dr. George C. Havenner. executive vice chat man of the local commission. both as- sured the committee th: local and Federal officials would supervise the carrying ont of the program in a proper | way, but they said they were perfectly willing to accept any amendment i tended to make that control more certain he following subcommittees were ap- | pointed by Chairman Capper to direct | the legislative program during this ses- €ion of Congress S mmittees Listed. Senators Jones, chairman: | Austin, King, Tydings Judicia: Blaine, Glenn, and Lewis. i iblic Utilities — Senators _ Capper, : rman: _Blaine, Austin, Copeland, i gs, King and Shipstead. Kean, King, | and Shipstead i and Banks — Senators | ne, chairman; Kean, Carey, Tydings znd Gore Public Health, Hospitals and Chari- t cnators Copeland, chairman: onn, Austin, Glass, Gore and Ship- | stoad { Streets and Avenues—Senators Glenn, chairman: Carey, Lewis, Bankhead and Shipstead Incorporations—Scnators King, chair- man: Blaine, Glenn, Glass and Lewis Police and Fire—Senators Carey, chairman; Jones, Kean, Copeland, Gore Bankhead. afic—Senators Kean, chairman; Blaine, C; Glass and Lewis. WILL DISCUSS DIVORCE Complications arising over the 48 divorce statutes in force in the United States will be discussed at a lecturs at | Eastern circuit this vear; | per will be offered in the events con- | Two Members of Commission Meet then ran into the street again. ! aranted permission to onerate a line of Cardinal’s Statue Approved FINE ARTS COMMISSION GIVES SANCTION TO MEMORIAL. HE Fine Arts Commission yesterday approved final plans for a statue to the late James Catrdinal Gibbons, former Archbishop of Baltimore. The memorial shows the cardinal in the robes of his office, seated, extending a benediction. It will be erected in front of Sacred Heart Church, Six- teenth street and Park road. The statue is the work of Leo Lentelli New York sculptor. Charles W. Darr, former president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and until recently State deputy of the Knights of Columbus, is chairman of the com- mittee on arrangements for the memorial. HORSE SHOW LIST MAN SHOOTS WIFE HAS NOTED NAMES, AND WOUNDS SELF Nine Classes of Hunters and Both Lie in Critical Condition Jumpers on Program Be- | at Hospitals—Marital Rift ginning at 8 Tonight. ‘ Held Cause of Gunplay. A distinguished list of horsemen and Whil;o l\l{rs. Domt‘l;y tz:".shel' Bmclk- horses will be represented in the show Mman, 20, lay near death in Casualty ring tonight at the opening event of | esbae! 1008V, her estranged husband, the Riding and Hunt Club Winter sea- | four shots into her chest and then [son. The first of the evening's nine |twned his gun upon himself last night | | when she refused to return to him, jclasses for hunters and jumpers Will|a)55 was in a critical condition in | start at 8 pm. in the club inclosure Providence Hospital. at Twenty-second and P streets. o nunmocnTed IniBrickmats Mrs. Simon Patterson's champion | Second and 1. streets southeast. - Prince H. & winner throughout the — The pair separated for the fourth Mrs. William andd last time several months ago, ac- ey S . | cording to the girl's mother, Mrs. H. O. J. Chewning's Mermad, a high JUmper; | pisper* 540 Fifth street southeast, with Chester A. Gwinn's E: Money and | whom she has since been living. mounts owned by Maj. George Patton, | Fired Suddenly, Wife Says, Miss Evelyn Walker, Miss Betty CoUzens | ugin e the separation he has been and a score of others will be seen in after her to go back with him,” Mrs o "‘fgsmh said. ;She wouldy't do it : - ough, and last Saturday night, while Numerous out-of-town exhibitors will | pUET, S08, TeSt S £ Veiing our ship to Washington for tonight's com- | home town, Carlisle, Pa., he came to petition. Among them are D. O. Burr, the house and tried to make her go| Dr. R. L. Humphrey and Moffett Bur-|away with him.” gess of Middleburg, Dave Smith of | Mrs. Eruckman told fourth precinct| Warrenton and M. Delporte of Balti- | police her husband met her and her more. | sister last night at the downtown Approximately 150 entries are ex-|5-and-10-cent store, at which they are | pected in the various divisions of the | employed. After taking her sister home, show. Judges will be Judge J. R. H.| she said, he drove to the lot and parked Alexander and J. E. Keyser. Cups for | his car. award to the first prize winners in Then, she continued, he renewed his| each class have been donated by the pleading for her to “make-up,” but she | Cuban Ambassador, Don Orestes Fer- | refused. Suddenly, she said, he drew rara; the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. | his revolver and opencd fire. G. Prochnik; Don Ramon Padilla, sec- 3 ond secretary of the Spanish embassy: Bullets oo Ehrvugh [Carde, Oly Ismail Bey, first secretary of the | Mrs. Bruckman Egyptian legation: Lieut. Col. M. Robert | a box of Christmas cards, which she| Guggenheim, Claude W. Owen, John was taking home, and attempted to Finerty and the Riding and Hunt Club. | shield herself with them. The bullets Opportunities for every type of lep- | tore through the cards and lodged above her heart. As the young woman leaped from | the machine and staggered away, her husband placed the gun to his head | and pulled the trigger again. Then he jumped from the automobile and staggered after his wife Frank Harvey, employed at The Eve- ning S'tar garage, near the scene of the shooting, ran into the street when he heard the first shot. He found the wounded girl in front of the garage, apparently on the verge of collapse. He assisted her into the garage and telephoned. for an ambulance. Harvey instinctively raised | tested tonight. They will include: Lady'’s hunter, handy hunter. open jumpers, handicap_jumping, hunt teams and hack and hunter competitigns. Post entries are acceptable. BLUE RIDGE BUSSES GET UTILITIES 0. K. Man Found Searching Pockets. Bruckman, meanwhile, had fallen be- neath a lamp-post at the corner. Break- ing through the crowd which had gath- | ered, Harvey found a colored man _ | searching Bruckman'’s pockets. The Public Utilities Commission met| Harvey pushed the man aside. With- vesterday with two members present|out a word, the man struck him and and transacted routine business. The fled. At about the same time Bruck- third member, Harleigh H. Hartman,| man regained his feet, staggered abont s eslsied | 100 feet and collapsed again The commission granted an applica-| Poiicemen, arriving in response to n of the Blue Ridge Transportation | Harvey’s telephone call, had the wound.- Co. to operate five busses up Fourtecnth |ed couple taken to the hospitals, street to 1336 New York avenue on|Bruckman, an automobile mechanic, condition that the Greyhound lines cut|living at 1217 K street, was placea out 23 trips down Thirteenth street under guard. from New York to Pennsylvania ave- ‘The wounded girl still was nues, the package of cards when the An application of the Capital Trac-|reached the scene. tion Co. to continue its Chevy Chase The gun disappeared im locp bus line via the Episcopal Home | after the shooting, and it is thought at Nebraska avenu> and Rock Creek | thet the man who hit Harvey stole it. Ford road was also granted. Bruckman, according to Mrs. Fisher, The Southside Transportation Co. was | had been carrying the weapon for se | eral months. to Transact Routine Business. Hartman Absent. | clasping officers mediately in and out of Washington from sburg, Va. The Washington Rapid Transit Co. was authorized to run a bus line south on Fifteenth street and west on Consti- tutior avenue when the new Commerce Department Building is opened for bus- CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party, Kit Carson Woman's Re- lief Corps, 1015 L street, 8 p.m. 5 Card party, St. Francis de Sales Church Auditorium, Twentieth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, 8 pm. Meeting, Glover Park Citizens' Asso- clation, Industrial Home School, Wis- consin avenue and Thirty-seventh street, 8 p.m. Meeting, Cushing Auxiliary, Pythian Temple, 8 p.m. Dance, Derby Club, Masonic Tem- ple, 9 pm. ! Dance, 121st Engineers, District Na- tional Guard, Hamilton Hotel, 10 p.m. Dinner and dance, Iowa Soclet Shoreham Hotel, 7 p.m. (il Play, auspices of Employment Com- Arsenic Is Found On Peppers Sold To D. C. Consumers Health Officer William C. Fow- ler todav issued a public warning that tests in his chemical labora- tory have shown that green pep- pers on sale in Washington have sufficient arsenic to be very in- jurious to any person eating them. Dr. Fowler said that some of his inspectors have noticed peppers on sale coated with a white sub- stance and that chemical analysis 1 Che | proposed bridge structure, rather than | WILL BE REMOVED INROAD PROGRAM Destruction Contemplated for Those Considered Not Worth Saving. LESSENING OF CURVE TO. AID BRIDGE TRAFFIC Plans for Fifteenth Street and Moving of Little Maples in Mall Park Taken Up by Commission. ‘Widening of lower Fourteenth street, with consequent removal of some trees | | and destruction of those regarded as not | | worth saving, will be undertaken shortly, | {1t was announced today at the National | Capital Park and Planning Commission. | At the office of Capt. E. N. Chisolm, | ! jr., Engineer of the commission, it was | stated that the trees to be removed will be about the curve at the entrance to; the Tourist Camp, where an effort will be made to make Fourteenth street a straighter approach to Highway Bridge. The widening program will extend from Water street to the entrance to Highway Bridge. It will change the, thoroughfare from 40 to 60 feet in width. Capt. Chisolm said trees that are worth saving will be moved and utilized elsewhere in the parks. Fifteenth Street Extension Studied. An effort is being made to attach & rider to the tree-moving bids that are to be opened on December 30 in the office of Lieut. Col. U. S. Gragt, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, so that the trees along | |lower Fouteenth street may be moved ! as part of the program around the Lincoln Memorial C#pt. Chisolm pointed out that the extension of Fifteenth street to take the traffic load off Fourteenth street is very desirable. The problem has been studied and discussed by the co- ordinating committee comprised of in- terested District and Federal Govern- ment agencies and headed by Capt Chisolm and by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Capt. | Chisolm made it clear that the ex- tension of Fifteenth street has not been abandonment, but still is under serious consideration. There is no appropria- tion now for this work as there is no_approved plan, he said. Extension of Fifteenth street is linked | with the development of the Mall | roads, the captain said, and the ulti- mate plan for improvement of the Washington Monument Grounds is still | being debated. Two studies of possible treatments for the proposed Washin ton Monument Gardens are being de- | liberated. These studies wcre submitted by Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape | architect of Brookline, Mass., and Wil- liam A. Delano, New York architect, | both members of the National Capital | Park and Planning Commission, Says Big Elms Will Remain. Capt. Chisolm pointed out that in the extension of Fifteenth street it may be found desirable to cross the narrow neck of the Tidal Basin near the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with the carrying Fifteenth street in its normal | line, It may be necessary to curve| Fifteenth street extended along the | park road Capt. Chisolm asserted that the big | elms on the park side of lower Four- teenth street will not be disturbed, but probably the little maples will have to | come out. The tree moving and street | improvenient program on .cwer Four- teenth street will be accomplished by the District Government in co-opera- tion with the Office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks. The tree mov- g will be done this Winter, under contract. MISS ELMEDA ANSELL DIES AT SHANGHAI Daughter of General Left Here for Philippine Visit Early Last Month. Miss Elmeda Ansell, 27, daughter of Maj. Gen. Samuel T. Ansell, 1957 Bilt- more street, died yetserday at Shanghai, China, General Hospital, after an operation for appendicitis. She was stricken while en route to the Philip- pine Islands for a visit, and Wwas operated on November 23. Miss Ansell, a native of Chapel Hill N. C, was educated in the District public schools, at Miss Madeira's School here, from which she was graduated in 1921, and at Vassar College. Later she ‘was employed in the music and print divisions of the Library of Con- ess. She left Washington November 1 to visit Army friends in Manila, sailing from Vancouver November 6. She was a member of All Souls' Episcopal Church, and was well known in Washington music and service circles. Her body will be brought back to the United States, and burial will be at West Point, where she spent several years of her early life when her father was an instructor at the Military Academy. Besideys her father, who resigned from the Army in 1919 and is now an attorney in Washington, Miss Ansell is survived by her mother; two brothers, Burr Tracy Ansell and Samuel T. Ansell, jr., and a sister, Miss Nancy — BENJAMIN IS NAMED EMPLOYMENT AIDE Social Hygiene Society Lends Exec- utive Secretary to Capital Relief Committee. Appointment of Paul L. Benjamin, execemve secretary of the District of Columbia Social Hygiene Society, as executive secretary of the District Em- ployment Committee Wwas announced today by E. C. Graham, chairman of the mittee, Federation of Churches, Ma- revealed the substance was arsenic, sonic Temple, 7:45 p.m. probably the result of spraying the plants with insecticide. 8 o'clock tonight in McMahon Hall of Catholic_University by Paymond Neh- decker, Washington attorney. His subject, “Domestic Courts,” has been suggested by the law faculty of the university as one of a series of lectures given during the scholastic season by leading Washington lawyers. There is no admission charge. Lectures hereto- fore given in the series have been large- lv attended by members of the legal profession and the general public. Christmas card party, Connecticut State Society, 1326 Massachusetts ave- nue, 8:30 p.m. Dr. Fowler said that the peppers should be thoroughly washed be- f‘ore using for human consump- tion. He said that in Baltimore re- cently the same trouble had been encountered with cabbages, but that in the District the only veg- etable so far found to be contam- inated with arsenic is green pep- pers. Boy Scouts to Be Inspected. CHERRYDALE, Va., December 18 (Special) —The annual inspection of Boy Scouts troops of Arlington nty will be held in the auditorium % l;h-j lc'verrydlla School, tonight at +.30 o'l c ization. Mr. Benjamin will as- gl:ennen his new duties commencing to- morning, m%:wn“ appointee, who is regarded as & man of wide administrative and social work experience, will serve with- out cost to the Employment Committee, being loaned by the Hygiene Soclety for the duration of the committee’s wt n;ltrbefl. L. Willett, jr.. assistant di- rector of the Community Chest, who has been loaned to the Employment Committee for reorganization work, will return to his dplies at the Chest. VERDICT SATISFIES Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, TREES ON 147H ST 1931. No More Dry Lawns for Capitol Grounds SPRINKLER SYSTEM PROVIDES “RAIN” AT COMMAND., HE new underground sprinkler system for the Capitol Grounds was tried out for the first time yesterday. Count- less hidden fountains provide a fine spray to maintain a carpet of verdant green throughout the Summer. The new system is now installed in the East Capitol Grounds and work is progressing on the new Plaza area. I i | DEES ATTORNEYS Will Not Appeal or Ask New Trial in Norman Slay- ing Case. Satisfied with the verdict of second- degree murder, attorneys for Joseph H. Diggs, colored slayer of Capt. William F. Morman, former special assistant to the Attorney General, announced today they would not ask for a new trial or take an appeal A jury last night found Diggs guilty of second-degree murder after deliberat- ing almost five hours. Sentence prob- ably will be imposed Monday by Justice James M. Proctor of District Supreme Court. The punishment may be from 20 years to life imprisonment, Consider Verdict Victory. Defense attorneys considered the ver- dict a victory, sigce Julian I. Richards assistant United States attorney, had demanded that Diggs be convicted of first-degree murder, as indicted. Had such a verdict been returned, a deatn sentence would have been mandatory. Government witnesses testified Diggs, in his capacity as doorman at the Ward- man Park Hotel, had several arguments with Norman because the lawyer's chauffeur parked his automobile in a restricted zone near the entrance. They agreed Diggs approached Norman from behind as he emerged from the hotel August 12 last and shot him twice in the back. He fired two more times after Norman fell, one of the bullets taking eflect in the neck | The prosecution contended Diggs | should have complained to the hotel management instead of insisting that Norman order his chauffeur not to park | in the reserved area. Richards also pro- | duced witnesses who testified Diggs ob- tained the pistol with which he shot Norman the day before the fatal fight Police said the doorman originally in- sisted he had owned the weapon a year or more, Self-Defense Claimed, | Diggs testified he had been threat- | ened by Norman and shot in self-de fense. He denied firing on the lawyer | from behind. His story that he was| struck in the face by Norman in the | hotel lobby was corroborated by Mrs. | Robert L. Owen, wife of a former Sen- | g(orlfi'om Oklahoma and a guest at the otel. More than a score of persons testified to Diggs’ good character, including Wil- liam P. McCracken, jr., former Assistant Secretary’ of Commerce, and Represent- ative Hull of Illinois. Diggs was represented by E. Russel Kelly and Frank Kelly. TWO SCIENTISTS WIN SMITHSONIAN PRIZES Institution to Present $2,500 Each to Dr. A. E. Douglass and Dr. Emst Antevs Tonight. — The Smithsonian Institution tonight will honor two scientists who have found ways to reconstruct the world’ weather and to date events which pre- | ceded written history. The men will be | awarded $2,500 each by Chief Justice Hughes, chancellor of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, in behalf of the Re- search Corporation of New York. . ‘They are Dr. Andrew Ellicott Doug- lass of Tucson, Ariz. and Dr. Ernst| Antevs of the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Douglass developed the “tree ring” method of prehistoric chronology. He found the ring that marks .a year's growth in every tree varies in width | according to the amount of rainfall, thus establishing a key to past climates. He has extended tree-growth records in the California Sequoias back 3,000 years. . Dr. Antevs worked out a similar chronology based on the annual layers | of clay left in the wake of melting| glaciers. The thickness of each layer is a clue to the warmth of the climate in that year. He has traced 4,000 years of clay layers in the Connecticut Val- ley in New England. Each recipient will respond with half-hour f{llustrated account of his principal researches. : Boy Scouts Aiding Needy. BALLSTON, Va., December 18 (Spe- cial).—Food articles for the needy fami- BUT HOPES OF PROFITS FADE| Colrred Congreg .|“LUCKY NUMBER’; I.:OT; TAKEN ation Unable to Find Man Who Offered to Buy When Payments Ended. Rev. John F. Whitfield, colored, and | a goodly portion of his congregaticn are wondering what they will do with the New Jersey real estate they recently purchased through a “lucky number” system, now that their letters to the man to whom they were going to sell at an enormous profit have gone un- answered for almost two weeks. It was just at the psychological mo- ment when payments on the lots were beginning to lag alarmingly that an offereto take the property off their hands at seven times the price they paid was made. Payments picked up astonishingly, but, now that the purchasers have re- ceived their deeds and are ready to sell. they cannot find the man who agreed to buy their property. Started Back in August. ' Tt all began back in August when an ttractive young white woman. repre- | centing a New York concern, made her appearance in the community, Rev Whitfield, pastor of the Twelfth Street Christian_Church, related today. Rev. Whitfield was one of the first approached. The young woman said that her company, to advertise its property, was conducting a drawing and that the possessors of the lucky numbers drawn would be permitted to buy certain valuable New Jersey lots for_the nominal sum of $49. She then proceeded to give Rev Whitfield's wife a number. To his knowledge, 100 families in the vicinity were visited and numbers left behind, Rev. Whitfield declared. By a strange coincidence, when the drawing was completed, all the num- bers distributed throughout Rev. Whit- field’s flock proved to be “lucky” ones. Pay $10 Deposits. ‘The number holders were elated with their good fortune and readily paid the $10 deposit required by the young woman when she again put in her appearance. She left with them an elaborately decorated contract in which her com- pany agreed to turn over to them a lot containing 2.000 square feet when they paid the balance of the $49, which they “would be allowed to do in $2 weekly payments. ’ Times were hard and payments were | slow, even Rev. Whitfield himself being somewhat delinquent, due to the illness ! of his wife and other causes. For 2 | time it began to lock as though the balance dre would never be paid in a number of cases, It was just when payments were at | their lowest ebb, around the latter part | of November, that a second charming | young woman appeared. She represented a Philadelphia real estate dealer, she declared, and came | to buy. not to sell. The lot purchasers | were told that their lots were extremely | valuable anc that the Philadelphia dealer would pay $350 apiece for them, but only on receiving a warranty deed. free of incumbrances. This they could not convey, the young woman informed them. until they had completed their payments. Made Out Contract. As evidence of good faith, she drew up a contract on a sheet of plain paper. putting this promise in writing. To definitely close the bargain she placed an “official” seal in the form | of a plain red sticker on the docu-| ment. In the excitement of the mo- ment no one thought to have the contracts witnessed 1 Assured of a seven-fold profit. the | “lucky number” holders made haste | ;umeplete their payments on their ots About the first of December many ! of Rev. Whitfield's church members, in- | cluding the minister himself, made | their last payments. December 5 they received their deeds in due form. The deeds were recorded and found to be | valid. although to be sure, the lots to | Which they gave title were far too small | for any useful purpose. | When the deeds were received, Rev. | Whitfield wrote to the Philadelphia | real estate dealer. informing him he | was ready to sell. Members of his| flock wrote similar letters. To date they have received no answer. Investigation Started. Although there is no evidence of | fraud in the sale of the lots, the Wash- ington Better Business Bureau has be- gun an investigation to determine whether there was any connivance be- tween the sellers and the offers to buy. \ | | 1 FALL BREAKS HIP OF UDE SELLERS Juvenile Court Jurist Slips | on Rug—Confined to Hospital. Judge Kathryn Sellers of Juvenile Court is recovering in Garfield Hospital today from a fracture of the right hip sustained Tuesday when she slipped on a rug in her home, 1471 Monroe street, and fell heavily to the floor. Physicians in attendance say she will be confined to the hospital for five or six weeks and that it may be several months before she is able to walk. Judge O'Toole Takes Place. While she is incapacitated, Judge Mary O'Toole of Municipal Court will preside in Juvenile Court. This desig- nation was made yesterday by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the District Supreme Court. The order was made effective immediately, but the first ses- sion of the court does not come until Monday. Judge Sellers fell when a rug slipped on & newly waxed floor. She was dis- covered in pain by her housekeeper and put to bed. Hip Set at Hospital. Dr. Maurice Protas was summoned and ordered her to the hospital. There the hip was set by Dr. Protas and Dr. Charles Stanley White. Dr. Protas said this morning that it was too early to tell whether the broken bone is mend- ing properly, but that Judge Sellers was resting comfortably. CAR USES SMOKE SCREEN A high-powered automobile believed to have been hauling whisky into the District escaped ‘behind a smoke screen last night after colliding at Thirteenth street and Michigan avenue northeast With a machine driven by Benjamin F. lies of this community are being col- § Rauntree, 45, of 4419 Fourteenth street lected by members of Ballston Boy Scout Troop No. 101, stationed at the various stores. Barrcls have been placed northeast. Rauntree told police the car was oc- cupled by two colored men. Neither in cach of the stores. car was badly damrged. | | one man was killed and five other per- TEA HOUSE SLAYING! EXTRADITION READY Gov. Pinchot Signs Papers, but Writ Forces Delay Until Thursday. Extradition papers for Peter Abbott, alleged “trigger man” in the Old Co- lonial Tea House shooting, in which sons were wounded last November 23, were signed today by Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, according to dispatches from Harrisburg. The Governor affixed his signature to the papers following a hearing on an ) application for a writ of habeas corpus led by the accused gunman's attorney. ‘The hearing, which was held in Phil- adelphia, was continued until next| Thursday. Ten witnesses appeared, ready, Ab- bott's lawyer said, to testify the accused man was in Philadelphia at the time of the shooting. They will appear again next week, the attorney added. Inquest to Be Resumed. Meanwhile, the inquest into the death of Grover Amick, 28-year-old ‘Washington gasoline station attendant, who was killed in the gun play, will be resumed at 6:30 p.m. today in the Biadensburg fire house. Approximately 15_witnesses have been summoned. Those summoned include Mrs. Verne Edwards of Washington, Norman Garey of Baltimore and the five girls arrested after the shooting. Mrs. Edwards and Garey were injured in the shooting. Garey is at liberty under bond on a charge of being an accessory to the murder of Amick. Face Mann Act Charges. Authorities say that Garey had no connection with white slave law viola- tions brought to light by the shooting, but several persons under arrest in con- nection with the murder also face charges of violating the Mann act. Department of Justic> agents investi- PAGE B—1 RILEYS, NERVOUS, AWAIT SENTENCES - IN CRUELTY CASE Couple Found Guilty of Abus- ing Child Face Two- Year Maximum. STEPMOTHER MAY GO TO PRISON FOR WOMEN Father, on Stand, Tells Court He Never Knew Daughter Was Inhumanly Treated. Facing a maximum of two years in penitentiaries, Mrs. Elsie M. and Harry N. Riley, convicted yesterday of “mali- clously” cruel, abusive and inhuman treatment to 12-year-old Edith Riley, were in District Jail today awaiting sentence. The stepmother and father of Edith, who, the Government alleged, was kept four years in a dark, foul closet on the second floor of the Riley home at 1110 Rhode Island avenue, were pronounced guilty late vesterday by Justice F. D Letts in Criminal Division 2, District Supreme Court Sentence will be handed down next week by Justice Letts. It was expected that Riley would be sent to the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va., while Mr. Riley would go to the Federal institu- tion for women at Alderson, W. Va. Both Appear Nervous. Nervous, but otherwise unaffected, the couple occupied cells today in differe parts of the huge red stone jail, Riley in the men's section and his second wife in the east wing, reserved for women As throughout the trial, the Rileys held their emotions in reserve today. A slight twitching of the mouth and a continuous movement of the hands were the only signs shown by Riley that he had been affected by the ver- dict. Mrs. Riley showed even less the eflects of the trial Trial Ends Abruptly. The trial ended abruptly. Immed:- ately after cefense and prosecuting at tornecys announced they would rest the. cases without argument, Justice announced the guilty verdict. “Action by counsel for the defense Now brings this case to a close,” the court began, “and it now becomes the function cast uron me to determine the facts in the case. “It is not my desire to say anything that will hurt any one in the case. ‘It is a very unusual case. I have never known or heard of anything quite like it before. I had hoped that human be- ings could not be guilty of such con- duct. “But the fact rema herein produced has na n #butted Unfortunately, a your#y girl and boy had to testify against their father in this case. Very little in contradiction of their testimony was offered by the defense. I must therefore announce my conclusions in .this case now, post- poning sentence until the next sentence day of this court. Couple Seems Stunned. “I find each of these defendants guilty of the counts of the indictment and order that they be committed to the proper authorities.” Stunned. Mr. and Mrs. Riley were led from the court room almost before they realized the full weight of the court's decision. The crowds which had -packed the court room during the two-day trial surged about them ominously and a cordon of deputy United States mar- shals was thrown around the couple. They were taken immediately to a van and driven to jail. Only two witnesses were placed on the stand by the defense, Dr. Robert L. Dugan and Riley. Dugan told Justice Letts, who tried the case in lieu of & jury.” which was waived by the de- fendants, that Edith was a victim of harmfui practices, that he had treated the child and instructed Mrs. Riley as to her care. and had recommended she be placed in a hospital or other insti- tution. The physician said that when he first saw Edith “in 1924 or 1025, she was abnormal, but I wouldn't say she was an idiot." Several years later, however when he examined her again. he testi fied. he “did notice idiotic tendencies T told her parents on several occa- slons that she should be placed in an institution,” said Dr. Dugan, who also told the court he had examined and treated Mrs. Riley. “Did you come to any conclusions doctor, as to the mental condition of Mrs. Riley?” asked Defense Attorney H. R. Stephenson, who said in his opening argument he would prove the woman is of “unsound mind."” “Mrs. Riley is an extremely nervous woman. Her condition is that of a woman under a nervous and mental strain I found she needed rest badly and sug- gested several times that she go to & hospital. I offered even to have her placed in Gallinger Hospital free of charge.” Denies Beating Edith. Riley, whe followed the physician on the stand, testified under direct exami- nation he had never beaten or abused Edith or seen her beaten or abused by any one. He said that because of her abnormality he “did not think it proper to expose her to other children,” but denied on cross-examination she was kept in a closet, “except when Mrs. Riley and I were away from the house.” “You heard the testimony, Mr. Riley, of your son, Francis? What have you to say to that>" Assistant United States Attorney William H. Collins asked. ‘Well, T've caught Francis in a few lies. He's funny that way.” é “Is there something wrong with him, too?" “Sometimes I think there is.” ‘The witness denied he had ever threatened his elder daughter, Louise, as she had testified the day before, but told the court she had stormed and swore at him. He admitted, however, that “a little preference” was shown to Mrs. Riley's son, Billy Webster. “Then, as a matter of fact,” asked Collins, “your own children have be- corn; obnoxfous to you, haven't they?” pidence CURIOSITY IMPERILS LIFE Boy Lights Match to Look Into Barrel of Alcohol. ‘The curiosity of Julius Weinstein, Jr., 10-year-old son of a paint dealer at 2816 Fourteenth street, nearly cost his life yesterday afternoon when he struck a match to peer into the interior of a barrel containing alcohol. The alcohol flamed up and burned the boy about the face and hands and singed “off his hair before his father could drag him out f danger. Julius was treated at Children’s Hospital and later gating ¢he operations of a vice ring to which ‘the tea house is said to have | been linked are expected to attend to- ! night’s Inquest. returned to his home. Damage caused by the fire was esti- mated at $500. Firemen battled the fames for atouy 15 minutes.