Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1931, Page 15

Washington News The Foening S WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WA SHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, far Society and General DECEMBER 30, 1931. PAGE B—1 SUICIDE THEORIES PROBED IN DEATHS | OF 2 WOMEN HERE One, Victim of Overdose of Medicine, Left Notes Indi- cating Worry. OTHER HAD QUARRELED WITH HER HUSBAND Nephew Finds Body of Poison Vic- tim on Floor of Parlor in Her Home. Members the police homicide | squad today were investigating the deaths of Miss Elizabeth Aldrich, 35, of the St. Mihiel Apartments, 1712 Sixteenth street, and Mrs. Florence McCarthy, 45, of 4 Barnes Lane north- east, both of whom died within the past 24 heurs—one of an overdose of medicine and the other from poisoning. While detectives declared indications were that both Women committed suicide and a note was found in which Miss Aldrich said she had been de- spondent over iliness, the official verdict of Coroner Joseph D. Rogers is belng withheld in both cases until police complete their inquiries. i Had Taken Medicine. Miss Aldrich was found in a critical condition in her apartment yesterday afternoon by Mrs. May Cissell. resi- dent-manager at the St. Mihiel, and was rushed to Garfield Hospital, where she died shortly after midnight. It was found that the woman had| taken an overdose of some medicine that had been prescribed for her by a physician who had been treating her for sleeping sickness, inflammation of the heart and influenza. Several notes found in the room indicated she had been despondent because of her ail-| ments. A brother, John Aldrich, living in Lincoln, Nebr., 'was notified by tele- phone of his sister'’s death and was to Jeave for the Capital today to claim the | body. Police assigned to the McCarthy case are working on the theory that she took a strong dose cf poison to end her life as the result of a Christmas quarrel with her husband, Joseph McCarthy an employe of the Government Print- | ing Office and said to be a former | Jockey. of Nephew Finds Body. Mrs. McCarthy's body was found on the parior floor at her home yesterday afterncon by & nephew, Charles Pushee, 20 years old, who resides at the Barnes lane address. The youth telephoned the family physician, Dr. George Ep- pard of 601 Minnesota avenue north- east, who said the woman had been dead for about an hour. Pushee told police that his aunt and uncle had qulgeled on Christmas day and that Mc hy left home and had not been hel from since. Morgue officials said the husband has been living in the 800 block of North Capitol street since the argument. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT CHANGE IS OPPOSED| Capper Would Broaden Power of Commissioners Rather Than Revise System. Sweeping changes in the form of the District’s municipal government were opposed yesterday by Chairman Capper of the ~Senate District Committee. | Representative La Guardia of New York | suggested in the House recently that the District government be reorganized and governed by a managerial board, some of the members of which would be elected and some appointed by the President. Senator Capper said he agreed some detafls now handled by Congress could be avoided, but he thought this could be accomplished by broadening the powers of the Commissioners. “The District of Columbia,” said Senator Capper, “unquestionably is the best governed . municipality in the country.” The Senator indicated that, while he 15 not opposed to the city manager form of government in itself, he believes the present commission form meets the situation in the Capital. He intends, however, to study the La Guardia sug- gestions. FIREMEN FORCE DOOR AND FIND WOMAN DEAD Heart Attack Proves Fatal to Mrs. | Margaret E. Seiss—Roomer Gives Alarm. Mrs. Margaret E. Seiss, 70, was found dead today in her apartment in the New Berne, Twelfth street and Mas- sachusetts avenue The discovery was made after a roomer, James Flynn, became alarmed when he received no response to sev- eral knocks on her door. He sum- moned the rescue squad and firemen forced the door. They foung Mrs. Seiss, widow of & physician, dead in bed Dr. William Bowman of Casualty Hospital said she apparently had died of a heart attack. She had been sub- ject to heart trouble and high blood pressure for several years, according to friends Mrs. Seiss had lived in the New Berne for six years. She is survived only by distant relatives in Pennsyl- vania. TALBERT FUNERAL SET Rites or Navy Yard Machinist to Be Held Tomorrow. Puneral services for John F. Talbert, 51, for 33 years & machinist at the Washington Nay Yard, will be held from his home, 537 Eleventh street southeast, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Congres- sional Cemetery. Mr. Talbert, who died Monday, is sald ve strained his heart last year ting a heavy object, and members of his family attributed his death to the injury. He was a native of Washington and was educated in the public schools here. Burviving are his widow, Mrs. Rose B. Talbert, a brother, George Talbert hree sisters, Mrs. Minnie Bates, Mrs, |and garage facllitfes during 1932 at WOM AN BANDIT TAKES $200 AS DRIVER STOPS FOR LIGHT Victim Says He Re Malcolm Hayes, 3500 Quebec street, | reported to police he was held up at pis- tol point last night by a woman as he sat in his automobile at Fifteenth street and Massachusetts avenue and robbed of $200. Hayes said he had stopped for a traf- fic light at the corner when the door of his automobile was opened suddenly | and he found himself facing a pistol in the hand of the woman, who demanded his money. The woman robber, he reported, forced him to drive to 1517 O street, where he was ordered out of his machine. With the woman jabbing the gun in his ribs, Hayes said, he was forced into an area- way at the O street address. He de- clared the woman then ran to a wait- covered $14 During Scuffle With Armed Assailant on O Street. ing taxicab and he followed and jumped into the cab with her. In the ensuing scuffie, Hayes told police, he recovered $14 of his money, but he was pushed from the taxi and the woman escaped. Questioned by Detective Sergt. Larry O'Dea, head the hold-up squad, Hayes sald he “knows who is in back of the robbery,” but refused to name any one, O'Dea said. In a second reported hold-up Forest L. Bedecord, a conductor for the Wash- ington Rallway & Electric Co., living at Edmonston, Md., was robbed of $5 in cash and $15 worth of street-car tokens. Bedecord told police he was walking near Water and O streets when a col- ored man held him up with a pistol. He says he can identify the robber. D, C, HEADS WANT JOB AGENCY LAW | Congress Asked to Enact Rule for Forming and Reg- ulating Bureaus. The District Commissioners asked | Congress yesterday to enact a law cov-, ering establishment and conduct of employment agencies in the District, | providing for closer supervision over the sgencies and stiffer penalties for violations of the terms of the law. The draft leaves out the schedule of fees to be charged ‘under the present | law; raises the license fee from $25 to $100 and increases the penalty for| violating the law from $25 to $300 or 90 days in jall. The draft also makes it a misdemeanor to publish false, fraudulent, or misleacing information or promises relating to jobs. Several appointments recommended | by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission were approved by the com- missioners. Judge James A. Cobb was made & member of the commission; Edwin S. Hege, well known member of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, was named to survey hotel, boarding $300 a month for thres months; Ed- | mund Slattery was made assistant to Mr. Hege at $100 a month; Mrs. Eliza- beth Harmon was made pageant cos- tume director at $80 a month, and Frank Buckley was made an assistant investigator at $100 a month. Three contracts for the construction | of sewers were awarded as follows: | William A. Pate, Pennsylvania avenue replacement sewer between Twelfth and | Thirteenth streets, $6.009.71; Hughes & Keegan, Inc., Capitol Plaza combined | sewer in C street northeast between Pirst_street and Delaware avenue, $2,- 290.45; J. B. McCrary Co., stormwater sewer 'in the alley bounded by Third, Fourth, Quackenbos and Rittenhouse | streets, $1,980.05. BEATEN AND ROBBED OF CASH AND TEETH | Victim Arrested as Drunk Says As- | sailants Got $17, Watch and Bridge. Arthur Hitchcock, 45, of Barre, Vt., was beaten about the head and robbed of his gold bridge work,#a $45 watch and $17 in cash by two strangers with | whom he had just “taken a drink” last night in an alley at the rear of his Tooming house, according to & report made to the tenth precinct station. Patrolman L. G. Parker found Hitchcock at Sixteenth street and Spring road bleeding from cuts of the face and scalp, He arrested the man | on a charge of intoxication after tak- | ing him to Freedmen's Hospital for treatment Hitchcock told Parker he met two men in the rear of his rooming house at 103 Second street northeast and they “panhandled” him for 25 cents, after which they gave him a “drink.” Upon-returning the bottle to the ‘men, Hitchcock sald they attacked him and finally knocked out his bridge work, valued at $85 The men picked up the bridge and two golden molars, which they had knocked from his mouth and put them in their pockets, after which they forced him in a car and drove to Six- teenth street and Spring road before putting him out. CHEST PLANS SPEECHES Addresses to 1,200 Citizen Groups ‘Will Be Delivered Next Month. The Community Chest Speakers’ Bu- reau had made tentative plans to have addresses delivered to at least 1,200 groups of citizens next month, J. D. Kaufman, chairman of the bureau, an- nounced at a meeting of the group in the Y. W. C. A. yesterday. Other speakers yesterday were Elwood Street, director of the Chest; J. O. Martin, Ensign Gilbert Decker, of the COMMERCE GROUP ADOPTS PROGRAM Chamber Executives Outline Second Step in 5-Year Expansion Plan. A year-long program comprising the | second step in the five-year expansion plan of the Washington Chamber of Commeroe was formulated and agreed upon by the Executive Committee of | the Chamber at a meeting in the Home Building yesterday. The plan now goes to the board of directors for final ap- proval. The program consists primarily of a| definite plan for the systematic and! continuous recruiting of new members | for the chamber, and is based upon ex- perience gained by the trade body from three campaigns held during the past 14 months, Will Make Survey. The three major elements of the pro- gram approved by the Executive Com- mittee include a careful survey of the | supply of potential members; a cam- paign of education directed first toward | all present chamber members to make them more “organization minded.” and, | third, a continuous solicitation of new members over & definite long-time period. The Executive Committee approved, |as the first step in the immediate pro- gram, the launching of a six-month continuous membership campaign, be- ginning January 11. The work of the campaign would be spread evenly over that period, so as to enlist the largest number of members, working with mini- mum interference to their own business | and wtihout slowing down the regular committee activities carried on through the central office. Plan Five Divisiens. It is the plan of the committee to or- ganize the campaign into five divisions, under the direction of the Executive Committee. The first division would be responsible for the developing of indi- vidual and plural prospects. The second would deal with education and pub- licity and the third would be a special division to handle the solicitation of all prospective woman members. The fourth and fifth divisions would include the individual and plural solicitation groups. The campaign work would be evenly distributed over the six-month period, with teams functioning for two weeks each and each division working for six weeks. Creed W. Fulton is chairman of the five-year expansion program. LANDSCAPE GARDENER DIES AT AGE OF 70 James M. Johnson, Lifelong Resi- dent of Capital, Succumbs at Home. James M. Johnson, 70, landscape gardener, died at his home, 217 Un- derwood street, yesterday after a short fllness. Mr. Johnson was a lifelc of this city. He is surv widow, Mrs. Emma_Johnsor ters, Mrs. Hilda Steward | Barber, Mrs. Olive Babo and Mrs. Lil- lian Waugh; 2 sons, Howell Johnson | and Randolph Johnson, and 10 grand- | children. | Funeral services will be g resident by his 4 daugh- rs. Cecil conduct. at the residence at 2 p.m. Friday.- e terment will be at Colesville, Md But Policeman Takes Him Home After Rock Creek Park Walk. The wooded hills and dales of Rock Creek Park proved confusing yesterday to 10-year-old Albert Owens of Claren- don, Va. However, he found Officer W. R. Lutes of the United States Park Police shortly after he discovered he was lost. The officer returned the boy to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dutte Smith, 4402 Fessenden street, where he was Salvation Army, and Mrs. D. A. Mar- tin, of the Associated Charitles. visiting. Chief of Commerce Depart: Paul D. Croghan's “hand-out” fac- tory is going to close down tomorrow afternoon for three days for the first time in 11 years. To about 500 newspaper men in Washington this is news equal to & “man biting a dog,” for Croghan is chief of the Commerce Department’s Press Division, which composes “pieces” for the newspapers, magazines, trade journals and sundry other publica- tions in_every nook and corner of the United States. When Croghan does not hand out 25 news releases a day it means Old Man Aurora Borealis is playing pranks on cable and radio communications in parts of the world. When the Bata soap market goes up or down, there |is & shortage of checse In Patagonia {or sheep are not shceping as they should in New Zealand Croghan knows about it. Besides keeping in touch with th business world, Croghan thoroughly understands newspaper men. _ Their Emms Lovely and Mrs. Nellle Powers, his mother, Mrs. Annie Talbert, all of Washington. feet are always welcomed on his fa- mous mahogany inlaid Chippendale desk and his yarns are always sooth- < CROGHAN'’S “HAND-OUT” FACT OR§' MOVES TO FACT-FINDING TEMPLE ment Press Bureau to Close Shop First Time in 11 Years. ing. He smiles just the same when the country's foreign trade fails to strike a balance as he does when he receives | an editorial clipping praising Dr. Julius | Klein’s latest radio speech. | Eleven years ago he had the walls of his office painted green to match the color of the pleated shirts of A, J. O'Leary, his accommodating assist- ant. Since then he has defled orders to have his office repainted because he sald painters would mess up the pic- tures of the world famous bathing beauties pinned to the walls. Croghan is closing up shop to super- lvh: the moving of his famous desk nd a broken down sofd to the de- | partment’s new temple of fact finding | On Monday, January 4, he Will be “at | home” in office No. 3868-A, Which he said “may be found by turning to the | right after getting off the elevator on | the third floor, walk north toward Pennsylvanias avenue in the marble haliway, turn left at the next haj)- way intersection and then proceed west HOOVER'S BUREAU UNIFYING SCHEME BACKED IN HOUSE Leaders Rally to Support of Move for Government Economy. SMOOT CALLS PLAN BEST TO CUT EXPENSE Consolidation of Army, Navy and Marine Branches Under One Head Held Advisable. By the Assoclated Press. Strong support in the House is as- sured for President Hoover's proposals to save money by grouping government- al agencies whose efforts overlap. Chairman Cochran of the Expendi- tures Committee, which will handle the consolidation legislation, is in accord with most of the Chief Executive's rec- cmmendations. The committee headed by the Mis- souri Democrat plans to begin work January 7 on the consolidation program by taking up Shipping Board activities. Mr. Hoover wishes to transfer most of its work to the Department of Com- merce, and Cochran has already asked the White House for concrete ideas on how this can be done. Rely on President. Then the committee will turn to the presidential suggestion for the consoli- dation of all Federal construction under an administrator of public works. “When that was suggested once be- fore we didn't approve because it was proposed to take rivers and harbors work away from Army Engineers,” Cochran said today. *“We understand now the administration is ready to let that duty stay where it is.” Mr. Hoover and the Missourian also hold similar ideas on these presidential suggestions: Consolidation of public health services and creation of a single bureau to handle all conservation activ- itles. Smoot Indorses Plan. Enthusiastic support for the Presi- dent's proposal was given by Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Com- mittee. “I believe the suggestion of the President,” he said in a statement, “is | the best practical means of lowering | governmental expenses and making it possible to maintain consistently economy throughout the Government service.” At the same time, efforts to slash Federal expenditures were pledged sup- port by Chairman Jones of the Senate Appropriations Committee. After a White House visit Jones rald he informed President Hoover he pro- posed to co-operate with the Demo cratic chairman of the House Appropri ations Committee in every way pos- " “We will join the House in cutting any appropriation they can_find that should be cut—or, at least, I will,” he said. Merchant Marine Discussed. Jones said he also discussed with the Chief Executive the latter'’s proposal for consolidation of all Merchant Ma- rine activities under the Commerce De- partment. He would not say whether he approved it, but conceded a consid- erable saving could be made by the consolidation. He expressed the view that the Ship- ping Board, under any transfer of its activities, should be returned to the status of a purely regulatory body. Educational Grouping. President Hoover proposed consolida- tion of all educational efforts under a single head. The committee chairman would give that work to the Office of Education in the Department of In- terior. Likewise, Cochran wants to go into another question President Hoover has not discussed publicly—the merging of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps into one department, with assistants to the Secretary to handle sea, land and air forces. 'The War and Navy Depart- ments were asked 10 days ago to give the committee their ideas on that sug- gestion. UNIDENTIFIED MAN IS KILLED BY AUTO Victim Running for Safety Zone When Knocked Down on Penn- sylvania Avenue, Police today were seeking to estab- lish the identity of a man who was killed almost instantly last night when struck by an automobile. His body was thrown about 20 feet. The man, who was about 55, was hit while running_toward a street car safety zone on Pennsylvania avenue near John Marshall place. The car which struck him is said to have been driven by Jay Nelson, 28, of 316 B street southeast. The accident victim was placed in a taxicab to be taken to Emergency Hos- pital, but died before reaching there. His skull was fractured, his arms broken and his chest crushed, accord- ing to first precinct police. He was about 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighed about 185 pounds and wore a blue overcoat, gray herringbone trou- sers and sheepskin-lined slippers. His body was taken to the morgue. Nelson was arrested, but later re- leased pending his appearance at an inquest at 11 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. CANON AND HIS SISTER GET SHARE IN ESTATE Mother Leaves 834,374 Each to Anson Phelps Stokes and Mrs. Sarah Halkett. Special Dispatch to The Star. YORK, December 30.—Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral and his sister, Mrs. Sarah Halkett, who lives at 2112 § street in the Capital, were bequeathed $34374 each by their mother, the late Mrs. Helen L. Phelps Stokes, according to an appraisal of her estate, filed in the State transfer tax department office day. . he.:\em?n Bhelps Stokes, ir.; Isaac New- ton Stokes, 2d, and Olivia Phelps Stokes, grandchildren of the late Mrs. Stokes, all of whom live at 2402 Mas- sachusetts avenue, are each left $20,000 | incalculable debt of gratitude—for his f COMMERCE ARMY WILL MOVE TONEW HOME: TOMORROW 4,000 Workers Will Occupy $17,500,000 Building by Monday. TRANSPORTATION JOB WILL COST $19,000 Largest Ever Undertaken by U. S. Twenty Days Will Be Re- quired for Work. Four thousand Government workers tomorrow afternoon will say good-by to their desks in various buildings assigned to the Commerce Department, and the next time they will use them will be on Monday under the red-tiled roof of the department’s $17,500,000 new marble hall and Indiana limestone “temple of | truth, dedicated to enlarging the science as well as the practice of business.” Actual moving will start shortly after | midnight New Year morning, and so gigantic is the task that it will require 20 days before all but one of the bureaus scheduled to occupy the new building will be organized and working under normal conditions. Officials said it will be the greatest moving job ever undertaken by the Government in Washington. Contracts call for an expenditure of $19,000, and | the contractors will have to employ a small army of men to complete the work on time. Everything to Be Moved. Everything from printing presses to Thomas A. Edison’s incandescent elec- tric light patent will be moved into the new structure, which occupies eight | acres of land or three city blocks. Of- ficials say they expect to have the Cen- sus Bureau moved into the new building by early Spring and when this is com- pleted the building will be formally dedicated. Because of the large number of tem- porary workers employed by the Census Bureau at present, this branch will not be shifted until its personnel is reduced. When the bureau is moved, | the total population inside of the new building will be approximately 5,000. The new building is considered by experts as one of the largest structures in the world, hgving & net floor area of 1,092,800 square feet. Secretary La- mont has also described it as “a temple of great American faith, the faith that as a business Nation we hold in trust a high duty to serve the world as well as to get gain.” Hoover Laid Corner Stone. The building’s corner stone was lald June 10, 1929, by President Hoover, who several months before retired as Secre- tary of Commerce to the become the Nation's Chief Executive. To Mr, Hoover, according to Senator Smoot, of Utah, chairman of the Public Bullding Commission, the departmeni owes “an organizing genius; his masterly ad- ministrative skill; his creative imagi- nation and amazing energy; his crystal- clear comprehension of the depart- ment’s needs and possibilities, in rela- tion to our national life. The Depart- ment of Commerce as it stands today is in the fullest sense a monument to him—and in its newer incarnation, it will continue to he so, increasingly.” The department came into existence cn July 1, 1903, with the then Secre- tary, George B. Cortelyou, occupying an office in the Willard Building, 513 Fourteenth street, only one block away from the new building. It was then a part of the Department of Labor and remained so until 1913, when it was created a separate governmental or- ganization, with its Secretary becoming the ninth member of the President’s cabinet, Then Debtor Nation. At that time, according to records, the United States was a debtor nation, with its industry mortgaged to Eur pean investors in the sum of approxi- mately $5,000,000,000. The 1adical change that has taken place In the business world in the last 18 years brought about the new bullding. It will mark the first time that all but one of the department’s bureaus will be under one roof—the Bureau of Standards will remain at its present plant—and into this building will pour facts apd figures from every State and every foreign country to be analyzed and” compared and made useful Sources and markets for raw material will be investigated and reported and new outlets found for American manu- factured goods. Each bureau—Census, Survey, Fish- eries, Lighthouses, Navigation, Steam- boat’ Inspection, Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Aeronautics, Radio, Patents and Mines—will here contribute in its own way and in its particular fleld to advance American business. Transfer Biggest Job. The largest individual moving task will be tnat of transferring records from the old Patent Office to its new quarters. More than 1,750,000 patent files will have to be carted through the city, including the famous “Patent No. 4,” issued to Francis Bailey, the oldest record of the office, on Janu- ary 29, 1791. Likewise and under careful scrutiny will be moving of the separate filing boxes containing the patenis of the telephone, telegraph, cotton gin, sew- ing machine, reaper, boat-raising de- vice of Abraham Lincoln, the kdison electric lamp, patent No. 1,000,00, is- sued in 1911, and patent No. 1,500,000, issued 1n 1924. Raw materials from 12 States and the District of Columbia have been used in the construction of the build- ing, which has 99 acres of plastering on the walls and ceiling of its seven floors. Ten Million Bricks Made Here. Ten million bricks were manufac- tured in this city for the structure, which also contains 16,400. tons of structural steel, 2,000 carloads of In- diana limestone, 150 carloads of Con- necticut granite which was milled in Massachusetts, 900 tons of Missouri marble, 470 tons of Vermont base marble, 860 tons of Minnesota Mankato stone, 500 tons of travertine chips from Colorado and Georgia, 35 tons of floor tile from West Virginia, 300 tons of Ohio floor and wall tile, 1,500,000 face bricks from Pennsylvania, 200,000 gray bricks from the same State and 27,000 tons of North Carolina and West Vir- ginia terra-cotta. A total of 1,365 dial telephones have been installed to be supervised over by six operators. The building has 3,311 rooms and 15 entrances. Thirty-six bronzed gate elevators will be in opera- tion, which may accommodate 800 persons similtaneously. The cafeteria has a seating capacity of 2,400 besides several small dining rooms. The kitch- en is electrically equipped. Only the Secretary’s suite and the aquarijum are air conditioned. The until you hear Mr. O'Leary using his whiskbroom. ‘That will be the press | roons™ the will of Mrs. Stokes, who died g\r}g:rn, 1930, leaving a net estate of $892,456. g -~ latter will be occupied for the present, there being no appropriations for its upkeep, officlals explained. Monolith Set on Tomb FLAWLESS MARBLE TO MEMORIALIZE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. T S HIS huge block, quarried in Colorado, has been set in place over the famous tomb in Arlington National Cemetery. the monolith from the mountain and ready for shipment. It required 12 months to get —Star Staff Photo. RELIF FUNDHELD PRIVATE DONATION $225,000 Spent in Coal Areas | by Quaker Organization Uses Up Contributions. The $225,000 contributed by the | American Rellef Administration, of which President Hoover is chairman, for the direct relief in the bituminous coal fields came from private rather than Government funds, it was ex- plained today. Formerly the American Relief Ad- | ministration possessed $100,000,000 of | Federally appropriated funds. All of this, however, was spent in post-war re- lief in Europe or turned back into the Treasury. In connection with the alle- viation of suffering caused by unemploy- ment, President Hoover has repeatedly opposed direct Federal relief, contend- ing such relief should come from private sources. Funds Declared Private. However, when testimony was given before a Senate committee Monday of the Relief Administration’s contribution to feed and clothe children of unem- ployed miners in parts of West Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois, the question was raised, but unanswered, as to whether Government funds were involved. It was asserted in authoritative quarters yesterday, however, that the Relief Administration was operating on private contributions remaining from donations of between $100,000,000 and $150,000,000 for relief work in Europe. Quaker Group Given $225,000. About two months ago, it was said, President Hoover arranged for the $225,000 to be made available to the American Friends’ Service Committee of Philadelphia, a Quaker organization. The contribution was said virtually to exhaust the last of the privately do- nated administration funds. It was sald about 16,000 children were aided and that with addi- | tional Red Cross aid requested the sit- uation would be met. ANGLERS TO MEET Casting Club to Have Demonstra- | tion at Reflection Pool. ‘The Casting Club of Washington Chapter of the Isaac Walton League of America will hold its initial meeting Saturday afternoon, January 2, between 2 and 5 o'clock at the Reflection Pool of the Lincoln Memorial at the foot of Seventeenth street. Permission for the use of this pool has been granted by the Office of Pub- lic Buildings and Parks to the anglers this week. George Cook of the United States Board of Mediation, ex-national champion fly and bait caster, will be present to instruct the anglers in this more or less difficult art. All anglers, whether they are mem- bers of the league or not, are invited to be present Saturday afternoon. Those in charge of the affair are in hopes that in a short time local anglers will become proficient in casting and that inter-city tournaments can be arranged with Baltimore and Philadelphia and nearby places, LIBRARY CALLS HOLIDAY Central and Branches Will Close at 6 P.M. Tomorrow. The central building and all branches | of the Public Library will close at 6 o'clock tomorrow, New Year eve. Only the central library will be open from 2 to 6 p.m. on New Year day and on Sunday, January 3. On Saturday the central building and major branches will observe the usual heurs of opening from 9 am. to 1 p.m. The subbranches will close at noou. WOMAN IS BURNED Dress Ignites From Gas Heater. Neighbor Effects Rescue. Marjorle Clark, colored, was severely turned about the body today when her dress brushed a gas heater and ignited in her home, at 1512 R street. Elmira Newman, colored, same ad- dress, seized an overcoat and used it to smother the flames. After receiving first aid from the rescue squad, the burned woman was treated by Dr. W. C. Goines, 1235 8 street. GLASSFORD .GOES AWAY Headley Is Acting Police Chief as General Takes Holiday. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glasford, su- perintendent of police, left Washington today on a pleasure trip, and is not ex- pected to return until after New Year day. His destination was not disclosed. During Gen, Glassford’s absence In- spector Albert J. Headley will act as superintendent. Inspector E. W. Brown usually acts for the superintendent in | his absence, but he, too, is on leave, ¥ Glassford Spurns Bootlegger’s Gift Of Choice Liquors Champagne, Whisky and Benedictine Turned Over to Prohibition Bureau. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, su- perintendent of police. received one Christmas gift that aroused his military ire. As a result, 10 bottles of what purported to be imported liquor are reposing in a vault at the Prohibition Bureau instead of in his home. The gift, consisting of three bottles of champagne, three bottles of Cana-| dian Club whisky, three bottles of “Rare Old Canadian” whisky and one bottle of benedictine, was sent to the police superintendent by one of Washington's most notorious bootleggers. Without attempting to establish the quality of the liquor, Gen. Glassford sent it to the Prohibition Bureau and received in return a receipt from Wil- liam P. Blandford, acting director. ROBBERY VIGTIM IDENTIFIES YOUTH Suspect Picked Up by Police- man Hour After Hold-up in House. Identified as the man who held up Daniel J. Gibson yesterday in his home at 1509 Gallatin street, Henry M. Ray- mond, 21, of 4303 Ninth street, was charged today with housebreaking and |locked in a cell in the thirteenth pre- cinet station. Raymond was picked up yesterday by Pvt. J. O. Patton of No. 13 a few blocks from the Gallatin street address about an hour after Gibson had been held up, robbed of less than $1 and a German Luger pistol and locked in an upstairs closet. He was identified this morning by Gibson, who picked him out of a line-up in the station house. Fast work by Precinct Capt. Joseph Morgan in rushing a number of police- men and a detective to the scene of the hold-up and posting lookouts through- out the precinct resulted in Raymond’s early arrest. The case against him was built up by Detective Sergt. Oscar Mansfield, who a few weeks ago was recommended for demotion by Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives. Mansfield said he was continuing his investigation of Raymond in an effort to pin other robberies upon the youth, who told police he had been unem- ployed for the past three months. For- merly an assistant manager of an au- tomobile accessory store in the 1700 block of Fourteenth street, he said he had been discharged three months ago and charged with embezzlement by the store owner. The case is now pending in court, he told police. Gibson was confronted by the bur- glar shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and ordered to hand over his money. He told the housebreaker he had no money, Gibson said, where- upon he was ordered to throw up his hands and walk usptairs. Reaching an upstgirs bed room, he was relieved of his wallet and locked in a closet. As. soon as he thought the man had left Gibson forced his way out and phoned for police. GIRL SCOUTS TO HOLD CAMP REUNION TODAY Belgian Ambassador's Daughter Will Be Guest of Honor and Speak on “Guides.” ‘The District Girl Scouts will hold their annual reunion of girls attending Camp May Flather each Summer at 6:30 p.m. today in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K streets. Miss Francoise May, daughter of the Belglan Ambassador, will be the guest of honor. Miss May, who has done much camp work in Europe, will speak on “How the Girl Guides Camp in Bel- glum.” Girl Scouts are known as Girl Guides in foreign countries. ‘The guests will be welcomed by Mrs. B. F. Cheatham, chairman of the Camp Committee. Mrs. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., commissioner of District Scouts, also will talk, introducing Gen. Cheatham, whose movie of activities at the camp will be exhibited. The program includes a banquet, at which Miss Frances Shield, chairman of last year's camp council, will act as mistress of ceremonies. The camp is at Stokesville, Va., in the mountains, Pennsylvania Jurist Dies. ERIE, Pa., December 30.—P2nnsylva- nia Supreme Court Justice Emory A. Walling, 77, died today. x 15-YEAR-0LD BOY BOOTLEGGER TAKEN IN'HIS APARTMENT Youth, Missing From Home Since September, Held by Juvenile Court. SAYS HE MADE PART OF SUPPLY HIMSELF Story of Not Knowing Where Father Was Spoiled by Search of Truancy Record. A short-lived career in bootlegging for a 15-year-old high school boy, missing from home since last September, ended abruptly with his arrest just be= fore Christmas and disclosure of evi- dence that he had been selling liquor from an apartment rented as his base of independent operations, it w: - vealed today. e s The case was not disclosed untl it came up before Judge Mary O'Toole in the District Juvenile Court yesterday. Judge O'Toole ordered it continued until January 12, his escape from com- mittment to the Industrial Home School being dependent upon the ability of hig father, a widower, to secure a proper home for him with relatives in West Virginta. Disappeared in September. At the time of his arrest, three days before Christmas, the lad’s tale that he did not know the whereabouts of his father probably would have been ac- cepted by police had they not checked up with the records of the Juvenile Court. The boy, whose name is being withheld, had disappeared from home just before school opened. His father, who had striven to give him and an elder sister a comfortable home and & decent education, had previously found it necessary to bring the boy into court as an incorrigible. With the lad’s dis- appearance he reported the case to the probation officer and police. For some time detectives had been watching a youth, quite tall apparently for his age, entering and leaving an | apartment in the 900 block of Twent:eth street, at unusual hours. Suspecting him of bootlegging activities, a com- panion of the detective purchased two | pints of ligour from the lad and fol- | lowed him to his apartment for further | purchases. Arrested in Basement. The young bootlegger told his client to wait inside the apartment while he secured an additional supply. While leaning over a liquor-filled trunk in the basement of the apartment house, the lad was arrested by a detective. At the time the boy told the officers he had rented the apartment and was on “his own,” supporting himself by the sale of liquor, some of which he prepared himself, it was reported, from raw alcohol.? He testified, later, how- ever, that He was being paid $25 a week for selling liquor. He refused to name his employer and at first con=- tended his father’s whereabouts was ‘unknown to him. The boy's contention that inability to find anything else to do had led him to choose a carecr in bootlegging was refuted by his father, who claimed he had secured a good position for his son in a local chain store, but that the boy had refused to take the job. Meanwhile, the youthful truant is under the care of the Board of Public ‘Welfare until the disposition of his case in Juvenile Court. 'HOOVER CONSIDERS CHEST INVITATION | President Asked to Take Part in Ceremonies of Campaign Open- ing January 24. President Hoover has taken under advisement an invitation to participate in the ceremonies to be held at Cone stitution Hall January 24 incident to the formal opening of the campaign to be conducted in this city by the Community Chest. The invitation was extended by & group including Edward F. Colladay, general chairman of the local Com- munity Chest campaign; Newbold Noyes, vice chairman of the Special Gifts Committee; C. C. Glover, jr., a member of the Gifford Committee; El- wood. Street, director of the Community Chest, and Gov. Campbell, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, who had charge of the raising of money among the Government employes. BURGLARS GET $400 LOOT IN 2 ROBBERIES Cash, Jewels and Revolver Among Articles Taken From Homes in Northwest. Breaking into two homes in the Northwest section of the city, burglars escaped with nearly $400 in cash and jewelry in daring daylight robberies yesterday afternoon while their victims were away from home. George Howe, an inspector in the Bureau of Weights and Measures, dis- covered the theft of diamond rings, medals set with jewels and a revolver when he returned home at 1323 Quincy street after work. The loot taken by the intruders, who forced a basement door to gain entrance to the house, was valued at $205. Benjamin Freedman of 62 M street reported to police that several rings valued at $140 and $160 were stolen from his home some time during th afternoon. OLDEST INHABITANTS TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE Will Be Received by Hoover on New Year Day—Special Meet- ing Scheduled: The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia will observe New Year day Friday, as usual, with a special meeting at the Old Union En- gh’ile l;louse, }"l\newenlh and streets, prior to a call on President ver the White House. . 5 % John Clagett Proctor, chzonicler of the association, will read his chronicles for the year 1931 at the business meet- ing, which will start at 10 o'clock sharp. At- 11:30 o'clock the members, in & body, will proceed to the White House to greet the President. Members have been requested to wear their badges. &