Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1932, Page 15

NING EDITION The Foening Star | ~ Society and General WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1932. JURY EXONERATES YOUTH IN DEATH OF EDWARD MCARTHY Deputy Coroner Says Au- topsy Showed Evidence of Cardiac Heart Failure. GIRL’S TESTIMONY FAILS TO BRING OUT EVIDENCE Boy Lost Life When He Attempted to “Crash” Fifth Street New Year Party. Edward M. Benjamin, 19, was ex- onerated today in the death of Edward McCarthy, 15, who lost his life when he and four other boys attempted to “crash” a New Year party at 635 Fifth street northeast. A coroner’s jury ordered Benjamin released after Deputy Coroner A. Mc- Gruder MacDonald, who performed an autopsy on McCarthy's body, declared he had discovered evidence of cardiac failure of the heart. There was noth- ing to indicate McCarthy had been beaten, Dr. MacDonald added. The deputy coroner, who presided at today's session of the inquest, an- nmounced the result of the post mortem after the testimony of Miss Bertha Walter, 18, regarded as one of the star witnesses, had failed to reveal any evidence against Benjamin. * McCarthy, Dr. MacDenald explained, had a brain cyst of long standing, and any sudden rise in blood pressure could have ruptured a blood vessel. Such a rupture, he added, was the direct cause of McCarthy’s death. His skull was not fractured, as had Dbeen previously thought Admits Pushing Youth. Miss Walter, who lives at 631 Fifth street northeast, was called to the stand after Detective Sergt. John Flaherty, acting chief of the homicide squad, had read a signed statement in which Ben- jamin admitted having pushed Mc- Carthy, causing him to fall and strike is head § P e Walter, _secrelarial _school into the death of Edward McCarthy. —Star Staff Phots. 1,050 70 GET J0BS BEFORE WEEK ENDS More Than 250 Women student, told the jury she and Donald Knessi, 5601 Sixteenth street, were sit- ting in an automobile parked in front of 637 Fifth street northeast, when McCarthy was injured. Describes Fatal Fall. McCarthy, Miss Walter testified, staggered from the steps of a walk Jeading to the house in which the party was held, reeled to the curb and fell Two boys were several feet away from the steps at the time, she said, but neither was near enough to have struck McCarthy. One of the boys, she continued, ran to McCarthy and tried to pick him up, but he proved too heavy. The other youth came to his aid, however, and ihey dragged him to a car parked in front of the house, and laid him in the street beside it. After a few moments consultation, she said, they placed him on the running board of the machine. While they were consulting again, she added, he fell off. Her testimony was corroborated by Knessi, who declared McCarthy, when he staggered down the steps, ‘“looked like he had slipped.” This, according to Knessi, occurred before the fight, in which McCarthy previously was thought to have been hurt. Disappeared Saturday. Miss Walter disappeared from the | witness Toom at the morgue Saturday when the inquiry into McCarthy's death was begun. The inquest was halted | when her absence was discovered, and | headquarters detectives under Sergt. Flaherty began a search for her. She was found yesterday at her home, only a few doors from the house in which the party was held After being sworn. she was asked by Dr. MacDonald, “Why did you leave Saturday?” “I wasn't feeling very well,” she re- plied. “I asked a policeman if it was all right for me to go, and he didn't answer; so I thought it was all right.” Warned of Contempt. Pointing out that police would have no authority in such matters, anyway, Dr. MacDonald reprimanded the giri for having caused the inquiry to be continued until today and warned her she could be cited for contempt. The morgue was thronged. Nearly 100 persons, mostly friends and ac- quaintances of those involved, filled every available chair and were lined up against the wall. When the ver- dict—that_McCarthy died of an acci- dental fall—was announced a cheer arose Benjamin, apparently overjoyed, rushed to the telephone in the witness room and called his mother. “It's accidental!” he shouted into the mouthpiece, repeat- ing the words several times More than a dozen w e first session of tI 2 20 were on hand today. Miss Knessi, Flaherty and George t whose home the party was held, were the only ones called to the stand today, however. Kane testified day, but was recalled when it was d he wished to change a portion of his testimony Will Be Buried Tomorrow. McCarthy will be buried in Olivet Cemetery tomorrow requiem mass in St Catholic Church at 9 am. 715 Allison street y family was represented by Attorney Vincent L. mes Reilly appeared as min’s lawyer, while the Govern- was represented by Assistant at near Ki Mount after a Gabriel's His home Toom Ben, ment nited States Attorney Irvin Goldstein. | ral of the witnesses also had law- yers present FIVE CONVENTIONS WON FOR CAPITAL IN 1932 nd | Slated With Nearly 800 Men for Work Here. More than 250 women, as well as al- most 800 men, will be given work be- fore the end of the week, officials of the District Committee on Employment announced today. Nearly 100 women were placed today. They will receive $2.50 a day. Like the men provided with jobs by the com- mittee, the women will work every other week. This practice will be f lowed in order to spread the employ- ment among as many persons as possible. Assigned Clerical Duties. 1 The women will perform clerical duties at the Traffic Bureau, Police De- partment, German Orphan Asylum, Gerfield Hospital, Southeast House, and the American Federation of Associa- tions for the Hard of Hearing. They will be assigned to work not provided for in the various budgets. Although the committee has been providing work for men for nearly a month, few women have been given employment heretofore. Seven hundred and ninety-six men were assigned today to work in improv- ing playgrounds, parks, school grounds and various other properties under the control of the District government. Register for Next Week. More than 250 men have registered for employment next week Their | names were listed in the new central registration headquarters at Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. POLICEMAN INJURED IN CHASING SPEEDER Thrown From His Motor Cycle Near Highway Bridge, Man Suffers Brain Injury. Seriously injured when he was thrown from his motor cycle as he pursued ¢ | speeder just south of Highway I this morning, Pvt., Emmet E United States Park” Police, was ad. ted to Emergency Hospital. The cer was struck on the head, res in a brain concussion. Hospital cials also said preliminary examin indicates his skull might be frac Saar, who had partially regained sciousness at noon, said he rememb no more about the accident than ti he was pursuing a car. The accidc occurred at about 6:15 o'clock Earl F. Allen, 230 Rhode Island avenue, who saw the policeman’s motor cycle careen from the highway as 1 sped past him, carried Saar to the pital. He told park pdlice he beli the car Saar was pursuing and which was behind him, came to a sudden stop and the motor cycle officer lost cont >f his machine attempting to avoid nitting it Saar, the father of four childrer lives at 3307 Cedar street, Moun: Rainier, Md. RUSH FOR AUTO TAGS ' AND TITLES IS ENDED Van Duzer Says Only 4,000 Fail to Obtain 1832 Licenses. Meetings Obtained by Trade Board Committee to Bring More Than 1,000 Delegates. Five new conventions were obtained for Washington in 1932, the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade announced today Collectively, they will bring considerably more than 1,000 delegates. As announced by Curtis Hodges, di- rector of the committee, these conven- tions include those of the Music Teach- ers’ National Association, December 27, 28 and 29: National Association of Schools of Music, December 27 to 30 Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity, December 27 10 30; Association of American Geog- rephers, December 26 to 30, and the National Council of Geography Teachers, The committee was represented at 72,000 Distributed. William A. Van Duzer, director of traffic, said today that up to noon 116,000 applications for title certificates | for automobiles had been filed and | 75,000 pairs of 1932 tags had been dis- | tributed. There was only a small crowd | at the office in the Ford Building seek- | ing their certificates today, he said. Mr. Van Duzer said there were about | 4,000 persons who had not yet applied for certificates of title. Those who have applfed but not yet received their tags will not be subject to arrest during the rest of the month, so long as they show their receipt for the application of the certificate of title. Mr. Van Duzer raid the crowd Satur- day, when the office closed at 1 o'clock, also was small, indicating probably a the 1931 conventions of these organiza- yentlons and extended the im town or for other reasons their 1932 tags at this not need | Memorial Bridge, which is now ready PURSE THIEF ELUDES NENORAL ROAD MAY OPEN A President Should Be First to Use New Highway, Officials Believe. The Mount Vernon Memorial High- way probably will be opened January 16 without formal ceremony, Lieut. Col. U. 5. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, said today. The road is still under the jurisdiction | of the Bureau of Public Roads, Depart- | ment of Agriculture. Linked with the opening of the high- way is the opening of the Arlington for traffic and on which temporary lights are being installed. Paving on Columbia Island is going forward, so that motorists may use the bridge and, if desired, turn to the left onto the Mount Vernon Boulevard. U. S. to Police Road. The office of Public Buildings and Public Parks is ready to organize an :n- crease in the United States Park Police to take over the patrolling and policin of the highway. Capt. R. C. Mon gomery, U. S. A., superntendent of the United States Park Police, explained | at the law directs that 15 po- | three of whom will be geants, will police the Highway. Auto- mobiles equipped with radio will be util- ized, two officers occupying one ca Persons arrested on the highway will be taken before the United States Commis- sioner at Alexandria, Va. Capt. Montgomery said that the policemen in charge and a sufficient number of officers who have had long service on the force will be sent to the Mount Vernon Boulevard. Preference will be given those who live in Virginia, and some recruits on the force will be assigned to that duty, under the charge of experienced men. Wants Hoover to Be First. Col. Grant has decided tentatively that President Hoover, as chairman of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commis- n, and his colleagues on that body, s well as the memlers of the George Washington Bicentennjal Commission, should be the first to ride over the new | bridge and the highway. The public will then be freely admitted without further ado. Regulations will be promulgated by he Secretary of Agriculture and en- orced by the Office of Public Buil s and Public Parks. Col. Grant {: s adherence to the Virginia speed | laws on the highway.” This will mean a limit of 45 miles an hour. While some consideration was given | the plan of submitting the whole ques- | n to Controller General J. R. McCal 1 experts of the Bureau of Publi Roads and the Office of Public Build- ngs and Public Parks are working to- ward a solution of the problem which may obviate referring the questions to the General Accounting Office. th 1 PURSUERS IN PARK Woman Victim, Passers-by and Police Join Chase Through Rock Creek Area. Sireets in the vicinity of Eighteenth et and Columbia road were the chie of a spirited chase this mornin When woman victim of a pur together with passersby and pursued the robber into Rock ek Park, where they were eluded. The man grabbed the purse of Mrs. | Ethel Daniels, 2801 Adams Mill road, head of the foreign division of the pat- ent law firm of Byrnes, Townsend & Potter, as she was walking along the street near her home. Mrs. Daniels Pursued the hatless youth for a block When two men took up the chase; but the thief lost them in the Zoological Par Metropolitan and park police and employes of the Zoo have been or- dered o scour Rock Creek Park for the youth, Meanwhile another young man, be- lieved to have been driving an a ilo from wh'ch the first d out to &na purte, was caught by two passing mo- lorists after they had chased the ma- number of those who have not applied | chine ntrance | amounting to $52. tions by C. N. Nichols, who fufnished | for their certificates of title are Oub of | 0. tn oot s o n e o prospectusses and material to the con- vitations, he Zoo to Eighteenth street and Columbia road. He was later turned OVEr 1o polioss \ TREASURY SPEEDS FEDERAL BUILDING AS DELAYS LOOM Bids for Clearing Ground, Already Authorized, Are Rushed. HOUSE BILL THREATENS REMAINDER OF PROJECTS Razing of 0ld Structures for Park- way and Apex Building to Be Pushed Forward Rapidly. While the House Appropriations Com- mittee today moved to indefinitely de- lay a part of the Government's public building program here in Washington, because of the depleted state of the Nation's finances, the Treasury De- partment went forward in previously authorized phazes of the same build- ing program, to clear off old buildings in three blocks of Pensylvania avenue | on the south side, between Third and Seventh streets, The Treasury planned to clear the | sites for one more new building, the apex structure, between Sixt! and Seventh streets, and for parkway be- tween Third and Sixth streets. New Bids Requested. Contract for destruction of the whole block bounded by Sixth and Seventh | streets, Pennsylvania avenue and Con- stitution avenue has been let to the American Wrecking Co. of this city, which is to pay the Government $1,760. Work will start soon. The Treasury advertised today for bids on the two other squares, known as Reservations A and B, lying between Pennsylvania and Missouri avenues, Third and Sixth streets. Bids will be | opened on January 20 for clearing these structures. Sixty days will be granted | the contractor for demolition. Constitution avenue is to be cut through into Pennsylvania avenue in the block between Fourth and Sixth streets, while the other block, between Third and Fourth, is to be turned into a park, to be known as part of Union Square. The Treasury also took another step forward in progress of the new Ar- chives Building, on the site of Center Market, when it advertised for bids for foundations to be opened January 13. The excavation work is complete, hav- ing been started with ceremonies when Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Heath broke ground September 5. Use of Apex Undetermined. Use of the Apex Building has not been finally determined, although it has been considered for the United States Coast Guard or the Fine Arts Commi: sion, National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission and Public Buildings | Commission. In addition to the delay in the public | building program here, predicted by the | deficiency bill, there are other projects not yet authorized by Congress which | have been put on the shelf indefinitely by the administration on account of the Treasury deficit. These include the new homes for the War and Navy Buildings, the Grand Plaza in the Federal Triangle, extension of Treasury Annex No. 1, northward, including the site of the Belasco Thea- ter and the Cosmos Club, and an annex | reported badly damaged by the movers, plete the moving of the Bureau of | Mines. COMMERCE MOVING PUTS DEPARTMENT BERIND SCHEDULE 1,500 Employes Kept Shift- ing From Old Place to New in Advance of Movers. GREAT SEAL DROPPED BY MEN AND DAMAGED Feiker's Mahogany Desk Is Among Furniture Injured—Work Now Lags Two Days. The slow work of one section of the moving army transferring equipment from the various bureau buildings of the Department of Commerce to the $17,500,000 new building already has placed the department two days behind schedule. Less than 1,000 employes reported for duty in the new building today. A total of 1,500 others scheduled to be at work in the great temple of fact-finding this morning found them- selves shifting from one place to another in advance of the expected arrival of the moving men. Department’s Seal Damaged. In transferring the great seal of the department from the old admin- istrative office building, Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, early today, the furniture handlers dropped it. It was first reported that the seal, valued at thousands of dollars, had been badly damaged. However, Ed- ward W. Libbey, the department’s chief clerk, later reported to Secretary La- mont that the instrument could be re- paired at small cost, which will be charged up to the moving' contractor. Several pieces of furniture have been a beautiful mahogany desk of Frederick M. Feiker, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, being antong the casualties. Six Floors Still Occupied. Only five floors of the old adminis- trative building had been touched by the movers at noon today, leaving equipment on the six other floors. The contractor for this job, which started New Year day, was supposed to have this building empty by tomorrow. The Bureau of FPisheries today was working under nomal conditions, all of its furniture having arrived as per schedule. Only a few pieces of equip- ment are yet to be transferred to com- INJURIES FATAL IN CRANKING CAR. Peter Eckell Succumbs at Hospital After Auto, in Gear, Throws Him to Roadway. Peter Eckell, 69, of 1413 South Caro- lina avenue southeast, died at Casualty Hospital last night as the result of in- juries received when an automobile he to the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing designed to go between Thirteen- and-a-half and Fourteenth sfreets, C and D street southwest. The bureau of | the Budget recently indicated that such | new projects would not be s2nt to Con- gress by the administration for new au- thorizations and appropriations, until Jater. | CIVIL SERVICE CHANGES JOB APPLICATION BLANK | New, Simplified Form of Pages Replaces Old Six-Page | | | Two | Paper for Most Examinations. A new and simplified form of appli- cation blank has been adopted by the Civil Service Commission for use in con- nection with most of the examinations announced through the central office here. The new form is only two pages, bearing the number I and replacing the old No. 2600 form, which was six pages. The innovation will simplify both the operation of filling out the blanks and that of handling the applications in the office of the commission. Persons in possession of the old blank should use the new instead, unless the examina- tion specifically calls for the old form, No. 2600, it was announced. The com- mission, it was said, will not accept the old form in cases where the new will |EDITH RILEY HOSTESS was cranking in front of his home started and ran over him last Wed- nesday. Eckell's machine was in gear when he cranked it, police said, and the car htrled him to the roadway and passed | over his body. It continued for more | than a block before crashing into two parked automobiles and coming to a stop. The injured man was taken to Cas- ualty Hospital and treated for several fractured ribs and serious lacerations. Complications set in several days later and caused his death. AT BIRTHDAY PARTY Washington Girl Who Was Kept in Closet Is 13 Years 0ld Today. Thirteen year old today, Edith Riley celebrated “the anniversary with a birthday party, to which she invited all her young companions in her ward at Gallinger Hospital. A birthday cake, the gift of one who became interested in her strange case, was the piece de resistance at the noon-time party. For perhaps the first time in her life, the little girl, whose father and stepmother were sentenced to two serve the purpose Full information regarding positions open in the civil service may be ob- | tained from the United States Civil Service Commission, at 1724 F street. years' imprisonment for keeping her in a closet for four years, realized what it meant to have a birthday anni- versary. She received many gifts from children more fortunate than herself. 'BANDITS GAG. TIE AND ROB MANAGER OF Victim Rolls Into Driveway | and Passing Motorists Notice Plight. Two Masked Men Take $52 in Armed Robbery on Con- | necticut Avenue. Gagged and bound at wrist and ankle by two colored bandits, who escaped with $52 early today, the 19-year-old night manager of a filling station at 3535 Connecticut avenue crawled through the office door, rolled into t}‘!e front driveway and lay there helpless and shivering until hlswpllgkht was dis- by passing motorists. covf‘?:dd BY Clair of 24-A Bates street was seated in the filling station office about 1 o'clock this morning when two masked men suddenly appeared in the door, and, pointing guns from their overcoat pockets, ordered him to “sit till.” 5 They quickly produced rope and in a surprisingly short time, OClair had ed his wri and ankles to- i nd tied a rag about his Then they took his change belt and bills from his pockets, st oil mouth carrier Clair could not see the men depart, said, | FILLING STATION FRED B. CLAIR. —Star Staff Photo. | throw his weight against it. The door gave and he tumbled into the driveway, where he rolled about, but was unable | to locsen his bonds. | He lay there for half an hour until A woman in a passing automobile no- | ticed him. She called the driver's at- {the program for the five-day conven- | tention to him and the motorist return- ed and liberated Clair. Police were notified and a lookout broadcast for the bandits, although but was able to wark his body toward the door and raise himsell enough to Clair was able to furnish only & gen- eral description of she men, PAGE B—1 Zoo Gets Rare Toads 88 ARRIVE AFTER REC! A shipment of 88 Surinam toads— | among the rarest and wierdest animals on earth—was received this morning at the National Zoological Park. Hitherto it has been practically im- possible to obtain a single specimen of this strange beast. There are only three in the United States. It is almost never seen, even in its native habitat, North- ern South America. The great peculiarity of this toad is that the father takes the minute eggs with his peculiarly shaped front feet and shoves them into the back of the mother, where they are hatched in tiny “sores” which are caused by the | irritation. The young toads are carried in these pouches until they are able to fend for themselves, One mother may CarTy as many as a hundred babies sticking out of her back. Mann Led Expedition. The Surinman toad was the primary object of the expedition to Dutch New Guiana last Summer by Dr. William M. Mann, director of the Zoo. Even with an intensive combing of the country- side he failed to find a single specimen | and natives with whom he talked never had seen one. At one time Dr. Mann employed 26 Javanese laborers for sev- eral days to hunt through the mud of | an_emptied drainage canal. Bitterly disappointed, he left word with native hunters to send him any specimen they came across. Saturday he received a cable that a shipment of 100 was due to arrive at New York yes- terday.. It was unbelievable, Dr. Mann said, and, if true, would be one of the greatest events of all time in the his- tory of wild animal collecting. He caught the first train to New York, ex- pecting to find some commonplace | South American toads which had been | mistaken for the rarities. Most Survi-e Trip. | When the ship docked last night| he found that the creatures not only | were Surinam toads, but that, almost| miraculously, nearly all of them had | survived the voyage. The captain of the ship, J. H. Lum, had taken special care of them through friendship for Dr. Mann, without realizing that the shipment was of any particular im- portance. Some native hunter, Dr. Mann said, must have found for the first time in history a dry season colony of the ani- mals in the mud of some ditch bottom where all of them in a radius of many miles were collected in a cluster. The toads are entirely water dwelling ani- mals. During the wet season, when the fields are flooded, they disperse over a large area and sometimes are| found in haystacks. When the waters | recede they crawl into the mud, where | they are motionless and almost invisible | because of their mud color. The only closely related species lives always in the mud at the bottom of Lake Titicaca in the Peruvian Andes and never has been seen in collections. This queer toad is about the ugliest of animals. It is flat as a pancake. It has tiny spines on its sides, which are supplied with a poisonous secretion. The male has a four-fingered hand, with a perfectly formed star at the end of each finger. With this star he | she sheds her ENT FRUITLESS HUNT. picks up the eggs and deposits them in the back of the female. As soon as the latter has shed her brood of young skin so that all the pouches, which are essentially ulcers caused by the irritation, disappear. Active in ' Water. ‘The toads make a peculiar sound, something like the clackers sold as toys for children. Every now and then the toad will send up a bubble of air, which rises through the water with the appearance of a big bubble of mercury. The animals are quite active in the water. Once Dr. Mann had identified the Surinam toads on shipboard, it was a race to get them alive to Washington, where they could be placed in a con- genial environment with the proper temperature regulation. They were placed on the first express train, and Dr. Mann remained up all night with his new charges. He probably failed to secure a specimen on the expedition, Dr. Mann said, because it was the sea- son when they were more or less dis- persed over the countryside. They are rare creatures at the best, and natives of Dutch Guiana will insist that they are fabulous. The value of the animal, Dr. Mann said, is due almost entirely to its rarity. ‘The size of the present shipment will probably “break the market,” since thare are more than enough to supply all American zoos, with animals to ex- change. ‘Two other rarities were received at the Zoo Saturday—a pair of hyena dogs from South Africa. These creatures, al- most never seen in zoos, are much closer relatives to the dog than the hyena, and probably are the most effective hunters of the dog family. They travel in small packs, are tireless and have long, slash- ing teeth with which to rend their prey. The species never has been tamed and only a few puppies have been captured alive. In some sections of Africa they have practically denuded large areas of game and are known as “the scourge of the plains.” DRY LEAGUE PLANS AGTIVE CAMPAIG Convention Here Jan. 19 Will Organize Drive to Reach All Voters, Says McBride. The twenty-fifth national convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America, which convenes here January 15, is ex- pected by F. Scott McBride, general superintendent, to “inaugurate a year of the most intense activity since the eighteenth amendment was adopted.” In a statement announcing in advance tion, Mr. McBride said his prediction was based on reports of State superin- tendents. “During our meetings in Washing- ton,” he declared, “to be attended by league officials and delegates from all parts of the Nation, plans will be made to cover the Nation intensively with public meetings and dry literature. Methods of organization will be adopted to reach all voters with facts and get them to the polls on primary and elec- tion days. Plans for unjfied action on resubmission and other current wet and dry issues will be formulated. “Unusual interest in the convention is shown not only by the acceptances to speak by outstafiding national leaders in various representative fields, but by ad- vance reports of delegates from many States.” Among the speakers listed for the convention are Gov. William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, Bishop James Cannon, jr., chairman of the Legislative Com- mittee of the League, and Senator Mor- ris Sheppard of Texas, ON BREWERY JOBS Commerce Department Figures on Employment Before Prohi- bition Requested. By the Associated Press. A resolution asking the Commerce Department for a report on the number of people employed in the manufacture of beer before prohibition was adopted today by the Senate. The Senate also approved a joint resolution asking the Agriculture De- partment for a report on the amount of grain used. Earlier a bill calling for State liquor control was introduced by Senator Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin. The | bill, Blaine said, would authorize the | States to define intoxicating liquors | and permit wine and beers. The resolutions asking for data were offered by Senator Bingham, Repub- lican, Connecticut, who had introduced a bill on which hearings start Friday, to legalize 4 per cent beer. The departments were asked to pre- sent figures for each year from 1909 to 1917. SAFE FOILS YEGGMAN Attempted Robbery of Woolworth’s Store on M Street Fails. Amateur yeggmen who broke into ‘Woolworth’s~ 5-and-10-cent store, at| 3125 M street, and attempted to force | open the safe, were frustrated when | the strongbox withstood the blows of | a heavy sledgehammer. The attempted robbery was discov- ered early today by the store man- ager, Willlam G. Hobbs, of 1016 Sev- enteenth street. A hinge badly, Glassford Arrests Panhandler” Who ?f Asks Dime for Food Police Chief Celebrates His Return to Duty by Calling Wagon. Brig. Gen. Pelnam D. Glassford to- day celebrated his return to active duty after a week's leave by arresting one of Washington’s army of “panhandlers.” The new police chief, attired in civil- ian clothes, was walking near Judiciary Square on his way to police headquar- ters when a shabbily dressed man ac- costed him and said: “How about a dime for a bite to eat, buddy?” “Come along with me,” Gen. Gl ford replied, “and we’ll see abeut if Taking the fellow by the arm, Gen. Glassford walked to a nearby police call box and summoned a patrol wagon from the first precinct station. The man was booked as Harry Ed- ward Shipley, 39, of Baltimore, and charged with soliciting alms. He will be arraigned in Police Court tomorrow, with Glassford appearing in the role of arresting officer. REPUBLICAN LEADERS PRESENT THEIR VIEWS Curtis, Watson and Snell Discuss Problems in Magazine De- veoted to Party. By the Associated Press. The views of three prominent Re- publicans on a variety of topics were presented in the current issue of the Young Republican, a magazine to ad- vance that party's welfarc. Vice President Curtis said: “Through the 150 years of its existence, the Sen- ate has,’in the main, met its responst- bilities with a high, sense of patriotism, and then men who have made up its membership, with few exceptions, have been men of high character and great ability, thoroughly devoted to the in- terest of their country and the welfare of their countrymen.” Senator Watson of Indiana, the Re- publican leader: “Non-partisan ques- tions largely will engage the attention of the Senate at this session, and I earnestly hope they will be considered solely with a view to enhancing the welfare of the country and improving the condition of the people, and not to add the prestige of any political party.” Representative Snell of New York, the House Republican leader: “Regard- ing the policy I feel should be followed in the present session of Congress, the measures that are likely to come up for consideration and the attitude the Re- publican members of the House prob- ably will take, I have told the President that we are for him and are going to 1US.HOLDS ANOTHER MAN IN TEA HOUSE WHITE SLAVE QU2 Identification Is Made by Newport News Woman Before Commissioner. FEDERAL DRIVE SPREADS TO ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY Four Inmates of Fort Meade Road Resort Are Arrested—Two Taken in Baltimore. The Department of Justice today re= newed its drive here against men ac- cused of transporting young women to the Old Colonial Tea House, Bladens- burg, Md., for immoral purposes. Ahmed Abraham, 38, 200 block of C street, was held under $2,000 bond for the grand jury after Eva McCoy, 24, of Newport News, Va., told United States Commissioner Needham C. Tur- nage the man took her to the tea house last November 2. Similar action was taken several days ago against Charles Danforth, accused of taking his wife and another girl to the resort. See Vice Ring Fight. Police have been working on the theory that the fatal shooting of one man and the wounding of several oth- ers in the tea house last November re- sulted from attempts by local men to place women in the establishment in opposition to an organized vice ring in Philadelphia, alleged to have taken young girls to nearly 100 houses in five Eastern States. Placed on the witness stand by Neil Burkinshaw, special assistant to the Attorney General, Miss McCoy told Commissioner Turnage Abraham ap- proached her at a house in this city, where she was staying while looking for a job, and told her he knew a place in Maryland where she could get work. She said he described the nature of the work and that she agreed voluntarily to accept it. First Time in House. Miss McCoy said she went to the tea house that night in an automobile with Abraham, Denforth and another woman. She said it was the first time shte had been in a place of that char- acter. Burkinshaw, who has been assigned by the Attorney General to prosecute the white slave ring, was assisted in preparing this case by S. K. McKee, & special agent of the Bureau of Inves- tigation. FOUR WOMEN ARRESTED. Vice Drive Spreads to Anne Arundel County. Special Dispatch to The Star. “ BALTIMORE, Md., January 4—The trail of an alleged vice ring, which agents of the United States Depart- ment of Justice have been uncovering for two months in rural sections of Maryland, was followed into Anne Arundel County early yesterday. Fifteen agents and United States marshals, working on clues discovered after a fatal shooting in the Colonial Tea House at Bladensburg, Md., raided the Lutz Road House on the Fort Meade road and arrested four women, each of whom was held for Federal au- thorities at a hearing later in the jmorning at the central police station. Afterward the raiding party came to Baltimore and arrested two men in a restaurant. Sam Sternick, free on bail in an Anne Arundel County road house shooting,. was held for Federal au- | thorities. The second man arrested, Ciro Parasi, | | | was released in $500 bond on a charge of carrying a deadly weapon. Rose Allen, described as the manager of the road house, was held on a charge of violating the Mann act. She is alleged to have taken Jean Gordon, one of the girls now under arrest im connection with the Colonial Tea House ?hogtink. from Pennsylvania to Marye and. The girls arrested—Jean Kaywood, Florence Lee and Catherine Clark— gave Baltimore addresses, but these were found fictitious. Each girl is be- lieved to have been brought to Mary- land from another State, the agents de- clared. The raiders operated from Washing- ton, driving from the Capital. They had no difficulty entering the road house and immediately served a war- rant charging violation of the Mann act on the Allen woman. Those held probably would be ar- raigned this morning, the agents said, and they intimated the Government has witnesses and evidence to insure their detention. It also was said that the raid yester- day probably is only the first of a number to be made in Anne Arundel County. Peter Abbott of Philadelphia, now is being held at the Hyattsville jail in Prince Georges County charged with | the shooting, and several women are under arrest in Washington and in Prince Georges Count The Colonial Tea House, like many road houses :n Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, was under the management 0{ a Philadelphia vice ring, the agents claim. “SMOKE SCREEN CAR” FOUND ABANDONED Occupants, Believed to . Rum- Runners, Twice Escape Pur- suit by Police. stand squarely by him, supporting any program of legislation he may recom- mend to Congress.” * MORE THAN HALF TAXES IN FALLS CHURCH PAID $12,000 of $21,000 Assessment Received Up to January 1, Treasurer Reports. Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., January 4.— Twelve thousand dollars, or more than one-half of the town's assessment of $21,000 for the year September 1, 1931, to August 31, 1932, had been paid in January 1, according to Town Treasurer J. C. Parrott. This is about $1,000 more than had been paid in at the same time Search for a taxicab which twice es- caped police over the week end by using a smoke screen, came to an end early today when the car was found, abandoned, at Champlain street and Kalorama road by Patrolmen R. L. Manning and P. C. Carver, second pre~ cinct. Two colored men, believed to have been running whisky into the Capital, eluded pursuing officers Saturday night and again early today. Their smoke- screen device had been detached before the car was abandoned. Two ninth precinct policemen first sighted the car Saturday night. They were forced to abandon the chase be- cause of the smoke screen. A lookout was broadcast for the car, but it was not sighted .again until about 1 o'clock this morning, when a citizen “tipped” police that a car was being loaded w.tk whisky near Fourteenth and Corcoran streets. Patrolmen Lester Parks and C. H. Gould of No. 8 radio scout car last_year. After January 1 a penalty of 1 per the safe door had been|cent a month is added. Taxaeg not machine. sped 'a I become delinguens unul Auguss 1 Sound, abandoned, were dispatched to the scene, but were met by a denses cloud of smoke as the way. The car4was £