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Washington News b @he Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny St Society and General WASHINGTON, 105 0 MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1932. PAGE B—1 HEARING WILL CET VIEWS ON SITE 0F NAVAL HOSPITAL Smoot to Preside at Session of Building Commission This Afternoon. OPINION IS DIVIDED ON TWO LOCATIONS Fine Arts Group Favors Walter Reed Area—Navy Holds Out for Present Place. The location of Washington's new $3,000,000 Naval Hospital will be dis- cussed at a hearing to be held before the Public Buildings Commissicn in the Senate Finance Committee room. | ‘The Fine Arts Commission wants the new naval medical center placed in | some location like Walter Reed Hos- | pital, but the Navy is holding out for its present site at Constitution avenue and Twenty-fourth street. Scheduled to appear to discuss the problem today are Charles Moore, chair- man of the Fine Arts Commission; Rear Admiral A. L. Parsons, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy De- partment, and his assistant, Capt Walter H. Allen of the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps. Secretary Adams and Assistant Sec- retary Ernest Lee Jahncke, who would otherwise be asked to appear, are out of the city. Last week Mr. Moore and P, Caemmerer, executive secretary of the PFine Arts Commission, had a conference with Secretary Adams on the subject. Mr. Adams announced later that there is no real difference between the Navy and the Fine Arts Commission. Today's hearing is arranged for 4 o'clock, with Senator Reed Smoot, Re- publican, of Utah, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission, presid- ing. The commission is charged with the location of governmental buildings here. Recently the Fine Arts Commission sent a lefter to the Navy Department suggesting that the new Naval Hospital, funds for which have been held up by President Hoover’s economic program, be built on a site in the vicinity of Wal- ter Reed Hospital, where there is plenty of available space, enabling a great naval medical center to develop. Pre- liminary plans for the hospital have been prepared by the Allied Architects of Washington, Inc., and further studies are being made. The project is tied up with the pro- posal to extend New York avenue in the direction of the Potomac River. Any buildings placed on the present Naval Hospital site would have to harmonize | in character with the Lincoln Memorial, | Nat'onal Academy of Sciences and other structures in that area along Constitu- tion avenue, under plans of the Fine Arts Commission. | SR ST - T RAIL TICKET FRAUD CHARGED TO THREE Woman and Two Men Said to Have Cost Pennsy and B. & 0. Thousands. Two men and a woman, said to have been engaged in a “ticket racket.” through which the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads have lost thousands of dollars, were arraigned in Police Court today on charges of vio- lating the law by selling tickets with- out a license. Those arrested yesterday were Sam- uel Rosenberg, 51, of the 600 block of Kenyon street; Joseph Schwartz, 65, 400 block of F street, and Mrs. Ethel Claw- ans, Newark, N. J. Each was held on | two charges of violating the license law and held under $500 bond in each charge. New Road Has “Sinking Spells” T concrete were required to bolster it. open to traffic portions and dumping ashes and dirt alo District Highway Department workmen, assisted by men paid by ND FOUNDATION GIVES WAY. ng the sides. HE curb line of the recently completed New York avenue northeast extension is assuming unawauons souicwiat similar to those of a scenic railway, as the above pho tograph shows. The street, which links Florida avenue northeast with Bladensburg road, is built on filled land. Portions of it began dropping shortly after it was opened to traffic, and recent rains have made the “sinking spells” more Pronounced. One part of the thoroughfare alone fell so far, according to workmen, that 15 tons of asphaltic Although several sunken portions of the road are roped off, the street is still the Community Chest, are repairing the damaged —Star Staff Photo. GEN, BOOTH GVEN POST IN MANILA Succeeds Gen. Hines, Who Retires, Starting for Wash- ington in April. Maj. Gen. Ewing E. Booth will suc-| ceed Maj. Gen. John L. Hines as com- | mander of the Philippine Department | of the Army, the War Department an- nounced today. Gen. Hines will be | retired May 31 because cf age. He will | leave Manila April 9 and proceed to | Washington, where he will be assigned to the office of the chief of staff while | awaiting retirement. ‘The new head of the Philippine De- | partment has been in command of the 1st Cavalry Divisicn, stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex. He will sail from San Fran- cisco for Manila March 7 to assume his new duties. Both cfficers have had distinguished military careers. Each has been awarded a Distinguished Service Medal and Gen. Hines also has the Distin- guished Service Cross. Gen. Booth will be 62 years old next month, while Gen. Hines will reach the retirement age of 64 in May. Began As Private. The new Philippine commandant be- gan his military career as a private in the Colorado National Guard. .He had attained the rank of captain in the regiment prior to the outbreak of the Spanish American War. He saw extensive service in the Philipines during the war with Spain and later during the Philippine insur- rection. Commissioned a first lieuten- ant of cavalry in the Regular Army in February, 1901, he was ordered to join the Tth Cavalry Regiment in Cuba. | At the outbreak of the World War, having reached the rank of major, he | was made assistant chief of staff and iater chief of staff of the Eastern D:- partment at Governors Island, N Y Late in 1917, he went to Furope s an observer of military operations on the eastern front. He returned to ‘he United States in March, 19 ccmpanied the 77th Division t sailing during the same month In July, 1918, he was appointed & temporary brigadier general and as- Says He Speeded By “Neckers” for Daughter’s Sake A. H. Sparkman Explains Desire to Prevent Girl Seeing. Andrew H. Sparkman, 309 Maryland | averiue northeast; drove 40 miles an hour along Bladensburg road northeast in order to pass automobiles containing “necking parties which he did not wish his young daughter to see,” he explained in Police Court today. Sparkman, who said he is connected with the office of Senator Blaine of ‘Wisconsin and was once a professor at the University of Wisconsin, was re- leased by Judge Isaac R. Hitt on his personal bond. He also was charged with driving on dead tags and failure to exhibit his ariver’s permit, but plead- ed unfamiliarity with local laws. Sparkman was arrested yesterday by Sergts. James E. Fondahl and K. P. Greenlow, after they had paced him at 40 miles an hour for five blocks, the court was informed. BLANTON PROPOSES NEW-POLICE BOARD Bill to Create Disciplinary Group of Citizens Is Pre- sented to House. A bill to create a new “discipline board” of citizens, upon whose recom- mendation the District Commissioners would have complete authorily to ds- miss offending _policemen. was intro- duced in the House today by Repre- sentative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas. The bill also would empower the President to remove from office sum- ny District Commissioner fail- ing to “enforce the criminal laws” or the police regulations. A The new trial board for the police The trio appealed to Judge McMahon | signed to command the 8th Brigade of | orce would be composed of three citi- for a jury trial and were released on bond of $1,000 each for appearance in court January 22 According to Headquarters Detective R. J. Cox, the alleged scheme was car- ried out by riding from New York here on week end excursion trains and buy- | ing return stubs of the excursion tickets for small sums and selling them to per- sons going 1o New York | The round-trip excursion cost is ol $8.50, Sergt. Cox explained, and the r turn stubs have been purchased by thosc | in the racket for as low as 50 cents, each. The stubs subsequently have| been sold for $5 each' to persons going from Washington to New York. The one-way straight fare to New York is $8.14 | The two men and woman were tzken | into custody as they came in on 2| train yesterdey. Their arrest followed the 4th Division, with which he served | in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and | Meuse-Argonne offensives and on the | march to Germany. From January to July, 1920, he was | deputy allied high commissioner to Ar- menia. He returned to the United States in July, 1920, with the permanent rank of colonel in the Regular Army, | and was ordered to Fort Leavenwortn, Kans After several changes of assignment he was promoted to brigadier general and in December, 1929, to the grade of major general. Gen. Hines served the Spenish-American War, in the Philippine Insurrection, was chief of staff of the punitive expedition into | Mexico against Villa and during the World war commanded the 4th Di- | vicion. Returning to the United States in Cuba during an investigation of more than two months, during which time 29 “buys” | were made by persons working for the Detective Bure:u ; Other arrests are to follow, it is said. | The three were arrested by Detective | Sergts. Cox and Leo Murray Police said the Clawans woman had & number of the return ticket stubs concealed in her shoes TWO COLORED MEN SLAIN DURING NIGHT | | | Stabbing and Shooting Under Po- | lice Investigation, With One Man Under Arrest. | Two colored men were murdered here 1ast night one stabbed with a butcher Knife and the other shot in the stom- ach g Samuel Prater. colored 1233 Twenty-fifth street, said by volice %o have admit tabbing John Robinson 49. of 1326 Twenty-seventh street, was According to DO- lice, Prater rushed into a grocery stors at 1231 Twenty-fifth street, grabbed butcher knife, ran ou Robinson. In the ens cut on the face him Brt- aid treatment at Emergency Hospital he was jailed on a murder charge lice said he was intoxicated when ar- rested. Louis Busey, 25, of 811 Twenty-fourth street, was found shot to death in front of 2424 Virginia avenue. Police are searching for the slaver MRS. M. F. WHELAN DIES Priends here have been advised of the death in Hialeah, Fla. this morn- ing of Mrs. Martin F. Whelan, sr., a former resident of Washington who moved to the Southern city about five years ago with her family. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Whelan is survived by a son, Martin " of 38, d | Waldorf-Astoria | group will appear before the Judiciary, | Po- | he was assigned as chief of staff m 1924, and from November, 1926, to Oc- tober, 1930, commanded the 9th Corps Area. He has bgen in command of the Philippine department since 1930. BUREAU TO CHECK | COMMUNISTS ASKED New York Session Appoints I)ele-1 gates to Urge Vigorous Action Be- | fore Congressional Committees, Resolutions recommending establish- | ment of a Justice Department bu | to investigate and supervise C-mmuni activities in the United Stetes and passage of immigration laws preventing the entrance of Cocmmunists into this country were acopted by the Commit- tee to Combat Communism in a meet- ing in New York at the Army-Navy Club todey A committee of five representatives will be appointed at the Anti-Com- munist_convention to be held at the | January 17. This | Immigration and Ways and Means Com- mittees of Congress to urge the adop- tion of legislation apprcved by the Anti- Communist forces. Plans for the coming convention were completed at today's session. Approxi- mately 400 orgznizations are expected | t> send delegates to the conference. Speeches will be broadcast over the | | Naticnal Broadcasting System and, fol- | 1 lowing the meeting, over the Columbfla‘ Broadcasting chain | PACKER CASE UP FEB. 29 By the Associated Press The Supreme Court today said it would pass on the recent modification F. Whelan, jr, a graduate of George- wwn‘ Y.lJnll\'er;lla' Law School, and now a municipal judge at Hialeah, near Miami. of the packers consent decree and set the argument for February 29 The case has been in the courts in one form or another almost since 1920. . zens in no way connected with the municipal government and would have full authority to summon witnesses by court subpoena. The board members would be appoint- ed by the President for terms of three years each. They would receive salaries of $2,000 annually, and the chairman would receive $250 additional. Each member would have to be a bona fide resident of the United States of 20 years' standing. The board, to replace the present Trial Board composed of police officers, would have power only to try policemen and make recommendations regarding punishment. Sentences would be meted out solely by the Commissioners, whose decision would be “final and conclusive.” Dismissal could be administered to & policeman charged with offenses against the Federal or local laws, “whether be- fore or after conviction,” and dismissed officers_could not be reappointed. Mr. Blanton introduced the bill after conferences with the corporation counsel. HOTEL DEATH LAID T0 NATURAL CAUSE Coroner Returns Accidental Verdict in Killing of Two by Gas in Capital Lodging House. William H. Smith, 60, found dead Saturday in the Mount Vernon Hotel, 487 Pennsylvania avenue, died of tuber- culosis, it was revealed at an autopsy performed yesterday by Coroner Joseph D. Rogers. The coroner issued a natural death certificate. In the account of the death published in The Sunday Star it was erroneously stated Smith was found in the Metro- politan _Hotel Certificates of accidental death werc issued yesterday in the cases of Haily G. Schmidt, 36, and McColin B. Price, 36, killed by illuminating gas Satur- day in a lodging house at 612 G street Deputy Coroner C. J. Murphy said Schmidt was identified by a friend, Joseph Sparrough, 233 Rhode Island avenue, and Price by his brother, Wil- liam B. Price, 833 Eleventh street northeast. Schmidt previously had been tentatively identified by Army dis charge papers found in his pocket.¢ OIL CURB APPEAL DUE Oklahoma's oil conservation legisla- tion, under which Gov. Murray used Na- tional Guardsmen to shut down wells, will be reviewed by the Supreme Court. In deciding today to take up the case the court indicated it would tell Okla- homa whether it went too far in legis- lation which Gov. Murray held gave the State the right to keep the wells closed until ofl climbed to a higher price, “WAKEFIELD’ CHOR REHEARSAL 1S ST Tryouts for Bicentennial Presentation Will Start Tomorrow Night. First steps to organize a choir which, | with the United States Marine Band, | will furnish music incident to the pres- |entation of the Percy Mackaye | masque “Wakefield” in Constitution | Hall, February 21, will be taken tomor- |row night in ‘Thomas Community | Center, when hundreds of volunteer | singers will gather for initial rehearsals | under the direction of Dr. Albert W | Harned, director of the National Capi- tal Chor. The masque, written expressly for |the George Washington Bicentennial | celebration e by the well known play- | right, will be presented under the joint | sponsorship of the District of Columbia and United States George Washington Bicentennial Commissions. It is planned to repeat the performance on the nights of February 25 and 26, with the dele- Education _Association attending one of these showings as a body. Spiritual and symbolic in character, the masque will portray scenes in and around Washington’s birthplace, and factors that were the inspiration and moving force of his career. It is ex- plained by the local Bicentennial Com- mission that the play is in no sense an historical delineation of the life of Washington, but “is the story of our country composed in folk lore.” Music for the production has been arranged by John Tasker Howard, musi- cal director of the National Bicenten- nial Commission. “The masque,” according to the Dis- trict Commission, | sional of the arts, the law, the sciences and the fairy ring, which is composed of the folk people of the ages, with the | addition of those who have come to us | from many lands to help in the forma- | tion of the country because of the im- | petus which was set forth by Washing- ton.” 'TWO OFFICERS TRIED IN BEATING OF MAN C. R. Bremmerman and H. H. Clark Are Charged in Six Counts. Charged with repeatedly beating & colored prisoner on three successive days at the old second precinct station last Summer, Policemen Charles R. Bremmerman and Hollis H. Clark were standing trial today before a’jury and Justice Letts in Criminal Division 1 of the District Supreme Court. The policemen are charged in six | counts of an indictment with assault with a dangerous weapon, a_wooden club, on Thomas McKeever Williams last June 25, 26 and 27, the counts charging that the policemen alternately used the club. Demonstrates Torture. Just before court recessed Williams, a diminutive figure;” demonstrated for the jury how he and five other colored prisoners on the three successive days had been compelled by blows with clubs and fists to stand on their toes vith their hands over their heads. This novel method, he testified, was kept up for an hour at a time. Eight other policemen previously had stood trial on third-degree charges, four having been acquitted and four con- | victed. Outlines Case to Jury. Assistant United States Attorney John R. Fitzpatrick, who is trying his first case before the District Supreme Court with his collegue, William Coliier, out- lined the cases to the jury which had been selected after an hour’s time, | Williams had never before been involved | with the police, he told the jury. | —— e - MRS. COOKSON BURIED Funeral Services Conducted at On- tario Road Home. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon for Mrs. A. G. Cookson, who died Wednesday at her home,’ 2710 Ontarlo road. Burial was in Fort Lin- coln Cemetery. Mrs. Cookson was born 79 years ago on Long Island, New York, a daughter {of the late Col. Joseph Cookson and Esther Snow Cookson. She had been a resident of Washington for 34 years. She Is survived by five children, Maj. W. W. Cookson, U. S. A.; Walter M. | Cookson of Los Angeles, Mrs. Victoria A. Hyde and Leon J. and Lovina A. Cookson. Card Party Planned. SILVER HILL, M« January 11 | (Special).—The Parent-Teacher Asso- | ciation of the Silver Hill School will sponsor a card party st the school, January 23. gates to the convention of the National | “gives the proces- | | Previous to his arrest on June 25, FURTHER CHARCES OF SHORT PAY I SCHOD.WORK MADE Six Carpenters on Benjamin Stoddard Building Accuse Contractor. FORCED TO SIGN BLANK PAY ROLLS, THEY SAY Affidavits Are Filed With Maj. H. L. Robb—C. S. Bannett De- nies Statement in Paper. Another charge alleged short-chang- ing workers on District School projects by contractors has been brought to the attention of the District Government in a series of affdavits relating to pay- ments made to carpenters working on the Benjamin Stoddart School, also known as the Burleith-Glover Park School. Maj. H. L. Robb said today he had received affidavits from six carpenters on this job to the effect that they had been compelled to sign pay rolls in blank by the contractor for the job, the Charles . Bannett Co., Inc,, of Phila- delphia. The pay for carpenters under the scale approved by the District on $137% per hour. The carpenters claim they were paid at the rate of 85 cents per hour. Bannett Makes Affidavit, ‘There is also an affidavit, Maj. Robb said, signed by Charles S. Bannett, stat- ing that the pay rolls showing pay- ments to the carpenters at the higher rate are true and correct. Maj. Robb said that since the state- ments were both under oath and were directly contradictory, he had turned the whole matter over to Corporation Counsel William W. Sride for action. A somewhat similar case arose re- cently in connection with a contract for the construction of an addition to the Woodridge School. Here workers charged that they had been forced to sign for more than they received, and this was not denied by representatives of the William P. Rose Co., of Goldsbor- ough, N. C., who had that contract. In that case, however, the Rose company agreed to make a payment in full to the men who had been short paid in order to secure another contract with the District for the construction of a fire engine house at Thirteenth and K streets. This payment was made. Work Behind Schedule. Maj. Robb said that the work on tne Stoddart School was far behind schedule, and that the District was con- Sidering calling on the bonding com- pany which underwrote the contract to make it up. This, however, is inde- pendent of the trouble over’ the Wage scale. {““Mr. Bride said he had not yet seen the papers in the case, and could not forecast what his action would be. SISTER OF DEAD RECLUSE IS FOUND Capital Woman Learns Man Who Died in Baltimore Is Her Brother. Convinced by the newspapers_that an elderly recluse who died in Balti- more last Wednesday was her brother, Mrs. Katherine Coleman of 1403 Rhode Island avenue went to the Maryland City today to make funeral arrange- ments and to investigate reports of a $9,830 bank deposit left by the dead man. Mrs. Coleman, who was accompanied to Baltimore by her husband, D. M. Coleman, a clerk in Government em- ploy, sald she was the only near rela- tive to survive her brother, Frederick Schembach. Mrs. Coleman read of Schembach’s death in a Washington newspaper Sun- day morning, and, communicating with local police, was advised to get in touch with Baltimore authorities. Schembach had led a secluded life in' a basement on South Paca street, and, although, he found employment from time to time as a night watch- man for firms in the vicinity during the past 17 years, the fact that he had saved a considerable sum of money was as much a surprise to his sister as_word of his death. Baltimore police, searching Schem- | bach's effects Saturday for a clue to | his relatives, found a bank book show- ing deposits totaling almost $10,000, together with a registered letter from a sister, “Mrs. C. Coleman of 621 K street, Washington.” Investigation Saturday night, how- ever, showed the residence given had been vacant for weeks and the former occupants had left no forwarding ad- dress. Schembach died in a municipal am- bulance on his way to a Baltimore hos- pital. He had fallen ill a week pre- viously, and the man from whom he rented the basement summoned as- sistance when the elderly tenant took a turn for the worse. GOVERNMENT PLANES RETURN TO CAPITAL Lieut. Pugh Sets Service Record, Coming Here From Miami in 71/, Hours. A number of Government planes from the Capital, homeward bound from the -all-American air races in Miami, arrived here yesterday and more were expected today. More than a score of privately-owned planes, flown by amateur pilots, are expected to pass through the city withir the next two days en route home from the races. Seven Army planes came in from Miami yesterday, one of them, flown by Lieut. Charles F. Pugh of Bolling Field, setting a new service speed record. He covered the distance from Miami to Washington in seven and a half hours of flying time. He made fuel stops at Savannah, Ga., and Pope Field, N. C. Lieut. Pugh, a native of the Capital, bettered by 15 minutes the flying time of Lieut. Jullan Haddon, who last week made the trip in 7 hours and 45 minutes. Nine planes from the Anacostia Naval Air Station are on the way back today, three of them reporting fueling stops this morning at Charleston, S. C. Twe more Army planes also are expected. the authority of the Bacon-Davis act is ! Killed in the southeast last night All that is left of a stolen automobile that two Marines took on a joyride in Both men were killed. This Wreck } —Star Staff Photo. GRADUATIONS SET FORHIGH 3CHOLS Junior and Senior Classes! Hold Midyear Exercises at End of Month. Washington's junior and senior high | sctool graduations of mid-year classes | | Will be held on two days at the end of this month, according to the sche- | dule announced today at the Franklin | School Administration Building. The | graduations, with the presiding officer | of each, will be held as follows: Business High School (two-year class), 10 a.m., Jere J. Crane, school | business manager; Business _High | School (four-year class), 8 p.m., Rabbi | Abram Simon, president, Board of Edu- cation; Eastern High School (three- year class), 8 pm., Mrs. Philip Sirney | Smith; Armstrong High School, 8 p.m., | Mrs. Williab C. McNeil, and Cardozo High School, 2 p.m., Rev. F. L A. Ben- nett, all January 28. Central High Sctool, 8 pm., Mrs. | Henry Grattan Doyle, school board | member; Eastern High School (four- {year class), 8 pm. Henry Gilligan, school board member; McKinley High School, 8 p.m., Daniel C. Roper, board member; Western High School, 1:30 p.m, George M. Whitwell, board mem- ber, and Dunbar High School, 8 p.m., Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, board member, all January 29. Junior high school graduations and their presiding officers follow: Hine, 2 p.m., Robert L. Haycock, as- sistant superintendent; Langley, 8 p.m., Miss Rcse Lees Hardy, assistant super- intendent; Facfarland, 1:30 p.m., Harry O. Hine, school board secretary, and Francis, 10:30 am., Harold A. Hayncs, member of the board of examiners, all January 28. Jefferson, 8 p.m., Miss Jessie La Salle, assistant_superintendent; Paul, 2 pm., Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant super- intendent; Powell, 2 pm., Mr. Crane: | Stuart, 2 p.m., Mr. Hine; Garnett-Pat. terson, 2 p.m., Rev. Mr. Bennett; Ran dall, 10:30 am., Mrs. McNeill, an: Shaw, 2 p.m. Dr. Johnson, all Jan- uary 29. | FOUR PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN SPEAKEASY RAID Patrick J. Ahern and Others Ask Jury Trial on Liquor and Nuisance Charges. | Secretary of Treasury Mellon, Secre- tary of War Hurley, Attorney General TRADE BOARD ASKS BRILLIANT THRONG Leaders of Capital Invited to Willard Banquet Feb- ruary 6. Leaders of the diplomatic, adminis- | trative, congressional and business cir- cles of the Capital have been invited to attend the annual banquet of the Wash- ington Board of Trade February 6, it was announced today as plans were completed for colorful decorations and | a full evening of professional entertain- ment, The event this year is to be given the character of “The Spirit of the Mardi Gras” in New Orleans, and local artists | and mechanics are at. work on gay scenic effects designed to carry out the character of the program. Both the exterior and interior of the Willard Hotel, scene of the banquet, will be dressed up for the occasion, the two ball rooms to contain likenessés of the Vieux Carre in New Orleans. There ! will be & show boat tied up to a make- believe levee in the reception ball room, with a band of musicians playing aboard. In the main ball room, profes- sional _entertainers will appear on & stage representing the famous New Or- leans street, with large scenic flats rep- resenting buildings on either side. Formal Addresses Banned. Gargantuan dragon and clown heads will be placed at either end of the room and huge masks on ceiling-high col- umns will rise along the walls of the room, with festoons of lights hanging from the ceiling, it is announced by Harry H. R. Helwig, committee head. A lengthy entertainment by profes- sional performers is being arranged by 2 committee headed by Thomas Eagan. Formal addresses will be banned. Guests of honor invited to attend in- clude Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Am- | bassador; Secretary of State Stimson, Mitchell, Postmaster General Brown, Secretary of Navy Adams, Secretary of Interior Wilbur, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Secretary of Commerce Lamont, gecr;&ary ofdmhgrn Doak, Gen. John J. ‘ershing, and John N. Garner, Speak of the House. T Senators Reed Smoot, James E. Wat- son, Wesley L. Jones, John J. Blaine, Arthur Capper, Hemilton F. Kean, Robert D. Carey, Otis F. Glenn, War- ren R. Austin, William H. King, Carter Glass, Royal S. Copeland, Millard E. Tydings, Thomas P. Gore, J. H2milton | Patrick J. (Jack) Ahern and three | other men, arrested Saturday by police | | and Federal agents in a raid on an | |alleged speakeasy at 1636 Connecticut | | avenue, pleaded not guilty before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today and asked for a jury trial on charges of possession of liguor and maintaining & nuisance. Judge Schuldt ordered the men held under $1,000 bond each and fixed Jan- uary 25 as the date for trial. The men besides Ahern arrested in the raid in which the officers reported seizing a quantity of liquor and speak- easy paraphernalia, were Harry W. ‘Wood, Joseph Harris Hall and John C. Kelly, the latter two colored. FUND RAISING SCHEMES REPUDIATED BY VETERANS V. F. W. Denies Responsibility for Soup Kitchen Plans or Sale of Calendars Here. Denial of any responsibility for solici- tation of funds for operation of a soup kitchen and other money-raising schemes, other than the annual Armis- tice day ball in November and the offi- cial poppy sale in May, was made by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in a statement issued today. The statement asserts: “District of Columbia, Department | No 1, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, does not sanction the solicitation of funds for the cper- ation of a soup kitchen in Washington, nor are any of its members engaged in representing the organization in the sale of calendars. “While the Veterans of Foreign Wars is interested in pending legislation 1a Congress, which, if passed, will give the veteran the remaining 50 per cent of the bonus, and the organization .has obtained over 2,000,000 signatures to petitions asking for the immediate passage of this legislation, no fee or charge is requested from any person | who signs petitions of the V. F. W. Any one claiming to be a representative of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at- tempting to obtain money under any of the schemes mentioned above should | be turned over to the police imme- | diately.” | HUNDREDS TO ATTEND | CHEST “PEP” LUNCHEON Meeting Tomorrow Will Be Final | Session Before Opening of Campaign. Several hundred persons probably will attend a pep luncheon of the Com- munity Chest Speakers' Unit tomor- row in the Raleigh Hotel. This will be the final meeting of the unit prior to opening the campaign January 24. Joseph D. Kaufman, unit chairman, will be the toastmaster. Speakers will include Edward F. Colladay, chairman of the General Campaign Committee; Thomas E. Campbell, chairman of the governmental unit; Clarence A. Aspin- wall, chairman of the special gifts unit; Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman of the group solicitation unit; H. L. Rust, jr., chair- 4 | ward W. Pou. Fritz G. Lanham, Henry 4merce; Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director | ton and Lawrence Richey, secretaries to Lewis, John H. Bankhe2d, Henri> Ship- stead, Hiram Bingham, Gerald F. Nye, :ohn B. Kendrick and Samuel G. Brat- on. Representatives Joseph W. Byrns, Ed- B. Steagall, Bertrand H. S , Vincent L. Palmisano, Robert S. Hall, Wright Patman, Howard W. Smith, Lynn S. Hornor, Loring D. Black, J. Bayard Clark, Ralph Gilbert, Robert Ramspeck, Byron B. Harlan, Allard H. Gasque, Clarence J. McLeod, Edward N. Beers, Gale H. Stalker, Frank L. Bowman, Patrick J. Sullivan, James L. Whitley, C. B. McClintock, Frederick M. Daven- port and Pehr G. Holmes. Service Chiefs Asked. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, U. S. A.; Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, U.'S. N.; Trubee Davison, Assistant_Secretary of War; Clarence Young, Assistant Secretary of Com- Office of Public Buildings and Parks; District Commissioners * Luther H. Reichelderfer and Gen. Herbert, B. Crosby; Maj. Donald A. Davison, Act- ing Engineer Commissioner; Maj. H. L. Robb, Assistant District Engineer Com- missioner; Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, chief engineer of the District; Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford: superintendent of police; George S. Watson, chief Wash- ington Fire Department; Silas H. Strawn, president United States Cham- ber of Commerce. ‘Theodore G. Joslin, Walter H. New- President Hoover; Mark Lansburgh, president, and Edward D. Shaw, sec- retary, Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association; Harry King, president, and Dorsey W. Hyde, secretary, Washing- ton Chamber of Commerce; Corpora- tion Counsel W. W. Bride, F. L. Haller, president, Washington Automotive Trade Association; W. A. Van Duzer, director of traffic; W. H. Harland, as- smstant director of traffic. Inspector E. W. Brown, assistant superintendent of police; Inspector Frank 8. W. Burke, assistant superin- tendent of police; Robert F. Beresford, R. M. Hicks, Aubrey Taylor, B. M. Mc- Kelway, Herbert F. Corn. DR. MELHORN NAMED TO ARMS DELEGATION Naval Officer to Act as Physician to Americans at Geneva Parley. Capt. Kent C. Melhorn, in charge of personnel in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, today was appointed physician to the Ameri- can delegation to the Arms Conference at_Geneva next month. In naval orders released today Capt. Melhorn was detached from the Bureau to duty with the“Secretary of State. He expects to leave Washington with other members of the American group on January 20. He lives here at 4100 Cathedral avenue. Capt. Melhorn was born in Kenton, Ohio, December 9, 1883, and was ap- TWO MARINES DIE IN CRASH OF AUTO CHASED BY POLIGE Victims in Southeast Accident Fred Reefer, Navy Yard, and C. Mutchler, Barracks. CAR REPORTED STOLEN SHORT WHILE BEFORE Witness Tells of Body Hurled Into Air by Impact at 65 or 70 Miles Per Hour. Two Marine Corps privates were killed instantly late last night when a stolen automobile in which they were riding crashed head-on into a tree and then into a telephone pole on Orange street southeast while making an effort to elude police. Both men were thrown clear of the machine and their bodies mangled. The men were positively identified, police said today, as Fred Reefer, 24 a | Marine, attached to the Navy Yard, and Charles Mutchler, attached to the Ma- rine Barracks here. Reefer was in civilian clothes and Mutchler in uni- form, The crash occurred shortly after the automobile had turned off Nichols ave- nue southeast into Orange street, a dead-end thoroughfare. George Mc- Donald of the 3300 block of Brothers place southeast, told police he saw one of the bodies thrown in the eir upon the first impact. Speed Over 65 Miles.. At the time of the crash the machine in which the men were killed v.as trav- eling at an estimated speed of between 65 and 70 miles an hour. The stolen car was being chased by Policeman Eugene Lohr. He said he noticed the car's tag numbers corre- sponded with those of a machine re- ported stolen earlier in the night. At the time Lohr was in a police car at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. The stolen machine and the police car sped toward the Anacost'a Bridge. The chase was later joined by Thomas A Redmond of the 1200 block of New | Hampshire avenue, a taxi-cab driver. As the machines raced across the Anacostia Bridge, the car in which the Marines were Tiding almost struck an automobile operated by Charles A. Keefe, 400 block of Eleventh street southeast, who also joined in the pursuit. , A few blocks past the bridge the machine began to outdistance its pur- suers and turned into Orange street. The crash came just after the turn. Car Reported Stolen. The automobile in which they - were riding was said to have been the prop- erty of Clyde A. Sherman, 900 block of Virginia avenue southwest, and was re- ported stolen from the vicinity of Se (Jl'ldt street and Virginia avenue south- west. Reefer’s father, Adam Reefer of Lea- wood, Iowa, was notified of his son’s death. Miss Marie Walter, 21, of 615 Elliott street northeast, was treated at Casualty Hospital last night for cuts about the head received when she plunged for- ward into the windshield of an auto- mobile operated by Earle S. Russell, 22, 223 Ninth street northeast, after a colli- slon with another machine at Ninth and L streets northeast. Alonzo Rey- nolds, 35, colored, of the 1700 block of Montello avenue northeast, is said to be the driver of the other cer. John E. Kan:, 12, 3475 Holmead place, received a broken leg yesterday when he slipped from the curb into the path of an automobile being parked in the 3300 block of Fourtzenth .street. He was taken to Children’s Hospital. The automobile was operated by Bene- dict M. English, 37, 1872 Newton street, police say. TWO KILLED, FOUR HURT. ‘Washington Colored Persons Victims of Auto Near Fredericksburg. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. January 11.—Two Washington colored persons were killed, two probably fatally injured and four others sustained minor hurts when a sedan in which the eight were riding south crashed into the side of a produce truck en route north, 9 miles north of here on the Richmond-Wash- ington Highway last night. The dead are, Hattie Coleman, 13, and James Dickerson, taxi driver, 30. Those probably fatally injured are Ada Montague, 34, and Linwood Coleman, 18. They are unconscious and no hope is held for recovery. ‘The Washington machine is said to have left its side of the road and crashed into the truck, knocking it 8 feet from the roadway. ASSOCIATED ‘CHARITIES TO HOLD ANNIVERSARY Plans for the Winter will be outlined tomorrow night at 8 o‘clock at a meet- ing in celebration of the fiftieth anni- versary of the Associated Charities in the Young Women's Christian Asso- clation. Mrs. John M. Glenn, president of the Family Welfare Association of Amer- ica will discuss “The Place of the As- sociated Charities in the Community in the Present Emergency.” ‘While the organization’s chicf func- tion has been direct assistance of fam- ilies in need, its welfare activities have covered a wide field. It organized the Committee on Prevention of Consump- tion in 1903, which was succeeded by the Association for the Prevention of ‘Tuberculosls. The organization formed the first Public Playground Commiitee in the city. The Associated Charities had 3,139 families under care in 1930, as com- pared with 3,963 in 1931. Relief dis- bursements in 1930 were $130,118, against $188,963 in 1931. MRS. A. R. LAMPTON DIES Long Illness Fatal to Real Estate Broker's Wife. Mrs. Annie Ring Lampton, wife of James J. Lampton, Washington real estate broker, died at her home, 2323 Wyoming avenue, early yesterday after- noon. She had been 1l for some time. Born in 1870, Mrs. Lampton_spent her early life in Watertown, N. Y., and had resided in Washington since her marriage. She is survived by her husband, &_daughter, Mrs. Paul F. pointed to the Naval Medical Corps In | man of the metropolitan unit, and El- Wood]8irest {Chiessi dizzaiors August, 1907. He has been in the Bu- reau of Medicine and Surgery since Au- gust, 1930, Titchener, Binghamton, N. Y. and three grandchildren, James, Anne and Jean Titchener. Burial will be private. F ] #