Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1932, Page 17

The Foe ning WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION = WASHINGTON, D, @, THURSDAY, far Society and General | JANUARY 14, 1932. —— PAGE B—1 ACCUSER OF POLIE TESTIFIES IN TRIAL OF 2FORBRUTALTY 17-Year-0ld Colored Youth Tells. Story Similar to Companions’. WITNESS ADMITS BEING ‘SCARED’ OF U. S. OFFICERS Prosecution of C. R. Bremmerman and N. H. Clark to Be Con- tinued Until Monday. A jury in the District Supreme Court | today heard another witness testify as to beating that Policemen Charles R. Brem- merman and Hollis H. Clark are al- leged to have given a group of colored prisoners in the locker room of the old second precinct station last June. The two policemen, now under sus- pension, are charged specifically with assaulting Willlam McKeever Williams, 7-year-old colored youth, who pre- viously had testified he had finally col- lapsed under the blows of the two po- licemen and the strain of standing on his toes with his hands in the air. By this method, the government claims, the police wrunig a_confession of house- reaking and joyriding from the youth. Accuser Testifies. Augustus Blandham, 17, one of the boys alleged to have been beaten, was the fifth witness called by Assistant United States Attorney William A. Gal- lagher just before the noon recess of court. His testimony was practically along the same line as that of the other boys, who testified Bremmerman and Clark rapped them repeatedly with an oak stick about head, elbows and legs as they stood in line. Just before Blandham went on the stand, defense attorneys secured from another Government witness, Rudolph Truxton, an admission that he was “scared” when Department of Justice agents sought him following the alleged assault at the precinct station, to get his story and evidence agains the two officers Defense attorneys had tried to get the witness to admit he had told Brem- merman and Clark that the justice agents had forced him to sign a state- ment against them that was untrue. Truxton denied this emphatically, but under further questioning, said he had told them he was “scared.” Later, under redirect examination by Mr. Gal- lagher, he denied this also. Will Order Continuance. It was understood that Justice F. D. Letts, who is presiding at the trial, will order it continued over until Monday morning. when court adjourned later in the day. He has lunacy cases to hear in the interim. Owing to the exhaustive cross- examination by defense attorneys, the trial has been slowly since } its opening on Monday morning. From several of the witnesses the defense sought to show they had been coached in their testimony by the Department of Justice and members of the district attorney force who gathered evidence in the various third-degree charges in- volving members of the police force, SPORTSMEN EXEMPT IN FIREARMS BILL Capper Measure Will Not Apply in Target Shooting or Protec- tion of Homes. Target shooters, service men or persons having pistols for the protec- tion of home or business will not be affected by the bill for the control of sale and possession of firearms recently tntroduced into Congress by Senator Capper, C. B. Lister, secretary and treasurer of the National Rifle Asso- ciation, said in a statement issued today. ‘The bill, the so-called uniform fire- srms act, was evolved by the associa- tion five years ago and received the approval of the Commission of Uniform State Laws and the American Bas Association. The statement was issued by Mr. Lister in response to many telephone ealls from sportsmen and others as to the effect of the bill. The bill states that pistols shall not e sold to defectives, persons who have committed crimes and other undesir- ables t a person cannot Carry a pistol ut a permit, nor can a dealer deliver a pistol until 48 hours have elapsed after the request to buy was made. It is also provided that the ers be licensed, and that identifica- ks on a pistol be not defaced removed F found when with arms in in the act of an additional ons r possession committing a crime sentence of 5 years imprisonment is provided for the first offense, 10 years for the second offense, 15 years for the third offense and 30 years for $he fourth offense. M. F. WALLACE DIES Grandson of Late Ch;} Justice Ex- pires at Colorado Springs. Word has been received in Washing- n of the death yesterday at Colorado of ville Fuller Wallace, of the late Chief Justice Mel- Fuller A llace is survived by his mother Mrs ugh Campbell Wallace; his widow, the former Miss Ruth Patterson, daughter of the late Raymond Patter- son, and four children, Patricia, Hugh Campbell, Ruth and Melville Wailace Mr. Wallace served in the World War captain and was & graduate of His father was at one to as Yale University time United States Ambassador France. OPPOSED MAPES BILLS The millcrest Citizens' Association | Woman Accused of Beating Child opposed two of the Mapes Committee taxation bills at its meeting last Mon- day night estate tax bill while no action taken on the gas and weight tax bills. Opposition was voiced to Congress and the Federation. Society Elects Wickersham. WEW YORK, January 14 George W. Wickersham was elec president of the Societ; o oy Jepan y yester- A resolution was passed dis- approving of the income tax bill and the was | to the pro-| posed reduction in the salaries of the District and Federal employes in the form of a resolution that is to be sent Many Offer Fish Home { ©Old Spencer, the Bureau of Fisheries sturgeon, today was splashing around in his tank at the bureau's old aquarium, proud of the fact that his service to the Government has been fully appreciated by his public. Almost on the threshold of becoming homeless, the 5-foot-long fish, which came to the bureau 15 years ago in the minnow stage of his career, now feels that there are at least 15 homes in Washington that would welcome him at_any time. Bureau officials said today that 15 Washingtonians during the past two weeks have attempted to legally adopt the old fish. Rich and poor have flocked to Spencer’s aid, each bringing along a large milk container to trans- port the fish from its pool direct to the homes, Popularity ¥s Shown. Officials also estimated today that immediately after their announcement two weeks ago that Spencer and Oscar, the 50-year-old turtle, and 123 other members of the aquarium's float- ing population, faced starvation and probably would be thrown into the Po- tomac River unless $10,000 was provided | for their upkeep in the aquarium in the | new Commerce Department Building, | that more than 100 persons have called | at the old aquarium to either provide | for the fish or to take from one to five | home with them. Many of the callers | were children. Hundreds of letters also have been received by both department and bureau officials from all sections of the coun- try, appealing in behalf of the fish. At the same time members of Con- gress have come to the aid of the fish, “SPENCER,” FISHERIES STURGEON, POPULAR. and a hearing was held this week at the Budget Bureau for the funds needed. No decision has yet been reached. Today bureau officials, however, were optimistic about the outlook. ~They have arranged to keep the fish until the end of this fiscal year and feel confident that an appropriation will be granted so that they may employ an expert aquarium man and assistants. | Transfer Soon to Be Made. They said they would transfer the 125 fish from the old to the new aquarium shortly. obtain. if the funds are forthcoming, 300 more fish so that the 48 large tanks in the new quarters will be well filled. They denied reports that Spencer’s quarters in the new aquarium would be so small that he would be unable to turn around. Instead, they have had a special tank installed for him and they plan to comb the aristocracy of sturgeons to procure him a mate. Officials are somewhat worried as to what to put in the three-floor tanks lo- cated in the center of the exhibition room. When the building was being de- signed they requested a large tank so that they could exhibit a seal or some large fish. However, the architects di- vided the tank into tkree sections, each being large enough only to provide for a small school of gold fish. ‘The tanks also are so shallow that officials have discarded the idea of plac- ing on exhibition leap-frogs, One tank will be used for gold fish, another will be used for turtles and in the third, during the hatching season, a trough of eggs will bé placed so that the general public may watch the “blessed event” of a fish. POLIE BRUTALTY CASES DELAYED Clean-up by Trial Board Held Up Until Return of Gen. Glassford. ARCHVE BULDIN CONTRACT 5 LE Brookzl‘yn Firm Submits Low Bid of $342,594 to Con- struct Foundations. Clean-up of the alleged police bru- tality cases left over from the exhaus-, tive third-degre investigation of the Department of Justice last Fall, it was learned today, will await the return of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, super- intendent of police, who is en route to South Carolina for a rest. About a dozen members of the force are said to be involved in the impend- ing cases which are to be taken before These cases are ones which the De- partment of Justice considered non-in- dictable, and for that reason did not present to the grand jury that returned indictments against 18 policemen. Altogether, the Department of Jus- tice turned over to the District Commis- sioners, 56 so-called non-indictable cases, thinking it might be possible to take disciplinary action against the officers involved. Upon examination, however, Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, found a number of cases were outside the statute of limitations, and that in others, some of the policemen named were the same who had been in- dicted for brutality by the grand jury. Mr. Bride's report was forwarded by the commissioners to Gen. Glassford, who announced at the time that charges would be preferred against the men which the corporation counsel thought could be disciplined. The names of these officers or the actual number were not revealed, although the police superintendent said charges would be preferred against “about a dozen.” The report of Mr. Bride was turned over to Gen. Glassford early in Decem- ber, but thus far, actual preparation of the charges against the dozen officers has not been undertaken either in the office of the chief clerk of the Police Department or by the corporation counsel. It is known, however, that the police superintendent made a personal study of some of the cases before leav- ing Washington, and had communicated with the United States attorney's office with respect to one case in particular which he thought should be presented to the grand jury. In the absence of Gen. Glassford, police officials do not propose to take any action with respect to the brutality cases. He is expected to return within {10 days or two weeks. Dam Bill Approved. ROCK ISLAND, Ill, January 14 () The bid of Stephen A. Healy of De- | troit, Mich., for construction of the | Government Roller Dam, Davenport sea { wall and intercepting ewer, was recom- mended for acceptance yesterday by Col. Glen E. Edgerton, chief of En- gineers. The Healy bid was $3,321,- 972.91. the Police Trial Board for disposition. | Prederick L. Cranford, Inc., of Brook- Iyn, N. Y., is low bidder for foundations | of the new monumental Archives Build- ing to be crected on the site of old Cen. ter Market. The low bid was $342,594.50. The second low bidder was S. M. Siesel of | Milwaukee, Wis., at $393,427.20. | The high bidder out of the 21 who | submitted offers was Sam G. Polino of | Fairmont, W. Va., at $480,080. | Another Contract Due. Another contract to follow the foun- | dation work will be that for test bor- ings for the adjacent Apex Building, 1o be located between Sixth and Seventh | streets, Constitution and_Pennsylvania avenues, where old buildings are being wrecked by a contractor. Carrying forward the Capital develop- ment program farther down Pennsyl- vania avenue, the Treasury Department will open bids January 20 for wrecking old buildings in Reservations A and B |along the Avenue between Third and Sixth streets. This area is to be used for extension of Constitution avenue and conversion into park area. Area to Be Developed. The great Archives Building, for which the contract on foundations soon will be let, is to be one of the most monumental structures in Washington, located on the so-called transept or cross-axis of the Mall. This transept is to be developed later with beautiful treatment, probably including fountains or pools Meanti to the immediate west of the archives site, there is a double con- tract under way by the Seisel concern or both excavations and foundations for the new Department of Justice. 5 ation in rough form for 4 n completed, it is ex- Did progress on foundations de on the archives job shortly after the formal contract is awarded. KEYES AGAINS’E PAY CUT New Hampshive Senator Opposes Federal Reduction. Another voice was added today to the group in Congress opposed to re- ducing salaries of Government em- ploy when Senator Keyes, Republic- an, of New Hampshire, announced he thougkt it would be a mistake for the Government to cut salaries at this time. 1 am opposed at this time to any measure tending to reduce the salaries of Federal employes,” Senator Keyes | said The New Hampshire Senator is a | member of the Appropriations Com- mittce and is chairman of the sub- committee which handles the independ- ent offices appropriation bill. OF CRUELTY TO grand jury in Police Court today on a cruelty charge after her 5-year-old | how she had been “beaten with a big strap” and locked in an apartment alone while her mother went to work The child, Dorothy May Williams, was taken from the home of her (#)— | mother, Mrs. Mary Williams, 220 H ted | street, after neighbors had told police seen the little girl crying st of ipafiment, they had the window 8 A colored mother was held for the, | daughter had told Judge Gus A. Schuldt | MOTHER IS ARRESTED ON CHARGE HER DAUGHTER, 5 and Locking Her in Apartment. Policewoman Ruby Brandt, who fig- ured in the recent Edith Riley case, armed with a warrant for the mother, escorted the girl to the receiving home. Mrs. Brandt said today that she had gone to the Williams apartment accom- | panied by Sergt. J. D. Harrington and had found the child alone in an un- heated room. Bruises were found on the little girl's body, which she said wefi&nmggfl by her mother. e Schuldt fixes woman's bond &t $2,000, R e s After July they will | OKLAHOMA OIL MAN PROTESTS 4CENT DISTRICT GAS TAX William N. Davis Declares Legislation Would Estab- lish Bad Precedent. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY BEGINS STUDY OF BILLS President of Association Fears Law of Diminishing Return Will Be Felt. From far-away Oklahoma came a protest to Congress today against one of the Mapes bills to increase taxation in the District. William N. Davis, presi- dent of the Midcontinent Oil & Gas Association, sent a protest against rais- ing the gasoline tax in Washington from 2 to 4 cents a gallon. According to an Associated Press dis- patch from Tulsa, Mr. Davis wrote to Chairman Capper of the Senate District Committee, expressing the belief that the proposed legislation, if enacted, would establish a precedent and exer- cise a far-reaching influence through- out the United States. Mr. Davis declared the experiences of the States “have definitely proven” that “the law of diminishing return begins to be felt when gasoline taxes exceed 2 cents per gallon,” and that from 3 cents upward the revenue decreases more rapidly. Studies All Mapes’ Bills. Herbert D. Brown and Thomas ¥. Murphy, chicf and assistant chief, re- spectively, of the Bureau of Efficiency, informed Senator Capper yesterday that the bureau had begun a careful study of all the Mapes bills, in accordance with the request of the Senate com- mittee. The bills seek to add approxi- mately $4,000,000 a year to the Dis- trict’s tax burden, and to repeal the substantive law of 1922 which fixed the ratio of expenditures for the National Capital on the basis of 60 per cent from District revenues and 40 per cent from the Federal Government. Although the House has been insist- ing on annual lump sum Federal con- tributions in lieu of the 40 per cent in recent years, the substantive fixed ratio law has not been repealed. At present the Federal contribution is $9,500,000, but the House committee program con- templates an effort to cut that figure to $6,500,000 Familiar With District. The Efficlency Bureau has become thoroughly familiar with District affairs in recent years, through separate studies it has made of various municipal de- partments, and also through two sur- veys it has made of the fiscal relations problem. With this background of knowledge to start with, the present task of the bureau is to analyze each of the Mapes tax increase bills in connec- tion with the basic question of fiscal re- lations. In addition to the 2-cent gas tax in- crease, the bills seek to establish a local income tax, a local inheritance levy and a tax on automobiles by weight. MAPES BILL HEARING URGED BY PARK VIEW Citizens Tell Senator Capper Oppor- tunity Is Needed for Public Expression. Members of the Park View Citizens’ Association adopted a resolution last night requesting that Senator Capper, chairman of the Senate District Com- mittee, hold a public hearing, which would enable the residents of the Dis- trict to express their views regarding the Mapes tax bills. Fred S. Walker, chairman of the Legislative Committee, introduced the resolution. The association adopted another res- olution introduced by Mr. Walker op- posing any reduction in the salaries of Federal employes. Pointing out the small number of eligible pupils in the section about Rock Creek Church and Riggs roads, the as- sociation went on record as opposed to the erection of a colored school there. B. J. Kroger, chairman of the Educa- tion Committee, suggested that trans- portation ocsts to another school would be much cheaper than costs for the erection of a new school. FOUR ARE INJURED IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Woman, Child and Two Men Figure in Accidents on Capital Streets. Stephen Zimmerman, 5, was in an undetermined condition in Emergency Hospital today suffering from a frac- tured skull and other injuries received when knocked down by an automobile in the 1200 block of Fourteenth street last night. The automobile which struck him was operated by Katherine M. Olewack, 19, 1352 Columbia road. The young woman was instructed by police to be ready to report to police when notified. No charge was placed against her. Arthur H. Green, 51, colored, operator of a mail truck, was injured early today when a taxicab and the truck collided at Thirteenth street and Massachusetts avenue. The truck careened across the street and ran into an electric light pole, breaking it off at the base. Green was treated at Freedman’s Hospital for sprains of the left arm and right leg. Charleg Wilmeth, 22, of Takoma Park, Md., was the operator of the taxicab, Leona Sanders, 46, 728 Eleventh street, received injuries to her shoulder and hip when she was knocked down by a taxicab backing from the curb on Seventeenth street near H street yes- terday. She was treated at Emergency ital. Hosptal Jacoby, 10, 1440 R street, had two teeth knocked out and received cuts on the scalp when knocked down by an automobile operated by Miss Dorothy Clum, 18, 1339 Madison street, at Sixteenth and R streets yesterday. Drury Lane Manager Dies. WEYBRIDGE, Surrey, Eng., January . —Arthur Collins, associated with ék‘le(’;"nmous Drury Lane Theater for more than 40 and producer, today st the age of 66, as stage manager | pedo Crowded Into Corriders Already SOME COMMERCE BUILDING FACILITIES PROVE TOO SMALL. LTHOUGH occupied less than & fortnight, the Commerce Department's $17,500,000 new Temple of Fact-finding is already showing signs of becoming overcrowded. Above is a filing section of the department’s paper division, forced out into one of the main corridors of the building. The office of this division is located on the third floor of the building. —Star Staff Photo. PRISONER ESCAPES FOR THIRD TINE George Hicks Flees Hospital Ward Clad in Pajamas and Overcoat. Well again after a_ four-month re- | cuperation from injuries suffered in a previous escape, George Emmett Hicks slipped away from Gallinger Hospital this morning in pajamas and an over- coat, and for a third time balked the efforts of police to hold him on house- breaking charges. Hicks, 36 years old, eluded the police guard which was placed over him on commitment to the hospital Septem- ber 30, and made his way unobserved from & second-floor convalescent ward down a stairway to an outer door. Description Broadcast. His description was broadcast to the precincts and the police net again was flung out for the fugitive when his escape was reported by Pvt. W. T. Murphy of Ne. 9 precinct, who had left Hicks momentarily On September 18 Hicks escaped from No. 12 precinct by leaping from a sec- ond-floor window at the station house, although the fall severely injured bis The fugitive was rearrested & fort- night later by Detective Frank Alligood of the headquarters automobile squad, who had received a tip that Hicks could be found in a house of the 100 block of South Carolina avenue southeast. At that time he was found to be se- verely injured and committed to Gal- linger after four charges of housebreak- ing were booked against him at head- quarters Escapes Station House. Prior to his first escape Hicks was arrested by Detective Michael Dowd of headquarters, September 17. Taken to No. 12 precinct, Hicks pleaded with po- was allowed to remain in the Wwitness room 2 The prisoner, police say, jimmied a do?r, hurried to a window and leaped out. Hicks was first arrested some time ago when trapped by headquarters detectives in a_young woman’s apart- ment in the 1600 block of Kenyon street. The woman had complained that Hicks was annoying her with tele- phone requests for “a date,” and police arranged with her to invite Hicks to come to her apartment. The officers concealed themselves in the Kkitchen and arrested Hicks when he came in, placing several charges of house- breaking against him The prisoner was held to be of un- sound mind, however, and committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. He was re- leased later and the first set of charges noHe prossed. BICENTENNIAL PLANS LAID IN NORTHEAST Subcommittee Chairmen Named to| Celebration in Suburban Area. Foster The Northeast Suburban Bicentennial Committee, formed to co-operate with the District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission, completed its organization with the naming of subcommittee chair- men at a meeting in the John Burroughs School last night. The Northeast groups will co-operate in plans for the celebra~ tion in the northeast suburban section. The subcommittee chairmen named are as follows: Chairman for athletics, L. W. Fitzgerald; ways and means, Miles E. Bailey: celebration, Frank Connolly; | community beautification, Dr. Royal C. | Haskell; ‘information, Mrs. James A. { Hall; publicity, Mrs. Clare Jean Steaker: { decorations, J. G. Kinsbury, and educa- tion, Dr. Willlam M. Deviny. The officers of the General Committee are: George L. Gee, chairman; Mrs. A. B. Stickel, vice chairman; Robert N. Furniss, secretary, and Wilford H. Dunn, treasurer. Among the organizations affiliated with the Northeast Suburban Bicen- tennial Committee are: The Brookland, Burroughs, Dahlgren Terrace and Rhode Island Avenue Citizens'_Associations; the Brookland-Woodridge Business Men’s Club, the Brookland-Noyes, John Bur- roughs, Langdon and Woodridge Parent- Teacher Associations; the Woodridge Book Club, Woodridge Garden Club, Bunker Hill Post, No. 31, American Legion; Boy Scout Troop, No. 80; Girl Scout_Troop, No. 88; the various local churches in the section and other civic and fraternal groups. SPAIN TO SELL SHIPS Authorizes Sale of Cruisers, De- stroyers and Torpedo Boats. MADRID, January 14 (#).—The gov- ernment has authorized the sale of 4 cruisers, 3 destroyers, 1 gunboat, 6 tor- Tne atupe. wil be sovopped & L scwapped ¥ there no buyers, | immediately on a short wedding trip. lice for a comfortable place to rest and | | tion to authorize the placing of a por- | Elizabeth R. H/ume% And Frederick Hitz Wed at Court House Justice W. R. Hitz and Friends “Kept in Dark” by Couple. Miss Elizabeth R. Hume, a member ot Washington’s younger set, and Fred- | erick Hitz, assistant United States at- torney and son of Associate Justice W liam R. Hitz of the District of Colum- | bia Court of Appeals, were married yes- | terday at the court house by Associate Justice Peyton Gordon of the District Supreme Court. The wedding came as a surprise to intimates of the couple, the groom's father even having been “kept in the ark.” Shortly before 4 o'clock the couple appeared at the chambers of Associate Justice F. D. Letts and asked him to officiate. When he declined, they ap- pealed to Justice Gordon. They left Mrs, Hitz made her debut several years ago. She is a member of the Junior League and belongs to the society staff 'of the Washington Post. Hitz re- cengly was appointed to the post of as- sistant Pnited States attorney. ‘When Justiee Hitz was asked concern- ing the marriage he said: “The young couple did not do me the honor of tak- ing me into their confidence, but I have very unexpectedly acquired a very at- tractive daughter who will be vewy wel- eome in our family eircle.” Mrs. Hitz is the daughter of Mrs. Rawlins Hume and the late Mr. Hume. SENATE APPROVES FIVE LOCAL BILLS Measure to Allow Assessor to Testify in Condemna- tion Suits Included. Five local bills are on their way to the House today, having passed the Senate late yesterday, including the measure to allow the District assessor to testify as an expert in condemna- tion cases and the bill to protest the labels and trade marks of unions or associations of employes in the District. The other measures Which went through the Senate werega bill to au- thorize the admittance of pay patients to the contagious wards of Gellinger Hospital, a bill authorizing the con- troller general to settle a claim of the Potomac Electric Power Co. for certain work done in connection with the Ar- lington Memorial Bridge and a resolu- trait of former President Calvin Cool- | lidge in the White House. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, | in urging that the assessor be permitted | to testify in condemnation cases, said | he understood one of the local courts | had granted a new trial in a con- demnation case, holding that the as- sessor was disqualified as a witness be- cause he is assessor. Senator Mc- Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, spoke briefly in support of the measure. In response to Qquestions Senator King said the bill would not permit him to testify as to assessments on property, but would enable him to be called as an expert. Eleciric , Power Co. COMMUNITY CHEST GIFTS INCREASED Many Corporations and Large Individual Donors Give Bigger Amounts. Several contributions exceeding those | of last year were reported today by the National Corporations Committee of the Community Chest. The increases were attributed to unusually heavy de- mands made on the Chest due to un- employment. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. gave $1,350, or $350 more than last year; the F. W. Woolworth Co., $500, an increase of $400, and the Gulf Refining Co., $150, a boost of $50. Newbold Noyes, vice chairman and a team captain of the Special Gifts Unit, made the outstanding report yesterday. He reported a donor who desired to remain anonymous had given $12,500, an ficrease of $10,000 over last year. ‘The unit su;% has reported 189 gifts totaling $284,250. The largest actual increase yesterday was represented by a $25,000 check from the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., which gave $12,500 last year. Other increases included: Frederic A. Keep, $6,000, up . Strong, $700, up $200; Oliver G. Ricketson, $700, up $100; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Dodge, $650, up $100; American Ice Co., $1,500, up $1,250; Mrs. E. Newlands Johnston, $800, up $150; Dr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Christie, $500, up $150; Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co., $4,500, up $500; Mrs. James Dudley Morgan, $2,425, up $325; Mrs. Willlam Corcoran Eustis, $6,0060, up $1,000; Mrs. Marian Anna and George E. Judd, $2,000, up $500; Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Newbold, $1,500, up $300; Wilkins-Rogers Milling Co., $600, up $100; Mr. and Mrs. Newbold Noyes, $2,200, up $100; Mr. and Mrs. Adolph C. Miller, $5,100, up $100; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chappell, $550, up $50; Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Fleming, $600, up_$75. Two entirely new gifts were reported. Mrs. Nathan B. Scott donated $500, anonymous. CAPT. H. T. STANCLIFF BURIED IN ARLINGTON Retired Army Officer, Formerly in Navy, Aided in Building Panama Canal. Capt. Henry Trumbull Stancliff, U. S. A, retired, 66, who died Tuesday, was buried this afternoon in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery with full military honors. A native of Hartford, Conn., Capt. Stancliff was with the Navy Depart- ment from 1887 to 1905, when he went to Panama for several years in con- nection with the building of the Pan- ama Canal. Returning in 1907, he en- tered the Quartermaster Department, U. S. A, and served in it until his re- tirement in 1930, with the exception of time spent in France during the World War, in which he was commissioned an emergency officer. He was a member of August P. Gard- ner Post, No. 18, American Legion; Mil- itary Order Loyal Legion, and Ace Ras- mussen Chapter, No. 1, D. A. V. P So0kss Albright to Speak. “The Historical Activity of the Na- tional Park Service in the Develop- ment of Virginia National Monuments” will be discussed by Horace M. Albright, The Potomac measure authorizes the controller general to allow the company not | exceed $2,157.25 as reimbursement f electrical service connections made c. the Memorial Bridge. director of the National Park Service, at the 262d meeting of the Columbia Tistorical Society Tuesday night in the >smos Club. The meeting will open at 15 o'clock. LITTLE LOAN MANAGER BLUFFES BIG INTRUDER FOUND IN OFFICE Man, 5 feet 2, “Talks Rough” to 6-Footer and Makes Him Sit Still Un With self-assurance entirely out of proportion to his stature, diminutive Samuel Himmelfarb, manager of the Eastern Mortgage and Investment Co., 918 F street, this morning bluffed a 6- foot intruder in his office to wait quietly until police arrived. “I spoke roughly to him.” Mr. Him- melfarb, who is only 5 feet 2 inches tall, | explained, “and he didn’t try to get | away when I ordered him to stay in| the office. Even when he heard me| calling the police, he made no attempt to_escape.” When Miss Shirley Levitt, clerk in Himmelfarb's office, arrived at work this morning about 8:30 she discovered that a desk had bee;xnkr):n‘suked lm:nd that the light bus n an inner room. Afrald investigate further, the youmg til Police Arrive. until her employer arrived. Meanwhile the_intruder, later found to be Donald S. Bishop, 21, of Boston, crouched be- hind a safe in the inner room. Himmelfarb was informed of the state of affairs by his clerk, and without hesitation routed out Bishop. “When he told me he was hungry, I felt sorry for him and would not have | called the police but for the urging of the manager of the building,” Himmel- | farb declared. “I found he had only taken a neck scarf when I went through his pockets He had a pass key in his pocket, with which he had opened the door of my office.” Bishop was taken into custody by Policemen P, E. Ambrose and H. Boese | 50; of the first precinct, where he is being investigation, walted I tbe owler- offiee kheld. for CAPITAL TRACTION NET EARNINGS CUT SIB38581 N YEAR Huge Decrease Income Blamed on Competition From Taxicabs. in PRESIDENT HANNA MAKES ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1931 Regulation Requiring Higher Rates for Autos Suspended Pending Court Ruling. A decrease of $123,365.81 in net earnings of the Capital Traction Co,, in 1931, as compared with 1930 was shown in the annual report to stockholders, made today by John H. Hanna, presi- dent, The company’s net earnings totaled $365,973.92 in 1931. This represented a falling-off of $196,000.41 in net in- come over a two-year period. Net in- come in 1929 aggregated $561,974.43. Mr. Hanna attributed the huge de- crease in net income to taxicab com- petition. He explained that during the first half of the year economies in op- eration and lower taxes, due to reduced revenues, made possible a slight ad- vance in net income despite a loss in revenue. With inauguration of 20-cent taxicab fares in July, however, reve- nues of the traction company suffered so severely company executives were unable to avoid a drop in net income. 5,000 Taxicabs in City. “There are at the present time,” Mr. Hanna reported, “about 5,000 taxicabs operating in Washington, a much larger number in proportion to the population than in any other city in the country. Most of them charge a 20-cent flat rate for from 1 to 4 assengers, which, of course, affords very direct competition with our own service. Testimony of taxicab drivers shows that this low rate provides a barely living wage even for operators working from 12 to 14 hours per day, and the large number of cabs operating under it is made possible by the general unemployment situation. “The Public Utilities Commission, recognizing the seriousness of the situ- ation, after investigation and hearing issued an order which was to have become effective on January 10, which requires meters on all cabs and es- tablishes a minimum charge of 25 cents for two miles, but which in other respects does not, because of the com- mission’s limited powers, make taxi- cab regulations at all comparable to that imposed upon other transportation agencies. “This order has been appealed from and an injunction against its enforce- ment requested, While the case was be- ing heard, the commission modified its order suspending its effective date until 60 days after a decision on the appeal is handed down by the court, in order that taxi drivers may have time to pro- cure meters.” Financial Summary, Mr. Henna's financial summ: N cluded: Tdidss Change over 1931, A $3.455,351.57 *3342,476.17 236,892.36 16.595.75 10543548 19,357.76 7,579.41 *$326,522.66 Revenue, railway. Revenue, Special Total revenue . Revenue from opé; tions _ other _thsm ransportation ... Gross operating revenue . Operating (13.3% revenue) us. . bus’ revenie. 30,960.03 *458.29 ....33,837,540.34 *5326,980.95 expenses &ross 2,828,7654.53 $1,008,774.81 *177,248.49 Net operating yeve- S n FET *5149.732.4 Taxes assignable "to " transportation op- erations . 292,473.97 *32.178.12 Operating income. $716,300.84 Non-operat, income. 32,1792 Gross income. . 51 $738,480. ross income— while a contribution of $1,000 remained | '} > s, 1,645.79 source . Miscellaneos taxes .. Net income *Decrease. D. C. UTILITIES BOARD IS OUT OF CITY TODAY _ Gen. Patrick, Maj. Davison and Other Municipal Officials Away on Trips. | 'The District is without a Public Utili- | ties Commission today and several other departments of the municipal govern- ment are without a head due to the absence of six officials. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair- man of the Public Utilities Commission, is in New York, and Maj. Donald A. Davison, acting Engineer Commissioner, is in Detroit. These two men constitute the Public Utilities Commission, there being no third member due to the de- lay of the Senate in confirming the nomination of Riley E. Elgen, selected by President Hoover to succeed Har- leigh H. Hartman. Maj. John C. Gotwals, Engineer Com- missioner, convalescing In Virginia from an illness which has kept him away from his office for more than six months, and Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of police, 1s en route to South Carolina for a rest. Other absentees are M. O. Eldridge, assistant traffic director, and Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, chief engineer of the District, both of whom are in Detroit, attending the convention and road show of the American Road Builders’ Asso- ciation, ‘With no member of the Public Utill- ties Commission in town, action by that body on Justice Jesse Adkins' request for a rehearing on the taxicab meter case will likely be delayed for a few days at least, it was indicated &t the District Building. After hearing final arguments in the case yesterday, Justice Adkins referred the whole matter back to the Public Utilities Commission. Licenses. Vienna, Va.. and Narcissa enna; Rev. john Huff and Claire ‘E. Bruner, 30; Rev. J. H. Fields Thomas E._Smith, 39, and Addve M. Thomas, 28 Rev. Thomas J. Brown. Angus Bea, 26, and Catherine Wright, 28; Rev. D, E. Wiseman. W. B, and Eleanor V. Arm- : Marriage John Walker, J R Jenkins, 19, Vi Frank Wells, 35, over, 30, v.' Joseph R. Sizo0 Campbell. 2i Marion P. Wite, 54. and Frances Miller, stroag, Re Ashion, § 21, _and Elsie M. Prederick Hi Allsp' A: Brown. 21, Sykesvil ep, A, Brown, 21 Sykesville Md. agd Charles H. v. John E. Briges. itz, 26, and Elizabeth K. Hume, 25; Justice F. D. Letts Mary P. Leatherwood, B Fosten,