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L] WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Zoening Star T WASHINGTON, D. Q THURSDAY, JANUARY 21 1932, ) FOURTH AN TAKEN IN WATERS SLAYING \ | | BY THREE ROBBERS CLERK IS SHOT IN ARM TUSSLING WITH BANDIT Arrival of Bread Truck Scares Colored Men Away Without Getting Wallet. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. OLD GERMANTOWN, Md., January 21.—A fourth colored man, taken into custoday early today by Montgomery County police may be able to furnish them, the officers believe, with some| clue to the identity of the three colored men who early last night killed Horace D. Waters, 77 years old, and wounded his clerk, Richard A. Bennett, 68, in a futile attempt to rob Mr. Waters, who operated a small cross-roads store here Three other colored men who were in { the store at the time of the hold-up and murder are being held, but police have | been unable to obtain any definite in- formation from them with the expecta- { tion of & somewhat garbled account of what occurred after the colored bandits entered the store. These three men, Herman Moore, 35; Milton Warren, 42, and Quaint Terry, 65. All live near the scene of the crime. All in Rockville Jail. “The fourth man held is Bud Praither, colored, who Wwas taken into_custody early today. All are in the Rockville il 8 e early belief that the bandits had taken a wallet containing a sum of money from Mr. Waters was discounted with the finding of his wallet pinned into the inside of his coat with safety pins. It contained more than $100 in cash and a number of checks and in- side of it was a smaller pocketbook, Which also is believed to have contained considerable money. The bandits are believed to have been after this wallet, but did not find it before they fled hastily from the store at the sound of sproaching bread truck. .“l\;:);l’xpmomervgooumy police entered the search this morning, following a sleepless night during which affairs at times reached a fever pitch. il Soon after word of the erime spread abroad a crowd estimated at more than 500 gathered at the little country store herc and aided police in thoroughly searching the neighborhood. The ban- dits are believed to have escaped in an auicmobile. Autopsy This Afternoon. An autopsy will be conducted this| atternoon at the undertaking _estab- lishment of Warner E. Pumphrey, in Rockville, by Dr. Jacob W. Bird of the Montgomery County General Hos- pital and Dr, Frank J. Broshard of Gaithersburg to determine whether the bullet which entered Mr. Waters' left side near his heart caused his death. Mr. Waters also received a wound in his Jeft hip which is believed to have been caused by the same 45-caliber bullet which pierced the right arm near the wrist of Mr. Bennett, the clerk. A description of theé two men wha{ entered the store has been broadcast by Montgomery County police. One of them is described as about 6 feet tall 180 pounds, 30 years old, wearing & dark overcoat and a chauffeur’s cap, and the other as being about 5 feet 8 inches, tall, 140 pounds, 30 years old, and wear- | ing a light overcoat Mr. Waters, who is known to have been a man of considerable means, al- ways carried a sum of money about his person, and. police believe the bandits knew about this, as they made no at- tempt to Tob the cash drawer and made directly for Mr. Waters. They tore his Vest open after shooting him, searching for the wallet. The storekeeper, his clerk and the three colored men, all of the Old Ger- mantown neighborhood, were seated about the small store when two bandits entered. Mr. Bennett, the clerk, com- ing forward believing that the bandits were customers to be waited on, was mbout opposite Mr. Waters when the taller bandits started tussling with him, and one of the shots fired at the strorekeeper went through his right | arm near the Wwrist. | Bread Truck Arrives. | The three colored men who were in | the store had been covered by a gun in the hands of the second bandit The first bandit then tore the store- keeper's vest off, but had not con- cluded his search when a bread truck | started up the drive outside and the| men fled. W. C. Hershberger and J. M. Sievers, who were on the bread truck, entered the store and notified police The Rockville Fire Department rescus squad also responded and treated Mr. Bennett for his wound. Mr. W was one of the original directors of the Farmers' Banking & Trust Co. of Rockville and was a direc- | tor at the time of his death. He was formerly a director of the Pirst Na- tional Bank of Gaithersburg. He had been in the general mercantile business for about 50 years. In this neighbor- hood he acted as a sort of banker for the poorer people, white and colored. and is known to have helped many needy peopl He leaves his widow, Mrs. Valeria Waters, who was Mrs. Joshua Dorsey when he married her and who was a Miss Pumphrey of Germantown before her first marriage. He also leaves five children, Mrs. Ethel Spates of German- own, secretary to the judges of the n Police Court; Mrs. Vivian of Rockville, Miss Mad aters of Germantown, Kenneth Wa- ters of Germantown and Herbert D. Waters of Washington, D. C.; two step- ehildren, Mrs. George M. Hunter of Rockville and Mrs. Mary G. Boland of Germantown, and a sister, Mrs. Nettie Etchison of Gaithersburg. He was a son of the late Horace Waters, Also wurv:ving are four half-brothers, Bowie P. Waters, former State's attorney; Ju- lian B., William and Eugene H. Waters, all of Germantown. WATCHMAN IS HELD UP Bays Two Armed Men Took $4 in Robbery of Bakery. Herbert Johnson, colored watchman at the Sunrise Bakery, rear of 1229 Morse street northeast, re- ported to police that two colored bandits held him up shortly before 6 am. to- Gay and took about $4 of his employers’ money. Johnson said he was alone in the bakery when the robbers, both of whom were armed, entered. e night money was kept. |National Capital Park Group | Bridge last week end convinced some _ | infant was said to be in serious con- May Reveal [dentity of Trio in 0ld Germantown Store Murder. storekeeper, killed by bandits last night. der occurred. wounded by shots fired by the hold-up men. Above, left to right: Horace D. Waters, T7-year-old Old Germantown, Md., and Richard A. Bennett, 68, his clerk, Below: The store where the mur- —Star Stafl Photo. PLANNERFOR NN SUUARE S ORDERE | | | Authorizes Employment of Consultant. The National Capital Park and | Planning Commission today authorized its vice chairman and executive officer, Lieut Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, to employ, if need be, an outside consultant to assist in drafting final plans for Union Square, which will be the eastern terminus of the Mall, near the Capitol. The commission studied a plan for Union Square submitted by its staff for handling the intricate traffic pro- | biem that will be presented with four roads leading into it, and after dis- | cusion, decided that further study | should be made. Report on Building Lines, Charles W. Eliot, 2d, the commis- sion’s director of planning, submitted a report on building lines in the Mall, in which he advocated that structures should not be permitted to obscure the vista of greensward and trees, stretch- ing between the Washington Monument and the Capitol The commission went on record as| favoring a width of 50 feet, between Constitution avenue and Washington Circle, along Twenty-third street, as a future traffic artery leading to and from the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Twen- ty-third street is now a little over 30 feet wide. Widening Disputed. The Commission had before it for consideration today the proposed widen- ing of Constiution avenue, from Vir- ginia avenue to the Potomac River. There is a controversy as to whether the width of this should be 72 or 80 feet. The Fine Arts Commission is blamed for the placing of the wall of the Nationgl Academy of Science in its present location, forming an ob- struction to the widening of Constitu- tion avenue to the full 80 feet. The opening of the Arlington Memorial of the interested officials that Consti- tution avenue should be widened, as soon as possible, to avold a bottle-neck effect Officials of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission said today that they are making preliminary plans for the widening of Constiution avenue as soon as practicable. 110-DAY OLD INFANT VICTIM OF FIRE| Colored Child May Die of Burns| When Five Are Trapped in Room. A defective ofl stove caused a fire which may result fatally for the 10- day-old infant of James R. Lumpkin, colored, rear 1248 Tenth street, shortly before noon today. Five children were trapped in a sec- | ond-story room of the four-room resi- dence when the stairway .caught fire from a blaze which originated in the kitchen. Acting Capt. M. T. Sutton of No. 6 Engine Company and John T. Horigan carried the children to safety. They were rushed to the Chil- dren’s Hospital, where the 10-day-old 1 | dition. The other children, whose ages | range to 6 years, suffered only minor burns. ¢ fire occurred during the absence of the mother, who was shopping at a neighborhood grocery. The father, who is employed in a pool room in the 1200 block of Seventh street, was away HUNT NEARS D.C. FOR ILSLEY SLAYER Capital Police Asked to Help as Tips Bring Search Close to City. By a Btaff Correspondent of The Star. MIDDLEBURG, Va., January 21— Two “hot” tips that George Crawford, colored, wanted by police here for the murder of Mrs. Agnes Boeing, Iisley, 42, and her maid, was in hiding in a colored settlement close to Washington, today sent a force of Loudoun County deputy sheriffs to the banks of the Potomac River. Justice of the Peace Roy Seaton at Middleburg announced he had received the tips, one a letter purporting to contain information as to Crawford’s whereabouts. He said he would ask Commonwealth’s Attorney John Gal- leher of Loudoun County to call upon Washington police to assist in the search through the colored settlements across the river from the Capital. Woman Friend Found. Only a day after the double murder, last Wednesday, police scoured col- ored districts around Tysons Corner and Herndon, Va. finding a colored woman friend of Crawford, whose ad- dress they had obtained from a slip of paper believed to have been dropped by the colored man in his haste to make an escape Commonwealth’s Attorney Galleher, however, was “out of town,” according to his secretary and family. It was rumored here he had gone to New York on a “secret mission” in connec- tion with the hunt for Crawford and a young colored man believed to have been his accomplice. Meanwhile, speculation raged through the little Virginia horse town as to the disposition of Mrs. Iisley's estate. Under the will of her late husband, Spencer Ilsley, a former Milwaukee banker, she was left real estate in and near Mid- dleburg totaling 5 acres, $100,000 outright, a trust fund and the income from her husband’s stocks and bonds. Will Still Missing. Upon her death everything but the gproperty and $100,000 bequest was to be turned over to Iisley'’s nephew, Charles P. Iisley, and a niece, Anna Wetman Hart 7 What will be done with the property and what remains of the cash will be left for later decision. No will has yet been found, it was said authoritatively, end pending a search the estate will remain in the control of the Middle- burg National Bank, trustee. Mrs. Ils- ley has two brothers liv John Boeing. e Eatl s SAFECRACKERS FAIL IN TWO TRIES HERE $21 From Register Banks After Entering 14th Street Shops. Take and Amateur safecrackers failed i last night. In both instances combi- nation dials were removed, but the robbers were unable to gain entrance. After forcing the basement door at 3111 Fourteenth street, yeggmen used | tools _ belonging to the "W. L. Cary Plumbing Co. in an attempt to force | the safe, which contained a quantity of | cash. Thwarted in that effort, ~the thieves sawed through the rear door of the Carnell Bauty Shop, on the ground floor, and obtained $6 in change from | :he casl]]l r%zislfi.;r andfl: Pproximately $15 n small banks used by save their tips e The office of the M. E. Horf - sale Grocery Co, at Sev'fflu‘f"hfileu at work. The fire had gained such chiidren before firemen. v C streets southwest, was entered by He added they|headway when noticed by neighbors | would-be robbers who were unable to forced him to show them where the'that it was impossible to rescue the |crack the safe. Nothi; from other pa Df!h;n&n‘:,a missed CHEST CAMPAIGN 10 OPEN WITH BIG RALLY AND CONGERT Constitution Hall Scene Sun- day, With Addresses by Many Notables. RABBI WISE, NEW YORK, WILL BE ON PROGRAM Instructions to Be Given Group Solicitation Unit at Meeting Tomorrow Night. With a concert by the National Sym- phony Orchestra as one of the attrac- tions, arrangements were completed to- day for a huge rally marking the begin- ning of the Community Chest campaign proper Sunday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock in Constitution Hall Among the speakers will be Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York City, | one of the country's outstanding wel- | fare workers; Frank J. Hogan, presi- | dent of the District of Columbia Bar Association; Edward F. Colladay, chair- | man of the Community Chest Campaign | Committee; Dr. Luther H. Reichelder- fer chairman of the Board of Com- missioners; John Poole, Chest presi- dent, and Elwood Street, Ckest director. In order that the workers may be seated in time for the concert, the doors of the auditorium will open at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Hans Kin- dler, conductor of the orchestra, has selected several numbers especially for this event. A portion of the program will be broadcast by Radio Station | WRC. Third Phase of Drive. Sunday’s meeting will signal the open- ing of the third phase of the drive for $2,601,000 to finance the city’s charitable | organizations in the most trying year of their history. The Government de- partments already have pledged their quota of $1,000,000, or 80 per cent more than last year. The Special Gifts Unit expects to finish its task of raising more than $900,000 before Sunday, vhile the Metropolitan and Group Solicitation Units will launch their program Mon- day. The final instruction meeting for | workers of the Group Solicitation Unit will be held tomorrow night at 6:15 in | the Raleigh Hotel. The speakers will | include Edward F. Cclladay, Campaign Committee chairman; Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of Wash- ington: Rev. Dr. Fulton J. Sheen of Catholic University, Dr. Abram Simon, John H. Hanna, W. W. Everett and | Mr. Street. Lloyd B. Wilson, unit chair- | man, will be the toastmaster. | New donations totaling $136,486.51 were reported yesterday at a meeting of the Special Gifts Unit in the Willard Hotel. ~This increased the aggregate collections of that group to date to $607,866.51. Newbold Noyes, yice chair- | man, warned the workers { e group | must obtain more than $200,000 in order to reach its quota tomorrow. Behind With Job. “We have had ample time in which to do our job Mr. Noyes said. ‘“Still we're behind in doing it. I know there are discouraging factors in going out on the streets of Washington at this time in search of money, but we must get to work and complete our quota on time.” 1 Mr. Noyes urged the solicitors to seek immediate donations from persons who have contributed hereteofore, but have delayed making their subscriptions this year. He approved suggestions that teams which have seen all thelr pros- pects already lend their aid to those with donors yet to interview. An altogether new gift fo $1,500 from the Washington Base Ball Club was announced by Mr. Noyes. Numerous additional donations representing in- | creases over last year were reported. The Peoples Drug Stores gave $5,500, or $2500 more than last year; Col. Stephen Slocum, $4,000, an increase of $1,500, and Mr. and Mrs. Demarest Lloyd, $5,500, an increase of $1,000. Among the gifts which showed an increase over last year were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Galliher, $1,000, up $250; Mr. and Mrs. James Craig Peacock, $550, up $50; Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Upson, $1,200, up $200; Dr, and Mrs. William C. Rives, $7,500, up $500; Mrs. John C. Boyd, $1,300, up $200; Mrs. Charles R. Shepard, $1,000,,up $300; B. F. Saul Co., $2,750, an entirely new donation; Mrs. B. F. Saul, $500. up | $300; Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wil- mer, $700, up $150; Anonymous, $725, | up $25; Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Brook- | ings, $4,000, up $500; Mr. and Mrs. J. | Herman Van Royen, $800, up $200; | Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Coffin, $600, up $300; Mrs. Henrietta B. Karrick, $750, up $642; National Savings & Trust Co., $3.000, up $408.39; Woodridge-Langdon Savings & Commercial Bank, $113.71, up $63.71; Justice and Mrs. Harlan F. Stone, $650, up $50; Mr. and Mrs Frank J. Hogan, $6,500, up $500, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Burling, 2,000, up_$600. Reichelderfer today granted per- n for the Chest to display flags ashington streets throughout the campaign. They will be placed in position Saturday night through the aid of the American Automobile Asso- ciation and merchants. Corner Stone to Be Placed. ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 21 (Spe- clal).—The corner stone of the new Annapolis High School Building will be laid this afternoon at 2 o'clock, \ Sty PAGE B—1 American Civic Association. M ODELS loaned by Mrs. E. H. McKeon of the Garden Clubs of Maryland, exhibited at board meeting of the One shows a typical roadside barricaded between glaring billboards. The other shows the same roadside with the boards removed to let in the natural landscaping. —Star Staff Photos. TILBURG INDICTED IN WOMAN' DEATH Alleged to Have Admitted Killing Jeanette Hendricks With Poker. A first degree murder indictment WB-S‘ returned by the grand jury today against | Warden Lowe Tilburg, 52, who is sald" to have admitted he killed Jeanette | Hendricks, 43, with an iron poker. Mrs. Hendricks’ body was found J&n-i uary 8 in the basement of her rooming | house, 2318 Eighteenth street, her head | crushed by blows from a poker she had been using in fixing a furnace fire. Late the same day police arrested Til- | burg at his home, 605 Massachusetts | avenue. Police say he confessed killing the woman because she had ordered him | to stop visiting her. | The grand jury returned 32 indict- | ments, including two others for mur- | der, in its report to Justice F. Dickin- | son' Letts. Charges against 25 persons ‘were ignored. Samuel H. Prater, colored. was in- dicted on a charge of fatally stabbing John Robinson, also colored, with a butcher kntfe in a fight, January 10, in Phillips court, Twenty-fourth and M streets. Joseph Saunders, colored, ac- cused of shooting and killing Louls Busey, also colored, the same night in front of 2424 Virginia avenue, also was indicted for first degree murder. Saunders was arrested today by third precinct police. John T. Allison, Fort Myer, Va., was | indicted for manslaughter in the auto | death of Charles N. Gordon, 40, who | was run down December 19 while| standing in a safety zone at Twenty- sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Other indictments included 13 for robbery and 13 for housebreaking. BOYCOTT THREATENED BY MOONEY BACKERS Plans for Organizing New Fight Will Be Made at Mass Meeting Here. With a threatened boycott of Cali- fornia products as a weapon, backers of the movement to secure a pardon for Tom Mooney, now serving a life sen- tence for murder in connection with the bombing of a Preparedness day pa- rade in San Francisco, will hold a mass meeting at the Friends' Meeting House, 2111 Florida avenue, Sunday evening. Plans will be laid for organizing a renewed Nation-wide fight to free Mooney in case the pardon applica- tion now before Gov. Rolph of Cali- fornia fails. Speakers will include Senators Edward P. Costigan of Colo- rado, Bronson M. Cutting of New Mex- ico, Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. Other speakers listed to appear are Rabbi Ed- ward L. Israel of Baltimore, Rev. John A. Ryan, director of the National Cath- olic Weifare Council: Rev. Worth M. Tippy; executive secretary of the Social Service Commission of the Federal Council of Churches, and Edward Nock- els, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Edward Keating, editor of Labor, will preside. Delegations from New York, Phila- delphia_and Baltimore will attend the conference, which marks the sixteenth anniversary of the beginning of Mooney's trial for murder. | HID UNDER BLAN Robert Dick Douglas, Georgetown University student, photographed lions in Afrigan jungles and he camped in the crater of Aniakchak a few days after that famous Alaskan volcano erupted, but when he suddenly found himself faced by a huge lion in the front seat of the motor truck in which he had taken refuge, the young ex- plorer simply hid his head under a blanket and hoped for the best. Furthermore, Douglas had the courage to tell that story on himself at the Meeting of National University's Segnu Forum last night. Douglas and two other boys were on an African expedition with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson. They had just made flashlight photographs of feed- ing lions and had returned to their cage-bodied motor truck. They felt the car shake and on investigation Douglas found himself staring into the jaws of a lion which had climbed into ‘the truck to investigate. EOY LION HUNTER TELLS HOW HE KETS FROM BEAST “I was just scared stiff and I simply ducked my head under the blankets where the other two boys had hidden as soon as they saw that lion,” he said, adding that “there really Is something to the feeling of security which bury- ing one’s head gives!” Commenting on his trip into Aniak- chak with Rev. Betnard Hubbard, Jesuit geologist, Douglas told how he, the Jesuit and two other students fright- ened away a brown bear with college yells. The party was caught without its rifles in the desolate crater when the great bear came menacingly toward it. Father Hubbard seized his staff and a metal film case and beat them to- gether and yelled. The other boys joined him in giving their college yells, and, Douglas said last night: “I didn't hear anything about Georgetown, so I joined in with some lusty ‘Hoyas!’ and after a moment’s hesitation that bear backed away and trotted a retreat in & cloud of lava|parishes of the District and various in-| while the rest of the area will vited dust.” . INVADERS OF CHARITY OFFICES ARRAIGNED Case of Two Leaders of Group of 15 Is Continued for Fur- ther Investigation. William Phillips and Alice Wilson, arrested yesterday when they led a group of 15 persons into the offices of the Associated Charities to demand aid, | were arraigned before Police Court Judge John P. McMahon today on charges of disorderly conduct. Sergt. Joseph D. Harrington and Pvt. W. E. Atkinson, who made the arrests said they were not boisterous and the disorder consisted of disrupting . the work of the charitles’ office by leading the group there. The case, which brings on the ques- tion of whether the office is a public or private_place, was continued for a week for further investigation. THEATERS T0 GIVE SEAT INFORMATION Voluntary Action Planned to Let Public Know How Full Houses Are. Carrying out the offer they made to a Senate subcommittee yesterday aft- ernoon to co-operate in seeing that moviegoers are fully advised when seats are not available, the theater owners met later in the day and adopt- ed resolutions urging all houses to give such information, by signs as well as orally. The Carey bill, on which the Senate hearing was held, would make it an | offense for any theater employe to give a prospective patron misinformation concerning the availability of seats, and a second section would prohibit a theater from selling more tickets for any performance than there are seats available. Oppose Ticket Limitation. Theater owners who testified at the Senate hearing told Senator Carey of ‘Wyoming, sponsor of the bill, they were in hearty accord with him in the desire to give the public full and accurate in- formation when seats are not available, and expressed confidence that the de- sired result could be accomplished by voluntary co-operatiolm without pas- sage of legislation. As to the second part of the bill, pro- hibiting the sale of more tickets than there are seats inside, the theater own- ers urged the subcommittee not to en- act such a provision, pointing out that it is more convenient to the public to wait in the lobbies and rear of the theaters than outside, when the per- formances are continuous. May Rewrite Bill. Following the hearing the subcom- mittee conferred briefly with Corpora- tion Counsel Bride. Senator Carey said later it was felt there should be some regulation on the subject of informing patrons regarding the availability of seats, but that the bill probably will be rewritten before it is reported to the Senate District Committee. It was in- dicated it might be changed to exempt from penalty theaters that display signs for the information of the public ‘The views of the theater owners were presented by A. Julian Brylawski. Sev- eral other theater representatives, in- cluding Harry Crull and Sidney Lust, also spoke. D. L. Ormes of the Motion Picture Operators’ Union and A. C. Hayden of the Musicians’ Union sup- ported the views outlined by Mr, Bry- lawski. T. R. Shearer, 4817 Thirty-sixth street, testified in support of the bill, ex- pressing the belief some steps should be taken to regulate the subject. Sen- ator Carey placed on file a number of letters that have come to him since he introduced the bill Robert Dick Douglas Describes Scaring of Alaskan Bear | MRS. NORTON TO TALK With Lusty College Cheers. TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES | House District Committee Chair- man to Address Annual Meet- ing Tonight. Representative Mary _T. Norton, chairman of the House District Com- mittee, will address the annual meet- ing of the Catholic Charities at 8 o’clock tonight in the Willard Hotel. At the same session new officers, who are to be elected immediately prior to the open meeting, will be announced. Representative John Connery of Mas- sachusetts, chairman of the House Committee on Labor, also will speak. Rev. Dr. John O'Grady, director of the Catholic Charities, will present his re- port for the past year. Dr. O'Grady also will discuss the forthcoming Com- munity Chest drive. Tonight's meeting of the Catholic Charities will be open to the public and will be participated in by 500 rep- resentatives of the various Catholic social agencies, BOWIE PONDERING BRADY BOMB CASE County Prosecutor Believes Dynamite Found Here Is Important Clue. | The 17 sticks of dynamite found in a Washington garage Tuesday night constitute one of the most important pleces of evidence uncovered in the two-year-old Seat Pleasant bombing case, State’s Attorney Alan Bowie of Prince Georges County declared today. Nevertheless, the prosecutor said, he has not decided definitely whether to reopen the case. It was thought to have been closed about a year ago, when Leroy Brady, an automobile mechanic at the garage in which the explosive was secreted, was sentenced to 10 years {in the Maryland Penitentiary for man- slaughter. “I have not yet been officially noti fied of the discovery of the dynamite, Bowie explained. “Meanwhile, however, I am considering the matter.” Found in Ol Flue. | The explosive, wrapped in a news- paper dated November 27, 1929, was {found in an abandoned flue in the basement of the Barry-Pate Motor Co., 2525 Sherman avenue, by a colored porter. Turned over to Detective Sergt. Thomas Sullivan, the dynamite was taken to the second precinct police sta- tion, where it still was being held today, pending instructions from county au- thorities. Official notification was not given Bowle, however, it was explained at police headquarters, because it was felt that, since two Baltimore detectives investigated the bombing, they were the ones to be notified. “We were interested only in the po- | lice angle,” said Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, “so we sim- | | Ply passed the word along to the Balti- | more Detective Bureau.” Detective Awaits Orders. However, Lieut. Joseph Itzel, one of | the Baltimore detectives who handled the case, said he would take no further action unless asked to do so by Bowie. “We got into the investigation by re- quest in the first place,” he pointed out, ‘and unless we're asked to renew our activities, there's nothing we can do about it. Il probably get in touch with Bowle later, though.” Desirability of examining the explo- sives for finger prints was dismissed by Itzel, who said: “The stuff is too greasy to permit legible prints. The grease cakes in the whorls of the fingers, clogging them up and making any impression & mere smudge.” The date of the paper in which the dynamite was wrapped, corresponds with the time at which witnesses at Brady's two trials testified he was working with a trigger from a “fur gun.” A firing device of the same type was used in the bomb, which Brady was charged with making and using to kill his sister-in-law, Mrs. Naomi Hall Brady, 18, and her sister and brother, Dorothy, 4, and Samuel, 19 months’ old. Brothers Indicted. Tried only on the indictment charg- ing him with murdering his sister-in- law, Brady also was indicted for first- degree murder in the two other deaths. His brother, Herman, also was indicted on the three charges, but was not tried. | The charges against Herman were nolle prossed, after Leroy's second trial re- sulted in the manslaughter conviction. According to Bowie, however, Herman could be reindicted if it were decided to re-open the case, and Leroy could be tried on one or both of the two remaining indictments. Three persons were killed at the Hall home in Seat Pleasant, when the bomb, wrapped to resemble a_Christmas gift and addressed to Mrs. Brady, exploded as she unwrapped it. The explosion, which occurred New Year day, 1930, | also resulted in the injury of Naomi's mother, Mrs. Nora Hall, and other members of the family BIDS ON WRECKING TWO RESERVATIONS OPENED MRS, VAN WINKLES AIDE MAY GET POST AS BREAU CHEF | Miss Milliken Once Declared by Pullman Too Small for Police Work. RETIREMENT QUESTION BEFORE BOARD TODAY Head of Woman's Branch, Il Since Last Summer, to Learn if Serv- ice Is to End. Lieut. Mina Van Winkle, in charge of the Women's Bureau of the Po- lice Department, is totally disabled, according to_evidence offered before the Police Retiring Board by Dr. John A. Reed of the Board of Po- lice Surgeons this afternoon. He sald that she was suffering from spinal arthritis and hydro- nephrosis, and recommended her re- tirement on account of physical dis- ability totally incapacitating her for further work in the department. Lieut Van Winkle did not appear at the hearing. The retiring board took the case under advisement. Rhoda J. Milliken, the woman who the late Raymond Pullman, when super- intendent of police, said was “too small and too young” to be a policewoman, is now being seri- ously considered, it lawas learned today, to head the Wom- an’s Bureau of the & Metropolitan Police Dcpartment in event of the re- tirement of Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle. Now a full- fledged police ser- geant, Miss Milli- ken has directed the activities of the Woman's Bu- reau during the long illness of Lieut. Van Winkle, and her success in this work has made a deep impression on police officials and put her in line for promotion. In fact, neither Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, Police Com- missioner, nor ranking officers of the Police Department, have given thought to any one else, should it hecome neces- sary to appoint a successor to Lieut. Van Winkle. The case of Lieut. Van Winkle, who has been ill since last Summer, is under consideration this afternoon by the Police Retiring and Relief Board In- dications are she will be put on the re- tired list and her long and successful career brought to an abrupt close. Small But Industrious. Though diminitive - in -size, Sergt. Milliken has & r ition. in official police circles as g exceptionally industrious, capable and efficient— qualifications which put her second in command of the Woman’s Bureau less than two years after her appointment. In this position she has remained, re- lieving Lieut. Van Winkle when ill- ness or her activities as president of the International Association of Police= ‘women called her away from the Wom- an;a\;lreau. esh from Barnard College, Miss Milliken came to Washington during l‘ihe World War and errolled in the avy a yeowoman, fist class. Just about l'i‘mt time Mrs. Van Winkle or- ganized the Woman’s Bureau, and Miss Milliken thought she would like to be a policewoman. She went to Supt. of Police Pullman and told him of her ambitions. One look at her convinced him she was not the type for such work. “Why you're much too small and too young,” he told her. Rhoda J. Milliken. Given Opportunity. Instead of being discouraged, Miss Milliken persisted in her efforts to join the Woman's Bureau, and finally, Maj. Pullman permitted her to work at the bureau at night after she finished typ- ing official communications during the day at the Navy Department. It did not take Miss Milliken long, however, to demonstrate her ability and her value, and on January 21, 1919, she was ap- pointed a police private, A year later she was advanced a grade —a promotion that comes to all police- men who “make good” in the proba- tionary period—but only nine months afterward she was elevated to the rank of sergeant. This rank she has held ever since, only because she could not g0 any higher while Lieut. Van Winkle remained in command of the bureau. As a policewoman, Sergt. Milliken's fame is Nation-wide. And in February last year she went to Fort Worth, Tex., :‘r’\d nss_ls((;g in the f(’)l’lzflnllslion of the oman’s Bureau of that city's department. e Sergt. Milliken is the daughter of the late Judge Alfred Milliken and Mrs. . Milliken of Tennessee. Not only does she hold a degree from Barnard College, but she is a member of Phi Beta Kappa of Columbia University, and speaks fluently several foreign languages. LAW LEAGUE SESSION WON BY WASHINGTOS Commercial Attorneys Choose Cap- ital Over Resorts for July Meeting. In a contest with 10 cities, Washing- ton won the 1ace as the meeting place for the next conventfon of the Com- mercial Law League of America, it was announced today by the Greater Na- tional Capital Committee. The meeting will be held in Washington next July. Many of the previous meetings of this organization have been held in resort cities, the last one having been at Virginia Concern Offers to Pay Government $5,251 for Con- tract. The Treasury Department late yester- day opened bids for wrecking two large “reservations” between Third and Sixth streets, Pennsylvania and Missouri avenues. Rhine & Co. of Alexandria, Va., was low bidder with an offer to pay the Government $5,251 for the job. The second low bidder was Harry R. Whitehead of Alexandria, who offered to pay.the Government $2,800. There were nine bidders, most of whom asked the Government to pay them. No buildings will be erected on these two large reservations. The area imme- diately east of Sixth street will be used for the extension of Constitution avenue through into Pennsylvania avenue, be made into a public park. Mackinac Island. The decision to come to Washington was made at a meeting of the Board of Directors at Pinehurst, N. C. Officials of the league who came from Pinehurst to Washington today to look after detailed plans for the con- vention, said Washington was selected because it is the seat of government and the business center of the country. In the selection of the city, the question of Summer weather was considered. C. N. Nichols, convention manager of the Greater National Capital Committee, presented a compilation made from fig- ures obtained from the United States Weather Bureau, which showed Wash- ington has nothing unusual in the way of weather discomfort during the Sum- mer months. These figures included average, maximum and minimum tem- peratures and humidity readings for the entire Summer period. ‘The Commercial Law League will bring from 800 to 1,000 delegates to Washington. Martin 9. Teigan of Chi- cago & secretary,