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oo ] he Sunday Star WASHINGTON, 1B ¢ SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1932. =« PAGE B—1 500,000 WAR FUND URGED T0 ABOLISH ALLEY DWELLINGS Planning Board Debates Use of Money Held for Hous- ing Corporation. MRS. NORTON ATTENDS HEARING WITH CAPPER Members Believe Available Cash Should Be Diverted to Start Six-Year Program. By procuring congressional authori- pation to use the unexpended $500,000 war-time fund of the United States Housing Corporation, the National Cap- 1 jtal Park and Planning Commission 1s hopeful that an early start will be made on wiping out alley dwellings in the city Closing its three-day session yester- day, the commission had a frank dis- cussion with its congressional members —Chairman Capper of the Senate trict Committee and Mrs. Mary T. Nor- ton of the House District Committee— on the subject. With Mrs. Norton sit- ting in as an ex-officio member of the commission, it witnessed a8 woman for the first time officially taking part in its deliberations Legislation is now pending in Con- gress, designed to eliminate gradually ‘Washington's alley dwellings over a 10- year yeriod, with $500,000 being appro- priated for each of six years. The commission and its other sponsors say that the United States Housing Cor- poration would supervise the work and that the project should be self-support- ing, about 4 per cent on the invest- ment being secured. Call for Details. Senator Capper and Fepresentative Norton listened closely to the discussion of various aspects of Washington's alley dwelling problem and interrogated their fellow members on the commission about its details. Commission mem- bers believe that the $500,000 in the Treasury to the credit of the United States Housing Corporation should be used as a start on eliminating the alley dwellings. They believe that the ends of the closed-in alleys should be opened to permit free ingress and egress, in the initial program. The commission went on record as favoring the use of some of the new funds to be secured if the 2 cents ad- ditional gasoline tax goes into effect, s part of the Mapes program, for the improvement of park roads. Officials of the Office of Public Build- s end Public Parks say that the ck Park roads will have to be dened and 'repaired, shortly, as heavy automobile traflic in that area js w: ing down the thoroughfares constructed for the vmmnn era, The gesolfhe’ tax measure is now pending in the Senate District Commit- tee end a hearing likely will be held on the proposal to have the park roads share in the Dew fund. Eafly ‘Action Urged. The commiséion urged the need of early actioneen. the proposed amend- ment to th& Capper-Cramton park- purchase act. Under this amendment, the Pederal Government would be able to go ahead immediately on the pur- chase of key properties in the George Washington Memorial Parkway, stretch- ing southward on both banks of the Potomac ‘River from Great Falls. | The Federal Government and the {ates of Maryland and Virginia, and | their political subdivisions, are to share | ccually on & 50-50 basis in the pur-| cnase of land for the George Wash-| ington Memorial Parkway. Under the amendment, the States' would purchase a like amount of land, later, under their portion. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the commis- slon’s engineer, asserted yesterday the amendment would not mean the au- ! thorization. of additional funds, but { merely enables the Federal Government |'to protect necessary property from en- croachment. The commission favors the measure arranged to facilitate the transfer of , land between various governmental agencies. This would be a blanket act ! to permit land transfers through exec- utive action, instead of the necessity for individual acts in each instance. ELKS LODGE WILL MARK ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY | nor Guests Will Include Bishop Freeman, Rev. Edmund Walsh and John R. Coen. i The 50th anniversary of the Wash- | sngton Lodge, No. 15, B. P. O. Elks, will be celebrated in the Mayflower Hotel Thursday, Pebruary 11, with a banquet and appropriate program, it was announced yesterday by William 8. Shelby, secretary of the lodge Guests of honor and principal speak- ers for the occasion will include Bishop James E. Freeman, Rev. Edmund A Walsh, regent of the Georgetown Uni- ! versity School of Forelgn Service, and ! John R. Coen, grand exalted ruler of ihe Elks. The Colorado delegation will act as escort to Mr. Coen ‘Among the prominent persons invited to the affair are Gen. John J. Pershing, | Representative Reichel- Maj Rabbi Ryan, Arthur_Capper, rton, Dr. Luther H Gen, Herbert B. Crosby John C. Gotwals, Senator Davis J. T. Loeb and Mgr. James H yoctor of Catholic University Distinguished members of the order | from various parts of the country are| expected to come to Washington for| the anniversary banquet. WILL BEGIN REHEARSALS Minstrel Operetta Cast to Start Preparations Thursday. Rehearsals for “Songlands Romance,” H Has a Message to Spread Fulton R. Gordon Says H> Will Write, Produce and Act in a ““Super-epic”” Drama That Will . s “Revolutionize AVING hit upon what he be-| lieves to be the cause and cure of crime, as well as the Toot of unhappy marriages, poverty, | war, insanity and other_evils, Fulton R. Gordon, well known Wash- ington realty promoter, plans to give | his secret to the world through the medium of stage end screen, with him- | self as leading man, and at & cost of production estimated at from $200,000 | to_$350,000. In & colorful interview vesterday at his unpretentious real estate office in | a building at Fourteenth and H streets | Mr, Gordon revealed details of his am- bitious _histrionic effort, ' tentatively dubbed “The Dawn of a New Civiliza- tion.” | Mr. Gordon will be the author, pro- | ducer and chief actor in the ‘“super | epic,” which will be not only enter-| taining, amusing and educational, but | possessed of a moral that he hopes, | to use his own words, “will revolution- ize civilization.” Commissions Producer. The veteran real estate man has commissioned John Frederick, listed as a ‘writer and producer from Holly- wood,” to shape Mr. Gordon's original story into stage production form and thereafter to prepare a scenario for a motion picture calculated, according to both, to create a lot of attention. | Mr. Frederick is planning an ex- tensive publicity campaign to arouse | interest in the forthcoming enterprise. | He said Mr. Gordon would go on the air_over a local radio station every veek or so and that he (Mr. Frederick) would obtain statements from ‘“such | men as President Hoover” containing | their prediction of what the world will | be like 50 years from now. He declared these statements would not be hard for him to get. The “Dawn of a New Civilization” would not be mentioned until the very end of the statement, he pointed out, but the pub- licity value of even this brief mention would be tremendous. Mr. Gordon disclosed he has been considering for some time the best method of getting his civilization plan over to the public in the biggest way, and that Mr. Frederick, who says helped D. W. Griffith put over some of his best productions, convinced him the stage and screen could reach “a hun- dred million people in all corners of the | globe.” | Found Wickersham Busy. | “I took' my crime cure plan to the | Wickersham Commission,” Mr. Gordon | explained, “but Mr. Wickersham's sec- retary said he was busy and asked me to make an appointment. I never went back to make the appointment, how- ever, as the commission’s days were just about over, and I believe in doing things in my own way. Then I de-| cided to write about the plan in news- | papers and magazines. In fact, the | editor of one of the big newspaper chains asked me to prepare my edi- torials, and I was just starting to do‘ that when Mr. Frederick came along ‘adnd changed me over to the stage lea.” | Mr. Frederick, who was sitting along- | side, nodded assent. “What was it you told me about the | merit of my story from the theatrical | standpoint?” Mr. Gordon asked Mr. Frederick. “I told you that I believe it to be the most promising material for the theater that has ever come to my at- tention,” Mr. Frederick answered. Mr. Gordon was asked about the financiel aspects of the undertaking. He sald the movie production would cost about $200,000 and the stage play much less. Mr. Frederick previously | had estimated to the reporter that the motion picture would cost $300,000 and the stage play about $50,000. | “Who's going to put up the money?" the reporter asked “That's all arranged for. and while I had no intention originally of making any money out of the thing, Mr. Fred- erick has told me there is a fortune in t,” Mr. Gordon replied. Will Use “Greatest Actors.” Mr. Frederick had informed the re- porter earlier that the funds were be- | ing, put up by Mr. Gordon, “the people | in Hollywood” and “myself.” The play will be in seven acts, and the “‘greatest actors in the business” will be imported here for the stage offering, Mr. Fred- erick declared. It is planned to obtain the Washington Auditorfum or the Be- lasco Theater for a six or eight week run, starting about March 19. When the local run has been com. pleted, the screen production will be started in Hollywood, with the “best” talent available as stars, headed, otl course, by Mr. Gordon in the principal role In reply to a question as to whether e had ever had any stage or screen xperience, Mr. Gordon explained he had not, but that didn’t matter, be- e he has had remarkable success speaker and lecturer. Cried All the Way Home. “I spoke to 6.000 people once at a mass meeting, in 1911, in behalf of Government clerks, and 3,000 of them | were crying when I got through and | cried all the way home,” he commented. | The gist of Mr. Gordon's idea re- garding crime and its cause and cure is that people are either crazy or not crazy. “There are just two classes of people,” he explained. “One class has a sound brain and is able to have sound | premises and sound conclusions. The | other class has an unsound brain and has false premises and false conclusions, The criminal element is the product of | the latter class. My solution of the | crime problem is to build up a new | | civilization of sound minds by banning | marriages of unscund minds and thus | climinating defective offspring. By eliminating the mentally defective climinate crime, mismating, pover! war, n 2sylums. years from now we will have | !a new race of sane, healthy people and | crime and other troubles will be things of the past. I am working all these ideas into the play. Yet I am making the protluction interesting and enter- taining from start to finish. There will be romance, thrills—everything.” ‘Won Via Milk Route. The play, according to the “third treatment synopsis” on which Mr. Frederick is now working, will open with a Springtime scene in old Virginia, with a young farmer lad. who turns out to b2 J c: as a minstrel musical operetta produced here Jast season, will begin Thursday night at the Cairo Hotel. Aspirants for roles Mr. Gordon, holding a calf with a broken leg. “The young man stood 6 feet tall, clad | are invited to attend the first rehearsaly i overalls, boots and a oolored soft gt 8 o'clock. Besides being presented at 2 local theater, the operetta will be played at the various Government hps- pitals for the benefit of confined vet- erans. Among the members of the cast selected are Edwin Stefle, Romero Guaraldi, Joseph King, Seba Christie, Alfred Oddone, S. W. Swygart, Joseph Beerne, Henry Nestor, Aaron Kaplan, The annual dinner for the benefit cf the Home for the Aged is to be held on the evening of February 2 at the Co- Jumbia Heights Christian Church. Prep- arations for the dinner are being made by to- Home Boerd of Ledy Banage:s. |shirt, with a straw hat placed on the I back of his head.” the third treatment | synovsis says: “The tender manner in hich young Fulton R. Gordon admin- istered first aid to the injured calf as- sured the proud father that his son would enact many kind deeds to human beings as well as animals, as he moved through the great stream of time.” Young Gordon, the story continues, had & milk delivery route. One morn- ing a note was discovered in a milk bottle left on the doorstep and “aided with the light of his long trick lantern, he discovered that the note was an invitation for him to deliver milk to the White House.” He does, in fact, deliver milk to the White House and * distinctim of meeting Presiden’ Ha™ | Senators |out the world in honor of the grand ad the | | Civilization.” | FULTON R. GORDO! in delivering to people a milk so noted for its fine qualities.” The “love interest” enters as he de- | livered a bottle of milk at the next| house. He meets a ‘gorgeous young lady,” and & a brief courtship de- cides to marry her. In the meantime he has been study- ing human nature and character and suddenly he discovers “that all trouble came from one source—the mind and improper tninking.” Goes Before Congress. To make a long story short, he suc- ceeds after years of study, in develop- ing a plan for ending crime and at- tracted the attention of Congress. “All is quiet in the Senate chamber,” the play goes on, “as Fulton R. Gordon rises to his feet and begins reading his message. (Fade out and into retro- spect).” The fade-out shows a court | scene where an injustice is being done a young prisoner. slowly fade out from this se- quence and back into the Senate cham- ber as the scene comes in view: The as well as the President of the Senate, are held spellbound, as they watch Mr. Gordon and realize that he has delivered them a message of truth.” There are several fade-outs into retrospect during the Senate chamber sequence, as a result of which Mr. Gordon convinces Congress of the soundness of his plan for ending crime and attendant troubles. From the Senate chamber the scene fades out into the future—50 years hence, to be exact. He is shown directing the activities of a number of special commissions' dealing with crime, marriage and education. The grand finale follows: “It is the day of the mallinium. The message comes flashing through the television. The message continues as Mr. Gordon breathes a sigh of con- tent. It was 50 years ago that Fulton R. Gordon conceived the idea and put into effect the dawn of & new civilization and this was the night of the celebration in honor of this great fete, The celebration was being staged in the form of a montogrow or a street carnival. ‘Watches Many Cities. “Excitement was running high in the streets of the principal cities through- old gentleman who is sitting in his library moving a television telescope with a long lever near his chair, which brings to him a plain vision of the actions of those in the various cities who are celebrating in his honor. “A smile of content slowly lights the wrinkled face of the grand old man whose heir 15 whitened by the frost of 119 Winters, and whose name stands as a monument of good will and con- structive thinking, which has advanced all_mankind into a bigger and better | civilization and made the world a better place in ch to live. “His family, consisting of five generations of perfect characters and superior human beings, file in to con- gratulate their beloved parent, and to help sing the praises of honor to the grand old man who created and put into effect the dawn of a new civiliza- tion. The end—fade-out.” $1,123,000 LOWEST OF LIBRARY BIDS Chicago Concern Among 22 Seek: ing Contract for Congressional Additien The firm cf J of Chixago has sut bid, $1,123,000 for the addition to the Libr: was announced yesterday by the Archi- tect of the Capitol, David Lynn. Bids were opened Friday afternoon, and, while the bid of the Jacobson Co., which was sent by airmail from Chi- cago, did not reach the architeet’s of- fice until yesterday morning, officials of that office said t actice is to consider bids if the > mailed in sufficient time to have opening. The Jacobson bid w Chicago at 5 p.m. Janua in the architect’s ofiic the Post Cffice Dej ter giving _infor: progress of the & There were 22 bi ject. The ;l‘r(md lowest I of the Wark Co. of Philadelphia, which bid SLISBO0. The 20 ',f:l:»r“};l&: ranged upward to & maxim $1,347,000. s The proposed building is to be an extension of the central part of the building on the east side of the street on Second street southeast. This pro- ject is separate from the proposed li- brary annex, which is to be erected later on_the eastern side of Second street. Bids will be recelved in the Spring for the annex Brojhers Co. | cd the lowest | erecticn of an of Congress, it Officials | e asked | for a let- | ting to the | on the pro- | was that | KANSANS TO OBSERVE ADMISSION TO UNION A banquet celebrating the 7ist an- niversary of the admicsion of Kansas Kansas State Society Friday | at the Raleigh Hotel Repl:eseer:tex:ll‘l“]l% Guyer will speak and the program will be tollowe:;1 by dancing. Among the guests, it is expected, be Vice President Curtis Sewaters Capper and McGill, Commissioner Herbert Crosby, W. O. Woods, United scfi.tfio treuurelr; rEdward C. Finney, solicitor general of the De, ¢ Interfor, and others. PS nenviol Representative Hope s the soclety. _Arrangements' for aiiing. | to the "Union will be given by the| ance may b> r~de through R, W, [Eric Rafter, 2017 Wy CIVIL SERVICE BILL FOR APPEAL BOARD Early Hearing Indicated for Brookhart Measure for Review of Cases. COMMITTEE EXPECTED TO MEET WITHIN WEEK Proposed Retirement System for Legislative Employes Also to Be Considered. The Brookhart bill to set up a board of civil service appeals, to which Gov- ernment,_employes or department heads could go for review of questions relat- ing to efficiency ratings, transfers, re- ductions or dismissals, and a bill tc establish a retirement system for em- ployes in the legislative branch of thc Government, probably will be amont the first measures considered by thc Senate Civil Service Committee at thi. session Senator Dale, Republican, of Ver- mont, chairman of the committee, saic yesterday the committee would hold it first meeting of the session soon, prob- ably within a week. . Although bills have been introducec in the Senate by Senator Borah of Idaho, proposing salary cuts for mem- bers of Congress, cabinet members anc other Government employes who re- ceive $5,000 or more, they are not before the Civil Service Committee, having been referred to the Appropriations Committee. That committee has not yet considered them. Changes Made in Bill. Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, has made several changes in the Civil Service Board of Appeals bill since he originally proposed it at the last sesson, The proposed board would consist of three members, not more than two of whom would be from the same political party and one of whom wouid be & woman. They would be ap- pointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, at salaries of $10,000 a year. The bill would abolish the Personnel Classification Board and transfer its records to the Civil Service Commission. One of the new features of the bill this year is that it would add two members to the Civil Service Commission, one of whom would be a woman. Whenever a department head or em- ploye believes a position is not prop-| erly allocated, application may be made to the personnel commissioners. After the commission renders its decision either the department head or the em- ploye would have 60 days in which to appeal to the Board of Civil Service Appeals. The employe would be en- titled to be represented by counsel at the hearing. The action of the board would be final. The bill also would establish a uni- form system of efficiency rating. with four groups, as follows: Excellent, 90 to 100; good, 80 to 89; falr, 65 to 79, and inefficient, below 65. Basis for Increases, A rating above 60 would not be re- garded as inefficient for employes eligi- ble to retire within five years, or those entitled to military preference on ac- count of disability. The efficiency rat- ings would be used as the basis for increases. Questions relating to reduction in compensation within a grade, transfer to a lower grade and dismissals for in- efficiency also would be subject to ap- peals to the proposed new board. It is also provided that appeals by employes shall be without prejudice to them. A separate bill is pending in the com- mittee to establish a retirement system for employes in the legislative branch of the Government, on Capitol Hill, who are not under the present civil service retirement law, Senator Brookhart also has pending in the Civil Service Committee a bill to provide for a five-day week for labor- ers, helpers, skilled and semi-skilled workmen, mechanics, drafting group and other technicians employed in con- nection with work performed by the skilled trades, and supervisors of such employes, exclusive of the postal serv- ice, in the Federal and District Govern- ments. MARATHON HEAD ORDERED ARRESTED FOR ACCIDENT Is Accused of Report Dance Promoter Failing to Injury of Employe. A warrant for the arrest of Morton Weil, manager of the Marathon EX- hibition Co., sponsors of the marathon | dance being held in the Washington Auditorium, was issued in Police Court yesterday by Assistant United States Attorney Michael F. Keogh. Weil Is accused of failing to report an accident in which Richard Jacobs, who said he was an employe of the marathon, was injured by a falling timber, to the office of the District Workmen's Compensation Commission This failure, Keogh said, 15 a violation of a section of the workmen’s compen- sation act. Robert J. Hoage, deputy commissioner of the compensation office, reported to Keogh that Weil was asked on several occasions to submit a report of the accident. He was warned, Hoage stated, and Thursday was forwarded a sub- poena to appear before him, which he ignored. Jecobs report>d to the commission that he was struck by a falling timber November 29. A doctor stated that he sustained a severe contusion as a Te- sult of the accident. A A DIES OF STAB WOUND Joy French Jones, 26, colored, an employe of the Wise Dairy, 3200 block of N street, died in Georgetown Hos- pital last night from a stab wound in the heart, said to have been inflicted be a fellow employe during a fight in the dairy locker room. Jones, whose home is at 913 Twenty- sixth street, was fourld unconscious on the sidewalk several blocks from the dairy shortly after the stabbing. Head- quarters detectives said a number of Golored men took part in the fight. The investigators added that they had obtained the name of Jones' as- sailant. ACCIDENT HURTS WOMAN Mrs, Virginia Martin, 25, of 2122 Cal- jfornia street, was in Emergency Hos- pital last nlfiz suffering from an in- fury to her back received in an auto- mobile ucldcndt near Gaithersburg, esterday. “‘ése‘":mi taken to the hospital by mng o SENATORSTOPUSH PROBE OF BOBING. AT SEAT PLEASANT IN 3015 RESUMED 'Finding of Dynamite Sticks | Where Leroy Brady Had Worked Reopens Case. {TWO MURDER CHARGES PENDING AGAINST HIM Convicted Man Also Was Indicted in Deaths of Children in Blast. New Prosecution Looms. Investigation of the Seat Pleasant bombing, in which three members of the Hall family were killed and several others injured on New Year day, 1930, was resumed yesterda The new inquiry was ordered by State Attorney Alan Bowle of Prince Georges County. with a view to Te- opening the prosecution of the case as a result of the discovery of 17 sticks of dynamite in the Washington garage in which Leroy Brady formerly worked as an automobile mechanic. Two Indictments Pending. Brady, convicted of second-degree murder In_the death of his sister-in- law, Mrs. Naomi Hall Brady, 18, and now serving a 10-year term in the Maryland Penitentiary, still is under indictment on first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Naomi's sis- ter and brother, Dorothy, 4, and Sam- uel. 19 months. His brother, Herman, husband of Naomi, also was indicted on a first- degree murder charge in the three deaths, but the charges were nolle prossed. This action was taken after Leroy's second trial, held about a year ago in Annapolis. | paper, dated November 27, 1920, was found Tuesday night in an abandoned flue in the basement of the Barry-Pate Motor Co., 2525 Sherman avenue. Baltimore Detectives Called. It is considered an important bit of evidence, since the date on the paper corresponds with the time at which witnesses at Leroy’s two trials testified they saw him working with a “fur gun” trigger. A similar firing device was used in the bomb which killed Naomi and her sister and brother, in addition to injuring her mother, Mrs. Nora Hall, and other members of the family. At Bowle's request, Lieut. Joseph Ttzcl and Sergt. Charles Schalter of the Bal- timore Detective Bureaus who handled the investigation which resulted in the | arrest of the Bradys, came to the Capi- | tal yesterday. headquarters they went to the second precinct police station and examined the dynamite. Their inspection con- vinced them, they said, that the dyna- mite contains about the same per- centage of nitroglycerin as that used in the bomb. It also appears to be of the same manufacture, they added. 01d Witnesses to Be Quizzed. Accompanied by Detective Sergt. Thomas Sullivan, who investigated the discovery of the dynamite, the Balti- moreans also visited the Sherman ave- nue establishment, where they made an intensive search for other olies. The investigation probably will take | “at least a week,” Itzel said. as all the witnesses in the case probably will b2 | requestioned. Sonre of them, he added. | have moved and may be difficult to | locate | Whether the prosecution of the case | will be reopencd, Bowie explained, de- pends entirely upon the results of the investigation. “I'll make up my mind after I re- ceive the detectives’ reports,” the State's attorney said. MASS MEETING SET ON MOONEY PARDON Four Senators and La Guardia Will Speak at Conference and Later Session Today. i Four Senators and a Representative will be numbered among the speakers at a conference and mass meeting this afterncon and tonight, called to discuss plans and demand the pardon of Tom Mooney, sentenced to life improsinment in California for murder 16 years ago. The conference will be held at the Hamilton Hotel at 2 o'clock while the mass meeting will convene at PFriends Meeting House, 2111 Florida avenue, at 8 o'clock. Held on the anniversary of the Moon- ey trial, both sessions will be addressed by Senators Edward P. Costigan of Colorado, Bronson N. Cutting of New Mexico, Gerald P. Nye of North Da- kota and Burton K. Wheeler of Mon- tana. — The Representative is La Guardia of New York. Other speakers will be Rabbi Edward Israel, Father John A. Ryan, director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and Rev. Worth M. Tippy, executive secretary of the Social Service Commission, Federal c(;]gn‘cn of Churches. elegates representing labor fraternal organizations of New YE?}S Philadelphia, Baltimore and other Eastern cities will be present. The speakers will tell of several new proposals which have been advanced in the hope of bringing about Mooney's release. i GIRL REPORTiEIj TAKING POISON CRITICALLY ILL Notice of Her Failure to Pass as Probationary Nurse Had Been Given. An 18-year-old girl, reported to hav taken poison Tuesday because she !ai]es to pass as a probationary nurse at Emergency Hospital, was in a critical condition at that hospital last night, ac- cording to attending physicians. The girl, Miss Helen Black of the 6200 block of Eighth street, is being treated by Dr. Harry M. Kaufman, chief of the medical staff at the hospital, and Dr. John P. Ernest. Dr. Kaufman sald last night that the girl “was receiving the best of care and was under the expert treatment of two graduate nurses.” Ruth Pratt’s Home Looted. Meats valued at $10 were stolen from the home of Representative Ruth Pratt of New York, at 1925 F street, yester- The theft was reported by James v ~mz, butler at the residence. The dynamite, wrapped in a news- | After conferring with Bowie at police | Home Like Prosperity “JUST AROUND THE CORNER,” LOST CHILD EXPLAINS. ITTLE ALICE HAWKINS' house, like prosperity, was just “around | the corner.” | But which corner? Alice, only 3, and lost herself, couldn't be expected to find a lost corner, and about all ofiicers at the Woman's Bureau could do was admit there were at least four corners at every street intersection in Washingtcn. Alice, however, who earnestly sought to help after Policeman A. D. Clark of the Traffic Bureau found her at Fifth street and Massachusetts avenue yes- terday noon, had some more informa- tion: “My Daddy,” she said, not without = certain pride, “drives a red automo- bile—a big, red automobile!” —Star Staff Photo. And Alice, although she couldn’t -»-! member the street or number of her home, recalled other things: “I'm a twin,” she announced. “I've a twin brother; he knows where I live— just ack him™ Six hours after she was taken to the however, this scemed rather nder if a description of Alice broad- L‘h the precincts was going to bring 2sults. | A% 6:30 o'clock last night .it did— ‘n the person of Alice’s mother, Mrs. Alice Hawkins, and father, Linwood Hawkins, of 315 G street. “I told you it was just around the rorner!” Alice called to the officers on her way home. WOMAN CASHIER 5 ROBBED OF A “andit Flees Aiter Lootir: Laundry Branch Office of Day’s Receipts. Quietly pointing a pistol at Miss Pauline Compton, cashier of the Palace Laundry office at 3225 Mount Pleasant street, at 6 o'clock last night, a colored bandit- seized the day's cash receipts, estimated at nearly $200, and escaped from sight almost before she could give an alarm. The hold-up, evidently carefully planned, occurred during a moment when usually crowded sidewalk was comparatively free of Saturday night shoppers and Miss Compton was alone in the laundry office. When she ran into the next door, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. store, blurting out that she had been robbed, S Manchester gave chase. Nearly a block away, at Park road, he saw a man running and disappear around the corner. Miss Compton had just taken the day’s receipts of bills from the register and placed them in an envelope when & colored man, wearing dark clothes and a light felt hat, approached the counter. Taking him for a customer she n{- proached the counter and was met with a polite “good evening.” Then she saw a gun pointed at her. “How about that envelope?” the man sald. The young woman hesitated a second, and the bandit repeated in a different tone, “You know what I mean.” Too Frightened to Scream. Without ~another hesitation she handed him the envelope and he dashed out of the door. No one else was | within immediate call at the time. | Miss Compton said she was too | frightened to scream. Several other men scouted around the block when | she finally did give the alarm, but saw no one who seemed to answer the bandit's description. The man was about 25 years old and of medium | height. Report Other Hold-ups. Other hold-ups, which netted ban- dits small amounts, were reported by three taxi drivers and a store pro- prietor. Police also investigated an at- tempted hold-up at 1210 B street north- east. Edward L. Cook, 29, of 3035 Vista street northeast, and Arthur T. Brice, colored, 2712 C street, were robbed of small amounts by “fares.” A similar theft was reported by Melville Child, 130 C street southeast. Cook said he handed over $8 to a white man and woman who drew guns when he deposited them at Eastern avenue and Elm street northeast, after picking them up in his cab at Eleventh street and Massachusetts avenue. The pair, Cook said, threw his ignition key away and drove off in another automo- bile in which an accomplice had fol- lowed his cab. Brice reported he was threatened w#h a butcher knife and robbed of a dollar by two men whom he drove to Forty-ninth and Lee streets northeast, from First and L streets. The men, Brice sald, drove off in his cab. Two armed robbers robber Childs of $8 on Shepherd road near New Hamp- shire avenue. LIGHT RATE HEARING "TARTS TOMORROW “thod of Applying Reduced| | w: Mapes Committee report, Mr. Mapes Rates to Various Sched- ules to Be Decided. Public hearings on reduced electric rates for 1932 will get under way before the Public Utilitles Commission in the office of the chairman at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The commission and the Potomac Electric Power Co. already have come to an agreement oh the amount to be used in the reduction, the only matter left for discussion being how the cuts are to be applied to the various schedules. It 15 not expected this will take more than one day. The amount to be taken off the electric bills in 1932 is $860,000, which is $30.000 more than the amount used in making the reduction for 1931. This will make possible a reduction in the primary rate in the domestic schedules from 4.2 cents to 3.7 cents or 3.6 cents per kilowatt hour, with acompanying in the domestic and various commercial schedules. The amount of the cut isa compro- mise between the amount under the consent decree and the amount under the new sliding scale set up by the commission last year. Since 1924, rates have been regulated according to a consent decree signed in Equity Court by former Justice Wendell P. Stafford in that year. Last year, however, after finding the fact that under the consent decree the company earned excessive returns, the commis- slon discarded it and set up a new scale of its own. ‘The power company has appealed this action to the court and litigation has not yet been settled. Pending a settlement, however, the parties agreed to the size of the rate cut for this year. The new rates will go into effect next Monday. TR WOMAN HURT IN FALL Three-year-old Alice Hawkins of 315 G street could remember only that, she lived “just around the corner” when taken to the Women'’s Bureau yesterday. | Bandit Demands Cash Envelope. | regyctions in the secondary rates, both | MAPES SAYS TAXES OF DISTRICT MUST BE GIVEN INCREASE Higher Real Estate Levy Held Inevitable if House Bills Are Rejected. SPONSOR OF MEASURES DECLARES THEY ARE FAIR Michigan Representative Also As- serts Capital Residents Have Strong Voice in Rule. Defending the House program for District taxation, Representative Mapes, Republican, of Michigan, chairman of the committee which {fathered the measures, last night declared in a speech that unless the bills his commit- tee have recommended are enacted into law a higher tax on real estate is “in- evitable.” “It is hard to understand,” he said, “how any one who studies the bills rec- ommended by the committee from a disinterested point of view, who knows what they are all about, can, in all conscience, feel that they are unjust to the District.” Appearing before the University of Michigan Club, at a dinner at the May- flower, Mr. Mapes said that in drafting the proposed legislation, an effort had been made to levy taxes here that would be in line with those in other States. Other speakers at the dinner were Gen. James E. Fechet, who recently retired as chief of the Army Air Corps, and Dr. Christian Gauss of Princeton University. Gen. Fechet made an ardent plea for preparedness and coupled with this a defense of President Hoover, whom he described as a ‘“much maligned man,” adding that thc President is not lo {blame for conditions in the Militaiy Establishment which bring criticism in Congress and elsewhere. Dr. Gauss discussed modern educa- tion and said that institutions of learn- ing must give attention to the creative arts, with which, he asserted, they are “entirely out of touch.” Says D. C. Has Voice. Mr. Mapes charged that there is a spirit here of “antagonism, approaching bitterness,” against any increase in taxes projected, and scoffed at the con- ‘tention of District residents that they have no voice in the Government. Hear- ings are granted on every piece of im- portant legislation affecting the Dis- trict, Mr. Mapes said. In addition, he pointed to “the social lobby in the and officers were beginning to| District, which has no equal, or any- thing that compares with it, anywhere else in the United States.” | . _Along the same line he said that the | framers of the Constitution in setting up the District, “apparently believed that the superior rights of the Nation required that those who make their per- manent legal residence here, whether by choice or otherwise, should be willing, if need be, to submit to taxation without representation and to forego the privi- lege of voting.” ‘When this site was selected for the Capital, he sald, “there was nothing within the present limits of the District, outside of the old incorporated town of Georgetown, except agricultural land and there are many who believe now that the Capital should be removed tc some other location, that it would not be long again before there would be little left except agricultural land.” Will Still Pay Less. At the outset of his speech, which V. in effeci a restatement of the said, “Congress is not going out of its way to harrass or punish the people of the District. unnecessarily.” “The House Select Committee,” Mr. Mapes told his audience, “a2dopted the formula that the people of the District ought to pay, or at least that they could not justly complain if they were re- quired to pay, a tax comparable with that paid by people in other cities of similar size and advantage, that is, un- less their tax buiden was greater than the tax burden of people in comparable cities outside the District. It may sur- prise some of you when I say that the Tecommendations of the committee, if carried out, will not, in the judgment of the committee, require the people of the District to pay as much as'the average pald by the citizens of comparable cities, but that they would still pay less than people pay in any other comparable city in the United States.” Mr. Mapes described how the com- mittee concluded that the adjusted tex rate here was $15.30 per thousand, or the lowest cf any of the cities surveyed. He repeated the committee’s findings relating to gas tax, motor vehicle tax, inheritance and income taxes, the status of such taxation elsewhere, to show why they should be imposed in the District. Feeling Here Bitter. If the tax bills already through the House are not passed by the Senate and the House stands firmly, Mr. Mapes warned, an increase in the real estate tax is “inevitable.” “The enactment of the bills into law,” he asserted, “will tend to relieve the home owners or the average man rather than to increase his tax burden.” District people “do not know what tax burdens are,” and are not alone in facing tax incraeses, the speaker said, pointing to press accunts of a proposed increase in New York and of a taxation protest in York, Pa. As to the complaint of District resi- dents that they are without voice in the Government, Mapes said: “Well, is that so? I know of no other place in the United States where the Treated at Casualty Hospital for|people have as much_voiee i their Government, or influence it as much, Broken (Colieshare as they do right here in the District Mrs. Elizabeth Dowle, 84, of the 700 | of Columbia. They are invited to ap- block of H street southwest, suffered a | pear and do appear before the commit- broken collarbone and lacerations yes- | tees of Congress to be heard on every terday when she fell on the street car tracks in the 700 block of Seventh street southwest. She was treated at Casualty Hos- pital register. The intruders forced him into a rear room and escaped. Screams Rout Trio. Three would-be bandits, all” young colored men, fled when the screams of their intended victim, Mrs. Sarah Rub- in, routed them from a delicatessen at 1210 B street northeast. An_ intruder, who identjfied himself as Ernest Brown, 31, colored, of 5500 block of Bell place northeast, was cap- tured last night in Slater School, on P street near North Capitol street, by Policeman H. H. Hodge. The officer was sent to the building when & resi- dent of the neighborhood reported that 2 man had broken in. Brown was held for thvestigation. ‘Thieves made off with two typewriters valued at $160 by forcing the Accosted bv two white men, who | flourished guns, Loviz Grrbe ===~ rear door of Mount Carmel Baptist Church, h! d I streets, ucar% to a the pastor, Rev, lam M. | bet })leoe of legislation of importance af- ecting the District, the same as the people of the States, in fact much more than the people of the States are heard fore the committees of their State Legislatures, not to mention the soclal lobby in the District, which has no equal or anything that compares with it anywhere else in the United States. Furthermore, there is a concentrated public sentiment of opposition here in the District of antagenism, approaching bitterness, against any step which Ccngnss may contemplate, looking to- ward any increase in taxation, un- equaled anywhere and which makes the members of Congress reluctant even to approach the subject.” In fixing taxes here, Mapes said, Con- gress must be fair to the people of the States and also the District. “The Mapes Committee, so-called,” the speaker amplified, “feels that in its findings and recommendations it has not only been fair, but exceedingly liberal to the Districf. In my ment, no one need be afraid_that Con- gess will ever treat the District of ‘olumbia, or the people in it, unfairiy. On_ihe other hand. I see no reas " (Gépiinucy ca Page 4, Colump 4.)