Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1932, Page 17

PIERSON SELECTED FOR PROMOTIONTO POLICE CAPTAINCY Glassford Expected to Sub- mit Nominations of Officers to Board Tomorrow. SERGT. BOHRER SLATED TO BE LIEUTENANT Pvt. Robert J. Fraser in Line for Sergeantcy as Result of Plem- mons’ Retirement. Promotion of Lieut. Joseph W. Pierson to a captaincy to fill a vacancy created by the retirement February 1 of Capt. C. L. Plemmons has virtually been de- cided on by Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glass- ford, superintendent of police, who pre- pared today to submit to the Commis- sioners for approval a list of officers he believes should be advanced at this time. Other officers slated for promotion are Sergt. A, S. Bohrer of the first pre- cinct and Pvt. Robert J. Fraser. Selec- tion of these men, it was said, was made by Gen. Glassford after a series of con- ferences with his executive staff at which the qualifications and efficiency | of those eligible for promotion were ! discussed in detail. Effective Monday. The promotions are scheduled to go into effect Monday. Gen. Glassford is expected to submit his recommenda- tions to the Commissioners in time for action at the semi-weekly board meet- ing tomorrow. Lieut Pierson is now attached to ad- ministrative headquarters, and_serves as the department’s liaison officer at Police headquarters He has been a| member of the force since September | 14, 1904, Sergt. Bohrer heads the list of! eligibles for advancement to lieutenant. e oo of the younger members of The Separimént, having been appointed September 13, 1919 Now Station Clerk. Pvt. Frazer is now a station clerk | in the Detective Bureau. having held this position since his return to duty after being seriovely wounded in a battle, April 4, 1929, with Richard E. Hall, colored. The policeman shot and killed Hall after the man had stabbed him in the chest and slashed his face. All of the men selected for advance- ment. it was said, must pass a physical | examination. Several vacancies in the personnel of the Detective Bureau also are ex- pested to be filled Monday on recom- dation of Inspector Frank S. W. chief of detectives. Men undrrl consideration for these positions are | understood to be D. H. Jones of the | rarcotic squad. H. G. Wanamaker of the liquor squad and Precinct Detective ! M. J. Mahaney. EDGE DENIES REPORT | HE WILL QUIT POST| American Ambassador to France Declares He Is Content With Present Office. Walter E. Edge. American Ambassa- dor to France, during his call at the White House today denied with con- siderable emphasis the report that he was contemplating resigning his Paris post and that he would probably become a Republican candidate for the Senate from New Jersey. “I'm perfectly happy and content with my present place,” Ambassador Edge said to a gathering of newspaper men just outside the President’s office, “and I hope to be permitted to remain where I am.” The Ambassador declined to make any comment upon the reparations question or on the political situation in this country, either nationally or as it exists in his own State. He said he will leave Monday for Paris, but expects to come back to this country next Summer. Mr. Edge intimated that his return here probably would be in time for him to attend the next Republican National Convention. He declined, however, to say whether he would be a delegate to that convention. Neither would he say whether he would take a hand in the campaign. ‘The Ambassador said he was having a great time in Paris. Besides having plenty of work to do. he has been able 1o enjoy himself. To his old friends about the White House he gave the physical appearance of being in better shape than in many years. CENTRAL BUSINESS MEN HOLD BANQUET TONIGHT Bulow and Offutt to Speak—Guests Will Include Havenner. Smith to Preside. i Making the high point of its member- ship, the Central Business Men's Associ- ation will hold its first annual banquet at the Burlington Hotel this evening. Addresses will be delivered by Senator William J. Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, and George W. Offutt, presi- dent of the Washington Board of Trade. Guests will include Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations and the pres dents of various local business men' organizations. Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of the association, will act as toast- master, and an elaborate program of entertainment has been arranged under the direction of Maj. R. S. Hudgins, chairman of the Entertainment Com- mittee. Assisting_him in arranging the affair are: Dr. John R. Buechler, Ashby Leeth, Arthur Copeland. Edward H. Young, Leon Brill, J. Neison Anderson and Martin H. Hysong. WAIVES EXTRADITION West Virginian Believed Wanted on Larceny Charge. Benjamin Hayes, Wheeling, W. Va., who, police said, walked into headquar- ters Tuesday and surrendered after ex- plaining that he was wanted by West Virginia authorities for larceny, waived extradition when he appeared in Police Court yesterday. Police said Hayes is charged with the larceny of $300 worth of property and also is wanted in connection with a robbery. He was placed in the custody of a Wheeling detective and taken back to West Virginia. Police said Hayes told them his con- geience had been bothering him. | community groups, LIEUT. JOSEPH W. PIERSON. CAPITAL F RS FETE AID URGED Havenner Says Commercial | Groups Have Been Slow in Bicentennial Participation. he b WASHINGTON, D. C, SERGT. A. S. BOHRER. Calling attention to the comparative lack of enthusiastic response on the part of some Washington business con- | cerns to the approaching George Wash- ington Bicentennial Celebration in the National Capital, Dr. George C. Ha- venner, executive vice chairman of the District of Columbia George Washing- | ton Bicentennial Commission, said to- day he ‘“cannot too strongly urge the | necessity for active participation in the event by all branches of the community to nsure the success of the celebra- “Washingtonians, as a rule, are us- ually & little slow to take hold of any civic city-wide undertaking." Havenner said. “When they do, however, they enter it with entBusiasm and with the sole purpose of making the event, ‘whatever it may be, a success. “We have had three meetings with representatives of trade and civic groups in relation to the decorations of stores, office buildings, hotels and other build- ings during the Bicentennial. The most enthusiasm, howeevr, in this phase of the Capital's participaticn in the event has been manifest by the who are enthusi- astically going ahead with plans for nome decorations in the residential sec- tions."” The trouble with some of the busi- ness houses and citizens, Dr. Havenner said, is that “they do not realize the magnitude cf the events that will be held in the Capital to commemorate the Bicentennial of the birth of George Washington.” Dr. Havenner is hopeful that every building in Washington will display flags on peak days during the period of the celebration. The commission is en- deavoring to contact the heads of all business concerns in Washington in ef- forts to enlist their co-operation in creating appropriate decorations during the patriotic observance. More than 7,000,000 visitors will come to the Capital during 1932, Havenner estimated. Conventions alone, not in- cluding the Masonic dedication in Alex- andria, will bring close to 300,000 peo- ple, he said. EXTENDED AUTHORITY OF CITY HEADS FOUGHT| Park View Citizens' Association Opposes Resolution Now Before Two Houses. A resolution opposing a bill before the Senate and House, granting ad- ditional powers to the District Com- missioners, was adopted last night by the Park View Citizens' Association, meeting in the auditorium of the Park View School. The association objected to the broad extension of jurisdiction added in the bill. The association also objected to the wording of a resolution before Con- gress, regarding the merger of trac- tion lines in the Distrct. Members stated that the resoluton does not make any provisions for universal transfer or special rates for school children. Ccmmunity celebration plans for the Bicentennial were discussed. It was decided the Park View School grounds are to be beautified as a part of this program. A celebration, sponsored by the organization in conjunction with the Parent-Teacher Association of the Park View School and the Park View ‘Women's Club, also is planned. PVT. ROBERT J. FRASER. FIRES ON COUPLE, TURNS EUNONSELF Estranged Husband Recover- ing at Gallinger From Bullet Wound. Irving Arminger, 25 years old, of 1503 South Carroll street, Baltimore, | was believed recovering today at Gi | linger Hospital from a bullet wound. | which, police say, was self-inflicted late | yesterday after Arminger fired four shots at a man and woman in an | apartment at 1106 L street. | Arminger was disarmed by Policemen | D. A. Davis and E. K. O'Brien, who | went to the apartment after Ruth Howe | of the L street address, and John Vet- | ters, 20, of East Hamberg street, Bal- | timore, had fled to the street and turned |in an alarm. Arminger was said to | have shot at both. although none of the bullets took effect. Arminger, police say, then turned the | gun on himself, putting a shot through his shoulder. He was taken to Emer- gency Hospital for first-aid treatment and transferred to Gallinger Hospital. According to the police report, Armin- ger had been drinking heavily. He began shooting. occupants of the apart- | ment said, after he came to the apart- ment and inquired the whereabouts of his wife, from whom he had been estranged. | MRS. O’LAUGHLIN DIES Funeral Services to Be Held Tomor- row at Blessed Sacrament Church. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament for Mrs. Mary Sussannah O'Laughlin, who died early yesterday at her residence, 3744 Jenifer street, after a long illness. Mrs. O'Laughlin is survived by a daughter, Jane Clipper, and a son, John Callan O'Laughlin, publisher of the Army and Navy Journal, who served in the A. E. F. in France. LOTTERY BAN PASSED House Approves Bill Keep Chance Broadcasts Off Radio. Radio stations would be prevented from broadcasting anything about to ments to the 1927 radio act passed yesterday by the House. 1t approved and sent to the Senate & bill of Chairman Davis of the Radio Committee which would make minor and technical changes in the statutes under which broadcasting is super- vised by the Federal Government. SHRINKAGE IN ESTATE VALUES COMPLICATES WILL PROBLEMS Testators Are Leaving More Legacies Than They Have Assets to Pay Them. The Supreme Court of the District and the office of the register of wills for the District of Columbia are having many intricate problems presented at present due largely to the great shrink- age in the values of estates occurring both before the death of decedents and during the year of administration of the estates. One of the difficulties arises from the fact that testators are leaving -more legacies in their wills than they have assets to pay them, based on present liquidating values of securities. ‘Theodore Cogswell, register of wills for the District, said today he is of the opinion every person who executed his will before values receded so heavily stould make a careful examination of it at this time and also a careful check on the present value of his assets in order to escertain whether he now has enough to pay the legacies and devises made in the will. Cogswell pointed out, for example, that there was recently filed in his office the will of a promi- nent resident of Washington. who re- membered friends with legacies to the extent of $20,000. He left the balance of his estate consisting of the home in which he resided to a close relative. At the time he made the will several years ago he had as his entire estate 500 shares of stock of a local street rajflway compsny which were then worth $100 a share to & total of $50,000, and his home which was free of en- | cumbrance. At the time of his death end for some time prior thereto the market price of these same shares of stock had shrunk to $20 a share, or a total of $10,000. Thus the estate is short by $10,000 of encugh personal property to pay the legacies and if the court should be compelled to hold that the legacies are a charge on the real estate, the home would have to be sold ands the proceeds used to make up the deficiency in the legacies, resulting in a distinct hardship on the members of the testator's family to whom the real estate had been devised and who ex- gnem.ed to continue to occupy it as their me. If the testator had made a careful check on the present value of his es- tate he would, in all probability, bave changed his will by reducing the leg- acies in proportion to the shrinkage of his assets. “This is only one instance of the unfortunate results of the de- ression in values so far as the admin- tration of estates is concerned,” Mr. Cogswell stated. “It could have been prevented by the testator himself. I am convinced that for the protection of themselves and their beneficiaries. every one who has made a will should re-examine it now and re-appraise their assets as of their present value so as to determine whether a change of their will is necessary under the present altered conditions.” lotteries under one of a dozen amend- | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION HOOVER WAL LEAD | NATION TOMORROW INLINGOLN TRIBUTE President to Speak at 10:30 P.M. Over Nation-Wide Radio Hook-Up. PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS TO CONVENE AT SHRINE 80 or More Societies to Take Part in Daylight Services at Memorial. From the famous Lincom study in the White House President Hoover will lead the Nation tomorrow in paying ' homage to Abraham Lincoln. Before Mr. Hoover pays tribute to the martyred President in a Nation- wide radio broadcast at 10:30 pm., fourscore or more patriotic organi- zations will assemble at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 123d anniversary of his birth. The memorial services will be held 18t noon under the auspices of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of | the United States. Senator Hiram | Bingham of Connecticut will deliver an address and Comdr. Gale A. Poin- dexter, U. S. N.. representing President Hoover, and Maj. Donald A. Davison, on behalf of the District Commission- ers, will lay wreaths at the foot of the Lincoln Statue. Colors of the National and District Commanderies of the Loyal Legion will be escorted to the special birthday serv- ices by a detail of soldiers, sailors, Marines and Goast Guardsmen. Music will be supplied by the United States Marine Band. ‘Will Open Museum. 1 After the exercises at the Memorial | the Legion commandery will go to the Ford Theater, where Lincoln was shot, fo attend the opening of the Lincoln Museum. At 7:30 pm. the National Capital i Republican Club will assemble at the | Willard Hotel for its first annual Lincoln day dinner. President Hoover's address will be heard via radio by the club. Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Senator James E. Watson of Indiana and Mrs. Edward Everett Gann will deliver addresses. The Grand Army of the Republic will meet at 8 pm. in the First Con- gregational Church, Tenth and G streets. Meeting with the G. A. R. will be the Sons of the Union Veterans of | the Civil War, Ladies of the G. A. R., Woman's Relief Corps and Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War. Col. U. S. Grant to Speak. The assembly will be addressed by Lieut. U. S. Grant, 3d, grandson of the famous general-President: Senator Samuel M. Shortridge of California and Representative Homer W. Hall of Tlinois. This evening in the main ball room of the Continental Hotel, the Curley Club of Washington will hold a special Lincoln birthday-valentine party. Lieut. Col. William L. Peak, superintendent of the District jail and president of the Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name So- cieties, will be the principal speaker. Mgr. Eugene J. Connolly of St. Peter’s Church also will speak. Miss Grace Mary Colliflower and Arthur Bradley White will recite; Mrs. Estelle Hunt Dean and Joseph Hornsby will sing and Prot. John W. Hart will play the piano. Organizations Participate. Among the organizations participat- ing in the Lincoln Memorial services of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion are: American Gold Star Mothers, Lin- coln Post, No. 17, The American Le. gion; Department of the District of Co- lumbia, American Legion Auxiliary; American Women's Legion, District of Columbia Chapter, the American Red Cross; Aztec Club of 1847, District of Columbia Council. Boy Scouts of Amer- ica; Capital Society, Children of the American Revolution; District of Co- lumbia Society, Dames of the Loyal Legion; National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution; District of Columbia Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, No. 1, Daughters of Union Veter- ans of the Civil War; Disabled Ameri- can Veterans of the World War, Dis- trict of Columbia Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs, Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic; Kallipolis Grotto, National Society. Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; Beck Circle, No. 4, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; U. 8. Grant Circle, No. 1, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; Abraham Lincoln Circle, No. 3, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; District of Columbia Chap- ter, Military Order of the World War; National Patriotic Council, National Commandery, Naval and Military Or- der of Spanish American War; Order of Indian Wars of the United States; National Society, Sons of the American Revolution; District of Columbia So- , clety, Sons of the American Revolu- tion; Willlam B. Cushing Camp, No. 30. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Lincoln Camp, No. 2, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Spanish-American War Nurses, De- partment of the District of Columbia, United Spanish War Veterans; Depart- ment of the District of Columbia, United Spanish War Veterans’ Aux- iliaries; Vaughan Bible Class of Cal- vary Baptist Church; Department of Potomac, Woman's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic; Lincoln Corps, No. 6, Woman's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic: Sheridan Corps, No. 12, Woman's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic; Burnside Corps, No. 4, Woman's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic. GROSNER IS ELECTED Clothiers’ Group Names Washing- tonian President. Gerald D. Grosner, Washington clothier, was elected president of the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers at the annual meeting a,lty'rfim:' just concluded at Atlantic Mr. Grosner, who spoke at the con- vention on “Coming Styles in Men's Clothing,” is the only Washin to be elected to an office in th LEAGUE HAS ANNIVERSARY Group for Hard of Hearing Holds Valentine Party. Members of the Washington League for th: Hard of Hearing gathered around night to 10th anniversary at a Valentine party. The cake was baked by one of the ‘members, and gratification at the sue- b, b ‘resding. classcs st the Eple- e cl copal Hospital, was expressed. ! Name Society and the Society of St.| |under treatment at Casualty Hospitel sionary College, last | day night at 8 o'clock. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1], A.P. WILLIAMSON FATALLY INJURED GETTING OFF CAR Driver Released in Custody of Attorney After Auto Strikes Grocer. FOUR CHILDREN ARE HURT IN SERIES OF ACCIDENTS Chevy Chase Cars Tied Up by Crash at End of Calvert Street Bridge. A coroner’s inquest has been called for 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in the case of | Albert P. Williamson, 64-year-old grocer, | of 5819 Colorado avenue, who was fatal- ly injured last night when he was run down by an automobile at Georgia and Colorado avenues. Four children, all under 8 years, also were hit by automo- biles late yesterday, and the Capital Traction Co.’s Chevy Chase cars were tied up for some time after a collision at the west end of the Calvert Street Bridge. Mr. Willlamson had just ajghted from a street car on his way home from work when he was hit by an automo- bile operated by Willlam A. Parke, jr., 21 years old, of 6326 Sixteenth street. The injured man was taken to Walter Reed Hospital, given first and trans- ferred to Emergency Hospital, where he died about two hours after the accident. Young Parke was released in custody of his attorney pending the outcome of the inquest. Hadn't Missed Day in 40 Years. Mr. Williamson, a native of Wash- ington, had_not missed a day from work for 47 years. members of his family said. He was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. the Holy Vincent de Paul He is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Marjorie Noone and Mrs. Eleanor Bickerton of Washington and James H. Willlamson of West Orange, N. J. The tie-up of street car traffic oc- curred during the late rush hour yes- terday when a heavy truck, operated by James F. Gilbert, 20, of the first block of P street northeast, collided with a sedan driven by Ottamar Hamele, 50, of 3504 Thirty-sixth street. The sedan swerved into the path of a street car going west on Calvert street and the resultant wrackage blocked both tracks until wrecking crews of the traction company could jack up the front end of the car. Child Hurt by Bus. Believed to have suffered a fractured skull, Wallace Miller, 7 years old, was today after he was hit by a Washing- ton Raiflway & Electric Co. bus at South Carolina avenue and Eleventh street southeast last night. The child, who lives at 1105 South Carolina ave- nue southeast, was said to have walked into the side of the bus, operated by Earl Piggs. 23, of 1661 Rosedale street. James Boley, 8 years old, of 2404 Fourteenth street was struck late yes- terday, according to the police report, when he ran from behind a parked truck into the path of another truck in front of 1405 Florida avenue. The child was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment of a possible fracture of the skull and internal injuries. The driver of the truck was Howard Cun- ney, colored, 22 years old, of 1749 Ore- gon street. Children’s Feet Injured. Six-year-old Lillian Hanrahan of ; 4718 Ninth street was severely cut about the foot yesterday when she was struck by an automobile operated by Miss Helen S. Baughman, 24, of 4909 Ninth street, at Seventh and Buchanan streets. Miss Baughman took the child to Children's Hospital, where she was treated and discharged. Milton Spence, 8 years old, suffered & fractured foot last night when hit by an automobile while he was playing in the street near his home at 110 Fourth street northeast. The driver of the car, Mrs. Edith B. Haas, 26, of Takoma Park, Md., took the boy to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated and sent home. Elbert T. Johnson, 62 yesrs old, of Bowie, Md., was seriously ifijured late yesterday when the automobile he was driving collided at First and D streets northeast with a bus, operated, police say, by William H. Ward of Baltimore. Johnson was treated at Providence Hospital for a possible fracture of the skull and cuts about the hahds. Ward was charged with reckless driving and released in custody of his attorney pending the outcome of John- son's injuries. LECTURE WILL DESCRIBE AIR TRIP OVER PAMPAS Leader of Peruvian Expedition ‘Will Address National Geo- graphic Society Members. ‘The story of thrilling adventures in the air over deserts and pampas and mountains of Peru to obtain photo- graphs of ancient ruined cities and for- tifications will be told to members of the National Geographic Society to- morrow evening at the Washington Auditorium by Robert Shippee, youth- ful leader of the Shippee-Johnson Pe- ruvian Expedition. Unusual motion picture films and still photographs selected from the tens of thousands of exposures made from the air will be shown by Mr. Shippee in fllustrating his address. The party had many aviation problems to solve, including the safe landing on mountain fields at such high altitudes that the planes had a landing speed of nearly a hundred miles an hour. Among the structures of the ancient Peruvians studied and photographed from the air were the fortress city of Machu Picchu; Chan-Chan, ruined capital of the Great Chimu; and a Great Wall, evidently bullt for defen- sive purposes, which stretches for more than 40 miles from the seacoast into the mountains. - . IMPERIAL SINGERS HERE To Appear at Missionary College Baturday Night. ‘The Welsh Imj 1 Singers will sing at Columbia of Washin, Mis- Takoma Park, Satur- '.fll:‘:’naembk. comprising & dozen singers an ac- com| , is directed by R. Festyn Da in various and has appeared of the Old World, as well as in Canads. mmmudm the College Lyceum Toctire-Goncert ; ening Stap 1932. Bring Cheer to Jobless PAGE B! INN IS MGR. BUCKEY'S Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, who for jobless started about a year ago by Church to test his own ideal of charity. TARTED more than a year ago by | a Catholic pastor to test his own ideal of charity, Christopher Inn, at 916 D street southwest, is now | caring for an average of 70 per- | sons each month and is bidding for a | permanent place in the charity needs of Washington | It was the Right Rev. Edward Buck pastor of St. Matthew's Church, 1725 | Rhode Island avenue, who set for him- self the task of providing a real home for jobless men who find themselves without food and shelter in this city. Christopher Inn stands unobtrusively | on D street in Washington's southwest section. Past it rumbles the railroad | trains that connect the Capital with the | South. Behind it is a row of dreary alley dwellings. Nothing in its appear- ance sets it apart from its neighbors, Yet to hundreds of the men who have been given food and lodging behind its hospitable doors in the year and a half it has been in operation it represents the one bright spot of a period of drab despondency. | Had Theory About Needy. | Mgr. Buckey set out to meet the needs of the man who is “broke,” job- | less and homeless In & way that would make him feel that he is not a mere | object of charity, but a fellow human being to be treated as such. The home was the result, and the home itself is the best answer to the question of how well he succeeded With a card of introduction from a parish priest of some other reputable person as his ticket of admission, the down-and-outer finds himself in a home where rugs cover the floor and white curtains hang at the windows. There are comfortable chairs in which to | from Mgr. Buckey’'s purse, though cer- “PERSONAL CHARITY.” are running Christopher Inn, the home Mgr. Edwapd Buckey of St. Matthew's —Star Staff Photo. lounge, a piano, phonograph, books and magazines. Upstairs there are bed rooms with beds—not dormitories and cots. The tableware in the dining room | is from one of the city’s best hotels: it is laid on a white cloth, and an ample amount of good food is served by the member of the house group! chosen to sit at the head of the table. | No Distinctions Made. Completing the picture are Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, 75 and 74, re- spectively, late of Oxford street, Lon- | don, England, host and hostess at the | Inn. “An average of 70 or more men are | cared for monthly,” Mr. Smith said | today, “and every station of life has | been represented among the regis- | trants. A consulting engineer went from here to a job last week: he sat at table with a man just released from the District Workhouse at Occoquan, Va There is no distinction made here be- tween men; they come here for help, and they are given it; race nor creed make no difference; there are no pre- requisites, religious or otherwise.” According to Mgr. Buckey, an effort to perpetuate Christopher Inn and place it on a more substantial basis will be made when it has definitely shown that it has a permanent place in the charity needs of Washington. Begun as a personal charity, it has continued largely on funds supplied tain of the Catholic societies contribute to the expense. The outstanding need | of the Inn at present, he declared to- | | day, is for shoes and clothing with | which the inmates may make them- selves more presentable in their search for employment TAX ON FEDERAL ROVAL ARCH NANES PROPETY URGED COOMBS S LEADER Monarch Club, Opposing Mapes Bill, Suggests Plan as Equitable. Equal taxation on Government-owned and privately owned property in the District was urged by the Washington | Monarch Club in a resolution which also voiced opposition to the Mapes bills | to increase taxes, Condemning the Mapes bills as plac- ing an unfair burden on the people of the District and all other persons own- ing property here, the resolution sug- gested taxation of Goyernment prop- on a basis of its agtual value as a substitute which would settle the fiscal relations problem of the District and the | Federal Government in an equitable manner. The resolution states that “we are in favor of an equitable division of taxes and respectfully suggest to Con- gress that there be enacted into law a plan whereby all property situate in the District of Columbia be assessed by qualified assessors, and that the amount of tax to be paid by the Fed- eral Government and the District tax- payers be based upon such assess- ment. This would, we submit, elimi- nate any charge of partiality either upon the part of the Federal Govern- ment or upon those paying taxes in said District. ‘The club directed that the resolution be forwarded to each chapter of Na- tional Monarch Clubs throughout the United States with the request that it be indorsed. The resolution stated that the Mapes bill was ed with “undue haste” by the Hous® of Representatives and with- out public hearing. The citizens of the | District are bearing more than their proportionate share of local taxes, it was asserted. Will Hold Card Party. SILVER HILL, Md., February 11 (Special) —The Community Association of the Silver Hill School will hold a card party in the school auditorium on Saturday evening. Other Officers of the Grand | Chapter Line Advanced One Station. Deputy Grand High Priest Charles Cyrus Coombs was elected grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons in the District of Columbia. at the annual con- vocation of the Grand Chapter last night in Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue. He suc- ceeds Rev. Dr. Luther H. Waling, who | has served as grand high priest since | February, 1931. Other officers of the Grand Chapter line advanced one sta- | tibn at the election last night were: A. Clifford Wilkins, to be deputy grand high priest; Robert L. Kause, to be grand king: Otto B. Roepke, to be grand scribe; David S. Davison, to be grand captain of the host; Frank M. Roller, to be grand principal sojourner; Eugene E. Thompson, to be grand royal arch captain; Clarence J. West to be grand master of the third veil. and Charles J. Armbruster. to be grand master-of the second veil. George S. Foreman of Eureka Chap- ter, No. 4, who served as high priest of that chapter during the year 1920, | was elected grand master of the first | vail. If he progresses through the sev- eral stations. he will ultimately become |grand high priest. | The following were unanimously re- | elected: J. Claude Keiper, to be grand | secretary; John A. Colborn, to be grand | treasurer: Lucien G. Yung. to be grand | visitor and lecturer: Rev. Dr. John C. | Palmer, to be grand chaplain, and | Castleman P. Boss, to be grand senti- nel, Dr. Emmett M. Carter, past grand high priest, whose term as trustee ex- pired last night, was re-elected trustee THREE CAPTURED IN CHASE QUIZZED IN SNIPING SERIES Witnesses to Other Unsolved Crimes Will Face Youths in Line-Up Tonight. POLICE MAKING CHECK ON TWO AUTOMOBILES Cab Theft Victim Aids Pursuit, Gun Leveled at Detective Sergeant Jams. Three youths, captured last night after a chase in which several shots were fired by one of the three police- men pursuing them through Rock Creek Park, were questioned today in connection” with the mysterious series of shootings in which one man was killed and- three other persons were wounded during the past week. The young men, one of whom is said to have attempted to shoot Detective Sergt. E. F. Lewis, also were to be quiz- zed concerning a number of other un- solved crimes, including the slaying of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Jaynes, 57-year-old cashier of the Garden-T-Shoppe, 1835 Columbia road. The youths, William E. McKinney, 18, of Fitchburgh, Mass.; Willlam G. Duffy, 22, of Macon, Ga.. and Willard Messic, 24, who said he has no home, will be placed in the line-up at police headquarters tonight and scrutinized by witnesses in the various cases. After being crilled extensively by De- tective Sergt. Harry K. Wilson, chief of the homicide squad, the three youths were turned over to members of the hold-up squad for further interrogation, Ail denied having any series of son. Me: 2 train in Kansas City. Mo., last October and does not remember anything that happened before that. He is not ever sure, he added, that Messic is his real name, but several friends told him so. Check Up on Two Cars. Meanwhile, police were checking up on two automobiles, one of which. they thought, may have been used by the gunman who killed Paul Riedel, 47- year-old baker, and wounded an Agri- cultural Department forester and two high school girls. ‘The trio° was captured after a chase which began when E. M. Morningstar, a taxicab driver, hailed a radio cruiser t Twenty-ninth and Albemarle streets and announced that three bandits robbed him of $270 and drove away in his automobile With Lewis in the police car were Detective Sergt. J. J. Tolson and Po- liceman R. J. Thompson. The taxicab was still in sight and the officers ordered Morningstar, who lives at 330 Fourteenth place, to accompany them in pursuit of it. Morningstar said he picked up the trio at Twenty-first street and Penn- sylvania avenue and was directed to drive to 1640 Albemarle street—a ficti- tious address. At Twenty-ninth and Albemarle, he said, one of his “pas- sengers” drew a gun and ordered him to hand over his money. “I gave them all I had.” Morning- star said. Morningstar has a wife and two children. Swerved Into Blind Driveway. As Morningstat stepped into the cruiser, his cab, driven by one of the bandits, turned into the park. The two machines swung in and out of the park roadways, finally straightening out on Military road. With the police automobile rapidly gaining on them. the fugitives swerved into a blind driveway. There they leaped from their machine and the officers did likewise. As Lewis ran toward the trio, Mc- Kinney is said to have drawn a .25 caliber automatic, leveled it at the de- tective, and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed, however, and the youths turned to continue their flight Ordering them to halt, the officers fired several shots into the ground. The young men, apparently frightened, sur- rendered. After being questioned at headquart- ers they were locked up in separate pre- cincts—Messic at the fifth, Duffy at the sixth, and McKinney at’ the ninth. All were booked for investigation. SandBerg to Examine Autos. One of the cars being checked bv police—a black sedan said to tally with the general description of the one used in the mystericus shootings—last week was found todsy in a garage on Barry place, near Sherman avenue. It bore no license plates. Tre other machine, a dark blue coach, wes found abandoned last night in the 600 block of Morton strest. Residents of the neighborhood said it had been there since Saturday midnight—about an_hour after the Reidel murder. for three years. ‘Wins $500 Groceries. Mrs. F. C. Fishback, 912 Nineteenth street, has been awarded $500 worth of free groceries for her letter on “Why T like to buy my groceries in a Piggly Wiggly store,” E. G. Yonker, president ou!'d the Sanitary Grocery Co. announced ay. FRED STONE CANCELS THEATRICAL ENGAGEMENT WHEN MOTHER DIES Star and Daughter Leave for New York—Will Rogers Unable to “Pinch Hit” for Friend. The Thursday and Priday perform- ances of “Smiling Faces,” the musical comedy in which Fred Stone and his daughter Paula have appeared this week at the Shubert-Belasco Theater, were canceled toaay when the two stars left hurriedly for New York after re- ceipt of a telegram advising Mr. Stone of the death of his mother, Mrs. Clar- finflohnlwn Stone, at Freeport, Long An effort to have Will Rogers “pinch hit” for Mr. Stone in “Smiling Faces,” as he once did in “Three Cheers” after Stone had been injured in an airplane accident, was blocked by “unbreakable ts” which Mr. Rogers had made in -'dmee'mmg nmew here yesterday for a ding to see Mr. Stone and other friends. Mrs. Clarissa J band headed Westward in & wagon train. At Wellington, Kans., the couple left the marchers to await the birth of & son, Fred, who was to become na- tionally famous as comedian and dancer. Later they continued the trek, settling for a brief period in Towa, afterward in California and then returning to Wel- lington, where they became established. Fred Stone ran away from Welling- ton with a circus when he was a boy. Later, when he was successful, he brought his parents East to be near him. They made their home at Pree- port Stone last saw his mother on Sunday, February 7, when he went to New York after “Smiling " fin- 2 run in Baltimore. He returned herem.uondny for the ' Washington opening. Funeral services for Mrs. Stone will be held tomorrow at Freeport. Fred and Paula at the Inspector Burke order Sergt. Fred Sandberg, fingerprint expert, to ex- amine both automobiles. Meanwhile, William J. Callan, 27, of Alexandria, arrested last night as a possible suspect in the shootings, still was being held by tenth precinct police. Questioned by Detective Sergts. Ben Kuehling and James Collins, he denied any knowledge of the crimes. All “Tips” Given Attention. Nearly everybody in Washington, it seems, is on the lookout for clues that may lead to the capture of the mys- terious gunman. Altogether, about 100 letters have been received at police headquarters from citizens claiming to have reen either the gunman or his black sedan, or both. Telephone calls of & similar nature also are being received almost constantly. And the police are so anxious to clear up the mystery surrounding the series of shootings that Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson, chief of the homicide squad, is keeping his men busy running down all such “tips,” no matter how trivial they may seem. SALVATION A'RMY PRAISED Inspeotor Commends Work of Lo- cal Bureau. . Arthur Fynn, fleld secretary of the Salvation Army, inspected the local army yesterday and last night paid tribute to the manner in whichh:g: Social Service Buregu, 102 B street, is administering aid this Win- ter. He especially praised Brig. J. G. McGee, territorial secretary in charge of the bureau. Maj. Fynn, whose headquarters is at Atlanta, just returned from an inspec- tion tour of Salvation Army facilities in New York and Chicago. He es- that in matinee Sacen o el 4B, i