Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1932, Page 16

( KIDNAPING REPORT THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1932 D.C.COMPILESLIST | [ Rewarded for Safe Driving | RAIL MERGER SPLIT Museum Opened in Ford Theater OF WORKERS WHO EARN OUTSIDE PAY Information to Be Supplied for House Committee on Appropriations. FHOSE WHO DRIVE CABS ' AFTER HOURS SOUGHT Becipients of Army Retirement Salaries Also to Be Included in Compilation. District departinent heads are busy preparing for the House Committee on Appropriations a statement of the in- eome earned outside of their District employment by all persons receiving & salary from the District. This action is being taken in response to requests from members of the committee’s Dis- trict Subcommittee, made during the current hearings on the District’s 1933 appropriation bill. The information sought is quite ex- tensive. Each department head must report the number and names of em- ployes in his department having em- ployment outside of the District serv- ice. Two specific pieces of information are sought. One is the names of per- sons in the District service who work as hackers after their regular tours of duty. Another is the name of those receiving retirement pay in addition to their salaries as District officers. The latter list will include several distinguished names. Among them are Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, who draws retirement pay from the Army, as do Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of police, and Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, the police commis- sioner. The committee also wants a list of those getting $2,500 or more per annum together with a statement of what the Ppositions paid prior to the enactment of the reclassification law in 1923 One additional piece of information is sought not bearing on salaries. This is the number of annual reports prin by the various departments. togeth with the number sent out on requ and the number sent out as a matter of routine. The department heads are asked to compile the information and submit it to tne District auditor not later than the close of business next Wednesday. He will tabulate it and submit it to the subcommittee. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair, slightly colder tonight. minimum temperature about 27 dem ) cloudiness: moderate w ; Maryland—Fair, colder tonight morrow partly cloudy; fresh west winds. Virginia—Fair, slightly colder tonight: tomorrow inc sing cloudiness: mods ate north, shifting to northeast winds tomorrow West Virginia—Fair, slightly tonight: tomorrow asing ness. cloudi- Report for Last 24 Hours. Yesterday— 4 pm 8 pm Midnight 38. Year ago Year 4go. 37. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United Staces Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Tomorrow 1llam T:3tam Lowest. 35 7:30 a.m, Sun Sun Moon, today tomorrow today T 10:05 am half after sunset Rainfall. ntall in inches monih to date) Averaze Sentember . October Novemter . December Weather in Various Ci Temperature. Stations. tier Columbia Denver. Touisville Miami. Fls N . Pa Me or Portland Portland. 430079273207 2] Seattle h Spokane. _Wash Tampa. Fla WASH.. D. C. FOREIGN. (1 am.. Greenwich time, Stations. mperatur ZLondon. England. . Paris. France Vienna, Austria Berlin " Germany Zurich, Switzerla Stockholm, Sweden Cloudy Gibraltar.' Spain. .. Pat cloudy (Noon. Greenwich time. v.) Horta (Fayal). Azores ‘Cuirent observations.) Hamilton, San Juan. Bermudu 0 Porto Rito. .. Havana, Cuba Colon, Canal Zone. today.) e W r Part cloudy iy Part cloudy Pari cloudy clouds Part cloudy Clear Clear Idle Asked to Register. COTTAGE CITY. Md. February 13 (Special) —Officers of the Family Wel- fare Association request all unemployed yesidents of the town to register with Mrs. W. A. Bobb, president of the or- ganization, at 13 Spa street. ? colder | Automobile lamps to be lighted cne- GAS COMPANY GIVES MEDALS FOR STREET SAFETY. G. Wood, president of the W Safety Council medal on h among the 132 ga awarded med by t past year. The employes drove a total 1930, and December 1, 1931. company RAFFIC DIRECTOR W. A. VAN DUZER (left) is seen watching George A shington Gas Light Co.. as he pins a National own chauffeur, Felix J. Murphy. who drove 48,000 miles last year without an accident, was honor man sery cil in recognition of safe driving records for the | 0 safeguard a reduced fare for school Murphy, e car and truck drivers who were of 1,660,800 miles between December 1, —Star Stafl Photo. MOTHER OF EIGHT SEVERELY BURNED Mrs. Rosa Jewett, 43, Taken ‘ to Hospital After Heater Ignites Dress. wett ildren 43-year-old mother was seriously burned 1d body this morning efforts of the the neighbors to - d cr in south- about the f despite the younger he when a ugh the cried an E ment blew her skirt t the stove. Thelr r mother when sk fire and toge sm T the flame | h T, @ t £ 1 Ji t rnest and Arthur, cries | The | the; id th nded together Hospital in ik 2 re her condition was de- Juni hom n The ot r and were aw SON IN NEW POST ct Com today pr t 1 of the Po- n, to replace retired Jur PIER e Di 4 Lie D:partment to capt Capt. C. L. Plemm: who uary 31 Precinet hane & : mo Detoct to met o L | replace Wil and Pyt a headar n Messer, retired. | |In Role BIBLICAL PLAY TO BE GIVE. MISS HAZEL BOYCE, the role of Mary Magdalene in “Barter,” the prize-winning play of . the Drama League contest Tuesday during Lent at St. Dominic’s hall, Sixth | and F streets southwest. —Harris-Ewing Photo. ‘Who pla; CAPPR A ASK HOSPTAL INGURY Removal of Dying Reporter From Emergency Stirs Senate Leader. A full report from Emergency Hospi- | tal on the manner in which one of its internes handled the case of Sick. Baltimore News reporter, who died February 3 after being transferred in a patrol wagon to Gallinger Hospital, may be requested by Senator A Capp han of the S Com- . he said today said he prob nild report be obtained either by the District Committee or by sub- committee of the Appropriations Com- mittee which will consider the District appropriation_bill A report of the rest launched by the Emergency Hosp: made, it Surgical al already tood. and is now in Harry M. Kaufman hospital’s Executive Board. preparatory to being transmitted to Woodbury Blair, president of the board Board has been Transferred to Gallinger. k. with K. Long. another Baltimore reporter, was brought to Emergency Hospital January after n automobile accident on Rhode Island the District line and o r Hosp: patrol wa avs later 1 report on as “in- verte- elbow. His out and blood reported normal. k as ha ashed and pul card quote at examination neg. (neg- for slight abrasion left lained abdominal pain n anything else. Abdominal nination showed abdomen soft. No 2 derness.” inger, to which he 5 am. shows the » been diagnosed as “inter- . in critical condition, ‘Impossible o get a correct cment from patient. Said he had two or thrce drinks but was not and could not give account of report_came from the duty when Sisk The repor told of ept X-Rays Bare Injuries. the morning. whe These, it was said at the hos- morning. were fractured pels ribs. ruptured diaphragm. wctured lungs and bronchial nia, which, presumably of the ier conditions, o report mm 1 of No. 5. on b for al injured ndition undeters at Ex and “later removed to Gallinger jital, where his conditicn was said serious.” this developed who was in the Ho: to e, superintendent id at : the circum- tances necessit; s removal 1o Gali , and thai conditions be the use of the patrol was Sisk needed a police guard, he reency (Sisk) as thoroughly as he could,” Mr. Sandidge said, adding that Sisk had aused a great al of trouble by being obstre y rcom. and that it had been necessary to hold him on the table while the physician treating him dge said that had the pa- fent been in _different condition he robably could have described better his v has three rooms available for paticnts who cannot be placed with other pationts in a ward because of their condition. Mr. Sandidge saic. but these were full and consequently Sisk could not be Sandidge says. if it had been apparent at his condition was critical he would t have been removed. Mr. Sandidge emphasizes that he | fecls “everything possible was done by the hospital to help Sisk. DBeaths Reported. st izt for S O'Lavehlin. 84, 3744 Jenifer st. ichie. 71. 3415 Woodley ra ldzan, 69 1360 D st s.w, Brown. 88, Home 1 16t bloy B. Obear st Thendore A. Broy Memorial p. 52. Garfield Hospital. 1 Soper. 31 Gallinger Fopital vy Collins, 3 months, Columbia H of Thomas snd Ethel Jone: Lillie M. Howa tal rd. d Ida Campbell. 5 Aved and en route Casualty Home for s R Moore, 55, Hospital Halosiiis Brown, 26, Gallinger Hospital. Grorge Butler. 23, Fresdmen's Hospital. Meud Morris, 22. Freedmen's Hospital. Intant of Elisha and Dora Rolling, days, 328 Hill pl. ne. 1 Joseph | re- s of an inquiry | of | ng | cral places, and | pneu- | le by Pvt. Frederick R. | g as | ared for. although, Mr. | Ased | 17 CONTINUES AFTER LENGTHY HEARING Senate District Committee to Hold Further Sessions Next Week. POWER AND TRANSFER ISSUES ARE UNSETTLED School Children’s Fares Also Dis- puted—Differences May Delay Action by This Congre: Although a long hearing before the Senate District Committee yesterday afternoon on the question of the street railway merger ended with various in- terested groups still in disagreement over a number of proposed amend- ments, the committee will continue dis- | cussion of the subject, probably during the coming week. Among the questions still in dispute between witnesses when yesterday's meeting ended were: The clause in the resolution laying down the terms under lwhich the new traction company would be supplied with current by the Poto- mac Electric Power Co.; the question of free transfers between street cars and busses, and the inclusion of a provision children. The suggestion raised at a previous hearing that the merged company should be limited to street car and bus operation, to prevent it from operating taxicab lines, appeared to have been satisfactorily worked out between the utilities commission and representatives of the citizens. Action at This Session Threatened. At the conclusion of the meeting Senator King of Utah, intimated the committee might have to give up ef- forts to bring about merger at this ses- sion if more headway is not made in adjusting differences. Chairman Cap- per said another meeting will be held soon. Among_those who took part in dis- cussing the various proposed changes the plan vesterday were Evan H. icker. president of the Northeast ington Citizens' Association; Wil- liam McK. Clayton, representing the Federation of Citizens' Associations; ople’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech, rporation Counsel W. A counse! to the Utilities Com- mission, and officials of the street rail- Way companies. Mr. Tucker advocated universal free fers and a provision regarding re- iced fare for school children. He so submitted a number of oth dments recommended by his as sociation relating to the financial set- up of the merged company. Mr. Keech urged striking out of the section defining the arrangement to be made for electric current between the power company and the merged car company, contending it is unnecessary and that the question should be reg- ulated by the Utilities Commission. Mr. Roberts replied that on the power clause th2 Public Utilities Com- mission followed the recommendations of Dr. Maltbie, who was expert adviser to the Senate Committee in the merger negotiations several years ago. Transfer Discretion Urged. | Roberts also contended the commis- sion should be given some discretion regarding transfers between cars and busses. He urged that a bus line which is estsblished into a new territory is erent from a bus line which is n extension of an existing car i and that in the former case a | transfer charge might be advisable ! Keech insisted there should be free | transfers, declaring that one of the | principal objects of merger is to make riding convenient to the public The objections which have | piaced on file by the District Commis- | sioners, asking for changes in the track naving festures were not reached vesterday and will come up at the next meeting. Mr jClayton took part in the discussion of certain amendments vesterday. but ym2ke his final argument on behalf o ithe federation at the next hearing. Mrs. Gardner Orme. who said she appeared as a citizen and 3s a_stock- | holder in Capital Traction Co., ap- {proved the merger as originally drawn he deplored the effect taxicabs are ving on the car lines { _Early in the meeting Senator Tydings. Democrat of Maryland, presented his amendment. intended to give the local Utilities Commission jurisdiction to pass on the terms of the arrangement under which the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis line uses the tracks of tke Washington Railway & Electric Co. in the District Wi of the merger plar, Commissioner Power Wanted. George W. Williams, representing the | W.. B. & A, conteaded the local com- mission should be empowered to p: on the amount to be paid by his pany to the W. R. & E. stem. Wil- liam F. Ham. president of the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co., opposing the amendment. toid the committee the | W. B. & A. entered into a contract with the local company and that any | question of change in it would be one for negotiation beiween the companies The resolution secking to allow the Ditrict Supreme Court to determine what claim, if any. the Mount Vernon, | Alexandria & Washington Railway Co has as the result of removal of its south of Pennsylvania avenue came sup briefly. but was referred back to | Senator Austin of .Vermont for further revision i Births Reported. ‘1 Antonio and santa Crupi, eirl nte and Clementina Trucconi. boy. nd Agnes Daniele, boy | Paul D. and Samuel M. and_Ruth Boyd. boy. James L_and Gerirude B. Patton. hov. i AL and Lillian E. Brown. girl s B adge B. Svdnor, boy. | Alctha Ball. boy. o and Tsabell Neil. boy, /. and Anna Henson, boy. | Thomas A and Mary I Jackson. boy. | Cecil O and Thelma Wisdom, girl. ! John and Annie L. Watson. girl. tracks from the Federal building area | RELICS PLAN TO WIPE OUT | DEFICIT IN CHEST {More Pledges Received as Officials Work to Raise Balance. | Methods of wiping out the deficit of $189,264.16 in the drive for $2.601.000 | were considered today by Communfty | Chest officials as new donations trickled in Pleages of 1.07% reported yest increased the grand total of contribi tions to $2.411.63584 Included were a group of new or additional fis from the public generally and a delayed port of $750 from region 1€ metro- politan unit, which solicited colored residents under the chairmanship of Dr. Kelly Miller of How Although encouraged by the velun subscriptions, Chest leader ing among_the city’s unfor not be alleviated unle: their appeals be They pomted ou shown a steady ause many peoy isting on their all their resources and are request help for the fi Officials pointed out fare organizations which bear brunt of relief work c: ie to face enlarged demands in proportion to T cent standerds the funds ti been allotted would be inst adequately carry out the confronts them. Conseauently, goal must be reached. New gifts qua cluded $ monus and V. Mark Brool goyne: $10, Mery Carrid; $ es: $15. Margaret L. Ha Hollister X vings Chest head- anc nonymous. i Virginia Polter: § T. A. Scoit Thropp CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY, Ball. Sons of Confederate Veterar Manassas Baitlefield Association, Wil- lard Hotel been | Dinner, Wasl ican Ins Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Dinner and d: Es Chapter. No_ 5. Past Matrons Patrons, O. E. S.. Willard Hotel pm. Sigma Pi Mecting, Mount Plea. sociation. Mount Plea: brary, 8 pm. t Citizens’ As- nt Branch Li- Banquet, Daughters of | Hamilton Hotel, 7:30 p.m. the Nile, Masquerade Valentine dance. Re- Union _Association. Jr. O. U. A M Mascnic Temple, Fourteenth and U streets southeast. 9 p.m. Card parfr. Suitland P-T. A. Suit- land ComnZinity House. 8 pm FUTURE. Dinner. Sout: Annapolis Hotel, tomor 1:30 pm. Shares $2,000,000 Estate. COLTON, Calif.—R. G | torshare his good fortune He is one of two heirs estate in Germany. Fist to vav his bills, put aside 000 for himself and give Test to charity Leo is going with charity h Marriage Licenses. Heibert W. Sumner, 30. and He g soi. 31: Rev. Oscar J. i ORI James Christi nbe. a0l B Christine Rombe, Jnhn v s Wall James A. Cobb, Consiantinos H. Viachos. 36, this cit Beriha Foltz, 22, Winchester, Va, F. Poore. (o Georse K. Haster, 24, this city, and Yio- enae LeBarr, 21, Greens! v v | lettenag Lo nsboro, N. C.: Re Raymond Hammer, 21. and E Rev. Francis J. | il Walker, d Helen Epps, 21 nd Rev. Allan Blanche M. Loudic Bran H. M. Hen Meread.” Calif 23. Fresno. Calif.; Rev | 24, botis of A | Davy L. Br a Tasoewith, 1. MeDousle Novmau C. Bergen. 1. both of 25. and Margaret fimore; Rev. Passing of that old family custom. spanking. is deplored by H. W. Gibson of Boston, nationally known authority on boys and camping. “I'm sorry that this is a spankless generation,” he told more than a hun- dred boys and fathers last night at the annual father-and-son banquet of the Y. M. C. A. boys' department. “I cannot say that I approve of the new-fangled substitutes for the ‘laying |on of hands." “Boys expect to be punished when Ithey do wrong. They are willing to take their medicine and take it straight. father can make is to punish a child AUTHORITY ON BOYS REGRETS PASSING OF “SPANKING” AGE But the worst mistake a| |H. W. Gibson Addresses Y. M. C. A. Father-and-Son Banquet on Teaching Youth Respect for Law. | them. | for something he didn't do. Make sure he deserves it, then go ahead.” | Mr. Gibson declared the younger gen- |eration cannot be expected to respect |the law if they see their parents show- |ing disrespect to it. He said boys get |a distorted view of life in the movies |and by reading crime news. | _ George B. Kennedy, member Boys’ Work Committee of the C. A. introduced the speaker. Enter- |tainment included a dramatic skeich |by members of the Richmond Hi-Y | Club, music. games and a father-and- |son swim in the Central “Y" pool. J.| C. Ingram. boys' work director, was in charge of the program. of the Y. M Y | 8t ON DISPLAY WHERE SEES WORLD HoP IN ENGEISH RA Churchill Points to Neced fer Co-operation of U. S. and Britain. ted action by the world's opinicn of €col W, Brit excheque ormer termed the topic of Mr. C < as Private Citizen. he was speaking citizen. the Brit between his Statos never at preseat speaker did n 8 had t yoead oif Comn the w hism in mind as need for an economic tions icens a n somet Britich Empire is equaled only by my confidence in the United States.” Speaking whimsically of the bts and reparations as “astronomic figures. Mr. Churchill predicted th creditor nations would have as muci difficulty collecting in the next 13 years 3 they have in the period since 19 loss they accept goods as pa instead of gold or there is an un- cedented rise in ccmmodity values. uns Sceres French Policy. The speaker assailed the oft-repeated harge that Europe is being “bl>d whit- by the United Sta At the same time. however. he insisted there was no t in the sertion Germany has be “bled white” by the erstwhile allied Mr. Churchill was frankly critical of ance’s action in amassinz a huge gold upply. He pointed out both the United s and Great Britain have curtailed France's war obligaticns to d blemed what he termed thi. unnatural concentration of gold for stimu'ating artificially the value of th metal. He str that gold is ¢ must be ke greatly ssed repeatedly his contention acure of value which since it is th yardstick by which men and nation measure exertions and values. The visitor, who is part American or his mother's side. was warmly receive Ly an audience which included man cfficials and members of the diplemat corps. He was introcuced to his I'sien ers by Sir Ronald Lindsey, the Britic Ambessador. The lecture was g ven under the auspices of the Community Center Institute. LINCOLN WAS SHOT. N Wi I Moderniz ey JivLLLY g of - 4 TS | 0 MEN Battleships Brings Evidence of Im- proved Concitions. the autiic up a fc part of it (Special) —F trees at the e the tawn's comm in West Hyatt v nder the pears ard 13 nd | reation center will start within a direction of Dani jr., who p BENJAMIN F. LARCOMBE. | Be lof SPURS SNIPER HUNT: NEW SUSPECT HELD Man Overpowered and Taken Away in Big Black Sedan, Police Told. SHELL-SHOCKED VETERAN IS PUT UNDER ARREST Said to Have Been in Cab From ‘Which Shot Was Fired Into Bell's Bed Room. A report that a man was abducted by two men in a large black sedan last night was being investigated by head- quarters detectives today on the theory the kidnaping may have been the work of the mystery gunman who has killed one man and wounded three other per- sons during the past nine days. Shortly after the inquiry into the abduction got under way. police an- nounced the arrest of & new suspect— a former fireman whom they described as a shell-shocked World War veteran. The arrest was made a little before 5 o'clock today by Traffic Policeman J. E. Bennet!, acting on a tip that the former fireman was in the taxicab from which a bullet was fired into the bed- room of a radio announcer early yes- terday. Saw Three in Struggle. The kidnaping was reported to second precinet police by Charles B. Alstock, 1327 L street. He said he and M. R. Smith, also of the L street address, saw two men tussling with another man in an alley near his home about § o'cloek last night The pair finally succeeded In overe powering the other man, however, Al= Stock said. Then, he added, they threw him into a big black sedan,™ and sped through the alley, disappear- ing around the corner of Massachusetts avenue. Neither Alstock nor Smith was able to give police descriptions of the men, and they also failed to notice the licenise number of the automobile. former fireman, according to was unable to account for his at the time the shot was he home of the radio an- Stanley Bell, 3930 Fourteenth net nouncer, street. Booked for Investigation. being questioned by Bennett, pect, who was dismissed the Fire Department last August d up at the sixth precinct for investigation, of a search for o wanted for interro- on with the series of -wide search for the immediat by Ben- Se Be uehle ace I Be Questioned. were wounded two k several those in Mystery gunman” is known d, but police have failed evidence along that HARRY RILEY HAZED BY LORTON CONVICTS Barnard Denies That “Cup- board Child's” Father Was Beaten. C: s prisoners subjected Harry N. to a h when he first began two-vear sentence at the Lor- ry_for cruelty to his ith, Capt. M. M. Barnard, istrict penal insti= ard said a few young con= d out the lights and stage8 mouth demonstration to the night he was placed He added the pris- rejudiced against Riley ading t and trial was all a joke and he wasn't * Capt. Barnard said. “Ever since he's been treated like any other prisoner. He's done his work well in the painter ng." _ The superintendent denied Riley had been beaten or had been sent to & hos- pital, as reported. MASONIC CLUB FETES VETERAN CHAIRMAN Benjamin F. Larcombe Observes His Fiftieth Anniversary as a Master Mason. Members of the United States Weather Bureau Masonic Club today are observ- ing the fiftieth anniversary as a Mas- ter Mason of Benjamin F. Larcombe, | their chairman and organizer, who is & | veteran employe of the bureau. He was made a Mason in Dawson Lodge, No. 16, February 13, 1882 Mr, Larcombe served as master of Dawson Lodge in 1889, He was high priest of Eureka Chapter. No. 4. Royal Arch Mascns, in 1892 s commander Cclumbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, in 1916; was presi- dent of the Convention of Anointed Priests in 1917, and president of Masonic Veterans' Association in 4 Enjoying the distinction of being the oldest living past master and member of Dawson Lodge, Mr. Larcombe is also the oldest living past high priest of Eureka Chapter. Forly years after he served as master, he had the privilege of officiating when his son, John H. Larcombe, was made & Mason in Daw- son Lodee. His uncle, Benjamin F. Larcombe, sr.. also served as a member of Dawson Lodge for more than 50 of the Weather Bureau wson Lodge in casion John G prisst of Naval 2d Mr. Larcombe @ tcken »f remem- brence i iates of the club. The club held its enth annual din- ner at the Shoreham Hotel February 3. houce