Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1932, Page 17

SECOND FIREMAN 1S HELD FOR QUIZ IN SNIPING CASES New Suspect Is Said to Have Accompanied Gunman in Bell Shooting. FIRST MAN ARRESTED J0 BE REQUESTIONED Bullet Taken From Radio An- ncuncer's Roem Is Found to Be Copper-Jacketed Type. Another former city firemen was being held by police today for questioning in with the activities of the run” gunman who killed nd wounded Gordon T. n Andrews and Doris Beall. under arrest—Ernest Meile, » 4000 block of Foote street said to have been with 1s0 an ex-fireman, when bullet into the home ion southeast , announcer for Radio| who is 35 and lives at 620 nia avenue southeast. told s of the homicide squad he has ige of the series of mysterious but he will be interrogated Slug Re-Examined. cision to requestion him was to Inspector Frank S. chief of detectives, when a ics cxamination of the .32- fired into Bell's home re- was copper-jacketed. ts used by the *“shoot- n:n were copper-jacketed pector Burke pointed out lug taken from a wall of Bel bed room at 3930 Four- was examined last week John Fowler, police ballistics crt. At that time, Fowler declared pullet was not copper-jacketed and ad not been fired from the the “shoot-and-run” gun- i-floor s not until Fowler made a sec- examination of the bullet that he rvered it was copper-jacketed. erent manufacture from the . however, and he said he 41l did not think it was fired from the Price, was dismissed from tment. Appointed a 12\:9. man December 17, 1926. he was dis- charged for “absence without permis- sion” last M 7. Dismissed for Tardiness. X c missed for “tardiness an ‘P“}ase ut three months later. member of the depart- seven ycars ne is next to that of Fire e Watson. The bullet d through a window of his sec- cnd-story bed room last week. : Price, arrested on a tip a short time Jater, declared he was drunk at the time nd ‘could not remember whether he the shot or not. He named Meile s his companion, however. B Brice and Melle will be viewed by witnesses in the murder of Riedel. who was shot more than a week ago in his bakery at 3215'. Mount Pleasant street, the inspector said, Probe New Shooting. dquarters detectives, direction of Sergt. H. K. wil- of the homicide squad. are a report that a 38-caliber ired through a window of Otis Scott, 128 Carroll stre vird Scott told police he fored a hole in dow when he awcke vesterday Searching the room, he said, covered the slug beneath a radi- He did not hear the shot, he d. ackus and the girls, both of whom high school students, were shot two nij before the Riedel slaying. Backus, 51-vear-old Agriculture Depart- ment forester, lives at 3¢33 Mount Pleas- ant street. Miss Andrews, who is 18, 11 Sixth street, while Miss s 16, makes her home at G street southeast. SWIFT & CO. COUNSEL AGREES TO TRUSTEE Consents to Appointment to Take Over Stock Yards Holdings Pending Their Sale. fogan, representing Swift & our & Co., appeared before s Bailey in District day and consented to t of a trustee to take ard holdings of Swift & oir sale. The Armour | n dispcsed of. { ed that because s it had not been i . Lee, representing sked an indefinite post ponement of the transter of his hol ings. saving Col. Morris. while a &1- rector of Armour & Co., had no active part in the business The court ordered Attorney Hogan and John Lord O'Brian, Assistant At- tornev General, to agree on a trustee and prepare an order. The court also the Morris holdings would te PLAQUE TO HONOR DEAD Agricultural Employes to Pay ute to War Heroes. ) the memory of the 69 mem- partment cf Agriculture es during the World by fellow workers in Monday afternoon, n a memorial plaque d _in the court of the dministration building. of Carrara marble and f John Flanagan of New the names of the men it honors, Formal pres- made to the Secretary who will accept it in vernment. LOWENTHAL TO LECTURE Marvin Lowenthal, author and jour- nalist, will ture ¢n “The Cutlook for the Jev: in Europe and America,” before the Nat.onal Forum of the Jewish Com- munity Center tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock. Mr. Lowenthal has served as repre- sentative of Jewish minority interests In the League of Nations and is secretary of the World Conference for Interna- tional Peace Through Religion. The National Forum has announced Feywood Broun is scheduled to appear on its prcgram in the near future, It | HERE ASD. C | Due Within Two Months to | Assume Duties of Assistant Commissioner. fOfiicer Now in Washington | State Expected to Supervise Building Construction. Capt. Howard F. Clark, Corps of En- | gineers, U. S. A, now stationed with the 6th Engineers at Fort Lewis, Wash., was ordered by the War Department today to report to the District as As- sistant_Engineer Commissioner. Since | | Capt. Clark will have to wait for Army | transportation by water, he is not ex- pected here for from six weeks to two months. | As Assistant Engineer Commissioner | jhe will rank between Maj. Donald A. | Davison and Licut. Robert E. York. Lieut. York, assigned as Assistant En- gineer Commissioner last month, has I'mot vet reported. It 'is expected that Capt. Clark will {take charge of the District’s building construction and land purchasing ac- tivities over Harold F. Baker, the new director of the Department of Con- struction, while Lieut. York is expected to take charge of the sewer, water and ‘highway departments. The assigning of two new assistant Engineer Commissioners was made nec- essary by the transfer of Maj. Holland | L. Robb and the resignation of Capt | Hugh P. Oram to take the job of di- ' MERCHANT ROUTS BANDIT WITH SHOTS Other Robbers Obtain $44 and Two Taxicabs in Series of Hold-ups. | | A storekeeper who replied with postol | shots to the demands of an armed ban- dit for money, early today routed a young colored man who attempted to rob a store at 1521 Fifth street. | Colman Shear, the shopkeeper, told police a similar robbery a year ago | prompted him to keep a weapon ready. When, shortly after midnight, a “cus- tomer” suddenly drew a gun and or- dered him to hand over his cash, Shear | replied with bullets. The man, appar- ently unhurt, ran from the store without | obtaining any money. Police today were searching for ban- | dits who obtained $44 in three separate taxicab robberies, and in two instances | took the cabs. | Level Gun at Driver, Claude T. Huff, 522 Second street, i told police he was employed early yes- terday to drive two well dressed men to Sheriff road and Forty-seventh street northeast. Just before reaching their destinztion, Huff said, his fares leveled a | gun at him and took $25 from his| pockets. | A cab driven by Warren Mercilliott. | Hyattsville, Md., was found abandoned | | early today at Seventh and Navy place southeast, where it had been left by | three colored men who a short time | earlier had asked Mercilliott to drive them to Seventeenth and Gales street northeast. Arriving at the address, Mercilliott told police, they forced him from the machine after robbing him of $7. + Robbed of $12 and Cab. George E. Lewis, colored, 23 R street, | told police that early yesterday he was robbed of $12 and his cab at First and E streets southwest, by two colered men | he had driven to Forrestville, Md., and | return. He was slugged and forced from the cab, which was recovered at South Capitol and G streets. Entering the home of Roy T. Loving. 2312 Tunlaw road, during the absence of the family Sunday evening, a thief escaped with money and jewelry totaling | more than $100, Loving told police. At the home of Chester C. Hayes, 3815 Twenty-fiftth place, an unlocked bath room window gave ingress to a thief. who escaped with two rings and $5 in cash. Samuel Lincoln, 1702 Winds court, | The WITH SUNDAY MOR! NING EDITION Foening Star WASHINGTON, 'CAPT. H. F. CLARK ORDERED . ENGINEER AIDE, CAPT. HOWARD F. CLARK. rector of the Department of Inspection with the District government Of the four engineer officers regu- larly assigned to duty with the Dis- trict, there is only one now on active duty. Engineer Commissioner Jo! C. Gotwals is on sick leave and Capt Clark and Lieut. York have not yet reported. Capt. Clark is a native of Kansas and served as a major in the World War. He was graduated from Leland Stanford University in 1908 and in 1912 D. C, MO HOSPITAL CARELESS IN DEATH OF SISK, CAPPER GHARGES Case of Newspaper Man Is Reierred to Senate Subcommittee. “NEGLIGENCE” IS CITED IN LETTER TO COPELAND Baltimore Reporter, Treaied for| “Extreme Intoxication,” Died of Injuries. | Expressing his belief that the case |of Joseph F. Sisk. who was taken to | Emergency Hospital following an auto- | mobile accident two weeks ago, was “carelessly handled” at that hospital Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- NDAY, FEBRUARY 15 1932. Society and General PAGE B—1 H Rehearse for Ziegfeld and Get Insomnia - % BY E. de S. MELCHER. trict Committee today referred the | matter to the Subcommittee on Public Health, headed by Senator Copeland of New York, for study. Sisk, a Baltimore received the degree of bachelor of sci- | NeWSpaper man, was transferred from ence from the Massachusetts Institute | Emergency to Gallinger Hospital, and | of Technology. His home is at Red- lands, Calif FIVE MORE TO FACE BRUTALTY CHARCE Quintet of Policemen to Go Before Trial Board—Names Are Withheld. Five more policemen will be brought before the Trial Board on charges of using third-degree tactics against pris- | oners as a resuit of a report made by the Justice Department six months ago, involving 56 policemen, District Com- missioner Crosby announced today. The names of the five were withheld until the charges are filed. They arz being drawn up by Supt. Pelham D.| Glassford. The 56 cases reported by the Justice Department were those which in its opinion did not present indictable offenses. In addition to these, the de- partment secured indictments against 17 officers. Since the report was filed with the Commissioners two investiga- ticns have been made into the charges by Corporaticn Counsel Wil Bride and Ascistant Corporation Coun: | cel Chester H. Gray Many of the cases will not be brought to trial because the offenses charged involve men no longer on the force, other offenses have been outlawed by the statute of limitations, because wit- nesses are out of the jurisdiction and cannot be subpoenaed back, and for other reasons. TEACHER 31 YEARS DIES SUDDENLY Joseph Finckel of Capital School ! System Was Well Known Musician. Joseph Finckel, 58. a teacher In Washington's public school system since 1901 and a well known musician, died suddenly last night at his home, 1300 Monroe street. His brother, Edwin ‘A. Finckel, a patent attorney, died only a week before. He was teaching at Business High School Friday and apparently was well Sunday afternoon. Mr. Finckel had been a victim of high blood pressure for some time. It was this wh caused his death last night, Educated in the District schools, Central High School George Washington University, public and Mr. illiam W. | told police that early yesterday he was |Finckel first was appointed a teacher | died at Gallinger on February 4. In a letter to Senator Copeland to. day, Chairman Capper wrote as follow desire to refer to your subcommit- tee. for such action as you deem advisa- ble, a serious matter involving a Wash- ington hospital which receives a large allowance annually from the District care of charity and budget fer the cmergency cases. Treated for Intoxication. “From information I have received it | appears that Joseph F. Si a Balti- { more newspaper reporter, having been jinjured in an automobile accident in | the District on the night of January 29, | was removed to Emergency Hospital for | treatment. I am advised that Mr. Sisk was treated at the hospital for ‘extreme intoxication’ and, after having had his stomach pumped out, was sent to Gal- | linger Hospital until he should recover. | atter hospital, however, it | was found that the young man was sutfering from several very grave in- which resulted in his death at ger Hospital on February 4. i “As a layman, I cannot escape the | conclusion that this case was very care- lessly handled at Emergency Hospital. Whether this possible negligence was a | deciding factor in Mr. Sisk’s death, 1t is, of course, impossible for me to say. l Asks Thorough Inquiry. | _“I inclose herewith a letter Mr. Turner | Catledge of the New York Times sent | me regarding the matter, and I hope | the subcommittee will make a thorough | inquiry into this apparently preventable | tragedy.” { _In his letter to Senator Capper, Mr. | Catledge said that Sisk had been at his home within two hours of the time of | the accident. Mr. Catledge stated in i his letter that he could say “without iany reservation whatsoever” that Sisk “was npt drunk nor did he have a drink while there.” EIGHT WOMEN NAMED Chosen to Attend Dry Reform Ses- sions in South. Eight Washington women will attend | the meeting of the Executive Commit- tee of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform in Charles ton. S. C., February 29, and three of them will go to Atlanta, Ga., to attend the session there March 3. The delegation to Charleston will in- clude Mrs. William B. Mason, District Council secretary: Mrs. Arthur O'Brien, | Mrs. James F. Mitchell, Mrs. Frederici Mrs. Lee Warren, Mrs. Louis fiss Margaret Frazer and M Kennedy Coleman. Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Lehr will go to | Atlanta. [ | i HIT BY FOUR BULLETS Woman Taken to Hospital—Hus- | band Is Arrested. | Ollie Buchanan, 21, colored, of the 1300 block of R street was in a serious | condition in Freedmen's Hospital today | with four bullet wounds said to have been inflicted by her husband, Thomas | June Knight, HREE O'CLOCK in the morning! Florenz Ziegleld walks up and down the aisle smoking a cigar; Buddy Rogers, on the strums a guitar; a group of “show girls,” sitting in the back of the audience, say “Isn't he just too sweet?"” Marjorie White, Fox film comedienne, dashes around the orchestra floor chewing gum; “Goldie” Ziegfeld's right-arm assistant, runs back and forth telling some one this and_come one that: the musical firm of Brown & Henderson, partly covered with dark . crouch low in their orchestra s and eye the stage judiciously: Author Marc Hellinger, partly tearing his hair, leans back and says “Awful” to some one—and suddenly the chorus, 50 glorified girls, in shawls and Span- _“stop in_ the middle of a dance they have been doing—"You dance like & bunch of plumbers!” screams Bobby Connelly—noted dance director—and a dress rehearsal of the| new Ziegfeld show, “Hot-Cha" which s tonight at the National, is under The rebearsal is only half under way. tarted at 8 in the evening. It s ed at 6 in the morning. Even then Mr. Ziegfeld didn't want to go to bed. At 1:30 there had been sand- wiches and coffee. Steve Cochran had prepared a regal repast upstairs in the National Theater. Here assembled the giant “workings” of the new Ziegfeld opus. Beauty in Plenty. Here came 75 first cousins of Miss America, glorified through and through; who has doubled for Greta Garbo _and who dances bet! funniest man in captivity: Miriam Bat- tista, who used to be called “the won- der child” of the films; June McCloy, whose hair is blonder than Jean Har- low's, and Tito Coral, eloquent tenor, who made ladies of the diplomatic circle last year down at the Pan-Amer- ican Building sigh with diplomatic ad- miration. Here came & crowd of vast sombreros hiding the features of the | chorus lads: the dance team of Veloz and Yolanda, who for years have held down the enviable post of chief en- tertainers at Manhattan's aristocratic Club St. Regis. and sloughs and sloughs | of the most beautiful girls in the world all excited beyond words at being glorified. DAY AND NIGHT BEFORE SHOW'S OPENING ARE NOT EMPTY. | stage. | 1 i 4 % =5 something near to that—and you have seen a sly little calf come out onto the stage and almost frighten the Lfe out of Bert Lahr, for one reason and an- | other. All Not Beer and Skittles. All is not beer and skittles the day before a Ziegfeld opening. The dress | rehearsal, from 8 to 6, is only half a day. Mr. In the late morning (before) Ziegfeld, cigar in hand and “Goldie” in the offing. is already un- | derway. He is seen walking out of his POLICE BEGINPROBE OF CHURCH ATTACK IPON CHDIR SINGER Mrs. Marjorie Clark Says In- truder Beat Her Over Head With Revolver. CONGREGATION AROUSED BY WOMAN’S SCREAMS Inquiry Shows No Attempt Was Mzde to Steal Funds Kept in Ante-Room. Police were investigating today a re- ported attack on Mrs. Marjorie Clark, 27-year-old choir smger and public school teacher, who said a man struck her over the head with the butt of a revolver last night in the choir rcom on the third floor of Calvary Baptist Church, Eighth and H streets Mrs. Clark told police she went to the choir room at the start of the services ty correct a number of school papers. She said she had nearly com- pleted her work and was sitting at a desk with her back toward the door, when she heard footsteps in the hall. She said she paid no attention to the noise because she thought it was being made by other members of the choir. Stranger Draws Gun. | hotel and heading for the theater. Up- stairs_in the balcony lobby he finds Bert Lahr emoting to Marjorie White, Buddy Rogers telling Miss Knight that he loves her (part of the play) and | Lynn Overman speaking his lines 1ook- | Post Office Building. the window toward the If Mr. Ziegfeld searches further, he will find his 75 glorifiers in the basement of a hotel being put through their paces by Task- ing out of A moment later, she continued, she | heard somebody enter the room, and she turned to see who it was. A man entered. she said, and as he walked tcward her she arose. As she did so, she said, the stranger drew a gun. | Without a word, the man, according |to Mrs. Clark’s statement, to police, |grasped her arm and jammed the Weapon against her side. She srcreamed, she said, and attempted to free her- self. The man, she added, hit her with | master Connelly In their midst stands Mr. Connelly. | coatless, twisting around on his toes. At Some of the personalities in the new iZegfeld show. Top. left to right: Mar- Jorie White, Florenz Zicgfeld, the pro- ducer, and Rose Louise Hovick, one of | the glorified girls. Below, Buddy Rogers. | [they think of their music. “Rotten,” | says Mr. Brown. of the millionaire (team of Brown and Henderson, which wood. | You ask author Mark Hellinger what | he thinks of his book. “Terribie,” says Mr. Hell.nger. You have been watching Al Good- man rehearsing his band in shirt sleeves and making Buddy Rogers turn his face to the audience. ou got to let the audience see your face, Buddy,” and stopping the music and telling Tito Coral “Open your mouth!” You have seen Bobby Connelly running around like a madman telling the chorus other things more uncomplimentary than that they're “plumbers” You have |seen Marjorie White do a number which is so good, that even the placid | show-girls sitting in the audience in ! |~ You ask the musical composers what | their silks and satins cry “Bravo!"—or | say!" the moment the ladies don't seem to know how to wave. “Wave like this cried Mr. Connelly (who knows more about putting together good dance routines than most dozen-and-a-half other dance maestros), and sudden! from four different corners these irls, in skirts and sweaters, do what | 4 they have been told to. frantically. While this goes on, upstairs in_ the hotel the composers, who have been composing furiously for five weeks, are ironing out the final wrinkles in their score—they look sleepy—and they are— because they haven't slept. A composer They wave ter | has written more than a thousand doesn't sleep the night before a show than Garbo: Bert Lahr, said to be the | tunes and doesn’t think much of Holly- | opens. Neither, apparently, does Mr. Ziegfeld—neither, apparently, does the cast. That's maybe why the music masters say their music is “rotten,” why the author says his book is “terrible,” why the choruses dance like “plumbers” and why one lovely daughter of Eve was heard saying, osh, green slippers and they gave me red. Can you beat that?” But that doesn't alter the fact that impressario Ziegfeld remains calm and quiet and collected through it all—and that he smiles a long and pleased smile again and again—because, of course, he knows what these other people have been saying is far from true. In fact, he must believe that it's just the oppo- site from what Mr. Lahr terms “Low- HOSPITAL ROBBER FOUND IN ASYLUM Driver of Hold-up Car Is in Knoxville, Tenn., Insane Institution. Earl C. Roberts, accemplice in the daring daylight hold-up July 31, 1830. of Miss Eleanor Pege. assistant treas- urer of Children's Hospital, from whon: $7,000 was stolen. has been located ir a Knoxville, Tenn., insane asyium, police announced today. Roberts, said to be a_ Fairfax, Va.| | called to the door of his home by four | i colored men, who robbed him of $26. The men were masked, Lincoln said. CIVIC OPERA COMPANY GETS NEW QUARTERS | | Heavy Advance Sale of Seats for Production Leads to Deci- sicn. Permenent studios and a rehearsal hall have bcen obtained by the Wash- nounced today the organization will Club. due to the heavy advance sale of tickets for the “Gondollers,” to be pre- sented at the Belasco Theater the week of February 29. R. R. Edwards, general manager, an- nounced today the organization will take possession of its new quarters at once in order to perfect the “Gondo- liers.” In addition, the management | will begin rehearsals soon for the sec- ond production, to be presented just after Easter. In order to develop new | 1alent, a different cast will be selected | for the second offering. Auditions will be given soloists, choristers, dancers and comedians late this week. Applicants may register at the opera offce, in the Belasco Theater. Edwards anncunced the Civic Opera will form a dramatiz dance group under the direction of Katherine Meredith Reece. formerly of the Martha Graham Co. William Rodon, who has had ex- | perience with the Metropolitan and Chi cago Civic Cos., will have charge of an- other ballet group. SCORES HIGH IN TESTS One of the highest marks scored here in an entrance examination for West Point was made by Charles B. Stewart, 17, of 1705 Upshur street, one of the three candidates for the Military Acad- emy appointed last week. Out of a pessible 1,000, Stewart made 931.5. The young man is the son of Lieut Ccl. G. H. Stew S. A. He was graduated frcm Dunahau High School in Honolulu in 1930, while his father | was stationed in the Hawaiian Islands in the Ordinance Corps. Last Septem- ber, young Stewart entered the Millard West Point Preparatory School. Eastern Star to Meet. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 15 (Special) —A meeting of Ruth Chap- | ter, No. 7, Order of the Eastern Star, | will g held tonight in the Masonic | Temple. of physics at Western High School. He |also taught for a short time at Eastern | High, but in 1906 he was assigned to Business High School as a teacher of mathematics and bookkeeping, in which position he remained. The educator’s musical education in- cluded tutelage under Ysaye in Brus- sels and by Dr. Joseph Kaspar here. He played in many of Washington's | earlier orchestras and was among the | first members of the National Sym-| phony Orchestra. He had not played in the symphony organization, however, for | a year | Mr. Finckel is survived by four brothers, Charles K. Finckel, principal of the Thomson School, and Paul Pinckel, a patent attorney, both of | Washington, and George and Benjamin | Finckel of Columbus, Ohio. Others sur- viving are two_sisters, Mrs. Charles Grimstead of Washington and Mrs. Frank Byrne of New York; his widow, Mrs Agnes Finckel; a son, Alden Finckel, also a musician, and three daughters, Mrs. George B. Danforth, Mrs. Elsa Bradley ;and Miss Helen Finckel, all of Washington, also survive. DR. F. R. COOK DEAD Rites at Lincoln Congregational | Church Set for Wednesday. Dr. Frank R. Cook, a graduate of Howard University and a practicing | physician here since shortly after his: graduation in 1917, died Saturday at his home, 1636 Tenth street. Funeral services will be held at Lincoln Congre- gational Church Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, followed by burial in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. He was born here in 1892. Besides his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Cook, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Jose- phine Cook. and four children, Frank | R, jr.; William, Richard and Diana. | LIQUOR CAR SEIZED | Telephoned Tip Leads to Capture of Abandoned Auto. Acting on a telephone tip, Detective |W. C. Grcoms of the first precinct. found a car with 102 quarts of alleged He pleaded guilty to the charge oi away, liquor in the 200 block of Balls court this morning, but its occupants had gone. Shortly before 8 o'clock a telephone call was received at the first precinct that a liquor laden automobile had arrived in front of a house in Balls court. After confiscating the car, Grooms searched the house, but fount nothing. J. Buchanan, during an argument ai Fourteenth and R streets yesterday |man. drove the light roadster in which | Walter Jones, the hold-up man, escaped { prosecuting d ' vouth told her morning. The husband, said to reside in the 2300 block of Sixth street, was arrested and booked for investigation at No. 2| police station, pending the outcome of his wife’s injuries. POLICE TO HEAR BLANTON Representative Thomas L. Blanton of | Texas, author of the “free uniform” | and “one day off in scven” bills for the Metropolitan Police Department, will be guest of honor and principal speaker tomorrow night at 8 o'clock before a meeting of the Policemen’s Association | in Odd Fellows' Temple, 419 Seventh | street. Mr. Blanton has given much time to studying police affairs in the District and will speak on a topic of general interest to members of the department, it was announced. o Files for Justice. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., February 15 (Special).—Allen B. Noll, former ttorney here, Saturday filed for the Democratic nomination for justice of the peace in this city. f | after knocking Miss Page down in front of the hospital and snatching the in- stitution’s pay roll. Jones later was captured in San Diego, Calif., returned to the Capital and sentenced to five years. He accomplished the hold-up unarmed. Roberts was found in the Knoxville asylum by Dectective Sergt. Van Doren Hughes, who also traced Jones to San Diego and was instrumental in his cap- ture there. At the same time Hughes announced he had traced Philip W. Bowers, pro- prietor of a jewelry repair shop in the 100 block of Fourteenth street, who left town several months ago with the watches and jewelry of about 100 cus- tomers, to Binghampton, N. Y., where he also was in an insane asylum. Under the law, neither Roberts nor Bowers can be returned here for crimi- nal action, being of unsound mind. 12 Wild Turkeys Freed. HAGERSTOWN, Md., February 15 (Special).—A dozen wild turkeys, ‘which it is hoped will eventually restock the mountain range south of Hagerstown, were liberated by the Izaak Walton League Chapter of this city. GIRLS’ SCHOOL HEAD CAPTURES EX-CONVICT IN Mrs. STUDENT’S ROOM Mabel Montgomery Guards Colored Housebreaker With Automatic—Story Is Related in Trial. How Mrs. Mabel Montgomery, pro- prietor of the fashionable Fairmont School for Girls, 1711 Massachusetts avenue, with a revolver in hand cap- tured a man said to be a former con- vict who had broken into a girl's room was related during a preliminary hear- ing in Police Court today. Following the hearing, Judge John P. McMahon held Theodor> Crutchfield, { colored, 22, for action of the grand jury. j houscbreaking. Bail was not fixed, as police reported two more houscbreaking charges probably would be placed against him. Miss Dorothy Atwood of Detroit dis- covered Crutchfield in her room when she returned from a class last Wed- nesday, it was testified. The colored he was “looking for a man.” Miss Atwood's screams were an- swered by Mrs. Montgomery, who en- tered the room with an automatic in her hand. She trained it on Crutch- field and ordered him to hold up his hands. Then she marched him down- stairs. When Policeman R. B. Rector ar- rived from the third precinct station ! the intruder was leaning against a table | with his hznds high in the air and Mrs. ontgomerv was standing a few feet coolly pointing the gun at his | head. | Crutchfield was held at the station ifor several days while evidence was being collected to connect him with | two other recent housebreakings, Rec- | tor_said. |~ The policeman said Crutchfield had {been released from jail in December | after serving s three-year term on & similar charge. | Wed 50 Years COUPLE :;‘.;T.BR.\T’;‘ GOLDEN GROCER 15 FOUND SLAIN, GUNINHAND the gun. | Otker members of the congregation, about to leave the churct M Clark and rushed where they found her | floor, apparently uncons else ‘was in the room beads, worn around her | broken, but her pocketbook at which she had been worl | undisturbed. Mrs. Clark was taken to Emergency Hospital. where she was treated for cuts about the head. After telling her st-ry to police she returned to her aparte ment in the Cavalier, 3500 Fourteenth street. Assailant Described. Detective Paul E. Ambrose and Des tective Sergt. Leo Murray have been assigned to the case. They were t to question Mrs. Clark furthe: morning. when members of her f said she was fused to reveal she had gone, giving t other callers only a telephor {in the Acams Rxchange t the num- | ber given it was said she had no further statement to make. Her husband. Rob- ert S. Clark. a bookkeeper for the Steuart Motor Co., was with her. Mrs. Clark 1n her report to police last night described her assailant as being about 25 years cid. 5 feet 5 or 6 inches tall and weighing about 135 pounds. He had dark-brown hair, she said, and wore a dark suit, a light overcoat and a dark fedora hat. Capt. William E. Holmes, first precinct commander, ordered Ame brose to make another attempt to inter= view Mrs. Clark So far as police could learn, no effort was made to steal church funds kept in a room con the first floor of the build- 'DEMANDS BY CITY'S | NEEDY MUCH HIGHER am Body of C. K. Chaconas, Well‘i Married for 50 years, Mr. and Mrs. McElhiney celebrated the event yester- | day at the home of their daughter, Mrs. V. F. Gill, at 1313 Queen street. | Mr. and Mrs. McElhiney, both of whom | are 72, were married at Lincoln, Il in 1882. They have lived here with their daughter for the past five years Three brothers of Mr. McElhiney have celebrated their fiftieth weeding anni- versaries. —Star Stafl Photo. LETTS APPROVED FOR JUSTICESHIP Committee Action on District Su- preme Court Appointment Announced. The Senate Judiciary Committee to- day approved the nomination of F. Dickinson Letts as an associate justice of the District Supreme Court. The favorable action of the committee will be reported to the Senate by Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin, who was chairman of a subcommittee which considered the nomination. Justice Letts alreedy is serving on the bench under a recess appointment given him last year before Congress con- vened. Shortly after the Senate met his nomination was sent to the Capitol. Justice Letts is a native of Iowa and served as a judge in Iowa courts from 1911 to 1925, after which he was elect- ed a member of the House. He served in the House during the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses. ELUDE POLICE CHASE Two Colored Men TUse Smoke Screen to Escape. Using & smoke screen, two colored | cruiser today near Twenty-sixth and |1 streets. A companion of the men, meanwhile, escaped on foot. Spotting the car at Twenty-fourth and I streets, the cruiser, occuped by Policemen M. C. Barco and N. 8. Rinker of No. 3, drove alongside. A col- ored man jumped from the car and stood in front of the police auto until S pevding aiter dhe escaping machin r ping machine, the policemen let the man on foot es- cape and the other two got away be- \rind the sggoke scieen. MR. AND MRS. W. H. McELHINEY. | Known Merchant, Is Dis- covered by Wife. Charles K. Chaconas, 57, until re- cently treasurer of a grocery firm here, was found shot to death early today in a second-floor bedroom of his home at 3814 Kansas avenue. Chaconas, shot through the head. was lying in bed with a heavy-caliber Expenditures of St. Vincent de Paul and Catholic Charities Show Increase. Relief expenditures of the St. Vi de Paul Society were 50 per r‘r\nl‘g!rnec;;ref in January than in the same month last vear and those of the Catholie Charities were 100 per cent larger, Dr, John O'Grady, director of the latter or ganization, revealed yesterd: Speaking at the guarterly meeting of revolver clutched in his right hand. He | the society in Sacred Heart Church, Dr, was the father of nine children. men in an automobile eluded a_police | Found by Wife. The tragedy was discovered about 12:30 o'clock this morning by his wife. | Mrs. Bertha Chaconas, on her return from a social gathering. Dr. James A. | O'Keefe, 4501 Thirteenth street, re- | sponded to an emergency summons and prenounced Chaconas dead on arrival. Detectives Charles E. Mansfield and ‘Rxchnrd Cox of headquarters were in- | formed at the Chaconas home that the | merchant had worried siderably re- cently over business affairs. Three of the Chaconas children were asleep in a rear room when the shot |was fired. but the report failed to |awaken them. They did not learn of the tragedy until the return home of their mother with an older son, Gus Chaconas, 26, of the 5300 block of Six- teenth street. ‘Well Known Here. Chaconas’ firm formerly was in busi- ness at Louisiana avenue and Ninth street until the Government took over | property in that section for the Fed- eral building program. He was well known among local business men and market shoppers. | Informed of the circumstances of the | death by police, Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, | coroner. released the body to an under- taker without an inquest. ARCHIE TRACY DIES | AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Assistant Superintendent of Sen- ate Press Gallery Was Native of Indiana. Archie W. Tracy, 59, assistant super- intendent of the Senate Press Gallery, | died early today at his home, 3718 Livingston street, following an illness of several weeks. Mr. Tracy, a native of Newcastle, Ind. had been engaged in newspaper work in various parts of that State as well as in Washington. He was at one time connected with the Washing- ton Bureau of the Indianapolis News, after which he returned to the West. He had been a resident of Washing- ton more than 10 years and became assistant superintendent of the Senate Press Gallery several months ago. H is survived by his widow and two sons, | Archie of Seattle and Paul of this city. O'Grady declared if the Catholic Char- ities were to take care of all relief cdemands funds at their disposal would be exhusted by July 1. He said the people of Washington apparently do not realize the seriousness of the situation, but ex- pect charitable organizations to meet extraordinary poverty needs with lim- ited funds. _ Dr. O'Grady sald the society should, in the near future, petition Congress for public relief in the District. He urged the society members to help the Community Chest wipe cut its deficit Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts declared there had Ibeen a marked decline in charitable work interest during the past 10 ye: “We are having a rude awakening, McCormick said. ~“The St. Vincent de Paul Society, dedicated as it is to per= sonal service, is one of the great means of saving out democracy from the inroads of a Communistic philosophy at_this critical period.” Reports showed the society had spent $8,635 in the past two months. John Bowen told of special work, while Alexander McNeill outlined the activities of the society’s employment bureau. George Cleary presided. The meeting was attended by 250 repre- sentatives from 27 parishes. |MRS. CAROLINE DITTOE EXPIRES AT HOSPITAL Native of Kentucky, She Had Re- sided in Washington for 45 Years. Mrs. Caroline M. Dittoe, 67, of 14 Bryant street northeast, resident of the Capital for 45 years. died yesterday at Georgetown Hospital after an illness of two weeks. A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Dittoe came to Washington as the bride of Ralph E. Dittoe, now an employe ®f the Navy Department. Mr. Dittoe, also born in Kentucky, was employed at the Government Printing Office for many years and afterward operated & grocery store at Fifteenth and Gales streets northeast. Besides her husband, Mrs. Dittoe is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Emily A. De Neale, Mrs. Caroline E. McCaul- ley, Mrs. Mary A. Bennett and Mrs. Dorothy C. Shea, and one son, Edward V. Dittoe. Funeral services will be held at the residence Wednesday morning_at 8:30 o'clock, followed by mass at St. Mar- !tin's Church. al will be in Mouat Olivet Cemetery.