Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 17

Washington News Che Zoe ning Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - WA SHINGTON, D. C, JOBLESS A NEARS END N DISTRIT; HONEY RUISLOW Spencér in His New Home O'MALLEY'S “KING FISH” IS GIVEN ROUSING RECEPTION. Committee to Cut Pay Roll Starting Saturday—Sum of $107,000 Left. WORK WILL BE SLOWED ALMOST TO STANDSTILL Only Skeleton Organization to Re- main After April 1—Public Help Asked in Providing Jobs. The Steering Committee of the Dis- trict of Columbia Committee on Em- ployment decided today to lay off most of its employes and slow down the work of the committee almost to a standstill by the end of March. The decision was made solely on the basis of lack of funds. The committee has only $107,000 left of its $250,000 appropriation from Com- munity Chest funds. Of this $81,000 will be needed for administration and providing work for unemployed during March, and the balance probably will} be retained for keeping a skeleton or- ganization together until next Novem- ber. About 20,000 Jobless Here. Laying off of committee workers will begin next Saturday, and by the middle of May, the number will have been reduced from 35 to 6. According to statements from various committee members at the meeting today, there are about 20,000 unemployed persons | in Washington, and approximately 135 new persons apply to the committee for help each day. . G. C. Bliss, general commercial super- intendent of the Chesapeake & Poto- mac Telephone Co. and chairman of the committee’s work stimulation subcom- mittee, reported the start of a work stimulation campaign to last not less than two months. Folders will be sent with monthly telephone bills, and efforts will be made to reach the public through the pulpits next Sunday. and by other means, urging the creation of work by householders and others, in an effort to stave off the worst of the unem- ployment. : ‘The main committee has not decided yet whether to continue its work at fuil speed through March or to slacken it down so as to continuesat half speed through March and April. At any event, work will practically stop at the end of April, unless funds for the com- mittee from some now unexpected source should be forthcoming. Reichelderfer Asks Aid. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, presi- dent of the Board of Commissioners, today called on the people of the city to do their share in furnishing jobs for the unemployed. He urged home improvement as a means of providing needed work. His statement follows: “While Washington is the Capital of the Nation, it is the home city of approximately half & million men, women and children. We take great pride in its beauty. It is an inspira- tion to us, and it represents hope and well being for the children of the com- munity. “But the well being of any of us as individuals is dependemt on the well being of all of us. AS we remember this we can help to make Washing- ton—our home city—the finest placein which to live. “In days like these we can each do much to help. In remembering that this is our home city, we can help keep | our homes beautiful within and with- out. In so doing, we would help fellow townsmen by releasing arrested dollars FEDERAL WORKERS' HOME IS PROPOSED Candidate for Treasurer of Union No. 2 Points to Advan- tages of Plan. A Federal Employes’ Home, with an suditorium, recreational and other facilities, was proposed today by Gale Feaster, candidate for the post of sec- treasurer of Federal Employes’ ion, No. 2, an employe of the office of solicitor, Veterans' Administration. Laying out his proposal, Mr. Feaster first called attention to the fact that nds of members of the union wide range of personalities we have a wonderful | our members to| erecting a_Fed- | e in the District of { ch structure there | v suitable | tainments of vari-| well as committee and | bowling alleys, swim- | Tooms, gymnasiums | and other conveniences that go to make up a home adequate to care for the activities of our members,” he said he erection of such a home is thor- | oughly feasible and practicable, and ghe plan should be put into operation as speedily as possible. In fact, such a building, erected for office purposes as well. could be so arranged that rentals | would amortize its cost At present, he pointed out, the ag- gregase expense of the locals, for rents. would pay a substantial part of the amount needed for a home building, and “many other organizations with far less membership than ours, have cesstully achieved ‘home’ ownership. MANAGER CANCELS PLAY BECAUSE OF CHILDREN #Bridal Wise” Not to Come to Cap- ital—Two Juvenile Actors e it, opportunity to serve better advantage by employes’ hom for lectures or en ous kinds, as meeting room ming pools, b Required for Cast. The actors, stage hands, musicians and house staff involved in the sched- uled production of “Bridal Wise” at the National Theater next week will be add- ed to the ranks of the unemployed temporarily because of the District of Columbia child labor law forbidding the appearance of minors on the stage, ac- cording to an announcement made to- day by S. E. Cochran, manager of the | theater. After viewing the production at the | Majestic Theater in Brooklyn last night Manager Cochran canceled his booking of the play, which was to bring Madge Kennedy here March 7. The cast in- cludes two children under the legal age escribed by District law, Cochran said is fact not only will throw out of work the actors and theater staff, he The photo shows Mrs. Esther B. King and Glenn C. Leach watching the giant FSAL RELATINS STUDY SUPPORT CTENSONTAKES Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Results of Survey by Committee. BRIEF CONSIDERS ALL POINTS OF MAPES PLAN Details of Recommendations In- cluded in Report Are Withheld. While withholding its contents from publication for the présent, the board of directors of the Washington Cham- ber of Commerce last night adopted a voluminous brief prepared by a spe- cial subcommittee dealing with the WEDNESDAY, sturgeon puff in his tank. —Star Staff Photo. SPENCER, gfish” of Commissioner R. Henry O'Mal- ley’s aquarium, today for the first time left the home he has occupied for the last 15| years and was given a rousing recep- tion by his friends in Washington The potentate of fishdom was trans- ferred from the old Bureau of Fish- | question of fiscal relations and Dis- | trict finances. | The brief, which is being held for | presentation when the Senate District Committee takes up the Mapes tax in- | creasing bills, was prepared under the Spencer’s transfer was a solemn one, for he left the old plant and arrived in the new marble-halled palace of the Commerce Department in a large, water- | proofed coffin, marking the first time in - the history of Washington that a dig- | direction of Raymond F. Garrity, local = | attorney, and represents more than two pitary had been transferred in sUCh|y,onng'study and investigation by the Into the huge new tank splashed the | COmmittee. eries’ Aquarium to the beautiful 40- | big fish. He wriggled up his nose, gave tank exhibition room in the new Com- | his back fins a couple of flips and merce Department Building to the tune | around the bevel glassed inclosure he of booming flashlight lamps of 'still | sailed. Soon he put on brakes and and motion cameras, Trailing_behind 10 photographers came the big sturgeon’s public, and be- | fore the reception was over officials | estimated that approximately 4.000 persons had greeted the five-foot fish in his new home, the ace tank in Mr. O'Malley’s aquarium. Raised from Babyhood, Standing - in the background was Glenn C. Leach, chief of the division of fish culture, admiring the 55 pounds of scale and meat, which he has raised from babyhood. Mr. Leach took charge of this Potomac River Acipencer Sturio, as one good sturgeon calls another, sluggishly settled down comfortably on the sand floor. “Nellie” in Next Tank. In the next tank to the sturgeon is Nellie, a quill-back buffalo fish donated with 71 other fish to the Government by the John G. Shedd Aquarium of Chicago. Nellie collapsed yesterday, but today she was all right again. Officials explained that the long trip from Chicago and the change in the temperature of the water caused Nellie | to flap over on her back yesterday and | kick her tailfins in the air. However, a quick change of water revived her | United States. The board of the cham- when he was six inches long. Chopped |and this rarc specimen was just es meat, gentle care and an occasional | chipper as the rest of the fish today back scratching on the part of Mr. | Commissioner O'Malley of the Bu- Leach has made Spencer what he is | reau of Fisheries expects to have ap- Soday. proximately 500 fish on exhibition. 0., HOMEMAKERS PLACED AT 12554 Figures Show 38,102 Women Also Pursue Gainful Occupations. HAMILTON HOTEL SOLDFORSEEAMD D. C. Supreme Court Refuses to Approve Petition to Halt Auction. There are 119,278 homemakers in| The Hamilton Hotel, northeast cor- 125,554 families in the District of Co- ner of Fourteenth and K streets, was lumbia, the Census Bureau announced |sold at auction yesterday shortly after !ogay. i e Bt i ;Vus;xcg Daniel W. O'Donoghue of Dis- n completing ation of the | trict Supreme Cour i - 1930 enumerations, the bureau said it | prove a.ppel:llon of Lop%eocs].sédmfin:fll had &sudr i:; hfomeimkehr the woman | interests seeking to halt the sale member of the family who is responsi- | The property was bid in by A. A. La- ble for the care of the home. Hired porte, representing the Hamilion Hotel housekeepers were not included in this| Corporation, a Delaware corporation, classification. which, it is said, is controlled by the tatistics Show, 38108 Were. PURUIE | ectict ek, Committee, formed s v, 38, v 0 protec ts i gainful occupations in addition to thelt | holders . (o reserty. Copian, bond- housekeeping activities. A total of 2.833 | tee, it is said, represents 90 per cent of | remained at home to carry on their the first mortgage bondholders. work in other fields, while 3,678 listed g themselves as professional _workers Bid Is $529,000. 13166 office workers, 3257 industrial| The successful bid, made in competi- | workers, 11,689 servants and 1,956 as tion at the sale, was $529,000. The cur- | saleswomen. rent assessed valuation placed on the The bureau said there were 80,073 property for taxation purposes is $1,- white, 11,010 foreign born white, and 450,000 for land and building. 28,083 colored homemakers in the city.| The petition seeking to halt the sale | 97,056 “Head Men.” pasitakeniio District Supreme Court | /by W. Gwynn Gardiner, sr., Washing- | sehves tat of 97036 men listed Ehem- ton attorney, representing & bond in- = 43 | terest in the property. Mr. Gardiner the figures revealed. Of these, 4,043 ..\ ¢ toasr were under 25 years of age, 23,396 were &4 ay he planned to prepare a from 25 to 34 years, 26.963 were from Pelition to the District Court of Ap- 35 to 44 years, 21,907 from 45 to 54 Peals seeking a special appeal from the years, 13,390 from 35 to 64 years, 5656 Ullng of Justice O'Donoghue. from 65 to 74, 1,432 were 75 years and The sale, conducted by Vernon G. ok Owen. brought an opening bid of $500,~ The figures revealed that there are 000 from Mr. Laporte. James O'Don- 269 men in Washington who did not DIl of this city also engaged in the | know their own age at the time the Pldding census enumerators called, Of the to- tal, 166 were white, 16 were foreign- born white, and 86 were colored. Of the total number of families 16,609 comprised one person only; 36,599 comprised two persons; 26422, three persons; 19,542, four persons; 11,753, five persons; 6,644, six persons 3574, seven persons, and 4,411 have eight persons or more. The average size of family for the District as a_whole was 2.86; for the native white families, 2.79; for the for- eign-born whites, 3.57, and for the col- ored. 2.84. Of the whole number of families, 88183 reported no children under 10 years of age; 20,272 had one child under 10, 10,296 had two children under 10, and 6,803 had three or more under 10 Financed by Smith Co. © Hamilton Hotel, 11-story struc- s one of those financed by the 1 Co. and the failure of the operating the property was the cident leading to prosecution s of the Smith concern 1929 the Smith company adver- ue totaling $1,550,000 y. At that time the com- d the property had a total ie, less depreciation, as of amounting to $3,015,470. N'GI IS VERY LISTLESS AND LACKS APPETITE Condition Not Up to Expectation, Zoo-Keeper Blackburn ' DRIVE FOR ORCHESTRA | SUPPORT LAUNCHED e Gainful Occupations. A considerable majority of the fam- ilies or 68,667, reported only one mem- | ber having gainful occupation, 34,124 | reported two workers, 15,342 reported | three or more workers. A percentage of 5.9 reported no gain- ful workers, these being for the most part the families of widows or of elder- | N'gi, who improved considerably after ly persons, the bureau explained, | he was placed in an oxygen chamber A total of 47,220 or 37.6 per cent, |last week, was not so well yesterday. families in the District own their | Last night he did not eat heartily, Mr. homes, an increase from 29.6 per cent Blackbu d. N'gi is expected to in 1920, have c bad days, but his condi- Of the entire number of families, | tion t orning was not quite up to 67,640 reported they had radio sets. | expect rem ed very listless, showing » He PLUMBER PLEADS GUILTY terest in the food with which it Vs oned ot e Wit Y TO HENDRICKS MURDER 121515 ARRIVE SUNDAY Justice Letts May Sentence War- | den Tilburg Next Week | Baking Company Employes to Visit in Slaying. Warden Tilburg, plumber, Capital. red employes of the Gen. guilty before Justice Letts in District % Co. wnd Sheie wiwe s Supreme Court today to second-degree murder in connection with the slay- by special train from Phil- adelphia at 10:40 o'clock Sunday morn- ing January 8 of Mrs. Jeannette Hend- ricks, 40, of 2318 Eighteenth street ing for a visit to Washington during He probably will be sentenced next Says. _N'gi, the Zoo gorilla, was “about the same” today, Willlam H. Blackburn, head ke said. {bonds * * *. entennial Celebration, it was week ounced today from the company's here Mrs. Hendricks' body was found in i the basement of her home, the skull battered. Police learned Tilburg had been a visitor at the house the night before and his arrest followed. NOVEL PLANE DESIGNED | 1 will tour the city and a dinner Will be given for them at the Raleigh Hotel Sunday evening. The trip is being sponsored by the company. Backs Citizens’ Stand. It is understood the brief takes up iall the Mapes bills, answering all the | questions which have arisen incident to their proposal. It also is saild to support strongly the stand of the Cit- izens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Re- lations between the District and the ber was unanimous in favoring the adoption of the brief in all its phases. ‘The board voted its indorsement of the city-wide campaign here in con- nection with the Nation-wide move- ment against hoarding, approving unanimously the “baby bond” selling plan to release tied-up money. The Capper bill, which would revise the laws obtaining in the District con- cerning the appearance of children in stage productions, was approved by the body. The chamber heads received the United States Chamber of Commerce referendum on Federal taxation, and referred it to a special committee under Thomas P. Littlepage for study and re- port. Bliss Addresses Board. A message of welcome, in which it Jjoined with the District Bicentennial Commission, was extended by the board to the American Conference of Inter- national Justice which is holding its conventions here in May. Col. E. G. Bliss, chairman of the Work Creation Committee of the District, which is seeking to find jobs for local unemployed, addressed the board on the functions of this organization. A re- port on the five-year expansion pro- gram of the chamber was presented by Creed W. Fulton. Harry King, president of the cham- ber, presided at the meeting. R “BABY BOND” ISSUE IS HIT BY LOZIER Missourian Says Plan Will Drain Millions From Rural Sav- ings Accounts. Declaring the Government’s plan to sell “baby bonds” would result in mil- lions of dollars being withdrawn from rural savings accounts, Representative Lozier, Democrat, of Missouri, describ- »d it yesterday as “another punch below the belt,” that, “the administration is getting ready to give to the small banks.” “For 10 years these banks have been mercilessly exploited by the big city banks with the full knowledge and tacit approval of the administration,” he told the House, adding: “Secretary Mills has announced that the issue of these bonds will be ‘un- limited.’ That is to say * * * they will not only be offered to the so-called hoarders, but all classes of investors will have an opportunity to purchase. This really means that people who are not now hoarders, but who have misgivings as to the general banking situation will be attracted by these Government se- curities and notwithstanding the low interest rate will be tempted to with- draw their savings or other deposits and invest the proceedings in baby | | “The net result of the Hoover-Mills plan will be to withdraw from rural communities millions of dollars that are now so badly needed to strengthen banks.” Director Kindler Among Speakers Heard by Women's Com- mittee. ‘The formal launching of a campaign to support the National Symphony Or- chestra of Washington, D. C., for an- other season took place yesterday at the home of Mrs. Beale R. Howard, at 2829 Woodland drive. Members of the Women's Committee were addressed by Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Hans Kindler, director of the orchestra; Paul Wilstach, author and a member of the orches- tra’s Executive Committee; Clara Bur- roughs, director of music in the public | schools; Walter Bruce Howe, chairman of the Executive Committee, and Gideon Lyon, associate editor of The Evening Star. Mrs. Tracy Dows, chairman of the Women’s Committee, presided at the meeting and introduced the speakers. Plans were drawn up for raising funds for a series of concerts to be given by the National Symphony Orchestra dur- ing the coming year. QUIZZED IN SHOOTING Wife Denies Having Trouble With Bryant McMahon. Mrs. Marie McMahon, 26, wife of Bryant McMahon, was questioned by | police last night in connection with the shooting of her husband early yester- day. She was released this morning Garden Club Meets. CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 2 (Spe- |cial) —The Chevy Chase Garden Club ualty Hospital, has refused to after denying she had had any trouble with him. McMahon, under treatment at Cas- give any MARCH 2, 1932. The sixty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Howard University was celeb: PAGE B—1 superintendent of the department rated at Charter day ceremonies today. In the group above are shown some of those who participated in the exercises. Front row, left to right: Represent- of the Interior department bill. jative Burton L. French, Idaho; Representative Frank Murphy, Ohio; Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard U.; i Representative Edward T. Taylor, chairman of the subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations in charge Back row, left to right: Dr. Ambrose Calliver, United States Office of Education; Rev. Dr. D. Butler Pratt, dean of the Howard U. School of Religion; Dr. Numa Adams, dean of the Howard U. Medical School; Dr. Walton C. John and Dr. R. M. Wilder of the Mayo Clinic. | HOWARD U BUDGET CUTS “TEMPORARY” House Members Call Slashes Mere “Furloughs” of Nec- essary Projects. Slashes in the Howard University bud- get for 1933 through reductions in the Interior Department bill were char- acterized today by members of the House Subcommittee on appropriations as mere “furloughs” of necessary proj- ects and in no way indicate permanent curtailment of the university’s develop- ment. Members of the committee in- cluding Representative Edward T. Tay- lor of Colorado, chairman, were guests of Howard today at elaborate exercises marking the 65th anniversary of the granting of Howard University's charter | by Congress. Representative Taylor, referring to the committee’s action in reducting the esti- mates, assured his audience, which jammed the Angrew Rankin Chapel. that “there's no reflection anywhere on Howard University.” “Had to Call a Halt.” “The cuts were made,” Chairman Taylor declared, “because we had to call a halt. They represent mere fur- loughs of projects which still are to come.” Addressing the stydents, Representa- tive Taylor urged colored youth “to get all the education you can.” He urged particularly the girls to prepare in school to support themselves. “Of course, every girl hopes to marry well and be happy, but under existing conditions it's quite probable that many of you will marry ‘no ‘count’ boys and will find yourself in real need of inde- | pendence.” | Representative Frank Murphy of Ohio quoted Paul Laurence Dunbar, colored poet, in his reference to the appropria- tion cut. “I go to meet the dawn and not a setting sun,” was Mr. Murphy's_quota- tion from the poet in assuring Howard University that the cuts do not mean permanent retrenchment of the institu- tion's plans. Louis C. Cramton, former chairman of the committee, who now is & legal | adviser in the Interior Department, an- | other guest, reviewed his 18 years of service in Congress. He said he regard- ed the work he did in connection with Howard University as the most impor- tant accomplishment made during his term in Congress. French Is Speaker. Representative Burton L. French of Idaho also spoke. Representative Wil- liam W. Hastings of Oklahoma and Representative William J. Granfield of Massachusetts, who also were to have spoken, were unable to attend. The exercises were presided over by Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of the university. In his introduction of the members of the committee, he paid tribute to the thoughtfulness with which they always had considered Howard's budgetary needs. He said that cuts en- forced this year merely are in line with the country-wide necessity for economy. | Rev. D. Butler Pratt, dean of the school of religion, opened the exercises with the invocation. Vocal music was presented by the Howard University Choir, the Glee Club and by Mra Edyth Sewell, who sang a solo. Howard University’s charter was| granted March 2, 1867, and the insti- tution was named for Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, a Union officer, whom Presi- dent Lincoln had placed in charge of the Free Men's Bureau of the Federal | LANDSCAPE LEFT ON MEMORY WHEN EXPLOSION BLINDS MAN| Ca‘pital Visitor, Whose Grandfather Was Cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Al- es “Bright Side.” ways Se N. C. Hanks has developed the re-| tentive power of his memory because the most beautiful sight he ever saw was also the last sight he ever saw—a | grand panorama of the Rocky Maun-} tains and the American desert in the | rising sun. The mental picture is as clear now, | Hanks said yesterday, as the visual | picture when, at the age of 21, it was | obliterated in one blinding flash which had an aftermath of darkness. Hanks remembers, with a smile of pleasure, the sun like “a ball of gold” warming the towering cliffs of the Wasatch range in Utah and the vast expanse of desert roliing in to the base of the mountains. That image, he said, helped him re- construct a useful life from the wreck- age wrought by a box of 100 percussion caps for dynamite which exploded in his hands and blinded him. Message of Optimism. Hanks, whcse grandfather was & cousin of Mrs. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, | mother of Abraham Lincoln, has become a_lecturer, writer and philosopher, | whose message of optimism has been | heard in countless school and college | class rcoms over the country. He began the long and tedious prepa- ration for this task when he was dis- charged. six months after the accident, from the Provo, Utah, General Hospital, permanently blind, further maimed by the loss of both hands, and penniless. Hanks was abe to summon enough courage, he told an interviewer here yesterday, to see him through conva- lescence, but he never saw the light until he talked to an Easterner then lecturing in the little Utah city—Byron W. King of King’s School of Oratory, at Pittsburgh. Hanks, who is stopping between lec- tures to visit a sister, Mrs. Eunice Culli- more, at 322 B street southeast, said he listened to King's lecture on “Eyes That See Not—Ears That Hear Not.” ‘The maimed youth, broken and al- most hopeless, heard King say there was useful work in the world for every man and woman, no matter what their condition. “I asked him,” Hanks sald, “what use there might be for a blind and penni- less cripple. And he told me how Homer, the blind poet, composed great poetry walking the shores of the Medi- terranean. “He advised me to develop my mem- ory and to seek knowledge. This I have done to the best of my ability.” And Hanks, it would seem, has done | ten"for numerous magazines and news- just that. For seven years Hanks fol- lowed King about the country, learning and studying through ‘readers,” who interpreted for him the world's greatest literature. Later Hanks worked his way through Leland Stanford University, took two years of post-graduate work at Har—! vard and an additional course at Co- lumbia. He has committed to memory over 40,000 words from classic literature, can recite most of “Hamlet” and has writ- papers. Hanks was a student in Provo when the accident occurred. With three other young men, he climbed into the Wasatch Range one vacation to work a leased lead and silver mine. Two of the youths had gone down the mountain to market a burro load of ore, and Hanks was working at,the mouth of the rhaft while his com- panion prepared breakfast in the cabin nearby. Caps Overheated by Sun. Hanks had laid the percussion caps in the sun to dry and they became overheated. He picked up the box and tapped it gently to brush out some dirt and the explosion followed. The other young man came running and found Hanks standing helpless and blind, with his hands in shreds. “I took my first walk as a blind man,” Hanks smiled, “back to the cabin that day. My companion seemed almost as badly cut up as I, and sitting on my bunk, I told him we must face the thing calmly. “He found handkerchiefs and bound my wrists, I lay in the bunk for 12 hours while he went down the moun (ls.m on foot and returned with a doc- or. “The others returned also and they made a stretcher of canvas and boards, carrying me by turns for miles down the torturous trail. It was almost 60 hours before they finally got me to the hospital.” Hanks still returns on vacation to his native Rocky Mountains, where he trolls for rainbow trout from a canoe, swims in the mountain streams and even follows the hunters when they 80 shooting on the slopes. “I used to do all those things as well s any man when I was young,” smiled :Iulnnakss‘, “and xhow my memory serves me as well as my eyes °"fi§kd‘d'" y eyes and hands ed if he would lecture here, sald, “Perhaps, but then there's solz:u?cxi: oratory in the National Capital a blind man might have diffi audience.” o (ndtigian GUN AND ICEPICK VICTIM IS DYING Assailant Is Strapped to Hospital Bed When He Becomes Violent. Stabbed in the back of the neck with an fce pick and shot three times, Ruth Wells, 17-year-old colored girl, of the | 500 block of T street, was dying today | at Casualty Hospital as the result of a | fight with her sweetheart, 43-year-old William Wells. ‘The two, who are not related, en- Government. J. E. HOOVER’S DRIVER RELEASED IN FIGHT James E. Walsh and Thomas Chas- tang Treated at Emergency Hospital. gaged in the battle in Willlam Wells® automobile, parked at Second and L streets southeast. It started when the man became enraged over the girl's de- termination to testify against him be- fore a grand jury in connection with an attack he is alleged to have com- mitted on her early last month. Taken to Casualty Hospital with the ice pick still sticking in her neck, the Wells girl was operated upon imme- diately in an effort to save her life. Today she was still breathing, but death was expected momentarily. The man, apparently deciding to sur- render, drove from the scene after pushing the girl out on the road. In front of police headquarters, he stum- bled dizzily from the machine, while it was still running and the car careened into several parked cars, striking Police Chief Glassford’s motor A man giving his name as James Wallace, later found by United States park police to be James Eliott Walsh, chauffeur for J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Bureau of Investigation of the De- partment of Justice, was involved in a fight last evening, in which a machin- ist's hammer figured. : Officer A. S. Moreau of the park police reported that shortly after 7| cycle before coming to a halt. o'clock last evening he found two men | Wells was removed to Gallinger Hos- fighting on Ninth street near K, and | pital, where he became violent and was as both were bleeding badly, he had |strapped to a bed. them taken to Emergency Hospital in| His driverless automobile almost ran the rescue squad ambulance, where they | down Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson, were treated by Dr. Oscar Morrell. The | chief of the homicide squad. policeman charged both men, who gave the names of James Wallace, 25, col- ored, of the 400° block of Q street, and Thomas Chastang, 30, white, of the 900 block of I street, with simple as- sault, each being complainant against of his mother, Mrs. Mary Rover, and | To Address Advertising Club at the other. By order of the district attorney’s office “Wallace” was released in the In yesterday’s editions of The Star it was stated United States Attorney | Leo A. Rover also narrowly escaped injury. This was in error as Mr. Rover at the time was attending the funeral | | was not in the vicinity of the ac- cident. | | at its meeting today will hear Wilbur H. | information which would aid in identi- custody of Mr. Hoover Chastang was JEWELS WORTH $1,400 TAKEN IN ROBBERIES Several Connecticut Avenue Apart- ments Entered With Use of “Jimmy.” Jewelry valued at more than $1,400 was stolen yesterday in a series of rob- ! beries in Connecticut avenue apartment houses. Entrance was gained in each miumle bs use of a “jimmy.” colored man who had on his person was arrested Jast S on Woodley place near a house where a burglary was attempted. John T. Kent, 3200 block of Con- Decticut avenue, was the heaviest loser. He reported the theft of jewelry valued at $670, including a dinner ring worth $500; two other rings and an unset dia- mond. Other apartments entered in the same block were those of Julia Cissel, Benjamin Abbott and D. M. Gearhart. Miss Cissel said she missed jewelry valued at $300, while $60 worth of Jewelry was taken from the Gearhart ap:rz;r;gn:. and jewelry worth $17.50 ang n cash was stolen fros Ab:olt apartment. S our rings and & brooch val $425 were stolen from the lpmn‘ll:ndt of Eva L. Noland in the 3400 block of Connecticut avenue. The loot was the proo;:;rty of .:medn Sykes. er rol es reported iInclude $500 worth of clothes taken from thg apartment of Thomas Nichols in the 2200 block of Twentieth street, and $140 in cash from the room of Miss Mary Ann Shelton of Granite City, I, at the Annapolis Hotel. COL. HERRON TO SPEAK Luncheon Tomorrow. “What the Advertiser May t A Tennessee inventor has designed a Simonson, supervising architect of the|fying his assailant. He first told police released on $500 bond. The officer said | the machinist’s hammer was used by | from Advertising in 1932, will be the Charch Program Tonight. subject of Col. Leroy W. Herron, ad- DRV LAWSSTUDED FOR POLIEE DRNE ONGAPTALLQU Survey Made as Glassford Asks More Men and Wider Powers. ENFORCEMENT FAILURE DESCRIBED BY CHIEF Less Than 300 Men Now on Streets in Daytime—Bill to Increase Authority Due in Senate. Police officials here are making s survey of the laws pertaining to manu- facture, possession and sale of liquor with a view to bringing about more rigid enforcement of prohibition. Meanwhile, the police are “only scratching the surface” in their efforts to make the Capital dry, in the opinion of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, He said prohibition cannot be enforced here unless the police force is enlarged and given greater powers. Calls for More Men. Recommending changes in both the method of making arrests in liquor cases and the procedure necessary to present such cases in court, Gen. Glass- ford said the department needs “more men and less red tape.” Only about a score of men are as- signed to prohibition work at present, the police chief continued, and more should be given sauthority to act as Federal agents. Although 1,340 policemen are allotted the force under the law, only about 1,280 now are on duty, Gen. Glassford pointed out, and of this number less hh;n 300 are on the streets in the day- e. Asked if the survey would result in recommendations to the District Com- missioners for action on their part, either with a view to special legislation or otherwise, the General replied that he is undecided. Wider Authority Asked. He pointed out, however, that the District code provides that the Com- missioners, through the Police Super- intendent, shall assign an adequate number of men to enforcement work. ‘The Howell bill, which would give all members of the force equal authority as enforcements officers, will go before the Senate District Committee Priday. The measure also woéuld provide greater latitude in the searching of buildings in which policemen have re: son to believe the liquor laws are being violated. Debated in Committee. Vigorous debate featured the regular meeting of the House District Com- mittee today over the proposal for more drastic dry law enforcement legislation for the National Capital, such as is pro- posed in the Howell bill. Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, chaiyman of the District Committee, took' charge of the meeting after sev- eral weeks of illness. Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, referred to the statement of Glassford. He said that he was in favor of co-operating with the President in the adoption of legislation for more drastic enforcement laws. In this he was supported by Representative Beers, Republican, of Pennsylvania. The op- position in a spirited debate that fol- lowed was led by Mrs. Norton, Repre- sentative Black, Democrat, of New York, i:ndd Representative Palmisano of Mary- and. Prohibition Held Farce. Representative Black asked Mrs. Norton if there was any bill providing for such drastic dry enforcement in the District pending before the com- mittee and she replied that there was not and that she sincerely hoped there never will be. Representative Palmisano said that prohibition never could be enforced in the National Capital or anywhere else and that prohibition enforcement leg- islation is a farce. He protested that more drastic laws should not be sad- dled on the people of the District n.x Columbia. ‘The committee ordered a favorable report on the bill which would permit of pay patients to the contagious dis- ease ward in Gallinger Hospital. Representative Bowman, Republican, of West Virginia suggested that the committee owes it to the residents of the District to make a survey of the District welfare institutions, including schools, Gallinger Hospital, the work- house, reformatory, jail and so forth. The committee agreed, and such & survey will be miade when they have time. TWO HELD TO JURY IN THEFT OF LIQUOR Pair Accused of Taking $500 Worth of Pre-War Stock From Realty Man’s Home. Two men, who are charged with taking _approximately $500 worth of pre-war liquor from the residence of Horace H. Wescott, real estate broker, at 1310 Sixteenth street, were bound over to the grand jury under $1500 bond each by Judge John P. McMahon in_Police Court yesterday. Benito Castillo, Westcott's chauffeur, and James Joseph Mangan are ac- cused of having taken the liquor, which included rare brands of whiskies and wines, from a closet at the home Feb- ruary 18. They pleaded not gulilty to the charge of grand larceny. Police said they found part of the liquor in Mangan’s apartment, near Fourteenth and R streets. They de- clared he told them it had been brought there by Castillo. Castillo, however, police sald, told them he and Mangan hauled the li- quor away in Mangan's car. The men were held for the grand jury over the strenuous objection of defense attor- neys, who claimed the liquor had not been sufficiently identified. The loot included a quantity of champagne, some Irish whisky, Ba- cardl rum, chartreuse and other bev- erages. There was also wine made from grape bricks. HELD IN EMBEZZLEMENT Former Washingtonian Under Ar- rest in Florida. Harry N. Smith, former employe of the Carroll Supply Co., 717 Twelfth street, has been arrested in Miami, Fla. combined dirigible balloon and airplane | Mount Vernon Boulevard, discuss the|he had been shot by the recent “phan- BALLSTON, Va., March 2 (Special). from which the wings and engine can planting of trees, shrubs and flowers|tom sniper.” : ;me e o the Centeal Mt vertising manager of The Star, sched-|to answer a charge of embezzlement said, but will keep the theater dark for uled as principal before the| of $310 of the firm's money. the second consecutive week. both men and that he has the hammer A bill liberalizing the restrictions on eppesrance of juveniles on the stage herc is pending in the Senate, be dropped in an emergency, passengers | 8long the new highway. The ¢lub will remaining in the gas bag. Holding it? Wilcox, on Meadow lane. Detectives. F. O. Brass, D. J. Murphy the case. 1 in his Church will give an en- weekly luncheon possess| | meet at the home of Mrs. Frank P.!and Carlton Talley are investigating' Both were treated for laceratfons of the scalp and forehead. mee! f the Adver. W ; tertainmient. et~ the church tonight. There will be.no admission charge. Club of m:an o'clock, in the Detective Michael J. Dowd has been tomorrow, - sent to Miami to return Smith here for trial. ~