Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1932, Page 17

s,\“/ The Foe ming Star | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION YUDELEVIT NAMED IN INDIGTMENT ON ASSAULT CHARGES Man Who Surrendered Twice Accused of Shooting Two Officers. EX-POLICEMAN HELD IN 3 ROBBERY CASES Three Charged With Conspiracy in Connection With Sale of Box Test Questions. Harry Yudelevit, who twice recently surrendered to police in connection with investigation of shooting affairs, was indicted twice today by the grand jury for alleged assaults with a dangerous weapon on a policeman and a special officer. It is claimed that Yudelevit shot at Policeman Thomas T. Bacon, &nd Charles W. Flanagan, a private de- tective, when they surprised him trying to enter a store at E street, in the early hours of February 19. Jointly indicted with Yudelevit in one of the indictments is John Ken- drick, alias John Murphy. In this in- dictment is a charge of an assault to kill, it being alleged that Kendrick fired three times at Officer Bacon. two of the bullets taking effect, one in his thigh and another in a foot. Bacon held on to Kendrick but Yudelevit es- caped but was identified by both officers ]Native of Kansas, 41, Has [Maj. Hodgson Believed As-| signed to Succeed Davison. Wide Record of Expe- rience in Army. Maj. Paul A, Hodgson was assigned | today as assistant to the Engineer Com- missioner of the District, effective upon | the completion of his course at the command and general stafl school, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Maj. Hodgson, it was understood, re- lieves Maj. Donald A. Dav Acting Engineer Commissioner, who will end his duty in Washington about July 1 and enter the Fort Leavenworth School Unless Maj. Hodgson takes advantage | titled, his course will be compleied in time for him to take up his duties on July 1. While there was no official confirmation that he is to succeed Maj. Davison, War Department officials ex- | plained this undoubtedly was his detail Wichita Home Address. | Maj. Hedgson is a native of Kansas and is 41 years old. His home address is given in War Department records as Wichita, a few miles from Latham, nis birthplace. He took his collegiate course at Fairmont College, in Kansas, and was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1915. The new assistant Engineer Commis- | sioner will come to Washington with a record of high efficiency and varied ex- | perience in the field of engineering. For WASHINGTON, ENGINEER COMMISSIONER AIDE EXPECTED HERE BY JULY 1 of a month's leave, to which he is en-| ____ the last two years, his at Fort Leavenworth He was promoted through the grades to major, on’ July 1, 1920, and has | served at many posts in this country as well as in the Philippines, During the World War he held training posi- tions at Fort Leavenworth and Camp Humphreys, Va. A pericd of his duties after the war | as assistant to the engineer of the Philadelphia district put him in totch with municipal affairs, although his service was strictly with the Army En- gineers. He is not altogether unfamil- iar, therefore, with duties similar to those which he will assume in the Capital In 1917 Maj. Hodgson was graduated | from the Engineer School of the Army. station has been HOWARD U. ANITOR when he surrendered to the police Three Accused of Conspiracy. A conspiracy to commit false pre- tenses is charged in an indictment against Edgar Merritt, Albert P. Scott and Theodore Bradford, all colored. They are said to have falsely repre- sented that they had authentic copies of the questions to be propounded at the bar examination last December and sought to sell them to Thomas G. Mor- rison and G. Lyle Hughes. Hughes said he had been offered the questions in advance of the examination for $200. Henry Fegan, former Washington policeman, and Bernard L, Downey are charged with Yobbery in three separate indictments, In two of the cases Ed- die Matthews is joined as a defendant. Downey and Fegan are said to have held up Frank W. Clark. clerk of the Plaza Hotel, 331 First street northeast, February 25. The police report that $102.75 was taken. Fegan was arrested near the scene and Downey was taken into custody later. All three are accused of robbing Mar- garet C. Connor, an employe of the Tolman Laundry branch at 409 C street, February 20. Miss Connor said $61.48 was taken. The trio are also alleged to have held vp Dr. William C. Furr at his drug store, 200 E street northeast, February 22 and to have stolen his watch, and $3 in money. Rare Wines Stolen. ‘The larceny of 333 bottles of rare wines and whiskies from the home of Horace H. Westcott, 1310 Sixteenth street, is charged in an indictment against Benito Castillo and James J. Mangan. Castillo was employed as chauffeur by Westcott and the goods are said to have been taken February 18. The grand jury ignored a homicide charge against William A. Webb, col- ored, who shot Frank White, also col- ored, February 28. White died the next day. Troy also declined to indict in the following cases: Harry J. Smith, grand larceny; William Rutledge and Harvey | 'T. Sharrow, joy riding: Mary A. Kelley. | housebreaking and larceny; John Ken- ny, Alexander Lincoln, Lyman Green and Theodore Phue, assault with a dan- gerous weapon; John J. Hand, violating Harrison anti-narcotic law, and Charles E. Langley, false pretenses. Others Are Indicted. Others indicted and the charges against them include: William W. Tin- ney, alias William A. Tinney, jr., and Charles H. Bryant, joy riding and grand larceny; Simon Thompson, grand larceny: Freeland Ellis Bragg and Leroy Gorman Eakes, grand larceny: Patrick Middleton and Frederick J. Middleton, grand larceny; Ellsworth Nathaniel West, Latimer Matthews, General Bullock, alias Gentle Bullock: Arthur Leggett, alias George Lig- gett: Albert Lawrence Ogden, James E. Henson and Eva Ware, violation mnational prohibition _act: Theodore Crutchfield, housebreaking; Howard E. Anderson. Clarence E. Car- | nell (two cases), William Coleman, alias Charles Williams: Robert Joseph Wil- son, James Porter, John Overton Byrd, Thurman Hayden, Casey Smith and Leon Horace Shelton, housebreaking and larceny: Robert Howard Moore, as- sault with dangerous weapon and as- sault with intent to kill; James Morris, assault with dangerous weapon; Harry Hammerer. forgery and uttering; Ben- jamin Madison. ir. and Russell L. Marshmond, robbery COAST GUARD CHIEF TALKS TO ROTARY Work and Ideals of Service Are Explained by Capt. M2xam at Luncheon of Club. Oliver M. Maxam, chief of the divi- | slon of operations, United States Coast | told Washington Rotarians of | Guard, the work and ideals of the Coast Guard service, and its m hazards, at the club’s mecting yesterday at the Willard speaker summarized the develop- m the t d, which was created in 1915 by the consolidation of the Revenue Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service. The former dates back to 1790, and was created by the first Congress on recommendation of Alexander Hamilton to enforce customs laws and protect the seacoast, while the latter grew out of a series of acts commencing in 1848. Under the con- solidated service set up in 1915, the Coast Guard was made a part of the Federal military forces to operate un- der the Treasury Department in peace and as a part of the Navy in wartime The guard’s ice patrol service. dating from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912; the flood protection and many other divisions and their hazards also were described. A report on plans for the thirty-fourth €istrict cogvention of the club, to be jHe is 'accused of “padding” the pay ACCUSED OF FRAUD Three Counts of False-Pre-| tense Are Returned in Grand Jury Report. The grand jury investigation of Howard University resulted today in the indictment of Eugene Gough, & colored | Janitor, on a charge of false pretenses. rolls of his office so that his son, Sam- | uel Gough, was carried on the rolls for six weeks and was paid $75 after he had returned to school in Virginia. The son had been previously employed dur- ing the vacation. | United States Attorney Leo A. Rover explained that the money said to have be:n paid out to the son came from the private funds of the university and did not affect congressional appropriations for the institution. The indictment is in three counts, ome applying to each of the semi- monthly pay rolls of September 30, October 1 and October 15. It is al- leged that among the employes of the university on September 30 last were Emmett J. Scott, Albert I. Cassell, Daniel W. Edmunds and Eugene Gough and that Edmunds was the cashier authorized to pay out and disburse certain funds of the school; that Gough represented to Scott, Cassell and Edmunds that his son had per- formed janitorial services for the uni- | versity between September 16 and 30 and was entitled to receive $25 for this service. Edmunds, the cashier, relying on that claim, paid out $25 of the funds of the university to Gough. The second count deals with the pay roll of October 15 and the third count with the October 30 pay roll. Fur- ther sums of $25 on each occasion are said to have been paid out to the janitor on account of the alleged serv- ices of his son. PEGGY JOYCE’S FIRST HUSBAND HELD FOR JURY | S——— | Hopkins Put Under $2,500 Bond | After Hearing on Charge of False-Pr ‘enses. Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, second husband of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, was held for action of the grand jury un- der $2500 bond, following a hearing today before Police Court Judge Isaac R. Hitt on a charge of false pretenses. Hopkins was brought here from Charlotte, N. C.,, Tuesday night. Po- | lice said he is accused of representing himself to a local b as an agent | of the Railroad Owners' Association, | to whom he presented a check for $2.317.25. With a cashier’s check he is alleged to have purchased travelers' checks from the American Express Co. The alleged offense, according to the United States attorney’s office, took | place February 17, 1931. JOBLESS AID PLANNED BY CULPEPER CITIZENS Mass Meeting Is Also Held for| Purpose of Putting Money Into Circulation. Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., March 10.—A mass meeting of the people of Culpeper, wita the avowed purpose of “getting work for the taemployed and putting monsr into circulation,” was held in the Cul peper High School, where addresses were made by W. P. Fore, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Town Manager Victor von Gemminger, E. J. | Nottingham, jr.; Byrd Leavell and Rev. Thomas W. Hooper. Others who spoke were H. H Willis, Ara W. Smith and | H. 8. Marean. Ministers of all the Culpeper church- es were present and on the special re- quest of Mr. Nottingham, all agreed to | take up this matter with their respec- | tive congregations. BUS LINES CITED FOR IGNORING QUIZ Eight Subpoened for Failing to Reveal Plans for New Terminals. 1 Eight interstate bus lines that dis- regarded a Public Utilities Commission | questionnaire as to their plans for vacating the congested area by April 1 were subpeonaed today to appear be- fore the commission next Wednesday. The subpeonas were issued for the Blue Ridge Transportation Co., Lincoln ine, Inc.; Nevin Bus Line, Inc.; Peninsula Transit Line, Inc.; the Short Line, the Washington-Luray Line, the ! Washington, Marlboro & _Annapolis | Line and the Washington, Virginia & Maryland Coach Co. ‘The commission’s questionnaire sought information as to plans of the com- panies for removing their terminals irom the first parking zone by April 1. This zone is bounded on the north by New York avenue and H street, on the east by Seventh street, on the south by Pennsylvania avenue and on the | west by Fifteenth street. ‘The companies also have been denied the privilege of maintaining street ter- minals in the second parking zone after August 1. In this zone, however, the compan.es may maintain terminals on private property. The companies still have 21 days be- fore complying with the commission’s order for filing appeals. It is under- stood, however, that several of the lines contemplate asking the District Su- preme Court to pass on the questions, BILL ASKS $225,000 FOR ALEXANDRIA LINE| Measure Introduced by Representa- tive Smith Would Settle Trackage Claims. Payment of $225,000 out of the Fed- eral Treasury to the Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington Railway Co. for the forced abandonment of its tracks and facilities in the District, due to the public building program, is provided in a bill introduced in the House by Representative Smith of Vir- ginia and referred today to the House Claims Committee. The bill is intended as a substitute for one introduced several months ago, authorizing the car company to insti- tute suit in the District Supreme Court to recover v claim it might have against the Federal Government. The original bill alsy would have repealed the charter of the railway company. The new measure, however, makes no_ reference to the charter and pro- vides that the $225000 would be in full settlement of all claims against the | Government. LAUREL MAN WILL FACE STORE-BREAKING CHARGE Bond Is Set Georges for $500 in Prince Court Hearing. Held for Grand Jury. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., March 10— Maynard Phair of Laurel, accused of sterebreaking and larceny, was held for the action of the grand jury under $500 Wwhen arraigned for a Police Court hear- ing vesterday alr was arrested by Town Officer Milton Haynes of Laurel) The man was accused of breaking into the store of Harry A. Block on Main street. John S. Mcehling, 2100 block of H street, Washington, was fined $201 by Judge J. Chew Sheriff on charges of possessicn of liquor and speeding. The man was arrested by e e y County Policeman 1 | Judge Takes Personal Bond The disorderly conduct that a police- man said he engaged in at the Union Station yesterday, to wit, loud swear- ing, was done in his sleep while in the held here in May, was made by Harri- son Howe, in charge. Twenty visiting Rotarians from other States were in- troduced by President 8. Percy Thomp- son, and Dr. E. Hiram Reed introduced the speaker. clutches of a nightmare, William Allen, colored, told Judge Ralph Given dur- ing his trial in Police Court today. w“;Al:fl( Ifiefldt:." Aflgl e lllned,fl“it ellow try off & i o did the & = ‘The officer sald he Allen DENIES HE SWORE, BLAMING MAN PUSHING HIM OFF CLIFF IN DREAM | Volunteers of Youth Accused of Using Unseemly Language in Union Station. when he was seated on a bench in Union Station “Judge,” he said, “this man was swearing like a sailor. I don’t know whether he was asleep or not, but that was What he told me.” Maybe the judge didn't believe the youth's story, but most mlarfi \ mond, Va, to to ‘fulen. who lives in Rich- e can continue on his way Baltimore, - judge took his per: b C, ™ TEMPERATURE HITS WINTERLOW MARK 0F 1447 2 AN Coldest Weather of Year to Be Moderated Slightly in Few Days. READING 28 POINTS Society and General URSDAY, MARCH 10, BAKER BROADCASTS APPEAL T NATION FOR WORLD AMITY. Says Arms Situation Makes Nezd for Understanding Greatest Since 1914. HITLERISM BROUGHT UP BELOW NORMAL LEVEL Death Toll From Sunday's Storm Reaches 40, With Four Boats Drifting Off Long Island. The coldest weather of the Winter was registered here last night, when the thermometer touched 14 degrees. Warning was issued in today's forecast that it would be only slightly warmer tonight, with a low of about 18 degrees in prospect. Clear weather will continue and there will be but little rise in the mer- cury before Saturday. There will be no definite break in conditions then, the Weather Bureau added, and while the temperatures will be higher, cold weather will still prevail. Homeless Get Shelter. Though nearly a thousand homeless men and women were sheltered and fed by the city's charitable institutions last night, none was forced to spend the night on the streeis and no cases of ex- posure were handled by police. At all of the lodging houses, however, pleas were made for warm clothing. ‘The Gospel Mission at 214 John Marshall place cared for 316 men last night, and dispensed 427 meals. The Central Union Mission, 613 C street, gave beds (o 302 men and food to 687. re Salvation Army's Emergency Home at 479 C street cared for 207 men, while 11 women and 3 children were sheltered and fed at 622 Fifth street. The Municipal lodging house on Third street between C street and Indiana avenue cared for 55 men and was forced to turn away others, while the | of America sheltered 40 men and dispensed 585 meals yester- | day. A drop of nearly 100 in the regis- trants at the Salvation Army Emer- | gency Home as compared with previous | nights this week was accounted for by the fact that highways to the mnorth are practically impassable and few transients are filtering into the city from that direction. On the other hand. roads to the south are open, and many men have moved from Washing- ton in that direction during the past 48 hours, Phones Still O#t of Order. + The Chesapcake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. still has approximately 3,000 poles down in the Alexandria dis- trict and 4,060 telephones out of order, but the work of giving emergency serv- ice to these customers was progressing rapidly today and linemen reported the end of the temporary repairs in sight. Emergency service was given today through Winchester to Orange, Warren- ton and Madison, while the same con- dition prevailed with regard to Fairfax, Leesburg, Culpeper and Charlottesville, g:fivl totaling 150 men were in the eld. Rapid progress has been made in clearing highways, according to the American Automobile Association, and in Virginia all roads, with the excep- tion of short connecting stretches, were reported open and passable. In Penn- sylvania all roads were open to the New York State line. The same con- dition prevailed in Maryland on the main highways, and the secondary roads in that State were expected to be open by nightfall. U. S. Routes 40 and 30, both transcontinental routes to the Midwest and both traversing mountainous territory, were reported open. A warning came from Cumber- land, however, that the mountain trails were icy and that night travel is dan- gerous. Tourists were advised to pro- ceed with caution on all highways, both in the mountains and in level ter- ritory. U. S. Route 340 between Win- chester and Harpers Ferry was still closed today, though the road from Harpers Ferry to Fredericksburg is open. Power Lines Down. Between 300 and 400 customers of the Virginia Public Service Co. were still without electric light and power today, according to officials of that concern, though that figure represents a reduction from 3,000 who were with- out service when the transmission sys- tem went out of business Sunday night. Nearly 600 poles were reported down today, and the Shenandoah Val- ley was still without service, though 100 men are restoring poles and wires as rapidly as the work can be done. Most of the customers still without service would be cared for by night- fall, officials said today. That the unseasonable cold that has gripped Washington for the past five days is Nation-wide is indicated by Weather Bureau reports. Last night’s low temperature of 14 degrees was general as far south as Atlanta, where that temperature was reported during the early morning hours today. South- ern Georgia reported a low of 20 de- grees, Jacksonville, Fla. 28 degrees, while freezing temperature was reported as far south as the Orlando, Fla,, re- gion. The entire list of cities in the ! Gulf and South Atlantic States re- porled the lowest temperatures ever re- corded for this time of year, according to the Weather Bureau. Last night's reading of 14 degrees was the lowest for the present week in March in more than a half century, according to the Weather Bureau. Al low of 10 degrees was recorded on | March 18 during the late "70's, and that record was not approximated until last night. Normal Temperature 42. The normal temperature for Washing- ton for this sezson of the year is about 42 degrees, according to the Weather Bureau. The average for the week has been from 20 t> 25 degrees. Outlying towns in the Washington area reported a clearing up of storm damage and communication was being established with isolated communities. Mail truck service was established yesterday between Leesburg and Pur- cellville, Va.,, which was the first com- munication the latter town had had with the outside world since Sunday. In Montgomery County, Md., the residents of Poolesville, Dickerson, Bealsville, Barnesville, Buck Lodge and Boyds were sald to be still in difficulty, with electric service and to a large ex- tent telephone service still crippled. Busses were reported running on schedule in every direction out of Staunton, Va., and electric and tele- phone service practically restored. Relief was in sight today for the water famine that hit Mount Airy, Md.,, as & result of the storm, when electric | service power from the: was bar- fal AT CHURCH CONFERENCE True Meaning of Term “Melting Pot” Given to Meeting by Roger W. Straus. The cause of tolerance was carried to a Nation-wide radio audience last night by Newton D. Baker in the closing ad- dress of the Naticnal Conference of Catho'ics, Jews and Protestants at the Willard Hotel. With a world more heavily armed than ever before and busily preparing for another conflict, Mr. Baker declared, the need for understanding and amity among groups, religions and nations is greater than its has been since 1914. He said that “quite recently in this country we have seen great bodies of persons perverting the pure current of political thought.” The Secretary of War in the Wilson| administration stressed the need for adult education in tolerance in the problems of government. problems of government in & democracy becoming more drastically difficult, every step for progress means the edu- cation of a majority of the Nation's population,” Mr. Baker said. Peace Machinery Needed. The speaker stressed the unsettled condition of world politics and said the “world needs machinery which will pre- serve international peace.” The objective of the conference, he stated, is not to attack the faith of any participating group, but to break down prejudice and intolerance. “What we have been interested in,” he asserted, “is not what any man be- Ieves, but what other people think about him, and do to him for believing what he does believe. “We are not here to attack faith, but to attack prejudice. Thomas' Jef- ferson was an_exemplar of tolerance as was George Washington. There was nothing of condescension in the tol- erance of these men. “I am hopeful that after a while the United States will become a Nation of educated men. By an educated man I mean one who suspends judgment until he knows and has weighed all the facts.” Hitlerism Discussed. Shortly before Mr. Baker spoke, the attention of the conference was drawn to the rise of Hitlerism in Germany by Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert, general e of the Federal Council of Churches of Chsist in America. He sald this movement carried a threat of discrimination and possible persecution for the Jewish people. He urged the full influence of American Christian groups be brought to bear on Germany. Roger W. Straus of the Union of Am- erican Hebrew Congregations, presided last night. He is co-chairman of the conference with Mr. Baker and Prof. Carlton J. H. Haye: He said the phrase “melting pot” should be interpreted to include indi- vidual and group liberty and differ- entiation as well as co-operation and understanding. Term Melting Pot Defined. “About 25 or 30 years ago,” Mr. Straus said, “Israel Zangwill gave to this country a beautiful ideal in the phrase ‘the melting pot.’ Many felt that the melting pot meant every group should be liquefied in a mass and cast in a single type. This is & misconception. Allow me to use an illustration from my own business. It is a process known as smelting and refining. We take various ores and minerals from all parts of the earth, smelt them in a furnace and refine them in a pot, and then cast bars of pig lead, each one identically the same as the other. Before getting this exact sameness, we must remove all the gold and silver, that is, the precious metals. “In the same way, if we were to try to mold every one in this country to the same pattern, we should have to remove the precious elements of in- dividual initiative and individual ideal- ism. This misconception is the basis of such narrow movements as Com- munism. The finer ideal is to permit liberty to individuals and groups and at the same time to promote co-opera- tion and understanding.” Summary Presented. A summary and interpretation of the round-table ~ discussions which have been held during the three-day meet- ing was presented by Miss Rhoda E. McCulloch, editor of the Women's Press of New York; Prof. John A. Lapp of Marquette University and Rabbi Morris Lazaron of the Baltimore Hebrew Con- gregation. Miss McCulloch emphasized the need for tolerance education and said diversi- fied faith is no bar to united action. The conference clearly recognized at its sessions that it is not necessary for any group to alter its faith in order to be tolerant of the faith of another group, Prof. Lapp declared. Rabbl Lazaron stressed the need for humility and suggested that local con- | ferences of Jews and Christians should be created in all sections of the coun- try to fight against prejudice. Driver Dies ‘TOLEDO, Spain, March 10 (#).—The driver of a civil guard truck, which was fired upon Tuesday night while taking reinforcements to fight off an attack by strikers on the city police barracks, died of his wounds yesterday. Six others were wounded in the fight. ST of Wounds. nessed to operate the pumps, and tele- phone service was being restored. The schools will reopen with the revival of the water supply, the boilers having been Gry during the interim. Death List Is 40. The deatt list in the storm:which began Sunday stood at about 40. A crew of 34 abandoned the collier H. F. de Bardeleben after Tunning for nearly three days with a broken rudder. They transferred to the British motorship Laganbank. Off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, the German freighter Harburg, endangered by a broken rudder, sent out an S O 8 yesterday. A blizzard blinded autoists about Buffalo. A boy was found frozen to death in Pennsylvania. Cold continued to damage Southern crops. In Ontario the snow was 8 to 10 feet deep. New York City, with 14 above zero, had its coldest day of the season yes- terday. Automobiles in the Northeast were still marooned by snow. From the Northwest yesterday came reports of sub-zero weather. But near Niagara Falls residents saw sign of “an early Spring"—13 wild “With the 1932. FFR PAGE B—1 W is shown planting the tree. Morrey and J. W. Davis. WOMEN DEDICATE WILLOW-OAK TO WASHINGTON. OMEN of the Sunshine and Community Society planting a willow-oak | near Hains Point in East Potomac Park in commemoration of the ! Washington Bicentennial. Mrs. Ernest Gude, president of the & sciety, | ‘The others are, left to right: Mesdames James H. Underwood, S. S. Russell Bowen, E. M. Gustafson, A. Natalle Desio, F. C. Brinkley, M. C. Trowbridge, A. Rogers Tracy, H. M. Hunter, J. B. —Star Staff Photo. PITTS' SENTENCES WORRY OFFICIALS Can’t Determine Whether 14-Year and 1-Year Terms Are Concurrent. G. Bryan Pitts, former head of the F. H. Smith Co., has gone to the peni- tentiary, but his affairs continue to harass the authorities who sent him there. Pitts first was convicted of conspiring to embezzle Smith company funds and given a 14-year sentence. He was later found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to a year and a day. In an- nouncing the contempt sentence, the court did not specify whether it was to run consecutively or concurrently with the 14-year penalty. Consequently, there has arisen a question as to whether Pifts must serve 14 years or 15 years and a day. Court say the practice here is to let two sentences run concurrently unless otherwise specified. Officials at Lorton Reformatory are frank in admitting they don't know how long Pitts is sup- posed to be with them. Neil Burkinshaw, special assistant to the Attorney General, however, holds that the sentences must run consecu- tively. Nugent Dodds, Assistant Attor- ney General, is of the same opinion. case, in which the oil magnate was sentenced to serve three months for contempt cf the Senate and six months | for jury shadowing. After a prolonged court battle, Burkinshaw said, it was held the two sentences were to run consecutively, although the court had not specified either way. If Pitts cares to raise the issue, how- ever, the Government probably wiil have to take his affairs into court once more. * R BILL WOULD GIVE LE"VE TO 27,000 SUBSTITUTES Post Office Clerks Back Measure Passed by House Extending Privileges to All. Twenty-seven thousand substitute postal employes would benefit from the House bill passed yesterday, under which they would get the same sick leave and vacation privilege as is ex- tended to regular workers, according to Secretary-Treasurer Thomas F. Flaherty of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. The federation is supporting the measure, which was introduced by Representative Kelly, Republican, of Pennsylvania. A similar bill failed last year in the Senate after passage in the House. Regular postal workers get 10 days sick leave and 15 days’ vacation an- nually; substitutes get none. ECONOMY MOVE MADE Civil Service Commission Abandons Special Covers. The Civil Service Commission will abandon the practice of having a small amount of its annual reports gound in special covers for officials of ‘other departments, libraries and its own files as & measure of economy. e commission cut $600 off its printing bill by reducing the number of annual re] this year, bringing the cost to approximately $1,100, and by eliminating 200 buckram-bound copies, and further cutting the issue a saving of $350 will be made on the next report. Attaches at the District Supreme‘ Burkinshaw relles on the Sinclair | BOY COASTER HURT - INAUTO ACCIDENT ‘Two Other Children Injured Wh:zn Struck by Ma- chines. | near his home at 472 Ridge street yes | terday afternoon, James Wilson, colored, 16 years old, was run down by an auto- mobile and suffered serious head injury and internal injuries. A 10-year-old boy and a 5-year-old boy were injured in other traffic accidents reported to police late yesterday. ‘The condition of Wilson was reported as critical today at Freedmen's Hospital. He was struck by an automobile operat- ed by Charles M. Monroe, colored, 20 | years old, of 408 Ridge street. Bennie Lieberman, 10 years old, 2101 Virginia avenue, was cut abdut the | knees and head yesterday afternoon when he was said to have darted from between parked automobiles into the path of a machine driven by Dr. Clayton H. Hixson, 30 years old, of 333 Webster street. Dr. Hixson took the boy to Emergency Hospital, where he was believed out of danger today. The accident occured at Seventh and O streets. Five-year-old Caesar De Angelis of 502 Eighth street southeast was cut about the scalp yesterday afterncon when hit by a truck operated by James W. Chase, colored, 22 years old, of the 300 block of H street southwest. The child was said to have run into the street from between two automobiles parked in the 700 block of E street southeast. Chase took the child to Prov:‘dence Hospital for first-aid treat- men LIEUT. LYMAN S. PERRY SENT TO SCOUTING FORCE ‘Will Perform Secretarial Duties on Staff of Admiral Frank H. Clark. Lieut. Lyman S. Perry of the office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, today was directed to leave.Washing- ton’ shortly to become aide and flag lieutenant on the staff of the com- mander of the Scouting Force. The post of flag lieutenant involves secre- tarial duties. Lieut. Perry will serve with Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, who is to be- comre commander of the Scouting Force about June. Admiral Clark, who will acquire the rank of vice admiral, is now serving as director of fleet training, office of Naval Operations. MRS. CARVER APPOINTED Hoover Orders U. 8. Job for Ord- nance Expert's Widow. By order of President Hoover, Mrs. Wanda C. Carver, 1523 S street south- east, has been appointed a clerk in the Washington Navy Yard, it was learned today. Mrs. Carver, appointed from her for- mer home at Woodbury, N. J., is the widow of William E. Carver, ordnance expert, who was killed last December 30 in an explosion at the naval labora- tory at Bellevue, D. C. Carver had been working with a colored helper in a dugout magazine, destroying condemned mine detonators, when the explosion occurred. The helper was seriously injured. Jeweler, Unaware of Trap, A fireman was overcome yesterday and spent last night recuperating at Emergency Hospital from the effects of tear gas spouted at him by a trick anti-burglar device which, unknown to the new owner, had been installed in an office safe by the previous proprietor of & jewelry store at 434 Ninth street. Pvt. Morris H. Clark, 28 years old, of 1608 Twenty-third street southeast, re- led with other members of No. 14 when Abraham Schiller reported his safe was “on fire.” Chtkn&wthebltkol‘thengnu, mistaking e8CA] vapor for sm¢ by and was oyercome. was removed to TEAR GAS ANTI-BURGLAR DEVICE OVERCOMES FIREMAN IN STORE Summons Help When He Sees “Smoke” Pouring From Safe. Emergency Hospital, where he was be- leved out of danger today. Schiller explained he attempted to open -the safe and a stream of gas es- caped which he believed to be smoke. He hurriedly summoned firemen. A further investigation revealed the gas was o from a small hole drilled in the combination disi of the safe. Schiller was managing the store which had just been acquired by his father, Arthur Schiller, who owns. an- other jewelry in the same block. The ung man said he did not know of Ppresence of the anti-burglar device. | Coasting out of an ice-encrusted alley | Bicentennial Treia Planted WH_S[]N IEAEH[RS, COLLEGE WILL BE REPAIRED FOR USE Drillings Under Abandoned Normal School Are Made to Determine Soil. ERECTED OVER FILLED TIBER CREEK TRIBUTARY Work of Removing Damaged Smokestack Progresses Slowly at Shaw Junior High. The Wilson Teachers' College Build~ ing, at Eleventh and Harvard streets, will not be permanentiy abandoned but will be extensively repaired, it was an- nounced today by S. B. Walsh, assist- ant municipal architect Discovery of progress in old floor and wall cracks February 9 resulted in the evacuation of the building on orders by the Board of Education on the fol- lowing day. Depth drillings were being made this morning to determine the character of the soil beneath the structure so that accurate estimates may be made in the near future on the cosi of necessary repairs. Construction drawings of the building on file at the District Building show that the Wilson Normal School, as the institution was first known, was erected on filled ground over what for- merly had been the bed of a T.ber Creek tributary. The arawings showed further that the foundations of the Wilson building were designed without regard to the original contours cf the land. Hence, the municipal architect's office engineers expect the foundation to require underpinning. Dismantle Smoke Stack. Meanwhile, the District R2pair Shop has resumed its work of removing the storm-twisted upper section of the smoke stack at the Shaw Junior High School. The work of lowering the upper sections of the steel stack, to prevent the possibility of nearly two tons of steel crashing down upon a part of the junior high school, was begun Monday when workmen started erecting a scaf- folding. Garnet C. Wilkerson, first as- sistant superintendent of schools, who ordered the dismissal of the Shaw School until all danger had been re- moved, expected to order the reopen- g of classes there this morning. At the District Building is was an- nounced that the work of getting the threatening steel to earth probably would not be completed until the end oi this week. Meanwhile, Mr. Wilkin- son asserted he would not take the re- sponsibility of reopening the school until then. Jere J. Crane, business manager of the school system, left his office this morning to visit the school, giving assurance to Mr. Wilkinson that he would do everything he could to ac- celerate the work, so that the 1,239 children could resume school. Steel Orders Delayed. ‘The District repair shop anticipates delays in securing steel with which to repair the Shaw Junior High School stack and would not say today how long it would be before the funnel would be in working order. While the Shaw Junior High School student body is out of school entirely, the Wilson Teachers' College students are holding sessions in the old Colum- bia Junior High School Buil at | Seventh and O streets. The college probably will remain in that building, which once housed Central High School, at least for the remainder of the cur- rent school year. Efforts will be made to complete repairs at the Wilson Col- lege Building in time for the reopening next September. el ) HOOVER SEEN GAINING POLITICAL STRENGTH Charles F. Abbott, Director of Steel Construction Institute, Reports on Country Tour. During a conference with Presiden$ Hoover today Charles F. Abbott, execu= tive director of the American Institute of Steel Construction, reported upon his observations on a recent business trip which carried him to virtually every section of the country. Mr. Ab= bott stated that as a result of this trip he finds that the steel construction industry, like most other businesses, has never in the history of the coun- try sunk to such low levels, In such a time as this, he contended, it is but natural that people should be enter= taining doubts and be swayed by cone flicting emotions. opposition to “But the political President Hoover,” Mr. Abbott said as he left the President's office, “is purely a surface condition. Criticism of the administration is clap-trap and does not represent the deep and abiding con- viction of men once they have had an opportunity to analyze their troubles carefully. I believe President Hoover is becoming politically stronger. His reconstruction program was received by the country with a conflict of doubt and hope. Whatever the practical re- sults achieved from it may be, the fact remains that it is indicative of a sin- cere desire to be helpful and that is more than can be said of most of the political maneuvering in evidence today.” ROBBERIES NET $139 IN CASH AND CLOTHES Four Men Are Victims of Housee breakers and Hold-up Men. Burglars and hold-up men obtained & total of 139 in cash and clothing valued at about $25 late yesterday and early mny. according to reports made to pos James C. Adams, 1200 Massachusetts avenue, said he awoke shortly before § o'clock this morning and found & col= ored man, armed with a revolver, lean= ing over his bed. ‘The thief jumped from a window, Adams said. A check-up revealed the ;gx:ber had taken his wallet, containing Charles H. Hite, 507 Fourteenth street southeast, a taxicab driver, said he was held up and robbed of $3 by two men whom he had driven irom Fourth and G streets to Seventh and O streets last night. Arthur Mason, colored, 234 Florida avenue, said $100 was taken from his trousers while he slépt. Tha clothing theft was reported by Frederick L. Mc- Evans, 1721 West Virginia avenue, who ulf d.:m npngu;ll:m was ransackad. ms and Hite gave police descripe ttons gf the thieves. = 0 >