Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1932, Page 17

Washington News HUNT FOR GUNMAN WHO SHOT GROCER IN STORE HOLD-UP Escapes After Terrific Battle | With Aeneas Lane at Seventh and Upshur. TWO OTHER PLACES ROBBED BY BANDITS Attempt to Rifle Man's Pockets on Thirteenth Street Frustrated by Approach of Pedestrian. Every section of the Capital is being searched today for the gunman who wounded Aeneas Lane, proprietor of & grocery at Seventh and Upshur streets, in one of the four hold-ups staged last | night { Although the storekeeper’s assailant | used tactics somewhat similar to those employed by the shoot-and-run gunman | who killed one man and wounded three other persons about two months ago, the police do not believe the latest shooting has any connection with the earlier ones. Nor do they think the other robberies reported last night, to- gether with what is thought to have been an attempted hold-up, were per- petrated by the bandit who wounded Lane. i Shot Four Times. The grocer, shot four times during a battle in which six shots were fired by the robber, is confined to his home with wounds in his arm, abdomen, ear and side. None of the wounds is consid- ered serious. Meanwhile, efforts are being made to link Roy Holt, 26, with the series of shootings in which Paul Riedel, 45- year-old baker, was slain and three other persons, including two high school girls, were wounded. Holt, arrested early Wednesday after a furious strug- gle with Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle, | was viewed last night by six witnesses ! in the earlier shootings, but they failed to identify him. i Lane was alone when the gunman | entered his store. The bandit, described | as shabbily dressed and in need of a| shave, asked for a package of cigarettes. | When the grocer turned to get the cigarettes, the robber drew a .25 caliber automatic and demanded money. “Get it yourself,” Lane retorted, point- ing to the cash drawer. 1 The gunman responded by firing at Lane, the bullet passing through the storekeeper’s right arm. Walking slowly toward the till, the bandit fired again. ‘This shot clipped off the top of Lane's right ear. Leaps at Bandit. ! The grocer leaped headforemost over the counter and the robber let loose another bullet, this one grazing the ‘wounded man’s abdomen. Dicregarding his wounds, Lane rushed at his assailant, attempting to wrest the gun from him. Back and forth they struggled, upsetting chairs and scattering bottles, cans and pack- ages. During the fight, the gunman fired two more shots, one of which grazed the storekeeper's right side. The bandit finally managed to free himself, and ran from the store. However, he paused in the doorway long enough to fire one parting shot, but it missed its mark. The grocer followed ' the robber to the street, where ne collapsed. He was taken to Garfield Hospital, where physicians dressed his wounds and sent him home. | A short time after the storekeeper was shot, Clarence M. Richards, an orderly at Tuberculosis Hospital. was held up at Thirteenth and Upshur streets while walking to work. The bandit, who was armed with a revolver. started to rifle his pockets, Richards said. but fled when another pedestrian approached. At about the same time, Miss Sarah Duffy was nearly knocked down by a man who ran into her in front of her home at 4128 Seventh street, less than a block from Lane's store. Miss Duffy, a Government worker, was about to enter her house, she said, when the man Tan down the street, coming from the direction of Lane's grocery, and grasped her. She broke away and ran into her home, she added, and the man fled, disappearing around the corner of Taylor street. Two Other Hold-ups. ‘The two other hold-ups were staged by a pair of colored robbers who ob- tained a total of $55. Their first victim was Herman Weisblatt, 30, proprietor of a notion store at 654 Nineteenth | 1 sterday accused newspapers of “immensely exaggerating” ac- counts of the battle last Satur- | day between so-called Com- | munist demonstrators and policemen in front of the Japanese embassy, on Massachusetts avenue. The Commissioners’ statement Wwas based on a report of the affair by Brig. | Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintend- ent of palice, and was in reply to a letter of protest from the American Civil Liberties Union. The union let- ter, written by Forrest Bailey, director, of New York, protested against “the use of excessive violence” in prevent- ing the parade and “such incidents as | the beating of a young girl into in- sensibility, the violent felling of nine combatants and the indiscriminate ar- | rest of a number of participants.” The union charged that the Wash- ington police, under the personal di- rection of Gen. Glassford, “appear to have been at least as guilty of dis- orderly and riotous conduct as those whom they made it their business to suppress.” Commissioners’ Letter. The Commissioners’ letter follow: “In reply to your letter of March 29| to the president of the Board of Com- missioners regarding the action of the police in preventing a d°monstration in front of the Japanese embassy ¥y, March 26, 1932, I beg to ad- t the facts in the case are s “The Police Department received in- structions to prevent a demonstration in front of the Japanese embacsy. | ‘The Police Department cerried out s instructions with the least possible violence “The newspaper accounts were im- mensely exaggerated. There were no women struck. There were no heads broken. No one was knocked uncon- scious. The one woman was knocked | to the ground because while struggling with Sergt. Langley - another rioter jumped on Sergt. Langley’s back and lost his balance and fell over on the girl. Newspzper photographers insisted that she remain in a prone position while a photograph was made, yeling: ‘Hold it. don't g=t up! “Tte Police Department examined all | prisoners to determine the exact extent of anv wounds or bruises. The most seriouslv injured wss a_member of tha Police D>partment who had to h2ve five stitches taken on a wound over his eye “Mr. Bernard Ades entered the third precinct while the Police Department were very busv booking a number of prisoners. At this time the officers had not returned from the Japanese em- bassy to make out specific charges, con- sequently they had not been charged. | Mr. Ades was to'd that the police were very busy and to please step outside. | This he refused to do in an obnoxious and disrespectful manner and conse- quently he was ejected. “The attitude of the Police Depart- ment of the District of Columbia is one of sympathy towards those who, in these hard times, are unfortunate. out | of work. or otherwise in distress. Their | policy in all instances is to carry out | their instructions with the least possible | use of force.” | Reporters’ Versions. Three reporters for The Star wit- nessed the rioting last Saturday. Their statements of what occurred Jollow : Reporter No. 1 “I accompanied & group of so-called radicals from the John Reed Club, 1103 New Hampshire avenue, and with them arrived on the scefie after the fighting had started. “When 1 arrived I saw several uni- formed police officers struggling with persons in civilian clothing at scat- tered points near the embassy, and in at least two instances I saw a police- man strike a civillan about the head with his night-stick. I saw one civilian with a large abrasion on his forehead over the eye, from which blood was dripping; he was under arrest. I noted several fresh blood stains on the side- walk. “Three or four young women of the party which I had accompanied carried pasteboard placards; these were wrested | from their hands by policemen; the girls did not resist, but submitted quiet- Iy to arrest. They were not treated roughly. | “The majority of the party with which I had come melted quietly into | the crowd of spectators without taking | part in the demonstration. “Joan Hardy was on the ground when I arrived, and was kicking and strug- gling and screaming. She was lifted to her feet by policemen. At this point | one of the male demonstrators at- tempted to interfere, and was struck on the head by a uniformed police officer {who used either his fist or a black jack. I did not know the officer, nor |in fact was I acquainted with any of the members of the Police Department there. I talked with Officer Martin street northeast. They took $40 in cash | in front of No. 3 precinct station later and a Government check for $12 from his cash register. : A few moments later they walked into the store of Max Freidman, 1601 Kraemer street northeast and covering him and his wife with a revolver ob- | tained $3 from the cash drawer The gunman who shot Lane was de- scribed as about 25 years old. 5 feet 8 inches tall and 145 pounds in weight. He was dark complexioned, wore a soil- ed-looking dark suit, a dark slouch hat . and nc overcoat The bandit who attempted to rob Richards, on the other hand, was about 38, 5 feet 9 inches, and weighed 160 pounds. He, tco, was dark com- plexioned, but wore a neat light suit and light hat. Miss Duffy was able to give only a vague description of the man who grasped her, but she said he “was very tall and weighed about 200 pounds.” FANTASY TO BE GIVEN Drama Guild's Third Offering, “Berkeley Square,” Tonight. Society folk will flock tonight t> the | third offering of the Drama Guild of 2shington for this season, the fantasy “Berkeley Square.” to be presented this evening at Wardman Park Theater. Preceding the “opening night” per- formance, a score or more dinner par- ties have been planned, with a capacity audience scheduled to attend the play. “Berkeley Square” has as its leading character Peter Standish, played by Bernard Barton. Standish discovers an intimate diary of an ancestor of the same name who lived at the close of the eighteenth century. He becomes 50 interested in the diary that in a psychic way he carries himself back to the former generation and relives the life of his ancestor. In addition to Barton, others in the cast include Eleanor Wells and Dorothy Crosby in the roles of the Pettigrew sisters, Helen and Kate, and the fol- lowing: Grace Peters Johnson, Miriam he told me that he had had five stitches itaken in a cut over his eye: the place was covered With gauze and adhesive tape. | At the John Reed Club headquar- ters orders had been given by a man called Bender, one of the organizers of the demonstration, for the demonstra- tors to break through police lines if same had been formed, to resist arrest should police attempt to interfere with the demonstration and to come to the aid of others if police took the aggres- sive. The only attempt to aid some one else that I witnessed was on the part of the man who attempted to help the Hardy girl. He pulled at the arm of the officer who was holding her “My estimate is that there were 50 or more uniformed police officers in the vicinity of the embassy upon my arrival there, and 200 or more specta- | tors. The group with which I arrived | numbered 23, a half dozen or more of | whom were women. There were also | a large number of plain-clothes police officers there, one of whom I saw using a black jack upon a man he was plac- | ing uncer arres Second Reporter’s Statement. Reporter No. 2: “I was standing within 10 feet of Capt. Edward J. Kelly of the third pre- cinct when he informca the marchers they could not parade without & permit Approximately 18 uniformed policemen | were in the advance guerd under Kelly's | command. | “Capt. Kelly asked the girl at the head of the column, later identified as Joan Hardy, if she had a permit to parade. When she replicd in the nega- tive, Capt. Kelly advised her the march- ers could not parade without a permit and stepped aside. “The marchers then walked about 20 feet when Capt. Kelly and a group of officers stepped in front of them. Simul- taneously the other policemen and men I recognized as plainclothesmen jumped | in among the marchers and seized the | | placards they were carrying. “Joan Hardy and the two men head- ing the column with her dashed be- Hilton, Hester Walker Beall, Lenore Rcmney, Caroline McKinley, Helen Bur- ton, James Otis Porter, Eidred Wilson, Murray Sheehan, Maurice Jarvis, Ray Montgomery and Thomas Cahill. ol :“z. a morning room of & hm: een Anne period, wWas prepar by Col. John Otto Johnson and is com- posed of ‘authentic furnishings of that | was struck in the face by a police of- ficer, I did not see wmu— tween the policemen and started toward the embassy. Sergt. John T. Langley and a plainclothesmun grabbed the girl by the arms and attempted to seize the placard she carried. “Kicking and screaming, Miss Hardy attempted to fl{:el off the officers. In the general mel which followed she who | Smith of knocked off his motor cycle and re- | | ceived a skinned knee. | cinct station house, and on our | that looked like placards. Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star WASHINGTON. D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1932. Two Versions of the Riot Commissioners Say Police- Used “Least Possible Violence”—Reporters Declare Officers Used Their Clubs Freely. HE District Commifssioners late | but saw a policeman's fist against her | face and saw her fall to the ground. “During this ercounter other police- | men and plain clothes men, numbering about 75, started fighting the demon- strators. Male companions who at- tempted to assist Miss Hardy were struck by the policemen, some of whom used their nightsticks, -while others used their fists. “During the height of the fighting I saw a marcher break away and start to run across Massachuseits avenue. The police officer in command ordered a motor cycle policeman to “get that man.” The motor cycle policeman charged full speed after the man and ran him down as he darted across the | curbing, striking him from behind with the front wheel of his motor cycle and knocking him under a parked car. The policeman, later identified as Pvt. C. L the Trafic Bureau, Was “Later, I accompanied Brig. Gen. Pel- ham D. Glassford to the third pre- way there I heard him commend Pvt. Smith for his ‘good work. “I also saw one of the marchers struck | by a policeman after he had taken a |that are expected to be permanent. In swing at an officer. The man was struck in the nose and blood was drawn. Three policemen then jumped in to | seize him, among them Gen. Glassford. | by April 1. Glassford grabbed hold of the marcher’s | right arm and twisted it behind his back and up toward his head.” Third Statement. Reporter No. 3 “On arriving at the Japanese em- bassy shortly before 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon, March 26, I questioned Capt. Edward J. Kelly, who was in command. as to how many policemen were on the scene. He informed me that there were approximatly 75 in the basement of thy building. “A few minutes later the first group of marchers arrived near the embassy. They came in taxicabs, among them being a colored boy, William Dorsey, whom police promptly chased from the scene. When he hesitated to leave he was arrested and police told me they would hold him on a charge of vag- rancy. “By that time approximately 150 to 200 had gathered on the west side of Massachusetts avenue, about 150 feet west of the embassy. I noticed a num- ber having paper rolis in their hands At that time 1 was with Capt. Kelly. “When he saw he sent a policeman into the basement of the embassy for 18 policemen. When | this squad arrived Kelly marched them toward the group which had crossed the street and was on the south side- walk. “The parade had started and I no- ticed the marchers advancing and dis- playing several placards. In advance of Kelly were approximately 10 photog: raphers taking pictures. In the fore- | front was a girl who later was identified | as Joan Hardy and a boy identified as Donald E. Plympton “Kelly held up his hands and the marchers came to a stop. The police | commander was very courteous. He | asked the girl if she had a permit to| parade. She informed him it was in the rear. He then asked Who was the 'llelder and she replied, ‘We are all ers.’ “While Kelly was interrcgating the | girl I noticed the police, including sev- | eral men I identified as plainclothes- | men, spreading out around the march- | ers. Kelly stepped back and the march- ers resumed their parade. 'rhey\ marched approximately 20 feet, when I noticed police jumping into the ranks. The first snatched at placards, but a| moment later a free-for-all fight was started “Noticing the police using their clubs freely, I put my police press pass in the band of my hat and attempted to get around to where a young girl and two policemen were struggling, but the re- serves which Lad been called out from the basement blocked my path. I then returned to the head of the column, where I saw several men on the ground and heard the thuds of police clubs crash on skulls “My attention was called to the fight | the girl was making against a 200-pound policeman. I saw several civilians rush toward this spot and I again made an effort to get there. This time I suc- ceeded just as the girl fell to the ground. “I was within five feet of her, but could not reach her because of the fight being waged. I saw pne marcher get within a foot of her when he was club- bed and he fell almost over her body. I pointed out the girl lying on the ground to a photographer and he at- tempted to take a picture of her on the ground between the legs of fighting | men “As I turned from this spot to re- | trace my steps to the foot of the col- umn a policeman advanced toward me with upraised club. I pointed to my press badge and he dropped his clubs and let me pass “After viewing the fight until it prac- tically was under control, I then ran east on Massachusetts avenue in the direction of an apartment house, where I made arrangements to use a tele- phone. Hardly had I gotten underway before another policeman blocked my path with upraised club. I again pointed to my press pass.” ‘I did not see a marcher strike a blow until the fight was well underway SOCIETY HONORS YOST JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 1 () — The Southern Division of the American Physical Education Association yester- day elected Plelding H. (Hurry Up) Yost, director of athletics at the Uni- versity of Michigan, a fellow in physical education. The award was for “superior service, loyal support and constructive contri- butions to the cause of physical educa- tion.” Yost will deliver an address before the convention today. ‘WHITE LINES TO GUIDE TRAFFIC AT CIRCLES | Establishment of Lanes to Do Away With “Pinching” in Rush Hours Decided On as Experiment. A plan designed to smooth the flow of traffic around Washington’s numer- ous circles will be given an experiment at Scott Circle, it was announced to- day at the Department of Vehicles and Traffic. ‘White lines are to be painted in the roadway around the circle and in the roadway of intersecting streets in order to provide lanes in which traffic will be required to move. Names of intersect- ing streets also are to be painted on the roadway for the benefit of tourists who might become confused in negotiating the circle. The lanes are intended primarily to vent “pinching” of traffic as it moves to the circle. This “pinching,” ac- cording to trafic officials, is due to the crowd forming | ITERTATE BUSSE LEAVE CONGESTED SEEIONS OF CITY :All Operators Obey Order of Commission to Quit First Parking Zone. FEW FIND PERMANENT TERMINAL LOCATIONS Carriers Must Abandon All Curb Stoppings in Washington by August 1. The interstate bus business is out of the congested section of the city today. | " All operators have obeyed the order | of the Public Utilities Commission to |get out of the first parking zone, al- | though few of them have found homes | | moving, the operators carried out their individual assurances, given to the com- | mission last week, that they would move | Next Step August 1. | The next step in clearing up the con- gestion of downtown streets by the | Targe interstate cacriers will be August | 1, when they must either get out of the second zone or find terminals in the | second zone where the busses stop on | private property and not at the curb. | From now on no terminal will be al- | lowed in the first zone, whether on pri- | vate property or not. - Members of the commission gazed rom their windows across the street | this morning and noted the absence of | the usual double-parked busses in front | of the two terminals at the corner of | Fourteenth and E streets. Traffic !seemed to flow there much more smoothly. The Short Lines, & trade name for a half a dozen affiliated concerns, have moved from their terminal at 1349 E street to the Metropolitan Hotel, 613 Pennsylvania avenue. The Lincoln and Nevin lines and the Washington-Luray busces will stop at a terminal at the curb of 807 Thirteenth street. To Quit Curb Terminals. The Washington, Marlboro & An- | napolis and Penninsula Transit lines and the Baltimore division of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. have moved to the Annapolis Hotel The Grevhound and Blue Ridge lines already had moved to 1317 New York avenue. Such of these addresses as ! involve curb terminals in the second zone mean that the lines will have to move again August 1, or else estab- lish stopping places off the street for their vehicles in the secogd zone. BOY, HOOKED ON NAIL, | UNABLE T0 FLEE POLICE | Arrested When Suspended Trousers in Attempted Groc- by ery Store Robbery. A nail which hooked his trousers and left him suspended on a lattice par- tition until police reached his side proved the undoing last night of Eu- gene Humphries, 19-year-old colored youth, following 'an attempt to rob a chain’ grocery store at 310 Thirteenth street northeast. | __The youth fled into the basement of Thomas Whinnerey's home, at 312 ‘Thirteenth street northeast, and climbed the partition preparatory to making a dash for the front door and liberty”when his pants caught on the nail Policemen F. H. Hoffman and C. M Hughes of the ninth precinct and De- tective Sergt. Michael J. Dowd placed the boy under arrest. ! Humphries, already under a two-year suspended sentence for housebreaking, | according to police, will be questioned ,Lojay in connection with other recent Isv,are Tobberies. |MCMILLAN PARK TRAFFIC PLAN TO BE CONSIDERED | Senate District Committee to Take | | Up Improvement Between Soldiers’ Home. ‘The proposal to provide a better traf- fic artery between the Soldiers' Hom: | and McMillan Park Reservoir may be acted on by the Senate District Com- mittee at a meeting called for this | afternoon. | The committee has before it a bill | submitted by the District Commissioners | calling for an exchange of strips of land ;bflwem the Soldiers’ Home and the | Reservoir Park to make possible a re- arrangement of the traffic roadway west | of the intersection of First street and Michigan avenue. The committee also will take up this afternoon a bill to amend the iicense | requirements for plumbing and gas fit- |ting in the District, and a bill giving | the Commissioners additional power in | arranging to have construction and re- | pair jobs performed where the labor | cost does not exceed $5,000. Auction by Hour-Glass. The traditional hour-glass method was used at the auction in Longport, England, recently, of the right to levy | tolls for one year over the River Par- rett Bridge at Burrowbridge. Under this method the sand is allowed to run through the glass three times during which the bids are received. The only bid, $2,800, was refused, as the bridge commissioners expected the sale to | realize $5,250. TO BE TRIED OUT drivers attempting to crowd into a sin- gle lane when entering the circle. The Veteran U. S. Employes Leave Service RETIREMENTS HIT BUREAUS AS MONTH ENDS. IVIL SERVICE regulations automatcally brought about the retirement to private life yesterday of veteran employes in various branches of the ‘Government. The majority had passed the retirement age and had been continued in active service under extensions of leave. Upper photo shows four auditors of the General Accounting Office receiving purses of gold from Assistant Controller Richard N. Elliott. Left to right, they are: Samuel R. Lloyd, 1725 Lanier place, 72 years old, an attorney, former newspaper editor and brother of former Representative James T. Lloyd of Missouri; Lafayette B. Eaton, 70,'Fairfax, Va., who has been continuously in Government service for nearly 45 years; George I. Kelley, 72, 4501 Georgia ave- nue, well known local “spelling bee” champion; Paul W. Pope, 73, 3100 Con- necticut avenue, and a Princeton classmate of President Woodrow Wilson. Controller Elliott, last in line, bade them farewell. Lower left is Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin, 1919 G street, member of the Chippewa Indian tribe and an employe of the Indian Bureau for nearly 30 years, and Charles J. Rhoades, commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mrs, Baldwin was retired because of physical disability. Lower right is Michael J. Hennessey, 65, 38 U street, veteran letter carrier, who has been in the postal service 41 years and before that spent six years in the United States Marine Corps. His route covered the 1000 and 1100 blocks of Sixteenth street and the 1600 and 1700 blocks of Rhode Island avenue. He made deliveries from the Connecticut ai~nue substation. —Star Staff Photos. sented,” he declared. practice, it was said, has resulted in a number of minor accidents. The roadway of Scott Circle, it was pointed out, is wide enough for two lanes | of moving traffic without crowding, and | the white lines will divide the roadway 1into two sections. Traffic in the outer |lane approaching the circle will be kept in the outer lane within the circle un- der the new plan, If_the scheme works out, satisfactorily at Scott Circle, it is the'intention of traffic luctzmfltlfl to lg;)pt Muom;fi circles. -0} mof Wi officials be necessary, however, traffic uu?wnmm,unm BARTON AND GROUP' EUESTS AT DINNER President Joins in Tribute to Those Who Have Promoied Capital. Men who have done much to publi- cize Washington throughout the Nation | and abroad were honored by members of the Capital's advertising fraternity at a testimonial banquet held under auspices of the Advertising Club of Washington in the Raleigh Hotel last night. The honored guests were Bruce Bar- ton, author and advertiser. who paid & glowing tribute to the National Capital during a radio program on a Nation- wide hook-up recently, and members of the Executive Committee of the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, which is rounding out its first year of promot- ing and advertising the Capital City. Mr. Barton, in expressing his appre- ciation of the honor tendered him, passed credit to the General Motors Corporation and its executive heads for the opportunity given him to pay a tribute to the National Capital last February 22. It was during the course of the General Motors' “Parade of the States” program that Mr. Barton made his talk Urges Sincerity and Truth. The speaker, a member of the firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn of New York, took occasion last night to urge advertisers to be “sincere, direct and truthful” in their writings. “The period of economic strife,” he said, “has taught people to read more and think more. They are less susceptible to in- sincerity. They are ready to be ap- pealed to honestly.” A. C. Case, chairman of the Execu- tive Committee of the Greater National Capital Committee, in painting a vivid word picture of the intensified activity of the committee during its first year of operation predicted a population of 1,000,000 persons for Greater Washing- ton by 1940 if the committee continues to_enjoy the success of its initial year. He called upon the advertising men to co-operate in the movement to the fullest extent, declaring that in the promotion of the National Capital “no one can be of greater assistance than our advertising friends.” Sees Great Opportunity. Asserting that the next 10 years will present unparalleled opportunity for city advancement here, Mr. Case said: “Washington, always attractive, is now entering an era of new importance. In addition to the classic old attrac- tions, it has many new ones just com- pleted—the $10,000,000 Folger Shakes- peare Library, the $20,000,000 Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Mount Ver- non Highway, the $5,000,000 Union Station Plaza development and others. In addition it has under way a $20 000,000 Federal building program un- precedented in the history of the world. “Washington .is just now taking its place as the greatest world capital.” Speaking enthusiastically of the ‘work of the committee in advertising th Capital, Mr. Case said chance growth by gold rush or other stroke of fortune, cflf; do not “:,' unless backed by group g proper appeal must be chosen, | creased prosperity for every individual in the community. More visitors and increasing population means » more money in circulation, more employment and stimulated trade.” Capper Urges Fair Dear. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, chairman of the Senate District Com- mittee, in declaring that he was keenly interested in the program to make Washington the greatest capital of the world, said he was at the same time | anxious to see the District “get a fair deal” in the allocation of its tax burden. A message from President Hoover, in which the Chief Executive joined in the tribute to Mr. Barton and the Greater | National Capital Committee, was read Senator Capper. Other speakers included Commissioner fLuther H. Reichelderfer and Right Rev. James E. Preeman, Bishop of Washing- ton. Guests at the speakers’ table in- cluded, in addition to Mr. Barton and the Executive Committee of the Trade Board group, Rev. James Shera Mont- gomery, chaplain of the House, who pronounced the invocation; Commis- | sioner Herbert B. Crosby, Assistant En- | gineer Commissioner D. A. Davison, | Assistant Secretary of War Payne, Paul Willard Garrett, head of the public re- | lations department, General Motors Corporation; Thomas R. Shipp; Harry King, president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; George Offutt, president of the Washington Board of Trade; Mark Lansburgh, president of | the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation, and Charles J. Columbus, managing director of the Advertising Club. The Greater National Capital Com- | mittee executive group includes, besides Mr. Case, the following: Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs National Bank; Mr. Offutt, Francis G. Addison, | jr., president of the Security Savings & | Commercial Bank; W. W. Everett, vice | president and general manager of | Woodward & Lothrop Department | Store; Lloyd B. Wilson, president of the | Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.; D. L. Moorman, Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road; E. C. Graham, pigsident of the National Electrical Supply Co.; George Plitt, Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business; Charles W. Morris, real es- tate; Edwin C. Brandenburg, attorney; L. P. McLachlen, president of the Mc- Lachlen Banking Corporation; Robert | J. Cottrell, secretary of the Washing- | ton Board of Trade, and Curtis Hodge: | executive director of the Greater Na- tional Capital Committee. Howard W. Berry, president of the Advertising Club, presided at the | banquet. McKINLEY HIGH SENIOR AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP Wilfred Everson Page to Enroll at Rensselaer Institute, Troy, N. Y. A four-year scholarship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been awarded Wilfred Everson Page, McKinley High School senior, for scholastic achieve- ments during his preparatory course. The scholarship won by young Page, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred C. Page, | of 125 Fourth street southeast, was open to students in high schools and preparatory schools of Maryland and z;.e“rmmc who will enter college this Page will be enrolled in_the civil dej t of Rensselaer at Troy, N. ¥o in. September. — The and that appeal must be properly pre- ! “It is axiomatic | | that the growth of any city means in- | OF SOCIETY CIRGUS Fort Myer Events, Beginning | Today, Include Spectacular, Colorful Variety. Spectacular and colorful as any horse show in America, the 1932 Fort Myer Society Circus began its four-perform- ance career here today. Distinguished by a list of sponsors and box holders including Mrs. Herbert Hoover and Vice President Curtis, the exhibition is scheduled for full presen- tation today at 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. and tomorrow at the same hours. Equestrians of every age from 5 to 50, Cavalry troopers, debutantes, chil- dren of socially and officially prominent families and officers of the fort staff will appear in the 14 events of the “two- a-day” program. Proceeds from the sale of tickets will go to local Army charities and a percentage to the relief of District unemployed Opening with a grand parade of the | performers, the circus encompasses a | series of acts brilllant with super- | horsemanship, military splendor, the charm of gayly-costumed children and good comedy. | ” In addition to the ever exciting rodeo | and gymnastic events, which are said |to be without peer in the country, | several novelties” have been contrived for presentation this year. Troop E, 3d_Cavalry, under direction of Capt | L. K. Truscott, has evolved a rare type | “Hungarian Hussar” jumping ride. The | routine of the 12 hussars in this event includes a “passing jump” through a rectangular in and out obstacle, with two horses approaching the barrier from opposite sides and taking each bar at the same time. Capt. ‘Truscott’s popular “Sheik Ride,” in which, contrary to the gen- eral impression, the music keeps time with the horses and not the horses with the music, also is to be repeated | this _year. “The March of Tempus,” radio pro- gram of Tempus Magazine, is another | newcomer to the circus program. With | the aid of all manner of modern ma- | chinery and noisemaking contrivances | it demonstrates how current events just will stagger on, and on, and on. Children arrayed in jockey's silks appropriate to the inaugural days of Spring appear in the “Paddock Parade" number, while young ladies of Washing- ton and Virginia present “Senoritas From Old Madrid” and ride with the Army officers in “An English Hunt.” A swift Artillery drill of lighted caissons, stunts by Sergt. Smith and his trick pets and other events round out the production. Tickets are available at Fort Myer headquarters. Farmer Boy Prize Poet. Eighteen-year-old ~ Evan _ Gwynfa Evans, of Dolchadda Farm, Llanfach- raeth, Wales, won the Bard‘c Chair for a poem at this year's Dolgellet eisteddfod. When the result was an- nounced the winner was not present, side, and returned with him to the eisteddfod. a reg- imental agjutant of the cadet corps. however, had been carried out befs they arrived. PAGE B—1 DR. ALES HRDLICKA | AWARDED HONOR BY KOBER FOUNDATION Smithsonian Scientist Made Lecturer for 1932 for Research Work. ELLIOTT PROCTOR JOSLIN IS GIVEN YEAR'S MEDAL Harvard Professor Recognized for Advancement in Combating Diabetes Mellitus. For outstanding contributions to progress and achievement in the medi- cal sciences, the 1932 honors of the Kober Foundation are awarded to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical an- thropology of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, and Dr. Elliott Proctor Joslin of Boston, noted authority on diabetes mellitus, it was announced today | through Georgetown University. The awards are made under the terms of a foundation for the promotion of sclentific research in medicine endowed in 1923 by the late Dr. George M. Kober of Washington, who died last year. For more than 40 years dean and later dean emeritus of medicine at Georgetown, Dr. Kober spent the greater part of his life and private fortune in advancing knowledge of the great scourges of hu- man life. He was formerly president of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, president for many years of the local Tuberculosis Association and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. Designated as Lecturer. Dr. Hrdlicka, who is regarded as the world's foremost authority on anthro- pology, was designated as the Kober Foundation lecturer for this year. His selection was made by the Executive Committee of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, of which he is a member. The lecturer last year was Dr. Fred G. Novy, professor of bac- teriology, University of Michigan. The Kober Medal goes to Dr. Joslin, who is clinical professor of medicine at Harvard University. Iz was awcrded to the member of the Association of American Physicians who did most dur- ing the year to advance the cause of medical science. The presentation will be made to Dr. Joslin at the associa- tion’s annual meeting in Atlantic City, N. J., on May 3. Announcement was made at George- town that Dr. Hrdlicka will deliver the first Kober lecture the evening of April 11 at the university before the Medical Society of the District and other scien- tists and medical men. His subject will be “Disease, Medicine and Surgery Among the American Aborigines.” Dr. Hrdlicka in 1926 was awarded the famous Huxley Medal of the Royal An- thropological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He went to London at that time to deliver his scientific ad- dress. Last Summer the Smithsonian scien- tist returned from explorations on islands off the Alaska Peninsula which nt far toward clearing up the paths followed by man in entering and peo- pling the North American Continent. Dr. Hrdlicka’s works on the genesis of man and allled subjects have a wider range than the writings of perhaps any other savant. He has led anthropo- logical expeditions in the remotest cor- ners of the world and is particularly noted for his physiological, medical and anthropological observations among the Indians of North and South America, the Eskimo, American whites and Negroes. Member of Many Societies. Dr. Hrdlicka is a member of the Washington Anthropological ~ Associ- ation, as well as the foremost medical and scientific socleties of the world. | The record of his years of work in ex- ploration and research is too well known | to bear repetition. The Kober Medal last year was awarded to Dr. Henry Sewell, dean emeritus of medicine of the University of Colorado. It was given in recogni- tion of his tuberculosis researches. Dr. Joslin is a graduate of Yale Sheffield Scientific School and also of the Harvard Medical School. He has been a practicing physician and faculty member at Harvard since 1898. Recog- nized as one of the world’s leading authorities on diabetes mellitus, Dr. Joslin has been also a great educator in the management of the disease. His text book on diabetes is a mainstay of both physician and medical student. It was believed that his life work repre- sents a type of sustained and scholarly performance for which Dr. Kober would have been glad to see awarded his annual prize. Dr. Joslin is a distant connection of Theodore Joslin, secretary to President Hoover, who also comes from Boston. THIRD PARTY THREAT MADE BY DRY WOMEN | Mrs. Henry W. Peabody Says 12, 000,000 Will Bolt if Democrats and Republicans Go Wet. ‘Twelve million women will sponsor a third party candidate in November if both major political parties adopt wet platforms, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, prohibitionist, predicted yesterday. “We are not in favor of a third party,” she said. “We do not believe both candidates and platforms will be wet, but if they are we will rise up and defend the Constitution.” As general chairman of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforce- ment, she is preparing actively to spon- sor a “prohibition fair” here late this month During the fair the committee will hold a “Constitutional Convention” to celebrate the Washington Bicentennial and to discuss current political ques- tions in the light of the first Presi- dent’s sayings. PLAY TO BE PRESENTED Kentucky Mountaineer Group to Appear at Powell School. Written by a mountaineer and pre- sented by a group of mountaineer play- ers, “Vengeance Is Mine,” a drama of the Kentucky mountains, will be pre- sented at the Powell Junior High School, Hiatt place and Lamcnt street, at 8 o'clock tonight. The players are students from the Caney Creek Community Center and School at Pippa Pass, Ky., and the playwright is a former student of the The chairing ceremony, ;):em nrfillh lore charge the iRy, school who is now registered at Yale. and his mother, hearing his nom-de-|The presentation is under the auspices plume, went to their mountain farm,|of the Col where her son was reading by the fire- | Center. umbia Heights Community An open forum will be held following curtain. lll.lld H. W. Cunning- arrangements for -