Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1932, Page 17

Wash ington News THEATER OFFICIAL AND WOMAN KILLED IN AUTO GRASHES Basket Ball Coach Also Is Seriously Injured in Mary- land Mishaps. OVER DOZEN OTHERS ARE SLIGHTLY HURT Death of Mount Rainier Resident, 75, as Result of Four-Car Col- lision to Be Probed. The treasurer of the Gayety Theater and a 75-year-old woman were killed and a prominent basket ball coach seri- Drowned Youth - BENJAMIN LESS, Drowned in the Potomac River yester- day despite a friend's efforts to save him. . e 0D OF DROWNED crashes on Maryland roads. More than, & dozen others suffered minor injuries. | Manne Levine, 23, treasurer of the Gayety Theater, lost his life early today when an automobile in which he was riding left the Livingston road and over- turned 1 mile south of the District line in Oxon Hill. Mrs, Bridget O'Connor, 3700 block of Rhode Island avenue, Mount Rainier, | Md, succumbed in Casualty Hospital yesterday several hours after being ad- mitted for injuries sustained in a four- car collision at Beltsville, Md. David Keppel, 28, well known in in- dependent basket ball circles as a player, coach and referee, was in a critical con- | dition at Casualty Hospital after an| automobile accident near Chesapeake | Beach. Found Beside Wreck. ! Levine and a companion, John C.| Fitzgerald, first block of Fifth street northeast, were found unconscious be- side the wreck of their automobile about | 2:30 o'clock this morning by C. P.i O'Brien, 1520 K street, a passing motor- ist, who brought them to Casualty Hos- | pital. Fitzgerald's condition is serious. Officials of the Gayety said Levine | had been treasurer of the theater for the past three years. He made his home | in Baltimore and commuted. He is ! cramps a few YOUTH RECOVERED Benjamin Leiss, 22, Loses Life in River—Police Hunt Nearly 24 Hours. After dragging the Potomac River nearly 24 hours, Harbor Police today recovered the body of Benjamin Leiss, 22, of 515 L streel, near the Highway Bridge at about the same spot where he drowned yesterday. Leiss apparently was seized with minutes after he and ! Irving Holober, 20, of 1116 Seventh he being Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON., D. C, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932. ANALOSTAN ISLAND STUDIES WILL Bt STARTED SHORTLY Architects to Begin Work on Plans for Memorial to Roosevelt. FUNDS FOR PROJECT ARE DECLARED LACKING Program Drawn Up to Build Two Bridges From Virginia Side of River. Studies for the development of Ana- lostan Island as a memorial to Presi- dent Roosevelt, will be made shortly by John Russell Pope of New York, and Frederick Law Olmstead of Brook-' | line, Mass, both distinguished archi- tects, it was ennounced today by the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Congress last week passed a bill pro- viding for acceptance by the Federal Government of the island, which was purchased by the Memorial Association for $364,000 from the Washington Gas Light Co. The bill also provides for renaming the island Roosevelt Island. It awaits the President’s signature. Funds Are Lacking. Funds for the development of the island by the Federal Government are lacking, it was stated today by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d., director of pub- lic buildings and public parks. The two architects will co-operate | with the Commission of Fine Arts and | the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission. | While it is planned to leave Ana- lostan Island in its wild natural state generally, a program has been drawn up to construct two bridges from the Virginia side, to give the public access to it, and to clear certain areas, so that | | | | picnickers might utilize them. The island is wihin the District of and | GO Buates Bark. Pt Tty 10 . - es . Until t] Holober swam to Lis aid. | bridges are constructed. however. the Saved by Boat. public will have to rely on boats to After being dragged under several feach the prospective new park. times, however, Holober, chilled and | Authorizes Survey. stree¢ dived from an abutment of the bridge. He suddenly began to flounder about 100 feet from the bridge, married but has no children Mrs. O'Connor’s death will be probed at an inquest in the Hyattsville police | staticn Thursday night. Five other persons were injured in the seme accident. They were Mist} Julia Stea, 27; Mrs. Marie Fletcher, 33. 2nd Archie Fletcher, 27, all of Mount Rainier; Mrs. Margaret ‘Smith, 40, HOO‘ block of Rhode Island avenue, and | Eclen Teer, 27, 1100 block of Fairmont et. All were taken to Washington s, her's car is reported to have | with zn aut-mobile occupied ral colored people. The two ma- were then struck by two other | bearing New York license plates. coroner’s jury was impaneled yes- by Justice of Peace John A rming, with Frank B. Smith as fore- man. Crash Into Guard Rail Keppel and a companicn were Te- | turning from North Beach last night | when their car crashed into the guard rail of a railway overpass about threc miles this side of Chesapeake Beach. Keppel's companion, John Burke, 45 years old, of the first block of R street northeast, was cut about the face and | body and received a possible fracture | of the ankle and internal injuries. He | ‘was admitted to Emergency Hospital. Passing motorists found the two men | pinned unconscious in the wreckage of | their machine. | Keppel was hurried to Casualty Hos- pital by a passing motorist, C. S. Thur- tell of the 1200 block of Delafield place. Burke was taken to Emergency Hos- pital by Irving Holbrook of 40 K street. + Last season Keppel coached the basket ball team at the Jewish Com- munity Center, and as a member of the #District Board of Approved Officials ref- » er in the District A. A. U. cham- pionships. ! Four motorists suffered minor cuts| about the head and face last night .when two cars in which they were ;'riding careened off the Rockville Pike © and crashed into telephone poles. One i;of the drivers, Sam Silvius of Gaith- i} ersburg, Md., was arrested on a charge “of operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor. Car Strikes Pole. ‘Thomas H. Benton and Earl De Hort, ‘both of Takoma Park, Md., were in- jured in an accident 4 miles south of Rockville when the former lost con- trol of his machine and struck a pole while avoiding a collision with a car| driven by George Nealis of Garrett Park. ] First-aid treatment was administered by Chief Val Wilson of the Rockville Fire Department, after which the men were taken to the office of Dr. C. E. Hawks in Rockville. Neither driver was formally charged last night, but Police- man Paul Watkins of Montgomery County police headquarters, said both would later be booked for reckless riving. < Su?ixus was taken into custody by Policeman Ralph Howard after his au- tomobile left thé Rockville Pike near Middlebrooke and struck a pole. Both the driver and a passenger, Moyer, also of Germantown, were cu by flying glass and were treated by Dr. Stanley Barber of Geithersburg. former was held in $500 bond. ‘Woman Cut About Face. Thrown through the windshield of & car driven by her husband, Mrs. Es- telle Arendell of Sandy Spring, Md, received cuis and bruises of the face when the machine struck a telephone pole near Burtonsville, Md. The hus- band, S. M. Arendell, took the woman to the office of a private physician for al attention. mgl"jl’lcomu Randall, 18, of the 300 block of B street northeast, suffered a pos- sible fracture of the skull, cuts about the face and shock when an automobile in which he was a passenger went off the Marlboro Pike on a turn yesterday. He was admitted to Emergency Hos- pital. | e UNIDENTIFIED BODY IS FOUND IN POTOMAC May Be That of Thomas L. Read- ing, 19, Missing Since Week Ago Yesterday. The body of an unidentified man was found in the Potomac River near the Aqueduct Bridge today by some boys. It was believed the body might be that of Thomas Lyon Reading, 19, of the 600 block of Irving street, who has been missing from his home since ®» week ago yesterday, and whose auto- mobile was found abandoned in the |signed inity of Chain Bridge. mmeybody was taken to the Potomac Boat Club, Thirty-fifth and K streets, and was to be transferred from there to the morgue. The Reading boy is # tsouier of Policeman M. E. Reading. tired, let his friend slip from his grasp. ‘The Roosevelt Memorial Associal Y d s h tion Holober was picked up by a boat is not proposing to advance funds for cruising in the vicinity and taken to|the island’s public improvement, Her- ;:me‘.r,:jnczy ital, Where he Wis|mann Hagedorn, the organization's ireated for exhaustion and shock.| executive secretary, asserted today. The Meanwhile, harbor police and the res- | association has autiorized a topographic cue squad, summoned by passersby, had | survey, which is about completed. Wi artived, and efforts to recover Leiss’|the acsistance of Army engineers. body were begun. Shortly afterward | " pnder the legislation, the association ;r:nél;:rp;» grl\lrckll e (fl;defflg fr"?flb;?f‘ reserves the right to erect a suitable T ecinct, and the crews of = . Doice Bonts wei Lo work R e S Crowds Block Bridge. | Ultimately, Col. Grant wants a suit- Crowds lined both the river bank A able roadway along the easterly shore th | ing space in O street at the intersec- and the bridge until late last night, and fcr more than three hours traffic was of the island, to match the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, now under con- | Boulevard, the bridge near which the rerouted over the new Mount Vernon Sruction, north of K street at Rock Creek. An extra detail of police was called out to ke=p the throng in order. AGENTS RéSUME Leiss came here about six months ago | MARKET lNoU'RY from his home in Pittsburgh. He was | Senate Investigators Back in Wall employed as a clerk in a shoe store in the 1100 block of Seventh street. S Street—Committee Convenes This Week. drowning occurred being closed to all vehicles except busses and street cars. DENIES MORE MARINES WILL GO TO NICARAGUA Navy Department Formulates | il < | By the Associated Press. Plans for Supervising Elections Secret investigators of the Senate in Fall. The Navy Department today officially | denied published reports that 653 | Marines will be sent to Nicaragua to | the books of Wall Street brokerage houses seeking new trails to stock pools and manipulations of the market that cost the public money. Banking Committee went back among | Norah | The | supervise elections this Fall. The department insisted the plans -for overseeing thé balloting are as yet indefinite. They are to be formulated concretely at conferences planned today and tomorrow between the Navy and State Department, officials said. Marine Corps headquarters asserted there are now in Nicaragua the follow- ing forces of United States Marines: Second Brigade, 25 officers and 470 enlisted men; with the Nicaraguan National Guard, 60 officers and 125 enlisted men, and with the =aircraft squadrons, 21’ officers and 224 enlisted men. YALE CLUB FIELD DAY TO BE HELD TOMORROW ‘Annual Banquet to Be Served at Chevy Chase Club Follow- ing Cdntests. | The Yale Club of Washington will hold its annual field day and dinner at the Chevy Chase Club tomorrow. | Stariing at 2 o'clock the members | and guests will play golf, tennis or in- door base ball. The annual banquet will be served in the club house at 7 o'clock. Guests will include F. Moran McConihe of the Princeton Alumni Association; Walter Tuckerman, representing _ Harvard | Alumni, and Proctar L. Dougherty, president of the University Club. A program of entertainment will fol- low thLe dinrer. W. C. Miller, president 1of the club, will preside. Filling Stations Numerous. There is an average of one gasoline station to nearly every mile of road throughout the United States. Meanwhile, the committee members waited until the end of the week for new sessions. Then Willlam A. Gray, their counsel and director of the in- tional disclosures to those which have dragged market activities of prominent traders before the committee. Present plans call for ending of the investigation by June 10, and Gray has been instructed accordingly, but he said it would be impossible to finish some of the more important cases by then. There is a strong dikelihood that if Congress meets after the party conven- tions the inquiry will be continued. THREE MEN ARE SOUGHT BY POLICE IN HOLD-UPS Two White and One Colored Rob- bers Take $9 From Gas Sta- tion and Watchman. | Two white and one colored hold-up men were being sought today, the white | men having held up Willlam Pratt, | manager of a gas station at Georgia avenue and Upshur street and robbed him of $6, while the colored man robbed Paul Edward Dockett, colored watch- man at the plant of the Washington Trucking Co., 617 Rhode Island avenue northeast, of $3. | Pratt reported he was robbed at about 4:45 am, when the two men, in &n automobile, appeared, each displaying a weapon and informing kim they wanted his money. About 1 am. the colored robber climbed through a window at the Rhode Island avenue business house, . where Dockett was reported asleep in the office. The intruder struck the watch- man with a blunt instrument and took ! his money. Dockett was given first-aid at Freedmen's Hospital. * The bees which buzzed into Wash- ington yesterday in a fractured parcel post package, the City Post Office is pleased to announce, weren't stopping here—they were only passing through. The consignment was being tran: ferred in Union Station with other ma: from the South for an Eastern destina- tion when the bees began to swarm over the wood and screen cage. A transfer clerk and his assistant started immediately out of the station with them, toward the bridge leading into the City Post Office. But they were met there by a sort of Hcratius at the Bridge, in the shape of a city post office official, who de- manded to know if the bees were con- to Washington. The transfer clerk was somewhat em- barrassed to it they weren't, but thought the City Post Office might want to repair‘the portable beehive, maybe. He learned, however, there was noth- ing in the postal regulations to that POST OFFICE ESCAPES STINGING AS BEEHIVE CONTINUES TRIP {Regulations Save Local Force When Fractured Parcel Post Package Goes on to Destination. effect. ‘The regulations, the City Post Office spokesman said, virtually barred bees in transit from the local office. The transfer clerk, now only anxious to get the bees out of town, killed a few fugitives with a stick, brushed others back through the crack in their cage and nailed up the box. Then he loaded the bees on a fast train leaving ‘Washington. ‘The post office, it was explained, has been accepting whole colonies of bees only since the regulations were liberal- ized in 1928, although previously “queen bees and her attendants” were admitted for delivery. The department also accepts well be- haved young alligators, lizards, chicks, ducks and turkeys only a day out of the shell, when properly imprisoned and reasonably sure of successful de- livery. “I don’t think anybody got stung on that consignment ,” sald an official of the local office, “but I know the City Post Office didn't!” quiry, has promised to add more sensa- | IFACING DANGER OF PARTIAL SCRAPPING Inspector Roche’s Refusal to Issue Permit Creates Problem. WAR ON REGULAT'ONS IN GENERAL IS FEARED Rejection of Company's Applica- tion Serves as Temporary Stay of Execution. Refusal of Sign Inspector Thomas F. Roche to issue a permit for the erection of rew biliboards on public parking space in tbe vicinity of New York and Florida avenues northeast, it develope today, has thrust back uponsthe Com- missioners responsibility for “scrapping” |a vital section of the sign regulations in favor of the local billboard industry. Lacking specific instructions to issue such a permit—which can be granted only on an order from the District Commissioners—Mr. Roche promptly i turned down the application,when ft was presented by the General Outdoor Advertising Co., which, on more than one occasion, has sought to break down the effectiveness of the new regula- tions. The action serves at least as a temporary stay of execution, meanwhile putting the matter squarely up to the Commissioners. Referred to Maj. Oram. ‘The billboard company had received from the secretary of the Board of Commissioners last week a letter stat- ing that instructicns would be given to permit them to erect at a site a group of new boards to replace old ones serv- |ing as a fence to screen an automobile dump and other unsightly conditions. Mr. Roche, himself, had received no such instructions and the letter was not explicit enough to warrant him to issue a permit. The company Was re- ferred, therefore, to Maj. Paul V. Oram, chief of inspection in the engineer de- partment. Whether the Commissioners would reconsider the whole matter or order | execution of the plan worked out be- tween Maj. Donald A. Davison and the billboa¥ company, remained to be seen today. Most of the billboards sought to be replaced, it was learned today, have been erected for years on public park- tion of the avenues. They are said to cxtend at least 4 or 5 feet over the line. Acquiesce in Plan. Although the Commissioners appar- | ently are aware of this fact, it evidently | did not deter them frcm acquiescing in the plan to have these old boards re- | placed by a new type which would es- ! cape any possibility of condemnation | under the 50 per-cent depreciation clause for years to come. It was said | the old billboard fence was erected some 25 years ago. The question of permitting billboards at all on public parking space has arisen in public interest groups which are seeking to prevent the General Co. from obtaining this privilege as an entering wed%: to undermine the whole billboard regulations. It is contended on their be- half that the Commissioners would be entirely within their legal rights to order the boards down or to have them put back beyond the limit of the public parking epace. Submitted Picture of Gap. ‘The conditions screened or partially screened by the old billboards at the vicinity of New York and Florida ave- nues had a direct influence on the Com- | missioners, it was said, in_agreeing to the plan to erect a new poster panel fence which would be 20 or 25 feet high. As a further inducement it was learned that the billboard company sub- mitted a picture of a wide gap between the billboards in which a wire fence gave a plain view of the automobile | dump behind it. Inquiries developed | that this fence was erected by the bill- | board company itself some six weeks ago after having taken down a number | of old billboards to make way for it. | It was just about that time that the | company began its negotiations with District authorities to be granted a spe- cial privilege under the regulations to erect a new type of latticed billbcards on the site. In authorizing the letter to the bill- board company the Commissioners took precaution to point out that the per- mission to replace old boards with new Ones was not to be applied to any other locations. Public interest groups which are opposed to any further concessions to the billboard industry indicated to- day that the Commissioners’ plan, if finally put through, would be a blow to impartial enforcement of the sign regulations. WILL RECEIVE VIEWS OF MRS. FORTESCUE House Hearing to Get Testimony on Proposed Military Control in Hawaii. | Mrs. Granville Fortescue, one of those convicted in the recent trial at Hono- lulu, is expected to tell the House Ter- ritories Committee tomorrow whether she thinks the islands should be placed under military control. Others scheduled to testify include her husband, Maj. Fortescue; Gen, Douglas MacArthur, Army chief of staff; Admiral W. V. Pratt, chief of naval operations; Secretary Wilbur of gxe Interior Department, and Floyd ibbons, war correspondent. Maj. and Mrs. Fortescue are the par- ents of Mrs. Thalia Massie, who was al- leged to have been attacked in Hawaii. ‘The trial was "greclvihud by the slay- ing of one of the reputed attackers. D. C. DRY CLEANERS HELD TRUST LAW VIOLATORS Firms Which Fix Prices and Divide Territory Found Subject to Prosecution. By the Assoclated Press. Cleaners and dyers in the District of Columbia who by agreement fix prices and divide territory are subject tp prose- cution under the anti-trust law, the Supreme Court today declared. The Atlantic Cleaners and Dyers, Inc.; the Globe Dry Cleaners and Dyers, the Arcade 0., the V¢ Dry Cleaning Co. and a number indivi- duals convicted in the District Supreme Court of violating the anti-trust act contended it did not apply to them bg-l cause they were not in “trade i meaning of BILLBOARD RULES|| 014 Billboards Figure in Sign Law Dispute HOTO shows some of the depreciated billboards, 20 years old or more, at the vicinity of New York and Florida avenues, which the billboard industry seeks to replace with new boards so strongly constructed as to escape condemnation under the regulaf public parking line. itions for years to come. Commissioners to decide definitely. Some of these billboards, it is said, extend cver the Whether the billboard industry is to be granted this privilege is a question for the Districa Carrier of Sign,| §20,000 0BTAINED IN JEWISH DRIVE Campaign Extended for An- other Week by Direction of Chairman Hershfield. Saying His Money Was Swiped, Jailed| FarmerWalked Streets Ad- vertising Losses in Mort- gage Firm’s Failure. Arrested for carrying an advertise- ment on the streets, Ernst Beelitz, 50- Ald for Jews n other lands was urged | Y20l ‘_;‘:’Z‘}gn:‘g:;m:“;e bt last night by distinguished speakers at | yorradeq of his life savings in the a dinner at the Jewish Community Cen- | fajlure of a local real etate mortgage ter in behalf of the $50,000 United concern, refused to post $3 collateral Jewish campaign. ‘mdx;y and v:las jailed at No. 1 precinct # e trial in Police Court. The drive was extended for another PCRpo8irial in Police Court. @ = ar- week by direction of Isidore Hershfield, | rested by Officer A. B. Mann at Four- | chairman. Subscriptions so far have teenth and F streets this morning amid | URGES PRISON BAN ON CRIME STORIES A. H. MacCormick Tells Li- brary Association of Need for Elimination. Giving crime and mystery stories to prisoners is a dangerous practice, and this class of reading has no place in the prison library, Austin H. MacCor- mick, assistant director of the Bureau of Prisons, told members of the Colum- bian Library Association at their an- nual meeting Saturday, in Agriculture Hall, University of Maryland. Withholding the purchzse of such| | considerable excitement. He was taken oo Shoun $a0/000. in for violation of the police regulation | forbidding persons to carry signs or | advertising matter on the streets. | The signs, which hung from his shoulders at front and back, said: “I| was a retired farmer until Edmund D. | Rheem swiped my money. I am now | looking for work to save more money | | for some other crock to try to swipe | from me.” | Beelitz came here last Summer from his farm in Florida, protesting he was penniless and hoped to regain part of | the $15,000 he had invested with the | local concern. He was given work as a handy man by the District Committee on Employment, but was cut off about | three weeks ago when the committee’s | funds ran short. With his wife, he had been living on the second floor of the former site of Hervey's restaurant, at Eleventh street. and Pennsylvania avenue, taking care of the building, he said, and mak- ing & little money cutting grass and carrying circulars. Nahum Sokolow, president of the world Zionist organization, reviewed the achievements of the colonists in Palestine during the past decade and stressed the importance of carrying on the Jewish homeland endeavor so that the country eventually could take care of millions of Jews. “Another Belgium.” Dr. Sokolow, the principal figure in the Jewish homeland enterprise, pre- dicted Palestine eventually would be- come another Belgium. He said it nct only would be self-sustaining, but able 1o lend a helping hand to Jews in other lands. For the time being, he said, funds are needed for the purchase of more land in Palestine and to bring thousands of immigrants to the country from Eastern Europe. Dr. Jehudai Kaufmen of Palestine told of the achievements of the Jewish colonists in reviving the Hebrew lan- guage and creating a Hebrew litera- ture. He stressed the work being done in Mount Scopus University and in other schools. James Marshall of New York, son of i the late Louls Marshall, dwelt on the distressed condition of Eastern European Jews. Despite the depression in this country, he said American Jews are much better off than their brethren in other lands. Judge Julian W. Mack of New York, spoke of the progress he noted in| Palestine on two trips several years apart. Dr. Simon Speaks. Dr. Abram Simon, co-chairman of the drive, and Louis E. Spiegler, ex- ecutive director, also spoke. Dr. Hersh- fleld presided. A non-Jewish body for support of the Jewish homeland project was launched at a reception for Dr. Soko- low in the Mayflower Hotel. Those ac- cepting election as honorary chairmen included Vice President Charles Curtis, Chairman Willlam E. Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, | and Senator Claude A. Swanson, rank- PAGE B—1 DEFICIENCY BIL HEARINGS FORD. . GET UNDER WAY $397,090 Needed for Supple- mental Estimates and Rec- ognized Claims. BRIDE AND WILSON ARE FIRST WITNESSES HEARD Hospital Funds and Relief of Poor Included in Measure Under Byrns' Guidance. | | Hearings were started today before the subcommittee on deficiency of the House Appropriations Committee on estimates for the District of Columbia totaling $397,489.77. This total covered deficiency and supplemental estimates amounting to $234.920.34 and estimates for payment of claims against the Dis- trict 10 a total of $162,169.43. Corporation Counsel ~Bride and George Wilson, in charge of the Wel- fare Department, were the first wit- nesses. The deficiency subcomittee is in charge of Chairman Byrns of Ten- nessce. Other members are Buchanan, Texas; Taylor, Colorado; Ayres, Kan- sas; Arnold, Illinois;: Collins, Missis- sippl; Wood, Indiana; Wason, New Hampshire; Murphy of Ohio, and Hardy of Colerado. Deficiency and supplemental items include: For the coroner's office, 1932, $695. contingent and miscellaneous ex- jpenses, 1930, $37.36; 1931, $4,643.62; 1932, $3,895 (another batch of miscel- laneous and contingent expenses in- clude: 1930, $283.18; 1931, $6,326.65); for Garfield Ho:cpital icolating ward, 1932, $10,000: support of convicts, 1931, $2,566. writs of lunacy, 1931, $1,029.29; miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court, 1931, $15,080.31; 1932, $14.000; provisions of child welfare, reading matter from the public as much | 'MARRIED WORKERS’ ' DISMISSAL ASSAILED | Mrs. Rebeka Greathouse Says Re-| movals Should Be Based on . Proficiency. The proposal to dismiss one or the | other of married couples in Govern- | ment service, regardless of their ability, | was attacked yesterday by Mis. Rebekah | Greathouse, assistant United States at- | | torney, in addressing a meeting of the Government Workers' Council of the National Woman's Party. Mrs. Greathouse held that if hus- bands or wives are to lose their jobs the dismissals should be based upon the value of the service they render. She also pointed out many married ing mincrity member of that com- |couples together do not eamn as much mittee. Senator Swanson cebled his as some single wcrkers. “It would be | acceptance from the Disarmament Con- | just &s logical,” she said, “to cut all| ference at Geneva which he is attend-, Wages in half as to take away 50 per | ing as American delegate. ‘cenc of the income of married couples.” Other officers elected included Sena- = Addresses also were made by Mrs. Iris tor William E. King of Utah, president Calderhead Walker and Elsie Hill. L R S e F W STEVENS SUCCUMBS AT CLUB jr., of New York, vice chairman; Wil- liam Hard, Washington' journalist, sec- Famed Scientist of Bureau of Standards Stricken retary; William R. Hopkins, former Cleveland city manager and capitalist, treasurer, and Senators Royal S. Cope- land, J. Hamilton Lewis, Robert F. Wagner and Reclamation Commissioner Elwood Meads, members of the Execu- ive Committee. POST OFFICE.BUILDING BIDS WILL BE OPENED Offers Will Be Considered Tomor- row—Foundation Near Completion. Carrying forward the public building program in the Federal triangle here, the Treasury Department tomorrow will open bids for the superstructure of the new Post Office Department, which is to be built on Pennsylvania avenue be- tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. The contractor has completed driv- ing piles for the foundation of this structure, and much of the foundation and foundation walls has been poured in concrete. In the meantime the Treasury has under consideration the low bid of the Great Lakes Construction Co. of Chi- cago for construction of the Interstate Commerce. Commission, Government Auditorium and the Department of La- bor buildings. The bid was $8,860,000. HOOVER MOTORS BACK FROM RAPIDAN CAMP By the Assoclated Press. President Hoover returned to the ‘White House today after an early morn- | - ing drive from his mountain retreat on the Rapidan, where he had spent the end. we';‘he President left Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Edgar Rickard of New York at the Rapidan camp. Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher; Rickard and Henry Allen, former Senator from Kansas, rode with the President on_the return trip. tary Stimson and Mrs. Stimson, who were’" {u«it;mover the week end, irned nl A "'i‘;rv Hoover devoted the entire week end to rest. He refrained even from Held on Traffic Charge. ROCKVILLE, Md., May 23 (Special). —William T. Pelflotghz 1200 block Seventeenth street, Washington, D. C., was being held on a charge of while under the influence of following his arrest on the Rock: terday. Yesterday. Dr. Frederick Wiley Stevens, years old, a d led physicist at the Bureau of Standards, was fatally stricken yesterday afternocn while in & wash room at the Cosmos Club, where he lived. In falling Dr. Stevens’ head struck some object which inflicted a deep cut. The scientist was found by a fellow resident of the club, Prof. Albert B. Bibb. Casualty Hospital was notified and Dr. Stevens was pronounced dead by the ambulance physician who re- sponded. Coroner Joseph D. Rogers said death was due to natural causes. Since coming to the Bureau of Stand- ards in 1919, Dr. Stevens has been en- gaged In studying gaseous explosions. The object of this research was to learn more about the behavior of gaseous fuels as they burn in automo- bile and alrcraft cylinders. The difficulty of observing explosions contained in metal cylinders led Dr. Stevens to substitute soap bubbles for the cylinders, so the explosions could be observed and measured and the gasses could expand freely as they burned. By means of thousands of photo- graphs of such explosicns, which could be measured to determine the flame velocities, Dr. Stevens was. able to demonstrate that explosive reactions are subject to certain basic laws of physical chemistry not previously known to apply explosiens. Dr. Stevens’ experiments along these lines woen him recognition both in the United States and abroad. Dr. Stevens was a graduate of the University of Michigan and had studied in the Unjversities of Strassburg, Got- tingen and Leipzig. He is survived by two sons and a daughter living in Arkansas. His body will be sent to Goshen, Ind, for burial, CONSIDER MATTINGLY A subcommittee com) of Senators lican, the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee to.consider the nomination of Robert E. Ma , Who was reappolnted a few dm'u.:'b” Hoover for another term in the Munici- District. early yes- | general rule followed in President | day. as possible and its elimination, as much as possible from pubiic libraries also | was advocated by Mr. MacCormick Dumas Malone, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, said biographers frequently overlook many great men whose lives have been quiet. in their quest for material. He said soldiers offer the best material for bi- ographies. Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Public Library here, and president of the Columbian Library Association, presided at all sessions. Dr. Raymond A. Pearson, president of the University of Maryland, welcomed the delegates. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. John C. PFrench, Johns Hopkins ~ University; vice president, representing the District of Columbia Library Association, Mr. Ralph L. ‘Thompson, librarian, the Mount Pleas- ant branch of the Public Library, Wash- ington, D. C.; vice president, represent- ing the Maryland Library Association, Miss Miriam R. Apple, librarian, Hood College; secretary, Mrs. Raymond P. Hawes, readers’ assistant, Enoch Pratt Pree Library; treasurer, Miss Mabel Colcord, librarian, Bureau of En- tomology, United States Department of Agriculture. Visits to the Northeastern branch of the Public Library here and to the Folger Shakespeare Library preceded an address on the founding of the Folger Library and the building of the collec- tion of Shakespeariana by the late Henry C. Folger, by Willlam Adams Slade, director cf the Folger Library, given in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress. EXTORTION LETTERS SENT THREE ME $1,000 Is Demanded From Each cf Frederick Residents—Hsrm Threatened. By the Acsoclated Press. FREDERICK, Md., May 23.—An ex tortion plot, in which “black-hand” let- ters were written to three prominent Frederick County residents, demanding money or threatening harm, is under investigation by county authorities. The three men who received the let- ters were Harvey S. Wachter, Bloom- field, and Ira 8. Stull, near Bethel, prominent farmers, and Charles M. Rice, Mountaindale storekeeper, who re- sides near Lewistown. The letters, demanding $1,000 from each of the men, had been printed by hand and were unsigned. Instructions to place the money at a certain spot at a designated time were set forth. Frederick County authorities said | that the three cases were the first in- stances cf extortion plots to come to their attention in some time. All the letters were received by the men within the past month. The plots were somewhat similar to letters received in Prederick County, Va., same time ago by a prominent Win- chester man. —_—ty MRS. CHRISTINE MYERS LEAVES $66,000 ESTATE Methodist Home for Aged and Sev- eral Individuals Share in Estate. . Mrs. Christina L. Myers, who died April 26, left an estate valued at $66,000, according to the petition of her executor, Frank C. Ebaugh, for probate of her will. She owned premises at 6 Cypress street, Chevy Chase, Md., and had per- sonal property estimated at $48,000, the | real estate being placed at $16,000. ‘The Methodist Home for the Aged is given $200. Other specific bequests in- clude $3,000 to a brother, Harry R. Lo} , this city; $2,500 to Charles F. Myers, Silver Spring, Md.; $1,000 to Edward Myers, jr., Frederick, Md.; $600 to Charles Treich, Frederick; $1,500 to Melvin G. Myers, Plainfield, N. Y; $1,000 to Harry Lohmann, Bladensburg; $500 to Elizabeth Hammett, this city; $250 to Robert Fahrney, Hyattsville; $500 to Catherine Clay, this city; $250 to Mel- vin Anderson, Bladensburg, and $500 to Marie Reynolds of Mexico. The remaining estate is to be divided equally between Christina G. Ebaugh cf this city and Christina Irving of San Francisco. e OPERA OPENS TONIGHT ‘The Washington luction, “Yeomen of the second prodt Vil Gpen tonight._n “the MeKlicy open e McKinley Auditorfum and continue throughout the week, with the exception of Fri- Civic Opera Co.’s 11932, $23,500; land for Work house and | reformatory, $44.99: National Training School for Boys, 1932, $6.500; medical | charities, 1931," Children’s 'Hospital, 183,728: Central Dispensary and Emer- gency Hospital, $1,464.70; medical char- ities, 1932, Children’s Hospital, $12,600; | Central Dispensary and Emergency Hos- i pital, $14,000, and Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $3,20: Hospital for the Insane, 1931, $5,513.19, and 11932, $76,000; relief of the poor, 1932, 1$2,500; judgments against the District, JSlQ.TIE 96, and audited claims, $2,595.92. 'NEW TRIAL REFUSED IN CAR CRASH SUIT Plea of Excessive Damages for Former Deer Park Womzn Overruled. | Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 23.—Judge W. Calvin Chesnut, in United States Court, overruled the motion for & new | trial in the suit of Mrs. Flota Rice | Hartman, Washington, D, C., formerly | of Deér Park, Md. against the Keeley | Construction Co. of Clarksburg, W. Va., wherein a jury here returned a verdict for $7.000 for the plaintiff. The de- fendant alleged excessive damages. Mrs, Hartman was injured when an automcbile in which she was riding struck a barricade on the Kitzmiller- {Deer Park road, under construction. { Negligence was alleged. Arthur Oswell, Washington, D. C., driver of the car, | was killed, and a suit for $50,000 dam- | ages for his death is pending. ESCAPED PRISONER INJURED IN CRASH Edward Maddox Returned to Fair- fax After Treatment at Alex- andria Hospital. | | | | | i Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.. May 23.—Brought to the Alexandria Hospital Saturday night when a truck, driven by Albert Grimsley of Engleside, Va., overturned on the Richmond Highway near Wood- lawn, Edward Maddox. 23, of Accotink, Va.. passenger on the truck, was identi- fied a few minutes later by Officer Ar- thur Mills of the Fairfax police as one of four men who escaped from the Fairfax County jail two years ago by boring a hole through the jail wall. « After remaining overnight in the hos- pital here for treatment, Maddox was arrested yesterday by Capt. Haywood Durrer and returned to the Fairfax jail. The three men with Maddox at the time of his eccape were caught soon afterward and are in jail. Maddox and Grimsley were found in a semi-con- scious ¢ondition on the road by J. E. Haynes of Essex County, Va., who brought them to the hospital here. COLUMBIA BAPTISTS TO OPEN CONVENTION Reports on Work Done During Year to Be Read at Fifty- Fifth Session. ‘The fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches will open tomorrow morning in Calvary Baptist Church and con- tinue through Wednesday. Reports of work done during the past year will be rendered and speak- | ers from other sections of the country | heard. Among these are Rev. Dr. Allyn | K. Foster of Chicago, C. C. Tillinghast, headmaster at the Horace-Mann School |for Boys of Columbia University; Rev. E. H. Cressy, missionary to China and j secretary of the Council of Higher | Education of the Christian Educational | Association, and Mrs. Cressy, who has (done missionary work in China with her husband for many years. { W. W. Everett is moderator of the association. Other officers include Rev. Dr. Grove G. Johnson, vice moderator; S. G. Nottingham, clerk, and George B. Bryan, treasurer. PROBE MAN’S DEATH An autopsy was to be performed today to determine the cause of the death yesterday in Oll.unfer Hospital of Carl Piazza, 85, who fell down a flight of steps Saturday in his home in the 1700 block of Ncrth Capitol street. At first Mr. Piazza was thought to be not seriously hurt, but was taken to the hospital later when he com- g:lnul of pains. Detectives sald Mr. 7za had been suffering from & serious stomach allmeat, | ( | | i