Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1932, Page 17

he Zp ening Sfar WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION [ Society and General WASHINGTON, D. C. SINGER KILLED AND FIANCE HURT ON WEDDING TRIP Miss Beverly 0'Brien Fataily Injured in Auto Crash at Indianapolis. ANOTHER WASHINGTON COUPLE IN SMASH-UP Bert Bagrenoff, G. W. U. Foot Ball Player, Planned Marriage in West. Miss Wa Beverly O'Brien, 23-year-old ton singer, was kiiled and three other residents of the Capital—includ- ing her fiance, Bert Bagrancff, 25, George Washing playe erd: head-on automobile crash that ended what was to Lave been a wedding trip near Indianapolis. Besides Bagranoff, who is an empl of the American Automobile Asso ation, those hurt in the smash-up were Miss Lucille Leckie, 20, of 3704 S street, a clerk in the Department of Com- merce, and Kenneth Broderick, 23. of 3105 Garfield street. who holds a sim- flar position in the District tax col- lector’s office. The two couples, vacations Saturdey, St. Louis home of B: Planned Surprise Marriage. Josephine Noel. 1408 New a friend of Miss y the counle planned n St. Louis and then s parents who live in who began their anoff's parents. Kans.. last July, and njured, ac- Topel were seriously Indianapolis, while Broderick es: { with minor injuries. Broderick at the steering wheel, was struck by a machine driven . of Indian lood tests revealed O'Connor cated, according to Deputy | ner E. R. Wilson. He was arrested charge of involunta slaughter. i Miss O'Brien, a graduate of the Uni- v . studied und T- hemz with an and made and Mrs. Joseph ard aunt. e. 1633 P n A local instructor was Marjorie Lowe. Sang in “The Gondolicrs.” Both Miss O'Brien and Bagrancfl the Gilbert and Sullivan opera e Condoliers,” presented at the sco Theater last Spring, the former aking one of the leading roles. Ske was the only Washington contralto to win a place in the last Atwater Kent radio audition test. She gave her Jast concert at the Arts Club less than two months ago. Bagranoff lives at the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity House, 1714 Rhode Island avenue. He sang in the George Wash- ington University Glee Club ss Leckie was discharged from tkic Hoespital about three weeks ter undergoing &n apvendicitis operaticn. Her brother. Melville Leckie, an employe of the W. W. Chambers Co.. undertakers, left for Indianapolis im- mediately after receiving word of the M Broderick, whose parents are dead. lived with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lees. RAIL FREIGHT INFLUX DUE IN WASHINGTON Materials for Federal Building Pro- gram Will Afford Consider- able Business. ‘The immediate future looks promis- ing for an appreciable influx of rail- road business into the National Capi- tal, J. G. Nettleton, Washington rcpre- sentative of the Pennsylvania Railroad, told The Star ?od y. The carriers com- ing into the city, he said, will share in the big busin to be created by the Government building program here. Some 6,500 carloads of limestone and granite are scheduled to come into Washington within the next two years, he pointed out. There will be at least 6.000 carloads of other material, steel, interior trim and other construction supplies, Nettleton said. ‘The railroad executive asserted that about 98 per cent of this material will come in from the North. That coming from_Southern points will be shioped into Potomac Yards. Some 250 carloads of stone will reach ‘Washington for the interior of the De- partment of Justice alone, he said. Some granite wil be brought in from the South, steel will arive from the Pittsburgh district and limestone will be transported from Indiana and Rock- wood. Ala Granite will arrive here for the Gov- ernment building_program from New England and the South. In addition to the railroad business thus created there will be employment given in trucking and other lines incident to the con- struction work. SQUAD CHANGES MADE Inspector Burke Announces Shift of Warfield and Sullivan. An order of Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, promulgated several days ago, announcing changes in rquads in his command, became ef- fective today. Detective Charles E. Warfield became head of the clcthing and jewelry squad, other members being J. E. Kane, E. L. Baker, R. J. Maghan, jr.; N. G. Thayer and C. A. Berry. Inspector Burke designated Detective Thomas Sullivan to head the burglary squad. others in the squad being W. J Du Busky, C. H. Trammell and A. T. Fihelly. KADING'S AUTO STOLEN Pelice Seckf(r:ar Belnging to Wis- consin Member. Police today were searching for the automobile of Representative Charles A. Kading of Wisconsin, which was stolen from the vicinity of the House Office Building some time Saturday. Representative Kading parked the machine, a large coupe bearing District license No. 47 and a congressional tag, on B street near the House Office Buiid- ing Saturday noon. He found the car had been stelen when he returned for 1 chout midnight Saturday. piversity foot ball | in al were bound for the | noted singer, in Chi- | She came to the Capital in June, | et northeast. | Mr. | Miss Beverly O'Brien. Washington Bert Bagranofl. Gi LOST BY COMPANY {Firm Unable to Furnish Bond for I. C. C. and Labor Building. | { | < {new Interstate Commerce Ccmmission land Labor Department Building has cen withdrawn from the Great Lakes Construction Co. of Chicago, which was unable to furnish a surety bond, and awarded Jamos Stewart & Co. of New York City, Treasury Department officials announced today. The original contract for construc- {ticn of this unit of the Government's building program was awarded the Chicago concern last May 28, on a low bid of $8.846.000. The second lowest bid, submitted by Stewart & Co., was $9.081.000, and it is for this figure the building will now bz constructed. Contract Revoked. It was said at the Treasury Depart- ment that the Great Lakes Construc- tion Co.. under the terms of the con- | tract, was required to furnish a per- | formance bond within 10 days after the letting of the contract. When | they had failed to do this by Saturday afterncon it was decided to revoke the | contract and give it to the second low- | est bi It was pointed out that the Gov- ernment is now paying about $200.000 | a year rent for the quarters occupied v~ the Commerce Commission and | Labor Department and that an early | completion of the new building is im- i portent in order to save this rent money. | Heavy Bond Required. | Tt was said the usual performance bond is about one-half the price stip- ulat:d in the contract. Treasury Da- partment officials said they did n | know why the Chicago concern ha been unable to raise the bond. It was said the company has done construc- tion work for the Government in De- troit and Atlanta satisfactorily. The new ding is to be erected along Constitution avenue between Twelith ang Fourteenth streets. | THREE U. S. UNITS MOVING QUARTERS Government Expected to Save Nearly $100,000 Annual Rental by Changes. The Public Buildings Commission sees a_saving of nearly $100,000 in { Uncle Sam’s rent bill here in the mov- | Ing of three Government units today. | _The United States Storage Co. Is shifting the Federal Radio Commission from the National Press Building, at Fourteenth and F streets, into the In- terior Department. saving of $34.000 annually in rent, of- ficials of th> Public Buildings Commis- sion £aid. The Federal Radio Commis- sion formerly occupied the Interior De- partment Buiiding. The Federal Board for Vocational Education is being moved from the Lenox Building, Fifteenth and L streets. into the Architects' Building, 1800 street. This will save $30,000. Voluminous files are being moved from the Merchants' Transfer & Storage Co. warehouse at 920 E street, to the old Patent Office Building, at Ninth and F streets. These files belong to the General Accounting Office and the Treasury Department and their re- moval will result in a saving of $12,500. S “Mother” of Bonus Army and One of {Washtub Banjo Toted to New York License Office by “Him.” l Mrs. Mary Ewing of Portland, Oreg., who came here to look for work at swimming pools as a floating banjo | player, and later concluced to style { hersclf “the mother of the Bonus Ex- peditionary Forces,” turned up at the |New York City Hall yesterday with a marriage license for herself and her “color guard,” Adam Landles, 40. The bride-to-be wore a battered plug hat and a sash with her “mother” title on it around her shoulders. The pros- pective groom carriea his intended’s banjo, which Mrs. Ewing had manu- factured from an old metal wash tub. Both gave the Washington head- quarters of the bonus army as their home address. They said they ex- pected to be married today. Mrs. Ewing, who is 45 years old, hitch-hiked across the country several weeks ago and on her arrival here set out in search of swimming pools, which might add her to their amusement pro- gram. Her rpecialty was playing her wachtub benio and mouth harp while floating on her back in swipming pools. ‘The contract for construction of the erough nickels and dimes to purchase | singer, who lost her life, and her fiance, ge Washington University athlete, who was injured in an automobile smash-up near Indianapolis yesterday. —Harris-Ewing and Casson Photos. | FEDERAL CONTRACT MANUNDERINQUIRY PFROM TRAN INLEA 'Gallinger Mental Patient De- | clares Fear Gang Would Get Him Prompted Act. Joseph Fallon, 29, of Jersey City, was being held for tal cbservation in Gallinger Hospital today as a result of 2 leap he made from a speeding train yesterday, in w! he described as an attempt to escape a “gang” plotting to murder him and rob him of his life’ savings. Fallon, who said he was bound for ew Orleans. despite the fact the only railroad ticket found on his person was for a return trip to New York City, Jumped from the observation platform of a Richmond, Fredericksburg & Po- tomac railroad train between dria and the Virginia Capital His le2p was seen by other passen- gers, who notified members of the train’s crew. The train was stopped | and, after 12 had be tance, Fallon was found lying uncon- scious beside the tracks. A northbound train was flagged, Fal- lon was placed aboard it and returned to Union Station. After being first aid there, he was transferred to Gallinger, where he was found to be suffering from severe cuts and possible internal injuries. Questioned by railroad police and first precinct detectives, Fallon declared fear “the gang would soon get me” prompted him to jump from the train. He sam[ he had been trying to elude the “gang” for several days, but the men had fol- lowed him aboard the train. Despite his statement the ‘“gang’ plann=d to steal his life savings, he had enly $65.94, according to first pre- cinct police. He was well dressed, how- ever, and carried expensive baggage. A ‘search of his eflects revealed no ticket to New Orleans, and police be- ieve he suddenly decided to go to the Lousiana city instead of returning to New York and boarded the train with- out purchasing a ticket. He will be held until his story is thoroughly investigated, police said. THREE ARE BURNED AS HEATER EXPLODES Man and Son and Visitor in Car- mody Road Home Are Treated at Emergency. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SEAT PLEASANT, Md. June 20.— Three persons were burned yesterday when a hot-water heater is said to have exploded in the Carmody road home of | Charles Shaffer, 54 years old. They were taken to Emergency Hospital, | Washington, by neighbors. | Shaffer and his 8-year-old son Nor- |man were treated for burns about the |face, arms and legs and admitted to the Lospital. Willie Herson, 26, a visitor at This means a|the Shaffer home, received treatment ; for burns about the face and hands and went home. LHSE CHURCHES T0 UNITE </ PRAYERS FOR RELIEF f Five States Will Ob- serve Sunday Set Aside at Methodist Session. Ministers o | Special Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, June 20.—Prayers will | be offered in five States Sunday for | relief from distress, acccrding to Rev. |1and Annual Conference of the Metho- dist Protestant Church. Letters have been sent to the various ministers of the conference asking that arrangements be made for a day of 1 prayer in their churches. Dr. Smith is | the originator of the plan, which was indorsed at Pocomoke City at the recent Annual Conference. Pastors will ca!l groups of people to- gether in church, he explained, as well as in their homes, and will join with them in prayer. The day will be observed in the five States embraced by the conference, in- | cluding Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, {pflm of New Jersey, the District of Columbia and Virginia. Dr. Smith said he did not know of any other group observing such a day. | ELECTED GRAND KNIGHT |L. M. McCormack Is Honored by Martinsburg K. of C. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., June 20.— |Lawrence M. McCormack was elected grand knight of Martinsburg Council, No. 1169, Knights of Columbus, at the annual election last night. Other cers named were: Deputy, Edward Al- | derton; recorder, Raymond Creque; | treasurer, Joseph Leporini; chancellor, Owen Welsh; warden, Joseph Haas; | chaplain, th: Rev. F. P. Lackey; advo- !cate, A. C. Mclntire; trustees, Samuel Breth, Raymond Hilbert and James . O'Rourke. Alexan- | backed some dis- | given | | Dr. L. B. Smith, president of the Mary- . D. C, RETAIL CREDIT MEN 10 OPEN- SESSION; 150 DELEGATES DUE Optimism Bared as Visitors Arrive for Conference Start- ing Tomorrow. STABILIZED CONDITIONS PICTURED BY LEADERS Collection Percentages Higher Over U. S., They Aver—Prominent Speakers Listed on Program. Retail credit men from all sections of the United States will discuss the coun- | try's retail credit problems 2t the first | | business session here tomorrow of the | twentieth annual conventio: N | expected approximately 2,000 delegates, | the convention’s r tion numbered at noon only about 250. It was esti- mated that when the retailers begin their discussions there will be about| 750 delegates in attendance. The s sions, which will last through Friday | will be held at the Mayfiower Hotel. Heartened by Conditions, Notwithstanding the adverse nature | of some cf the data now in the hand: | cf convention cfficials, retail credit co ditions in department, f elry, men's clothing, | specialties and electric appliance stores id by them to pr t a bright pict; alongside of problems confronting the Nation during this de- © MONDAY, | publicans to suit pressed period | As an explanation of the compara- stabil ccndition of retail , officials said the credit manage have adopted them:e.ves to the siiua- ed tion and have become increasingly effi- ) said. in keep- tages hicher, re- dize perc s lower, bad debt losses lower and fraudulent buying and losses from fraudulent checks lower than they would other- wise have been i Custemcrs on the whole were report- | ed this year to b2 c ung to meet | 5 in manner purchases on installments in | turned mer ew and approximatel; cash sales as formerly, Visit Unknown's Tomb. i cial | president, znd Mr e | eral conventicn chai ath {on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldi Members of the Boaid of Directors v | guests at noon of the Ascociated Retail Credit Men of Washington at I\:rghmn. T. Luther Reichelderfer, president of the Board of District Commissioners, | will officially open the business session tomorrow. Other speakers on the pro- | gram will be Assistant Secretary of | Commerce Julius Klein, David J. Wood- | {lock of St. Louis, manager-treasurer of | the association: W. W. Everett, vice | president of Woodward & Lothrop de. partment store: Henry J. Allen, essis ant to the president of the Reconstrur- tion Finance Corporation, and John D. 1 Reilly, viea president of e | American Natioral Bank & Kes, g . laid a wre: a l Co. 'MYSTERY SHOOTING CLUES ARE SOUGHT Police Believe Couple in Parked Car Wounded by Men Who Knew Them. Hyattsville police today continued | their investigation into the apparently unprovoked shooting Saturday night of a young couple paried in an automobile on Sargent road, across the District line. | Wesley Owens, 18, of 58 U street, and | Sue Whittington, 16, of 330 Bryant ' street northeast, were wounded by the | same bullet, fired by one of two men | who pulled alongside their car in a coupe and ordered them out on the road. Owens, the more seriously Wound- ed, was shot through the neck, the bul- let passing through and lodging ‘n the shoulder of his young companion. At Sibley Hospital, where they were | taken for “treatment. both told police they could not recognize their assail- ants because of the blinding headlight: but said the men were “well dressed.” The first theory, that the ccuple had | been shot by nervous bandits, has been supplanted by the belief that they were shot by some cne who knew either Owens or Miss Whittington or both. Owens’ condition was reported *good” | at the hospital. Miss Whittington was | released after treatment night. POLICEMEN RECEIVE FIRST OF NEW SHIRTS Men Not to Don Summer Uniforms Until All Members Have Been Equipped. Saturday | | The first gray shirts, which are to become the official uniform of the | metropolitan police in hot weather in| place of uniform coats, were being is- sued today. Some 1,500, or approximately a fourth of the total to be issued, were being given out to the men at several pre- cinets. The remainder of the shirts are expected to be received here and issued some time this week. Each mem- ber of the force is to receive six. No one will wear the shirts, however, until every member of the department has been equipped with them, Assist. Supt. of Police L. I. H. Edwards said. _ The order for the shirts to be worn in place of coats probably will be issued the first hot day after all members of thfd force have been equipped, Edwards said. the same proportion to |5 | ground, PLANE CRASH VICTIM BURIED IN ARLINGTON Funeral services were held today for Lieut. Comdr. Herbert C. Rodd, U. S. N, killed in an airplane crash at Hamp- ton Roads, Va., on Wednesday. Follow- ing services this afternoon in the Fort Myer, Va., chapel, burial was in Arling- ton National Cemetery, with Capt. Syd- ney K. Evans, chief of the Corps of Chaplains of the Navy, officiating. Honorary pallbearers were Lieut. Comdrs. A. W. Radford, H. B. Sallada and R. S, Barnaby, and Lieuts. Rutledge Irvine, J. D. Barner and George H. De Baun of the Navy, and Capt. Fran- cis E. Pierce of th®Marines, Y JUNE 20, REPUBLIANS PLAN FILFLLWENT SOON OF DRY LA PLAN Will Introduce Proposed Con- stitutional Amendments to Carry Out Pledge. FINAL ACTION UNLIKELY BEFORE NEXT SESSION Vote by State Conventions May Be Deferred Until After January, 1935. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Republican members cf Congress are ning to introduce at once preposed itutional amendments to carry out purpcses of the Rep on plank adopted by enticn at Chicago. While, cf course, no action is con- templited at this sessicn. since it wil adjourn before the end of the presert week, the move is expected to show pl co the b; ou ublicen prohi- the national c clearly the determination of the Re- | ir acti-n to the word. The step is being urged by those who feel that a platform plank, with the usual excess verbiage, doss not read as a proposed amendment would. It is desired to express, first, the idea of repeal and, second, the substitute, which | wculd go into effect immediately un-n the acceptance of the whole resolution by two-thirds of the Congress and three- fourths of tke States, Agree on Conventions. All sides are agreed that the ratifica- tion shall be State conventions, del- s to which shall be clo~ted at elec- paate and distinct from any ctions. Provision for such elec- s will have to be made by Stats this, of course. means that S cgislatures will have to meet and pass upon the questien of how del- egates to the State conventions shall be apportioned and elected Under ordinary circumstances, the Legislatures of about 40 States meet in January, 1933, and mast of them do meet again until Janu Thus, unless speciel sessions s doubtful whether the proposed sub- ute amendment or the repeal of the iteenth amendment alone could p v be acted upon until January, 193 if special sessicns should be call would become necessary for every State to pass legiclation arranging for t ate conventions. en State 2tures desizing to block the pas- of the new amendment could sim- plv delay action on laws to bring about State contentions. Could Force State Action. Already there is talk of how such a Eight Barrels of Alleged Beer Also juay Lyeth, 3 situation” would be met and ublican leaders tion law enforcement containing pro- visions declaring that no part of such funds shall be used to enforce the law in States that have not passed Jaws to bring into effect machinery for the call- ing of State conventions. As a matter of fact, the drys have many moves up their slceves to delay n. and this is cne cf the reasons the wet Democrats are getting | ready to put into their platform a pro- posal thai Congress shall immediately modify the Volstead act—which is pos- sible by simple majority vote—and thus permit a higher alcoholic content in beverages and legalize the sale of light wines and beer. The Democrats would p d tcday that Con- | gress could force dry States to act by | passing apprepriation bills for prohibi- | 1932. PAGE B—1 ct Court of Appeals, in an | | teday held that death by sunstroke is | an accidental injury, and arose “out of and in the course of employment™” when a laborer was working in the open air in loading a truck with old curbing. The court directed the District Suprem: Court to modify its previous decisicn by granting a mandatory injunction against Robert J. Hoage, deputy commissioner |of the United States Employes’ Com- | pensation Commission. Emma Burris had filed an application with the commission following the death | of her husbend, who had been working on Harverd street when the tem are was 92 degrees and thers was no shade. “BOOSTERS” LAND INEARLY NORNING | Twenty-second Annual Out- First Presentation Tomorrow ing of Merchants and Man- | [ ufacturers Success. | | The twenty-second annual Wash- incton “booster” outing cf the Mer- | chants and Manufacturers’ Association, | which took a party of 110 for a two- | day cruse of the Chesapeake Bay and | Potomac River, came to its ending when the Steamer Scutnland docked |at its wharf shortly before scheduled | time. at 6:45 am. Abed at a r-asonable hour the majority merning an the gangpl ady to disembark wher was shoved aboard. Mark Lansburgh, president of the assceiation, presented a five-recl mo- tion picture drama in the salon dur- ing an informal entertainment Yesterday afternoon, after leaving Old Point Comfort, the Southland steamed out to just beycnd the capes 5 ight of the Atlantic, and then siarted the homeward trip. Dr. M. G. Gibbs was general man in charge of arrong n Lewis A. Payne as vice chairman scisted by James E. Coli hairman; Cha ; Bert L. Olmsted : Edward D. Shaw, executive secretary of the assoclation. | SIX PROMINENT MEN TAKEN BY DRY AGENTS | 1 chair- ts, with They | Are Intercepted Near Hagerstown. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | HAGERSTOWN. Md., June 20— Eight barrels of alleged beer were inter- cepted and six prominent men _werc | cited to appear before United States | Commissioner D. Angle Wolfinger by five dry agents. George R. Danforth, agent in charge said he learned of the proposed delivery of a consignment of beer to the Weller club house, along the Potomac River. The agents stationed themselves the highway and seized it. | A number of prominent citizens were cited, including Hiram B. Wantz, Clar- WIDOW OF SUNSTOKE VICTIM AWARDED DAMAGES IN DEATH Court of Appeals Reverses Decision, Holding Character of Work Was Fatal. Her application was rejected on the ce D. Lawrence Groner, | theory that the cause of the injury was | the abnormal heat to which the gencral public was subjected and not to uny special hazard due to increased heat resulting from the man's occupation The lower cour: held that the d-ath arose out of the employment because the general public was not subjected to the arduous charzacter of work in which Burris was engaged, buz declined to grant the mandatory injunction The appellate court decided that | death by sunstrc-e comes uncer the provisions of the irsurance policy issued by the Fidelity ¢- Casualty Co. of York to the empi: T of Burris. rects that the commisstoner award com- pensaticn. FINALPAGEANT PLANS AREMADE on Washington Monument Groung's. the hold the final re- will be in tomorrow ¥ nights of the “The Great e cn the Was] inds under With Bic An ingt pagea to take pl Bicent Georg pr: performances. co-0p de up of h withy ro favor: 1 o 1 en under the of a Moore F Maud Howell Smith, Schreiner and William F. Baker, sisted by Miss M 1 Van Dy N. K. Gardner. James K. Knudson, Miss s Martha Fishe! F. K. Wiliiamson. Miss Ruth blom. Miss Ruth stance Duyn, M Elizabe; Pritchard and Mrs. T. P. O'Hara. Chairman of Marshals. Mrs. Allen Davis of the Community Cer rtment will be chairman of assisted by Mrs. George Irv- F. K. Espenschied and Mrs. eton. Among the for the prologue, epilogue end historic ef s are Paul Stou! ger, Miss Judson McMa Alta Patferson, Miss Lo Miss Grace Moran, Miss M Berrice Anderson, a Jenkins, Espenschied, Mrs. H. J. Cot Malcolm Davis, Mrs. Florence Hooj then go to the country in the coming ence R. Young, George Huber, Jesse S. Mrs. Holland, Irvine Irving, Miss ELL campaign and argue that the Repub- | lican plank takes too long to get rid of prohibition and that the Democratic | plank proposes a remedy that can take | effect next December, if Congress is so inclined, and certainly in the next Con- gress, which is to be elected in the Au- tumn of this year and could be called into special session in the Spring of 1933 by the newly elected Presicent. (Coprrizht, 1932)) LIGHTNING BOLT GIVES FREAKISH PERFORMANCE Hits Tree Near Berlin, Pa., Fol- lows Fence, Splinters Post and Plows Up Ground. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. BERLIN, Pa., June 20.—Edward Har- mon tells of the freakish action of a bolt of lightning during a storm Friday. While seated on the porch of his home with his father-in-law, Harmon said a bolt of lightning struck a sugar maple tree about 25 feet distant, left the tree about 3 feet from the ground and fol- Berre, Kerl Young and Gus Washing- ton. colored Several barrels of crabs | were released. Four of the men were /in an escort car. | 'RULING ON VETERAN REVERSED BY COURT Administration Wins Appeal Un- der Decision by Justice | D. L. Groner. The Veterans' Administration today won a reversal in the District Court of | Appeals of a judgment agiinst it in favor of Filodemo G. Balance, in the District Supreme Court. In an opinion by Justice D. Lawrence Groner, the court held the United States was not | bound by the summary of facts pre-| | sented by the commissioner dcslx‘nated' | by the District Supreme Court when it | | contained If-serving” declarations | made by the soldier to doctors concern- ing his condition. To preclude objection to this summary, the court said, would | be “to entirely ignore the hearsay rule, and would open the door to fraud in Miss Doroth: Miss Ruth s M. Jack Bergling, Miss Harris, Riess, Mrs. Hermzn P. Rie: Hartung, Miss Katrina Abbe. M garet Abbe, Miss Sara Potbury, Jane Esch, Miss Marian Esch, Mrs. William C. Dow Miss Claflin, Miss Reid, Mrs. Carrie J. Knox, Mrs. H. C. Lease, Mrs. W. H. Weyrich, Arthur Seabright, Lea Seab: right, George | 0.(. HADS 0 AT ONGHANRES I S RULES TONORRON Proposed Amendments to New Regulations Will Be Presented. {COMMITTEE WILL OFFER ITS RECOMMENDATIONS « — Y _!Adverse Decision Against Labor Picketing of Business Establish- ments Is Indicated. A number of propesed am to the new muni ons are t the Distr ict Bu f th Adoption o ed e (2 Oral ted by polici e regula- on opposing the pro- members of the ded its adop- to class legislation, ng action the Commissioners 1 of the co 1 it has been a permit cost of nittee fa- the change. Ancther Change Favored. height, ! k tal area of r less than 100 square of another section i not exceeding inches may be posted in win- occupied i estab) quirement of a siens ‘o be displayved for 30 days and which would 0 current matters. EX-UNION CHIEF PLACED ON TRIAL IN SHORTAGE of Dave Evans, Fcrmer Secretary- Treasurer of Operating Engineers, Faces Embezzlement Charge. Dave Evans, former secretary-treas- gineer Justice Jan in Criminal Division 1 to a\ | dictment for embezzlement of the union. Evans was Chicage last July and | August, but his 1 by illne: Riley, Miss Elizabeth Middleton, Miss B Martha J. Mason. Among outstanding episodes in the pageant will be a scere entitled Marriage of Washington groups representing the Spengler Post and unit of the Ame can Legion. with Mrs. Jerome Ligk foot as chairman. The Washington Readers’ Club will present an episode, “Birthday Party at Valley Forge,” as another feature of the pageant. it SCALP CUT IN CRASH Man Is Treated at Casualty After Defense Highway Accident. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md. June 20— lowing a fence, struck and shattered a | many cases to make the Government Thomas E. Brown, 64, of the 1800 block post, sending a shower of splinters over | the victim rather than the guardian” of Wyoming avenue, Washington, sus- the porch. Leaving the fence post, the bolt trav- eled a distance of about 8 feet in the tearing | of the veteran. The casc was remanded | | for a new trial, | United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, | tained forehead and scalp lacerations yesterday when an automobile in which he was riding was in collision with an up the earth and| Assistant United States Attorney John | oil truck on the Defense Highway near emerging where Charles Clinerd was W. Wood and Attorneys C. L. Dawson | the Ardmore road. He was taken to sitting. men were injured, Harmon said. Veterans’ Administration. | Neither Clinerd or the other | and W. C. Pickett appeared for the Casualty Hospital by the Bladensburg rescue squad. Cast of Campfire Pageant HERNDON 4-H CLUB DEPICTS WASHINGTON'S FIRST INAUGURATION. M ‘Washington, Thursday night. Betty McGuire, Jean Thompscen and June Seamans. Third row—2Betty Lucas, Saghh Tilen Dawson, Jean Brcady and Betty Bradshaw. EMBERS of the Herndon 4-H Club who, under the direction of Mrs. George R. Bready, presented the pagean: depicting Washington’s first inauguration before the national campfire of 4-H Clubs in the Sylvan Theater, in Reading from left to right, they are: Front row—Jean Humme, Jane Hutchiscn, Second row—Willie Kirk, Alice B: ready, Ruth MecGuire, Hazel Kirk and 931. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover [2 cting the prosecution, while ans is represented by Attorney P. H arshall of this sity and Stedman & Lewis of Chicago. \FOUR HACKERS ROBBED: | THREE TAXIS STOLEN Machines Are Recovered After Being Driven Off by Hold- up Men. Four taxicab drivers were robbed of small amounts eerly today by bandits i Who drove off in three of the cabs in- volved. Two of the vehicles were re- | covered by Detective Joseph Sincoviiz | and the third was located by the owner a few blocks from the s of the rob- | bery. Three colored hackers, Robert E. | Jones, 1600 block of Seventh street: William H. Jackson, 200 block of M street southwest, and Charles B. Mur- Tay, 2000 block of Georgia avenue, handed over a total of $7.90 to a pair of colored men believed to have com- jmitted three of the robberies. The fourth driver, Harold G. Strick- jland, 1300 block of Kenyon street, was allowed to keep his cab when two white men held him up near Fort Myer, Va. Strickland had onl $1 to give his “fares,” he told police. FEDERAL WAREHOUSE WORKMAN IS INJURED An 18-year-old workman on the Gov- ernment warehouse under construction at Ninth and D streets southwest was injured, probably seriously, early this afternoon when his head was struck by a mméng hoist. At Emergency Hospital he was regis- tered as McKinley Kirkpatrick, 204g C street, and it was said his skull may be Ira(‘l:refl, Other workmen said Kirkpatrick leaned out of an opening on thpe fifth ist passed upward. floor just as the ho he chin, knocking It struck him on t him back into the building. The fire rescue squad was summoned and took the youth to the hospital. He was still uncenscious on arrival $10,000 ASKED FOR WIDOW Fund Sought in Death of Repre- sentative Eslick. Appropriation of $10,000 for the widow of the late Representative Edward Eslick, Democrat, of Tennessee, was Tecommended to Congress today by President Hoover. In submitting supplemental estimates for appropriations, the Chief Executive approved reccmmendations from Budget Director Roop that they bs granted. This is the usual procedure when, member of Congress dies, \