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* he Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, Washington News Star JUNE 21, TUESDAY, 1932. PAGE B—1 BOY NEAR DEATH FROM BULLET: DONOVAN T0 URGE 5170 TAX RATE ON DISTRICT REALTY Commissioners to Consider Levy After Congress Acts Finally on Budget. OPPOSITION TO INCREASE SEEN AMONG OFFICIALS Prediction of Increased Assessment Base Lends Backing to Contention. A recommendation that the tax rate on real estate of $1.70 per $100 of value be set by the District Commissioners for the new fiscal year beginning July 1 will be laid before the Commissioners 1n a day or two by Maj. Daniel J. Dona- wvan, District auditor and budget official. The matter of the tax rate on realty and sssoclated problems of meeting the cost of maintaining the District govern- ment during the next fiscal year will| come before the city heads in complete form after Congress has taken final action on the District budget, now pending. While the House and Senate as yet have not reached agreement on the final form of the District appropriation bill, Donovan said he would recommend that the realty tax rate for next vear be maintained at $1.70, which has been in effect for several years. Budget Fixed Tax Rate. ‘The District budget as it went to| Congress this year carried a stipulation that the real estate tax rate be not reduced for the year beginning July 1. This same specification has been car- ried in the budget for the two preceed- ing years. The 1930 budget specified that the Commissioners neither raise nor lower the tax rate. There has been a feeling at the Dis-| trict Building that the tax rate for the | new fiscal year should not be increased, due to the difficulties under which prop- erty owners have labored as a result of the depression. Months ago, when the District officials started preparation of the 1933 budget, it was understood they planned to make every effort to prevent any increase in the real estate tax rate. In some quarters this feeling has been strengthened recently by current tabulations by the District tax assessor, William P. Richards, showing there will not be a sizeable increase in the real estate assessment base and also that, during the next fiscal year, con- siderable declines in other revenues. can be expected. Changes Are Anticipated. ‘The assessment books for the new cal year will not be closed until July 1, but not many last-minute changes in realty assessments are anticipated. Mr. Richards estimated roughly that the total real estate assessment for the new fiscal year would amfount to ap- proximately $1,230,000,000. There have been numerous cases where assess- ments have been reduced due to de- clining values of properties in some sec- tions, and there have been additional sums added to the assessment base due to erection of new buildings during the past year. The total assessed value of Teal estate for the year now drawing to & close is $1.226,691948. The $1.70 tax rate on this assement base pro- duced $20,853,856. The ditticuities which have been faced by property owners in the past year are seen in the sale of tax certifi- cates for non-payment of taxes by owners. This year approximately 20.- 000 pieces of property were advertised for tax sale. These sales produced ap- proximately $300,000, whereas the fig- ure last year was $800,000. Failure of professional tax certificate buyers to invest as largely this year as in the past forced the District government to buy in much more property. Appeals Nearly Doubled. ‘There have been this year also ap- proximately 750 appeals, affecting 2,000 different properties, made from the as- sessed values set by the District assse- sor for the new fiscal year. The num- der of appeals is nearly twice the amount received by the assessor last year. Taxes on tangible property, intangi- bles and public service corporations this year has produced a revenue of $6,866,- 0. District officials believe the revenue for intangibles during the next fiscal year will amount to about half of this year’s total of $2743,000, and there will be a sizeable shrinkage in the rev- enue from tangible property and a slight reduction in the revenue from public service corporations, which this Yyear amounts to $2,286,000. WOMAN JOURNALISTS CHOOSE OFFICERS Kate Scott Brooks Elected Presi- dent and Sallie V. H. Pickett Vice President. The Newspaper Women's Club of ‘Washington held its election of officers yesterday at the National Press Club. Officers elected for the year 1932-33 are: President, Kate Scott Brooks, so- ciety editor, the Washington Post; vice president, Sallie V. H. Pickett, society editor, The Washington Star; recording secretary, Betty Hynes, feature page editor, the Washington Herald: cor- responding secretary, Katharine Brooks, ‘Washington Star, and treasurer, Marie Sourgeon McNair, Washington Herald. In addition to the officers there are five members of the board of gov- ernors, the election yesterday resulting in the following: Margaret Hart, Wash- ington Star; Mabelle Jennings, Wash- ington Herald: Vylla Poe Wilson, Wash- ington Post; Flora McDonald, Washing- ton Times, and Lelia Wilson Bathon, Baltimore Sun. The active membership of the club is limited to woman writers employed by newspapers. A number of women rromitent 1w official and professional circles were elected to associate mem- bership at the meeting yesterday, which was followed by tea. The club will meet regularly at the National Press Club, in the ladies’ dining room. RUM CARGO SEIZED Two men were charged with illegal rossesslon after 116 quarts of alleged iquor and an automobile were con- fiscated by sixth precinct police last night. Harris Moody, 32, of Leonardtown, Md., and Ermon Henson, 30, of Indian Head were arrested by Sergt. A. W. Guyer and Pvt. L. A. Crabbin at Fifth and Farragut streets, when the officers are said to have become suspicious of meir actions, Police Question Charles Tebbes, Held in Shooting of Joseph McCrone, 13. Seek to Learn if Gun Which Wounded Schoolboy Was Fired in Malice. ‘Thirteen-year-old Joseph McCrone was near death at Casualty Hospital to- day, while police sought to learn if the bullet which pierced his abdomen was fired with malice as Joseph and four other boys fished and swam on the west bank of the Eastern Branch yesterday noon. Young McCrone, who lives at 1610 Trinidad avenue northeast, and a com- panion, Bruce Esch, 15 years old, of 1321 Childress street northeast, told po- lice the shot was fired intentionally by & youth later identified as Charles | Tebbes, 16-year-old Stuart Junior High | School student, of 134 Sixth street northeast. | Accident Claimed. 1 Tebbes, who was arrested and is being | ! held at the receiving home for investi- | gation, was backed up by his two com- panions in the contention that the gun | discharged accidentally as he started to lay it down after shooting at a target. The .22-caliber bullet passed almost | | entirely through McCrone’s body. It was fired from about 100 yards up the| bank, where the other three youths| were' swimming and playing with the rifle. The three boys with the gun. police | were told. fled the scene, and McCrone | was assisted by Esch to & nearby cot- tage, where he was picked up by the| patrol wagon from No. 9 precinct and taken to the hospital. | According to Policemen C. L. Haden | and S. Jones of No. 9 precinct, no one | at the scene knew the identity of the | three boys. Haden said he found & | magazine cover which had been used | ias a target and happened to be in-| scribed in pencil with Tebbes’ name. | When the policeman later located Tebbes at his home, the youth admitted the gun was in his hands when the shot was fired. but insisted it was discharged accidentally. | Esch, according to Haden, insisted, however, that the other boys fired sev- eral shots in the direction of himself | and McCrone. and then another youth | took the gun, saying, ere, let me show you how to shoot.” The boy, | Esch declared, raised the rifle, aimed | BATHER, 16, CLAIMS ACCIDENT CHARLES TEBBES. Tebbes' companions, according to po- | OR. KLEIN ADVISES SOUND METHODS OF CREDIT IN ADDRESS Offers Three Suggestions at Convention of National Retail Body. PERSONAL RELATIONS URGED BY LOCAL MAN Cheerful Factor Is Seen by Aide to Commerce Secretary in Low Losses by Bad Debts. The appalling costs of slipshod credit Ppractices during recent years will not be poured out in vain, Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, told delegates to the National Retail Credit SEARCH S FUTILE FOR CAR REPORTED WITH EXPLOSIVES Police and Secret Service Hold Rumor a Hoax—Gates to City Are Guarded, OFFICERS TRACE TIP TO TREASURY WORKER | All Autos Entering Capital From Virginia and Maryland Are Ex- amined Closely During Night. After an extensive search for an au- | tomobile reported to be bringing a large load of explosives to Washington had | proved futile, police and members of the | Becret Service became convinced this Association’s Convention here today, “if | morning they had been hoaxed by a business emerges with a broader, fiimer , Treasury Department employe to whom |said he had been shot deliberately by attended, police | and shot his companion. | lice, were two other students at Stuart [Epzce Bays| Flee. | Junior High Stnool—Walter Brady of | The wounded youth ran a few steps the 500 block of Fourth street north- | and dropped, Esch said, while the other | east, and Louis Dorman of the 100 three boys. who had disrobed for swim- | block of Fifth street southeast. The | ming. snatched up their clothes and | boys said they met in Stanton Park yes ! fled into the undergrowth. | terday morning and decided to play| McCrone has been only partlally con- | “hookey.” | scious. In a statement to police he| The school which McCrone and Esch| e told, had closed | for the Summer vacation a week ago. a boy whose name he did not know. * Alumni, ‘GREAT AMERIGAN” WILL OPEN TONIGHT Bicentennial Pageant to Show Episodes in George Wash- ington’s Career. Hundreds of Washingtonians and will enact green slopes in the shadow of the ‘Washington Monument. { will be the first of three performances scheduled. The others will take place tomorrow night and Thursday night, commencing at 8 o'clock. Three Stages of Career. Planned as a part of the Capital's ‘celebration of the Bicentennial of th: birth of George Washington, the paf Joint auspices of the District and United States Bicentennial Commissions. It comprises three actions, depicting the three stages of Washington's career. Each action is made up of a succes- (slon of colorful episodes. In many of these scenes troops from Fort Myer and Fort Washington will appear as Colo- nial, French and British soldiers. A fife and drum corps from Fort Wash- ington and mounted troopers from Fort Myer will lend poignant reality to the scenes of battle. ‘The first action of the pageant opens the life of “George Washington, Colo- “George Washington, Warrior,” while the third portion, opening in 1787 with the signing of the Constitution, com- Washington, Statesman.” The Sylvan Theater forms the cen- tral setting for the pageant, while the battle scenes will be enacted on the grassy spaces on either side. Dr. George C. Havenner, executive vice president of the District Bicenten- nial Commission, said any tickets to performances postponed on account of rain will be honored at the next per- formance. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Dinner, Georgetown Clinical Soclety, Hamilton Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Meeting, Daughters of American Colonists, Willard Hotel, 2 p.m. Meeting, Chanwas Club, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. % Card party, Hope Council, No. 1, Sons | and Daughters of Liberty, Fourth street gnd Pennsylvania avenue southeast, p.m. Card party, Mothers’ Club, St. James’ Catholic Church Auditorium, Thirty- seventh street and Rhode Island ave- nue northeast, 8 p.m. FUTURE. Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard Hotel tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, District of Columbia Bank- ers’ Association, Willard Hotel tomor- row, 12:30 p.m. Board meeting. National League of American Pen Women, Willard Hotel, tomorrow, 9:30 a.m. Luncheon, Optimist Club, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Lions Club, Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Monarch Club, New Colo- nial Hotel, tomorrox, 12:15 p.m. Luncheon, University _of Missouri University Clyfy tomorrow, 12:30 pm. . Mayflower contingents of troops from military, posts adjacent to the Capital tonight | the outdoor Bicentennial | pageant, “The Great American,” on the | Presentation of the pageant tonight| eant-play is being staged under the| in 1749 and comprises three episodes in | nist.” The second action is made up | of five military episodes and is entitled | prises four events in the life of “George | 0. BILLAWATTS - ECONOMY ACTION |Consideration Put Off to Study Effect of Compul- sory Furlough Plan. The 1933 District appropriation ‘bill | continued to languish in conference today, pending final Senate disposition of the economy measure. Senator Bingham of Connecticut, chairman of the Conference Committee, said little progress could be made on the District bill in conference until it is known definitely how the District personnel will be affected by the com- pulsory furlough plan, and for that rea- son consideration would be delayed. If the furlough plan is ultimately ap- proved today, as is anticipated, a meet- ing of the conferees probably will be held tomorrow. A preliminary session scheduled for yesterday was called off. Only two controversial issues between the House and Senate are expected to hold up approval of the bill in confer- ence—the amount of the Federal lump sum contribution and an item of $600,- 000 for emergency relief. Senator Bingham has indicated the Senate will hold out for a Federal con- tribution of $8,550,000 in 1933. The House fixed the amount at $6,500,000. |, Senate conferces also are expected to make a vigorous fight for retention of the $600,000 relief item which the | House refused to put in the bill. Little | controversy is anticipated, however, over the other items in dispute. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, wes appointed today as & substi- tute for Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia. on the Conference Committee co]x;.sideflng the District appropriation bill. The substitution was made at the concept of the values and responsibili- ties of sound credit methods and poli- cles.” ‘This Government economic expert of- fered the following suggestions for strengthening the Nation's retail credit structure: “First, let us hope that the zeal for new business, as the long-looked-for re- covery comes into sight, does not mini- mize the insistence upon careful in- vestigation into every customer’s ability and wililngness to meet his obligations when due. Second Principle Urged. “The second principle I would urge in retail credit applies to installment sellers. 1 would especially stress the point that the purchaser should make a large enough cash or down payment s0 that he feels he is an owner and not a renter. “The third principle is in regard to the length of time over which the deferred payment should be spread. It would seem that the unpaid balance should at any time during the payment period exceed the value of the article. Regardless of the durability of the article, it is the judgment of many that it should not in any case be longer than 24 months.” Assistant Secretary Klein spoke at the convention's first business session at the Mayflower Hotel. The conven- tion will continue through Friday. The Commerce Department officials H. Reichelderfer, president of the Board of District Commissioners, who wel- comed the delegation to Washington. Other speakers on today’s program were ‘W. W. Everett, vice president of Wood- ward & Lothrop Department Store former Senator Henry J. Allen, repre. senting the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and John D. Rellly, vice president of the Federal American Na. tional Bank & Trust Co. Urges Personal Relations. Mr. Everett said he wished a system could be worked out whereby credit managers could establish personal rela- tions with each customer, so that when sickness, death or other misfortunes came into the patron's family he would feel perfectly free to write and state how conditions were and ask for addi- tional time in order to meet the emer- gency. He said the ideal credit manager dur- ing the next few years would have to be a real diplomat. The speaker said one of the worst things a credit mana- ger can do is to force a strict observ- ance of agreement on some Accounts and allow others to ignore them. Therc is nothing more detrimental to the credit system than to allow accoun’s to run in arrears for months and sud- denly call the patron to strict observ- ance of the terms of the agreement, Bad Debts Are Low. Dr. Klein in his talk said one of the striking things regarding the vast vol- ume of retail credit in this country, which he said amounted to $23,000,000. 000 yearly, is the fact that in spite of the prolonged hardships of the depres- sion the losses from bad debts have been surprisingly low. He estimated 1 per cent of the entire department cent of the total sales on the install- ment plan, which. he sald, amounted to $5,000,000,000 in this country yearly. “Apparently the repudiation of obli- garded by the mass of our consumers as a desperate extremity. This firmly grounded Nation-wide concept is in it- self a gratifying indication of the pro- priety of our credit methods backed by the steadily strengthening appreciation among our people of the true signifi- cance of sound credit as a symbol of good character.” Explain Reconstruction Body. detail the functioning of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. He pointed out only seven banks failed in that these debts did not run over 08 of | store sales on open credit and 26 per| gations,” the speaker said, “is still re-| Former Senator Allen explained in | the rumor was traced. The search did not end, however, and | hundreds of automobiles entering the |city from Maryland and Virginia were subjected to a thorough examination by police placed at each principal en- | trance to the city. Acting on the tip from the Secret | Service, the Washington police main- tained ‘an all-night vigil at the en- trances to the city and searched every |car entering. No Extra Force at White House. No special precautions were taken however, to protect the White House beyond the regular force of White | House police and Secret Service agents | assigned to protect the White House family. | 'The tip. relayed by a Treasury em- ploye to the Secret Service last night, leaked out when Baltimore police were notified by a Secret Service agent to be on the lookout for a maroon sedan, | reported to be bringing a quantity of | exlosives here from New York. | Washington police also were notified end upon orders of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford. superintendent of police, the heavy guard at entrances to the city was established and the search be- gun. were maintaining a vigilant wateh for | & car answering the description of the | Secret Service. | ‘The hundreds of suburbanites whose - | address followed a talk by Dr. Luthef | cars were searched were reported by |asserted, police to have taken the search good- | | naturedly when the object was ex- plained by the police. | Believes Rumor Baseless. ‘This morning Chief W. H. Moran of the Secret Service declared he believed the whole rumor was baseless, and ascribed the tip to an irresponsible party in the Treasury Department. However, a close watch was kept for | any machine that might answer the | description given of the machine re- ported bearing the explosives. Chief Moran this morning deplored { the “leaking” of the information about the explosives car to the newspapers, | saying the Secret Service was skeptical | about the report when it was first re- ceived, but could not disregard any such rumor, whatever its source. Every effort was made, he said, to keep the matter secret. but when a lookout went out on a police teletype in Baltimore the cat was out of the bag. Licenses Are Checked. | License numbers mentioned in the | report were carefully checked by Mary- |land State police, and the express truck and the expensive car which bore the two licenses involved were found not to be involved in any explosives plot. | The rumor had wide circulation. Early this morning the London Evening Standard got in touch with police head- | quarters here by long-distance phone to | inquire if it was true that the White | House had been blown up. Lieut. Richard Mansfield. one of the | three night chiefs of detectives, received | the call on the transatlantic line and told the reporter that the White House | was still intact. | the United United States last week, in comparison with the sverage, he said, of 1,000 a week before the corporation was established. In further describing the achievements of the corporation, he asserted 150 banks that had failed before his or- ganization was started had now re- opened. Mr. Allen said the corporation had loaned 250 building associations a total of $70,000,000; farmers throughout the country have received $75,000,000; approximately $40,000,000 has been loaned to farmers’ organizations, and $175,00,000 has been loaned on adequate security to the railroads. He said the railroad loans appeared to be unusually large, but that a great deal of the money had been loaned to keep thou- sands and thousands of rail employes on | the job. request of Bingham, who said Glass had requested that he be relieved be- | cause of numerous other dutles. |~ The other Senate conferees are Sen- |ators Nye, North Dakota, and Capper, | Kansas, Republicans, and Kendrick, Wyoming, Democrat. The House conferees are Representa- | tives Carnon. Missouri; Blanton, Texas, and Granfield. Massachusetts, Demo- crats, and Simmons, Nebraska, and Holiday, Illinois, Republicans. AUTO CRASH VICTIM T0 BE BURIED TODAY Funeral Services for Washington Girl Killed in Indianapolis Are at Highmore, S. Dak. Funeral setvices were to be held today in Highmore, 8. Dak., for Miss Beverly O'Brien, 23-year-old Washington singer, killed Sunday near Indianapolis in an automobile collision which resulted in injuries to three other Washington resi- dents, one of them her fiance. Miss O'Brien, who made her home in ‘Washington for two years past with an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilkie, 1633 Franklin street northeast, was to have married Bert Bagranoff, 25-year-old George Washington Univer- sity foot ball player, when the party reached the St.'Louis home of Bag- ranoff’s parents. Miss O'Brien and Mr. Bagranoff were accompanied by Miss Lucile Leckie, 20, of 3704 S street, a clerk in the Depart- ment of Commercé, and Kenneth Broderick, 23, of 3105 Garfleld street, an employe of the District tax collec- tor's office. Associated Press dispatches said Miss Leckie and Mr. Bagranoff were ously injured, while Mr. Broderick, who was driving, escaped with lesser hurts. SUMMER HAS OFFICIALLY ARRIVED, BUT WEATHER LAGS ABOUT WEEK Spring, Reluctant to Depart, Has Been One of Nearest Normal for This Region, Says Meteorologists. It is Summer. The season of haymaking, thunder- storms and dog days reached Wash- ington astronomically at 10:23 a.m. to- day. Then the sun entered the Sum- mer solstice with the Northern Hemis- phere tilted toward the sun at an angle of 23 degrees 27 minutes. This is the longest day of the year, with 15 hours and 7 minutes between sunrise and sunset. But, for the most of the United States and especially for the countryside about the Distritc of Columbia, meteorological Summer is stuck in the mud down South somewhere. The season, as its progress is reflected in the changes of nature, is about a week behind time. The late climbing roses are in the full flush of their bloom over backyard fences. Ordinarily, in this latitude, their petals would have fallen more than 2 week ago. This lag of the season has been apparent since. March. All the gigmnry flowering shrubs have been be- d. Spring_departed somewhat in dis- grace. Compared to what Was! has come to expect, the season Was chill, damp and sunless. But, accord- ing to the Weather Bureau records, it has been about the most normal Spring ever known for these parts and for the U'.“%fd Sute; as a :It‘wle. ot Aniaane, e past few Sj 1gS, N one, have been nbnor?ml. The Weather Bureau conclusion is based on the tem- perature and rainfall data for the past 50 years. No one season could be ex- pected to hit thesexact average for 50 seasons, but this one came miraculously close to it. Temperature departures from normal the country over for March, April and May were only two or three degrees, plus or minus. In the District there was a net departure of only one degree minus. Most of the country east of the Mississipi ranged from the exact average to one or two degrees minus. West of the Mississippi the departures were one or t‘wa degrees us. pllt! has been, says J. B. Kincer, chief of the division of agricultural meteor- ology of the Weather Bureau, almost a perfect specimen cf a Spring, such as the country may not know again for a long time. To the man on the street, especially in Washington, it has seemed an exceptionally wet Spring. Actually there has been a little more than 25 per cent above normal rainfall for the ‘Washington-Baltimore district. This has been more than offset a little farther West, where precipitation has fallen to about the same degree below normal. The South, some sections of which still are feeling the after-effects of the drought, has received plenty for agricul- tural purposes. There has been an abundance, especially during the past two weeks, in the dryest sections of the country in the Far West. Spring and Summer appear to be late, Mr. Kincer points out, because they have been abnormal for the past 10 s. It has been abnormally hot nearly every year. Some years there has been a decided deficiency and some years a decided surplus of moisture. Crops have been early. Now weather has swung back again to the 50-year normal, and the only question is as to whether it will stay there. Meanwhile, the Baltimore police | New Jersey. | public building. The above photo was LL automobiles crossing the District line from Maryland were scrutinized today by District police acting on a tip received by the Narcotics Divi- sion of the Treasury Department that an automobile loaded with ex- plosives and driven by two desperadoes was en route to Washington from ‘The drivers were said to have threatened to blow up a made on Bladensburg road. —Star Staff Photo. | FACILITIES URGED Hacks Cruise 250,000 Miles Daily, Unpaid, Harry C. Davis Asserts. Asserting that taxicabs operating on | Washington streets cruise an average of 250,000 miles daily, due to inadequate parking facilities, Harry C. Davis, presi- dent of the Independent Taxi Owrners’ | Association, Inc, in a statement last | night advocated the utilization of vacant | space adjacent to fire hydrants as park- ing places for taxiczbs. Davis said tke ccmbined number of ‘mmm operating in Philadelphia, | Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and San Prancisco is less than the number now iin operation in the Capital. Due to extremely low rates, he stated, Wash- ington cabs average at least 500,000 miles daily, half of which is unpaid and compulsory cruising mileage. “The public vehicle stands only ac- ! commodate 950 cabs at the mcst,” Davis and in the siow periods 75 per cent of the cabs are compelled to | cruise or subject themselves to arrest | for parking off designated hackstands. Adeguate parking facilities at strategic | fireplug locations in the congested areas | should naturally make the operation of | | cabs more economical and would relieve | traffic_congestion and taxicab_cruising 1and the evils incident thereto.” rel laf 'FIVE ARE ARRESTED AS RUM SUSPECTS | Montgomery County Police Be- lieve Active Ring Is Broken. By a 8taff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA. Md. Junc 21.—Mont gomery County police smashed wk they described as one of the most | tive liquor rings operating in this s tion of the country early today with th arrest of five persons, one a Washing- ton woman, and the seizure of a large alcobol and whisky. The arrests were made in Friendship Heights at what police said was the of- fice used by the ring for extensive sales operation in Washington and Maryland, while the alleged whisky was confis- cated in a vacant home in Chevy Chase, which the quintet used as a warehouse. Those taken into custody were Mrs. Ethel Sparrough of 3209 Nineteenth street, Washington: Mrs. Bettie Don- nolly of Friendship Heights, Martha Cosmar of Baltimore, Joun Duffy and James , Duffy, both of Chicago. The; were arraigned on possession charges before Justice of the Peace Frederick Van Court and released under $500 bond each for appearance in county police court June 30. Sergt. Leroy R. Rodgers and Pvt. W. Frank Soper, acting on information said to have been furnished by the Federal Prohibition Bureau in Washington, raided the house in Friendship Heights and reported finding 20 cases of alleged Canadian beer and ale, 5 gallons of alleged alcohol and 36 bottles of home brew after arresting the three women and two men they found in the house. One of the rooms. Sergt Rodgers said, was outfitted as an office and contained two telephones, an adding machine, two typewriters and a record file showing large sales conducted by the ring during the past month. Some of the orders. police said, were for as much as 100 cases of beer, ale or whisky. Shortly afterward the two officers ralded the vacant house, in Chevy Chase near Rock Creek Park, and seized 38 cases of alleged whisky an an enormous supply of empty jars. Late yesterday _afternoon Sergt Rodgers, accompanied by Sergt. Roy Bodmer and Pvts. Webb Hersperger and Ralph Howard, arrested Sam Jack- son, colored, 55, at his home just off the Potomac-Great Falls road after they reported seizing a 50-gallon still in full operation. a 25-gallon dismantled still and seven barries of mash. Jackson was charged with possession of instruments to mahufacture liquor and possession of liquor and was re- leased under $500 bond for appearance arrest of Jackson, police say, had no connection with the apprehension of the five men and women at Friendship Heights. GUARD HELD.FOR HITTING MAN, 76, AT D. C. ARMORY Youth Said to Have Struck Visi- tor When He Insisted on En- tering Building. George Smyrson, 76, of the 1400 block of N street was treated at Emer- gency Hospital yesterday for a_ wound on the head, received when was strucn by a 20-year-old guard when the former is said to have tried to enter the National Guard Armory, in the old National Hotel, on Pennsyl- vania avenue. ‘The guard, Charles E. Clark of the 2200 block of Channing street north- east, is employed as a special watch- man at the armory. He was released in custody of Lieut. Col. Preston G. Nevitt, in charge at the building. Police were told Clark struck Smyr- son when the latter insisted on gol into the building. TAXICAB PARKING RAICHLE'S TRIAL he had embezzled. | had marked for identification 22 prom- issory notes made payable to Pitts. two of the counts charging him with subornation of perjury in connection | with the introduction of the authori- zations and with obstructing justice, the ing of the promissory notes. quantity of alleged beer, Canadian ale, | in Coumty Police Court June 30. The | - OPENS TOMORROW G. Bryan Pitts Expected to! Be a Principal Witness for Government. FEDERAL WORKERS WARNED AGAINST POLITICAL AGTIVITY Civil Service Commission Says Employes Run Risk of Losing Jobs. RETURN OF SPOILS ~ SYSTEM IS FEARED Successful Candidate Naturally ‘Would Appoint His Own Backers, Statement Explains. Federal employes throughout the country were warned by the Civil Serv- ice Commission today that they would Tun the risk of losing their jobs if they took an active part in the forthcoming political campaign The commission issued its warning after being informed one large organi- zation of Government workers had started campaigning against members of Congress whose attitude on recent legislation affecting Federal employes was considered unfavorable. It was said the commissions action was merely_ for the purpose of calling the attentich of Government workers to long standing rules prohibiting partici- pation in politics. Each individual. the statement said, would be held responsible for the actiy- ities of the organization to which he or she_belongs. “To make a public attack on a candi- The trial of Frank G. Raichle, Isw:} partner of former Assistant Attorney | reral William J. Donovan. on_per- | charges growing out of the F. H. | Smith Co. case, will open in District | Supreme Court tomorrw. Raichle was one of several lawyers | who defended G. Bryan Pitts and two | other officers of the Smith Co. when | they were brought to trial in December, 1930. for conspiring to embezzle funds | of the corporation. During the trial | 4 number of authorizations and re- ceipts were introduced in an effort to | show that Pitts was legally entitled to receive money the Government charged The defense also Some months later the grand jury turned 2n indictment against Raichle, tter charge being based on the mark- Justice F. D. Letts, who will preside at the trial, ruled today that the de- |fense was entitled to a bill of partic- ulars under the count charging obstrue- | tion of justice. This bill will be fur- nished the defense this afternoon, it was said. A similar motion on the other count was denied. The cas= will be prosecuted by Assist- ant Attorney General Nugent Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw, & special assist- ont. Raichle will be represented by Attorney James O. Moore of Buffalo. It i3 expacted that Pitts will be one of the Government's principal witnesses. 4-H CLUB MEMBERS HEAR CARL WILLIAMS Farm Board Member Says Co-oper- | ation Will Solve Agricul- tural Troubles. Co-operation between the farmers | and the Federal Farm Board will do much to relieve the depressed conditions in the agricultural sections of the | country, Carl Williams, member of the Farm Board. declared today before a meeting of delegates to the National 4-H | Clubs Camp here. |, The efforts of the Farm Board alone, he said, are not sufficient to help the farmers, nor can the farmers work out their economic salvation alone, but both ! must work together. He predicted that when the genera- tion represented by the 4-H Club boys and girls grows up, all their buying and | selling will be co-operative, much as it | now is in Denmark. { This afternoon the delegates will go | to Mount Vernon, where a wreath will be laid on the tomb of George Wash- ington by Leon E. Andrews of Kent County, R. I, and Helen Jordan of King | County, Wash. | _ Assisant Secretary of Agriculture R. | W. Dunlap will speak at the final meet- | ing of the encampment tonight. After ; he sessions, the delegates will start }len\-ing for their homes. 'COLORED DEMOCRATS " HOLD MASS MEETING . 0. P. Accused of Protecting the Wealthy—Victory Fund Drive Advanced. ‘The Democratic party was described as favorable to the working and middle classes, while the Republican party was accused of protecting the wealthy, at a mass meeting of colored Democrats last night in Pythian Hall, Twelfth and U | streets, under auspices of the Victory Fund Army. Dean Kelly Miller of Howard Uni- versity, who emphatically disclaimed af- filiation with either party, but described himself as an “independent,” and Rep- resentive Pettengill of Indiana were the principal speakers. The session was called to stimulate interest in the rais- ing of the $1,500,000 fund to finance the Democratic campaign. Dean Miller called upon the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, which he said made a great fight in getting the Negro the right to vote in Democratic primaries in Texas, to make a fight to have colored voters admitted to Republican conventions in that State. ‘The colored race was described by | Representative Pettengill as “a part of | the Democratic party.” He advocated | Jeflersonian democracy “as good for the | Negro as for the white man.” and asked the Negro voters of the country to give | the Democrats an opportunity to dem- onstrate what they can do for them. —_— Heads Steel Subsidiary. —William J. Morris, vice president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., has been appointed president of the Conti- nental Supply Co., sheet and tube sub- sidiary, and will go to St. Louis at once to take charge of the company, it was announced today. Suspect YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 21 (M).1° date for public office is to take active part in a political campaign,” the state- ment declared. “Such action by an employe is a violation of civil service rule 1, and may subject the offending employe to separation from public service “If it be permissible for Federal em- ployes to take active part in a political campaign to elect one candidate and defeat another, by the same token the successful candidate must be accorded the right to dismiss from the public service whom he will and fill the va- cancy by the appointment of whom he will. This means the return of the spolls system, with infinite disaster to Federal employes and the public service.” WOMAN IS THROWN INTO POTOMAC RIVER Police Take Her to Hospital as Two Men Are Detained at Police Precinct. Notified that four men in a roadster had pushed a woman cff Hains Point into the Potomac River about 4 o'clock this morning, United States park police apprehended the quartet and sent the woman to Gallinger Hospital. Officers J. N. Browning and W. McFeeley met a car coming from Hains Roint, containing five persons. The po- lice reported that the woman was prac- tically without clothing and had been wrapped in a blanket. The car and its occupants were taken to Emergency Hospital and upon the advice of phy- sicians there, the woman. Lucy May Gill, 25 years old, of Ballston, Va., was sent to Gallinger Hospital. The police locked up at No. 3 precinct Robert F. Ruppo, 32, of the 900 block of Fifth street and Edward B. Barry, 50. of the 900 block of New York ave- nue charged with being drunk. The police listed as witnesses of the incident R. H. Heinbuck and A. M Johnson, employes of the East Potomac golf course. HELD IN HOUSEBREAKING Found Wandering About in Priest's Robe. George Walsh, colored, 35, of Hope- well, Va, whom police found wander- ing about the streets in a priest's robe, pleaded guilty to a charge of house- breaking before Police Court Judge {John P. McMahon yesterday. He was remanded to the grand jury on $1,000 bond. Walsh was accused of breaking into the room of Rev. Paul G. Hutton of the Viatorian Seminary, 625 Hamlin street northeast. Marriage 31, Licenses. 1910 13th st. and Doretta Coleman: 21726 New Jersey ave; Rev. George O. Bullock_ + Bernie F. Anderson, 30. 1894 Oregon ave and Mary Lawson, 32, 1820 R st.; Rev. W. A Randolph. Paul D. . 1014 Columbia rd., Helen M , 18, 2011 3rd st Robe:t Anderson Willie Abrom. 28, and 1da Bolden, 28, both of Baltimore: Rev. W. Westray. James E. Halloway, 121, Wa sionaty_ College. and 'Evelyn Washington Missionary College E Mattingly. Charles K. Cannon. 26. and’ Margaret L Lawso n.e: Rev. C. 8. Abbott Mackey W. Brown. 26, Fredericksburg, Va. and Harrietie Hearcs. 25, Boyd Tavern, Va | Rev. William S. Jarvi John T. Kelly. jr.. 35. Hammonton. N. J. and Kathrsn M. Hargrave, 32, Dinwiddie Va: Rev. J. R. McAllister. Calvin Graeser. 19. and Alice M. Ashworth. 19. both of Woodlawn. Md.; Rev. John E riges. Russell A. Haskirs. 59. and Carrie L. Gan- gert. 43. both of Richmond; Rev 1. Mc- Dougle. Earle L. Quinn, 21. 226 11th st. se. and Docia Matthews, 24, High Point, N. C.. Rev G. D. Sampson.’ . Smith, 25. 1316 B st ne D. Bailey. 32, Bladensburg. v. H. P. Graebenstein and Rev. shington Mis- A Jeffers. 18 Judge Robert Silyer Spring. Md. n, 20, 1937 st . and Md RS Waiter Bell. 26. 5512 2n . Eviyn E. Nott. 23, 852 2nd R S riggs. Ben Weaver. 24. Quantico, beth Beane, 25, 6161z B st. E. Briges. William Moley. 33. 1 Ella M. Smith. do. 12 ngiy. . Dallinger. 29. 1 Madge I. Shoup, 29, 611 2Znd son L. Cole William Harris, 28, 111 ickos, 22, 704 3rd s Va., sw and Eliza- Rev. John ne. and Judge 800 C st. st.; Rev, 723 3rd st. 3°3rd st. nee.; and Jack- 5 9th st. and Maxine t. Rev. Allan F. Harvey J. Bacote. 22, Waterbury. and Gladys M. Wills, 10 R st.; Rev Washington Eddie Sumner, 23. Alexandri 1 1lth st; Irene Ta wrence Hickman. Hening. 17, bota of B mith. Donnie’ E. Campbell. 25. and Elizabeth Kirtley. 95, both of Richmiond: Rev. Jackson Wilbur J. Grundisch. 26, 1526 17th st.. an G. Galloway, 31, 1526 17th st.. Rev. 17, d Eles Z ki, N.'3.0 Judse Robert. onn.. LIEY a. Va. Rev. K nd Rev. Lewls, 19, 262 o Dorothy 21, ai altimore; Walter o0d L Staton, 32, Noanoke, Va., and . Slusher, 24, Pearisburg, Va.;' Rev. John C. Ball. Cornelius P. Van Ness, 25. Brooklyn. N. Y., and Helen V. Cheatham. 20, 2101 Connecti- -: Rev. Z. B. Phillip: Lutreil Buchanan. 321, 12i8 Half snd Margaret Jeflerson, 19, 524 3rd v. 'R. C. Herbert. Stanley A. Palfrey. 24, 1744 D Prances E. Henderson, 65 V st. C. Palmer. ., and t. i ‘John . Tickets used on London subways in the last year weighed over 200 tons,