Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1932, Page 17

‘THE FOX'INDICTED AS CONSPIRATOR N RANSOM SWINDLE Whitaker, Identified by Mrs. McLean in New York, to Be Returned Here. NEGOTIATION STORY TOLD TO GRAND JURY Ex-Convict, Who Left With Ma- chine Gun Caravan, Has Armed Guard for Trip Back. Norman T. Whitaker, who is alleged | to have played the role of “The Fox,” | the “chief kidnaper of the Lindbergh | baby” in the $104,000 ransom swindle perpetrated on Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Me- ! Lean by Gaston B. Means, was indicted today by the District grand jury for conspiracy. ! Whitaker, also known as “No. 19" and | Neil Williams or Williamson, was under | arrest in New York as Mrs. McLean went before the grand jury and detailed | her weird negotiations with Means and Whitaker, who had promised to return the kidnaped child. Identified by Mrs. McLean. Mrs. McLean returned here last night from New York, where she identified ‘Whitaker, a disbarred local patent at- torney and ex-convict, as the mysteri- ous “Fox” who met her at Aiken, S. C., and El Paso, Tex. in fake plans for surrender of Charles Augustus Lind- bergh, jr. “The Fox,” who lef: Washington late last March ahead of four automobiles bearing machine guns, accordng to his | fantastic story told to Mrs. McLean at Aiken, will return here tomorrow under escort of armed Federal officers bearing papers charging him with conspiring tol defraud her. His alleged partner in crime, Means, already is incarcerated in the District Jail, pending appeal from conviction and a 15-year sentence for the sensa- tional swindle. Mrs. McLean Only Witness. Mrs. McLean was the only witness to testify before the grand jury today, but the jury was familiar with all details of the case, having heard a number of other witnesses at the time of the in- dictment of Means several weeks ago. Presumably Mrs. McLean repeated to the jurv the account of her rendezvous with Whitaker and Means at her cot- tage in Aiken, where the baby was to have been brought, and at El Paso, where she journeyed in another futile attempt to get the child. According to Mrs. McLean, “The Fox” attempted to secure from her $35,000, in addition to the $104,000 paid Means, on the ground that the $50,000 paid the kidnapers by Dr. John F. Condon had been rendered “too hot to handle” by the recording of the.serial numbers of the bills, - The Whitaker indictment was the final act of the grand jury, whose term expires with the close of the fiscal year. Mrs. McLean was presented to the jury by William H. Collins, assistant United States attorney. The indictment was | reported early this afternoon to _Justice James M. Proctor, in Criminal Division | 1, District Supreme Court. Plot Began March 4. The indictment cites that the al-| leged conspiracy began on March 4, which was three days after disappear- ance of the Lindbergh baby, and that 1t continued until April 30. Thirteen alleged overt acts in furtherance of the alleged conspiracy | are set out in the indictment. March 4 Means is said to have conversed with Mrs. McLean; March 5 he had another conversation with Mrs. McLean; on the same day Means is said to have conversed with Capt. E. 8. Land and Rev. Prancis J. Hurley and on March 6 with Mrs. McLean again. March 7, it is alleged, Means stole and carried away $100.000 of the property of Mrs. McLean; March 18, he is said to have stolen an additional $4,000. ‘Whitaker was introduced to Mrs. Mc- Lean by Means, it is charged, March 22, and at that time Whitaker held a con- versation with Mrs. McLean, Whitaker had been introduced as Neil Willlams. ©On the same day, at Aiken, Means is said to have had a conference with ‘Whitaker, On the next day Whitaker | is alleged to have had a telephone con- versation with Mrs. McLean. Waives Extradition. On April 5, it is charged, Means, at El Paso, Tex., telephoned Mrs. McLean | at Aiken. Means and Whitaker are said to have conferred April 8 at El Paso and on the next day both de- fendants held a conversation with Mrs McLean Whitaker waived extradition at a hearing in New York yester He will be returned here tomorrow under bond of $100,000, fixed by a United States Commissioner in New York Former Representative Martin C. Ans- orge represented Whitaker at the hear- ing Afterwards Whitaker, portly end 42 was permitted to talk with his pretty brunette wife, who is in her early twenties. LABOR DISPUTE SIGNS TO BE PRIVILEGED| Commissioners Yield to Demands of Central Union for Exemption. he Commissioners today yielded to the demands of labor and amended the signboard regulations so s to exempt from their provisions signs carried either by employers or employes to Totify the public as to the existence of labor disputes. The change was made on request of | the local fur workers’ by the Central Labor missioners, at public the subject, stated that they had never intended the regulations to apply to labcr disputes, although the wcrds of the regulations as adopted, interpreted by Corporation Counsel Willlam W. Bride, made picketing in labor disputes by means of banners or placards illegal. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. : Lawn fete, Ladies' Guild, Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, Pourteenth and Gallatin streets, 5 to 10 pm. Lawn fete, Rebekah Lodge, No. 41, Episcopal Church, Thirty-fourth street and Rainler avenue, 6:30 pm. Meeting, Catholic Evidence Guild, Immaculate Conception Hall, 8 p.m. Card party, Kit Carson Woman's Re- lief Corps, 60 M street northeast, 8 p.m. Blnso‘ party. Columbia Council, Sons and ughters of Liberty, 3021 Yost ‘lace northeast, 8:30 pa, 'PASS INTEREST CUT | | of New York, the other feature. {and they were passed as one. D. C. PENAL CHIEF MUST QUIT UNLESS PRESIDENT INTERVENES Exception to Economy Bill| Urged for Barnard, Fa- mous Expert. Superintendent Is Widely Known as Pioneer Developer of “Honor” Plan. Capt. M. M. Barnard, general super- intendent of District penal institutions, | who is recognized as one of the leading | penologists of the country, will be elimi- nated from the District administration unless President Hoover grants an ex- ception from the provisions of the Fed- eral economy measure, it developed to- day. Seeking to prevent the loss of Capt. Barnard's service, Dr. Luther H. Reich- elderfer, president of the Board of Dis- trict Commissioners, has authorized Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District audi- tor and personnel officer, to apply for | the presidential rule permitting his| continued employment. A petition to this effect already has been sent to the Civil Service Commis- sion for review and forwarding to the ‘White House. Provides for Exceptions. ‘The economy measure as passed by Congress called for the mandatory re- tirement of all employes of retirement | age having had 15 years of service. The measure, however, contained a provision that exceptions could be made to this order when personally authorized by the President. In order to facilitate action on the matter, the petition was forwarded to the Civil Service Commission after the | measure was enacted by Congress, with- | out awaiting the expected signature of President Hoover on the bill. Capt. Barnard holds an enviable rec- ord in the administration of penal in- stitutions, particularly in the handling of the reformdtory, in which he was a | pioneer in the actual work of adminis- tering the “honor system” or the open | treatment of prisoners of a wide range of classifications on a prison farm in- stead of the old method of cell confine- ment. Capt. Barnard established the new | system of handling prisoners on the prison reformatory farm when he was brought here for that purpose in 1916 | the Roosevelt Commission. WASHINGTON, RAEw CAPT. M. M. BARNARD. fter the advanced method was adopted formity to recommendations of Members of this commission were: John Joy Edson, still head of the District Board of Pub- lic Welfare; Wendell P. Stafford, then a justice of the District Supreme Court, | and Supt. LaDow of Federal prisons. Denounced 0ld Methods. The commission denounced the old cell confinement method of imprison- ment and urged more humane treat- ment, designed with a view to rehabili- tating prisoners. ca}‘n." Barnard, who entered prison administration work in 1895, had served as assistant superintendent of the In- diana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, Ind., and as deputy warden at the In- diana State Prison at Michigan City, Ind. He entered the District service in December, 1916, as assistant superin- tendent of penal institutions, and was| charged with the establishment of the advanced method of reformatory treat- e soon became an_ enthusiastic be- liever in the plan, and as years passed his work was acclaimed throughout the country, and other jurisdictions modeled their prison administrations after that in the District ! Capt. Birnard is just past 70 years | old, the retirement age, and last Decem- ber completed 15 years of District service. al in con DIRECTED VERDICT ENDS RAICHLE CASE Attorney Not Guilty Charges Growing Out of Trial of Pitts. of | Frank G. Raichie, Buffalo, N. Y., attorney, won a directed verdict of not quilty yesterday in District Supreme Court, where he had been tried on charges of subornation of perjury and obstructing justice. ‘The trial came to a sudden end when Justice P. D. Letts ruled the essential | elements of the charges had not been sufficiently proved. l The charges against Raichle grew | out of the trial of three F. H. Smith Co. officials in November, 1930. In, that case a number of authorizations and notes were introduced in evidence in an effort to show G. Bryan Pitts, one of the defendants, was entitled to money he was accused of embezzling. It was subsequently charged that these documents were spurious and that Raichle inspired their preparation. In announcing his decision, Justice Letts said “I think the word ‘procure,’ used in the subornation of perjury charge, is very definite. It means to initiate a proceeding or cause & thing to be done, and does not mean the mere passive permitting of an act. It means some- thing more than standing by and per- mitting some wrongful thing to be done, even when the person accused knows it is to be done. In_ this case, sufficient | evidence that Mr. Raichle initiated the comission of perjury is lacking. “As to this court, and also as to the count charging obstruction of justice, the witnesses for the Government have been discredited and, other than their testimony, there is no evidence of a corroborative nature in the record. The rule of evidence does not require cor- | roboration, but here the two essential | witnesses are so utterly discredited that the court will assume the responsibility and strike out the testimony of Pitts and John. H. Edwards, jr., another for- mer officer of the Smith Co., and sus- | tain the motion by the defense for a | directed verdict of not guilty.” ON VETERANS’ LOANS Senators Approve Measure Reduc- ing Charges to 3 Per Cent and Ending Waiting Period. By the Associated Press. The Senate today passed and sent| to the House a bill reducing from 413 | to 3 per cent the rate of interest on ioans to veterans on World War ad- justed service certificates, The bill also provides that loans may bc made immediately after is- suance of the certificate instead of waiting two years as now provided. Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- braska, sponsored the interest reduc- tion, and Senator Copeland, Democrat, They | agreed to combine the two measures Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, opposing the interest reduction, read a | Jetter from Veterans' Administrator | Hines opjosing the bill and saying it would cost the Government a total of | $398,623,833. i Hines reported the measure “would not be in accord with the financial pro- gram of the President.” It,was passed without a record vote. MRS. F. T. BOSWELL DIES Special Dispatch to The Star. GLEN ECHO, Md., June 30.—Follow- ing an illness of several weeks, Mrs. Rebecca Boswell, 65, wife of Franklin T, Boswell of Glen Echo Helghts, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Archibald Harris, near Boyds. She is survived by her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Noble Perry of near Cabin John and Mrs. Harris. funeral will take place this afternoon from a funers’ lLome here, burial to be in the cemetery at Potomac. Mrs. | ceeded only by the Commerce Depart- JUSTICE BUILDING CONTRAGT 1S LET $7,667,000 Construction Will Be Done by George A. Fuller Co. ‘The Government building program here had advanced a&nother notch to- day with the award of a contract for construction of a new home for the | Justice Department to the George A. Fuller Co. ‘The building, which will cost $7.667,- 000 exclusive of the elevators, will be erected between Ninth and Tenth streets, Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues. The contract was given to Fuller yesterday afternoon and orders for the steel and stone will be placed at once, allowing work to be n within the next two or three months. The foundation already is in. The low bidder on the elevators, for which the contract is still to be let, is the Otis Elevator Co., which submit- ted a figure of $366,000. Second Largest in Space. ‘The Justice Building will be the sec- ond largest in the triangle, being ex- ment. With the award of this contract, the triangle development reaches far toward completion. In the coming fiscal year, but one contract is to be let, that for the superstructure for the Archives Building, on the site of the old Center Market and just east of the New Jus- tice Department. The foundation there is already under construction and bids for the superstructure will be asked in the next couple of months. Apex Building Delayed. Of the authorized program, then, this will leave only the so-called Apex Building, at the end of the avenue, to be gotten under way. Because of re- strictions imposed by Congress, ho ever, this contract will not be let dur- ing the coming year. The Apex Build- ing will house a number of miscella- neous activities. Other buildings to be done by the Government in its program, but which has not yet been authorized, includes a structure for the independent offices on the site of the Southern Build- ing, extension of 'the Internal Rev- enue Building, extension of the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing Build- ing, across the street from the super- structure, and the War-Navy group, which goes in the northwest triangle. The work now authorized is to be completed by 1935, while that still to get authorization will be completed by 1937, provided it is gotten under way as originally contemplated. MAJ. HENDLER DIES AFTER LONG SERVICE Revenue Bureau Special Attorney, 71, Resident of Capital 50 Years. Maj. Charles T. Hendler, 71, special attorney in the civil division, office of the general counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, died yesterday at his home in the Roosevelt Hotel. Maj. Hendler, who came to Washing- ton more than 50 years ago, first be- came connected with the Bureau of Printing and Engraving here. He studied law at Georgetown University and practiced here for many years, be- coming well known in legal circles. During the World War he served in the office of Judge Advocate General with the rank of major, and later went to France. On_returning he entered the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and had been with the Government since. As special attorney in the counsel’s of- fice, he had handled many of the largest cases to come before the bureau. Funeral arrangements have not been 'PAUL AND BISHOP GET ING EDITION The Foening Stap ELABORATE FOURTH INCLUDES EVENTS AT MANY CENTERS Sylvan Theater Program and Fireworks Climax of 156th Annual Celebration. HOMES AND BUILDINGS WILL DISPLAY BANNERS| Senator Watson to Give Principal Address in Evening—Civic and Trade Committees Busy. Plans for a fitting observance in the | National Capital Monday of the 156th | anniversary of the signing of the Dec- | laration of Independence are going | rapidly forward under guidance of | picked committees representing civic and trade bodies of the city. With Thomas P. Littlepage as chair- man of the General Committee and Robert J. Cottrell as chairman of the Advisory Committee plans for _the | Fourth of July program have been| worked out to include events in the community centers throughout the city, | culminating with a buge dempns!ra-‘ tion at the Sylvan Theater in the | Washington Monument Grounds Mon- day night. | Residents and merchants of Wash- | ington have been requested by the District Commissioners to make appro- priate displays of flags on houses and butldings that day, “in gra‘itude to our forefathers who by their signal act be- queathed {o us a covereign national in | which we may enjoy the blessings of | life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness.” Sylvan Theater Program. Winding up the day's festivities, the | Sylvan Theater program will begin at | 7:30 o'clock .with'a concert by the United States Marine Band, followed by | massing of the colors. Mr. Littlepage will make the address of welcome, fol-| lowed by invocation to be pronounced | by Rev, W. Coleman Nevils, S. J., presi- dent of Georgetown University. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. | Republican leader in the Senate, will | deliver the principal address of the eve- ning. His talk will be broadcast over a | national hook-up of the Columbia | Broadcasting System and also over two | short-wave stations. Following a recitation of the declara- tion of independence by Robert Down- | ing, a tableau of the Thirteen Original | States will be presented by the local State societies, with the following young ladies participating: Elizabeth Adams, | Delaware; Virginia Lang, Connecticut; | Ruth Shoemaker, New Jersey; Mrs. Corey E. Larmore, New Hampshire; Esther Hunter, Massachusetts; Betty | Mattingly, Maryland; Eleanor Ellis, Georgia; Frances Linfoot, Virginia; Frances V. Phillips, South Carolina: Alice Louis Hunter, Pennsylvania; | Vivian Dawson, North Carolina; Martha Fisher, New York, and Eda Vomachka, R. L Fireworks at Conclusion. The program will conclude with a fireworks display, which, according to the sponsors of the event, will be one of the outstanding demonstrations ever heid here. Tickets for seats for the Sylvan Theater program are on sale at leading hotels. ‘Washington Rotarians yesterday voted enthusiastic support of the Fourth of July program, after hearing a talk by Mr. Littlepage. The District Bicentennial Commission and the Greater National Capital Com- mittee of the Washington Board of | Trade are co-operating with the citi- zens’ committee planning the event. BALLOON AWARDS 1932 Victories Announced Official- ly After Instruments Are Checked—Go Abroad. By the Assoclated Press. Lieuts. Wilfred J.: Paul and John H Bishop today were named official win- ners of the 1932 national balloon race by the National Aeronautic Association, after scaling of distances and calibra- tion of barographs The men, representing the Army Air Corps, were credited with floating 9014 miles from Ohama, where the race started May 30. Second place went | to Roland J. Blair and Frank A. Trot- | ter of Akron, Ohio, with a distance of | 709.9 miles Lieuts. Paul and Bishop by their| victory, earned a place on the team | which will represent the United States in the international James Gordon Bennett balloon race to start Septem- ber 25 from Basle, Switzerland. The other team members are Ward T. Van Orman and Alan MacCracken of Akron, | who won the international meet in 1930, and Lieuts. T. G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, Navy men, who won the 1931 national race. Barristers Club Outing Tomorrow. The Washington Barristers Club will hold its annual outing tomorrow at Annapolis Roads, Md. Golf, boating, bathing and fishing, with a banquet at night, will Tound out the program. Approximately 75 members of the club are expected to attend. Charges Bigamy MISS JANIE BERKLEY. YOUTH GIVES BOND ON BIGAMY CHARGE Department Store Employe, Accused of Marrying Girl in Montgomery County. Norman C. Rodgers, jr., 21, was at liberty on $300 bond today on a bigamy charge placed against him by Miss Janie Berkley, 19, whom he is alleged ; to have married in Takoma Park, Md., last January 23. Though Rodgers is accused of bigamy, Miss Berkley declared today he told her their marriage was a “fake.” Rodgers, an employe of a downtown department store, was arrested last Thursday on a warrant issued three days previously by Justice of the Peace David Mears of Silver Spring, Md. Miss Berkley swore out the warrant. Miss Berkley met Rodgers last Sep- tember, she said, and he proposed to her shortly thereafter. She said they were married in Janu- ary, but that two weeks ago she dis- covered Rodgers had another wife living here. Rodgers was released shortly after his arrest, pending arraignment in Police | Court on July 18. At that time, he declared he would fight extradition to Montgomery County to face Miss Berk- | ley’s charge. FEDERAL ATTORNEY SUFFERS COLLAPSE | Phelps Ferris Believed to Have Taken Overdose of Sedative After Saluvia, Pa., Crash. Phelps F. Ferrls, 50 who acts as an attorney in various Government de- partments, was recovering in George- town Hospital today from the effects of an overdose of a sedative, which caused him to collapse last night. Mr. Ferris, who lives at 4603 Lang- drum’ Lane, Chevy Chase, Md., is said to have taken the medicine following an accident in which his car was wrecked near Saluvia, Pa., where it | crashed into a truck. No one was in- jured, and following the smash-up, David Davies and his wife, Mrs. Jane Davies, volunteered to bring Mr. Fer- ris to Washington in their’ machine. Severay times along the route, Mr. Davies told police, Mr. Ferris, suffering from shock. stopped at drug stores. Mr. Ferris collapsed in the rear seat of the car as it entered the Capital. Mr. Davies took him to the hospital, where physicians said his condition was not serious. At the time of the accident, Mr. Fer- | ris was returning from a business trip to Detroit. In his pocket was found a confession to a bank robbery there, signed by a man now serving a term in the Detroit penitentiary. At Mr. Ferris’ home, it was said, the confession was an old one and had nothing to do with CAPITAL MAN SPEAKS AT SANDY SPRING CLUB Willard Kiplinger Addresses Home Interest Group on Political and Economic Subjects. Special Dispatch to The Star. SANDY SPRING, Md., June 30.— | Willard Kiplinger was guest speaker at a meeting of the Home Interest Club, with Allan Farquhar presiding. Mr. Kiplinger talked on political and eco- nomic subjects. Forethought for the gardener was given by Mrs. Willlam W. Moore and Joseph E. Janney. In the Community Council report, which was given by Maurice J. Stabler, the new survey of the Ashton road by State rcad engineers, which cuts out the village of Ashton, and which was approved by the council, was discussed by this club. Change in Geodetic Survey There are nine men in Washington | who, during the last year have ]umped‘ out of the “frying pan” into a re- frigerating plant. ¢ Pecularily, they say they prefer the frying pan temperature to that of the steady 70 degrees of their dry-aired working quarters today. Under the foremanship of Edward ‘W. Rwab, these men are employed in completed. —_— Family Routed by Fumes. ‘The family of Mrs. Mabel West was routed frcm their apartment in the 4600 block of Fourteenth street last night by the fumes from sulphur can- ‘The | dles being burned in the store below. ‘The e Department rescue squad was summoned and forced entrance into the store to extinguish the candles, Boswell was formerly a Miss Eavely of e Cabin John neighborhood,. which had been lighted to drive away the press room of the Commerce De- partment’s Coast and Geodetic Survey. Their quarters are refrigerated and air molsture is sucked out to prevent dampness settling on the high-grade paper used in printing coastal an Way maps. * Before January, when they moved into the new Commerce ent Building, these pressmen worked in ordinary quarters. The windows were closed at all times to Sl S e ot T Toom, they said, zope, st times, WORKERS FbRSAKE “FRYING PAN” FOR COOL, DRY AIR AND RUE IT Press Room for Protection of Expensive Papers Popular With Those Outside. above 110 degrees and they would have to seek relief out in the open. Elaborate machinery in their new quarters keeps the temperature at an even 70 degrees. “This is all right,” Mr. Rwab ex- plained, “and we find ourselves being envied by those who work in offices above us when the outside temperature is around 90 degrees. However, when the day's work is over and we start for our homes with the temperature about 15 degrees higher than in the working room we suffer extremely. “There is a decidedly wilting feeling and at first it 1s actually an effort to walk. Our legs ache and the perspira- tion pours out. It is several hours be- fore we are able to get comfortable.” The m”:zmm said hl: ‘wu consider- a requ officials for permission 1tg‘flln the temperature at least 10 he and his men could home Gay's work i over, the Carl G. D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1932. 5 ARE DI THRSELEAED BY CRAND JURDRS Four Accused of Setting Up’ Gaming Tables, Four Taken : in Raids Freed. FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CHARGED TO TWO White and Kirk Held for Trial in Hold-up of Goodacre—Woman Freed in Death. _ The District grand jury today made its final report to Justice James M. Proctor in Criminal Division 1 and was discharged. A new grand jury will be Impaneled next week. The final report contained 58 indictments. Charges against 30 other persons were ignored. Four persons are accused of setting up a gaming table for cards, dice and horse racing bets and with permitting such games of chance. An owner of the building was joined by the grand Jury with one of two persons arrested at the time of the raid. One of those ar- rested was exonerated by the grand jprors and the other held with the owner of the building as conducting a gambling establishment. Charges against three others accused of gambling were ignored. Edmund M. Cohen is said to be the owner of premises 1229 Wisconsin ave- nue, where a raid was staged by police on the third floor, June 16, and is named as co-defendant with Leonard F. Hill, who was arrested and charged with setting up a gaming table. One Man Exonerated. Carroll P, Knuckles and George W. Settel are also accused of setting up a | gaming table as the result of a raid by | police, June 14, on the second floor of a building in the 800 block of Thir- teenth street. Lawrence R. Barry, who was arrested with Knuckles, was ex- onerated by the grand jury. Settel, who was said to have been acting as doorman, was not arrested at the time | of the rald, but was later taken into custody. Three other persons charged with gambling were exonerated by the grand jury. They are George W. Neely and | Peter A. Hughes, taken in a police raid on the eighth floor of an F street office building June 21, and Clark Wright, colored, who had been arrested in rear of the 1300 block of New York avenue June 15. Pirst degree murder is charged in two_indictments. James M. Ross, col- | ored, is sald to have shot his wife, Ida May, and then attempted suicide in a taxicab on Brookland avenue, near Michigan avenue, May 7. He recovered at a hospital. Bennie Montague, colored, is alleged to have shot to death Clara Williams, also colored, June 8, at 1943 Twelfth street, following a quarrel. Thomas F. White and John McKeen Kirk are charged with robbery in con- nection of the hold-up of George L. Goodacre, 7617 Morningside drive, June 13. White is said to have jumped on the running board of Goodacre’s car as it was leaving his home and to have snatched a leather case containing $3,382. Goodacre’s wife pursued the alleged bandit and cornered him in a nearby apartment, where he was ar- rested and the money recovered. Kirk was said to have been waiting nearby in an automobile. Arthur G. Brock, alleged “red-light” bandit, is accused in two indictments of highway robbery. He is said to have boarded the car of George Kerr while he was waiting for the lights to change at Wisconsin avenue and Mas- sachusetts avenue June 18. Kerr re- ported that he lost $1.95, a coat and a cigarette case and that his car was taken, but later recovered. The second indictment charges Brock with board- ing the car of Louis F. Lucas the same | night at Wisconsin avenue and R street. Lucas reported the loss of $5 and his car, which later was recovered. Housebreaking and larceny are charged against William E. Bedell, who | is said to have broken into a Western Union office on Connecticut avenue June 8 and to have stolen a safe con- tajning $1,870 in travelers’' checks. The safe was recovered on Chillum road. ‘Woman Freed in Death. Robbery is also charged against Al- bert K. Johnson, who is said to have robbed the auditor of the Chastleton Apartments June 7 of $422, which was taken from the cash drawer. The grand jurors exonerated Dolly T. Pratt, colored, who had been held responsible for the death of Charles Smith June 13. The woman shot the man on the street in front of premises 436 I street when he followed her after she warned him away. The| grand jurors also declined to indict| Albert Turner and James Henna on| charges of joy-riding; Joseph Roberts, grand larceny; James Barnes, William U. Cole, Roy Higdon, James L. Ford, John W. Johnson, Walter White. Rus- sell T. Henderson, Emmet Clark and Fleming Bell, housebreaking; Fred- erick Beverly, Henry A. Walker, Nathan Scott and McHenry Rush, assault with dangerous weapon; Florence Green, violating Harrison anti-narcotic law; Howard C. Emmet, assault to rape; Edward Brown and Edwin Garvin, abortion: Grover S. Chaney, larceny after trust; Harris Moody and Ermon Henson, violating liquor law. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Edwin Stebbing, John A. Jarboe, Lawrence R. Leon- berger, Woodrow W. Alford, Richard Allen, James Hallman, Henry B. Lucas, Walter H. Lutman, Lanfor Garlington, Aleck Williams, Robert Williams, alias Richard Randolph Jones: Albert Beck- man and Douglass Smith, joyriding; John William Campbell, degredation on private property: Arthur Richardson, housebreaking; Arthur Richardson, Carl Frank Wray (two cases) and James Posey (two cases), housebreaking and larceny: Mary Goodmans, Doney Mc- Gill, Robert Charles McGowan and Medough J. Bowdren, grand larceny; Medough J. Bowdren and Gilbert C. Smythe, larceny after trust; Preston Archie Medley, John McKeen Kirk, Tommy _ Alston, Orrington, Thomas Brown, Francis J. Knox, Willlam Rob- inson, James Johnson, alias Garnett Robinson; Alfred Hopkins and Oephus | ‘William, robbery. Ernest F. Watkins, Chester C. Cay, William Moore, alias Jackie Moore; Her- bert L. Wright, Allen Bevans, Ola Mills, Georgia Lewls, Lawrence Turner, Ida Warren and Anna Hunter, alias Lump Galloway, assault with dangerous wea- pon; Abran Lee, Reginald Smith, Domi- nic Nanci Rosa and Richard Wilson Bell, violation of national prohibition act; Caroline Hertel, abortion; Walter Holland, perjury; Seymour Anderson, alias Seymour Anderson, jr.; alias S. Anderson, jr., and Carl G. Sessinghaus (two cases), forgery; Samuel Adler, alias Danlel J. Harris, forgery and utter- ing; Johnr'r. Risher, Dan! Society and General | PAGE B—1 Glassford Advances $600 More to Buy Food for Veterans Police Chief Pelham D. Glass- ford once more came to the rescue of the thousands of hungry war veterans camped here and advanced out of his own pocket more than $600 for the purchase of food. Gen. Glassford thus made it possible for members of the Bonus Expeditionary Force to eat full rations through today and breakfast tomorrow, instead of existing _on bread, beans and coffee. ‘The police chief’s action came less than a weck after he resigned as “treasurer” of the B.E. F. Altogether $77340 worth of food was ordered by the General $135 of which was accounted for by checks received by police today. Supplies ordered included 3,000 pounds of meat, 500 pounds of sugar, 1,000 pounds of coffee, oot onions acd 300 poinds HOUSE APPROVES GAS HOLDER SITE Action Taken as Citizens’ Protest Biocks Vote in Senate. The House today voted to give the Washington Gas Light Co. permission to erect on Virginia avenue southeast | a 5,000,000-cubic foot gas holder. Ear- lier in the day objections blocked the same bill in the Senate, the Southeast Washington Citizens’ Association hav- ing gone on record in opposition. The last-minute effort to block Sen- ate action was made before the Senate District Committee late yesterday by the association. The bill had been favorably reported | by the committee and is on the Senate calendar. The association’s objection to the gas | holder was registered by Allan Davis) and John Ritter. Gas holders already in the southeast | section, they argued, are a menace to health, the odor from them polluting the air and the waters of the Anacostia River and saturating the soil. Davis claimed the proposed holder would serve as an auxiliary to existing storage tanks. and should be located in the section of the city it is intended to | serve, and not in the southeast. ‘The hearing was marked by a heated | verbal tilt between Senators Austin of Vermont and Blaine of Wisconsin, who have taken opposite sides on the trac- tion merger issue. Blaine was closely questioning William E. Horton, counsel for the gas company, as to the pcsition of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission on the proposed erec- tion of the gas holder when Austin sharply interposed: “Mr. Chairman, I do not think this witness is being fairly treated.” > 1 have been a member of this committee as long as the Senal from Vermont,” Blaine retallated. do not need any suggestions from him as to the questions I ask. I know my rights as a member of this committee and intend to exercise them.” “And as long as I serve on the same committee, I will protect the rights of witnesses,” sald Austin. ‘To this Blaine said: “I will ask wit- nesses such questions as I desire re- gardless of the guardianship over wit- nesses of the Senator from Vermont.” Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair- man of the Public Utilities Commis- sion, testified as to the desirability of the southeast site for the proposed gas holder over all others. John Nolen, city planner of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, said the commission would approve the lo- cation in case of public necessity. {DELAY MOVE TO SAVE MARRIED WORKERS Philippine Debates Block Senate Vote on Bingham Resolution to Nullify Section of Act. Prospect of Senate action today on| the Bingham joint resolution designed to nullify the provision in the general economy bill relating to married per- sons in the Government service did not appear very bright, in view of an antici- pated prolenged debate over the Philip- pine independence bill. Senator Bingham announced, how- ever, he would rest for action on the resolution at the first opportunity. There appears to be little opposition to the resolution in the Senate, but House leaders predict it will not be ap- | proved there in view of the overwhelm- ing vote by which the House adopted the conference report on the economy bill. The married provision stipulates that in event of necessary dismissals due to insufficient appropriations, either & man or his wife, if both are on the Government pay roll, shall be the first released. Senator Bingham feels that the only way in which the Senate can make retribution for its action in accepting the conference report is to adopt joint resolutions nullifying the effect of the admitted inequities in the economy bill. 1D. C. TRUCK DRIVER FINED $50 IN VIRGINIA District Man Convicied of Doing Intrastate Business in Viola- tion of Code. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, June 30.—The first local con- viction for violation of Virginia’s motor code occurred here this morning, when Lacy Brown, Washington trucker, was fined $50 and costs by Judge B. M. Hedrick in County Court. Brown was fined under the section of the code which prohibits out-of- State truckers from engaging in an intrastate business. According to State Policeman C. Wayne Carr, Brown was € in moving household goods from one section of the county to an- other. Carr explained that the new motor cede would have permitted Brown to move a resident of Arlington County to the District of Columbia or a resi- dent of the District of Columbia to Arlington County on hix District of Co- viding )¢ did not make nrmnl-:lrvlnlo:flm Laughlin, false Clark, embezzlement and Sessinghaus. Lluenu: Tobin, BLG Lev UNITED VETERANS FACE DISEASE AND SHORTAGE OF FOOD | Outbreak of Dysentery Leads to Fear of Epidemics at Bonus Camps. COMMANDER WATERS AND GLASSFORD CLASH New Chief Orders All Men to Drill an Hour a Day to Forget Worries. Its strife-torn ranks at last ur under the “dictatorship” of Walter Waters, the ragged bonus army today jfaced a fight on disease and lack of food. An outbreak of dysentary and what police described as “an alarming short- age of food” combined to aggravate the situation as the belligerant young Wa- ters clashed sharply with Brig. Gen Pelham D. Glassford over the B. E. F commander's authority to order out of town men who disagreed with him. Glassford last night advised the na- tional commander he coulc not force any one to leave the District. The deflance of the superintendent {of police became known as the 19,000 | veterans, harking back to their World | War days, began drilling in military | formation, carrying sticks instead of guns. Probably the most significant demonstration the veterans have insti- | tuted since their occupation of Wash=- |ington five weeks ago, the daily drill { period of one hour was the first order |issued by Waters after his re-election | yesterday as national commander. He {said he would rule “with absolute power.” Will Name 500 “M, P.’s.” To see that every man followed his instructions and drilled an hour a day, Waters announced he would appoint 500 “M. P.s.” The drill was ordered, he said, for the purpose of “taking our mind off our own worries.” With nearly a score of dysentary cases already reported among the veter- ans, Health Officer William C. Fowler, fearful of an epidemic, announced he had ordered an investigation to de- termine whether the disease is “the epi- demic type” or “simple dysentary.” “One case of epidemic dysentary hu been reported at Walter Reed Hespital,” Dr. Fowler said. “It is likely the others also are of the epidemic type, but I cannot be certain of this until labora- tory tests are completed.” Epidemic dysentary is a communicable disease and spreads rapidly, especially in camps of the type of that at Ana- costia, where the men sleep in the open with virtually no sanitary facilities, and where food is stored, cooked and eaten unprotected from flies. More Veterans Arrive. ‘More veterans continued to swell the ranks of the bonus marchers today as B. E. F. supply officers placed the army on short rations. In an effort to pre- serve a united front in the face of the acute food shortage, Chief of Staff Owen W. Lucas declared if the men “could hold out two more days, the situation would be in hand and the veterans would be prepared to stay here from now on.” “Tons of food are en route here from Hoboken, N_J., and Des Moines, Towa,” said the chief of staff. “We won't starve.” Other food was reported en route by airplane for the Hells Kitchen, N. Y, unit, while many Pennsylvania towns also’ were said to be shipping food in for their delegations. Slim rations of beans, bread and coffee were issued today. Honored Third Time. Waters was placed at the helm of the tattered bonus army for the third time within a month as the thousands of for- mer doughboys, confronted with a food shortage and internal strife, were at the point of disintegration. As the ballots were cast which thrust him_back into the saddle by an over- whelming vote, only enough food was in the B. E. F. commissary to provide for yesterday's afternoon meal and breakfast this morning. Nearly 3 tons of flour and cracked wheat had been requisitioned from the American Red Cross, but at best this would give only bread and breakfast food for a few days. There was virtually no meat, vegetables, sugar and only a small amount of pota- toes in the larder. Washington bakers, who generously have donated unsold bread each day. requested Gen. Glassford to be relieved of this service and the wholesale food merchants have materially reduced their contributions to the needy veterans. Cash donations have fallen off to prac- tically nothing and recruiting agents sent out by national B. E. F. head- quarters have failed to excite the en- thusiasm of the people to such an ex- tent as to result in large contributions of either food or money. Two recruiters—the be-medaled Joe Angelo of Camden, N. J, and Elmer Jensen of Utah—were arrested and jailed in Philadelphia for soliciting funds for food. Makes Dramatic Appeal. In & dramatic appeal for support from the 10,000 or more veterans en- camped in Anacostia, Waters late yes- terday outlined his program of leader- ship and served notice that those who refused to follow the rule of the ma- jority and accede to his wishes “could get out of the B. E. F." Besides ordering a daily drill period, he advised the men he would abolish the Executive Legislative Committees and remove from office all national offi- cer. and “hangers-on” at national headquarters. Also he warned that any camp, regimental or company com- mander who failed to co-operate with him would be summarily removed. The first commander to be removed was Mike Thomas, leader of Camp Marks, at Anacostia, whom Waters re- placed with George Thompson. Thomas, who, like Thompson, hails from Camden, was Waters' chief an- tagonist. 28 R S BISHOP CANNON WRONGLY QUOTED ON PROHIBITION By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 30.—The Associated Press corrects a statement made June 25, to the effect that Bishop James Cannon, jr., Southern Methodist bishop, appealed to the Democratic Resolutions Committee for a declaration in favor of prohibition in the party platform. ‘The story should have stated that the veteran dry leader urged a law enforce- ment plank and asked that prohibition not be made a party issue or the sub- ject of the plank in the Democratic said this had in party platforms. ‘The Associated Press is glad to make PSRRI