Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1932, Page 13

Washington News ING EDITION The Zoening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 25, POLICE CHECKING DEATH OF CHINESE FROM PISTOL SHOT Man Found in Bunk in Rear of Laundry—Suicide Theory Is Advanced. MISPLACED CASH BOX MAY BE ROBBERY CLUE Victim Had Been Ill Two Weeks, Cousin Says—Ballistics Ex- pert Studies Gun. Lee Lin, 35-year-old Chinese laundry- man, was found shot to death about 6€:30 am. today in a rcom in the rear of the Hing Lee laundry, 809 Twelfth street northeast. Although Acting Corcner A. Magruder MacDonald said the case locked *“‘more like a suicide than a murder,” he with- held his verdict pending an investiga- tion by members of the police homicide squad. Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson, chief of the squad. assigned Detective Sergts. Floyé Truscot! and Dennis J. Murphy to trace the ownership of the .32-caliber revolver with which the laundry pro- prietor was killed. The detectives also were ordered to begin a search for a young white woman said to have visited | the laundry frequently. Found by His Cousin. Lee was found lylng on a bunk by his cousin, Lee Thick Kee, 26, of the 1000 block of Fourth street northeast. ‘There wes a bullet wound in his abdo- men and the gun was lying on the flocr beside the bunk. Possibility Lee was slain by a robber wes seen when police found his cash drawer on the floor of the rear room, instead of in its customary place in the laundry. The till was empty and clothes and other furnishings were scat- tered about. ‘The cousin told ninth precinct po- lice, who made a preliminary investiga- tion of the case under the direction of their commander, Acting Capt. Gustave Lauten, that the front door of the laun- dry was unlocked when he arrived. A side door also was unlocked, but was barred on the inside, he said. Lee, who had conducted the laundry for the last two years, had been {ll for about two weeks, his cousin said, and he had been running the place. Lee spent all of yesterday away from home, however, his_cousin added, and detec- tives began checking all known Chinese Ictteries in an effort to learn if he had lost his money in some of them. A powder mark on Lee's right index finger indicated, according to Dr. Mac- Donald, the Chinese may have shot himself. Some of the detectives as- signed 1o the case, however, regarded the burn as a possible indication Lee ‘was shot while struggling for possession of the revolver, from which only one shot was fired. ‘The gun was turned over to Lieut. John Fowler, police ballistics expert, for ex- emination. The bullet, which plerced Lee’s body, and went through a tele- phone book lying nearby, also will be examined by Fowler. VICTIMS OF TRAIN REPORTED BETTER ‘Washington Woman and Daughter Seriously Hurt in Crash Fatal to One. Mrs. E. W. Brandes of 3404 Fulton street and her daughter Anne, 12, who | were serfously injured last Saturday, | when their automobile was struck by train at a crossing near Alma, Mich, were improved today and may recover, according to an Associated Press dis- patch. They are in a hospital at Alma. The crossing accident resulted in the instant death of a daughter, Margaret, 11 years old, and minor injuries to two other children of the family, Elizabeth, 15, and “Billy,” 5 years old. The two latter are much better. Dr. Elmer W. Brandes, the husband, was to have joined his family at their Summer home at Burt Lake. He left by airplane Saturday afternoon when lie was informed of the death of his daughter and injurles to the other members of his family. It was said here that Margaret would be buried at their former home in Michigan. REPORT DUE TOMORROW IN POISONING OF 400 Analysis of Specimens of Food Nearly Finished by Bac- teriologist. Report of the results of analyses of specimens of the food that sent ep- proximately 400 persons to hospitals suffering from poisoning following an RELATIVE OF FIRST PRESIDENT { and Maj. James H. Dcgl HE routes laboriously traveled by George Washington afoot, on horse and by coach during his lifetime are being retraced to- | day by Maj. James H. Doolittle | and Miss Anne Madison Washington, | great-great-great-niece of the first | President, in a roaring yellow mono- | plane, which is flying each hour a dis- | tance which would have cost Washing- ton nine days of hard travel. Doolittle and Miss Washington, leav- | ing Kittery, Me., with the first flush of | dawn made their first landing_ at| Washington-Hoover _Airport at 7:45 o'clock, with approximately cne-fourth } of their long flight behind them. I A half hour was spent in refueling at the local airport, 250 gallons of gasoline { being pumped into the tanks of the speedy low-wing mongcplane. With the | great load of fuel aboard. Deolittle made one of the most breath-taking take-ofls seen at the local airport in many months. He taxied to a take-off position at | the farthest corner of the field south of | the Ludington hangar, adioining the | Washington-Alexandria highway, gave | his motor a brief full-throttle test.| headed toward the Lincoln Memorial and kicked off his brakes. With motor “full out.” he started his run acrocs the airport, while news photographers, cam- eras leveled, waited the moment when | his wheels would leave the grour | Nearly Hits Fence. i As the yards slipped by, Doolittle held the little ship hard cn the ground. The field boundary along Military road | neared, and still he held it down, striv-| ing for the few extra yards of speed | necessary to lift the “heavily laden plane. Finally, when it appeared that | he must surely crash headlong into the | boundary fence, he eased back the con- | trol stick and roared over the fence | with a clearance of inches only. He | circled the field, gaining altitude slowly, | | | | | Retrace Washington’s Travels Representative Sol Blocm (left) greetin; little (right) at Washi - they arrived on their fight to retrace the routes followed by George Washington. | post by Confederate soldiers during July TRIO HURT AS LIFT FALLS FIVE FLOORS ATGOSPEL SN Construction Elevator Drops at New Building as Cable Breaks. ACCOMPANIES MAJ. DOOLITTLE. YOUTH, 18, IS BELIEVED TO HAVE SPINE FRACTURE Investigation Is Begun Immediate- ly—Injured Are Taken to Emergency Hospital. Three workmen were injured. one of them gravely, today when a construc- tion lift feil stories at the new g built at 810 Fifth One of the men on the lift, Adam Horn, colored, 30, 139 D street north- | east, "escaped 'serious injury by swing- ing off the falling elevator as it passed the third floor. Norman Patterson, 18, 406 H street, sustained a probable fracture of the spine. He fell with the from the fourth floor to the basement. Horn's shoulder was hurt as he swung into the building from the elevator. The third man, Brook Pierson, colored, 914 West- minster street, sustained injuries to his back, shoulder and left leg when several boards from the elevator struck him as he was working in the basement. The accident occurred when the cable Miss Anne Madisen Washington ngton Airport this morning, where | _ —Star Staff Photo. 3 of been spliced with clamps. C. M. Dutcher, engineer running the gasoline engine used to operate the lift, raised the elevator to the fourth floor with two containers of concrete. There Patterson and Horn steppad onto SEEK 10 SAVE TREE | lift about six inches to the level of the floor. He attempted to do so and his said it had fallen only about six feet when he applied his brake. The sudden U. D. C. Will Meet to Plan Fight for Giant Oak Used by Confederates. had been spliced. A building inspector immediately commenced an investigation. The three injured men were taken to Emergency Hospital by the fire rescue squad. Patterson has been in Washington Priends rallied today in defense of | on1u' a short time, coming here from | |one of the District's most interesting | East Lauring, N. C. He has no rela- | oaks, a sturdy and historic giant slated | tives here. After receiving a report as to the to fall in a few months before the ax28 | . gition of the lift, Col. John W. and steam shovels of workmen clearing | Gehmann, District building inspactor, a right of way for the new Piney |said his office had no jurisdiction in Branch Boulevard in Tekoma Park, | the maiter since it is required to vision, United Daughters of the Con- | The building was beine construct-d federacy, will be called Thursday night | the Gospel Mission itself. by the president, Mrs. Fred Lewis Voll- | intendent is Harold G. Spink. and, to discuss means of arousing putliz sentiment in behal? of the ancient land- mark, MIDSHIPMEN END PRACTICE CRUISE Training Ship U. S. S. Wyoming Returns From West Indies and Gulf Ports. Used by ConfeGerates. While the tree was used as a signal of 1864, historic interest is secondary, | Mrs. Volland said, to the community | need for preserving one of the few| survivors of the original forests. The cak has a spread of more than 109 feet and apparently is in perfect cndition. Meanwhile, R. T. Edwards, director of the educational division, American the elevator parted where it had | motor stalled, the lifs slipping. Dutcher | strain caused the cable to part where it | ‘The gupar- | and then headed for Mount Vernon, | Tree Assoclation, has begun a personal Duuting @, half-hour fueling stop [ LAYesiigation of the pomihiliies of sav {Is_scheduled » |ing the tree, located on the property cf | here Miss Washington, wWho is making | nrs " jerome Hubbard behind her home | at 7140 Chestnut street. Mrs. Hubbard, a widow, exhausted! every resource to save the tree before a right of way was condemned by the | District government. Although the | papers have already been signed, she| | sttl hopes that the boulevard can be! | relocated. | District authorities, however, pointed | out that a cut must b> made through | or near the little knoll on which the tree stands, as an approach to an| underpass of the nearby Baltimore & Ohio tracks already under construction. Decision Must Wait. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, said today he would mnot| know if the tree must be sacrificed | | until detailed plans of the underpass | | approach are completed in two weeks. | He was certain, however, that actual | construction would not start until Octo- ber_or November. Engineers have informed Mrs. Hub- | bard that one edge of the boulevard | will pass so near the tree as to necessi- tate its destruction, because the roots | | must be removed. 'Mrs. Hubbard was told the tree could be saved by moving the bouievard over some 20 feet. her third airplane flight today, had little to say except “everything is going splendidly and we dropped every pack- age of mail along the way right on the dot.” Doolittle and Miss Washington off from Boston for Kittery at 3:25 o'clock this morning with 30 packages of mail aboard, to be drcpped at 30 prominent places reached by Wash- ington in his trayels. Theyv headed north to Kittery, ‘the farthest point north reached by Washington, dropped {the first package and then headed | down the Atlantic seaboard. They were | accompanied on the flight to Wash- ington by A. F. Maple of the Aero- nautical Chamber of Commerze. Doolittle and Miss Washington were welcomed at the local airport, four hours after their Boston take-off, by Representative Sol Bloom, director of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, under aus- pices of which the flight is being made. destined for delivery here to a post- man from the city post office and a half hour later the mail had been can- celed and was on its way to a list of prominent addresses, headed by Presi- dent Hoover. Fueling Stop at 2:30 .M. The 250 gallons of fuel taken aboard here was expected to carry Dcolittle and Miss Washington over the network of Weashington's travels in Virgiia, | North Carolina, West Virginia and Southern Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh, where another fueling stop was sched- uled at about 2:30 o'clock this after- ncon. 9:15 o'clock tonight at Newark Airport, the great New York air transport ter- {minal, after some 2,900 miles of flying. | Today's_flight is being made., nct only as a Bicentennial tribute to George Washington, but also to commemorate the 157th anniversary of the founding Doolittle handed the package of mail | The flight is expected to end &t | chilngias et Il ase Thursday | of the United States Postal Service. It night wil e made tomorrow. “We have proceeded as rapidly s cent with Doolittle will be cancele possible,” Dr. Edward C. Schwartz. who | at the widely scattered post offices is directing the investigation of the route with today’s cancellation marks poisoning cutbreak, said today. “The |and that they will all be delivered tomor- task has involved considerable research, | raw, the anniversary of the establish- but Dr. John E. Noble, the Health De- | ment of the Postal Service, to the Na- 'is hoped that the 30 packages of mail | partment bacteriologist making the analyses, has about completed his work.” The outbreak occurred following a picnic given by employes of the Ches nut Farms and Chevy Chase Dairfes. ©Officials of the two concerns have been co-operating with the Health Depart- men: in making the investigation. NOVENA WILL CLOSE AT CHURCH TOMORROW The novena in honor of St. Anne, being_held at the Church of the Im- maculate Conception, Eighth and N streets, will close tomorrow morning with a special service at 7:30 o'clock. Solemn benediction will be celebrated by Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the church. He will be assisted by Rev. S. A. Czyz and Rev. J. Kelly Reese. Father Hurney and Rev. John I Barrett of Baltimore will lead a 10-day pilgrimage August 3 to the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre, and all petitions received at the Church of the Im- maculate Conception during the novena will be collected and placed at the altar of the Canadian shrine. Music for the service tomorrow morning will be under direction of Harry Wheaton Howard, organist. Miss Tlorence Yocum, soprano of the Im- riaculate Conception senior choir, will Le soloist. | tion's leaders to whom they are ad- { dressed. After leaving Kittery, Doolittle drcpped | packages of mail at Portsmouth, N. H.; Beston, Providence, New Haven; the replica’ of Mount Vernon in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; Morristcwn and Tren- ton, J Forge, Pa., and Annapolis, Md. LEAVES BOSTON AT DAWN. Doolittle Sets Course With Kittery, Me., as Objective. BOSTON, July 25 (#)—Maj. James Doolittle, holder of the coast-to-coast air record, took off from the Boston Airport at 3:25 am. (E. 8. T.) today on & proposed dawn-to-dusk flight commemorative of the 157th anniver- | sary of the United States postal service. Miss Anne Madison Washington, a descendant of the brother of George Washington, and A. F. Maple of New York, representing the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the flight, accompanied the maior. couple as they left the airport here, but they did not plan to land there. posed_cruise was designed to carry Maj. Doolittle and his passenger over the points visited by Gen. Wash- ington du: his career as explorer, soldier and statesman. It would cover 2,900 miles through 14 States. Thirty packages of letters were aboard the plane and er planned Philadelphia and Valley | | Kittery, Me., was the objective of the | PAINTING WHITE HOUSE Workers Start Job That Will In- clude Some Repairs. | | Work was started today on repaint- |ing the White House. This is done |every two years. The roof on the west wing linking the White House proper with the executive office is being repaired also. Both jobs are being done by the | oOffice of Public Buildings and Public Parks. It is thought the painting job will not be concluded for at least two weeks. to drop them at intervals as he roared along his proposed route. B:sides air- mail stamps, the letters carried special tags requesting the finder to take them to the nearest post office. After visiting Washington Maj. Doo- | little’s_plans called for a turn south over Fredericksburg, Va., and York- town. Next, Sunbury, N.'C., and back in a wide circle to Ticonderoga, N. Y., and down the Hudson to New York City, where the proposed flight was scheduled to end. | PASSES OVER PHILADELPHIA. | Bag of Mail Is Dropped at Mustin Field at Navy Yard. PHILADELPHIA, July 25 () —Maj, James Doolittle dropped a bag of mail |'at Mustin Pield, Philadelphia Navy Yard, et 6:25 am. (E. S. T.), today |and sped on toward Wilmington, Del.; Annapolis and Washington. He' drop- ped a bag of mail at Valley Forge shortly before he flew over the navy yard. FREDERICKSBURG VISITED. | Doolittle and Miss Washington Continue to Wakefield. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 25 (P).—Maj. James H. Doolittle and Miss Anne Madison Washington passed over Fredericksburg at 8:35 am. today. ‘They dropped a package of mail at the Municipal Airport here and then ‘The first midshipmen’s practice cruise to end this afternoon when the training ship U. S. S. Wy ming drops anchor at Annapolis, Md., following a cruise to West Indies and Gulf ports. The Navy Department said today that the midshipmen—222 members of the first class and 289 members of the third class—will disembark tomorrow morn- ing and go on leave until the middle of | September. The Wyoming will start her second cruise on August 1, geing to the Azores on that trip and taking the other half {of the members of the first and third classes. The former bat‘'eship left Annapolis June 3 and has visited Galveston, Tex., and Ponce, Porto Rico, during the mid- shipmen’s cruise. Due to considerations of economy, the Wyoming is the only vessel employed this Summer for training the midship- men afloat. CHURCH PLANS SUPPER AT CAPITOL HEIGHTS Congregation of St. Mathias Will Hold Second Annual Carnival on Wednesday Night. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., July 25.— ‘The second annual chjcken supper and carnival will be giveu Wednesday night for the benefit of St. Mathias’ Catholic Church, here, under the auspices of its congregation. Mrs. Irene A. Conner is ger®ral chair- man of the Arrangement Committee and is assisted by Mrs. Helen Turner, Mrs. Isabel Chaney, Mrs. E. Hugin, Mrs. Mary Rabbitt, Mrs. R. Rick, Mrs. Mar- garet Hayes, Mrs. J. A. Clements, Mrs. Maric Krebbs, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baumann, John Conner, Alvin Turner, J. Brooks, H. Spaights, D. Shugrne, C. Hayes, G. DeGrass, A. Marks, George POSTAL PAY CUTS 10 GO AT LEAST 813 WCARLRULNG Economy Act Applies Where 0ld Law Fails to Compel Reductions. INUMBER AFFECTED IN D. C. YET UNCERTAIN Decision Explains Full Automatic Reduction in Relation to Legis- lative Furlough. Postmasters and other officials of | post offices throughout the country, in- cluding Washington, whose salaries are | based on postal receipts, must take the | | full amourt of automatic reduction i pay this year provided in the old law, | which varies their pay according to| postal receipts, regardless of the econ- | omy act, it was decided today by Con- troller General McCarl. This decision was interpreted as of importance to this specified group of | officials because of the big slump in | postal receipts generally throughout the | country. | Postmaster Mooney of this city ex-; plained that his office had been eagerly awaiting this decision by McCarl, but in advance of receiving an official copy. he could not explain definitely how | many people would be affected mor just how much they would be affected.) Swecping in Effect. It was explained, however, in the office of Representative James Mead, chairman of the House Committee on | Post Offices and Pcct Roads, to whom the decision was rendered, that it affects all pe: whose szlaries are bated on postal receipts and fluctuate according to the business of their office. Gen- erally this includes the postmaster him- self, the assistant gostmaster and super- visors. It does nct aff however, all | employes whose salaries are on a flat | basis, ecelving the same amount each | year. > McCarl held that, no matter how great the decrease in postal receipts was, the automatic reduction in compensa- tion must cperate, even though it re- | sults in a salary cut of more than 813 per cent provided in the economy act. The decision held, however, that the eccnomy act must apply to force these fluctuating salaries to take a cut cf at least 815 per cent. Reduction Requirements, “If the automatic reduction,” con- tinued McCarl, “brings their compensa- | tion below 9125 per cent of the average compensation for 1931 they must take such deduction, but are not required to take a further reduction under the econ- omy act.” This means that postmasters and other employes in this class of fluctuat- ing income must bear the full brunt of the decrease brought out by the de- pression’s slump in postal receipts. Postmaster Mooney explained that in the Washingion office, pending settle- ment of the qucstion decided today. every cne had been given the regular 813 per cent economy act cut. The | general force has been given a compul- | | | i month as part of the 24 days’ compul- sory legislative furlough of the econ- omy act. They will find their pay on August 1, therefore, reduced by six and one-fourth days' pay because of the fact that the salary deducticns are based on 30 days' pay, with the furlough absences on 24 working days. Question of Difference. This_question of the difference be- | tween the calculation on working days and calendar month pay was further | explained by McCarl in a letter to Sen- ator Copeland of New York regarding a specific case. “Under the economy act” McCarl explained, “one calendar month as used in section 101 ‘B’ of the economy | | act is to be regarded for pay purpos: as 30 calendar days. The section,” he continued, “gives the option of taking | this enforced furlough without pay all |in one calendar month, such as July, August, and etc, or in shorter periods. | For the latter purpose it is provided | that only 24 working days shall be re- | garded as one calendar month. This means simply that for keeping the rec- ord when periods of less than one cal- endar month are taken, only the work- ing days are regarded, and when 24 are taken, the furlough time has been ex- hausted. “But for the purposes of calendar | deductions ‘one calendar month’ is 30 days * ¢ * and the employe loses a total of 30 days’ pay during the fiscal year, which is to be deducted as the rate of one and one-quarter days for each of the 24 working days iaken or au- thorized to be taken.” McCarl further explained today that the economy act allows leave with pay | for rural mail carriers, postmasters and postal employes of post offices of the | first, second and third classes, whose salary or allowances are based on postal receipts, and also postmasters of the | fourth class. This would include also |the employes who McCarl told Repre- | sentative Mead must take the full ef- | fect of the automatic cut in pay. Meet to Hear Protests. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. M sory five-day furlough without pay this | Beall, sr.; George Beall, jr.; Catherine HYATTSVILLE, Md., July 25 (Spe- Catts, Mrs. Mary Murphy, Mrs. M. King | cial).—A meeting of the Mayor and and Mrs. Phobe Humer. | Town Council will be held tonight at The supper will be served from 5 to |8 o'clock, when property owners ca the 8 o'clock in the parish hall of St. Mar- | various strects here recently perma- garet's Catholic Church, Seat Pleasant, | nently improved will be given an op- and the carnival will be on the grounds | portunity to protest their assessments | adjotning the parish hall. before they are levied. Agriculture Called in When The Department of Agriculture will summon the toughest of grasses and the hardiest of legumes to its aid next Sep- tember in an effort to develop a turf which can be grown on a busy airport. The experimental work necessary will be carriedon at Washington-Hoover Air- port under supervision of C. R. Enlow of the division of forage crops of the ent. de%x:xgroblem of airport surfacing has baffied airport officials in all parts of the country. Thousands upon thous- sand of dollars have been expended and every conceivable variety of surfacing Imaterial has been tried. The Aeronau- tics Branch of the Department of Com- merce co-operated with airport people in studying the problem for many sped on toward Wakefield, the next point on the itinerary. The arrival from | Washington was 10 minutes ahead of schedule, onths. mClnders. gravel, crushed oyster shells, oiled sand, concrgte, asphalt, tar bind- FEDERAL EXPERTS TO SEEK GRASS STURDY ENOUGH FOR AIRPORTS All Other Means of Surfac- ing Landing Fields Prove Unsatisfactory. | ers and even wood blocks and rubberized | compounds have been tried, but all | have developed faults which leave re- search workers dissatisfied. Many authorities maintain there is nothing so satisfactory as good grass turf. Grass is exceedingly difficult to maintain under the heavy traffic of a | modern_airport, however. ~‘The Depart- ment of Agriculture wes asked to ald in the search for a grass or ground- | covering plan which not only would live | but which could be grown from seed on an airport without closing it to traffic. “We are planning to plant several kinds of grasses and legumes in plots on the less frequently used portions of Washington-Hoover Airport,” Mr. En- low explained. “We have no expecta- tion of success on the heavily used por- tions of the field and will make no ef- fort to plant them.” 1932. here. convention will last three days. stamps. First of New Stamp Books Sold INITIAL 3-CENT ISSUE OFFERED HERE. PAGE B—1 I ! ICHAEL L. EIDSNESS, superintendent of the division of stamps in the; United States Post Office Department (left), is selling the first of the new 3-cent stamp booklets to Dr. N. P. McGay of Cleveland, retiring president of the Society of Philatelic Americans, now in convention Dr. McGay will be succeeded in office this year by Col. W. N. McKelvy of Washington, it was announced fcllowing an election meeting. Approximately 100 delegates are gathered here at the Mayflower Hotel. ‘The program was opened this morning with speeches by Dr. McGay, J. Leo Kolb and Mr. Eidsness, followed by a visit to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Arlingtcn, Alexandria and Mount Vernon. | Tonight the delegates will open an informal bourse for sale and exchange of | The BEFORECRAND RY Arraignment of Harris and Davis Called Off to Pro- tect Witnesses. Arraignment cf Charles Harris and iHmry Davis, alleged Philadelphia gang- | sters, before United States Commis- | sioner Needham C. Turnage today on {tion with the recent s'aying of Milton W. (Miisie) Henry, Washington gambler, was called off when District Attorney Leo A. Rover anncunced the case had | been presented to the grand jury. The grand jury's disposition of the charges will be announced tomorrow, when the results of its deliberations of ivarious cases during the last week are repcrted in District Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Commissioner Turnage or- dered the accused men returned to the Dictrict Jail to await the grand jury's report. The case was presented to the grand jury, it was said, to protect witnesses who had testified against Harris and Davis. These witnesses, it was added, feared possible gangland reprisal meas- ures if it became known they had appeared against the pair. Henry was murdered by two men who | waylaid him in the 3400 block of Brown street, about a block from his Sixteenth street apartment, several months ago. | The men fled in an automobile after | one of them had fired five charges from a sawed-off shotgun into his body. Both Harris and Davis were arrested | in Philadelphia. Davis subsequently | was released, but was picked up again | last week. Police attempted to prove | Harris was the ‘“trigger man,” while Davis was the driver of the murder car. The case was investigated by Detec- tive Sergts. John C. Dalglish, Floyd Truscott and Dennis J. Murphy, who said both men have a long list of aliases. MAN SLAYS GIRL, THEN KILLS HIMSELF Shooting of Richmond Girl at| Fluvanna Is Believed Result of Lover's Quarrel. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, July 25—Follow- ing what is believed to have been a lover’s quarrel, Miss Genevieve V. Brock, 16-year-old Richmond girl, was shot and killed yesterday morning by Dave Rayals, 30, saild to have been one of her admirers, who then turned the re-| ;I&lver upon himself and ended his own | fe. ‘The shooting occurred in the yard Ofl the home of Miss Brock’s mother in | Fluvanna County and it was stated by | investigating officers that Rayals and Miss Brock were alone at the house at the time. Miss Brock, whcse home was in Rich- mond, had been visiting her mother and stepfather at their home in Fluvanna. Rayals’ home was in Goochland County, but had been living in Fluvanna for some time, it was stated. MERCURY CLIMBS AFTER AGREEABLE WEEK END Humidity Low, but Temperature May Go as High as 80 Degrees by Tomorrow. ‘The respite Washingtonians felt over the week end from the blistering heat of last week was fading today as the mer- cury, which early this morning dropped as low as 61 degrees, started a climb which bade fair to reach well into the 80s this afterncon. ‘Weather Bureau officlals could promise nothing more than “fair and warmer.” Tonight, they said, would not be un- comfortable, but the thermometer prob- ably will point to 90 cr more degrees some time tomorrow afternoon. Hu- midity, however, is low. Yesterday’s high temperature, reached | at 5 pm., was 80 degrees. This mark | had been passed at 11 this moming as the mereury shot upward, | first degree murder charges in connec- | HENRY DEATH CASE MT. VERNON ROUTE BUSSES PERMITTED {Col. Grant Withholds Details Affecting Services Below Alexandria. Regularly scheduled bus service be- tween Alexandria, Va., and Mt. Ver- non, along the lower end of the new Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, will be permitted, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and pub- lic parks, indicated today. Sight-see- ing busses also will be permitted on the highway, Col. Grant said, but he with- held the details of his program. . _ The colonel explained that permits for the busses are being written up and | studied to insure that they are in | proper legal form, and an official an- | nouncement of the details is expected to be made tomorrow or Wednesday. Col. Grant is leaving the city for a vacation in Europe on Wednesday, and he wants to have this matter cleared up before he goes. The names of the companies | that will receive the operating permits were not announced today. Recently Col. Grant held public hear- ings to determine what the need for service is and what types the Federal Government should permit on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. The colonel is studying the problem of what intervals sightseeing busses will be re- quired to run, so that the road will not be_congested with these bulky vehicles. Indications today were that Col. Grant will not sign permits for bus service at stated intervals between Alex- andria, Va.. and Washington along the new Federally owned road. In all like- lihood these interstate busses will be required to use the highways leading to Alexandria that were utilized before the Memorial Highway was constructed. FORMER LAWYER SUES ON FALSE ARREST CHARGE Assistant Superintendent of Schools Accused of Malice in Alleging Theft of Test Papers. Sylvester L. McLaurin, 2017 Thir- teenth street, former member of the | District bar, who was recently acquitted of a charge of stealing an examination paper from the files of the Board of Education, teday filed suit in the Dis- trict Supreme Court to recover $10,000 damages from Howard H. Long, 1112 Girard street. He charges that Long maliciously caused his arrest, which was followed by grand jury indictment, of which he was acquitted March 17. Attorney Wil- liam H. Richards represents the plain- tiff. Long is an assistant superintend- ent of schools in charge of the files for examination papers. The arrest oc- curred July 25, 1931. WEST VIRGINIAN INJURED AS MOTOR CYCLE HITS CAR | Girl Companion Is Also Treated at Hagerstown Hospital After Crash on National Highway. | Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., July 25.—Wal- ter Offutt. 25, Fairmont, W. Va., is in Memorial Hospital here with serious in- | juries received when his motor cycle | crashed into an automobile driven by S. L. Wolfe, Reistertown, Md., on the National Highway between Green Ridge and Polish Mountain. Miss Catherine Morgan, 18, 432 Cook street, Hagerstown, riding with Offutt, who was lacerated and shocked, was able to leave the hospital yesterday aft- ernoon. Offutt has a fractured arm and leg and body lacerations. A wheel was torn from Wolfe's car, which had swerved in an attempt to avoid & eal- lision and struck a telephone pole. TESTIFES IN THEFT Mrs. Willebrandt Appears as Com- plaining Witness. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for- mer Assistant Attorney General, ap- peared in Police Court today as com- plainthg witness against a man who, it is said, took a $100 watch from her home in the 3000 block of Dumbarton avenue. William T. Robinson, colored, is charged with grand larceny as a result of the theft. Judge Isaac R. Hitt ordered him held for the grand jury on $2,000 bond, ki -2 PHONE CUT HEARING RECESSES T0 TAKE IPHOTONSFRIOA Commission Then Wil Rule on Company’s Plea to Bar Testimony. DECISION IS EXPECTED TO BE UNFAVORABLE Evidence Given to Show Reproduc- tion Cost Would Be Lower Than Firm Figures. The Public Utilities Commission wound up its case at the public hearings on reduction of telephone rates in Wash- ington today and further hearings were Postponed until next Friday. On Fri- day the commission will rule on mo- tions made by tie Chesapeake & Po- t:mac fill;(phuned Co. to strike out cer- exhibits and test l‘Ol’é\éfltfdon witnesses. ayisid by iward Rainey, formerly a b contractor and now as a’ssm"n'z"‘i’&“: engineer in the commission’s Bureau of Valuations, testified that the scale of wages paid to laborers on buildings other than Government buildings in the Dictrict is 30 per cent below the scale paid_on Government e the Bacen Dacis pep Pulldings undes Hold Figure Generous, In estimating the cost of reproducti of the telephone company's property tar day, the commission witnesses had used the Bacon-Davis scale for labor pay= ments and Rainey's testimony was of- fered to show that as far as labor was concerned the valuation figure arrived at was generous. Corrections of mathematical errors in the preparation of various exhibits were entered on the record after Rainey’s testimony by Thomas R. Tate, another commission witness. The re- sult of these corrections was to increase the final figure of the cost of reproduc- ing the properties, less depreciation, from $22,926,474 to $22,975,880. Tate a'so testified that it would un- doubtedly cost less to reproduce the telephcne company’s property today in a single construction contract than it has cost to build it up piecemeal, owing to the extra cost involved in adding plant to property already in service without interrupticn to service. Motions Are Sweeping. ‘The motions of the company on which the commission will rule next Friday are to strike out all testimony and exhibits relating to valuation on the ground that the present is nct a valu- ation case; also to strike out all testi- mony and exhibits relating to depre- {clation on the ground that this is & matter in which the Interstate Com- merce Commission, and not the lccal commission, has jurisdiction. To sustain these points would, in ef- fect, wipe out the commission’s entire case, and it is almost a certainty that neither will be sustained, but it is said that it is important to have them in the record in case the proceedings should be taken to court. In announcing the recess until Fri- day, Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the commission warned the company that tie commission considers that an emer- gency exists, and that after the rulings the company will be given but a limited time in which to prepare its case. M’CORMICK WILL FILED FOR PROBATE Son Places Value of Mother's Estate at $100,000—Family and Employes Benefit. The will of Mrs. Katharine Medill McCormick, who died in Versailles, France, April 11, was filed today for probate in the District Supreme Court by her son, Robert R. McCormick of Chicago. The petition of the son places the value of his mother's estate at $100,000, and states that by her will she made no effort to exercise any powers of appointment which she may have had, and is not disposing of any prop- erty not mentioned in the will, Besides the son, Mrs. McCormick is survived by three grandchildren, Kath- arine A., Medill and Ruth E. McCor- mick, children of a deceased son, Medill McCormick. By the terms of her will, Mrs. Mc- Cormick explains that the contents of premises at 3000 Massachusetts avenue belonged to her deceased son, Joseph Medill McCormick, and are now the property of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Simms. She gives to Mrs, Simms a wardrobe, furs, laces and wearing apparel. All her jewelry is to g0 to-her granddaughters, Katharine and Ruth McCormick. The son, Rob- ert, is to have his father's portrait and certain silverware. John Bryce, a colored house man, is left $1,000. Ann McCarthy and Mina Clark, described as “in my employ,” are each given $5,000. TWO YOUTHS AND MAN REPORTED MISSING Police Asked to Find Charles J. Quigley, and William Carden, Latter 77. Police today were seeking two youths, one a professional boxer, and a 77-year- old man, reported missing from their homes. A lookout for the boxer, Charles J. Quigley, 19, of the 600 block of Newton place, ‘'was sent at the request of his father, Charles Quigley, who reported ;fla son had been missing since Satur- ay. The other youth reported missing is John Pappas, 16, who left his home in the 800 block of Third street Saturday The man reported missing is Willlam T. Carden, who left his home in the 700 block of Sixth street Saturday. COLORED YOUTH FACES SECOND TRIAL IN ATTACK Washington Attorney Added to Prosecution Staff in Case of Leon Fry at Luray. Special Dispatch to 'x;n‘;sun LURAY, Va. July 25—The second trial of Leon Pry, 17-year-old colored youth, for attempted criminal assault upon a 10-year-old white schoolgir] be- gins today. ~ Additional counsel has been secured to prosecute in the person ‘ashington, : of Evergtt Will of Wi Boxer; John Pappas