Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1932, Page 17

Washington News FEDERAL WORKERS URCE ECONONY A REPEAL AT EARNG Special Senate Subcommit- tee Hears Attack Delivered by Various Groups. MARITAL PROVISION’S ABOLITION IS SOUGHT Discussion of This Section Takes Up Most of Session—Pay Cut Opposition Voiced. Representatives of various groups o!; Government employes appeared before the Special Subcommittee of the Senate Economy Committee today with further | arguments for the repeal of the econo- | my act, or for the amendment of cer- tain features regarded as unjust and| Inequitable. Among those who testified today were: John Arthur Shaw, president of the American Federation of Government Employes; Mrs. Edwina Avery, chair- man of the Government Workers' | Council of the National Woman's Party; | Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell of the League of American Civil Service; W. J. O'Brien and Thomas E. Colley, rep- resenting Navy Yard workers who were furloughed recently; Edward J. Roche of the Allied Printing Trades Council. presenting certain questions of special) interest to the Government Printing! Office; N. P. Alifas of the local branch of the International Association of Ma- chinists; R. A. Barton, City Firefighters’ Association, and R. E. Marsh, who pre- sented a brief covering certain phases of the economy act for the organization of professional employes of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. A vigorous appeal for striking out the marital provision of the act was made by Mrs. Avery, on behalf of the Govern- ment Workers' Council, supported by a proup of Navy Yard workers. Discussion Takes Up Session. Most of the morning session was ken up with a discussion of this sec- , which provides that when dis- missals are necessary, married persons must go first, if husband or wife also is in_Government service. While Mr. Shaw was outlining the general opposition of Government work- ers to the pay cut and other restric- tions in the economy law and urging the “Government to lead the way back toward a better level of salaries throughout the country, committee members indicated the Treasury deficit is in their minds as an obstacle to the relief asked. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, wanted to know “where are we going to get the money, with a deficit Of $750,000,000 in five months of the fiscal year Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Qarolina, added that the deficit is in- @regsing at the rate of $5,000,000 a day. Tagation Held Preferable. Mr. Shaw argued that the Govern- ment should separate capital items from current expemses, declaring that private industry follows that . He also argued that taxation to meet the deficit would be preferable to having the Government lower the living standard by encouraging salary reductions. Mrs. Avery contended that the mar- ried persons clause is wrong in principle, has resulted in injustices, and should be taken out of the economy act. ‘Witnesses from the navy yard told of a group of mechanics there who re- cently were placed on indefinite fur- Jougn without pay. It was testified| that’ these men first received notices several months ago that they would be laid off because of the marital pro- vision, that this notice was canceled, and recently they were notified of in- definite furlough because of lack of work. Committee members indicated they would seek further information regarding navy yard furloughs. Urges Act’s Discontinuance. Mrs. Werrell urged discontinuance of the economy act at the end of this fiscal year, but told the committee that if a further sacrifice from Government employes cannot be avoided, it would be better to establish a $1,500 exemp- flon on all salaries, and a 10 per cent cut on the balance. Senator Dickinson, Republican, of Jowa, who conducted the hearing today, pointed out that the Senate committee originally favored a straight pay cut of that kind, but that efforts in the Senate Iater resulted in establishing the fur- lough plan. Mr. Roche explained the claim of Printing Office employes to accu- mulated leave which they earned but have not received during the last fiscal year, before the economy law passed, and asked an amendment to correct this inequity. He also took up the question of the pay differential for night work in the Printing Office. ST. LAWRENCE TREATY WILL BE PRESSED| Advocates of Seaway Prepare to Seek Ratification at Short Session. Despite the opposition registered at Tecent Senate hearings, advocates of | the St. Lawrence waterway treaty pre- | pared today to drive ahead for ratifi- f the pact at the short session 5. P. Craig, vice president and director of the Great Lakes- Lawrence Tidewater Association, a formal statement that the ings had developed a demand for immediate ratification. “We demand its immediate consid- eration and passage in its present form,” he said. “We have received assurances 6f support from sections not offiically associated with our organization, in- cluding a powerful body of public gentiment in New York State and another in New England. “The pressing urgency of immediate action to launch construction of the St. Lawrence seaway as a factor in leading the Nation out of depression ‘was the new note added to the long list ot already established and proven argu- The Foening WASHINGTON, D. CHILEAN CHARGE D’AFFAIRES IS MASTER OF Dr. Benjamin Cohen, 36, Re- cently Appointed to Succeed Ambassador Cruchaga. Youthful Rapid-Fire Trans- lator Began Career Here. A rapid-fire translator of seven lan- guages—unmarried and still a student— that is Dr. Benjamin Cohen, 36, who has just succeeded Ambassador Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal as charge d'affaires at the Chilean embassy. To progress from a comparatively ob- scure secretaryship to the post of Acting Ambassador of cne of the most impor- tant of the South American countries within the short space of eight years has been the experience of this Chilean, | who started his diplomatic career Xn‘ ‘Washington. | Won Recognition. Sudden as his rise has been in the SEVEN TONGUES DR. BENJAMIN COHEN. tion Ccmmission and the Mexican Mixed Claims Commission. A serious student of the languages and of foreign relations, Dr. Cohen en- tered the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service after he came to exacting field of diplomacy, however, it | was as an interpreter at international | conferences that this alert young | Chilean, fresh from a local university, | first won widespread recognition. His | first experience in that difficult role| was at the Sixth Pan-American Con- ference, in Havana, Cuba, when he was | scarcely 32 years old. He translates| with fluent ease any rapid-fire speech in French, Spanish, English and Portu- guese, and his knowledge of foreign speech extends also, it was said, to German, Italian and Russian. ‘This alert and studious young bachelor even now is working for a doctor’s de- | gree at Georgetown University. When the recent change in govern- | ment in Chile resulted in the recall of | Ambassador Cruchaga to fill the post of minister of foreign affairs in the cab- inet of President Arturo Alessandri, it left a vacancy that could not easily be filled. Senor Blanco Viel, the first sec- retary of the embassy, also had been recalled to a post under the new gov- ernment and it was necessary to appoint as charge d'aflaires a man who was thoroughly acquainted with American- Chilean relations. In Dr. Cohen, such a man was readily found, although at the time of his appointment he had no official connection with the Chilean mission in Washington. Between Dr. Cohen and Ambassador Cruchaga, however, there has been & | long and tried friendship. When the young Chilean first came to Washing- ton from the University of Chile, it was as a secretary at the embassy under Dr. Cruchaga. At various times, also, he has served as this eminent diplomat’s private secretary. Later, Dr. Cohen served as secretary of various arbitra- tion and claims commissions in Wash- ington. At the time of his appointment as charge d'affaires. he was secretary to the Panama-United States Arbitra- | and at other times, when the remarks Washington and graduated with a mas- | ter's degree in 1927. He was the only student in nearly 600 to graduate magna cum laude and was the winner also of the gold medal for foreign re- lations of the United States. For sev- eral years after Dr. Cohen served on the school's faculty, giving a course in diplomatic Spanish. He is now pur- suing post-graduate study in interna- tional law at the same school. Regarded at the State Department as perhaps the most expert interpreter available for the use of the Government, Dr. Cohen has acted in this capacity at nearly all international conferences held here in recent years except the; Fourth Pan-American Commercial Con- gress. Standing in the center of a hall with | a microphone in hand, Dr. Cohen is often the only cool head in the midst of an excited medley of several foreign tongues. He can translate a speech from one language into another under the most trying circumstances, even in- | terpreting interruptions, and conclude | with his translation only a few seconds | after the speaker has finished. Sometimes he translates word for word | are not of special importance, he gives an accurate and carefully boiled down digest. A reporter familiar only with English can follow the proceedings of any conference in this manner with | perfect understanding. Dr. Cohen's berth at the Chilean | embassy, it is understood in Washing- ton, may continue for an indefinite period. There is no inclination on the part of the Chilean government, it was said, to appoint a full Ambassador at this time. It would not be surprising to State Department officials, when that time comes, if Dr. Cohen is given a permanent appointment as head of the Chilean missicn in Washington. WORKERS ORGANIZE LEGISLATIVE BODY American Federation of U. S. Employes Names Group to Aid Measures. Formation of a National Legislative Committee of the American Federation of Government Employes, which will serve in an ad- visory capacity, assisting the offi- cers in drafting andpresenting the legislative pro- posals of the Fed- eration, was an- nounced yesterday by John Arthur Shaw, the presi- dent. ‘The committee is ‘was a leader in the organization of Weather Bureau Lodge, No. 23, of Mr. McDonald. which he is presi- dent. Mr. McDonald is in charge of the Marine Division of the Weather Bureau. He was born in Northern Indiana and has been in the Weather Bureau since he was 19 years old. As assistant to Dr. I. M. Kline at New Orleans, Mr. McDonald engaged in intensive work concerned with hurri- | canes and_floods. | Mr. McDonald resides ai 123 West Ingram avenue, Clarendon, Va. CIVIC FEDERATION TO HONOR RICHARDSON District Commissioners Expected to | Speak at Testimonial Ban- | quet Friday. More than 100 delegates and alter- nates to the Federation of Civic Asso- cations will attend a testimonial ban- quet to Dr. George H. Richardson, retiring president, at the Masonic Tem- ple Friday night, the Committee on Ar- rangements announced today. The District Commissioners are ex- | pected to address the banquet. Other speakers will include J. G. Yaden, pres- ident of the Federation of Citizens’ As- sociations; Garnet C. Wilkinson, as- sistant _superintendent of schocls, and Dean Kelly Miller of Howard Uni- versity. George W. Beasley, incoming president of the Civic Federation, will preside, while Edward F. Harris will be toastmaster. George T. Beason, president of the Rock Creek Citizens' Association, and W. H. Lewis, representing the Citizens’ Legislative Advisory Council, will joint- ly present Dr. Richardson. Applica- tions for the banquet may be obtained from E. F. Harris, 115 V street. PLAY IRISH MUSIC Abbey Players of Dublin to Appear ‘ments for the seaway which were rought ont at the two weeks' hearings.” FALL FRACTURES SKULL Mary E. Sparks, 60 Years Old, in Serious Condition. Mrs. Mary E. Sparks, 60, critically njured Saturday night when she fell n a flight of steps at her home, 1467 frving street, is in & serious condition o, R o o1 ‘Mrs. Spar] e rom & frac- fred skull and other injuries, at Barracks. The Abbey Players of Dublin, Ire- land, were to be guests of the United States Marine Band at a concert at the Marine barracks this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Irish music was to feature the program. The players :.re appearing at a theater here this week. Capt. Taylor Branson was to conduct the band, with Arthur S. Whitcomb as sccond leader. On the program was !she national lnt}lem of the Irish PK&; tate, excerpts from Irish opera an well krgnwn favorites as ‘‘Mother .| Provement as one of the most important | through legislation.” JOB INSURANCE DEMAND IS VOICED Joint Committee Denounces “Share-the-Work” Plan as Evasion of Issue. Compulsory State unemployment in- surance, with Federal assistance, and Tevival of the /United States Housing Board for an immediate building pro- gram for improvement of tenements and slum areas were among recom- mendations yesterday by the executive board of the Joint Committee on Un- employment. The board meeting followed & con- ference of committee members Friday and Saturday at the Ambassador Hotel, The board urged State unemploy- ment insurance, with the Federal Gov- ernment paying half the benefits at the start. It advocated housing im- steps toward business recovery and urged direct payments of relief money to needy families in order to remove children from employment. The executive group issued a state- ment denouncing the “share-the-work” movement as “merely an evasion of the iasué“ ttif u:\nel'nplbyment” g g wages and staggering em- ployment,” the statement gflld{u“c\u’- tails consuming power. The proper | method of equalizing opportunities for | employment is to reduce the work week The Joint Committee on Unemploy- ment is composed of educators, officials of religious and public welfare agencies and labor leaders. SHOPLIFTERS AVOID WASHINGTON STORES Merchants Organize to Protect Selves From Losses, Say As- sociation Officials. Professional shoplifters have almost completely avoided Washington this year, it was declared today by officials of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association. Forced to drastic action by the large | losses of previous years, Washington merchants this year organized to pro- tect themselves against further depreda- tions, the statement said. Spokesmen for the body declared careful . watch® would be maintained | Guring the rest of the holidays and | reiterated their warning that thieves | arrested would be prosecuted to the | limit of the law. LUNCHEON TO BE GIVEN | Sisterhood to Give Program at Jewish Community Center. An elaborate musical program will feature a luncheon by the Sisterhood of Adas Israel Congregation of Wash- ington Wednesday in the Jewish Com- munity Center, at which the presidents of various Jewish women's organizations in the city will be guests. Violin quar- | AHURT IN NEARBY C. 3 MONDAY, DECEMBER ' 5, TWO ARE KILLED, TRAFFIC MISHAPS Annapolis Sailor and D. C.| Colored Man Fatally In- jured in Collisions. FIRE TRUCK FIGURES IN COTTAGE CITY CRASH Benedict Man, His Wife and Three Children in Hospital After Car Overturns. Two persons were killed and 14 in- jured in traffic accidents on crowded nearby Maryland highways yesterday. A fire engine was involved in one col- | lision. | Robert J. Bearhope, 28, a sailor sta- | tioned at the United States Naval Academy, died at Casualty Hospital this | { morning of a fractured skull, Teceived | hearing on a bill introduced at the 13st |in a head-on collision near the Pigeon | session of House on the Crain Highw William Foster, cclored, of the 300 block of New York avenue, succumbed | at Gallinger Hospital last night to in- juries received when an autcmobile in | which he was riding struck a telephone pole on a curve near Marlboro, Md. Two Sailors Injured. i Two other sailors in the car with! Bearhope were injured. John C. Cor-| nelison, 23, said to have been the driver | of the car, reccived minor cuts and bruises, while John Tarmeca, 26, suf- fered possible internal injuries. The trio were rushed to Bladensburg by a passing motorist and taken from therc to Casualty Hospital in the fire rescue | squad ambulance. | Edwin Greene, colored, was arrested | as the driver of the car in which Foster | was riding and held at the Marlboro | Jail pending an inquest to be conducted by Magistrate Horace Taylor Wednes- | day night. Thomas S. Franklin of Bladensburg suffered contussions and a possible fracture of the right knee when an au- | tomobile he was driving was_in col- | lision with one of the Cottage City Fire | Department's trucks. He was taken to | Casualty Hospital by a passing motorist. Three Firemen Shaken Up. Three firemen, Nelson ‘Woodell, J. Fred Nichols, sr., and J. Fred Nichols, | jr., were badly shaken up in the crash. John A. Carrick was driving the fire truck, according to police. The firemen were en route to a brush fire at Tuxedo when the accident occurred. Albert B. Minor, 38, of Benedict, his wife and three children were injured | when their automobile went down a 15- foot embankment and turned over four times near Woodville. Minor has a possible fracture of the skull, his wife, Margaret, 24, was treated for possible internal injuries; Albert D., jr., 6, sus- tained a deep cut on the head; Eliza- beth, 5, escaped with minor scratches, and Jennle, 9 months, was cut about | the lips. | All were treated by Dr. H. M. Bowen and removed to Providence Hospital in the Marlboro rescue squad ambulance. According to Sergt. A. W. Hepburn, who investigated, Mrs. Minor was driv- | ing when the accident occurred. Two D. C. Men Hurt. Two Washington men—Lewis Bow- ard, 45, and Prank Goings, 30, both of 49 F street—escaped with minor in- juries when an automobile in which | they were riding ran off the Rockville- Frederick road, near Gaithersburg, struck a pole, tore through a fence and finally came to a halt in a field. A Rockville fireman who passed the scene of the accident a few moments after it occurred, took the men to the Rockville Fire House, where they were | given first-ald treatment by the fire | rescue squad. Boward was treated for cuts about the tongue and face and Goings for cuts about the face and head injuries. Relatives, who were notified of the mishap by Montgomery County police, brought the men to their home. Retires CHARLES J. WAGNER. VETERAN PRINTER RETIRES FROM STAR Charles J. Wagner Ends Service of 46 Years—Will Experiment With Rose Culture. Charles J. Wiffner, one of the oldest members of The Evening Star com- posing room staff, has turned his hand from printer’s ink to roses. After 46 years as a job printer, type setter, dancing teacher and general jack-of-all-trades, he has retired and plans to spend his remaining days ex- Perimenting with_flowers. Mr. Wagner, who is 66, lives at 544 Peabody street. When he first came to tet numbers, and vocal, piano and vio- lin solos are included on the program. Mrs. Morris Gewirz is president of the sisterhood. Fraternity Banquet Held. Dr. A. C. Christie, chairman of the board of trustees of American Univer- sity, was the principal speaker at the annual banquet of Chi Psi Omega Fra- ternity, held Saturday night at the such Machree,” “Where nnedy-Warren. Members of Phi g}u Gamma Sorority attended the The Star, type was set by hand, a trade which died with the advent of the lino- type machines. At one time or another, he held every post in the composing room, and was a proof reader at the time of his retirement. | the insane person, his relatives, guar- {or her reason. WILBUR PROPOSES DRASTIC CHANGE IN D, C. LUNACY LAWS Would Reform Method of Admission and Treatment at St. Elizabeth’s. COMMISSIONERS URGED TO SUPPORT LEGISLATION “Humanitarian and Medical” At- titude Toward Insane Patients Recommended. The District government was urged by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, in | his annual report today, to take the! initiative in securing legislation for a | complete revision of the city's lunacy | laws in order to change the drastic method of admission to and the treat-! ment of patients at St. Elizabeth's| Hospital. i As a result of a House committee Congress, Mr. Wilbur es- serted that from testimony adduced “we | are more than ever of the opinion that the laws pertaining to the admission | and treatment of patients at St. Eliza- | beth's Hospit:1 should be revised.” Asks Dictrict fo Act. “But,” he added, “we believe that the | initiative should be taken by repre- sentatives of the District government, and the Interior Department, through representatives of the hospital, should co-operate with the District authorities in securing enactment of the proposed bill into a law. “The District is primarily interested in such legislation, as it affects the wel- fare of its residents, and we believe if the initiative is taken by them, it would | result in heartier co-operation and have a tendency to receive better considera- tion.” A committee of medical advisers which made a survey of the situation under the direction of Secretary Wil- bur made a number of recommendations for remedial legislation, but did not un- dertake, it was pointed out, to draft a measure for this purpose. Commenting on these suggestions, Secretary Wilbur said: “The design of the bill suggested was to provide a method in keeping with the modern humanitarian and medical attitude toward this class of patients and along lines which have proved ef- fective in several of the States and in other countries.”, Main Changes in Bill ‘The main changes incorporated in the new bill from the existing legiflation as outlined by Secretary Wilbur are: “Provision for voluntary commit- ment for treatment, on request of patients, with provision for discharge on three days’ motice. . “Provision that insane persons taken into custody by the police or other| officials shall not be subjected to trials | as are criminals, but may be held in the hospital and treated and not triead except upon their request or requests of their relatives, guardians or friends. | “If a trial is demanded by an insane | person, his guardian, or friends, or by | court, upon petition, the insane per- son shall be heard by the court and not subjected to trial by jury unless | dian or friends demand it. “Temporary commitment or deten- tion is provided for, with provision that during such temporary commit- ment, and prior to formal.commit- ment, the person may be released upon certificate to the District of Columbia by the superintendent of the hospital or by two physicians in regular attend- ance at any other hospital where the patient may be detained, that the per- son is not insane or has recovered his “Provision for the automatic restor- ation of the civil rights of patients discharged from the hospital on cer- tificate of the superintendent that they are cured or that further treatment is unnecessary or undesirable. “The proposed legislation recom- mended, it is believed, would for the most part make unnecessary writs of habeas corpus and would make simpler the release of patients to those compe- tent to care for them.” e RARE BIBLES VIEWED Community Readers’ League Holds Pilgrimage Here. The National and International Com- munity Bible Readers’ League, Inc., in connection with the observance of “Bible week” and also of the spiritual life of George Washington, held a pil- grimage Saturday. They went to the Library of Congress to view the Guten- berg Bible and other rare Bibles. After- ward they visited the department of ethnology at the Smithsonian Institu- tion, where the original Thomas Jeffer- son Bible is on exhibition. Old Christ Church, in Alexandria, Va., which contains George Washing- ton’s pew, was also visited. ‘The pilgrimage was conducted by the league, Mrs. Louise Harding Earll, pres- ident, assisted by John D. Ross, E. W. May, Mrs. Ora Taylor, Mrs. Virginia Matthews, Mrs. Marion Lloyd and Mrs. Margaretta Storrs. The league plans another pilgrimage, to the overhanging rocks on the banks of the Rappahannock River at Fred- ericksburg, Va. LAW ACADEMY OFFICIAL TO ADDRESS STUDENTS Prof.” Elemer Balogh of Berlin to Speak to Georgetown Group Tomorrow. Prof. Elemer Balogh of Berlin, secre- tary general of the International Academy of Comparative Law at The Hague, will speak tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. at the Georgetown University Law School, Sixth and E streets. His subject will be “The Value of Comparative Law to the Student and the Practitioner.” The lecture will be given under auspices of the Comparative Law Bureau and the Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law. . AUTO DEALERS CONVENE New Studebaker and Rockne Mod- els Will Be Shown. More than 250 Studebaker and Rockne automobile dealers and their retail sales staffs gathered today at His fellow workers in the composing room, through R. N. Babcock, present- ed Mr. Wagner with an easy chair and a box of cigars as a {arewell gift. “What am I going to do?" he in- quired “well, if I have my way, I'll spend it in my greenhouse. Roses have always been a hobby with me. Maybe next year I can arrange a show.” the Shoreham Hotel, where an ad- vanced showing of 1933 models was given. Principal speakers included Louis K. Manley, manager of branches of Stu- debaker,-Pierce Arrow-Rockne Sales Corporation; L. A. Chaminade, execu- tive Studebaker engineer, and H. J. Shorter of Rockne Motors Corporation. T 1932. Firemen “Pound Pavement” ‘WORK 24-HOUR SHIFTS IN “FIRE-POLICEMEN” ROLES, This trio of firemen was caught by a Star photographer as its members walked along a beat in the downtown sec P. J. Wheeler and J. H. Reed of No. 2 Enj T'S getting to be a burning question with the firemen, this pavement- pounding afoot, 'instead of atop their rubber-tired engines. The smoke-eaters, better accus- tomed to rolling on rubber than trudg- ing on leather, are learning what it means to be a “flatfoot” cn the beat. While the hunger marchers are in town, theyre doing double duty 24 hours a day, one tour in the fire house !and the othér on the pavement for 800 | 0us duty since Satur policemen Treleased as guards. Each has a beat of two city blccks to cover, the night firemen with 14 hours of pavement duty and 10 in the emergency longer period indoors. Although their dogs are smoking and tion. Left to right: Lieut. I. W. Lusky, gine Company. —Star Staff Photo. | “wore off up to the knees” as one | fireman put it, the boys aren’t making | any complaints. “Our captain gave us a break last night,” said Pvt. H. M. Carver of No. 16 Engine Co., beating F and G streets between Ninth and Eleventh, “he stood | most of the telephone watches and let | us sleep.” The firemen have been .on contin- , and will be, the emergency for all they know, uni | has been dealt with, | _Scme of the new patrolmen feel like they have a five-alarm fire in each | shoe. “I'm. getting out the hose to | fire house, and the day men with the |sluice a few flaming bunions,” grinned one, “if I ever get back to the fire Dies in Hawaii COL. JOHN F. J. HERBERT. DEAD MOURNED BY ELKS LODGE Paid Honor by Mattingly in Memorial Address at Exercises. ‘Twenty-seven members of the Wash- ington Lodge, No. 15, B. P. O. Elks, who have died during the past year, together with all deceased members of the lodge, were honored last night by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in a me- morial address at the Elks’ Home. At the same time 1,565 lodges through- out the country joined in similar me- morial services and the Grand Lodge of the order broadcast services over a Nation-wide radio hook-up. Those who were honored by the local lodge included Louis Frankfurt, G. Mil- ton Thomas, Charles F. Milford, Wil- liam M. Rapp, Charles W. Darr, Selic Meinhold, Francis A. Shaffer, Norman Pruitt, Frank A. O'Neil, Isaac Sam- stag, Charles C. Estes, Samuel M. Marks, John B. Flick, Joseph H. Ire- land, Emil P. Brahler, Frank J. Wag- ner, Max A. Richards, John J. Graff, Walter B. Silliman, Clarence E. Mor~ gan, John D. Meyers, Robert D. How- ell, Joseph Bush, Anton A. Auth, Wil- liam C. Yates, William H. Woolums and Thomas F. O'Connor. Besides the address by Judge Mat- tingly, there was vocal and instru- mental music by Helen J. Bury, mezz soprano, and William P. Shanahan, tenor, with Louis McNerney at the organ. The following committee was in charge of the exercises: David J. La- porte, chairman; James E. Colliflower, vice chairman; William S. Shelby, sec- retary; Gustave W. Brahler and Lu- ther M. Young. CHURCHES T6 PRESENT 15TH CENTURY PLAY “The Nativity” to Be Given in Three Sections of City on December 18 and 20. “The Nativity,” a miracle play taken from a French manuscript of the fif- teenth century, will be presented by the Religious Drama Committee of the Washington Federation of Churches on December 18 and 20 at three churches in different sections of the city, with a possible fourth performance just be- fore midnight on Christmas eve. Rehearsals by a large cast are in progress at the Church of the Holy City, where the first presentation will take place Sunday afternoon, Decem- ber 18, at 4:30 o'clock. The drama will be repeated that night ‘at 8 o'clock in Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and again Tuesday night, December 20, at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Miss Bess Davis Schreiner heads the committee in charge and the players include Miss Caroline McKinley, Arthur Bradley White, Thomas M. Cahill, For- ney Reese, Robert D. Chase, Harry Schonrank, Lieut. E. R. McKenzie, Dr. Clifton P. Clark, Herman P. Riess, Wade Robinson, Wayne Bobst, Stanley Chase, Walter E.Bucher, Ralph Keister, Robert H. Middleton, Miss Louise rison Gwynne, Miss Martha Fisher, Miss Lilla La Garde, Miss Betty Sleeper and Miss Judy Lyeth, | house!” . 0L HERBERT DIES (ONGED. . DRY HEAD | Prohibition Administrator for | Hawaii Apoplectic Stroke Victim. Col. John F. J. Herbert, former pro- hibition administrator for Maryland and the District of Columbia, who was exonerated by his superiors after Sen- ators Borah and Wheeler had aired | charges against him preferred by a pro- hibition law clerk, died yesterday at a hospital in Honolulu, where he was pro- hibition administrator for the ‘Territory of Hawaii. Col. Herbert suffered an aj lecti stroke November 21 and had be‘e)gp:em;‘-: conscious since, with one side of his face and body paralyzed, unable to speak, according to an Associated Press dispaich. He died at 1:25 a.m. in Trip- ler General Hospital. Nation-Wide Sensation. Col. Herbert’s transfer from the local district to Montana and Idaho after charges had been made, against him | created a Nation-wide sensation in Jan- uary of 1930 when Senatcrs Borah and Wheeler brought the matter up in the Senate. The charges were never sustained, however, and officials of the Prohibition Bureau absolved Col. Herbert. Col. Herbert was appointed deputy administrator for Maryland in Decem- ber of 1926, with headquarters at Bal timore. On March 9, 1927, he was made prohibition administrator for Maryland and the District of Columbia, leaving here in December of 1929 for Gol, Eervert, later wes 6 - Herbert later was transferred to the Chicago district, serving there for more than ‘a year befor Inst bemsry? e going to Hawaii Wife on Way to Honolulu. Mrs. Herbert is aboard the steamer Maut due in Honolulu tomorrow, having left her home in Worchester, Mass.,, on learning of her husband’s illness, Capt. Walter P. King, Col. Herbert's subsequently was transferred to Charles- fon, W. Va., will be returned to Hono- lulu, it was said at the Prohibition Bureau. The charges against Col. Herbert Wwere not published, and prohibition au- thorities said no official charges were ever brought. Col. Herbert was 58 years old at the time of death. ARLINGTON RITES HELD Widow of Navy Captain Died Thursday in Norfolk—Sur- vived by Son. Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Seymour Theiss, who died Thursday at Norfolk, Va., were held this afterrioon at Arlington National Cemetery. Lieut. Stanton W. Salisbury, Chaplain Corps, U. 5. N., officiated. Mrs. Theiss was the widow of Capt. Emil Theiss, U. S. N, who died in Naval Hospital here on September 26, 1917. Just prior to his death Capt, Theiss had served on the Naval Board of Appraisal of Enemy Vessels in New York ‘and also was a_member of a board in connection with the construc- tion and trials of the submarine L-5 at_Provincetown, Mass. She is survived by a son, Lieut. Comdr. Paul R. Theiss, now serving here in the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department. CHRISTMAS‘ DEPICTED Business Women to Observe Scan- dinavian Customs. The December dinner of business Women at the Y. W. C. A. tomorrow night will feature an entertainment program devoted to the Christmas cus- toms of Scandinavia. The program is the second in a series depicting Christ- mas customs in other lands. Aage Bryn, attache at the Norwegian legation; Capt. Holger C. Langmack and Miss Clark Langmack will describe holiday sports and festivities in Norway and Denmark, while Mrs. Carl R. Chindbloom will discuss Swedish music. Miss Elizabeth Haney, chairman of the business and professional woman's de- partment of the Y. W. C. A, pre- side at the dinner, scheduled for 6:30 o'clock, e predecessor in office in Hawaii, who | FOR MRS. K. S. THEISS[ PAGE B—1 SIXTEENTH STREET |FIRE ENGINE HOUSE UPHELD BY COURT Supreme Tribunal Grants Permission for Building at Colorado Avenue. CITIZENS FOUGHT MOVE, DECLARING NUISANCE District Commissioners Contended Congress Had Right 'to Au- thorize Structure. The District of Columbia Commission- ers today were granted permission by the Supreme Court to construct a fire engine house at the northwest corner of Sixteenth street and Colorado ave- nue. Citizens of the neighborhood were successful in the lower court in pre- venting the construction of the house, Congress on May 21, 1928, authorized the District Commissioners to sell the site at Sixteenth and Webster streets which had been acquired for a fire en- gine house and to erect the house at the northwest corner of Sixteenth street an.g ?olurfldo avenue, H efore the construction | the new site Henry T. Quinn ang st residents of the vicinity brought suit in the District Supreme Court to pre- vent the District Commissioners from broceeding. They contended the site selected as well as their houses was in a residential district under the regulations, and that the corner selected for the site was a part of Rock Creek Park, “perpetually dedicated * * * as a public park.” Authority Upheld. The District Commissioners con- tested, insisting Congress had the au- thority to locate the engine house in Rock Creek Park, and that residents of that section would be subjected only to such noise as is incidental to the normal and usual conduct and opera- tion of a fire engine house. The District Supreme Court - fguullylrulmlned the District Commis- ners from erecting the house and wi jiustained by the District Ccurt of A: | peals. Residential Restriction, The citizens had prevented the Com- Missioners from putting up an engine house on the Webster street site, since the deed to the property contained a covenant restricting its use to residen- tial purpoces, and the courts held the Commissioners bound by the desd. Apparently the appropriation now has psed and another appropriation will have to be made before construction of the engine house can proceed. Assistant Corporation Counsel Robert E. Lynch wrote the brief and argued mencue for the District in the nigh court, |THREE MEN ROBBED DURING WEEK END | Colored Suspect Captured in One | Hold-up—Total of $32.50 Taken, Three men were robbed of a total $32.50 byhold-up men over the week ens.t A colored youth, said by one of the vic- tims to have robbed him, was captured immediately after the hold-up. Clarence ?g:s:;l' 19, of TZ.éxe 1300 block of New avenye, the captured youth, beg)g held &t No. ?)pollbe stztinn. = rown was ca t Butler whi\.le runungm e avenue after Richard P. T, driver of the 4000 block OBIW';‘wml:yxf fourth street northeast, had been Tobbed of $3 by a colored youth who had. been a passenger in his cab. The other hold-up victims were Wil- liam T. Mann, 2300 block of Tracy place, who was held up by two colored men in the rear of his home and robbed of $25, and Charles Tokes, colored, a Janitor at 2900 Connecticut avenue, who reported being robbed of $4.50 by two men while in the 2800 block of ‘Twenty- eighth street, after one of the men had struck him on the head, rendering him uné;nsvlslousw arles W. Sanders, 1440 Girard street, told police his home had been Tobbed of jewelry and cash, totaling $313, by some one who had gained en- trance by jimmying the rear door. The ]&oot Efludedi. ring, valued at $250, and pennies. Small amounts we obtained in several other crlmu." o PEDESTRIAN INJURED WHEN HIT BY TAXICAB® Boy, 8, Struck by Auto—Girl, 19, Escapes Hurt in Collision With Truck. | . William Cannady, 55, of the Arling- | ton Hotel, was in” Emergency Hospital tqday, suffering from injuries received yesterday when knocked down by a taxi- cab near Thomas Circle. He is said to have received a fractured shoulder and cuts. X-rays were to be taken to de- t:.ll;smme whether he has any broken i Richard Powell, 3, of 27 K northeast, suffered severe cuts o;"'f;: head when hit by an automobile near his home. He was treated at Sibley Hospital. Jack R. Selis of the 1400 :P!]:ck ot‘ Tsil‘?r At;le‘e; was the driver of automobile w} him, po- lice say. 5 — s Miss Tereser Mayerhofer, 19, of 639 Maryland avenue northeast, escaped in- Jjury today when the roadster she was driving figured in a collision at Dela- ware and Virginia avenues southwest with a 5-ton truck loaded with stone. { The front end of Miss Mayerhofer’s car was caved in by the impact. The truck, operated by Luther Young, 49, colored. of 1223 Half street south- e, while Sl Magerhotey e ave- , while Mayerhofer wi south on Delaware ylvell\le. ri ¢ VL BOYS SOUGHT IN BUS FIRE Trio Threw Lighted Match Into Gas Under Vehicle, Police Say. Police this afternoon were for three unidentified boys whmfl to a big Short Line Sightseeing bus while parked and unoccupied at Mis- z;):ult n:e;me nnqrh hur;nd-One-Hlu street al p.m. e vehicle Shightiy . ‘was only According to_police, the boys threw a lighted match in a pool of gasoline jon tbe ground outside of the heavy vehicle and directly beneath the gas They fled as soon as the flames flared up. Firemen put out the bleze after it had damaged paint work on ® A