Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1933, Page 17

* WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION he Foen COPELAND ACCUSES BRITISH SHIPPERS OF TRADE TRICKERY Interests Are Seeking to: Scuttle U. S. Merchant Marine, He Says. CONFERENCE HEARS ATTACK BY SENATOR Chapin Urges Patronage of Amer- ican Bottoms—Father Walsh Defends Subsi . Benator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, charged today in an address be- fore the Sixth National Conference on the Merchant Marine that British ship- | ping interests have “stacked the deck | inst the United States” in the fight r supremacy of the seas. As evidence to support charges that | Pritain is attempting to “scuttle the American merchant marine,” Copeland | from a report on merchant ma- | muw, just adopted by the British | ber of Shipping, which will be submitted to the British government for wse during the forthcoming World Eco- nomic Conference. Addressing the con- ference, assembled in the United States Chamber of Commercé Building, the Benator said: “The ninth recommendation of this Teport reads as follows: “‘We recommend that both pending the conference and at the conference | ftself, Great Britain should endeavor to secure the co-operation of as many na- tlons as possible, pledged to work for the re-establishment of world trade . through the removal of trade carriers, including the modification of tariffs upon carried and the removal of Asks Resignation of Aide for now being conducted at the Washington Auditorium led today to the resignation of Assistant Corporation Counsel El- wood H. Seal. by Corporation Counsel Willlam W. Loses Post ELWOOD H. SEAL. —Hi -Ewing Photo. BRI OUSTS SEAL | AFTERDANCE SUT Representing Marathon Company. Litigation over the marathon dance | | i His resignation had been demanded Bride when the latter read newspaper accounts of a suit yesterday in which Seal had represented the Marathon Ex- WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDN TRACTONERGER BLLTOBECALE P NEXT NONDA Mrs. Norton to Seek House Appreval of Senate Meas- ure on District Day. COMMITTEE CONSIDERS MEASURE INFORMALLY | Patrick’s Statement on Public In- terest Reported on Way to Capitol Today. Next Monday, which is scheiuled as District day in the House, Chairman Nerton of the House District Commit- tee, by divection of the committee at a meeting today, will call up the street raflway merger bill, which is now on the Speaker's desk, and ask that the House concur in the Senate amend- ments. This would immediately cend this meacure, which has been in con- troversy for more than 25 years, to the President for his signature. The discussion on this measure by the District Committee today was in- formal in view of the fact the bill, as amenced by the Senate, is still lying on the Speaker’s table. Chairman Nor- ton has requested that it be allowed to stay there hoping that she could get an agreement from the District Committee to accept the Senate amend- ments and prevent sending the bill to a conference between the House and Senate. Wants Commission Statement. Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, sald he would insist upon a Senate to Sell Office Building’s Discarded Rugs By the Associated Press Anybody want to buy any rugs cheap? The Senate Office Building has a lot of big ones and little ones that have been trod by many a Senator, but still would be useful in any mean’s parlor these days. The Senate Rules Committee has put a resolution through the Senate authorizing it to dispose of old carpets and rugs in the big office structure, the proceeds }o %0 to the Senate maintenance und. HOLD-UP CHARGED TOMANILL INBED Alleged to Have Robbed In- surance Agent Who Came to Pay Benefit. A bedridden man on whom he had called to pay a $10 sick benefit yester- | day held up Earl V. Kibler, an insur- | ance agent, and robbed him of between $50 and $60, he reported to police. Kibler, who lives in Wheaton, Md., | declared Robert Bushrod, colored, 1000 block of Columbia road, covered him with a revolver after insisting he was: entitled to $20, instead of §10. Not con- tent with taking the additional $10, however, Bushrod ordered the insurance agent, the latter said, to “give me all you've got.” Bushrod was arrested a short time later and, after being charged with rob- bery, was taken to Gallinger Hospial. Purse Snatched. Mrs. Verna M. Donovan, 1458 Colum- bla road, reported a colored boy jumped on the running board of her machine in an alley near Fourteenth and Har- vard streets and took her pocketbook, containing $68 in cash and a watch SDAY, JANUARY ¢4, PARKDEPATNENT SGNEN TS0 INPONOEDFUN Sum Accumulated From Un- paid Salaries Returned From Treasury. MONEY WILL REDUCE ENFORCED FURLOUGHS Cash Comes From Unpaid Allow- ances for Employes Who Have Quit U. 8. Service. Some $75,000 impounded under the economy act has been released to the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks through representations made to the White House and the Budget Bu- | reau, it was learned today. | This sum represents amounts realized from unexpended balanccs from sal- aries of employes who resigned or were otherwise separated from the service between July 1 and November 30. It | does not affect money involved con- | cerning _those who have left the service during December and who will leave it up to June 30—as this figure is obvi- | ously indefinite at this time. ‘Will Reduce Furloughs. Officials explained today this action does not mean the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks will be able to take on new employes, but it will cut down the amount of administrative fur- lough without pay that has to be taken during the current fiscal year to keep within the reduced appropriation. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, | is hopeful that the release of the im- | pounded fund will keep administrative ny Sfaf 1933. ° e | | | CTIZENS TO STUDY REALTY SITUATION Columbia Heights Group on Rents Investigation. Air Cruise Visits Capital THREE DISTRICT PILOTS PARTICIPATING IN MIAMI FLIGHT. Brinkman and Rush Address | | PAGE B—1 WOMAN 15 SOUGHT 10 SOLVE SLAYING OF YOUNG ITALIAN Police Believe Stranger Could Throw Light on Shoot- ing of Lelli. GANG THEORY DISCOUNTED AFTER QUESTIONING MEN Mysterious Person Had Appeared at Undertaking Establishment to View Riddled Body. Investigation of the murder of Julio Lelli, 28-year-old Itallan, who was shot to death New Year eve, centered today in a search for the unknown man or woman he often telephoned secretly during his brief stay in Washington. It was believed discovery of this per- son would give Washingfon detectives a definite lead to Lelll's activities after he left Philip Adams at a Fourteenth street hotel, saying he was going out to “have a good time” in celebrating the New Year. Almost 24 hours later his body was found, punctured by half a dozen bullets, when two young hikers came upon it as they walked along the Jones Mill road between Forest Glen and Silver Spring, Md. Reports that a woman paid & mid- night call Sunday to the Warner E. Pumphrey unde: establishment It is understood the woman ‘stated she was looking for a statement in writing from the Public| Utilit'es Commission that the bill, with amendments, as passed by the Senate is “in the public interest.” Corporation Counsel Bride notified the committee that Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, has prepared such a statement, which is on its way to the committee. Assistan? Corporation Counsel Rob- erts, who has worked on this legisla- | furloughs within the 30-day limit, with the exception of the buildings guards force, many of the personnel of which | have incomes from other sources, in- | cluding pensions and retired pay from the armed forces. So far, practically all employes of Col. Grant's office have taken a 10- | day administrative furlough prior to | November 30. The order requiring a | 30-day administrative furlough for all man who was formerly “an official of the bonus army” and had been i since New Year eve. When identifica- tion was demanded of her before she was permitted to see Lelli, she gave a name and address which later proved fictitious. Gang Killing Discounted. Questioning of Alfredo Mori of Seat Pleasant, Md.; Robert E. Delay, 35, of hibition Co., Inc. The suit was a private one between the All States’ Hotel and the corporation, in which the hotel ask- ed for an injunction to prohibit the continuance of the marathon dance. Although the city had no direct in- terest in the suit. Mr. Bride explained, it is well known that the municipality is opposed to the marathon contests. A special police regulation was adopted follownig the close of the previous con- | sll forms of discrimination (including ! fubsidies) in favor of ships under the national flag by which goods are car- yied. We further recorumend that Great Pritain and those co-operating nations should agree to confine most-favored- Dation treatment to each other's trade and shipping” ” “Retaliatory Steps.” valued at $10. Miss India Rule, 3320 Thirteenth street, said her pocketbook containing $90 was snatched by some one who climbed on her automobile from the rear while she was driving in the 1700 {block of P street. Marcus Walker, colored, 600 block of Gresham place, reported he was robbed of $48 by two colored men in an alley in the rear of the 1900 block of Twen- After hearing Oscar H. Brinkman, investigator for the Senate Rent In- vestigating Subcommittee, discuss the rent situation here, the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association last night declined to adopt at this time a pro- | posed resolution indorsing the findings | of Brinkman and censoring the real estate men. i These three Washin were ‘The eighth recommzndation, Copeland pointed out, speaks of the “methods of reservation, restriction and discrimina- tlon, as regards shipping, that are or could be made available to the countr: (England) if it be forced to take re. taliatory steps in defense of its own shi licy.” taliate,” sald Copeland, a member of the Senate Comme:g; cmt?:m]x'}:xeih “%l:e to set up the pins vance m her W\l‘:l b:fore we have had & chance to confer with & 3 “What is the purpose of the World Economic Conférence? Is it to be a forum for free, frank and unprejudiced Ciscussion of werld conditions? ~ Or is it to be a place where Uncle Sam will loce his sglnin use o; se(:'_: agree- ents made in sdvance? * T Ponder these things and then ssk yourself how any American can stand idly by end let Great Britain outgeneral | us in the war for tr2de. Has the pro- Jonged eccnemic pressure caused suct[x a weakening of the old-fashioned British character that cur .cousin; across the tea have become hysterical? It does not harmonize with then;h mdl:iscxlx:l find that the cards are Sm&” sgainst the United States.” Hits Anderson Statement. The recent statement from London by | Sir Alan Anderson, chairman of the Crient Line and a recognized British shipping authority, decrying the assist- ance given the Amerncan merchant ma- yine by the United States Government, “is little less than hypocritical,” Cope- land asserted. “Every informed person knows how far Great Britain has gone in support | of her merchant marine,” he continued. “It was not until our country used similar methods that any considerable jon of our OWn commerce was car- Tied in American bottoms. It would be thrillingly welcome to British shipping interests for them to learn that the @nited States has cast adrift our de- ' ing fleets. But so long as the nes-White act remains intact, Sir Alan Anderson will have to compete in . st 2 't‘;g&n‘!em American forget that while England and her European allies were Degging for ‘ships, ships and more ships,’ she had no complaint to make of our appropriations for their building It comes with poor grace for any Britisher to throw bricks now at a policy deter- mined upon when all the Western Eu- | repean world was begging for this par- | ticular form of assistance. * * * “I am confident no American states- man will be moved by British crmc§ to abandon the wise policy that has met with such great success in so short a time. By persisting in our course, American agriculture, labor and indus- try will reap rich rewards from our increasing commerce.” Two Groups of “Scuttlers.” The two-day conference, which was called by the United States Shipping Board, was formally opened this morn- ing by the chairman of that board, T.'V. O'Connor, who warned that those | who now are attacking the Jones-Wh! act “are working to scuttle the Am can mnc{h]nlnf ntmrlne.“up , fall in two groups, kh:emgmwmz they are doing and those | who are the innocent dupes of the master minds who direct the attack He cautioned the conferecs, composed of representatives of the shipping in- dustry, other industries, agriculture, | labor and the Army and Navy, “to abolish the ocean mail contracts is to | abolish the merchant marine. | Secretary of Commerce Chapin urged increasing the American foreign trade carried in American vessels from the| present 35 per cent by value to 50 per cent, and advocated placing American flag shipping on a parity with foreign flag shipping. Such a program, he said, Wouid put men back to work and en- able the shipping compgnies to increase their capital expenditures. Representative Briggs, Democrat, of Texas, told the conference this coun- try's mercbant marine is “facing the moet critical situation it has ever ex- perienced” and said it has never Teached “quite as an acute stage as it has today.” It is “not only trying to weather the most violent depression it ever faced,” he sald, “but at the same time is being made the target of at- tacks from both at home and abroad.” Father Walsh Is Speaker. “If you want to preserve the Ameri- 1 | | marathon for more than 12 | each consecutive 24. The present con- test, in the hope of preventing any more of such exhibitions. The regula- tion prohibited the holding of the hours n test escapes this regulation by splitting contestants into teams of four, split into two couples who dance alternate 15-minute perfods. Thus no couple dances more than 12 elapsed hours time in any 24-hour period. Bride Expresses Regret. Mr. Bride said he took the step with regret, as he and Mr. Seal were per- sonal friends, and that before he be- came corporation counsel in 1927 the two had offices together. Neverthe- less, he felt he could not afford to-Ye- tain Mr. Seal as a répresentative of the city in legal matters, so he demanded his resignatipn. Mr. Seal wrote the! letter of resignation at once, effective ! immediately. Mr. Seal said afterward he was not attorney of record in the case, although he had advised the defendants in the suit as they were clients of his. He said that as his present employment as assistant _corporation counsel is only temporary, it would have been impos- sible for him to give up his law prac- tice in order to continue in that position, Mr. Seal was appointed because of the absence of Assistant Corporation Counsel Thomas F. Cameron on indef- inite leave, granted because of Mr. Cam- eron’s sickness, Dance Continued Privately. Meanwhile, having been ousted from | the Auditorium on order of the Dis- trict Supreme Court, the dance mara- thon was continuing privately at No. 1 Thomas circle, while its managers | sought a hall where the contest might be carried on publicly again. While the dance continues at its pres- | ent location, the public will not be ad- mitted, but city officials, marathon of- ficlals and newspaper men will have access, it was said today. With service of the injunction, the dance er, Morton Weil, loaded the contestants on a five-ton truck with & nine-piece band, and moved them all, still dancing, to the Thomas circle ad- dress. HUNGER OVE;RCOMES GIRL | Colored Applicant for Relief Taken to Emergency Hospital. ‘While seeking funds today with which to buy food, Nora Ramsay, 18, colored, was overcome by weakness, believed due to hunger, in front of the Emergency Relief headquarters, John Marshall place and C street, where she was going | to ask aid. The fire rescue squad was summoned and took the girl to Emergency Hospital where her condition was described as “fair.” Hospital attendants said they had not completed a diagnosis early this afternoon. The girl said she lived in the 200 block of D street. NICHOLSON BILL VOTED | Dismissed D. C. Policcman May Be| Restored. The House District Committee today ordered a favorable report on a bill rec- ommended by the District Commission- ers authorizing the reappointment of George N. Nicholson to the Police De- partment. Nicholson had been dismissed from the department on recommendation of the Police Trial Board, but it has de- velcped, Corporation Counsel Bride ex- plained, that an injustice was done as the trial board’s decision was based on false testimony. DR. KERCHNER ON STAFF Name Was Inadvertently Omitted From Gallinger List. ‘The name of Dr. Raymond C. Kerch- ner was inadvertently omitted from the list of visiting surgeons at Gallinger Hospital this year when the names were made public Sunday by the Board of Public Welfare. can merchant marine,” he told the shippers, “don’t use subterfuges or artifices. There is no room for spoils- men in the American merchant marine service. Let the people know how vital the merchant marine is to this country and to our foreign trade.” Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, vice presi- dent of Georgetown University, pointed t‘\'n‘tl q.g:emment assistance to peculiar to Ameri Subsidies granted in other’ Sountrice Daming and Eng- “If is then. neltber an. uneascnabie tries, | ward the establishment of a m Ehluvmum, nor m mupt;mmnnnic gesture to wish you courage, perse- tion, explained the Senate action to the House Committee, summarizing the Senate Amendment as follows: All power rates are to be fixed by the Public Utllities Commission; the Po- tomac Electric Power Co. is to get the profit from the sale of power, which can go to betterments; the street railway companies have agreed to accept the 3-cent car fare rate for children at- tending both public and parochial schools. ‘The latter was one of the provisions on which Chairman Norton was par- ticularly insistent. The signing of the agreement by the street railway com- panies would mean vacating proceed- ings in the courts on this subject. Means Free Tra . The bill also would provifle fof free | universal transfers on theé street car lines and give the Public Utllities Com- mission authority to fix the rate on transfers as between street cars and busses and busses to busses. The Public Utilities Commission | would have authority to fix a reduced | fare for short hauls without being transferred, which means a start on a zone system. Under the bill as passed by the Senate, Congress reserves the right to repeal any charter thereunder. The bill specifically gives the Public Utilities Commission the right to re- quire reasonable abandonment of tracks or extension of tracks. Mrs. Roberts pointed out that this is an important provision through which economies will be effected as a result of the merger. Companies Held Satisfied. The bill, as it stands, {s in line with the objection egainst granting the merged company the righ® to operate under subsidiary companies in the Dis- trict. It permits the merged company to have subsidiaries operating in out- side territory, but in the District it must operate through the new merged company. Members of the committee asked Mr. sel's office and other District officials who have been working on this legisla- tion would like to get, and he said improvement of court review. Chairman Norton announced the street rallway and bus interests were well satisfied with the bill as it passe the Senate. She complimented Repre sentative Black, chairman of the sub. committe which handled the legislation, for his work. FEDERAL EMPLOYES TO PLAN BANQUET Entertainment Committee of Dis- trict Federation Will Hold Meeting Tonight. ‘The Entertainment Committee of the District Federation of Federal Employes Unions will meet tonight, prior to the meeting of the District Federation, to go over plans for the banquet to be tendered the executive council of the National Pederation of Federal Em- ployes January 11. The council will go in session Jan- uary 9 to discuss policies for the next eight months, pending the biennial convention of the federation, which opens in Kansas City on Labor day. The District Federation will present a portrait of President Luther C. Steward of the National Federation to the executive council at the banquet. Slogan contest prizes will be awarded at the same time. The judges, who are Louls A. Rosafy, Dr. J. Franklin Meyer and Edgar Graham soon will select the winners in the competition which closed December 31. War Department Local 261 of the federation last night chserved the tenth anniversary of its founding. The busi- ness meeting was followed by an en- tertalnment program and refreshments in which a “birthday” cake had a part, The :flel}:efi lnfluded Ulrey J. Biller, seventh national vice president, and ;t:;’m D. Cloud and | Miss Matida Lind- , organizers. © program was ar- ranged by Miss Gertrude M. Coyle, the president. —e GAS HEARING FRIDAY verance and eventual success in your laudable enterprise—the renaissance of an adequate American merchant ma- rine with the concomitant restoratior of our self-respect on the high seas,’ Father Walsh concluded. Henry I. Harriman, president of thc United States Chamber of Commerce, reviewed his organization’s efforts to- marine on & sound, economic basis, o , , and &d‘oflfl!d&mfifl" toward continuation of that Senate Committee to Take Up Re- vised Merger Bill. _The revised bill to authorize merger 5! the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companiec, recently submitted by the Public Utilities Commission, will be taken up by the Senate District Com- mittee at 2:30 pm. Friday, Chairman Capper announced . Bills Wwith the same subject have been be Congress for several years, hut not finally acted .on. Roberts what else the corporation coun- | ty-third street. Vance Malloy, 700 block of ‘Lamont street, said he was held up by two colored men onh Seventh street, near Mades court, and robbed of his over- | coat and 25 cents. ‘Would-Be Robbers Run. An attempted hold-up was frustrated ened and ran after Vennett Theodore, proprietor of a store in the 700 block of Fourth street, failed to comply with their demands to “stick 'em up” when | the men entered the store. Non-negotiable securities and silver, | valued at $500, were reported stolen | from the home of Mrs. F. Mueller, 800 block of Ninth street. More than $200 in cash and checks for $43 were stolen from an A. & P. store in the 800 .block of Fourteenth | street by a duplicate key worker. NEW GRAND JURY FOREMAN BROKER Frank P. Morse Selected by Jus- tice 0’Donoghue for Next Three Months' Service. Frank P. Morse, broker, was selected today by District Supreme Court Justice Danicl W. O'Donoghue to serve as fore- man of the new grand jury, which will serve during the next three months. S:ven women and 15 other men will comprise the inquisitorial body. W. Guest, 664 G street northeast; Hor- ace Browning, 719 Van Buren street; Sidney B. Milier, 1300 Shepherd street; Joseph D. Dreyfuss, 1753 Lanier place; Eugene 8. Wilson, jr., 2915 Connecticut javenue: Leon H. Herbert, 3160 Sixteenth street; Mrs. Carolyn M. McAdoo, 1945 Calvert street; Harry D. Palmer, 1401 Columbia road; William G. Smith, 1833 New Hampshire avenue; Charles R. Owens, 1417 8 street southeast; James M. Denty, 3136 Seventeenth street; Walter E. Waddington, 610 Randolph street; Emile Beauvais, 1221 Connecti- | cut avenue; Blanche H. Randall, 50 | W street; Herbert R. Stroman, 3206 P street; Alice T. Cogswell, 4815 Four- teenth street; Mrs. Eunice B. Thomas, 14930 T strect; Charles E. Storey, Jir., {1331 Geranium street; Mrs. Evelyn N. Sherrill, 3401 Macomb street; Joseph | A eal, 1401 Fairmont street; Mrs. | Roberta Volland, 1521 Sping place, {and Miss Diane E. Smith, Wardman | Park Hotel. BULLE'I: WOU;ID FATAL TO GREAT MILLS YOUTH Doctor’'s Son Dies in Baltimore Hospital After Accident With Christntas Gift Rifle. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., January 4.— Arthur Bean, 12, son of Dr. P. J. Bean | of Great Mills, 10 miles below Leonard- town, died early yesterday morning in Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Md., after being rushed there for treatment of a | wound believed to have been caused when he stumbled over a gun received |as & Christmas present. The lad complained of a pain in his stomach, and on examination a_bullet { wound was discovered, the shot having | | passed through his stomach and coming out of his back. | | when three colored men became fright- | The other grand jurors are Charles | still stands, officials explained. The House Appropriations Committee | has slashed the request for deficiency funds for the office of public buildings 900, as _shown in the first deficiency | bill. This means, officials explained, | that more administrative furlough will | have to be given. if this is enacted into | law, than was at first anticipated. ‘Will Ease Hardships. The $75,000 released from impounded funds in the Tréasury repraients the salaries for the balance of the fiscal year of some 70 persons who have left the employ of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. Col. Grant made it clear today that the release of these funds will mean less of a hard- ship on low-paid Government workers in his office by easing up on the num- ber of payless days they will have to take, - Up to November 30, $98,552 was saved through administrative furloughs in the Office of Public Buildinys and Public Parks. Th2 release of §75,000 of this will aid materially, officials asserted, in allowing employes more money on which to live, A number df buildings guards have left Col. Grant’s office so far this fiscal year, many of them going to the Treas- ury Department, where administrative furloughs are not deemed necessary, because appropriations there were not slashed. Some of Col. Grant's build- ings guards are faced with payless fur- lough for as high as four months dur- ing the current fiscal year. A GRAYSON TO NAME INAUGURAL HEADS Twenty Chairmen of Subcommit- tees to Direct Preparations for Ceremony. Names of the 20 chairmen of the sub- committees who will serve with Rear | Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman | of the General Inaugural Committee, | probably will be made known tomorrow, | Admiral Grayson announced tcday in | his newly cccupied offices in the Wash- ington Building. | The inaugural chairman has about | completed the set-up of his personal force and expects the detail work of | the inaugural to get under way defi- | nitely with the completion of subcom- mittees later this week or early next. Each of the 20 subchairmen will form his or her own subcommittee to work out. detalls assigned them, while Ad- miral Grayson will have general super- visory interest in the whole proceeding. It appeared that only 2 names among the 20 chairmen had not been con- firmed by acceptances today, and those acceptances were expected to be re- ceived in time for announcement to- morrow. The inaugural headquarters has been' set up with an information division, committee meeting rooms and private offices. Admiral Grayson and his staff and the inaugural chairmen will oc- cupy these offices, rather than his own medical offices, until the inaugural | ceremony is over. SIX DIE AT 90 YEARS Six of the seven Coldwater, Mic] nonagenarians have died this year, survey revealed. Mrs. Caroline Parker is the town's only surviving 80-year-old. h., a employes during the current fiscal year | | and public parks from $43,800 to $21,- | j renity,” which the association felt was The association instead confined its action to thanking Brinkman and the | Senate District Committee for their “interest” and referred the other reso- lution to a committee for study. Brinkman's talk, in which he dis- cussed what he described as inequities and injustices in the local rent situa- tion, ‘precipitated lively discussion among the members of the association, Charles J. Rush, executive secretary of the Washington Real Estate Board, was a guest of the association and spoke briefly. Assails Alley Dwellings. Brinkman asserted he believed “Con- gress should appropriate no more money for fine E-rks and fine buildings until sultable, livable quarters have been pro- vided in place of the city's alley dwel- lings.” Quoting figures of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, that the death rate in | alley habitations is eight times that | of street dwellings, Brinkman cited this condition as “deplorable.” “It is a situation in which every citi- zen should interest himself,” he de- clared. “These breeding places of vice and disease must be cleared up.” Brinkman recited some of the devel- opments which grew out of the rent hearings, including his statement to the Senate Subcommittee that the Wash- ington Real Estate Board had sought to influence Municipal Court judges not to stay evictions. | Speaker asserted, “there were 40,000 eviction suits filed in Municipal Court last year.” Fzvors Rederhption Law. Advocating greater protection for the home purchaser, Brinkman said he was {in favor of a redemption law in the District, which would provide a period in which an owner whose mortgage had been foreclosed to redeem his property. The plan, similar to the re- demption law on tax delinquent prop. erty, is now in effect in 40 States, Brinkman said. Rush said he appreciated the fair- ness with which the association was treating the matter, and said he hoped the civic group would take the time and trouble to investigate the biased charges aimed at the real estate men of the Capital. He invited all interested owners of renting property to attend the mass meeting of brokers and land- Chamber of Commerce Priday night. ‘Talks on the issue were also made by A. E. Westrater, E. H. Russell, Alten + B. Carty, Albert E. Stephan, Mrs. W, 1. | Swanton and others. Capper and Blaine Praised. Resolutions adopted during the busi- ness session included one praising Sen- ators Capper of Kansas and Blaine of Wisconsin, as well as People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech and Assistant Cor- poration Counsel William A. Roberts for their efforts in connection with the street railway merger. The association also took action fa- voring tre naming of a public square in honor of Maj. L’Enfant, planner of the Capital; supperting Dr.” Frank W, Bal- lou for his refusal to permit boxing at McKinley High School; urging annual publication of a complete table of re- of Columbia, and favoring removal from Meridian Hill Park of the statue “Se- “unsightly.” The group also voted to send a dele- gate to the forthcoming conference here on the cause and cure of war. Mrs, Margaret Hopkins Worrell, president of the association, presided at the mest- ing, which was held in the assembly hall of the Fourth Presbyterian Chur':h, Thirteenth and Fairmont streets. En route under its own power from Fort Bragg, N. C., to Fort Ethan Allen, Vi, for a test, an experimental motor- ized battery of fleld artillery, the latest thing in ~Army machanization, was to arrive at Fort scheduled afterncon. It will be on exhibition tomorrow in the vicinity of the Washington Monu- ment from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and at the Army War College at 1:30 p.m. for in- spection by War Department officials. Friday morning the battery will take a:n‘m-d again for its Vermont destina- “The battery of 75 mm. guns, Which s -destined - - zeplace MOTORIZED BATTERY OF *“75s” DUE TO ARRIVE AT FORT MYER Experimental Artillery, Capable nf 40 Miles an Hour, to Be Tested in Vermont Snow. | Army horse in field artillery, is drawn | by a standard 1%-ton commercial | truck capable of a speed of 40 miles an | hour and an average sustained speed on | long marches of more than 20 miles an Myer this | hour, It was expected the trip from Fort Bragg to Washington will be made in less than 15 hours. The battery has been at the North Carolina fort for several months, un- ld.ettal.uu rigid munu’y tests, and climate for similar by Later it will be sent and COLORED MAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS FOR ATTACK Jall Term Passed by Judges Wood- ward and Willard After Re- Jjecting New Trial Plea. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., January 4.—Mor- ris A, Stewart, 21-year-old colored resi- dent of Germantown, county, who was recently found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court here on a charge of attacking & 13-year-old white girl in her home near Germantown in July, 1931, was e by Judges Charles W. Woodward and Arthur D. Willard to 15 years in the Maryland Penitentiary. Sentence was passed after the court had overruled a motion for a new trial, which was by Attorney F. Bar- nard Welsh, on behalf of the defendant, and State's Attorney Stedman Prescott. disa immediately attack and was not i both in support of and in opposition | to existing conditions in the realty field. | | “In a city of 125,000 families,” the lords to be held at the United States ¥ ceipts and expenditures of the District | among the pilots of 25 airplanes enter- | ed in the second pnnual Winter cruise of the United States Amateur Air Pilots’ Asscciation, which passed through ‘Washington yesterday afternoon, stop- ping at College Park Airport on the way to Miami for the All-American Air Races. Above are Mrs. John T. Remey, | daughter of Beale R. Howard and former commander of the Betsy Ross Corps, and Stuart Reiss, formerly of the Washington-Hoover Airport and pilot of the refueling plane in the recent world endurance record flight for wom- en. Below is C. M. Henderson, 1601 Argonne place. —Star Staff Photos. 20045, WORKERS | |More Members Wanted Be- fore Association Undertakes Actual Construction. With more than 200 Government ers planning to purchase homes under the prospective home construc- |tion plan of the Federal Employes Housing Association, L. L. Collie of the | Treasury Department, chairman of the | association, today conferred with repre- | sentatives of one of the largest home- | building firms in the country, with a | view to discussing possible terms. | Plans for actual construction, how- |ever, still are far from being com- | plete, Mr. Collie explained today. He feels his association should have many more members before it will have a suf- ficient buying market to lower the price to the desired level. Low-Cost Homes Aim. The Federal Employes' Housing As- | sociation, which is a non-profit organi- zation, Mr. Collie explained, is a group of Government employes banded to- | gether to obtain low-cost homes which |can be paid for over a period of 15 s { “There are no membership dues,” he explained. “The applications when properly filled out, enable the asso- ciation to give to building concerns such | information as is necessary in order | that they may present their proposi- | tions.” | Most of the employes who have in- i dicated their intention of buying homes | through such a co-operative plan have | chosen to have a brick bungalow, lo- | cated in the District, according to a tabulation of replies to a questionnaire, compiled by Mr. Collie. The survey made of housing needs | of members of the association through the questicnnaire shows that the mem- | bers expressed their choice of types of | homes as follows: Co-operative apart- | ment, 3 per cent; row house, 8 per cent; semi-detached, 15 per cent; de- tached, two story, 36 per cent; bunga- ' low, 38 per cent. D. C. Sites Favored. Choice of material was expressed follows: Brick, 78 per ccn!:psbone, i per cent; frame, 4 per cent. Choice of location was made as fol- | lows: District of Columbia, 55 per cent; Maryland, 31 per cent; Virginia, 11 per cent, and undecided, 3 per cent. “It is believed that by this united movement the association can save its members thousands of dollars on their homes,” Mr. Collie said. “If each member will get five of his friends who are prospective home buy- ers to join the association and send | in their applications with the necessary | information checked, some real action | may be expected by early Spring.” |SHOOTING SUSPECT HELD fUR GRAND JURY ACTION By Spectal Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va., January 4.—' |case of Ernest Payne,” charged ith shooting and killing his brother-in-law, '})-l., Lzs Rnth:;e{o:g, the night of Decem- er 26, was heard yester Gaskins, Justice of the S'e‘.’ceb.’ b Testimony was that Rutherford was unarmed and had his hands in his pockets when shot, and was struck in the back and side of the neck. Ruth- erford and his wife were leaving the Payne house after a visit of about five | IO N HOMEPLAN - of t_s:n;noul of several kinds * can' identified bank hours, during which it was testified | lssue.” e . the 1300 block of Tenth street; Agitinio Restifo, 35, of the 200 block of P street, and Adams, all of whom were held for investigation in connection with the case yesterday, led homicide squad de- tectives here the conclusion the with local bootlegging or gambling in a role of sufficient importance to justify a gang killing. = After talking with Mori, who lodged Lelli at his home for som lwl'l!’:uovlng furf.h:{ questioning of the men today, it was expected would be released unless evidence de- connect them with With other motives falling to ma~ terialize, detectives felt today the woman angle of the case offered best possibilities for a solution. Believed Slain in Washington. A coroner's jury, empaneled in Rockville yesterday afternoon before Acting Coroner John Jones, decided Lelli came to his death “from gunshot wounds at the hands of a person or per- sons unknown.” Although firm in his belief that Lelli was killed in Washing- ten and carried to the lonely Maryland road to delay discovery of the murder, State's Attorney Stedman Prescott an- nounced Montgomery County officials would continue their investigation un- less they prove the murder occurred in the District. Detective Theodore Vollten of the Montgomery County police force was cau;u as principal witness at the in- quest. He testified he had learned Lelli as- sumed the name of Julius Morris after coming to Washington and that he had made frequent telephone calls to an un- known person, always going outside the place he was staying to use a pay station for his calls. Rumors that two park policemen had observed a suspicious car carrying five men, one of them with a newspaper covering the face, near the Jones Mill road about 4 a.m. Sunday, were dis- credited by a check-up today. The offi- cers said they had seen such an auto- mobile sometime between noon and 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, but since Lelli's body was found around 1 p.m., it seemed improbable the car had any connection with his murder. SIX 1933 LICENSE TAGS STOLEN FROM AUTOISTS Police and Irate Motorists After Perpetrators of Marker Thefts. At least half a dozen Washington motorists got 1933 license plates with- out standing in line for hours—and they didn't get 'em by mail, either! However, they're likely to be incon- venienced more than if they'd braved the last-minute crowds that stormed the Bureau of Vehicles and Traffic if they're not careful. The police are after them, for one thing, and—what's probably even worse—so are the six irate motorists from whom they stole thl tags. issing markers were reported by Herbert Campbell, 230 Rhode Island avenue northeast; Lyle Thompson, 1522 Fourteenth street; Joseph G. Minter, 415 Butternut street; Maxwell Ludwig, 1102 K street; Samuel W. Saxon, 1703 Oregon avenue, and John S. Alexander, 8400 Maple avenue, Sflver Spring, whose new Maryland plates 'ems‘hkn':'m his automobile while it was parked in the 2000 bloek of Eleventh street. DISPOSES OF CURRENCY Norbeck Offers Bill to Retire Un- identified $1,500. issued by introgucing a bill charging the currency to the money retirement funds of the department. The bill authorizes such disposition ‘'which there had been some quarreling between Payne was his ab the two men. it ball and the Treasury had that 0&800 Jnvolved. R in 147, ¢-= of the money | o'the