Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 15

Washi THOUSANDS SEEK ERANDSTAND SEATS FOR INAUGURATION Allotments to Be Made Next Monday So All Visitors Will Have Chance. CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS SEND 2,500 APPLICATIONS Mrs. Blair Banister Announces Chairmen of Housing and Hos- pitality Subcommittees. The first rush for choice seats to view the naugural parade has started, and the inaugural grandstand ticket offices in the Washington Building are being taxed almost to capacity to keep pace with the demand for hundreds of tickets daily. Daniel C. Roper, chairman of the Ticket Committee, re- ported today. Mr. Roper reported that yesterday alone more than $2.000 worth of tickets were sold, with the work of the ticket office, on G street, growing hourly. In addition, Mr. Roper reported that his committee now has on hand about 2500 applications for ticket reserva tions, made either in person or by mail. Some of these reservations were made in response to about 3,000 letters sent out to contributors to the Democratic national campaign fund, who were given first call in the reservation of seats. The response from these letters, said Mr. Roper, has been so gratifying that similar lett:rs are being sent to more than 3,000 county Democratic chairmen throughout the country. It is expected these Democratic party | officials will. in many instances, de- cide to attend the inaugural in State delegations. Seat Allotment Delayed. Mr. Roper stated that in order not to discriminate against persons living at a distance from Washington, no allocation of seats will be made until next Monday, and until that time only applications for reservations would be Teceived He expressed the view that the early rush for reservations indicate a heavy later demand for tickets, and urged those seeking choice reservations to make their applications early. Mrs. Blair Banister, chairman of the Inaugural Committee on Housing and Hospitality, with headquarters in room 126 of the Willard Hotel, announced today the following subchairmen of her committee: Co-operation, Curtis A. Hodges; 'inspection of rooms, Har- vey L. McCoy Jones; restaurants and hotels, Augustus Gumpert; radio, Joseph D. Kaufman. The first order for a souvenir pro- gram of the inaugural was received yesterday by the Program Committee from a Massachusetts Democrat, it was Teported by J. ry, chairman of the committee. The Finance Committee of the Gen- eral Inaugural Committee today urged merchants to hasten their contributions to the guarantee fund of $100,000 which is needed by the committee to transact the necessary business of attending to the details of the inaugural celebration. Many. firms which in previous in- augural years have contributed to this fund, which will be returned to con- tributors from funds received from ac- tivities of the committee, such as the sale of grandstand tickets, souvenirs, medals and other activities, have this year so far failed fo make their contri- bution and the smooth working of the Inaugural Committee can only be as- sured by early subscription of the fund. $30,000 Already Listed. Good progress so far is reported, however, by -Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman of the Finance Committee. More than $30.000 officially ha®@besn reported sub- scribed and some of the larger guar- antors are listed as follows: $2,500. Woodward & Lothrop. $2,000, Potomac Electric Power Co. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Greater National Capital Committee; Washington Properties (Wardman Park and Carlton Hotels). $1,500, Washington & Georgetown ‘Gas Light_companies. $1,000, Barber & Ross, Inc.; Julius Garfinckel & Co.. Harriman & Co.; The Hecht Co.; W. B. Hibbs & Co.; Frank R. Jellefl, Inc.; Judd & Det- wiler, Inc.; S. Kann Sons Co.; Lans- burgh & Bro.. Olmsted Grill Palais Royal, Inc.; Pcoples Drug Stores, Inc.; H. L. Rust Co.. Washington Railway & Electric Co., Willard Hotel, W. S. Corby, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose. $500, Gude Brothers Co., Randall H. Hagner & Co., Wm. Hahn & Co., R. C. Jones & Co., National City Co. Na- tional Electrical Supply Co., Peoples Life Insurance Co., B. P. Saul Co. Weaver Brothers, Inc.; Christian Heurich, Ord Preston. E $300, H. Rozier Dulany, sr., and jr. $250. W. T. Galliher & Brothers, Inc.; W. C. & A. N. Miller, Occidental Hotel, Robert V. Fleming, C. E. Galli- her, L. B. Wilson. In resolutions submitted yesterday in the House by Chairman Pou of the Rules Committee, and in the Senate by Minority Leader Robinson, pro- vision is made for a number of detalls in connection with the inaugural. Troop Quarters Sought. One resolution would authorize Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d., Director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, to allocate any space in public bulldings he may deem necessary for quartering troops which are to F-nm- pate in the inaugural ceremonies, Another resolution authorizes Col. Grant, and any other officers of the District who have under their control public space in the District, to grant permits to the Inaugural Committee for the use of such space, provided the spaces alloted the committee be under the jurisdiction of the committee. The resolution also provides for the removal of stands and other temporary structures used by the Inaugural Com- mittee within a reasonable length of time. There is also provided author- ization for the stringing of necessary lights where they-may be needed by the committee, and by the telegraph, tele- phone and broadcasting companies along the line of march of the parade. ‘The resolution still further provides t the Secretary of War may lend to the committee hospital equipment for first aid stations, and such tents and other supplies as may be needed. Loan of flags for decorations of Gov- ernment_buildings during the inaugural period also is provided. MONOXIDE VI.CT[MS SAVED LOS ANGELES, January 25 (#).— The initial application in a Los Angeles hospital of methylene blue, a chemical used o treat monoxide gas poisoning, aided yesterday in saving the lives of o mlmn‘. id that in its first e sa test the treatment had been fully ef- fective in two cases, but that in two others blood Wmh nec~ essary to restore norma) ngton News | he WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 1933. Atom Started It All TIME AND SPACE BEGAN WITH “EXPLOSIO! BY THOMAS R. HENRY. In the beginning it was an atom. ‘There was no space and no time— Jjust one unimaginable mass containing all the matter in creation, the count- less quadrillions of tons which now ccnstitute the planets, the stars and the universes. Just a few years ago, as astronomers calculate time, this atom started to “blow up.” The explosion still is in progress. It is creating space and time in its path. It may continue yet for 100,000,000,000 years. Such was the picture outlined this morning by Abbie Georges Le Maitre, Belgian priest and chief exponent of the concept of tke expanding universe, who is to lecture at Catholic University here tonight. Cites Impirical Evidence. It is not just the dream of a cloister- ed mathematicien. Father LeMaitre cites impirical evidence as well as theo- retical prababilities in expounaing his concept. He Is & piactical physicist, a graduate of the Massachuseits Insti- tute of Technology and & very youthful figure in the company of his two great contemporaries in the same field, Profs. Einstein and De Sitter. The universe, he points out, actually can be seen ex- panding at a much faster rate than is necessary to support his calculations. ‘To comprehend Father LeMaitre’s concept it is necessary to turn to a phenomenon, which is in_progress all the time—radioactivity. It is known jthat everything in creation is made up of 92 elements, starting with the lightest, hydrcgen, and ending with the heaviest, uranium. Urznium is com- posed of atoms of such a complex structure that they can’t hold together. They are continually emitting redia- tion and breaking down into atoms of lighter elements, the chief of which is radium. All of the elements near uranium in the weight table are break- ing down into simpler elements. Gen- erally the heavier they are the faster they are. . Now consider an atom countless bil- lions of times heavier than an atom of uranjum or of radium. It would be billions of times less stable. Father Le Meitre finds mathematically the be- havior of such an primaeval atom would explain, as nothing else can, the present size, struc- only do the equations fit, but just what should be happening under such a con- cept is happening. The great spiral the at the Mount Wilson Observatory, are moving outward from the center of things at a speed which increases in proportion to their distance. ‘The whole progress from the begin- a process of breaking down. The break- ing down will continue indefinitely. more complex atoms splitting into sim- pler atoms. The lighter the atoms be- come the greater is their stability. Finally, the time will come when every atom will be so small that the rate of breakdown will be incalculably small and the job will be finished. Space will be many times greater than it is now. There will be a practical infini- tude of time. Easier to Destroy. ‘The process of cosmical evolution, says Father LeMaitre, is one of break- ing down instead of building up. Tt is easler to destroy than to create. He are being built up of lighter atoms, ex- cept possibly on a very small scale or in the laboratory. It has been a pro- cess of progressive destruction of the more complex. “The world began just before. space " says Father LeMaitre. It 1s hard to conceive of no space and no time. Before any given Jjnstant, one feels, there must have been another instant. Beyond any given point there must be another point. It is the great, continually propounded riddle. Yet, says the priest-astronomer, the world was here when space and time were not. He finds no particular stumbling block here. If it all was an atom in the inning there could have been no such things as space and time. This is implied in the concept of “atom.” Space and time, he explained, simply are without meaning when ap- plied to such a body. It has been said that a billion atoms could be placed on the point of & pin. It is immaterial whether they are uranium atoms or hy- drogen atoms. Space is an interval between objects. There is no space in the atom. There was no object out- side the atom. Thus there could have been no space. And time and space cannot be expressed independently of each other. Both started to exist when the atom started to explode and that must have been about as soon as the atom came into existence. Father Le- Maitre puts it at about 10,000,000,000 years ago. For the present observed rate of ex- pansion it would have been about 2,000,000,000 years ago, but he believes— +and this may be the crux of the whole concept—that the rate is increasing the longer the expansion continues. It was very slow at first because the tightly packed matter in the atom would have been held together pretty rigidly by the force of gravity. It was separated by a counter force—*“cosmical force.” Differs With Einstein. Father Le Maitre believes it is neces- sary to assume this force, acting al- ways in opposition to gravity. | stein doesn’t think it is necessary. It |1s hard to locats. Gravity 15 a force which attracts masses proportionately to their weight and their distance a) . The closer the proximity of the particles the greater the force of grav- ity. The further apart they get the less counter pull need be applied by cosmical force. They are getting further apart all the time. Consequently the cosmical force is exerting a greater: in- fluence. Consequently the expansion is going on at a faster rate. Only over immense spaces does the cosntical force come into evidence. Hence it eludes the physicist. But Father LeMaitre believes he has impirical evidence of it in the flight of the nebulae. 1t is dissipating everything. The end is unimaginable—a universe finely dif- fused through infinite space and infinite | of the beginning of time and space, bu! they are breaking down—the less stable | hypothetical | ture and behavior of the universe. Not | nebulae, as has been determined from | celebrated red shift experiments | REALTY MEN BEGIN ning, says the Belgian priest, has been | disputes the idea that heavier atoms | Ein- | ABBE GEORGES LEMAITRE. time. Nobody needs to worry about it —the end is such a long way off. Father Le Maitre answers the rlddls as to the origin of the original atom from which time, space and everything have come as from an egg—that, he says, “is very Interesting, but it is & problem for metaphysics and not physics. The two must not be con- founded. “The child knows that nothing can stand on itself. Here we know no more than the child. We can only determine what happened, according to the laws of nature, once the primaeval atom be- gan to expand.” The whole universe, Father Le Maitre held. is only two or three times as old as the earth. There have been 200 or 300 cosmic generations since the be- ginning, he holds, with their successive splittings of heavier into lighter material. What will be the end of it all? “All I can say,” says-Father Le Maitre, “is that ft will be a bad day for us physicists. There’ will be no more radio- active elements to work with. But I can’t say anything about the prospects for life as the process goes on. That is a more complex question.” TECHNICAL STUDIES National Association Opens Winter Busin¥ss Meet- ing Here. Engrossed in many technical problems | associated with- real estate appraising as to values, the members of the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Boards opened their Winter business meeting here today. One of the first subjects under dis- cussion was the effect any legislation affecting the currency might hawe on the cost of real property. The question was discussed in a report submitted by Ivan A. Thorson of Los Angeles. The realtors also took up many other technical problems connected with ap- praising values of real estate, at a round-table discussion held by members of the professional division. Another thought advanced was that property values in future years would be affected by the slowing down of the rate of increase in the population of the United States. Some long distance predictions ere that before the end of the present century the population ol tleae“ Nation will become practically static. > No Criterion of Value. Morris Goldfaro, Perth Amboy. N. J., in a report held that current sales do not always determine what is fair market value of land, and that “cer- tainly the sales that have taken place during this depression, in 1930-1932, are no criterion of value.” The same general thought was ex- pressed by Burton Thompson, Eliza- beth, N. J., who advised in his paper that “It is the duty of the appraiser to discount present conditions; to de- termine whether the general market is normal, sluggish or inflated, and to cor- rect his estimates accordingly.” ‘Thompson took the position that due to complexities of modern civilization, artificialities influence natural laws of economics. He cited rates of wages es- tablished by labor unions, “the facile and too often fallacious opinions” of tax assessors; city, State and govern- mental budgets, and the changing at- titude of investment bankers, ‘“fre- quently affected by wholly unrelated phenomena of the general market.” Values Are Merged. Philip W. Kniskern of New York, president of the Institute of Appraisers, opposed the practice followed by some appraisers of arriving separately at val- ues of the land and the building of an improved parcel being appraised, with # summation of the two figures being used as the total value. The value and the earning power of the building as well as the value and earning power of the land are in- separably merged into the value and earning power of the combination of land and building, so long as the build- ing exists, and cannot during that period be taken or treated as separate units, he held. The appraisal experts at their all-day SCTUAT property, 8 ‘two-story” business actual property, a two- ess building in the central section of Eliza- beth, N. J...This led to a discussion of proper capitalization rates and other technical questions. OLDEST WAR HERO IN U. S. INVITED! TO INAUGURAL AS SPECIAL GUEST Retail, Wash., Man, Private in Union Army, Holds Con- gressional Medal and Is Member of Legion of Valor. ‘The Roosevelt Inaugural Committee today invited the country’s oldest recog- nized war hero to be the special guest of Ray Baker, chairman of the Inaugu- ral Committee on distinguished guests, at_the inaugural. ‘The invitation went forth today to Prancis A. Bishop, 91, of Retail, Wash,, holder of the Congressiona) Medal of Honor ¢nd the veteran member cf the ! have won ccngiessicnal deccrations for miiitar- service. Mr. Bishop, as a private of the Union Army, wen congressicnal recogni jon of his valor in the battle of Spottsylvania, on May 12, 1864. He was a member of Company C, 57th Pennsyivenia In- &nwifl:gumm;u -'n': hr‘vdz Bishop e T '8 3 the enemy fire and recaptyred it great odds. te his years, Mr. is re- mumfimm- Legion of Valor, composed of m:n, who ; cally every convention of the Legion of Valor in recent years, and has made INOTED SPEAKERS TELL PAROLE BOARD SUPERVISION NEEDS Director Bates of U. S. Pris- ons Bureau, Winthrop Lane and Others Heard. NEW ORGANIZATION FACING DIFFICULTIES Lacks Equipment to Study Indi- viduals for Specific Treatment, Says Dr. Johnson. Members of the District’s new Parole Board heard some of the Nation's lead- ing parole authorities discuss for five | hours yesterday and last night the best | methods by which criminals can be re- iturned to soclety and made ready to |take their places in communities as useful American citizens. The members of the board, Isaac Gans, civic leader; Dr. Loren Johnson, prominent psychiatrist, and Dr. Emmett Scott, secretary of Howard University, were attentive listeners at the meeting in the Y. W. C. A., which was sponsored Iby the Family Welfare Committee of | the Council of Social Agencies, and had i as its topic, “Parole, With Special Ref- erence to the District of Columbia.” Among the speakers were Sanford Bates, director of the United States Bu- reau of Prisons; Winthrop D. Lane, director of the New Jersey State Divi- sion of Parole, and Ray L. Huff, parole executive of the Bureau of Prisons. Dr. Johnson himself made a speech, point- ing out the difficulties facing the re- cently created board, which, he said, lacked the equipment to study the cases of individual offenders and recommend specific treatment. In the audience were District Commissioners Crosby and Reichelderfer, Police Chief Ernest W. Brown and Detective Chief Frank 8. W. Burke. Supervision Pivotal Point. Adequate supervision qf the criminal after he has been reledsed from the penal institution, to insure that he does not again break the laws of soclety, was the pivotal point around which the ad- dresses and discussion revolved. Bates, the first speaker, said the only successful parole m must necessarily embrace a period, after re- lease, in which the prisoner “can set up his residence in a community under enforced supervision, and an attempt made to carry the prisoner over from thg restricted atmosphere of the priscn tq the freer atmosphere of the com- munity.” He declared there are three “indispensable needs in any successful parole system—personnel, facts and supervision.” “Yeu can't hire a lot of broken down politiclans and _expect parolet service, he asserted. “You must have persons ©f better-than-average intelligence, for character remolding comes as near be- ing an impossibility as anything can be. ‘As for the second essential, hefore any attempt can be made to act, you must have the facts. You must know when the moment has arrived that a man has served just long enough and not too long; you must know the man’s and his psychological reaction. “The parole system which overlooks supervision is not a parole system at all. If supervision is not given careful con- sideration, the judge might as well have fixed the minimum sentence in the bc- ginning.” Parole System Defended. Discussing the value of the parole system, Bates said that even if 2.900 out of 3,000 prisoners granted parole returned to lives of crime, “I am pre- pared to contend that even those fig- ures don't prove the failure of the pa- role system.” “How can it be proved that the other 100" would not have relapsed if it had not been for the parole system?” he he asked. Lane, who followed Bates, explained for the benefit of the District Parole Board members the system now in op- eratfon in New Jersey, by which all paroles are recommended by the Clas- sification Committee in each of the penal institutions, the committees be- ing composed of the leading officials and professional men attached to the institution. Supervision of the offender, after parole, is accomplished by a state- wide organization and periodic reports are made on the parolee's status, whether he has reunited with his fam- ily, has & job and whether he shows any inclination whatever to relapse into crime, Lane said. 2 “Our conception of parole work,” he told the gathering of social work- ers, “is effective social case work. The parole officers are instructed to regard the prisoner's whole family as his clients and to try to adjust the of- ender’s life so that he will be a use- ful citizen.” Classification of Criminals. Dr. Johnson classified criminals as (1) “the emotionally unstable, who are dumped into the wastebasket of the psychopath; (2) the very distinctly feeble-minded, who are easily led, and (3) the reformable group, the first of- fenders.” “I can visualize,” he continued, “a society of some time in the future in which the individual with the emo- tional twist can be placed in an insti- tution where he can be given special study and sent back to soclety a normal person. I can visualize a world where the feeble-minded can be given special treatment and built up and returned to in a normal condition. “The reformable—those first offend- ers—should not be allowed to mingle with the emotional or the recidivists.” ‘What all criminals need, according to the psychiatrist, is “work, play, love and worship.” These, he added, could be and should be supplied by the penal institutions as part of their corrective system. “"He said all the factors which his board had to consider led him to won- der “whether ishment does not have He added that the long trips actoss the country to East- |in€ ern gatherings, - Mr. Baker said today that if Mr. Bishop accepts the invitation, special arrangements will be made for his re- ception. "It is planned to provide a part for him in the ceremonies of the Inaugural Committes, rnd to obtain a place for him, if possible, in the presi- Centia! revieving siand rs near the ncw President as practiceble. ‘The plan was suggested to the Inau- gural Commiitee by Washington Medal of Honor men, including Sterling More- lock, 1819 G street; Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House gzhyurhn: Lieut. William Hamberger, - 2227 Twentieth street; Earle Gregory, 2650 Wisconsin avenue; m Bnl?an. 1319 glflkw southeast, Resourccs for Parole,” declared that “every existing agency in this commu- nity should be made available to the | Board of [Parole 11 it sceks to bave & good parole system.” Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent of District penal institutions, following up Huff’s theme, asserted that there are Reformatory be- physical attributes, his mental make-up | bening Star WITR m“ MORNING EDITION FFP l MARY GARDEN CONFERS WITH WELFARE OFFICIALS ON PROBLEMS OF VICTIMS OF DEPRESSION. | M ARY GARDEN, noted opera singer, appearing at & local theater this week, conferred yesterday at Community Chest headquarters with a group of national and local Travelers’ Aid Society officials and other welfare workers on the problem presented by thousands of men, women and children, made homeless by the depression, who are wandering over the country. In the picture are: Mrs. Margaret Ford, director of the Washington Travelers’ Aid; Miss Bertha McCall of the National Association of Travelers’ Aid Socleties; Mary Anderson, director of the Woman's Bureau, Department of Labor; Mary Garden, Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest; Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, chairman of the United Hebrew . Relief Society, and Mzaj. James Asher of the Salvation Army. Miss Garden promised to keep up a campeign for welfare and relief work for the homeless in every city on her current tour of the country. —Star Staff Photo. NEW HIGH SCHOOLS T0 CURB ENTRIES {Outside Pupils at Rooseveli and McKinley Limited L in Courses. ‘The desire of large numbers of junior i high and elementary school graduates ito attend the new Roosevelt High Schocl !and the ultra-modern McKinley High jSchool at the beginning of the new {term on February 1, resulted today in |(he issuance of specific limitations for entrance at these schools by Dr. Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintend- ent of schools. Children living outside the specified areas would be admitted to the Roose- Lvelt and McKinley Schools only if they said. The Roosevelt High School area is | bounded by Spring road on the south. {Sixteenth street on the west, the District line on the north and Rock Crek Church | road on the east. | Courses Outlined. ‘The courses which must be taken by outside students desirous of enrolling First year: Commercial arithmetic, bookkeeping or shorthand, penmanship and typing; second year, continuation of bookkeeping or shorthand and typing, or bookkeeping and shorthand, or office training, and commercial geography and commercial law; third year, ac- counting and finance, shorthand and typing or its equivalent, or office ap- pliances and equipment; fourth year, | business organization, salesmanship, of- i fice appliances and equipment or office training and shorthand. The McKinley High School area boundaries are as follows: “On the west, follow the line of Fourth street northwest, beginning at Massachusetts avenue, { Home, at North Capitol street, and go | north’ to New Hampshire avenue and { thence along the line of New Hamp- shire avenue to the District Line. “Beginning at Fifth street and Mas- sachusetts avenue northwest, follow the line of Massachusetts avenue to Second street northeast, thence along the line of Second street northward to K street thence along the line of K street northwest to West Virginia ave- nue northeast at its junction with Flori- da avenue, thence along the line of West Virginia avenue northeast to the District Line.” Required Classes Listed. - Pupils living within this irregular zone will be admitted without question into McKinley High School. Those liv- ing outside it must take the followng subjects to be admitted: First year—Boys, foundry, pattern shop or cabinet shop and mechanical drawing, one semester each; girls, homemaking and elementary clothing or foods, one semester each. Second year—Boys, forge shop, machine shop or electric shop and mechanical draw- ing, one semester each; girls, advanced clothing and textiles and food selec- tion and separation, one semester each. Third year—Boys, machine shop, elec- tric shop or automobile shop and me- chanical drawing, one semester each; girls, applied costume design and vo- cational foods, one semester each. Fourth year—Boys, advanced work in shop or mechanical drawing. two semes- ters, and girls, home nursing or child study, and clothing economics or house- hold administration, one semester each. TRUESDELL SCHOOL'S REPAIRS WILL BEGIN Work to Start After Inspection by Commissioner Luther H. Reichelderfer. The District repair shop will under- | take Tepairs on the Truesdell School, | Ninth and Ingraham streets, following an inspection of the premises by Com- missioner Luther H. Reichelderfer yes- terday. Director of Construction H. W. Baker, and J. J. Crane, business man- House Appropria Comm!| 3 Dr, Reichelderfer said that the school was “unsightly” but presented no menace to health or any great'y un- sanitary conditions. ate onary les, point- ln:q:ut that the case load of the | tion and his three assistants is about uch‘.‘ S 3 The. e crime problem,” in the took intensive courses which are of- | fered only by those schools, Dr. Kramer | | in_Roosevelt must include: | northward to the reservoir. | ( Take up the line north of Soldiers’| |CIVIC AWARD TO BE MADE | BY CLUB TOMORROW Winner of Cosmopolitan Prize to | Be Announced at Special Luncheon. | The citizen performing the outstand- ing deed of civic virtue during 1932 wil be the recipient of the Cosmopolitan | Club’s distinguished service medal at a | specizl luncheon tomorrow noon at the | Carlton Hotel. The identity of the | keeping with the club’s custom. Announcement of the award will be made by Dr. J. Rozier Biggs, chairman of the Medal Committee. The Board of Commissioner:, heads of various civie crganizations and other prominent guests will be present. The proceed- ings, to be broadca:t over station WMAL, will be initiated by Robert W. | McChesney, the club’s president. - In the past three years the medal has been awarded 0 M. A. Leese, owner | of station WMAL: Theodore W. Noyes, | editer of The Evefilng Star, and E. C (G:;ham. presiden# of the Community st GLASSFORD URGES 'Asks $15,000,000 U. S. Fund to Rehabilitate Roaming Boys apd Men. An appeal for @ $15,000,000 Federal | | appropriation for the rehabilitation of | thousands of men and boys now roam- | ing the country was made today by Brig. Gen. Pelhamgv Glassfcrd during | a hearing before a Senate Manufactures | Subcommitter. | Gen. Glassford, former hezd of the ‘Washington Police Department, told the | committee he favoeled enactment of the bill introduced by Benator Cutting, Re- | publican, of New' Mexico. This bill wculd authorize the Reconstruction | Finance Corporation to make $15.000.000 available for relief and rehabilitation | in the various States and Territories where the problem of handling tran- sients has become acute. Relief Program Likely. Meanwhile it became evident a defi- nite Pederal relief program under which millions would be made available to States for extending a helping hand to the needy and unemployed may be dsafted and approved by President-elect Roosevelt. ‘This became evident today when the Senate Manufactures Committee was summoned to meet tomorrow to con- sider combining various relief propos- als_into one_ program. Chairman La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin, and Senator Cutting, who discussed the relief question with Mr. Roosevelt in Warm Springs last week end, called the committee meeting for this purpose. La Follette would not say that a pro- gram would be evolved along lines sug- gested by Mr. Roosevelt, but, neverthe- less, it was understood that a plan would be drafted largely as a result of the Warm Springs conference La Fol- lette and Senator Costigan, Democrat, of Colorado; are sponsors of .a bill to provide $500,000,000 in outright relief grants to States. Cutting told newspaper men today “Mr. Roosevelt did not commit himsel! to any definite program, but he made evident to us his sincere sympathy. with any sound relief plan.” ‘The President-elect,” Cutting added, “Is thoroughly conversant with the re- lief need, by virtue of his four years as Governor of New York and knowledge of conditions in this country.” Foresees Grave Danger. Gen. Glassford today said it is his belief, after a six-week study, that the present situation is breeding a genera- tion of hoboes who will exact a heavy toll from society at a later date, unless something is done now to alleviate their distress. Most of these transients, he said, whose aggregate numbers run high in the thousands, come from re- spectable, substantial families, and n}lny of them are only 14 or 15 years of age. He expressed the belief that the young men roaming the country con- ‘The less ambitious, he said, stay at home and constitute a burden on_their family and community. Gen. Glassford said he had traveled He had particular praise a tran- slent camp which has been established Drovides good- cae for moro than- 309 ovides more Then and boys, serves them wholesome | recipient i~ secret for the present, in RECEIVING CLERK - HELD N ROBBERY Member- of Virginia Family and Two Colored Men Jailed in $360 Loss. | A 19-year-old receiving clerk, said to be a member of a prominent Virginia family, and two colored men were under arrest today in connection with the theft early Saturday of $360 from a [safe in the Palals Royal Department Store warehouse, 1100 block of First ! street northeast. | Those held are Thomas Hankins, the clerk; Daniel Adams, 26, colored, of the 1300 block of R street, and Grant Brun- son, 24, also colored, of the 400 block of M street, with whom Hankins is said by | police to have admitted, in a signed confession, planning the robbery. Jo- seph F. Ashford, 67-year-old watchman, was bound and gagged by the colored men, who perpetrated the robbery. Hankins Planned Robbery. | | According to the confessions of the three men, Hankins plammed the rob- bery and approached Brunson, who | him to commit the crime. On several oécasions, the receiving clerk is said by police to have shown Brunson receipts mflcmnx the amount of money in the safe. Finally, on the day before the rob- bery, plans were laid and Brunson got Adams to assist in the safe-cracking. With Ashford securely bound and gagged, the colored men cracked the safe with sledge hammers, after first removing it from the first floor to the basement. The watchman, three hours later. worked loose from his bonds and | called police. Hankins, who lives in the 1300 block Clifton street, was arrested Monday, and the other men taken in custody at their homes iater. Of the $360 taken, $59 has already been recovered, with possibility that more may be salvaged. Police, meanwhile, were searching to- day for two men believed to be the same bandits who held up two filling stations last night and robbed their managers of a total of $29. Robbers Got $29. ‘The robbers, one of whom held a gun in each case, obtained $20 from James Crockett, manager of a station at New Jersey and New York avenues, and $9 from Samuel Clyde, night manager of a station at Fifteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue southeast. In connection with an attempt to rob 14-year-old Miresco Marino, of the 100 block G street, Richard H. Bowman, 33, of the 700 block Fifth street, was being detained at the first precinct today. Marino, struck over the head when he resisted the robbery attempt, was treated at Casualty Hospital. Clothing, jewelry and a stock certifi- cate valued altogether at $662, were reported stolen from the home of Mrs. Frances Hurley, 4318 Tenth street, by a thief who entered by breaking a pane of glass from a basement door. D e R Oak Tree Among Gifts. An oak tree, a piano, a seismograph and $7,200 are among the gifts to the University of California acknowledged by the Board of Regents recently. agencies, he testified, virtually have ex- hausted their resources, and the prob- lem has become a Federal one. He declared the National Government should make funds available to the States so that the transients can be investigated and returned to their homes, or to their points of destina- tion, if practicable. Urges Hospitalization. He sald that medical examination to prevent spread of disease should be given, and hospitalization and treat- ment furnished if necessary. For the homeless men and boys will- ing to work, but unable to find jobs he advocated establishment of camps along military lines, where they could be trained to become useful citizens. He said these camps could contain on an average from 500 to 600 ocupants. Gen. Glassford said he did not favor forcing any cne to enter such a camp, but expresed the belief that worthwhile boys and men would gladly enter them if they were made sufficiently attractive. He was questioned concering the prob- lem presented by transient girls, but said he did not have sufficient informa- years. Gilbert 8. Decker, of the Salvation Army here, said the facilities offered by the Salvation Army in Wi . are rapidly being exhausted and pre- dicted the conditions would get worse, unless the Federal Government acts. Other witnesses included Mary Stewart of Houston, Tex., representing the Travelers Aid and Transient Bu- m\;‘ and Paul , social work- er 'L”“:?mo.m. Costigan are suboontmittes, worked in a nearby garage, and urged | PAGE B—1 ECKLUND SLAYERS INDICTED BY JURY AS INQUEST PENDS Four Named as Principals and Two as Accessories in Fatal Hold-up Attempt. ROVER CUTS RED TAPE TO OBTAIN TRUE BILLS Five Other First-Degree Murder ® Charges Returned by D. C. Inquisitorial Body. Four of the six men held in the at- tempted $2,000 Browning Painting Co. pay roll robbery, in which Einer R. Ecklund, a paymaster tor the concern, was shot to death and Harry Stumm, his assistant, seriously wounded, are charged with first-degree murder in an indictment returned today by the grand Jury. The two other men are named as accessories after the fact e men accused of murder are: Claude Myers, 28, and Fewell Work- man, 23, both colored, who are alleged to have done the actual shooting; Al- bert E. Cash, 20, said to have driven the taxicab in which the gunmen es- ;:m, t:ng EVer!:tdBIflckwell. 22, Te- ave acted as “tip-off” ma during the hold-up mempt.p - Those named as accessories are: Clyde E. Templeton, 30, who is al- leged to have disposed of one of the guns, and Oscar M. Cash, 25, brother of Albert Cash, who is said to have disposed of the other weapon. Temple- ton is a brother-in-law of the Cash brothers. Inquest Also Held. The indictment, in six counts, was reported in District Supreme Court while a coroner’s jury was investigat ing the case in the District Morgue. The jury was sworn in over the body of the slain man last Saturday. ‘The accused men are expected to be arraigned Friday in District Supreme Court. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, who slashed legal red tape in presenting the case to the grand jury in advance of the inquest, will request an spite the protest of Assistant United States Attorney Charles Murray, the inquest was continued indefinitely to give the police opportunity to sum- mon several witnesses who failed to appear. Holding that enough witnesses had been heard to enable the jury to reach a verdict, Murray declared continuance of the inquest would serve only to em~ ba_lr;lnsDthc Pprosecution. e District grand jury also reported five t:msll:h fljst-deg;—ee murder mict- ments. e jurors ignored two chary of homicide. _ The death of Frank De Amato, & workman on a new Federal bulldhfi. on Constitution avenue between Ninf and Tenth streets, January 10, was held accidental, and Louis Biacanell {and Thomas Casa, who had been held by a coroner’s jury, were exonerated. De Amato fell into a tunnel in the building. There were no eyewitnesses. The grand jurors also declined to in- dict Edgar J. Dugan, colored, who had been held for the death of Willlam Lewis, also colored, on January 4, at 1229 Six-and-a-half street. Reindicted in Henry Case. A separate indictment for first-degree murder was reported against Charles Harris in connection with the fatal |shooting of Milton W. Henry, local | gambler, near his home, 3428 Brown i street, April 21 last. Harris and Harry Davis had been jointly indicted for the killing last August. but investigation of the evidence led the United States at- torney to seek the new indictment. Joseph T. Barry is charged with first- degree murder for the fatal shooting of Israel Seigel December 13. Seigel was seated in a delivery truck in front of 3130 Eleventh street when the shoot- ing occurred. His attentions to Mrs. Ruth M. Goebel are said to have led to the tragedy. The woman had been friendly with Barry, it is reported, and to have left him a few days before the shooting, taking her children to Alexandria. She had been seen with gl:lel, which is said to have angered rTy. A dispute over the dumping of s trash is said to have led pto'the lixlnli shooting of Albert F. Wilson, colored, December 15, in the rear yard of 1901 First street southwest. Graham Henry Lee Gibson Farrell, colored, was in- dicted today for first-degree murder as the result of the shooting. Edward Henry Jones, colored, fs charged with first-degree murder fol~ lowing, an attack December 31 with an ax on Thurber J. Battle, also colored, . ;lg:g’l Tl:su"t‘t: kut‘ Lkhel death of the . The attack took place of 1707 Eighth street. 5 R T 43 True Bills Returned. The fifth first-degree murder indict- ment is against Reginald Busey, colored. He is accused of the fatal shooting of Walter Halloway, also colored, January 8 in St. Mary's Court. A total of 43 indictments was reported to Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat and the grand jurors ignored 15 other cases presented to them. Besides the two homicide cases men- tioned above, the grand jurors refused to indict Charles Ingram, joy-riding; Kelly W. Holmes and Clifford R. Scott, grand larceny; William Davis and John Smith, larceny; Edith Hodges, housee b'rukm!: John Hall and Vivian Rober- son, ;. Mary Graham, George Thornton and Harrison P. Brown, as- sault with a dangerous weapon; John Nocente, perjury; Edgar A. Muller and James Coleman, arson, and George E. Collier, motor vehicle theft act. Others indicted and the charges against them include: James Henry Tate non-support of wife and minor children; Charles Ash- ton, Bernice F. Herring, Gresham T. Cole, Verna Witen, William Lenard, William Henry Day and Rudolph Brown, joy-riding; Benjamin F. Richards, Rob- ert Venney and Clarence Bradford, grand larceny and joy-riding; Willlam B. Phillips, alias Jerry B. Perry, allas ‘William Derrith, alias, George Costello; Ralph Preston, Thomas Haynes and Prancis X. Loughran, grand larceny. John L. Scott, Robert Venney, Clar- ence Bradford, Benjamin F. Richards, Clarence Bradford, Benjamin F. Rich= ards, Robert Venney, Willie F. Knight, Prank Robinson, Benjamin F. Richards, Robert Venney, Clarence Bradford, Ralph Preston, William Alexander Davis, Carroll Leon Ware, housebreak- ing and larcenyfi Donald R. Tavenner, Lawrence Johnson, Melvin Johnson, Robert A. Garrett, Luciene Rene, John Rene, Cora Waters, Horace Bell, Robert E. Lewis, Edward Harrls, Joseph Warren, Jesse M. Stewart, Leonard A. Brown, Enock Neal, Leon- ard A. Brown, Alfred A. Wood and Bernice F. Herring, robbery; Joshua W. Collins, William T. Watkins (alias Bill Nutney), and William C. Hill, assault with intent to commit robbery; James E. Spence, James E. Spence, Alexander P. Smart, John T. Butcher (two cases), George W. Duncan, assault with dan- gerous X.P ‘weapon, and Francis Tan, fépgery and uttering,