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| DISTRICT OFFICIALS - ASK STATE'S RIGHT 10 BORROW FUNDS Equal Footing to Use R. F. C. Loans Sought in Meeting Demands for Relief. MORE ACUTE NEEDS CITED IN PLEA TO COMMITTEE Witness Says Dr. Ballou “Didn't ‘Want to Bother” With Hungry Children in Schools. laring the problem of providing !ei‘x)eefc!or rgeedy families in Washington has become more ccute during the past Vear than in the earlicr stages of thel depression, District officials made an urgent plea to a Senate subcommittee | today to give the District government authority to borrow from the Recon- struction Finance Corp(:ll,mcu, as the are permitted to do. St Beommittee of the Banking and ittee, headed by Senator | wa, was considering the broaden the powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion in making loans to the States for relief work and for employment projects. Corporation Counsel William ‘W. Bride | and Public Welfare Director George S. Wilson, accompanied by District Audi- tor Daniel J. Donovan, laid before the subcommittee a series of amendments to this national bill which would put the District government on the same footing as the States in the right to apply to the corporation for relief Joans, whenever existing public and private funds are exhausted. Conditions Grow Worse. «“Conditions have become exceedingly acute in Washington during the past ar,” Mr. Wilson told the Senatais. “Practically every move the Govern-, ment makes toward economy affects us directly he During the past vear & good many people have lost their jobs.” | The reduction in compensation of} those who are still employed, Mr. ‘wu-' son said, is another factor in the situa- | tion. He said that until six months ago private agencies, through the Com- munity Chest drives, met in some meas- | ure the demands for family relief. No one starved, he said, but many were v and still are today. r. Wilson pointed out that the re- ive of the Community Chest fell short of its goal by approximately half 2 million do.lars, but he explained that mest oth cities had the same experi- vear. As a result, the amount f that can be accomplished from funds will be less this year. Separate Bill in House. these local amendments to | there is a separate bill he Heuse and Senate Dis- tices which would specifical- e the District government to 7 up to $2.500,000 from the Recon- | “Finance Corporation whenever | the cmergency makes it necessary to sun-lement public and private funds h Currency Comm! Brookhart of Io Wagner bill to Nrs. Eleanor Patterson. editor of the ‘Washington Herald, also testified before the Wagner Subcommittee in support of the proposal to ennable the District | to borrow from the Reconstruction | Finance Corporation. Mrs. Patterson told the subcommittee of information she had gathered regarding under- | nourished children in_the schools, and complained that Dr. Frank W. Ballouw superintendent of public schools, had | declined to co-operate in proposed plans for making some provision for ch children. '“She quoted stories of distress among school children, but said they wanted their names withheld because they were afraia of incurring the displeasure of Dr. Ballou, who she said insisted there were no hungry children. “Didn't Want to Bother.” «We offered to start a fund with 35,0% to feed the children, but he turned us down,” she said. “He didn't want to bothe She said one teacher told her of aj school where approximately 25 children | were going every day to the Volunteers of America for lunc GIRL IN SHROPSHIRE CASE IS IDENTIFIED Della Wills Used Name of Pollard After Fleeing Industrial School, Police Told. The young woman who gave her name as Dorothy J. Pollard and whose testimony resulted in the arrest of Homer B. Shropshire, indicted yester- day by the District grand jury for white slavery, has been identified as Della Wills, 17, who escaped from the In- dustrial School at Bon Air, Va,, it was stated at the Women's Bureau of the lice department toda: poDellB \;’hl]s was positively identified by a worker from the Industrial School, after the Women's Burcau had sent a description of the girl to the scheol hile suspecting her real name was not Pollard. Meanwhile, it was learned, a girl named Pollard living in Roanoke, whose name the Wills girl is said to have used, had given authorities informa- tion that she had never been in Wash- ington. / Information to this effect was re- ceived by police last night. The Wills girl brought about Shrop- shire's arrest when she reported to a policeman she had been lured to ‘Wash- ington by him on a promise he would marry her. Ar{ythat time she told police, her neme was Dorothy Pollard, they say. SCREW IN LUNG FATAL Child Dies Despite Efforts of City’s Leading Specialists. Yvonne Wilmar, 15-month-old col- ored girl, for whose life several of the city’s leading child specialists had bat- tled after she swallowed a large, sharp Wwood screw two weeks ago at her home, 774 Howard street, died yesterday at Children’s Hospital. Pneumonia had congested the child’s lungs so that surgeons could not op- _erate to remove the screw, Which clogged the air passages. They had hoped she would recover sufficiently. to permit the operation. . ‘Walk Straight in Cape Town. CAPE_TOWN, South Africa (@ — New traffic regulations here forbid “jay- walking” and limit pedestrians to spe- A clal crossings operated on & “stop-g0” system. |T. Norton of New Jersey, chairman of | the House District Committee. | ships tossing about helplessly in the | showing the way home to derelicts, and In Gypsy Feud IBOUND AND ROBBED| WINS KOBER HONOR ROSA DEMETRO. —Star Staff Photo. LIEUT. VAN WINKLE HONORED AT RITES Memorial Mass Meeting Held at Luther Place Church Last Night. ‘The work of Lieut. Mina Van Winkle, ; former head of the Women's Bureau of | the Police Department, who died re- cently, was extolled by associates in many endeavors at a ‘memorial mass meeting last night at the Luther Place Memorial Church, which she had at- tended. Others, unable to be present, sent messages, | The memcrial was arranged by the Soroptimist Club, of which Lieut. Van Winkle had once been president. Among those who gathered to pay her tribute was Representative Mary “Her monument is the Washington Women's Police Bureau,” Chairman Norton said. “It stands today as she would desire it to stand, a brilliant | beacon flashing rays of light to human | | darkness of despair and uncertainty; | writing across the dismal horizon of discouragement a message of hope and of cheer.” Recalls Long Service. 1 Mrs. Norton recalled Lieut. Van Winkle's long public service, dating back | to New Jersey, when, as a resident of Newark, she aided, as a member of the Consumers' League, in the enforcement of compulsory education and child labor laws, Mrs, Norton emphasized the need of | woman police officers to deal with wom- | an law breakers, adding that this had | been particularly recognized by Mrs. | Van Winkle. | “Mrs, Van Winkle dedicated her life here in Washington to the girls who| had strayed down the wrong road.” the | speaker continued. “It mattered not| how far or in what manner. Her hand | was the hand that guided them back; | that revived their confidence in them- selves; that showed the way to the bright sunlight of decent living.” Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict Committee sent a message to be read at the meeting. Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintend- ent of police, praised Mrs. Van Winkle's work in the Police Department. Louis Brownlow, who was a Dis- trict Commissioner when the Women's Bureau was established, sald it was through Mrs. Van Winkle's efforts that the bureau had been widely recognized. Other Speakers. Other speakers were Miss M. Pearl McCall, assistant United States attor- ney and presfdent of the Women’s Bar Association; Leifur Magnusson, presi- dent of the Monday Evening Club, of which Lieut, Van Winkle was a past president; Mrs. Virginia White Speel, past president of the General Federa- tion of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, National League of Women Voters; Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, president District Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs; Mrs. Ruth Shipley, State Department; Miss Grace Abbott, chief, Children’s Bureau, Department of La- bor; Mrs. Bessie Parker Brueggeman, chairman, Employes’ Compensation Commission; Thomas P. Littlepage, president, ‘Chamber of Commerce; Dr. William A. White, president, Social Hy- giene Association; Mrs. J. M. Saunders, president, District Congress of Parent- Teacher Association; Ray H. Everett of New York, representing the American Social Hygiene Association; Mrs. Louis Ottenburg, vice president, Voteless League of Women Voters, and Lieut. Rhoda Milliken, Lieut. Van Winkle's successor as head of the Women's Bu- reau. Included in those who sent messages were Henrietta Additon, deputy police commissioner of New York City; Judge Mary O'Toole, Miss Annabel Matthews of the Board of Tax Appeals, Dr. George C. Havenner, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mus- sey and Mercy Ellen Crehan of Van- couver, British Columbia, president of the American Federation of Sorop- timists’ Clubs. Resolutions drawn by the club were read by Mrs. Helena D. Reed, also a past president of the Soroptimists. Nora B. Huffman, the president, presided. The meeting was arranged by a_com- mittee headed by Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar and® including Mrs, Caroline Stephen, Mrs. Laura Waters, Miss Catherine Pike, Miss Grace Goodpasture, Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher, Mrs. Nell Hy- song, Miss Reed and Miss McCall. — . Plan_Old Folks’ Concert. COTTAGE CITY, Md., February 2 (Special).—The choir of St. Paul's Pres- byterian Church, assisted by other talent in this and nearby towns, will present ‘an old folks' concert. on night of February 10, in !t. Luke’s Parish Hall at Bladensburg. 8, i | | ishe said. Che ‘WASHINGTO WONAN AND GIRL IN GIPSES” FEUD Police Seeking Five En Route Between Washington and Detroit. ATTACK ATTRIBUTED TO MARRIAGE DISPUTE Theft of $490 Is Reported—Youth Discovers Mother and Sister Gagged and Tied. Authorities in every State between the District and Detroit were on the lookout today for a band of five gypsies, who are reported to have dragged a mother from the bed in which she was nursing her 10-day-old daughter and, after binding and gagging her, left her suspended by her wrists from the top of a partition. The gypsies also are accused of having robbed the woman of $490 after tying her 18-year-old daughter to another partition. The attack, according to in- formation given second precinct police, was the result of a gypsy “marriage market” feud. Mrs. Tinker Demetro, 50. and her daughter Rosa, both fortune tellers, were the victims. They were alone last night in their home, 810 Florida ave- nue, when the other gypsies appeared. Lists Five Visitors. The visitors, according to the report made to police by Rosa and her mother, | were: Mrs. Mary Stanley, 50; her three | sons, Steve, 25; Tom, 23, and Loute, 19, and her daughter Volita, 20. Volita, police were told, was pur- chased some time ago by Mrs. Demetro for marriage to one of her sons. Pay- ment of the purchase price was not completed. however, it was said, and Volita left about three weeks ago, re- Jjoining her family in Detroit. Mrs. Demetro was in bed when the Stanleys arrived, she said, but was dragged from her baby. gagged with a towel and hung by her wrists, which were tied together, from the top of a partition. Her legs also were bound, | At the same time, police were in- formed, Rosa's hands were tied behind her back and she was bound to another partition, with rope around both her waist and her legs. Then. she and her mother declared, the visitors ransacsed the house, pocketed the money and fled. Found Later by Son. Mrs. Demetro and her daughter were found a short time later by dnother son, Sam, 16. Without attempting to release them, he ran to the second pre- | cinct, nearby, and notified police. i took the officers who responded about | 10_minutes to sever the boncs. Poiice immediately broadcast a look- | out for the Stanleys, who are said to| have lived here, conducting fortune- | telling establishments on Seventh street, before moving to Detroit. A de-} scription of their automobile was in- cluded in the lookout. Mrs. Demetro was back in bed today, awaiting the return of her husband, | Petro, from New York. Rosa, none the worse for her experience, was doing the | family fortune telling. MRS. IDA E. ;VI’CREARY EXPIRES AT AGE OF 66 Resident of District for 30 Years Dies After Illness of Three Moiiths. Mrs, Ida E. McCreary, 66. a resident of Washington for more than 30 years, died yesterday at her residence, 1307 N street. She had been ill about three months. Mrs, McCreary was born in Nelson County, Va., the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Henry T. Roberts. She| was a member of Manor House Chapter, | . A. R.; Joppa Lodge, O. E. S., and McKendree M. E. Church, Surviving Mrs. McCreary are her| husband, Edward E. McCreary; two brothers, Elliott R. and Herbert E. Rob- erts, and two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle S. Rucker and Mrs. S. V. Roberts. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. William Pierpont, pastor of McKendree Church, Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Wise funeral establishment, 2900 M street. Burial will be in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Clarendon, Va. PRINTING IS.RADIO TOPIC Gerald A. Walsh to Discuss Indus- try in Talk Over WJSV. ‘The second radio address in the series on “Leading Industries of Wash- ington,” will be broadcast over Station WJSV, under the auspices of the Wash- | ington Chamber of Commerce, from | 7:30 to 7:45 Saturday night. Gerald A. Walsh. secretary of the Typothetae of Washington, will discuss the “Printing Industry of the City.” Halts Mez;ns Case. Work for Warrant In Larceny of $1.50 U. S. Attorney Aide Hears Colored Girl’s Com- plaint on Lost Dog. Just as Assistant United States At- torney Roger Robb was putting the finishing touches to the Government’s answer to an appeal in the Gaston B. Means kidnaping case today, there came to his attention a somewhat similar case, though on a greatly reduced scale. The new case involved $1.50, instead of $100,000, and the dog of Helen John- son, colored, 400 block Florida avenue. She stole up to Robb's desk in Police Court and announced that her dog had been kidnaped and that to make mat- ters worse, the go-between apparently had run off with the ransom. The dog, named Spot, was missed a week ago. She said she scoured the neighborhood in vain and had given up Spot as stolen when a man ap- proached her. He informed her, she( said, that the pup had been kidnaped, and although he would not divulge the names of the guilty parties, he knew them, he said. Spot was being held for the small sum of $1, and 50 cents would be his fee. She entrusted the man with the money and has not seen Spot or the $1.50 since, Helen complained. Robb scratched his , glanced at the | his Means cuerrlet and issued a war- colored, D. C, THUR TYPHUS RESEARCH FOR DR R. E. DYER Health Service Investigator Named 1933 Lecturer by Foundation. DISCOVERED RAT FLEA BITE CAUSES DISEASE Gold Medal Will Be Presented to A. . Richards, Professor at U. of Pennsylvania. For outstanding achievements in medical research, Georgetown Univer- sity today announced the award of the 1933 honors of the George M. Kober Foundation to Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, typhus fever investigator of the _ United States Public Health Service, and Dr. Alfred Newton Richards, profes- sor of pharmacolo- gy at the Univer- sity of Pennsyl- vania. Dr. Dyer was designated as the | Kober lecturer for 1933, the choice having been made | this year under the | terms of the foun- dation by the As- sociation of Mili- tary Surgeons of the United States. The Kober Gold Medal will be pre- sented to Dr. Richards, whose im- portant researches concerning dis- | eases of the kidney led to his selection by the Association of American Physi- cians. As assistant director of the National Institute of Health, Dr. Dyer, eminent | bacteriologist, established through ex- tended experiments that typhus fever is carried by fleas on rats—an im- Dr. R. E. Dyer. Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION portant discovery in public health con- trol of the disease. been believed that b only carriers. | Infected While Experimenting. Dr. Dyer became infected with typhus | last Fall by the bite of a rat flea in | his laboratory here and only recently | recovered. From his bedside in the Naval Hospital he continued the inves- tigations, this time helped by his own | strange case. It was the one bit of | actual evidence needed in his experi- ments to prove conclusively that the virus of the malady can be transmitted | to a human being by the bite of a | rat flea ‘The young Public Health Service | | scientist also gained widespread reputa« | tion by his discovery that a severe | form of typhus fever, which had oc- | curred in rural districts in the Eastern | United States, is a form of Rocky | Mountain spotted fever transmitted by | infected ticks. Dr. Dyer will deal with | the conclusions of his investigations | in his lectures under the auspices of | the Kober Foundation on March 28'at Georgetown University, before invited members of the medical profession. That date is the birthday anniversary of the late Dr. Kober, dean of the Georgetown Medical School and a noted public health authority. who endowed the foundation for the encouragement of medical research. Award to Be Made May 9. The award to Dr. Richards will be made by the Association of American Physicians at its annual convention here May 9. Dr. Richards has been professor of sharmacology at the University of Penn- sylvania since 1910. He was a major in the Sanitary Corps of the Army during the World War in France, formerly was a member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Committee at London, England, and was the 1926 Hertler lecturer at New York Univer- sity and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege. Dr. Richards was educated at Yale and Columbia Universities and has gained wide reputation by his ex- tensive writings on medical subjects. The Kober lecturer last year was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, who recounted the researches into the medi- cal history of the North American In- dians. The medalist was Dr. Elliott Proctor Joslin, diabetes expert of Har- vard University. STORE PATRON GIVEN $500 VERDICT BY JURY Charges Shop Owner Ordered Her Out of Dressing Booth While She Was Disrobed. Deciding she had been “embarrassed and humiliated” when ordered to leave a dressing booth without her clothing, a jury in District Supreme Court yes- terday returned a verdict for $500 in favor of Mrs. Rita Nickel. 26, of 832 Varnum street, who had brought suit against Louis Gold, Inc., 1214 F street. Mrs. Nickel told the jury that on| April 15, 1931, she returned a coat she had purchased on trial and received a credit slip-in exchange. With this slip she started to purchase a dress. She was trying the dress on in a booth, she said, and had removed most of her clothing when Gold opened the door of the booth and ordered her out. As a result, she said, she suffered mental anguish and was humiliated and em- barrassed. Gold denied entering the booth while Mrs. Nickel was in it. Justice Jennings Bailey refused to let an assault count go to the jury, which was composed of three women and nine men. Mrs. Nickel was represented by At- torney Austin Canfield. 92 &y SDAY, FEBRUARY n Star 1933. Bull Imperils Petworth Children RUNS WILD FOR HOUR WITH HUGE CROWD IN IDNEY FRANKLIN or some other good American bull fighter, or even a WIill Rogers, could have been very useful in Petworth this morning. But Petworth, being a thoroughly modern commu- nity, had no matadors, or cowboys, or in fact, any one who could throw a lasso, and as a result a fractious and ad- venturesome young bull ran wild for mtl);; than an hour before being cor- raled. The bull was genuine. It belonged to Fred J. Miller, 812 Kennedy street, a butcher, who had him locked up in a shed ’lln the rear of his home, awaiting ughter. ‘The bull would have been dead now, had not some mischievous boy in the neighborhood opened the door of the g shed about 8 o'clock without the know- ledge or consent of Mr. M.flle? The animal took advantage of the open door and started exploring. Traffic Worries Beast. Everything would have worked out all right if there had been fields in- stead of traffic-sluttered streets and frightened pedestrians to greet the animal. But the screams of women, the shrieking of automobile horns and the clanging of bells on the street cars merely served to frighten him. And he started on a wild run. Behind that bull ran several hun- dred school children, and a dozen men —the children looking for excitement and the men trying to stop him. Finally, at Sherman Circle, the animal stopped almost breathless. Police patrol cars and motor trucks closed in _on him. Capture was im- minent. But no one had a rope. ‘The bull carefully surveyed the situation, snorted like bulls sometimes do in rage, and made one flying leap, clearing the hood of a police patrol | car by less than two inches. Again the chase was on. Over a cir- cuitous route the bull ran. He had no regard for lawns, hedges or fences, and even less consideration for the crowd that followed him. He cleared fence after fence, and hedges and traffic of- fered no obstruction. Children Endangered. Near the Petworth School the an- imal charged toward several hundred children. The children ran screaming into the school yard. A small group of | them, however, darted directly into the | path of the charging bull, and prob- ably would have been knocked down had not Lieut. E. P. Carroll of No. 5 Fire Truck Company leaped at the an- imal and changed his path. By that time the bull was almost fatigued from his long run, and the crowd of pursuers drew closer. Pvt. S. | D. Claterbuck of No. 3 Engine Company It had previously | managed to grab the animal by the| ody lice were the | taj] and hung on as he was dragged | along the street. This resistance fur- charge, and made it possible for Lieut. Carroll and Pvt. P. J. Wheeler of No. 2 Engine Company to throw a rope around his neck. Error Proves Costly. ‘The bull, however, resented this inter- ference and broke into a mad charge with Carroll and Wheeler clinging to the rope, and Claterbuck to his tail. ‘The bull, however, made one mistake. He should have stayed in the street. but course and ran into an alley between Eighth and Ninth and Upshur and Taylor streets. and stopped to rest. This brief respite gave the firemen their opportunity and they quickly tied the panting animal to a telephone pole. The chase was over. The firemen were triumphant. Fifteen minutes later a truck drove up. Mr. Miller, with the assistance of several men, after much coercing and jockeying. uitimately pushed the tired animal into the truck and went away to_the slaughter house. But the-animal's life will be spared for another day—not for punishment, but because Mr. Miller said the meat would not be at its best until the bull cooled off. Mr. Miller's a butcher, and he ought to know. MMILLAN DRAFTS NEW ARPORT BL |Provides for Leasing and Operation by D. C. Instead of Federal Government. Representative McMillan of South Carolina, author of the bill providing for lease or purchase by the Federal Government of Washington-Hoover Air- port, which yesterday was killed by the House Committee on Public Build- ings and Grounds, today is completing | the draft of a bill which will provide | for leasing and operation of the air- | DY insurance, but Mrs. Weber offered a port by the District government. The new bill will be offered to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds as an amendment to the bill which was killed yesterday afternoon by an unfavorable report, Mr. McMillan | said. He said he expected a special | meeting of the committee to be held tomorrow morning for consideration of his new bill If the committee decides the new bill is out of its jurisdiction, Mr. McMillan said, he will immediately introduce the | new bill in the House for reference to | the House District Committee. ‘The bill will be similar to the old bill except it will place the entire cost upon the District government rather than the Federal Government, Mr. McMillan said. Actual administration of the air- port, while it will be made the responsi- bility of the District government, will be placed in the hands of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. The new bill is designed to meet the opposition of Chairman Lanham of the Public Buildings and Grounds Com- mittee, Mr. McMillan said. Mr. Lan- ham, at the close of the final henrlngi on the bill yesterday, declared he would never vote for a bill which placed any of the cost on the Federal Government. SEARCH FOR MRS. AIDED BY KEYES’ COLLIE POLICE OF TWO CITIES Radio and Press Also Enlisted by Sepator and His Wife. The radio, the press and the police have been enlisted by Senator and Mrs. Henry W. Keyes of New Hampshire, in a search for their highly-prized collie, Bruce, which disappeared from the front yard of the Keyes home in Alex- andria last night under mysterious circumstances. Bruce had been allowed to cavort in the yard of evenings, with the gate carefully locked. Last night, about 11 o'clock, when Mrs. Keyes went to the door to call Bruce, she found the gate umoekedundt.lufitm. A search of the neighborl produced no re- sults, and the police of Alexandria and ‘Washington were asked*to aid. | ther slowed down the animal's wild| | ‘The wild bull of Petworth, after he | beside him is Vernleigh Granenger, who t: in a thoughtless moment changed his men P. J. Wheeler and Lieut. E. J. Carroll, who chased the bull. a mad dasi h of the animal toward a group of school children—Star Staff RSUIT. was recaptured this morning. Standing ok part in the chase. Below: Fire- Carroll halted Photos. STB000IN JEWELRY SOUGHT BY POLICE ) New York Woman Reports' | Loss of Gems and Cash Be- l tween Baltimore and Capital. | Police of two cities were conducting | a search today for $18,000 worth of | Jjewelry and $585 in cash and traveler's checks, contained in a woman's brown leather under-arm bag which was lost last night by Mrs. Hannah H. Weber, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a guest at the Wi lard Hotel. Mrs. Weber discovered the loss when she registered at the hotel last night | and immediately summoned detectives. | She said she lost the bag some'xhere‘ between a restaurant on North avenue, | Baltimore, and the Lincoln Memorial | here. The bag contained a 10}; karat dia- mond ring, valued at $12,500; a pair of diamond earrings worth $1,200, and a diamond chain and combination pin- pendant worth nearly $4.500. There also were $500 in traveler's checks, drawn on the Brooklyn Trust Co., $85 in cash, cards and letters addressed to Mrs. Weber. The loss is fully covered large reward for return of the bag and its contents. Enroute to Florida. Detectives here notified Baltimore | police and patrolmen were instructed to keep a close watch on pawnshops where | efforts might be macde to dispose of the iewelry. | Mrs. Weber, wife of a wealthy New York business man, is en route to Miami Beach, Fla, with her son, a sister, a niece ano a nephew. Weber flew to ‘Washington from Newark this morning upon being advised of the loss. Victims of a series of hold-ups, .urglaries and thefts reported late yes. terday and early today included Police- man Fred L. Stauffer, 518 Ninth street rortheast, who lost $60 and his badge to a sneak thief. Stauffer’s property was taken from a dresser drawer in his bed room, pre- sumably as he slept. The officer saw or heard no one in his room, however, and could not say just when the theft | occurred. | Two taxi drivers, one of whom was | struck with an iron bar, were robbed by “fares” last night. William R. Mad- dox, 300 block of M street, was treated at Emergency Hospital for a scalp lac- eration after he was attacked and rob- bed of $4 by a passenger he had driven to Thirty-second and Q streets, Pocketbook Snatched. ‘The other driver, George C. Tucker, 100 block of C street southeast, handed over $8 at the point of a pistol early today to a colored man he had hauled to Half and P streets southwest. Joseph Green, Knox Station, Va., told police he was robbed of $67 last night by two colored men who accosted him on F street near Delaware avenue south- west. A pocketbook containing $4 was snatched from Julia Horwitz, 66 New York avenue, by a colored man at North Capitol and Pierce streets early today, the woman reported. Cigars and cigarettes valued at $150 were taken from a garage in the rear of the 1300 block of Thirteenth street last night and another house breakin, at 1119 South Capitol street nett burglars $7 in cash, a number of auto- mobile tires and a pistol. An attempted burglary at a gasoline station at Half and M streets south- west was thwarted by Russell Haws, a night watchman. Haws told police two men who had broken the glass in a ‘window peared, & the station fled when he ap- hell'omld NOVEMBER RELIEF OUTLAY 1S $181 531 Sum Spent by 13 Agencies Here—Year’s Total Up 232 Per Cent. The District of Columbia, through 13 agencies, expended $181,531 during No- vember for direct and work relief, the Children’s Bureau of the Labor De- partment said today in a report on re- lief expenditures mn 125 cities amount- ing to $27,705.934. District expenditures jumped 19.5 per cent in November over October, while for the 12-month period from Novem- ber, 1931, through November, 1932, an increase of 232.8 per cent was noted. The reporting agencies said they spent during November $128,458 for di- rect relief, amounting to an increase of $20.963 over the preceding month and $89,858 over the same month in 1931, For work relief they said they ex- pended $53,073, a total of $17,205 more than was expended during the preced- ing month and $52,876 more than in November, 1931. City Twelfth From Top. This city stood twelfth from the top in the largest increase in percentage in relief expenditures during the 12-month period. New Rochelle, N. Y., with a 643.5 per cent increase, headed the list of 125 cities, followed by Birmingham, Jacksonville, Cicero, Ill.; Asheville and Greensboro, N. C.; Columbus_ and ‘Youngstown, Ohio; Chester and Read- | ing, Pa., and Tacoma, Wash. Based on Teports from 993 agencies, the bureau reported a new high for the | Nation in expenditures for needy fam- ilies and homeless wanderers for No- vember. The total expenditures for the month exceeded those of March, 11932, the peak of last Winter's relief load. This was regarded as significant by the bureau and indicates all relief records will be shattered for the re- maining Winter months. Larger Grant Per Family The bureau said that while the num- ber of families aided increased 7 per cent from 862,771 in October to 925,269, according to reports from 764 agencies reporting on this subject, for the first time in recent imonths there was ap- parent a definite tendency for the increases in families aided through gen- eral relief to be less than the increase in amount expended, the result being a larger monthly grant per family. In November general relief averaged $20.57 per family, as compared with $18.50 in the preceding month and $17.84 in November, 1931. Special allowances from public funds, such as mothers’ aid, old-age reljjef and aid for the blind, continued to show the upward trend apparent in reports of previous months, While a large proportion of the total amount expended for relief comes from the public treasury, in November this proportion was smaller than in October, but -much larger than in November, 1931, it was stated. The number of meals and -nights’ lodgings provided for homeless and transient persons also increased in No- vember. The average daily number of meals served increased 23 per cent, while the nights’ lodgings increased 2! per cent. U. S. Acquires Three Lots. Maj. D. H. Gillette, engineer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commissi jon, today announced that the Government has “just acquired shree lots in the proposed Northeast Play- . These total 2,120 square feet, LEGISLATORS OF 30 STATES T0 STUDY DOUBLE TAXATION Measures for Adjustment of Duplicated Levies to Be Discussed. TWO GOVERNORS ALSO TO BE IN ATTENDANCE Roosevelt Is Supporter of Assembly. Subcommittee of House Group Is Invited. Lawmakers from 30 States and two Governors will meet here tomorrow to study the prcblem of doube taxation, and discuss measures by which there may be an adjustment of those levies— gas and income, for instance—where Federal and State governments have entered the same field. e meeting, which is termed an in- terState legislative assembly, 1is being held at the Shoreham Hotel under the auspices of the American Legislators’ Association, and is the first of its kind ever arranged The representatives who will partici- pate in the deliberation were named by the Governors, who appointed fiscal of- ficers from their States to attend, and by the respective Senates and Houses of the States. Supported by Roosevelt. The conference will open with the support of President-elect Roosevelt, who. in his closing days as Governor of New York, addressed a letter to the Legislators' Association, describing its plan for better co-ordination of reve- nue systems of Federal and State go ernments as a “splendid idea,” and de- scribed this problem as one of the more urgent” which must be dealt with. “In_the past” Mr. Roosevelt said, “the Federal Government has passed revenue legislation with too little con- sideration for State taxing systems, and, on the other hand, the States have legislated with little reference to the Federal revenue plan, and with almost no consideration for the tax programs of other States. This is not as it should . T have given considerable thought to this problem, and it is my hope to make at least a small contribution to a better synchronized Federal, State and local taxing system, and I shall cagerly follow the proceedings of vour conference, being hopeful that from it many good ideas will deveiop.” | Mr. Roosevelt also said that he hoped {every Legislature would be represented iat the meeting House Group, Invited. It was said today it is ib { from this meeting there mp:,\s-sbeksglaafi group appointed to confer with Govern- ment officials as to just how there may be a co-ordiation of taxation. A subw committee of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is studying this subject, it was said. has been in- vited to participate in the deliberations, and other members of Congress also have been asked to attend. Among the speakers so far known are Franklin S. Edmonds of Philadel- phia, president of the National Tax Association, and two former presidents of that group. Thomas Walker Page of the Federal Tariff Commission and Prof. Robert Murray Haig of Columbia University, Mark Graves, Budget di- rector of New York: Henry F. Long, commissioner of corporations and taxa- tion of Massachusetts; C. H. Morissett, tax commissioner of Virginia; David C. Winebrenner, secrétary of State of Maryland; William B. Belknap of Ken- tucky, president of the American Legis- lators’ Association, and Louis Brown- low, director of the Public Administa- tion Clearing House of Chicago. Governors who will_attend are_Pol- lard of Virginia and Herring of Iowa. Gov. Conley of West Virginia said he will attend if his health permits. Four Sessions Planned. ‘There will be four sessions of the con- ference tomorrow and Saturday. morn- ing and afternoon meetings being held, and there will also be two luncheon and two dinner meetings. Final arrangements for the conven- tion were being made today by the board of managers, headed by Henry ‘W. Toll of Chicago, a former member of the Colorado State Senate, who or- ganized the American Legislators’ As- sociation about eight years ago. A member of the board is Hugh Reid of Cherrydale, Va., a member of the Vir- ginia House of Delegates. b The American Legislators’ Association functions through the Interstate Legis- lative Reference Bureau, set up in Chi- cago to act as a clearing house through which the various activities of State Legislatures could be communicated to the legislative bodies of each of the States. | Campaign to Be Asked. ‘The conference will be asked by the People's Lobby to launch a campaign for repeal of all Federal, State and lo- cal consumption taxes in favor of taxes on incomes, land values and estates. In a letter to William K. Belknap, chairman of the conference, the lobby, of which Prof. John Dewey is presi- dent, asserted the House Ways and Means Committee report on double tax- ation “shows that the masses of the people are paying at least six billing dollars. a year in consumption taxcs, which reduce consumption to that ex- tent.” Taxes should be collected solely on the basis of service rendered by Government and ability to pay, it was declared. Cites 3,974 License Forms, ‘The House report, the letter said, shows 3974 forms of licenses, permits ind occupational taxes are levied by the fous taxing authorities. It shows that in & very recent year nearly half of the Federal revenue, nearly three-quarters of State revenue from taxes, nearly three-quarters of county government revenues, neax: three-fifths of revenue receipts of cities over 30,000 and over helf of the tax revenues of all other local governments were, obtained by taxes on consump- tion,” the conference was told. Tax officials and experts of many States will ake part in the conference, which will consider a variety of prob- 'l;ms in connection with conflicting Xes. MRS. C. F. WILLIAMS DEAD Widow of Marine Officer to Be Buried in Arlington. Mrs. Charles F. Williams, widow of the late Col. Charles Fremont Williams, 8| U. C. M. C, died at the home of her son, Col. Charles Fague Williams, U. S. M. C, at the Marine Barracks, Mare Island, Calif., Tuesday. She is %o be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, but detailed arrangements remain to be made. 9 Mrs. Williams ‘made her home for some time, since leaving Washington two years ago, with her daughter and son-in-law, c-];:t. snd Mrs, John M.