Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1933, Page 17

THOMAS NEW HEAD OF COMMITTEE ON D. C. SUPPLY BILLS Oklahoma Democrat Suc- ceeds Bingham as Chair- man of Subgroup. SENATOR GLASS NAMES PERSONNEL OF BODY Coolidge, Carey and Tydings Added to Unit Under Assignments for This Session. Senator Emer Thomas of Oklahoma today was named as the new Demo- cratic_chairman of the District Sub- committee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. His appointment became known when Senator Glass, Democrat of Virginia, new chairman of the Ap- propriations Committee, announced the slate of subcommittees to handle the various annual supply bills. The other members of the District Subcommittee who will serve with Chairman Thomas are: Senators Glass, Bratton, New Mexico; Copeland, New York; Coolidge, Massachusetts. all Democrats; Nye, North Dakota; Keyes, New Hampshire; Dale, Vermont, and Carey, Wyoming, Republicans. In accordance with the usual rule, there will also be three exofficio mem- bers of the local appropriations sub- committee, chosen from the Senate District Committee. They will be Sen- ators King, Democrat, Utah; Tydings, Democrat, Maryland, and Capper, Re- publican, Kansas. Senators Reassigned. The following Senators were Telieved from service on the District subcom- mittee and transferred to other sub- committees: Steiwer, Republican, Ore- gon; Davis, Republican, Pennsylvania: Kendrick, Democrat, Wyoming, and| Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina. Senator Kean, Republican, New Jersey, | was relieved from service as one of the | ex-officio members of the District sub- committee on appropriations. All members of the new subcommit- tee were members at the last session except Senators Coolidge, Carey and ‘Tydings. ‘As chairman, Senator Thomas suc- ceeds former Sepator Hiram Bingham, Republican, Connecticut, who headed | the committee for several years and who completed his term as a Senator March 4. Senator Thomas has been a member of the Senate since 1926 and has beel on the District Subcommittee for sev- | eral years. He.is just beginning his | seccnd term as a Senator. Prior to | 1926 he was a member of the House for four years. Before that he had been a State Senator in Oklahoma. He | was born in Indiana, moving to Okla- f homa in 19C0 following his graduation from Depauw University. He is a law- yer. When a young man he taught school in order to pay his way through | Central Normal College. Other New Chairmen. This subcommittee will handle the new District appropriation bill, which failed to pass in the closing hourss of the old Congress and must be taken up again in the Hous2 at this session. New chairmen were named to handle the various other annual appropriation bills as follows: Agriculture, Senator Kendrick; de- ficiencies, Bratton, New Mexico; inde- pendent offices, Glass; Interior, Hayden, Arizona; legislative, Tydings; Navy, Byrnes;_State, Justice, Commerce and Labor, McKellar, Tennessee; Treasury and Post Office, Glass, and War Depart- ment, Copeland, New York. TAKOMA PARK AUDIT PROPOSED IN MEASURE Mayor Lewton Will Advocate Passage of Legislation at Session of Assembly. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md, March 22— An annual audit of the books of the town is contemplated in a proposed amendment of the town charter which Frederick L. Lewton will advocate at the present session of the Maryland Legislature. A tentative amendment as prepared for presentation at Annapolis requires that the town clerk and treasurer be ;bonded in an amount equal to not less then 40 per cent of the total estimated Teceipts of the town for the ensuing year. The bond is to filed with the mayor, who with the advice and con- sent of the Town Council, starting next September and in September of every year, shall appoint a qualified certified public accountant, who is to make a detailed audit of the books and ac- counts relating to the town's financiall affairs. In event of approval of the amendmert, the @ccountant so ap-| pointed would be officially known as; the town auditor, who shall have no personal interest either directly or in- directly in the financial affairs of the town government or of any of the officers or employes. In presenting the annual audit he may also submit any recommendations to the mayor and council. The compensation is not to exceed $500, or less if voted by the mayor and ‘council. On approval of the, annual audit by the mayor and council it is to be immediately published in its entirety in a local newspaper. REMEMBERED IN WILL Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 22.—Mrs. Annie H. Stam of Chevy Chase, is the principal beneficiary under the will of Charlotte R. Roberts, formerly of Kent County, Md., B?d ‘Washington city, which was admitfed to probate in the Orphans’ Court here yesterday. A codicil dated October 5, 1932, be- queaths to her a mortgage note for $7,500, and by the terms of the orig- inal instrument, which was executed February 1, 1927, she is left $1,700. She is also named executrix. The will also bequeaths to Susan R. Stam $2,000 and $1.000 each to Louise R. Stam, Lillian R. Stam, Colin F. Stam and Susan S. Roberts. Mrs. Annie H, Stam is_the residuary legatee. ROAD CHANGE ASKED By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, March 22.—A request that the Old Fort Wash- ington road from Reds corner to Living- ston road be recommended as a State | Ernestine Ware, dangled 2-year-old Al- Children Rescued by Firemen EARLY MORNING BLAZE ON O STREET THREATENS 9 PERSONS. Among those who had a lot to thank firemen for today were, front, left to right: Helen, Paul and Elizabeth Carroll and Albert Ware, with his daughter, Jacqueline. Back: T. J. Carroll, father of the Carroll children, and Ware's young sister, Margaret. —Star Staff Photo. I day, bearing them down ladders | down a ladder to the sidewalk by fire- to the street from rooms already | men, another ladder was raised to the in flames. | window of a back bed room, more than Two families were imprisoned in bed- | & story above the yard, where Carroll's rooms above the ground level when a | family was gathered. sudden fire, believed to have started | Fireman F. C. O'Donnell carried to from an overheated furnace, spread to Safety Helen Carroll. 5; Elizabeth Fran- hallways and staircase. | cess Carroll, 8, and Paul Joseph Car- Smoke awoke Albert Ware. a street roll, 12. He also assisted their mother, car motorman, shortly before 5 am. He | MIS. S. V. Carroll. down the ladder. found the staircase of the two-story |, U0 One Was injured. The flames, brick residence a mass of flames, and | ever, consumed most of the cloth- arcused his family in their rooms on\ing and possessions of both families, a the ur floor. Ich'::umstance which prevented the older e apper, - children from attending school today. Ware’s_cries were heard downstairs — This occasioned less grief than the by T. J. Carroll and his family. Carroll | fact they had been unable to save IREMEN rescued six children and | ing in the room, also occupied by Ware's thrce adults from a burning | sister, Margaret Ware, 15. house at 3527 O street early to-| While the Ware family was helped | rushed cutdoors to turn in a fire alarm | their dolls from the fire. Five-year-old at the corner, waiting to guide firemen | Helen was the only one who had time to his home. |to find her doll and carry it -along No. 5 Truck Company responded in lméf-ln the firemen took her down the less than 2 minutes, Carroll said. but |ladder. in the interval the flames had gained | In another “{}Y-ml’m‘ng fire, seven such headway Carroll was unable to re- | ngine companics and three = truc enter his home. | units of the Fire Department were | called out shortly before 2 am. to ex- Meanwhile, Ware was holding his 4- | tinguish- & two alarm blage. at_ the year-old daughter, Jacqueline, from a | residence of W. C. Allen, jr., at 1901 front window, while his wife, Mrs.|I street. All occupants of the dwelling 1 ed 2 | escaped without injury and the fire bert, jr., from an adjoining sill. Pic-|was brought under control in 20 tures, carpet and furniture were burn- | minutes. BANK PROSE TURNS 10 OFFICIAL "LEAK” Anticipation of Examiners’ Visits to Park Savings Stirs Suspicions. possibility that a “leak” in cfficial quar- | ters enabled Robert S. Stuntz, execu- tive vice president of the Park Sav- ings Bank, who killed himself recently, to learn of proposed visits of bank examiners, it was reported today. Preliminary inquiry has disclcsed that Stuntz was able to anticipate by a day or so the arrival of bank ex- aminers, and that he spent long periods at night in going over the records un- der his control. False Entries Claimed. Examination of the records is said to have shown many allegedly false entrics, for the purpose of padding the figures and concealing unauthorized withdrawals from depositors’ accounts. These misappropriations appear Ofi- hand to total about $1,600,000, al- though officlals declare so large a SENATOR THOMAS. LECTUAE ON FUR SEALS WILL FEATURE MEETING shcrtage seems “incredible.” Glen C. Leach of Bureau of Fish-|_ Investigators are understood to have | been advised by at least two friends eries to Spaak Before Arlington |of the late bank exccutive that he con- Business Women. fessed he was short in his accounts. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. To cne confidante he is repcrted to have admitted a_shortage of $300,000 CLARENDON, Va, March 22—A| lecture illustrated with moving pictures The WASHINGTON, D. The Government is investigating the and to another a loss of $800,000. Bgnk examiners are said to have made en inspection of the bank's on the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands | will feature the dinner meeting of the | Business and Professional Women's Club of Arlington County tomorrow evening at Windsor Arms. The lecture wili be delivered by Glen C. Leach of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. ‘The meeting will be in charge of the Public Relations Committee, of which Mrs. Pearl W, Sharpe is chair- man. Special guests will be County Manager and Mrs. Roy 8. Braden and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Magruder, member of the County Boatd. A reading will be given by Miss Mary Hunt and Misses Mary Russell and Phoebe Williams will sing. P.-T. A. PLANS BENEFIT Herndon Group to Hold Card Party and Dance Friday. Special Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va., March 22.—Arrange- ments have been completed for the dance and card party which the Parent- Teacher Association will hold for the benefit of the Herndon High School Fri- day evening from 9 until 12:30 o'clock in the High School. Mrs, George R. Bready is chairman of the committee, and will be assisted by Mrs. Lavinia Harrison, Mrs. Arthur H. Buell, Mrs. A. H. Kirk, Mrs. Eudora Armfield and Mrs. E. Barbour Hutchison. Mrs. Bready has appointed the fol- lowing school children a committee to be in charge of the clocak room: June Seamans, Willie Kirk, Ann Hutchison, Bobby _ Anderson, Nancy Bradshaw, Billie Keyes and Freddy McCarty. highway was made of the Prince Georges County commissioners by a delegation from Surratts district yesterday. A petition was also recelved from residents along the Walker Mill road, asking that the commissioners recom- d that 2 miles of that thoroughfare {: Ritchie to the Marlboro Pike, be Wransferred to the Siate. Thomas Wright Installed. ‘Thomas Wright was installed as presi- dent of Harry Kaufman's Mutual Bene- fit Association last night at the annual banquet of the essociation al Harvey's Restaurant. records less than two months ag> and to have pronounced them in good condi- tion. Balanced Satisfactorily. Stunz, it is reported, had worked on the bocks a night or two before and had altered them so that they balanced satisfactorily. Government investigators are in pos- session of two notes mailed by Stunz C. D IBUDGET HEARINGS [FOR D. €. PLANNED EARLY AS POSSIBLE Buchanan Tells Board of Trade He Has Requested New Estimates. DEFICIENCIES GROUP TO CONDUCT PROBE Committee Probably Will Limit Public Meetings to New Items in Schedule. Hearings on the revised District es- timates for the 1934 fiscal year will be held by the Subcommittee on De- | ficiencies of the House Appropriations Committee just as soon as the Budget Bureau submits its recommendations, Chairman Buchanan of the Appropria- tions Committee has advised the Wash- ington Board of Trade. Buchanan said he had requested new estimates and expected to receive them from the Budget Bureau this week. How extensive the hearings will be, tell at this time, but indicated that if the Budget Bureau follows closely the original 1934 estimates, hearings would be held only on the new items. Has Request Estimates. Buchanan also advised the Board of Trade of his plan to have the esti- mates considered by the Subcommittee on Deficiencies instead of the District Subcommittee on Appropriations. How- ever, he pointed cut that Chairman Cannon and other members of the sub- committee which framed the 1934 Dis- trict bill that failed in the last Con- gress, would be invited to sit with the Subcommittee on Deficiencies in an ad- visory capacity. “I have requested a new budget esti- mate from the director of the budget, which has been promised by the middle of this week,” Buchanan wrote the Board of Trade. *“As soon as this esti- mate is received, hearings on the Dis- trict appropriation bill will be begun, probably before the deficiency subcom- mittee of the Appropriations Committee, in co-operation and collaboration with the chairman and ranking Democratic and ranking Republican member of the District subcommittee, who will be in- i vited to sit with the deficiency subcom- mittee. Will Be Heard. “How extensive the hearings will be on this bill will not be dezermined until the first meeting of the subcommittee. It may be that on many of the items in the District bill, that the hearings conducted by the District succommittee will be sufficient. On the other hand, if the budget makes material changes in the estimates, it is probable that the subcommittee will conduct hearings on such changes. “If it is found necessary to conduct further hearings relative to the provements of New Hampshire avenue from its present terminus north of Buc- hanan street to the District line, then I feel sure that the Washington Board of Trade, through its representatives, will be given an opportunity to be heard.” PHONE ACCOUNTING D. C. Public Utilities to Partici- pate Before I. C. C. on April 13. Hearings before the Interstate Com- nerce Ccmmission on telephone ac- counting precezdure, in which the Dis- trict Public Utilities Commission will participate, will start April 13, accord- ing to information received by the local commission. ‘The District body will be represented by Rily E. Elgen, vice chairman. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman, an- nounced recently the local commission will scek to have the Interstate Com- merce Commission establish clearly and formally the authority of a local utili- ties commission over local aspects of de- preciation charges of interstate firms. Prior to the hearing Mr. Eilgen and William A. Roberts, special assistant counsel for the-local commission, will confer with representatives of other commissions on a proposal for joint ac- tion in the matter. Dr. Milo Maltbie, chairman of the New York commission, and representatives of the Pennsylvania and Wisconsin commissions are expected to join in the conferences. - o NEW MEMBERS INVITED Y. M. C. A. Will Entertain at Cen- tral Building Tonight. Newly enrolled members of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be guests of the association at a “new members’ night” entertainment in the assembly hall of the Central Y. M. C. A, 1736 G street, beginning at 8:15 o'clock tonight. % The pregram will include motion pic- tures of the recent Olympics, a talk by Wilbert Smith, senior Y. M. C. A. secretary for Egypt and Palestine, an Jjust before he shot himself at his home a week ago. In the notes he scught to assume full responsibility for “anything” that happened to himself or the bank. Qe G BECOMES EDITOR Richard Buckingham Appointed to American Eagle. Richard Buckingham, a graduate of McKinley Tech High School, has been elected editor in chief of the American Eagle, student bi-weekly publication at American University, it was announced last night at the staf’s annual banquet at the Westchester. Miss Louise Dan- forth, formerly of Western High School, was elected business manager. C. G. Ross, president of the Gridiron Club, and Washington _correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispa was guest speaker at the banquet. * LOW MASS DAILY St. Aloysius Church to Have Serv- ice Until Holy Thursday. Low mass will be celebrated daily un- til Holy Thursday at St. Aloysius Church, North Capitol and I streets, it has been announced by Very Rev. Lau- rence J. Kelly, §. J., rector. The ‘mass, at 12:05 each day, is in- tended for Government and other em- pleyes in the vicinity whose occupations T their atiendance at the regular cexly-mcrning masscs, a concert by the Y. M. C. A. Glee Club, under leadership of J. Nelson An- derson. Dr. Carson Frailey, member of the Membership Promotion Committee, will preside. White House Meal Sets New Record For Economy Menu President and First Lady Partake of Luncheon Costing 7 Cents, President and Mrs. Roosevelt sat down to a luncheon at the White House yes- terday that will probably go down in history as a record for economy in White House meals. This particular luncheon, presenting a menu prepared by the Home Economics Department of Cornell University, averaged 72 cents a person, and both the President and First Lady pronounced it “good.” Mrs. Roosevelt's luncheon was served in the White House dining room with some friends, while the President ate from a tray at his desk in the executive office. ‘The meal included hot stuffed eggs with tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, * pruac pudding, Jread and coffce, Buchanan explained, he was unable to | HEARINGS PLANNED % ITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star , WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1933. 30-Ton Stone Swung Into Place HUGE BLOCK PLACED IN POST OFFICE BUILDING. { A and will be exceeded in size by few in the whole Mall building project. ‘To the stone mason this great carved block is known as the “kneeler for the pediment.” CREW of expert stone masons worked all day to place this huge stone in the portico of the new Post Office Departmens Building facing on Pennsylvania avenue. ‘Weighing 30 tons each, this stone and its companion plece at the opposite end of the portico are the largest single stones to be placed in the Post Office structure In classical archi- tecture it probably would be termed the end capstone of the corona of the portico. It combines 2 number of architec- tural features in a single unit, including a part of the frieze, part of the cornice, a portion of the cap moulding, two of the mutules with guttae, and part of the Doric corona. The photograph was made with telephoto lens from The Star Building. —Star Staff Photo. U. 3. CHIEFS CONFER ONSALARY RULINGS Scope of New lnterpre\ations! Sought From McCarl Being Drafted. ‘With the groundwork laid for present- ing to Controller General McCarl a re- quest for rulings on perplexing phases of the new economy legislation which becomes effective April 1, the Personnel | Officers’ Association, composed of per- sonnel officers or the executive depart- ments and independent establishments of the Government, are meeting this afternoon at the Civil Service Commis- | sion to decide finally on the scope of the interpretations to be sought. The questions will cover generally problems in leave and pay deduction that must be settled to permit the sev- | eral agencies to keep their affairs in| shape. In substance, they were de- | cided upon yesterday afternoon at a| preliminary meeting at the commission, | when a committee was named to whip | them into the form desired and report back to the association this afternon for approval. | Included on Committee. ‘This cgmmittee is composed of Percy | L. Gladmon, Agriculture Department; Mrs. J. Atwood Maulding, Interior De- partment, and John B. Switzer, Inter- state Commerce Commission. ‘While the personnel officers were go- ing ahead with their program, however, | it was pointed out that some of the | questions now presenting themselves | may be cleared up by President Roose- velt when the rate of the pay cut is The basis for the complications seen right now is the fact that the provisions | of the new law run into the current | economy act, which was originally de- signed to cover operations until July 1, and also into the re-enactment of the cconomy act, which, with some modi- fication, was to go through the fiscal year 1934. One point that must be cleared is whether payless leave, accrued and un- used as of April 1, may be allowed after | that date. Deductions Studied. Along the same line, it will have to | 2 decided what is to be done where | pay has been deducted for the first | nine months of the fiscal year in ex- | cess of two and cne-half days a month. This would o2ct any employe who tock the statutcry deduction of a month in some way other than by spreading it over the year, The personnel officers also are un- certain as to when the 15 days’ leave «ith pay is effective, and whether leave ectrued up to last July 1, when leave with pay was suspended, now may be taken. This afterncon’s conference is in- | tended also to decide what agency will | send the questionnaire to the Controller | General. DELAY ASKEI5 IN NAMING SUCCESSOR FOR ROVER| ——— . District Bar TUrges Roosevelt to Wait Until It Can Suggest One or More for Post. The District Bar Association last nizght adopted & resolution requesting President Roosevelt to defer appoint- ment of a successor to District Attorney Leo A. Rover until the legal fraternity here can suggest one or more candidates for the post. ‘The association will meet in the May- flower Hotel PFriday night to choose candidates. A committee -compcsed of Joseph A. Burkart, Col. J. Miller Ken- yon and George C. Gertman has been named to convey the wishes of the association to the President and Attor- ney General. Other resolutions proposed inquiries into the alleged unauthorized practice of law, with a view of punitive action, and educational documents for the pub- lic regarding the scope of services that could be secured from bona fide practi- tioners of the law. W. W. Millan, the president, presided. LECTURE BY D. C. HEAD Dr. Reichelderfer to Speak on “How Comes Tuberculosis.” Dr, Luther H. Reichelderfer, presi- dent of the Board of District Com- missioners, will give the third of his weekly series of health talks over WRC at 4:45 pm. todsy on “How Comes ‘Tuberculosis?” by the National Tuber- tion, the talk is a part of the educational publicity of the or- ganization. Dr. Reichelderfer will be introduced by Mrs, Ernest R. Grant of the associa | Bar Mitzvalt Service. Justin_ Baum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Baum, will be Bar Mitzvah at ! Geirday. The services will be con: ducted by Lec Baumgarten. Husband and Wife | Lose Each Other | While Shopping | Florida Couple Separated | and Appeal Is Made to Police. 5 David Harsha of Milburn, Fla, who | is deternfined to meet his wife, and Mrs. Becsie Harsha, no less determined to | meet her husband, were still co-operat- | ing today with a Police Department cven more determined to arrange the | thing. z ‘The two visitgrs, en route with their children to New York, became separated yesterday while shopping in Washing- ton. Husband had the children and wife the automobile. Both communicated with police, who arranged a meeting on Wisconsin ave- | nue at the District line. Mr. Harsha | was there, police said, but Mrs. Harsha | must have become impatient and con- | tinued the search. | Then Mr. Narsha had an idea. Not wishing to leave the spnointed place | he rented rooms for himself and chil- dren, at 5508 Wisconsin avenue. Mr. | Harsha was still there this morning. | THREE BANDITS ROB STOREKEEPER OF $10 Thieves Force Bars on Window of | Delicatessen and Get $238.50 in Cash. ‘William Farcel was held up last night ! by three colored men in his store in the | first block of K street northeast and | robbsd of $10. A pocketbook snatching | and several housebreakings also were re- | ported to police during the night. Pattie Stone, 1833 New Hampshire | avenue, had her pocketbook, containing | 810, snatched from her by a colored | youth while walking on Sixteenth street near Church street. | Forcing the bars on a side window. | thieves robbed the delicatessen of | Bernice Ferris, 1500 block of Seven- centh street, of $238,50 in cash and a | C: 1quantlty of cigarcttes valued at $40. Three women reported their pocket- books had been stolen from an apart- ment at 1323 Clifton street by a thief who gained entrance through a window, the sum taken totaling $20. Those re- porting the losses were Mrs. Henry i:g:dler, Mathilde Rochon and Dorothy y. Police today were seeking a thief who stole 800 cakes of soap from the auto- mobile of Abraham Regardie, 1820 Clydesdale place, while the car was | parked in front of the residence. SHIPPING BOARD SPEEDS LIQUIDATION OF FLEET | Greater Economies Also Sought by Reorganized Government Group. By the Associated Press. ‘The task of speeding up liquidation | of the Government's merchant fleel and | the effecting of greater economies was set by the reorganized Shipping Board today. ‘The Senate has confirmed the three members of the board—Admiral Hutch I. Cone of Florida, who holds over from the Hoover administration and has been designated by President Roose- velt as chairman: Capt. Gatewood S. Lincoln of California, and Capt. David W. Todd of New York. All three are retired naval officers. In working out is reorganization plan, Admiral Cone asserted the new board “will do nothing to impair the splendid work already performed in building up & strong merchant marine.” CLAYTON INDORSED Chillum Heights Citizens Urge Ap- pointment for Commissioner. William McK. Clayton, chairman of the Public Utilities Committee ofi(.he Chillum Heights Citizens' Association last night. ‘The meeting was a special one, called consider successors to the vacancy on the Board of Commissioners. The association will send Mr. Clayton’s name to President Roosevelt for con- sideration. CAB COMPANY SUED Robert Simon, Fireman, Asks $50,- 000 for Loss of Leg. The City Cab Co. was sued for $50,- 000 in District Supreme Court today by Robert Simon, a fireman, who ny-helm.lmthemma!m- juries received w! struck by one of the company's cabs while on duty last October 4 at a fire near Tenth and L 1 streets. Simon is represented by Attorneys Louis Ottenberg and George D. Horn- e, BOYER IS INDICTED IN BANK SHORTAGE Former Cashier Accused of Embezzlement of $25,791 by Grand Jury. An indictment charging Charles D. Boyer, former cashier of the Federal- American National Bank & Trust Co., with embezzlement of $25,791, from the bank was returned today by the Dis- trict grand jury. Bank officials reported a total short- age of $141,000 at the time of Boyer's resignation as cashier. The indictment alleges the offense for which he will be tried was committed on November 11, 1931. The sum he is charged with embezzling consisted mainly of cash- ier's checks, bonds and stock certifi- cates. One count of the indictment charges Boyer converted the papers ¢nd another that he converted the money he is alleged to have received for them. Prescntation of the evidence to the grand jury after discovery of the short- age was delayed until the Justice De- pariment could complete an investiga- tion of the case. Two Murder Indictments. Among other indictments returned were two for first-degree murder. Icert Koch, 78, was charged with the fatel shooting of his son-in-law, William Palmer Gray, in their home, at 1420 North Capitol street, on Febru- ary 25. Koch, according to police. said he shot Gray because he “w ¢ work,” later stating that Gray struck him before the shooting. William Archer, colored, was charged with the fatal shooting of Willie Brooks, also colored, during a fight February 22 at 2418 1 street. ‘The jury also returned an indictment charging Carleton R. Bingham, a mail carrier, with rifling the mails and forg- ery. Bingham is alleged to have taken from an envelope an automobile oper- ator’s permit edaressed to J. H. Craw- ford, 3461 Fourteenth street, and used it as a means of identification in cash- ing checks to ch he had forged ewford’s name. Bingham was ar- rested February 20, while attemoting to cash one of the checks, according to police. Others Indicted. Other persons indicted, with the charges against them, were: Ernest Nelson, Albert T. Johnsor, John A. Dreyer, Charles Spencer, Charles Weldon and Erston Jackson, joyriding and grand larceny; Eugene A. Marshall and Linwood Davis. house- breaking; .Percy Harris, William F. O'Brien, Hubert Winston, Garrett R. Brooks, leroy E. Little, Amos R. Stepney, Charles Weldon, Theodore Brown, Erston Jackson, Charles Spen- cer, Richard Clomax and Fred Trim- mer, housebreaking and larceny: Mat- thew Novak, Irene Brown, William L. Brown, John L. Knighton and George | Drost, robbery; Robert D. Watson, as< sault with a dangerous weapon; Albert R. Marshall and Fletcher D. Powell, carnal knowledge: Richard Smith, as- sault with intent to commit carnal knowledge; James William Saccehino, false pretenses and embezzlement, and Murel Richard Juhl, violation of the national prohibition act. Charges Ignored. The grand jury refused to return indictments on the following charges: John T. Tartatglia, housebreaking; Alfred J. Moses, assault with a dan- gerous wezpon; Julius Schwab, carnal knowledge; George F. Tear and Fer- dinand Hocheisen, viclation of the na- tional prohibition act; Robert William Karia, violation of section 46 of the penal code; Willis Graury, violation of | section 851-b of the District code; Ed- win A. White, viclation of section 865 of the District code, and Willlam R. Carman, manslaughter. ‘The jury alro ignored homicide charges against Albert E. Cash, Oscar M. Cash, Fewel Workman, Everett Biackwell, Clyde E. Templeton and Claude Myers. Sevegal weeks ago Al- bert Cash, Workman, Blackwell and Myers were convicted of second-degree murder in connection with the killing of a paymaster on the new House Office Building during an attempted payrcll robbery. LEAVES $500,000 ESTATE Will of E. Endless Caverns Owner, Filed Here. The estate of Edward T. Brown, owner of Endless Caverns, who died March 9, is valued at more than $500,- 000 in & petition for probate of his will, filed in District Supreme Court today. A son, & nephew and a daughter xv:"mmed as principal beneficiaries in the T. Brown, _— ASKS RENO DIVORCE Mrs. Haroldene Davis Graeff, 1620 Fuller street, yesterday filed suit for djvorce at Reno, Nev., ageinst her hus- band, Stanley Rauch Graeff, according to an Associated Press dispatch. They were married here in April, 1931. Mrs Graeff charges non- ‘They have one child. PAGE B—1 ISTEPS ARE TAKEN 10 REDISTRIBUTE DISTRICT TAX LEVY Senator King Will Ask Austin to Head Special Sub- committee. HOPES FOR MATERIAL REDUCTION ARE HELD Savings to Home Owners Are Sought by Assessing Incomes and Inheritances. As the first step toward carrying out the plan he announced sometime ago of studying the District’s taxation structure with a view to redistributing the tax levy, Chairman King of the Senate District Committee today wiil ask Senator Warren R. Austin, Re- publican of Vermont, to head a spesial subcommittee on the subject. “I have no specific bill in mind” said Senator King, “but 1 want to work out a system of taxation here that will be as fair as possible. It is my hope that a material r:-duction can be made in real estate taxes, especially for home owners, by estab- lishing & tax on incomes and inheri- tances.” Proposed Taxes. Proposed taxes on incomes and in- heritances were two of the four bills inaugurated by the Mapes Committee of the House in the last Congress, by which it was sought to increase the total of District taxation by approxi- mately $4,000,000, with an accompany= ing proposal to reduce the Federal share of District expenses to $6,500,000 a year. None of these bills was passed by the Senate in the last session, and, there- fore, died on March 4. The Senate District Ccmmittee had all of the measures thoroughly studied by the Bureau of Efficiency, but only recommended one of them, the gasoline tax increase, to the Senate. The House sought to raise the gas tax from 2 to 4 cents a gallon, after which the Sen- ate committee repcrted it out at 3 cents a gallon. It was blocked in the Senate. The fourth Mapes tax bill contemplated a new tax on _motor vehicles based on weight. Senator King has indicated he does not look with favor on increased taxation cn motorists. Bills Opposed. ‘The Mapes bills have been vigorously opposed by local civic groups because of the eflect they would have in mag- nifying the inequities in the existing fiscal relationship between the Federal and District Governments in meeting the cost of the National Capital under the lump-sum method of determining the Federal share. Copeland to Be Member, Chairman King announced this afte ernoon that Senator Copeland of New York would be the second member of the proposed subcommittee to study District taxation and that a third mem- ber will be named later. He plans to make Senator Austin of Vermont chair- man of the subcommittee, but has not yet conferred with him. Senator King also stated this afternoon that it was not his thought that the total of Dis= rict taxation should necessarily be in- creased, but that the tax burden be e- distributed as between real estate and other sources. LANGLEY P.-T. A. SEEKS BETTER PLAYGROUND Ask Congress to Include $15,000 in Budget for Improving Bloomingdale Place. ‘The Langley Junior High School Par- ent-Teacher Association last night took action urging that Congress include an appropriation of $15,000 in the District Budget for improvement of the Bloom- ingdale playground, between Bryant street and the reservoir. The association likewise asked the District Government to institute con- demnation proceedings for the acquisi- tion of two lots near the Emery School on Lincoln road northeast, to advance the expansion of the school's play- ground. The actions are a part of a play- ground campaign mapped out by the Gage, Emery-Eckington, Langley and McKinley Parent-Teacher Associations and the North Capitol Citizens’ Associa- tion, which are responsible for the pres- ent recreational development in the northeast section. BROOKIAND-WOODRIDGE GROUP FAVORS SMITH Union Terminal Market Business Men Also Urge Appointment as Commissioner. Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of the Federation of Business Men's Associations,* was indorsed yesterday for District Commissioner by the Brook- land-Wocdridge Business Men's Associ- aticn and the Union Terminal Market Business Men's Association. The two indorsements brought the total of organizations formally backing Mr. Smith for the Board of Commis- sioners to nine. Others, which have urged his apointment are the Federa- tion of Business Men's Associations, the Central Business Men, the South- east Citizens' Association, the Wiscon= sin Avenue Business Men, the Cleve- land Park Business Men, the Logan- Thomas Circle Citizens’ Association and the Reciprocity Club. WOUNDED BY. DRY AGENT Colored Youth Has No Liquor, but | Stolen Car Seized. Firing on what he believed to be a fleeing liquor car, Prohibition Agent George J. Gray last night wounded Ervin Rollins, 15, colored, who said he lived on Defrees street. Rollins was treated at Casualty Hospital for a wound in the leg. Police said he and another colored youth, W. H. Nichols, 19, had stolen the automobile from John L. Carroll, 22 K street. - No liquor was found in the machine. The youths stopped the car after the shot had been fired near Seventh street and Florida avenue. P S Uniforms for Sightseeing Guides. Inspector B. A. Lamb, Capt. M. D. Smith and Acting Lieut. Thomas ln.sm, have been appointed by the Districy ‘Commissioners to submit recommendas ums!oraum{omwbema licensed guides for sightseers. 4