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7 Washington News THO DOGTORS FAGE ARREST IN DEATH OF HRS. CORABRITON County Warrants Obtained| for H. R. Street and Sher- wood Ferris. BALTIMORE CORONER’S FINDINGS REVEALED Montgomery Prosecutor Launches Inquiry Into Conduct of Sanitarium. Warrants charging that Dr. H. R | Btreet, who conducts the Washington | Cancer Sanitarium at 1414 Girard street northeast, and Dr. Sherwood Ferris of 200 Shepherd street, Chevv Chase, Md, with “unlawfully and feloniously” killing Mrs. Cora L. Brit- ton, were obtained by Detective Theo- dore Vollten of the Montgomery County | police this afternoon. | The warrants, Vollten said, were | ordered by State’s Attorney Stedman Prescott as a result of the findings of a Baltimore coroner's jury last night, that Mrs. Britton died as the result of “criminal conduct, gross mal- ctice and brutal treatment” at the ands of Dr. Street and Dr. Ferris. Early Arrests Planned. The warrants which were issued by, Frank Davis, clerk of the Montgomery | County Police Court, charge that Mrs.' Britton was “unlawfully and feloniously killed” by the two physicians on March 1, 1933 Detective Vollten said that an effort to arrest the two physicians will be! made tmmediately. The coronor's jury verdict was brought against Dr. Street and Dr. Ferris after an inquest into the death of the 39-year-old New Jersey woman at the South Baltimore police station last night. The jury directed that “our findings “be communicated to the authorities of Montgomery County for such action as they may deem proper in the premises,” and the investigation was opened by | State's Attorney Prescott when he was informed of the findings of that body this morning. at the police station in Baltimore dur- ing a greater part of the three-hour inquest, but who left before the verdict was returned, were at their homes to- day. The former said he had been ap- praised of the jury's findings by his attorney, Leonaid Lelpman of Balti- more, but asserted that his belief that | Mrs. Britton died from “a complicated | cancer and not from the treatment she received” remains unshaken. Dr. Fer- ris would make no statement regarding the jury’s findings. Explains Departure. Dr. Ferris. explaining the departure of Dr. Street and himself before the verdict was returned, said that they had not been summoned to appear at the probe, but had merely been “invited to attend,” and decided to leave for their homes’ after waiting until after mid- | night without being called before the Jury or allowed to enter the room where the proceedings were held. Mrs. Britton, wife of & Mays Land- ing (N. J.) physician, died at the South Baltimore General Hospital approxi- mately a month after she is said to have been taken to that institution from Dr. Ferris' home in Chevy Chase, where she is alleged to have been un- der treatment for nine weeks for cancer of the breast. Witnesses at the inquest, conducted by Dr. Ottom M. Reinhardt, testified under the questioning by Assistant State’s Attorney Albert H. Blum, who investigated Mrs. Britton's death, and Deputy State’s Attorney J. Bernard Wells, that on January 30 Mrs. Britton was brought to the Capital by her hus- band and friends to be treated with a “secret medicine that devours cancer.” She was taken to the sanitarium of Dr. Street, who, they said, was the inventor of the remedy, and was re- moved almost immediately to Dr. Ferris’ home. where the first application of & dark-brown salve was applied by Dr. Street, and where Mrs. Britton remained | for further treatment by the Capital | physician and his aide until she was removed to Baltimore on April 2. Dr. W. B. D. Penniman, Baltimore chemist, who analyzed the salve for the inquest, declared on the witness stand that its use had been “homicidal and an overt act of very great gravity.” He testified that the salve contained 10 per cent of a strong corrosive that de- stroys chemically as well as mechani- cally. Dr. John C. Krantz, jr., chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Maryland State Department of Health, told the jury that he, too, found a corrosive chemical that ranks with the strongest of destructive chemicals in the salve. Dr. Walter D. Wise and Dr. George McLean, physicians who attended Mrs. Britton at the Baltimore hospital, and Dr. Isaac H. Miller, resident physician at’ the institution, testified that the treatment given Mrs. Britton was con- trary to “all tenets of modern medi- cal practice” and that it was directly responsible for her death. They also told the jury that the salve, through frequent applications, had destroyed tissue, charred Mrs. Brit- ton's ribs and penetrated her lungs. Dr. Howard J. Maldies and Dr. Stan- dish McCleary. post-mortem physician, testified that Mrs. Britton's death was the direct result of toxaemta, caused by application of the salve, and the for- mer added that the treatment was *“barbarous, ignorant and unskillful.” Nurse Gives Testimony. Among other witnesses to appear be- fore the jury were Miss Julia Maye Bussard of Baltimore, graduate nurse,|§; who attended Mrs. Britton during the last week of her stay at Dr. Ferris’ home and at the Baltimore hospital; Mrs. Nettie Elliott of Elliott, Md. Mrs. Britton's sister-in-law, who assisted in nursing the New Jersey woman; Dr. Roland L. Britton, the dead woman’s husband, and Mrs. Hazel Harris of Bal- timore, a friend of Mrs. Britton's, who accompanied her to Dr. Street's office and who frequently visited the patient at Dr. Ferris' home. It was testified by several of the phy- sicians that if Mrs. Britton had been suffering from cancer of the breast the salve applied by the two physicians had destroyed all traces of it. Examination of parts cf the body which should have shown evidence of cancer in a case of such long standing had borne no such evidence, they said. Dr. Britton said that Mrs. Britton had complained for more than a year of a small lump in her breast and that he had endeavored in vain to persuade her to place herself under the care of prominent physicians in Atlantic City and Philadelphia, but she had refused and had gome to Dr. Street on the advice of her mother. Dr. Britton added that members of his wife's family insisted upon her Members of House Are Preparing for Annual Ball Game House Democrats and Republic- ans began to make preparations today for their annual base ball game. The clash is scheduled for May 29, or socn thereafter. Representative Milligan of Mis- souri is looking for nine Demo- crats good enough to lick an equal number of Republicans. Milli- gan is the Democratic team's cap- tain. Representative Millard of New York is manager of the Re- publican club. With a smaller enrollment than the opponents to draw from, the Republicans last year trimmed the Democrats in sandlot style. Milligan vows it will not happen again. ROBBERS ABDUGT GAS STATION MAN Victim Carried Mile From Employment Before Being Forced to Give Up Cash. Forced at gun point into the auto- mobile of two young bandits who held | him up early today in a gas station at | Fifteenth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, Raymond Clements, manager, was forced to ride almost a mile with the robbers before they took his money and pushed him out of their car. Clements said the bandits got $11 | and overlooked $8 he had in another Ppocket. Several other hold-ups were reported to police last night and early today.| together with a purse-snatching and | numerous burglaries which netted thieves more than $300 Forced Into Auto. Clements told police two young men entered his gas station shortly after midnight and asked for gas. Before he could comply with the request. one of them drew a gun. informing him, “This is a hold-up.” With the muzzle of a revolver against his ribs, Clements was forced into the car and driven to the 3500 block of Twelfth street northeast. where he was robbed. He did not obtain the license number of the car. Charles B. Kane, Twenty-second _street, 2400 block of a taxi colored passengers at Grant streets northeast. ‘Woman's Purse Snatched. Fiftieth and William K. N. Poe, 900 block of | T street, reported that a pair of colored robbers held him up and took $6 from | him in front of his home. The purse of Margaret Shea, 61 Adams street, containing $25, was snatched from her by a colored youth as she walked along North Capitol street between V and W streets. Among the homes entered by burg- lars were those of Thomas D. McMur- ray, where loot valued at $155 was taken. and Herman Kadan, 2730 Wood- ley place, where articles worth $160 were stolen. Burglars also stole a quantity of tools from the Randall Junior High School. RELIEF BILL LAUDED AT CITIZENS' SESSION Gerlach Says Provision of $133,000 for District Is Impor- tant Step. Passage of the Lewis-Wagner relief bill yesterday. carrying about $133,000 for the District of Columbia, was de- scribed “last night by Edward M. Ger- lach, assistant supervisor of probation, United States Courts, as an important step in providing “public relief” for the District. Addressing the Burleith Citizens’ As- sociation at Gordon Junior High School, Mr. Gerlach said that “for the first time the District of Columbia, in- stead of being at the bottom of the list in public relief. is coming on up toward the top of the list. Estimating that throughout the coun- try there was being spent now 16 times as much for relief as in 1929, or a total of $100.000.000 a month. the speaker said, “We are facing a_definite and & terrible situation.” He said 10,500 families are on the relief rolls here, receiving from $18 to $33 a month. ‘The association authorized a contri- bution to the garden work of the Georgetown extension of the District of Columbia Employment Committee. WOMEN’S UNION MEETS ‘The Women's Union of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Local No. 105, nominated 12 members last night for election at the June meeting as delegates to the convention of the Na- tional Pederation of Federal Employes, to be held in Kansas City, Mo, during September. The nominees, from whom five dele- gates will be chosen, are Belle Trouland, Mignon Miller, Gertrude M. McNally, Ann Coburn, Minnie Stevens, Leo Wil- liams. Anna Davison, Margaret Garry, Lou Kendrick, Maude, Miller, Gertrude Schellhorn and Violet Turner. . Marriage Licenses. Killlar. 22. 518 12th st. ane hompson, 21, 3838 28th st. a8 on 11th st.; oeb. T both Barrett. and Mary G. Car- of Hyattsville, Md.; Rev. C. D. . and Fannie Rabino- more; Rabbi Zemach ne Roberson. ?6. 1135 Columbia rd.. ari, Rose Mcoingis, 23. %028 Bower Joseph Reicheut. Rebecca Sakolsky, 2 S H. Metz i Joseph A. Nance. 27. 3 Dorothy F. Haviland. Re! rney Hutchin: ott 4. 1300 Spring rd.. and 320 1st st. s.e.; Rabbi Porter st., and Portland, Orex.; taking the treatment and he was left “between the devil and the deep sea.” JHe added that the only charge that was imposed by Dr. Street or Dr. Ferris for the treatment was the $35 a week he paid the latter for Mrs. Britton's room and board. William A. Gallagher, Assistant Dis- trict Attorney of Washington, who at- tended the inquest to hear the testi- mony and be prepared to open an in- vestigation in the District if any cases similar to that of Mrs. Britton's are uncovered in the Capital, told newspa- | per men after the inquest that he had been investigating the case for several days Detective Theodore Vollten of the Montgomery County police force, at- tended the inquest as State's Attorney Prescott's representative and submitted & report on the testimony and the jury's verdict to the latter today. driver, | was robbed of $5 and his cab by two | he bening Sstaf WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY. 10, 1933. SEEK STAR AREA TILE TOMOROW 11 High School Orators Seek- ing Right to Represent D. C. and Nearby States. FIRST EVENT SCHEDULED AT EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL Maryland and Virginia Spokesmen to Contest at National Mu- seum Auditorium. ‘The Star finals of the Tenth National Oratorical Contest will be held tomor- row morning when 11 high school ora- tors seek the right to represent the District of Columbia and the neighbor- ing counties of Maryland and Virginia in_the United States finals. Beginning at 9 am. at Eastern High School, The Star finals will lead a fo- rensic trail across the city to Western | High School. stopping en route at seven other auditorfums in the acceptance (of the young orators’ bids for honors. | The contest officials, including the board of judges, the timekeeper and the ballot compiler will follow, hearing each District public high school orator in his own auditorium, and the Maryland, Virginia and private and parochial | schools spokesmen in the National Mu- !seum Auditorfum. The last speaker | will complete his oration at about 12:20 p.m. but the victor will not be an- nounced until tomorrow afternoon’s Star is published. A slight change has been made in the schedule of tomorrow's contest. The new program, with contestants, their speeches, and the time and place of their appearance follows: Program Schedule. ! 9 am—Bertha Miller of | High School, “John Marshall.” | 9:20 a.m—George Bondurant of Mc- Kinley High School, “The Constitution, a Challenge to American Youth.” | 9:40 am—Constance Conway of | Roosevelt High School, “The Preamble | to_the Constitution.” ! 10 a.m.—Albert Abramson of Central | High School, “Our Constitution the | Basis for International Government.” 10:15 am. (in the National Museum Auditorium)—Maxine Cardwell of the | Washington-Lee High School of Ball- ston, champion of Virginia, “The Pur- pose of the Constitution,” followed by Henry Estevez of the La Plata High School, champion of Maryland, “Why We Should Support the Constitution,” followed by Grace Colliffower of St. Cecilia’s | Academy, champion of the private and | parochial schools, “Thomas Jefferson, | Champion of Constitutional Democ- | racy :05 a.m.—Betty Prancis of Dunbar High School, “The Constitution, a Basis _for Reconstruction.” 11:20 a.m—Helen Proctor of Arm- strong High School, “The Constitution. | | an Instrument of More Perfect Union.” | 11:35 am.—John C. Yeldell of the: Cardozo High School, “The Origins of the Constitution.” 12_m.—Henry Willlam Snyder, jr.. of Western High School, “Justice Holmes, Champion of Human Rights.” Prominent Men Judges. | Judges of the contest will be Robert | | V. Fleming, president of Riggs National Bank; J. J. Esch, former member of Congress, and O. R. McGuire, counsel ‘ror the General Accounting Office. Mr. Fleming. a graduate of the George Washington University, is a specialist in political economics and commercial law. He has contributed articles on legisiation to legal journals and is a leader in the banking field. | Mr. Fleming has served as judge of former Star finals in the contest. Mr. Esch is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. He holds his law degree from that institution also. He was a member of the House from Wis- consin from 1899 to 1921. He is an authority on constitutional law and Government, and was chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. He also holds membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. | Mr. McGuire was educated in Louis- iana and here. He holds the bachelor of arts degree from the Louisana State | University, the master of arts and| | bachelor of laws degrees from George | Washington University, and the degree of doctor of jurisprudence from Amer- ican University. He was a member of George Washington University inter- national debate team and is a member of Delta Sigma Rho, national debate fraternity. He also was associated with James M. Beck in the preparation of the latter’s work, “Our Wonderland of Bureauracy.” Richard M. Ham of the foreign service department of the American Automobile Association. will be official timekeeper of the finals. It will be Mr. Ham's re- sponsibility to see that no orator in to- ! morrow's meet uses more than six min- {utes for the delivery of his prepared | oration, and not more than four min- utes for the delivery of his extemporane- ous talk. Eastern Given National Place. The winner of tomorrow’s finals will be given a place in the national finals of the contests which are to be held in Constitution Hall May 20. Along with the place in the United States finals, the victor will receive the right to a trip to Europe this Summer, with all expenses paid and $200 additional in cash. To receive the trip, the win- ner must actually participate in the national finals. If for any reason to- morrow's winner fails to participate in the national finals, his place in that contest will be taken by the official al- ternate and then it will be the alter- " | nate who goes on the European trip. ACACIA FRATERNITY WINS FINAL DEBATE AT G. W. U. Team Upholds Argument to Grant Vote to District—Zeta Tau Alpha Is Sorority Victor. ‘The Acacia Fraternity debating team was victorious over that representing Phi Alpha Fraternity last night in the final round of the interfraternity tour- nament at George Washington Univer- e wimners upheld the afirmative side of the question “Resolved, That the citizens of the District of Columbia; should be given the right to vote in} national elections.” Ted Pierson and James Haley made up the team. In the intersorority finals, Zeta Tau| Alpha won over Kappa Delta. The win- | ners, Mary Lee Watkins and Jean Kar- dell, upheld the affirmative side of the question: “Resolved, That the recom- mendations of the Committee on Costs of Medical Care should be L ‘The victory was the second in succession for Zeta Tau Alpba and, should it win again next year the sorority will retain permanent possession of the interso- rority debate cup. | Hassin of Chic: ORATORY FINALISTS Upper, left to right: Robert V. HemmF c] Lower, left to right: J. J. Esch and and O. R. McGuire, Richard N. Ham. MOTHERS BELIEVED 10 IM@R_T_HEAUH’ Specialists Discuss Possi- bility of Babe Receiving Preventive Agency. A new therapeutic and preventive agent for scme of the most widespread children’s diseases was discussed be- fore the American Pediatric Society, composed of some of the country’s fore- most child specialists, meeting at the Carleton Hotel today. | It is based on the observation that infants seldom are susceptible to scar- let fever, diphtheria. measles or poli- omyelitis, all of which raise havoc with older ohildren and the deduction that the child must be supplied with some preventive agency from the body of the mother. This led to the preparation of a so- called “placental extract,” which, ac- cording to the tests reported, has the quality or neutralizing diphtheria and poliomyelitis, blanching in scarlet fever, | and affording a high degree of protec- tion against measles. The chemical nature of the extract is still uncertain. In most cases, according to the experi- ments reported, there was no discern- | able reaction, such as frequently is met with in the use of serums. Reports on Brain Study. Examination of the brains of Chi- cago criminals after death by electro- cution shows far-reaching changes, it was reported to the American Neurolog- ical Association by Dr. George B The effect was de- scribed as that of a “concussion of the | central nervous system.” New developments in intestinal sur- gery were described before the Amer- ican Surgical Association, meeting at the National Museum, by Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. Some cats with their brains hooked up through their skulls to electric cur- | rents are bringing new light on the functions of obscure parts of the brain, it was reported to the American Neu- rological Association by, Dr. Aubrey T.| n Mussen of Baltimore. He has been able to insert electrodes in the brains, from which the animals apparently suffer little discomfort and retain | almost complete freedom of motion. ‘When the current is turned op, stimu- lating the part of the brain in which the electrode is inserted, & cat shows ipvoluntary movements which indicate | the function served by the area. | Dr. Mussen was especially interested | in determining the functions of various pal of the “little brain"—otherwise | the cerebellum—which Ymerl!ly con- trols the co-ordination of bodily move- ments. Stimulated in one place, the animal loses its foreward balance. Stimulation in another place causes loss of the backward balance. Dr. Mussen also stimulated in the same way parts of the brain known as the thalamus and the red nucléus in the pons and found characteristic motions for each place. Experiment Described. Disconnecting the blood circulation through the brain and the blood circu- lation of the rest of the body was described by Dys. Tracy J. Putnam and Jacob Pinesinger of Boston. This was accomplished by interposing an appa- ratus known as an autopulse pump at the principle point where the blood supply enters the cerebral region, by which it was possible to maintain a flow of constant pressure regardless of what was happening in the rest of t.h:l body. They found that there is appar- ently an independent mechanism of some kind which causes changes in the resistance of the vascular system of the brain. A vigorous defense of the old-fash- joned family doctor was made in the presidential address of Dr. Caleb Cush- ing of Boston before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons at the National Museum last night. “There is much idle talk.” he said, “of scientific medicine and the modern | scientific doctor. A great part of scien- tific medicine is a fetich and wholly unscientific. True medicine has need of scientific instruments by which the hospital specialist can do at untold ex- pense what the general practitioner could do with his fingers.” Dr. Cushing spoke sarcastically of the rapid assumption of public health functions by governments at the public expense and usually at the expense of the man of small means, who must pay his own bills and at the same time meet the expenses of the poor. Declared Greatest Folly. “The greatest folly of which man is capable.’ sald Dr. Cushing. “is to sit down with slate and pencil and plan a new world. The doctor is accused of turning to the past. In what other di- rection could he turn with any hope of learning anything. The doctor gives a large share of his time to the indigent poor. Ethics have prevented him from capitalizing his own inventions. Since he knows their frailties, he may not think much of his fellowmen, but he treats on the same basis as anybody else the chiropractor who comes to him | surreptitiously and the totally disabled veteran holding a good job on the police force. Thos= who can least afford it are often the promptest to pay cash, and they are the cnes who are paying for the expanding health services, the | jails. the insane hospitals.™ Pinched on every side by these gov- emmentally controlled services, Dr. Cushing said, the family doctor might be expected t5 become extinct, but still hangs on, and probably will come into still greater favor in the future. Preventive medicine, Dr. Cushing said, is very ancient aithough it sometimes | is made to appear as a new thing. It has always, he stressed. been forwarded by the doctors who try to eliminate the very source of their income, but “there ~ remain _ disorders beyond enumeration of which we do not even know the cause and hitherto unsus- pected derangements of our poor bodies | nr;l cropping up all the time.” tacked the proprietary medicine | * as comparable to bootlegging of the most profitable busi- esses in the country. “Medical teaching,” he sald, “points to overspecialization. Science is every- where in the saddle. Great institutions of research must be carried as ap- pendages to medical schools with teachers, many of whom have them- selves no medical training. These schools no longer even pretend to prepare & man for the practice of medicine.” TWO DRIVERS ARE HELD IN ACCIDENT FATALITY ‘Walter H. Allison, 19, of the 2000 block of Twelfth street northeast, and John C: Price, 35, taxi driver, 300 block of Indiana avenue, drivers of au- | tomobiles in a collision Monday, in which Jesse F. Shipley, 24, 1650 Avon place, was fatally injured, were held for action of the grand jury following | & coroner's inquest yesterday at the ‘morgue. Shipley. was riding in Allison’s ma- chine, which collided with Price’s taxi- cab at Thirtieth and Q streets. He diea while en route to Emergency Hospitai. Shipley will be buried in Greenhill Cemetery, Berryville, Va., following funeral services at the home of his mother, Mrs. Martha A. Shipley, 1108 Monroe street, at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. GREAT DANE, HEL D FOR “RANSOM,” ¢ FOUND WALKING ALONG TRACKS “Princess Wracket”* Believed Asked $200 B ova"tox §200 rinsom.” was held for “n " ;;g:d th%x morning walking along the railfoad tracks between Hyattsville and Bladensburg, Md., by George Wiseman, jailer of the Hyattsville lock-up. ‘Wiseman notified the dog's owner, Frank Feeney, 1602 L street, who drove to Hyattsville and recovered the ani- mal. was a trifie thin, due prob- ‘The ably wdf'm fact that she had not been | ville. obtaining her customary 6 pounds of fresh meat daily, but otherwise was none the worse for the experience. Feeney received a telephone call St day from a stranger, who demanded $200 for the return of the dog and refused to give his name, saying he Released After Thief Who Gets Scare. would call again and complete arrange- return. Police today were looking for & man said to have brought the dog to a resi- dent of Riverdale, Md., last night with a request that he take the pet as a boarder in his kennels. The Riverdale resident, believing he recognized Prin- cess Wracket from a newspaper picture published yesterday, declined to take her and later notified police at Hyatts- The man who had the dog presum- ably became frightened and freed her last night. Feeney, Wiseman said, promised him a $50 reward for recov- ering the dog, which had been mi :ln&e»'my 1. Feeney valued his pet a STUDERTINDGTED ([ o] POTONAG SAVING'S FOR THREATENING 10 KIDNAPCHILD Former Employe Accused of Writing Extortion Note to Mrs. L. E. Collier. FIRST-DEGREE MURDER LAID TO TWO PRISONERS Colored Men Charged With Fatal| Shootings Here in March and April. An indictment under the new kid- naping law was returned today by the | District grand jury against Leon U. Mason, colored student at Miner Teach- ers’ College, who is charged with mail- ing a letter threatening to kidnap June Ellen Collier, 2-year-old granddaughter of Maj. and Mrs. L. E. Collier. Mason is reported to have said he did not intend to kidnap the child, but sent | the letter to Maj. and Mrs. Collier | merely to “see what the reaction would be.” He is alleged to have sald he want- ed to cause Mrs. Collier, by whom he had been employed, to experience “misery and suffering.” Two Murder Indictments. ‘The letter, demanding that $5.000 in cash be placed in an alley in the rear of a cafe operated by Mrs. Collier, was turned over to J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investigatios Department of Justice. Hoover assign- ed special agents to the case and they arrested Mason, after a careful investi- gation. Mason is said to have admitted | mailing the letter. ‘ I The grand jurors also indicted two coiored men on first degree murder charges. Levin J. Lucas, was charged | with the fatal shooting of Florence Hose, also colored, on March 31, in the 1800 block of F street, while Charles E. Hendrick was indicted for the slay- | |ing of Thomas Blackwell, colored, who | | was shot to death April 28, in the 100 | | block of Prancis street southeast. | Others Indicted. | | Others indicted, with the charges| ' u;!]nlxlt them, were: illiam McDonald, nonsu i | Claude C. Hawk. James I. Chy,pgoogn | Harris, Jeff Burke, James D. Johnson, | Marcellus Brown, Nathaniel Harris, | Oliver H. Percy and William Glover, joyriding; Minnie Carter, Joseph O | Gibbs and Freeman Jackson, grand | { larceny; Alphonzo Frazier, Walter F. | Carron, Frank B. Wilson, H. L. Cum- | mings. Samuel L. Saylor, and Frank L. Allen, housebreaking and larceny; Zoney Peterson, James H. Johnston | and Elliott M. Favier, robbery; Na- thaniel Palmer, assault’ with intent to commit robbery: Louis I. Scharfl, as- sault with a ‘dangerous weapon and assault with intent to kill: Howard T.| Perguson, violation Harrison narcotic act; George Jones and Harry T. John- son, violation of the National prohibi- tion act; Wile Lee Davis, bigamy: Samuel C. Knight, forgery and utter- 'ing, and Charles D. Fowler, violation ! | of section 834, D. C. code. Cleared of Charges. The following were cleared of the | charges indicated H Richard O. Miller. James Vernon and | James Edwards, joyriding; Clarence Leath, William F. Colvin and William | Jones, grand larceny: Harrr J. Wil- liams, John P. Smith and Ruth L. Jack- | | £on, Teceiving stolen property, and John E. Carter and Levin J. Lucas, assault | | with a dangerous weapon. iJ. M. SHOEMAKER DEAD; CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINER Former Office of Commission Expires at Home Here. J. M. Shoemaker, 64. examiner in the | Civil Service Commission here and for- | merly district manager in the Minne- Manager of Minneapolis i | apolis office of the commission. died to- day at his home, 4105 Wisconsin | avenue. Born in Carlton, Ohio, | maker first entered the commission | | here in 1900, working until 1905, when he was assigned to the Minneapolis of- fice. He became district manager in | that office in 1910, and came to Wash- | ington again early last year. i He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Jo- | sephine D. Shoemaker, and two sons, | David W. and Fred J. Shoemaker, St. Paui, Minn. The body will be taken to Carlton, Ohio, Saturday for burial. Mr. Shoe- CIT_!;NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Dinner, Lions Club, Mayflower Hotel, 16:30 p.m. Lecture, “Kashmir to Siam.” benefit St. Alban's Woman's Auxiliary, May- flower Hotel, 8:30 p.m. | Dinner, Educational _Committee, | | Knights of Columbus, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 pm. Meeting, Sophie . Newcomb College Alumnae, 3409 Ordway street, 8 p.m. Card party, William H. Hall Lodge, No. 8, Order of Shepherds of Bethlehem 2906 Tenth street northeast, 8 p.m. Dance, Goldenberg’s Co., Raleigh Hotel, 9 p.m. Meeting, Hotel and Restaurant Em- | ployes’ Alliance, Local No. 781, 1412 I street, 3 p.m. P i ‘Meeting, Geological Society of Washé ngton, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. i Meeting, Washington Alumnae, Sigrma Delta Kapps Sorority, Carlton Ho 8 pm. ' Meeting, Grace Lutheran Brot'fer- hood, Lutheran Church, Sixteenth fand Varnum streets. 8 p.m. Meeting, Anacostia Lions Cl\lYg Es- ther Memorial 1 Church, Nich- ols avenue and Esther street soi [oheast, 6:30 pm. Musical program, Young Mom's Ju- bilee Chorus of Friendship Baptist Church, Vermont Avenue ' Baptist Church, 8:30 p.m. ‘Tomorrow. Luncheon, Military Ordck of the World War, Mayflower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Phi Gamma T jelta Frater- nity, University Club, 12:30{ p.m. Luncheon, Cornell Clulg, University Club, 12:30 p.m. i Luncheon, D. C. Barjgers’ Associa- tion, Willard Hotel, 12:45 p.m. ‘Luncheon, Reciprocity, Hotel, 12:30 p.m. L . , | America would be that of religion in jan ancient ana established institution |men; on the other hand. its disciples | waited, and waited authoritative and d¥¢ecting voice of the 1, | thorities of Russia. as Mother, Carrying Her, Is Struck by Car Borne in her mother’s arms, 3- year-old Martha Lee Turner es- injury today when the mother, Mrs. Mary Turner, 21, of 607 Sixth street, was knocked | ! down by an automobile. Mrs. | ;ln\u-nu- was injured about the ps. The accident happened at Sixth and F streets shortly before noon. The car was driven by Rosetta M. Wade, colored, 20 of the 1800 block of Eleventh street. She was not held. Mrs. Turner and the child were taken to Emergency Hospital by the fire rescue squad. The mother was held for observation until the extent of her injuries is de- termined. CHURGH LAGEARDS SCOREDBYBSHI Fate of Russia Seen in Con- tinued Indifference, He Tells Diocesan Session. Right Rev. James E. FPreeman, Bishop of Washington, speaking last evening to a special congregation which filled the Church of the Epiphany for the opening of the annual diocesan convention, spared no words in de- nouncing the indifference of the masses of the people to the church in its pres- ent hour of need and trial. In the same forthright style of language he indicted the deficiencies of the religious institutions of the country, and de- manded a new dedication of clergy and laity alike to the Kingdom of God. propheysying that the fate of religion in Russia, if the challenge were to be ignored or neglected. The occasion was the formal charge to the convention, the Bishop's triennial statement on the condition of the church. “The fact that the church is does not imply that it can remain static or indifferent to changes that take place in the world. True, it is not to be moved from its determined course by the capricious and changing opinions of cannot do other than be obedient to the will of its Divine Lord as expressed in His great prayer on the eve of His crucifixion: ‘I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world | but that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil’ He would have His church make its impact upon the world, ancf that it cannot do unless it touches trje world immediately and vitally. In xp- peated crises the church has been carp- pelled to adjust itself to meet new apd strange conditions, and where it suffered a suspension of influence lost for the while its prestige, the ° has been directly traceable to its f/ to recognize the hour of its opportamiity. No other opportunity, we believa, has come to it, comparable to that ‘Which this confused and distracted ag a pre- sents. If the church cannot, to it g great advantage, seize it by a fresh «jrmon- to serve human needs, it will svjTer an impairment and a loss of influer g:e from which it will not recover for tion to come.” 7 Church Advance Inadeq AMA Neither during the World, War, nor during the world-wide depression, Bishop Frceman declared , has the church registered an adeq advance. He referred to the commun kants of the Episcopal Church in the diocese as being 26.000 in number, but asserted that there should be at ! gast twice as many persons enrolied. T here is steady growth. he said, but there, also is steady loss. One reason for the waning of interest, he insisted, is th pt “the church itself, as a corporate bod §, has failed to make an effective im'yact upon the troubled and distractec/ minds of the people in the midst off their economic culties.” A single, prophetic voice here and there, yes, but no corporate expression of the ¢lmrch’s mind has been heard. A ftryibled world has in vain, for the stration of its adaptability and ¢ [p‘cny| era- church.” Continuing, he ‘said: “These are solemn and seriov/s matters for our reflection, and thgy should make us deeply humble aijd penitent. By its silence on great guestions that affect the well-being of “fiultitudes, the church has lost the conf fience of great masses of the people. Su g:ly the blame for these conditions does x!:n rest solely upon the clergy—it must Joe shared by a supine and indifferent /laity.” Bishop Freegian deplored “a very definite decling in the prophetic office,” but he expresg:d his belief that “there 1s no substitu J for the preacher. “This whole chugoty of ours needs a fresh | baptism of thie Spirit's power that shall be like ) which tlluminated the church on )ie day of Pentecost. There can no vival of religious interest until _the church once again restores it He Ifld the laity partly to blame for poor preaching. “Our people,” he said, “miyst share the responsibility of making 1fheir religious convictions more articulat t An inarticulate faith is an anomalyf"” , Necessity of Action. The pastoral relation has been neg- lect>dy the bishop declared. “It is impegative that something be done to restare this ancient office to its proper xmp. Time was when the pastor of e (church was the intimate and con- ‘fidante of every member, young and alike, of his congregation. It can- be denied that the lessened recog- njion of the pastoral relations has an immediate bearing upon the church’s eclining _influence and persuasive lower.” He appealed to the laity to ee the clergy from administrative 'and financial cares that a larger por- tion of the time and strength of the pastor may be spent in the service of his preaching and pastoral obligations. Bishop Freeman made direct refer- ence to the campaign of atheistic propaganda sponsored by the Soviet au- “Communism,” he said, “in our day has assumed a place of larger proportions in our social and economic systems than it has hitherto known. It is the avowed policy of a great government, and its propaganda is world-wide in scope. In its seeking for a new order of communal life it not only disparages religion of every name, but frankly declares its determination to extreminate it. It declares that Christianity is the greatest obstacle to the ultimate accomplishment of its aims and that it cannot survive. To assume that America is immune to these gressive forces is to live in a fool's paradise. “Within our own confines, largely unlet and unhindered, the propaganda of this movement gathers day by day ts who sre appealed to force is not to be frustrated either by | tees. suj indifference or excessive con- fidence in our capacity to resist it. R it ose Wl our vi with selfish design and greed of PAGE B—1 'f JOINS OTHER BANJ:S IN“SPOKANE PLAN' Move Instigated by Wistrict National Attracts fither Institutions., CONFERENCES AE HELD BY SEVERAL {OFFICIALS 4 Georgetown Company,'s Leading Di- rectors Consideyy Move Best for Depgsitors. L Inclusion of tly> Potomac Savings Bank in the wickly kngwn “Spokane plan,” by which ‘A is sought to consoli- date several of§ Washington's closed banks into a ny~ financial institution, was announced, today. The Geoll"f‘ wn bank now joins in the move inski gated by the District Na- tional Bank ih letters sent to all that bank's stockh plders and depositors, ask- ing for full ,co-operation. It was yrperstood that at least two more savinigs banks wHich are in the hands of c/nservators have practically decided to join in the proposed consoli- dation. ’ Importz nt conferences are being held by officin fs of other closed banks and de\'elom;‘:nu of some kind, the exact nature ‘«f which was not disclosed, are expected). Bank Issues Statement. ‘The: following statement was issued by thy Potomac Savings Bank: “William H. Clarke, chairman of the Reorg pnization Committee of the Poto- mac : favings Bank, today announced he had ponferred with Capt. Chester Wells, chai) pman of the Reorganization Com- mitt pe of the District National Bank, an¢l that they were in substantial ac- cof'4 in organizing a new bank under t] z Spokane plan, to take over the 1Jquid assets of the District National, ne Potomac Savings, and such other ¥ pnks of the District of Columbia as « jare to come into the proposed new or- f Anization. “He said, further, that his commit- ‘tee was working with a view to and was expecting to participate in the forma- tion of the new bank and that he would make a report to the directors of the Potomac Savings Bank strongly urging them to participate. He said. further, [thul he had spoken with a number of directors of the Potomac Savings Bank | concerning the mater and there seems | to be a unanimity of accord and much | enthusiasm displayed in the consider- | ation of the idea.” Other Meetings Held. Plans of the Industrial Savings Bank to reorganize into a new national bank, were to be pressed at a meet- ing scheduled for this afternoon at the Garnet-Patterson School. _ The faculty was. to be addressed by officials | of the bank. Meetings were held last night to promote interest in the plan, | at Shiloh Baptist and at Third Baptist Churches. W. H. C. Brown, president and conservator of the bank, said al- most unanimous approval had been obtained in his community for support of the new colored national bank. Officials of the Potomac Savings Bank originally adopted a plan for raising $500,000 in new stock in an effort to reopen that institutjon. The bank’s de- positors responded generously to the drive for new capital and officials had { high hopes of reopening at an early date as a national bank. However, the full amount of stock has not yet been subscribed and the bank has not received a Government license to reopen as a unit. In the meantime, the Spokane plan had come to the front and the merger idea was presented to the bank's ofMicials. Believing it will be possible to get the pank open sooner by joining a gen- eral move with other banks, today's action resulted. The bank's conserva- tor and president is George W. Offutt, who is in accord with the new move. Chairman Chester Wells of the Dis- trict National Bank's Reorganization Committee reported many more accep- tances today of the plan as outlined to that bank's clients. Subscriptions for the new stock are coming in rapidly and in large ‘totals. Chairman Wells expressed much gratification that the Potomac Savings had joined the central bank movement. LIMITING OF WEALTH T0 $1,000,000 URGED Washington Democrat Proposes in House to Restriet Individual Holdings. By the Assoclated Press. An amendment to the Constitution to permit Congress to Umit the wealth of any American citizen to $1,000,000 of the present gold value was proposed in the House yesterday by Representa- tive Lloyd, Democrat, of Washington. Addressing the House, Lloyd said: “For 60 days, we have sat in extraor- dinary session, and my judgment is that little legislation of a permanently constructive character has been enacted or even planned, or is mow contem- plated. “This resolution proposes that once and for all we shall lay the ax of legislation enactment at the tap root of the evil; and in the interest of the future of all of our people, place a definite limitation on the acquisition and ownership of wealth. “There is no thinking man in our Nation but who knows that the only reason there is a widespread poverty is that weglth and the ownership of weaith has become centralized—the only reason many men are too is because a few men are too rich.” attempted to enrich them- the expense of others. “If & survey of the state of 'the church discloses any inequities or in- consistencies, they must be speedily dis~ | Avowed and purged away, else it will reap juences as direful as those that have befallen the anclent church in Russia.” Concluding, Bishop Preeman spoke of having served nearly 40 years in the linistry. Facing the troubles of the present time, he said, “I thank God that I survive and have power to carry on. From this hour I rededicate my- self to the church, and I pray God to bless and su-encfihen you_for ‘ghe auhflty tasks which lie “immediately ead The convention will be in session all day today at All Saints’ Church, Chevy Chase. This morning reports were re- ceived from various standing commit- ‘This evening there will be a fel- le:u't‘mp dipoer at ‘which Me;ll.e \ahope, or Natlon’s !umu!; g . Wyoming, 4ud. BlunbpicPreemat wil W, Bishop” Preeman” speak, .