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Comoroe ) he Sunday Shar [ ) MAN KILLS WIFE - THKES OWN LFE INLOGAL HOTEL ‘Mary|and Couple Found‘ Dead With Only 39 Cents ' in Belongings. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES BLAMED FOR TRAGEDY v Pikesville Police Say Husband Was Wanted in Alleged Em- bezzlement There. Police last night were still trying to find out why Kenmore R. Gill, 30-year-old resident of Reistertown, Md., killed his wife, Estelle Gill, and then shot himself to death yes- terday in the Pennsylvania Hotel, 20 F street. An unpaid hotel bill of $16 and the discovery of pawn tickets in their room lent support to the theory finan- cial difficulties were responsible for the shootings. Police found only 39 cents among the combined belongings of the couple. Another possible cause, advanced by Pikesville, Md., authorities, was that Gill was wanted there on charges growing out of the alleged embezzle- ment of $17273 from the Coon Hunters' Association of Maryland, of which he was an official, and the al- leged passage of worthless checks | amounting to $17.68. Found Beside Bed. Gill's body was found kneeling be- side the bed on which lay the body of his wife when a maid in the hotel went to clean their room. An in- vestigation by Coroner A. Magruder | MacDonald, police of the first precinct and members of the homicide squad revealed that Gill had placed a towel over his wife’'s head while she was apparently asleep and had shot her through the temple. Apparently he then kneeled beside the bed and shot himself, also in the temple. Mr. and Mrs. Gill, police were told, had registered at the hotel on De- cember 2 and had been there since. | Since no shots were heard and Dr.; MacDonald said rigor mortis, which ! was just setting in when he reached there, could occur at anytime from | 15 minutes to four hours from the time of death, it was impossible to ascertain the time of the tragedy., The couple had been living until two weeks ago on the second floor of a house owned by Gill on the ‘Westminster Pike, near Reistertown. Gordon Lockard, who occupies the | first floor of the house, said that when Mr. and Mrs. Gill left home about two weeks ago they appeared to be happy. They left without lug- gage, he said. but took the pictures from the walls and also some per- sonal belongings. First precinct po- lice here, however, said the couple had one suitcase, but enough cloth- ing to have filled two suitcases. Certificates Issued. The coroner had the bodies re- moved to the morgue. They were to be released to relatives tomorrow, cer- tificates of murder and suicide hav- ing been issued yesterday. Mrs. Gill, who is survived by her mother, a brother and three sisters, was a graduate of the Sandy Spring, Md., High School and of Earlham | (Md.) College. It was learned that Gill was the last member of a family nearly all of whom died violet deaths. A younger brother, “Mus” Gill, was killed in an automobile accident between West- minster and Hampstead on Christ- mas eve four years ago and was buried on the same day as his father, Harry Gill, who died about the same time of natural causes. About two years ago his mother committed suicide by drowning herself | in a small lake in Druid Hill Ceme- tery. Maryland authorities said. After his father’s death, it was said, Kenmore Gill received about $17,000 in insurance on his father’s life, but has had no employment and apparent- 1y no funds since he worked in a fill- ing station in the Reistertown vicin- ity several months ago. * Mrs. Gill was a native of Sandy Spring, the daughter of Mrs. Ella Janney, who still resides in that vi- cinity. While the mother refused to be interviewed, it was stated by Mrs. Gill's cousin, Richard Janney, that the couple were believed to be in financial straits despite an agreement which was found for the purchase of & home in Lyonhurst, Va. Janney stated Gill was a native of the Reistertown section, a suburb of Baltimore, and that his family has been identified with the section for many years. ‘The couple was married about three years ago and was without children. . BUILDING CONTRACTOR DIES OF INJURIES Spinal Hurts Received on Sewer Project Fatal to Daniel Rogge. Spinal injuries received while work- ing on a sewer project in the rear of Gallinger Hospital resulted in the death last night of Daniel Rogge, 48, of the Dodge Hotel. He was struck by the shovel of a cement mixer. Rogge was first treated at Gallin- ger Hospital and later removed to Emergency Hospital where he died. Police said the case would be investi- gated further when work is resumed tomorrow, as they have been unable to obtain complete information re- garding the accident. He was a construction contractor and had been living here with his wife since coming from New York last Summer. _ROBBERS ARE CHOOSY Take Only the Best Jewelry in $10,000 Hold-Up. NEW YORK, December 8 (#).— Three discriminating robbers bound and gagged the proprietor of a jewelry store tonight and stole 800 articles that he valued at $10,000. Morris Kantor, 36, the proprietor, told police the hold-up men took only the best articles. » CRIME “ON SPOT" AS PARLEY HERE OPENS TOMORROW Representatives of U. S., State, City and Private Agencies to Meet. « THREE-DAY DISCUSSION EXPECTED TO DRAW 500 Roosevelt Will Sound Keynote of Conference—Cummings and Stimson to Speak. Crime will be “put on the spot” by representatives of scores of Fed- eral, State, municipal and private agencies interested in law enforce- ment at the National Conference on Crime which convenes here tomor- row under auspices of the Depart- ment of Justice. Lawlessness in all its varied and formidable phases will be placed un- der the searchlight of criticism and analysis and subjected to a mass attack by an army of 500 officials and public-spirited citizens mobilized by Attorney General Cummings. ‘The united assault on gangland and the underworld in general is planned to begin here in a three-day discus- sion of strategy that will result in a_carefully co-ordinated, relentless offensive along a wide front—not as a mere campaign for the time being, but as a permanent, continuing siege. Roosevelt to Sound Keynote. President Roosevelt will sound the keynote of the conference in the opening session tomorrow night in Constitution Hall. Attorney General Cummings and former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson also will de- liver addresses at the initial session. Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War, will call the opening session to order at 8 p.m. The Marine Band | will give a preliminary concert. Hundreds of the delegates, who range from Governors, mayors and other State and municipal officials to members of the judiciary, the bar and of numerous organizations con- cerned with the crime problem, were to arrive here today. Scores of dele- gates already are in the city. They were registering all day yesterday at the Department of Justice. Inspirational Service. Attorney General Cummings, mem- bers of his staff and many of the delegates will atend a special in- spirational service today at 4 pam.in the Washington Cathedral, arranged by Bishop James E. Freeman as & pre- liminary to the conference. In the absence of Bishop Freeman, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes will preside. Speakers will be Rev. Russell J. \Clinchy, pastor of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, and Rev. Dr. J. Campbell White, pastor of the West Forty - fourth Street Presbyterian Church, New York City. After the formal speeches tomorrow night the delegates will organize the conference for ensuing business. The first session for regular business will be held Tueday at 10 a.m. in Me- morial Continental Hall. Clarence E. Martin will preside. Speakers for this session include J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Justice De- partment’s Division of Investigd- tion; Gordon Dean, special attorney of the Department of Justice; At- torney General John J. Bennett of New York, Dr. Sheldon Gueck of Harvard Law School, and Judge Charles W. Hoffman, of the Domestic Relations Court, Cincinnati. Editor Will Speak. 'The session Tuesday afternoon will be devoted to a discussion of the part the press, radio and motion pic- ture industries can play in the fight on crime. Grove Patterson, editor of the Toledo Blade and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, will preside, and speakers will include Paul Bellamy, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; Stanley Walker, city editor of the New York Herald Tribune; Fulton Oursler, edi- tor of Liberty Magazine; H. V. Kalt- enborn. radio commentator, and Carl E. Milliken, secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. At other sessions the conference will consider criminal prosecution, paroles, pardons, probation policies, firearms control, penal problems, scientific crime detection, co-operation of the bar, police functions, court procedure and social aspects of crime. At the concluding session Thursday night Cummings will speak on “Les- sons of the Crime Conference.” A reception is to be tendered the delegates jointly by the Federal and District Bar Associations, the time for it having been set tentatively for Thursday evening after the closing session of the conference. It ptob- ably will be held at the Pan-Ameri- cxx Union Building. Music will be futnished by the United States Marine Band. Plans for the affair, being given upon suggestion of the Attorney Gen- eral, are being made by a committee composed of J. Bruce Kremer, rep- resenting the District Bar Associa- tion; William R. Vallance, 'Federal Bar Association, end Dean Justin Miller of the Attorney General’s office. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MOR NG, DECEMBER 9, 1934, Living Celebrities Depicted in Supreme Court Sculpture Robert Ait- ken, New York sculp- tor, has sprung an ar- tistic surprise on the Na- tional Capi- tal by incor- porating into t h e majestic pediment over the west front of the new Supreme Court Build- ing, siriking likenesses of famous American characters. All were prominent in jurisprudence or in creation of the beau- tiful temple of justice, There has been no criti- cism of Mr. Aitken, since the use of the distinguished living as well as the emi- « nent dead as mbdels was geclaud to _have _ ample precegent. PHONE RATE CUT BEGING THIS WEEK $1,000,000 Refund Rules Due to Be Drafted Tues- day at Conference. Reduced telephone rates are sched- uled to go into effect this week when December bills are rendered, under plans of the Public Utilities Commis- sion and the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone - Co. The commission and the company are expected to reach final formal approval Tuesday on rules for the distribution of more than $1,000,000 to local telephone users in the re- fund of 10 per cent on all bills paid since October, 1932, when the rate cut was ordered by the commission. The average subscriber refund is esti- mated to be $12. Agreement already has been reached by the commission and company on the new-rate schedules to be placed into effect. To a large degree a cut of substantially 10 per cent is to be made for the various classes of sub- scribers, except' those having private branch exchanges. The company, however, has agreed to extend a rate cut to several hundred *one-trunk” private branch exchange subscribers. These will not benefit by the refund of 10 per cent back to October 15, 1932, Some of the refund checks are to be in the mails before Christmas. Subscribers now having “life accounts™ with the company are to be the first to receive the refunds. All are to be paid by next February. Determination of the amounts of the refunds Tor subscribers is to be the duty of the company, the sub- scriber not being required to make a demand. Before February 15 the Utilities Commissiion is to be pro- vided a complete list of al} to whom refunds are payable, to afford a re- check. The whole operation will be subject to commission check. Huckster Short $119 Because He Forgot Prohibition’s Re peal A slip of the mind cost R. C. Gar- ber, a huckster of Strasburg, Va. $119—he forgot prohibition had been repealed. Garber was riding in his truck with Aubrey L. Ellis, 34, of Harrisonburg, Va., when the two men were stopped at Fifth and E streets for a minor traffic violation. Ellis, who was driv- ing, failed to show theofficer his per- mit, whereupon the officer. directed them to follow him to No. 1 precinct. At the time they were stopped Garber produced his registration card from his pocketbook, which he after- ward put on the seat. Not far from Ellis reminded him that he had a bottle of gin in the truck and that, it being his truck, he might be ar- rested for transporting liquor. Garber then agreed to a suggestion by Ellis that he slip off the truck, tak- ing the liquor with him. Ellis did so, and shortly afterward, Garber says, he missed his pocketbook containing $119. In Harrisonburg, Garber swore out & warrant for his driver, but the case was thrown out of court because it happened in the District. This hap- pened November 17. Ellis was arrested here yesterday on s warrant charging robbery, sworn the precinct station Garber charges ; out by Garber, Double-Parked Lighting Crew Fined Aiding Dark Lane Area C. Melvin Sharpe, sistant to the president of the Poto- mac Electric Power Co., plans to seek a conference tomorrow with Supt. of Police Brown and Inspector Lamb, in charge of the Traffic Bureau, for dis- cussion of a real problem. The problem concerns double park- ing and men in barber shops with their faces covered with lather and barbers with open razors running around in the pitch black darkness shouting to turn on the lights. It also involves Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas. onstrations of the problem was given Thursday evening about 8 oclock on upper Fourteenth street, where patriotic merchants have made a Santa Claus lane with electric light bulbs and power supplied, not unwillingly, by the Potomac Electric Power Co. In spite of repeated warnings not to overload the lines, one of the mer- chants on Thursday evening grew fascinated with his task of seeing how many lights he could string up, and while in the process of screwing in one last bulb heard a dull thud and D. C. APPROPRIATION HEARINGWEDNESDAY Study to Begin Before Cannon Subcommittee—Delay Is Caused by Budget. Hearings on the District of Co- lumbia appropriation bill will start before the Cannon subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, it was definitely an- nounced last night. These hearings had been tentatively set for tomorrow, but a delay until last night in deliv- ering the Budget recommendations to the House Committee forced the post- ponement, so that the committee clerks could have two days in which to get the Budget figures in proper form for the subcommittee. ‘Tomorrow hearings are to start on executive as- | saw black. So did everybody else for about four blocks along Fourteenth street in the vicinity of Park road. Santa Claus lane quit functioning and every light in the place went out. Men being shaved in barber shops, patrons of restaurants in the act of eating raisin cake and customers in the toy shops picking out toys for junior were in the same fix. There was no light anywhere. The Potomac Electric Power Co. rushed a hurry-up wagon to the scene. The crew found the source of the trouble and, uncovering a man- hole, went to work beneath the street. A transformer fuse had blown out and a new one had to be put in. The job required 45 minutes. When the | men came to the surface again, restored, they found a stern police- man standing by their truck. He pinched the crew for double parking, and the Potomac Electric Power Co. had to pay the fines. Mr. Sharpe wants to find out whether Santa Claus lane might wait in darkness next time while the trouble crew finds a parking place. UNDERSECRETARY DESIRED BY ICKES “Iron Man” of Cabinet Wants Aide to Assist in Many Duties. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, P. W. A. administrator and oil administrator, wants an under- secretary, jt was learned yesterday. His request is reported to have re- ceived the approval of the Budget Bureau. With an undersecretaryship, the Department of Interior would rank with the State, Treasury and Agricul- ture Departments, all of which have undersecretaries. The undersecretary- ship of Agriculture was created by the Treasury, Post Office and State,f Congress last Spring and is occupled Justice, Commerce and Labor appro- priation bills, while the hearings on the independent offices bill will be continued. RATE HEARING ENDS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Decembef® 8 —The In- terstate Commerce Commission to- day concluded its hearing here on the demand of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., that 12 railways reduce the rate for carrying silica sand from Ottawa, Ill, to Louisville, Ky. The Pittsburgh concern sought a rate based on that in effect from Ottawa to Jeffersonville, Ind., which is $2.64 a ton, contending the $2.90 now charged by the carriers is un- reasonable. by Rexford G. Tugwell. Because of his multifarious duties, Mr. Ickes, early in the Roosevelt ad- ministration, became known as the “iron man” of the cabinet. He has Walters and Oscar L. Chapman, as well as personal and administrative assistants. However, with an under- secretary, Mr. Ickes would be able to rid himself of a few of his duties. His plea for an undersecretaryship is reported to be predicated on the conversion of P. W. A. into a perma- nent division of the Interior Depart- ment. The President has not indicated whether or not he intends to leave P. W. A. under Mr. Ickes. However, apart from P. W. A. as a whole, a great expansion of conservation work is expected within the next few years. | pleased at the bright light they had | two assistant secretaries, Theodore A.. TRAFFGARTERY ONCANALURCED New Highway Is Pushed by Roberts as Georgetown By-Pass. Development of a traffic artery along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to serve as Georgetown by-pass will be the object of a campaign by Wil- liam A. Roberts, people’s counsel, he announced last night. The idea, he said, was suggested at the public hearing of civic leaders last Wednesday to discuss numerous phases of proposals for rerouting of lines of the street car company. Rob- erts said he would urge District offi- cials and members of Congress to foster the plan. He sees the possibilties of worth- while improvement of the traffic movements to and beyond Georgetown in this plan, which would benefit the street car service, as well as the pri- vate automobile owners. Canal Fill Is Urged. The proposal is that the District acquire the section of the canal from Rock Creek to a point beyond George- town, where the proposed canal road- way could be connected into Foxhall road. This would be accomplished by filling in the canal for this sec- tion and building there a traffic way. He suggests a ‘“‘clover-leaf” turn, to be built at Key Bridge, so as to pro- vide good connections with the bridge for traffic to and from Virginia, with- out causing lines of traffic to inter- sect. The proposed canal roadway itself would run at a level below the approach to the bridge. Such a roadway would enable through traffic to reach Key Bridge ‘without passing through the heavily traveled M street and Pennsylvania avenue. The eastern connection would be with the roadway in the Rock Creek and Potomac parkway. Thus, he explains, trafic from the business section could swing through South- west Washington and enter the new traffic way, after crossing the bridge in the parkway, and then travel with- out interruption west, either to Key Bridge or Foxhall road. Traffic Lightening Seen. Such a plan, he argues, would lighten traffic on M street and Penn- sylvania avenue. Estimates of the cost of the proposed project are not yet in hand, he added. A similar scheme for traffic through Georgetown already is on the tenta- tive plans of the District, for the open- ing of Prospect avenue from the inter- section of Twenty-ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue to Wisconsin avenue, and connection of Prospect avenue to arteries to the west. This would serve as a high level by-pass for M street, . Above: The pediment. Center: The sculptured likenesses, left to right, of Elihu Root, former Sec- retary of State; Cass Gilbert, ar- chitect of the building, Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes, and Aitken, the sculptor. Be- low: Recent photos of the same men in the same or- e fig- in the pediment, at top, are, left toright: For- mer Chief Justice Taft when a stu- dent at Yale, Root, Gilbert, “ Authority, “Liberty En- throned, “Or- der,” Chief Justice Hughes, |Ait- ken and for- mer Chief Justice John Marshall when a boy. HYBLA ZEPPELIN BASE SITE SOLD Hope for Use of Tract Near Alexandria for Oceanic Tests Is Shattered. Although the administration 1s said to be planning to ask Congress for authority and money to aid in establishment of transoceanic air service, hopes for estahlishment of a | transatlantic airship terminal near ‘Washington were shattered last night when it was learned that the great Hybla Valley tract near Alexandria, Va., favored by Dr. Hugo Eckener for the proposed base, has been sold to a Boston real estate firm. Dr. Eckener has proposed that the Post Office Department allow mail to be carried on a surcharge basis dur- ing an experimental three-month air- ship service between Germany and the United States next Summer. It had been hoped this service would lead to a permanent ocean airship line which would have its American termi- nus at Hybla Valley. No Sale Price Given. While no formal announcement of the sale of the Virginia tract was made, it is understood the entire holdings of a subsidiary of National Aviation Corp., which operates Wash- ington Airport, have been sold. These holdings amount to 1,282 acres. No sale price was announced. The Boston firm, said to be incor- porated as the Alabama Realty Co., will not use the property for aviation purposes, it was said. It probably will be offered for subdivision. . Dr. Eckener made two visits to Hybla Valley, which he character- ized as one of the best natural airship terminal sites along the entire Atlan- tic seaboard. At his instigation, the Goodyear Zeppelin Corp. established & meteorological station there and took daily weather records over a pe- riod of nearly three years. Passage of Bill Awaited. Construction of the terminal was held up pending passage by Congress of the McNary-Parker merchant air- ship bill which would have set up a code of law for international airship operation and permitted carriage of mail by airship. The amount of money the admin- istration will ask for the ocean air service is said to be contingent upon the status of private plans for opera- tion. It would include not only the proposed Atlaritic service, but also the proposed transpacific flying boat service in which two concerns, Pan- American Airways and Inter-Island Airways, are co-operating. Congregation Plans Play. “Light of Israel” will be presented by the Oveh Sholom congregation when it marks the Chanukah festival this afternoon. The play is directed b!lc:‘hqu Voronoff and Francis Plot- n ’ ! PAGE B—1 NIGHT PARKINGBAN DELAYED PENDING CHANGES IN PLAN City Commissioners Agree to Modify and Study Scheme Further. WEEK’S POSTPONEMENT OF DECISION EXPECTED Officials Want Public Sentiment ' to Solidify on Proposal Affect- | ing 33 Streets. The proposed night ban on parking | of cars on 33 highways during Winter ; months will be modified before it is | taken up for action, the Commissioners have decided. It was agreed yester- day to delay judgment until more time had been devoted to study of all phases of the matter. The Commissioners are feeling their way on the proposal, advanced by the Traffic Advisory Council, in the hope of determining sentiment of the public. % ‘The subject will not come before the Commissioners for decision at the Tuesday board meeting, and probably not at the regular session next Friday. It is more probable the full week will be allowed to solidification of sentiment. Yaden to Call Committee. James G. Yaden, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. who has termed the plan as fostered by the Trafic Advisory Council “too far-reaching,” plans to call his Execu- tive Committee together early this week to vote on the problem. Modification of the plan, which would have banned parking on 583 miles of streets from 2a.m. t09:30 am. from December 15 to March-1, will take the form of elimination of some of the highways from the ban and possibly change the periods over which the ban would be effective. according to statements yesterday by Commis- sioners Melvin C. Hazen and Col. Pan I. Sultan, engineer commissioner. Hazen and Sultan agreed tenta- tively and informally Friday afternoon that the proposal. modified to some degree, would have to be adopted un= less some better scheme was found for preventing traffic jams during periods of heavy snowfall. Both Delay Decisions. They adhered to this general prin- ciple yesterday in debating the matter, but emphasized they had not reached any final decision and that all details as to hours and streets were yet to be taken up for serious study. Protests against the ban from some sources were credited with having won the decision of the Commissioners to delay action. ‘While not seeking to influence the decision of his colleagues, Commis- sioner George E. Allen has stated defi- nitely his opposition to the advisory council plan. He believes the incon- venience to more than 7,000 automo- bile owners too great for the good accomplished for traffic movements, He fears that several hundred car owners will have to pay garage rents they cannot afford. All-District Ban Approved. Col. Sultan and Hazen are con- vinced that something must be done to keep traffic from being seriously blocked after each heavy snowfall. They believe the greatest good for the greatest number of persons must be their guide. Col. Sultan emphasized yesterday, however, that a ban on parking at night on a list of streets would not guarantee that traffic will move as easily in bad weather as it does now in fair weather. “Can't be done and shouldn't be expected.” he said tersely. Col. Sultan and Hazen both de- clared yesterday they are definitely opposed to suggestions that an all- night parking ban be invoked for all District streets. - “Some day in the distant future conditions may warrant such drastic action,” said Col. Sultan, “but cer- tainly present conditions do not. So far as the Commissioners are con- cerned, this proposed expedient to handle matters in times of heavy snow will not be an entering wedge for the complete scheme.” Business Groups Back Plan. “I don't want to be run out of town by irate car owners,” was the com- ment of Commissioner Hazen voicing a similar view. Representatives of numerous busi- ness groups stated th®ir approval of the plan of the Traffic Advisory Coun- cil at the public hearing Wednesday. The suggestion also brought a state- ment of approval last night from Richmond B. Keech, member of the Public Utilities Commission. He said he approved $he principle of the pro- posal because he believed it would aid in speeding up the mass transporta- tion service. This is needed, he said, for the benefit of the public generally. He did not eomment on the details of the proposed program. e in TWO MEN ARE CHARGED WITH PANDERING IN CITY Eight Others and Two Women Are Held for Probe of Their Activities. ‘Two of 10 men arrested here Friday in a restaurant in the 700 block of Thirteenth street were charged yester- day with pandering. They are Sam Kushner, 27, of the 900 block of New York avenue, and Morris Greenfield, 30, of Baltimore. The two were arrested when Lieut. George Little of the vice squad visited the place on information that a num- ber of men who controlled the lives of more than 50 girls here were meet- ing there. Two women also were arrested and taken to police headquarters for questioning, but later were released. The other eight men were held for in- vestigation, but probably will be re- leased, police said. It was alleged the men were wait- ing for women of the streets to report and turn over half of their night's proceeds. A