Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1935, Page 5

BLAMES “BOMB” GUNIN SHOOTING Mountaineer Who Killed 0f- ficer Says He Was An- gered by Shot. (Continued From First Page.) implicated, “Let the “higher-ups” might be Galleher added cryptically, chips fall where they m: Capt. W. R. Sayles, assistant deputy revenue commissioner, head of the Alcohol Tax Unit, who personally par- ticipated in the man hunt until after capture of the sharpshooter, indicated today that he had assigned some of his best investigators to the case and expected developments soon. Tells of “Game.” Apparently rested somewhat after gleep in jail following his two-day battle with Federal and State officers, the mountaineer today talked of his hazardous game of hide and seek. | He heard the voices of his pursuers beating the mountainside. He saw the Coast Guard airplane swooping low over the bushes. Once the plane flew not 30 feet over his head. he said, and then whirled away into the dis- tance, More than once the officers came within 10 feet of his hiding in the bushes, he said. “Why didn't you shoot them then?” he was asked. “I was lying down Saturday night when the officers passed right close by,” he explained. “T could have picked 'em off one at a time. But they wasn't shooting at me | and I didn't want to bother nobody | that wasn't bothering me.” | “I'm a good shot. I never missed anything. Many a time I have killed & hawk on the wing at s quarter of ® mile with my rifie.” Lives by His Rifle. Quesenberry denied that he was a desperado and claimed that he kept to himself, in the mountains, living by his rifle. “I don't bother nobody bother me,” he repeated Admitting his recollection was hazy of the first shooting Saturday when he dropped Federal Agent Kirkpatrick in the battle at the apple brandy still, Quesenberry confessed to being drunk at the time from his own | brandy. He felt sure, however, that he had been fired on first. Reports | from Federal agents indicated that Quesenberry fired the first shot, that Kirkpatrick replied with one shot from his pistol, and that when the Federal | #gent’s pistol jammed. Quesenberry then blazed away with his rifle, drop- yed Kirkpatrick and retreated into the woods It was then the maphunt was let Joose with all the fury of Federal, State and county forces concentrated on_the mountainside country. st Guard forces from three quar- ters were concentrated on the scene, and Federal agents were called in by Capt. Sayles from several States to | supplement the hurriedly collected 1 forees. Machine Guns Enter Fray. A Coast Guard plane flew over from Cape May. N. J. A truck with Coast Guardsmen and mounted with high- | powered machine guns sped from the Coast Guard depot at Curtis Bay, Md., near Baltimore. From Fort “funt, Va., between Washington and Mount Ver- non, Va., went a radio truck, which was the first to flash news of the| capture to Washington. State and county police threw their | full forces into the field, and joined | with the Federal men, beating bushes, ravines, mountainside and investigat- ing every possible hiding place. Ap- parently several parties of the State, county and Federzal men passed close | by the hiding mountaineer. | Quesenberry was sighted vesterday morning and put up a fight resulting in the death of Corpl. McClary. | Federal Agent Clyde W. Saunders | of Richmond called to Quesenberry | to surrender. According to officers the trapped mountaineer replied with a| shot from his powerful rifle. The agents returned the fire and advanced through open country. The rifleman | turned, ran to cover of some nearby woods and then rested his weapon | across a fallen log for a shot. Fears “Bomb Gun.” in the field that don't THE EVENING STAR, WA@HI NGTON, D. C MONDAY. MARCH 18, 1935. #* A-S ° A view of the basement kindergarten room at the Truesdell School. Kindergarten Pupils Taught in Basement TRUESDELL CHILDREN OCCUPY ROOM NEXT TO OLD HEATING PLANT. —Star Staff Photo. is the second of a series of ‘ these projects o the District Conmis- | sioners in the hope that they may be | luded in the new public works pro- INDERGARTEN children are housed in & basement room adjoining the heating plant of the George Truesdell School. on Ingraham street between Eighth and Ninth streets, and a second class is forced to use an adjacent coal-dust-covered under- ground room never intended for class purposes. Sixth grade children residing in the neighborhood have been forced for years to travel long distances away | | from the Truesdell School to other | schools because overcrowding at Trues- l dell has left no room for sixth grade pupils. The Board of Education hopes to | relieve these conditions if the Public Works Administration will make avail- able $155,000 for the construction of an eight-room wing and assembly hall-gymnasium. The new addition will permit them to tear down the ancient four-room structure in which the basement rooms are now being used. List Sent City Heads. The project was included in a ten- tative list sent to the District Com- missioners with the recommendation | that funds be allocated when P. W. A. money is allotted under the new works-relief appropriation bill. United States Commissioner of Education | John W. Studebaker also included the project in a survey of school construc- | tion needs sent some time ago to Sec- retary Ickes. The Truesdell School is now com- posed of the old four-room building, erected in 1908, and an eight-room wing constructed six years ago. The old part of the building was origi- nally the Brightwood Park School and although designed to house only four classes, two basement rooms had to be utilized because of the demand of the large number of children in the vicinity. These basement rooms are not properly ventilated or lighted, but equally as bad is the old type heating plant that joins them. That anti- quated furnace is constructed to burn | only soft coal and the little kinder- garten and primary pupils are forced to use them throughout the school | year. Even in the early Fall and Spring months, when the heating | plant is not in operation, the black dust is present. No Sixth Grade Facilities. With the drafting of these two “emergency” rooms. the Truesdell School still was without facilities for the sixth grade, making it one of the few elementary, schools in the city unable to accommodate all of the elementary classes. About six years ago a new wing of eight rooms was constructed, but | the overcrowded condition was not relieved and Truesdell is still without | the sixth grade. At present there are 68 fifth grade pupils enrolled who next Fall will have to leave the neighborhood to continue their schooling. | | R. West_School, - For the most part the pupils have been distribted among four other schools in that part of the city. These include the Brightwood School, Nicholson street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets; the Joseph Farragut_street be- tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth; the Job Barnard School, Decatur street between Fourth and Fifth, and the John Greenlief Whittier School, | Fifth and Sheridan streets. These schools, however, are also filled and would profit by the relief that a new wing would afford at Truesdell. Each would be near ca- pacity without the sixth grade over- | flow from Truesdell, and the chances are they will be even worse unless | some relief is afforded. | 562 Enrolled Last Year. Truesdell, in the cramped and | ancient quarters, had an enrollment | of 562 pupils last year, gaining 40 in a single year, so that the trend | of admissions is upward. Residents of the neighborhood, led by their civic and business organi- zations, have pleaded for years for some relief, each time to be rejected when funds were omitted or stricken from the annual appropriation bills. With the new wing and the assem- | bly hall-gymnasium, the 6-year-old | part of the building would complete a | modern 16-room building of the ap- | proved type now being adopted throughout the city and in a large number of other cities, and would furnish to that section of the city ample equipment for its present press- ing needs. PRESIDENT FIRM ONSECURITY BILL Move to Cast Part of Plan| Aside for Present Meets Rebuff. By the Associated Press. A move in Congress to cast part of the administration’s social security plan aside until the next session will not be presented to Democratic| leaders—who would have no choice | but to call the party caucus—until | signers know what kind of bill will | be presented to the House by the com- | mittee. 1 While committees and cliques thus | debate whether any legislation should be passed, the time element is swiftly | cutting down the number of States | that might take necessary co-opera- tive legislative action this year. With | administration experts admitting that | no State could comply with the old | age assistance section without enact- | ing new local laws. only six legisla- | tures thus far have taken any definite action. 8,000 HOMELESS AS FLOOD SPREADS REED NOMINATED FOR LEGAL POST - Cummings Favors R. F. C. General Counsel for So- licitor General. ‘ Stanley Reed, general counsel of the | | Reconstruction Finance Corporation, today was recommended to the Presi- | dent by Attorney General Cummings | July | December ... THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and not quite so cold with lowest temperature about 35 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy with rising temperature, fol- lowed by rain beginning tomorrow afternoon or night; gentle to moderate east, shifting to southeast or south winds. Maryland—Fair and not quite so cold tonight: tomorrow cloudy with rising temperature, followed by rain beginning tomorrow afternoon or night. Virginia—Fair and not quite so cold tonight; tomorrow cloudy with slowly rising temperature, followed by rain beginning in the interior tomorrow afternoon or night and on the coast tomorrow night. West Virginia—Cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow; rain tomoirow afternoon and night. Report for Last 48 Hours. ‘Temperature, Barometer. Degrees. Inches. . 18 2991 29.93 29.92 Saturday— 4 pm. 8 pm. Midnight Sunday— 4 am. 8 am. Noon 2 pm. 4 pm. 8 pm. . 12 midnight .. 29.85 29.83 29.88 30.05 30.04 30.24 30.38 3046 N 30.58 Noon ..... 30.61 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 75, noon yesterday. Year ago, 78. Lowest, 32, 7T am. ago, 36. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 79, on March 16. Lowest, —2, on January 28. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 60 per cent, at 6:15 am. today. Lowest, 38 per cent, at 1 p.m. yes- terday. today. Year Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey). Today. Tomorrow. { 6:57am. 7:38am. 22am. 2:03am. 16 pm. 7:56 p.m. 1:46pm. 2:29p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sun, today . 8:17 6:17 Sun, tomorrow. .. 6:15 6:18 Moon, today.... 5:06pm. 5:39am Sets. Automobile lights must be turned | on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 1935. Ave. Record. January .... 527 355 709 82 February ... 237 327 684 '84 March . 205 3.7 884 91 April wee 9.13 '89 May 10.69 89 June 1094 00 10.63 '86 1441 28 1745 '34 8.57 '85 869 'B9 7.56 01 in Various Cities. August .. September October .. November Weather Tempera- xz »e Stations. WOUNIH £ Wm0 aymam AUp115aK o B gsug S Abilene. Tex. Albany. N Galveston. Tex Helena. Mont Huron. 8. Dak Indianapolis Ini Jacksonville Fla Kansas City Mo, PETITIONS BRING FORGERY CHARGES Representative Andrew Says Constituents Deny Townsend Indorsements. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Signatures on petitions being sent to him urging support of the Town- send plan are forgeries, Rébresenta- tive A. Piatt Andrew, Massachusetts, said today. He says that among sev- eral thousand signatures of citizens in Beverly, Mass, many are spurious. He has received letters and telegrams from prominent professional and busi- ness men, whose names were on the petitions sent to him, showing the | signatures to be false. Representative Andrew acknowl- | edged the receipt of scores of letters and petitions. Replies brought pro- tests from some that their names have been placed on the petitions without permission. Drs. Peter P.| Johnson, Robert C. Stickney and Al- | bert E. Parkhurst and a well-known business man, Harold W. Lee, were | among those who complained. Dr. Stickney wrote that he had not known that a petition was being cir-4 culated. Denies Betng Approached. Dr. Parkhurst wrote that he had never been approached. Dr. Jonnson both wrote and wired that he was strongly opposed to the | ‘Townsend plan. | Lee flatly declared the signature of his name to be a forgery. Representative Andrew has been in- | formed that a canvass is being made | in Beverly of the people whose names | were on the petition sent to him, and | he himself is endeavoring to learn | just how and by whom the petmon was circulated. Other members of the House ha\.e had somewhat similar experiences. Representative Taber of New York, ranking Republican on the House Ap- ! propriations Commitee, which would pass directly on any Federal appro- priation to finance the Townsend plan ‘ | if adopted by Congress, also believes | that the petitions carry many forgeries. | | He says that he found many different names signed in the same hand- | writing. Representative Taber had a half | | dozen or more leters from one indi- | N | sicians for over 30 years. vidual on the Towsnend plan and when he sent a reply to the address given his leter came back with a nota- tion from the postmaster that no such person lived there. Mrs. Robert E. Clements, manager of the Washington office of the Town- send plan, stated today that field agents for this project are instructed specifically not to send any petitions to Congress, “Agents in the field for us,” Mrs, | Clements said, “are instructed to send ,lhflr petitions to national headquar- ters, Los Angeles, Calif., where they are-segregated as to States and dis- tricts in each State to be used by the Townsend plan officers at such time as we see fit. We have yet to present any petition to Congress.” —_— China Helps Plant. The Chinese government helped finance the new alcohol plant in Shanghai, and will aid those to be established in two other cities. Arthritis Thousands suffering from arthritie pains have found relief in Mountain Valley Min- eral Water direct from famous Hot Springs, Arkapsas. Mildly alkaline, Deepls satisf ine. Naturally corrective. Endorsed by ph: Phone for bookie Mountain Valley Mineral Water ME 1062 1105 K N.W. 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I|a suggestion already had been turned | didn’t mind them shooting at me with | down by the President. { revolver and shotgun fire, but one fel- Congressmen who declined to be low had ‘that old bomb gun. quoted by name said Mr. Roosevelt | for appointment as solicitor general of Edwin Smith Sees Failure to Ac_‘lhe United ,States, one of the Gov- ‘"rnment s most important legal posts. ‘The President is expected to follow lish Collective Bargain- cemp g Cummings’ recommendation. Reed Apparently the moonshiner was re- ferring to the automatic repeating rifle borrowed from the National Guard and carried by Corpl. McClary. Quesenberry continued: “That offi- cer was chipping the leaves from all around my head. That made me mad. | I thought they meant to kill me. I turned and drew a bead on the man with the boom gun. I saw him fall, and I knew I had him. The other officers then let me alone. They got behind a barn and stayed there and | I went into the woo “He got me,” MrCImv said before he died. “Now you get him.” Mc- Clary was shot through the abdomen. Brother Also Killed. Corpl. McClary was the second of two brothers to be killed in line of | duty while members of the Alexan- cria Police Department.~s An older brother, Sergt. Charles R. McClary, was fatally wounded when shot by #n escaped murderer in June, 1929. ‘The murderer, “Kid” Lilly, colored desperado, was later captured at Co- lumbus, Ohio, and brought to Alexan- dria for trial. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. MEDAL OF HdNOR VOTED GEN. ADOLPHUS GREELY By unanimous consent today, the House interrupted its scheduled pro- gram and passed a resolution confer- | ring the Congressional Medal of Honor upon Gen. Adolphus Washington Greely, pioneer Arctic explorer, who on March 27 will celebrate hu 9lst birthday anniversary. Chairman McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee made the motion for this timely tribute to “a grand old hero” and said that there is an agreement with the Senate leader- ship to have the action of that body on this bill tomorrow. Night Final Delivery The last edition of The Star, known as the Night Final, and carrying a row o page, is printed at 6 pm city at 55¢ per month or, at 70c per month. This is a special service the very latest and complete Call National 5000 and say that you want the “Night Final” delivered regularly to your home, and delivery will start immediately. ., and delivered throughout the together with The Sunday Star, had been insistent that the social security bill should include unemploy- ment insurance and aid to dependent | mothers and children, along with old- | age pensions and annuities. The comment resulted from the ac- tivity of Representative Isabella | Greenway, Democrat of Arizona, a | close friend of the Roosevelts. 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