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~ The WASHINGTON, D. C, I beni WITH SUNBAY MORNING ED! "RIDAY, .‘\.fiAAA_‘A‘ n 29 MARCH HOSPITAL ATTACHE ABSOLVEDBY JURY IN POISON DEATH Miss Blannie Bennett Cleared of Blame in Is Maternity Case. Seven Charged in Government Check Forgeries—Man Is Held for First-Degree Murder. Miss Blannie Bennett, registered pharmacist at George Washington University Hospital, was absolved of blame by the District grand jury to- day in the death of Mrs. Ruth T. Loomis. 1731 P street, who was ad- ministered poison by mistake in the maternity ward at the hospital last February. Miss Bennett was held for grand Jury action after an inquest into the young mother’s death showed the patient had been given three injec- | tions of formaldehyde from a bottle labeled paraldehyde. The paradelhyde was prescribed by her physician to relieve pain. When the first injection failed to relieve her. she was given a second and then a third treatment. Testimony showed the bottle labeled paraldehyde con- tained formaldehyde, a poison. Filled Bottle. Miss Bennett said the nurse in charge of the maternity room came to the pharmacy with a paraldehyde bottle and asked that it be filled. She said she opened a new 5-pound bottle marked paraldehyde and filled the container. An investigation was begun immediately after Mrs. Loomis died February 12. but it was not re- vealed how the formaldehyde got in the bottle. Miss Bennett 1288 I street. Mrs. Loomis was 28 Her child, a girl, is living. The grand jury returned indict- ments in 30 cases and ignored charges in nine instances. Seven Check Charges, Seven persons forging and uttering checks for small emounts May Scott, Clarence Ham Gant, William B. Conway, Watson, Helen Robinson and Douglas 1. Guenther. Government They are BROWN TO SEEK HEBREW CROUPS | QLTS FFCES Shrine Conclave Plans Show Need of Extra Police and Detectives. who is 34, lives at| Scventy-five picked detectives, and about 300 uniformed police from other citics are being sought by Maj. Ernest were charged With v prown, superintendent of police. to assist local forces while thousands n. George of visitors are here for the Imperial Irene Shrine Conclave in June. Such huge gatherings as the Shrine William Lowe, colored, was indicted PI&ns to bring ahvays draw to any on a first-degree murder charge. = It is alleged he shot Marjorie Goode, also colored. lest February 5 at 1343 Q street following a dispute. FLOOD CONTROL BILL BEFORE COMMITTEE $600,000,000 Provided by Wilson Emergency Measure for General Use. Bs the Associated Press The House Flood Control Commit- tee today began consideration of the Wilson emergency flood control bill which provides for general flocd control work ‘The money would be allocated from the proposed $4.880.000.000 work-relief appropriation and would be expended by the Secretary of War in work supervised by the chief of Army Engi- neers, The work would include flood control development of various ams and watersheds in the country, improve- ment of navigable strea and d velopment of hydroelectric power and prevention of soil erosion. Funds would be used immediately for emergency protection against floods in sections where life and property are endangered. Other funds would go for new projects and completion of work already started as a part of the present flood control program. The committee is expected to rush approval of the bill. CLASS IN LIP READING OPENED FOR CHILDREN = | Instruction Given Free to Whitei Bfys and Girls by Wash- ington League. Washington children with dull hear- ing have been given a new free op- $500,000,000 for | city a number of the “lhight-fingered gentry,” according to Maj. Brown, who is vice chairman of the Shrine Com- mittee on Public Order. \ Four Cities in View. To protect both visitors and citizens here frcm the expected influx of these undesirable “camp followers,” Maj. Brown hopes to borrow police princi- pally from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Richmond. Maj. Brown also realizes that his motor cycle force of 50 men will be insufficient to perform the escort and traffic patrol duties required during the convention. He will probably call also for a loan of a number of motor cycle police from other cities. Vehicular traffic has greatly in- creased since the Shrine held its pre- vious convention hére in 1923, ac- cording to Maj. Brown, and traffic problems are expected to be intensi- fied. An appropriation of $70.000 has been asked to defray expenses inci- dent to the extra police protection deemed necessary. Radio Publicity Meantime, Norvelle W. Sharpe, has been engaged by the Shrine Pub- licity Committee to direct radio pub- licity. He was appointed by Curtis Hodges, chairman of the Publicity Committee, and it is hoped he will be able to arrange coast-to-coast broad- casts. Mr. Sharpe formerly was in the press relations department of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co., and receatly has been heard over local radio sta- tions under the name of Scott Wal- lace. CHAOTIC LAWS HIT Cummings Asks States to Co-ordi- nate Narcotic Legislation. Asserting present “chaotic” State narcotic laws are “thwarting co-opera- tion” by the Federal Government, Attorney General Cummings last night asked State Legislatures to approve promptly a uniform measure. In a radio address, the Attorncy portunity to learn lip reading, and |General read a letter from President thus ease the embarrassment of their | Roosevelt which said “only nine States affliction. had adopted” the uniform narcotic The Washington League for the |measure before the first of this year, Hard of Hearing has opened a lip reading class, which is being held every Saturday at 11 am. at 1116 Vermont avenue. All white, hard-of- hearing children are eligible to attend, it was announced. The expense is borne by the Washington league. It has been some time since an effort has been made here to supply lip reading instruction for public school children, although it long has been known that there are many in the local public schools with measur- able hearing defects. The class is being taught by Miss Adeline Staley. BANKHEAD EXPECTS TO BE IN HOUSE SOON' Alabama Representative Confident Health Will Soon Permit His * Return to Floor. but asked that 1935 witness the adop- This tiny axis deer, of a family native to India, arrived at the Zoo on St. Pat- rick’s day. Keep- er S. P. Morris is giving it warm milk from a bottle, a process repeated every three hours. Keepers rated the fawn from its mother. which seemed | likely to tram- ple it. —Star Stafl Photo. - DPEN CONVENTION 1.000 Delegates Attend Triple Gathering—Rabbis to Speak Tonight. One thousand delegates of three al- lied Hebrew groups representing re- form Judaism throughout North Amer- ! ica today opened a triple convention at the Willard Hotel, which will con- tinue through Tuesday. The pulpit of the Washington He- Congregation tonight will be turned over to the visiting rabbis for a special service for the members of the Union Hebrew Congregations, Na- tional Federation of Temple Sister- hoods and the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. The delegates represent 285 congre- gations with a membership of 64,000, 350 sisterhoods numbering 55,000 per- sons and 120 brotherhoods with 20,000 members. ‘The union’s thirty-fourth council brew opens at 2 o'clock with a discussion | meeting on “Financial Security of the Synagogue.” Mrs. Cafritz to Give Welcome. At the same time Mrs. Morris Ca- fritz, president of the Washington Sisterhood, will deliver the address of welcome to the sisterhoods convening for their eleventh assembly. Mrs Abram Simon of Washington will give a brief message as past president and founder of the organizations. The brotherhood convention will commence with an invocation from Harold Gans, president of the Wash- ington Brotherhood, and Allen V. De Ford. in charge of convention arrange- ments, will welcome the visitors. Three joint meetings are sched- uled for this evening. The services for the guests at | Washington Congregation _ tonight | will be read by Rabbi Irving F. Reich- |ert of San Francisco. Rabbi Julfus | Gordon of St. Louis will deliver the |sermon on “The Challenge to Ad- | versity,” and Rabbi Samuel W. Gup | of Columbus, Ohio, will make the kaddish and adoration. The bene- diction will be given by Dr. Samuel | H. Goldenson of New York. Mack Chosen Chairman. .*cob W. Mack of Cincinnati last | night was named chairman of the Executive Board of the Hebrew Union College, and these six men were chosen | members of the board for siv-year | terms: Oscar Berman, Cincinnati; Alfred M. Cohen, Cincinnati; Simon Lazarus, | Columbus, Ohio; Lee J. Loventhal, | Nashville; Murray Seasongood. Cin- | cinnati, and Henry Wineman Detroit. Mrs. Albert J. May, Dr Samuel Schulman and Dr. S. H. Goldenson, all of New York, were elected to the Board of Managers of Schools and | tion * * « by at least 31 more States.” | Synagogues. | S'wimmingAPool?s Are Lacking Three wading pools, one of them for colored children, complete the present public swimming facilities of | Southeast Washington. This large area. on both sides of Anacostia Creek, has no playground pool and no large Natiohal Capital Parks pool. Potomac River and Eastern branch {lure children unable to swim in the non-existing municipal pools, and of- fer an ever-present danger of drown- ing. The District Playgrounds Depart- ment endeavors to bring children from the poolless areas to the ex- Representative William B. Bank- |jsting tanks on certain days in the head, House majority leader, expressed | week, but lack of money renders this confidence today his health would |3 haphazard proposition. The ques- soon permit him to take over his|tion of transportation and guardian- duties on Capitol Hill. “Tell my friends,” he said at his|away from their ship of the children while they are apartment where he was moved from | roplem. the Naval Hospital, rapid progress.” Bankhead became ill “I am making January 2, Age of Children Limited. The white wading pools, which can the day House Democrats selected him | care only for children under 10, are as floor leader. He was in a weakened |at Garfield, Second street and Vir- condition due to a blood clot in veins | ginia_avenue, and at Virginia Ave- of his leg and remained in the hospi- ; nue Playground, Eleventh street and tal nearly two months. Recently the Alabaman called a fecretary home and he has kept up with his and stenographer to his’Playground, Sixth and M streets. Virginia avenue. The colored tank is at Linco The Playgrounds Department to- homes raises & In Southeast Area of (fity | ate District Committee for a com- | prenensive pool development in the | Southeast to make tanks easily avail- | able to all. Miss Sibyl Baker, playground head, urges, first, construction of a large pool in Anacostia, with a wading pool adjacent, to care for a wide area which today can take its dip only in the treacherous natural waters. Could Serve Big Section. “This pool in Anacostia would serve a tremendously wide neighborhood; it could care for the whole of East Washington,” Miss Baker declared. Her plans would make this tank the size of the pools run by the farks at Takoma Park and McKin- ey. The program tentatively lists play- | ground pools at Congress Heights and, for colored swimmers, at Barry Farms, to the east of Anacostia. Another wading pool is listed for Randall Heights, at the eastern ex- tremity of Pennsylvania avenue. Although the location is not men- tioned in her proposed public works outline, Miss Baker suggests con- struction in the future of play- \|ground at Pennsylvania avenfie and | Thirteenth street, with a playground mail and the proceedings of Congress. day ‘presents & proposal to the Sen- | pool as one of its ehief features. sepa- | PLEA FORSCHOOL AND PLAYEROUND TENS PRESENTED Civic Groups Request More Funds. |CHARACTER EDUCATION CONTINUANCE ASKED Mrs. John Boyle, Jr., Asks Sum Be Earmarked for School Luncheon Program. BY J. A. O'LEARY. and playground items they believe should be placed in the 1936 District appropriation bill were heard by the Senate subcommittee today. Maj. Earl Landreth of the City- wide Playground Council urged a more adequate allowance for keeping school playgrounds open during the Summer months and an additional | sum for repeirs to playgrounds. Harry N. Stull of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations appeared in support of 1estoring funds to con- tinue the character-education work in the schools for another year. He suggested one amendment to the character-ecucation estimates. The House cut this item out of the budget estimates. Stull also indorsed several school-improvement items. School Item Sought. W. C. Magathan of the Citizens' Association of Takoma, D. C.. was | scheduled to be heard today to ask inclusion of $190.000 to complete the Paul Junior High School by build- ing the south wing. With a capacity of 900, this school already has an | enrollment of 1340. Magathan also requested $30.000 to draw plans for a new senior high school, the land for | which was bought several years ago | in the vicinity of Fifth and Sheridan streets, adjoining the new recreation center. The subcommittee heard two dele- gations on the question of restoring to the bill the estimate for improv- ing the grounds for Woodrow Wilson High School, which the House elimi- nated. Those heard were Mrs. Leslie Wright, Harold Smith of the Alice Deal School Association and Mrs. R. D. Bradbury. The Woodrow Wilson High School items also was presented by a committee from Chevy Chase consisting of Edwin S. Hege, Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler and Mrs. Frank A. Linzel Continuation of the school lunches now being provided for out of the emergency relief funds was urged by Mrs. John Boyle, jr., | sumers’ Council. Mrs. Boyle asked the subcommittee to earmark a part .of the relief fund to be used spe- cifically for this purpose. | New Building Asked. | A delegation of citizens' association | and parent-teacher members, headed | by Dr. William M. Deviny, urged the Senate Subcommittee to include | $115,000 for a new building to replace the old Bunker Hill School on Michi- gan avenue northeast. This item was approved by the Senate last year but lost in conference with the House. Charles 1. Stengle of the American Federation of Government Employes supported testimony given earlier in the week as to the need for more money for nursing service at Galling-r Hospital. He also requested six addi- tional guards at the jail and restora- tion of the per diem allowance for- merly given to inspectors in various branches of the District service to cover the cost of transportation. He requested another amendment relat- | ing to the application of the classi- fication salary law to employes in | the emergency relief organization. SECRETARY ROPER . HITS DEMAGOGUES 11 Cabinet Member Addresses Kiwanis Club Meetings in Special Broadcast. | Free speech, when practiced by selfish demagogues, can distort facts | to suit particular arguments and can | become as deadly destructive as well- | devised free speech can be constructive, Secretary of Commerce Roper said in a special telephonic broadcast last night. The Secretary addressed 11 simul- taneous meetings of Kiwanis clubs in Ohio over a hook-up originating in the office of Edwin B. Hill, Kiwanis Inter- national trustee, who made the intro- ductory remarks. “Democracy.” the Secretary said, “by its very democratic nature can be- come the prey of organized minorities and special blocs and groups. Our National Constitution guarantees the right of free speech in the United States, but this does not mean that libelous and defamatory extremes should be permitted. Hence, any man, if he can get an audience, can preach his doctrine, provided it is nos=openly seditious in character. This privilege imposes a very great responsibility upon good citizenship for wise control. “The public must be constantly alert to analyze all presentations which are made to them, to consider the intent of those who set themselves up in positions of authority, to con- sider whether the material presented is factual and fundamentally true and to determine further whether the arguments presented are practicable in application as well as attractive in generalization and theory.” UNIFORMS PROVIDED In an effort to prevent house- breakers from posing as “the electric light man,” the Potomac Electric Light Co. is outfitting its meter read- ers in distinctive uniforms. ‘These employes of the company will be dressed in dark gray gabardine uniforms, with bell-shaped caps of the same material. The headwear will bear an electric light bulb insignia, while the uniforms will carry a red emblem bar over the breast pocket with the word “Pepco” appearing thereon, Senate Subcommittee Hears | of the Con-| The views of civic groups on school | Star o 1935. 3 Society and General PAGF B—1 Rewarded for Reporting Hit-Run Drivers The American Automobile Association today rewarded two men for reporting hit-and-run drivers by pre- senting each with a check for $50. Left to right: D. J. Almand, 124 C stres et northeast; Earl A. Nash, manager of the A. A. A. District of Columbia Motor Club, presenting chacks, and John Stiles, 201 Sixth street northeast - SCHOOL PROPOSAL Legislation Would Place Vo- cational Programs on Higher Level. Legislation proposed by school offi- cials to raise the standards of the vocational schools of the District to the level of junior high schools, with corresponding step-ups in salary for vocational school teachers, was ap- proved today by the Commissioners. | The Commissioners also indorsed | another bill proposed by school au- thorities to make the the Wilson and Miner Teachers' Col- leges correspond with similar insti- tutions elsewhere so as to retain the indorsement of the American Associa- tion of Accredited Colleges. Would Employ Librarians. | The latter bill provides for employ- ment of a chief librarian for the teachers' colleges at a basic salary of $3.200 a year. with a promotion of $100 a year for five years, and the em- ployment of an assistant librarian at $1.800 a year, with an annual step- up of $100 for 10 years, and a number of library assistants. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools, appeared before the Commissioners to explain the meas- ures. Since the bills affect appropria- ions, the Commissioners will submit hem to the Budget Bureau for ap- proval. ! Salaries Would be Raised. | _In the case of the vocational schools | the teachers now receive elementary school teachers' salaries. which range from $1.400 to $2.200. If raised to the level of junior high school teachers their salaries would range from $1,600 and $1.800 to $2.400 and $2.800. The Central Labor Union has been advocating this change for several vears, arguing that the vocational schools should not be treated as “step- child” elementary grades. If the salary level is raised teachers affected would have to meet the higher stand- ards, officials say. In raising the standards of the teachers’ provisioned for an associate professor | classification, with salaries ranging | from $3,200 to $3,800. There are now | but two classifications in these col- leges, instructor and professor, PRISON GUARDS SHIFTED Men Get New Posts After Making Charges. Shifts in assignment were ordered | vesterday by welfare officials for two | prison guards who had leveled charges against each other. The men are W. A. Stein, captain of the guard of the Occoquan Wharf of the District Workhouse, and John P. Costello, an Occoquan guard. Stein | has been shifted to guard duty at Oc- coquan and Costello to the Reforma- tory at Lorton. | fare had been investigating complaints made by the men for a number of of serious nature. LECTURE: SET TONIGHT Prof. Oscar Autritt to Show Pic- tures on Russia. An illustrated lecture on Soviet Russia, depicting the effects of Com- munistic propaganda on American | churches and other institutions, will | be given at the Western Presbyterian | Church under auspices of the Educa- | tional Association Aganist Commu- |nism and Athleism by Prof. Oscar Autritt at 8 o'clock tonight. ‘The lecture will be followed by a three-way discussion of the suoject between Prof. Autritt, Rev. John T. Dorosh and Mrs. Sue Humphreys, GIRLS SPONSOR DANCE Sorority Members to Act as Host- esses at Benefit. One hundred members of Phi Delta and Sigma Pi Sigma Sororities will act as hostesses at a dance to be given by the Jewish Student Loan Fund to- morrow night at the Jewish Com- munity Center, Joseph D. Bulman, chairman of the Dance Committee, announced today. The Jewish Student Loan Fund is a charitable organization dedicated to assisting students who are in need of tuition and is indorsed by many civic leaders of Washington, including Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Senator King and Rabbi Abram Simon. Cake Matches Gown. Cake icing to match théfgown of the bride is the .latest in wedding-dinner ideas in London. standards of | colleges | the principal salary change would be | Officials of the Board of Public Wel- | days. The charges were said not to be | " UF) %i'avkomt-f Elementary School .. HEADS BAGA, Long Deprived of Facilities —Star Staff Photo. | Building Started Nine Years Ago and Sidetracked for Newer Plants Listed | Nine vears ago residents of Takoma and its environs were given a new and modern elementary school. It was built on the extensible plan, with two wings of eight rooms each, to be connected by a third wing housing an assembly hall-gymnasium The wings, including 16 class rooms, were completed and were occupied for the first ‘time in September, 1926 Then the available money ran out Congress has not seen fit to complete the structure, and now the Board of Education is asking the Public Works Administration for $40,000 with which to finish the structure. The John Greenlief Whittier School. at Fifth and Sheridan streets, has | continued to function year after year without a room of sufficient size to assemble the student body, without any indoor facilities for health qd athletic activities, and with no wc- commodations for community meet- ings, such as the parent-teacher as- sociation, mothers’ club or similar organizations Wwhose functions are closely allied with the school itself. Since the completion of the exist- ing two wings the building has re- mained unfinished. Meanwhile other newer schools have been completed. | Dr. Ballou Stressed Need. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent | of schools, has pointed out the need | for the assembly hall-gymnasium in a circular letter written in 1929, in which he gave instructions to officers and teachers on how such facilities should be supervised. “The assembly hall-gymnasium,” he wrote, “is the medium for the exten- sion and fuller development of class room instruction: for unifying and strengthening school projects: for or- POLICE ACCUSED OF ‘PERSECLTION Rearrest of Gypsy Arouses Ire of Justice Hitt in Police Court. e | Charges of “persecution instead of | | prosecution” were hurled at the police | | fugitive squed in Police Court today | by Judge Isaac R. Hitt. The charge grew out of the rearrest of a prisoner who had been released yesterday in custody of his attorney, Edward | O’'Connel The prisoner is Leo Miller, a gypsy, who has been held in jail for the | past 30 days on a charge of having stolen $105 from Petro Demetro, who | also has charged that Miller and his brothers kidnaped the former's 15- year-old daughter. Principals Are Gypsies. All the principals are gypsies, and | Leo's brother, George, who together with other members of his family wes traced to Louisiana by Demetro and arrested there, claims he mar- ried Rose Demetro under gypsy law. Miller has been held here for so long without the complaining wit- ness having appeared against him | that Judge Hitt granted a plea by Miller's attorney that he be turned over to the attorney for appearance on April 1. After Miller and O’Connell left the court house Detective Sergt. Richard Cox of the fugitive squad rearrested | Miller for Baltimore authorities and he was again locked up. Today O'Connell appeared in court | in P. W. A. Reque ganizing a systematic health program and for centralizing community ac- tivities, * ¢ * “Likewise, the various community organizations——especially those closely identified with the life of the school— will all profit by a wider and more systematic use of the auditorium.” Many Activities Denied. Types of activities cited br Dr. Bal- lou that are denied the Whittier School include student assemblies, opening excrcises, special programs, visual education, moving pictures, stereopticon talks, radio programs, music appreciation, community sing- ing. orchestral and choral work, op- erettas, glee clubs, recitals, recrea- tional programs, physical educa- tion, gvmnasium activities and group games, remedial health exer- cises, folk dancing, dramatization, pageants boy and girl patrols, Camp- fire Girls, thrift clubs, safety first clubs. Junior Red Cross. civic clubs. library clubs, literary clubs, special day programs such as Halloween, Armistice day, Thanksgiving, Flag day: meetings of citizens' and parent- teacher associations, mothers’ clubs and social service clubs. At least six grammar schools in the city have no such available rooms. Others have improvised assembly halls by using unfiniched floors in wings eventually to be divided into class rooms, The Whittier wing is one of abouvt a score of such projects for which P. W. A. money is sought under the new work-relief program of the Fed- eral Government. It was also one of a list of 22 construction jobs sent to Secretarr Ickes by Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States commis- sioner of education. and charged the fugitive squad with having arrested Miller on a telegram received here March 12, the wire stating that a warrant was to follow. Despite this statement he claims the arrest was made without a warrant and Miller is being “illegally de- tained.” | Recognizing the right of police to| make arrests, Judge Hitt asserted the fugitive squad was apparently at-| tempting to persecute Miller and said the matter would be taken up with the | district attorney. Judge Hitt was un- | able to release Miller today because no papers were before him in the Baltimore case. PR g MERCHANT IS FINED FOR SHORT WEIGHT! Irving J. Levinson, Who Pleaded Guilty to Charge, Ordered _to Pay $200. Iriving 3. Levinson. 1300 block of U street, one of four merchants who en- tered pleas of guilty in Police Court March 14 to charges of short weights in the sale of meats, was sentenced by Police Court Judge Ralph Given yes- terday to pay a fine of $200. Levinson, who operates a shop in the 1300 block of U street under the name of Duke's Cut-Rate Market, had four charges against him, one of them the largest single shortage charged to the four merchants. In this case, au- thorities sald, there was a shortage of almost a pound on a 4-pound chicken. Other shortages in his case, they said, ranged from a quarter to three-quar- ters of a pound. Historian Will Speak. Mrs. Mary E. Beard, historian, will speak in Frazier Hall, at Howard Uni- versity, this evening at 7 o'clock, un- | der auspices of the Women Students’ League of the university. .Members of | the faculty and others have been in- | vited to attend the lecture and to meet Mrs. Beard at a reception to follow. Removal of Gas ‘Two innocent-looking gasoline en- gines, storm centers of the strike which has stopped nearly all work on the Internal Revenue Bureau addition, ‘were taken off the job today, but their | removal failed to break the strike. The engines were used as hoists by union elevator constructors working for the Otis Elevator Co. to lift their own materials to upper floors of the new building. This work was com- pleted late yesterday. ‘With their materials in place now the elevator cons rs went ahead with the work of lling passenger elevators. 4 But the hoisting engineers, who To Break Strike of Hoisters Engines Fails claimed the work of hoisting all ma- terials in the building, remained out | on strike, to keep all hoists in the structure idle, and hold nearly 300 men from work for lack of materials. R. J. Henderson of the Hoisting and Portable Engineers’ Local, on strike, declared the completion of work in dispute and removal of the engines did not settle the dispute. He said the matter was now in the hands of his | general president, John Possehl, of the | International Union of Operating En- gineers. Possehl t of the city over the week end, Hen¥erson said so there appeared no likeliHood of a settlement at least until next week. | gamblers | investigation. PROBERS REFUSE 10 MIX N ANY POLICE: CHANGE :Rando_lph Says Possible Shifts Are Concern of D. C. Heads. EARLY END TO INQUIRY ASKED BY COMMITTEE Future Course of Investigation Being Studied—Scope May Be Slashed. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The Special Crime Committee of the House does not intend to meddle into any of the possible changes in the ad- ministrative personnel of the Police Department growing out of the ex- pose of the Blanton-Brown “gentle- men's agreement,” Chairman Ran- dolph announced today as he pre- ared to bring the investigation to an | early close. Completion of the inquiry within 10 | days is the committee’s present goal, according to Randolph, although it may be extended as a result of some unforeseen developments. Randolph said it probably would take the committee about two weeks after the inquiry ends to draft its re- port and recommendations to the House. He made it clear, however, there would be no recommendation in the report in connection with the “deal” between Representative Blan- ton, Democrat. of Texas and Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown, whereby In- spector Thaddeus R. Bean would b= forced to retire so Inspector Albert J. Headley could be elevated to the rank of assistant superintendent. Commissioners Can Act. The Crime Committee, it was said takes the position that any punitive measures directed at those responsible for the efforts to force Bean's retire- ment should be taken by the District Commissioners, With its disclosure of the “plot” the committee is repre- sented as feeling that it should take no further action There is still some doubt as to how far the committee will go in its in- vestigation. At the outset it planned a comprehensive, searching inquiry. Notorious Washington gamblers were to be subpoenaed. judges of the vari ous courts were to be called to the witness stand, as well as officlals of the penal institutionsa. So far, however, the judges, the prison attaches and the gamblers have been spared the ordeal of facing the committee. Chairman Randolpn will not say definitely now whether any of this group is to be summoned before the close of the investigati.n. The Commissioners as a board have not considered taking any action in connection with the Blanton-Brown arrangement and are not likely to make a move until the Crime Commit- tee files its report with the House. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen points out that the Commissioners of- ficially have not learned that the com- mittee proposes to leave the discip- linary action to them and for that reason they propose (o mark time awaiting the report. Privately, however, Commissioner Hazen is known to have given con- siderable thought to the disclosure: before the committee and especia the fact that the long-standing orde: forbid members of the police force from seeking the aid of member. of Ccngress to get promotions had been violated. One of the first ves contemplated by the Commis: 5 is to tighten this rule and direct it rigid enforcement in the future. To Chart Future Course. Over the week end. Randolph ex- plained, the committee will determice its future procedure and decide whether it will be necessary to seek information from the gamblers, the Jjudges and the penal authorities. Plans also had been made to recall United States Attorney Leslie C. Gar- nett but there has been a sudden quietus on that movement Four members of the committee—Schulte of Indiana, Dirksen of Illinois, Werner of South Dakota and Reed of Illinois —wanted Garnett to return to amplify some of his recent statements, particu- larly the cne in which he held that were responsible for the efforts to discredit his office Disclosure of the Blanton-Brown “gentlemen’s agreement” shifted the spotlight of the inquiry from Garnett and there seems to be no disposition on the part of the committee at this time to again disturb the United States attorney's office. Committee members insist the recent episode in- volving & Department of Justice offi- cial who called on Cha*:man Ran- dolph when Garnett was a target and urged a change in the course of the has no cormection whatever with the present concentra- tion on the police department. The committee did not hold a hear- ing today, but will resume the in- vestigation tomorrow at 10:30 am., with Capt. Ira Sheetz of the tenth precinct on the witness stand. He will be questioned chiefly about prob- lems in his precinct. Chairman Randolph said there would be other witnesses to follow Capt. Sheetz, although he declined to reveal their names. In fact, he inti- mated they would be “surprise” wit- nesses, CAPITAL AIRPORT CHOICE TO BE KNOWN MONDAY House Subcommittee Decision to Be Submitted Early for Careful Study. ‘The decision of the House subcom- | mittee as to its choice of a site for the proposed commercial airport for Washington may be made public Monday, it was indicated today by Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, subcommittee chair- man. It was understood yesterday the report would not be made public until it was submitted next Wednes- day to the full House District Com- mittee. By issuing the report Mon- day, however, members of the tull committee woudd be given a day or two in which ja consider the matter before taking it up at Wednesday's regular ttee meeting.