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N Washington News EFFORT 10 SPEED DISTRICT BILLS IN COMMITTEE FAILS Chairman Norton Concerned Over Possible Adjournment Without Action. PALMISANO SILENT ON GAMING PROPOSAL New D. C. Day in House Uncer- tain in View of Other Legis- lation Due for Consideration. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The plan of Chairman Norton of the House District Committee to ex- pedite action on a number of pending bills failed today when only four members attended the regular ‘weekly meeting. As a result, only two minor measures were passed on favorably— the Short bill to name one of the new thoroughfares in the Mall area Mis- sourl avenue and the Brewster bill to name another Maine avenue, Chairman Norton, however, urged Representative Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland, to give early considera- tion to the bill designed to tighten the District’s gambling laws. This has been languishing for several months | in the Judiciary Subcommittee, which he heads. The measure passed the Senate early in the current session of | Congress. Palmisano refused definitely to com- mit himself as to the fate of the bill, but said he might arrange to hold public hearing on it at some future time after the full committee passes Reappointed RICHMOND B. KEECH. KEECH RENAMED TOUTILITIES BODY Presidént Sends Appoint- ment for Three-Year Term to Senate. President Roosevelt today sent to the Senate the nomination of Rich- | mond B. Keech of this city for an- other term of three years as a mem- ber of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, Keech's new term will date from July 1, next. Successor to Patrick. on the report of the Special Crime Investigating Committee. Incidentally, he declared the measure had many features which should be eliminated— | features which proponents of the bill, he said, now admit should be removed. | Hits Newspapers. | He also charged other provisions | could be eliminated if the Washington | newspapers would discontinue the | publication of racing charts and dis- | charge special turf handicappers. “If the newspapers would do that,” he declared, “there woulc be no bet- ting on the races in Washington.” Mrs. Norton is particularly anxious to have the committee pass on the pending major bills without undue delay. She fears Congress might sud- denly decide to adjourn and leave some important District legislation over until the next ession. There are now 12 District bills on the House calendar awaiting action on the next District day, the date of which is still problematical. Mrs. Norton explained that if the House passes the legislative appropriation bill, which it is now debating, by to- morrow afternoon, then it could de- | vote Friday to the District calendar. | Since that is unlikely, in view of the unlimited debate on the legislative supply measure, it will be impossble for the District to have its day in the House before Thursday, May 23. Byrns Doubtful. After that explanation by Mrs. Nor- | ton, however, Speaker Byrns an- nounced at his regular press confer- ence he did not believe, in view of the present legislative situation, that | the House could take up the District | calendar until May 27. Last Monday was the regular Dis- trict day, but the District calendar was sidetracked because of the ab- sence from Washington of Chairman | Norton and the desire of the House | to expedite action on the legislative appropriation bill, the last of the regular supply measures to come be- fore Congress at the present session. 1f District day is delayed until May 23 or May 27, it will be possible to add several measures to the District cal- endar. Among these probably will be bills to regulate the small loan busi- ness and to make taxicab liability in- surance compulsory. Hearings on both these measures are expected to be completed before the regular meeting of the District Committee next Wednesday, and favorable ac- tion at that time will place them on the calendar immediately. Pension Action Sought. ‘Mrs. Norton said it is her intention to call up first, when the House be- gins consideration of District legis- Iation, her old-age pension bill. Next she will ask for consideration of the Ellenbogen unemployment compensa- tion bill and other noncontroversial measures. House passage of both the old-age pension and unemployment compensation bills is anticipated in view of the recent approval of the na- tional security bill. While the District Committee meet- ing this morning was brief, it was en- livened by Representative Quinn, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, He wise- cracked repeatedly about the various subjects which the committee will have to discuss. Pirst Quinn remarked he did not like to name a thoroughfare in Wash- ington in honor of Missouri, because mules came from that State. In a brief discussion of the rent situation, he said his rent was reasonable, but be had “fire engines running around in every room” and that the landlord had taken the paper off the wall in his room to create a space for his suit- Finally, when he decided to leave, he turned to the newspaper reporters and quietly declared: am going to get out of here. The District Com- mittee hasn't done a damn thing. I think it is unconscious.” PRISONER TAKEN IN RAID IS 6IVEN HEARING TODAY Charge Is Setting Up Gaming Table—Seventeen Summoned as U. S. Witnesses. Louis Waldron, 42, of the 3000 block of Fourteenth street was to have a Police Court hearing today on & , charge of setting up & gaming table, following his arrest late yesterday by the police vice squad in a raid on an slleged gambling establishment in the 1000 block of Fourteenth street. Seventeen men found on the prem- {ses by the raiding squad were ques- Keech was appointed a member of the commission last May to fill out the unexpired term of Maj. Gen. Ma- son M. Patrick, U. S. A., retired, who resigned in October, 1933. The ap- pointment was on the basis of Keech's ability rather than politics, as he had not been active in political affairs. Prior to his appointment to the Utilities Commission Keech had served four years as people’'s counsel and for five years previous to that | had served as an assistant corpora- tion counsel and was & trial attorney for the District at the District Su- preme Court and the Court of Ap- peals. During his service on the commis- sion he has devoted much of his time to the work of rerouting of the Capi- tal Transit Co., in co-operation with Engl;n and Sultan and the commission staff, Preparing Rates Data. In recent weeks he has been active in the preparation of data for the forthcoming public hearings on the rates of the Washington and George- town Gas Light Co, portant matter in which he was active was the move of the commis- sion to require the suburban and lo- cal bus lines to provide off-street terminals, as & means of lessening traffic congestion. Interstate busses previously had been required to pro- vide such terminals. The commission's decision on the bus terminals in the present case is expected soon. Keech is 37 years old. He is one of the youngest men to serve on the utilities commission, OIL SCANDAL PROBE NETS U. S. $5,500,000 Receiver of Pan-American Com- pany Makes Payment at Los Angeles. By the Associated Press. ‘The Federal * Government received 2 $5,500,000 check yesterday as a re- sult of the celebrated Senate investi- gation of the oil scandals. Announcement was made by Harry Blair, Assistant Attorney General, who sald the payment was made to the Federal Reserve Bank at Los Angeles by William C. McDuffee, receiver of the Pan-American Oil Co., which Ed- ward L. Doheny formerly headed. The Government won a judgment against the Pan-American company for $9,000,000 at Los Angeles, McDuf- fie agreed to the payment after re- lease of property liens seized by the Government. POLICE ASKED TO HUNT FOR MISSING GIRL, 14 Johnson-Powell High School Pu- pil Seen Going Toward Rock Creek Park. Police have been asked to search for 14-year-old Lillian Livingston, a Johnson-Powell High School pupil, and the daughter of Mrs. Louise Liv- ingston, 3251 Mount Pleasant street. The girl disappeared yesterday morning and was still missing today. Her mother told police she had threatened to run away. When she left home the girl was wearing a blue blouse and brown jacket, on which was written the nick- name “Lil.” Friends of the girl told Mrs. Liv- ingston they saw her going toward Rock Creek Park after she left home. KAISER TO .REST HERE Local Burial Planned for Mur- derer Who Killed Self. Harrison McKinley Kaiser, who cheated the District electric chair by hanging himself yesterday in his death cell at the District Jail, probably will be buried in Washington. His body, which had been taken to the District Morgue, was claimed by his mother, Mrs. Lucy Kaiser, and his wife, Mrs. Mae Kaiser, both of Ports- mouth, Ohio, and was taken in charge by a local undertaker. Funeral ar- rangements had not been completed today. o Alumnae Plan Card Party. The Washington Chapter of the Alumnae of Visitation Academy, Fred- erick, Md., will give a card party May 24 at 8 pm, at the Meridian Man- slons, 2400 Sixteenth street, to raise | tioned and ordered to appear in court Government, witnesses, the police : ) money for the scholarship fund main- tained by the Alumnae Association. » Another im- | WASHINGTON, D. C, BRAIN OPERATION ON WOMAN UPSETS “HIGH-BROW" IDEA With Both Pre-Frontal Lobes Removed, Thinking Pow- ers Unimpaired. PSYCHIATRISTS HEAR REPORT ON 0DD CASE Aggressive Instinct of Humans Blamed for Suicide, Which Has Been Found Through History. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. An operation which promises to be one of the classics of brain surgery— in which both pre-frontal lobes of the brain were removed—was described before the American Prychiatric As- sociation meeting here today by Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly of Louisville. For many years the pre-frontal lobes, constituting approximately the area of the brain covered by the brow, were considered the organs of intelligence. The old idea persists in the term “high brow,” designating a person of exceptional mental capacity. This conception, tottering for a long time, seems to have received a death blow from the operation performed on this Kentucky woman. She came to the hospital with a large pre-frontal lobe tumor. This had practically destroyed the left pre- frontal lobe and the right had to be amputated to remove it. Three suc- cessive operations Wwere necessary. Between the first and second opera- tions the vatient has visual and audi- tory hallucinetions. She “saw and heard things.” These cleared up after the third operation, but the patient displayed an exaggerated sense of well being, described as a “hypermanic mood.” She was exuberantly happy. To the doctors she said that this was because of her relief from suffering and fear of death. Anxiety, which | had afflicted her before, was entirely | | absent. Exhileration Subsides. This mood of extreme exhileration | lasted for about four months, when it | subsided. Now she has carried on her | usual duties with no noticeable change of personality or intelligence for more than & year. The one symptom of | importance is a feeling of rejuvenation. | She tells the doctors she feels as if years had been taken away from her. This persistent rejuvenation feeling, | according to Dr. ‘Ackerly and Dr. Glenn Spurling, the surgeon who per- formed the operation, probably is a direct result of the operation. They do not believe the hypermanic mood exhibited at first was due to the sur- gery. but hold that it was precipi- | tated by it | Most unexpected of all was the fact | that the woman’s intelligence does not | seem at all impaired, but, if any- | thing, somewhat improved. Her judg-| | ment and memory are as good as ever. | She can do everything she could do before the operation. She displays. | it was reported, “an unusual capacity | for concentration and is not easily | distracted, once she starts to do | something. She has her usual emo- | tional, moral and social self-control.” Suicides Nothing New. Suicide is in no sense a disease of | civilization, Dr. Gregory Zilbourg of | New York City told the association | after an intensive study of self-destruc- | tion among primitive peoples. In fact, | Dr. Zilbourg said, it is much less fre- quent in civilized communities, even in times of extreme economic depres- sion, than among savages, and every form of self-killing reported today can | be duplicated from the records of explorers and anthropologists. It is not associated, he said, with any par- ticular mental disease. A predominant cause of suicide among both civilized and savage peo- ples, Dr. Zilbourg said, is an accumu- lation of aggressive, destructive in- stinct in the race which cannot find an outlet otherwise. Thus it is less in wartime than during peace, when there is no way to express the pent-up aggressive energy by killing somebody else. Thus, he said, in the Trobriand Is- lands and in Japan a man who has been offended by an enemy, and is prohibited by law or tribal custom from killing his enemy, kills himself instead, leaving the state to take ven- gence on his enemy. He believes the same subconscious thought process is operative in our own society. Boxing One Cure. “It would seem,” Dr. Zilbourg said, “that if we are to look forward to & time when the problem of suicide will be properly solved we will nave to provide adequate socially accepted methods for the expression of the individual aggression. Boxing and other peacetime aggressive movements are more helpful than a great deal of preaching.” The suicide tendency 1is not hereditary, Dr. Zilbourg said, although it is true that suicides often tend to run in families. This is due to & peculiar subconscious psychological mechanism. In childhood or in adol- escence, the individual may identify the self with some dead relative, es- pecially one who has committed sui- cide. Then there is a likelihood that one will take one’s own life at the same age and in the same way. The suicide drive is released by some event similar to that which has released it in the relative. Personally, Dr. Zilbourg said, he has been able to find no evidence of a death instinct such as is described by some psychoanalysts as the cause of suicide. 5 Insane Language Reported. A report on the strange ianguage of tha insane was presented by Dr. William L. Woods of Iowa City. Towa. It has a meaning of its own, he said, due to the fact that a psychotic patient reverts to simpler modes of thought, but retains the adult langu- age structure, the result being a dis- parity between formal language and the order of thought. He said: “Glibness, which comes from the preservation of deeply in- grained speech, disguises the underly- ing defects. A faculty with words which is disproportionate to the clar- ity of thought, provides an escape from exactitude in empty mouthings. The fault is not at the verbal level. Rather it is a disproportionate fa- cility with words in comparison to thought.” i Woods gave many verbatim re- -of the conversational output of [ {House District Committee | | begin public hearings at 10 am. to- | T WITH SUNDAY MORNING Under the shadow of snow-capped mountains at Palmer, Alaska, 400 workmen from transient relief rolls in the States are building a tent city for Midwest farm families the Government is transferring to the Matanuska Valley. This is one of the first pictures of the pioneer town where 67 Minnesota families already are settling. Hailed as new “Pilgrim Fathers,” these emigrants, by the success or failure of their enterprise, will do much to determine the future value of Alaska < HEARINGS TO BEGIN ONTAXIINSURANCE Subgroups Will Start Work Tomorrow. Aroused by the recent attack of Justice William Hitz of the District | Court of Appeals on the lack of lia- bility laws governing taxicabs, the subcommittee on streets and traffic of the House District Committee will morrow on the Quinn bill making | taxicab liability insurance compulsory. ? A similar bill has been blocked in | the House for several years. It was first introduced at a time when taxi- eab insurance proponents threatened | to wreck the motorists’ financial re- sponsibility bill ‘which was recently | enacted into law. Changes May Be Sought. Announcement of the hearing also | followed disclosures that Riley E. Elgen, chairman of the Public Utilities | Commission, had requested Corpora- tion Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman to draft & new taxi insurance bill. It is| doubtful, however, that Prettyman will | frame a new bill, but will seek some | changes in the Quinn measure. The Quinn bill would require all taxicab operators to file with the Util- ities Commission a bond or liability in- surance policy for each motor vehicle offering protection up to $2.500 for bodily injuries or death and $500 for property damage. A limitation of $5,000 for bodily injuries or death and $1.000 for property damage would be placed on all liability for the same accident. Rent Hearings to Be Resumed. The bill also provides that the bonds or insurance policies would have to be certified to the Public Utilities Com- mission by the superintendent of in- surance. Simultaneously with the hearings on the Quinn bill, the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs will resume hearings on the Ellenhogen bill providing for the creation of a special commission to fix and control rentals. One hear- ing already has been held on the Ellen- bogen measure. DESTRUCTION OF TREES IN SQUARE HIT IN HOUSE Two Resolutions Deplore Work and Ask Ickes to Make Full Accounting. Destruction of the historically val- uable trees in the Mall in connection with the development of Union Square is deplored in almost identical resolu~ tions introduced in the House late yesterday by Representatives Reed, Republican, of New York, and Eagle, Democrat, of Texas. The resolutions also call on Secre- tary of Interior Ickes for an account- ing as to the cost of the Union Square development and ask by whose au- thority, direction or approval the trees were destroyed. Eagle’s resolution, & little broader in scope than Reed's, described the de- struction of the trees as “vandalism.” —_—— the patients. Most of these gave lit- tle sgpport. to the contention that the Janguage of the insane is somewhat similar to certain types of literary work. A few groups, however, pre- sent a different picture. There is & more facile and productive flow of language. One is bewildered by the elaborate word structure, the bizarre descriptions and the abundance of high-sounding phrases. Revert to Childhood. An intensive study of the conver- sational topics of two manic depres- sive patients was reported by Dr. Jo- seph E. Blalock of New York City. These conversations, he said, led to the conclusion that “the manic reac- tion represents one way out in the attempt of the patient to solve his cular problems, the objective be- ing a state of childish happiness with- out painful ideas. It represents a re- gression to childhood. Many of the symptoms contain references to early childhood forms of thinking, acting and feeling. The patient’s attitude toward those in the environment is a selfish one serving his childish needs. The parents, or those who take their place, function merely to gratify his demands and impulses.s His original childish dependence on the parents has been retained and there has been no emancipation, so that-he 15 immature.” ~ Lcrop will starve to death. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, as a land of homes and sagriculture. Alaska May Prove Too Harsh For Colonists Conflicting Testimony Predicts Success and Certain Failure of Group Transplanted by F. E. R. A. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Alaska—Garden of Eden or just an- other harsh taskmaster; bountiful producer of crops or frost-hardened soil best fitted for moss and mos- quitoes? Let 200 families transplanted there from Minnesota, Michigan and Wis- consin as part of a rehabilitation pro- gram of the Federal Emergency Re- lief Administration make answer & few years from now. Or, if you pre- fer, listen to some of the conflicting testimony submitted at present by those who have been there, those who haven't been there and those who are sending others there. Suffering them to be hailed as a new band of “pilgrim fathers” the | F. E. R. A. has dispatched to the Matanuska Valley of Alaska some 200 | families from the three States men- tioned. To each of these units is to be extended a 40-acre tract of farm land with house fully equipped and necessary farming accessorjes. Esti- mating the cost of each of these layouts at $3.000, the administration is allowing the pioneer families 30 years in which to discharge the debt. Optimistic Views Qualified. Ahead of the families were dis- patched some 400 unemployed in- dividuals from transient relief camps, their function being to aid in clear- ing and construction activities of the settlement during the Summer months, W“;‘l their return scheduled in the Fall. In announcing their plans, the F. E. R. A. ventured predictions of its suc- cess, qualiffing them, however, as follows: “This project has every indication of success, bringing to Alaska addi- tional settlers, who are needed and to these families an economic and so- cial security. Care must be taken not to paint the picture to the fam- | ilies in colors that are too rosy. Hard- ships will have to.be faced, especially for the first couple of years, many adjustments made.” Some of the unusual conditions of the region were described as follows: “The mercury at times drops as low as 40 below. There is a great varia- tion in the length of the day between ‘Winter and Summer. Beginning April 15 there are 14 hours of sunshine, and this increases until June 15, when the sun shines for 20 hours and there is no darkness The region is free from tornadoes and severe electrical storms, but from July until September there is generally a heavy rainfall. One of the pesis which settlers will have to combat is the mosquito, which is present in great numbers during the Summer.” Venture Was Romanticized. As the project gained added pub- licity, the qualifications were forgot- ten, the venture was romanticized. A few days ago, however, a sharp barb of criticism was launched by former Representative Cyrenus Cole, Iowa Re- publican, who appealed to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to intervene to check “this new folly.” For the basis of his criticism, Cole recounted the experience of his visit to Alaska in 1923 as a member of Congress, another visitor on the same occasion being the then Secretary of Agriculture, Henry C. Wallace. “We both looked at the country through Iowa-born agricultural eyes. I recall that he said to me, ‘Some time, now far away, when our lands have become exhausted we may have to go up there to coax food from the soil, but I hope I will never have to go there to follow a plow with a mos- quito net over my head.”” At the same time, a Washington State critic submits the following: “To start with, Alaska has more than its share of unemployed. On top of this, Uncle Sam is sending 400 workers to clear land there. Hun- dreds, yes thousands, of Alaskans want work. They need it. They re- sent importation of workers from California when they are forced to ask relief. Valley Held Undesirable. “The valley selected for trying col- onization is about the most unde- sirable in the Far North. More than 400 settlers in the past have tried it, only to leave. It may be a swell scheme for the dreamers at Wash- ington, but the people of the North fail to appreciate it.” The same commentator quotes for- mer Judge Elmer Ritchie of Veldez and Seward: “The farmers in the Matanuska made some money during prohibition days by converting spuds and turnips into moonshine which they sold at Anchorage. This new Inside of r he Foening~ Stad 1935. Staked by U. S. three years it will be ‘just another of | those things!”” Relief statistics show some justifi- eation for the critical attitude toward | importing labor and colonizers to the | territory, as recent figures showed | about 1,500 individuals on relief in | addition to about 150 families. Work relief was being furnished a majority of the individuals. On this point, Anthony J. Dimond, delegate to the House of Representa- tives from Alaska, admits that some hard feeling exists among unemployed there. “Some of us felt that the unem- ployed already in Alaska should have been aided in this manner before turning the opportunities over to families from the States,” Mr. Dimond said. “Personally, I would have liked to see them get preference and I made an effort to have unemployed individuals in Alaska given the job of clearing the land. I couldn't put the idea over though.” Jardine Is Non-Committal, At the Department of Agriculture, Dr. James T. Jardine, chief of the Bureau of Experiment Stations, re- ported himself ‘“neither for nor against the project.” “Properly handled, that region \ill produce potatoes, oats, barley, berries, cabbage and some other crops,” he said. “The yield is somewhat less and | than similar farming efforts in the | States. Sightless Member Of House Praises Botanic Gardens By the Assoc'ated Press. Representative Dunn, Demo- crat, of Pennsylvania, only blind member of the House, believes flowers are beautiful even to the sightless. Hearing Representative Snyder, Democrat, of Pennsylvania chide colleagues for not visiting the re- cently completed Botanic Gar- dens, Dunn, a pink carnation in his lapel, said: “I've been there three or four times and it's the most beautiful place I've seen in my 27 years of blindness.” BRAGG IS FINED INHEALING CASE Pays $100 Assessed by Court and Appeals Con- viction. Deciding Paul C. Bragg, 40, ““'» styled professor and possessor of health | secrets, was guilty of practicing the | healing art here without a license, | Police Court Judge Ralph Given to- | day imposed a fine of $100. He had | had the case under advisement for two weeks. Bragg. whose sun-tanned features belied his 40 years, paid the fine after his counsel had served notice of an | appeal. | Judge Given, in handing down his | decision, said Bragg had overstepped | his teachings of dietetics and natural | living, and that some of his remedies | would, under the law, be classed as drugs. In a statement to newspaper men after the decision Bragg declared: “It was not my intention to violate the law. I have lectured in almost | every State in the country during the | last 18 months, and this is the first | time .there has been any trouble. I| regret this has happened and in the | future shall abide by the law. | “] am planning return lectures in ‘Washington this Fall.” Lawyers said this was the first case | prosecuted in the District under the | act passed in 1929, prohibiting such practice. | Bragg was first arraigned in court on April 25, shortly after his arrest. | The case attracted considerable at- tention when scores of his followers, | mostly women, jammed into the court | room and court halls to hear the case. COL. COOPER’S TRIAL DELAYED BY COURT i Indefinite Postponement Ordered After Collapse of Defend- ant in Court Room. District Supreme Court Justice James M. Proctor today ordered in- definite postponement of the trial of | Col. Wade H. Cooper, former president | of the Commercial National Bank, who is ill in Garfield Hospital. Col. Cooper collapsed yesterday while listening to argument of a case in the Court of Appeals. Although no definite diagnosis has been an- | nounced, it is believed he is suffering from heart disease. It was under- | “The people going up there must | like that kind of life and they must have no idea of making any money. | | Otherwise, they will fail.” To the charge *hat the valley soil | is never thawed at a depth of more | than one foot, a qualified answer is lslvm by proponents of the plan: “It would be more correct to say that the uncleared land covered by moss holds water and deep frost. Removal of this moss, however, and exposure of the land to the long days of sunshine soon thaws the ground out thoroughly.” Records of previous -homesteading activities along the Mantanuska show that about 450 families settled there at the time the Alaska Railroad was constructed in 1914. Of that number about 150 still are living in the region, served by a railroad that has operated at a deficit continuously since its con- struction. Although the line has just announced reduction in freight rates as a means of aiding the colonization project, the 1934 deficit of the com- pany was $183,729. TOLL BRIDGE BILL OPPOSED BY HAZEN Commissioner Questions Wisdom of Granting Right to Pri- vate Concern. Opposition to construction of a toll bridge across the Potomac above Great Falls, as proposed in a bill now before the House, was expressed to- day by Commissiener Melvin C. Hazen. He questioned whether a private concern should be given the right to build a span across the river close to Great Falls, which is one of the beauty spots of the National Capital area. “It seems to me it would be rather strange to have a toll bridge across the river at such a point,” Hazen said. “In fact, the idea of a toll bridge s0 close to the National Capital does not sound right.” placing the cost of the development of the necessary approach roads to the toll bridge on the taxpayers of the District and Virginia. A bill authorizing the toll bridge was introduced by Representative Smith of Virginia and is now before a House subcommittee. e MINTYRE AUTO FOUND Four Youths Arrested in Theft From President’s Secretary. Four colored youths were arrested today When found stripping the stolen automobile of Marvin H. McIntyre, one of President Roosevelt's secre- taries, in a garage in the 1600 block of V street. The machine had been reported stolen at 1 a.m. from the 2100 block of Leroy place. The colored youths were booked for investigation at No. 3 police station, ~ Hazen also objected to the idea of | stood out-of-town relatives have been summoned. | He is charged with misapplying | | some $400.000 of the bank’s funds to set up a fictitious credit in favor of the Continental Trust Co., of which | he also was president. Subsequently, | it is alleged, part of this money was | | used in paying dividends on the stock | of the trust company. NATURE STUDY WALKS IN PARKS TO CONTINUE National Zoological Reservation ‘Will Be Scene of Stupka's New Series. Arthur Stupka, park naturalist of Acadia National Park in Maine, who is conducting a series of nature guide walks in the local parks, under the auspices of the National Parks Service, today will shift his activities from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal banks to the National Zoological Park. With free lectures scheduled the balance of the week at 1:30, 3 and 4:30 p.m., Stupka starts from the bird house in the National Zoological Park, near the Connecticut avenue entrance. The walks will be confined to natural features of the park and not to a tour of the animal cages, officials ex- plained. This is the third week of Stupka's program here. COLLEGE HEAD TALKS Dr. Fred P. Corson, President, Speaks at Dinner. Dr. Fred P. Corson, newly-inaugu- rated president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., addressed a meeting of the Washington alumni of the col- | lege at a dinner at the Brook Farm Tea House yesterday. A member of the class of 1917, he is one of the youngest college president in the East. John Dickinson, Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce, also addressed the meeting. | The newly-elected officers of the | club are J. Fred Laise, president: C.| R. Kramer, vice president; Miss | Maude Wilson, secretary, and J. M. | Selby, treasurer. { AU S ST LIFE-SAVING COURSE The first lessons of a six-week in- struction course in life-saving at the Ambassador pool, under direction of the District Chapter, American Red Cross, will be given Monday at 3:30 p.m. Instruction will be given on each succeeding Monday from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. and during the same hour on Thursdays for six weeks. Dickinson W. C. T. U. Meets Tomorrow. TAKOMA PARK, Ma, May 15 (Special) . —A meeting of the Takoma Park Women’s Christian Temperance Union will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. W. P. Elliott, 804 Maple avenue. The PAGE B—1 PISTOL BELIEVED BURNED IN STOVE INLIMERICK HOME Heat-Exploded Shell Found in Chamber of Gun Linked to Mystery. MICROSCOPE REVEALS OTHER CLUES IN DEATH Theory Is Killer Hurled Weapon Into Flames After Slaying D. C. Girl in 1930. A microscope revealed additional clues today as police linked a cheap Spanish automatic, kicked from an ash heap by & child, to the nearly five-year-old mystery of the murder of Beulah Limerick. ‘The gun had been burned in a stove, it was learned today. A heat-exploded shell was found in the chamber, and the temper had been baked from the barrel and springs. Presumably the murderer of the 19- year-old girl threw the gun into the stove beside iiie cot on which the body was found at 18 Nineteenth street southeast on the morning of Decem- ber 31, 1930. Police combed the death house and the surrounding yard after an under- taker found a bullet in the girl’s brain. They examined every inch of the house and the wooded lot behind in a futile effort to find the gun. The three-year-old grandson of the present tenant found the automatic recently where it had lain buried for years in the ashes behind the house. The exploded shell in the chamber was of the same caliber and manu- facture as two empty shells found near the body. Barrel Is Rusty. Lieut. John Fowler, police ballistics expert, was examining the gun further with a microscope today. He said the barrel was too rusty for a ballistics comparison with the .25 caliber bullet taken from the girl's brain or with the bullet dug from the floor after it had penetrated the mattress on which the girl lay. Shortly after the murder police sifted the ashes in the stove. They found molten metal at first believed to have been that of the death gun. Later examinatim disproved this theory. Lieut. Fowler believes the bit of metal was the chamber of the gun found recently. The murderer, in all probability. returned to the scene of the crime in the early morning hours. Presumably he found the gun had not been destroyed in the stove and re- moved it to bury it outside. The identification number om the outside had been filed away. Fire and rust, however, had not effaced a duplicate number on the inner parts. Lieut. Fowler found this and police have broadcast a description in the hope of tracing the owner. Owner Is Sought. Manufacturers and dealers in fire- arms were being canvassed today by members of the homicide squad. Meanwhile, Lieut. Fowler learned the marking on the firing pin and the chamber resembled those on the two shells ejected from the auto- matic in the murder’s hand. At least a dozen suspects were ex- amined and released by police after the murder. The Limerick girl, a comely brunette was secretary of the Sky High Whoopee Club and had nu- merous boy friends. These she referred to in her diary found by police in the basement room where her body lay. Rumors of impending arrests in the case were denied today by Lieut. Fowler. He said clues taken from the gun so far had thrown no suspicion on any particular person. NIGHT CLUB GIRL'S DEATH IS SUICIDE | Jeanne McGehee Found Victim of Gas in Apartment—Left Husband Note. A certificate of suicide has been is- sued by Coroner A. Magruder Mac- Donala in the death yesterday after- noon from illuminating gas of Mrs. Jeanne McGehee, co-operator of .the Masquers Club, 1000 block of Fif- teenth street. She turned on tne gas in the kitchen on the third floor after writing a note declaring love for her husband and 12-year-old son by & former marriage. The husband, Malcolm McGehee, returned last night and talked to police investigating the death. Mrs McGehee was known profes- sionally as a pianist, under the name of Jeanne Le Vans, police said. In the note she wrote before turning on the gas she said: “Dear Mac: 1 love you. Take care of Val I love him.” Her body was found whea two men delivering ice at the Fifteenth street address, where Mr. and Mrs. McGehee lived, smelled gas and en=- tered the kitchen on the third floor. ‘The night club was operated on the second floor: —_—— WOMAN POET TO WED Margaret Fishback, New York, Obtains License Here. . Margaret Fishback, one of New York’s better-known modern poets, yesterday obtained a license at Dis- trict Supreme Court to marry Alberto Gastone Thalitto Antolini, 29, rug im- porter for Macy's Department Store, in New York. Miss Fishback gave her age as 35 and her address as 25 Fifth avenue, New York City. The ceremony will be performed June 14 by Rev. James D. Bunrer. ‘The bride-to-be is a sister of Dr. Frederic C. Fishback of this city. . Phone Employes Increase. Although the number of automatic telephone exchanges in Britain is steadily growing, the number of eme meeting will be featured with & play by local school children. T ployes in exchanges has increased 500 in & year, L