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oo v | The Sunday Stae SUNDAY TEA SHOP MURDER MYSTERY CLEARED UP BY CONFESSION Thomas Jordan Admits He Fired Fatal Shot, Police . Announce. SLAYING OCCURRED ON GOOD FRIDAY OF 1931 “T Just Got the Jitters and Gun Went Off," Suspect Tells Officials. * just got the jitters and the gun went off.” This brief statement by Thomas Jordan early last night, police said, cleared up the four-year-old murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes, Garden Tea | Shop cashier, who was shot to death whe}x)x the restaurant at 1835 Columbia | road was held up during the dinner | hour on Good Friday, 1931. The story of the shooting was made public by Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, who said that Jordan, confessed participant in the robbery, admitted after lengthy questioning that he had actually fired the shot that killed Mrs. Jaynes, al- | though previously he had attributed | Offered Post TAM DEERING. QHIOAN 15 OFFERED RECREATION POST Tam Deerings, Now Cincin- nati Official, Selected to Unify Program. Tam Deering, director of recrea- the slaying to an unnamed COM- | tjon of the Public Recreation Com- panion To Face Murder Charge. Jordan, held at the Twelfth pre- | cinct, has not been formally charged with the murder yet, but this is ex- pected to be done today or tOmOrrow. Burke said that after Jordan had completed his account of the shooting he expressed satisfaction that he | finally was making a clean breast of the affair, saying he had never had a night's rest since it took place. mission. Cincinnati, Ohio, yesterday was officially offered the post of su- perintendent of recreation here to whip into shape a unified program. The tender was made by the Dis; trict of Columbia Recreation Commit- tee, headed by Frederic A. Delano, | chairman of “the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, after | he and his colleagues had given care- | ful consideration to & number of ap- | plications and interviewed some of the aspirants from out of the city, in- In the reported confession, accord- | cluding Deering himself. From the ing to Burke, Jordan continued to | National ~apital alone some 30 per- maintain that another man and a sons sought the job. Just how much wornan were involved in the case. | salary will be paid was not made pub- According to the confession, as | lic at this time. made public by Burke, Jordan said | Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the that the woman—whose identity is | National Capital Park and Planning said to be known to the police— | Commission, who also acted as tem- planned the robbery. He met her | porary secretary of the Delano Com- that night—April 3—at Thomas Cir- mittee, in announcing Deering's choice cle, where she was in a car with the | yesterday afternoon declared the com- other man, whom, he said, he. never | mittee “carefully weighed the qualifi- had seen before nor has ever seen | cations of every cahdidate and felt since. En route to the tea shop, he | that Mr. Deering was the best continued, it was decided he was to | equipped for the job.” do the actual holding up, with the | Wife Writer of Note. other man standing at the rear of the | restaurant to cover the occupants and | A native of Seattle, Wash., Deering is 46 years. old, is ied and has the woman remaining in the car. The two daug u- gun which he was to use was on the of i seat of the car when he got in, he | ating from ecollege and the other is in added, and he was handed a mask by the man. " Plans Carried OWE "~ When they got to the tea shop, the statement continued, the plans were carried out as arranged. Jordan approached Mrs. Jaynes, saying: “This is a stick-up,” acting so quietly that the patrons were not disturbed. The cashier seeing the ‘weapon, $101—and Jordan started backing to- ward the door, covering his retreat with the weapon and at the same time calling to his companion, whose entry into the restaurant had passed | unnoticed. It was then that the revolver, a «25-calibre weapon, went off in| Jordan’s nervous grip. Startled, Jordan looked hastily handed over the money— | high school. His wife is considered a writer of some note and he himself has had a varied career in social serv- ice work, community service, recrea- tional activities and is at present an instructor at the University of Cin- cinnati. With the position offered him yes- terday afternoon, the authorities said | that Deering has not yet had time to consider if he will accept. He has been at his Cincinnati post since March 1, 1932. From 1929 to 1932 he was exec- utive secretary of the State-County Parks and Beaches Association of San Diego, Calif., where he created a name for himself. From 1928 to 1932 he was executive secretary of the Community Service in San Diego. During the Summer of 1927 he was an instructor at the University of Oregon. In 1925 | and 1926 Deering was superintendent around, and thinking no one had been | of recreation, Board of Playground hit broke and ran, his companion | Commissioners, San Diego, and direc- with him. They entered the car and | tor of physical education, Board of were driven away and did not know | until the next day that Mrs. Jaynes | had been shot. At Sixth and Pennsylvania avenue his statement said, the trio stopped and split the proceeds of the robbery. His share was $30. Then they separated. Jordan was brought back to Wash- | ington Friday afternoon following his | arrest in Mount Vernon, N. Y. He | had been under arrest here in Au-| gust, 1931, on suspicion of being im- plicated in the killing, but afterwards was released. His arrest came about when he wired local authorities asking if he still was wanted, explaining he wanted to have his status cleared up s he was planning to get married. DIRECTORS ARE CHOSEN BY SHOW ASSOCIATION | J. J. Hutton Named President of Montgomery Horse Exhibi- tion Body. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SANDY SPRING, Md. May 18— | The Montgomery County Horse Show Association held its annual meeting here and elected directors as follows: Josiah J. Hutton, Dean G. Acheson, Charles T. Nicholson and Elbin Lei- shear to succeed themselves, and Rob- | ert H. Miller, jr.; Stanley Stnbler.i Ralph P. Counselman. Mahlon Kirk, 4th, and Harwood Owings. The directors made Mr. Hutton president to succeed Thomas Hyde, 4th, who asked to be retired; Mr. Kirk, vice president; Mr. Acheson, secre- tary; Mr. Miller, assistant secretary, and Mr. Stabler, treasurer. A meeting ‘of the directors will be held early in June to select a date and place for the association's sixth annual horse show. Mule Hair Trail ' Leads U. S. Agents To Still Operator {By the Associated Press. % An old gray mule gave the tip- off that led to arrest of a Ken- “tucky still operator last week. | The Treasury says it happened “this way: Federal agents observed from ‘the mountain tops a still in the foothills of the Blue Grass ountains. But. intuitively, or . otherwise, the moonshiners “lit out,”—one of them astride a ‘gray mule, just before the raid. " This mule had been shedding. | Investigators took samples of the hairs, and then traced the mule to a nearby farm. Microscopic examinations showed the hairs to belong to one and the same mule, Its owner was arrested. Education, in San Diego. | From 1921 to 1923 Deering was exeeutive secretary of Community | Service, in Ventura County, Calif. In | 1920 and 1921 he had been commu- nity organizer for the National Recre- ation Association, at Eureka, Visalis and Santa Barbara, Calif, In 1920 he was special investigator for the Uni- versity of Oregon's School of Social Work. In 1919 and 1920 Deering was executive secretary of the Seattle Community Service and prior to that had served in the Grays Harbor dis- trict of Washington State. Community Organizer. Deering was a community organizer from 1918 to 1921 for the National Recreation Association, with head- quarters in New York City. From 1916 to 1918 he was head worker in the Jamaica Plains Neighborhood House, Boston, Mass.; chairman of the Committee on Social Legislation of the Boston Social Union and inter- ested in wage problems particularly. From 1914 to 1915 he was executive secretary of the School of Expression at Boston. Mass. From 1909 to 1914, while a student at the University of Washington, he organized a sales force for a com- mercial company employing agents in the United States, Canada, Hawaii and Panama. From that university he secured bachelor’s degrees in arts and law. He was president of vari- ous students’ activities, including the board of control. He majored in po- litical and social science. He took post-graduate work at Harvard Uni- versity, Boston University and at San Diego State College. He has had extensive experience in speaking on various parks, social and church pro- grams and has contributed articles to a number of national magazines. HOUSE UNIT TO VISIT HOWARD U. WEDNESDAY Subcommittee in Charge of In- terior Appropriation Will Inspect School. The subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee in charge of the Interior Department appropria- tions will make an_ informal tion visit to Howard Universitv Wed | nesday morning. Appropriations for maintenance of the school are considerec and recom- mended by the subcommittee Jf which Representative Taylor of Colorado is chairman. Representative Mitchell of Illinois, the only colored membér of Congress, will accompany the party. After an inspection of the grounds and buildings, members of che sub- committee will address an assembly of officers, teachers and students of the nine schools and colleges of the kin Memorial Chapel. President Mor- decai W. Johnson will preside. The public is invited, WASHINGTON, D. C, §016,862 DISTRICT DEFICIENGY TEMS T0BECONSIDERED Hearings to Start Tomor- row Before Hoyse Sub- committee. CANNON AND BLANTON EXPECTING APPROVAL Additional Sums Required by Va- rious Institutions Due to Increased Costs. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Supplemental and deficiency items of appropriation for the District gov- ernment, totaling $518,862.15, are to be considered during hearings on the deficiency appropriation bill starting tomorrow before a subcommittee com- posed of chairmen of other subcom- mittees handling the various depart- mental appropriation measures. Hear- ings on the District items are ex- pected to be reached the last of the week. Chairman ‘Cannon of the Districs subcommittee will be invited to sit with the subcommittee as an adviser during the hearings on the District items. Both Chairman Cannon and Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, who is also a member of the District Subcommittee, said last night they are not opposed to any of these District items and expect to see them promptly approved. The District items are mostly a result of increased maintenance cost in various institutions on account of increased cost of living, particularly food and clothing. There is a de- ficiency each year in the items for the various hospitals and eleemosy- | nary institutions. Alley Fund Provision. Included with the District items is | & provision to continue available to the Alley Dwelling Authority the un- expended balance of the “conversion of inhabited alleys fund” until June 30, 1936. The act of June 12, 1934, which created the Alley Dwelling Au- | thority, provided for the allotment of $500,000 from the public works fund. ‘This money was not set up on the books of the Treasury until Novem- ber, 1934, and it will not be possible to expend it before it ceases to be available under provisions of the na- tional recovery act. This provision was submitted by D. W. Bell, acting director of the Budget Bureau and transi by the President. The items t0' be-considéred include $18,121.98 for refund of assessments, Barry Farm. In establishing a rate of assessment for laying or construct- ing water mains and service sewers on and after July 1, 1934, Congress in the current District appropriation act provided that such rate of assess- ment “shall be applicable to assess- ments for sewers and water mains constructed and laid subsequent tc January 1, 1923, in the subdivision of Barry Farm.” The appropriation now asked is to make refunds to those who have paid assessments in excess of $1.50 per linear foot for water mains and service sewers. For medical charities the items tc- tal $85000 and include Children’s Hospital, $45,000; Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $20,000, and Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $20,000. For maintenance of the Tuberculosis Hospital, $10,000 is asked; for the Children's Tubercu- losis Sanatorium, $5,000; for Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $10,000; for the Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $2,000; a like amount for the Industrial Home School; for the Home for the Aged and Infirm, $9,000, and for relief of the poor, $2,000, Needs for Workhouse. For the workhouse and reformatory $60,000 is asked for maintenance, for the jail, $12,000; for the board and care of guardianship children under the Division of Child Welfare, $10; for the National Training School for Boys, $90,000. For fuel, gas and power for the public schools, $45,000, and for 1934, $11,303; for the isolating ward at Gerfleld Hospital, $18,000; for the employes’ compensation fund, $6,000; for the District: Health Department, $4,000; for the Fire Department, $4,- 000, and for the Juvenile Court, $700. For maintenance of the coroner's office, $1,671.50 is proposed, for contingent and miscellaneous judicial expenses, $2,389.87; for general ad- vertising, $4,010.05; for support of convicts, $55,456.64; for purchase of an ambulance for the Board of Public Welfare, $1,500; for writs of lunacy, $1,372.16; for education of the deaf, dumb and blind, $500. For miscellaneous charities a total of $12,373.10 is submitted; for the Hospital for the Insane, $29,000; for the payment of judgments, $9,545.20. MIDSHIPMAN GIVEN PRIZE FOR ARTICLE John Nevin Shaffer of Bedford, Pa., Is Awarded the Van Dyke Gold Watch. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, May 18.— Mi man_John Nevin Shaffer of Bedford. Pa., has been declared winner of the Van Dyke prize presented annually at the Naval Academy to the senior who submits the ®est original article on any naval or equally patriotic subject. The prize, & gold watch, is awarded the income of a trust fund cre- from ated by the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke and representing his pay as a Heuten- ant commander in the Chaplains’ Corps in the World War. BONE CLINIC PLANNED e e Examination Will Be Conducted at Clarendon Center. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., May 18.—Persons suffering from any kind of bone defect may attend the semi-annual orthopedic clinic for Ar- sington County, to be held Sunday, 26, at the Clarendon health cen- university at 11 a.m. in Andrew Ran- | officer. MORNING, MAY 19, 1935. Scenes at Annual Shadbake of Board of Trade Right: A group at the head of TESTS ADVANCING | High School Seniors to Get X-ray Examinations in Second Phase. The second phase of the District's war on tuberculosis will be launched tomorrow when hundreds of high school seniors will be given X-ray ex- aminations, with a record already in hand showing that from 7 to 50 per cent of various groups of students showed positive reactions to the skin tests last week. Health Officer Ruhland emphasized last night the skin test results. even when finally tabulated, would not show whether the students have the disease. graphs, ‘These are but a part of the neces- sary sifting of the students to elim- inate those who show no evidences of the disease and the final diagnosis will have to await further tests, he said. An effective campaign against the disease, he asserted, must depend on development of an adequate public health nursing service. Test Not Conclusive. “The skin test is not conclusive,” | Dr. Ruhland said. person has now, or in the past has had, tuberculosis infection.” Enough evidence has been gathered in the first tests, however, to justify proceeding with the special program, he declared. A rapid type of X-ray service unit. using paper films in rolls 300 feet long, is to be brought here today so as to Eastern High School tomorrow morn- |ing. Senior students of parochial schools, as well as those of the public high schools, will be given the X-ray examinations there, beginning at 9:30 am. groups, school officials and members of the staff of Dr. Ruhland will be present to witness the beginning of the big X-ray photography. 1,947 Tested in Week. During the past week, out of a total enrollment of 3915 in these classes, 1,947 pupils have taken the | approved tuberculin test voluntarily and with the consent of parents. The complete tabulation of the reactions | to these tests is not yet ready. | Among those who are to attend the tests tomorrow are Chairman King of the Senate District Committee, Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming of the Public Health Service, Dr. Arthur C. Christie, Dr. Herbert Ramsey and Dr. John Minor of the District Medical Society; Dr. E. C. Wiggins, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society; Dr. William Charles White, president, and Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the Tuberculosis Associa- tion; Dr. Numa P. G. Adams of Howard University Medical School; Ross Garrett, director of the Central Admitting Bureau for Hospitals, and a group of District officials. . TWO CARROLL COUNTY SHOE PLANTS PLANNED Taneytown Chamber of Commerce Seeks to Determine Supply of Labor Available. Special Dispatch to The Star. WESTMINSTER, Md., May 18.—If present plans are carried to comple- tion, there will be no unemployed in Carroll, for two shoe concerns are con- templating factories in upper county Wl?t‘h experienced and inexperienced labor is requested in an announcement by the Taneytown Chamber of Com- merce, which group has revealed that a Southern concern is planning to locate & factory in that town. More than 500 persons registered at Hamp- stead last week, following the request for a survey of how much labor would be available if negotiations now under way with & shoe manufacturing con- cern were successful. The Taneytown Chamber of Com- merce, which only a year ago was in- strumental in obtaining a shoe factory in the upper county town, is behind the movement to have a branch of a Southern corporation locate in C roll. . A like procedure was carried out at Hampstead, when it was learned that a Baltimore shoe concern was consid- ering the establishment in the upper county town. Sohool to Give Dance. BLADENSBURG, Md, May 18 .(W)I.Iivndu auspices of and for the benefit of the Bladensburg High School a dance will be given May 33 'clock in the parish hall Episcopal Church here. | places, & Neither will the X-ray chest photo- | “When there is' | positive reaction, it merely shows the | be ready for lines of students at| Members of co-operating medical | Left: John Joy Edson, who celebrated his 89th birthday anniversary Friday, shown enjoying the Board of Trade shadbake at Quantico, Va., yesterday. With him are Odell Smith and h!l:dnr Morris. the table. Left to right: Col. Henry 0. TUBERCULOSS Shadbake Rousing Success Say Returning Business Men | Day at Quantico Manney, commanding officer at Quantico; John Saul, president of the board, and J. Hawley, chairman of the Shadbake Committee. Made Lively by . Hospitable Marines—Frolic, Feast- ing and Entertainment Rule. A thousand strong, business and professional men cap- tured the Marine base at Quantico. | Va., yesterday morning and returned | home in the afternoon declaring the forty-first annual shadbake of the Board of Trade a rousing success. | Living up to their reputation for action, the Marines were on hand | when the steamer City of Washington | arrived with the party, prepared to | greet them with a fish for each man, | and horseshoes, base balls and bats | | and other paraphernalia for a day of frolic. Air “Circus” Special. As a special stunt there was an air “circus.” The Marines performed a bit of drilling and while airmen | staged pseudo batles above, ranks of Infantrymen formed at attention in | front of the mess hall to pay tribute |to John Saul, new president of the Board o Trade; Edgar Morris, first vice president, and Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary. There were shad aplenty, despite ‘Washington | the large numbers, but the party bad to partake of the feast in two shifts. The Marines, under command of Col. Henry N. Manney, jr., acted as hosts | at the dinners. | Base Ball a Feature. To keep down the number of lame | arms, legs and backs, a base ball game | | was staged between two selected | teams. There were many activities, | however, for the Quantico guests. Soft ball games, horseshoe pitching, foot races, a form of bowling and even marbles were on the schedule. { The Marines also staged as a final | feature an “intramural” boxing con- test. On the trips to and from Quan- | tico the party was entertained on the steamer by a series of vaudeville num- | bers and musical entertainments un- | der the direction of Leon Brusiloff. | One scheduled event was the de- | parture of the steamer, southbound, | at 9 am., one-half hour before the time a number of the party thought lit was to leave. UTILITY TAX BOOST VIEWS-TO BE HEARD City Heads Also to Get Citizens’ Attitude on Bank Deposit Levy Collection. All interested groups will be given an opportunity to present their views on the proposed increased taxation on public utilities and railroads and & suggested new method of collecting taxes on bank deposits. the Commis- | sioners announced yesterday. Copies of recommendations made re- 'HARBORS MEASURE HEARINGS TUESDAY | $2,000,000 for Local Water Front | Improvements Is Involved in Bill Hearings on the omnibus rivers and | harbors bill already passed by the | House and including authorization for improvements amounting to about $2,000,000 along the Washington water front will start before the Sen- | | ate Commerce Committee Tuesdey. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New * | report prepared for Corporation Coun- | trial demands, 8 cases continued and cently by People’s Counsel Roberts, York is chairman of the committee. Auditor Donovan and Assessor Rich- ards have been prepared for distribu- tion to the utilities, trade groups and citizens’ associations. There is to be no public hearing, but organized groups may appear be- fore the city heads when arrange- ments can be made, it was said. The Commissioners as yet have set no date for their final decision. The committee of officials have been directed to prepare bills to put into effect their proposed higher taxes. The city executives plan to send the measures to Congress this session. POISON IS DISCOVERED IN BODY OF GROSS BOY Exhumation Ordered After Other Members of Family Were Found to Have Been Poisoned. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK May 18.—Poison was found today in the exhumed body of Prederick Gross, jr., 9-year-old son of & crippled bookkeeper who is due for arraignment Monday on a charge of killing his wife and four children. Exhumation of the boy's body was | ordered when other members of the family who followed him in death were found to have been poisoned. City Toxicologist Alexander O. Gettler said there was a greater amount of the deadly stuff in the boy’s body than in | | any of the other victims examined. The source of the poison, at first | belleved to have been mixed with cocoa, remained a mystery as Dr. Gettler expressed disagreement with intimations by another physician that further examination of the cocoa would disclose its presence. e TUNNEY SEEKS OIL Name Among Those Seeking Per- mits for Prospecting. CHEYENNE, Wyo, May 18 (A.— Clerks. at the United States land of- fice here said an application, filed in behalf of Gene Tunney, former heavy- weight boxing champion, was received today for a permit to prospect for oil near Shirley, Wyo. Shirley is about 30 miles north of the Medicine Bow field, where a 4,000~ barrel well was brought in recently. Czechs Ready for Election. PRAHA, May 18 (#).—Cszecho- slovakia wound up its campaign to- oight for its fourth general parlia- mentary election, Considerable activity was being dis- played by the Hitlerite “Sudeten Ger- man party,” although the organization was suppressed yesterday v in mfl‘mul. a8 compared with 1,318 in The most important District project is for the renovation of the north side of Washington Channel, includ- ing construction of a yacht basin and | | new piers for municipal and com- | mercial purposes. The plans also make provision for eventual widen- ing of Water street and for a future | park bridge at the head of the| channel. | The other District project is for dredging the Potomac Channel to 24 feet to Georgetown and also for dredging the Anacostia Channel. in- cluding e turning basin in the Ana-| costia River near the Navy Yard. | The bill also includes a list of proj- | ects throughout the country. | PLEDGE AGAINST WAR IS VOICED BY 10,000 Religious, Political, Labor and Youth Movements Unite in Demonstration. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 18.—Union | Square resounded today to denuncia- | tions of war by 10,000 pacifist mem- bers of religious, political, labor and | youth movements. Earnestly they recited en anti-war | litany and pledged they would not| | support war in any fashion. The meeting in Union Square. tradi- | tional center of the so-called liberal | organizations, was preceded by a pa- rade up Fifth avenue and then back to the square. Led by John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church, the crowd recited the following pledge: “If war comes, we will not fight. we will not enlist, we will not be con- scripted, we will not buy war bonds, we will not do anything to support war, but will do everything to op- it Holmes told his audience: “If it comes to a choice between the uniform of a soldier and,the vaiform of a con- viet, I'd use the uniform of a convict every time.” PRISON “BUSINESS” UP D. C. Reformatory Sets All-Time Record at End of April. There has been no depression in the amount of “business” at the District Reformatory during the past year, ac- cording to a current to the Board of Public Welfare by Col. W. L. Peak, superintendent. Setting a new all-time record, there were 1,344 priseners there at the end of April, or about 100 more than at the same time last year. The average daily resident population last month and 1,241 fn April of 1934, v | tended the session, held under auspices I3 —Star Staff Photos. NEW JURY SYSTEM EXPEDITES DOCKET 32 Cases Disposed of in Three Days Under Three- Panel Plan. ‘The first week of the three-papel jury in Police Court resulted in the disposition of more jury cases than in | any other one week in the history of | the court, it was shown in a weekly‘ sel E. Barrett Prettyman by Assistant Corporation Counsel George D. Neilson | yesterday. ; During the three days assigned to| the trial of traffic cases and cases in- | volving the District code there were a total of 32 cases finally disposed of, leaving more than 100 such cases still on the docket. Six Guilty Verdicts. On Wednesday juries returned 6 guilty verdicts and 2 not guilty ver-| dicts. On the same day one defendant | changed his plea to guilty and waived | 8 jury trial, 6 cases were continued and 2 cases were nolle prossed, 1 of those nolle prossed having resulted | from a hung jury. The 2 “not guilty” verdicts involved persons arrested in | liquor cases in which the proprietor of the place was convicted. Thursday and Friday were devoted to the trial of traffic cases. On Thurs- | day there were 2 convictions, 2 ac- quittals, 1 hung jury, 1 change to plea of guilty, 5 continued and 4 nolle prossed. On these two days two per- sons were tried and convicted of | drunken driving Of the 4 cases nolle | prossed Thursday, 2 were the result| of changing the charges to lesser offenses. Record of Friday. On Friday there were 2 convictions, | 1 acquittal, 1 dismissed when the complainant refused to prosecute, 2| pleas of guilty following previous jury 1 nolle prossed because all of the wit- nesses live in Pennsylvania and failed | to appear. | Awaiting jury trial are 80 traffic cases and 25 alcoholic beverage con- trol cases. All of these could be cleared up in about four weeks with the three- panel jury were it not for the fact that more jury trial demands are made | daily, it was pointed out. NEAR-RIOT MARKS RED’S TALK AT U. VA.| Student Hecklers Battle Support»| ers of Communist Editor at Meeting. By the Assoclated Press. UNIVERSITY, Va., May 1&—-'?)181‘9i were bruised faces and shadowed eyes | on the University of Virginia campus | here today-—the aftermath of a near| riot at historic Cabell Hall last night. The fracas broke out when student- hecklers booed and jeered Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Communist y organ, the Daily Worker, as he spoke at a meeting. | Three hundred undergraduates at-| of the National Students’ League. As Hathaway began his address, a group estimated by witnesses as proximately 75 strong interrupted him with catcalls and boos. Other students tried to enforce silence and a series of fights broke out. Broken up, the meeting adjourned. But it was only a moral victory for the dissidents. Hathaway and loyal Student Leaguers adjourned to Jeffer- son Hall. headquarters of the Jefferson | Literary Society, where he finished his addresa. He left for New York later. D. C. MINISTER TO SPEAK AT MT. CARMEL SERVICE Rev. Reuben Y. Nicholson Will Give Memorial Day Address at Cemetery. Special Dispatch to The Star. SUNSHINE, Md., May 18—The | second annual Memorial day service will be held in Mount Carmel Ceme- | tery May 30 at 10:30 am, in the grove adjoining the old church and the cemetery. Rev. Reuben Y, Nich- olson, pastor of Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Protestant Church in Washington, will deliver the address. There will be special music and other speakers, and a collection will Sports—Pages 9 to 13 PAGE B—1 DELAY OF LOCAL SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION SEEN National Program to Be Re- ported in Senate This Week First. WISCONSIN JOB PLAN IS FAVORED BY KING House Subcommittee Report on Ellenbogen Measure Denies Malingering Possibilities. Passage of social security legisla- tion for Washington is likely to be put off until the national program, to be reported to the Senate this week, becomes a law, so that the local bills can be made to conform to the Federal plan, it was indicated last night by Chairman King of the Seriate District Committee. At the same time Senator King made known that he is personally in- clined to favor the Wisconsin plan of unemployment insurance, permit- ting industries to set up reserve ac- counts to take care of their own un- employed workers, as distinguished from the State-wide method of pool- ing all contributions. The Utah Sen- ator stated that while he believes there is much to be said for the State- wide pool system, he is sympathetic toward the Wisconsin method. = He added: “This is my personal view, but I will be willing to go along with ‘the views of the people of the District, in so far as possible, along reasonable lines.” Meanwhile a vigorous denial of ]chnrges that unemployment insurance would encourage malingering was made by the Fiscal Affairs Subcom- mittee of the House District Commit- tee yesterday in its formal report on the Ellenbogen unemployment com- pensation bill. Action Seen May 27. The measure is now on the House calendar and is expected to be acted on May 27, the next “District day.” The report pointed out that the Ellenbogen bill establishes marry safe- guards against misuse of unemploy- ment benefits and cites the experi- ence of foreign countries in this con- nection. “One of the fears voiced by oppo- nents to unemployment insurance.” the report declared, “is that it will encourage malingering so that work- ers will prefer to draw benefits instead of working. The experience in for- eign countries belies this fear, how- ever; repeatedly investigations of charges that there was a malingering have resulted in producing little evi- dence of it. “It is probable that some persons | will abuse unemployment compensa- tion, just as they now abuse fire or accident insurance. The bill, how- ever, establishes many safeguards against misuse of unemployment benefits. In the first place, the rate of benefits provided is 5o modest that few persons would prefer the benefits to the much higher amounts they could earn through employment. “More specifically, the bill requires each person receiving benefits to register regularly at a public employ- ment office and to apply for and ac- cept any suitable employment offered him. Although during times of un- employment, the employment office will be unable to offer jobs to all re- cipients of benefits, it will have suffi- cient jobs at its command to offer to those whom it suspects are ‘work shy.’ The worker will also be in- eligible for benefits for a number of weeks if he quits without good cause or is discharged for cause.” Employes Not Assessed. The subcommittee also declared it did not write into the bill a provision requiring employes as well as employ- ers to contribute to the compensation fund on the theory that the employe's contribution would constitute his loss during the period of unemployment. “The bill,” said the report, “provides that the employers and the Govern- ment of the District of Columbia shall contribute. The major contribution is placed on employers so that unemploy- ment compensation will become one of the costs of production. The employers will in most cases be able to pass this cost on in the prices of their products. “To begin with, the employe must wait three weeks before he receives any unemployment benefits, so that he thereby contributes three weeks of his wages.” The funds for unemployment com- pensation will be raised through con- tributions of employes and the Dis- trict. Employers will be required to contribute an amount equal to 3 per cent of their pay roll, and the District will contribute an amount equal to 1 per cent of the contribution of the employers. Contributions will begin January 1, 1936. Benefits for total unemployment will be paid at the rate of 40 per cent of former wages plus 10 per cent for a dependent wife and 5 per cent for each | other dependent, except that not more than 65 per cent of the wage, or $15 a week will be paid. If an employe becomes partially unemployed and fails to earn at least $2 more than the benefits he would receive if wholly unemployed, he will be paid the differ- ence in partial benefits. Fi&dling 2 Hours Knocks 238 Hours Off Jail Sentence By the Associated Press. DENVER, May 18.—Bob Hol- loway, 17-year old Colorado Uni- versity student, fiddled 238 hours off a 10-day jail sentence today and he drew jeers, then cheers from county jail prisoners. From Brahms to Berlin, Hol- loway played everything he knew after Police Judge Alvin Pickens offered him the alternative of spending 10 days in jail on a traffic charge or playing his violin for two hours in a jail cell. Holloway started off with the classics. From back in the cell be taken for benefit of the perpetua- tion and care of the cemetery. C. N. Zitler heads the committee in charge. Rev. Nicholson, a son of the late willlam Nicholson, is a native of Montgomery County, 3 blocks came disgusted hoots. But Holloway played on, unperturbed. ‘When the reverse applause grew insistent the student switched to Berlin’s jazz. It clicked.