Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1935, Page 21

Washington News TWO ARE INDICTED FOR MURDER IN, TEA ROOM HOLD-UP New York Man and Waitress Accused in 1931 Slaying Here. PERJURY CONSPIRACY LAID TO TRIO BY JURY Gypsy Woman Charged With Blackmail and Larceny in Rooming House Case. Thomas Jordon, 29, of Mount Ver- non, N. Y., and Miss Edith M. Dods- worth, a young waitress, were indicted by the District grand jury today for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth S.| Jaynes in the Garden Tea Shoppe | hold-up four years ago. In a statement to police Jordon said he inadvertently fired the shot that killed Mrs. Jaynes when he got the *jim-jams” upon hearing the door to the restaurant open during the hold-up. Jordon said the hold-up was sug- gested by Miss Dodsworth, who had worked in the tea shoppe as a waitress. On the night of the rob- bery, he said. he went to the restau- rant and met Miss Dodsworth and & strange man, who were seated in a car in front of the place. The man, he said, gave him a mask and a gun and they went into the establishment, where Mrs. Jaynes was seated at the cash register. After cbtaining $101. Te said, he accidentally fired the shot that Killed her. Jordan, a former convict, was ar- rested shortly after the murder, but was released after questioning. He went to New York and there met a young woman with whom he fell in love. Last May, desiring to clear his mind of worry, he wrote to United States Attorney asking if he was wanted for anvthinz This letter was turned over to the police, by whom it was regarded lightly. However. Detective Sergt Robert Barrett, who had persistently followed the case, was suspicious and obtained permission to go to Mount Vernon and interview Jordan. finally obtaining the alleged confession im- plicating Jordon and Miss Dodsworth. The other man has not been iden- tified. Perjury Conspiracy. An indictment charging conspiracy to suborn perjury was returned against Alvin E. Cheatwood, John *Slim” Dunn and Elizabeth Mayo, alleged members of the Tri-State gang. They allegedly procured Edward D, Strain, Elmer R. Neville, Ruth Hoffman and Thomas J. Nehi to testify falsely to an alibi for Dunn when he was being tried for the Heurich Brewery rob- bery. Gladys H. Hudson. a Gypsy. who allegedly obtained $2.907 from a room- ing house owner, was charged with blackmail, grand larceny and false pretenses. She allegedly told Miss May B. Clau- baugh that a young couple living in her rooming house were not married and obtained the money by threaten- ing to inform police. After the arrest, police recovered $1,442 of the money. Jay W. Nelson was indicted for embezzlement in connection with an allegedly fraudulent scheme to pro- mote a distillery in Maryland. He allegedly obtained $500 from Miss Josephine Worrill for stock in the mythical distillery. Leroy Corcoran and William Ballard were charged with violating the liquor taxing act in connection with the im- portation of a large quantity of liquor into Washington. They allegedly counterfeited the labels of a nationally | known distiller, but there is no law under which they could be charged with this offense. Nellie Hawkins was indicted for sec- ond-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Mazie Heavey, 40, of 468 Massachusetts avenue, who was beaten to death with an iron pipe May 26. Indicted for Murder. Arthur W. Benning and James E. Bkinker, both colored, were indicted for first-degree murder for the slaying of Bessie Maynard and Mildred Young, both colored. The jury returned a total of 81 in- dictments and ignored charges in 22 cases. Others indicted, with the charges against them, are: Rosario Gataldo, nonsupport; Charles Burrows, Joseph Washington, John ‘W. Hansbrough, James A. Claibourn, Keys Milford, James B. Tipton, James T. Briscoe, Monroe R. Bell, Edgar Brooks, James Patterson, Samuel Harper and Bernard H. Harris, joy- riding; Oscar T. Goodwin, joyriding and grand larceny; Henry R. Milton, Stephen G. Cassassa, Joseph Johnson, Eddie Brewington, Allen Johnson, George R. Tucker, Theodore M. Daugherty, George W. Lucas, John Webb, Dorothy A. Tasco, Wallace Heart and Gussivas Gaines, grand larceny; John H. Morgan, Albert Eldridge, Gilbert G. Brown, James B. Gunton, William De Graffin, William Lomas, John Wiley, Andrew H. Brooks and Wiley L. Fuse, housebreaking and larceny. Aaron Trachtenberg, receiving stolen property; James Adams, blackmail; Harry Behrle, perjury; Sherman E. Harper and Reuben Holly, violating white slave traffic act; William Woody. Mary Wormley, Howard Reed, Henry Moton, Steve Psroutsakos, Freelar U. ‘Williams and Samuel Brown, assault with a dangerous weapon; Horace Holley, Brunis Tilenda, Charles Ed- ward Ranck, William Gurley and Charles Thomas, robbery: Tomie L. Blakney, attempted robbery; Ernest Barnes, assault with intent to commit Tobbery. William B. Fletcher, William Jack- son, Albert Taylor, Carl Dixon, Wil- liam O. Turner and John B. Mitchell, violating liquor taxing act; Theodore M. Daugherty, false pretenses; Wil- liam P. Normoyle, false pretenses and embezzlement; Raymond P. Connelly and Arthur Lewey, embezzlement; Robert N. Thompson and Sol Line, forgery and uttering; Edward S. King, 3r., violating section 318, title 18, U. S. Code; Charles H. Marcey, violating section 317, title 18, U. S. Code; Leroy Rlina and John A. Lewis, violnclng- Leslie C. Garne:t.| he Foening Har WASHINGTON, Off to Kamp Kahlert: Upper: Mrs. E. E. Danley, 3207 Foxhall road, was on hand this morning for that final kiss from her daughter Dorothy as she pre- pared for the trip to the Y. W. C. A. camp, Kamp Kahlert. Lower: Marcia Bartlett, 1109 Sixteenth street, already had said her good-bys, but not to her pet turtle, whom she is shown taking to camp with her. —Star Staff Photo. 50 PLAYGROUNDS | OPENED B CIY More Than 100 Attaches Assigned at Rally in Dis- trict Building. Washington's Summer playground season started today when 50 play- grounds opened at 9 o'clock to provide outdoor recreation to thousands of children and adults. More than 100 men and women were assigned their Summer duties as supervisors and directors at the play- | grounds and also at an additional 34 | all-year grounds, at a rally this morn- "mg at the District Building. They were given final instructions by Miss | Sibyl Baker, supervisor of playgrounds. The 84 playgrounds now available | to the public are four more than in | operation last year. | The 52 young women who will di- | | rect the activities of girls at the play- | grounds this Summer underwent a | special course of training this Spring | under the direction of Miss Maude | | Parker, director of girls' and women'’s | activities in the department. Richard S. Tennyson, assistant su- pervisor of the playground system, di- rected the courses taken by the 64| white and colored men who will have | charge of boys' activities. These 116 | supervisors and directors, who will be given slightly less than three months’ employment during the year, are in | addition to the department’s regular | staff. Miss Parker will direct the girls' | and women's activities, while Tenny- “son. a veterain in the department, will supervise the boys’ work. 'BARRETT ASSUMES RECREATION OFFICE| New Co-ordinator Silent on Plans | for Future in Tackling Washington Job. | Lewis R. Barrett, Washington's new co-ordinator of 1ecreational facilities, | assumed his n2w duties today and | was provided an office in the District | Building. He comes from the recrea- tional service af the P. W. A. Hous- | ing_ Division. New to the job in Washington, | but experienced as a former recrea- tional director in Newark, N. J., and Des Moine, Iowa, Berrett, who is built like a foot bal! guard, took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves in preparation for thie somewhat ath- letic tasks that await him here “The first thing to do,” he said after assuming office, “is to make a study of the situatior here and look the ground over. TUntil I have be- | come sure of my grcund there is | little I can say now.” At a future time he is expected to be given an office in one ~f the | new Government buwiidings. Barrett | has had much experience as a co- | ordinator, especially in respect to the allocation of leisure time, such as di- | recting various programs among | agencies. He sces that phase of | recreation as one of the most im- portant problems to be met today. section 863, D. C. Code; Raymond E. Forbes, violating section 347, title 18, U. 8. Code, and Gorman Wright, vio- lating section 434-b, title 18, U. S. Code. Anthony J. Jones, Charles Edward Young, Jerry P. Tilman, Theresa B. Brown, Gertrude Jones, Teresa C. Williams, William West, Samuel Le- Roy Clements and George Roy Steven- son, forging and uttering Government checks. The following were cleared of the charges indicated: Randall P. Spencer, housebreaking and larceny; James Darlington, Luther Boggs, Silas Walker, Lawrence Whittle, John G. Clary and Arthur Warden, assault with a dangerous weapon; Jack Kemp, assault with in- tent to commit robbery; Welby Carter, Sadsbury Bailey, Randall P. Spencer and June LaRue, robbery; Lucian C. Leonard, carnal knowledge; Dorothy Tanner and Lucille Woolf, violating Harrison narcotic act; Ernest H. Fair- burn, violating section 851-B, District of Columbia code; Stanley Dade, violating section 37, United States penal code; Henry A. Thorpe and Jerry Strickland, false pretenses; Wil- liam L. Bandler, embezzlement; Nor- man Jones and Garfield A. Williams, violating liquor taxing act, and Robert E. Sweeney, homicide. ~ . SIX POLICE SWORN INTONEW RATINGS Promotions for Meritorious Service, Maj. Brown Says at Ceremony. The six recently promoted police | officers. including Inspector Albert J.! Headley, who was advanced to the| grade of assistant superintendent ofl police, were sworn in today in lhe‘Irl‘ new ratings and administered the oath by Howard E. Crawfoerd, chief clerk of the Police Department. The ceremony took place in the office of Police Superintendent Ernest W. Brown, who told the group their promotions resulted from “meritorious service.” 4 Besides Headley the others sworn in are: Inspector Edward J. Kelly, Capt. Arthur E. Miller, Lieut. Floyd E. Truscott, Detective Sergt. Guy Rone and Precinct Detective John O. | Curtis. Miss Elizabeth Motley, civi- lian employe and private secretary to | Maj. Brown, also took the oath as the| result of receiving a pay increase. Judge Ernest H. Van Fossen of the | United States Board of Tax Appeals, | who has been conducting hearings in | the Andrew Mellon tax case, attended | and extended his congratulations to | the promoted officers. Maj. Brown's room was decorated with numerous floral tributes. The local Chinese colony was one of the donors. Inspector Headley's new assignment gives him supervision over the two police districts. Inspector Kelly will have supervision over the first and Inspector James F. Beckett over the second. Capt. Miller assumed command of the third precinct, succeeding Kelly. Lieut. Truscott has been given the assignment of night inspector. De- tective Sergt. Rone becomes a mem- ber of Inspector Burke’s command, and Precinct Detective Curtis will re- main as a member of the Traffic Bu- reau force. C. of C. Cancels Meetings. BETHESDA, Md., July 1 (Special). —The Bethesda Chamber of Com- merce has canceled its July and Au- gust meetings and will reconvene in September for a resumption of its business sessions. Police Officers Sworn Into New Posts Police officers recently promoted are shown being sworn in to their new posts Crawford, chief clerk, who administered the oaths of office; Capt. Arthur E. Miller, Lieut. Floyd A. Truscott, who slso is & night inspector; Detective Sergt. Gu: | more street, D. C. TRAFFIC TOLL REACHED PEAK IN SAFETY CAMPAIGN 16 Deaths, 785 Injured in 8 Weeks — 15 and 669 Previous Mark. WEEK END IN CAPITAL ONE OF SAFEST KNOWN Colored Man Dies of Injuries Sus- tained Friday—Leesburg Wom- an Fatally Injured. More persons were killed and in- jured in Washington during the eight weeks of the District Commissioners’ trafic educational campaign here, which ended Saturday, than in the corresponding period last year or in the weeks preceding, statistics com- piled today revealed. During the eight weeks, from May 5 to June 29. 16 persons were killed and 785 injured in 1,724 accidents. In the same’ period last year only 15 were killed and 669 injured in 1224 acci- dents. During the eight weeks imme- diately preceding the campaign only 12 were killed and 662 injured in a total of 1,513 accidents. Meanwhile, with only one death, and that resulting from injuries received several days ago, and only one person seriously injured, Washington yester- day observed one of its safest Sundays from a traffic standpoint. Accidents in nearby Virginia snd Maryland, however, resulted in the death of a Leesburg, Va., woman and injuries to seven other persons over the week end. The local death yesterday was that of Benjamin Williams, 34, colored, of the 600 block of Fourth street southwest, injured Friday when run over by a truck under which he was asleep at Tenth and E streets south- west. The driver, Julian Mathias, 23, of Miami, Fla., was allowed by police to continue on South after he had said he would return here later. Mathias told police he did not know the man was under the truck. Leesburg Woman Dies. Mrs. Frances Goodrich. 60, of Lees- burg. Va.. died vesterday in Loudoun County Hospital from injuries re- ceived Saturday night when the auto- mobile in which she was riding crashed into a truck at a road turn near Purcellville, Va. R. F. Robey, driver of the automobile, escaped with minor injuries. David Brant, the truck driver, was held for questioning. Mrs. Goodrich was the wife of Charles L. Goodrich, a retired employe of the Department of Agriculture. Two Washington accidents yester- day resulted in police action. In one of them David Harris, 20, of 1803 Bilt- a pedestrian, received serious head injuries when dragged through three hedges, according to | police, after being run down at Nine- | teenth and S streets, by one of two automobiles which were in & collision at the intersection. William R. Cook. 44, colored, of the 3000 block of Eleventh street, driver of one of the automobiles, was ar- rested on a charge of reckless driving. Alton Hughes, 24, colored, of the 1300 block of Wallach place, was driver of the other car, police said. Harris was taken to Emergency Hos- pital. In another local accident, Janie Harris, 40, colored, received head in- juries when the automobile in which she was riding was struck by a machine operated by an alleged hit- and-run driver at Pirst and F streets. She was treated at Casualty Hospital Last night, Mrs. George C. Thorpe, chairman of the local Women's Safety Committee of the American Auto- | mobile Association, in a radio ad- dress told of the work of the com- mittee, and urged continued co-opera- tion from the citizens in promoting | safety. JULY RELIEF FUNDS SLASHED $50,000 A seasonal reduction of $50,000 in District of Columbia relief funds in July was authorized today by Aubrey Williams, assistant administrator of the F. E. R. A. The District was granted a total of $648,000 for the month, of which $550,000 is to be applied to general relief of the 20,500 cases on the roll. Mary Alice Hill, director of the Public Assistance Division of the local relief administration, said the July reduc- tion was made in anticipation of fewer cases during the month. Some cases on the relief rolls are expected to be absorbed by employment, she said, but the Summer always brings slackening demand for urgent relief. Included in the total for the District was $90,000 for the maintenance of transients and $8.900 to assist in educational relief divisions. A D. C, MONDAY, JULY 1, AGTION ON CRIME REPORT IN" HOUSE IS FACING DELAY Two-Day Recess Will Pre- vent Reconsideration of Garnett’s Case. CONSIDERATION IS NOT SEEN BEFORE JULY 10 Friends of U. S. Attorney Hope by That Time to Have Re- moval Clause Eliminated. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Present plans of the House to take a two-day recess Wednesday and ‘Thursday will prevent reconsideration by the District Committee this week of the crime report recommending re- moval of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. The District Committee’s regular meeting is scheduled Wednesday, at which time it is planned to begin reconsideration of the report, but if the House is in recess on that day the session will not be held. Chair- man Norton said she had no intention |of calling a special meeting at any | time this week to consider the crime report or any other matters. | As a result it will be July 10 before | the committee takes up the report. In the meantime supporters of Gar- }suu; attorney's office revised and | the recommendation for Garnett's re- | moval eliminated. | Representative Randolph, Democrat, | of West Virginia. who served as chair- | | man of the Crime Committee, is con- | further | | fident, however, that no | changes will be made in the report. | He believes that 10 of the 21 members }o! the full District Committee will vote to sustain the original | approving the report. Ten others are understood to be prepared to vote for elimination of the Garnett recommendation. One member, Rep- | resentative Fenerty, Republican, of Pennsylvania, is not expected to at- | tend. According to Randoiph's pre- | diction this would result in a tie vote, automatically sustaining the original action. ‘The only meeting on District legis- lation this week will be that of the Judiciary Subcommittee tomorrow at 10:30 am., at which consideration will be resumed on a bill to liberalize the divorce laws. NAVY WILL SPEND $750,000 IN CAPITAL Labor From Local Relief Rolls Will Be Used Projects. With the aid of labor from local reliet rolls, the Navy Department is | preparing to spend $750,000 here for public improvements. on Roosevelt has approved this alloca- tion from the Works Allotment Board, for work to be done under supervision of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. The department is awaiting word from local authorities as to the steps to be taken to supply the labor, be- fore a decision can be reached on starting the program. The largest single item is $270,000 for repair and improvement of build- ings, structural improvements, paint- Navy Yard. For the repair and im- provement of paving, roads, walks and grounds at the Navy Yard, $148,000 has been set aside. Other items in the program are: Foundation explorations and subsur- face surveys at the Navy Yard, $20,000; ‘Yard, $60,000; repair and improve- ments of the railroad tracks at the Navy Yard, $50,000; administrative expenses at the Navy Department, $50,000; repair and improvement of paving, roads, walks and grounds at the Naval Observatory, $5,000; repair and improvement of paving, roads, walks and grounds at the Naval Re- search Laboratory, Bellevue, D. C., $50,000; repair and improvement of paving, roads, walks and grounds at the Naval Air Station, at Anacostia, $95,000, and for foundation explora- tions and subsurface surveys at the naval magazine, Bellevue, D. C, $2,000. Dr. Alice Paul Returns. Dr. Alice Paul, chairman of the Committee on International Relatiors of the National Woman's Party, ar- rived in Washington last night from | Europe. at Police Headquarters this Inspector and Assistant Superintendent Albert J. g y Rone and Precinct Detective John O. Curtis. A | nett hope to muster sufficient strength | | to have a section relating to the United | action | | It was learned today that President | ing, general repairs and extension of | the truck garage at the Washington | construction of & new: lunch room in | the west yard of the Washington Navy 1935. Artists Offered Peaceful Haven By Widow of Edward M’Dowell Colony of Composer Is Carried on in Hills of New Hampshire. Fellowship of $300 Is Voted by Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. Creative artis's are not such tem- peramental creatures after all. They are merely out of sympathy with their surroundins. ‘The starving poel n his garret may be at war with scc.ety in general and his landlord i1 pariicular, but try him in a recent-free cabin ‘n the pines, where meals are laid three times daily on Lis doorstep. ‘The budding composer may tear his hair and his notes, or roll his bat- tered piano down the staircase, yet the same man will settle down and produce the best that's in him, given a setting and an instrument in har- mony with his true self. A city-bound, collector-harassed writer can very well develop into a novelist of compelling power once he can get free from constant inter- ruption and petty anxieties to a haven of peace where a typewriter and a | pleasant prospect invite him to toil. | Colony Established. | These things have been demon- strated in convincing fashion in the last 25 years by Mrs. Edward Mac- Dowell, widow of the great composer, | who became imbued with her hus- | band’s enthusiasm to establish a col- ony for creative artists on their New Hampshire farm and carries on with fire and enthusiasm long after his death. Mrs. MacDowell, a tiny, energetic, graying lady of advancing years, is| in Washington as a guest of honor of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority's trav- eling convention, now in session at the Shoreham Hotel. The sorority this morning voted $300 for two years as s fellowship for some deserving artist at the Peterborough colony, which represents Mrs, MacDowell's lifework. Harmony Possible. | Mrs. MacDowell is convinced that | creative artists, composers, poets, writers, playwrights, sculptors, paint- ers—can live and work and play in harmony over long periods without the temperamental outbreaks which tradition attributes to them. | MRS. EDWARD MacDOWELL. In the quarter of a century of the colony's existence, during which | scores of artists have found the road | to fame, Mrs. MacDowell has asked |only three persons to leave because they were disturbing elements. “Don’t give me credit for this" smiled Mrs. MacDowell. “I'm just a mule-headed old woman with one idea and one determination. It is the ar- tists themselves who have made the colony a place where worthwhile work is created in harmony. Such authors as Hervey Alleh, Thornton Wilder, Du Bose and Doro- thy Heyward have sought and found inspiration in the quietude of the roll- ing, pine-clad New Hampshire hills where the colony's 25 individual stu- dios are located. Studios Are Tsolated. Each studio is out of sight of the others, each equipped for comfortable living and each :uuplied with lunches during work hours from the central inn. Only about twu-score artis‘s can | be accommodated for the four-month season. Thus the enrollment will not be enlarged, although the coliny is obliged yearly i turn down hun- dreds of deserving artists. What is needed, Mrs said, is an endovment burden of debt from the struggling colony and make it self-supporting after the bitter years of the depres- sion, MacDowell to take the COUNTY TO APPEAL FOR ROAD REPAIRS | Montgomery Commissioners ; | Fear Heavy Loss in Stop- ping of Work. Br a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 1.—Negotia- tions for the resumption of road | maintenance work in Montgomery | County will be opened by members of the County Board in & conference | with the State Roads Commission at | Baltimore tomorrow afternoon. The work has been virtually sus- pended for some time because of the condition of the county’s account with the highway body, and many roads are sorely in need of immediate re- palrs. Would Use Gas Funds. It was said today the commissioners will appeal to road officials to expend | a part of the county's share of the State gasoline tax receipts for the necessary work instead of continuing | the practice of applying the entire share to satisfy the debt. While the new plan would require a longer period to retire the obliga- | tion, which. amounts to approximately | $235,000, the County Board will point out that roads representing an invest- ment of thousands of dollars are steadily deterioriating because of tke lack of maintenance. A complete examination of the county's account also will be made by the commissioners to check on some of the charges. Error Revealed. A cursory inspection made some time ago by Joseph A. Cantrel, a member of the House of Delegates from Montgomery County, disclosed that the cost of a road near Poco- moke City had been erroneously charged to Montgomery's account. The commissioners will hold their regular semi-weekly meeting here to- morrow morning before leaving for Baltimore and it is expected that the Fusion party bloc controlling the board will appoint Oscar Foulk of Takoma Park manager of the liquor dispensary system. It was first expected that Wilton T. Allen of Chevy Chase would be ap- pointed to the position, but it was learned this morning that the Fusion commissioners are in complete accord on Foulk, who is superintendent of a | chain store concern at present. Acting President H. C. BYRD. PEPCD EXPLOSION INQURY I BEGUN Transformer Is Removed to | Benning Plant for In- vestigation. The death-dealing electric trans- | former whose explosion Saturday killed four men at the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. Building was taken to Benning power plant, where a group of experts and officials of both the company and the District govern- ment today began an investigation of the cause of the tragedy. ‘The fourth death took place early yesterday when Floyd Bennett, col- ored, 31, of 4226 Dix street northeast died at Emergency Hospital. Three other workmen died Saturday. ‘The condition of John W. Foxwell, 52, of Mount Rainier, Md. was re- ported today to be about the same, although he was said to be seriously burned. There were some signs of improvement. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald is withholding a verdict pending the in- | vestigation Among those at the probe this morning were Walter E. Kern, elec- trical engineer of the District of Co- lumbia; J. S. Zebley, chief electrical inspector for the District; C. Melvin Sharpe, executive assistant to the president of P. E. P. Co, and J. H. Ferry, vice president and chief en- gineer. Sharpe said that the cause of the explosion still was a mystery. CAPITAL TRANSIT TOLD TO BUY 60 NEW BUSSES | Authorization for $600,000 Pur- case Given as Connecticut Ave- nue Plans Are Advanced. morning. Left to right, Howard E. Headley, Inspector Edward J. Kelly, —>Star Stafl Photo. r In preparation for discontinuance of street car service on upper Con- necticut avenue, the Capital Transit Co. was authorized by the Public Util- ities Commission today to purchase 60 busses of the latest type. It was said the cost will be & little more than $600,000. ‘The new bus service, replacing street cars north of Calvert Street Bridge, will be placed in operation September 1 with a de luxe express service to the downtown section. The new busses also will provide a local service, con- necting with cars at the Calvert Street Society and General BYRD ACTING HEAD AS PEARSON QUITS M. U PRESIDENCY Regents to Meet to Name Temporary Executive for University. “COMMAND” OF BOARD CITED IN RESIGNATION Offer of Advisory Position Re- fused—Withdrawal Ends Long Controversy. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BATIMORE, Md., July 1—With the resignation of Dr. Raymond A. Pearson 'n the hands of its chairman, the Board of Regents of the Univer- | sity of Maryland is to meet within the next few days to name his tempo- rary successor. In the meantime Harry Clifton (Curley) Byrd, vice president and di- rector of athletics, automatically ad- vanced to the position of acting exec- utive head of the inslitution. Board members said today they ex- pect to be called into session to accept Dr. Pearscn’s resignation and nams his temporary successo: as soon as Chairman George M. Shriver is able to arranze a meeting | _In submitting his resignation. Dr. Pearson, who has been president of | the university for the past nine years, | declined an offer of the board to re- main there in an advisory capacity. His letter to Chairman Shriver said: “In reply to the command from the State Board of Regents and the | State Board of Agriculture, I hereby submit my resignation as president of the University of Maryland and executive officer of the State Board of Agriculture. It is understood that my active duties and responsibilities cease at noon today (July 1). “I appreciate your proposal to cre- ate the position of ‘advisor on land grant college matters,” and the con- ditional tender to me of the position I do not cesire to accept such a posi- | tion, but wish to assure you that if | I can assist at any time in the way indicated it will be a pleasure to me to do so informally and without com- pensation. “It has been a great privilege to work for the people of Maryland | through a period of nine years.” The board, after a lengthy investi- gation of faculty and student charges |of low morale at the institution be- cause of the president’s administra- tion, had asked Dr. Pearson to reach a decision concerning his resignation by today. Mr. Byrd, a native of Crisfleld, Md., was graduated from the university in 1908. He has been associated with | the institution as a faculty member | athletic coach and executive for 23 years. 'SELF-PHOTO AIDS IN NAMING MAN Body Found on Railroad Tracks Identified as “Ice-Box Burglar.” By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md,, July 1.—After & 36-hour investigation, police yes- terday announced they had identified the man killed by an electric train at Huntsville on Friday night as Glenn Dale's “ice box burglar,” who had been hunted intensively since he | unwittingly took his own picture while | raiding an ice box last March. He was Alevander Marvin Page. | Identification, Sergt. Ralph Brown said, was made through fingerprints and confirmed by members of the man’s family. It was an ingenious photographic trap contrived by Edward M. Woods of Glenn Dale, after numerous house- breakings in that community, which set police on the trail of the man in March. Woods arranged the device so that a flash bulb would be set off, a pic- | ture taken and a siren sounded if | any one opened the door of the ice box on his back porch. It worked to perfection. Although the face of the man in the picture was averted, William S. Kreitzer, former Bowie district con- stable, said it was Page as soon as he saw the photo. | The man found dead beside the }w-shlngwn. Baltimore & Annapolis | Electric Railroad tracks at Huntsville | Friday night had a note book in | his pocket containing the name, | Frank Anderson, and an address in the 1300 block of K street southeast | Washington. Police were told no one by that name was known at the address. Sergt. Brown, who had been trying to identify the man through finger- prints, later learned the man was the long-squght Page L 2THOUGHT SHOT HUNTED Police today were seeking two col- ored men, believed wounded last night by policemen’s bullets while running away from a building in the 1300 block of Half street southeast, where, the officers report, they caught them stealing gasoiine from trucks and tractors. The men were shot at as they broke through a window to get out of the place when surprised by Policemen J. R. Birch and H. L. Pearson of No. § precinct. PROSTITUTION BARRED MADRID, July 1 (#).—A go - ment decree yesterday outlawed - titution in Spain and all licenses were annulled. Violators were made subject to fines and imprisonment. The decree was part of the govern- ment’s “decency campaign,” which last week brought regulations ban- ning one-piece bathing suits or other “improper attire.” Prostitution long has been legally sanctioned in Spain. 4