Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1935, Page 20

B—6 THE SUNDAY ARMORIES RAIDS SHOW BIG SLUMP Smashing of Gangs by U. S. Men Results in Fewer Thefts of Guns. BY REX COLLIER. A significant decline in gangland raids on National Guard arsenals has followed the smashing by Federal forces of such big-time gangs as those led by John Dillinger, “Pretty Boy” Floyd and the Barker brothers. After reaching a peak of 84 robberies of military armories last year, the wave of forcible seizures of Army guns and ammunition has dropped drasti- cally so far this vear, according to records of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. There have been 27 such raids since January 1. At this rate the total for this year will be 36 per cent under that of last year. Armory Robberies Rare Once. An examination of official statistics shows armory robberies were rare until Dillinger, Floyd, the Barrows, Harvey Bailey, “Machine Gun” Kelly and the Karpis-Barker gangsters went on the rampage in open defiance of the Government's drive on crime. In 1929 only one robbery of this kind was reported. In 1930 there were two, in 1931 there were two more, and | in 1932 there were five | In 1933, when President Roosevelt | and Attorney General Cummings | Jjointly declared “war to the finish™) on the underworld as a result of the Kansas City Union Station massacre, the total jumped to 68 The total of robberies since 1929 is 189. The loot included 1,943 military guns and 191,856 rounds of ammuni- tion. The weapons seized were .45- caliber pistols, .30-caliber Army rifles, .30-caliber automatic rifles, machine guns and miscellaneous firearms. Of | these approximately 830 have been re- | covered. along with 124,628 rounds of ammunition 241 Arrests for Raids. There have been 241 arrests in con- nection with these raids and 179 con- victions. There are 25 persons await- ing trial. It was the habit of members of the Dillinger and similar gangs to re- plenish their supplies of firearms by | robbing armories and police stations | &lmost at will. Attorney General Cummings said recently responsibility for guarding the military guns assigned to the Na- tional Guard rests with the various States. He has urged State authori- ties to house their armories in sub- stantial, carefully guarded buildings. HOSIERY CODE VOTED Southern Association FPreserves Basic N. R. A. Features. ASHEVILLE, N. C, July 6 (P.— The Southern Hosiery Manufacturers Association today voted approval of a voluntary agreement for the hosiery industry preserving the basic features | of the old N. R. A. code. Action was taken at the closing session of the association’s two-day convention here. The resolution adopting the agree- ent also contained a recommenda- tion to all manufacturers in the southern territory that they operate under the agreement. The voluntary agreement provides for no drastic cuts in wages, no child | labor, no lengthening of hours, and that all merchandise other than first : battle for the various prizes offered. quality shall be so labeled. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Showers to- | day. cooler late this afternoon or | night; tomorrow fair and cooler; | gentle to moderate shifting winds be- | coming northwest. Maryland and Virginia—Showers | today, cooler this afternoon or night; tomorrow fair and cooler. West Virginia—Generally fair and cooler, except probably showers in| extreme east portions; tomorrow fair ‘with moderate temperature. River Report. Potomac River clear and Shenan- doah very muddy last night. Report Until 10 P.M. Saturday. Midnight ~ 76 12 noon 2 a.m. 74 2D ip 4 3 . 7 8 pm. 110 p 10 P.M. Sal pm. vesterda: Record_Until Highest, 89, 4 ago. 4 Towest, 73. 3 am. yesterday. 3. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 95, on June 27 Lowest. —3. on January 28. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic_Surve.) Today. Year ! Year ago. Tomorrow. 1:04 a Thi éllll and Moon. Rises. By 756 0 am. 16:38pm. must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precivitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Ronth ‘AYerase. Record, Augus September Qctober _ November December Weather in Various Cities. Precipi- ~Temperature~ tation. Max. Min. 8 p.m, Sat- Pri. Sat. to urday night.8p.m. §p.m. sheville. N. C. G 68 78 0.08 tlanta, Ga._— Atlantic City "N, Baltimore, Md. Birmingham. Ala Bismarck, N. Dak Boston. Mass; - Buffalo, N. ¥ Chicago, Tl._ - Cincinnati. 4 %% Helena. Mon! Indianapolis. Jacksonville, Karsas City. Mo. Little Rock. Ark._~ 94 Los Angeles, Calif.” Louisville. Ky. 22 Maraquette. Mi Memphis, Tenn Miami e nd’ Fi Fla. 221 pBEz: SRBTIRRGTR REEFS 29 . Mo 8an Antonio, Tex.. San Diego. Calif. San Prancisco, Calif. Santa Pe. N, Me! Savannah, Ga Seattle, Wash. pringfleld Tampa, = Vicksbure Miss. WASHINGTON.D.C. IRIBSRIZRR o - BEm | building north of the Library of Con- | | of Prince Georges County had plenty { oners I ever brought to the Hyattsville | He had taken two more strokes than Events an ON THE MOVE. N THE 140-odd years of its exist- ence, the United States Supreme Court has sat in eight different places, always in or near the Capitol or place of meeting of the Nation's legislators. The high tribunal first met in New York; second in Independence Hall, Philadelphia; third in the basement of the Capitol, where it was when the British burned that structure in 1814; fourth, while the Capitol was being re- built, the Supreme Court occupied the residence of the clerk of the court; fifth, when the Capitol wings were be- ing built, it moved into the building it occupied in recent years: sixth, when driven out by an explosion and fire in 1898, it met in the committee room of the Senate District Committee; sev- enth, it sat for a brief period in the Judiciary Committee room and at present it has taken over its new | ress. Xk k% LONGEST STREET. Washington's longest street is Massachusetts avenue—10.4 miles. ok ARREST WITH MUSIC. ALTHOUGH he has only a short- wave radio in his official car, capable of receiving police calls ex- clusively, Patrolman Warren E. Peake of musical entertainment while driving from Fairmont Heights to Hyattsville the other night. He had arrested four colored women for assault and battery, but hardly had he placed them in his car when one of them remarked, “You'se has got a quartet.” The harmony, Peake says, quickly “carried him back to ole Virginny,” and when the prisoners got tired of singing old-time songs they made up one about “I'se on my way to Hyatts- ville, "cause I ain't got nowhere else to 80.” Every so often the officer would chime in with an “Oh Lawdy.” “It was the happiest bunch of pris- jail,” Peake said. * ¥ ¥ % LIGHT BY THE TON. The world's longest lighting fiz- tures extend seven floors down- ward in the center of the marble stairways at either end of the new Post Office Building. They weigh well over a ton each and are fash- ioned of chromium links. Three cir- cuits are required to operate each fizture. JOSHUA EVANS, Jr., vice president of the Hamilton National Bank, is showing his closest friends a golf trophy of which he is very proud. | The bank official recently attended the annual convention of the Asso- ciation of Reserve City Bankers. at Manchester, Vt., one of the most beautiful resorts in that section of | New England. On the golf links he had to compete for honors with some 300 other finan- clers. Between business sessions they | rushed out with their golf clubs to * ok X % AMONG HIS SOUVENIRS. It so happened that it rained for almost three days, and Mr. Evans says there were times when one could not see the next green. They all kept on playing, however, just as if the weather had been perfect. When the prizes were awarded it was discovered that the Washington banker had made the highest score ever hung up on the hotel golf course. any other golfer in history in making the circuit. * ox o % 350 CHURCHES HERE. Eighty-five strong, colored Bap- tist Churches outnumbder almost Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting | written off as a total loss. d Things. free dispensary their kin had dis- | covered. * % ok ¥ COLLISION BY AIR. 'HE question, often asked, whether airplanes and birds collide in flight has been answered to_the entire satisfaction of at least one pilot at the Anacostia Naval Air Station. They do. Flying to the Naval Air Station at Cape May, N. J., the pilot saw a large bird loom up directly ahead in the thick mist which had blown up. The pilot hauled back on the stick and kicked the rudder and at the same time the bird veered, but both maneu- vers were too late. The bird struck the leading edge of the right upper wing at the out- board strut fitting so hard as to jar the whole airplane. The pilot limped in to a landing with the wing flying several shredded pennants, according to a report to the Navy Department. Inspection showed eight broken compression ribs in the wing. Several 10-inch feathers were caught in the torn metal and fabric. The unfortu- nate bird, believed to have been one of the larger species of sea gulls, witin & wing spread of about 30 inches, was Royalty Sees Slums. One “royal drive” of the Duke and Duchess of Kent while visiting in Glasgow, Scotland, was through the slums district. Canals Bring Water. Subterranean canals supply the water to Central Asia’s largest swim- ming pool, just opened in Ashkabad, capital of Turkmenia. CAPITAL CITY COLLEGE, 817 13th ST. (OPPOSITE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.) A" School _ for Stenographers. Secretaries Bookkeepers and Accountants “A_Business Education at Cost” __All Graduates Employed—Enroll N ol Mu.-l—rA-.v Io ACADERMY pervised Fully accredited. Prcpares for college or busioess. Able faculty. Small demes Su smuy. Lower School for small boys in sew scparate Housemother. R.0.T.C. Ilre.n:l‘& . Imide swimming pool. All sbletics health record. Catalos. 37tk yr. Dr. J. J. Wicker, Pres. Box B. Fork Unlen. Va. DRAFTING ALL BRANCHES START NOW! Columbia “Tech” Institute 1319 F St. N.W. Met. 5626 d for Catalogue. STAR, WASHINGTON, Thousands of His Babies Honor |JUDGE VAUSE QUITS §426,000 000 VALUE PUTONCL.L. WORK Director Fechner Reviews Achievements During Past Two Years. By the Associated Press. The Civillan Conservation Corps’ efforts to improve the Nation's forests were described yesterday by Robert Pechner, C. C. C. director, as repre- senting a work value of $428,000,000. Fechner, who said the figures cov- ered the first two years of the C. C. C.’s activities, estimated C. C. C. work supervised by the Agriculture Depart- ment was valued at $350,000,000, by the Interior Department at $71.000,- 000, by the War Department at $7,000,000. ‘The C. C. C. director listed the fol- lowing work of the corps during the two-year period: Planted 291,000,000 trees, built 67,- 000 miles of roads and trails, 33,000 miles of telephone lines, 38,000 miles of fire breaks, to reduce danger of forest fires; covered 11,250,000 acres in fighting rodents and 4,824,000 in a campaign against beetles — besides fighting white pine blister rust and similar tree diseases on 3,929,000 acres. “Tralned in fire fighting by forest service officers,” Fechner commented, “the C. C. C. boys have served as an effective suppression force on the ground and thousands o1 them have performed heroic work on the fire line in periods of emergency.” Many agriculturalists of Algeria are | facing want. | | Y 14th STREET two-to-one any other single de- nomination of churches in Wash~- ington. Episcopal churches are nezt with 43, followed by Metho- dist Episcopal with 38; Catholic, 34; Baptist (white), 24, and Pres- byterian, U. S. A, 23. There are some 350 church edifices in the Capital. * ok ¥ X MISSING MILK MYSTERY. A FARMER residing near Bushwood, in Southern Maryland, has & cow in his herd of which he had been quite proud because of the large quantity of milk it gave daily. For several days recently, however, Miss Cow failed to keep up her stand- ard of production and the farmer ‘bcgan to worry. She apparently was as healthy as ever and ate as much | as the other cows, but failed to pro- duce as usual. The farmer kept her under observation and noticed she | spent much time near some bushes at the far end of the fleld. One evening the farmer took up a stand nearby and within a short time noticed a blacksnake with its mouth attached to the cow's udder, getting its evening meal of fresh milk. 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Their six-cylinder valve-in-head engines use less gas and oil. And their strong, sturdy con- struction assures faithful performance, year in and year out, with a minimum of maintenance expense. That is why we say—It pays 3 ways to buy Chevrolets! See your Chevrolet dealer and choose the right Chevrolet Truck for your delivery or haulage needs—today! CHEVROLET MOTOR CO. DETROIT, MICH. Compare Chevrole's low delivered prices end esgy GM.AC. tems. A Genersl A Motors Ve D. C, JULY 19 35—PART ONE. Ohio Doctor on 100th Birthday By the Ascociated Press. BETHEL, Ohlo, July 6 —Many of the 1,800 babies he brought into the world during 75 years of practice thronged main street today, to cele- brate Dr. William Eberle Thompson's 100th birthday anniversary. It was his day, and the town made the most of it. For one day, at least, the still-active centenarian attended no patients. Instead he received hon- ors paid him by his fellow townsmen. The town weekly printed a special issue. Members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to which he be- longs, named & class of initiates in his honor. The Ohio State Medical Association sent its president, Dr. John A. Caldwell of Cincinnati, to pay the respects of the profession. Casting aside the honors Dr. Thompson, benign, white-headed, white-bearded, almost shyly called himself just an old-fashioned country doctor. “It has been my happy privilege and choice to dwell among you throughout my life,” he said. “It has also been granted to me to minister as a physician among you for more than 75 years. I have heard the first cry that many of you have made and I have watched you grow from feeble infants into strong men and women.” Assists at 4,500 Births. MULVANE, Kans,, July 6 (®.—Dr. 8. T. Shelly, 78, who, like Dr. Willlam Eberle Thompson, describes himself as “just a country doctor,” remains ac- tive in prattice here with a record of assisting at 4,500 births since he rode into Mulvane astride a $15 cowpony to establish an office January 22, 1880. “I officiated at the birth of a girl baby the day after I arrived from MOUNT IPUEASANT STHODL or SECRETARIES Opening New Classes Monday, July 8 Gregg Shorthand Tivoli Theater Building AND PARK ROAD Telephone COlumbia 3000 ‘Wichita,” Dr. Shelly said, “but I have forgotten her name.” Most of the others he claims as friends in the countryside about Mul- vane. On August 25, 1933, the phy- siclan was host at his home to nearly 1,000 of his “babies.” PLAN PICNIC GROVES Park authorities ar: preparing to open up new picnic groves shortly in the Fort Dupont area. The branch of plans and design of the National Park Service, Interior Department, is now at work on de- signing rustic tables and benches for the new groves. Under the tentative program young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps, stationed ai Fort Dupont, will construct the tables and | benches from timbera vailable in that section of the city. Tbe exact date of the opening of the new picnic groves, which will be supplied with water, will be announced later by the park officials. SECTIONS FORM July 8 PRISON ON PAROLE Three and Half Years of Mail Fraud Sentence Served by Former Jurist. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, July 6—Former Judg:! W. Bernard Vause of King's County, | Brooklyn, N. Y., today was paroled| from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary after serving nearly three and a half years of a six-year sentence for con- spiracy and using the mails to defraud. The Federal Parole Board had an- nounced several months ago the former Brooklyn judge would be paroled today. | He left the prison immediately after his release, ‘The charges for which Vause was convicted and sentenced July 30, 1930, in the southern district of New York grew out of the operation of the Columbia Finance Co. He began serving his term on executive clemency to President Rooses velt. Vause, who has been eligible for parole since February 2, 1934, will be allowed to return to his home under rigid parole supervision. His sentence, with allowances for good behavior, will | expire July 8, 1936. The Parole Board termed him an exemplary prisoner. 1210-POUND PASTOR IS PUT IN DEATH CELL By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, July 6—Rev. Edgar Es_kndge. Baptist preacher awaiting trial for the slaying of Police Chief Ed J. O'Reilly of Orange, Tex., sought to have himself transierred to a hos- pital today—but ended up in solitary confinement. The 210-pound pastor complained to county jail attendants of a pain in the side, but a doctor sald the min- ister was “the picture of health.” At the order of Sheriff T. A. Bin- ford, Eskridge was placed in the death cell, usually occupied by men await- ing action on appeals from death sen- February 3, 1932, after appeals had | tences. been carried to the Circuit and “He can have pleaty of peace and Supreme Courts and an appeal for| quiet there,” the sheriff explained. HORTHAND and TYPEWRITING $-WEEK INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSE For College Men and Women and Seniors Who Plan to Enter College Next Fall Shorthand: All Principles of Gregg Short- hand and Sufficient Dictation Practice for Taking Lecture Notes. Typewriting: Speed Enough to Prepare Writ- ten Assignments Rapidly and Accurately. TRAYER COLLEGE F STREET AT 13m NATIONAL 1748 HOMEP BUILDING