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Washington News FISCAL HEARINGS T0BE ARRANGED BY HAZEN SOON Serious Study of Formula for Lump Sum Will Be Made. VIEWS OF TAXPAYERS AND LEADERS DESIRED How Additional Revenues Should Be Raised Problem for Consideration. Commissioner Hazen announced to- day he will arrange a series of public hearings to consider the District's financial situation after December 15, but in the meantime he proposes to make a serious study of a formula to determine the annual lump sum pay- ment of the Federa! Government to- ward the expenses of the municipal government. Know Him? CHILD HELD WHILE POLICE SEEK PARENTS, The hearings, Hazen said, would be | called in connection with a recom-| mendation of the Distric’s Special | Tax Committee that taxpayers and | civic and business leaders be gi_ven an } opportunity to express their views as| to how additional revenues should be | raised to meet ever-increasing main- | tenance and operating costs. Present Sum “Unfair.” ‘Hazen declared emphatically the present Federal lump sum payment of $5,700,000 is not fair and equitable and if the District’s taxpayers are wi be made to bear an additional tax bur- | den, the Federal Government should pay an adequate and equitable share. In attempting to work out a formula Hazen said he would confer with various taxation experts and prominent | business and civic leaders who are familiar with the fiscal problems of the municipal government. He mentioned specifically Robert V. Fleming, former president of the Washington Board of Trade, who was recently elected president of the Amer- jcan Bankers' Association; John Saul, new president of the Trade Board; Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and L. A. Carruthers, chairman of the federation’s Fiscal Relations Com- mittee. Would Use Old Formula. Hazen indicated he would use as a | basis for the proposed formula the one worked out some years ago by the defunct Bureau of Efficiency, which showed at that time the Federal Gov- ernment should pay more than $10,- 000,000 a year toward the expenses of the District. This formula used as one of itsy major factors the assessed value of | Federal-owned property in the Dis- trict and showed how much the United States would be required to pay in taxes if Government property could Dbe subjected to taxation. The assess- ments were made by Tax Assessor Wil- liam P. Richards for the use of the Efficiency Bureau. Hazen said the assessment factor probably would be the principal fea- ture of the formula he proposes to work out. He also plans to include such other factors as the value to the | Federal Government of sewerage and water service, police and fire protec- tion and the cost of maintaining | streets and lights in the area occupied by Federal buildings. The formula, according to Hazen, will be submitted to the civic and business representatives for considera- tion and discussed in detail during the public hearings on District finances. INQUEST TOMORROW IN LYNCH MURDER| Two Witnesses to Be Heard at| Attempt to Solve Mystery of Woman’s Death. ‘The unsolved slaying of Miss Eliza- beth Lynch, 35-year-old Potomac Electric Power Co. switchboard oper- ator, will enter another phase tomor- row, when an inquest into her death will be held at the Morgue at 11:30 a.m. Important witnesses will be Wil- liam A. (Dutch) Kappel, 34, friend of Miss Lynch, and Leo T. Cullen, 31, pressman on a morning newspaper nere, Kappel, an iceman, is being held in the ninth precinct station. Cullen was released Saturday night In the custody of his attorney. Miss Lynch's body was found early ‘Wednesday in her home at 918 Fourth streei northeast. She had been shot through the head with a bullet from & .38-caliber revolver which Kappel admits owning. Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDonald has declared she did not commit suicide. Kappel still denies any connection DOUGLAS DANIELS, Who is about 5 years old, knows only that his mother's name is Louise and his father’s William, He was picked up at 1206 Tenth street, apartment 503, this morning and is being held in the Receiving Home for Children. Police are seek- ing his parents. —Star Staff Photo. LUDWIG SEES WAR COMING INEUROPE Tells Town Hall Only U. S. Entry Into League Can Prevent Strife. | Emil Ludwig, biographer of Napoleon | and Bismarck, believes another Eu- ropean war is coming soon and that only United States membership in the League of Nations can prevent it. He made this declaration last night to a capacity audience in the Shore- ham Hotel ball room, where the second Town Hall meeting of the season was held. The audience ap- plauded his state- ment, | The United | States is the last | country in the | world which could create a new so- ciety against world war, and “the fate of Eu- rope from now until 1940 lies in = Ledwie America,” Ludwig said. While praising this Nation’s ideals regarding avoidance of foreign en- tanglements, the lecturer said com- plete isolation was impossible in an age of close international interrela- tionship. “If you declare yourselves simply as onlookers,” he said, “then your neu- trality will becomeé dogma for im- perialists, who will use it to stir up war.” Challenged by Kruger. The hall rustled with excitement when Ludwig, a refugee from Nazi Germany, was challenged by Frederick K. Kruger, German-educated professor of political science at Wittenberg Col- lege, Springfield, Ohio, and member of the meeting’s discussion panel. Liberalism committed suicide in the peace treatiés and the League of Na- tions is merely “an instrument for the maintenance of the iniquitous status established by the peace treatles,” Kruger declared. He said the United States “shall and will stay out of the League.” Ludwig, dark and short, put his mouth to an amplifier microphone and roared at his blond challenger: “I regret that I cannot answer the speaker because I am a member of what the Hitlerites call the lower order. Therefore, I cannot talk with an Argan.” While the audience clucked and murmured, Frank Bohn, chairman of the Emergency Committes for Relief of Political and Religious Refugees From Nazi Germany, stepped into the breach and asked whether Kruger was defending the Nazi regime. Kru- ger replied that, in general he was. with the shooting. He says he took Miss Lynch home the night she was killed, but that she would not let him enter the house, CHEST EXAMINATIONS OF WOMEN ARE BEGUN Examination of colored women ap- plicants in cConnection with the tuberculosis campaign of the Health Department, local medical societies and the Tuberculosis Association was begun today at the Garnett-Patterson Junior High School, Tenth and U streets. The X-rays will be taken for women tomorrow and Thursday at this station and for colored men on Wednesday and Priday. Approxi- mately 2,000 white persons had been X-rayed up to the end of last week, it was said today. Among those who were present to observe the opening of the X-ray clinic for colored registrants were Dr. William Charles White and Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, president and man- aging director, respectively, of the Tuberculosis Association; Dr. Willard Lane, president of the Medico- Chirurgical Society; Dr. E. C. Wig- gins, chairman of the Public Relations Committee of the colored physicians; Dr. Frank Jones, chairman of the Public Health Committee, and Garnett C. Wilkinson, assistant superintendent w the public schools, Harold G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution and meeting chairman, said, in effect, “Let's change the subject,” dnd Lowell J. Ragatz, associate professor of modern European history at George Wash- ington University, talked about Eu- rope’s losing its prestige during the ‘World War. Ludwig said that if this country had joined the League in 1920 “the whole history of Europe would have been changed to the great advantage of the world.” As regards distatorships, Hitler’s, at least, was born of the World War and the treaty of Versailles and is not likely to produce revolution as the Germans “love to obey,” Ludwig said. The United States, he said, “is the. only land that is safe from a dictator- ship because a dictator has never a of humor and must always wear an air of gloom.” “The fate of Europe today,” Ludwig continued, “depends on whether the dictators are stronger than the demo- crats.” Germans Happier Today. her quiet,” he sald. ‘The lecturer’s advocacy of the was not unqualified. He de- he Fpening Stap WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1935. LORNG SEARGHERS TURN 10 CARDLI T0 PROBE W TP Man With Scratched Face Reported Seen in Salem, N. C. “FAN MAIL CLUES” ARE INVESTIGATED ALSO Redmond “Further Eliminated” as Suspect in Murder of Girl. Reward Is Considered. BACKGROUND— Four weeks ago tonight Corinna Loring, 26, public stenographer, disappeared from her Mount Rainer home. Two days later she was to have wed Richard Tear, hospital attendant. On Saturday, November 9, her battered body was found in nearby woods. Dozens of witnesses have been questioned, many clues Jollowed, but not even a motive has been established for the crime. Lat- est _suspect, .a séromaniac, was cleared of suspicion lastaveek. Case under direction of Lieut. Itzel, Bale timore detective. The trail of the murderer of Corinna Loring may lead to a North Carolina town, it was reported at Upper Marl- boro today. Receipt of information that a man who quit his job at the Washington Navy-Yard, after appearing for work with a scratched face about the time Miss Loring disappeared, had been seen in Salem, N. C, led Prince Georges authorities to arrange to send a man there tonight, according to the report. This afternoon all the investigators in the case left Marlboro, with the down fan mail.” This task will take them to Washington and several county towns, and will require sev- eral house, State’s Attorney Alan Bowie said. Bowie explained the effort to find out whether those who have written the “fan letters” offering tips on the slaying really have any important in- formation is part of the police plan to “clean up the loose ends of the Seek “Scratched Face.” Police have been looking for sev- eral weeks for & man with a scratched face answering the description of the suspect reported in North Carolina. Investigators of the murder had little tangible in their possession when they opened the fourth week of their probe this morning. Over the week end there were no developments, according to State’s Attorney Bowle, except the further elimination of Victor Harrison Red- mond as a suspect through an- nouncement that stains found in his automobile were not caused by blood. Redmond is in jail at Marlboro on & charge of attempting to assault a 9-year-old Mount Rainier girl on the street last Sunday. The prisoner, a 42-year-old Washington restaurant manager, has consistently denied all connection with that case or the Loring mystery. Bowie said he spent Sunday study- ing testimony already collected, and as a result wants to requestion some of those already interviewed. Lieut. Joseph Itzel and Sergt. Leo Vogel- sang, Baltimore detectives assigned to the case, studied other parts of the written transcript in the hope of find- ing a “lead.” Reward Considered. ‘Wiih the police apparently getting nowhere, the Mayor and Council of Mount Rainier is scheduled to con- sider the question of offering a reward again at its meeting tonight. As authorities of the town in which the murdered girl lived, they are anxious to do everything in their power to help solve the mystery of her death. In view of the failure to charge any one with the crime after three weeks of the most intensive police investigation ever carried on in Prince Georges County, many believe the case will go down in the annals of unsolved mysteries along with that of Mary Baker, Virginia McPherson and Beulah Limerick. Mayor Norman A. Pruitt and most of the councilmen, however, expressed confidence in the ability of Lieut. Itzel and his aides to ‘“break” the case eventually. Reportz of new attempted attacks on women and girls in the streets of Mount Rainier were attributed by town (flglll togday to ‘“hysteria.” One safi: “This town is no different from any other, and only hysteria can account for reports of more attempted attacks in the last three wecks than in the previous 25 years.” —_——— HELENAN GETS BREAK Accused Driver From Quake City Escapes Traffic Fine. Any one from Helena, Mont., has suffered enough to be excused for a minor traflic violation, in the opinion of Traffic Judge Isaac R. Hitt. w. Scott Helena, scene of series earthquakes during lew é : EE §s i il i i statement they were going to “run | Husband Hunter Plays Hunch With " Effective Results Florida W oman’s Appeal to Police Is Broadcast and Spouse Hears. When a man’s wife is looking for him the fates conspire to help her. Mrs. C. R. Tallman of Jacksonville, Fla., believed her husband was in ‘Washington, but she didn’t know his address. So yesterday from Jackson- ville she asked police here to find him. Tallman, employed in a restaurant at Seventeenth and K streets, was listening to police radio broadcasts and was flabbergasted when he heard his name announced. He called police headquarters and was told his wife was looking for him. Tallman explained he had written his wife since he came here to seek employment, but believed she had since moved and had not received his letter. “But I'll telegraph her immedi- ately,” he said. ANTIREPEAL FIGHT S LAUNCHED HERE United Dry Forces Charge Conditions Are “Worse” Than Before Prohibition. Charging that repeal conditions in Washington are “worse” than the days before prohibition, the united dry forces today began to carry the anti- repeal fight into many corners of the District of Columbia through a series of meetings in the Protestant churches of the city. The campaign will last all week. T. B. Jarvis, former executive sec- retary of the Citizens’ Service Asso- ciation, fired the opening shot last | night when he charged bootlegging | flourished now more than it ever did. ‘Two meetings will be held tonight. Deets Pickett of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals will address a dry rally at Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church at 8 o'clock. ‘The other prohibition meeting will be at Shiloh Baptist, Ninth and P | streets, with Rev. E. L. Harrison, pas- tor, as chairman. Speakers will be John B. Hammond and James R. Moss. Proud to Fire Opening Shot. In his address last night at Bright- wood Methodist Episcopal Church Jar- vis declared he was proud to “fire the first shot in the campaign against the liquor traffic in the District of Co- lumbia, destined eventually to bring back prohibition here and eventually{ throughout the Nation.” “We had thought that prohibition of the liquor traffic had been accom- plished when we got the eighteenth | amendment,” said Jarvis. “But with politics joining up with the corrupt | distillers and brewers, who never ceased to lie, deceive and spend mil- lions to defeat the best law ever enact- ed for the best interests of man and | society, what else could have hap- | pened but defeat for our dry program? | “With big wet newspapers publish- ing everything possible against the eighteenth amendment, and nothing in its favor; with both political parties lining up with the wet interests, what else could one expect than the return of the liquor traffic Churches Losing Hope. “The churches, hopeful at first that | prohibition was here to stay, and that the Government and the States would enforce the law, soon became satis- fled, or at least lukewarm, on the sub- Ject and let down on their activities. Then the interests that had lost so much in money as revenue from the traffic decided to ask for a return of the licensed traffic so their taxes might be reduced. The thirst of so many had become so intense that in their des- peration they were willing to do any- thing to get back the old brass rail with all its evils. “Now we are in a much worse con- dition in every way than at any period before prohibition. The old saloon, with all its evils, was never so attractive nor so harmful as the pres- ent so-called liquor store. In the Dis- trict of Columbia before the Sheppard law was enacted, there were some 300 saloons; now there are over 1,700 saloons in the District of Columbia. Of course the Liquor Control Board does not call them saloons, but the same or worse liquor is sold in all of them, with the added attraction of calling them respectable places for young people and for ladies, even with female bartenders. Poisons Advertised. “The liquor interests have spent large sums of money in advertisements in leading periodicals and over the radio, telling of the good qualities of their poisons. Never in the old days were such alluring enticements held out to a gullible public. “One of the excuses the wets put forth to get rid of prohibition was that bootlegging would cease and crime would be greatly reduced. They made it so emphatic and repeated it 80 often they even had a lot of believing it. I ask wets drys now, in the light of the last 18 months, to tell the truth crime. Drunken driving and drunkenness has increased here in the District so great- ly that it has become alarming. A movement is now.on foot to buy a farm where the drunkards may be kept till they sober up. One never heard of such a movement during prohibi- change it to the best city.” PLATE PRINTER RETIRED | ration Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman, GAS FIRMS FILE SCALE FORTOTAL - CUT OF §851.9%8 Clayton Denounces Failure to Hear Consumers in Fixing Schedule. NEW RATE WOULD TRIM PRESENT BILLS 30¢ 62 Per Cent of Reduction Would Go to Domestic Clients, 12.4 Per Cent to Heating Users. A new schedule of rates which will reduce’ the present bill of the average domestic consumer of gas about 30 cents a month was filed with the Pub- lc Utilities Commission today by the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. The new schedule was submitted at the outset of a series of public hear- ings on the proposal of the gas com- panies to adopt a sliding scale method for adjusting rates in the future. The sliding scale plan is predicated on a return of 62 per cent on an agreed rate base of $21,000,000—if the return exceeds 6% per cent, rates would be reduced, and raised if the return falls below that percentage. Although the domestic consumer is allocated the largest share of the savings under the new schedule, the reductions would be applied to all other classes of service. $851,598 Total Savings. The gas companies estimate that the total savings to all classes of service would amount to $851,598 & year, but that figure includes about $500,000 gas consumers have saved for the last several years under a temporary 8% per cent discount, which would become permanent under the sliding scale arrangement. Ac-| tually, the total savings on present bills would amount to about $350,000 | a year. The next favored class of consumers in the new schedule are those who use gas for house or building heating. ‘The companies proposed the elimina- | tion of the so-called demand charge, | which, with the present 8% per cent | discount, is figured to reduce their bills about $81,000 a year. At the hearing William McK. Clay- ton, chairman of the Public Utilities Committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, voiced vigorous criticism because he said gas con- sumers were not represented at the various conferences between gas company officials, the general counsel for the commission and People's Counsel William A. Roberts when the sliding scale plan was considered and approved by them. He protested against the $21,000,- 000 rate base proposed by the company and approved by Roberts and Corpo- the commission’s general counsel, in view oi the protracted gas valuation proceedings, which he said would cost consumers thousands of dollars. He alsu objected to commission con- sideration of the so-called “agree- ment” between the companies, Roberts and Prettyman because the federation had not been a party to it, 62 Per Cent Domestic Users. Statistical charts submitted to the commission by the companies, analyz- ing the new rate schedule, were all based on the present gas schedule without the 8l per cent discount. These showed that the proposed reduced rates would be applied to 62 per cent of domestic consumers, 12.4 per cent to building and house heat- ing consumers, 52 per cent to com- mercial and industrial consumers, 18.4 per cent to “optional” commercial and industrial consumers, 00.1 per cent to the seasonal off peak schedule, 00.4 per cent to the wholesale apart- ment house subscribers and 1.5 per cent to forfeited accounts. The charts of the companies show that the present domestic rates, not including the discount, are $1 a thou- sand cubit feet for the first 1,000 cubic feet, and that under the proposed new schedule the rate would be 75 cer*= for the first 800 cubic feet and cents for the next 3,200 cubic fee, dropping to 70 cents for the next 6,000 cubic feet, with a rate of 66 cents a cubic foot for all gas consumed in excess of that amount. Under the existing schedule, not including the discount, the rate for gas consumed in excess of 1,000 cubic feet, and up 10 2,000 cubic feet, is 90 cents. All gas consumed in excess of that amount is 85 cents for 1,000 cubic feet. The average domestic gas consumer uses about 3,474 cubic feet a month. With the discount, he is paying 91.5 cents for the first 1,000 cubic feet, 83 cents for the next 2,000 cubic feet and 77 cents when the consumption ex- ceeds 3,000 cubic feet. Under the new schedule the average consumer would pay 91 cents for the first 1,000 cubic feet, 80 cents for the next 2,000, 70 cents between 3,000 and 10,000 cubic feet and 66 cents in excess of that 1 amount. 118,253 Domestic Meters. The largest individual group of con- there were 118,253 meters on this serv- ice, which would have produced a revenue of $4,436,823 before the 8% per cent discount was applied. Under the proposed schedule, the revenue from this class of consumers was esti- mated at $3,908,500. In the building and house-heating lass there were 5,361 meters on June last, which produced $757,982 be- application of the 8% per cent ‘The new schedule, while it BHRF Society and General Victors and Vanquished | 1. W. ANDREWS, 67 Battle of the Pups in Pet Shop Window Brings Firemen and Police. ‘The Lone Wolf, with most of the wolf taken out of him. T STARTED with some clumsy lit- tle puppies romping in a sawdust- pet shop at 612 F street yesterday afternoon. A large crowd gathered to watch | romping turned into| when the scuffiing, and finally, when ome of three Boston terriers took & nip at a fox terrier's leg, an onlooker thought | things had gone far enough and called police. The melee inside the show window | grew louder when three of the little Boston bulls concentrated their en- ergies on one fox terrier. Another spectator decided firemen were quicker than police and jerked down a nearby alarm lever. In no time at all 11 fire trucks, sirens and all, had roared up in front of the little pet shop, which was locked. A fire rescue car. and two police squad cars slid up to the curb and two fire chiefs drove up. Rescuers | by two boys scuffiing in front of the| from a police patrol car shoved their way through the crowd. MRS ADENASKS OIVOREE OF OV Wants Army Man’s Texas Decree Voided and One Granted Her. Mrs. Mary ‘S. Naiden, Kennedy- Warren Apartments, today asked the District Supreme Ccurt to declare void the divorce secured in Texas last year by Lieut. Col. Ea:l L. Naiden, United States Air Corps, and grant her an absolute decree. She named Col. Naiden's. present wife as co-respondent, charging de- sertion as well as infidelity. Mrs. Naiden requested that her husband be ordered to comply with a prior agree- ment for payment to her of $3200 monthly maintenance, Mrs, NaMden, Col. Nalden. ‘Through Attorney Franeis W. Hill, jr., she attacked the validity of Col. Naiden’s Texas divorce on the grounds he was a legal resident of the District. ‘The officer is now stationed at Barks- dale Field, Shreveport, La. The only notice given of the divorce proceedings was publication in the weekly Galveston Banner, “a paper of limited circulation among persons of the African race,” she alleged. She stated she knew nothing of the suit until two months after the decree ‘was obtained. She charged Col. Naiden was cruel to her and once bought perfume for another woman and charged it to her account. He married Katheryn Pat- terson in September, 1935, after his Texas divorce, the plaintiff stated. She said she and Col. Naiden were married December 20, 1919. They have no children. M’NEIL ASKS RETRIAL A motion for a new trial was filed filled show window at Atherton'’s | especially since the belabored little —Star Staff Photo. A delegation from the hastily as- sembled police force decided to effect an entrance through the rear door, fox terrior was rapidly weakening in the face of his three assailants. The crowd expressed mingled emo- tions. “It's a pity.” “Serves the ter- rier right—he started it.” “Somebody ought to stop it.” “Why must the | bulls pick on him all at once?” Police shouldered their way through the rear door and the fracas was soon quieted. | The little terrier was moved away from the F street shop and this morn- ing is nursing his wounds in a branch shop at 5429 Georgia avenue. “He'll be less nervous there,” Atherton said. | “And he'll be all right in a couple of | days. ‘The little pups can't bite very hard.” | Atherton explained the high-strung | fox terrier probably became excited window and in all probability was the aggressor. LABORT0 PRES HOLSING PROGRAN | | Conference Will Be Held De- cember 10 to Discuss Rent Control Legislation. Continuing its efforts for low-cost housing in the District organized la- bor will hold a city-wide conference December 10 at the Typographical Temple to discuss plans for rent-con- trol legislation and a Government housing program, it was announced today by Henry Rhine, secretary of the Central Labor Union’s Rent Com- mittee, All trade unions and the railroad brotherhoods have been invited to send delegates and 35 organizations already have signified their desire for representation, Rhine said. Specific proposals to secure congressional ac- tion on the housing problem will be presented. The Ellenbogen bill, introduced in the House last session, will be dis- | cussed as a rent-control program, | Rhine said, and a new bill now being prepared by a subcommittee will be presented the low-cost housing program for labor. The new bill will specifically rec- ommend that the Government enter the home construction fleld, since pri- vate industry has demonstrated its inability to provide adequate housing facilities at low cost, Rhine declared. The bill will also provide for union ‘wages on all construction jobs and for representation of worker and tenant organizations on all administrative committees of the Government hous- ing program. The meeting will be addressed by Catherine E. Bauer, executive secre- tary of the Labor Housing Conference. ‘W. W. Keeler, president.of Machinists’ Local No. 174, will be chairman. John Locher, president of the Central Labor Union, and Claude Babcock, president of the American Federation of Gov- ernment Eniployes, have been invited to speak. THIEF RETURNS PURSE AND $10, BUT KEEPS $57 A messenger boy in a green suit knocked on the door at 915 L street yesterday afternoon, handed Miss Anna Rutsohn a package and a note and left, ‘The note said: “Be more careful next time. Sorry I had to borrow , but I needed it.” In the package was Miss Rutsohn's DISTRICT'S 103D IN TRAFFIC TOLL Vice President of J. B. Ken- dall Co. Killed by Auto in Eckington Place. NATIVE OF CAPITAL LONG WITH IRON FIRM Samuel L. Gelston, Injured Satur- day Night, Succumbs at Cas- ualty Hospital. Henry W. Andrews, 67, of 3603 New Hampshire avenue, vice president of the J. B. Kendall Co., iron products dealers, was run down and killed al- most instantly this morning in the District’s 103d fatal traffic accident so far this year. ‘The tragedy occurred in the 1500 block of Eckington place northeast, near the Kendall company plant. Mr. Andrews had gone to his office and from there had started to the freight yards across Eckington place when struck by a car operated, police reported, by Louis Ruehl of 708 Irving street northeast. Ruehl was arrested and released for appearance before & corener’s jury. Mr. Andrews was taken to Casualty Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He never regained consciousness, having a compound fracture of the skull »nd other in« juries. The accldent occurred about 7:30 o'clock. Mr. Andrews, a native of Washing- ton, had been employed at the iron | products concern 35 or 40 years. He is | survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose N. | Andrews; a son, John Andrews, and a daughter, Miss Frances Andrews. i Auto Injuries Fatal Injuries suffered Saturday night in an automobile collision at New York | and Fairview avenues northeast proved fatal early yesterday to Samuel L. Gelston, 61, of 632 East Capitol street. | Gelston, who sustained two broken | legs, concussion of the brain and a | punctured lung, died at Casualty Hose | pital. | The car which Gelston was driving | crashed into a truck parked on New | York avenue, and owned and oper- ated by Murray F. Parnell of Jack- | sonville, Fla. Following an investi- | eation, the coroner’s office issued a | certificate of accidental death in the case, absolving the truck driver. Another traffic victim died in a Washington hospital yesterday, Ed- ward Hanna, 35, of Berwyn Heights, iwho was run down by a hit-and-run | car early yesterday on the Baltimore- | Washington Boulevard in Berwyn. Hanna was brought to Casualty | Hospital here by the Bladensburg Rescue Squad and identified through a hunting license in his pocket. Maryland State and Prince Georges County police are seeking the driver of the death car. Albert Charles Moxin, 25, of Ben- ning road, northeast, was being held under $1,000 bond today for appear- ance at an inquest into the death of Joseph Coleman, 20, colored, of 629 W street. Hurt Thanksgiving Day. With two companions, Coleman was run down by an automobile on Ben- ping road Thanksgiving day. Coles man died some time later at a hose | pital. Raymond E. Mannix, 26, of 210 Tenth street southeast, was seriously injured this morning when a car in which he was a passenger was in a collision in the 300 block of S street northeast with another machine operated by Joseph E. Butler, 43, 1420 Girard street northeast. Mannix, who was riding with his brother, Enloe F. Mannix, 25, of the Tenth street address, suffered a pos- sible skull fracture, internal injuries and cuts and bruises. His condition was described as undetermined at Sib- ley Hospital, where Enloe Mannix was treated for a dislocated jaw, cut and bruises. Butler escaped injury. Florence Carr, 20, of 3421 Seventh street, was slightly cut about the head last night in an automobile accident at Third street and Maryland avenue southwest. She was a passenger in an automobile operated by Frederick Gaither, 22, of 917 Eighteenth street. TWELVE VIRGINIA DEATHS. | Sunday Accidents Add Five to Holi- day Period List. By the Associated Press. Five persons died in Virginia Sunday from automobile injuries to more than fulfill State Motor Vehicle Director John Q. Rhodes’ forecast of 12 dead for the holiday period. The total was 14. Yesterday’s victims were: William Wood, 23, of Buffalo Ridge; Gaye Wood, 16, of Roanoke; Cornelia Wood, 14, of Roanoke, all killed in & grade-crossing crash near Roanoke. Lucian H. Davis, 56, of Newcastle, died in a Roanoke hospital from in- juries received when his car struck a bridge abutment at Webster. An unidentified man, killed near Petersburg. The deaths brought to 610 the num= ber killed since the first of the year, of which 60 died in November. TWO DIE IN MARYLAND. Week End Auto Accidents on State Highways Reported. By the Associated Press. Two automobile victims died on u;ryhnd highways over the week end. Near Hagerstown, a hit-and-run driver left Paul Bowman, 23-year-old Civilian Conservation Corps worker, dying alongside the road, his chest «ushed, his legs fractured. Near White Marsh in Harford County, Willlam Bowers, 20, of Co- wenton was fatally injured in a truck- automobile collision. The driver of the car in which he was riding was charged with driving while drunk and with reckless driving. Tangier Oysters Growing. CRISFIELD, Md., December 2 ().~ Seed oysters recently planted by the State conservation at “Ditch Bank™ and Great Bank in Tangier Sound are growing well. ‘This is the report brought back by Capt. Elmer Catlin of the State p&“oe boat.

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