Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1935, Page 25

Wash ington News he Zpening Staf - TAX TRIAL JURY 1S GIVEN SECRETS OF WIRE TAPPERS Alleged Conversation In volving $10,000 Con- spiracy Repeated. McCARTER PHONE CALL CHARGED TO McELHILL Two Former Revenue Bureau Em- ployes Relate Incident Re- ported as Fraudulent. Cryptic telephone conversations of alleged conspirators, as overheard by Federal wire tappers, were related to a jury in District Supreme Court to- day at the trial of two former Internal Revenue Bureau employes and a New | York tax consultant on charges of defrauding the Government. Over strenuous and repeated objec- tions by the defense, the Government *“wire technicians” and special agents told of phone calls made by Frank B. McElhill, New York tax consultant, | to Thomas N. McCarter, president of | the New Jersey Public Service Corp., in connection with an alleged plot to “settle” McCarter's income tax troubles for $10,000. McCarter's pro- tests to Secretary Morgenthau re- sulted in indictment of McElhill and the two bureau employes, John W. Hardgrove. former chief conferee, and Henning R. Nelson, an auditor. Another conversation, assertedly be- tween McElhill and Hardgrove over long-distance telephone, referred to “our friend across the river,” who, according to the quoted conversation of McElhill, had given the latter “the letter.” In a conversation previously with McCarter, McElhill had asked for a letter conyeying to him a power of attorney to act in McCarter’s tax case. 3¢ Revenue Agent John Saxon, jr., read to the jury from stenographic notes he made of a telephone conversation on August 13, 1934, between McElhill in New York and McCarter in New Jersey. During this conversation, ac- cording to the agent, the question of compensation for McElhill's services arose. “Anything you think fair, I'll agree to,” the agent said McElhill told Mec- Carter. $10,000 Offer Reported. “If you produce a final result by September 1,” McCarter was quoted as replying, “I will pay you, say, $10.000. “That's a very short time,” McElhill was quoted as saying. “Could you give me about four wecks’ time?"» McCarter was quoted as agreeing to give MCcEill until September 4 and saying: “So there won't be any misunder- standing, let me repeat. If you pro- | should tonight be celebrating the believed to have been an old sedan duce that letter by September 4, I'll pay you $10,000.” “I can clear it up in a few days,” the tax consultant was quoted as re- sponding, “but getting the letter takes time.” McEIhill then was represented as inquiring about a power of attorney | Mr. Dirksen that he is responsible |G- Swartz. 46. of Laurel, Md. COMMISSIONER HAZEN GUEST OF KIWANIANS Annual Stag Meeting Attended by 230, With Ed Sullivan Supplying Fun. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen was a guest at the annual stag meeting of the Kiwanis Club last night at the Mayflower Hotel. About 250 Kiwan- ians attended. Entertainment was furnished by Ed Sullivan, New York columnist, and floor show performers at the Troika Club, including Sascha Bartnovsky, Sam Saxon, Mlle. Ladine, Mme. Sava and Simeon Karavieff. Music was provided by Rudy Schramm, Van Smith, Floyd Jennings and Clyde B. Melville, The program was in charge of Al- bert B. Van Voorhees. Harold N. Marsh, president of the club, presided. DIRKSEN AROUSES D. C. DRY FORCES {Campaign for Guyer Bill| Continued With Two Rallies Tonight. Taking up the challenge of Repre- esentative Dirksen, Republican, of llinois, that he would “oppose every effort to force prohibition on the Dis- trict,” the United Dry Forces last night continued their anti-liquor drive in several sections, seeking to build up support for the Guyer bill, which | would bring back prohibition to the | Capital. | | Tonight there will be two dry rallies. | Dr E. M. Ellison, president of the United Dry Forces, will deliver his first public address during the week's dry drive at Foundry Methodist Epis- copal Church. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of the church, will pre- side.. { At West Washington Baptist Church | Rev. C. B. Austin will preside and J. Raymond Schmidt will speak | Although no rallies sre scheduled for tomorrow night, there will be many | on Sunday morning at ckurch services, |and the climax of the campaign will | come Sunday, at 3 pm. in a mass | meeting at the National City Christian | Church, on Thomas circle. At this | meeting the speakers are expected to be Dr. Ellison, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin of New York City, vice president of the National W C. T. U.; Dr. Harry E. Woolever, editor of the National Meth- | | odist Press, and Police Inspector L. I. H. Edwards. i Schmidt Answers Dirksen. Reply to Representative Dirksen was voiced last; night by J. Raymond | Schmidt, speaking at Mount Rainier Christian Church. Referring to Dirk- | sen as author of the legislation “to bring back the open bar into the Dls-( trict, despite the promises of repealists | that the saloon ‘must not return,’” Schmidt said: | “How fitting that Mr. Dirksen second anniversary of prohibition re- | peal by addressing a rally of bar- | tenders.” | “Mr. Dirksen grows emphatic,” said | | Schmidt, “when he declares that pro- | | hibitior must not again be forced | upon the District. We would remind | WASHINGTON, D. C, Where Dark Hollow Residents Face Eviction From Virginia Park Area DEATHS IN TRAFFIC INCREASE 10 107 Woman Dies of Injuries Suf- fered Friday When Hit Crossing Street. Traffic Deaths to December 107; Same Period, 1934—12 Mounting at a death-a-day rate for | the past week, Washington's traffic toll for the year reached 107 last night when the victim of a recent hit-and- run accident died in Garfield Hospital. The latest fatality was Mrs. Emily Treadwell, 83, of 101 Second street northeast. She received a fractured skull and other injuries when run down last Friday while walking to keep & dinner engagément with her daughter. Mrs. Treadwell was erossing near Second and East Capito' streets en route to the George Washington Inn where she was to meet her daughter, | Miss Annie Treadwell, a Government | attorney. The car which struck the woman, driven by a white man, left its victim lying in the street as it sped away. An inquest will be held tomorrow into Mrs. Treadwell's death and at the same time a coroner’s jury will | investigate the crash Wednesday night that took the life of Mrs. Elizabeth | Mrs. I and McCarter as saying he had had | for helping force upon the wistrict of | SWartz was killed when a car driven | a letter along that line prepared by | Columbia & condition, due to the new | by her son Joseph collided with an- his tax consultant, John A. Conlin. | liquor traffic, far worse than was other maching at Eighteenth and ‘The agent then described a telephone | ever known in pre-prohibition days.” | Hamlin streets northeast. conversation which McElhill had with Increase in jail commitments for! Two drivers were exonerated by a Conlin regarding the power of attor-| intoxication here was cited by Miss | coroner’s jury yesterday when it was ney. “Call By McEIhill.” The call, which McElhill was repre- sented as making to Hardgrove at the | Laura Lindley, research secretary of | the Anti-Saloon League of America, speaking at the Union M. E. Church. “Since beer legalization and repeal, decided Henry W. Andrews, vice presi- dent of the J. B. Kendall Co., and Thomas Albert Walmsley, former ewspaper man, met their deaths acci- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1935. . RN (i Virginia Park Folk, Contrite, | Only Plead Lack of New Home s o [ Dark Hollow Family W aits for Sheriff, Who Hates Thought of Throwing Children Out on Road. At 10 BE ELIMINATED Ickes Grants $34,000 Need- ed to Complete Work on F Street. Early elimination of the F street “bottleneck,” which blocks the “easy | flow of traffic between Seventh and Internal Revenue Bureau after the §he said, “all jail commitments have conversations with McCarter and, increased, as compared with the fiscal Conlin, was said to have run as follows: | Year ending June 30, 1932, 17.1 per McElhill—"Hello, John.” | cent in 1933, 34.1 per cent in 1934 and Hardgrove—"Yes?” 132.3 per cent in 1935, according to MCcElhill—“How TS f the official records of the jail. A e ml’;r‘s;;'; large number of repeaters, jail officials he gave me the letter all right.” state, are drunks. y Hardgrove—"Yes.” 50.8 Per cent Intoxication. McElhill—"I'll do anything you want “Commitments for intoxication msito| 601G FoiE Taoa .. o you formed 50.8 per cent of the total play some golf? * * * I'd like to have Jailed in the District of Columbia for you join us.” | all causes in 1932. This percentage Hardgrove—"All right.” ; rose to 54 in 1933, 62.7 in 1934 and MCcElhill—“You think it over and let | 61-6 in 1935. The four months of me know.” the present fiscal year for which re- The business of wire-tapping was | POrts are available have already scored 48.3 per cent as many com- mitments for intoxication as the entire | fiscal year 1932. The courts of the | District sentenced to jail for intoxica- tion 15,558 persons in the fiscal year | 1932, and 18,221 in 1933. With the | coming of repeal in 1934, the number | jumped to 20,865 and to 20590 in 1935.” America soon will be “appalled” by the results of increased sales of liquor | to women and the youth of the coun- try, Deets Pickett, of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and | | Public Morals, told a rally at Calvary | Baptist Church. Pickett charged that after repeal, | new liquor legislation was written by | attorneys for the liquor interests, | passed by Congress, and today “the public is taking the consequences.” Rev. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of | Calvary Baptist Church, presided. | John B. Hammond, at Zion Bap- tist Church, praised the pending Guyer bill, as containing an injunc- explained to the jury by William J. Mellin, special agent of the intelli- gence unit, Internal Revenue Bureau; H. W. Olson, special investigator, alco- hol tax unit, and L. A. Harris, wire technician, aleohol tax unit. They told how the wires leading to MCcEIhill's office in New York City and to Hardgrove’s office at home here and to the home of Nelson, were tap- ped so that agents could listen in on all conversations. The agents said the tapping here was done under direction of John R. Cox, special agent in charg_e of the Washington office of the intelligence unit, E. C. Palmer, another revenue agent, told of listening in on the call from MCcElhill in New York to Hard- grove here and confirmed the version of the conversation previously given the jury by Agent Saxon. Because of other court business, Justice F. Dickinson Letts adjourned the trial early this afternoon until Monday morning. { dentally. Andrews, who was 67 and lived at 3603 New Hampshire avenue, was killed Monday near his office when he | walked into the path of a car driven | by Louis T. Ruehl, 23, of 708 Irving | street northeast. Walmsley was struck at Fifteenth and L streets last Friday by a car | driven by Henry A. Magnuson, 40, of | 1480 Chapin street. A well-known | newspaper court reporter 30 years ago, | Walmsley was 66 years old and re- | sided at the Portland Hotel. PENCIL NOTE HELD John B. Earnshaw Is Named Ad- ministrator in Estate Left by Sister. Refusing to accept a note penciled by Miss Kate I. Earnshaw, 723 Twelfth street southeast, as a valid will, Justice F. Dickinson Letts of District Supreme Court today granted letters of ad- ministration of her $300,000 estate to her brother, John B. Earnshaw, who conducts a large wholesale grocery business here. Miss Earnshaw, daughter of the late Basil B. Earlshaw, who established the grocery firm: of B. B. Earnshaw & | Bro., died November 3. Through At- | torney Charles W. Clagett, Earnshaw | told the court his sister left no will | other than a note directing that vari- ous amounts of money be given to INVALID AS WILL tion provision so strong that he said Testimony Is Opposed. it had been found more effective than several cousins. Since the sheet of the note which bore the names of the Cox’s testimony regarding his in- terviews with Hardgrove and Nelson ‘were objected to vigorously by defense attorneys on the ground the agent arrested the revenue employe “with- out authority of law.” Cox, when questioned, sald he had no power of arrest other than that of a private citizen, but denied he had arrested the men or used compulsion in ob- taining their statements. Justice Letts allowed Cox to testify. ‘The agent said he questioned Hard- grove, Nelson and one or two other employes about the McCarter case. ‘When he asked Hardgrove about tele- phone calls made to him by McElhill, Cox said, the employe explained the call had to do with “playing a game of golf,” that he thought McElhill must be drunk and didn’t pay much attention to him. Cox said he questioned Hardgrove about a meeting with Nelson in the park west of the Commerce Depart- ment Building and that Hardgrove said he merely wished to borrow $10 from Nelson. United States Attorney Garnett, in his opening statement, re- ferred to such a meeting in connection drastic criminal laws. This provision, in other legisiation, he said had been sustained by courts of last resort. “Thirty-two of the States,” he ex- plained, “found it necessary to adopt the padlock law as a necessary means of enforcing their prohibition laws, and universally succeeded where crim- | inal laws fafled.” A. A. A. PAYS GROWERS Maryland Tobacco Checks for $4,- + 181.34 Issued in Quarter. Maryland tobacco growers received $4,1813" in rental and benefit pay- | ments from the A. A. A. from July 1 through September 30, Administrator Davis reported this morning. Wheat raisers got $173,041.61 and corn-hog contract signers $154,882.38. The to- intended beneficiaries was not signed, Justice Letts refused to admit it to probate. The brother said he was the only legal heir. ' The bulk of Miss Earnshaw’s estate consisted of her share in the grocery business, which was left to her and her brother by their father. MRS. ROOSEVELT TALKS AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY Makes ‘Off-Record” Speech on World Changes to Women’s Faculty Club. Mrs. Roosevelt made a strictly “off the record speech” last night to the ‘Women's Faculty Club of Howard Uni- versity. bacco nfoney was divided between Prince Georges County, $1,762; Anne Arundel County, $1,044; St. Marys County, $548.02 and Calvert County, $20.85. Farmers in every county but Caro- line received wheat checks and in Officers of the organization said Mrs. Roosevelt's address was primarily con- cerned with the many social, political and economic changes which have taken place recently in world history. She was introduced to the 175 fac- | ulty members and wives of professors with the furtherance of the alleged |every county but Calvert were sent | by Mrs. Mordecal Johnson, wife of the university president plot. s -hog money, | Ninth streets, was assured today as | | a result of the additional allotment | of $34,000 made by Public Works Ad- | ministrator Ickes for remodeling the front of the old Patent Office Build- ing now housing the Civil Service Commission. Agitated for more than two years | by traffic experts, the problem was | believed solved a year ago when Ickes | appropriated $100,000 to permit wid- | ening of the street by removing the | lawn and sprawling entrance steps on the F street side of the building. The National Capital Park and Plan- nirg Commission, the Pine Arts Com- mission and the District Highway De- partment finally agreed on plans for the remodeling. No sooner was this done than a snag was struck. The | main entrance was to include an elaborate lobby, and when the bids were opened it was found that $100,000 | was not enough even to meet. the low- est offer. Consequently all bids were rejected and city and park officials | took the matter up with Ickes again. | The awarding of the additional| | $34,000 yesterday will make it possible | | for the contract to be let in a short | | while and work to begin which will | eventually make F street a . two-way | traffic thoroughfare between the two| | blocks. | | John L. Nagle, engineer for the park | | service, and H. C. Whitehurst, director | of the District Highway Department, | | said the street widening may be un- | | dertaken as soon as the building prop- | erty is cleared. The granite entrance | steps lead down to the edge of the side- | walk, and their removal will permit | | an additional 15 feet or so to the width | of the street. The change will necessitate com- plete remodeling of the main entrance to the building, which is now on the | second floor. The entrance will be cut down to street level and an elaboral lobby will be provided inside. The work of remodeling will be done under the supervision of the National Park Service, which announced yes- terday that the contract will be award- ed to the Viking Construction Co. of New York, which submitted the lowest figures in the earlier bidding. Work probably will be completed by next Spring. —_— INHABITANTS BANQUET Col. J. Miller Kenyon to Be Speaker Tomorrow Night. Col. J. Miller Kenyon will be the principal speaker at the seventieth annual banquet of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants tomorrow night, at the Raleigh Hotel. Prior to the banquet at 7:30 p.m., there will be a reception by recently re-elected officers of the association, beginning at 7 p.m. Several distin- guished civic leaders have accepted invitations and will speak briefly. ‘BOTTLENECK'SOON TZEL FORECASTS LORING SOLUTION Baltimore Detective Confi- dent Murderer of Bride- to-Be Will Be Found. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Decem- ber 6.—The Loring murder mystery will be solved. This belief was expressed today by Lieut. Joseph H. Itzel of the Balti- more homicide squad, who was placed in charge of the investigation three days after the beaten and garrotted body of the 27-year-old Sunday School worker was found on Saddleback Ridge. “Are you more conf:dent now of a solution than you were three.weeks ago?” he was asked. “Yes,” was the answer. “Have you any tangible clues which you expect will lead to the solution?” was the second question. Redmond Eliminated. “I won't answer that,” he replied. Itzel today eliminated as a suspect Victor Redmond, Washington restau- 1ant employe. “Redmond is definitely out of the | picture,” the detective said. ‘The Washingtonian will, however, have to face a charge of attempted assault on a 9-year-old Mount Rainier girl almost two weeks ago. Arraigned last night before Judge G. W. Hughes for a preliminary hear- ing on the complaint, Redmond through his attorney waived the hear- ing and was committed to jail pend- ing action of the grand jury. Red- mongd did not seek bend. Letter Probed. Reports that residents of the town were inflamed.over the alleged attack and might resort to violence when Redmond was brought before Judge Hughes were untrue, police authori- ties said. Itzel did not disclose what informa- tion he had obtained from a woman living in a Baltimore suburb, who wrote him the day after posting of a $500 reward for information leading | to the arrest and conviction of Miss te Loring’s murderer. Itzel returned today to scrutiny of the transcript of the testimony taken from a score of witnesses in the early part of the investigation. The trans- cript consumes more than 1,000 type- written pages. Miss Loring disappeared November 4. Her body was found five days later. MORE PARKS PLANNED The National Parks Service plans to co-operate with the States in pro- viding additional parks and play- ground centers, it was announced yes- terday by James B. Williams, col- laborator for the National Parks Serv- ice, before the Recreation Committee of the Council of Social Ageneies. Williams' said the national parks contain the outstanding scenic re- sources of the United States. Because they are selected on this basis, he added, most of them have been away from the population centers. It is only recently that the establishment of national parks in the East has been ’ v ¥ Scenes in Dark Hollow, where dwellers in the National Park area are | confronted with eviction from their homes at the hands of the sheriff, are shown in the above pictures, taken by a staff photographer of The Star. 1. Ralph Cave, one of the Dark Hollow dwellers, who must vacate his cabin, with his wife and three children, Davis, Gladys and Larson. little Methodist Church, which 1s the center of Dark Hollow's life, Hollow Falls, one of the beauty spots of Shenandoah National Park, which is the center of the deep mountain cove occupied by the Cave family. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. i The Caves of Dark Hollow are splitting firewood and waiting on the sheriff. | Sheriff T. E. Lillard of Madison County, Va. is waiting, with eight eviction warrants returnable today in his desk, on Circuit Judge Lemuel Smith of Charlottesville. Judge Smith is waiting for the Caves of Dark Hollow to evacuate thelr picturesque retreat at the head- | waters of the Rose River in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in obedience to the warrants he has issued. The Commonwealth of Virginia is waiting for the drab shanties at the foot of one of the most picturesque waterfalls in the Eastern United States to be vacated so the land can be turned over free of encumbrance to the national Government. Nothing Certain. Such was the status last evening of the Dark Hollow situation, with no- | body knowing exactly what will hap- pen—Ileast of al} the blond and buxom kinfolk of Rev. Gurd A. Cave, pos- sessors for generations of dne of the loveliest mountain pockets .between Maine and Georgia. | Sheriff Lillard’s eviction warrants are returnable to the clerk of the court of Madison County today. Yes- terday was the last day for serving | them. They were not served. After all, dragging eight families with 10 or 15 small children out of warm | shanties in a mountain Winter and | setting them down on a county road | with nowhere to go and nothing to eat raises some questions which kindly Sheriff Lillard is not disposed to an- swer on his own responsibility—re- | gardless of the inexorable machinery of the law and the somewhat exas- | perating attitude of the Cave clan in the past. Nobody in Hurry. ‘The sheiff i confident that a peace- ful solution will be reached without taking anybody—he speaks with some scorn in his voice—"“to the nearest | county road and leaving them there to shift for themselves.” | children, coupled with the inclement | weather, constitute a hand which will | | top that of the law on a showdown, | | which remains to be seen in the | | next few days. But nobody seems dis- | | posed to hurry them, or to hurry Sher- ‘ | iff Lillard. 3 | The writs of possession in the hands of the sheriff were issued by the cir- cuit judge after all efforts to get the | Cave family off their rocky 4 and 5 acre farms in Dark Hollow by other means had failed. | All through the Summer, efforts! were made to have them sign up for | new homes provided by the Govern- | | ment on one of the Virginia resettle- ment projects, the damages awarded | for their Dark Hollow property to be credited as payment on the others.| This settlement was accepted by more than 90 per cent of the dwellers in the Blue Ridge hollows included in the the Shenandoah National Park area. The Caves, however, refused. The offer expired. The only step left was for them to take their money—a generous price, all agree except the Caves—and get out. Otherwise it would be necessary to put them out. Hard to Deal With. Just why the Caves refused is not so clear. They claim the Government didn’t make a sufficient allowance for their gardens and scraggly orchards. They were quite hard to deal with when Sheriff Lillard first visited them with his warrants. The time is up. Last week the sheriff visited them again. He read ther the eviction notices, He found a humble and chastened group. Their pat-iarch, Rev. Gurd A. Cave, who preaches in the little Methc 'ist Church he built himself at the foot of the waterfall, and which boasts a ship’s bell in its squat belfry, allegedly donated by former President Hoover, already had signed up for a resettle- Society and General | | 2. The 3. Dark —Star Staff Photos. | PAGE B—1 WINTER PARKING BAN PROTECTS 73 MILES OF STREET District Thoroughfares to Be Free for Removal of Snow. OLD PLAN FOLLOWED ON ENLARGED SCALE Forty-Nine Streets Listed for Re- striction January 1 to March 1 From 2 to 8 AM., Parking of automobiles on 73 miles of major District highways is banned from January 1 to March 1, between 2 am. and 8 am. under an order issued today by the Commissioners in a move to keep the streets free for snow removal operations during the Winter. The order follows the plan worked out last Winter, but adds about 18 miles of streets. Last year officials found the early morning ban greatly eased the burden of clearing away piles of snow during severe weather. Forty-nine streets are included this year in the ban and the mileage listed is about 32 per cent greater than that affected last year, pri- marily due to placing the ban into use on the full length of several main arteries, from the outskirts of the District to the business center. The Commissioners declined, however, to include in the list Columbia road from Thirteenth street to Connecticut avenue. Proposed by Van Duzer. The plan was proposed by Trafl Director William A. Van Duzer. The early-morning Winter-time ban on parking this year will affect Con- necticut avenue all the way from the District line to K street, instead of merely from Albemarle to K street, as was the case last year. This extension was ordered because of the substitu- tion of bus for street car service on that avenue. The reason was that busses travel nearer the curb lines thzn did the street cars. Streets on List. To date none have found any. al- though all claim they have been searching assiduously. They are not worrying They say Sheriff Lillard told them if they were unsuccessful to come to Madison today and talk 1t over with Judge Smith and members of the Park Commission. Yesterday the sheriff said he didn't know what would happen until the judge rendered some decision today Others Allowed to Stay. ‘The situation is made more com- plicated, he pointed out, by the fact that some of the neighbors of the Caves—up near the Hoover camp at the headwaters of the Rapidan—who signed up to go on resettlement projects have been allowed to remain in their old cabins as tenants of the Government until their new homes are ready. However logical it might seem to others, it doesn't seem quite logical to the mountain minds of the Caves that they should be cast out and others allowed to remain. Yesterday Judge Smith heard the last of the park eviction cases at Standardsville, county seat of the next county, When toM that Sheriff Lillard was waiting for him to hold court in Madi- son today he expressed surprise and said that he was not aware that any court session was scheduled. Noth- ing more remains for him to do. He has issued the writs. The further action of the law is automatic. Every possible consideration has been given to the Dark Hollow folks and the | judge feels that the sheriff may be a bit confused. However, the mountaineers have no better friend than the judge. He sat on the Condemnation Commission and invariably met their claims more than half way. The apparent impasse, however, may not be so difficult as it seems. The writs were returnable today. But, with reasonable excuses, they can be renewed from day to day by the clerk The list of streets inciuded in t | ban is as follows: Fifth street from New York avenu- to D street, Sixth street from E stree to Pennsylvania avenue, Tenth street f.om Rhode Island avenue to Consti- tution avenue, Eleventh street from Monroe street to Pennsylvania avenue, Eieventh street from Massachusetts avenue northeast to Anacostia Bridge southeast, Twelfth street from Rhode Island avenue to Water street, Thir- teenth street from Spring road to Pennsylvania avenue. Fourteenth street from Spring road to Water street, Six- teenth street from Spring road to H street, Seventeenth street from K street to New York avenue, Eighteenth street from Columbia road to Florida avenue, Eighteenth street from Con- necticut avenue to Pennsylvania ave- nue and from E street to Constitution avenue, Twentieth street from Con- necticut avenue to New Hampshire avenue, Twenty-first street from Flor- ida avenue to Constitution avenue, Twenty-second street from Massachu- setts avenue to Virginia avenue, Twenty-fourth and Calvert streets from Connecticut avenue to Columbia road, Twenty-eighth street from Dum- barton avenue to P street, Connecti- cut avenue from District line to K street, Dumbarton avenue * from Twenty-eighth street to Wisconsin ave- nue, E street from Virginia avenue to New York avenue, E street from Thir- teenth street to Sixth street, I street from Eighteenth street to Fourteenth street and from Thirteenth street to New York avenue and from Tenth street to Fifth street, F street from Fifth street to Fifteenth street, Flor- |ida avenue from Massachusetts ave- |nue to Connecticut avenue, Florida | avenue from Ninth street northwest to Eighth street northeast, G street from Massachusetts avenue to Fifteenth street, Georgia avenue and Seventh street from Concord avenue north- west to Virginia avenue southwest, H street from Thirteenth street to Seventeenth street, H street from Massachusetts avenue to Fifteenth street northeast, Harvard street from of courts, so that the Caves will have | plenty of opportunity to get new homes for themselves. And in con- concerned seems more than willing to stretch a point. After all, Virginia doesn't set chil- dren in the middle of a county road | in cold weather. Willing to Go. Up in Dark Hollow there didn’t seem to be much apprehension. Rev. Mr. Cave was “away over the ridge.” His wife, carrying two heavy pails of water from the spring, paused to ex- plain, without setting them down, that she herself would be glad enough to get out of the hollow. There is no school for her children. The nearest | village, Syria, is 8 miles away over an almost impassable saddle road and she has been to town only a few times since she has dwelt in the mountains. A few hundred yards beyond, her-‘ eldest son Ralph, two chubby children clutching at him, was splitting wood. He will be glad to go, he says, as soon as & home can be found for him | in any way comparable with the little shanty he now occupies. He wouldn't have defied .the State over what he considers the unfair price they offered him for his apple orchard this Sum- mer if he had thoroughly understood the situation. Ralph, by the way, wants to be a radio artist. He played a guitar over Station WISV one night last Winter in a tryout of amateurs and folks tell him he was good. He specializes not in mountain, but in cowboy music. He believes he has a great future once his talents win national recognition. Just now the writs of possession stand, however, against Ralph Cave, Walter Cave, Wiley Cave, Douglas Cave, their cousin Tom Breeden, who married a Cave girl; Roy Woodward and George W. Burracker. ‘With the Winter and all it's a deli- | Thirteenth street to Sixteenth street, K street from Washington Circle to Mount Vernor Square, M street from | Twenty-eighth street to Thirty-six h street, Massachusetts avenue fromn | Wisconsin avenue to Eleventh street northeast, Monroe street from Michi- gan avenu~ to Rhode Island avenue | northeast, New Hampshire avenus from Twenty-first street to Dupont Circle, New Jersey avenue from Flor- | ida avenue to Massachusetts avenue, New “"ork avenue from Fifteenth | street northwest to Florida avenue | northeast, Nichols avenue and Ana- | costia Bridge from Eleventh street | southeast to Sheridan road, North | Capitol street from Rhode Island ave- nue to Massachusetts avenue, P street from. Thirty-sixth street to New Jersey avenue, Pennsylvania avenue from Twenty-ninth street to Peace Monu- | ment, Rhode Islanc avenue from Con- | necticut avenue to District line, Wis- consin avenue from M street to Dis= | trict line, U street from Ninth street to Eighteenth street, Vermont avenua from Thomas Circle to Logan Circle, Q street from Wisconsin avenue to | Twenty-second street, First street southwest from Maryland avenue to Independence avenue, Independenca avenue southwest and B street solth- east from FPirst street southwest to Second street southeast, Sixteenth street from Spring road to Colorado avenue. Foe of Hitler Jailed. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, December 6 (). —Otto Strasser, a German emi- grant, was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment yesterday for abetting the erection of a secret radio station at Zahori, which carrier on anti-Nazi progaganda. Strasser was the leader of the so- called “Black Front,” opposed to Reichsfuehrer Hitler. He was de- prived of German citizenship in March, 1934. ment project, barely in time. It was too lat for the others. They agreed, however, to get out if they could. if the government would provide any sort of home for them, or cate situation for the Caves and their neighbors, the sheriff and the Com: monwealth of Virginia, Psychologist to Lecture Here. Harry D. Appleby, New York psy- chologist and character analyst, will speak tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the League for the Larger Life, 1414 Six- teenth street. ‘Widows Remarry. Nearly 10,000 widows were married in England in il*hn year,