Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1936, Page 17

" HANGOCK MURDER CLUES ARE SOUGHT BY INVESTIGATORS Watch and $100 Bill Are Hunted in Probe by Police. BODY FOUND IN WOODS BY PARTY OF HUNTERS Steamfitter Missing 15 Days Is Thought to Have Been Killed in Capital. N An ornately carved gold watch and & $100 bill were being sought today by detectives investigating the murder of Eugene Hancock, 66-year-old steam- fitter, whose body was found yesterday afternoon in the woods near Piscata- way, Md.,, 12 miles from the District line. ‘The watch and the money, carried by Hancock when he disappeared De- cember 13, were missing when the body was discovered by four quail hunters. Hancock, who lived at 506 Third street northeast, had been beaten on the head and shot through the heart, the bullet wound causing his death. An autopsy this morning disclosed he had been dead from two days to two | weeks. The surgeons performing the post- mortem, Drs. James I. Boyd and E. W. Schwartz, found a small-calibcs pistol slug in Hancock’s heart. The bullet was turned over to Lieut. John Fowler, ballistics expert of the Wash- ington Police Department. Policeman Elon Turner of Prince Georges County left Upper Marlboro this morning to confer with (homicide squad detectives here. Irvestigators ‘were working on the theory that Han- cock was slain in Washington. Bowie Plans Conference. It was reported State’s Attorney Allan Bowie also would confer with Washington police, but officials here said they had not been informed of this. Hancock was identified last night by his brother, James L. Hancock. ‘The brother, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, who lives at 1736 C street southeast, substantiated a partial identification made from a notebook found on the victim by police. The only clue as to when the body was left in the woods came from a colored farmer living near- by. He said he heard an automo- bile park on a road at the edge of the woods about 2 a.m. Thursday. Although he could hear several men ¢ talking, the witness was unable to distinguish what they said, he de- clared. After an hour's stay, the car departed. Hancock’s body was found in a slight depression at the crest of a tree-dotted hill half a mile from the center of Piscataway. According to Acting Coroner. F. H. Billingsley of Brandywine, the position of the body and the lack of signs of violence in the area indicated that the man was | either unconscious or dead when left there. Lying on his back, with his head slightly lower than his feet, . - Hancock had “obviously been exposed to the elements for several days,” Billingsley declared. Detectives View Body. At the request of State's Attorney Bowie, Inspector Bernard W. Thomp- #on, chief of Washington detectives, sent two homicide squad officers to Upper Marlboro last night. The de- tectives, Acting Lieut. George E. Darnall and Sergt. Aubrey Tolson, viewed the body and prepared to con- tact friends of the slain man in an attempt to trace his movements from the time of his disappearance until the crime was committed. According to missing person reports of District police, Hancock’s disap- pearance was reported by his wife, Mrs. Cora Hancock, who said he left Jhome on December 13. Hancock worked.as a steamfitter with Chasles Knorleine, 311 Bryant street. Police were told by Mrs. Han- cock that he was last seen in a beer parlor at Fourth street and Rhode Island avenue about 5:30 p.m. Mon- dlyx. December 14. “I am confident my husband had the $100 bill when he disappeared,” Mrs. Hancock said. “He had received it in payment for some work a short time before, and I am sure he had not broken it. He also had his watch, Which was old and handsomelycarved.” Left to See About Job. On the day of his disa; she said, he left home after work to see Knorleine about another job. It was also learned, she said, that he N ‘went to the office of a radiator concern at 1:30 p.m. that day to inquire about collecting some money. At 5:30 p.m. he stopped in a beer parlor near his home and drank a glass of beer with & friend, leaving alone, presumably to go home, Mrs. Hancock declared. That was the last time he was seen by his friends. . _Relatives said he was inclined to show large sums of money in the presence of strangers, and that he had been warned that was a dan- gerous prachice. In her anxiety after her husband’s disappearance, Mrs. Hancock said, she went to a clairvoyant whom she did not know, and was told: “You’ll get a message Monday (the day his body was found). I see him near a body of water.” Another fortune teller, she said, told her he had been beaten on the WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION he Foening Star WASHINGTO [ Found Slain :| CONGRESS ACTION |POLICE T0 SEIZE EUGENE HANCOCK. IMALEURALSEAT PRCE I D Admiral Grayson Announces Charge for Locations in Various Stands. The price of tickets for the differ- ent stands which are being erected for the inaugural parade January 20 was announced today by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Inaugural Commit- ‘tee chairman. | The prices range from $3.50 to $10. There will be no tickets for sale for seats in the President’s reviewing stand in front of the White House. The seats in Stand No. 2, to the right of the President’s stand, all have a price tag of $7. The same is true of all seats in Stand No. 3, to the left of the President’s stand. Stand No. 4, in Lafayette Park, will have seats priced as follows: Sections A, B, N and O, $8; Sections C, D, L and M, $9, and Sections E, F, G, H, I, J and K, $10. Two Stands Cancelled. Stands Nos. 5 and 6 will not be built. All seats in stand No. 7, on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, | between Madison place and Fifteenth street, in front of Riggs Bank, will sell for $6. All seats in stand No. 8, at the north SEEN ONMODFE )€ LQUIRBIL Dirksen Likely to Press Measure Despite Stand of Commission. BELIEVES SUNDAY BAN THWARTS TEMPERANCE Illinois Representative, However, May Drop Fight for All-Day Sabbath Sale. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Although the Dirksen bill designed to liberalize the liquor-control act to permit sale of hard beverages by the drink on Sunday is expected to be stricken from the legislative program of the Commissioners, the measure in & modified form probably will be re- introduced at the coming session of Congress. The Dirksen bill in its present form specifically provides for legalized sale of liquor by the drink in hotels, res- taurants, clubs and other licensed on- sale establishments from midnight Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday and from 1 p.m. to midnight on Sunday. It is reported that Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, is willing to drop his fight to permit the sale of liquor on Sunday from 1 p.m. to midnight, but will continue to bat- tle for legislation allowing liquor to be sold until 2 am. Sunday. The Saturday night deadline on liquor sales by the drink has been particu- larly obnoxious to him because, he says, he believes it is not conducive | to temperance. Cites Late Parties. Repeatedly Dirksen has argued that the people of Washington who fre- quent night clubs and hotel dances and parties do not start out until about 10 pm. on Saturday, and because of the 12 o'clock closing order, either drink too rapidly or else purchase a bottle of liquor for consumption after the bars are shut down. In eit case, he has pointed out, drinking fri quently goes beyond the stage of mod- eration. The liquor dealers themselves are of the same opinion, according to in- formation given the Commissioners at front of the Treasury. Building, will sell for $6. Stand No. 9, at the south end of the | Treasury Building, will have two| classes: In sections A and B the tickets | will sell for $6 and in sections C Andi D, $5. H Stand No. 10, on the south side of | Pennsylvania avenue, between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets, will have seats priced as follows: Rows 1 to 13, | inclusive, $4.50, and rows 14 to 26, in- | clusive, $3.50. | Enlargement of the Public Order| Committee and an increase in the special police protection fund also were announced today, as Admiral | | Grayson and the District Commission- | ers joined in perfecting plans for po- | licing the inaugural ceremonies. | Grayson added the following per- sons to the Public Order Group: C. Marshal Finnan, Capt. P. J. Car- rol, Capt. C. L. Dalrymple, Capt. W. C. Orthman, Renah Camalier, A. E. Cook, | Chesley W. Jurney, Kenneth Romney, David Lynn and Walter Fowler. $3,500 for Special Officers. The Commissioners boosted the special police fund for the inaugura- tion by $500, making a total of $3,500 available for hiring special officers to protect visitors. Supt. Ernest W. Brown will engage special officers from New York, Phila- delphia and Baltimore for the days covering peak attendance. ‘The various civic organizations of ‘Washington have tendered offers of assistance in caring for the thousands of visitors. Federation Pledges Aid. ‘The Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions has assured Chairman Grayson its members will aid in every way pos- sible, especially in decoration, housing and hospitality. Thomas E. Lodge, president of the federation, told Grayson he will ask the various citizens’ associations to join n making the city attractive through the widespread use of flags, bunting and other decorations. They -also will be asked to list rooms avail- able for visitors. . Maj. Charles T. Estes, chairman of the Democratic Clube of the District, announced that heads of the clubs in Room 31, 1110 P street, will , | be open during the inaugural period to all visitors. D. C. THEFT SUSPECT HELD IN CALIFORNIA William Harvey Reported to Have Confessed Taking $500 From Childs Restaurant. & public hearing yesterday, but vir- tually all of them are opposed to the sale on Sunday from 1 p.m. to mid- night. Hazen Opposes Change. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, however, is not in favor of liberaliza- tion ot the existing law. “I am opposed to the Dirksen bill,” | he declared. “Of course, I cannot speak officially for my colleagues on the Board pf Commissioners. How- ever. I am confident the bill will not | be sent to Congress with the indorse- ment of the District government.” Commissioner Hazen made his state- ment after more than a score of reform and church leaders vigorously opposed | Dirksen’s bill at the public hearing. Representatives of these groups argued that any liberalization of the present law would constitute an invasion of the home, the church and public recrea- tional places on Sunday. 10 Other Bills Scheduled. ‘Ten other bills on the legislative pro- gram of the Commissioners, which were considered during the hearing, are to be sent Congress. These meas- ures provide: Tightening of existing gambling laws to control the so-called “numbers racket,” a survey to determine the feasibility of subways, establishment of & hospital farm for treatment of habit- ual drunkards, regulation of the quali- fication of lawyers, further regulation of the sale and manufacture of nar- cotics and the sale of the District Building and two squares of the Mu- nicipal Center site. Commissioner Hazen estimates the District can raise about $9,000,000 through the sale of the District Build- ing and half of the Municipal Center site. These funds would be used to erect a new District Building on the north half of the Municipal Center site facing the District Courts Build- ing. BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John 8. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. Program. Mareh, “The New Ebbitt”.Zimmerman Overture, *‘Tancredi Suite Oriental, “From India” -Popy 1. “The Bayderes.” 2. “By the Ganges.” 3. “The Almas.” 4. “The Patrol.” Selection from -the grand opers, “La Traviata”.. Comic characteristic, of Toonerville” ___ Valse lente, “Visions Rossini .Verdi ‘The Skipper Slater e Von der Mehden Finale, “Nic-O-de- The National Anthem, CLAW MACHINES AFTER NEW YEAR Garnett Orders Confiscation of Gambling Devices Beginning Saturday. ROTARY MERCHANDISER ALSO IS HELD ILLEGAL Operators, Influenced ‘by Court Rulings, Agree to Remove Contraptions. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett ordered police today to seize all claw-machines found in operation after the city welcomes the New Year. A directed verdict of a District Court jury, declaring the machines illegal gambling devices, was formally recorded this morning. Immediately a letter was sent to Superintendent of Police Ernest W. Brown requesting him to give claw-machine operators until midnight, December 31, to clear the city of the devices, which are esti- mated to take $1,000,000 annually from the Washington public. At the same time Garnett revealed that rotary merchandisers, the city's newest prize game, also will be re- moved. ,He notified Julian I. Richards, attorney for the rotary merchandiser owners, that he considered them | gambling devices. Influenced by the | successive court decisions outlawing | pin-ball games and claw-machines, | the operators agreed to take out the Contraptions. Eighteen Rotaries in Operation. ‘The rotary merchandiser is a large, boxlike arrangement containing a wheel on which are placed various prizes. The wheel is set in motion and | the player tries to halt the spin so the prize he selects will be opposite the hopper. A mechanical arm then is shoved out in an attempt tq push the prize from the then stationary wheel into the hopper. Eighteen such games are said to be in operation in drug stores and other gathering places. | Justice Jesse C. Adkins announced | late yesterday he would direct a ver- dict for the Government in the claw machine test case. Since the jury, which had been hearing testimony in the cause for the last two weeks was | excused before the Christmas holidays until today, it was necessary to delay the actual verdict. The case arose from a replevin suit by Mrs. Freda Boosalis, claw machine owner, for return of three of her ma- chines-seized by police April 10 from the Shoreham Pharmacy, Fifteenth and H streets. By agreement, the | case was to be considered as settling whether the machines are gambling devices. Attorneys Note Appeal. Attorneys Harry T. Whelan and William A. Gallagher, representing the claw machine interests, noted an | appeal from Justice Adkins’ ruling. | "The decision to give the claw ma- | chine operators until the end of the year to remove their machines was made after a conference today be- tween Garnett, Assistant United States Attorney John J. Wilson, who tried the case; Whelan and Gallagher, Wilson also represented the Govern- ment in the civil litigation which ended in outlawing pin ball games. When the claw machines and the rotary merchandisers are removed, it is thought that the city will have been stripped of all mechanical de- vices offering prizes to successful Pplayers. e BURNS QUITS POST AS §. E. C. COUNSEL Roosevelt Praises His Services in Letter Accepting Resig- nation. John J. Burns has resigned as gen- eral counsel of the Securities and Ex- change effective shortly after the first of the year, it was an- nounced at the White House today. In a letter accepting the resignation, President Roosevelt told Burns: “Knowing the sacrifices you have made and the fecessities which compel you to request to be relieved, I cannot urge you to stay. There is always the hope that when the challenge to further public service comes to you again it will be possible for you to ac- cept it.” The President said he deeply appre- ciated the “ploneering” Burns has done as the first general counsel of the ‘commission. “Your fine legal talent and organiz- ing ability have been of the greatest value during these early daya of this mt adventure in social ogganiza- ‘Drive on “Communism.” Notre Dame alumni are waging s campaign to “eliminate communism” from the United States. A Friendship Being Altered For Big New Year Badll the Wisconsin avenue Preparatory to the ball, Mrs. Mc- has doubled inclosing in from ] | s ¥ i g i § ¥ § i E | ] EE’ ] i i 3 ; i E 1 EE>F E | Eie i b st ] i | | : i : 5 E i i i E i H ¥ Y £ 5 : grfi £25s HiH , D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1936. This line, half a block long, grew in length today before the Department of Vehicles and Traf- fic, on Pennsylvania avenue at John Marshall place, as motorists sought to get their 1937 tags before the deadline at 3:45 p.m. Thursday. The tag office will be open on the final day, or New Year eve, Jrom 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The office now is issuing some 6,000 tags daily. On this basis, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer estimates, New Year day will find at least 10,000 Washington motorists without 1937 tags and, therefore, unable to operate their cars. 112,000 tags have been issued to date. SEOM RN GRADECRISSN Last Major Traffic Peril in District Will Be Abolished. Removal of the last of the major railroad grade crossings in the Dis- trict was assured today when the Commissioners were notified of a | grant of $250,000 for the purpose by ' | the Bureau of Public Roads. While the Commissioners have not determined how the money will be used, it is tentatively planned to build a viaduct over the Bates road cross- ing of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks near Tenth and Varnum streets | northeast and to widen the viaduct over Bladensburg road northeast near the intersection with New York ave- nue. it was reported by Capt. H. C. ‘Whitehurst, director of highways. Heretofore the District has received | $410,000 for grade-crossing elimina- tion from funds provided by Con- gress for such work in the States and the District for the purpose of relieve ing unemployment With this money the District has proceeded with the building of an un- derpass at the Eastern avenue grade crossing, a project now nearly fin- ished; and with the building of the Michigan avenue viaduct, now about 75 per cent finished. In the latter project District funds are being used to supplement the Federal grant. Capt. Whitehurst said it was likely widening of the Bladensburg road viaduct would be undertaken first, since that was regarded as of greater importance from a traffic safety point of view. The roadway there is now 40 feet wide and will be made 60 feet. ‘The new grant contemplates a two- year program and the Bates road via- duct project is contemplated for the second phase for the reason that land must be condemned before work can be started. < JUNIOR HADASSAH ASKS BRITISHTO ACT Calls on Royal Commission to “Facilitate Constructive Building of Palestine.” A resolution asking the British Royal Commission now investigating condi- tions in Palestine to submit to the British government recommendations “to facilitate the constructive building of Palestine for all sections of the population” was adopted yesterday by Junior Hadassah, young women'’s Zion- 1st organization, at the concluding ses- sion of its convention at the Mayflower Hotel. The resolution cited the “spread of anti-Semitism throughout the world” and asked the commission to consider “the implications of the pledge con- lishment of a Jewish National Home Land in Palestine.” Miss Mildred F. Murnick of Phila- delphia was re-elected president at the concluding session. Miss Pauline Englander, Jersey City, N. J., was re- elected vice president. ‘Three other vice presidents elected About —Star Staff Photo. Famed Author and Bac- teriologist Attending Session Here. After a few drinks of beer Paul de | Kruif, perhaps the country's leading popularizer of the story of the battle | between germs and man, many years | ago consented to being interviewed by | a New Orleans newspaper man. | | De Kruif was cornered by the press | | again yesterday during an intermis- sion in the conference on control of venereal disease, but his revelations | during his second bout with reporters brought out little more than this: | “What business have I got to have | a theory about the origin of these | diseases? I'm not a historian, I'm not a scientist. I'm just a reporter, like you.” De Kruif is not a doctor, but he is a Ph. D. For five years he was a bacteriologist at the University of Michigan, his alma mater, and for another three years he was associated with_ the Rockefeller Institute, one of { the world's richest and most active organizations dedicated to medical re- search. His fame rests on a number of best- selling books which gave the lay pub- lic an acquaintance with the true na- ture of the diseases which lurk in man’s path toward three-score years and ten, and he was a helper in the construction of American literature’s chief monument to the heroism of the research biologist. This novel was Sinclair Lewis’ “Ar- rowsmith,” the story of a country doc- tor who gave up a fair practice to go [ |Storyof Man’s War With Germs Popularized by Paul de Kruif PAUL DE KRUIF. into the tropics in quest of the secret of a dread malady. He found the an- swer and died in the search. De Kruif lives in Holland, Mich, by Lake Michigan, where he swims until the ice forms, and he was born 46 years ago in the Dutch-named town of Zeeland, Mich. He is of Dutch and Flemish stock, with a round head on a stocky frame, with round eyes looking out through round glasses, a round mouth and an almost round mustache. Dr. Kruif's own books include “Our Medicine Men,” “Microbe Hunters,” “Hunger Fighters.” “Seven Iron Men,” “Men Against Death.” and “Why Keep Them Alive?” He pronounces his name “‘de Kreef.” WAVE OF THIEVERY NETS THUGS $2.500 Burglars and Car Prowlers Take Clothing, Gems and Cash. Burglars and car prowlers took clothing, jewelry, cash and mis- cellaneous articles valued at nearly $2,500 in a series of robberies re- ported to police today. Entering the apartment of Temple W. Hilliard, jr., city pagsenger agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, at 2807 Connecticut avenue, thieves took jewelry valued at about $400. Clothing and engraved silverware were left behind by the burglars, who were apparently seeking only articles which could be carried easily. Police said the methods used in the robbery were similar to those em- ployed at the apartment of A. E. Giegengack, public printer, in the Wardman Park Hotel, where jewelry valued at about $200 was taken dur- ing his absence over the holidays. The intruders made a thorough search of Hilliard’s apartment, even slashing a mattress and set of box springs in the hope of finding valuables. Thefts of $800 from the room of Josephine Wilder, 106 P street; $217 from the home of John R. White, 1701 Ninth street, and $161 from the cash box in the safe of Joseph A. Kauf- mann, 1001 Fifteenth street, also were reported to police today. Jewelry valued at $257 was stolen from the Phillips Jewelry Co. store at 1423 H street after a brick had been thrown through a display window, according to Philip Franks, branch manager. About $110 worth of jewelry was taken from the home of Virginia H. MacDonald, 1900 Bilt- more street. 1,000-Foot Cable Stolen. A 1,000-foot length cable, valued at $400, was stolen from the Potomac Electric Poyer Co. yard at Eleventh and W streets during the night. Prowlers took clothing valued at $133 from the car of Floyd A. Nelson, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., who parked his car in the 1300 block of K street, and clothing valued at $100 belonging to Carl Berman and Emma Bonford, Youngstown, Ohio, from their car parked on North Capitol street near F street. —— NEW 1. C. C. HEAD Carroll Miller Becomes Chairman Under Rotation System. Carroll Miller was elected Interstate Commerce Commission chairman to- day for the calender year 1937. The chairmanship is rotated annually among the commissioners. Born in Richmond, Va., Miller was appointed to the commission from Pennsylvania in 1933. | Desire to Play Like Others Brings Death to Crippled Girl ACTION OF FEDERATION OPPOSED BY CITIZENS ‘The desire to live and play like other PAGE B—1 BACKING OF PUBLIC HELD NEED IN WAR ON SOCIAL DISEASE Only Aroused Citizenry Can Eradicate Twin Plagues, Is Contention. STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL IS SEEN LOCAL PROBLEM More Than 300 Doctors and Lay- men Attend Conference to Map Program. ‘The 300 physicians and lay experts on the problem of social disease, meet~ ing here to plan the eradication of its twin plagues, were told today that only an aroused public opinion can effect the elimination of syphilis and gonorrhea. “Public opinion is the controlling factor, early or late, in any public or governmental action,” Homer Folks, secretary of the New York Charities’ Aid Association, said at the opening of the second-day session in the audi- torium of the United States Public Health Service Building. “The most valuable result from pub- lic backing is an aid toward develop- ing, supporting and approving public opinion. That support must be local, inasmuch as the control fight is local.” Folks, who was a pioneer in tu- berculosis-control work, said he found “a great similarity in essentials between the movement for the control of syphilis and the movement for the control of tuberculosis.” The latter campaign has resulted in an investe ment of $23,000,000 in tuberculosis hospitals in upstate New York alone. Drive Started in 1931. Folks' Charities Aid Association opened its campaign against syphilis in 1931, and to date has spent $31,000, with an appropriation for the coming year of $21,000. The speaker said that in Syracuse, N. Y., 70 powerful citizens’ organizations are behind the movement, including groups with such diverse interests as the American Le= gion, Catholic Welfare Conference, Junior League, Chamber of Commerce, ‘Women’s Democratic Club and Wom-= en’s Republican Club. Admit public health officers to meme bership in the voluntary citizens bode ies, Folks advised, but don’t let their connection with the organization bee come too widely publicized. The citie zens must wage the fight themselves, he said, adding: “This is a method peculiarly suitable to a democratic country in which alk citizens are supposed to be interested in the workings of their government. “If government can be brought to mean to the citizen not something he votes for once every two years but something for his interest and coe operation at all times, we can achieve results in our campaign in every locale ity.” The social security act opens the way to broader control of.the spread of venereal disease, Dr. R. H. Riley, Maryland State director of health, said this morning in opening a sym- posium on “Public Health Control of Syphilis.” Dr. Stokes Also Speaks. The country’s public health facili« ties and offices are the chief potential factors in a successful assault on the spread of these diseases, Dr. Riley said, and he found a potent ally in Dr. John H. Stokes, professor of der= matology and syphilology at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, one of the world’s leaders in this field. Dr. Stokes, too, found the public health services of the country the mainstay in the battle against the ailments, and he made public ar, earlier address of his delivered 7 pn London, emphasizing the difficulty ef controlling this type of contagion: “As a measuring stick, let us rec g]) that the present prevention of sm ajl- pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever and typhoid depends upon from orje to three or four simple manipuls stions, completed within at most three weeks. “The control of syphilis as a, public health problem by treatment r pethods depends on not less than 46; to 102 equally incommoding and possibly reaction-producing procedu fes, ex- tending over 40 to 65 weel: z” “There should be a mnimum of three years of treatment & ad observa= tion,” he added, with sow ye degree of supervision for at least w decade of the syphilitic patient. Paul de Kruif, a pop'Mlar writer on medicine and disease, agsured the ex- perts that “the techn' cal tools for its complete annihilation (of syphilis) are in our hands,” by ut, he added, the great need is educs tion, not alone of the masses but of 2 1e educators them- selves, the doctors, “health men and populizers of scier jce.” ALLEGED R‘ACKETEER PLUN.GES TO DEATH Max Pincus, Awaiting Trial in Restaurs mt Inquiry, Suicide ¥n New York. By the Assodi ated Press. NEW ¥ ORK, December 29.—Max Pincus, 56, awaiting trial in the res- taurant r ackets inquiry, fell six fioors to his der 4th today from a Bronx apart~ ment lypuse, after bystanders vainly attempf ad, police said, to dissuade him from g aicide. Pineus, president of a restaurant worke /s’ union (Local 302), and 12 other s were to face trial January 14 on charges that they used threats, vio- lence and “fake” strikes and pickets to extort money from restaurant OV mers. ‘He was free in $25,000 bail. LT L, /STORES OPEN SATURDAY, Business Houses Close New Year, but Resume Next Day. Department stores will be closed New Year day, but will be open the following day, Edward D. Shaw, sec-