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Washington News HOUSE UNIT VOTES " FORFIVE-DAY WEEK FOR D. C. FIREMEN Sixty-Hour Work Limit Is Set by Measure Opposed by Commissioners. PLAN IS SEEN COSTING CITY ABOUT $500,000 Bill Also Approved for Retire- ment of Firefighters, Police After 25 Years. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The House District Committee to- day favorably reported a bill to estab- lish a 5-day, 60-hour week in the Fire | Department, despite the opposition of the Commiasioners, who said the plan | would add about $500,000 a year to | the cost of operating the municipal government, | Another bill, providing for optional | retirement of police and firemen, was favorably reported with an amend- ment which would require members of the two departments to be at least 55 and have served 20 years before being eligible to go on the retired list. The original measure would have per- | mitted voluntary retirement after 25 years of service, regardless of age. Representatives Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts made a vigorous fight against both bills on the ground the | District is not in a financial condition to bear the additional expense. | “In view of the financial difficulty | the District has had this year “it is not time for legislation of this kind,” | Truck Kills Baby As Mother Looks On Helplessly CLARA LEE DAVIS. | While her mother looked on hclp-’ | ficials in the past two years for the| Bates declared. "It seems to me you're | lessly, Clara Lee Davis, 20-month-old BOINg & bit too far. It is morally and | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lee! ethically wrong.” Davis, 13 Quincy place northeast, was | Could Retire at 45. crushed to death yesterday when she | Bates directed his attack chiefly at | Crawled under a truck delivering mad} the retirement bill. He said the orig- | 8t the home of her grandmother, Mrs. inal measure allowing retirement after | H. A. Briggs, at Fairland, Md. 25 years of service would permit men | to leave the service at 45 years of age | in “the full vigor of health.” Representative Jenckes, Demacrat, of Indiana, who sponsored the retirement as well as the five-day week bill for firemen, clashed with Bates. “You're presupposing,” she declared, “that every man on the force is going to take advantage of the 25-year re- | tirement. I think a member of the | metropolitan police force will stay on the job just as long as he can. But | give the man not physically fit after 25 years of service an opportunity to retire.” Bates, however, made motions to have both bills laid on the table. The committee, however, voted the mo- tions down and adopted an amend- ment to the retirement bill, offered by Representative Sacks, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, raising the retirement age to 55 and providing that both police and firemen would have to serve 20 years before being eligible to be | retired. | Two Other Bills Reported. | The committee also favorably re- | ported two Senate-approved bills and | one changing the name of the Police | Court to City Court. The bills which the Senate already had passed pro- | vide for compulsory semi-annual in- &pection of the mechanical condition | of all motor vehicles, and removing the present $100 limitation on judgments against motorists before the director | of vehicles and traffic has authority to revoke a permit. The committee had met in special | session to take action on a varied as- | sortment of bills it hopes to jam through Congress in the final days of the current session. | Although the House is not expected | to grant the District another day | before adjournment for the exclusive | consideration of its legislation, Chair- | man Palmisano believes it may be possible to get consideration of im- portant bills by unanimous consent. LA GUARDIA ASKS W. P. A, | EMPLOYES BE RETAINED | Urges Congress to Forbid Dismis- | sal of Those Who Can't Find “Suitable” Employment. By the Associated Press. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York, president of the United States Conference of Mayors, urged Congress yesterday to forbid the dismissal of W. P. A. workers who cannot find “suitable” employment in private in- dustry. He supported his request with a con- | ference report saying a large percent- age of recently discharged W. P. A. workers have applied for direct relief from local agencies. This means that, in the main, they are not finding it possible to obtain private jobs, the re- port said. — o MINISTERS AT FUNERALS FREE OF SECURITY TAX Revenue Bureau Rules, However, Paid Chauffeurs, Pallbearers and Singers Are Subject. By the Associated Press. The Internal Revenue Bureau de- ereed today that a minister who offi- ciates at a funeral does not have to pay social security taxes on the fee he receives. . “The relationship of employer and employe does not ordinarily exist be- tween a funeral director and & min- ister who officiates at a funeral,” the order said. However, chauffeurs, pallbearers and singers paid for “temporary services” at funerals are subject to the security law. f $35,000 FOR PAINTING A joint resolution authorizing ap- propriation of $35,000 to pay Howard Chandler Christy for a painting of the signing of the Constitution was introduced today by Chairman Keller of the House Library Committee. The resolution would authorize Christy to select the space in the . Capitol where the painting, which would be 20 by 30 feet in size, would v hung. | of | The mother stood on the porch. | The baby was under a rear wheel when the driver, Luther Lockstamphfor, | started the truck. Feeling the impact of the wheel on the child's body, he stopped. He took her to Montgomery Count; Hospital, where she died an hour later. County authorities called the acci- dent unavoidable. NUISANCES” BAN 10 BE DISCUSSED King and McCarran to Dis- cuss Measure Aimed at Slaughter Houses. Chairman King of the Senate Dis- trict Committee plans a conference with Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada on the outlook for further action on the bill to curb so-called | nuisance industries, including slaugh- ter houses, in Washington, as a re- sult of developments at a meeting | the committee yesterday after- | noon. McCarran is head of the sub- | committee in charge of the measure. i The bill was not ready for con- sideration by the committee yester- day, but during debate on another | proposal to revise and codify the | existing laws of the city, discussion turned to the industrial control bill, the need for which was emphasized | by the plans of the Adolf Gobel Co. | to open a slaughter house at Benning. | Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast Washington Citizens’ Asso- ciation, arose to support revision of the general code of municipal laws, | citing the slaughter house problem as | illustrating the need for revision. | “If we had had such a law, we| would have had no trouble over the | slaughter house case,” -Tucker said. | “Regardless of what happens in re- gard to the slaughter house, we ought to have the law for- future cases.” Chairman King, who introduced the | industry regulation bill, said he had hoped the measure would be ready for report before adjournment, but that the subcommittee has rot com- pleted hearings. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas and former chairman of the committee, who is strongly opposed to slaughter house operations in the Capital, said he had heard con- siderable expression of local sentiment in accord with Mr. Tucker's views. Senator King then announced he would confer with Senator McCarran to suggest an early report on the measure. The bill would restrict the development, not only of slaughter houses, but industries manufacturing explosives, chemicals or the treating of hides. EMPLOYERS FORCED TO PAY WORKER TAX Arrangements Made to Comply With Act After Warrants Are Issued. More than 20 employers have been forced to comply with the District unemployment compensation act by the issuance of warrants during the last week, Assistant United States At- torney David A. Hart revealed yester- day. The warrants charged violation of the act, which requires all employers of one of more persons, except domes- tic servants, to report the number of persons working for them and pay 8 contribution or tax on their total pay roll. This tax amounts to 2 per cent this year. All but one of those named in the warrants promptly made arrange- ments with the District Unemploy- ment Compensation Board to comply with the act and prosecution was dropped. Hart said the warrants were issued only as a last resort after the employ- ers named had ignored letters from the board and his office’s warning of the law's requirements. ” 44 FLOOD CONTROL | dropped life preservers to them, then he TAX COLLECTIONS UP, BUT D. . ENDS YEAR WITH DEFICIT $530,000 More Than Last Year Is Poured Ipto Public Coffers. WORST YET TO COME UNDER NEW PROGRAM Decrease in Real Estate Levy Pay- ments Is Noted in Annual Report. Though the District ended the past fiscal year in the “red,” tax collections amounted . to $36.133,752.60, or $530,- 421.88 more than in the 1936 fiscal year, according to the annual report of Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers, submitted to the Commissioners today. This increase in collections, however, will be small compared to the boost in levies this year under the new tax pro- gram adopted by Congress and now | awaiting’ approval by the President. ‘To meet the increased budget require- ments Congress has provided for a hike of more than $7.000,000 in taxes. Towers' report shows there was a decrease in real estate tax collections amounting to $585,919, and attributed | this to the drive made by District of- collection of delinquent accounts, thus sending down penalty interest collec- | tions by $219,968, the total for the past year being $344,453 Realty Total $17,489,000. Real estate, however, continued to| bear most of the burdeh, with real property owners paying a total of $17,- | 489,319. This was on a rate of $1.50 | per $100 of value. Under the new tax program the rate would be raised to $1.75. Tangible personal property tax col- lections amounted to $1,066.685, an | increase of $52,551, and intangible | personal property taxes, $2,666,116, an increase of $518449. These increases are attributed generally by District officials to the concerted efforts by | Tax Assessor Fred D. Allen to force | all residents to make personal returns. | The major weapon in this campaign | was the new practice of checking the returns made to the District against those to the Federal Government in the income tax statements. Public utility tax collections amount- | ed to $2,024,824, an increase of $135,- | 681; motor vehicle personal taxes | brought in $622.436, an increase of | $103.960; alcoholic beverage taxes to- | taled $1,213,854, an increase of $140.- | 449; taxes on insurance business, $514,- | 238. an increase of $38853. and the gasoline tax brought in $2,575,164, an increase of $229,295. Miscellany on Downgrade. Miscellaneous collections totaled $3,- 900.844, a decrease of $39,205 Persons convicted in Police and Juevenile Courts paid in fines to the District a total of $470,125. The water fund collections for the past year, including water rent:, water main assessments and the Jike, amounted to $1,675432. Towers' report shows that at the | end of the year, on June 30, last, un- | paid 1937 realty taxes amounted to $1.588,299, but most of this is ex-| pected to be collected before the end | of next January due to the annual auction of tax deeds, which forces de- linquents to action. Of the 1936 fiscal year realty taxes, ‘Towers’ report shows, $54,943 remained unpaid on last June 30. The record goes back to 1895, on Which the re- | port shows there is still due a sum of | $1,265. PROJECTS APPROVED Roosevelt 0. K.'s Allocation of $44 437,700—California's $11,478,000 Is Largest. By'the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt has approved allocations totaling $44,437,700 for 44 flood-control projects which Congress authorized in June, 1936. Army engineers, making this an- nouncement, added that other allot- ments probably will be made within two months. Work on the $44, 437,700 worth of projects can start as soon as conditions in the various areas per- mit, they said. The largest allocation was $11,478,- 000 for flood-control work in Los An- geles County, Calif. Of this, $6,478,000 is to be taken from relief funds and the rest from War Department money. The President also approved $5,000,- 000 for the Conchas Reservoir in New Mexico, $3,580,000 for the Connecticut River, $3,930,000 for a group of proj- ects in the Binghamton area of South- ern New York and $1,498,091 for levee construction in the Columbia River basin in Oregon. Details of work to be done are avail- able only in the offices of division en- gineers controlling the projects, offi- cials said. e Plane’s Aid Saves' Pair Hurled in Bay When Boat Upsets Noel McCord, 1242 Thirty-fourth street, and his brother, William, pf Pittsburgh, were rescued from mid- Chesapeake Bay yesterday after a Navy seaplane had directed two nearby craft to the point where their 20-foot boat had upset, according to an As- sociated Press dispatch. The seaplane sighted the men, sent two Maryland Yacht Club cruisers to their rescue. The men said a strong wind upset their boat a short time after they set out from Royal Oak, near St. Michaels, where they were vacationing. Capt. Joseph Wright and Fred Bell were the yacht skippers. Neal McCord is s representative of the Equitable Life Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, Star WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, Society and G 1937. £ 2 23 Diplomat Spirits Daughter Away From Estranged Wife MARY PEYTON STRANSKY. 50, €. BILLS 60 T0SEMATE TODAY Realty Licensing Measure One of Those Given Com- mittee Approval. Five local bills, including the House measure to license and regulate real estate brokers and salesmen, will be reported favorably to the Senate today. They were approved by the District Committee at a meeting yesterday afternoon, at which several other sub- Jects were considered, but not reported out. The four other bills approved were: To name the four driveways in the Mall after Maine, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma, instead of calling them Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison after the first four Presidents. This also has passed the House. To regulate the sale of serums, tox- ins and analogous products in the Dis- trict in accordance with a Federal law on the subject. This requires action by both houses. To grant a charter to the South- eastern University of the Youn_ Men's Christian Association, already passed by the House. Street Pact Provided. To require an agreement. between Federal and District officials before closing any streets in connection with new public buildings in the area west of Nineteenth street northwest, bound- ed by New York avenue, E street and the Potomac River, and in several ad- ditional squares. The committee voted down, 6 to 5, a bill to exempt from taxation certain property of the Society of the Cin- cinnati, in the District. After the Commissioners had submitted an ad- | verse report on the measure Chairman | King led the opposition, pointing out | | that the District started this fiscal vear “in the red and Congress just passed a tax bill to meet the deficit.” Proposed revision and codification of | the laws of the District was postponed | until next session to await the out- come of plans for reorganization of the District government, which might affect the work of revamping the code. Armistice Bill Put Over, A bill to declare November 11, Armi- stice day, a holiday in Washington also was put aside for the time being. The real estate bill sets up a com- mission of three members to license brokers and salesmen, with authority to revoke licenses after proof at a public hearing of fraudulen. or other conduct prejudicial to the public in- terest. A broker’s license would be $50 a year. and a salesman's levy $10 a year. Similar legislation has been pending in Congress for a number of years. The naming of the avenues in the Mall has been a subject of controversy and the approval of the measure yes- terday by vote of 6 to 3 was a reversal of action taken at the last meeting. Secretary of Interior Ickes wrote to the committee vesterday, contending | | the roadways in the Mall ar-~ in reality park drives. He suggested, therefore, | that the names of other streets out- | side of park areas be changed to honor the four States that do not now have avenues named after them in Washington. He also pointed out that under the original plan of the city the diagonal avenues were named after the States, while the streets running straight were numbered and lettered. Ickes suggested that Concord ave- nue and Riggs road be called Ohio avenue; that Benning road or Nichols avenue be changed to Oklahoma, that Reno road be called Maine avenue, and Linnean avenue be named after Missourl. Alternative suggestions were that Water street be named Maine avenue and Potomac avenue, Missouri avenue. A majority of the committee, how- ever, approved the House bill. DENTAL ASSOCIATION HEARS ADDRESSES Four Hundred Doctors at Lectures in Convention at Howard University. The National Dental Assoclation went into the second day of its twenty- fourth annual convention at Howard University today with a program of specialized addresses by a number of the 400 doctors attending. At the morning session talks were made by Raymond L. Hayes of the Howard University College of Den- tistry; P. A. Fitzgerald, also of the college’s dental school, and R. F. Sandford of the department of den- tistry at Meharry Medical College. ‘The program will continue this aft- ernoon with further talks on spe- cialized phases of dentistry and oral surgery. A reunion of alumni of the various schools represented will be held tonight. In a public meeting last night at the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School the delegates were wolcomed by Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, presi- dent of Howard University, and Dr. A. Harry Ostrow, dental supervisor of the District Health Department. ‘The convention will continue through E3 & Mrs. Anna Henry Stransky Six-year-old Mary Peyton | Falls Church, Va., home of her DR. PAVEL STRANSKY. i \ | | ENGINEER IS HELD INDEATH ON LIFT and her daughter, Mary Peyton. Stransky was taken from the mother yesterday by her father, Dr. Pavel Stransky, distinguished Czechoslovakian diplomat, who is in this country en route pore to his home city of Prague stransky, is suing for custody of the child. (Story on First Page.) Jrom his former post at Singa- The mother, Mrs. Anna Henry James Lanham' ChaFQEd With “Negligence,” Must Face Grand Jury. —Harris-Ewing Photos. JAIL EXPANSION ISURGED BY RIVES Prisoners Forced to Sleep on Floor, Superintendent Says in Report. Immediate enlargement of the Dis- trict Jail to relieve serious overcrowd- ing will be urged in the report for | the fiscal year, which Supt. Thomas | M. Rives was completing today. | The report, expected to reach Ray | L. Huff, superintendent of District| penal institutions, by tonight, will point out that it is necessary con- stantly to make prisoners sleep on | the floor and the normal capacity of | the jail often is exceeded by more | than"100. | Last night 51 beds, Rives pointed out today, and | Monday night 101 inmates slept on | the stone floors. The theoretical capacity of the jail |is 631, and it now holds more than | 700 prisoners. “By theoretical capacity,” Rives explained, “I mean that it is imprac- tical to use fully even the limited space we have. I.don't feel that we are justified in placing prisoners charged with or convicted of felonies |in the same cell blocks with those arrested for misdemeanors Beyond this distinction and segregation by races, toward keeping first offenders away | from the more hardened criminals, as we would like to do. | “The overcrowded condition of the | Jail is an old story. Each year in- | creased facilities are recommended | and nothing has been done. All I can ido is keep on urging this improve- | ment.” | During June an average of 40 pris- ners a night slept on the floor. Many prisoners are arrested for trivial offenses, Rives pointed out, | and all are presumed to be innocent | until found guilty in court. | MINE HEARING DELAYED | | o1 U. S. Steel Subsidiaries’ Applica- tion to Be Aired August 31. The Bituminous Coal Commission ings on the applications of seven sub- sidiaries of the United States Steel Corp. for the exemption of “captive | mines” from commission regulation. | “Captive mines” are those supplying l coal used only by the parent company | or subsidiaries. i SCHOOL BILL OFFERED Senate Asked to Permit Use of Buildings for Classes. Senator Adams of Colorado yester- dal proposed that Congress permit the use of space in Government buildings in national parks and national monu- ments to hold school classes for chil- dren of Government employes and other residents. His bill also would grant the use of Government transportation facil- ities for the children. Cat ‘HU nder i;est’ Here After Woman Charges It Bit Her Six-Year-0ld Maltese Will Be Examined For Rabies. Middy, 6-year-old pet Maltese cat of Mrs. Louise Wilson, 2401 Calvert street, was “under arrest” today, pend- ing Health Department action on a complaint ¢ that it bit an elderly neighbor on the arm. Trained from kittenhood, Middy behaved in exemplary, fashion for over six years, neighbors said, be- fore Mrs. Mary H. Frasier, who lives in the same apartment house as does his mistress, reported to eighth pre- cinct police that the animal had bitten her. Mrs. Wilson was informed by police that Middy would have to be put in “solitary confinement” at home until the Health Department determined whether or not it has rabies. In such cases, the Health Depart- ment explained, a cat must be ex- amined by a veterinarian three times 8t six or seven day intervals. Middy’s “sentence,” then, will be about two ‘weeks. ' | | | | | | prisoners had no | | Charging “negligence” in connection | with the death of a colored workman |in the Palace Laundry plant last week, Jury James F. Lanham plant, held for | jury \ l a coroner’s EMBASSY PICKETS BANGOESTOHOUSE Senate Passes Bill After La Follette Fails to Limit Scope. yesterday ordered . engineer at the action of the grand The workman, James Steadman, 21, was slowly crushed to death on the afternoon of August 2, when he was caught between the Hoor of an auto- matic elevator and the first-floor ceil- ing. Steadman sang hymns while fire- men worked desperately to liberate him, but died a few minutes after he had been extricated. | The coroner's jury returned a find- The Pittman resolution to prohibit 'ing that Lanham, who lives in the | picketing demonstrations within 500 600 block of K street northeast, was feet of embassies and legations in|responsible for negligence in that he Washington is on its way to the House |“had ordered or knew of the removal | today, following passage by the Senate of a collapsible gate” from the ele- yesterday. |vator car, and was responsible for Senator La Follette, Progressive, of ‘lhe gate not having been replaced. | Wisconsin, who contended the resolu-| Joseph M. Brown, chief elevator tion was too broad, was defeated in an |inspector for the District, and an effort to obtain approval of a substi- |assistant, E. R. Ray, testified that~a | tute that would have amended the |collapsible gate had been removed existing police regulations against un- from the car and an electric safety | lawful assembly by specifically apply- | appliance, which stopped the car while ing it to demanstrations near em- |the gate was open, had been tied in | bassies. |an operating position. The inspectors After his substitute was beaten La |said this was contrary to District regu- Follette had an amendment added to |lations and expressed the opinion the | the Pittman proposal to make sure (accident could not have happened had | that it would not apply to picketing |the gate been in position and in proper | by labor organizations if labor dis- | working order | putes should arise while construction | | work was under way on embassy office removed three weeks ago while heavy | quarters. |machinery was being moved into the The measure is intenged to apply to | plant. He and Plant Manager John | demonstrations in which benners or |C. Chevalier said they did not know | placards are carried near embassies, |removal of the gate was a violation | criticizing policies or actions of for- of the regulations Jelgn governments. It would make it Company officials said they had con- | unlawful to display within 500 feet of tracted with a firm for maintenance | an embassy, without a police permit, and inspection of the elevator, and Lanham told the jury the gate was | we are not able to do much | today postponed until August 31 hear- | banners or placards designed to in- timidate, coerce or bring into public odium any foreign government, party | or organization, or officials thereof. D. . AIRPORT BILL PUSHED IN SENATE Copeland Waits Opportunity to Call Measure to Close Military Road. Unsuccessful yesterday in their ef- forts to bring up in the Senate the King and Copeland airport bills, Sen- ate supporters of District airport legis- lation promised to bring up the meas- ures at the earliest possible moment. Senator Copeland of New York, member of the District Airport Com- mission, is awaiting an opportunit: | to call up his bill to close Military road and to add to Washington Air- | port 53 acres of the Arlington Experi- | mental Farm and the Boundary Chan- nel lagoon. It is expected that supporters of the | King bill, to establish a model airport at Camp Springs, Md., will insist on Senate consideration of this bill at the same time. They hold that the Copeland bill is an emergenc$* measure and has no bearing on the permanent | airport situation. They will seek ac- tion on both bills—the Copeland bill as a means of relieving hazardous condi- tions at Washington Airport and the King bill as a step toward a perma- nent solution of the 11-year-old local airport problem. | In event the Copeland bill should be blocked because of objection to the Arlington farm or Boundary Channel proposals, it is expected that a substi- tute bill providing only for the closing of Military road will be introduced. In view of the agreement yesterday between Arlington County officials and | ‘Washington Airport covering the con- struction of a substitute road around the airport and the recommendation of the War Departmen{ that Military road be closed, it is believed a simple road-closing bill could be pushed through by unanimous consent during the closing days of the session. . THROUGH RAIL ROUTE , POWER VOTED I. C. C. By the Associated Press. The Senate passed and sent to the House yesterday a bill permitting the Interstate Commerce Commsiison to establish through railroad routes as it does for joint rail and water trans- portation. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, author of the legislation, said it would give the shipper a choice between a trunk line’s long haul route and a shorter and perhaps cheaper route. Buses Are Authorized. RICHMOND Va. August 11 (#)— The State Corporation Commission granted certificates of authority today to Towns Bus Line to operate motor passenger service between Luray and Strasburg via Front Royal and to the Virginia Stage Lines to operate be- twesn Strasburg snd Gainesvills via Pront Romal. l that no complaint was made about the missing gate. They said a main- tenance mechanic inspected the ele- vator the day before the mishap. | el Sl |FIVE A. G. & E. OFFICER | TOLD TO SHOW CAUSE ‘Interlocking Directorships to Be | Subject of Hearing Here September 20. By the Associated Press. | The Federal Power Commission yes- | terday directed five officers of com- panies affiliated with the Associated Gas & Electric System to show cause why they should be permitted to hold “interlocking” directorships. The commission set September 20 |as the date for a hearing to be held in Washington. The five men, now holding various positions under temporary authority granted by the commission, are | Thomas H. Blodgett,” Fred S. Bur- Thomas Magee. BAND CONCERTS By the Marine Band at the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santel- mann, assistant. Program. Marines’ hymn. Overture, “The Bartered Bride,” Smetana “En Bateau"-. _____ ________Debussy Clarinet solo, ““Concertino” (opus 26), Weber Emil Rada. “Valse de Concert” (opus 47), Glazounow Chanson Negre, “Le Bananier,” Gottschalk Grand scenes from “Aida” Xylophone solo, “Dance of the Co- medians” (from “The Bartered -~ ---.-- Smetana Ballet suite, “Casse Noisette,” Tschaikowsky (a) (b) “Marche.” “Overture Miniature.” (c) “Danse des Mirlitons.” (d) “Danse Chinoise.” (e) “Dance Trepak.” “Hungarian Rhapsody” (No. 2) “The Star-Spangled Banner.’ By the Navy Band in the bandstand at the Navy Yard at 7:30 o'clock to- night. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant leader. Program. Overture, “The Corsair's Bride” Hayward Grand scenes from the opera “Alda,” Verdi Solo for cornet, “Our Maud"”....Short Oscar Short. Three numbers— (a) “Piccolo Pic”.. - --Slater (b) “Turkey in the Straw”_.. Guion (c) “Cuckoo Waltz"._ ______ Vitak Fantasy, “Col. Bogey on Parade.” Alford Excerpts from “Erminie”__Jacobowski Xyloplione solo, “Listen to the Mocking Bird”.. _. __ .....Stobbe Louis Goucher. Fantasia, “Souvenir de Quebea,” O'Neill “Toccato Marsial™...........Will *“The Star Bantier.” | roughs, Charles A. Dougherty, Ebon | Edmonds and Sanford J eneral PAGE B—1. FOUR YOUTHS OF 17 INDIGTED FOR TWO RECENT HOLD-UPS |Police Probe Third Strong- Arm Robbery in Which Victim Died. MEN HELD BEATEN AND THEN FRISKED Cecil Kennedy, George Waterhol- ter, Chester Geesling and James Frady Are Named. Four 17-year-old boys, said to he | members of the youthful robber gang 5hé]d responsible by police for three | recent strong-arm hold-ups in Potomac | Park, were named today in two roo- | bery indictments, while police contin- | ued their investigation of a third case | in | which the victim later died Those indicted were Cecil R. Ken- nedy, George Waterholter, Chester A, Geesling and James W. Frady. Police said it was the practice of the gang to get its victim in a scheduled | portion of the park, where the boys | would leap on him and belabor him i with their fists and rob him Shortly after being set upon and robbed July 16, Anthansius P. Econom, | 48-year-old W. P. A. writer, was found | dead in the park in the rear of the State, War and Navy Building. An autopsy indicated that death was dus to natural causes, but Coroner A. Ma= | gruder MacDonald sent the brain to a pathologist for further study. The case is being kept open until a report of the pathologist’s findings is ree ceived. / Two Viclims Beaten. Kennedy, Geesling and Frady are | charged by police with having been involved in that case | One of the indictments today charged Kennedy, Geesling and Water- holter with robbery July-15 of Maurice E. Moore of Chicago, who was so badly beaten that he required hospital treatment. Moore said he was ate tacked in Potomac Park while the Boy Scout Jamboree was in progress and robbed of $26 in cash and a watch, pencil, pen and hat worth a total of $52.50 Kennedy, Frady and Waterholter were accused in the other indictment | with robbing Andy Evans, 921 Penn- | sylvania avenue southeast, of $11.25, a few days later in the park near ninth street and Constitution avenue, Evans also was beaten In two other robbery indictments, Charles Walter Luttrell, 19, and Joseph Thomas, 54, were charged witn hold-ups last June 14 and 24, respec- | tively, of Tom McCann Shoe Stores !at 803 H street northeast and 1124 | Seventh street. At both places the manager was tied up by the robbers, The first hold-up netted $21.57 and the second $15.59. Shooting Ignored. A long-pending as: with a dan- gerous weapon charge against Hazel I Tadlock, 19, who was accused shooting her employer through arm, was ignored by the grand . John S. McCauley, 1762 Columbia | road, complained that the girl, whom | he employed as a secretary, shot him at his home Five colored men were charged with first-degree murder as a result of the shooting last April 5 of Samuel Keys, colored, 1900 block of Eleventh street. They were Edward Goffang. Albe: Coleman, Joseph L. Pollard, Claude C. Branch and Nathaniel Berry. The mo- | tive for the killing, which took place in Davis court, has not been developed | Two colored men and a colored woman were indicted on a second- | degree murder charge in the slaying February 28, 1936. of William R. Ed- monds, colored, during a hold-up of a Sanitary Grocery Store at 1929 Ninth st Edmonds entered store during the course of the robbe: and was hit on the head. Those in- | dicted were James Booth, Doloris Gar- cia and John Henry Joseph A total of 91 indictments were turned. the Others Indicted. Those indicted included Harold E. Bowen, non-support minor children; William Wesley Rob- ertson, William W. Gray, Joseph E. Thomas, Myandier B. Fox. Riley John~ | son, Alfred E. Bell. Frederick S. Tu | ner, Jesse P. Shankle, Nathan Stewart, | Wiliam Shankle, James F. Thomas, Daniel L. West, Jerome Morris, Robert D. Berry, Herbert B. Cowden, Murrell James Dawes, James P. Hayes, Thomas E. Youngblood, Willie Smith, William F. Lane, John K. Davidson, Horace S. | Rodgers, Carl F. Behney, James J. Jackson, William E. Biggs. Joseph F. Diorio and Shirley W. Hutchinson, housebreaking and larceny; Matthew Novak, Hugh Wilson," David Gunner, Charles Morris, Charles H. Franklin, | Eugene Freeman, Ernest Williams, George Willis, Charles Atkins and Claude Weaver, grand larceny: Homer Bryan, Edgar L. Barber, Edward E. Davis, Robert J. Anderson, Jimmie Knight, Joseph R. Bright and Charles Stewart, joy riding: Willlam Simms, ‘Walter Bell, Wilber H. Grimmett and Eugene Fox, robbery. James Taylor, | assault with intent to kill and with a dangerous weapon; Edward Boll- ing, Rufus Bolling, John Hiter, Wil- liam F. Coachman, Thomas Reed and Ambrose F. Young, assault with a dangerous weapon; Willie Davidson, bigamy; Harry R. Moir, George Mass and Arthur J. Allen, false pretenses; Charles J. Nolan, embezzlement; Ray- mond E. Zell and Helen K. Fifer, forgery and uttering; James Simms, assaulting a policeman; Hezekiah Bryant, possession of an unregistered still; Willilam V. Curry, false pre- | tenses; James M. McGill, assault with intent to commit rape; Edward Mopp, rape: James R. Griffin, jr.; Charles Wilson and James H. Bris- bon, manslaughter | The following cases were ignored: Joseph Dellawood, housebreaking | and larcey; Harry Biglin, grand lar- | ceny; Hazel 1. Tadlock, assault with | & dangerous weapon; Leroy Richard- | son, assault with intent to commit | rape; Bdward M. Colbert, false pre- | tenses; Samuel Courtney, attempted | robbery; Jesse M. Stewart, Harry Thomas and Joseph E. Thomas, rob- bery; Albert Rowe, violation of the national motor vehicle theft act, and Mildred Jackson and Acker Summers, homicide. h