Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1937, Page 21

Wash TAREE LOSE LIVES INLOGAL TRAFFIC; FATALITYTOLL 17 John C. Bennett Killed When Hit by Auto on Benning Road. TWO COLORED MEN VICTIMS IN COLLISION Motor Vehicle and Street Car in Head-On Crash on Wiscon- sin Avenue. Automobile accidents killed three persons here yesterday and last night, raising the traffic fatality toll for the year to 77 as compared to 61 at this time last year, after the District had gone withe out a fatal acci- dent since Sep- tember 8. John C. Ben- nett, 29, truck driver for the Sanitary Grocery Co., was Kkilled when struck by an automobile on Benning road near Forty-sixth street northeast last night as he i was walking to his home at 3501 Benning road north- east. Frank L. Hagerman, 31, of 15 ¥ street, Listed by police as driver of #he car, took Bennett to Gallinger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. A head-on crash of an automobile And & street car in the 3500 block of Wisconsin avenue early yesterday killed two colored passengers in the automobile and injured the driver | eritically. | The dead were Coy Birt, 544 ‘Twenty-third street north and Wilile J. Morgan, 33, of 1220 Sixth street. Thomas J. Evans, 37, also colored, who lived at the same ad- dress as Morgan, received a fractured wkull and other injuries. H> was in serious condition at Emergency Hos- 4. C. Bennett. * | momentum ington. News ! buttoned his slicker tight and rain yesterday to welcome 297 of Washington and Baltimore { mn that vicinity. Mayor L. M. Fraley of Oakland, Md., Oakland in hope of getting some prize pic- tures of the mountain and lake scenic spots he Zoening Htaf WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1937. The Party Was “All Wet,” but That Didn’t Stop Camera Fans stood. in the camera fans who went to cursion to be run from Washington. photographers since the B. & All wet after an outing in the rain, the excursionists got wetter as they waited for the Baltimore & Ohio special train to take them on for the return trip. For three hours, they were driven on a tour of the mountain and lake section by public-spirited citizens of Oak- land, who provided 90 automobiles for the party. It was the first special camera train ex- Such excursions have become popular with amateur O. first ran one from Pittsburgh last May. Ak ko pictures they had, h clouds, through whic the rain as best the on Excursion ch their lenses could not “see.” But some, like this girl, shielded their cameras from Society and General B PAGE B—1 e e e e e ———— POLICEMANTOFACE TRIAL IN LARCENY AT ST, ELIZABETH'S Indiciment Charging Of- fense Against Matthews Re- turned by Grand Jury. POL.ICE COURT JUDGE HAD DISMISSED CASE Assault With Intent to Kill Laid to J. M. Tabler—Two Ac- The camera enthusiasts were not able to get the oped for because of rain and y could, snapped the shutters, and hoped for the best. —Star Staff Photos by Garnett Horner. FREF LUNCH DRIVE REGEIVES SUPPORT Citizens’ Emergency Com- mittee Encouraged as Pro- gram Nears Completion. The drive to provide free lunches r needy school children took on today as the work of organizing it neared completion. Hope that sufficient money would be raised to start the lunches within a week or 10 days was expressed by members of the Citizens' Emergency Committee for Feeding Hungry School fo HITS 14 000 TOTAL !Sperry Expects Membership 1 Campaign to Reach Its Goal of 75,000. | _ Early reports today revealed the Red | Cross membership drive had climbed ! | 10 14,000 over the week end and Marcy | | L. Speery, chairman of the roll call, | | expressed confidence drive progress is | | beginning to attain satisfactory mo- | | mentum. % With two weeks remaining. Speery | RED [;R[]SS DRWE Song ‘Plugging’ and ‘Payolas’g Denounced as Threat to Mus c | Leading Publishers of Code of Fair Federal Trad American ears are becoming “plug” conscious, rather than music “con- scious. This was a bill of complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission today as representatives of the prin- cipal music publishing firms of the country urged adoption of a code of fair practice for the industry to si- lence tune pluggers, who, for a price, | Argue for Adoption : Practice Before e Commission. | resentatives of Berlin, Peist, Witmark, | Gershwin and others Turned Down by Better Artists. l Marks gave the lowdown on the | | plugging industry. orchestra leaders like Whiteman, Val- | | lee, Waring and Lombardo would have no part of this business and that the | same applied to the better artists, | | But there are others. PRESDENTT0TALK AT BULDING RIS New Federal Reserve Struc- ture Is to Be Dedicated on October 20. President Roosevelt will deliver an address at the dedication of the new Federal Reserve Poard Building at | e aid 10D-N0LCh | renty-first. street, and Constitution | avenue on Wednesday afternoon, Oc- tober 20, it was learned today. ‘The ceremony will be held inside the building, near the monumental stair- 1 OBBERES NEY 069 D 3 RS Furniture Store Looted of $1,270 in Series of Week End Burglaries. Bandits, burglars and sneak thieves harassed Washington with a far-flung assortment of activities over the week !'end, police reported today. Miss Manelia Redd was playing | bridge with guests in her apartment cused of Housebreaking. An indictment charging larceny fyom the United States was returned today against Policeman Willie Jim Matthews of the first precinct, al- though Police Court Judge Hobart Newman had dismissed the case against him last week Judge Newman said he did not feel Justified in holding the officer for the grand jury because there was no evie dence against him othér than the alleged statements of two men aee cused along with him in the case Nevertheless, police presented their evidence to the grand jury, which voted to indict all three Matthews, Thad Parker Strader and John Ervin Robey were accused of stealing large quantities of groceries from St. Elizabeth's Hospital during the past four months. The latter two were employed at the hospital, Strader as a cook and Robey as an attendant. Police Quote Pair's Charge. Strader and Robey are quoted b police as saying Matthews would drive | them to the hospital two or three times a week and that they would take food supplies from the store room. All three were arrested Sep- tember 22 An alleged attempt to “take for a ride” John Hiter, colored, one of the | defendants in a large liquor-conspir- acy case pending, resulted today in | an indictment charging assault witr | intent to kill against John M. Tab- ler, 30. Hiter told police he drove tnto his vard at 942 Rhode Island avenur at 1434 Harvard street when a burglar | pital. | Children. | said he believed the goal of 75000 | Their scale ranges from $15 to $50 Way.and the Chief Executive will speak shortly after midnight August 27 anc Street Car Held Standing Still. | Gift of cash and pledges to provide | WOuld be attained. He said he expects | slipped into the place unheard and | was met by Tabler, who representec will assail the hearing faculties of all | trom the second floor, overlooking & ) s presen within reach to “popularize” some | Do PIUE and they take them on in| T OO % | took the purses and wraps of women | himself to be a “Federal man " John G. Durham, 4804 Forty-first | { - street, operator of the street car, said it | Feaching campaign headquarters, room | Ported each day until the end of the was standing still when struck by the | 237 at the Mayflower Hotel, in en- drive. couraging numbers. | futomobile, More than 20 other persons were | injured, two of them by hit-run | drivers, as rain and slippery streets | increased traffic dangers. Similar | conditions contributed to numerous sccidents in nearby States, resulting in ! 6ix deaths in Virginia and three in | Maryland during the week end, ac- | cording to the Associated Press. Four Washington persons were hurt i trict I a collision near New Market, Va. | in which Mrs. B. D. English, 40, of | Roanoke, was killed The car in which Mrs. English was riding was | said to have been struck by a machine | Wwhich police' said was driven b_v‘ Joseph K. Waicikauskas, 1800 block of Newton street, Washington. Miss | ‘Theodosia Ambrozy, 25, of Washing- ton, a passenger in his car, received & fractured skull Miss Antoinette | Grodecki and Frank Lewland, both of Washington, escaped with cuts and bruises. Drunken Driving Charged. i Ernest Scott, 1100 block of Euclid street, was charged with drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident | At Culpeper. Va,, near where a car, al- legedly his, struck and injured Ernest | Clatterbuck, 60, and Burrow Wood- | frey, 35. ' The victims of hit-run drivers in| Washington were Peter George, 50, of | 202'; Seventh street southwest, and | George F. Horner, 57, of 1131 Morse | street southeast. George, struck near | his home, was taken to Emergency Where he was treated for severe head injuries. Horner feceived head and | ehest injuries when struck at Twelith | street and Florida avenue. He was taken to Casualty Hospital. | James Lyons, 25, of 1148 Owen place | Rortheast, a watchman at the Memo- | rial Bridge, was struck by an automo- | bile which police said was driven by Norman Ross, colored, Alexandria, while attempting to halt traffic before Faising the draw in the bridge. His leg was broken. He was taken to Georgetown Hospital. Ross was held under $500 bond at the third Pprecinct | on a reckless driving charge. | Struck by Car Door Handle. | Charles Henseil, 78, who lives at the Soldiers’ Home, received cuts on the abdomen when struck by tie door handle of an automobile which, police | said, was driven by Harry Goldman, 28, of 234 Fifteenth street northeast, as he was crossing the street in the 3600 block of Georgia avenue. | Louis Jenkins, 44, of 654 B street‘\ Southeast, was struck at Fighth and | East Capitol streets by an automobile | which, police said, was driven by | George L. Beach, 23, of 2301 Third | Street northeast. He was treated for | severe head injuries at Casualty. Three persons were injured pain- fully in a collision of automobiles which, police said, were operated by Harold G. Skelly, 18, of 5422 Second Btreet. and Herbert O. Lee, 27, of Ar- cola, Md., at Seventeenth and Evarts Streets. The injured, all passengers in Bkelly's car, were Jessie Costello, 29, of 3624 Windom place, and Eleanor Bkelly, 56, and Bernard Costello, 5. Car Plunges From Bridge. Leon Reid, 2034 G street, and Miss Georgia Bundy, 715 Lawrence street | northeast, were injured when their automobile plunged off a bridge and down a 30-foot embankment near Luray, Va,-yesterday. They were treated by =& private physician at Luray for severe cuts and bruises, Mrs. Charles Arrington, 39, of Wood- bridge, Va., was in Alexandria Hospi- tal with a broken neck after the car in which she was riding overturned Tear Woodbridge. Her 2-year-old son Glenwood was cut in the accident. Virginia State police broadcast. a Jookout for a hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously injured Harold Frys, 24, of Luray, while he was w' his ear on & highway near early yesterday. |a | Griffith Stadium, October 18. money or milk or other food were Benefits Planned. Under the direction of Mrs. John Boyle, jr, chairman of the commit- tee, plans for benefit entertainments | and other means of raising funds were | well under way. It was planned dur- | ing the week to spread the campaign organization to each community, witk | general neighborhood committee | numbering one member from each dis- The neighborhood group will make contact with churches, women clubs, parent-teacher associations and | community civic organizations. New units holding their first meet- ings this week include a business men's committee, of which Arthur Clarendon Smith is chairman, and a committee of professional men and women, head- ed by Dean John R. Fitzpatrick of | Columbus University. Radio talks will | b: made by Dr. Fitzpatrick and Frank | Buckley, chairman of the committee promoting the benefit boxing bouts at $103,725 Declared Needed. Campaign officials estimate $103,725 will be needed to provide hot lunch for all school children in need of it. Unless these meals are given, they emphasize, thousands of children will go through the school year under- | nourished. The families of these pu- | pils face a Winter of struggle and privation. “By keeping these boys and girls adequately nourished,” Mrs. Boyle pointed out, “we will be helping to re- duce the appalling tuberculosis rate and the heavy child mortality toll in | the District.” The lunches are to be provided in co-operation with the W. P. A., which, according to preliminary plans, will pay needy women with families to cook and serve the food. DR. CLINCHY DE ECLINES CALL TO NEW ENGLAND Tells Congregation of Mount Pleasant Congregational - Church of Refusal. A call to the pastorate of a Con- gregational Church in New England has been declined by Rev. Dr. Russell J. Clinchy, pactor of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church. Connected with the church here since 1931, he told his congregation yesterday of his belief that it “offers to its minister and its members the greatest opportunity before any Chris- tian church in America.” He is moderator of the Middle At- lantic Conference of Congregational Churches, a member of the Execu- tive Committee of the Congregational National Council, and president of the Washington Council of Social Agencies. VOTE TO QUIT A. F. G. E. UNRECOGNIZED BY LODGE Majority Withdrawal Poll Friday Discounted — Rump Group Elects New Slate. Interior Department Lodge of the American Federation of Government Employes does not recognize the ac- tion of a majority at a meeting Fri- day night in voting to withdraw from the parent organization and conduct a referendum on the proposal to seek a charter in the United Federal Workers of America, George A. War- ren, president, said in a statement yesterday. The dissenting group also voted to unseat Warren and other officers and elected a new slate. Believing these steps “without au- thority in law and in,conflict with Pastor | speaker's bureau, carried the cam- 6.000 or 7.000 memberships to be re- Meanwhile, Edgar Morris, chairman | | of the general business group, called | a meeting of his vice chairmen for this | afternoon at roll call headquarters, 1601 L street, for a survey of results. Among those expected to attend are ! John K. Althaus, Robert W. Davis, O. H. Ritenour, R. E. Myers. Corcoran Thom, jr., and Earle A. Nash, Gen. Albert L. Cox, chairman of the | paign yesterday to Griffith Stadium, Where he addressed spectators between | halves of the foot ball game between | the Washington Redskins and Brook- | lyn Dodgers. He was accompanied | by 10 volunteer workers, who enrolled | members of the professional teams in | the roll call. Sperry announced the Government unit, headed by Gen. Fred W. Boschen, still is leading all groups today, with a total of 8.094 memberships. The financial group is second with 1,344, PETWORTH CHILDREN RETURN TO SCHOOL Defective Heating Plant Repaired. Work Being Rushed in Other Buildings. Pupils of the Petworth School re- sumed their studies in comfortably | heated class rooms today after the ! school's defective heating plant, which | caused angry school mothers to| threaten a strike last week, had been | repaired over the week end Meanwhile, however, students at two other schools—Birney and Stevens—were sent back home when they appeared for classes this morr- ing because repairs to the heating systems had not yet been completed. Workmen from the District repair shop are trying to complete the work at the two schools so classes may be resumed tomorrow. W. A. Draper, chief of the repair shop, said work on the boilers at three other schools—Webster Americaniza- tion, Powell Junior High and Cranch —will be finished today or tomorrow. Students were attending classes at these schools today, however. Draper said work was started last July on school heating plants needing repairs. He explained, however, his | shop was considerably handicapped | by a shortage of competent boiler- makers, Degrees Urged || For All Boxers | | In Benefit Show The Board of Education should give | an honorary degree to every boxer who takes part in the school-lunch ben- efit bouts at Griffith Stadium October 18 and should award “super-honorary degrees” to Joe Turner, the promoter, and Goldie Ahern, the matchmaker, Representative Virginia E. Jenckes of Indiana suggested today. Mrs. Jenckes made her suggestion in a statement in which she assailed the Board of Education for failing to provide free lunches for children un- able to buy them. Declaring this was “another fla¢ grant instance of the inefficiency of the board,” she said when Congress convenes she will introduce a bill placing the board under jurisdiction of the District Commissioners. Mrs. Jenckes added that she also understood the Board of Education had failed to provide proper heating facilities in some of the schools and that “parents have threatened to take their children out of school.” its charter from the American Fed- eration of Government Employes,” Warren's statement said, the lodge is paring to certify the matter to tional organisation for s The Board of Education has pointed out that it was provided with no ap- propriation for free lunches this year and the money ean come from Congress. ' X compositon. If the Government doesn't step in and cut off the “payolas” as the trade knows the financal end of this busi- ness, music publishers face a dark outlook, it was emphasized by the witnesses, led by Joseph V. McKee, former acting mayor of New York. who succeeded Song Writer James J. Walker in that office. Audiences will continue to suffer, they added. One Rises to Defense. Only one voice was raised in defense of “plugging” and “payolas.” Arthur M. Fishbein, speaking as an inde- pendent, asserted that *“the concen- trated plug is the only way of making a composition a hit.” The movies, which go in for mass | | production in turning out musical offerings, are to blame for inferior music, not plugging, according Fishbein. He said the latter was only 1 per cent of what is wrong with music McKee, as counsel for the plug op- ponents, summed up after testimony of other witnesses, who included John Gregg Paine of the American Society of Composers and Publishers; Louis Diamond, president of Famous Music Corp., a subsidiary of Paramount Pic- tures; Edward B. Marks, head of his own concern: Mose Gumble, president of the Professional Business Men's Association; Louis Bernstein, presi- dent of Shapiro & Bernstein; Paul Johnston, artists’ spokesman and rep- to | lots, according to Marks. Plugging, | | he insisted, was one of the causes for the decline of vaudeville, and he | quoted the late E. F. Albee in support | | " Paine, who declared *songs are the | ‘The program will start at 2:30 o'clock, with music by the Army Band. Marriner §. Eccles, chairman of the | Federal Reserve Board. who will pre- guests from a bed room. The pocketbook of Alice Joy Web- ster, 2605 Monroe street northeast, instrumentality by which the emo- | Side, Will introduce the President at | contained about $8. Anothey guest, | tional balance of the population is| | preserved,” declared the present case, | because of its public interest. “is one | of the greatest ever to come before the commission.” He pointed out the number of industries dependent on | song writing—radio, motion pictures, | hotels, cabarets and night clubs—and | outlined the efforts of the industry | {to clean its own house. The Music | Publishers’ Protective Association was | organized in an effort to stamp out | unfair practices, he said, but fafled | and then when the national recovery | code offered hope, the N. R. A. went out of business. | Cites Great Demand. He sald the demand for songs today is greater than at any time in the history of the world, but he didn’t think much of the quality that this demand was produ.ing. | Bernstein said “chiseling and | bribery,” which was his description | of plugging, was keeping music away | from the people to which they are entitled. The hearing was conducted by | George McCorkle, director of trade | practice conferences, who said the commission was interested in stamp- ng out unfair practices in any in- dustry. The record of the hearing will go to the commission for action. FATHER RESCUES BABY FROM FIRE, COLLAPSES | Marylander Dashes Into Building After Firemen Are Driven Out by Smoke. PRINCESS ANNE, Md., October 4.— Oscar E. Wilson dashed past firemen into his blazing room and rescued his 28-month-old son from an upstairs room last night. Choked with smoke, Wilson col- lapsed on the porch of the burning building when he staggered out of the house with the child in his arms. Wilson's three children were alone in the house when the fire broke out. The older ones, Stanley and Shirley, ran to a neighbor's house and gave the alarm, leaving Sonny, the baby, in his crib. — Fire Chief Walter McDowell said the blaze started in the kitchen. He esti- mated the damage at $2,000. He said two of his firemen had been driven out of the building by smoke before Wilson arrived. ACT!OI;I OF SPANISH BISHOPS CONDEMNED Rev. W. S. Abernethy Among Ministers to Attack Letter Ex- pressing Insurgent Sympathy. Nearly 150 ministers, religious edi- tors and educators, including Rev. Willlam S. Abernethy, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church here, were signers of a statement released in New York yesterday condemning a recent pastoral letter of Spanish clergy ex- pressing sympathy for the Spanish in- surgents. “We are amazed,” the. statement said in part, “to find the pastoral let- ter (of the Spanish bishops) approv- ing of resort to violence and military insurrection as a means of settling political controversies; rejecting not merely the present popular front gov- ermment of Spain but the republic itself and the constitution of 1931, on which it was founded; stigmatizing any form of parliamentary govern- ment, presumably even if under a constitutional monarchy, as ‘irrespon- sible autocracy,’ and condemning in principle the democratic institutions, the freedom of worship and the sepa- ration of church and state established by the eonstitution of 1991.” 200 BAPTIZED HERE BY ELDER MICHAUX| 7,000 Attend Ceremony at Grif- | fith Stadium Despite Rain. 150-Voice Choir Sings. Water from the Potomac stood | waist-deep in Griffith Stadium last | night, inclosed in a tank which pro- vided a baptismal place for 200 per- sons, in a ceremony conducted byl Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, elder of | the Church of God. Despite a drenching rain, the ritual | went forward. Approximately 7,000 were present as the white-robed figures were immersed with the bless- ings of Elder Michaux, accompanied by songs of the 150-voice choir. Many of the candidates came from | New York City, Baltimore and Phila- delphia. CASE CONTINUED Harry A. Kite, Jr., Held on Fugi- tive Warrant in Larceny. Arraigned in Police Court today on | a fugitive warrant, Harry A. Kite, jr., | 22. of 1642 Twenty-first street, was granted a continuance of 30 days for a hearing by Judge Walter J. Casey. He was released until that time on a | $500 bond. Detective Sergt. Guy Rone of the fugitile squad said Kite was wanted by James A. Fahey, captain of de- tectives of Greenwich, Conn., in con- nection with a $213 larceny. Record Bass Caught. BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. Va,, Oc- tober 4 (Special).—The record small- mouth bass caught in this section this season was taken Saturday from Capon River, near Largent, by Elmus Bowers. The fish weighed 6 pounds 1Y ounces. Druggists to- Hold Luncheon. A luncheon will be held y the Dis- trict Druggists’ Association at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Raleigh Hotel. Douglas Gets Plane Contract. The War Department awaprded to- day a $50,853 contract for airplane spare parts to the Northrop division o Inc, st 3 pm. The program will be under the di- rection of Chester Morrill, ‘secretary of the Federal Reserve Board. Invited | to the dedication are members of the | contained $2 | Supreme Court, the cabinet, Senators and Representatives, prominent bank- | s | ers and Government dignitaries who | Parently, visited the home of Maulda‘ | had & hand in the fashioning of the | Clippenger, 1707 Columbia rvad. and structure. The new building. considered one of the most beautiful in Washington, was constructed of Georgia marble on the exterior. The building and grounds cost $4.500,000. Materials from 46 States were used. OFFICIALS TO ATTEND HEALTH CONFERENCES Dr. Ruhland Will Head Delega- tion From D. C. Going to New York. Health Officer George C. Ruhland is heading a delegation of eight from the District health office that will at- tend the sixty-sixth annual meeting of the American Public Health Asso- ciation in New York City, beginning tomorrow. Dr. Thomas A. Parran, jr., surgeon general of the Public Health Service, is president of the a- sociation. The officers from the Health De- | partment are defraying their own ex- penses to attend the three-day session, which is of an educational nature in studying the latest problems dealing with public health. Dr. Ruhland will present two papers at the session. one on housing and hygiene and the other | on publication media. Others from the Health Department attending are Dr. James G. Cumming, director of the Bureau of Preventable Diseases; Dr. Melvin Price Isaminger, | director of public health information; Dr. Carl C. Dauer, epidemiologist; Dr. A. Barklie Coulter, director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Information; Claud F. Browning, sanitary engi- neer, and Miss Fern Chapman and Miss Stella Mucha, - supervisor of nurses. 5, Lumber Production Declines. The National Lumber Manufac- turers Association reported today that lumber production for the week ended September 25 was 5 per cent less than the preceding week. Shipments in- creased 2 per cent during the week, but new orders declined 6 per cent. Engineer Finds Railway Safer Than D.C. Autos Luther ¥. Morris has held the throttle of Pennsylvania R. R. locomo- tives for 19 years without a qualm, but Washington motor traffic was too much for him, he explained today when he was brought into Traffic Court on a reckless driving charge. Morris wasn't really driving reck- lessly, he told Judge Hobart Newman, it was merely that his foot slipped off, the brakes at an intersection. Result: One automobile, driven by Mrs. Cath- erine B. Kelly, hurled into a truck driven by Austin D. Lanham. No- body hust, but Mrs. Kelley’s car dam- aged considerably. Neither of the bumped-into drivers wanted to prosecute. They explained that Morris already had repaired their machines. Judge Newman released Morris on his personal bond. And the engineer left court con- vinced that driving a thundering loco- motive .is much less hazardous than iloting mm’umnhw Zom.u | Manine Amidon, 4905 Illinois avenue, lost an annual railroad pass ayd other | effects, while the purse of the hostess The thief had: entered | by-cutting a rear screen The same soft-footed -burglar, ap- took purses of three guests. Elsie Gummer, 917 Sixth street, had §7: | Freda and Cada Ockershausen, 1208 | Connecticut avenue, lost, respectively, | 85 and $3, in addition to their pocket- borks. A window had been forced | Two white men waylaid cab drivers | early today. robbed them pf small | sums and left in the cabs ! Two Are “Strong Armed.” Guy T. Bolton, 1832 North Capitol street, said his taxi was hailed by the | pair at Fourteenth and P streets. The | passengers had themselves driven to & point on Foxhall road. where they made Bolton get out, after robbing | him of $8. The cab later was found | at Thirty-sixth and M streets. Two men of the same description got into a cab driven by (eorge H. Odon of 930 North Carolina avenue, in the 2200 block of Perinsylvania avenue. He drove them to the 3700 block on Calvert street, where they robbed him of $7 at gun point and took his cab. Police were looking for the cab. William A. Custard. 3204 Reservoir road, reported that he was robbed of $147 by two colored men whp “strong- armed” him as he was walking along Reservoir road between Thirty-second street, and Wisconsin avenus. Another “strong arm” squad oper- ated on Mike A. Hiltz. 40, of 768 Princeton road, as he walked through an alley between Seventh street and Massachusetts avenue. He was robbed of $22.50 by three colored men, who stopped him to ask for a cigarette. James F. Loflin, 18, manager of a filling station at Eckington place and Q street northeast, was held up by three white men. They took $25 from the cash register and locked him in the wash room. A relief manager re- leased him. $1,270 Taken From Store. Sam April, a liquor dealer, dis- been entered some time since Sep- tember 30 and robbed of $210. He said $115 was in a bureau drawer and | $95 in & pocketbook Richard G. McMahon. general man- ager of the W. B. Moses Furniture Co., reported a burglary of $70 in cash and $1,200 in checks from the money box. Entrance had been | gained by forcing a lock. | _Helen C. Hofberg, storekeeper at 49 T street, reported a white man held her up and took $7 from the cash register. Ned K. Groff, proprietor of a beer parlor at 207 Third street southeast, also was held up by a lone white man and robbed of $8. A passer-by frightened away two men who had held up John W. Mc- Dusky, 1523 Fifteenth street, on Q street between Eighteenth and Nine- teenth streets. Charles H. Helmick, 5411 Illinois avenue, was held up and robbed of his car, which he had parked about a half mile south of the Fourteenth Street Bridge on Memorial highway. Valuable antique jewelry was among the loot of burglars who ransacked the home of Mrs. Aubrey Broaddus, 3901 Military road, during the family’s ab- sence over the week end . ‘Two passess-by saw two colored men break glass at the store of David PFelman, 4418 Eighteenth street, early today and seize three quarts of whisky from the showcase. The witnesses gave chase, but the thieves escaped. Raymond Johnson, 272 Ninth street northeast, reported $104 stolen from a dresser drawer, and Samuel Gold- stein, 1103 Kenyon street, reported a burglar who cut a screen and broke s glass took thing and jewelry worth $250. “ covered on his return from a trip that | his home at 2000 Klingle road had | He | said Tabler drew a gun, but he wresten | the weapon away. An unidentified | man then came up and seized Hiter. ‘ who was forced to get into an auto- mobile with his two assailants, he | reported. | He said Tabler placed a gun over his heart and pulled the trigger. Just as the gun fired Hiter knocked it down, he said, and the bullet entered | 'his abdomen. Notwithstanding his wound, Hiter knocked Tabler uncon- scious and was shot in the wrist by the other man, he said. Then he grabbed the wheel of the car, wrenched it and sent the machine careening headlong against a parked automobile Tabler was seized by bystanders and turned over to police. | Accused of Larceny. Two former employes of L. P. Sten- art, Inc, both colored, were indicted on charges of housebreaking and lar- ceny and assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with a series of thefts from the firm's storeroom at 141 Twelfth street northeast. They are James Ferguson, 35, and Jacob Feeling, 26, | According to police. the two men would leave a window unlatched when they left the Steuart plant at the close of business and would return at night, entering through the window and taking large quantities of acces- sories from the storeroom. These al- | legedly were sold to Richard Simons. 32, colored, who was charged with | receiving stolen property. Ferguson and Feeling were named in another indictment as responsible for the shooting recently of Edward G | Brown, night watchman at the plant when he is said to have surprised them at the place. Named in Burglary. A third indictment named Fergu- |son and Prank W. Petchnik. 29, a | former employe, in the burglary st Steuart’s a year ago in which $31. was stolen. Today's report was the last by the current grand jury. During the three | months of its service, it has heard | 798 cases, an exceptionally large num- ber. Another gramd jury will be selected within the next two days. Others indicted were: James H. Patton, non-support of minor children; Horace Edgar Potts |and Earl Winston Tucker, narcotic | law violations; William A. Reed, Ear] Sweeney, Leroy Burkley, Thomas R Johnson and Norman Dabney, house- breaking and larceny: James H. Mil- ler and Elton W. Burnett, house- breaking: Burkley, Johnson ano Charles Wooden, robbery: Charle: Winston, Abe Miller, Harold G Simms, Bessie V. Banks. Talmadge | Tindal and Samuel W. Keys, receiv. ing stolen property: William G. Wal- lace, John H. Smith, William Thoma: Lee, Paul . Lea and Haywood Pope | robbery; Gene Weil and Garland W | Daniels, forgery and uttering; Harry | A. Thorpe, larceny, larceny after trust and false pretenses; Lawrence Hartley, larceny after trust; Anthony J. Olszewski, Harry J. Ulrich, Free- man F. Verdery and John Hulin, jr grand larceny; Elijah Boyd, Jessie P Prather, Duncan A, Mclver, Mary L ‘Thompson, James H. Miller and El- ton W. Burnett, assault with a dan- gerous weapon; Jeremiah Ross ano Robert Harris, gaming law violation; Homer Morgan, rape; George Rich- ardson, second degree murder, ana George D, Carroll, false pretenses. The folowing cases were ignored James . O. Rabbitt, Philip Spinella | grand larceny and joyriding: Helen Frederick, grand larceny; Thoma: |Onley and Arthur Leggett, assault with a dangerous weapon: Orville Ware. rape, and Ella Miser, harboring a fugutive. To Discuss Wage-Hour Bill. SILVER SPRING, Md., October 4 (Special). —Mrs. E. L. Griffin will dis- cuss the Black-Connery wage-hour bill at a meeting of the Government study department of the Takoma Park Women's Club Thursday after- noo nat the grome here of Mrs. G. Franklin 3