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12 WOMAN ANXIOUS ABOUT CONDITION OF MATE SHE SHOT Weary Mother Unburdens Herself of Story Preceding Shooting in Court. HUSBAND IS NOT NOW INCLINED TO PROSECUTE Man and “Other Woman” Arrested Originally on Warrant Obtained by Wife October 5, 1927. A weary mother told today of the sorrows and struggles which preyed upon her mind until yesterday “some thing snapped" and she fired four shots into her husband's body as he was walking down a corridor in the Police Court Building. Her chief concern today was for her husband, inquiring anxiously of visitors if they had heard “how he was getting along." The husband, Charles A. Brown, is in Emergency Hospital. Physicians think he will recover despite a bullet wound in his arm and three bullets still logged in the left side of his chest. Brown said today that he did not blame his wife for the shooting as much as he did another woman, who, he said, * egged her on." He indicated that he probably would not be inclined to prosecute his wife. The wife. Mrs. May C. Brown, is being held at the House of Detention pending the outcome of the man's in juries. She is 40 years old. Life has left unmistakable impress on the wife and mother of two children. Deep lines etched in her face bear mute testimony to years of hard work and endjess troubles. She told the following story of her life: • "Charles and I were married 18 years ago in June. For years we were happy, with our two children. Dorothy and Catherine. He had steady work and all of us enjoyed the blessings of a real home. "Several years ago he started to run around with other women and I finally left him. Children Saw Him. “My little girls would come home from the house of a relative, where he was staying, and tell me of seeing him and another woman in each other’s arms. They were too young to realize what it meant, but I knew and it was more than I could stand. “I had always worked, even when we were living together, but after we sep arated it was mighty hard to get along. I was getting only $lO a week from him and there were many times when the children and I were without coal and sufficient food “We moved out into Maryland, where living was cheaper, and I worked in town while the girls ran the house. I had to walk more than a mile after dark to reach the house because we lived so far from the car line. I’ll never forget the Winter, four years ago. There was a heavy snow that year and part of my way home lay through the Cedar Hill Cemetery. I can still hear that snow crunching under my feet, with a sound like sharp explosions. “Sometimes work was hard to get I have picked vegetables for farmers— for a while I ran a roadside lunch room—one Summer I sold flowers on the highway—in fact, I have done al most everything that would bring me an honorable living for my children and myself. Denies Hounding Other Woman. “It’s not true that I hounded Mrs. Johnson, or wrote her threatening let ters. Goodness knows I didn’t want to see her or have anything to do with her. Os course, I knew he was living with her. but the only letter I ever wrote was to him. I warned him then never to take my daughters—they were fond of him and went to see him — into the same house with her. “Things went from bad to worse. After I had Charles and Mrs. John son arrested for a statutory offense I thought the thing would be settled once and for all, and that I would get my divorce. But the case dragged and dragged, with one continuance after another—l wish I knew why. “The continuance yesterday was the last straw. My mind was in a whirl when I walked out of the courtroom. When I saw Mrs. Johnson standing in the doorway behind my husband. She laughed at me. “When I saw that something snapped Inside of me. I walked up to Charles and started shooting. She ran or I would have shot her. too. I don’t know why I shot him. I don’t know how many times I shot. I was so upset that I hardly knew anything until I found myself here. “I have always been a good wife and faithful to my husband. I want my daughters to grow up the same way, and I regret this trouble more for their sake than for my own. I am not afraid for myself—let them do what they want with me.” A “Good Wife,” He Admits. . The husband substantiated much of her story, admitting that she had been a “good wife," but subject to “sudden fits of temper.” "I remember one night about six years ago. She had a pistol and said she was going to shoot me. We were in bed. I laughed and told her to wait until I went to sleep so that I wouldn’t know anything about it. I knew she , didn't mean it. "We would have been happy, I think. If other people had left us alone. I know who is to blame for this shooting, and it’s not my wife. They ought to arrest that other woman instead of her.” Records of the court show that Brown and Mrs. Johnson first were ar rested on a warrant obtained by Mrs. Brown on October 5, 1927. The case was brought to trial some time later and dismissed for want of prosecution, as Mrs. Brown did not appear in court. On June 22, last year, Mrs. Brown ap peared at the office of Prosecuting At torney Given, now Judge Given, and demanded a new warrant, charging that the police had failed to summon her to appear as a witness in the first case. Mr. Given issued a new warrant for Mrs. Johnson and Brown. They were arraigned and demanded a jury trial. A crowded docket, Judge Given ex plained today, caused the case to be set for trial on the 12th of November. When that date came Lieut. J. A. Sulli . van of No. 6 precinct, a witness, was ill and it was postponed again to De cember 5. On December 5 it was set for February 1 “for court reasons.” A crowded docket again is believed to have caused this postponement. Yesterday, when Attorney Bertrand Emerson, rep resenting Brown, reported that he had lost his voice from pleading in a case the previous day, it was postponed for one week. RUM AWAITS CLAIMANT. Fourteen bottles of whisky are in possession of the police awaiting a claimant, but it is doubted that the owner of the liquor wil ever appear. The liquor was found early Wed nesday morning near the policy booth at Reservoir and Foxhall roads, where It had been left. A REAL GROUNDHOG AND HIS SHADOW Mr " 8 ft a.. Mr. Groundhog posed in the sunshine for this photograph at the Zoo today. But that’s not half the story. Attendants at the Zoo had to haul him out by the scruff of the neck to get him into the sunshine. —Star Staff Photo. DEAF HANDICAPS STUDIED IN PARLEY Teachers and Scientists Con fer Here on Means of Overcoming Defects. Methods of overcoming the handicap of deafness through education were dis cussed this morning by the National Conference cn the Deaf and Hard of Hearing called by the National Re search Council. .The conference, composed of psy chologists, physicians, educators and physicists, is meeting at the National Academy of Science Building. Substitution of touch for sound' in communicating with the deaf, which has been the subject of intensive ex periments by Dr. Robert H. Gault of Northwestern University at Gallaudet College here and elsewhere, is a very remote* possibility, Dr. Gault told the conference yesterday. Dr. Gault's method was to convey the speech vibra tions against the palms of the deaf students with a modified telephonic device. Adjunct to Lip Reading. - He insisted, however, that this method promises to prove a valuable adjunct to lip reading, the subject both seeing and feeling the speech which he cannot hear. Part of the advantage, he Said, probably lies in the ability to detect accents of words better by feeling than sight. Some blind and deaf persons, he said, are able to understand speech by putting their hands on the head of the speaker. If the application of sound vibrations could be made directly against the ear, he said, the results might be much better, but he has never been able to do this without causing pain. Dr. Harvey Fletcher of the Bell Tele phone laboratories said that experi ments have shown the thresholds of hearing and pain due to vibrations against the meatus of the ear are very close together, whereas the thresolds of touch and pain on the fingers are very far a pert. Dr. Max Goldstein, president of the American Otological Association, said that 20 per cent of deaf children have some slight hearing and urged that more be done to develop this with the natural voice rather than use instru ments which might destroy it alto gether. May Prove Asset. Dr. Gordon Berry of Worcester, Mass., said that for some jobs deafness actually proves an asset, because the deaf per son has trained his powers of observa tion far more than the normal indi vidual. The deaf get along better than tho*e who hear when their status is consid ered in proportion to the rest of the population, said Dr. E. A. Gruver, di rector of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf. “We have been surprised again and again,” he said, “at children who go out from school apparently feeble-minded who come back in their own automobiles. They take better care of their children and their families.” Prof. Donald Patterson of the Univer sity of Minnesota urged that a special study be made of a colony of 500 deaf persons employed by a tire company in Akron, Ohio. -These have become very prosperous. A study of the way they have adjusted themselves to their Jobs, he said, should yield information which could be applied elsewhere. Properly trained deaf children, Dr. Goldstein said, are able to hold their own in colleges without any special con siderations. One totally deaf boy, he said, now is a senior at Harvard with high scolastic standing, and a girl in a Similar predicament was able to major in a foreign language in another col lege. The problem of dealing with the child who is slightly hard of hearing is even more difficult than that of training the totally deaf child, the conference was told. The public schools make little provision for these children, who natur ally are at a great disadvantage com pared with their classmates. Program Decided On. The conference decided on a program Involving the general establishment of classes in lip reading for the more seriously affected children, special class es for the hard-of-hearing children, de termination of the type of teachers needed for such children, use of- me chanical aids in instruction, and the treatment of sligh'.ly deaf children who remain In the regular classes. The committee will stress to teachers the importance of watching the emotional and social adjustment of such children. Knowledge of lip reading, it was pointed out, may keep the slightly deaf child psychologically normal where otherwise it would degenerate. It is also proposed to devise a set of intelligence and achievement tests particularly for deaf children for whom the standard tests are not suitable. Several tests for the deaf already have been devised, but their use and inter pretation has not been standardized. Is is proposed to work out specially scaled tests for reading, arithmetic, spelling, English, history, geography, handwriting, health knowledge and in dustrial arts, which will range from the primary through the high school grades. It is also proposed to work out a test for finger spelling, for proficiency in lip reading, and a method of meas uring the Intelligibility of the speech of a deaf child in conversation with persons who are not familiar with him. ROBBED BY*MASK MEN. £wo Colored Bandits Take $32 From Local Grocer. Two colored men with handkerchiefs masking their faces, held up at the point of a revolver Benjamin Cohen in his grocery store at 1001 First street south west and robbed him of $32 last evening. No customers were in the store at the time. Cohen told Headquarters Detective Oscar Mansfield that he and his wife were in the room in rear of the store when the robbers entered. Thinking they were customers, Cohen came into the front room and was ordered to throw up his hands. One of the men searched his clothes and emptied the cash reg ister. As they were about to leave Mrs. Cohen entered and also was searched. A description of the bandits has been broadcast to all police precincts In the city, THE EVENING STAR. "WASHINGTON, D. <7.. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 102.7. Groundhog Gives Capital Six More Weeks , of Winter Pulled Out by Scruff of Neck, Sees Shadow and Dives Into Den. The groundhog's neighbors, much exercised over the prospect of more raw weather, watched him closely today. For that matter, the whole National Zoological Park was in something of a j flutter, especially that section of it recruited from warmer, sunnier lands. The zebras stamped impatiently and shivered—the elephant house was all agog; uneasy rumblings issued, now and then, from the lion den. Meanwhile the furry cynosure of all eyes, apparently oblivious of the fact that it was his big day, snoozed peace fully in the depths of his rock burrow. Believe it or not, he had to be hauled, blinking and by the scruff of his neck, into the brilliant sunlight of this the big day of all groundhogs. Taking one wild glance at his shadow, the fellow would have rushed immediately into his burrow,* but a photographer was there —and you know how these newspaper men are, In sistent, to say the least. Nevertheless, the dire prophecy holds good. Mr. Groundhog, however Inad vertently, had emerged, seen his shad ow and dived into his den again . . . So, for six weeks now, Winter will linger here. If you don’t believe it. go out and have a look at the animals from sunny Africa . . . they’re a down-hearted lot, no fooling! "DMA MILL” BILL DELAY ASKED / Conferees to Be Appointed in Few Days Despite Plea of Wisconsin Member. Senate and House conferees probably will be appointed within the next few days to work out the final terms of the bill, which has passed both houses, to provide for the licensing of degree-con ferring institutions. Under the District code as it stands, a group of persons may set up an institution, Issuing diplomas and conferring degrees, mere ly by incorporating. The pending bill would set up certain standards for degree-conferring schools, and enable the Board of Education to pass upon the qualifications of the in stitutions applying for the right to con fer degrees. Before sending the bill to conference the Senate District committee yesterday afternoon gave its opponents another opportunity to state their objections. Representative Nelson of Wisconsin, speaking for the opponents, objected to many features of the measure and urged that it be permitted to go over for further study by Congress. He said the bill aims to do the right thing, but in a wrong way. In the course of his argument Rep resentative Nelson raised the point that Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, is a member of the faculty of National University Law School, and that as head of the school board he would be passing on the ap plications of competing institutions. W. O. Tufts of the Chamber of Com merce, representing the supporters of the bill, said that while he had not dis cussed that question with Dr. Carusi, he felt sure the head of the school board would be glad to be relieved of taking part In the administration-of this law, since he has many other school duties to perform. Mr. Tufts told the Sena tors the pending measure would be a good bill even with the House amend ments, and told of the need for such legislation. •— MAN IS NEAR DEATH AFTER SHOOTING SCRAPE William Cunningham, colored. 35 years old, of 1716 N street, is at the point of death at Emergency Hospital with a bullet in each lung as a result of an altercation early this morning at 2238 Eleventh street. William Henry Long, also colored, 33 years old, of the Eleventh street address, is being held at the eighth police precinct in connec tion with the shooting. According to police, Cunningham was at Long’s home early in the evening and the two argued about some money. Cunningham left but returned shortly after midnight. Long said he broke in the rear door of the house and rushed in and grappled with him. Then Long shot him twice, police state. Cunningham was taken to Emergency Hospital in the ambulance and treated by Dr. I. Rutkoski of the staff. SYMPHONY CONCERT IN LONDON, BROADCAST HERE, GIVES THRILL The National Broadcasting Co. sur prised the Nation yesterday afternoon by transmitting over its coast-to-coast network of stations, in which WRC is a link, a symphony concert in London. It was the first attempt at rebroad casting over a Nation-wide hook-up in America, and while the results were fair, tli- transmission of the London concert, interrupted as it was with at mospheric disturbances - and fading, showed that the proposed regular Anglo-American exchange of radio pro grams is yet fraught with uncertain ties. This rebroadcast, however, is ex pected to be the forerunner of others from time to time, but their frequency mid length will be governed largely by atmospheric conditions. The program, which originated in the London studios of the British Broad casting Co., began at 4:50 o'clock, and continued for more than 20 minutes. The music was carried from London by telephones 35 miles to SSW, at Chellns ford, where it was hurled across the Atlantic on a 25.53-meter wave band with a power of 10 kilowatts. The Radio Corporation of America experi LAW ENFORCEMENT STUDY HERE URGED; DUELER SUGGESTED Gamblers’ Benefit Perform ance at Gayety Held Within Statutes. “MORAL FORCES OF CITY” “CHALLENGED” BY SHOW “Rally for God and Country,” in Form of Prohibition Mass Meet ing, Set for Tomorrow. A report from Commissioner Dough erty. stating that the midnight benefit performance at the Gayety Theater early this week for the benefit of four men committed to jail after they had refused to “squeal” in connection with gambling cases, was not in violation of any local regulations, was received by Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis trict committee yesterday afternoon. At the same time the Senator received a letter from Maj. Clayton Emig, sug gesting that some one like Gen. Smedley Butler of the Marine Corps be invited to make a study of local law enforce ment conditions. Maj. Emig said he had a high re gard for “our local guardians of the law,” but felt “lawlessness is on -the in crease.” He pointed out that Gen. But ler will soon return from China, and that he might be given an opportunity to study the local situation, and, if necessary, be given authority to aid in improving conditions. No Violations Found. Commissioner Dougherty, responding to a request from Senator Capper for information, replied that local police regulations permit theaters to operate 24 hours on week days, and that the as sistant corporation counsel at Police Court had decided there were no viola tions of regulations involved in the per formance at the Gayety. The Commis sioner also stated that the police of the first precinct were told the proceeds were to be used only for the families of the men who are in jail. Taking the benefit as a challenge to the “moral forces of the city,” Clinton N. Howard, chairman of the united committee for law enforcement, has announced another prohibition mass meeting, to be held at Luther Place Memorial Church, tomorrow afternoon, as a “rally for God and country.” Calls Moral Forces to Rally. “When the underworld is so organ ized.” said Howard in an announcement of the rally, “as to fill a theater in de fense of lawlessness, without a single prior press announcement or advertise ment, and crowd it to capacity until 4 o’clock in the morning with gamblers, prize fighters, rum-runners, bootleggers and underworld patrons, as a benefit for convicted criminals ‘who would not squeal,’ as occurred in a Washington theater on last Monday night, It be hooves the moral forces of the city to rally in defense of law and order.” The speakers will be Representative Menges of Pennsylvania, a former pro fessor pf chemistry, who will take lor his subject “The Lutheran Church and Prohibition,” and Dr. Howard, who will speak on “Washington, Jackson. Lin coln, Hoover and the Constitution." BLADEN* ROAD PARKING AT LIMIT Center Space Will Not Be Extended and Likely to Be Removed. The center parking on Bladensburg road northeast, which is now in place from H to L street, probably will never be extended beyond these limits, and the parking there itself will probably be removed to take care of added traffic in years to come, Assistant Engineer Commissioner Herbert C. Whitehurst said today. The statement came in answer to many inquiries on the sub ject recently. At present, from L street to the Dis trict line, two strips of the roadway are paved, the center being left unsur faced. Originally the plan was to con tinue the center parking along this strip, but, according to Capt. White hurst, the time is not distant when the traffic on the road will grow so great that the center will be covered with concrete to accommodate it. When a car is parked at the sidewalk, Capt. Whitehurst said, only one other car at a time can get by on the. paved surface. To put curbs around the center strip without widening the street would be to invite accidents, and the widening would cost “a fortune.” The Commissioners plan eventually to extend New York avenue from the railroad bridge to Bladensburg road. When that is done, much traffic to Maryland, which now travels Rhode Island avenue, probably will be diverted to New York avenue and thus to Bladensburg road. The line of the New York avenue extension Intersects with Bladensburg road a little to the north of the line of T street. From this point to the District line will be the first, in all probability, to have the center paved. From that point south paving will follow as the traffic grows, and last of all the center parking now between H and L streets probably will be tom up and a concrete surface laid. mental station at Rlverhead, Long Island, picked up the program and sent it by telephone lines to the N. B. C. studios in New York City, where it was transmitted on regular wave channels over the coast-to-coast network. Aside from the symphony concert, the American listeners heard the chimes of Big Ben in the tower of the Houses of Parliament in London peal the hour of 7 o’clock, and a portion of the dance music at the Savoy Hotel. The most interesting part of the program, how ever, was the voice of the London an nouncer who said: “This is London calling, all stations taking this will give their pronouncements.” Engineers of the Radio Corporation of America have been experimenting at Riverhead for several years in an effort to establish a regular exchange of American and English radio programs. Special equipment has been set up to minimize static and overcome fading. These difficulties are yet to be over come, although the broadcast yesterday Indicated that considerable progress has been made since the attempts in 1927 to re-broadcast programs from London. SIMMONS REPLIES TO BINGHAM STAND ON D. C. LUMP SUM Declares Senator Has Not Considered “Offsets” in Asking Increase. EMPHASIZES “BENEFITS” FROM FEDERAL BUILDINGS Chairman Also Takes Issue on Amount of Tax liability of Government Here. Chairman Simmons of the House subcommittee on District appropria tions replied yesterday in a formal state ment in the House to a recent state ment given to The Star by Senator Bingham, chairman of the Senate sub committee on tne District appropria tion bill, in which the latter argued that the Federal Government should add at least SBOO,OOO to the $9,000,000 lump sum contribution towards the costs of the local municipality. Mr. Simmons argues that Senate* Bingham has not given the Federal Government sufficient credit for “off sets” by reason ot “the very consider able economic benefits accruing to the District owing to the presence here of national monumnts and great public buildings, which make Washington the mecca of hundreds of thousands of tourists.” Takes Issue on Tax. He also takes issue with Senator Bingham on the amount of tax liability of the Federal Government in the Dis trict. He points out that Senator Bing ham answers the question, “ ‘What is the liability of the Federal Government as a municipal taxpayer?’ by reaching the sum of $6,989,082 as the proper amount and rejects the Bureau of Efficiency figure of $7,440,939. The Senator shares the same ‘grave doubt' that I expressed as to the justification of a charge against the United States as an intangible tax,” said Mr. Sim mons, “and he therefore deducts, prop erly, I think, from the $7,440,939 which the Bureau of Efficiency reached, leav ing a total of $6,989,082 as the normal ‘tax’ bill of the United States to the District of Columbia. The Senator, however, accepts without question the ‘tax’ on tangible personalty of $1,536,- 315, in spite of the fact that that charges the United States for the fiscal year 1928 with 51 per cent of the tax able tangible personal property of the District. “I submit, as I did in my previous statement, that this is an absurd charge against the United States. Either It is too high as a ‘charge’ against the United States or it means that the District citi zen is not paying his full share of Dis trict tangible taxes. In either event the charge is unfair to the United States on a comparative basis. But let us ac cept the Senator's figures of $6,989,082 as a proper ‘tax’—leaving $2,010,918, which the $9,000,000 lump sum payment gives to the District over and above a normal ‘tax.’ The Bureau of Efficiency in its report on fiscal relations, page 5, arrives at a tax ‘payable by the United States to the District of Columbia of $7,440,939,’ divided as follows: Real property tax..; ..$5,452,767 Tangible personalty 1,536,315 Intangible personalty 451,857 Total $7,440,939 Discusses Exemptions. Representative Simmons then enters into a lenghty discussion of the prob lem of determining exemptions and concludes by saying that "by using the Bureau of Efficiency report and arriving at the average of exemptions for other comparable cities, I have shown that a fair reduction is the $283,991,600 of ex empt property would be $35,000,000, bringing the figure down to $249,000,000 instead of the $284,000,000. “That figure of $35,00,000 should be applied, not on the $84,951,383 of Dis trict-owned property and United States property dedicated to District purposes, not on the $80,000,000 of privately owned property, but to the $119,040,217 of federally owned park property. By doing this the United States would as sume taxes on approximately 30 per cent of the parks which it owns and which have made it unnecessary for the municipality to go in as deeply for park acquisition as some other cities have been compelled to do, and lafgely by bond issues. The taxes on this 30 per cent would, as I have heretofore pointed out amount to $595,000. “The Senator suggests a reduction in the total exemptions of $103,991,000, which, applying the $1.70 tax rate, would charge the United States with $1,767,857.20. I suggest following the Bureau of Efficiency report figures and reduce the exemptions by $35,000,000, which, applying the $1.70 tax rate, would charge the United States with taxes of $595,000. The difference be tween the two sets of figures is $68.- 991,600 of exemptions and $1,172,857.20 in taxes to the United States. I know of no better place for him to find the answer to his fourth question. “I am pleased at the Senator’s finding that the District taxpayer is not being taxed more heavily than other cities of this sSe. The tables of the Bureau of Efficiency report show that they are taxed under cities of their size.” ( Excess Park, Acquisition. Next Mr. Simmons discusses how much of the cost of excess park ac quisition and maintenance should be met by the Federal Government. Referring again to the Bureau of Efficiency report on the fiscal re lations he says that this report shows that Washington has a per capita cost of $2.38 for “recreation” as against an average of $1.65 for the comparable cities, or 73 cents per capita above the average. This is the item in which the parks are carried. Five hundred and fifty thousands persons, at 73 cents each, equals $401,500 that this excess costs above the average. “We have, then, from the Bureau of Efficiency report the following answer to the Senator’s question: Ordinary tax load $6,989,082 Loss by excessive exemptions.. 595,000 Excess park maintenance.... 401,500 Total 7,985,582 “This leaves, by the $9,000,000* pay ment by the Federal Government, sl,- 014,418 over and above all items which the Senator Included in his statement, with the exception of park purchases, which is a variable sum, from year to year. No figures are available as to who paid the cost of park lands already acquired. The bill this year carries $1,000,000 for park purchases. Upon the basis of these figures,” concludes Mr. Simmons, “the United States is not only paying a fair tax on its prop erty, the excess cost of exemptions, and excess park maintenance above the average, but over and abotre that is paying $1,000,000 for parks in the city.” Colored Man Held for Assault. Paul Hanson, 31 years old, of 1106 Sixth street southwest, is reported by the police to have engaged in an alter cation at Massachusetts avenue and Fourth street shortly after 10 o’clock last night with Benjamin James, col ored, 30 years old, 2144 L street, and was dealt a blow on his head. The wounded man was treated at Casualty Hospital for a laceration of the scalp and James was arrested on a charge of assault. FAMED HERO OF THE SEA HERE 11P2 1 ■ i , §si mmßm i 'if bShsml gfi ij& ; CAPT. AND MRS. GEORGE FRIED, Photographed at the Carltoa Hotel. Capt. Fried will be a guest of the Wash ington Board of Trade tonight. —Star Staff Photo. YEGGS CRACK SAFE AND REMOVE $1,200 Burglars Work Behind Frost Screen on Front Show Windows. Taking advantage of the cold weather which painted a heavy coating of frost over the front show windows of the Philadelphia Market Co. last night, three safe crackers twisted the heavy iron bars protecting a rear window out of position to gain entrance and looted the company’s safe of S9OO in cash and S3OO in negotiable checks. Policeman J. J. Fitzpatrick of the third precinct tried the front door of the store, located at 1144 Connecticut avenue, at 4 o’clock this morning and found It locked. Even if the safe crack ers had been inside at the time, he said, the thick frost patterns on the windows would have prevented him from seeing them. Police. Called in Early Morning. The robbery was discovered at 5:50 o’clock this morning by George Devon, who opened the store. He notified the police and the manager, H. V. Hayden. The yeggmen reached a rear window cn the second floor by climbing onto a shed adjoining the market and fronting on an alley. The heavy screen was tom off and the half-inch iron bars protecting the window were twisted tip from the bottom, just enough to permit a man to crawl .through. After forcing tfie window, which led into the manager's office, the men went to the first floor and carried the heavy safe from the front to the rear of the building. The combination was removed with a chisel and the mechanism controlling the lock picked. Cash Carefully Sorted. The cash drawers in the safe were carried upstairs to the manager's office and their contents carefully sorted. The fact that two extra chairs were found in the office this morning led to the police theory that three men participated in the robbery. A number of the company’s can celed checks, which had been returned from the bank yesterday, were torn up. The men also stole a collection of old coins belonging to s he manager. BIG BOMB PLANE ARRIVES. Second of 35 Ordered for Army Air Corps Delivered. The second of 35 big “Panther” bombing planes, the first ever built with air-cooled motors, ordered by the Army Air Corps, was brought here at 6 o’clock yesterday evening by Lieut. E. R. Mcßeynolds from the Keystone plant at Bristol, Pa. The first of the bombers was flown to this city recently by Lieut. Mc- Reynolds and now Is undergoing official tests at Wright Field. Dayton Ohio. The plane now at Bolling Field probably will remain here until early next week. • Man Questioned Regarding: Ring. The charge of Mary Funk, 1013 Thirteenth street, that he failed to re store a diamond ring she loaned him in August resulted today in the ques tioning at headquarters of John Fulton Neff, 25-year-old carpenter, 3009 Doug las street. Told by Detective Arthur T. Fihelly that Miss Funk had valued the ring at SIOO in her charge of lar ceny after trust against him. Neff smiled, but declined to comment on the valuation. SAFE WRECKED BY BURGLARS • ' n- •• f:>>; > •• v<... ... 7 * ):*. . ••• .‘..V . •• % " r , Y: 4 ' Yy ; . ‘ -'v •' *Y‘V * Y Y* I | a ■WHMMBBHk Jsj » jgfIPyTHH wr *■ K, WE nm t mm «MMB Pcliceman 1.. F. Lewis of the third precinct before the safe of the Ph r delphia Market Co.. 1144 Connecticut avenue, cracked by bursters test ni~ht. I who escaped with $1,200. A heavy coating of frost on the windows shielded the burglars as they worked, —Star Staff Photo. > .'...r -£* r .. CAB DRIVER HELD FOR HITTING MAN Colored Victim, Struck by Taxi, Is Injured in Accident. Jamc* Williams, colored, 30, was seriously injured early this morning when ha was struck by a taxicab as he stepped off of the street car load ing platform at Seventh and K streets. Herman W. Gregory, 31, of 140 C street northeast, driver of the machine, was arrested by first precinct police and is being held while circumstances of the case are being investigated. For several hours Williams identity was not known. Finally Clarence Lu cas, colored, of 918 Eleventh street, told police the man formerly roomed at the Eleventh street address. His residence is not known. The Fire Department rescue squad removed the injured man to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. Louis Jimal for a probable fracture of his skull and fractures to both legs. In a collision between an automobile driven by Joseph G. Long, 30, of 515 F street, in which Mrs. Virginia Long, 24, was a passenger, and a garbage wagon yesterday, at Seventh and East Capitol streets, the tongue of the wagon was forced through the curtain of the automobile, striking Mrs. Long on the nose. She was treated by a private physician for bruised nose and shock. While crossing Benning road at Eighteenth street northeast yesterday, Desserina Cuppola, 15, of 712 Eight eenth street northeast, was struck by an automobile truck operated by Frank C. Ruppert, 18, of 636 H street north east. Ruppert took her to Casualty Hospital and she was treated by Dr. A. M. McDonald, resident physician, for bruises about her face and shock. Eight-year-old Jack Ramsey of 1441 Spring road sustained a broken bone in his right foot yesterday when a parked motor eycle in the rear of his home fell on him. He was treated by Dr. Joseph Hams of 2013 New Hamp shire avenue. MANY SKATERS ENJOY ICE IN MIRROR BASIN Low Temperature Last Night In sures Continuation of Sport During Today. A chilling wind sweeping across the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial added zest to the wintry setting for the countless skaters that took ad vantage today of the season’s second day of ice skating. The temperature went down to 16 degrees last night, sealing the cracks that yesterday’s skaters had made and knitting the crevasses that were still in the ice. Measurements by the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks registered a depth of ice from 2 to 4 inches this morning and announce ment was made that skating will last until dark. Late yesterday the office sent men with scrapers to trim down the ridges and the whipping wind swept the rink clean, so that today the ice was clear and smooth and all was propitious for the revelers. After offices closed for the day yesterday a crowd estimated at 3,000 persons enjoyed the skating until darkness banned further sport until this morning. While the reflecting pool is the largest rendezvous for the skaters, there is also skating for smaller groups at Fierce Mill and north of Blagden ford in Rock Creek Park. CART. FRIED GETS CHEERS OF THRONG!! ON CAPITAL VISIT Rescue Hero Received by Shipping Board and Naval Officials. CALLS AT SENATE AND HOUSE CHAMBERS America’s Commander Expects to See President Monday—Din ner Guest Tonight. Capt. George Fried, commander of the liner America, and hero of the sea. whose rescues have brought him world renown, and whose latest exploit was the saving of the crew of the sinking Italian steamer Florida, wax a guest of Washington today and spent a busy day paying his respects to the officials of the United States Shipping Board, to the Secretary of the Navy, the members of the press and members of the two houses of Congress. The modest master of the America with Mrs. Fried, arrived here last night and was greeted officially by a dele gation from the Board of Trade and unofficially by a battery of cameramen. He will remain in Washington until Monday afternoon, when he will leave fci.’ his home in Worcester, Mass. Receives Congratulations. Capt. Fried arose early this morning, paused long enough at the Carlton Hotel to pose for news cameramen, and immediately went to the office of the United States Shipping Board, where he was received by the board and of ficially congratulated for his work in saving the crew of the Florida. Immediately after the reception at the Shipping Board Capt. Fried went to the office of the Secretary of the Navy. He was again congratulated for his heroic sea rescue work. Thence Capt. Fried went to the Press Club, where he was the guest of honor at. a luncheon. Capt. Fried was ac companied on his trips around town by George Mabee. assistant general manager of the United States lines and Martin L. Petrey also representing the shipping lines. This afternoon Capt. Fried Is being received at the Senate and the House. Guest of Trade Board. Tonight Capt. Fried will be the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Washington Board of Trade, at the Willard Hotel. Capt. Fried has reserved tomorrow for strict privacy. He said today that tomorrow he will see no one. He in tends to clear the great mass of corre spondence that is before him and “do some writing.” Before he leaves Washington Capt. Fried will pay his respects to President Coolidge. His visit to the White House probably will be made some time Monday. Everywhere Capt. Fried went today he was greeted by cheering throngs. At the offices of the Shipping Board this morning practically thy entire clerical force gathered outside the board room for a glimpse of the master of the America, and when he appeared they cheered loudly. The same ovation was given outside the office of the Secre tary of Navy. CAPITAL BOY FINED ON CHARGE OF THREATS Hobcrt Evelor, 17, Held in Chicago After Conviction for At tempted Extortion. Although his father. Rev. George H. Eveler of 435 Quincy street, declined to discuss the case, a Chicago dispatch by. the Associated Press brought the in formation that his son, Robert Eveler, 17 years old, was fined S2OO and costs yesterday in Boys' Court there on a charge of attempted extortion by threats from hls former employer. Rev. Mr. Eveler declined to indicate whether or not he Is planning to send the money to release the boy from the House of Correction. The dispatch said that young Eveler was arrested six weeks ago and that a report from the Psycopathlc Hospital held that the boy was sane. The dis patch asserted he had confessed he had sent letters demanding money to Nathan Ritholz. his former employer, who In sisted the boy receive punishment when Judge William Helander appeared dis posed to heed the plea of the father that the youth be released. Young Eveler Is a former student of McKinley High School. FORD CITY, PA., MAN DIES. Came Here Six Weeks Ago to Un dergo Treatment. Karl L. W. Core. 52 years old con struction engineer with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. of Ford City, Pa., who came here six weeks ago to undeigo treatment at Garfield Hospital. <fied yesterday at the home of his mother-in law, Mrs. Charles Hoyle. 1829 Twenty third street, following an illness of several months. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon from Mr. Core's home in Ford City, and interment wffl be in Washington, Pa., Ids birthplace. Mr. Core Is survived by his wife and three young daughters. Mildred. Mary and Natalie, all of whom were here at the time of his death. LONG ILLNESS FATAL. Frederick Bechtold Dies at His Home at Age of 71. Frederick Bechtold. 71 years old. died at his home. 138 R street northeast, yesterday after a long illness. Mr Bechtold came to this city from Ohio seven years ago. Funeral services will be conducted in St. Martin's Catholic Church Monday morning at 9 o'clock, following brief services at the residence. Interment will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Mr. Bechtold is survived by his widow. Mrs. Julia Bechtold; two sons, Leo and Oscar Bechtold: two daughters. Mrs. Emma Rohrkenter and Miss Margaret Bechtold, and three grandchildren. ■ —— | .. ■ . DR. A. P. NOYES RESIGNS. St. Elizabeth’s Psychiatrist Will Go to Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Arthur P. Noyes, psychiatrist, today resigned his position as head of me medical staff of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital to become superintendent of he State Hospital for Mental Dtseaseo, t Howard, R. !, suburb of Providence will take over his new post, arch 1. Dr. Noyes h«u been at St. Elizabeth's ospltal for nine years.* He came here •om Boston, where he was chief execu te officer of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Dr. Noyea was in Providence yester day, when ho was formally offered tho new poet, and accepted