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dl' -1 " ' '—?*■■■ ■ ' WASHINGTON. PLOT TO SET FIRE TO STORE LAID TO HOLD-UP SUSPECTS Two of 3 Held Confess Plan to Collect Insurance Police Claim. EX-POLICEMAN AND BROTHER ACCUSED Pair Face Charge of Conspiring to Rob Woman Bookkeeper of $1,500 Pay Roll. Ad alleged plot to burn a store in a nearby Maryland town to recover in surance money was unfolded last night, according to police, after prolonged questioning of three men arrested here yesterday in what detectives believe was an attempt to stage a daring hold-up and pay-roll robbery. One of the three Is a former policeman. Two of the three men arrested, police say, confessed they were planning to bum the store last midnight. They said they expected to claim the insur ance on the store. The third member of the band has not admitted any con ' nection with the alleged plot to burn the store or the supposed attempt at robbery. He has not been questioned •inee his arrest, police say. The three men under arrest identify themselves as Max Rubin, ex-police man: his brother. Benjamin Rubin, and Hugh Winbery. The two brothers have been charged with a conspiracy to rob, while Winbery is being held as a Gov ernment witness. mil of the Central Auto Works fell The three men were arrested yester day' after an alleged plot to rob Miss Ruth Beuchert. 27, of the $1,500 pay roll of the Central Auto Works, fell through when Winbery "tipped off" the police. Miss Beuchert has for the past three years been handling the pay roll of the auto concern, where she is employed as a bookkeeper. Her father owns the shop. Her custom had been to go to a banc every Saturday morning, withdraw approximately $1,500 in cash and return to her home, 430 K street, to make up the pay roll. After the pay roll had been made up she carried it through an alley to the garage, which is at 449 Z street. According to the confessions police say they have obtained. Max Rubin and Winbery planned to slug Miss Beuchert resterday morning as she walked through the alley. Ben Rubin’s part, . they say, was to furnish information as So the hour she was expected to make the trip. He was to receive S3OO and the rest, of the money was to have been divided between the other, two. After the plans had been made, how ever, Winbery went to police and gave all of his information to them, officials , said. He said he had been approached in an employment office several days ego by Max Rubin, who told him of the planned hold-up and Invited him to participate. Winbery was to com mit the actual robbery, while Max was to wait in an automobile parked near by, police were told. Miss Beuchart Is Warned. When police learned of the alleged : plot they warned Miss Beuchert. and . with her made other plans for the de livery of the pay roll. After the money was in safe keeping, they went into the alley, where they say they found Win bery and Max Rubin, the latter sitting in the car. Police say a revolver was I, in the side pocket of the automobile. The two men were arrested at that , time, while Benjamin Rubin was taken into custody later at the garage. Max Rubin, police say. has confessed ' his part in the plot. They quote him as saying: "We didn't do anything, though, did we?" The police said Max also told them he was glad the plot was not carried through, as Miss B;u~ chert "might have been injured.” When Headquarters Detective Ben Kuehling, on* of the four detectives who mapped out the plan to entrap the three men, and arrested Max Rubin, he recognized him as his former part ner while both were detailed at the seventh precinct. Rubin, according to police records, was dismissed in 1921 for desertion. Kuehling was assisted by Detectives j E. E. Thompson, Thomas Nally and j Arthur T. Fihelly. Ruth Beuchert is the youngest mem- | ber of her family. She has nine sisters j and a brother living. When Theodore ; Roosevelt was President, he gave a I party in honor of the Beuchert family, I then the largest in Washington. BEN EIELSON IN GRIP OF ARCTIC ICE PACKi i Pilot and Prank Dorbandt Im prisoned on Hop to Siberia. By the Associated Press. NOME. Alaska. November 18. —Pilots Carl Ben Eielson and Prank Dorbandt were still stormbound today awaiting; another opportunity to fly to North I Cape, Siberia, near which the Swenson fur-trading ship Nanunk is frozen in the Arctic ice pack. Eielson and Dorbandt each have made one trip to the ship, bringing back to the mainland six men and a fortune in furs. Eielson has been stormbound in the vicinity of Cape Serbge since November 9, while Dorbandt is grounded by unfavorable weather conditions at Teller. Among those aboard the Nanunk, w'hieh will not be released by the ice until next Summer, are Olaf Swenson of Seattle and his daughter Marion, who are expected to stay aboard the ship until the last of the fur cargo has! been transferred by air to the mainland of Alaska. This, it was predicted here, * might take a month, due to the uncer tain flying weather. R. S. Pollister, an agent of the Swen son Pur Trading Co., returned to the States some time ago. ■ -- OFFICER DIES IN DRY RAID. Battle With Alabama Moonshiners Results Also Wound for Deputy. ANNISTON, Ala.. November 16 (A*).— Constable Luther Champion of Calhoun County was shot and killed today when he and two fellow officers engaged in a gun battle with moonshiners while raid ing a still 15 mUes from here. Henry Bryant, a Calhoun County deputy sheriff, was wounded when the officers were fired upon as they ap proached the still. Deputy John White le ider of the raiding party, was not In jured. The shooting occurred in an isolated section near the Whites Gap commu nity. Only meager details were avail able here tonight, and it was not learned whether the men who shot the officers ft. were wounded or whether they had been arrested. FIGURES IN ALLEGED HOLD-UP PLOT • AeA ■?j^K > JH H«~Jfi£l___-Jl TRIANGLE PARKING STUDY IS PLANNED Board of Trade Will Gather Data on Situation Caused by Projected Building. i ■ Its fight, for continuation of Thirteenth street south of Pennsylvania avenue ended, at ’east temporarily, with pres entation of its sase to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the Washington Board of Trade now glans to undertake a study of automo ile parking conditions which will pre vail In the triangle area of the proposed Government development when the Federal buildings there are completed i and occupied. This question is considered of equal importance by the board with that of the handling of traffic, in the triangle and the Mall. Twenty-five thousand employes will be thrown into the com paratively small district and no ade quate provision has yet been made for the parking of workers’ cars, the board ; alleges. The same committee that conducted 1 the fight against the blocking of Thir teenth street by a Government building j is to study the parking question and attempt to find its solution. The group , is headed by George V. Graham. • • HEBREW SOCIETIES TO GIVE MINSTREL Jewish Community Center Will Join With Organizations in Presenting Show. The Jewish Community Center will I Join with the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations in pre senting the twelfth annual Y. M. H. A.,' minstrel show at the center the eve nings of December 8 and 9. Sixty young men and women have been recruited from the three organiza tions for training by Adlai Mann, di rector of the show for the last several years, who will act as interlocutor, Two of the four "end men” will be girls, Cecilia Sachs and Frances Plotnick. The others are Nathan Cohen, former Business School theatrical player, and Herman Oscar. Specialty numbers are planned with the following taking part: Hershey Kaplan. Shirley Kolker, Burton Ostrow, Belle Goldenberg. Eugene Kressin, Lee Siegel, Edith LazerofT, Louis Litman. Mrs. Katherine Herzberg and Giuseppe Bruno. , , , Other members of the cast include Milton Levy. Louis Meyer, Louis Rosen- J thal. Dora Sadie, Ann Wasserman. Mary : Shulman. Evelyn Hillerson. Rose Wert lieb. Shirley Sachs. Ann Minovitz, Wil bert Yockelson, Frances Levin, Fay j Bortnick. Rose Weinstein. Frances Levin. Sam Steiner. Rose Tutrowsky, Lavina Wolfman. Sarah Lopatin, Morris Cohen, Minnie Sherman, Sylvia Kaplan, Ann Goodman. Betty Neviasser, Ben Denninberg, Edith Hurxitz, Dorothy Rabenvetz, Zelda Wolf, Bella Wolf, Goldie Wasserman. Estelle Tennenbaum, Ida Miller, Rose Venezky. Sophie Lubin. Evelyn Corbett, Jean Kruger, Anna ( Dworkin. Gertrude Feldman, Gertrude Kedan. Gertrude Kruger, Lou Feldman. Jack Sian. Hyman Baker, Max Gotkin. ; Vert B. Cohen, Sam Seiger, George j Simon. Jennie Aaronstein, Ruth Gold berg, Mariam Rosenberg. David Veax. j Joseph Miller, Harold Levy. Joseph Danzansky. Leo Schloss. Eugene Love. Samuel Hoffman and Jacob Goldman. PREPARES FOR DEBATES. Trinity College Society Begins Year of Activity. The Trinity College Debating Society I has commenced a year of activity in both intellectual and social fields. s , ev ‘ eral preliminary debates were held last month to enable the coach to choose the college team and it is hoped the society can begin its intercollegiate de bates soon after Christmas. The Debating Society will have a tea dance at the Willard Hotel next Sat urday. Dancing will be from 4 to 7 o’clock. This is the first dance of the year. The next will be in February. Auto Collision Fatal. HARRINGEN. Tex., November 16 UPV i —Walter E. Nixon, 40, Missouri Pa eifle engineer, was killed here today when his automobile was struck by one driven by his own fireman, W. J. Lee. Nixon was thrown from his car by the , impact and died a few minutes later. Employed Boys' Brotherhood to Promote Recreation and Moral Responsibility I Organization of an Employed Boys' I Brotherhood to promote vocational guid- I ance, recreation and a sense of moral I and civic responsibility among work i ing boys of the Capital has been effected j by the boys’ department of the Young • Men’* Christian Association. „ J Boys employed In all lines of in ! dustry, from messenger work to news paper circulation, will be invited to join the brotherhood and participate in its severt-fold program. The seven objec tives are: To guide boys into useful and ■ I successful careers, to assist in physical • development, to create a spirit of good fellowship, to create and satisfy a desire I for education, to cultivate a religious > nature and to encourage a spirit of; i service to the home and tJ|“ community Officers of the oragnhsaaon have been i e famfiau fikf AVASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 17. 1929-PART I—SECTION 2. * s § . j" ~ ft k. m, tafel §§ 4 3ft - ; : fill jffV. MB in m J -3^ I H K. im M nis- j Upper right: Hugh Winhery. who told the police of the alleged conspiracy. Upper left: Max Rubin, former police man, under arrest, and his brother, j Benjamin Rubin (lower left), also held. —Star Staff Photos. AIRPORT APPEAL j MADE BY HINTON Gravelly Point Site Is Held j Best Suited for Needs of Capital. A plea for an airport for Washington, situated at Gravelly Point, was made last night in the course of an address broadcast from Station WMAL by Lieut. Walter Hinton, chairman of the avia tion committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, who predicted that huge seaplanes will be the prin cipal mode of air transportation in the future. Lieut. Hinton pointed out that only Gravelly Point, of all the sites for air ports advocated for the District, could accommodate such planes. He appealed to the entire country to lend its support to Washington in an attempt to ob tain this valuable adjunct to the city. Would Benefit Nation. An airport would not benefit, Wash ington slone, he declared, but the coun try' as a whole would profit, since the ! greater portion of the air travel to and | from the District is because of Gov | ernment business. | Lieu*. Hinton then reviewed the his ! tory of the move to secure an airport I for Washington, from introduction in Congress of the Stalker bill last Decem ber to the present situation, which, he said was one of stagnation. "The Chamber of Commerce has been working hard to oil the wheels of Con gress and to create public interest to accomplish some definite results—be fore Washington is permanently side i tracked by airline operators and we j lose these valuable air transportation facilities,” he said. Pleads for Aid. "We who live in Washington have no ! vote and. therefore, cannot obtain legislation without the assistance of the entire country through Representatives and Senators. "I want to urge those listening In to night to get in touch with your Sena tors and Representatives and urge them to pledge their support to sponsor an airport in Washington. "It must be remembered that an air -1 port in our city does not benefit Wash ington alone, but that it is urgently l needed by our entire country. By far I the largest part of air travel to and ! from Washington is because of or for j Government business. Thousands of people from all over the country come I here every year to visit their official I Washington and confer with Govern- j ment officials, and more thousands; come here as tourists to see the Capital I of their Nation.” • Painter En Route Here. NEW YORK. November 16. </P). i Tade Styka, Polish painter, who has been commissioned by his government I to paint a portrait of President Hoover, 1 arrived today on the Berengaria en! route to Washington. The painting will I be hung in the House of Parliament at j Warsaw, in commemoration of Presi dent Hoover’s post-war activities in Po -1 land. elected Rnd a constitution is to be j adopted at a meeting Tuesday night at the boys' department of the Y, 1732 O street. The officers are Prank McKenzie, : president; Robert Schroeder, vice presi : dent; Aubrey Howell, secretary, and j William Pry, treasurer. Recreational, educational, social and religious facilities of the boys' depart ment will be placed at the disposal of the brotherhood. Groups of the mem bers will be assigned special evenings j for their entertainment and get togethers. A group of "junior leaders” has been organized to assist the staff in supervis ing the increased activities. John Sum | ner is president of the group, Charles ! Skippon is vice president and Walter j Hurley is secretary. RETIREMENT BILL TO BE OP EARLY IN NEW SESSION Senator Dale Will Push Meas ure in Which Interest Over Nation Is Shown. I 30 YEARS’ SERVICE TO BE ELIGIBLE AGE Employgi Then Would Get $1,200 Instead of $l,OOO Annuity on Retiring. —— ■ ■ - * Action by the Senate on the bill to improve the Government employes' re tirement system will be sought by Sen ator Dale. Republican, of Vermont, as soon as possible after the regular ses j sion gets under way next month, the : Senator said yesterday, j This measure, which was reported j favorably to the Senate last Maib would ' raise the maximum annuity from $l,OOO tc $1,200 and would permit workers I who have served 30 years to retire at ■ lower age limits than those nxed in the | present law. * In connection with this legislation I the Senate received yesterday a peti- I tion from the Pittsburgh Central Labor ! Union favoring optional retirement for j Government workers after 30 years and the $1,200 annuity. Senator Dale said | he also has received many communica tions. indicating the interest in the re tirement bill. Tariff Bill in Way. I During the present special session the Senate has confined itself to considera i tion of the tariff bill, so that there has not been an opportunity to take up thf retirement bill or any other general , legislation. It is Senator Dale's lnten • tion. however, to seek passage of this ! bill the first time the Senate takes up I its calendar of general business. This is substantially the same bill which passed both House and Senate in the last Congress, but which was! not signed by former President Coolidge. necessitating it* reintroduction when the new Congress met in special session last April. The Senate civil service com mittee, of which Senator Dale is chair- I man, promptly renewed its favorable report on the measure, and it is now the third bill on the calendar awaiting the regular session. Under the present law all employes, after 15 years of service, are eligible to retire at 70. Under this bill all I employes, after 30 years of service. ; would be eligible to retire at $B, with the increased annuity. $5 for Postal Employes. The present law provides that, letter I carriers, post office clerks and others in that group are eligible to retire at 65. after 15 years of service, whereas, under the bill, these workers would be eligible at 63 after 30 years of service. Rail way mail clerks and those in hazardous work, who are now eligible to retire at 62 after 15 years of service, would be eligible at 60 after 30 years of service under the bill. Senator Dale’s statement yesterday indicates that the Senate probably will act on retirement legislation first and send it to the House for approval early in the coming session. FUNERAL OF FORMER RESIDENT PLANNEO Rites to Be Held Today for Mrs. Mollie Anderson Haynie, 78 Tears Old. Funeral services for Mrs. Mollie An derson Haynie. 78 years old. former resident of this city, who died at her i home in Sewickley. Pa., Thursday, after I a short illness, will be conducted here in the Nevius funeral parlors this aft ernoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Dr. A. S. I Mobray, pastor of Oorsuch M. E. I Church, will officiate, assisted bv Rev. ! Dr. Thomas Copes. Rev. Dr. Allen E. I Poore and Rev. Dr. Charles Richard | son. Interment will be in Congres i sional Cemetery tomorrow morning. { Services were conducted at her late home in Bewlckley Friday night. I Mrs. Haynie left Washington six years ago to live with her daughter, I Mrs. W. D. Mac Keen, in Sewlcklev. She ; was a member of Gorsuch M. E. ! Church, having maintained her mem bership there since leaving Washington. She also was a member of the board of the Methodist Home for the Aged in this city at the time of her death. She had been active in the Bewickley M. E. Church since moving to Pennsylvania. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Mac Keen: three sisters, Mrs. Sally Crupper and Mrs. Sue Ott, both of this city, and Mrs. Frank Ellis of Fayette ville, Ark. She also leaves a sister-in law, Mrs. S. T. Anderson of this cltv, and four grandchildren. DINNER GIVEN IN MEXICO. ! Los Angeles Business Men Hosts to Native Gathering. ; MEXICO CITY, November 16 UP). — Visiting members of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce gave a banquet I at the Spanish Casino tonight in honor j of government officials and local busi ness men. Ezequiel Padilla, secretary j of public instruction, spoke for Presi- I dent Emilio Portes Gil, who was una ! ble to attend because of illness. ! Other speakers were Shannon Cran ‘ dall, president of the Los Angeles cham j ber; Dr. Puig Casauranc. chief of the : federal district government; William S. j Dawson. United States Consul General. ; and Felipe Canales, acting secretary of the Interior. The music was furnished bv the famous police band and police orches tra. The Los Angeles party, which numbers 150, will entrain tomorrow for home. PLAY TO BE GIVEN. “ 'Op o' My Thumb.” American U. i Club Feature Wednesday, The Dramatic Club of American Uni versity will give " ’Op o’ My Thumb,” Maude Adams’ famous play, in the Sun day school auditorium of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church South Wednesday evening. The play will be under the direction of WUI Hutchins, professor of dramatic art at the university. The play will be preceded by a 30- minute concert by the well known radio artists, Shannon-Whitman Trio. The trio is composed of Grace Shannon, piano; Kathryne Shannon, cello, and Don Whitman, violin. The program will be the second in a series of monthly concerts sponsored by the choir of the church of which R. 1 Deane Shure is director of music. 14 PERSONS SEIZED AS POLICE RENEW DRIVE ON LIQUOR 51 Quarts of Whisky and Five Gallons of Wine Are Con fiscated in Raids. SQUAD FINDS PROPRIETOR UNDER PILE OF CLOTHES Vice and Precinct Details Active. Search of Hour and Half Is Rewarded. Fourteen persons were arrested, one of them discovered under a clothespin in a closet, and 61 quarts of alleged liquor and 5 gallons of wine seized in a series of raids by the vice and pre cinct squads yesterday afternoon. The seventh precinct squadron, raid ing a house In the 3200 block of Pros pect avenue, searched nearly half an hour for the proprietor, Nordan C. Fairfax, colored. 46, of the above ad dress before they found him huddled under a pile of clothes in a closet in the rear of the house. Police at first t hought they had found a dead man, but Fairfax became very much alive. They charged him with possession of two quarts of whisky and five gallons of wine. During the raid two other men were arrested and charged with possession. They are Ed ward Harrison, colored. 26. and Clar ence A. Stewart. 29, both of the above address. The squadron, under com mand of Lieut. H. R. Lohman, consist ed of Precinct Detectives F. E. Stro man and N. S Hodkison. and Pvts. J. E. Burke, L. D. Phillips and G. M. Stewart. Customer Walks in. A 70-year-old farmer, Francis E. Ca ton of Fairfax, Va.. walked in during the raid by the seventh precinct and attempted to buy a pint of whisky from Detective Stroman. Stroman refused and Caton was held at the precinct as a United States witness. While scores of people passed by, not realizing anything unusual was taking place, Sergt. O. J. Letterman conducted a raid and search for more than an hour and a half at 1223 New York avenue this afternoon, and arrested Frank Shore, 48, the proprietor of the automobile and tire establishment at that address and two women, in addi tion to confiscating more than 15 quarts of alleged liquor. Shore and one of the women. Miss Margaret Money. 40 years old, were rharged with illegal possession of liquor and maintaining a nuisance, while the other woman, Miss Ednor Money, said to be a sister of the other, was held as a Government witness. Prescriptions Seized. The search of the place began down stairs. where the police found a pint of liquor In the back of the tire estab lishment: three gills concealed In the top of the cash register an dtwo gills in a safe. In addition to 10 liquor pre scriptions. 9 of which were signed by the same doctor. The physician signing the 9 resides In Virginia. The prescrip tions are to be turned over to the Revenue agents for further Investiga tion. Continuing their search on the sec ond floor and then the third, Sergt. Letterman and his men found a cedar chest containing a number of pints of the liquor on the third floor, and a box, bearing the name of an automobile tire company, containing several other bottles of the alleged liquor. Bhore and the two women were taken to No. 1 police station. G. C. McCarran of the liquor squad and R. J. Cox. pre cinct agent, aided Sergt. Letterman in conducting the raid. Shore was under temporary injunc tion for maintaining a nuisance prior to the raid. "Clesed” Sign Displayed. While the raid was in progress. Shore walked calmly to the large glass door of the establishment and turned around a metal sign, marked “closed" to face the street. The three raiding officers were busy conducting the search up stairs at the time, while one officer had been left to watch downstairs. During a second raid by the police vice squad on premises in the 800 block of Fourth street, Evelyn West, colored. 22. of the above address was arrested and charged with sale and possession of six quarts of liquor. The squad used a new policeman, working as an under cover man. to make the "buv.” Three other raids by the squad netted nothing. Chi* Through Streets. Following an exciting chase thruogh downtown streets Detectives R. S. Mc- Carty and Spottswood Gravelly of the third precinct squardron. overtook a whisky laden auto at Pennsylvania avenue and Twentieth streets. Alva Hunter, colored. 2124 Stephens court, was arrested and charged with transportation and possession and for failing to have a District driving license. Four quarts of liquor were seized. Four other occupants of the car were arrested and charged with possession. They are Mrs. Anna Hunter, wife of the driver; John A. Miles and his wife, j Beatrice Miles, and Charles W. Ride out. all colored. John Miles was later released on $2,000 bond. The fourth precinct squad visited premises in Browns court and arrested George Brown, colored, on a charge of possession. Detectives N. G. Thayer and R. J. Barrett confiscated 24 quarts of liquor. BAZAAR TO BE rfELD. Hamline M. E. Church Ladiee’ Aid Society Sponsors Supper. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Ham line Methodist Episcopal Church at Sixteenth and Allison streets, will hold a bazaar and supper in the church Tuesday and Wednesday. The bazaar will be open from 3 to 10 p.m. while the supper will be served from 5:30 to 7 P- m - . , Mrs Frank Welch is general chair man of the event, She will be assisted by Mrs. Orrel Moody, president of the society; Mrs. E. R Rochester, Mrs. Frank Reppert, Mrs. John Muirhead and Mrs. Harry James. strokelolls worker. Man Diet goon Aftar Apoplectic . Attack in Office. Herman Schreiner, 58 years old. of Mount Rainier, Md.. died at Garfield Hospital yesterday a few hours after he had been taken suddenly 111 in the offices of the Big Vein Coal Co. at Blair road and Rlttenhouse street, where he had j been employed. Death was caused by a stroke of apoplexy and Coroner J. Ramsey Nevltt Issued a certificate to 1 that effect. I LEADERS IN POPULARITY CONTEST ! —— fl fv WFy m liL ~ * ## 1 Trio of young women at present top ping contestants for title of “Miss Fed eral Employe.” Upper; Miss Rnby B. Martin and Miss Mary Laughlin. Lower: Miss Rose Clark. CLERK POPULARITY CONIES! SPIRITED “Miss Federal Employe” to Win Title Only After Hard Battle. "Miss Federal Employe," whoever she may be, must defeat some likely candi dates. Although enthusiastic balloting of the first week gave Miss Ruby B. Mar tin, Veterans’ Bureau, the lead in a con test for that honor, sponsored by the District Federation of Federal Employes’ Unions, early returns brought several other favorites to popular attention. Miss Martin, of .1211 Newark street, polled 137.000 votes; Miss Mary Laugh lin of 3148 O street. Pension Office, was a close second', with 134.500 votes, and just 2,500 further back came Miss Rose Clark. 4843 Kansas avenue, also of the , Veterans' Bureau. The friends J>f several other contest ants advanced- their favorites well up in the running Native- of Hagerstown. Miss Martin-is secretary and execu tive clerk to CK H. Sweet, chief of per sonnel of the Veterans’ Bureau, and a member of the veterans’ Bureau branch of Local Union No. 2 of the National Federation of Federal Employes. She is a native oL Hagerstown. Md„ and has been employed at the bureau since ! 1918. The contest, to pick "Miss Federal) Employee" has" aroused intense inter- I est among Government workers, and j virtually all those who have gained ! standing so rapidly have organized ) their supporter, much as in a political campaign, with- key workers scattered, so that votes may be obtained in as many quarters as possible, those in charge say. AJI wishing to vote may obtain the bleaks from any of these workers or at the headquarters of the District Federation, 710 Fourteenth street. Selection of the most popular woman member of the Federal service is being made in connection with a circus-revue scheduled for December 5, 6 and 7 at Masonic Auditorium, Thirteenth and H streets. This is sponsored bv the Dis trict Federation! in the interest of its building fund. f Every feature- of the tented outdoor circus that posstely can be crowded into a Midwinter showing indoors will be offered, according to A. J. Oliver, pro gram chairman.! Final results -will be given on the popularity contest at the closing per formance of the. circus on December 7, when the polls, will close at 11 pm. Elmer C. Hooper is chairman of the contest committee of the District Feder ation. ? Complete Standing. The first complete standing of con testants, in the 'order of votes polled, i follows: ; Miss Ruby L.’Martin. 3211 Newark, street. Veterans’ Bureau, 137.000. Miss Mary Laughlln. 3148 O street. Pension Office, j Interior Department, 134.500. 5 Miss Rose Clark. 4843 Kansas ave nue. Veterans’ Bureau. 132.000. Miss Anna M. McNutt. 3700 Massa chusetts avenue, Post. Office Housing Bureau. 128.000. Miss Arline Craig, 5300 Seventh street. General Accounting Office, 128,000. Mrs. Bernadine K. Leaman. 1509 Crit tenden street, General Accounting Of fice, 128.500. Miss Bess Miller. 3701 Massachusetts | avenue, loans and currency division,; Treasury Department. 126.000. Miss Nettie R. Israel. 1423 Harvard street. Treasury. Annex 1, 126,000. Miss Elizabeth O. Baxter. Seventh and K streets. Treasury, Annex 1. 125.000. * Miss Nicie Perfell, 704 Third street, Bureau of Engtivtng and Printing. 103.500. * ' Miss Haz“l Ltjndberg, 1301 Massa chusetts adjutant general's office. War Department, 99,500. Miss MUdred .-.a Vole, 1407 North) Carolina avenue* northeast, Treasury. Department, 96,0f0. Miss Gladys *Bywater. 4529 New | Hampshire avenurg Bureau of Engraving i and Printing. 88«>0. Miss Loretta Cfcrcoran, surgeon gen- i eral’s office, War -Department. 41.000. Mrs. Laura K. Cox. East Falls Church, Va., United States Tariff Commission. 34.000. 5 Miss Katherine R. Roach. 477 E street southwest. Navy Yard. 21,000. Mrs. Marie Thomas, 1349 Kenyon street, Veterans’ Bureau, 16,000. j Miss Katherine B. Bayton, 514 Nine teenth street, Veterans' Bureau, 12.000. Miss Ruth Taylor, 81 V street, Bu -1 reau of/(Foreign and Domestic Com merce, DepartmaaA of Commerce, 4,000. GENERAL NEWS |g^ ELI VARIED QUESTIONS TO BE DISCUSSED Four Civic Associations Will Be in Session Tomorrow Night. Compulsory liability insurance for District automobile owners, a new site j for the Center Market, improved trade i for the Eastern Market, street improve ments and the elimination of grade crossings are among the questions which will be discussed by four cit izens' associations at meetings tomor row night in as many parts of the city. In addition to questions of civic bet terment the Connecticut Avenue Cit iz ns’ Association, which will meet in thr parish hall of All Souls’ Church, Cathedral avenue and Woodley place, ! at 8 o'clock, will consider a report of its i executive committee recommending, 1 withdrawal from membership in the j Federation of Citizens' Associations. Time Wasted in Talk. William S. Quinter, president of the ; Connecticut Avenue Association: Harry Grove, one of the delegates to the fed eration. and other members of the ex ecutive committee have charged that the federation ’ wastes its time in talk” and declared that longer connection : with the federation is "useless." Dr. George C. Havenncr. president of the federation, has charged that the Connecticut avenue delegates have shown little Interest in the affairs of the city, having not even attended a meet ing of the federation since January, 1927. The whole matter will be aired I before the association and a vote on the j executive committee’s recommendation j for withdrawal probably will be taken, j The Lincoln Park Citizens’ Associa tion at a meeting also at 8 o’clock, in the Bryan School on B street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets southeast, will consider the question of a future site for the Center Market and means by which the Eastern Mar ket may get some of the trade of the downtown market when the latter Is abandoned. Joseph L. Gammell, presi- j dent of this association, said yesterday i that the question of compulsory insur- | ance for all automobile owners who i have had an accident will be brought j before the meeting. Takoma Park Topics. Elimination of the railroad grade ! j crossing at Chestnut street, street im provements and simUpr matters will come before the Citizens’ Association of Takoma Park in the Takoma branch of the Washington Public Library at 8 o’clock. _ The West End Citizens’ Association, which will meet at 8 o’clock tomorrow night in the Western" Presbyterian Church. 1911 H street, will consider means by which the vacant lot next to the Grant School, on G street, be i tween Twenty-first and Twentv-second i streets, may be acquired as a play- I ground. It is exptected that, the asso- I elation will urge the Board of Education j to press for money to purchase this lot. HOLY NAME MEMBERS HEAR SENATOR WALSH Massachusetts Leader Speaks at Blessed Sacrament Church. Senator David I. Walsh of Massa chusetts was principal speaker Thurs day night at a meeting of the Holy Name Society of the Blessed Sacrament Church, at Chevy Chase Circle. Following the address officers were elected as follows: George I. Borger, president: John Finch, vice president: Joheph A. Kuhn, secretary-treasurer, and Henry Auth, I John Bowling, Richard P. Land and ! Fred McGidern. delegates. Rev. T. Gibbons Smythe. pastor, an nounced that the vesper service of the Washington section. Holy Name So ciety. will be held in January in the 1 Blessed Sacrament Church. A musical program was given bv George O'Connor, Matt Horn and Irving Fitzgerald, while a recitation was given by William McNally. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. Wife Believes Man Opened Gas Jets Hanging Up Clothes. George B. Jenkins. 48 years old, was found unconscious in the bedroom of his home at 1108 South Caroline ave nue southeast, last night, overcome from the effects of gas fumes escaping from open Jets. He was treated at home by an ambulance surgeon from Casualty Hospital who said his condi tion was not serious. According to the man's wife. Mrs. i Elizabeth Jenkins, who discovered him. < the jets are believed to have been ac- : cidentally turned on when Jenkins hung his clothes on the er.d of the 1 jets. i 1 First Woman in Tax | Office Is Honored Upon Retirement Miss Lydie Addison, the first woman to be employed in the tax assessor's office, retired from the service yesterday. She was given S7O in gold and bouquets of flow ers by her fellow workers. Tax i Assessor William P. Richards i made the presentation. ] Miss Addison came to work in | the assessor’s office in February. 1 1901, and has been employed i there continuously. .Previous to that she had been in the Dis- 1 trict’s employ, serving in the of- ( flee of register of wills from 1896 1 until her appointment in the tax 1 assessor’s office. Miss Addison i reaches the retirement age today. PAGE 17 MTHERSON LIKELY TO KNOW FATE BY ; END OF THIS WEEK Grand Jury to Decide Whether He Shall Be Indicted or Be Set Free. CONFLICTING TESTIMONY FORESTALLS PREDICTION Street Car Conductor, Who Says He Saw Him, Yet Is to Appear Before Probers. , Robert A. McPherson. Jr., in jail on a technically faulty murder indictment, will know probably by the end of this I week whether he is to be tried under a new indictment or face the world as a free man. With testimony—much of it sharply conflicting—from more than half of the hundred-odd witnesses still to be pre sented to the grand jury, predictions as to what McPherson’s fate will be, varied widely last night. This week there will be witnesses at the grand Jurv room to testify that the husband of Virginia McPherson. Park ' Lane pajama-belt victim, was far from | the scene of the tragedy late on the ; fatal night, and there will be witnesses j to contend he was not, Forecast Likely to Err. Whose testimony is to prevail out of the confusing assortment of “facts” ob tained from the long list of witnesses is something that no one can forecast w-ith confidence at this stage of the new inquiry. New evidence uncovered by Govern ment investigators after the first grand jury proceeding remains to be offered in the new probe of Washington’s ! strangest death mystery. How much of j this evidence, if any. is damaging to I the husband and how much, if any, | might benefit his ease, will become ! known to the jurors within the next j few dßys. It is known the Department of Justice will send before the grand jury probably tomorrow, a recently-discovered witness. Conductor Joseph H. Lewark of the Georgia avenue street car line. Lewark declares he will contradict the testi mony of those who claim McPherson was not downtown after midnight lof September 12 —on the 13th—when his wife met her death in the Park Lane apartments. Medical Experts io Be Quizzed. Among other important Government j witnesses yet to be questioned, some of ! whom may appear tomorrow, are med j ical experts who conducted a second > autopsy on the body of Mrs. McPher i son a month ago at China Grove. N. C. Heading this group 1s Dr. James I. Bullitt, pathologist of the University of North Carolina. It is understood Dr. Bullitt has been subpoenaed to appear here tomorrow or Tuesday. Surgical examination of the corpse failed to verify one physician's opinion i that the skull might have been frac j tured, and disclosed no marks of vio- I lence beyond those produced by stran- I gulation with a pajama belt knotted | around the throat. i X-rays were taken of the body and a chemical analysis was made of certain j tissues, but the findings in each of I these examinations have been kept a secret by the Federal authorities. The air of mystery thus thrown around the supplemental reports has given rise to rumors that "something significant” was found. 'lt is likely the grand jury will ques tion the medical experts closely as to the ability of a woman to tie a cord around her throat and die as did Mrs. McPherson. Alibi Is Studied by Jury. The grand jury is spending much JL ln considering the alibi offered by McPherson and his relatives and friends. This alibi places him in Petworth at an hour that Conductor Lewark and a taxicab driver assert they saw him In the downtown section. The taxicab driver. Garnett Melvin Frye, testified Friday, presumably to the effect that McPherson hailed him at Fifteenth !“•*£ snd5 nd York *venue between ,°. clock on th * morning of Sep- SSS* 13 and rode in his cab to an i n .‘ he of the Park Lane <iulaaed for more hr ?„ LJ ? h ? r r tnc > *cemed upset when h ronrt»£E? fr T ° m tJ I? * Mmd T ur y room. Conductor Lewark, a short, stockv vntVh r? M i, s ' McPherson's home State, North Carolina, is scheduled to be ques tloned tomorrow. He says he will tell the jurors McPherson rode downtown ?? in ST*"* midnight and 12.30 oclock on the night of the L f£’* r £ ***** h « ls Positive in his identification because he knows McPherson well when he sees him. hav !? p ctworth in the same neighborhood with him. There can be no mistake as to the day. Lewark ex plains, because it was his birthdav. and he is sure of the hour, because it was the only "owl” trip he had made In two weeks. Records Back Conductor. Records of the Washington Rail wav <fc Electric Co. support Lewark’s state ment that he was assigned to day duties at that time, but was on special night duty on September 12. Lewark says he will testify McPher son boarded his car at Upshur street and Illinois avenue about five minutes after midnight and left the car at Ninth and I streets about 25 minutes after 12. The conductor states his passen ger wore a gray hat. similar to that de scribed by the taxicab driver. At that hour McPherson has said he was visiting an aunt in Petworth, en route to the home of his parents, where he retired. The aunt and the parents corroborate the young man’s statements. Before completing its inquiry, the grand Jury may pay a vLsit to the scene of the death. It Is possible they will have McPherson brought from the jail so that- they can hear his story from his own lips. William E. Leahy, coun sel for the husband, ls said to be ready to give his consent to this move. PISTOLSHOTWOUNDS PRESS CLUB PAGE BOY Accidental Discharge of Weapon Held by Clerk at Club Reported by Police. Sam Aronson, 18-year-old page bov at the National Press Club. Fourteenth and F streets, was wounded in the right hand and side late yesterday, when a pistol which police said was in the hands of Anton Ambrose, clerk of the club, was accidentally discharged. The injured youth was taken to Emergency Hospital, and after having the flesh wounds dressed, was taken to his home at 1355 Spring road by his family physician. His injuries are not regarded as serious. Ambrose was taken to the cinct, then released. J .