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POLICE TRANSFER
PLAN IS DELAYED
BY D.C. DILL FIGHT
Motor-Cycle Officers Would
Be Assigned to 18 Road
sters, to Be Bought.
PATROL WOULD BE PUT
UNDER BROWN’S CHARGE
Officers Would Work Directly Out
of Traffic Bureau Instead of
Precinct Stations.
Plans for the transfer to the Traffic
Bureau of motor cycle officers attached
to the various police precincts are being
held in abeyance pending the passage
by Congress of the District appropri
ation bill for the 1931 fiscal year, it
was disclosed today by Maj. Henry O.
Pratt, superintendent of police.
The appropriation bill as it went into
conference carries an item for the pur
chase of 18 small roadsters, which Maj.
Pratt proposes to put into service in
the precincts to replace the motor cycle
patrols. With the ultimate fate of
the bill in doubt due to the deadlock
of the House and Senate conferees
preparations cannot be made at this
time, it was said, to put the transfer
into effect on July 1 as contemplated.
The plans of Maj. Pratt would put
the entire motor cycle patrol under the
command of Inspector E. W. Brown, the
assistant superintendent who has su
pervision over the Traffic Bureau. These
officers would work directly out of the
Traffic Bureau instead of the precinct
stations, and Increase the bureau's per
sonnel to about 75.
All in D. C. Would Benefit.
, Maj. Pratt believes the centralization
of the motor cycle policemen will in
crease their effectiveness and bring
about closer co-ordination and co-oper
ation in the enforcement of the traffic
regulations. Every section of the Dis
trict would benefit, he said, as flying
squadrons could be detailed to certain
areas from which complaints are re
ceived of speeding and other violations.
Moreover, he pointed out, it will be
possible to assign additional motor
cycle officers to duty in the congested
area, since the automobile patrols will
be operating extensively in the outlying
sections.
With the purchase of 18 new cars to
augment the motor patrol, Maj. Pratt
plans to abolish completely the horse
mounted patrols, which now are work
ing exclusively in the outlying sections.
The department now has 19 horse
* mounted men on its roster, although 24
are authorized under the 1930 appro
priation. No effort was made to fill
these five existing vacancies in view of
the program for motorizing the depart
ment. Experience has shown, accord
ing to Maj. Pratt, that a policeman in
an automobile can cover four and five
times as much territory as a mounted
officer, and can respond more quickly
In an emergency.
Radio Sets to Aid.
The effectiveness of the motor patrols
will be materially increased, Maj. Pratt
said, as soon as funds become available
to equip them with radio receiving sets.
The deficiency appropriation bill for
1930 carries an item of $18,500 to erect
a radio transmitting station for the de
partment and install receiving sets in
the police cars as well as in the offices
of police officials in nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
With the motor patrols equipped with
* receiving sets, Maj. Pratt pointed out,
police headquarters will be able to keep
In constant communication with the
men assigned to the cars. Thus re
ports received at headquarters will be
broadcast to the motor patrols imme
diately upon receipt, permitting the
policemen to apprehend criminals be
fore they have an opportunity to get out
of the District.
firemetTpromoted
BY DISTRICT HEADS
. Lieut. Reilly, Sergt. Hanback and
Pvt. Biondi Are Given Raises
in Bank.
The District Commissioners yesterday
promoted Lieut. Dennis J. Reilly of No.
28 Engine Company to be a 'captain
in the Fire Department to replace the
late Capt. Harry W. Swann. Sergt. Roy
B. Hanback of No. 11 Engine Company
was promoted to the rank of lieutenant
and Pvt. Frank A. Biondi, instructor
of the men at the Firemen’s Training
School, to be sergeant. Sergt. Harry
T. Burlingame of the ninth police pre
cinct was put on the retired list for
physical incapacity.
The Commissioners created two new
* stretches of one-way street in connec
tion with the installation of traffic sig
nal lights on Maryland avenue from
, Second to Fourteenth streets northeast.
F street between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets will be one-way westbound and
between Twelfth and Thirteenth will
be one-way eastbound.
The Commissioners made a favorable
report to Congress on the bill to es
tablish a branch of the Public Library
in Georgetown.
PADLOCK ON i STREET
BUILDING REQUESTED
Three Defendants Named in Dry
Charges Against "Debating
Club.”
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
and Assistant United States Attorney
Harold W. Orcutt today asked the Dis
trict Supreme Court for a “padlock"
injunction against the Press Debating
Club, 1217 I street, which is alleged to
be operating a nuisance under the na
tional prohibition law by permitting the
sale of liquor on the premises. Joined
as defendants with the club are Michael
Vercelli, Ignagio Olivetti and John
Bossetto. said to be agents and employes
of the club. Harry K. Boss, H. Glenn
Phelps and Ben T. Webster are named
as owners of the real estate where the
club is located.
The application followed a raid on the
premises by Sergt. Letterman and his
squad May 28 and is supported by affi
davits of Letterman, Herbert G. Wana
maker, Richard J. Kennedy, William T.
* Ballard. John R. LeFoe, A. Dowell
Mansfield and Walter F. Martin. Noti
fication to the owners from the United
States attorney’s office last October of
susnicion that the premises were being
used in violation of the law is attached
to the application.
Justice Jennings Bailey signed a
1 temporary injunction against the club
and the other ***»*>-*-^ntx.
CRIME COMMISSION SHUNS
JUDGMENT OF PROHIBITION
Wickersliam Asserts Group Is Concerned
Only With Enforcement and Whether
It Will Be Possible.
By the Associated Press.
Any one who thinks the Hoover Law
Enforcement Commission Is going to
report on whether "prohibition is or is
not a desirable thing for the country”
is wrong.
The House appropriations committee
reveal -d today that Chairman Wicker
sham thinks "there is a very large pub
lic misapprehension" of the commis
sion’s duties.
Testifying on the second deficiency
bill, which carries $250,000 for the
Hoover agency, he said there had been
attempts “to cause the commission to
take up the study of the problem of
prohibition—that is, as to the wisdom
of the policy of national prohibition.”
"Failing in that,” the chairman con
tinued, “the attempt has been to create
the impression in the minds of the
country that such was the study which
the commission was carrying on.”
Conceding that there has been a dif
ference of opinion among the commis
sion members, Wickersham said it had
proceeded on the theory that it should
not “go behind the eighteenth amend
ment,” but should decide "how best we
can enforce It.”
"It has been our view,” he explained,
“that when we came to a thorough
inquiry into the problem of the en
forcement of prohibition, under the
CITIZENS REDDEST
CUT IN ESTIMATES
Council Would Pare Total
From $54,177,302 to
$47,788,375.
The citizen’s advisory council last
night completed its job of going over
the District’s 1932 estimates and, after
two nights’ consideration, advised the
District Commissioners to cut down
hundreds of the items asked for by the
department heads to bring the total
to be spent in 1932 to $47,788,375, in
stead of the estimated $54,177,302.
Most of the big items got by without
much discussion, but many of the small
ones called for rather caustic com
ments. The council did not like the
frequency with which the term "social
worker,” bobbed up. The found that
these workers are carried by the Board
of Public Welfare, the Juvenile Court,
the Women’s Bureau, and the public
schools. So it adopted a resolution
asking the Commissioners to cut out
some of the “overlapping” work.
The biggest struggle was over a re
quest by the Board of Public Welfare
for SIO,OOO to build a cottage for the
chief engineer of the District Training
School for Feeble-minded children, lo
cated at Mulrkirk, Md„ and requests
for SIIO,OOO for an infirmary building
for the school and $60,000 for relocat
ing the school sewers and heating plant.
Votes for Cut to $6,000.
“Ten thousand dollars for a cottage!”
exclaimed Councilman William A. Rob
erts. "My house did not cost as much
as that, and I had to pay a good slice
of the price for my lot. which, they
tell me, is in an exclusive residential
section.”
"Don’t you think.” inquired Council
man Harry N. Stull, “that when they
put down SIO,OOO they really expect a
cut to $6,000?”
The council agreed that this was
what “they” meant, so it voted for
$6,000. The council, all except Chair
man George C. Havenner, seemed
aghast at the large expenditures asked
i for this one institution for the infirm
ary and relocating the sewers. Haven
ner explained that when the District
had first bought the place, the build
ings were put around hodge-podge, with
no system. Now there is a system and
a plan, and it will cost eventually
$5,000,009 to tear down the wrong work
and put up the new.
When the matter was put to the vote,
the sewer item lost, 4-2, but the in
firmary item was carried.
Throughout the discussion Dr. E. E.
Richardson sought increases for the
various physicians carried by the Board
of Public Welfare and other institu
tions, saying it was a disgrace to pay
some physicians S3O a month and at
the same time to raise the pay of fire
men and policemen. His views did not
prevail.
Dog Death Chair Is Rejected.
The council opposed any increase to
the Health Department for employing
more physicians and nurses for school
child inspection, but after a somewhat
heated discussion voted 4 to 2 in favor
of an item of SBSO for a machine to test
the hearing of pupils. The vote against
an electric chair with which to kill the
dogs at the dog pound was unanimous.
Increases for new clerks at Juvenile
Court were opposed, but the council
favored increased compensation for the
presiding judges of Police and Municipal’
Courts. An increased appropriation for
. Police Court Jurors was opposed. So
l were all new positions and step-ups
i sought by the Board of Public Wel
fare in its salary item. The council con
: sidered carefully the question of whether
Louise, the tug boat used to bring auto
’ mobile tags and other merchandise from
the workhouse and reformatory, should
be allowed to retire after 17 years’ serv
ice, and $25,000 be spent for a new
tug. It finally decided that Louise
could continue for a while longer.
Some of the other cuts recommended
were:
Health Department, $500,000 (elimi
nate the proposed Isolation building for
patients suffering from minor com
municable diseases); workhouse and
reformatory, $200,000; Gallinger Hospi
tal, $160,000; Court of Appeals, $25,000;
. District Jail, $18,000; Tubercular
, Hospital, $80,000; Industrial Home
. School for Colored Inmates, $27,000;
> Home for the Aged and Infirm, $25,000:
, public buildings and parks, $90,000:
j National Zoological Park, $250,000
. (curtail construction of a proposed
, mammal house),
i •
! E. B. DEAN, Sr., FACES
1 SIOO,OOO SLANDER SUIT
i
Woman Plaintiff Charges in Pe
! tition That He Made Deroga
tory Remarks.
Edward B. Dean, sr., wealthy real
1 estate operator, temporarily residing at
. Scranton, Pa., was sued for SIOO,OOO
i damages late yesterday by Lillian D.
f Wallace. 2500 K street, former resident
; manager of Schuyler Arms apartments,
i I 1954 Columbia road, for alleged slander.
| Dean is said to own the Schuyler Arms,
i • where the plaintiff had been employed.
3 The plaintiff tells the CQMrt that Dean
made derogatory remarks about her.
Wi)t ptaf
amendment and the laws, if we were
convinced that prohibition could not be
enforced, we ought to say so, and that
if we were convinced that it was very
problematical as to whether it could be
enforced, we ought to say so.
"But, at the same time, up to the
present the commission has proceeded
on the theory that our job was to see
whether the eighteenth amendment was
being adequately and efficiently en
forced, whether any change In the law
was desirable, and what changes, if any,
in the laws would best bring about the
maximum enforcement of the provisions
of the eighteenth amendment.”
He predicted the commission’s work
would be concluded in about a year.
Studies are now being made of the
prison system, the cost and cause of
crime, juvenile delinquincy, police or
ganizations and management, prosecu
tion, lawlessness of government officials,
and the value of State and municipal
crime surveys.
Wickersham disapproved the bill to
authorize an appropriation of $1,000,000
for world surveys, of prohibition legis
lation, Introduced by Representative
Andrew, Republican, Massachusetts.
"We have pretty full information
now in our possession as to what they
are doing in other countries,” he said,
"but the trouble is, not one of them,
with the exception of two provinces in
Canada, has been continuously in oper
ation for five years.”
NORWAY ACQUIRES
SITE FOR LEGATION
Japan Also Files Plans for
New Embassy to Be
Erected Soon.
The Norwegian government shortly
will start the construction of a new
legation for its representatives here, on
a large site which has been acquired
on the north side of Massachusetts
avenue west of Thirty-fourth street, it
! was revealed today In legal records
showing transfer of the property from
Halvard H. Bachke, Norwegian Min
ister, to the Royal Norwegian govern
ment.
The new legation building will be op
posite Observatory Circle, near the
new and costly home of the British
embassy on the south side of Massa
chusetts avenue. It will be the newest
addition to "embassy row,” on the ave
nue which is to be enlarged also in the
near future by the construction of the
new home for the Japanese embassy
in the 2500 block of Massachusetts ave
nue, for which a building permit was
sought yesterday.
While plans for the new Norwegian
legation building have been under con
sideration for some time, the project
has not been publicly announced here
Will Have Fifteen Rooms.
The building will have an exterior
of limestone with carved stone orna
mentation. The roof will be made of
handmade tile. The style will be of
English renaissance motif. John J
Whelan of Washington is the architect.
The building will have 15 main rooms
exclusive of the chancery quarters
which will consist of 6 main rooms.
Plans for the new Japanese embassy
were filed with the application for per
mit with the District building Inspector
late yesterday.
The monumental embassy building
and a chancery structure have a total
cost estimated at approximately $380.-
000. It is expected the construction will
be started immediately following ap
| proval of the plans,
i The chancery staff of the embassy
i now is located in the structure at 1600
Rhode Island avenue, which has been
acquired as the headquarters of local
Republicans, while the Japanese Am
bassador resides at 1321 K street.
Announced in 1929.
Plans for the new embassy develop
ment were made known in July, 1929,
when contracts were signed for the
purchase of the site.
The embassy building will contain 40
main rooms and will be about 104 feet
wide, 80 feet deep and 60 feet high.
; Nearby, nearer the avenue, will be the
i chancery building, which will be of two
! stories and basement, containing 22
rooms. Both structures will be of brick,
stone and stucco construction. In ad
dition, plans for the future construction
on a part of the site of a squash court
and a building to house recreational
facilities were filed with the District
government.
Plans call for the development of an
oval court in front of the embassy, a
garden and a pool to the west and a
service court to the east.
Application for permits were filed for
the Imperial Japanese government by
S. Kato, first secretary of the embassy,
and representatives of James Stewart &
Co., Guilders. Delano & Aldrich are the
architects.
TWO 4-YEAR-OLD BOYS
HURT IN AUTO MISHAPS
Both Knocked Down in Street
While Playing—One Suffers
a Broken Leg.
Two 4-year-old boys. Robert Frank
of 21 K street and Paul Frederick of
504 Third street, were struck by auto
mobiles when they ran into the street
from behind parked machines while at
play near their homes yesterday after
noon.
The Frederick youngster was the
more seriously injured, receiving a
broken left leg when a car driven by
Austin A. Shillingberg, 31, of 226
Third street, knocked him down. The
boy was taken to Children's Hospital
for treatment.
Minor lacerations of the head and
nose were suffered by the Frank child
when he was hit by an automobile
operated by Benjamin F. Simms, 33
years old, of 1732 L street northeast.
He was given first-aid treatment at
Sibley Hospital and allowed to go home.
Run down by a hit-and-run machine
at Sixth and B streets yesterday, Isabel
Barney 39 years old, of Lyon Park,
Va., was removed to Emergency Hos
pital and treated for cuts of the left
hand and bruises of the body, she
was sent home after first-aid treat
ment.
....
; Mexican Immigration Topic.
Representative Thomas A. Jenkins of
, Ohio, a member of the House immigra
, tion committee, spoke in favor of plac
ing Mexican immigration on a quota
basis in a radio address last evening
, over the Columbia Broadcasting Sys
; tern, broadcast locally from Station
WMAU
WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1930. ***
ARCHBISHOP GIVES
DEGREES TO 349
GRADUATES AT C. U.
15 Additional Students Re
ceive Normal Diplomas
in Morning Service.
SPEAKER ASKS SOUND
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Most E«v. Curley of Baltimore
Scores Scientists Who Deny
the Existence of Ood.
Degrees were conferred upon 349
students and normal diplomas were
presented to 15 graduates at the annual
commencement at Catholic University
this morning by Most Rev. Michael
J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore.
The exercises were marked by a plea
for the development of an International
law under which the World Court would
be able adequately to treat the con
troversy brought before it made by Dr.
Charles G. Fenwick, professor of inter
national law at Bryn Mawr College.
In the same exercises Archbishop Curley
took occasion to attack pseudo scien
tists whose persistent denials of the
existence of God, he said, are almost
daily features of press reports, and to
beseech the graduates he addressed to
abide by the ideals and philosophies
given them during their studies at
Catholic University.
In his address Dr. Fenwick, who was
talking on "The Problem of a Law
Between Nations," declared the problem
today is "one of applying to the con
duct of States those fundamental
principles of right and justice which
men have long since come to apply
between themselves as citizens of the
State in which they live."
"No Man Judge."
"In this third decade of the
twentieth century,” Dr. Fenwdck as
serted, "no one questioned the great
principle of the law that in the dispute
between citizens, the Judgment of the
whole community, as represented by
its court of Justice, must take pre
cedence over the opinion of the in
dividual citizen. No man may be the
judge in his own case. And we have
for more than 100 years applied that
same rule between the individual
States of the United States. The
Supreme Court is the final arbiter of
their disputes."
Continuing, Dr. Fenwick contended
the present problem is "to apply the
same principles to the nations of the
world and to develop an international
tribunal which shall be competent to
hear the disputes of states."
"Such a tribunal already exists in
the Permanent Court of International
Justice, the protocol of which has been
signed by the United States and which
now awaits the ratification of the Sen
ate,” he declared. "At the same time
it will be necessary to develop interna
tional law so that the World Court will
have a body of principles to apply to
the controversies brought before it.”
Co-operative Defense Needed.
Dr. Fenwick declared it would be
further necessary to develop some sys
tem of co-operative defense which shall
take the place of individual armament
and the reliance of each state upon its
own resources for protection.
In his remarks, Archbishop Curley
commended Dr. Fenwick’s views on in
ternational law, declaring there need be
no conflict between the laws of moral
ity and the laws of nations. The arch
bishop addressed himself to the group
of scientists whom, he said, announced
"discoveries" of evidence of just how
mankind was started “ten million years
ago.” At the same time, however,
Archbishop Curley paid tribute to the
sincere scientists who actually had de
voted their energy to the betterment
of mankind.
This morning's exercises were marked
by the presentation of a diploma with
which Pope Pius XI appoints Clarence
Eugene Martin knight commander of
the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
The valedictory was delivered by Joseph
William Clay, graduate, of Cumberland.
Md. The invocation was pronounced
by Mgr. E. A. Pace, vice rector of the
university, while announcements were
made by Right Rev. Mgr. Hugh A.
Ryan, rector.
The degrees conferred included 112
bachelor of arts, 38 bachelor of science
(including engineering), 1 bachelor of
music, 11 bachelor of laws, 96 master
of arts, 2 law ard sciences master de
grees, 23 doctor of philosophy, 35
bachelor in sacred sciences or canon
law, 23 licentiate in sacred sciences or
canon law and 8 dotor in sacred sci
ences or canon law.
TTie list of graduates will be pub
lished in The Star tomorrow.
BURGLARS BREAK IN SAFE
AND ESCAPE WITH S4OO
Breaking in the safe of the Nu-Grape
Corporation, at 210 Second street, with
the aid of a crowbar, burglars stole
S4OO from the strong box last night
and made their getaway.
Headquarters detectives investigating
the robbery learned that the robbers
forced open a side door to the estab
lishment, climbed up the open elevator
shaft to reach the offices of the corpo
ration, on the second floor, where the
safe was located.
A crowbar was obtained from another
part of the building and the strong box
was dragged into the rear of the plant
and pried open. Fingerprint experts
from headquarters obtained photographs
of a number of clear impressions left
on the safe by the yeggmen.
The robbery was discovered about 7
o’clock this morning by the manager,
Herbert Mack, when he opened the
plant for the day. Max J. Raine, presi
dent of the corporation, notified police
after being advised of the theft.
Hoover Signs Bill
To Close Market
On January 1, 1931
President Hoover yesterday
signed a joint resolution provid
ing for the closing of Center
Market, and in reporting this it
was inadvertently stated in The
Star that the market would be
closed the end of this month.
That was the closing date in
the original resolution, but It
was amended to provide that the
market shall be closed by Janu
ary 1, 1931, or 60 days after no
tice is given by the Secretary of
Agriculture, which notice shall
not be given before September 1,
1930. It was this amended reso
lution which was signed by the
President. , , .
The deficiency bill reported in
the House today carried $87,500
for continued operation of the
market.
PLANS TO BEAUTIFY
ROSSLYN ENTRANCE
WILL BE DISCUSSED
Other Important Projects to
Be Taken Up Friday by
Park Commission.
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
LOCATION TO BE STUDIED
Extension of Bolling Field and
Sites for War and Navy Build
ings to Be Weighed.
Several important projects, Including
the improvement of Rosslyn, Va.; the
extension of Bolling Field as a greater
Army airport, the location of the Roose
velt Memorial project, potential sites for
he location of the proposed new War and
Navy Department Buildings and a pro
gram of development of Anacostia Park
in harmony with the Department of
Agriculture plans for the arboretum and
plant displays, are scheduled to come
before the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission at its June meet
ing on Friday.
The extension of B street south, ul
timately to link up with the Potomac
Park road system and the Anacostia
Park region, will come before the com
mission for consideration. Frederick Law
Olmsted of Brookline, Mass., a mem
ber of the commission, has made a
of this problem and has prepared a re
port for presentation to his colleagues.
Louis A. Simon of the Treasury Depart
ment will appear before the commission
to give it the benefit of the viewpoint of
the supervising architect's office on the
situation.
Col. Grant to Report.
The question of possible location of
the War and Navy Department struc
tures will again be considered. Lieut.
Col. U. S. Grant 3d, vice chairman and
executive officer of the commission,
will report on a Joint special committee
meeting, held with the Fine Arts Com
mission group in New York City a
short time ago, with reference to this
problem and the- plans for the new
pharmacitical building, west of the
National Academy of Sciences.
The commission will consider a study
that has just been completed with
reference to the proposed extension of
Bolling Field, as is contemplated by
pending legislation. As the commis
sion is interested in the development
of Shepherd Parkway to the east of the
field, on the adjoining slopes, It Is
keeping a close eye on the expansion
program, Capt. E. N. Chisolm jr., the
commission's engineer, said today. The
study of the commission's staff takes
into consideration highways, proposed
street changes and railroad facilities
in the Bolling Field area and confer
ences have been held with Maj. Rigby
D. Valliant of tfle Army Quartermaster
Corps on this subject.
Approach Report Is Due.
Mr. Olmsted will report to the com
mission on the results of his investiga
tion of the Lee Boulevard approach to
the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The
commission will also take up for dis
cussion the Rosslyn approach to the
Key Bridge. Tentative plans have been
prepared by its staff for a large circle
and the rerouting of the car lines, with
improvement of the area to provide for
a beautiful plaza as one of the impos
ing gateways to Washington. The Gov
ernment now owns the property in
question, Capt. Chisholm said, and the
traction interests, the office of public
buildings and public parks and the Dis
trl*rt Commissioners are concerned with
any changes to be made.
"It is a matter of getting everybody
together and obtaining a plan accept
able to all concerned," Capt. Chisholm
said.
Col. Grant will lay a report on the
Roosevelt Memorial project before the
commission and likewise will present a
further tentative program for the im
provement of the Washington Monu
ment Grounds. This project needs con
siderable study, Capt. Chisholm said,
and provision must be made for addi
tional roadway.
Parking to Be Taken Up.
Charles W. Eliot, 2d, the Commis
sion's city planner, will report on the
automobile parking committee's delib
erations. A preliminary report on the
studies conducted by Dr. Miller Mc-
Clintock of the Erskine Bureau of Har
vard University into the Washington
automobile parking situation recently
was made public. Col. Grant is chair
man of this committee.
The relationship between the Na
tional Arboretum now being prepared
by the Department of Agriculture at
Mount Hamilton and the upper Ana
costia Park will be considered by the
commission. A revised plan 1s in the
course of preparation and this likely
will receive some attention.
Col. William B. Ladue, Engineer
Commissioner of the District, a mem
ber of the commission, will report on
proposed highway changes, and Capt.
Chisolm will bring up several items of
proposed land purchases.
LEWIS FUNERAL RITES
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Life Long Washingtonian Who
Died Monday to Be Buried in
Congressional Cemetery.
Funeral services for Daniel S. Lewis.
62 years old, a lifelong resident of
Washington, who died Monday at his
residence, 330 Eleventh street south
east, will be held tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the residence. Interment
will be in Congressional Cemetery.
Mr. Lewis, well known in Southwest
Washington, had operated an interior
decorating establishment at 1242 Ninth
street for many years. He retired sev
eral years ago. He was a member of
the Fifth Baptist Church.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Maude J.
Lewis, he is survived by six daughters,
Mrs. George Donaldson, Mrs. W. E.
Hayghe, Mrs. John Owen Kerby, Mrs.
Katherine Hayes and Miss Isabelle
Lewis, all of this city, and Mrs. Robert
M. Ashlin of West Palm Beach, Fla.
SUES FOR $25,000
Bus Line Is Made Defendant in
Damage Action. |
Suit to recover $25,000 damages has
been filed by H. Clay Powell, 1601 Ar- ■
gonne place, against the Colonial At
lantic-Pacific Interstate Transit. Inc., '
1421 Pennsylvania avenue, for alleged
personal injuries. The plaintiff says l
he was driving his car near Laurel, 1
Md., April 7, when a bus of the de- i
fendant swerved in front of him and 1
forced him off the road. His car ran
into an embankment and he was in
jured ‘severely, he alleges. Attorneys
Thomas H. Patterson and Herbert S.
Ward appear for the plaintiff.
WRECKERS WRITE FINIS TO NOTED HOME
The shapeless jumble that was once the home of the famed inventor, Alex
ander Graham Bell. —Star Staff Photo.
OLD BELL MANSION
BEING DEMOLISHED
Last Traces of Former Aris
tocratic House Are Re
moved Today.
A house on Connecticut avenue just
south of Dupont Circle, which all the
world knew 25 years ago, was reduced 1
to dust today as workmen removed the !
few bricks remaining In the fine old j
place that housed the family of the
great inventor, Alexander Graham Bell.
The man who gave the world the tele
phone lived in the three-story brick
house in the middle of the 1300 block
of Connecticut avenue for 30 years.
During the years when he was ac
claimed the world over for his bene
factions to humankind, he and his wife
and their children lived quietly almost
in the shadow of the tree-lined circle.
Dr. Bell died there in 1922.
The old house has net been occupied
since 1922. The demolition of the
building is a token of the Capital’s •
development, for only one dwelling
house remains now in a block that a J
quarter of a century ago was a fash
ionable, exclusive section for prominent
residents.
Built in 1892.
The three-story structure of rather
severe lines was erected at the Instance
of Dr. and Mrs. Bell in 1892. Horn
blower <fc Marshall, the well known
architectural firm, designed the house.
When Dr. and Mrs. Bell moved in it
was one of the show places of the
period and for many years was a
gathering place for distinguished men
and women. The house stood several
feet above the Connecticut avenue level,
front steps rising sharply to an en
tranceway which gave little hint of the
commodious quarters.
A feature of the construction was the
location of the courtyard in the rear,
the arrangement being such that the
two daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Bell,
who maintained residences adjoining
and a block away on Eighteenth street,
might visit in all three houses without
passing from the intimacy of the family
establishment.
The late William Howard Taft was
entertained there when he was gov
ernor general of the Philippines and
virtually every political and social
leader in Washington and distinguished
visitors from all over the world knew
the hospitality of the Bell home. Rep
resentative Joe Cannon, the famous
Speaker, was a frequent guest.
Surrounded by Business.
At the time of Dr. Bell’s death the
property passed to a daughter, Mrs
Gilbert Grosvenor, who is the wife of
the president of the National Geo
graphic Society.
Dr. Grosvenor in commenting on the
changes that have taken place in the
neighborhood sarid today that the prop
erty would be sold and that in the
meantime it had been decided to de
molish the building. It was a skeleton,
everything of sentimental value having
been removed long since.
Business has pushed out Connecticut
avenue past the Bell property on the
other side of the street. An antique
shop and a tea room, modern in every
respect, notwithstanding the antiques,
stand in the shadow of what in other
years was a fine residence quite removed
from the business district. The British
embassy is near, but the representatives
of Great Britain are vacating the build
ing for larger quarters on Massachu
setts avenue.
COOPER WILL SPEAK
TO Y.M.C. A. SENIORS
One Hundred to Receive Diplomas
From Southeastern Uni
versity Tonight.
Nearly 100 graduates of the South
eastern University and affiliated schools
of the Washington Young Men’s Chris
tian Association will receive diplomas
tonight at 8 o’clock at joint com
mencement ceremonies in Memorial
Continental Hall.
Dr. William Knowles Cooper, past
general secretary of the Y. M. C. A.,
will deliver the commencement ad
dress. Huston Thompson, president of
the board of trustees of the university,
will preside. Dr. Homer J. Councilor,
dean of the School of Religion, will
offer invocation and benediction.
Candidates for law degrees will be
presented by Acting Dean George W.
Offutt, jr., of the School of Law, and
for accountancy degrees by Dean Jo
seph K. Moyer of the School of Ac
countancy. Graduates of the Wash
ington Preparatory School will be in
troduced by Principal Raymond O.
Ellason and of the Woodward School
by Headmaster Nathan E. Hodges.
The diplomas will be awarded by Dr.
James A. Bell, head of the university.
Gold scholarship keys and certificates
will be awarded honor students.
Graduates will assemble in caps and
gowns at 7:30 o’clock and form a pro
cession. Music will be-furnished by a
stringed orchestra under leadership of
Clifford Dyer.
Immediately after the ceremonies the
graduates and their friends will ad
journ to the university auditorium, at
1736 G Street, for a complimentary
dance tendered by university official*.
Society and General
Too Much Praise
Coming to Police;
Can’t Print All
It’s “Sunny Side Up” for the
Police Department now. Once a
target of constant criticism, the
department finds itself being
flooded with commendations.
Every mail delivery brings in an
other paean of praise for some
officer or some official who has
done something to please some
body.
In fact, the letters of commen
dation have become so numerous
in recent weeks that the depart
ment has found it impossible, for
the lack of space, to follow cus
tomary procedure and print them
in its official bulletin. Inspector
William S. Shelby, assistant su
perintendent and chief of detec
tives, who has supervision of the
bulletin, is now considering the
publication monthly or semi
monthly of a special bulletin for
the exclusive reproduction of the
commendatory letters.
LEGALITY OF LIQUOR
RAID TO BE TESTED
Warrantless Search Fails to
!
Stand Up in Court as
Two Are Freed.
Legality of the seizure by police last
night of 47 gallons of whisky and al
cohol in a home on Allison street near
Fifth street, which they are said to
have searched without a warrant after
arresting Frank A. Ricks, 34, on charges
of illegal possession and transporta
tion of liquor, was to be tested in Po
lice Court today.
The Government last night lost a
case in Police Court, made when a
house was entered without a warrant.
Acting on information given them by
an informer, Sergt. George M. Little
and his liquor squad took up a watch
near the Allison street address. When
Ricks came out with a package under
his arm and drove off in an automobile,
the policemen followed.
Fare* Weapon Charge.
Accosted a few blocks down the
street, Ricks was quoted by police as
saying, “There's no use opening the
package—it's two jars of gin.”
Ricks was booked at No. 6 precinct
on the two dry counts and an addi
tional charge of carrying a concealed
weapon after police are alleged to have
uncovered a heavy-caliber automatic on
the seat of his car.
Returning to the prisoner's home, the
squad reported they found three 10-
gallon kegs and one 5-gallon glass jar
of colored whisky, two 5-gallon tins of
alcohol and 9 quarts of “bonded'’
Scotch and rye whisky.
Two Are Acquitted.
In the trial ending last night a Police
Court jury acquitted two liquor case
defendants arrested when a home was
entered without a search warrant, on
the basis of a reputed “buy” by an in
former, which two policemen said they
had witnessed through a window. The
informer substantiated their testimony.
The jury deliberated 4 hours, their
action coming on the heels of the re
fusal by the court for a directed ver
dict freeing the defendants.
The case was heard before Judge
Isaac R. Hitt and the second “short"
jury in court history, composed of ten
men and a woman. John Skelly Roach
and George Henry Westcott were the
defendants. The charge was possession
of liquor.
Policemen A. D. Mansfield and H.
G. Wanamaker of the first precinct,
the arresting police, admitted that they
had not obtained an entry warrant
for the private home in the 800 block
of Ninth street. They declared that
they had seen “an alleged sale” of
liquor from outside of the house, after
Police Informer John Kidd had entered
for this purpose.
Kidd also testified of the buy. De
fense Attorney John P. Mullen at this
point moved for a directed verdict, but
Judge Hitt ruled that as the police had
seen “a felony being committed Inside
the home from the street" the search
was legal.
Immediately after Kidd stepped from
the stand Mullen arose and denounced
the whole idea of the "stool pigeon"
and “peeping methods" on the part of
police.
Wescott. one of the defendants, left
immediately after the trial for the Dis
trict Jail, where he is serving a Police
Court sentence of 60 days for being
drunk and disorderly.
Before the trial, the office of the
United States attorney had refused to
press police charges of sale against both
Wescott and Roche.
OFFICES ARE OPENED
Washington Bicentennial Commis
sion Takes Quarters.
The District of Columbia commission
for the George Washington bicentennial
celebration here in 1932 has opened
business offices in the National Press
Building, under supervision of Frederick
Vining Fisher, executive director.
The offices have been equipped and a
staff retained.
Through the courtesy of the Chesa
peake «fc Potomac Telephone Co., the
telephone number of “National 1932”
has been assigned to thie organization.
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GAMING OPERATORS
NAMED BY GRAND
JURY ON 4 COUNTS
Five Indicted as Result of
Raids by Policeman
Kenney.
STERN CO. EXONERATED
OF MANSLAUGHTER CASE
Jurors Hear of Death of Fire Cap
tain in Plant Blaze, but
Withhold Charge.
Harry Conn, Benney Lewis, Kirk
Callenberger, Henry Tucker and
Edward Killeen were indicted today by
the grand jury on a charge of setting
up a gaming table at 1210 G street as
the result of a raid June 4 by Policeman
James E. Kenney, who had been loaned
to the office of United States Attorney
Rover from the second precinct.
The indictment is in four counts.
The first count charges that the five
accused, between November 1, 1929, and
the date of the raid, had set up a gam
ing table where bets could be made on
the results of horse races. The second
count alleges that they maintained the
place for such illegal purpose during
the same interval. By the third count
they are accused of having under their
ocntrol a place where bets could be
made and to have permitted such
gambling. In the fourth count they
are charged with making a specific bet
with Officer Kenney June 4.
Larceny after trust, embezzlement and
larceny from the District of Columbia
are charged in an indictment reported
against Mason T. Mullen, former mem
ber of the Metropolitan Police Force
attached to eighth precinct, who re
signed last April and who is said to
have failed to turn in his uniforms to
Capt. Doyle, the precinct commander.
Kept Uniforms.
The indictment specifies that Mullen
had in his possession belongings to the
District government two pairs of
trousers, valued at $8.50 and $9 60,
respectively; an overcoat valued at
$36.50; a cap worth $2.25, and a rubber
raincoat valued at $7.63.
The Stern Co., Inc., was exonerated
by the grand jury of a charge of man
slaughter in connection with the death
of Capt. Harry W. Swann, fire engine
company 6, who fell down a shaft at
the company’s plant 120-132 G street
northeast, while fighting a fire on the
premises May 26. The captain died at
Emergency Hospital June 1. The mat
ter was referred to the grand jury be
cause of testimony given at the inquest
by John M. Brown, an elevator inspector.
The grand jurors also refused to in
dict Harold B. Rutherford, Willie John
son and William Reed, charged with
i joyriding, and Paul W. Miles and Frank
E. Clark, grand larceny.
Embezzlement of 182 pairs of shoes,
worth $6 each, is charged against Wil
liam T. Miller, former manager of the
Washington branch of the Lincoln Shoe
Stores, 1115 G street.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are: Maurice E. Poole,
Cecelia M. Bungay and James E. Smith
(3 cases), forgery; William E. Walters
and Charles Ristow Schroth, non-sup
port; Daniel Mankin, Walter Bell,
Charles C. Lee (alias Giles C. Lee),
Giles C. White and Samuel A. Collier,
joy-riding; Orlanders G. Liberty, Nace
Tibbitts (2 cases), William R. Halley,
Edward Brown and Alfred Brown (2
cases), and Samuel Fowler, housebreak
ing and larceny; James Sollers, Stan
ley J. Crosby, John Lewis. Lessie May,
Charles Morgan, Pearl Holland and
Edna E. Morgan, grand larceny; John
Simms (alias John Monk) and Robert
Williams, assault dangerous weapon;
William M. Smith (2 cases), larceny
after trust; Robert C. Mason and J. C.
Myers, false pretenses; Alfred W. Jud
son, forgery of Government check;
James H. Rollins and Marlon Card,
violation national motor vehicle theft
act.
k. of cTcouncJlholds
ITS ANNUAL ELECTION
Full Board of Officers Chosen, F„
Michael Cook Heading List as
Grand Knight.
Election of officers for the ensuing
year featured a meeting last night of
the Washington Council. No. 224,
Knights of Columbus held in the K. of
C. club house, 918 Tenth street. P.
Michael Cook, Washington attorney,
was elected grand knight of the coun
cil by unanimous vote.
Other officers selected are: William
H. Murray, deputy grand knight; L.
Harold Sothoron, chancellor; Harleigh
H. Hartman, advocate; Harry E. Brooks,
treasurer; Edmund M. O’Sullivan, re
corder; Anthony W. Wilding, warden;
Hugh J. McGee, trustee; John W.
Grambo, Edward Voigt and John W.
Crown, inside guards; P. Michael Cook
and Anthony Scullen. delegates to State
convention, with William A. Murray
and Dr. A. D. Wilinson alternates.
TEST FOR SUBMARINE
V-6 Will Make ‘Shakedown Cruise’
Some Time in October.
The “sakedown cruise” of the Navy’s
newest fleet submarine, the V-6, will
take place in October, following her
commissioning at the navy yard, Mare
Island, Calif., on July 1.
In making this announcement today,
the Navy Department said that Lieut.
Comdr. Thomas J. Doyle. jr„ will be
the skipper of the craft, which is one
of nine fleet .submarines authorized in
1916. The V-7 is under construction
at the Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard,
the first five being in commission. The
V-8 and V-9 are not under construc
tion as yet, pending the outcome of the
London treaty.
BAND TO BROADCAST
Musicians of New Marine Reserve
Regiment Go on Air Tonight.
The first of a aeries of band concerts
by the band orchestra of the 20th
Marines, newly organized regiment of
the District of Columbia Marine Corps
Reserves, will be broadcast over Sta
tion WOL at 7:30 o’clock tonight. The
musical program, which will be under
the direction of Second Lieut. Arthur E.
Harper, will be composed entirely of
military march numbers.
The story of the origin and progress
of the 20th Marines will be told
in short announcements interspersed
throughout the program by Capt. Har
vey L. Miller. Comdr. Don S. Knowl
ton, regimental surgeon, will be the
speaker of the evening.
The concert will continue until 8:15
p.m. '