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Washington News
OLD CONSTRUCTION
CENTER SLATED FOR
EARLY DEMOLITION
[Treasury Asks Bids on Clear
ing C Street Square From
12th to 13th Streets.
BLOCK ONCE HOUSED
CITY BUILDING INDUSTRY
fWill Form Site of New I. C. C.
Edifice, Part of Huge Group From
10th to 15th Street*.
The former center of the building in
dustry in Washington was doomed to j
destruction today when the Treasury
Department ad’.'srtised for bids to be
opened May 19 for rearing down all )
structures on the site Pounded by I
Twelfth and Thirteenth, C streets and ;
Constitution avenue. j
This area is to t>; used bv the Gov
ernment for the erection of a monu
mental building for the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which r.ow is housed .
in a rented structure at Pennsylvania j
*iv<enue and Eighteenth street.
Property owners and tenants are now
•novlng out of the old territory, wh eh
at one time was the heart of the prin
cipal building Industry of the city,
around which centered not only the
woodworking mills, but many of the
Reading contractors.
Plant Being Moved.
Three of the largest structures in the
area were formerly woodworking or
planing mills, but only one of these is
now active, the Washington Woodwork -
Ing Co. at the corner of Twelfth street
and Constitution avenue. This com
pany Is now busily engaged in moving
i to its new location at 912 Fourth street,
•where It will be completely installed by
{June 1. The extensive machinery of
[the old mill is all being moved to the
#>ew location. .
The flrst mill erected on the site of;
the Washington Woodworking Co. plan.
operated by Dan Smith, accoidmß
to 01-timers connected with the com
pany, and this building was burned
down in about 1885. A new plant was
‘■erected on the site and has been op
erated continuously since as a wood
working plant.
Former Gov. Jackson of Maryland
Was once the operator of a mill located
on the corner of Thirteenth street and
Ohio avenue, but this old stiucture, aft
er passing through several hands, has
Bain Idle for several years. The shell
only remains, the machinery having:
been removed yea« ago. The yard for
some time has been used as an automo
bile parking space.
Biding School to Move.
The third former woodworking mill in
1 the area, at the corner of Thirteenth
and C streets, was at one time operated
by Belt & Oyer, it was recalled today,
tout for many years it has been the j
Thome of E. G. Shafer Co., wholesale |
Wumblng and heating supplies. This j
fcompany ia now moving to its new four-j
j*tory warehouse and office building, at.
fee comer of Rhole Island avenue and
fourth street northeast, and will be’
Completely out of Its old structure be
fore demolition starts.
Th Potomac Riding School, from
ti-hich horses and ponies “take off” for
he bridle paths of downtown Washing
ton. occupies part of one of the former
•woodworking plants at the comer of
•Twelfth street and Ohio avenue. The
riding school will move to a new loca
tion at 2622 E street, between Twenty
, aixth street and the Potomac River.
A large number of other business
houses in the area are also moving or
making plans for early moving, as all
buildings in the area will be torn down
shortly after contract is let. The Treas
qwy usually considers bids for a few
jMtvs after opening, lets contract, and
Sh. the case of demolition Jobs, the work
I Bwuslly starts very soon afterward.
Part of Huge Structure.
One reason for speed on the two j
daouare* for the I. C. C. Building is that
<hi* new, building is to be a part of the
three-part structure facing Constitution
avenue, and extending from Twelfth to |
Fourteenth streets, to occupy all the
1 intervening space between the new In- ;
lemal Revenue Building and the new
Department of Commerce Building. Al
ready an entire block of buildings be
tween Thirteenth and Thirteen-and
k-half streets on Constitution avenue
gia* been demolished for part of this
Extensive building. Workmen are now
txislly engaged in bearing down both
the office building and the old sub
station of the Potomac Electric Power
JCo n the block bounded by Constltu-
J»on avenue, Fourteenth street. C street
*>d Thirteen-and-a-half etreet.
• The I. C. C. site will thus be needed
m soon as possible, so that the next
Contract xo be let can be for the exce
ption of the entire site, stretching from
#v.elfth to Fourteenth street along Con
stitution avenue. Plans for this three- i
rt building, to house the Interstate'
•commerce Commission. Government j
and the Department of:
VLabor, are being completed by Arthur
.Brown, jr„ of San Francisco, architect.
Who Is a member of.the. Treasury Board
Ipt Architectural Consultants.
Attached to the Interstate Com-
Eierce Commission Building on the
orth, along Twelfth street, will be the
curiously shaped Post Office Depart
ment Building, plans for which now
I pW well along. Bids for both the demo-
Hflon of buildings and excavation on
Poat Office Department site, be
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets,
Pennsylvania avenue and C street,
probably will be asked soon by the
s*eaaury Department.
POLICEMAN DISARMED
; AND BEATEN IN HOUSE
|pteeking to Arrest Colored Woman,
He I» Thrown Down
stairs by Men.
There was no ceremony to the recep-
Jfinn Policeman Robert E. Talbott, third
fcecinct rookie, got when he called at
Bl22Union court last night. It was
pn extemporaneous affair and closed
jwith the policeman at the bottom of the
ptairway after a rolling descent, with-
Ct his service pistol, bearing numerous
ulses and cuts received in a beating,
w hich was all a part of the event.
Talbot went to the house to arrest
* [Rebecca Ward, colored, but colored male
occupants of the house objected, arrang
ing the Impromptu reception as evidence
g>! their objection. The policeman was
Seated at Emergency Hospital for cuU
id bruises.
The woman, escaping during the
fracas, was later captured Frederick
West, colored. 28. said by police to have
admitted taking the pistol from the
policeman’s pocket, also was arrested.
West told police he turned the pistol
"w-er to Henrv Perry, colored, 30. another
occupant of the Union court hotpe. but
tthe latter denied any knowledge of the
tlßtv The two men and thf woman arc
held lor further investigation.
I Just a Puff or Two
SECREST HAS BIG ASSIGNMENT FROM BROTHER OFFICER.
D Eire in > ... i i. n sec SET ... ... „i, *n
yesterday—one that had little or no connection with his regular work
as chief clerk of the Detective Bureau, task was smoking the
12-inch cigar shown above, and the job was given to him by Detective
Sergt. James Sprlngman, who received the oversized perfecto from
J. F. Waters of Marietta, Ohio. —Star Staff Photo.
JUSTICE STAFFORD
FORMALLY RESIGNS
Former Representative Letts
Expected to Get D. C.
Appointment. '
President Hoover received today the
formal resignation of Wendell Phillips
Stafford, who has been an associate Jus
tice of the District of Columbia Supreme
Court for 27 years and who before that
served four years on the bench of the
Vermont Supreme Court.
It was said in the President's behalf
that Justice Stafford's request that his
resignation be accepted would be com
plied with. It was said also that Presi
dent Hoover would name a successor
soon. It Is understood that former Rep
resentative F. Dickinson Letts, Repub
lican, of Davenport, lowa, has been vir
tually decided upon es Justice Stafford's
successor.
j Justice Stafford on May 1 became 70
1 years old, which entitled him to retiie
J or resign with full pay for the balance
'of his life. At the time he decided to
! give up his duties at the court the
I docket was in a condition which would
i make it possible for him to lay aside
his robes without reluctance. Justice
Stafford recently was the honor guest
at a banquet celebrating his birthday
and at which his intention to retire
to private life was revealed. On that
occasion he was lauded for his distin
guished service as a jurist.
Justice Stafford was appointed Lo
the local court by President Roosevelt
and took office June 9, 1904. He has
presided in many celebrated cases, and
throughout the many years at court
he has made numerous personal friends
and has distinguished himself in his
fairness and knowledge of the law.
Now that he Ls to retire to private
life, Justice Stafford has confided to:
friends that he is looking'forward en
thusiastically to the leisure that will be
his. '
Former Representative Letts, after
.serving three terms in Congress from
1 the second lowa district, was defeated
I for re-election last November. Before
his election to Congress in 192* he had
1 served for 13 years as a district Judge
:in lowa. He has a thorough knowledge
of the law and the experience and per
sonally to make him valuable as a
member of the local bench, according
to the opinions of those who have rec
ommended his appointment to the
President.
CAPITAL GIRL WINS
U. S. POSTER CONTEST
Mist Janice Holland of Corcoran
School of Art Firat in Latham
Foundation Award*.
j Miss Janice Holland. 17-year-old atu
; dent of the Corcoran School of Art. ha*
been awarded first poster prize in a
humane poster contest conducted
throughout the Nation sponsored by the
Latham Foundation, whose headquar
ters are In Oakland. Calif. This was
anndunced by a statement from the
foundation, which said thousands of
students competed in the contest.
The winning poster by the Washing
ton girl was highly praised by Edith
Latham, president of the Latham
Foundation, who declared that Miss
Holland's work received “special com
mendation” by the art critics that acted
as Judges in the contest.
Scholarships in England, France,
Spain, Germany, Austria, China and
Japan have been established as awards
for art school pupils in their respective
nations, winning outstanding places in
the contest, it was announced ui a
statement from the foundation. The
exact nature of the award to bs received
by Miss Holland, however, was not dls
cloned.
Mias Holland graduated from West
ern High School last year. She was
cartoonist, art editor and special writer
for the high school paper, Western
Breeze, and had won prizes previously
in other contests conducted by maga
zines, newspapers, the National School
of Art and the Corcoran School o t, Aft.,
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Micheal J. Holland of 3508 Morrison
street, Chevy Chase. She is a student
at George Washington University.
Her winning pester in the humane
poster contest depicted a ragged little
girl sitting in a recessed window of a
house on the street hugging a little dog
; to her breast.
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Two Die, Army Pay Stolen.
WARSAW. Poland, May 4 {IP).—
, Capt. Lopatko, army paymaster, and
Sergt, Brojko were slain during the
I night in a railway train between Kowel
snd Sarny while they were carrying a
I *2.750 pay roll. The bodies were thrown
■ | off the train. The slayers took $275
: • in silver, leaving the rest «(. the pay
roll, in bank notes, behind.
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155,000 PLEDGED
FOR ORCHESTRA
Chairman Howe of Commit
tee Sees Symphony Project
Now Assured.
With more than *55,000 already
pledged toward the project, this city is
| assured of having its own symphony or
, chostra, to be known as the National
' Symphony Orchestra of Washington, It
was announced today by Walter Bruce
Howe, chairman of the Organization
Committee handling the details of
financing for the establishment of the
orchestra here.
Otter members of the committee w'ith
Mr. Howe are Corcoran Thom. George
Hewitt Myers and Myron W. Whitney.
The late Nicholas Longworth, Speaker
; of the Hdwse, was a member of the com
mittee up to tlje time of his death.
Although aiTexaet sum of 5i.5,530 has
been pledged, a total of approximately
SBO,OOO will be required for the orches
. tra’s expenses the flrst season. The re
maining sum necessary, it is stated, is
I expected to be realized through the sale
of tickets to the 24 concerts the or
chestra Ls to give. A number of other
pledges from prominent Washing
tonians, however, are -xnectcd before
June 1, the time set for the completion
of the drive.
Kindier to Be Conductor.
Hans Kindier, Internationally famed
cellist and conductor, has been offi
cially designated as conductor of the
orchestra, which i* to be under the of
ficial business management of Mrs. Wil
son-Oreene, widely known Washington
concert manager. An orchestra of 75
men is contemplated at the outset. The
season is expected to cover a period of
! 16 weeks, with the flrst concert in No
vember and the last one in March,
i The concerts will be divided into
three groups of eight conceits each.
Eight of these will be symphony affairs, J
to be given on afternoons at 4:30 o’clock.
It is planned to give the symphony
concert* on alternate weeks. The in
beUtoeen weeks will be devoted to a pop
ular concert and a children’s concert,
eight each of the children’s and pop
ular concerts being scheduled. The |
popular concerts all will be given on
Sunday afternoons. The plans for the
children's concerts have not been com
pleted.
Care has been taken to avoid con
flict with the dates of other concerts,
both orchestral and artists, It is stated,
and it Is expected that Mrs. Wilson
• i Greene will announce the dates of the
i whole 24 concerts just as soon as these
i have been definitely fixed. Mr. Kind
ier, prior to his sailing for Europe last
week, closed arrangements with va
t rlous outstanding musicians both of
Washington and elsewhere for key posi
tions in the new orchestra and the
personnel will be finally selected on Mr.
Klndler's return to the United States
in September.
AM of Philadelphia.
Os the total amount pledged, ap
. proximately *25,000 was received as a
result of the offer of William J. Turner,
Philadelphia capitalist and music lover
and former vice president of the Phila
delphia Orchestra, who offered a dona
-1 tlon of $5,000 if four other guarantors
; would contribute a like amount. Mr.
Turner’s offer was quickly met by four
other guarantors, only three of whom
would permit their names to be made
public. Those three arc Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, Mrs. Anne Archbold and the
Friday Morning Club.
The Organization Committee empha
sized, In making public its list of guar
antors. that no less than five substantial
contributions had been made by out-of
town guarantors. These Included, In
addition to Mr. Turned of Philadelphia,
Mrs. Norman James of Baltimore, Miss
Anne Hull of New York, Frederick Al
exander of Ypsllanti. Mich., and Mrs.
B. G. Huntington of Columbus, Ohio.
The complete list of guarantors made
public to date follows:
Frederick Alexander, Ypsllanti, Mich.:
Mrs. H. T. Allen, District of Columbia
Chapter, American Guild of Organists;
Mrs. Anne Archbold, P. L. Atherton.
Mrs. William H. Baldwin. Mrs. Lammot
Belln. Mrs. Truxton Beale. Mrs. Hiram
Bingham. Mis* Mabel T. Boardman,
Mrs. Kate Willard Boyd, Princess Mar
ket ■ Boncompagni, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
S Butler, Mrs. William Butterworth,
rs. Calderon Carlisle, E. N. Carpen
ter, Mrs. Dwight Chester, Mias Alice
J. Clapp, Friday Morning Music Club,
W. L. Crounse.
Others of List.
E. F. Droop & Sons Co., Mrs. Carl A.
Droop, Mrs. H. McKee Dunn, Carl
Engel, Mrs. W. C. Eustis, Mrs. Marshall
Field, MaJ. Reginald L. Foster, Frank
J. Frost, Julius Garflnckel, Mr. and
Mrs. Lea nder McCormick - Good hart,
I Mrs. C. C. Glover. Jr.; Mrs. U. S. Orant,
'■ 3d: Mrs. O. D. Ooff. Miss O. D. Guest.
I Mrs. Mary Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Leland
i Harrison, Mrs. Frederick Hicks, Mrs. J.
l W. Holcolm. Mrs. B. O. Huntington.
» Mr. and Mr*. Christian Heurich. Frank
’ R Jelleff, Miw. Normsn James. Mrs.
• Karl Klemm, Mrs. Henry Leonard, Mrs.
WASHINGTON, I). 0., MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931. *
GOTWALS PONDERS
CHECK OF WORK ON
ROOSEVELT HIGH
Request Made by Union Offi
cial, Who Asks Steel Por
tion Be Halted.
CRASH IS DECLARED
NO FAULT OF LABOR
Engineer Commissioner to Act
Later in Regard to
Inspection.
| Engineer Commissioner John C. Got
; wals today took under advisement the
! request by John Locher, business rep
i resent* five of the bridge and structural
! iron workers’ local, that a thorough ;
j rheck be made of the plans for the !
! Roosevelt Hißh School and that work j
lon the steel portion of the building be
j halted until such a check assures safety !
! of the workmen on the job.
Work was not ordered stopped today
1 nr.d workmen continued removing the
I bent steel pieces damaged when a brisk
i wind blew down 70 tons of the steel
construction April 22. MaJ. GotwaLs
said he would take some action in re
gard to the Inspection of the Job later
today, but declined to reveal the na
ture of the step before actually Issuing
the order.
Plans to Be Checked.
He also said he would make the
check of the plans asked for by Mr.
Locher. and that he would have a final
announcement to be made on the sub
ject on Wednesday.
Locher said In a letter to the Com
missioners:
“1 personally have had 25 years' ex- j
perience In the erection of structural
steel and on various occasions have |
worked directly with the men now em
ployed by the Heron Todd Construction I
Co. who helped to put up the steel on |
the Roosevelt High School and know
♦ hem to be competent. I deem it my I
duty to correct any false impressions |
that may.be gathered from newspaper;
leports that the steel at the school was
improperly erected. The steel on thl?:
building was properly and efficiently
erected by the steel erectors.”
Rigorous Tests Required.
Locher explained persons ’qualifying
for membership in his organization were
required to pass rigorous tests. He
praised the men employed on the Roose
\elt project for their efficiency.
“Local Union No. 6,” he said, “feels
that In order to have the steel
safely and properly erected the plans
for the Roosevelt stael work should be
thoroughly gone over, and, If found nec
essary. proper bracing and rods should
be added to the steel work, thus insur
ing the safety of workmen while en
gaged in the erection of the sanie and
so as to have a building that Is safely ;
and properly erected when it ls finished.
"We sincerely hope and trust that |
further erection on the Roosevelt High j
School will not be permitted until the
plans are checked and found to be safe,
so that the safety of workmen engaged
in erection work and the safety of the
building is Insured when it ls finisher!.”
INSANITY TO SAVE
KILLER FROM TRIAL
Wife-Slayer Sent to St. Elizabeth'*!
When Found to Be Mentally
Unsound,
Sidney A. Bkinner. former State De
partment employe, who killed his wife,
Dorothy, and later attacked his cell
! mate at the District Jail, has been j
found of unsound mind and ordered to i
! St. Elizabeth s Hospital.
| The ruling will make it unnecessary |
for him to face a charge of first-degree |
murder, as Skinner will be incarcerated I
in Howard Hall, the Government’s place •
of detention for the criminally Insane.
The order committing him to St. Eliz
abeth's was signed by Justice Peyton
Gordon of Criminal Court as a iTsult
of a Jury finding in the case.
Skinner frequently Interrupted pro
ceedings during the hearing by calling
upon court officials to go to his home,
at 4007 Twenty-first street northeast, to
look for his wife.
“My wife is there at home and she is
alright,” he declared repeatedly.
No opposition was made by the Gov
ernment to the efforts of William E.
Leahy and James F. Reilly, attorney
fer Skinner, to have the slayer ad
judged Insane. Dr. D. Percy Hickling,
District alienist, recommended that he
be committed to St. Elizabeth’s.
Mrs. Bklnner was killed on the night
or March 12. While in the District
Jail. Skinner made a vicious attack on
his cell mate, Alfred C. Baker.
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SPANISH FARMS TOPIC
Botanical Society to Hear T. L.
Goll Wednesday.
An Illustrated lecture on ‘‘Glimpses of
Agriculture in Southern Spain” will be
given by F. L. Goll at Wednesday's
meeting of the Botanical Society of
Washington in the auditorium of the
Agriculture Building of the University
of Maryland. A special dinner will be
served the guests in the university din
ing hall at 6:30 o'clock.
Another speaker will be Dr. J. Hen
derson-Smitn, In charge of virus dis
eases of plants. Rothamsted Experi
mental Station, England. The meeting
will begin at 8 p.m.
Arthur Leverkus, A. Lisner, Mrs. Jacob
Leander Loose.
Mrs. Adolph C. Miller, Mrs. Mary H.
Myers, George Hewitt Myers, Hon. A.
W. Mellon, Miss Mary L. McQuade, Mrs.
Florence B. Moseley, Mrs. J. O. Mur
dock, Edward C. Potter, Mrs. L. C.
Phipps, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Mrs.
John L. Proctor, Mrs. Armistead
Peter, 3rd: Armistead Peter, 3rd;
Duncan Phillips, Mrs. J. R. Patterson,
Miss Katherine Phillips, Mrs. Thomas
Phillips, Mrs. C. J. Rhoades, Mrs. E. E.
Robbins, Mrs. W. M. Ritter, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. van Royen, Russina Shop,
Mrs. H A. Strong, Countess Szechenyi,
H. C. Sheridan, The Evening Star, Mrs.
William F. Sowers, Miss Elena de Seyn,
William J. Turner of Philadelphia, Mrs.
Clarence Williams, Mrs. Joseph E.
Washington, Mr. and Mrs. R. h. Wil
mer, Mrs. Edward C. Walker, Mrs. J. T.
Walles and Mrs. M. Reid Yates.
In announcing the success of the
orchestra's Organization Committee in
giving Washington its own symphony
orchestra next Fall. Mr. Howe extended
the committee's thanks to a committee
of Washington women who helped in
raising the neees*ary funds. This com
mittee of women dissolved, on comple
tion of it* work.
D. C. War Mothers Leave on European Trip
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STATION was the scene of farewells today as four members of the District Chapter of American War
I Mothers started cn the annual pilgrimage. Mrs. W. W. Morrison, president of the chapter (extreme left*,
I and others came to see them off. Others in the group, left to right, arc: Mrs. Pennilla Carll, Mrs. Gertrude
I L. Reed, Mrs. Virgil McClure, national president; Mrs. William Hamilton Bayley, Mrs. Clara Doocy, Mrs. Rob
ert Stevens and Mrs. Lucy Cash. The War Mothers who are making the trip are Mrs. Carll, Mrs. Reed, Mrs.
Bayly and Mrs. Doocy. " * —Star Staff Photo.
WORKMEN CIRCLE
ATTENDED BY 200
Second Day of Convention
Includes Social Activi
| ties and Business.
Social activities and welcoming of
delegates marked the' second day's ses
: sion of the thirty-first convention of
the Workmen's Circle, Socialist frater
nal organization, in the auditorium of
the National Press Club today. More
than 200 delegates from every State
were in attendance.
Routine business will occupy the at
tention of the conference this afternoon
and tomorrow. Not until Wednesday
or Thursday, when the program calls
for.tte bitroductlon of resolutions, will
the conference shift its attention to
new business. Election of officers will
be held Saturday.
Revision to Be Made.
During the conference, which L* con
ducted almost entirely in the Yiddish
\ tongue, slight revisions will be made in
i the constitution of the organization,
j Bitter Attacks on the Republican and
Democratic parties by Norman Thomas,
Socialist leader, were made at the open
ing session yesterday in the Belasco
Theater. Mr. Thomas, candidate for
President in 1928, accused the major
political groups of indifference with re
gard to the cardinal questions of the
country’s foreign policy and toward un
employment.
‘ Along those lines where Federal ac
tion might have improved the outlook
! for peace, freedom and prosperity.” Mr.
I Thomas declared, ‘the present admins
tration has failed to do the right thing
or has done what evidently is the wrong
thing. And at no outstanding point has
the Democratic attitude differed from
the Republican attitude.”
No Communistic Affiliation.
Morris Hillquit’s statement that the
Workmen’s Circle ls strictly a Socialist,
organization and is positively not iden
tified with Communism brought ap
plause from the more than 1.600 per- j
I sons in attendance at the opening ses
i sion. He said that at no time would
I the convention give ind.cation of so
! celled “red” tendencies,
i Other addresses at yesterday's ses
sion were made by Benjamin Meiman.:
1 Washington correspondent for ihe Jew-
I ish Daily Forward, and Abraham Ca- j
han, editor of the Forward.
FOUR FROM D. C. HURT
• IN TRIPLE CRASH
De Witt Patton, Mrs. Martha Tal
cott, Joseph Clark and Robert
Purchase Taken to Hospital.
Four Washington residents were be- |
ing treated in Trenton, N. J., hospitals
today fer Injuries suffered yesterday j
I when their automobile was in a three-
I cornered collision on* the Brunswick
Pike near the Rockfeller Institute at |
Princeton. The injured, who were en
route to New York on a business trip,
were:
De Witt Patton, 28, an electrician, of
1223 Randolph street; Mrs. Martha
Talcott, 35, same address; Joseph Clark,
25, who gave an address in the 1200
block of Randolph street, and Robert
Purchase, 33, of the 1400 block of
Rhode Island avenue.
Mrs. Talcott sufferd a broken leg and
bruises, Clark a fractured wrist and
wrenched ankle, Patton a broken ankle
and Purchase a fractured wrist and'l
bruises.
’ The automobile containing the
Washington party, driven by Purchase,
was In a collision with another operated
by Herman Kobe, 36, or Brooklyn. N. Y.
Kobe received a fractured thigh and
bruises.
A third machine driven by Onur
Smith of Wrightstown, N. J., added to
the wreckage by crashing into t.he
other two. Passing motorists took the
injured to Trenton hospitals.
POLICEMAN IS INJURED
WHEN CYCLE OVERTURNS
Twelve Others Slightly Hurt in
Series of Sunday Traffic
Accidents Here.
Zeno R. Wright, 30, Traffic Bureau
policeman, was slightly injured yester
day when his motor cycle overturned at
Ninth and E streets.
Wright and Policeman E. C. Spauld
ing, also of the Traffic Bureau, were rid
ing on Ninth street when the former
turned sharply into E street. Wright’s
vehicle overturned, pinning him
under it.
Spaulding extricated Wright, hailed a
passing automobile and took the Injured 1
ooliceman to the hospital. Twelve
( tber persons ""•re hurt slightly In auto
mobile accidents yesterday. [
HEADS UNION ALUMNI
Dr. Edgar Brown New President of
College Group in Capital.
Dr. Edgar Brown was elected presl
! dent of the Washington Alumni of
Union College, Schenectady. N. Y., at
the organization's annual meeting in
the Cosmos Club Saturday night. Rev.
J. Harvey Dunham was elected vice
president and F. H. Powell secretary.
Brief addresses were given by Frank
Parker Day. president of Union College,
and Charles A. Richmond, former
president, who now is a resident of the
Capital.
LARCHDEPORTATION
| EXPLANATION IS NIT
Woman’s Party Leader Says
Labor Department Had
Power to Delay Action.
The Labor Department's statement
that it had no alternative under the
law in deporting Mrs. Lillian Larch,
American-born widow of a Canadian,
and her children, from Detroit to Wal
laceburg, Ontario, was challenged to
day by Mrs. Bumita Shelton Matthews,
chairman of the' Lawyers’ Council of
ths National Woman's Party.
Sh? declared in a prepared statement
that the Labor Department ' had ample
authoritv to postpone deportation and
thus aliow Mrs. Larch time to make
application for resumption of her
United States citizenship.’’
"Mrs. Larch is said to be illiterate.”
she added. “If that be true, there is
all the more reason why the Depart
ment of Labor should have pursued the
humane policy of advising this poor
I woman, who had no way of finding out
: ior herself, that she might make ap
plication to regain the citizenship of
which she had been deprived without
her own consent upon marriage to a
Canadian.
“Her poverty is an argument brought
■ forward by the Department of Labor
to excuse the harsh action taken
against her. Her poverty is undeniable;
I yet she was not even allowed time to
' sell her few household belonging before
b-ing hurried out of her native country
across the border. Such haste was in
' Extensions of time before deporta
j tion had been allowed to men aliens
of foreign birth, even when they had
been charged with serious offenses. The
i most serious offense of this American
bom woman, mother of four children,
Is poverty.”
WOMEN TO CELEBRATE
Catholic Benovolent Legion Will
Observe 31st Anniversary.
The Catholic Women’s Benevolent
Legion, Liberty Circle, will celebrate its
thirty-first anniversary at a dinner in
! the Dodge Hotel tomorrow evening at
6:30 o'clock.
i The officers of the organization re
! cently elected for the coming year are;
Miss M. H. McCarthy, president; Mrs.
jC. F. McMahon, vice president; Mrs.
M. T. Brady, chancellor; Mrs. R. Kolb,
secretary: Mrs. M. John, collector; Mrs.
A. E. Edmonds, treasurer; Mrs. C.
Langley, marshal; Mrs. S. A. Gartrell.
orator; Mrs. M. W. Hart, guard, and
Mrs. L. Streeks, Mrs. M. Burke and
Mrs. Lourle, trustees.
Road Association to Meet.
BOWIE, Md., May 4 (Special).—
Officers for the ensuing year will be
elected at a regular meeting of the
Lanham-Sevem Road Association to
night at the Bowie School. Delegates
from each of the nine towns represented
In the association are asked to attend,
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RAT CATCHER PLANS NEW EFFORT
TO GET POISON USE APPROVAL
80 Rodents Captured Saturday Night, But Market Pied
Piper Wants to Make Them Thirsty.
Chemical warfare, once abandoned in
the pursuit of the rats on the old Cen
ter Market sector, probably will be re
sumed later, on account of disappoint
ment of the general stafT of the rat cr,u-.
sade with the result of the trap opera
i tions recently.
On Saturday night the casualties
amounted to about 80 rats. About two
dozen rodents were turned over to the
Department of Agriculture for research
by its staff of zoological experts. But
George J. Adams, Jr., who personally
directed operations in a silk hat and a
gold headed cane, expressed great dis
appointment today. He said he would
once more try to engage the sympathies
of Health Officer William C. Fowler in
i a poison crusade. The last time there
was talk of thfe Mr. Fowler was adam
ant. Hr ?»lrt t»rt poison might, be all
(right if its effects could be confined to
General News
DOUTHin DEPARTS
IN STRICT SECRECY
Attack Victim Quits Hospital
Early—Kelly Thinks Man
Visits in Philadelphia.
The whereabouts of Harry N. Dovit
hltt, editor of the Bluecoat, unofficial
organ of the Police Department, were
kept secret today, following his dis
charge from Casualty Hospital, where he
had been a patient since two men at
tacked him more than a week ago.
At Douthitt’s apartment in the Port
ner, Fifteenth and U streets, it was said
he was "not at home.” The informa
tion was given over the telephone by
a man who had refused to answer the
door bell just a few moments before.
Left Hospital Early.
The man. who Identified himself
simply as “Roamer,” said Douthitt had i
given him "strict orders not to tell any- |
body where he Is or when he will return '
home." He said he expects to see Dout- j
hltt tomorrow, but refused to say;
where. *
Douthitt’s departure from the hos-1
pital also was shrouded in secrecy. |
While it had been announced he prob
ably would be discharged from the in
stitution today, ne left early yesterday.
According to employes of the hospital,
he did not sav he was going.
Capt. Edward Kelly, assistant to In- ,
specter William S. Shelby, chief of de
tectives. said he has not heard from j
Douthitt since the 45-year-old former
prohibition investigator left the insti
tution.
Held Gone to Philadelphia.
Kelly said, however, that he under
stood Douthitt had gone to Philadelphia
to visit his daughter and son-in-law.
Interviewed at the hospital a few days
ago, Douthitt declared he would find
his assailants when he was discharged.
“I have several ways of finding out who
beat me,” he said.
According to United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover, Douthitt will be sub
poenaed to appear before the grand jury
r-d tell what he knows, if anything,
aT/out the activities of gamblers in the
first precinct.
WOMAN IS ARRESTED
ON LIQUOR CK’RSES
Miss Frances Polly, Indicted With j
23 Other Persons, Gets Bond
of $2,000.
In hiding since last June, when the
Federal Government swore out a war
rant for her arrest on charges of con
spiracy to violate the liquor laws, Miss i
Fiances Polly was arrested today by
United States deputy marshals at 202
L atreet southeast. She had been in
dicted with 23 other persons on con
spiracy charges.
The woman was released on $2,000
bond to appear In District Supreme
Court May 13, when t£e Capital's third
liquor conspiracy trial is scheduled to
begin.
The arrest was made by Deputy Mar
shals John J. Clarkson. Harold Scott
and Gus Cerimele.
GAS DEATH ACCIDENTAL
Certificate Issued by Coroner in
Case of Mrs. Mulholland.
A certificate of accident was issued '
today In the death of Mrs. Minnie MuU •
holland, 72, whose body was found yes- ]
terday in the gas-filled bed room of her ,
home, 812 Twelfth street.
Discovered by her son John, who <
forced a rear bed room window, after
repeated knocking on the door failed to ,
bring a response. ,
rats, but that it was likely to spread to
human beings, domestic animals and
what not.
These objections were made to the
projected use of poison gas. However,
Mr. Adams is going to seek a compro
mise on barium carbonate, a substance
which innoculates the rodents with a
great thirst. Things being what they
are, the rats are obliged to seek water
with which to quench the inward burn
ings and literally drink themselves to
death. Barium carbonate has the same
effect on humans and domestic ani
mals, but only if taken in enormous
quantities. It is not expected that
any one except the rats will go on a
barium carbonate Jag if this method of
warfare is adopted.
Dr. Fowler is out of town today, but
the effort to enlist him in the poison
wrr will be made on his return to
morrow.
PAGE B-1
CAPITAL MAN KILLS
WIFE, SHOOTS SELF
IN RICHMOND HOME
18-Year-Old Bride Slain
When She Refuses His Plea
for Rer 'iliati^
LEFT NOTE ASKING PRESS
FOR “REAL PUBLICITY”
Marriage After Five-Day Courtship
Ended in Estrangement less
Than Three Months Later.
Donald W. Battle's craving for "som
real publicity" was being gratified toda:
as he lay in Memorial Hospital, Rich
mond, with a bullet wound in his abdo
men, inflicted after he had shot and
killed his 18-year-old bride of sou:
months, Mrs. Agnes Jenkins Sagle.
The shooting occurred last night in
the home of the young wife's grand
mother, Mrs. Annie Loew, with whcm
she had been living since March 12.
when she left her husband and went to
the Virginia Capital.
According to Richmond police, Baglr.
who is 26, admitted killing his wife and
attempting to end his own life, explain
ing she had refused to live with him.
Wed After Brief Courtship.
The Sagles were married here De
cember 29, after a five-day courtship
They lived at 213 H street until Mrs.
Sagle. whose mother died when she was
a child, went to Richmond to attend
the funeral of her father, William L.
Jenkins.
Sagle went to the Virginia city yes
terday after telling his father and step
mother. Mr. and Mrs, John W. Sagle,
with whom he had been staying since
his wife left him. that he would either
’ bring her back or kill her.”
Mrs. Sagles uncle, Walker O. Jen
kins, told police the girl ran from th
kitchen into a bed room with her hus
band close behind her.
Shot in Back of Head.
As she entered the bed room, her un
cle said, Sagle drew a revolver and fired
With a bullet wound in the back of her
head, she sank to the floor.
Sagle whirled, ran back into the
kitchen and turned the gun upon him
self, firing a bullet into his stomach.
Police, arriving a few minutes later,
found him sitting in a chair, the pistol
still in his hand. That Sagle had plan
ned to kill both his wife and himself,
police pointed out, was indicated by
three notes found in the Richmond
! Hotel, at which he had registered.
; One of the letters, addressed "To the 1
) Press Only.” said: ’T’ve always wanted
to be a racketeer, and this is my omy
chance. Now, give me some real pub
i licity.”
A note directed to Sagle's father, who
I lives at 827 Fifth street, urged him to
I "rush, for when you receive this I prob
ably will be dead."
Made Funeral Flans.
The letter also contained lnstrur
i tions to bury Sagle in a tuxedo, with
a white flower in the lapel. Sagle's
I revolver, the note concluded, should be
! placed in the casket.
Inclosed with the letter was a photo
graph of Sagle and his bride bearing
the inscription, "A romance that's a
failure.”
The third note was addressed to Mrs.
Sagle at the H street house at which
the couple had lived immediately after
their marriage. This note, according
to Capt. A. Wright, chief of Richmond
detectives, was four or five pages in
length and was devoted to a rambling
description of Sagle's "crushed ro
mance.”
Had Tried Suicide.
Mrs. Sagle, who was raised by her
grandmother, after her mother’s death,
attempted suicide here February 28. ac
cording to Washington police. At that
time. Mrs. Sagle. who gave her address
as 639 I street southwest, was treated
at Emergency Hospital. Physicians at
the institution said she }iad swallowed
I several poison tablets.
According to the elder Sagle. the
I couple met while the young woman
j was working as a waitress in a G street
! restaurant.
For a while, he said, they stayed with
him at his home in Hagerstown and
then moved to the H street address. The
young man was “not over fond of work,”
his father admitted.
Th 3 bride's grandmother told Rich
mond police the girl was "only visiting
! Washington” when she met Sagle. Mrs.
Loew said she knew little about Sagle.
but that she had not approved of her
granddaughter’s marriage to him.
CODE CHANGE NOTICE
ASKED BY BUILDERS
Letter to Commissioner* Complains
of Lack of Time in Conform
ing to Kejjulationi.
A request that the District Commis
sioners advise builders of contemplated
changes In the building code before
they are adopted so builders will not
have to make last-minute changes in
plans was laid before the city heads
today by the Operative Builders’ Associ
ation.
The point arose, it is brought out In
a letter written for the Builders’ Asso
ciation by Rufus S. Lusk, executive sec
retary, over the recent adoption of a
new regulation forbidding the lnclosure
of back porches of houses.
While not protesting against the
changes, the Operative Builders' letter
states these "went Into effect without
any notification to builders whatsoever.
"Some of them ithe builders) had
planned houses in the same way they
had been building them for years and
discovered when they applied for a per
mit. that owing to a change in the regu
lations, a permit could not be granted,”
the builders point out.
While the change in regulations was
not the resqlf .of."hasty action" on the
part of the Commissioners, the builders
say. the change went Into effect "over
night” so far as the builders were con
cerned.
BURGLARS ROB SAFE
$lB5 Cash, $45 in Jewelry and
Check Taken From Store.
Burglars stole $lB5 In cash, $45 In
jewelry and a check for SIS.M last
night, when they entered the store of
Samuel Saidman, 729 Eighth street, he
reported to police. The articles were .
taken from the unlocked safe.
Jewelry, clothing and a clock, valued
at $73. were reported stolen from the
apartment, of Maude A. Bishop. 414
Seward square. "