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_WASHINGTON, D. 0., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932._***___PAGE B-l
OVER NEXT MEAL
AND LEADERSHIP
Waters Uncertain of Stand
ing as Camp Marks Fails
to Ballot.
OTHER GROUPS FAVOR
HIM BY 1,30O-TO-1 VOTE
Blaine Fears Epidemic Will Re
sult From Crucial Shortage
of Food.
Uncertainty reigned today in the
scattered bonus camps as 19.000 vet
erans wondered where their next meal
was coming from and whether they had
a leader to unify their ranks.
Although Walter W. Waters of Port
land. Ore., suddenly was pressed back
into the leadership last night at a sur
prise meeting of 10,000 Anacostia vet
erans, his authority immediately was
challenged by Mike Thomas, Camden.
N. J-. veteran and commander of Camp
Marks, who demanded an election to
confirm or disavow the action of his
men.
Todav, no veteran at Anacostia
geemed to know who was in the saddle
and, despite orders from national head
quarters to hold an election, no ballot
ing was in progress at Camp Marks.
Thomas could not be found this
morning. Friends said he "could not
be disturbed" and a hastily-summoned
meeting of regimental commanders was
"too Important to be quizzed,” accord
ing to a guard stationed outside the
conference tent.
1,300 to 1 at Other Camps.
In other camps Waters had piled up
a commanding lead over Thomas by
noon, the vote standing 1.30J to 1,
with no ballots cast for George Alman,
another Portland veteran who held the
post of national commander for a brief
period, after the first resignation of
Waters.
What was described as an attempt to
assassinate Waters was reported to po
lice fast night by Owen W. Lucas, his
•'secretary."- Lucas informed Inspector
O. T. Davis, head of the police crime
prevention division, that a shot had
been fired at the official Bonus Ex
peditionary Force automobile as It
passed down East Capitol street about
11 o'clock. Although Waters was not
in the car at the time, Lucas said he
was sure the shot was intended for
him.
Waters was drafted for the national
commander post by acclamation of the
veterans at Anacostia. who feared a
coup by opposing factions. His "re
election” followed a day and evening
of wild excitement at the various camps
and came shortly after food supplies
reached an alarmingly low level, ex
cept for two and a half tons of Farm
Board wheat and flour requisitioned
from the American Red Cross.
The men were on scant rations to
day and doubt was expressed by many
that enough food was on hand to give
the men a full dinner this afternoon.
Blaine rears Epidemic.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, Senator
Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin, warned
if the veterans are put on reduced ra
tions, a serious epidemic will break
out among them.
"Within the next 24 hours, the only
rations left for these men will be
bread made out of Red Cross wheat,”
Blaine said.
"When these men are reduced to ra
tions consisting of bread only, mem
bers of the Senate do not need medical
advice to know that these veterans will
be subjected to a malady out of which
will grow one of the most ravishing
epidemics this country has ever ex
perienced.”
Blaine declared Congress should not
adjourn and leave this situation facing
the people of the District, either from
a financial or a public health stand
point.
Seeks Neutral Emergency.
He then disclosed to the Senate that
he has been working on a plan for the
establishment of a neutral agency to
take care of the situation in the ab
sence of Congress. Pressed by Sena
tors to explain the plan, he admitted
he was not privileged at this time to
disclose details as no responsible body
had been found yet to accept the re
sponsibility.
He has been negotiating the plan, he
explained, with Police Chief Pelham D.
Glassford, the District Commissioners
and other heads of organizations. Sub
ject to modifications, he declared, the
plan does not involve any compulsion
on the part of veterans, nor would it
reduce the dignity of Congress.
"This plan Involves the co-operation
Of the Federal Government through an
agency that will function as a central
ized power after Congress adjourns,”
■was all he would divulge. The Public
Health Department also is co-operat
ing. he said.
Blaine suggested an amendment be
Inserted in the deficiency appropria
tion bill, which the Senate was about
to take up, to defray necessary relief
work under his plan.
Senator Jones, chairman of the Ap
propriations Committee, who later pre
sented the $15,000,000 deficiency sup
ply bill, expressed complete sympathy
with Blaines’ objective, but suggested
he offer a joint resolution in the reg
ular manner.
Expects House Action.
"If any appropriation la needed to
take care of the situation,” Senator
Jones added, “I think the House would
send to the Senate an appropriation
resolution, and if it does, I am sure
the Senate will act upon it. Any work
able plan would be approved, I am
sure.”
Blaine added he did not desire to
unnecessarily delay the deficiency bill,
but simply wanted the Senate to con
sider earnestly the question of reliel
for the veterans when he is ready to
submit the plan.
Meanwhile, the House had before it
a resolution passed by the Senate, un
der which the Government would lend
the veterans money for their transpor
tation back home.
The measure. Introduced by Senator
Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, and
approved by the Senate in 10 minutes
without debate, would authorize the
veterans’ administrator to lend ex
service men the money on their ad
justed service certificates, the sum to
be deducted from the certificates with
out Interest if not repaid.
Many veterans, believing the resolu
tion had passed both houses, applied
to the Police Department today for
transportation home.
As an outgrowth of the beating of
two Communist agitators Monday, Po
lice Chief Glassford requested the dis
trict attorney’s office to investigate the
assaults and determine whether crim
inal action could be taken against the
veterans at the Twelfth and D streets
pouthwest camp, where the two "Reds '
were attacked.
Glassford’s action followed complaints
I
by officials ol the Workers’ Ex-Service
I Men’s League, a Communist organiza
| tion, who called on the police chief
I late yesterday.
In accepting once more the post of
' national commander, Waters told an
assembly of veterans at Anacostia last
night he would take the post only on
the condition that he be given full con
trol and be a leader in “every sense of
the word."
After his acceptance address and
when quiet had been restored to Camp
Marks. Thomas went to national head
quarters, 730 Eleventh street southeast,
! to protest what he called the “drum
head" election.
In deference to Thomas, and to make
the election “legal and binding" and to
prevent "possible criticism," George
Kleinholz, who had been acting com
mander, Issued an order for today’s
election.
Pearing trouble might result from
the excitement of the throngs of vet
erans last night, Police Inspectors L.
I. H. Edwards and T. R Bean visited
all camps and warned the men against
disorders. The visits followed rumors
that Thomas and his faction intended
to seize national headquarters, as a
result of which heavy guards were
thrown about the frame building by
Waters’ men.
Additional metropolitan police also
were stationed at the various eatppa.
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Clowning for the Orphans
CIRCUS VETERAN WITH YOUNGSTERS AT GLEN ECHO.
Harry Given doing his stuff as orphans leave for annual outing.
/ / T AUGH. clown, laugh!”
• * I Every one, except Harry
Given and a few of his sort.
I j knows the bitter, bitter irony
of the Pagliacci theme.
But Harry, veteran of sawdust circle
and big top circuit, offers a merry
substitute—“Once a clown, always a
clown!”
And this is Harry's day to prove it,
with his painted countenance, which
masks no broken heart, sAid his comic
clown suit, which hides no aching
limbs.
Today, as on every similar occasion
annually for the last 22 years, Harry
dons a clown suit to help his brother
Elks of Washington Lodge entertain
the large orphan family of the Capital
All day Harry and some 20 members
of the Clown Band, which he or
ganized about eight years ago, were
capering about Glen Echo Park, invit
ing every orphan to frolic with them.
Harry, who retired from the Bamum
& Bailey Circus almost seven years ago.
after- a long career as a professional,
used to get leave of absence, no matter
where he might be playing, to return
for the annual orphans’ outing.
But "once a clown, always a clown.”
and Harry sometimes wakes at night
now, he said, to jot down an idea for a
new clown, gag.
When the circus comes to town
Harry leaves his home, at 1631 S street,
SOUTHEAST WAGES
FIGHT ON GAS TANKS
Association to Ask Congress and
President to Prevent Au
thorization.
Determined opposition to the location
of additional gas tanks along the Ana
costia River was expressed last night by
the Southeast Washington Citizens' As
sociation. meeting for the last time this
Summer in the Buchanan Auditorium,
Thirteenth and D streets southeast.
The association voted to appeal to
Congress and the President to prevent
enactment into law of proposed legisla
tion authorizing construction of the,
tanks.
J. C. L. Ritter, chairman of the com
mittee investigating the proposal, said
the additional tanks would “not only be
a menace to health and beauty of the
section, but that if the tanks exploded
the residents of the section would be
annihilated and the United States Capi
tol would crumble from the force of the
explosion.”
A resolution indorsing the fight of
veterans now1 here for immediate pay
ment of the bonus was voted down by
the citizens after considerable debate.
Allan Davis presided at the meeting.
COL. AXTON SUFFERS
STROKE IN GARDEN
Former Chief of Chaplains Cuts
Head When He Falls After
Cerebral Hemorrhage.
Col. John T. Axton. U. S. A., re
tired. former chief of the Army Chap
lains' Corps, was stricken with a
slight cerebral hemorrhage shortly be
fore noon today as he worked in the
flower garden at his home, 3179 Porter
street.
The retired chaplain fell heavily,
striking his head against the cement
sidewalk and suffering a scalp wound.
It was said at Walter Reed Hospital
i his condition was not serious.
He was taken to the hospital in an
| eighth precinct patrol wagon.
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and hobnobs with his former friends,
who accept him in their ‘'family circle.”
he said.
Only a year or so ago. Harry went
on, he was able to tip off the clowns in
the dressing tent to a pretty good gag.
‘ Go out there,” Harry suggested, ‘ and
blow up a lot of balloons in front of
the crowd. One of you can yell, ‘Rah,
rah, rah—foot ball, foot ball, foot ball!’
and another, 'Rah, rah, rah—college,
college, college!' and still another, ‘Rah.
rah, rah—oysters, oysters, oysters!’
They play ball with your balloons!”
Harry modestly forebore to say how
it went over with the crowd, but he was
certain the clowns get more sport out
of the audience than the audience gets
out of the clowns.
"Why," exclaimed Harry, ‘‘if you
think it’s fun to watch circus clowns,
you ought to be a circus clown and
watch the audience ... I was laughing
up my sleeve all the time!”
Harry’s ambition to start a roar from
the crowd under the big top has grown
a little dim. what with so many years
in retirement, but he has another
ambition which has persisted through
the years:
"When every orphan in Washington
calls me ‘Harry,’ ” he said, “I’ll be
satisfied . . . once a clown, always a
clown,” Harry added, booting a fellow
Elk’s panama across the club lobby.
Glassford Objects
To Brutality Scene
In Coming Movie
Asks That Portions of
Gangster Picture Be
Deleted by Censor.
Because "Scarface," new gangster
film scheduled to be shown here next
week, contains two scenes indicating
police brutality, Brig. Gen. Pelham D.
Glassford, superintendent of Metropol
itan Police, announced today he would
seek to have the picture censored.
The objectionable scenes in the pic
ture, which constitutes an indictment
of racketeering and grafting officials,
show a policeman striking a gangster,
and another officer asking his superior
if he should “slap it out of him,” re
ferring to a racketeer under question
ing.
The police superintendent attended
a special pre-view of the picture here
last night and said afterwards it was
"grossly exaggerated.”
His deletion request was to be sub
mitted to Carter Barron, manager of
Loews Theaters in Washington, at a
conference at the police chief's office
at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
"Showing of such scenes are against
the policies of police departments
throughout the country,” Gen. Glass
ford said today. "Police authorities
everywhere are trying to do away with
such tactics and such methods of hand
ling criminals by policemen, and I se
riously object to those two scenes.”
FATHER AND SON FOUND
OVERCOME IN PARKED CAR
Victims of Fumes Discovered in
Auto With Windows Closed
and Engine Running.
A father and his 8-year-old son were
In an undetermined condition at Cas
ualty Hospital today after they were
found overcome, presumably by carbon
monoxide fumes, in an automobile
parked with closed windows and en
gine running in a grove near Eighteenth
and Perry streets northeast.
Hobert G. De Long. 35, of the 39Q0
block of Twentieth street northeast,
and his son William, were revived by
members of the fire rescue squad after
they were discovered by chance when
Pvt. O. K. Stanton glanced in their
direction while passing in a radio scout
car from No. 5 precinct.
Stanton said when he went over
to the car and opened the door the
fumes almost knocked him down. The
man was slumped forward in the front
seat and his son’s head was resting in
his lap.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
Dance and entertainment, Wednesday
Evening Men’s Club, Odd Fellow's Tem
ple, Thirty-fourth street and Bunker
Hill road, Mount Rainier, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Argo Ledge, Jewish Com
munity Center, 8:15 p.m.
FUTURE.
Luncheon, Cornell Club, University
Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon, Department of State, Uni
versity Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon. Kiwanis Club, Raleigh
Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon, Advertising Club, Raleigh
Hotel, tomorrow. 12:30 p,m. _
FEDERAL DEFICIT
IS $2,900,000,000
AS TEAR CLOSES
U. S. Fiscal Chapter “Darkest
in Peace-Time History
of Any Nation.”
$902,716,000 TOTAL
IN RED LAST YEAR
With New Revenue Law Officials
Expect $3,261,000,000 Taxes
to Take Care of Needs.
By the Associated Press.
One day more, and the closing entry
of the darkest financial chapter of
this or any other peace-time nation
will be written—in red.
When the clock strikes 12 tomorrow ;
night, the United States will close its
fiscal year, wipe its slate clean and
embark on a brand-new period with
additional revenue-producing machinery,
together with an auxiliary economic
program, which promises to produce
sufficient income to keep the Treasury
in order.
The books for the year will be closed
with about $2,900,000,000 on the wrong
side of the ledger. Today the deficit
was $2,837,644,914 as of June 25, last
year It was $902,716,000. The year
before a $183,000,000 surplus was estab
lished and then ended 11 consecutive
years of profitable operations.
Next Year Different
The fiscal year 1933 will be different,
however, Government officials aver.
With the new revenue bill of 1932 as
the spearhead, there is expected to j
accrue $3,261,000,000 in taxes, a sum
sufficient, according to President Hoover,
"impregnably to establish the credit of!
the Federal Government.”
A total of $1,118,500,000 is added to
revenue by the new tax provisions,
which will supplement $2,143,000,000 j
accruing from the 1928 measure. The
Government’s original program of
spending amounted to $4,113,000,000, or
$851,500,000 more than the revenues'
now believed possible. To bride this
gap, $426,000,000 originally allocated
to the sinking fund will not be covered
by current receipts, while the remainder
will be saved through curtailment of
expenditures.
The huge deficit was accumulated by
a 33 per cent decrease in receipts and
an Increase of about 20 per cent in
expenditures.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
Internal revenue receipts amounted
to only $1,549,829,940 at the close of
business June 25, as compared with $2,- !
414.991,462 last year. Making up th.s
item were income taxes of $1,054,133,580, I
against $1,853,464,792. and miscellaneous j
internal revenue of $495,696,363. against
$561,526,670. Customs receipts shrunk
$47,000,000 to $325,060,472, while re
ceipts of $187,816,731 in the last fiscal
year on account of principal and In
terest on foreign obligations were en
tirely lost.
Total expenditures have amounted to
$4,827,419,984, mainly because of emer- ;
gency outlays such as to the Recon- j
structlon Finance Corporation, the Fed- i
eral Land Bank, the postal deficit, and |
others, although general expenditures
increased $217,000,000 to $2,482,453,443.
CEREMONIES TO START
NEW BUILDING HERE
Pharmaceutical Edifice, to Carry
Out Constitution Avenue Plan,
to Be Begun Friday.
Construction of another building
flanking the Lincoln Memorial will be
begun Friday when the ground-break
ing ceremony for the new headquarters
of the American Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation is held, at Twenty-second street
and Constitution avenue.
Dr. H. A. B. Dunning of Baltimore
will be master of ceremonies. The
speakers will be Dr. Charles Moore,
chairman of the National Commission
of Fine Arts; Dr. Henry S. Wellcome
of London, a graduate of the Phila
delphia College of Pharmacy, and Dr.
Walter D. Adams of Forney, Tex., the
president of the association. Dr. Samuel
L. Hilton of this city will turn the
first spade of earth.
The building will cost $500,000 and
will be erected by George A. Fuller Co.,
contractors. The building will be com
pleted in one year, it was said.
It will fit into the program of the
Fine Arts Commission for a series of
beautiful buildings along Constitution
avenue. These Include the new Naval
Hospital, the National Academy of
Sciences, the building for the Public
Health Service, now under construction,
and the proposed $1,000,000 Pan
American Union office building.
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Java is one of the most densely pop
ulated agricultural countries in the
world, with some 715 persons per square
mile.
Wins Diploma
WASHINGTON BOY COMPLETES
COURSE AT RENSSELAER.
GRAVES KONDRUP,
Son of Mrs. Belle Kondrup, 3012 Cam
bridge place, was a member-of this
year's graduating class at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. He
went to Rensselaer after winning a
acholarahlp at McKinley. High School.
Heat Makes Pool Popular Spot
YOUNGSTERS FLOCK TO ‘‘OLD SWIMMIN’ HOLE” TO COOL OFF.
- ITH school days over and hot weather at hand, the swimming pools
are gaining increasing popularity as the young folks resort to this
means of escaping the heat.
Upper photo shows a group of recreationists at the McKinley
High School pool as they paused a moment for The Star photographer.
Officer W. E. Freeman of the United States park police is shown in the
lower picture explaining to a group of would-be bathers that it isn't altogether
legal to frolic in the fountain at the Columbus statue on the Union Station Plaza.
—Star Staff Photos.
National Conference Commit
tee Arranges for General
Assembly in Fall.
Plans for the first general assembly
of the National Conference cn Con
struction, for the purpose of laying a
foundation for renewal of building
activity, were formulated today at a
meeting of the Executive Committee of
the conference. It is intended to hold
the general assembly here in the Fall.
In making this announcement, Julius
H. Barnes, chairman of the Executive
Committee, said the assembly would
bring together representatives of 60
groups in the construction field.
The Fall meeting will culminate a
year’s investigation of construction
problems carried on by the staff and
committees of the National Conference i
on Construction.
The meeting of the Executive Com
mittee, held at the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, was at-j
tended by Government ofh-'aJa, leaders
in the construction indust y end out
standing figures in other branches of
business. Among those in attendance,!
besides Chairman Barnes, were Secre
tary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont, I
E. J. Russell president of the American
Institute of Architects; A. E. Horst,
former president of the Associated Gen
eral Contractors; Oscar A. Reum, presi
dent of the Contracting Plasterers' In
ternational Association: W. F. Chew,
former president of the National Asso
ciation of Builders’ Exchanges; Andrew
J. Eken, Col. Willard Chevalier, publish
ing director of the Engineering News
Record; Daniel Willard, president of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; S. L. An- J
drew, chief statistician of the American ;
Telephone <fc Telegraph Co., and James
L. Madden, vice president of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Co.
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN
REGISTER FOR CAMPS
160 Sign for Two-Week Outing
Under Auspices of Asso
ciated Charities.
Mother* and children registered at
the Hyde School in Georgetown and
the Greenleaf School in southwest
Washington today for the first two
weeks’ free outing at the Associated
Charities' Camp Good Will in Rock
Creek Park.
The group at the Hyde School was
under the supervision of Miss Louise
Harlow and the Greenleaf contingent
was under the supervision of Miss Rosa
Brown. The party numbered about*160,
which is the limit of accommodations
at that camp.
The first party of colored mothers
and children, numbering 157, was taken
to Camp Pleasant at Blue Plains today.
This group registered at the Garnett
Patterson Junior High School and was
assembled under the supervision of
Mrs. Mary Ellen Whitlock, a super
visor. -
The swastika symbol Is Intended to
represent the sun. ....... .__—
SUMMER SCHOOL
BUILDINGS CHOSEN
Central High and Macfarland
and Stuart Junior Among
Those Selected.
Buildings In which the Summer term
of the District public school system i
will be held were selected today. The
term will open Friday.
In the white schools, senior high
classes will be maintained in the Central
High School Building, while the junior
high classes will be in session at the
Macfarland and Stuart Junior High
School Buildings. The white elementary
schools which will hold Summer ses
sions Include Brown, Buchanan, Bur
roughs, Curtis. Emery, Fairbrother,
Johnson, Ludlow, Petworth, Pierce,
Thomson. Wallach and West.
The colored senior high classes will
be held in the Dunbar and Twining
Buildings, under a single administra
tion, while the junior high classes wrill
be concentrated at the Gamet-Patter
son Building. The colored elementary
schools with Summer sessions include
Burrville, Cook. Cleveland, Giddings
Lincoln, Lovejoy, Mott, Phillips, Sum
ner. Bimey Annex and Bates Road.
Summer school students this year
have been urged to enroll on opening
day. because of the courses, which make
up the vacation school scnedule, and
the limited accommodations.
Public school students must enroll
from the school they last attended,
while those from private and parochial
schools may enter the classes only by
submittihg requests from their respec
tive schools that they be enrolled and
allowed to take certain subjects. Post
graduate students will enroll through
the school they last attended.
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Three Renamed on Welfare Board,
The District Commissioners today re
appointed three members of the Board
of Public Welfare to serve for addi
tional terms of six years each. They
are Frederick M. McReynolds. M. M.
Doyle and Mrs. Charles Goldsmith.
Their present terms expire Friday.
MAGICIANS’ TRICKS PROTECTED
FROM THEFT BY U. S. PATENTS
Examiners Called on to Inspect Hundreds of Stage
Illusions and Novelties.
The floating lady, the living head
without a body which talks and an
swers questions, the fully occupied auto
mobile which mysteriously disappears
from sight and other stage magician
tricks are now fully protected by the
Government, the Patent Office an
nounced today.
In meeting their obligations to cover
the whole field of Invention Patent
Office examiners said they were fre
quently called upon to review hundreds
of applications to protect so-called stage
illusions, as well as many novelties in i
(
1 advertising devices, such as the sus
pended bottle from which milk pours
and pours.
These patents Indicate that mirrors
seem to be the most important factor
in the field of optical illusion, although
in many cases much more complicated
equipment is involved.
The devices on record in the Patent
Office range in else from small mirror
combinations to a room which swings
upside down so that the entertainer may
fall down to the celling or jump up on
the floor.
PRINTING ADVANCE
SHOWN AT SESSION
New Methods of Instruction
Described at Final Meet
ing of Conference.
New methods in printing instruction
and technical advances in that Industry
were discussed today at the last session
of the eleventh annual conference on
printing education, which opened Mon- j
day at the Government Printing Office. I
The speakers included Maris M. j
Proffitt and Clark R. Long of this city. I
Ernest F. Trotter, Otto W. Fuhrmann
and Laurance B. Seigfried of New York
City and John E. Fintz of Cleveland. !
After a tour of the Bureau of Engrav- j
ing and Printing early this afternoon,
the conference adjourned.
Pleads for Veterans.
At a Bicentennial dinner last night,
Representative Kelly, Pennsylvania, as
serted the conditions presented here by
the bonus marchers was a "blot on
America." He made a plea that the
veterans be given a chance to work.
Dr. Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant
superintendent of schools in the Dis
trict, told of the development of voca
tional education. The life of Benjamin
Franklin and his occupation as a print
er was the subject of William Pfaff of
New Orleans, president of the United
Typothetae of America.
Announcement was made of the win
ners in the various printing exhibit
contest held by the conference. In the
typographic printing class awards were
made to the Central Junior High
School. Providence, R. I.: Sewanhaka
High School, Floral Park, L. I.; Central
Printing Trades School, New York
City, and the South Dakota State Col
lege. The winners in the linoleum
block printing class were the Port Wash
ington Junior High School, Port Wash
ington, L. I.: Calumet Senior High
School, Chicago, and the McKinley
Trades School, Wheeling, W. Va.
Win Layout Awards.
In the class of layout and design,
awards went to the William L. Dickin
son High School of Jersey City, N. J.,
and the Chicago School of Printing,
Chicago.
A motion picture, depicting incidents
in the life of George Washington, and
a pageant play, “A Rush Job for Free
dom,” completed the evening's program.
Three new members of the General
Committee of the conference were elected
today. They were L. L. Ingraham,
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Carl G. Brunner,
Wichita, Kans., and Ralph W. Polk, De
troit, Mich. Fred J. Hartman was re
tained as chairman. It was decided to
hold the next meeting of the conference
in New York City.
LABOR WINS HEARING
ON PARADE BANNERS
Bride Recommends Amendment of
District New Sign
Regulations.
Amendment of the District's new sign
regulations to permit the carrying of
banners in a labor dispute, now held
barred under the present wording of
the rule, has been recommended to the
District Commissioners by Corporation
Counsel William W. Bride.
Labor officials protested against the
forbidding of sign carrying in labor dis
putes when it was held that the new
regulation would restrain such a prac
tice. The matter then was referred to
the corporation counsel for an opinion.
The Commissioners are expected to act
on the matter shortly.
Mr. Bride recommended the regula
tion be amended so that it should not
be held to apply to signs "displayed on
vehicles and advertising the bonafide
business of the owner: or to banners or
signs carried by members of any labor
organization, or similar body, whether
the employers or employes, in giving
publicity to the existence of, or the facts
involved in, any labor dispute, as 'labor
dispute' is defined in the act of March
23. 1932, entitled 'An act to amend the
Judicial Code, etc.’ ”
OF “FOX” EXPECTED
IN BABY HOAX CASE
Whitaker Probably Will Waive
Extradition Quiz in New
York Today.
SISTER IS QUESTIONED
HERE AND RELEASED
Hover Prepares Evidence for Trial
on Charge of Conspiring
With Means.
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Norman T. Whitaker, identified by
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean as "the
Fox.” self-styled leader of the Lind
l>ergh baby kidnapers, is expected to
waive extradition proceedings in New
York today to facilitate his return here
under Federal charges of conspiring
with Gaston B. Means to defraud Mrs.
McLean of a $104,000 ransom fund.
Whitaker, also figuring in the strange
Means case as “No. 19” and "Nell Wil
liams,” was to be given a hearing in
New York this afternoon before a
Uhited States commissioner. He is
under bond of $100,000, following his
arrest Monday night In Brooklyn by
special agents of the United States
Bureau of Investigation and New York
detectives.
A sister of Whitaker, Miss Dorothy
Whitaker, was arrested here yesterday
afternoon and questioned for some time
at the Department of Justice. She was
released when investigators found
nothing to connect her with the Means
negotiations. Justice agents are en
deavoring to learn the identity of a
woman who played a minor role in the
case.
Rover Collects Evidence.
When brought to Washington, Whit
aker will be lodged in the District Jail,
where Means is being held pending his
appeal from conviction on fraud
charges. The District Supreme Court
sentenced Means to 15 years in the
penitentiary. So far nlther Means nor
Whitaker has admitted an acquaint
anceship.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover,
who conducted the prosecution of Means
before Justice James M. Proctor, is
marshaling evidence and witnesses in
readiness for the forthcoming trial of
"the Fox.” Much of the evidence and
most of the witnesses used in sending
Means to prison will be employed
against Whitaker. There is a possi
bility that Means may be called to the
stand for the first time at the trial of
Whitaker. Means old not testify for
himself.
With the capture of Whitaker, Fed
eral officials hope to clear up many
loose ends of the fantastic Means plot.
Although Government officers frankly
scout claims originally made by “the
Fox” that he engineered the abduction
of the Lindbergh child and received the
$50,000 paid by Col. Lindbergh on April
2 last, a thorough inquiry is being
made into Whitaker's activities at the
time of the kidnaping and payment of
the futile ransom. It is reported he
was in the New York area about the
time of these events.
Mrs. McLean asserts that Whitaker
told her he had held the baby in hia
arms and that it was well—although at
the time the body of the child appar
ently was half buried in a clump of
bushes 5 miles from Sourland Moun
tain. near the Lindbergh New Jersey
estate.
Arrest Climaxes Wide Hunt.
Arrest of Whitaker, a disbarred local
patent attorney and ex-convlct, cli
maxed an intensive Nation-wide man
hunt by special agents under J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the United States
Bureau of Investigation. Many sus
pects were located, questioned and elim
inated before the trail which led to
Whitaker became "hot." The original
clues were picked up in North and
South Carolina and in Texas, States
in which "The Pox” was known to have
visited during the negotiations with
Mrs. McLean.
It 1s understood an additional charge
may be lodged against Whitaker when
he arrives here as a result of the at
tempt of “The Pox” to induce Mrs.
McLean to pay an additional >35,000 to
partly “redeem” the >50,000 ransom
fund which Lindbergh rendered useless
when he recorded the serial numbers.
Mr*. McLean was about to pay this sum
when her lawyers learned about the
whole deal and put a stop to further
negotiations.
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DENTAL EXAMINERS
GRANT 15 LICENSES
Hygienists Also Given Authority
to Practice Profession
in D. C.
The qualification of 15 dentists and
19 dental hygienists was announced to
day by the Board of Dental Examiners.
The successful candidates at the recent
examinations were:
Dentists—Drs. Everett L. Gaskins,
1722 Sixth street; W. S. Duhaney, 328
W street; James J. Donahue, 1617
Thirty-fifth street: Samuel A. Coombs.
3313 Q street: Simeon J. Cole, 2609
Eleventh street: Thomas W. Cobb, 1031
Park road: Carl P. Cline. Norfolk. Va.;
W. T. Birthright. 1760 Kenyon street:
A. B. Beard, 225 First street; Otis J.
Williams. 149 W street; Charles B.
Murto. 55 W street: Jerome S. Living
ston, 1484 Newton street; Abraham P.
Kasmer, 3303 Georgia avenue; Herman
M. Jerrow, Newark, N. J., and William
P. Havnes, Pawling, N. Y.
Hygienists—W. Florence Blount, Kan
sas City, Kans.; E. M. Brahler. 1515
Van Buren street; Estelle R. Cohen,
Jersey City, N. J.; Catherine J. Cullen,
1333 Taylor street: Grace E. Denton.
Baltimore, Md.: Dorothy Farrell. Ken
sington. Md.: E. M. Fretz, Ocean City,
N J.; Catherine W. Hickey, 409 Shep
herd street. Chevy Chase, Md.: E. F.
Jones, 4116 Third street; Mabel Kan
gher, 430 Randolph street; Margaret G.
Mathieson, 1501 Southern avenue south
east: Ellen V. Mothersead, 718 B street:
B. E. Neviaser, 1758 Lanier place: Mar
garet R Patzer. Cabin John, Md.; E.
M. Shaw. Pomfret, Md.: Helen P. Star
becker, 4519 Georgia avenue: JuUa L.
Triger. Potomac, Va.: Grace Vickery,
1401 Columbia road, and Carol Webster,
2115 Pennsylvania avenue.
Members of the board were: Drs.
Chester A. Baker, president; C. Willard
Camalier, secretary-treasurer: Charles
D. Cole, John R. Hogan and Harry E
Osborn.
Berlin Plans for Winter.
BERLIN (JP.—Protestant churches,
foreseeing a hard Winter, are holding
meetings to assist the unemployed in
both material and spiritual ways. Gath
erings held In “the Dorn,” the chief
Protestant church here, attracted large
audiences. _ . _
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