Five Members of Family Present Alibi for Boys’ Club Head. John P. Meshkoff, fourth precinct detective detailed as director of the Metropolitan Police Boys’ Club, was exonerated of hit-and-run charges at a hearing before Assistant Corpora tion Counsel William H. McGrath late yesterday. Meshkoff admitted ownership of an automobile which collided with a taxicab driven by Herman Norris, 36, colored, 1456 T street southwest, last Friday morning, but testified he left his car parked on Ordway street near Connecticut avenue early Thursday evening and did not see it again until he went to the fourth precinct fol lowing the accident. Five Offer Alibi. Alibi witnesses for Meshkoff, .who said he stayed home and played cards all evening, included his wife, Olive; two sisters, Eugenia and Betty; his sister-in-law, Lillian Mae Lynch, and his brother-in-law, Paul Morgan. All testified the detective did not leave his home at 3446 Connecticut avenue from the time he moved his car off of Connecticut avenue to Ordwfty street at about 7 p.m. Thursday until he was called by Pvt. S. F. Malone of the fourth precinct, after the ac cident in which his car was involved. All six witnesses testified they played cards until about 11:30, when they retired. Lieut. Oscar Letterman said he talked to Meshkoff on the telephone at his home at 1:25 a. m. last Friday after Norris had reported the acci dent. The accident occurred at 12:45 Norris pointed Meshkoff out in the crowded room and testified the officer wore a gray overcoat on the night ©f the accident. Other witnesses, in cluding Lieut. Letterman, testified Meshkoff does not own a gray over coat. When he appeared at the hear ing, he was wearing a light tan over coat. He said he also owns a black one. Three Injured in Crash. Norris and his two passengers, James Douglas, 30, colored, 1013 Fifteenth street, and Aloysius Brown, 24, colored, 28 Fourteenth street, were injured in the crash, it was brought out, but none seriously. McGrath held that the information brought out against Meshkoff at the hearing was too meager upon which to base a charge of leaving after colliding. He said he did not believe a jury would convict Meshkoff. Meshkoff was represented at the hearing by Atty. Charles E. Ford, who stressed the time element between the crash at 12:45 and the time Lieut. Letterman and Pvt. Malone talked to him on the telephone at his home and pointed out that it would be a physical impossibility for Meshkoff to have secured other transportation after his car was wrecked, even if he had been present, and gotten to his home in time to answer the tele phone. Norris was represented by Harold P. Ganss. 8 UTOPIA SEEKERS BUFFETED BY GALE Schooner Slips Into Key West Port, Sails in Shreds, Following Storm. By the Associated Press. KEY WEST, Fla., February 27.— The weather-beaten schooner Fleet wood slipped into port here yesterday, her eight pilgrims to a Virgin Island Utopia red-eyed and weary after bat tling blustering winds that left sails in tatters. The schooner, in difficulty three times since leader Maurice Allard and his party of liberals first left Tampa, encountered the gale at sea on a 152 mile voyage from Boca Grande to Key West. Allard, after again denying he and his followers were nudists, went be low decks of the Fleetwood soon after arrival here, saying he “must get some aleep.” Others in the party said the ex pedition likely would be delayed here several days in patching the dam aged sails. Other than the unpleasantness of the violent tossing about during the gale and the loss of sleep, those aboard the Fleetwood suffered no ill effects. TAKES UP NEW DUTIES W. S. Alexander Assumes Fed eral Alcohol Post. Wilford S. Alexander of Meriden, Conn., today began his duties as the new administrator of the Federal Al cohol Administration. He was sworn Into office yesterday afternoon by F. A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury Department. After taking the oath of office, Alexander stated he considered this appointment “a distinct opportunity for public service.” A New Deal Re publican, Alexander was well known in banking circles in Connecticut. He Is a native of Maine. Sample Fairs Slated. Tripoli and Milan, Italy, will hold tample fairs this year. « 1 4 Meats of Quality! Meat it important to you and to ut. To terve meat of the proper quality to your family it your problem. To keep conttantly for your chooting, a wide variety of good meatt at fair pricet it our problem, and one that we look after vigoroutly. Only meatt of good quality are aelected for A&P markett—purchated moatly from the great packing centert. Even at tuch timet that pricet rite, quality it never aacriiiced for price. 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