Evening star. [volume], February 09, 1937, Page A-6, Image 6

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3 ARE ARRESTED
IN NAUM DEATH
D. C. Police Refuse to Reveal
Names of Prisoners—Path
ologist Tests Brain.
Washington police announced to
day two men had been arrested here
for questioning in connection with
the death of James Najjum, 54-year
old lnsuranoe collector.
Officers declined to reveal the names
of the prisoners, but said the prospect
of solving the mystery surrounding
Najjum's death appeared "good.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Oscar Hunter, local
pathologist, examining the man's
brain at the request of Coroner A.
Magruder MacDonald, said he would
know by Friday whether the insur
ance collector was murdered or suc
cumbed to natural causes.
Still Seek House.
. Hunter said his study will reveal
♦hether the cerebral hemorrhage
which brought Najjum's death was in
duced by a blow on the head or by a
natural organic breakdown.
Meanwhile, Washington and Prince
Georges County police were still at
tempting to locate a house on Mary
land avenue southwest, where Najjum
may have been assaulted before he
/ was dumped beside Chapel road in
[ Beat Pleasant, 2 miles across the Dis
trict Line.
- Inspector Bernard W. Thompson,
chief of Washington detectives, said
the case ‘‘appears to be a Maryland
JKffair,” but did not elaborate the
f statement. Sergt. Arthur Hepburn,
t of the county force, declared he had
, po clues indicating the source of the
| crime other than the information that
nifajjum was assaulted at the Mary
land avenue residence about seven
hours before his unconscious form was
discovered.
Found Beside Road.
The Insurance collector was found
beside Chapel road at 4 ajn. on Jan
uary 21. Taken to the office of Justice
of the Peace Oscar Poore, Najjum re
gained consciousness but was unable
to remember what had happened to
him. The victim was taken to his
home at 1808 North Capitol street
and subsequently went to Sibley Hos
pital. After several days there, he
returned to his home, then went back
to the hospital on January 31, where
he died late last Saturday night.
An employe of the American Na
tional Insurance Co., Najjum was
robbed of about $18, a gpld watch
and an insurance book by his at
tacker. He came to Washington four
months ago from Roenoke. Va.. where
he was engaged in the wholesale mer
cantile business.
MRS. J. H. RALSTON
DIES IN PALO ALTO
Mrs. Sara B. Rankin Ralston, 79,
wife of Judge Jackson H. Ralston,
international jurist well known in
Washington, died yesterday in Palo
Alto, Calif., it was learned through
the Associated Press.
Judge and Mrs. Ralston were mar
ried in June, 1887, and had spent
much of their married life in this city
. and Hyattsville, Md. - For some time
their home has been in Palo Alto.
Mrs. Ralston was a cousin of John
. Hay. former Secretary of State.
Survivors include Mrs. Hugh Nel
son and Mrs. Marshall Timberlake
of Charlottesville. Va., nieces.
Legion Post to Entertain.
Treasury Po6t, No. 35. American
Legion, will give an entertainment
tonight at the Hayloft Club, 1326
Massachusetts avenue. Former Sen
ator Rice W. Means of Colorado, past
District commander of the Legion,
will speak on “Veterans’ Preference in
Civil Service,’’ and the 40 and 8 de
gree team will obligate 35 new
members.
Bankhead Weeps at Play
Speaker Deeply Impressed by Daughter’s
Performance at National.
The hug and kiss icere Speaker Bankhead’s reply to a ques
tion from his daughter Tallulah as to how he enjoyed her open
ing performance at the National Theater last night in "Reflected
Glory.” —A. P. Photo.
SPEAKER BANKHEAD, who re
luctantly gave up his own dream
of a stage career to become a
legislator, sat in a box at the
National Theater last night and wept
as he watched his daughter Tallulah
receive the curtain calls that might
have been his.
Even the pressing affairs of state
could not keep the Speaker away from
Tallulah's opening performance here
in "Reflected Glory," his first oppor
tunity to see her In a finished play.
He had left a late session of the House
to attend the performance and was
seated In his box when a messenger
rushed in with the *950,000,000 relief
deficiency bill, which had just been
passed. The Speaker signed it and
sent it on to the White House before
the curtain went up.
Back in Alabama, Tallulah and her
father rehearsed Shakespearean roles
almost before she was old enough to
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read. A few years before the father
had given up his own stage aspirations
in the face of parental objections.
In later years, however, perhaps
envisioning in Tallulah's success the
fulfillment of his own dreams, the
Speaker renewed his interest in dra
matics and let it be known that
nothing was going to keep him from
his daughter's opening performance
here.
After the seventh curtain call, Tal
lulah stepped from the wings.
"I hate to step out of character,”
she began. "It’s disillusioning, I
know. But you have been so very
gracious.
"I Imagine you all understand,”
she continued, gesturing toward her
father’s box, “that I’ve been terribly
nervous. I’ve been playing this play
for seven months, but I'll remember
tonight as one of the happiest of my
life—with humble gratitude.”
Blowing a kiss toward her father,
she turned and disappeared.
The graying Speaker removed his
spectacles and wiped his eyes.
"Parental restraint prevents my
gushing," he 6aid, "but I think she
did it very artistically.’' Before the
show he had given her a rabbit's foot
for luck.
In her dressing room, after the per
formance, Tallulah said:
"The audience was so responsive I
If it hadn't been for them—I don’t
know. I was so worried. Daddy is
such a good critic.’*
Beckoning to a friend, she asked:
‘ Tell me what I said at the tad.
Why did it make Daddy cry?”
D. C. HOTEL BUSINESS
TOUCHES $15,544,000
Census Figures for 1935 Show
5,079 Employes With Fay Roll
of $4,570,000.
Washington's 78 hotels did $15,544,
000 worth of business during 1935, ac
cording to a report in the new census
of business series, made public today
by the Census Bureau.
The report shows the local hotels
Include 12,033 guest rooms and that
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they give employment to an average
of 5,079 employes, under a total of 38
active proprietors and firm members.
The total hotel pay roll during 1935
amounted to $4,570,000, it was re
ported.
The report covers hotels in opera
tion in cities of 250,000 population or
greater. The survey does not include
apartment houses, residential hotels
catering exclusively to permanent
guests, boarding houses, lodging houses,
tourist homes or camps, resorts, Y. M.
C. A. or Y. W. C. A. lodgings, club
dormitories or similar places.
Of the 37 cities included, Washing
ton was seventeenth in the list in
number of hotels reported and four*
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States, however, were able t- show
greater total receipts. These four are
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and
San Francisco.
Wife Sues Store Buyer.
Mrs. Nannie Belle McNealy. 1347
Harvard street, filed suit in District
Court today for limited divorce from
Joseph W. McNealy, an assistant buy
er In a downtown department store.
She asked alimony. The couple was
married In 1929. There are no chil
dren.
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