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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
HOLD Up MEN WHO
BEFRIENDED THEM
Invited Home for Night, Two in
Marine Uniform Bind and
Rob BenefaCt0rS.

Two men wearing the uniform OF
privates of the L. S. Marine Corps
held up and robbed Karl Xander, 1882
Seventh street northwest, and II.
Calvin Nash, 517 NJ street northwest,
early today at the Xander home after
they had been invited to spend the
night there. Shortly after Xander
and Nash entered the house, one of
the strangers whipped out a pistol
and commanded their benefactors to
put up their hands. Tho other hold.
up man proceeded to bind and gag
them. Nash was robbed of a diamond
ring valued at $3.50, a $50 gold watch
and SI2 in cash.
The hold-up men approached Nash
and Xsnder at Tenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest
shortly after midnight and COM
planned about having no place to
spend the night. Xander promptly in
vited them to go home with him.
The thugs had a good start after
the robbery, as Nash and Nander lay
helpless on the floor for some time.
After struggle, the latter freed
himself and released his companion.
A good description of both hold-up
men has been furnished the police.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
Rents
ORDERED REDUCED
Decision by Ball Commissioners
Favor Tenants in Almost
EverV Case.

The District Rent Commission this
morning handed down determinations
in the following cases. ordering a
reduction in nearly every instance:
f. NJ. Boyer against Mahorney &
Sullivan; 500 rental cut to $50. for
326 Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
Raymond B. Murray and Mrs. Sally
r. Jameson against MKeever & Co.'s A;
$50 reduced to $3.50 for Mrs. Jane
son. and $50 rental cut to $3.50 for
Murray, for apartments at 147S
Chaplin street northwest.
John Tetruzzelli against Fiorangelo
Sacceti; $3.50 rental reduced TO $40
for l52 Shotts alley northeast.
Henry Walters against Thomas w.
Stubblefeld and the Francis A. Blum
dan Company: rental fixed by COM
mission, $22.50; present rental, $3.50;
demanded. $3.50, for 1870 Third
street northwest
Robert l.. Peyton against the South
Washingto nHousing Company: $40
rental reduced to $50 for second floor
of 900 Four and-a-H Half street south
west
]. A. Whitehead against Charles A.
Widmire; complainant allowed to in
crease rental of $3.50 to $40 for 1913
New Jersey avenue.
MafCeIlus NJ. SypnuA' " iiiiaH ~
King and Maude l.. Pye against j. F.
Holland: $3.50 rental raised to $40,
while 5000 was demanded from each
of compliments living respectively
at 1341, 1889 and 1889 u street north
west.
Lewis Coffin against Cisse1, Talbot
and Company, Incorporated; $3.50
rental cut to $3.50 for $50 Nj lth
street northwoS-.
Norman T.. Bull agalsst Moore and
Hill incorporated. s45 rental de-
manded reduced to $3.50 for first
floor of 3O1S p street northwest. De-
PENDANT denied possession.
Mabellc u. Newbold and tenants in.
the Northampton, 1407 w street north
west, against Gardiner and Dent In
rentals set by commission
ranging from $3.50 to $3.50
month.
Louise o. Carr and other tenants
of the apartment house at zoos
Eleventh street northwest against
William II. Saunders and Company;
average reductions of about 81 made
for each of the complainants.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
S240 BONUS
TOCONT|NUE
Congress Ready to Report
Legislative Bill With Item
Retained.

The legislative bill will be re-
ported out In Congress within the
next few days and will favor a con-
tinuation OF the $240 bonus for Gov
eminent employees, according TO
authoritative information today.
Thus any uneasiness that the en-
ployes might have had over reduc-
ton OF their present salaries IL set
to rest for year at least.
SOME OPPOSED 1T.
While continuation of the bonus
was never exactly In danger, never
theless there developed in Congress
an unfavorable feeling against II be-
cause of the apparent confusion
created in the minds OF some legls-
lators by the various pay bills now
before them. Aside from the bonus
legislation there Is the Johnson-Nolan
minimum wage measure, which Is eN-
pected to become a law soon. and also
the newly introduced Iehlbach re-
classification bill, which also deals
with public salaries.
There were y number OF Congress-
men who declared they could not help
but see certain overlapping in the
purposes Of these different measures.
However, the bonus is entirely an
emergency proposition and it was
strongly argued that. in justice to
the employees, II had to be continued
for another year, until some substi-
tute and permanent remedial legis-
lation would be passed.
SEEKS TO RECLASsIFY.
The hope for such legislation lies
in the Lehlbach bill. accordingn to the
employees. The National Federation OF
Federal Employees this morning de-
clared that, with the bonus again
assured. II would now direct its
energy toward the Reconsideration bill
with the view OF having 1t enacted be-
fore June 80 OF next year
The bonus would fall with the
passage OF the Lehlbach bill The
salary schedule of that bill absorbes the
amount OF the bonus in practically
every respect, so that the salary
ranges in the bill are very much
higher than the basic salaries as they
now exist.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
|NJURE D. c. PEOPLE
Automobiles in Wet Streets
Figure in Mishaps With
Pedestrians.

Several persons were injured in a
series OF traffic accidents that &C.
CURED in the city yesterday.
The machine operated by Charles
o. Knott. 1905 I street southeast,
knocked down two persons last night
at Seventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast. They were Joseph
f. Meter. forty-eight years old, IS
Seventh street southeast. and Thomas
forty three years old. OF
Va. Meter suffered a cut
above his eye and his right leg was
bruised. Harrington received bruises.
Minnie Edwards, colored, 4O2 II
street northwest, was knocked down
by an automobile just as she had
stepped from the curb at the south
side of Thomas Circle. She was taken
to Emergency Hospital where il was
found she was suffering from a frac-
ture OF the arm and collar bone.
William II. De Bank, forty-two
years old 214 u street northeast. was
knocked down by an automobile on
Second street near Il street. He was
cut about the hands.
In collision between two automo-
bilcs at Connecticut avenue and NJ
street northweast, Natz Weller, of
Atlanta, Georgia, n passenger in one
OF the cars, received cuts on the face.
He was taken TO Emergency Hos
pital
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
MARINE WHO FELL OFF
FIRE ESCAPE IMPROVING
CIeary, Doorkey Lost, Misses
Hold Climbing to Room.

Albert n. Clcary, the young marine
who fell from the fire escape at his
boarding house, 91S l street north
west, carly yesterday. fracturing two
ribs and his brcastbone. today was
reported to be improving. He is in
Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. A. w. Dcgcnhart. OF Oakland,
Cal. Cleary's mother. who had come
day she was afraid her boys friends
might think he was intoxicated from
the wording of reports OF the acct
dent. She said the young man had
lost his doorkey and was trying to
get to his room via the fire escape
when he fell.
my son is only nineteen" said
Mrs. Degenhart today. "He never
had drink of liquor in his life.
came from California to visit him
over the holidays. on Saturday night
he took me to the home OF friend.
and after that returned with me to
the Capitol Park Hotel, where ] was
staying. IL was late when no left me.
HE lost his doorkcy and thought
tho only way to get in was to climb
the fire escape. 4 passerby happened
along and my son asked him to give
him boost. In reaching for tho
span my son fell to the sidewalk" lie
was taken to Emergency Hospital
Tho police report makes no men
ton OF the young man having been
Intoxicated
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27

VIII be frequent guests at the White
House. Mrs. Mclean, who Is a motion
picture fan and who has made reels
and reels OF pictures OF the President
elect. will probably take over the
management OF many OF the White
House motion picture shows.
WILL RETAIN SAWYER.
The President usually has a physi-
Corps. DR.. c. Il. Sawyer is the Hard
ing family physician, adviser, and
friend. He is over sixty and probably
couldn't be made an admiral or a
major general but DR.. and Mrs Saw
yer are certain to spend good bit
OF their time about the White House.
Senator Lodge and some other Re
publican leaders viii probably be fire.
quent visitors at the White House for
business reasons, but the Senators
who will side into the White House
In the evening on pleasure bent will
probably be Senator Fred Hale OF
Maine, Senator Frelinghuysen of New
Jersey. and Senator Davis Elkins OF
West Virginia. These men have long
been playmates OF the President
elect, and they know how to make n
bridge game interesting for either
Senator or Mrs. Harding. The chances
are ten to one that most of their
evening calls at the White House will
be sans evening clothes, too, for they
are as ardent advocates OF informally
as the President-ele
Necessity may make the White
House under the Hardings social
center The habits of the Hardings
will make the White House home. a
typical American home without form.
pomp, or ceremony
So, altogether. il looks like a hard
four years for the White House
royalty"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
TURNS THEATER LOBBY
INTO FROZEN NORTH

Alaska has been moved to Ninth
street
Sidney L. Lust, new owner of the
Leader Theater. is the magician. lie
picked up a lot OF the frigid north
and moved IL bodily into the lobby
of his thcater, in onjuntion with the
showing OF the photoplay The
Spoilers" this week.
]. S. Warmbath. who spent twenty
seven months in the Arctic regions
as member of Perry's North Pole
expedition. supplied part of his won
derful collection of Northern curios to
make up the display. 1t onsists of
real Esquimaux in the act OF har-
pooning polar bear, while several
Esauimo dogs make up clever
setting in the act Of attacking the
big white Brutus. The balance of
the front of the thestor Is trans
formed into a log cabin by the use
Of some realistic scenery and North
ern effects.
Mr.. Lust. who has been highly
complimented on the success OF the
Transformation, says he wants all
the Riddles in the city to zee his
display.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
HORSE
One On Policeman Grimes
Comes as Welcome
Christmas Gift.
HENDRICK is SANTA
Remembers Officer Lost
2 Mounts In Unlucky
Year.

Comm ssioncr J. Thilman Hem
drick played tho part of real
Santa Claus today.
Calling Inspector Charles Evans,
assistant superintendent of police
into his office. the Commissioner
informed him he had purchased a
present for a member of the police
department.
Policeman Everett Grimes, of the
Eleventh precinct station, was sum
moned. The Commissioners, from a
window, showed him a handsome
horse, and announced II was Grimes
own, for use in patrolling his beat.
Grimes, who Is compelled by law
TO purchase his own horses used in
police work, has had unusually
hard luck during the year. His
FIRST horse died of collie last sum
mer and another was killed by
lightning In the early fall.
Grimcs coud not Rfford TO pur-
chase two horses and has since
been walking his beat. which takes
In a large part OF southeast, across
the liver.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
HISTORIANS MEET
IN YEARLY SESSION

The thirty-ifth annual meeting of
the American Historical Association
will open at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning in the willard Hotel. The
executive council is in session today
in the Woodward building. The con-
ference will take up modern European
history for discussion tomorrow
morning,
Among the speakers at the meet
ing will be Edward Charming, Cam
bridge, Mass; Jean Jules Jusserand.
French ambassador; Charles H Has
kins, Charles Moore. John Spencer
Bassett, George M. butcher. Wesleyan
University; and Edward r Turner,
University of Michigan William e
Lingelbach will be chairman
Members of the association are in
vited to attend meeting of tho
American Sociological Society at the
Hotel Washington tonight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
TWO SlAYERS
COPS RECORD
Policeman Jacobs Makes Sec
ond Arrest WithU Month in
F Street Shooting.

Two slsyers captured within one
month is the record of Policeman
M. II. Jacobs, of the Fourth Pre-
cinct.
About three weeks ago this blue
coat, who has the reputation of be-
ing one Of the bravest and most ef-
fcient men on the local force, ar
rested Leila Wilson, negro woman,
who shot and killed a white woman
in Four-and- Half street near G
and wounded her fifteen-month-old
infant.
HIS LATEST CAPTURE
Yesterday the police of the Fourth
Precinct were notified that murder
had been committed at First and F
streets southwest Jacobs and Ar
thur Foster, a former soldier, were
sent to the scene in a taxicab.
When the policemen arrived at a
narrow court where the murder was
committed they found the alley jam
med with muttering negroes. Taking
no chances, Jacobs got his automatic
ready for action, and, followed by
Foster, elbowed his way through the
crowd.
In the midst of the crowd Jacobs
found Herman Young cofored, Ill +
street southwest. who was accused
Of the staying. SEEKING Young by the
collar. Jacobs hustled him to the
waiting taxicab. The driver stepped
on the gas" and away the car sped.
VICTIM OF OWN GUN.
According to the police, Young took
gun from Leo Hill, also colored, r
street near First southwest, with
which the latter had been threaten
ing him, and turned it on Hill, shoot
ing him once. Hill died at Providence
Hospital.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27

Next to an outcast duke a White
House servant is quite the most regal
person In the United States.
The Hardings are about as demo
cratic people as there are in tho
United States.
Either the Hardings or the White
House royalty" must change their
ways. and the odds are in favor Of
the Hardings remaining democratic.
The White House gates are going
to be open for the next four years
Mrs. Harding promises 1t.
WILL NE SOCIAL CENTER.
The White House is going to be a
social center again and the Hardings
are going to entertain their friends.
The stately old mansion is going 10
have new visitors in the next Admin
istration.
Harry NJ. Daugherty will probably
be one of the most frequent visitors.
and he Is not likely to tolerate the
royal Difference of the White House
servants which has been paid Colonci
House and Bernard Baruch. Instead
Daugherty. who is Columbus law
yer of bluff, goood-natured manners.
will stalk into the White House with
as little ceremony as he has stalkad
into the Marion home of the Hardings
for the last twenty years. Daugher.y
will probably be a Cabinet member.
but this won't change his manner or
unassuming good nature.
IL Harry Daugherty is frequent
White House visitor, II is safe bet
that Jess w. Smith. of Washingt IN
Courthouse. Ohio. Will also be IRE
quent visitor at the Presidential MAN.
sion. Wherever Daugherty is there
is Smith, and Jess is already pretty
close to the President-elect and con-
sidered a part OF the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale NC
Lean, OF Washington, are close
friends of the Hardings, and they
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
GUEST Of EBB|TT
BURNEDBYFLAMES

Mrs. Emma Weinberg. who has
been a guest at the New Ebbitt Hotel
for many months, was slightly burned
about the hands when she attempted
to extinguish a fire that originated
in her room on the fourth floor of
the hosiery last night. She refused
hospital treatment 1t is believed
that curtains that became ignited
when they were blown against an
alcohol lamp, caused the fire.
The curtains. bed clothing, carpet
and table covers were destroyed, and
the damage is estimated at 500. :.
Policeman c. A. Nusselman, of No. l
Precinct, saw smoke coming from the
window in Mrs. Weinberg's room. He
hurried upstairs, seized fire extin-
guisher, and put out the blaze.
Mrs. Weinberg was given first-sid
treatment by a maid and the police
man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
MRS. NJ ADOO HEADS
DRIVE FOR SCHOOL

Mrs. Eleanor Wilson NcAdoo.
daughter OF President Wilson and
wife of former Secretary Of the Treat
ury William Gibbs McAdoo, formally
assumed her duties as National chair
man OF a campaign to raise $500. goo
for her alma mater. st. Mary's School,
Raleigh, N. c.. at a luncheon given
in her honor by Mrs. William @. Rivers
at the home Of the Commandant, TT.
Myer, Va. today.
Interesting Americans OF the
younger set" in the church ana
tested national ideals in a way that
will rouse real enthusiasm and az
lection. is an enterprise in which
girls boarding and finishing schools
can be vitality helpful, Mrs. McAdoo
said. in discussing the campaign. Con-
tinuing. Mrs. McAdoo said
"St. Mary's has lived through two
great wars. During the civil war a
struggled brRvely with barely enough
to wear and very little to eat, and
after those terrible days were over
went to work with great courage TO
reorganize their beloved land. Calls
no less urgent are coming to our
young women of today, and l believe
they wei be met in the same faith
and with the same strength.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
AS D. c.
JIMMY THIEF
Man Arrested in Baltimore
Operated in Washington,
Police Here Claim.

The Jimmy thief who has been
looting apartments and hotel rooms
here for many months has been
caught, local police believe, in Bal
timore. He is Joseph d. Glenn, alias
Joseph Clark, caught, it is alleged
in the act of robbing an apartment
in the Monumental City.
SOLD LOOT IN n. Y. &.
Detective Joseph Grant went to
Bltimore, following Glenn's arrest.
u interview the prisoner. After
his return. Inspector clinord L.
Grant said he was sure Glenn had
operated in this city. and had sold
his loot in New York.
The Baltimore prisoner. police
say, Is of the class OF sneak thieves
known to the police as a "Chester
Jimmy Crook" They get their name
II ON the implement used by them
in forcing their way into apartments
"A long. thin, flexible blade, with
tiny teeth at the end. which can
be inserted between a door and ITS
casing. TO force open the lock.
Glenn is said to have had two such
jmmies in his possession when ar
rested His pockets were also laden
with loot. afterwards ident med, it IL
alleged, as having been stolen from
another apartment. Baltimore police
believe him responsible for thefts in
that city, totalling $4,000.
Thieving operations in Washington
extend over a period of several
months. In almost every instance.
the procedure was the same. The
thief picked his apartment waited
until the occupants left, and then
jimmied the door. He evidently
looked over his field carefully. for
he invariably picked residences where
the loot was rich.
Local police believe Glenn may
have also had confederates here, OF
whom he was the leader.
The prisoner. it is said, refused to
talk to the Washington detectives.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27

INAUGURAL TAX
CHPsse Revenue Bureaus De-
cision to Charge Amusement
Fee on Avenue Rooms.

Washington hotel proprietors will
have to pay an amusement tax on
every room they rent to persons to
Is the order of the Internal Revenue
Bureau
1t is contended by the hotel pro-
I prietors that they rent the rooms and
not the privilege of watching the
parade, and that if the roomers
-, watch the parade from the windows
b they should not be forced to pay
. tax.
BUREAUS ORDER CLEAR.
The Internal Revenue Bureau. says
that every room rented for the pur-
pose OF viewing the parade is liable
to an amusement tax, just IS the
seats in the stands on the streets.
The renters OF rooms should be more
willing to pay a tax, the Internal
Revenue Bureau, feels, than those
who brave the elements to view the
inaugural parade
The bureau says that II ruled during the
Pershing parade that hotels renting
rooms TO persons to view the parade
were liable to a tax and that they see
no reason for lifting IT for the parade
in honor OF President Harding.
still further, and is going to inquire
into the custom of hotel proprietors
raising the rent of rooms which face
on the avenue. Some officials of the
bureau are of the opinion that the
hotels ought to be made to pay a tax
on the increased rental.
Some hotel proprietors are prepar-
ing list of questions which they
will ask the Internal Revenue Blu
hot he, hA cosn in
either collecting or refusing to col
lect a tax.
RESERVED FIVE DAYS.
Many of the hotels in Washington
during the inaugural ceremonies fol
low the custom of not reservinS
rooms for less than five days during
the Inauguration. This means that
visitors from out of the city cannot
rent q room for less than five days.
They do not have to sleep in the
room for f1ve days, but they have to
pay for five days. This is done. the
hotel men say because in former
years, before the custom of reserving
only for a five-day period, hotels
would be full on the evening CT
March ) and possibly March 4. but
'after that the hotels were deserted.
This meant a great loss for the hs.tels.
they say, because they were put to
much expense to provide quarters and
entertainment for the visitors and
their stopping only one or two nights
resulted in a loss instead Of a profit
The inaugural committee today be-
gan to map out plans for the work
of the different committees. Jess
w. Smith, secretary of the commit
tee. got back to Washington this
morning from Ohio. where he spent
the holidays with his family.
The general committee will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 1870 o'clock
in the red room of the Willard
hotel to hear the plans of Chairman
Edward B. Mclean and offer sug-
Eestions for the proper carrying out
OF the ceremonies incident upon the
inauguration of President Harding.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-27
BLASTS SHAKE
UP conn. AVE.
Leaking Gas expIodes, British
Embassy JoIted-Three
Workmen Burned.

Members of the British Embassy
and residents of fashionable Con-
necticut avenue between N and N
streets northwest were awakened
early this morning by a series Of
terrific explosions, which shook
buildings for blocks around, and
brought back visions of the New
York bomb outrage.
THINKS OF sINN FEM.
Maybe 1t is the Sim Feinsrs."
muttered Officer Ryan. OF the Third
precinct. on guard at the British en-
bassy. as he pulled out his Colt auto
matte.
I'm call for the reserves" yelled
Officer Leahy. Of the same precinct.
as he started for the patrol box. but
before he arrived there eight other
explosions took place In rapid sue
cession.
The explosions were caused, accord
Ing to the police. by leak In some
gas main. which resulted in q large
amount OF gas escaping into the cleo
trio conduits along Connecticut
avenue and In Jefferson place, be.
tween Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets.
MILKMAN GETS JOLT.
According to John McCanns, who
delivers milk in the neighborhood,
the first explosion took place shortly
before @ o'clock in Jefferson place.
within a few feet OF where his wagon
was standing. A crate of milk was
blown out OF his hands.
"Where did the last explosion take
placer" asked Sergeant j. d. Harring-
on Of the Third Precinct.
II don't know" replied the milk
man. "as / was running around the
Speedway by that time"
Three employees of the electric light
company. who were starting to re-
pair the conduit. were slightly burn
ed when a manhole around which
they were standing at Connecticut
avenue and N street blew up. They
were slightly burned on the head and
face, but were not seriously injured.