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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
SOLICITING FUNDS
LAID TO WURZBACH
Creager Says Representative
"CoIIected" Contributions
for Campaign.

BY the Associated Press.
r. B. Creager, Republican national
committeeman for Texas, charged be-
fore the Senate patronage committee
today that Representative Harry NJ.
Wurzbach, only Republican member of
Congress from Texas, had violated the
penal law by collecting contributions"
for his campaigns.
Wurzbach entered q categorical denial
of all the charges and asserted that he
had never solicited a dollar" in his
life.
I'm the campaign Of 1926" Creager
said, while a congressman and a candi-
date for reelection to Congress, Mr..
Wurzbach received contributions for his
campaign from at least four officers and
employees of the United States.
ON June 2, 1926, Mr.. Wurzbach re-
ceived a campaign contribution of 500
from H. M. Holden, at the time United
states attorney at Houston. Tex.
ON July %, 1926, Mr.. Wurzbach re-
ceived a campaign contribution of sl0o
from S. c. Kyle, at the time district
director of the United States Veterans
Bureau, stationed at San Antonio. Tex.
"On July 8, 1926, Mr.. Wurzbach re-
ceived the sum of $25 as a campaign
contribution from H. F. Geyer of San
Antonio, Tex, who at the time was a
railway clerk of the United States.
"On July 8, 1926, Mr.. Wurzbach re-
ceived $50 as campaign contribution
from E. j. Keudell of San Antonio,
Tex, who at the time was railway
mail clerk of the United States.
On August 16, 1924, Mr.. Wurzbach.
at the time a member of Congress and
a candidate for reelection, received a
campaign contribution of $25 from Roy
B: Nichols, postmaster at Houston, Tex.
This last contribution was received by
Mr.. Wurzbach in person in the office
Of Mr.. Nichols. in the Federal Building
In Houston, Tex. This contribution was
by check on the Union National Bank
of Houston. Tex. The check being
1893, and now offer the
original check to the committee as
evidence
Wurzbach admitted he had received
all OF the contributions, but declared
that they were unsolicited and came
from men who had given the money
and were his lifetime friends.
Il do not understand" he said, that
1t is violation Of the criminal law to
accept voluntary contributions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
DIPLOMA MILL BILL
SENT TO PRESIDENT
Senate Ratifies Report of
Conferees, Ending Several
Years of Study.

After several years Of consideration by
Congress the bill to prevent operation of
diploma mills in Washington is on it's
way to the White House today for the
Presidents signature.
The final legislative step came late
yesterday, when the Senate ratified the
report of the conferees, previously acted
on by the House. In presenting the re-
port, Senator Blaine, Republican, of
wisconsin, said the confereeS were
unanimous in their agreement on the
amendments.
Under existing law any group of per-
sons can establish school and issue
degrees merely by incorporating under
the District code. If the President signs
the pending bill institutions desiring to
confer degrees will have to be licensed
by the Board of Education, and in is
suing the licenses the authorities will
have an opportunity to see that the in
situations meet certain minimum stand
ards.
The committees of Congress, in con-
s1derlng the bill, were told that abuses
had grown up here under the present
law and the measure was urged by local
civic and business organizations. The
United States district attorneys office
joined with these organizations in call
ing attention to the need for legislation
that would prevent diploma mills from
being set up here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
MAURICE |. HART, IS
is CALLED BY DEATH
Local Manager for Quaker Oats Co,
Was in Failing Health
Two Years.

Maurice L. Hart, SIS years old. man.
eger of the local Office for the Quaker
Oats Co., and long prominent in frater-
nal circles here, died at his residence,
1901 Park road. today He had been
in failing health for about two years,
but had continued at work in his Of
fee until two weeks ago.
Mr.. Hart had been resident of
this city for the past 81 years. He was
a member of Hope Lodge Of Masons,
of La Fayette Chapter. Royal Arch Ma
sons; Columbia Commandry, knights
Templar. and Of Almas Temple Of the
Mystic Shrine. He also was men,
Der of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, a
Masonic organization, and of the
knights of Pythias.
I He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Bessie E. Hart; his mother, Mrs. Anna
Hart: sister, Miss A. Helen Hart of
Baltimore. and brother Wilson r.
Hart of East Orange, N. J.
Funeral services will be conducted in
the S. H. Hines Co. funeral hcme. 1901
Fourteenth street, Tuesday morning. the
hour to be decided later. Intermcnt
will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Balti-
more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
TWO CAUGHT IN TRAP
DENY BOOTLEG CHARGE
Say They Accidentally Walked
Into Police Net-Court
Action Postponed,

Court action against two Of the 10
men arrested Monday night in a police
liquor trap has been postponed by
Assistant United States Attorney David
Hart, while he is investigating their
story that they accidentally walked into
trap set for others and that they were
not making a delivery for a bootlegger.
The two men are William Mattingly.
% years old. of the 400 block of Sixth
street, and Donald Gerow, % years old,
Of the 1900 block of Harvard street.
Charges of illegal transportation and
possession of liquor against them were
dismissed by United States Commission
err Turnage
Gerow told Commissioner Turnage he
picked Mattingly up ON the street and
drove him to the 600 block of Twentieth
street. Mattingly, he said. then left his
machine to go to an apartment.
Mattingly said he knocked at the
door of one apartment. but received no
answer. Thereupon he crossed the cor
ridor and knocked on the door of the
apartment in which the police were
in wait. He was arrested by the police.
who were under the impression that he
was delivering whisky for a bootleyger
with whom they had placed telephone
order a few minutes before. Then his
companion was taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
urn BLAST SCALDS
THREE IN CAFETERIA
Post Office Department En-
pIoyes ShoWered by Boiling
Water and Steam.

A woman and two man employees of
the Post Office Department cafeteria
were showered with boiling water and
steam early this morning when rs
gallon coffee urn exploded as the safety
valve became clogged and failed to
work.
Mrs. Nellie Cage, 40-year- old head
cashier. was standing at the cash regis
ter when the explosion occurred. AL
though 10 feet from the urn, water was
thrown on her. scalding her back and
shoulders. She was treated at the
scene by DR.. I. Rutoski before being re-
moved to Emergency Hospital. Mrs
Cage lives at 1904 Thirteenth street.
Sherman Davis, 22-year-old colored
attendant, was standing in front of the
urn and was burned severely on his
chest and stomach. He lives at, 822
Ninth street.
John Motin, colored. 202 r street,
was farther away and escaped with
slight burns.
w. H. Plummer, the manager of the
cafeteria, said the safety valve was in
good working order when he closed up
last night. He could not explain its
failure to work this morning. No GUS
toners were present at the time of the
explosion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
TWO GET LONG JAIL TERM
ON CHARGE OF LARCENY
Previous Convictions Established
and Court Imposes Sentence of
$50 Days Upon Each.

Investigation revealing that Harry
w. Warren and John w. Travathan Of
the 900 block of H street, charged with
larceny, had previously been convicted
and scved Jail sentences led Judge John
P. Mcmahon to continue their case to-
day for investigation, after which he
sentenced each to $50 days in Jail.
According to police the pair stole
silk valued at $40 from an automobile
on February 26. When taken into GUS
today Warren is said to have given a
fictitious name declaring that he had
purchased the goods for his wife.
Court records show that both men
were convicted Of false pretenses" in
June, 1928, and served 100 days in jail.
They had also been found guilty Of
minor offenses, either paying fine or
serving saegt terms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
CHARLES MOTT TO WE'D
EDITOR OF MAGAZINE

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mich. March Charles
S. Mott, vice president of the General
Motors Corporation, and Mrs. Dee Van
Balkom Furey of Detroit, Mich, will
be married today, probably in Toledo.
Ohio, according to an announcement
here. A quiet ceremony to be attended
only by immediate members of both
families is planned.
The bride is editor and publisher Of
Bride and Golfer, a magazine pub
lished in Detroit. She was born in
Holland, educated in Paris and came to
this country in journalistic capacity.
Mr. Mott has been twice previously
married.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
IN GAS-FlLLED BEDROOM
Joe Schneider, Revived by Fire De-
partment Rescue Squad, Now
Under Hospital Treatment.

Members Of the Fire Department
rescue squad revived Joe Schneider, IS
years old of 2l30 p street, about 10
o'clock this morning, after he had been
found unconscious in his bedroom.
which was filled with gas flowing from
a heater. At Emergency Hospital,
where he was taken in the ambulance,
physicians said his recovery was cx-
pected
Schneider who is employed at a
stable at the p street address. was
found in bed in his room on the second
floor by other occupants of the build
ing. who detected the odor of gas and
traced it to its source They carried
him out into the alley in the rear and
summoned the rescue equad. The fire.
men administered oxygen for about 20
minutes before Schneider showed signs
of returning TO consciousness.
1t is thCight the flame of the heater
was blown out by wind coming through
an open window.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
TRACTION MERGER
HAS SMALL CHANCE
| Of SENATE ACTION
May Be Given Consideration,
but Vote Is Considered
Unlikely.
TWO OTHER MEASURES
ARE GIVEN PREFERENCE
Lenroot and Classic Nominations
Also Await Decision Before
End of Session.

The local street railway merger APP
peared today to have a chance of be-
ing considered in the Senate, but with
only three days of the session remain
ing, it is doubtful whether vote can
be obtained.
The status of the merger resolution
was somewhat improved by action OF
the Senate steering committee last eve
ming in listing it as one of the three
questions TO be given preference during
the remainder of the session. The bill
extending the life of the Radio Com
mission and the bill for the enlargement
of the Capitol grounds will come ahead
of the merger, however, and time also
must be allowed for action on number
of conference reports, particularly on
the important deficiency bill.
Nominations Await Action.
In addition to these legislative prob
lens. the Senate also Is likely to set
aside some of the remaining time for
executive session on number of pend
ing nominations including former Sen
ator Lenroot to be judge of the Court
of Customs Appeals and of Henry H
Classic to bela justice of the Supreme
Court.
The merger came from the District
committee with majority report urg-
ing its adoption, but Senator Blaine
Republican, of Wisconsin. is prepared
to oppose the merger in its present form
The amendment which he seeks to at
tach. including prudent investment
method of valuation, probably would
lead to protracted debate when the
question is taken up.
The bill for enlargement of the Cap
itol grounds, which comes UP as soon as
the radon easure is disposed of. would
carry out the plans advocated for more
than IS years to improve the Union
Station Plaza, and every effort will be
made to enact it. Senator Blaine also
is opposing this measure on the ground
that the Government should set up a
fund to replace on some other site the
dormitories for Government workers, to
be repaid out of the rental.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
IMMIGRATION INQUIRY
OF TWO MEN is SOUGHT

Seventh precinct police have re-
quested immigration authorities to in
vestigate the records of two members
of the Young Communists League of
America arrested last night at CASTOR
Hall, Georgetown University, during an
address by Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j.
They are said to have been distributing
pamphlets attacking the Reserve Of
ficers' Training Corps.
The young men, who were arrested by
Policeman X. c. Judy on complaint.
gave their names as Israel PeltZ, %
years old. of the 1900 block of Irving
street, and Nathan Brisker, 10 years
old, of the TOO block Of Shepherd street.
They are being held for investigation.
DR.. Walsh was delivering one of a series
OF three lectures on Soviet Russia -. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
Interpretation of WEIGH Law
Up to Conferees of
Both Houses.
HOUSE SEEKS REDUCTION
AGGREGATING $500, 1000
Brookhart Amendment Aims to
Benefit Employees in Lower
Salaried Grades.

The question Of whether the inequal-
tiles in salaries Of Government en-
ployes resulting from the Interpretation
OF the WEIGH law are going to be ironed
out in the deficiency appropriation bill
is hanging in the balance today as the
conferees of the Senate and House met
IN executive session to discuss their diff
fcrences.
The conferceS were in session for two
nours THIS morning, but most of the
Time was devoted to other features of
the Dill, and while the salary question
was discussed nothing was decided.
The conferees will resume their de-
loerations later this afternoon, at
which time they may reach an agree
ment on that portion of the bill.
There are several separate issues in
VOWED. First, there is the House pro-
vision seeking to reduce by approxi-
mately S500,000 the salaries of certain
scientific and professional employees in
the higher grades, who. it is commended
by the Personnel Classification Board.
were rated too high as a result of the
way the controller general construed the
Welch law. The Senate cut out these
reductions.
Then there is the Brookhart amend
ment inserted by the Senate, which
seeks to benefit a large number of en-
ployes In the lower salaried grades who
dld not receive as much as others in
these grades last Summer. The Brook
mart amendment would give an in
crease OF one additional salary step to
all tnoSe IN these lower grades who re-
ceived only one step-up last Summer.
understood hof he
ferees contended that their amendment
relating to the reductions is in order
because it is limitation on an appro-
priation. but that the Senate amend
ment is new legislation on an appropria-
ton bill.
Chairman Lehlbach of the House
civil service committee has submitted
to the House conferees his compromise
proposal on salary relief which House
managers say must be accepted to round
out the Brookhart amendment. In order
words, they protest that the House
Will not accept the Brookhart step-ups
standing alone, but that these must be
accompanied by provision that the
Personnel Classification Board has sole
ana hnal authority to allocate to sal
airy grades.
The House proposal also includes au-
thority to the Personnel Classification
Board to reallocate on their own ini-
tiative and states definitely that moth
ing shall be done to reduce the salary
increases that have been granted to
the higher positions under the WEIGH
pay act.
Chairman Lehlbach said today that
he had offered his compromise to the
House managers on the second def
cheney appropriation bill after he had
learned definitely that only in this way
was there any chance for passage of
pay relief legislation. He was informed
that the Senate civil service committee
absolutely refused to give any consid-
Grafton to his pay relief bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
AMNESIA VICTIM IS POSITIVE
HE IS NOT DAVID GARDNER
Boiling Field Authorities
Identify Young Man as
Soldier There.
Physicians Confident He Will
Regain Memory Within
Few Days.

Efforts to identify a young man who
last night asked policeman to help him
learn his identity have proved unsuc-
cessful, despite assurances given physi-
clans at Gallinger Hospital that he is
David Gardner. an enlisted man in the
Army stationed at Boiling Field.
Policeman j. L. Rinker. to whom the
youth appealed last evening after leav-
ing a drug store at Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Fourteenth street. took him
to the hospital.
Based on information furnished by
Boiling Field authorities. DR.. Samuel
Kahn, resident physician. questioned the
youth, but the latter was adamant in
asserting that the name David Gardner
was not familiar to him. Persons at
Boiling Field told the hospital they
recognized newspaper photographs as
tnose o. 0aSdne6 -. ~ s,.sn. a
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
Marriage Is Annulled.

Holding that the marriage OF Mrs.
Evelyn Angelo to Lewis Salatto within
six months from the time that she
divorced her first husband in Virginia
was illegal and void, Justice Bailey
in Equity Court today awarded Salatto
a final decree annulling his marriage
Salatto was represented by Attorneys
Raymond Neudecker and William c.
Ashford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
AUTO CRASH INJURIES
YOUTH SERIOUSLY
George E. Johnson Taken to Hos.
pital After Accident at Sherman
Avenue and Park Road.

Two automobiles were badly dam
aged and the driver of one sustained a
possible fracture of the skull this morn
ing shortly after o'clock when the
machines crashed together at Sherman
avenue and Park road. The injured
driver is George E. Johnson. Is years
old. Of 2728 Thirteenth street. He was
driving car owned by the Fidelity
Storage Co. along Park road and Jo-
seph N. Farrell, SO years old, of 4709
on Sherman avenue when the collision
occurred. johnson was taken to Gar
field Hospital in a passing automobile,
where he was treated. His condition is
serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
Y'S CLUBS CONVENTION
TO OPEN TOMORROW
Delegates From Maryland, Della
ware and New Jersey Will Join
Those of D. C. Here.

Delegates from the VS. Mems Clubs
OF Maryland, Delaware. New Jersey and
the District of Columbia will meet here
in convention tomorrow at the Hamil-
ton Hotel. Delegates are all members
of the Young Mems Christian Associ-
ations of their respective cities. There
are delegates here from the local clubs
OF Wilmington, Dell, Camden, Salem.
woodbury., Elizabeth, Morristown and
Moorestown, N. j.; Baltimore, Md, and
Washington.
The conference will be open tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock and a second ses-
sion will be held in the afternoon. The
delegates at the luncheon at l pm. at
the Hamilton Hotel will be entertained
with xylophone solo by Henry Gold
stein of Washington.
The convention will close with a BAN
quet to be held at pm. The governor
of this district of Y's Mems Clubs. Rus
sell Fowler of Woodbury., N. j., will pre-
side over the meetings.
The international president of VS.
Mems Clubs, Ed Mccoy of Canton, will
speak at the banquet. William Knowles
Cooper, general secretary of the WASH
ington Young Mems Christian Associ-
ton. also will speak at the banquet.
The POSTMASTER will be Harry j. Miller,
the president Of the local US Mems
Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
GIRL SINGER is STRUCK
BY PURSE-SNATCHER
Freida Griesbaum Is Taken to Hos
pital Suffering From Shock
and Hysteria.

Miss Freida Griesbaum, 10, of 1921
Sixteenth street, is at Emergency Hos
pital today recovering from shock and
hysteria induced when she was struck
In thief ace last night by colored purse
Snatcher.
The attack occurred on C street be-
tween John Marshall place and Third
street, when Miss Griesbaum was on
her way to the Concord Club, 314 C
street. to NIL singing engagement. The
young woman staggered into the club a
few minutes after the robbery and
Historically related what had happened
Police headquarters was notified. and
Detective Howard E. Ogle assigned to
the case
The purse containew $l.15.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
CLARK GOES TO LIGGETT.
Coolidge's Personal Secretary t
Make Headquarters Here.

Edward r. Clark. personal secretary
to President Coolidge. has accepted a
position as vice president of the hold
ing company which controls all the
subsidiaries of the Liggett interests. in
Guiding the chain of Liggett drug stores,
II was announced today. Mr.. Clark's
headquarters will be in Washington.
Mr. Clark has been secretary TO Presi-
dent Coolidge since 1921. Prior to that
he was secretary to the late Senator
Lod.e Of Massachusetts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
WILL GOVERN PATRONAGE

for New York State.
The New York Republican delegation
In the House today adopted a resolution
favoring the placing of all patronage
matters in the Empire State in the
hands of Representative Smell and
Parker, in view of the fact that there
are no Republican Senators from that
State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01

Records at the field show Gardner
to be an enlisted man assigned as
fireman at the heating plant. % years
old, and with an enlistment service
Of about year. .......
DR.. Kahn expressed the opinion that
the youth will regain his memory in two
or three days. Meanwhile. steps were
taken at the field to establish whether
he y David Gardiner. .1s.x..- ~"ss-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01
WORKER HURT BY FALL.
Radio Service Man Suffers Frac-
tured Skull.

Falling from the roof at l343 r street
yesterday afternoon while installing an
aerial, John d. Cash. 81, of l142 Sixth
street, employed by the Capital Radio
Service, 1866 Mount Pleasant street. is
at Emergency Hospital today in a criti-
cal condition with fractured skull.
He was treated by DR.. Walter Glad
ding Of the hospital staff. Police saw
the injured man has father in Hazen.
Ark, who has been notified of the ac-
cident
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-01

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