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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
WOMAN LOSES SUIT
OVER 100000 ESTATE
Virginia Hurdle Sought Half Of
Amount for Services to
Mary A. Spencer.

Virginia Hardle today lost her suit
against the American Security q Trust
Co., as executor Of the 100000 estate
of Mary A. Spencer, who died in 1919,
after the petitioner had served her as
housekeeper and nurse for i've years,
when the District Court of Appeals, in
decision by Chief Justice Martin, up
held the finding of the District Su-
preme Court that she had waited too
long to present her claim for compenSa-
ton.
The plaintiff had set UP the claim
that Miss Spencer had agreed with her
December /, 1914, to leave her half of
her estate in consideration of the care
given her by the claimant. She hunted
for such a will until 1924, when she
brought suit for compensation for her
services and the court held that she
was barred by the statute of limitations.
She then began a suit in equity to
establish the alleged agreement, but the
court again held that the statute also
barred that action and this later de-
cision was upheld today by the appel
late court.
The estate is still in litigation be-
cause Miss Spencer had directed that
after the payment of certain legacies
totaling about $4,000. the remaining
estate should be used in erecting a
mausileum In Congressional Cemetery.
Numerous heirs from England are OBJ
posing the disposition of such q large
sum for that purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
COURT FIXES SCALE
FOR PRINTERS WAGES
Arbitrator's Decision in Controversy
Between Employees and Pub
fishing Company Upheld.

The United States Daily Publishing
Co. is bound by the new union scale for
printers wages set by Justice William
Hitz. acting as an arbitrator between
the local union and the Publishers As
ISOLATION, although not a. member of
the latter organization. The District
Court of Appeals so held today in an
opinion by Justice Charles H. Robb af-
f1rming judgment of the Municipal
Court which had awarded Charles A.
Nichols, union printer, 1925 for the
difference in wages between $1.10 and
Sl.28 At cents an hour for the period
between March 3, 1926, and June 8,
1926, while in the employ of the COM
pany.
The court held that the custom by
which union wages are fixed is rea-
sonable and calculated to make strikes
and business interruptions unnecessary,
and that the company, through its
foreman of printers. was acquainted
with this arrangement and when OPEN
ing a union Office became amenable to
the custom that when a scale is open"
it is liable to be increased by the ar
bitrator and the publisher be obliged
to pay the increase from specified
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
DRUGGIST HELDUP;;
600 P|NTS LIQUOR
TAKEN BY BANDITS
Columbus W. Henry Forced
to Surrender His Entire
Stock.
ESCAPE IN AUTOMOBILE
AS ONE "COVERS'' HIM
Prescription Rum Safe Is Cleaned
Out in Robbery at 8 O'Clock
This Morning.

Held up by gang Of bandits at about
3 o'clock this morning, Columbus w.
Henry, proprietor of Henry's Drug Store,
at 1850 Twenty-second street, was rob-
bed of his entire stock of prescription
liquor, about 500 pints.
The bandits entered his store, Henry
said, while he was in a back room
checking up his accounts and his stock
of medicinal whisky They came in at
the front door, and when the proprietor
first looked up, he said, he saw a. gun
pointed at him. One bandit, a white
man, ordered him to turn over the
liquor, Henry said, and then backed him
into his Office, while confederateS
cleaned out the prescription liquor safe
The druggist estimated that there
were about four or five white men in
the gang. They quickly cleaned out
all the liquor. about 500 pint bottles of
prescription whisky, of several different
brands, and then went out the front
way.
The bandit who kept him covered
with a gun, during the robbery, ordered
him to stay in the back room for S
minutes to give the crowd a chance to
get away Henry said he remained there
a short time to evade possible gunfire
from the bandits in the front of the
store. and then came out. There was
no trace of them. and the liquor was all
gone, he said.
The bandits were believed by the
druggist to have escaped in an auto
mobile, as Henry said he heard a car
start up in front of the store, about the
time they left.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
GIRL RIDER, HURLED IN RIVER,
SWIN1S TO SAFETY AT SEA WALL
Horse SHES at Dog and Falls
Over Embankment at
Hams Point.
Miss ParSCh Pulled Out by
Two Men-AnimaI Also
Finally Rescued.

None the worse today for a chill
plunge into the Potomac River yester-
day morning, Miss Barbara ParSch, 1909
Q street, has reason to be thankful for
her prowesS as a swimmer, which en-
abled her to win the sea wall, unaSSisted,
when the horse she was riding through
East Potomac Park SHE'D at a small
dog and backed suddenly over the en-
bankment near Hansi Point.
Miss ParSch Smilingly secuted the
Supposition that she had been the OBJ
iect of thrilling rescue. That was
unnecessary, quite" she remarked
Why, I've known how to swim for
years."
The young lady admitted, however,
that she had an anxious moment when
her riding boots filled with water, and
when a hasty glance showed the sea wall
some 20 feet away. Il don't know how
deep it was there" she said, Il never
touched bottom, but 1 made it and hung
on, then looked back to see how the
horse was faring"
Miss ParSch was assisted over the
wall, she said, by riding companion,
Charming Richards of 407 Randolph
street, and a young man who left the
scene before his name could be learned.
I'm afraid the horse got the worst
Of it," Miss ParSch said.
1t required the combined efforts of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
REQUIRED
DESPITE DEGREE
Robb Rules All Junior High
Teachers Must Take Tests
for Senior Posts.

The possession of a college degree
does rot prevent junior high school
teacher in the public schools being re-
quired to take an examination for APP
pointment as teacher in the senior high
and normal schools, as the degree alone
does not meet the eligibility require
mentS of teachers of senior high schools.
This is the effect of the decision of
Justice Charles H. Robb of the District
Court Of Appeals. in which he affirmS
the action Of the District Supreme
Court, which had dismissed a petition
in mandamus sued out by Richard A.
Gillem, junior high teacher, against
the Board Of Education to compel his
classification in class 2, group C.
The court points out that if Gillem
had sought appointment as a high
school teacher, he would have been re-
quired to take an examination, not
withstanding his college degree, and
yet he contends that the possession of
such degree meets the eligibility re-
quirementS OF teachers of senior high
schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
CHORUS WILL STAGE
REHEARSAL TONIGHT
Festival Concert Will Be Given in
Central Community Center
Wednesday.

The last rehearsal of the massed
chorus for the festival concert WedneS-
day evening, will be held tonight at
o'clock in the Central Community
Center, formerly Central High School
Auditorium, Thirteenth and Clifton
streets. Frederick Alexander, who came
from the Michigan State Normal School
to conduct the concert, will direct the re-
hearsal tonight and the entire program
will be sung.
Sylvia Lent, violinist, who will be
soloist at the concert, will return from
concert engagements in the East tomor-
row night. She is no stranger here, as
she is the daughter of Mrs. Lent and
the late Ernest Lent. for many years a
cellist of Washington. He was also
conductor of the Georgetown Orchestra
and Mrs. Lent was a pianist. George
H. Wilson will play accomplishments for
Miss Lent and Charlotte Klein will play
the choruses and the organ prelude.
The concert is under auspices of the
Church Music Council and the District
of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs
and is a part of the celebration of Ma
tional Music week. Rev. j. r. Dufheld
is head of the Church Music Council
and Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard is presi-
dent of the District of Columbia Fed
Grafton of Music Clubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
LAWYERS WILL ACT
ON CODE CONFLICTS
Common Law Restatement
Main Aim of institute
Meeting Here.

The draf; ng of an unofficial restate-
ment of common law codes, with a view
to setting up a positive expression on
certain conflicts, will be the primary
objective of the American Law Insti-
tute at its annual meeting here May
Gil. George w. Wickersham, former
Attorney General, will preside at the
session, which opens Thursday morn
ing at 10 o'clock with business meet
ing at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Elihu. Root is honorary president of
the institute. Other officers are Ben
jamin N. Cardozo, vice president;
George Wildwood Murray, treasurer, and
William Draper Lewis, director.
Early arrivals will register Wednes-
day, and the meeting continues through
Saturday with two business sessions
daily. At o'clock Thursday night
delegates will be guests of the American
Judiciary Society at a dinner in the
ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel.
Officers of the Institute have been
preparing a tentative draft of the COM
mon law reStatement, which will be sub
ject to discussion and revision at the
various group meetings during the seS-
sion here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
TWO YOUTHS ARRESTED
ON LARCENY CHARGES
Property Valued at $500 Stolen
From Auto Saturday Night
Is Recovered.

A bag found in the yard in the rear
OF Chinese laundry on D street be-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
yesterday morning and turned over to
the police led to the arrest of two
young men on charges of grand larceny
and recovery of $500 worth of property
stolen from the automobile of George
Sessions of 48 Abbott street, Valley
Falls, N. H.. parked in front of the
Capitol Park Hotel Saturday night.
Carroll Harvey Pugh, IS years old,
and Sylvester Arthur Bird, % years old,
are the men held on charges of having
stolen the property from the automo-
bile, the loot consisting of several bags
containing $3.50 worth of sample pens
and jewelry. The prisoners, said by the
police to have confessed breaking the
glass in a door of the automobile and
taking the bag and contents. are alleged
to have come to this city two days ago
from Michigan.
Detectives c. P. Cox, Bagby E King and
j. A. Foley traced the recovered bag to
a rear upper room of hotel at 1926
Pennsylvania avenue, where the young
men were found
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
TRADE BOARDPLANS
FOR HEALTH CLINIC
disqualification and Mental
Hygiene Among Topics
for Discussion.

The cost of disqualification in Wash
ington and the subject of mental
hygiene as 1t relates particularly to the
business man will be discussed Saturday
evening at a health clinic to be held
in the auditorium of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce headquarters,
under auspices of the Board of Trade.
DR.. D. Percy Hickling, District alien
ist. and chairman of the public health
committee of the trade body, will be in
charge of the meeting, to which 5000
local business men, members of the
trade body and other organizations have
been invited.
Principal Speakers Listed.
Principal speakers will be John Shil-
LADY, administrative secretary of the
International Congress on Mental
Hygiene, who will discuss mobilization
of forces for better mental hygiene,
and DR.. William A. White, superintend-
ent of st. Elizabeth'S Hospital and
president of the International Congress
on Mental Hygiene, who will talk on
opportunities for mental hygiene in the
District of Columbia.
A number Of distinguished physicians.
members of the Council of Social
Agencies and the Mental Hygiene
Society of the District, have been in
vited as special guests
DR.. Hickling will make a report of
the study being made by the Board of
Trade relative to the cost of hoSpitaliza-
ton in Washington. A preliminary re-
port on this subject recently showed
that persons needing hospital care are
being denied treatment to some degree
because Of the cost.
Will Consult Experts.
1t was announced today that the
Board of Trade will confer with the
Interior Department experts on this
subject to gather additional data on
the matter of hospital costs.
At the health clinic Saturday evening
also plans will be announced for the
convention of the international Con-
gress on Mental Hygiene, which Is to
be held in Washington next May.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
MARCO COUZENS' VICTIM
STILL SEEN NEAR DEATH
Man Struck by Auto of Senator's
Daughter Has Skull Frac-
ture, Fear.

A final diagnosis had not been made
this morning of the exact nature of in
juries suffered by George Brown, So
years old, colored, of 1912 Thirteenth
street, who has been in a serious con-
dition at Emergency Hospital since Sat-
urday afternoon when he was run down
by an automobile operated by Miss
Margo Couzens, 18-year-old daughter
of Senator CouzenS of Michigan, at the
entrance to Rock Creek Park.
Hospital physicians believe the in
jured man may be suffering from a
fractured skull, in addition to numer-
Gus severe body decorations, but cannot
determine the precise extent of his in
juriS until X-ray pictures arc developed
some time today.
Miss Couzens was on her way to the
Wardman Park Saddle Club Horse
Show when the accident occurred. She
placed the injured man in her auto
mobile and took him to the hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
Motorists Who Endaneer Lives by Passing
Halted Street Cars Are Scored by Judge

Automobile drivers, who take a
chance on passing a street car about
to stop to load or unload passengers
were scored today by Justice Charles
H. Robb in an opinion of the District
Court of Appeals Affirming a Judgment
of $4,000 damages against the j.
Maury Dove Co. for injuries sustained
by Dorothy Cook, a 14-year-old stu
dent of Dunbar High School, February
8, 1926, when a truck of the company
failed to stop behind street car at
New Jersey avenue and N street.
Under the regulation, 1t was the i'm
perative duty" said the justice, "of the
truck driver, as he approached this car
stop, not only to have his truck under
control, but to stop 1t when he saw, or
should have seen. that the street car
had stopped or was about to stop. The
few seconds delay to motorists incident
to an observance Of this sensible and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
Estimates for 1891 Placed at
$5,214,595 for Institu-
tons Under Its Care.
NEW BUILDING PROJECTS
OUTLINED BY OFFICIALS
Number Of Inmates and Prisoners
Expected to Be Raised, at
Additional Expense.

An increase of $672,740 is asked by
the Board of Public Welfare for main
tanning the various institutions under
its direction for the 1891 fiscal year.
The total appropriations for 1880 are
$4,54l,s55, and the boards estimates
call for $5,214,595 for 1881.
The increases are fairly evenly di-
vided between new building programs
at several Of the institutions and addi-
tional costs expected from the increase
in the number OF prisoners and inmates
Of the prisons, welfare and correctional
institutions.
For board and care of all children
committed to guardianship of the Board
Of Child Welfare, $500, 900 is asked, an
increase of $4,000. A sum of s4s,92O
is also asked for expenses Of the Re-
ceiving Home for Children, as against
$4,000 in 1880.
Extra Help Sought.
Employment of an additional physi-
clan, nurse, clerk-stenographer, matron
and five guards at the District Jail sent
the estimates for salaries up from s72.-
$40 to $9l ,720. Maintenance and sup
port of prisoners is expected to cost
$84, 900, an increase of $I5,5OO.
Items totaling ST., 500 are asked for
remodeling the heating and lighting
facilities and installation of permanent
water system at the Occoquan work.
house. The maintenance Of prisoners
Is estimated at '$150,s00, an increase Of
SAL 800.
An item of $4,000 is asked for con-
tinuing the construction program at
the reformatory at Lorton. In the
1880 fiscal year $4,000 was appropri-
ated Tor this purpose. The latter ap-
preparation will complete construction
Of IL dormitories, expected to house 600
prisoners. These will be recalled by
the District from various Federal in
stitutions, in which they are now
Harmed out" and are expected to in
crease the cost of maintenance of pris-
onerS from $4,000 to $144,5 500. This
VIII be accompanied by an estimated in
ice from $88, $50 to $106, $50.
Hospital Expansion.
The building program at Gallinger
Hospital will be continued by installa-
ton of equipment at the new Nurses
Home at cost of $175,000, and ex-
penditure of $10,975 for grading and
laying streets and sidewalks.
Extensive building is contemplated at
the District Training School, where
feeble minded children are lodged
Among other items asked are So, 500 for
furnishing and equipment of employees
building and superintendent residence,
$4,000 for construction of cistern with
necessary pumps. $4,000 for building
coal bins. $3.50, 900 for service building
and $4,000 for a stable and garage.
Construction of two additional cot
tages at the Industrial Home for Colored
Children, to cost $4,000, and expansion
OF the infirmary building at the Home
for the Aged and Infirm at cost of
$40, 900 are also sought.
A sum Of 81 ZOO, 900 is asked for the
care of INDECENT and insane residents of
the District at st. EliZabeth's Hospital
The 1880 appropriation bill carries
81 ,572, 900 for this purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06

harbor police, several members of the
United States Park Police and some
employees of the American Automobile
Association about three hours to rescue
the animal from the Potomac.
Ginger, the horse, nearly capsized
the police launch when some one tried
to hold to his reins. He was finally
hauled over the seawall, about four
feet high at that point. with block
and tackle rigging attached to tree
at the waters edge and worked by an
automobile crane.
A passing motorist returned Miss
Parsch to her home. The horse be-
longed to the Potomac Riding School,
1904 Ohio avenue.
Bystanders said the horse became
frightened when a small dog in a
parked automobile barked at him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06

An atmosphere of secrecy has been
drawn around two young woman textile
workers from the South, who are to
testify as to working conditions before
the National Women's Trade Union
League at its convention meeting
Thursday.
Miss Matilda Lindsay of Clarendon
Va. the leagues Southern field repre-
sentative, made known today that the
names of two of five young women
who will be here as guests of the league
will not be disclosed because of the at
titude of employers in the communities
where they live.
Two other women in the South who
we're invited to attend the leagues con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06

humane regulation is of trivial i'm
portance when compared with the
fr1ghtful consequences very liable to re-
suit from its non-observance.
1T is singular and regrettable fact
that many persons who in their ordi-
nary relationships are Scrupulously
mindful of the safety of others are
prone while driving automobiles to dis
regard reasonable regulations designed
for the protection of the public as well
as themselves. 1t is therefore the duty
of the courts not only to uphold such
reasonable regulations, but, in addition,
so to conStrue them as to effectuate
II possible their humane purpose"
The court also held that the burden
of the lookout is upon the driver of
the automobile and the pedestrian has
the right to presume that the driver
will not violate the regulation and may
not be charged with contributory negli-
gence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
WORK OF PARK POLICE
IN APRIL REPORTED
Total Arrests 233, Fines and For
FIXTURES of $1,1ss, Noted in Capt.
CAROLS Summary.

The United States park police COL
lected $l,188 in fines and forfeitures
during the month of April. the report
submitted today by Capt. P. j. Carroll
to Capt. M. H. Parsons, superintendent,
revealed. The 233 arrests included
those held for speeding. %; violation
Of traffic regulations, 1876; drunkenness,
%; violation of the park regulations,
Is; reckless driving. IL; disorderly con-
duct, 10; fugitive from justice, l. de-
stroying private property. 2; petty lar
ceny, /; destroying Government prop
erty, 2; vagrancy, /; illegal possession
Of liquor, 2; transporting liquor, 2; as
sault, 4, and concealed weapons, /.
OF those arrested personal bonds
were taken. 4 placed on probation, 10
dismissed, sent to jail for 10 days,
sent to jail for 80 days, sent to jail
for 80 days, turned over to proper
authorities, 10 pending when the month
closed.
Eighteen sick or injured persons were
sent home or to hospitals; 43 automo-
bile accidents reported; lost child was
returned to its parents; two children
were turned over to their parents for
correction, and one body was sent to the
morgue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
BOY SHOT IN LEG
EMULAT|NG CADETS
Rifle in Hands of Companions
Sends William Edwards
to Hospital.

Twelve-year-ol William Edwards is
lying in bed at Georgetown Hospital to-
day, hopefully awaiting favorable re-
port on X-ray pictures taken last night
to determine the exact nature of gun
shot wound in his right leg. suffered
when he was accidently shot by one of
three companions while standing on the
corner Of |Twenty-ninth and P streets
yesterday afternoon. His condition is
said to be not serious.
Young Edwards and his two COM
panions, John Sullivan, 14-year-old son
of Capt. Patrick J. Sullivan of No. 3
Truck Company. and Richard Dreamer,
who lives with the injured boy at 1903
Thirtieth street, were emulating the
high school cadet drill of the manual
of arms, which they had witnessed Fri
day at Central High School, with rife
belonging to Conway Harrigan, 13, of
1400 Twenty-ninth street, when the
shooting occurred.
The boys were attempting to load
% caliber rife with cartridge fur
nished by David Bruce, 13, also of the
Thirtieth street address. Police of the
seventh precinct, who investigated, de-
clared they did not believe any action
would be taken against the boys in con-
nection with the accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
Five Woman Textile Workers to Describe
Working Conditions In Southern Mills

vention at the Grace Dodge Hotel de-
clined, Miss Lindsay said, because they
feared their employers might discharge
them if they came. Among the i've
women who are expected to describe
conditions in the South at luncheon
for delegates Thursday are one from
Elizabethton, Tenn; one from Richmond
Va, and one from Lynchburg, Va. The
women were chosen under authorization
of the leagues executive board, and are
being brought here in connection with
the leagues educational work.
It was said that the two young
women who declined the leagues invi-
tation live and work in Durham, N. c.,
in the area that has shared with Eliza
bethton, Tenn, evidences of unsatisfac-
tory conditions among textile workers,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
MAN, 80, is GAS VICTIM.

Thomas Burke, 80, was found dead
in a small room on an upper floor of 305
Second street last night. Death had
resulted from gas poisoning.
A small heater in the room was light
ed, but several of the burners were OBJ
structed, permitting the escape of gas.
Burke, a native of this city and un-
married, is said to have come here last
week to make an effort to get pension,
having served short while in the Navy.
He had rented the room In the Second
street house only 48 hours before his
body was discovered.
Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt said death
was the result of an accident. Relatives
took charge Of the body.