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The Washington times., 1929-11-27
JUSTICE SHES
At COP QUIZ
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Shelby and Kelly "bungled" in
handling the Mcpherson investiga-
ton.
In the Department Of Justice
inquiry. 800 witnesses were eX-
amined and more than 100000
words of testimony taken. In the
police handling of the case, dl-
rected by Shelby and Kelly, 81
witnesses we're examined and only
three of them called to testify
at the coroner's inquest before
the case was adjudged a suicide.
Report Ready Friday
Bride and Dawson expect they
will finish their report on the
charges against the veteran off
GERS by Friday. 1t probably will
be submitted to the District Com
misSioners, with recommends
tions the same day.
Both maintained silence on
their conclusions, but limited that
they believed they had arrived at
a satisfactory solution.
The board members replied to
Senator Overman's letter by say
ing they we're looking into all
angles of the case before submit
ting their report.
The District Commissioners
have replied to letters from cour1-
sci for Shelby and Kelly. asking
that the accused officers be given
open hearings and a chance to
Vindicate themselves with ten
tative rejection. The CommiS-
sioners stated they would take no
action on the requests until they
had received a report from the
Bride-Davison board.
Posts in Question
Objections which have been
made to restoring Shelby and
Kelly to their old positions as
chief of the detective bureau and
head of the homicide squad
respectively, from which they
were transferred during the Nc
Pherson investigation, are based
on the fact that both advocated
strongly the suicide theory.
While the Grand Jury now sit
ting refused to hold Robert A.
Mcpherson, jr., Mrs. McPherSonS
husband, on a murder charge,
critics maintain that this action
in itself is not a sufficient vindi
cation of Shelby'S and Kelly's
The Washington times., 1929-11-27

act as complainant against them.
Therefore, I shall act AS that
complainant.
Immediately after my speech
Sunday night, you may call on
me in regards to the above mat.
ter. And you will find me
perfectly willing and capable of
doing my part in this matter, I
can assure you"
The Washington times., 1929-11-27
CHIEFS
CONFER WITH
HOOVER
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panies. gas and electric railway
utilities, Sloan said, are planning
expenditures of $1,400.0OO. 900
curing 1890, which is an increase
Of $110,000,000 over the present
year. And to this figure should
be added S410,000,000 in ordinary
maintenance expenditures.
Field Well Covered
The members of the utilities
committee were named late yes
terday at a utilities conference
at New York and represent all
phases of the utilities field.
Mr.. Hoover will take part in
still one more meeting, that of
the board of directors and mem
bers of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce called for De
cember at his request, when he
will make the opening address of
the conference that. it is antici-
pated, will result in the establish
ment of a permanent business
council" to carry on the policies
initiated by the President,
In addition to those named
above today's utilities conference
membership will include:
S. 2. Mitchell, Electric Bond
and Share Company, New York
City: Charles L. Edgar, Edison
Electric Illuminating Company;
B. C. Cobb, chairman, Allied
Power and Light Company;
Thomas M. McCarter. Public
Service Electric and Gas, New
ark, N. j.: G. E. Brosbeck. ores
ident. Electric Bond and Share
Company.
BylIesby Head Here
Haljord Erickson. vice presi-
dent, Byllesby Engineering and
Management Corporation, Chi
cago; George M. Kidd. president,
American Gas and Electric Com
pany. New York: John P. lim-
norman. president, United Gas
Improvement Company, PhiIA
dlephia; P. G. GesSler, president,
and w. w. Freeman, vice pres
ident, Columbia Gas and Electric
Company, New York.
George B. Cortelyou. president,
Consolidated Gas Company Of
New York: Lucius s. Storrs,
former chairman Of the board,
United Railway and Electric
Company, Baltimore; John B.
Miller. chairman, Southern Cal
ifornia Edison Company, Los
Angeles.
Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman, N.
E. Power Corporation, New York;
Herbert A. Wagner, Consoli,
dated Gas, Electric Light and
Power Company, Baltimore; 5.
Sloan. president. New York Edl-
son Company. New York; J. N.
Shanahan. president. Omaha and
Council Bluffs Street Railway,
Omaha.
Hanna at Farley
J. P. Barnes, president Louis,
vile Railway Company: Guy A.
Richardson. vice president and
general manager, Chicago surface
lines; ] H. Hanna, president,
Capital Traction Company, Wash,
ington; P. z. Paige. vice president
Brooklyn Union Gas Company;
S. P. Hulswit, American Common,
wealth Power Corporation, New
York.
G. H. Clifford, president, Stone
and Webster Service Company,
Boston. W. A. Draper, president
Cincinnati Street Railway Com
pany; F. A. Gadson, vice president
United Gas Improvement Com.
pany, Philadelphia. and B. j.
Mulany. Peoples Gas Light and
Coke Company, Chicago.
The Washington times., 1929-11-27

The death of Lieut.. George
Cuddihy in a terrifying fall of
10000 feet in his Jupiter mono
plane cast the Naval Air Staten
into gloom thi,; week, and again
emphasized the hazards of the
art of aviation. Despite all this.
however. commercial flying in the
United States is expanding at a
rate which aStoniShes the world.
It is predicted that within the
next year the United States will
take such an outstanding lead in
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crease the tax on others, the committee
went on record as disappearing the
Senate bill proposing the exemption
from taxes Of the headquarters of the
Sons of the American Revolution, To-
Gated at 1927 Sixteenth streets
A subcommittee was appointed to re-
vive three recommendations made by
the chamber last Spring and to at
tempt to have Congress take some &C.
ton on them. The recommendations
were for a special commission on fiscal
relations between the District and Fed
eral governments, public hearings on
the District budget, and a flve-year
financial program for Washington. The
subcommittee consists of DR.. George G..
lavender, Harrison Brand, jr, and
Dorsey w. Hyde, jr.
Two other questions were discussed
and referred TO special subcommittee
for investigation. The group first took
up the matter of taxation Of property
owners for repaving streets and the
following trio was authorized to make
the study: George s. Fraser. Miss Edna
j. Sheehy and S. T.. Cameron.
A subcommittee consisting of Hugh
Everett, William j. Eynon and Martin
A. Leese, was appointed TO look into the
present tax on business machinery in
the District and determine whether it
fair in comparison with other cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
OVER-ASSESSNENT
PROBE REQUESTED
C. of C. Urges Commission
eFs to Look Into Business
Property Taxing.

Investigation by the District Com
missioners of complaints of over-assess-
ment of downtown business property
was requested yesterday by the Wash
sington Chamber of Commences COM
mittee on finance, taxation and assess
ment, in a resolution adopted at a
meeting in the Homer Building.
The committee expressed the opinion
that in certain cases property was as
seSSed at a higher figure than its fair
market value, and it requested the Com
miSSioners to look into these cases with
q view to downward revision of such
assessments A special subcommittee,
composed of E. G.. Graham, George A.
Harris and Walter c. Balderson, was
appointed to press the matter.
On the principle that to exempt GER
tain properties from taxation is to in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
SCHOOL BOARD BILL
OUTLINED BY CLARK
Friendship Citizens Hear
PIT. A. Official Explain
Elective Proposal.

The, proposed Capper-z ihlman cleo
tive school board bin was explained
to members of the Friendship Citizens
Association by H. G. Clark, vice presi-
dent of the Parent Teacher AsSocia-
tions of washington at q meeting last
night in the Janney School, Wisconsin
avenue and Albemarle street.
Mr.. Clark said that the District,
though allotted adequate appropriation
for public school Improvement, remain
ed without authority to regulate and
dispense these funds. Under the Cap
-Zihlman bill, Mr.. Clark declared
that the District would be assured
authoritative representation in school
budget expenditure.
A. @. Seller, chairman of the Christ
mas entertainment committee, an
nounced that large illuminated COM
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munity tree would be placed at Gloria
Point, Wisconsin avenue and River
road. The tree will be the rallying
point for q Christmas eve community
celebration.
The meeting adopted q resolution
proposing that the Federation Of Citi-
zens' associations assume constitutional
Jurisdiction over the limitation and
creation of citizen association bounda-
ries in the District.
: Endorsement of Judge Gus A. Schuldt
for another term on the bench of the
District Police Court concluded the
meeting.
The January meeting date, which
falls on New Year eve, was postponed
until the second Wednesday OF the
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
MISTAKE IN PRAYER.

NEW YORK (N.A.N.A.).-A minister
called on a family in his church here
and at departure asked If he might say
a prayer. Receiving permission, he did
pray, and asked blessing on the head
Of the household.
Mamma, wasn't that funny prayer
the minister made?" remarked a small
daughter at dinner time.
'But why, Mafjofte?"
"Why, he said he was going to pray
for the head Of the household, and then
he spoke of papa"
One cl1ild'S version of prayer runs:
Lord, forgive us our debts, as we for
give our dentists"
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
TYPICAL PARTISAN CAFE
HELD MYTH BY SEARCHER
Many or None May Fit Popular
Conception Of Resort Of
Gay Capital.

Ask me what I conceive to be the
type Of Partisan cafe standard Of ele-
gance and fount of wit, and could
not reply, says George Slocomb in,
Paris in Profile" Is it that Cafe de
la Paix at the Crossroads of the world?
Is it Maxin's the joyous, wicked Max
inns, still odrorous with sharp memodies
Of the 90s? Or the Cafe Weber, which
endeavors to keep alive the tradition of
the after-theater supper? Or Fou-
quet's? Or the vast cosmopolitan bas-
serie of the Left Bank-the Deux
Magots?
None of these, perhaps, or all of them.
The real Partisan cafe no longer exists,
and probably never existed. We look
for it in vain, and the search gives
our lives the adventure we crave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

Boys Kant-shrink ALL
wool Golf Hose, young
masculines," in plain col
ors. Pair. $3.50
Boys Fancy E n glish
Wool Golf Hose. Pair, SIS )
Short English Socks, all
wool. Many d e S j G ms.
Pair. :. -. 81 and $1.25
Boys Cottori-and- Wool
Rib b e d Stoc k n gs.
Falr .......... '|oC
Boys AMP GIRLS HOSIERY, AISLE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

Kiruna, Lapland, is preparing for the
30-day Winter period when the sun
never appears above the horizon, during
which time the thermometer frequently
drops to 80 below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
SEWING Maehine Weighs Ton.

SAN FRANCISCO R.-A sewing
machine weighing ton and a half and
using needles six inches long has been
added to CALIFORNIA; relics of gold min
ing days. It was used in 1852 to stitch:
hydraulic hose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Young Feet Prefer These

Junior Misses Full-fash-
foned Silk Hose. Pair,
$3.50 and 81
Junior Misses Imported
Wool-mixed Hose, EN-
broidered clocks. Pair, So
Girls Colorful S ports
Stockings. Pair,
SOC and 81
Girls Plain-ribbed Stock
ings. Pair, SOC, 7sc and 81
Girls Oversocks; Isle
and silk mixtures. Pair,
75c, s5c and ST
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Masculine Feet
Like These

Wool Socks, imported and do
mestic fancy weaves and plain
colors. Pair ........75c to So
Imported Isle Socks; "his"
preference in colors and de-
signs. Pair. ..75c to So
Silk Socks; all-silk; with rein
forced soles. Pair. .75c to 81
Silk "Tux" Socks, of ribbed
silk. Pair. .$4
Imported and Domestic Wool
Golf Hose, infinitely varied Sc
lection of colors and designs.
Pair -. So to $40
THE MEMS STORE, SECOND FLOOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

So Boys Fine Imported and Domestic Fabr
All coats are wool lined or self back. Brok
a. Boys Washable Suits, plain colors and combina-
blanket BStbroS..: GOOD c,stv and :il mads
n sizes and years only Were $3.50. Now. .$395
juniors, Overcoats, wool lined Size years only
pairs Boys Wool Golf Knickers full size good
patterns. Size 10 years only Were $780, Now 81. IS
The BOYS STORE, FOURTH FLOOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
iniest Feet Prefer These

Silk Socks; white, blue
and pink. Three gift
prices. Soc, 75c and 81
Lisle Stockings; white
and champagne. 3 pairs, ST.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
100 TO CONFERENCE
RotarianS Will Attend SeS-
sion in Terre Haute.

One hundred members of the In
dianapolis Rotary Club will leave on
a special train at 1850 a. m. Thurs
day to attend the two-day session
Of the eleventh annual Twentieth
Rotary district conference in Terre
Haute Thursday and Friday. They
will return Friday night.
Principal speakers at the conven-
ton are: Vivian Carter, British
journalist and editor of the Rota-
rian, and Dr.. G. Bromley OMAN,
president of De PAW university
Worth w. People, Michigan City,
district governor, will preside at the
conference.
Election of new district governor
for the ensuing year, selection Of
the 1880 conference city and a cir
Gus in the Indiana State Normal
school gymnasium will close the
conference Friday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
HIT IN SAFETY ZONE
Driver Held After His Car
Strikes Three Men.

Struck by an alleged drunken
driver while they were standing in
a safety zone at Pennsylvania and
Washington streets, late Tuesday,
three persons were injured slightly
The driver, John j. Hynes, As, OF
142 South Emerson avenue, was ar
rested on charges of assault and
battery, operating an automobile
while intoxicated and operating a
blind tiger.
Those injured, all of whom were
given first aid at the scene of the
accident and taken home, were
John Adams, 315 Kenyon avenue;
E. w. Mikesell, 400 North Dequincy
street, and Glenn Mills, 225 North
New Jersey street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
z BOYS DIE IN
ELECTRIC CHAIR
Youths, 10 and 10, Pay
Lives in Baptism of New
Death Machine.
IT'S THE CRAZE!
BY MERTON T. AKERS,
limited Press STAT Cnrresnnndent

CHICAGO, Feb. - Chicago
baptized its new electric chair early
today by putting to death two
youths who murdered a policeman
because he interrupted one Of their
rohberies.
The two, Anthony Greece, 10, and
Charles Walz, 18, walked to the
chair a few minutes after midnight
down an aisle of spectators. They
were the first to die in the electric
chair in Cook county.
Greece, whose nerve gradually
had failed as the county Jail clock
licked off the minutes before mid
night, was marched to the chair
first, followed by Franciscan
priest. His walk became a shuttle as
he neared the seat, manufactured
in the Indiana state prison,
Nerve Breaks at End
AS the thirtieth second after mid
night licked, Greece, ashen, his head
shaved and right trouser leg slit,
was damned into the chair by the
guards, straps hastily adjusted,
clamps pinned his arms, and cleo
trodes were strapped on his head
and right leg.
A white-h haired guard funbled the
head electrode, Grecco's hands
opening and shutting convulsively.
Warden Edward F. Fogarty, stop
watch in hand, SignaIed the uniden-
titled executioner in culrtained
cell near by.
A click, and Grecco's body stiff
fened against the straps for five
seconds.
A wisp of blue smoke assembled.
Another signal from Fogarty, an
other click, the body slumped back
to normal position.
Writes Farewell Note
Three doctors announced at 1905
that Greece had paid with his life
for killing Policeman Arthur Esau
in April, 1928.
Waltz, sneering and laughing all
day, muttered "well, goodby fell
lows" as he was pinioned in the
chair at 1909 and the priest muir
INJURED his prayer. He was pro-
nounced dead at 1875.
Robberies to get money to lavish
on two girls, with whom they lived,
led Greece and Waltz to the white
washed, rectangular execution room.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
FUND LEADERS
TOPLAN WORK
Executive Secretary to
Sound Challenge at
Annual Dinner.

A challenge to the Community
Fund to increase its funds, earnings,
and activities will be hurled tonight
by the funds executive secretary,
Homer w. Borst, when he makes his
annual report at the organizations
ninth yearly dinner meeting at the
Claypool.
BorSt also will outline the work
accomplished by the fund and stress
the steady improvement and growth
of the organization.
He will deliver a plea for the
thorough training of social workers,
for coordination of homeless mems
work, for improvement of public
relief, for closer attention to the
crime situation, and development of
measures to obliterate it, and for
continued growth of the fund.
Borst was emphatic in his praise
of workers who have made possible
the success of the fund, on the eve
Of the annual meeting. He traced
growth and activity of the organi-
cation and declared it was one of
the best charitable organizations in
the country.
Financially, our fund never has
failed to register gain in its an
nual campaign. 1t is true that it
has incre ased from $407,014 in 1921
to $752,509 in 1929, but it also is
true that our population has in
creased almost proportionately."
More than 500 persons are ex-
pected to attend tonight's meeting.
Eight new directors of the fund will
be elected.
Following the annual dinner and
Borst's report, a pageant dipicting
the growth of social service in Indi-
annapolis will be presented under
direction of Mrs. Eugene FIT, direc-
tor of dramatics at Butler uni
versity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
1000 Trapped by
Subz0ay Train Fire
Chair Is Ready
Bp United Press

Bg United Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. 90
The chair Herbert Hoover will
occupy at the heao of the table
at cabinet meetings was in
place at the executive offices
today-the gift of Calvin Cool
idge.
Under the old White House
custom, each retiring President
takes with him the presidential
chair from the cabinet room.
President Coolidge sent his
chair to a cabinet maker a
week ago to have an exact
duplicate made for his sue
ceSsor.
It came back Tuesday night,
with it's shiny brass plate,
Herbert Hoover" fixed at the
back, and Immediately was
placed in position in the cab
met room.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20

refused to reveal the contents of the
note to police, later they turned the
missive over to Duncan Mathewson,
captain Of detectives.
Mathewson would not make the
note public, but it is known it was
sent to the Murphys in an envelope
on which was penciled the warning,
This is the second and last time
1 viii write that everything is o. k"
Police said the note was signed
by the mysterious *. K" who had
addressed two previous notes to the
parents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
Quiz Is Near
ON State
4 r. m O rieS
Expect to Present Results
to Senate Friday; Hold
Public Hearing.

State senate armory probers
commenced compilation of their
statistics today and according to
Senator Alonzo H. Lindley, King
man, chairman of the investigating
committee, final report and recon-
mendstio are expected to be ready
for presentation Friday.
Lindley today conferred with
Lawrence Orr, chief examiner of the
state board of accounts, and secured
figures on various armory construc-
ton costs gathered by field exam
liners.
First Open Session
These were said to be somewhat
similar figures received from Frank
lin on which a public hearing was
held Tuesday night. This was the
first open session of the committee
at which witnesses we're heard.
Those taking the stand were w.
w, Suckow, member of the Frank
lin armory board of trustees; Fred
S. Staff, president of the Franklin
Chamber of Commerce, and Roy
Bryant, a general contractor.
SucE;ow said that as trustee he
had nothing to do with building the
Franklin arrnory, since there as else
where all building was done by the
Ostrom Realty and Construction
Company of Indianapolis, and
financed by the Peoples State bank,
parent institution of the contractors.
Bills of Franklin Job
This "closed corporation" con-
struction and financing plan brought
about the probe by the senate COM
mittee. They are expected to rec
onmend Friday that the program
be halted.
Staff told of the selection and
gift of a site for the Franklin ar
mory and Bryant testified that all
the work done there he would esti-
mate at about $4,000. Construction
costs were listed by Adjt.-Gen.
william H. Kershner at 100000
and final cost to the state over a
f1fteen-year period by the state bud
get clerk at 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
worker Injured by Machine

Arthur Garnbel, 316 West Six
tenth street, suffered two crushed
fingers early this morning when
his right hand was caught in a
sand-cutting machine at the Indi-
annapolis Casting Company plant,
where he is employed. He was
taken to city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-20
PAUPER BILL REFERS
TO R0YSE, SAYS S0L0N
Senator States Act Attempts to Set
tie Controversy.

senator states ACT attempts to Set
tie Controversy.
Charges that the pauper attorney
bill, introduced by State Senator
Sumner Clancy, Indianapolis, is an
attempt to settle the Marion county
controversy now in litigation was
made by Senator Carl M. Gray, Pc
tersburg, on the senate floor Tues
day afternoon. The bill came to
the floor on second reading.
Clancy denied the charge.
Reference was to the appointment
by Criminal Judge James A. Collins
of John Royse to the pauper attor-
neyship in Marion county and a
similar appointment by the county
commissioners of Representative
Lloyd CIaycombe.
The Clancy bill places the power
in the county commission, but Gray
added an amendment providing that
it doesn't apply to the Marion
county situation which is in the
courts.