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The Washington times., 1929-08-17
w. r. E. Mars halls Forces for Fare Fight Monday
STANDARD SICK
LEAVE SOUGHT
OF CONGBE5S

Congress will be asked at
/ its regular session to go ex-
tensively into the matter of
leave of Government employees
with a view to enacting legis-
lation which will standardize
sick and annual leave in the
various departments and
bureaus.
A committee composed OF repre-.
sentatives of different offices, headed
by Major Alfred e. Erik, of the
chief co-ordinator's office, is already
at work drawing up q bin which
would establish uniformity of leave
throughout the Government service.
1t Is expected that the work of
this committee will be backed up
by the Federation of Federal EN-
ployes, which heretofore has been
active In agitating the standardized
leave proposal. and by William H
McReynolds, of the Bureau of Eff
cheney, who recently directed a
nationwide survey of personnel con.
ditiOns in private business in com.
parison with conditions in the Gov
ernment service.
Calls Leave Liberal
In his report on this survey Nc.
Reynolds declared that 1.-The leave
privileges in the Government ser.
vice are generally more liberal than
outside"
McReynolds Is known to believe
however. that there should be
greater uniformity of leave privi.
leges within the Government. and
| for this reason IL expected to sub
NIT bill Of his own, or to support
that to be submitted by Erk's com.
mittee.
In connection with the proposal
for uniformity of leave 1t Is pointed
out that the periods allowed for
both sick and annual leave differ
in the various bureaus.
Some Have Is Days
While the general belief is that
80 days annual leave is granted in
all offices. 1t Is a fact that in some
| less than Is days are allowed. On
the other hand Is days is believed
to be generally granted for sick
leave, but in some bureaus and of.
fices no sick leave provision at all
| is made.
Another matter which Congress
will take up in this regard win be
the accumulation Of sick leave
from year to year.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17


through her attorneys, Charles b.
Rogers and Matthews and Trimble
Her daughter, Maxine Sturgess, who
is also a defendant in the suit,
has coupled her answer with that
of her mother.
The original suit charged the
wife with kidnapping the Indian,
who is declared to be mentally in.
competent, from his palatial home
In Henrietta, Okla, on three sue.
cessive occasions, finally marrying
him in a Kansas town in January,
1920.
$55O,OOO Gift Set Aside
Following the marriage. Baarnett's
life has been filled with investiga.
tions. the Government taking an
active part in protecting him from
solicitors for funds for various per.
sonal and charitable enterprises,
The New York Federal court re-
Gently set aside a gift of $3.50, 900
In Liberty Bonds the redskin made
to the Baptist Home Missions So.
ciety and ordered the return OF the
money.
Yesterday in Los Angeles, the
Government moved to annui the
marriage on grounds of the mental
incompetency of the husband and
asked the return of all gifts of
money and land made to the wife
by the Indian since the marriage,
The court is also asked to comneI
the wife to bring evidence of the
marriage into court.
Mrs. Barnett and her daughter
IN their answer filed today deuv
tnat Barnett is mentally incon.
petent, or that any coercion was
used in having the ceremony of
marriage performed. Mrs. Barnett
insists that she visited the Indians
nome the first time with NO In.
tentlon OF marrying him. but that
ne proposed the marriage himself,
Worth $5.OOO, 900
The reason for the visit was that
she was engaged in the business Of
buying and selling oil leases. she
claims, and says that in the course
OF these business calls Barnett fold
her, that he considered taking a wife
ana discussed his domestic affairs
with her. >
She further denies that the sheriff
OF Hughes county, Okla, thwarted
tnelr first attempts to, marry or
that she was in his custody at any
time She also denied that the mar.
rage was solely for the purpose of
obtaining control and possession of
the estate of the Indian.
Barnett Is rs years old, and his
fortune is estimated at S.. 600 600
which has grown out Of his royal.
ties on his share of the Creek oil
lands leased under Government
supsrv1sIons
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
NJ 'MAHON FINES
'ROAD-HOG''

Denouncing drivers who obstruct
traffic as lacking in courtesy,
Judge John P. McNIahon, in Traffic
Court yesterday, said he will punish
to the fullest extent Of the law any
person who commits such a viola.
ton and is brought before him.
William A. Cooper AT, a salesman.
800 block Bladensburg Rd. N. E.,
refused to forfeit SIS collateral he
had, placed at the Fourth precinct
and came to court today to fight a
charge that he obstructed traffic.
Judge Mcmahon fined him $25.
Policeman j. p. Sayer testified he
followed Cooper's car on Maryland
Avenue Southeast for six blocks and
claimed the defendant stayed near
the middle of the street. driving
slowly and would not let him pass.
When he finally drew alongside he
took Cooper with him to the station.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17

PRISON
CALLED
WEAK

Renewal of demands for a
new Jail for Fairfax county
was seen today as the result
Of the narrowly averted break
of three prisoners from the in
stitution last night.
The attempted delivery of last
night was the fifth in the last 1S
months, and was averted only be-
cause trusty reported the prepare
tions of the three prisoners for
leaving to Sheriff Eppa Kirby and
Deputy Sheriff Wilson Darr.
Using only a stove poker, the
three prisoners emulated Monte
Cristo and had dug tunnel through
the cement floor and the brick wall
which surrounds the Jail. They were
all prepared to disappear through
the tunnel when the authorities,
warned by the trusty, rushed into
the cell and thwarted them.
Kirby Raps Jail
The three men involved in the
scheme are William Varisek and
Robert s. Ray, awaiting grand jury
action on charge Of breaking into
a store, and George Brown, arrested
in New York last week on a charge
Of highway robbery in 1927.
Sheriff Kirby declared today that
the. nearly successful break is
another argument in favor of the
campaign which he has waged for
months in an effort to obtain a
new jail. The prisoners seem to
realize the weakness of the present
structure and are thereby tempted
to try for freedom! The weak old
walls yield easily to tunneling, the
sheriff declared.
The Jail is almost perpetually
overcrowded, Sheriff Kirby pointed
out in bolstering up the argu.
ments which he win submit to the
county commissioners. The old
structure. has a capacity Of is, he
said. Right now there are "a
prisoners incarcerated. Nj &. 4-'
50 Sometimes Housed.
Sometimes the number housed in
the sixteen capacity jail runs as
high az 3S, the sheriff declared. Be-
cause Of these overcrowded condi.
t1ons 1t is impossible to put all Of
the prisoners in cells, the balance
being accommodated in the corri-
doris. in which cots are placed.
The crowded condition makes the
utmost vigilance essential il breaks
are to be prevented. the sheriff said.
Only the model prisoners are kept
IN the corridors, he pointed out, but
even with this precaution there is
constant danger.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17

money and asks If it all has been
found.
II worked hard for that money"
she says. "And 1 always liked to
have money about the house,.
The treasure came to light Thurs
day when police of the Seventh
Precinct arrested eight negroes sus-
pected of breaking into the de.
serted house and taking money they
are alleged to- have found behind
pictures, in cupboards and stuffed
into furniture. They were to have
preliminary hearing in Police
Court today.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
PatrOlman Suspended
On Drunkenness Charge

Found by a police surgeon to
have been using intoxicants, Wilbur
C.. Minnlck, Second precinct police.
man, today was under suspension
pending a trial board hearing.
Minnick was suspended last night
after an anonymous phone MESA Ss
received at the precinct reported he
was "sick or drunk" in the 1890
block Tenth st. N. W.
Lieut.. !. W. Pierson In an.
nouncing the suspension, quoted
Mmnick as confeSsing he had
been drinking beer. lie was In uni.
form. though his tour Of duty had
expired.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Five Turkish AviatOrs
Visit Naval Academy

Major Shekik Bey, Capt. Ferruth
Bey, First Lieut.. KAHN Bey,
Ahmed Emine Bey and Mouhlis
Bey, the five Turkish aviators who
were visiting in Washington yes.
terday visited the Naval Academy
at Annapolis and were shown the
entire plant by a special escort.
They were received early in the
afternoon by Rear Admiral Samuel
S. Robson, superintendent.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Truck Hits Police Box;
Driver Is Embarrassed

Slight embarrassment was the
only penalty suffered by Clinton
Randolph. 20, colored, when the
truck he was driving ran on the
sidewalk and demolished the po-
lice patrol telephone box at First
and H SITS. s. W.
When Randolph explained the
steering gear, or something failed
to work, he was not arrested.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Police Data Menaced
BY Station House Fire

A fire in the Third precinct police
station yesterday threatened for a
time valuable records kept In the
basement and caused the summoning z
of fire engines. The fire was extin-
guished by chemicals, however. be-
fore the fire companies arrived.
Damage was negligible.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY

Gertrude Furting. IS, a roomer
in the home of Mrs. Minerva Lam
borne. 1900 block Eleventh ST. N.
w, was taken suddenly i'll yester-
day and died before medical ala
could hN E11mmonoA
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Indian s Wife Denies
Charges in IT, S. Suit

While the litigation involving the estate of Jackson Barnett
Creek Indian worlds weahies Indian opened the West
coast yesterday with the filing of suit for annumen
his marriage to Anna Laura Howe with the Government
plaintiff in behalf of its wealthy ward, the filed
swer to suit filed here year ago which the guardian
of Barnets estate seeks 100000 fund left
trust for the wife in the Riggs National Bank
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
CARNIVAL AT POOL

The first of the water carnivals
to be held at the Francis municipal
pool. Twenty-fourth and N Streets
northwest, is under way today. Spe-
cial events have been listed for
men, boys and women.
The Washington times., 1929-08-17
Hidden Hoardto Help
Miss Magruder

Miss Blanche Magruder 76yearod pinster, hopelessly
paralyzed and at deaths door, will die in poor house
her physical condition will permit of her removal from the
Home for the Aged and Disabled at Blue Plains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
Petition Filed With Commits
sion-Asks Creation of Body
or Substitute System.
FIRST UNITED STEP
FOR MAJOR CHANGE
Trade Organizations Ask Action for
Fewer Meetings Be
Rescinded.

Creation of zoning board of appeals
for the District, or an alternative SyS-
tenn having the same purposes, is pro-
posed in petition filed with the Zoning
Commission today by joint committee
of local trade bodies, which has been
acting as an advisory body to the COM
mission.
This constitutes the first concerted
movement here for major change in
the zoning code for Washington since it
was established in 1920 under an act of
Congress, and is in line with coming
procedure in most of the large cities of
the country, where property coming has
been given real test.
The petition was coupled with a plea
that the zoning body reScind its re-
Gently announced decision to hold but
three meetings year, after next jan
uary, instead of eight or ten as in the
past, until zoning board of appeals or
a substitute plan has been established.
simultaneously, the joint zoning
committee filed a separate petition
seeking a hearing on proposal that
construction of garages for the use OF
tenants be permitted in apartment
houses without the necessity of OBJ
tanning consents from adjoining prop
erty owners. as now required Hearing
on this matter has been sought by the
Operative Builders Association over a
period of months.
The petitions we're signed by Harry
Blake of the Washington Board OF
Trade, w. I. Deming of the Washing
ton Chapter of the American Institute
Of Architects, Percy H. Russell of the
Washington Real Estate Board and
Rufus S. Lusk of the Operative Build
ers' Association. All are members OF
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
WORLD COURT PLAN
BEFORE LEAGUE
Embodies Chief Objection on
Part of United States
to Enter Tribunal.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 14.-The pro-
tocol providing for adhesion of the
United States to the World Court for
international Justice was formally sub
mitted to the League of Nations Assem-
bly, this afternoon by M. Politics of
Greece in the form of report of the
committee on legal and constitutional
questions.
The agreement which the protocol
embodies will affect the right of the
Assembly to ask for an advisory opinion
from the World Court. Hitherto this
question has formed the chief objec-
ton on the part of the United States
to entering the court.
It is hoped that the exchange of views
which will arise from this course of
procedure will be sufficient to insure an
understanding being reached.
Article of the proposed agreement
reads, in part: with view to insur-
ing that the court shall not, without
consent of the United States, entertain
any request for advisory opinion touch
ing any dispute or question in which
the United States has or claims inter-
est, the secretary general of the League
of Nations shall, through any channel
designated for that purpose by the
United States, inform the United States
of any proposals before the Council or
Assembly for obtaining advisory opin-
ion from the court, and, thereupon, If
desired, an exchange of views as to
whether the interest of the United
States is affected shall proceed with all
convenient speed between the Council
or Assembly of the League and the
United States"
Patrick McGilligan, foreign minister
of the Irish Free State, today signed
on behalf Of his government the COM
pulsory arbitration clause of the Per-
manent Court of International Justice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
WOMAN FOUND DEAD .
IN HER APARTMENT
Estranged Husband Finds Body Of
Mrs. Virginia Mcpherson.
Police Start Probe. s

Mystery surrounds the discovery
today Of the body of Mrs. Virginia Nc
Pherson, attractive 2f-year-old woman,
said to have been estranged from her
husband, at her apartment, in the Park
Lane Apartments, Twenty-hrst street
and Pennsylvania avenue. The bocy
was discovered by her husband. Robert
Mcpherson, who notified police OF the
third precinct.
Headouarters detectives called to the
scene could not state definitely whether
the girl had taken her, life or had
met death from violence or died from
natural causes. Nothing could pe
learned concerning the circumstance
of the tragedy beyond the fact that
police said the young wife had re-
Gently agreed to separate from her nus
band and that the couple had been Nv
ing apart AR some time.
According to police, the, husband said
that the last time he So whis wife alive
was on September IL.
Coroner J. Ramsey Neyitt was noti-
Ned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. September 14-The De-
troit News today says that q submarine
cable has been used by rum runners to
transport cargoes Of liquor from Cana
de- into the United States. The cable.
It IS said, was discovered and dis
mantled by border patrol inspectors
yesterday.
The cable stretched from Mud Island
in the Detroit River to the American
shore ct Ecorse.
SEmploying method approaching in
its ingeniousness the much discussed.
but mythical. pipe line into Canada,
the newspaper says, "the runners oper-
ated q sled which carried from Is to 20
cases Of liquor o trip along 500-foot
cable; while customs crews sped along
an apparently inactive water front and
reported 'all quiet IN the rum war"
Both Of the cable terminals. boat.
house and garage on the mainland and
q partly submerged boathouse on the
island. were deserted ana no arrests
were made when inspectQA came upon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
SCHWAB IS AMONG
FIRST TO TESTIFY
Bardo and Parker Also Sum-
moned in Naval Propaganda
Investigation.

Ofhcials of the shipbuilding COM
panies charged with having employed
William B. Shearer. self-styled naval
expert, to break down the naval limi-
tation conference at Geneva will be
the first witnesses heard by the Senate
naval subcommittee in the investiga-
ton ordered by the Senate.
The subcommittee has summoned as
its first witness C. L. Bardo Of Camden
vice president of the American Brown
Boveri Electric Corporation. He has
charge of the shipbuilding division.
The second witness will be Norman
r. Parker, treasurer and secretary OF
the same corporation and also, Of
Camden.
Schwab Is Called.
Charles NJ Schwab, chairman of the
board of directors of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, which owns the ship
building company of that name, viii
be the third witness, and S. w. Wake.
man, vice president of the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding Co., who is located al
Quincy, Mass, and in charge of ship
building operations in the Eastern
division, will be the fourth witness.
Other officers of these companies may
be called. The committee will also
summon officers of the Newport News
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. as soon
as they have determined which officers
they desire. In response to communica-
tions from the committee, officers of
the companies have said they win ap-
pear Voluntarily.
The first hearing before the sub
committee viii take place at 9 am. next
Friday at the Capitol. The postpone
ment has been necessary to enable
Senator Allen, member, to go to
Wichita, Kans., to appear as q witness
in a law suit, and to return for the
opening session, and also to give the
witnesses reasonable time in which
to appear.
Shearer's Appearance Deferred.
Senator Shortridge of California,
Chairman Of the subcommittee IN
charge of the investigation, said that
the committee at its meeting today
had determined that the best course Of
procedure for arriving at the facts in
the matter was to summon the officials
of the shipbuilding companies as the
first witnesses. Shearer, who was en-
ployed by these companies, and who
has sued them for an additional $780,
600 compensation, will be heard later,
Senator Shortridge said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
PLANS ARE STARTED
TO GREET. PREMIER
Charles L. Cook to Be in
Charge of Reception Details
for MacDonald's Visit.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The State Department and the White
House began today to prepare plans for
the reception of Prime Minister Ramsay
Macdonald when he arrives In the
United States early in October for a
visit to President Hoover.
While neither the State Department
nor the British embassy has received
any definite word from London regard
ing the prime minister's announced
plans, Secretary Stimson has instructed
the division of international conferences
and protocols of the department to be-
gin preparations for the visit.
Charles Cook in Charge.
Charles Lee Cook, acting chief of the
division, who has had long experience
in preparation for such receptions, is in
charge Of the arrangements. He will
submit a tentative plan to Secretary
Sttmson and President Hoover as soon
as possible.
with the visit only three weeks of.
the plans will be rushed by the protocol
division at the expense of less urgent
matters. No official invitation has been
extended to the prime minister in con-
nection with the visit, but when he
IASk uAQlCdtCu uCSAIG " COLlC,
bassador Dawes, acting on instructions
from the Chief Executive, told the
premier he would be welcome.
AS yet 1t is not determined whether
the British statesman will be the guest
of President Hoover or Sir Esme
Howard, the British Ambassador. The
latter has extended an invitation to
the prime minister to be his guest as
long as he may desire. ,
Ambassador Leaves Capital.
The Ambassador left Washington to-
day for brief vacation at Bar Harbor,
Me, but win return in time to confer
with American officials on last-minute
details of the plans for the visit.
The British statesman has not yet
requested that a visa be issued for him
to come to the United States, but when
this request Is made, he will be accord
ed a diplomatic visa granting him the
full privileges of entry. into the United
States customarily extended to special
Ambassador.
Aside from the arrangements for his
entertainment, American officials have
many details to look after. These in
clude such matters as protection, move
ment Of baggage, trains and schedules
for arrivals and departures and the
housing Of any stan which may ac-
company him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
RUM CABLE UNDER DETROIT RIVER
FOUND BY PATROL AND WRECKED
Newspapers Says Sled Was Used to Garry Liquor
Between Canada and u. S.

1t. The cable, customs oficials said, is
believed to have been one OF two IN use
ON the river. An investigation Is being
made to discover the loczsion and
operators Of the second, It wss ssr;r salG;
barely rising above the. mud fiats OPP
posite Ecorse, long has been considered
q transfer point for liquor cargoes, tne
low water about 1t preventing speed
boats Of the border patrol from ianding
there.
Rum runners conveyed their cargoes,
the inspectors said, In row boats to the
island and there, from the parity SUD.
merged houseboat, hidden by brush ana
tree foliage, were able to load SUD-
merged sled attached to the cable. ln
the boat, well on the mainland, Were
found q divers helmet, an air pump
and I5-foot skid. The diver. IN
spectors said, was lowered into. the
water and placed the cases Of liquor
ON o skid, along which they were raised
to . platform. The liquor then Was
placed In automobiles IN an adjacent
garage and &uExied out Ter delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
PROGRESSIvES, DILL'S
SUBJECT IN FORUM
Washington Senator Will Broad
cast Message on Major Issues
in Congress Tonight.

How the progressiveS In Congress can
be expected to line up on national
issues. including the tariff, the great
commercial mergers now in progress IN
this country and the water-power prob
!en1. will be discussed tonight by Sena-
tor Clarence G. Din Of Washington in
an address beginning ct 9 O'Clock in
The stars weekly Radio Forum. Sena-
tor Din VIII speak through Station
WN6AI, over the Nationwide hook-up
az the Columbia Broadcastfng system.
5senator Din Is q Democrat now serv-
ing his second term IN the Senate. He
is one Of Q group in his party which
often aiigns with Republican progress
siyes In the Senate. He VIII not seek
"a outline the program Of the pro-
qressiyes in Congress-, so much as TO
Interpret their attitude for the bene-
fit Of radio listeners.
before his election to the Senate In
1922. Mr.. DiII served two terms II the
Ho,ise. He has been known as . pro.
aressive in his State since he entered
politics as a young man. He Is keeuIy
interested in radio legislation and .
member Of the committee on interstate
commerce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-14
SUPPOSED FURRIER
MURDERED IN HOTEL
Shooting Of Samuel Rheinstein
Branded .Gangland Execution
by Boston Police.
BY the Associated Press.


BOSTON, September 14-Samuel
Rheinstein, 20, supposedly a furrier of
New York City, was shot to death in a
corridor of the Hotel Huntington here
early today. Police branded the killing
a gangland execution. The slayers es-
capped.
The furrier was shot down from be-
hind as he walked to his room on the
second floor, while outside the hotel
entrance, his wife, who had just re-
turned with him from theater party,
remained talking with friends.
The police noted an open window on
the fourth floor leading directly onto a
fire escape.
A man who occupied room adjacent
to that of the Rheinstines checked out
a few minutes before the furrier re-
turned to the hotel.