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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
MULLEN IS HELD
lJNDER $1,000 BOND
N SHOOTING OF PAL
Three Saw Detectives Son
Unload Guns Brought
Is for inspection.
HALE'S FUNERAL RITES
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Slain Man Survived by Young Wife
and Mother-Musician Had
Spoken of Weapons.

While arrangements were being COM
peted today for the burial OF George h.
Hale, the youth who shot him acct
dentally, Charles E. Mullen, jr., was at
liberty under $1,000 bond following the
decision of a coronerS jury that ne
was %criminally negligent" in handling
firearms.
Final rites for Hale will be held to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from
his residence, ass Randolph street, and
burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Women Declare Mullen Joking"
Two young women were playing cards
with Hale and Mullen in an apartment
at 2127 California street when the
shooting occurred about HAS o'clock
Tuesday night. Both told coroner's
jury yesterday afternoon that Mullen
was Joking when he pulled the trig-
ger.
Mrs. John RosSeau, in whose apart
xnent the accident occurred, said no one
offered any objection or felt particular
alarm when Mullen pointed revolver
at various members of the card party
and laughingly snapped the hammer.
Miss Margaretta ScotSon Of 1853
Church street, the fourth member of
the card party, said that on three
separate occasions Mullen snapped
revolver which he had leveled at her
head.
Says He Was "JuSt FOOling."
''He was just fooling," she said. I'VE
didn't mind. No one asked him to
stop. The four OF us were sitting In
the kitchenette, playing rummy on
breakfast table which folds into the
wall
Mullen had two guns lying on the
open door of the stove within his reach
As the cards were shuffied and played.
he would pick up one or the other OF
them and snap the hammer.
at didn't see him pick up the gun
before the explosion nor hear him say
anything. When it came l say Hale ,
God, have I shot you, Buddy?'
''Then he tried to pick him up and
he said he was going to kill himself.
He put the gun to his head and pulled
the trigger, but the gun must have been
empty that time.
MRS. Rosseau took the pistol away
from him. She ran out and called the
elevator boy and telephored for an
ambulance"
Three Saw Guns UnlOaded.
Both the young women and Mrs.
Rosseau's husband, a musician In the
Shoreham Hotel Orchestra, teStihed they
saw Mullen unload the guns when he
came to the apartment earlier In the
evening. Mullen and Hale were close
friends, they said.
Rosseau, who was playing with the
orchestra when the shooting occurred,
said he had expressed interest in Null
lens guns and that Mullen brought
them to the apartment to exhibit them
to him.
Mullen, the son Of Detective Sergt.
Charles Mullen, did not make a state
ment to the jury. The shooting oc-
Cured Is minutes before his father
went on duty as night chief OF de-
tectiveS.
Several homicide squad detectives
were assigned to the investigation, and
Sergt Mullen went to the scene in his
capacity as a father The youth was
held at No. IL precinct pending the
inquest.
Hale is survived by a young wife
and by his mother, with whom ne
made his home. He was Is years old
and In the ice business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
Annual Fifth Precinct Cam
paign Brings Ample Dona-
tons for Listed Needy.
CANVASS DETERMINES
WORTH OF RECIPIENTS
Navy Band Plays Music, as Does
Private Jazz Band, Authorized
to Help Without Charge.

While glad young hearts in most of
the city'S homes this morning were
reaping cheer from the busy task of
delving into Christmas stockings and
gift bundles left by Santa Claus, a scene
less cheerful, perhaps, but more happy
than might have been, was being enact
ed at the fifth precinct station house
of the Metropolitan Police Department
in Southeast Washington.
From the early hours of this morning
before the sun had been aloft long
enough to temper the raw, cold air, until
well into the day, many thousands of
children, white and colored, filed
through the station house to receive
packages of toys and clothing made
possible by the sympathetic response of
generous public to a campaign an
nually conducted by the fifth precinct
Canvass Assured Recipients Worthy.
Last night, distribution of baskets of
foodstuffS to homes of needy through
out the National Capital was conducted
by police officers. That the recipients
were deserving was assured beforehand
by canvass Of the city carried on
through the various precincts.
To the more than 5000 children who
thronged the block Of the fifth precinct
this morning there had been given a
CdIQ ny SOIIlc OllCCI On Tic DSdIi dIlu
the presentation of this card at the
station house insured the holder of a
package of some kind, either Of toys
or clothes The campaign for donations
to the annual Christmas morning party
If the precinct had been conducted with
such effect that enough presents were
secured to go around, and none was
disappointed.
Musicians Volunteer Services.
While the gifts were being distributed
to the seemingly endless line that ex-
tended both ways from the station
house door, under the direction Of
Capt. John M. Walsh, commander O.
the precinct, who this year is carrying
on the annual party initiated several
years ago by Capt. William S. Sanford,
music was furnished by the Navy Band
and by a private jazz band authorized
to volunteer its services for the occa-
sion by the American Federation of
Musicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25

Board of Trade, in the report of his
group recently submitted, said:
''IhiS committee feels that Washing
ton City will be put in most unfavor-
able light in the eyes of the hundreds
of thousands of people who will visit
this city in 1882 when they find that the
Capital City of the Nation, made pos
sible by the life, character and achieve
ments of George Washington, has no
suitable place wherein to properly cele-
brate the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Realizing the need Of such q coliseum
as have described, this committee OBJ
tanned the voluntary services of q pub
lic-spir1ted group of architects, known
as the Allied Architects, who agreed to
submit q series of drawings and plans
of such a coliseum to be submitted to
the Roosevelt Memorial Commission.
Twenty-Five of these studies were
submitted by these architects. A COM
mittee from the Allied Architects and
others in authority, by a process of
elimination, decided upon two studies
from which to develop the final plan.
This final plan has been prepared and
is now in the Office of Col. Grant"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
CIRCUS KING SPENDS
HOLIDAY HONEYMOON
Al G. Barnes WEEDS Widow Of Colo
RADIO Mining Man-His Third
Marital Experience.
BY the Associated Press.


PHOENIX, AriZ., December 25.-Al
G. Barnes Stonehouse, more Familiarity
known as just Al G. Barnes, head of
the Al G. Barnes Circus, was honey
incoming here today.
The famous show man married Mrs
Margaret Goldsborough of Denver and
Edgewater, Colo, here last night.
Barnes and the Colorado woman
were married by the Rev. Victor A.
Rule in the Presbyterian Church, with
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Cusack of Denver
acting as witnesses. The bride is the
mother of Mrs. Cusack.
Mrs. Goldsborough is the widow of a
pioneer cattle raiser and mining man
of Leadville, Colo. She met Stonehouse
In Denver three years ago.
Born in Ontario Canada, In 1852
Stonehouse entered the show business
40 years ago with q travelling wagon
train and in 1900 married Do1lie Bar
low, operator Of q small circus. The
two shows combined, to grow into one
Of the largest In the United States. In
1921 Stonehouse divorced his first wife
and the next day married Jane Harti-
gan, whom he divorced two years later,
charging she horsewhipped him. Both
divorces and the second wedding occur
red In Las Vegas, New.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
WOOdcOck Outlines
Character Ideals
For Dry Officers

In a Christmas letter to prohi-
bition agents Col. Amos w. w.
Woodcock, director of prohibi-
ton, today sent his personal
message to his force, and ex-
planned his ideals for their char
acter.
IT ask you to remember" Col.
Woodcoek said, that our offensive
is against the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquor; that you are to
work intelligently and lawfully;
that you are to seek the help of
other officials; and that you are
to win the respect of the COM
munity in which you live"
The prohibition director said
"the records since July / have
been satisfactory" but added
that the future lis our main con-
Germ"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
FIRST PROGRAM GIVEN
ON LARGEST CARLTON
Carols Played on Chimes Given to
New York City Church by
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
NJ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 25.-The
largest carlton in the world was played
for the first time yesterday in a pro-
gram of Christmas carols.
The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Me-
mortal of Riverside Church, ~ bells
with a range of six chromatic octaves,
pealed forth in "Adeste Fidelis," "Hark
the Herald Angels Sing" Silent Night"
and other numbers yesterday afternoon
and repeated with program last night.
Kaniel Lefevereo, master carlton
neur, played.
The chimes, a gift from John D.
Rockefeller, jr., in memory Of his
mother, weigh from IL pounds to
40,o26 pounds each. The large &C.
bell gives 523 vibrations a minute.
With the sounding of the carols in
the tower, 400 feet above the street,
the number of carillons in the United
States was increased TO 80. The rest
Of the world has fewer than 200, ancient
and modern.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
THIEVES GET CHRISTMAS
GIFTS FROM AUTOMOBILE

Two clarinets valued at $500 were
stolen from an automobile parked on E
street between Thirteenth and Four
tenth streets, Karl E. Schaefer, men,
Der of the Marine Band, reported to po-
lice today.
Walking from the store Of Aaron
Kronstadt, 1903 Fourteenth street, while
a clerks back was turned, an uniden-
titled man last night made away with a
$40 watch. He mingled with the Christ
mas eve crowd and escaped before police
could be summoned
Christmas purchases worth $3.50 were
stolen from the automobile of j. G.
Burroughs, East Falls Church, Va, In
Southwest Washington last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
STRIKE AID PLANNED
BY CHURCH LEADERS
Danville, Va, Suffering to Be Re
lieved by Committee Announced
in New York.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 25.-Forma-
ton of the Church Emergency Com
mittee for the relief Of approximately
1000 textile strikers and their families
at Danville, Va, was announced yes
terday. A committee was appointed,
Of which Rev. Alva w. Taylor of New
York was made chairman.
An appeal for funds by the inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL body of church lead
ers accompanied the announcement.
A statement described great suffering
of the strikers.
Others on the committee include Rev.
Robert B. Nelson, Winchester, Va; Rev.
Robert Donald Tamblyn, Greensboro,
N. c.; Rev. John M. Walker, Charleston.
N. c.; Bishop M. F. Reese, Savannah;
Mrs. Lincoln Terry, Roanoke, Va; Miss
Louise Young Nashville, Tenn, and
Prof. jerome Davis of Yale University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
HELD IN LAUNDRY THEFT

CHICAGO. December rs (P).-Erwin
Frazee, 81, made the mistake Of going
into the laundry business too suddenly
With companion he stole a laundry
company's truck filled with bundles
ready for delivery. The pair were
doing q thriving business In collections
from housewives when the law caught
up with them. The confederates es-
capped. but Frazee was bound TO the
grand jury under 1880 bond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
GIVEN AUTO TAG NO. Ill,
HELD SYMBOL OF 1928 VICTORY
Ti1son, Graduated From Yale in 81, Gets Yo1-Texas
House Member Assigned I'll.

assigned to him the lucky number "711 )"
Representative Hamilton Fish of
New York, chairman of the committee
that has been making a study of COM
munistic activities, has been assigned
the number "64." Joseph G. Rodgers,
sergeant at arms of the House, gets
No. sos, and M. w. Pickering, who ne
gotiated for more than 500 license
plates for Members of Congress and
employees at the Capitol, took SIS for
his own.
Senator Couzens of Michigan put in
the largest order numbers for four ears.
Senator Phipps of Colorado and Repre-
sentative Jeff Busby of Mississippi each
took out numbers for three cars.
None Of these new numbers is to be
used until january 2, the day on which
the tags ofncially 60 on sale ct the
District Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
MORATORIUM DECREED

LIMA, Peru, December IS Up. The
government yesterday decreed a third
moratorium for the Bank of Peru and
London, which was permitted to sus-
pend payments last October because of
a heavy run. The new moratorium runs
until January 81.
Among the reasons given for its
issuance was the impending study of
the banks affairs in connection with
national finances by the American mis-
sion headed by DR.. E. K. Kemmerer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
SMOKE SCREEN CAR HELD

A car equipped with a smoke screen
device and containing 80 cases of liquor
was being held by police today while
a search was instituted for its colored
operator, who escaped from Motor Cycle
Policeman G. M. Patton after being
placed under arrest.
The driver leaped from the car at
Fourteenth street and Rhode Island
avenue few moments after Patton had
halted him and discovered the whisky
stored in the rear of the machine in
case lots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
CHERRIES CHRISTMAS GREETS
PITTS AS HE AWAKENS IN D. C. JAIL
Former Smith Company Head and Two Companions Eat
Yule Dinners With Prisoners

This was a cherries Christmas for
G. Bryan Pitts, former chief of the r.
H, Smith Co., as he sat down to a
holiday dinner of roast pork and gravy
in the District Jail
Pitts and his associates, c. Ebert
Anadale and John II. Edwards, jr.,
will eat their Christmas meal with the
other prisoners. III addition to the roast
pork and gravy. they will be served
mashed potatoes, celery, cranberry
sauce, apples, bread and butter.
After the meal they will be taken back
to their respective cells, Pitts and Ana
the north.
Edwards. youngest Of The convicted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
CALIFORNIA COLD WAVE
KILLS MAN, HURTS CROPS
Laborer Found Dead Beside Rail-
road Track-Smudging Saves
Orchards in Two Valleys.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, December 25.-A
cold wave which has swept California
during the past "a hours, sending the
mercury to new low levels for the Win
ter, claimed one life and caused damage
TO fruit and citrus crops.
An autopsy performed on Nicholas
Manager, 46, Port Costa laborer, whose
body was found beside a railroad track,
revealed he died from exposure and
intense cold"
Citrus and deciduous fruit growers
IN the upper Sacramento Valley and
In the San Joaquin Valley reported
some damage TO crops, but stated
orchards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
PARK ROBBERY STAGED
Chance Friends Beat Man and
Take Money.

Two men whose acquaintance he
made while enjoying q midnight repast
at q downtown restaurant attacked
Burton Winchel of 1869 California
street In Franklin Park early this
morning and robbed him Of q billfold
containing $28.
Winchell told police of the first pre-
cinct that the men offered to take him
home after their meal, but instead drove
to the park at Fourteenth and I streets,
where they beat him with their fists
and took his wallet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25

The 1891 tags for the automobile
of Vice President Curtis again will bear
the number ILL.," which is symbolic,
the Vice President feels, of his victory
in the election Of 1928. When Mr.. Cur
tbs first took office, this number was Sc
cured for him by M. w. Pickering, who
arranges for the license plates on con-
gressional automobiles.
Mrs. Dolly Gam, sister of the Vice
President, will have the number al"
on her machine President Hoover, as
usual, gets numbers from 100" up.
Speaker Nicholas Longworth has been
given the number 49," and Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth gets the num-
Der "84."
House Leader Tilson wanted "Y-91"
because he was graduated In '91 from
Yale-and d gets Il. Representative
Williams Of Texas twisted On having
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
NEW JEWISH CAMPAIGNS
FOR 1881 ARE ANNOUNCED
Joint Distribution Committee and
American Palestine Drives
Will Be Launched.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 25.-Two new
Jewish campaigns, one for the Joint
Distribution Committee and another for
the American Palestine campaign for
the Jewish agency for Palestine-early
in 1881, were announced last night by
Felix M. Warburg and DR.. Cyrus Adler.
The allied Jewish campaign has been
terminated as of December 81.
A national conference to inaugurate
the American Palestine campaign in
New York will be held on January rs
and the Joint Distribution Committee
will start its campaign in January to
continue its program of reconstruction,
health and sanitation, child care, credit
and industrial aid in Eastern Europe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
$3.50 JEWS ENTERED
PALESTINE IN LAST YEAR
Report Is For Period Ended Sep
TENDER 3O-Hygienic Work
Undertaken.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 25.-The Jewish
Telegraphic Agency learns that a total
of 1888 Jews entered Palestine during
the Jewish year $500 October /, 1929,
to September 80, 1880.
The executive of the Jewish agency
announced the figures and also said
that during the year it undertook an
extensive program of hygienic improve
ment in the housing conditions of
workers in the colonies. The sum of
$47,500 was allocated for building resi-
dences for $50 workers and barracks
for 400 Yemenite families. This year
a sum Of $27,750 has been set aside
for the same purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25

conspirators, will leave tomorrow for
Lorton to serve a sentence of three
years.
Pitts was sentenced to serve IA years
and Anadale to nine. They filed ap-
peals, however, and must stay in jail
until their cases can be reached by the
higher court
All three men were charged with and
found guilty Of a conspiracy to embezzle
up the alleged thefts.
They were prosecuted by Assistant
Attorney General Nugent Dodds and
Assistant United States Attorney Neil
BurkinShaWs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
Fire DESTROYS Block.

BRUNSWICK, Ga, December rs (P).
"A business block was destroyed by
fire in Brunswick last night that for a
time threatened the entire business
section. An early estimate placed the
loss at $500, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
Newspaper Man Wins Annuity.

DETROIT, December IS Cpl H.
Seton, Colfax, Calf, newspaper man,
was announced last night as winner Of
o life annuity Of 81 600 year, the cap
ital prize In an eaNAy contest sponsored
by the Plymouth Motor Corporation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
Physician, "a, Dies.

HENDERSON, N. c., December IS
R.-Dr. r. ]. Gill, "a, believed to have
been the Oldest practicing physician In
North 1arolina, died at his home here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
c. H. Montgomery to Be Buried.

.. n. MOHLBUMtTy 70 DC buII6u'
Funeral services will be held at pm.
tomorrow at his home, 6512 Summit
avenue, Chevy Chase, Md, for Charles
III. MONTGOMERY, who died Wednesday
morning at the age of So. Burial will
be in Congressional Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25

The Washington Board of Trade has
been actively at work on this proposal.
Claude w. Owen, chairman of the Com
mittee Of the National Coliseum Of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-23
North Dakotan Is
Only Marquette U
Star Hauling Ice
Jack Russell, Havana, Emulates
Grange Preparing for
Grid Season

Milwaukee, WIS.,, July 3D.
(NEA)-As long a. tradition says
that varsity football men must
carry ice during the summer va
cation months to harden them
selves for fall conflicts. Mar
auette university gridders have
seen to It that they arc repre-
sented In that "profession'-but
the tables have been turned
somewhat.
The lone representative Of the
Golden Avalanche who tricks In
true Red Grange fashion behind
an ice wagon this summer Is the
varsity manager, Jack Russell OF
Havana, N. d. Young Russell
expects to be In tip-top shape for
. heavy season Of handling
trunks, tackling dummies, uni
forms and headgears-and all
through his ice-slinging efforts
1t Lake Geneva, Wis.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-23
Harmon Requested
A Stadium Funeral.
Arrangements for Last Rites Of
Boxing Promoter Are De-
layed Today

Chicago, July 23.-R-The last re-
quest Of p. T. paddy Harmon,
dreamer and builder Of the worlds
greatest indoor sports arena, was II
hope you'll lay me out in the stadium
my stadium"
Just before he died yesterday from
injuries suffered when his automo-
bile overturned in a ditch, Harmon
asked to go once more to the $7.000,-
600 west side building-the highest
material accomplishment Of q career
that started as a street lighter and
included promotion Of championship
boxing matches, six-day bicycle races,
and dances.
Arrangements for his funeral, how
ever. were held up today, pending the
result Of serious injuries suffered by
his wife. Mrs. May Harmon, who.
with DR.. Thomas Brand, was in the
automobile.
Thousands Of youngsters and
grownups who, as youngsters. bene-
fitted by Harmon's Christmas chari-
ties during the last 20 years. today
mourned his death, Is did hundreds
Of others who were associated with
him.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-23
BRITISH PAIR, EVANS,
CARTER, LEHMAN, AND
MCRARY>ARE STRONG
Portland, Ore, Youth Qualified
Automatically as 1929
TitIehoIder
REGARDED FASTEST Meet
Champion Faces Experienced
Golfer as First Rival in
Chicago Entrant
REGARDED FASTEST MEET

Chicago, ILL.,, July 23.-(R-The
tussle for the western amateur golf
championship, worn by the youthful
Don Moe, Portland. swept into the
match play grind today with a strong.
internationally Favored field in the
fight.
Facing the young champion as the
fight opened over the stubbornly
trapped and tree-lined Beverly
country club course were at least q
half dozen campaigners able to give
an argument in almost any kind Of a
tournament. They were the two
Britons, Cyril Tolley and T. Phillip
Perkins, who have won their own
country's national amateur titles;
Chick Evans and Johnny Lehman,
Chicago. who battled to a deadlock
with lat totals for the medal in the
SO hole qualifying round; Keefe Car
ter, Oklahoma City, former champion;
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-23
american Pros
Play in Canada
rmour. Barnes, Smith, Farrell
and Diegsl Enter Domin-
ion Open

Ancaster, Ont, July 23.-R-
sading professionals from the Unit
| States were gathering here today
= tho Canadian Open Golf cham
onship, to be played tomorrow, Fri
~ and Saturday.
Tommy Armour toured the Ancas-
r course Of the Hamilton Country
ub In 70 In practice yesterday and
N Barnes turned in q II. Horton
NTH has been here for several days
ID once frolicked through the first
ne holes In 80. Johnny Farrell and
% Diegel also have had some prac-
~.
a bright sun sent the temperature
10 the middle SOS yesterday but the
o. from below the border thought
was cool compared to the sitting
vt thst prevailed at the American
IN at Minneapolis.