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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
DRIVES 1850 MILES
TOLEARN AVIATION
Miss Helen Frigo of GiIe,
Wis.,, Trades FIivver for
Two Hours in Air.

After swelling the group of D. G.
Air Legion flying students from outside
the District of Columbia by driving
here from Wisconsin in a rattle-trap
flivver, Miss Helen Frigo Of Gle. Wis,
has demonstrated her business acumen
by trading the f1ivver to T. ]. Waggy,
manager of the legion, for two hours
flying time. She already has used a
half hour of the time and is planning
to put in the rest of 1t in short order.
Miss Frigo heard of the local private
flying club through a newspaper clip
ping mailed to her sister In Chicago.
The sister mailed the clipping to Helen
up on the shore of Lake Superior, and
Helen, who has been saving up her
money to learn to fly, bought 1924
f1ivver and, with younger sister, Ger
trude, headed for the National Capital,
making the 1900 miles in less than a
week.
Determined to make aviation her flu
ture career, Miss Frigo not only is
going through with the flying course,
but also is taking a course in airport
accounting offered by I. w. Ellenberger,
in the Hill Building. Gertrude also has
Job in the accounting school They
are living at IT'S De Sales street.
The legion now has members from
Illinois, West Virginia, Rhode Island,
Maryland and other States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
Woman Accuses Harry r,
Thompson of Saying He
Was D. c. Policeman.
CLAIMS THREAT USED
TO OBTAIN AFFIDAVIT
Operative Ordered Bound Over to
Grand Jury Under $1,000
Bond Pending Probe.

Harry Robinson Thompson. 80 year.
old, private detective of TOT Cortlan(
street southeast, was held for grand
jury action IN Police Court today on q
charge Of impersonating headquarters
detective.
Miss Margaret Bailey, 20, Of 1851
Ridge place southeast, testified that
Thompson came to her while she was
employed in store on Good Hope
road, flashed badge and declared him.
SELF a headquarters detective. She said
he ordered her to accompany him to q
lawyers ONCE, where she said she was
forced to sign an affidavit against Mrs.
Samuel E. Prossit whose husband was
suing for divorce. Miss Bailey testified
she was threatened with arrest If she
refused to swear to the paper.
Threatened to Call Wagon.
Prossit, with whom she said she was
acquainted, accompanied Thompson at
the time OF his visit to the store. Miss
Bailey declared that Thompson, after
telling me that he was a policeman,
threatened to summon the patrol
wagon" If she did not go with them to
the attorneys office. She said that she
believed what Thompson had told her
and was afraid not to accompany them.
Thompson, who said he was con-
nected with the National Detective
Agency and rad been employed by the
local Police Department for special in
vestigation, denied that he had repre-
sented himself to be a Metropolitan
police officer.
'Prossit introduced me as his private
detective" he said. Miss Bailey accom-
panied us without force and dictated
the affidavit to the attorney and signed
1t before q notary public. The paper
was to be used In Prossit's divorce pro-
ceedings"
Says She Talked Freely.
Prossit told Judge Robert E. Mat
tingly that he and Thompson went to
Miss Bailey only after the girl had
told him two days before that she would
willingly furnish him with statements
he desired.
Miss Bailey talked freely and pos
itely," he said, while en- route to the
attorneys Office, and I did not know
that she objected to making this state
ment until / learned Of Thompson's
arrest yesterday"
The alleged impersonation was said
to have taken place July Is.
Judge Mattingly fixed bond for
Thompson at $1,000 upon the recon-
mendation of Michael Keogh, assistant
United States attorney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07

ColOred Man Gives No Reason But
Drink for Starting Apartment Fires.

Having confessed starting four fires
in the northwest section of the city last
week, in one Of which Miss Jessie Cam
mack, occupant of the Denver, l4le
Chaplin street, lost her life, John Hick-
son Williams, colored janitor, who was
employed at 1407 w street, was return
ed from the headquarters of the
homicide squad and placed behind the
bars today.
with the police and concluded he would
conduct an inquest at the morgue al
1880 O'Clock Thursday morning to de.
termine responsibility for Miss Cam
macke's death.
Lieut.. Edward J. Kelly, chief Of the
homicide squad, conferred with the
coroner, and members Of his force viii
summon q number Of witnesses to at
tend the inquest. Members Of the fire.
nghting force who worked at the fire
will be among the witnesses summoned
Others will tell Of the finding of Miss
Cammack's body and the police will
tell Of the prisoners confession.
Police plan to file charges of arson
against the prisoner. 1t Is probable
however, that there will be a grand
jury investigation Of the charges, in
stead Of taking the prisoner to Police
Court for preliminary examination
During the long siege of questioning by
members Of the homicide squad and
eighth precinct police, it is stated,
Williams never gave the slightest rea-
son for starting the four fires other
than that he had been drinking.
The unoccupied building at 2204
Fourteenth street, in which fires were
started in two closets, is only short
distance from where williams was en-
ployed, and the prisoner calmly told of
going from there to the Denver, using
his gasoline-saturated handkerchief to
start the conf1agration which involved
the burning to death of Miss Cammack.
Asked II he started the fires for the
purpose Of seeing the fremen respond
or for the purpose of creating excite
ment, Williams responded in the mega
tive, and police took 1t for granted that
he started the apartment house fires
for the purpose of seeing thinly clad
occupants hurrying from the building.
At the Denver Apartments, he stated,
he gave his coat to lady who was
forced to leave the burning structure
in a hurry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
SOLVING HUB FIRES
CREDITED TO TWO
CLEVER INSPECTORS
Blue Prints Drawn to Trace
Movements and Locate En-
pIoyes at Warehouse.
CONFESSION FOLLOWS
ARREST IN 5 BLAZES
r. C. Roberts and J. R. Gray, Who
Cleared Mystery, Privates
of Marshal's Force.

Clever detective work by two in
spectors in the fire marshals' office, it
was disclosed today, was responsible for
the recent arrest Of Lingan Asberry
Butler, an employe Of the Hub Furni-
ture Co., in connection with three pre-
vious fires at the company's warehouse.
The most recent fire, which occurred
September "a, aroused the suspicious of
Fire Marshal Charles Achstetter, and
he assigned two of his inspectors, r. G.
Roberts and j. r. Gray, to the investi-
cation. The fire started in a large
room without partitions, and the in
pectors started with the theory that
If they could locate each workman at
before, the fire could probably be traced
to the one nearest to 1t. Accordingly
they drew up blue prints of the estab-
lishment and interviewed officials and
employees Of the warehouse with view
to filling in the points at which the
various workers were stationed before
the fire broke out, and a record Of their
movements.
Five Fires ut Warehouse.
There have been five fires at this
cording to Achstetter, the last three Of
them suspicious" In order to secure
better data, the positions Of the workmen
for all of the last three fires were filled
in as well as could be remembered by
their various fellow workers. All Of the
charts, when compared, show that But
Ter had been at the place where the
blaze started shortly before it was dis
covered.
This was as far as the firemen, who
have no police power, could go. Ac-
cordingly Ashstetter took his data to
police headquarters, where he laid 1t
before Headquarters Detectives Sweeney,
Talley and Darnall. The police ar
rested and questioned Butler, who con-
fessed that he had started the fires,
results Of accidents. Butler Is now In
Gallinger Municipal Hospital under
going . mental examination.
Not Given Extra Pay.
Roberts and Gray, although they con-
centrate on investigation work, are pri-
Yates In the department and draw no
extra pay. They are assigned to the
fire marshal to act under his super
vision.
George 9. Watson, chief engineer of
the department, was high In his praise
Of their work today. He was on leave
at the time of the fire, although he
went to the scene from his home. He
returned to duty today, not having been
at his desk during the investigation.
Achstetter's official report on the sub
ject Is now being drawn UP, and is ex-
pected to be placed before Watson later
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
SMITH OFFICIALS
/. WILL STAND TRIAL
LATE THIS MONTH
Difficulty in Disposing of
DiIatory Pleas of Defense
Causes Delay.
NEXT MONDAY Is SET
AS FINAL HEARING DATE
Five of Nine Remaining Pleas
Must Go to Jury to Deter
mine Facts.

The four offlcials Of the F. H. Smith
Co. who were indicted last April for
an alleged conspiracy to embezzle FUNDS
of the company and to destroy certain
books and records will be brought to
trial in the District Supreme Court the
latter part of this month, 1t was in
dicated today.
It had been planned to start the trial
tomorrow, but difficulty in disposing OF
dilatory pleas filed by defense counsel
has necessitated delay.
Justice william Hitz this morning
set Monday, next, as the date Tor
final hearing of all pleas in abate-
ment, motions to strike and motions TO
quash the indictment, thereby making
it possible to proceed with the actuai
trial before the end Of the month, coun-
sci on both sides having indicated they
would be ready to proceed with the
trial within two weeks after the dnatory
pleas have been disposed Of.
Cox Rules on Six Points.
Justice Joseph. W. Cox, who yester-
day heard preliminary arguments on
the pleas, ruled this morning with the
Government on six points that had been
raised.
He sustained, demurers to two pleas
attacking the right of women to sit on
a 9
a plea which contended that the Jurors
were not properly drawn, sustained de-
murers to two other pleas which at
tackled the validity Of the indictment
on the ground that an employe Of the
American Security 81 Trust Co., q de-
pository Of Government funds and a
trustee for certain of the Smith Co.
stockholders, sat on the jury, and,
finally, sustained q demurrer to plea
which commended that the indictment
should be invalidated because a man
who had been convicted Of illegal pos
session Of liquor was allowed to sit on
the jury.
This last plea involved the question
Of whether illegal possession Is an Of
tense denoting moral turpitude. jus
tice Cox said that this was an interest
ing question, but that in his opinion
Congress by the Jones act had specifi-
cally removed illegal possession Of liquor
from the classes involving moral turpi-
tude.
Jury 10 Get Pleas.
OF the nine remaining pleas, 1--WE
must be submitted to q jury for deter
mination Of questions of fact. The
four others will be decided by the court
The Government was represented by
Nugent Dodds, special assistant to the
Attorney General and Assistant u s.
Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, while Wilton
J. Lambert, Frank @. Raichle, Rudolph
Yeatman, George Horning and Harry
s. Barger appeared for the defendants.
The defendants are G. Bryan Pitts,
Samuel ]. Henry, C. Ebert Anadale and
John H. Edwards, jr.
In asking the court to Ak an early
date for the trial of the case, Burkin-
shaw said this morning that ut Is the
earnest conviction of the Government
that the public interest requires a
speedy trial for this case"
Mr.. Lambert, for the defense, objected
to rushing through" the case, pointing
out that some of the pleas were still
unsettled and that none Of the defend
ants has as yet been arraigned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
HORSE AND MILK WAGON
LOST AT EARLY HOUR
Driver Returns From Delivery in
Apartment to Find Outfit
Has Vanished.

Somewhere in the Capital there is a
horse and milk wagon, loaded with
milk and minus q driver.
And 1t all came to pass because Dob
bin was expected to wait for Elmer
Cannon, a driver, while Cannon served
milk to sleeping customers.
Dobbin was new horse on the route,
unacquainted with the ways of the big
city-the clover fields he recently left
were more to his liking, and that's
where he may be now.
Anyway, when Cannon emerged from
an apartment at Seventh and streets
early this morning, Dobbin, milk wagon
and all had disappeared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
SOCIAL AGENCIES
COUNCIL TO MEET
John B. Colpoys and Rev. DR.. John
0'Grady Will Discuss Unem-
ployment Conditions.

John B. Colpoys, editor Of the Trade
Unionist, and Rev. DR.. John O'Grady
director Of Catholic Charities Of Wash
ington, will address the first Fall meet.
ing Of the Washington Council of Socia
Agencies In the Y. w. G. A. Building
seventeenth and K streets, next Mon
day afternoon at 1890 o'clock.
Because of the unemployment situa-
ton in this city the general subject OF
the meeting will be Social Conse-
quences Of Unemployment" it il
announced.
The American Legion has beer
recommended by the board of directors
of the council for membership In the
council and this recommendation is tc
be acted on ut the meeting, 1t Il
stated. 4 -. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
FILE SUIT FOR $4,000
Woman and Husband Hold Mer.
chant Responsible for Her Injuries.

Julius B. Gay, proprietor of poultry
and commission store at CIT Louisiana
avenue, was sued today in the District
damages by Mrs. Elizabeth Lombardi
and her husband, Anthony lombard,
1928 Eleventh street. for injuries alleged
to have been sustained by Mrs. Lom-
bardi when she slipped and fell in front
of Gays store, August 81, 1929.
The wife asks $4,000 damages and
the husband wants $4,000 addition for
the loss Of services of his wife and the
expense incident to her illness. Attor-
ney P. j. J. Nicolaides appears for the
couple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
PLANS IN TRAINING WOMEN
FOR BUSINESS STUDIED
Methods Of Promoting Successful
Career Discussed at Club Meet
ing Held Last Night.

Practical methods, particularly per-
tanning to personal habit and training,
of advancing the success Of the Amer
lean business woman were discussed last
night at the initial Fall meeting Of
the District Business and Professional
Women's Club.
A program for the coming year. in
GLIDING a variety of athletic and social
events, was approved.
Miss Elizabeth Haney president of
the local club. was chosen as a delegate
to the regional conference of the club
at Atlantic City October 11-13.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
CAB DRIVERS VOLUNTEER
Will Take Wounded Veterans to
Outing Wednesday.

Twenty-Five drivers of the Independ-
ent Cab Operators have volunteered
their services to take wounded veterans
from the Naval Hospital, Twenty-fourth
and E streets, to an outing at Great
Falls Wednesday, under the auspices Of
Federal Post No. 824, Veterans of For
eign Wars Auxiliary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
0. z. S. chapter Plans Benefit.

CLARENDON, Va, October (Spe-
ciaD Mary Washington Chapter, No.
so, Order of the Eastern Star, is COM
pleting plans for a benefit dance to be
held Friday night In the Community
House of Lyon Park from 8 o'clock
until midnight. Music will be furnished
by Les GOWNS Orchestra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
RECOVER STOLEN CAR
Automobile of Army Nurse Corps
Head Found by Police Undamaged.

An automobile Of Maj. Julia C. Slim
son, head Of the Army Nurse Corps,
which was stolen yesterday, was recov-
cred this morning by park police.
The automobile, taken from a park
ing place near the Munitions Building
was spotted this morning, parked at
Twenty-third and B streets, by Park
Policeman z. s. Mast. The machine
was unchanged.
Maj. Stimson, after notifying police
Of the theft, left washington yesterday
on lecture tour OF Army schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
BUDGET CHIEFS SAY
CHANGE IN SYSTEM
WILL BENEFIT CITY
Designating Priority of Items
Planned as Giving Commits
sioners More LeeWay.
COL. ROOP TO ATTEND
HEARINGS IN PERSON
Bureau May Also Find Way Of
Separating D. c. Funds From
Federal Money.

Note-This Is the concluding ar
ticle of q series of three discussing
the po,Oer OF the Federal Bureau of
the Budget oDer locally raised req
enHes of the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
"A. G. NYE'S MOTHER DIES

Buffalo Woman Survived by Hus-
band, 2 Daughters and Son Here.
Mrs. Emma j. Nye, mother of Alva
G. Nye, Washington attorney, died yes-f
terday at her home, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Mfr. Nye, connected with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission for a num-
Der of years. resides at 3416 Oliver
street. q
Besides her son, Mrs. Nye is survived
by her husband, George w. Nye, and
two daughters, Mrs. John Purcell OF
Rochester. N. Y, and Mrs. r. Tozzo OF
Buffalo. 81
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-05
WORKERS over |
40 ARE HARD HIT
BOSS TOOL SAYS
Must Push Fight For
JObleSs Insurance

(Cont,nued from Page OneJ
Rybicki admits that there are $4,000
workers, 40 years of age and over
who have made out applications for
jobs at the "free" unemployment
agency, and that there is not the
slightest" chance for them ever to
get work, the New York state cold
age" pension applications are be-
ginning to come in.
But these workers who are trying
desperately to find work, and will
not find it, are excluded from even
the miserable cold age pension law"
put over by the Tammany politi-
clans. The pension law" provides
that destitute people" of 70 years
of age and over who have resided
in New York state for over ten
years, may apply for an average
pension of 81 a week. Over 1900
applications have already been
filed, and 5000 more are expected.
But what the worker of 40 is to do,
when it is admitted no work is
available for him, the bosses are not
concerned with. They rest content
with the thought that most of them
will die of starvation and disease
long before they can avail them
selves of the munificent "pension"
which awaits them if they live to
be 70 years of age.
Nor are workers under 40 faring
any better in the present crisis.
The fact is that unemployment is
increasing all the time for all work
ers. Mills are shutting down. In
Greenville, S. C. the officials of the
lssaqueena Mills announce that they
will close up indefinitely beginning
next week. The auto plants are
slowing up, and the much-advertised
increase" in steel production turns
out to be fake. Steel production
is at stand-still, remaining for the
entire industry at Sd per cent of
capacity compared to 95 per cent
last year.
The Sept. l demonstrations Or
ganized by the TU.U.L. to demand
the passage of the Unemployment
Insurance Bill was just the begin
ming Of the fight for unemployment
insurance. The pressure of unem-
ployment is growing more severe
every day, and the 100000 work
ers without jobs are closer to the
starvation point. Immediate action
in all shops, mines, mills and fac
tories must be taken to rally the
workers behind the Unemployment
Insurance Bill. The demand for the
passage of the bill is now one of
the leading issues brought out in
the election campaign being con-
Quoted by the Communist Party.
All workers must show their deter
mination to carry on this fight by
voting Communist in the coming
elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-05
lid OPENS drive
TO FREE WORKERS
Many Cases Come Up
This Month

Continued From Page One.)
brought into action in previous
campaigns"
Atlanta Trials Soon.
1t is pointed out that among the
major struggles that will come to
the front in September are the fol-
lowing:
First: Fight against the death
sentences planned for the six At
lanta workers-Powers, Carr, Story,
Burlak, Newton and Dalton. The
trial date is set for early this month.
Second: Renewed drive Sor the
immediate and unconditional liberia
ton of the New York Unemployed
Observation-Disclosures, Minor, Amter
and Raymond--who may be framed
up on new charges even while they
are in prison, in spite of the fact
that the felonious assault charge
has been dropped.
New California Prial.
Third: Release for the Imperial
Valley, California, prisoners, who
are being forced to new trials in
September. They are now being
held in prison to serve 42-year SEN
fences.
Fourth: Num- rouus sedition
trials, carrying long sentences,
there being IS workers facing sedi-
ton charges in Philadelphia Dis
trict alone.
Fifth: Fight against the Fish
Committee of the United States con-
gress that pla. soon to continue its
activities.
Sixth: Development Of the cam
paign for the protection of the for
eiG.l-born, against deportations, in
tensifying the fight to prevent the
Serio and RaGehovitch deportations.
Seventh: Increasing struggle
against lynching, race discrimina-
ton and Jim-Crowism, in the face
Of the recent barbarous murders of
Negro workers in Marion, Indiana
and Tarboro, N. c.
Plan Liberation Drive.
1t is in the face of these tremen-
dous demands that the International
Labor Defense has launched its
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Defense and
Liberation Drive" that is being
brought to the attention of new
masses of workers through an in
tensive mobilization of all forces at
the command of the International
Labor Defense. There will be a
broad publicity drive through litera-
ture distribution, canvassing of all
workers. organizations, reaching
into the factories and workshops,
utilization Of all possible speakers
for open-air, factory and other
meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-05
EXPOSE HE:ARST'S
new FORGERIES
FSU Pledges Workers
Support

Continued From Page One.)
eral Gaida and supported by imper-
ialist intervention, was already sep
arated from PRUSSIA" by that "Rus-
sia," evidentl.' European Russia,
would be Saved" and for "pro- ally
ideals"-plunder and loot-by the
Czecho- Slovaks.
This shows the "idealist" way the
American imperialists regarded the
territory of the Soviet in 1890.
American soldiers drafted to eight
the Kaiser" found that they were
sent to shoot Russian workers in
stead, and, in many places, mutinied
against it.
The same imperialist "ideals" are
responsible for the Hearst forgery
of "Bolshevik atrocities" as part of
the feverish preparations today to
make war upon the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-05
Break Cerman-F finnish
Trade Agreement

BERLIN 0P.S.).-The German
Finnish trade agreement which was
ratified on the 18th of July, 1880,
has been given notice of expiration
under the pressure of the junkers
of the Bruning government. The
German National minister of agri-
culture Schiele made of this notice
cabinet question.
The annulment of the Finland
agreement means a further rise in
the prices of number of important
food stuffs. At the same time it
involves an immediate aggravation
of the tariff conflicts with other
countries, especially with Denmark,
Holland, and the Soviet Union.