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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
CHAUFFEUR DRIVES
INTO POLICE STAND
TO AVOID HOLD-UP
faxicab Man Charges Soldier
(. Attempted to Rob Him
: Near Key Bridge.
OFFICER ESCAPES INJURY
BY LEAPING TO SAFETY
Suspect Is Being Held for Investi-
CATION Following Crash Of
Automobile.

B. M. Knight, cab driver OF Lam
ham. Md, "just didn't take chances
with taxi bandits"
Last night he drove his would-be
bandit passenger directly into trafnc
stand at Thirty-fifth and M streets and
sent Traffic Policeman w. B. Ballinger
scurrying for safety. Ballinger, now
ever hurried back to the taxi just IN
time to hear knight and his passenger
arguing as to who stuck up" VINO?
The passenger, John Coughennour' .
so,dier stationed at Fort Myer, insisted
That knight held him up at pistol pont
and showed the officer revolver yHis
on the drivers seat next to Knlgnt.
RaIIinger said this statement maae
xrnioht downright mad" and knlgn!
axo1sined that the soldier had dropped
the onn on the drivers seat when the
cab collided with the trat1c tup.
Taken to Headquarters
pal,inoer after about Is minutes OF
natient listening said, Tell 1t to mead
4 60 at police headquarters after SIX
ar seven detectives had grilleo Ine
soldier. officers said he admltteo CnaS
he had read newspaper accounts % %
recent taxi holdups ana oecloeu W
stage one himself. ,s..
hired his cab at Fifteenth street ana
Pennsvlyania avenue and requested 10
be driven to Thirty-fifth and 9 streeCS.
when thew arrived there, the Gao
driver said. his passenger showed re-
volver in his back, with the command
s'Drive fast into Virginia.
s6Weu. 1 told him that didn't WaIt
to drive to Virginia, and onereo nun
$40 to get out of the taxicao ana stop
bothering me-" , .ho+
l,e he driven into Virginia, so Knight,
with the gun still at his back oroVe
down toward Key Bridge.
s'Well. I began figuring" Knight ex-
planned to police, lust what 70 40
about this situation. Then Spleo TINS
trafic stand with the cop in 1t SO !
lust drove right on into 1t.
Held for Investigation.
& Knipht explained that one of the
doors on the cab was locked ana the
other was pinned shut by the trafnc
stand, preventing the soldier from
Comahenhour is being held pending
formulation of an investigation by pelice.
Henry L. Jones of Clarendon, va.
collector for the william z. Miller
Furniture Co., Seventh and e streets
southwest, told police last night that ne
was held up by two armed colored men
at Union and o streets southwest ana
robbed of STA in cash and gold watch
valued at $3.50.
He said the men approached MN
from the rear, showed gun In his bacK,
and took the money from a Wa!let IN
one of his pockets. He described both
robbers and lookout has been posted
An the various precincts for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
As STILLS SEIZED
/. IN RAIDS THROUGH
SOUTH MARYLAND
100000 Gallons of Mash De-
Stroyed in "MoSt Success
full" Drive.
ENLARGED PERSONNEL
FOR WASHINGTON SEEN
IL Arrests Made in Territory 800
Miles Square - Thoroughness
Sends Bootleggers Into Hiding.

Forty-three stills, each from 800 to
500 gallons capacity, were seized In
Southern Maryland during the first
three weeks in December by Federal
prohibition agents who are conducting
a series of raids under orders of Pro-
hibition Director Woodcock in an at
tempt to dry up" the entire section.
In making this known last night,
William r. Blandford, deputy prohibi-
ton administrator for this area, de-
scribed the drive as the most success
full thus far prosecuted in one of the
most troublesome areas in the coun-
try" In addition to the stills captured
the agents estimated about 100000 gal
Ions of mash were destroyed. Twelve
arrests were made.
800 Square Miles Covered.
The agents, working under Blandford
and Robert D. Ford Of Baltimore, COW
cred about 800 square miles of terri
tory in the three weeks period. They
will resume their work Monday, pressing
into the upper part of the State.
Almost as many liquor plants with
stills removed have been uncovered as
the number of stills captured, Blandford
said He explained that the agents
had been so thorough that bootleggers
in a wide territory are taking their
stills from the sites, when not in actual
operation, and are hiding them in barns
and houses. All the paraphernalia,
equipment, bags Of sugar and mash
found on these carefully located prem
Uses were destroyed as they were found
Blandford, arriving here last night
from a hurried trip to Richmond. which
is headquarters for this prohibition dis
trict, said that Robert @. Merrick OF
that city, prohibition administrator
would be in Washington tomorrow to
look over maps showing the progress OF
the drive and to confer with Woodcock
The two men. along with Ford, will
confer with the director, probably on
Tuesday.
Enlarged Personnel Desired.
An enlargement Of personnel for the
Washington district probably will be
one of the results of the drive. Wood
cock Is interested in learning definitely
lust how much territory Federal agents
can cover efficiently and adequately In
a given period of time, and when the
concentrated activity Is concluded, he
will be in position to authorize more
agents for this section.
Blandford said agents are being
added to the Washington stan and al
Baltimore gradually" About Is men
are now assigned to work in Southern
Maryland, the District and nearby
Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
SEAL SALE BELOW
GOAL BY 1,5OO,0 900
Children's tuberculosis Sanatorium
Building Depends on Completion
of Drive.

with a goal set at $45, 900, the re-
ceipts from the annual sale Of Christ
mas seals conducted by the tuberculosis
Association for this year yesterday had
passed the $50, 900 mark, the remainder
of the quota necessitating sale of
100000 more seals, it was announced
by the association.
Upon the attainment of the goal
rests the naturalization of plans for
the erection Of a new children's tuber-
culosis sanatorium on a site in nearby
Maryland recently acquired for this
purpose. according to Mrs. Ernest r.
Grant, chairman Of the Sanatorium
Committee.
plans for the transfer Of the present
children's health camp at Fourteenth
and Upshur streets to the site Of the
projected sanatorium on Defense High
way will be discussed at meeting OF
the Children's Camp Committee to be
called by Mrs Grant shortly. The pro-
poSal will call for the use of buildings
now located on the 216-acre tract, and
additional facilities will be offered with
out interfering with the progress Of con-
etruction of the new building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
DECEMBER 80 SET
FOR RATE HEARING
Open Session Granted on Request
of Citizens Federation Rep
resentatives.

The Public Utilities Commission yes
terday gave notice that public hear
ing on Washington's 1881 electric rates
would be held December 80. The meet
ing will begin at $50 in Room 1O4,
District Building.
The open hearing was granted on
request of Peoples Counsel Richmond
B. Keech and William NICK. Clayton,
representing the Federation of Citizens
Associations, after Corporation Coun-
sci William w. Bride ruled that the
commission had no choice under the
law but to hold the hearing. Such a
hearing has never been held since the
present system of annual adjustments
Of the rates has been in effect.
The Potomac Electric Power Co. has
agreed to a reduction next year involve
ing an 100000 reduction fund. bring
ing primary rate down from AZ to as
cents per kilowatt-hour, with compare
BILE reductions in secondary and subse-
quent rates. Both Mr.. Keech and Mr..
Clayton are demanding greater reduc-
tions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
CARTER IS PRAISED
FOR CREATING Jobs
|. AT NO ADDED COST
Hoover CommendS Employ
ment of 791 by Drastic Cut
IN Overtime.
PRESIDENT "DELIGHTED"
WITH "FlNE ASSISTANCE"
Public Printer Asks Geographic
Provisions of Civil Service
Rules Be Waived.

The achievement of Public Printer
George H. Carter in finding employment
during the depression for nearly 400
extra employees in the Government
Prmtlng once, at no added expense 20
the Government, has won the COM
mendation of President Hoover.
BY drastically reducing the amount
OF overtime work ard by effecting other
economies, Carter has succeeded in pro-
vtding work for 79l new enploves dur.
ing the period embracing the fiscal
month. V-.-'
Past Fiscal Year Busiest.
The expanded force has found plenty
TO do, for the public printer disclosed
Yesterday that the past fiscal year was
tne busiest In the history of the Gov
ernment'S big print shop. The work
increased IL per cent over 1929. which
In turn, exceeded the previous peak of
the l918-l919 war period. Work for
Cne past nscal year appropriated in
value $4,000, 000-a million dollar IN
crease over the year before.
Ordinarily, overtime work would have
TAKEN care Of most of the added
business. 0
Carter recently advised the White
rewarded with a letter from President
Hoover expressing delight" over "the
1ne assistance your bureau is contribute
ing TO the general situation"
Incidentally, Carriers efforts to give
emergency employment to a number of
men In Washington who are on the
civil service list have run afoul of civil
service rules regarding geographic selec-
ton OF eligibles. He is now endeavorinR
TO have the Civil Service Commission
-
gency, so that local applicants may be
given temporary jobs at the Printing
| ONCE.
1T Is unreasonable to bring a person
all the way from the Pacific Coast. as
| was done In one case, to accept tempo
rary employment here" Carter declared
We need some carpenters and other
skilled tradesmen on some emergency
work in connection with our building
extension, and would like to give the
work to Washington men who need the
| jobs"
SO Per Cent Saving Effected.
| The reduction in overtime work and
the assignment of this work to new en-
ployeS effected a so per cent saving In
wage expenditures for the work in
volved, Carter explained. The office
has been paying time and a half" rates
for all work done after the regular eight
! hours of duty. This additional saving
helped to pay the wages of the extra
men.
A comparison of the total number Of
overtime hours recorded during the first
five months of the fiscal year 1929 with
| the total for similar period during the
past fiscal year shows clearly the effect
OF the new policy. During the FIVE
month period in 1929 total of 244. 600
hours of overtime work was done in the
Printing ONCE, while only $4,000 hours
of overtime work was done during the
first five months of the past fiscal year.
The working force of the office totaled
4,187 persons on July /, 1929, which
| marked the start of the fiscal year. The
force today. including 1874 persons to
be called for duty later, numbers 4,97s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
NEW CIVIL SERVICE
RULE WILL Be USED
District Applicants Certified
to Commissioners to Name
GalIinger Nurse.

The first position in the District
government for which the appointee will
be selected from Civil Service Commits
sion lists probably will be filled early
this week, when q nurse for Gallinger
Municipal Hospital is selected.
The names of the three residents of
the District of Columbia who stand at
the top of the eligible list of those who
passed the nurses examination have
been certified by the commission to the
District Commissioners. The appoint
ment will be made by the Commission
ers on recommendation Of the Board of
Public Welfare.
District Applicants TO Get Jobs.
Daniel E. Garges, secretary of the
Board of Commissioners, who was ap-
pointed liaison officer with the Civil
Service Commission to deal with ap-
pointments made from Civil Service
lists, announced yesterday that "for
the present" all appointments will be
made from those eligible who are resi-
dents of the District. When the new
policy Of Civil Service selection was an
nounced by the Commissioners last
month, some fear was felt that it might
result in crowding District applicants
out of the jobs, since the Civil Service
lists are composed predominantly OF
applicants from outside States.
The particular job to be filled at this
time pays 1920 per annum. but from
this sum $500 per annum Is deducted
in return for food and accommodations
furnished at the hospital.
iNfa Nk1 will 70
from Civil Service lists in the immedi-
ate future, although in none of these
cases have Qualifications been filed by
the Civil Service Commission. These
include eight temporary clerks to as
sist Superintendent of Licenses Wade
H. Coombs in the annual rush at the
automobile tag sale; one clerk-stenog-
rapher in the Department of Insurance;
one clerk in the electrical department;
one clerk for the Industrial Home
School, one field aide in the municipal
architects office, and an assistant SUI
perintendent for the National Training
School for Girls
Two Other Branches Exempted.
At the same time Mr.. Garges an
nounced that, in addition to the Pubic
Library and the public school system
two other branches of the District Serv-
ice had been exempted from the neces'
sity of filling jobs from Civil Service
lists. These are the office OF the re-
corder of deeds and registrar OF Wills
and the various District courts. Po-
sitions in these institutions are not
filled by the Commissioners, but by thu
recorder, the registrar and the various
judges, and consequently the Commits
sioners have no Jurisdiction to ordel
the positions filled in any particular
wav
All per diem employees and minor GUS
todial employees in the institutions under
the control OF the Board of Public Wei
fare are also exempt from the Civil
Service requirements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
INJURIES IN BLAST
FATAL TO WOMAN
Victim Of Gas Explosion Friday
Died in Hospital Last
Night.

The gas explosion beneath the side
walk at Thirteenth and U streets late
Friday claimed its first fatality last
night, when Ruth Henderson, colored,
81 years old, of 1880 u street, died Of
her injuries at Garfield Hospital.
The woman had been hurled bodily
into the air as the force of the explo-
sion cut loose beneath her. She fell
back upon the sidewalk, so that part Of
her body was in the jagged hole which
by that time was blazing with gas. Re-
moved to Garfield Hospital by Fire
Chief George S. Watson, who hap
pened to be at the corner when the ex-
plosion occurred, the woman was found
to be suffering from serious injuries,
including a compound fracture Of the
right leg and spine.
Rae Washington, colored, 80 years
old, also of 1880 U street, another VIC
tim of the explosion, is in Garfield Hos
pital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
COMMITTEE ENDS
FISCAL HEARINGS
Whether Subject Will Be Re-
opened After Holidays Is
Not Decided.

The special committee of the House
appointed to investigate fiscal relations
between the Federal and District gov
ernmentS adjourned yesterday for the
Christmas holiday period after nearly
three weeks of public hearings, during
which the subject was discussed in all
its ramifications.
Whether any further hearings are to
be held is problematical at this time.
Representative Carl Mapes of Michi-
gan, chairman of the committee, was
uncertain at the time of the holiday
adjournment as to the future plans Of
the committee.
Will Digest Testimony.
Mr.. Mapes adjourned the committee
subject to call. In the meantime, he
said, the members would review and
study the mass of testimony introduced
during the public hearings by a dozen
witnesses.
Indications are that the committee
may complete the inquiry and have its
report ready for the House by the time
the 1882 District appropriation bill Is
reported. Chairman MapeS, however,
pointed out that the committee was not
working particularly with that end in
view and declined to predict when he
expected the report to be finished. He
most exhaustive study before winding
up its work.
Mr.. MapeS also was noncommittal
concerning the impression made on the
committee by the various arguments
advanced during the hearings for an
equitable fiscal treatment of the Dis
trict by the United States.
Two Plans COntrasted.
The line of questioning, however, in
Dictated that two radically different
plans for adjusting the fiscal relation
ship between the two governments are
among those under consideration-the
definite proportion principle, as pro-
vided in existing substantive law, and
a plan for basing the Federal contribu-
ton on the cost of service provided the
United States by the municipality.
The latter plan came to light at the
closing pre-holiday hearing, and was
vigorously opposed by Maj. Daniel j.
Donovan, District auditor and budget
officer and the final witness. He con-
tended that aside from being unfair
to the District, because it would be diff
f1cult to determine a fair division of
the expenses, the plan would constitute
an injustice, as it would remove from
consideration the vast tax-eXempt prop
erty holdings of the Federal Govern
ment, which the Bureau of Efficiency
declared should be taken into consid-
Grafton in reaching an equitable Solu-
ton OF the fiscal relations problem.
Such plan, the auditor also claimed,
instead of solving the problem, would
lead to unending controversies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
WILL DISPUTE SETTLED
81 ZOO, 900 Estate of Mrs. Adelaide
s. Gould to Be Divided.

NEW YORK, December 20 R.-Dis-
pute over the will of Mrs. Adelaide S.
Gould, widow of Commodore Charles A.
Gould, has been settled out of court
and suit to revoke probate withdrawn,
Surrogate George A. Slater OF White
Plains announced today.
The 81, 5000 estate will be divided
in four parts, with Mrs. Celia Gould
Milne sharing $500, 900 with her brother.
w. s. Gould. The remaining $500, 1000
will go to the children Of Mrs. Mines
deceased brothers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
SOLDIER HURT IN AUTO
ACCIDENT ON BRIDGE
Car Hits Girder, Resulting in Frac-
tured Arm-Later Placed
Under Arrest.

Pvt. Frank Hartman, 90 years old, of
Fort Hunt, Va, was injured last mid
night when the machine he was driving
overturned on the Highway Bridge
after striking the girder structure when
rounding a sharp turn. He was treated
at Emergency Hospital for a fractured
arm and decorations.
Policeman r. j. Tompkins, on duty
at the bridge, with the aid of passers-by,
succeeded in righting the overturned
machine, and conveyed the injured man
to the hospital.
Following treatment, Hartman was
placed under arrest. The machine he
was driving carried Maryland tags and
he told police it belonged to a sergeant
at the Army post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
NOTED SECRET AGENT
is STRUCK BY TAXICAB
John q. Slye Taken to Hospital
After Accident; Three Stitches
Necessary to Close Wound.

John @. Slye, 54-year-old Secret
Service operative, who accompanied
President Wilson to France in 1919 and
was a bodyguard Of the wartime
President throughout the trying days
of the conflict, was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital last night after being
struck and knocked down by a taxicab
at the intersection Of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Twelfth street.
Mr.. Slye, who resides at 220 A street
southeast, was struck by q machine
operated by Henry Seyfarth, 90 years
old, of 2032 Bennett street as he was
crossing the street. He sustained a
deep liberation above the left eye. Three
stitches were required to close the
wound.
The Secret Service agent, who is at
present connected with the Washington
headquarters of the Secret Service at
the Department of Justice, was until
seven years ago assigned to the White
House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
AVIATOR BR0NTE WEEDS

SAN FRANCISCO, December 20 Clp).
Emory Bronte, navigator of the City
of Oakland on the fifst civilian flight
to the Hawaiian Islands from the United
States, and Miss Martha Edwina Grit
fifth were married today at the Trinity
Episcopal Church by DR.. Charles p.
Deems, pastor.
Bronte is aviation manager Of the
Associated Oil Co. Miss Griffith was q
secretary in that company when the
two met.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
WHEAT REPORT ISSUED

BUENOS AIRES. December 20 [P).-
Argentina's 1930-31 wheat crop Is esti-
mated at 7,386.487 metric tons (about
266, 000, 900 bushels) in a report issued
today by DR.. Julio Cesar Urien, director
of rural economy.
The exportable surplus is placed at
5,433 ,418 metric tons, of which 4o6, 93l
metric tons are from the previous crop.
The area planted to wheat Is 1914, O25
hectares (21 ,666,641 acres, of which
7,972,197 hectares have been harvested
so far.
F1axseed production is estimated at
2,144,077 metric tons (about $4,000, 600
bushels), with an exportable surplus of
2,128. 312 metric tons, including 214,235
left from the previous crop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21

When the alarm was sounded through
the communities the whole fire. fighting
equipment Of Seat Pleasant, Capitol
Heights, Greater Capitol Heights and
Oxon Hill responded. making high
speed along the roads.
It was believed to be the FIRST time
that an Illicit liquor stu had turned
out all the FIRE departments Of that
part Of Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
WILL TELL OF PILGRIMS
Carter B. Kean to Give 15-Minute
Address Over WMAL.

A new story Of the Pilgrims and the
Plymouth Rock will be told tomorrow
night at Sis O'Clock in a 15-minute
radio address by Carter B. Kean, for
naer governor Of the Mayfiower Society,
over Station, WMALL The program viii
Be conducted under the auspices of the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
a. the District.
The speaker will be introduced by
Miss Helen Harmon, State regent. The
speech viii mark the three hundred and
Pilgrims In 1920,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
.EX-POLICEMAN GIBSON
HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGE
Marked Money Used in Arrest
Made in 1000 Block of East
/ Capitol Street, Police Aver.

John L. Gibson OF the 1000 block Of
East Capitol street, former District
policeman, was arrested late yesterday
on liquor charges by police vice
squad.
rints of alleged whisky from Gibson,
using marked money. They said they
recovered the marked money on Glib
sons person.
in the came ralc the squad arrested
Ernest Reed, colored. 1917 I street
northeast. Both men were apprehended
III the 200 block Of Twelfth street
southeast. Both we're released on bond
Of $500.
Both we're charged with illegal pos
session Of liquor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
ACCUSED AS SHOPLIFTER
Maid Arrested by Special Squad in
Department Store.

Mrs. Rose Bisig, % years old, en-
ployed as maid in the 2100 block of
Massachusetts avenue, was arrested by
Detective S. S. Russell in the woodward
g. Lothrop Co. store yesterday after
noon and held on a charge Of petit
larceny of merchandise valued at $40.
The arrest was the twentieth made
by the special shoplifting squad organic
ed last week and placed under charge
of Detective Sergt. Kuhling The woman
obtained her release under $500 bond
FOR her appearance In court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
FIREMEN ARE CALLED FROM BEDS
TO EXTINGUISE1 BLAZING STILL
Fire Apparatus From Four Communities Summoned to
Put Out Burning Paraphernalia.

A blazing liquor still in a vacant
house near Silver Hill, Md, caused
about 20 volunteer firemen to leave
their beds last midnight and speed six
miles In response to general alarm"
Fire apparatus from four different
communities were called out.
After O stubborn fight with the
flames, the IRE was extinguished, and
In the ruins were found the remains Of
the sttll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
RELEASED UNDER BOND
Harry Conn Appeals Conviction on
Gambling Charge.

Harry Conn, 80, recently convicted
of accepting a bet on the result of a
horse race, end sentenced by Justice
Gordon to serve so daysin jail and to
custody yesterday afternoon o. an ap-
peal bond of $1,000 pending action Of
the District Court Of Appeals. Conn
was sent to jail by Justice 0ordon
when the jury reported its finding last
week.