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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
SURPRISE PARTY"
LEADS TO ARRESTS
Party to Celebrate Mans
23d Birthday Ends in
Raid by Police.

Yesterday was just one surprise after
another for Fred Sellers, colored, on
his twenty-third birthday.
The first was a surprise party which
his wife and IS friends staged in the
Sellers home at 916 French street late
In the afternoon.
Neither Sellers nor his hosts knew
that Sergt. Letterman was down on the
program of surprises, nor did they know
that the sergeant had been tipped on"
that everything served at the party
would not conform with the prohibition
law.
Blu the sergeant and the members of
mis- vice squad nevertheless called to
pay their respects"
Liquid Found in Keg.
The sergeant and Pvts. Richard j.
Cox, George G. McCarron and James
Mostyn found eight quarts of something
to drink reposing in key beside Sellers
big birthday cake. and arrested his
spouse, Mrs. Mae Sellers, 10 years old
on charges of sale and possession OF
whisky.
Sellers took to cover when the squad
raided the home. but was finally found
hiding beneath the table, and was ar
rested for possession of whisky and con-
uuCIlIlS u ulSOruerly mouse. Inc names
Of rs guests were taken as witnesses.
The raid was the climax of four
made by the vice squad and sixth pre-
cinct police yesterday in which eight
persons were arrested on liquor charges
Preceding the advance on the birth
day party the vice squad took into Gus
tody Bessie Chinn, 80. colored, alias
Ethel jackson, and Theodore jackson
%, colored, both of 80 Florida avenue
northeast, and charged them with sale
and possession. Ten quarts of whisky
were found, the officers said.
Man and Wife Taken.
A raid at 306 Pennsylvania avenue
by the vice squad resulted in the arrest
of Walter Tapscott, 80, on charges of
possession of whisky and maintenance
of a nuisance. while his wife, Marie
Tapscott, was charged with sale, pos
session and maintaining nuisance.
Directly across the street, Sergt. j.
G. Maloney and Detective E. c. O'Mera.
both of the sixth precinct, entered a
house and arrested James Rice, 10. and
his young wife, Carrie Rice, 90, at the
same time the vice squad was raiding
Tapscott.
Rice was charged with sale and pos
session of liquor, and the wife was
charged with possession. Eighty bottles
OF beer were seized, the officers said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
PARK COMMISSION
TO AIR PLANS FOR
GREATER CAPITAL
Hoover Is Invited to Take
Part in Session to Start
Tomorrow Night.
POLLARD AND RICHIE
SCHEDULED TO SPEAK
Sun Oil Co.'S Proposal to Build
Wharf at Rosslyn Will Be
Brought Up.

The National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission is going to tell the
world about its plans for a greater
Washington tomorrow evening at $50
O'Clock in Constitution Hall, Eighteenth
and D streets.
President Hoover has been invited to
participate and Gov. Pollard of Virginia,
Gov. Ritchie Of Maryland and Lieut..
Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, executive officer
and vice chairman OF the commission,
are scheduled to speak. Frederic G.
Delano of Washington, chairman of the
commission, will be the presiding officer.
Senators and Representatives and
other distinguished personages will be
present In the audience and the Vir-
glnla Legislature Is expected to attend
IN a body. but as the Maryland Legis-
lature is not in session at this time its
members will attend as individuals.
Regional Plans to Be Given.
The regional plans for the National
Capital will be presented by the COM
mission, through the media of slides.
addresses, exhibits and maps. The
commission will acquaint the audience
with these salient features of the ex-
pansion of the National Capital and
its environs.
One of the important questions to
come before the commission at its two
day session, starting tomorrow, will be
that of the proposal of the Sun Oil Co.
of Philadelphia to construct a wharf
in the vicinity of the Key Bridge at
Rosslyn. Va.
The commission will consider a pre-.
liminary traff1c study for the location
of the War and Navy Department build
ings and their relation TO the Mall and
traffic facilities.
Harris and Ihlder to Speak.
A. L. Harris, the municipal architect.
sion and advise 1t about the new District
municipal center transit problems. John
1hlder, housing expert, will make his
final report on the problem of dwellings
in the alleys of the National Capital.
The commission also will consider q
proposal put forward by the Operative
Builders Association to increase the
height Of apartment houses in certain
zoned areas by setting back the upper
stories to permit higher elevation.
A preliminary report of the regional
committee on drainage and sewerage in
the metropolitan area of Washington
Will be made by members Of the COM
MISSIONS staff.
A report of progress on sites for
schools, Fairgrounds and recreational
centers will be received.
Thomas H. Mcdonald, chief engineer
OF the Bureau of Public Roads, DEPART
ment OF Agriculture, will speak on the
present status of the construction of
the Mount Vernon Boulevard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
LOVE OF GIRL SEEN
AS MURDER MOTIVE
Police Believe Slayer of Res.
taurateur Was Desperate
for Marriage Money.

The desperation of a middle-aged
Greek who needed large sum of money
to win the consent of the parents of q
beautiful girl of his own race to their
marriage was seen today by police as
the underlying motive for the brutal
murder Monday night of Christos Hara-
lampidis, 60-year-old Ninth street res
taurant proprietor.
Headquarters Detective John Flaherty,
returning this morning from New York,
where for two days he has been seeking
unsuccessfully two men suspected of
the murder, reported that he inter-
viewed the girl and she told him of the
romance between herself and the older
Of the two suspects.
1t had been thought that the hunted
pair went directly to New York and the
young woman for shelter, and while no
trace of them was discovered in that
city. Inspector w. s. Shelby. head OF
the Detective Bureau, forecast an arrest
in ~ hours. All trace of one man has
been lost.
According to Flaherty the girl said
she and the man were in love with each
other and wished to marry. but since
he was poor her parents would not con-
sent to the match. Police advance the
theory that the man, willing to 60 to
any lengths. deliberately planned the
murder of Haralampidis in order to get
the large sum of money the restaurant
keeper was known to usually carry
about.
An anonymous letter received yester-
day naming a young Italian as the pos
SCISSOR of important information in the
case was found to be without value
late yesterday. Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly,
chief of the homicide squad, interviewed
the man and said today he is convinced
he knows nothing of the murder
A report on the blood analysis being
made by the Health Department. which
may definitely establish the identity of
the murderer, has not yet been received
by investigators. Specimens of blood
caked on shoes found in the room of one
of the suspects and of blood on the brick
with which Haralampidis' skull was
crushed are being compared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
1000 REWARD is POSTED
FOR SCH0ONER'S RESCUE
Lone ohicer of Fishing Craft Still
Battling Rough Seas of Deem
Der Storms.

By the Associated Press.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, January
i6.-For one little schooner the destruc-
tive storms of last December are not
vet over. For q month she has been
drifting helplessly somewhere on the
Atlantic, her captain wearied by hts
lone battle to bring the battered boat
to port.
Yesterday the Newfoundland govern
inent offered a reward Of 81 900 to the
officer of any ship that would go aboard
the schooner Neptune and bring her
safely into a Newfoundland port. The
announcement Of the reward was broad
cast by radio with the hope that some
ship would pause In its passage long
enough to bring hope and a victory over
the sea to the hero captain who has
refused to abandon his craft.
The Neptune was one OF the meet OF
fishing schooners which left here early
In December loaded With Winter supplies
and Christmas gifts.
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SENATOR WALSH TO TALK
TO NEWCOMERS CLUB
Organization Will Install New Of
hcers When It Meets on
Monday Night.

Senator David I. Walsh of Massachu-
sets will be honor guest and principal
speaker at the annual dinner of the
Newcomers Club, meeting at the Carl
ton Hotel on Monday night.
At that time officers will be installed
as follows: Henry P. Seidemann. presi-
dent; DR.. p. S. Constantinople and Rus
sell P. Freeman, vice presidents, and
Frank M. Elliott, treasurer.
Special guests at the dinner will in
clude the Minister of Panama, the
United States Minister to Costa RIGA,
George Boncesco, finance counselor of
the Rumanian legation; Commissioner
Dougherty, Charles Darr, president of
the Chamber of Commerce; DR.. Thomas
H. Healy. assistant dean of the Foreign
Service School, Georgetown University.
Capt. Charles Oman. U. s. NJ: ]. G.
Gibson and s. r. Detweiler.
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MERGER Is DELAYED.

Although efforts are being made TO
secure an early hearing on the per-
missive legislation recommended by the
Public Utilities Commission of the Dis
trict, to authorize a merger Of the street
railway companies, no definite arrange
ments has yet been made.
Chairman Mcleod of the subcommit-
tee on public utilities has been detained
in Detroit by illness in his family but
expects to reach Washington within a
few days. Other members of the SUBJ
committaR say that they have been be-
sieged by requests that an early hear
ing be granted on the merger proposal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
CENSUS TAKERS VISIT
BUSINESS HOUSES HERE
Fifty Special Agents Canvass Els.
Establishments With Annual
Sales Under 100000.

Fifty special agents are canvassing
the District today. collecting informa-
ton from Washingtons wholesale and
retail establishments for the compila-
ton of the first census of distribution
authorized by Congress In connection
with the decennial census.
The canvas starting here today will
cover the entire country. The so agents
making the Washington census will
later be sent to various sections of the
United States to supervise the work
there.
It is announced by the Department of
Commerce that information obtained
for the census will not be disclosed, but
will be used only for statistical tables.
The census taking today is being
limited only to those establishments
having annual sales OF less than
100000. The larger business houses
will be visited later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
PREVENTION OF CRIME,
TOPIC OF PEN WOMEN
Representative Hammer of North
Carolina to Address Dis
trict League.

Representative William c. Hammer of
North Carolina, member of the House
judiciary committee, will discuss Crime
Prevention Through Law Enforcement
before the civics sections of the Dis
trict League of American Pen Women,
meeting tomorrow night at the leagues
studio in the Stoneleigh Court apart
ment. The session will be devoted to
talks on the general theme Of crime
prevention through the agencies Of law,
education and literature.
Other speakers include Stephen f..
Kramer, first assistant superintendent
of schools. and DR.. j. Grin Powers CT
George Washington University.
DR.. Frances Moon Butts, chairman of
the civics section. will preside at the
meeting
A round-table discussion will be led
by Miss Elizabeth Malott Barnes, vice
president of the league.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
APPEALS COURT BACKS
MARYLAND DRY CHIEF
Refusal of Druggists Plea to Re-
new Permit Is Sustained
by Decision.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
United States Circuit Court Of Appeals
yesterday upheld Federal Prohibition
Administrator John r. j. Herbert Of
Maryland in refusing to reissue a drug
gist's permit to Clarence L. Anstine of
Baltimore.
The prohibition administrator, ac-
cording to the court record, had refused
to renew Anstine's permit on the ground
that he had conspired with a physician
In an alleged illegal sale of IA pints of
whisky. The District Court at Balti-
more ruled at the original hearing that
the permit should be granted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
W0MEN'S FLYING GIVEN
PRAISE IN RADIO SPEECH
Senator Key Pittman Lauds
Achievements of Sex Despite
Aviation Handicaps.

Declaring that women's achievements
In aviation establishes their right to a
place in the air." Senator Key Pitt
man Of Nevada, speaking last night as
part OF the National Womans Party
radio program. pointed out that this at
ta1nment marks another step by women
toward equality with men in all fields.
Senator Pittman, citing the lack of
women's flying schools in this country,
said that even in face of this 100
woman pilots are listed by the Depart
ment of Commerce.
Mrs. Will Irwin, novelist, will be the
speaker for next weeks program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16

apron and ramp into the water. This
area Is to be fenced and to include
for seaplanes all of the facilities pro-
vided for landplanes.
In order that the best possible types
Of construction and design may be pro-
vided in the airport buildings, it is
planned to hold an architectural COM
petition when the authority 10 proceed
is given by Congress, Mr.. Schmitt said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
CAR JUMPS TRACK
Seven Passengers Escape Injury az
Flames Follow Crash.

Seven passengers and the crew Of q
Capital Traction Co. street car escaped
injury shortly after o'clock this morn
ing when the car left the tracks,
crashed into the stone wall around
Gallaudet College at Eighth street and
Florida avenue northeast and caught
FIRE.
The "plow" held fast to the under
ground rail when the car swerved from
the tracks. Flames ,leaped from be-
meath the car. They were extinguished
by the Fire Department.
w. 3. Wilmington, the motormafi,
could not explain the accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
PENSACOLA TO BEGIN
SERVICE FEBRUARY 8
Second Of Eight New Cruisers to
Be Commissioned, With Compile.
ment of 538 Men.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclaIed PIebs.
The light cruiser Pensacola, second
of the eight 10000-ton vessels of the
Nays 1924 program to be completed,
will be commissioned at the New York
Navy Yard February 8.
The Pensacola will be commanded by
Capt. Alfred G. Howe, with a regular
complement of 538 enlisted men, be-
sides 80 chief petty officers, IL war
rant officers, 81 ward room officers and
l cabin officer.
With ten 8-inch guns and four s.
inch anti-aircraft guns, the Pensacola
carries two 3-pounder saluting guns and
two 21-inch triple torpedo tubes above
water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
W. F. Bulls Commissioned.

william r. Bulls, 2755 Macomh
street. this city, has been commissioned
by the War Department first lieu
tenant, Coast Artillery, Organized Re
serves Of the Army.
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mo MORE WAR;
PERSH|NG PRAYS
America Already Dis
armed Says General.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. "a. = People
say We should disarm; America al
ready is disarmed," General John j.
Pershing declares in an interview
published in the November issue of
the Country Home, out today.
The state of preparedness in this
country, Pershing charges, is "un-
fortunately back to the days before
the World war in which he was the
leader of the United States armies.
IT pray feverently that there will
be no more war;" Pershing says.
with all my soul I hate il.
I'VE know that we will not pro-
woke a war. But what is there in
history which authorizes us to con-
clude that some one else will not
provoke one some of these days? It
is not question of whether or not
We believe in war.
I'VE do not believe in fires or in
cendiarism. We do not believe in
crimes and gunner. But We have
fires and incendiarists and fires and
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FREED OF BANK
HOLDUP CHARGE
w. S. Raglan, Ex-ReSident
of City, Acquitted.

William S. Raglan, 30, former In
dianapolis resident, today stood ac-
quilted of a charge of robbing the
First National bank at Grant Park,
Ill. after trial Thursday at Kanka-
kee, Ill.
One time manager of the Indian
apolis branch of the Linde Air
Products Company, Ragan now is
serving a Observation-Disclosures SEN
tence at the Chester ml0 prison for
the attempted robbery of a second
bank at Fisher, Ill. He has been
identified by three other bank ex-
ecutives in Indiana and Illinois as
the bandit who robbed their inSti-
buttons, Illinois authorities declare.
While an Indianapolis resident,
Ragan lived with his wife and three
daughters at ALL East Washington
street. At the time of his arrest
for the Fisher (Ill) attempted bank
robbery he had been appointed to
the superintendency of a large Chi
cago plant of the Linde company.
At the trial Thursday the Illinois
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-24
new AUXILIARY
HEADS NAMED
PoCahontaS Adjourn State
ConCIaVe Here.

New officers Of the Indiana De
gree Of Pocahontas, Red Mems aux
iliary. began duties today following
adjournment of their annual state
convention here Thursday night.
Mrs. Josephine Caccady, Ander-
son. became great prophecies; Mrs.
CIovie Nicholas, indianapolis, great
instructress; Mrs. Goldie Greenlee,
Sullivan, great wenonah, and Mrs.
Bessie Meadows, Wolcott, great
pocahontas, all automatically ad-
vanced.
Elections we're won by Mrs. Lucie
Cuskadon, st. Paul, great mime
haha; Mrs. L. Cherry Ross, Shelby
vile, great keeper of records, and
Mrs. Osa Dauber, Connersville, great
trustee.
Among those reelected were Mrs.
Ida Hasty, Marion. great keeper OF
wampum: Mrs. Lena Butterworth,
Newcastle, and Mrs. Ella Wicker,
Terre Haute, great trustees.
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enca because she Is the daughter Of

ence because she is the daughter Of
great woman.
And 1 do know that the audience
when I was present enjoyed seeing
mother and daughter take curtain
call.
From a scenic standpoint, Scar
let Sister Mary" has been intelli-
gently produced.
Miss Barrymore will be on the
road for about four more weeks,
planning to open in her own
theater in New York Thanksgiving
week.
I am glad. although the play
failed to please me, that I saw Miss
Barrymore in this play because
stage history is being made
whether good or bad.
Indianapolis theaters today offer
Amos n Andy" at the Circle;
Monte Carlo" at the Indiana;
"Playboy Of Paris" at the Ohio;
Scotland Yard" at the Lyric;
Those Three French Girls at the
Palace: up the River" at the
Apollo; movies at the Colonial and
burleSque at the Mutual.
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AS to the play I do not consider
Scarlet Sister Mary" as now being
played, a good play or even a play.
II is too sketchy. 1t seems to me
that both Miss Barrymore and
Daniel Reed, who made the novel
into a play" we're afraid to create
81 May-e in her many birthin'
moods as Julia Peterkin created her
in book form as published by Bobbs-
Merrill Of this city.
would like to be kind to Miss
Barrymore, but find that can not
honestly do it. I sincerely believe
that this cast of white players can
not capture the charm, tragedy and
the superstition of these Negroes.
Maybe no white cast in the world
can do it.
If the answer is in the negative
on the part of the majority, then
all Sister Mary" has to draw is the
Barrymore name and the fact that
she is appearing in blackface.
1 am afraid that Miss Barrymore
and the director decided to make
Sister Mary too white both in dress
and soul. Sister Mary in the book
was miles away from being a lily.
Maybe they we're afraid of too
much realistic dirt, but the fact re-
mains in my judgment that Sister
Mary Of the book is miles away from
the type Of character which Miss
Barrymore has given the stage.
Tt is my personal opinion that
Ethel Barrymore is playing Sister
Mary in her regular drawing room
Style. 1t is only in the last act,
meaning the last scene when Unex
dies in the arms of his mother, Sis
ter Mary. that felt the great power
of Miss Barrymore.
Here is most difficult play to
produce, create and put over. It
does not mount and fails to get
started until the last scene in the
last act. We do not have well
rounded Characterization as yet on
the part Of Miss Barrymore.
The best in character work was
done by Horace Braham as Budda
Ben, Leo Kennedy as Counsin An
drew, especially EStelle Winwood as
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the black vampire of the plantation,
Cinder; Georgia Drew Mendum as
Doll and at times Beatrice Terry as
Maum Hannah.
For a snort time in the third
scene after July forsakes Sister
Mary, Miss Barrymore in makeup,
talk and temperament comes mighty
close to being the Mary that the
author intended. But she will not
let Mary run wild in her chase for
men. Or as she says in so many
worja-"I does ma sinnin' in ma
own way"
1t is impossible for ms to judge
the talents Of Miss Colt in this
play. I do know that she gets the
applause and sympathy of the audi
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TALKS AT CAR CRASH,
DRAWS SOCK ON NOSE
Bystander Expressed Opinion On
Fault; Ex-Pugilist Held.

w. S. Gilpin, 26, East Fourteenth
street, Apt. 302, today has swollen
nose, because he expressed an
opinion about a driver involved in
an auto accident Thursday night at
Illinois and Sixteenth streets.
And Joseph B. Dinkins, 25, of 3059
North Illinois street, former pugilist,
faces a charge Of assault and battery
for silencing Gilpin'S opinions.
Gilpin told police he walked over
to Dinkins' car after the minor ac-
cident and, having witnessed it, told
whom he thought was to blame.
Dinkins took offense and swung,
breaking Gilpin's glasses as well as
bruising his face, police were told.
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Bankers Association sought to
thwart application for Ragan's pa
role.
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In addition to the strange make
Up used by Miss Barrymore and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-24
Seeks to Begin Truck Line

]. M. Powell of Brooklyn, Ind,
has petitioned the public service
commission for permission to oper-
ate truck line between Indian
apolis and Martinsville. Interurban
service between these points will be
abandoned Oct. 81, by commission
order.
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Charlottesville Man Dies

BU IiMeS NDeCt0I
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Oct.
24.-James NJ. Waugh. II, president
of the Oriental Brick Corporation, is
dead after short illness. He was
a graduate of Purdue university and
a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
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INCOME TAX FRAUD IS
CHARGED TO FIRM
Chicago Contractors Indicted in
100000 Shortage in Return.

100000 Shortage in Return.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. PA federal
grand jury Thursday returned true
bills charging the 'Dowdle Brothers
Company. general contractors, with
100000 income tax fraud.
George E. Q. Johnson. United
States district attorney, said the in
dictments formed part of his plan
ito blast corrupt politics in Chi
cago."
The Dowdle brothers firm OBJ
tanned many of the rich contracts
let by former members of the Sani-
tary district, most of whom since
have been indicted on one charge or
another involving graft.
The indictments named the firm,
Thomas P. Dowdle, president, and
Raymond R. Dowdle, treasurer.
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Club Federation Meets.

BIZ Times Special
LIBERTY, Ind. Oct. 24.-The
Union County Federation of Clubs
is holding its fall meeting here to-
day. Mrs. Paul G. Miller, Mt. Sum-
NIT, Sixth district chairman, gave
the principal address.