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Evening star., 1930-12-12
BANDIT USES TAXI
TO FLEE WITH LOOT
CompeIs Driver to Take Him
to District Line-Other
'HoId-upS Reported.

Forcing taxicab driver to drive him
to the District line, a bandit fed into
Maryland early today after holding up
Melvin Christina, colored, manager of
a gasoline filling station, robbing him
of s22.
The hacker, John Belk of 1127
Fourth street, told police he was hailed
at Eighteenth street and Florida avenue
and instructed by his fare to drive to
the gas station.
The man pushed pistol into Belk's
side as the cab came to halt in the
driveway and commanded the taxi
driver to precede him into the Office,
where he stepped back and covered
both Christina and Belk with his gun,
ordering the former open the cash
register.
Gives $22 to Bandit.
Christina surrendered his nights re-
ceipts, about S22, and Belk said he was
made to drive to the District line on
Wisconsin avenue, where a touring car
was awaiting the robber.
Two other hold-ups were staged In
the District last night. Two boys walked
into the store of Mrs. Minnie Jablow,
93l Potomac avenue, and rifled the cash
register They threatened Mrs. Jablow
with a pistol, she told police.
Fred Adams of 301 N street southwest,
q driver for the Black & White Taxicab
Co, had only an empty billfold and q
bank book to offer when two men pulled
a gun on him in the 2100 block ef
Eighth street and searched his clothing.
The men answer the description Of the
colored bandits who have held up and
robbed several cab drivers here during
the past two weeks.
Others Are Robbed.
Other robberies were reported by
Anita Lemon, Hayes Burnett and Ar
thur Thomas, 926 S Street; Frank B.
Upton, 1924 Farragut street; Charles L.
Bartlett, Apartment "a, 304 F street;
Weimer Cooksey, 1901 Third street
northeast; Harry o. White, 616 Twelfth
street; Henry A. Renze, Apartment 302,
l101 Euclid street; Miss Anne Goldman,
40l5 Fourteenth street; Ritchie Park,
1926 Sixteenth street; Helen F. Chamb-
lin, Northbrook Courts; Henry Mat
thews, 1735 First street; Emanuel Le-
vine, 1889 Seventh street; Hobart M.
Tucker, 2114 Fourteenth street; Ray
mond Goodwin, 812 Twelfth street, and
Helen Peddinghouse, 17o5 East Capitol
street.
Evening star., 1930-12-12
Will of Student
Asks That Body Be
Used for Science
Martin C. Burghard, Who
Took Own Life, Also
Provides for Book Sale.

Leaving his life insurance policies to
his mother, Martin Calhoun Burghard, a
30-year -old writer who committed sui
eide December 8, requested that his
body be used for scientific purposes in
his will filed for probate today in Dis
trict Supreme Court by Policeman Gil
bert j. Penturff.
Burghard's body was found in a gas
filled attic room in the 1400 block of
Massachusetts, avenue.
His will indicates he had an engage.
rnent with a young woman on the night
Of his death, which she failed to keep.
He previously had written into the docu-
ment that she receive the first $500
from the sale Of his book Of poems,
which he directed to be bound With his
own skin and this provision was strick-
en- out after she failed to keep the tryst.
A notation in handwriting on the
typewriter will read, "Excision Of
paragraphs and due to failure of
young lady to meet me. Am greatly
disappointed"
The will, signed by Burghard and
witnessed by two persons, closes with
ION this 9th day Of December in the
year Of our Lord (or somebody else's
Lord), 1890"
Burghard provides further that Oscar
r. Strackbein be given all his books
and directed to sell, If possible, his body
or, failing to do so, to turn it over to
medical students. Strackbein also is to
have all the proceeds from the sale Of
the book, II any.
Blrghard explained that 81 am not
so credulous as to believe this q will.
II Is. however, what ! would have
wished had I compliad with legalities. /"
Evening star., 1930-12-12
PEPCO STAND PUTS
RATE. HEARING OFF
Exercises Right to Demand Ten.
Day Notice From Utilities
Commission.

Inc Potomac Electric Power Co To-
oay refused to waive the 10 davs notice
OF an intention to hold a public IearinT
on the 1891 electric rates for WASH
ngOon which is its legal right. since
Ile Fuoilc Utilities Commission has
oecioed on, advice Of counsel to hold
sucn st an open hearing, this means that
Cne nearing cannot be had until De-
cemoeN 80, at the earliest.
~ 9Nnot known whether IL will hs
nad at that date. After the companyS
\ ~ Gays, which expires December 20
Lnere must be further period of III
Is, held VAC Aie oil ing
The commission today received a let
yer from President William F. Ham Of
tne ccor1~7ny notifying 1t of the COM
panys Inatr I@,usal to waive its rights. The
Following the practice since the de-
cree OF December 81, 1924, in the case of
tEotomac Electric Power Co., representa-
IVeS OF the company called upon Won
70 ascertain whether or not it would he
agreeable as heretofore TO advance the
uaIe Ior the hling Of schedules proyidinr
ZOE the reduction Of rates to be CHARGED
tne public for electric service durIng
zig year 1881 SC that the reduced rates
might become effective the Ist of Ian
uary. Finding the, Commission thus
agreeable, we have had several con-
1erences with you and members of your
stan, ana the peoples counsel. as To
the amount TO be applied hinder said de-
cree IN the reduction of rates. for next
year, and an agreement was reached
whereby the sum Of $3.50, 900 would be
applied N the Reduction of rates for
1881. Thereafter. we discussed with
you the application OF said amount Ia
the various schedules.
"As the commission has heretofore
ruled that no public hearings were
necessary in making said rate reduc.
tions, we are unable ito see now the
necessity therefor. Under all the exist
ing circumstances, we regret that we
cannot see our way clear to waive the
10 days notice Of intention to hold such
hearing to which we are entitled under
the lawe ~
Evening star., 1930-12-12
MAN IS ARRESTED
AS H|T-RUN DRIVER
Capture Follows SIeuthing
After Death of Victim,
Mrs. Julia Dunlop.

Through tedious process of elimi-
nation, with only two numbers of q
license plate to guide him, Patrolman
Earl p. Hartman today arrested the
auto driver who, he believed, ran down
and fatally injured Mrs. Julia Dunlop,
IS years old, of 1901 X street, at FIJI
teenth and L streets on Wednesday and
then fed.
The motorist, Willie Barnes, colored,
81 years old, of 1915 Ninth street, is
said to have confessed that he was the
operator and was held for grand jury
action by a coroner's jury.
Joe Lee Barlow. colored, 20 years old,
Of 14l6 Sixth street, whom testimony
disclosed was an occupant of the car
at the time of the accident, was also
held for the grand jury and confined
to the jail Barnes is charged with
manslAughter at No. precinct, while
Barlow is held as an accessory to the
crime for failing to report the accident
to. police.
Had Only Meager Description.
Patrolman Hartman was assigned to
make an investigation of the case by
Capt. j. F. Beckett of No. 3 station
short time after. the mishap. Hartman
was given only two tag numbers and
a general description Of the car to as
siSt him in his probe.
After nearly two days of constant
study of the District Automobile License
Directory, Hartman compiled a list of
machines on whose tags the two num-
bers appeared, and which likely would
travel over the route followed by the
hit-and- run car In escaping after the
accident.
Auto Loaned TO Car Washer.
In his quest. Hartman came upon the
name OF Charles Lindsey, a salesman
for the Warf1eld Motor Co., at 1130
Connecticut avenue, and an examina-
ton OF Lindsey's machine revealed that
headlight had recently been repaired
The owner of the car expressed sur
prise at the discovery and told Hart
man that his machine had been bor-
rowed on Wednesday by Barnes, a car
washer at Warfleld's, and that the coll
ored man had driven to his home for
sn automobile key and returned the car.
Ninth December Traffic Death.
Hartman placed Barnes under arrest
when he appeared for work this morn
ing, and said he obtained a confession
from his prisoner q short time after
ward
! Barnes told Lindsey and Hartman
when questioned that he drove to the
garage of Hill & Tibbjtts, at Four
teenth street and Ohio avenue, after
the accident and had repairs made to
the headlight, which was damaged
when he struck the woman.
Mrs. DunlopS death yesterday ct
Emergency Hospital from injuries sufs
fered In the accident was the ninth to
occur here as the result Of trafic mis-
haps since December /.
Evening star., 1930-12-12
JOBLESS AND NOT DARING TODIE.
NEEDY MOTHER ASKS JURY LISTING
Rooming House Income Insufficient for Expenses Asks
to Be Considered as Possible Juryman.

the unemployed, who will be summoned
for jury duty. Mine will not be on the
G. Of c. list I am a widowed mother
OF family and have not held Job be-
cause Ill health kept me at home. I
keep roomers to help keep a home, but
expenses are way ahead of income and
cannot seem 70 And any job
feel that a woman, poor and gray
and as ought to pass out and take small
children with her. I have not that
courage and the kids suffer. The three
dependents are girl 13, boy 8 and a
girl 10. They eat, go. to school and
back home and not even an occasional
movie. Home is UP for sale for taxes. I
cannot seem to borrow that much.
4. Please list me, doubt ever being
called then. put applications in every
where, but the system says IS years or
over Is barred from earning q living
and one dare not die.''
Evening star., 1930-12-12

" >. But the system says IS
years or over is barred from earning
living and one dare not die"
Dare not die; she couldn't dare-not
with three children. An S-year-old
son, two young daughters, were her
excuses, the widow wrote. for applying
for jury duty.
Her letter was one Of several sim
mar pleas received yesterday by Edgar
G. Snyder. United States marshal, who
has proposed to have the Jury Com
mission call for duty as many as pos
sible of Washington's unemployed from
b list compiled by the Chamber of
Commerce.
Some applicants have their names on
the list, others sought to be enrolled
there. AS for the widow, this was
how she stated her case:
please add my name to the list of
Evening star., 1930-12-12
S%~%%%@%
} MERRY CHRISTMAS

The seals are being sold through the
mail and at a number of banks, de-
partment stores and schools which the
tuberculosis Association lists and warns
that any attempts to capitalize the
sale of Christmas seals for individual
gain should be promptly reported to
the seal sale headquarters of the as
sociation at 1922, Eleventh street."
Private, schools which are now SELL
ing the seals are as follows: Sidwell's
Friends School, Miss Madeira's School,
Mount Vernon Seminary, National
Cathedral School for Girls, st. Adams
School for Boys. The patients Of the
tuberculosis Hospital are also au-
thorized to sell the seals.
Evening star., 1930-12-12
BEGGAR WITH POCKETS BULGING
CHANGES BILL FOR HOUSEWIFE
Expects to Start Roomng House Proceeds of Appeals
Which Total S13.5O in One Day.

The half-blind beggar ringing door
bells in the 1000 block of Montana
avenue yesterday was going to retire
soon, he said.
Not that he was at first disposed to
mention such rosy prospect. hugging
his hat with a manned forearm before
the door of the corner house
The information slipped from him,
however, when professionalism gave way
to a human desire to boast bit.
Lady" he began. addressing house.
wife, who asked that her name be with
held, could you give me so cents2"
The mans eyes were half-blind, the
wind sifted through his overcoat and
he 9huffled unhappily In broken shoes.
Evening star., 1930-12-12
MAN OVERCOME BY MONOXIDE GAS
FROM TRUCK IS KILLED BY TRAILER
Employe of Washington Cathedral Dies Instantly When
Struck by Fourteen-Ton Vehicle.

the lockwood was loaded being drawn
by two trucks.
AS they were pulling up the long
grade on Oakcrest Hill shortly before
5 O'Clock this morning Ferren got of
the truck on which he was riding and
was walking between the truck and
trailer when he was seen by other work.
men to slump to the road, calling for
help as he did so.
Policemen Hugh Jones, John r. Burke
and Jack Conway, Of the Arlington
County force, went to the acene and
notified Coroner B. H. Swain, who
issued q certificate of accidental death.
So thick was the fog at. the point
where the accident occurred that the
police remained until daylight to direct
trafde around the trucks and traileR
Evening star., 1930-12-12

beggar waited. oh" said the house.
wife, I've only q IS bill"
II can change 1t, lady"
you can change it2 In that case I
can spare you only 10 cents. Perhaps
husband does at his job2"
The beggar hesitated. Yes, lady"
ne said, note Of pride in his voice. "I
took in $3.50 yesterday" Then he
produced from his pockets a $40 bill, a
Slo bill and four 81 bills. The other
hand brought UP quantity of silver.
Yes, lady, can change your bill all
right" And he gave the housewife
$4.90 in exchange for her S5 note.
You see," he said shukling on,
I'm going . start rooming house
when ] take In enough7-I don't like 10
be@"
Evening star., 1930-12-12
Nv a star oorr.spondent of the star

By q Btam CorTeSponuent OF the Btar.
ARLINGTON, Va, December Ia
Thought to have been overcome by
carbon monoxide gas from q slowly
moving truck that he was walking be-
hind, Morris j. FerTell. colored, an
employe Of the Washington Cathedral,
fell beneath heavy trailer on Oakcrest
Hill early this morning and was In
stantly killed. The trailer and load
weighed approximately IA tons.
Ferrell, along with several other
colored mer, had accompanied Charles
H. Merryman, superintendent Of grounds
for the cathedral, to Prince George
County, Va, to transport q large box
wood bush to Washington. They started
back on @aesday, the trailer On which
Evening star., 1930-12-12
ARMY GIVES SUPPLIES
TO RELIEVE JOBLESS
Bedding Sent to Welfare Agencies
at Direction of Secretary of
War Hurley.

Seeking TO relieve the unemployment
sued large quantities of bed supplies
% local welfare organizations, of1cials
disclosed today. The work has been
done at the special direction of Secre-
tary Of War Hurley.
Included were $3.50 bed sacks, $50
blankets, 400 sheets, $50 cots and 200
mattresses. They were distributed
through the Salvation Army, the Gen.
tral Union Mission, the Volunteers Of
America and similar organizations.
The same policy has been carried
cut throughout the country by the
Army.
Evening star., 1930-12-12
PEDESTRIAN INJURED

Mrs. Josephine Gahney, Al years old,
Of 1924 Massachusetts, avenue was In
jured seriously last night when struck
down In the HOO block of Fourteenth
street by an automobile said to have
been operated by Roy s. Coffman of
6l9 New Jersey avenue. Mrs. Gaffney
Is In Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1930-12-12

passed the half
way mark toward
the seasons goal
of S45, 900.
The money thus
far raised has come
through the sale
of 2,300,00 seals.
Good progress was
reported yesterday
in the sale of seals
at the women's
booths located in
the shopping dis
tf.int
Evening star., 1930-12-12
SCHOOL PLANS APPROVED
Anthony ]. Bowen Institution Ad-
dition to Cost s13O,oOo.

The District Commissioners today ap-
proved plans drawn by Municipal Archi-
tect Albert L. Harris for Q 12-room ad-
dition to the Anthony j. Bowen School,
Second and M streets southwest, esti-
mated to cost $130,0O0.
The Engineer Departments chief
clerk was instructed to advertise for
Evening star., 1930-12-12
CHRISTMAS SEAL
SALES TOTAL $4,000
Half of Goal Set by tuberculosis
Association Now Oh.
tanned.

The sale Of Christmas seals for the
local tuberculosis Association, with the
receipts of cash totaling 5000, re-
ported at the associations headauar-
fore laef ,tfubf hoe
Evening star., 1930-12-12
Recommend Australian Wool Tax.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand [R.-
New Zealand wool-growing interests to-
day recommended wool tax for estab-
lishment of a central fund for research
and publicity in overseas markets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-30
LAWRENCE REVOLT
FEARED BY TURKS
Famed British Asiatic Mystery
Man Rumored to Be Near
Frontier.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARDINE, Turkey, April 30.-A re-
port that Col. Lawrence, famous British
Asiatic undercover man is at Revanduz,
town near the Turkish frontier in the
desert region between Iraq and Persia,
has aroused considerable speculation in
the Turkish press.
els he planning an uprising In Persia
or Turkey?" scareheads demand, and
the press goes on to assert that the
Turkish government Is carefully watch
ing the colonels whereabouts and
doings.
The proximity of RevanduZ to Tur-
keys Kurdish Provinces, seat of Sheik
Said's revolt and home of still unruly
tribes, explains Turkish nervousness
regarding the reported presence of the
author of Revolt in the Desert" who.
according to Turkish opinion, Is author
of his subject in more than the literary
sense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-30
TWO BURNED ALIVE
IN REFINERY BLAST
Blazing Oil, Spread by Water,
Does 100000 Damage
in Chicago.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 30.-Two men were
burned alive in oil early today in ar
explosion at the refinery of the Dabros
Products Corporation. Four Others
escaped unhurt, dragging with them g
fifth, so severely burned he is not ex-
pected to live.
The spread of the blazing oil, follow
ing the explosion, for time threatened
large portion of the industrial dis
trict. Oficials of the refinery placed
the damage at $4,000. including the
loss of oil.
Tank Cars Moved.
Several fi;e companies prevented the
blaze from spreading to two huge
storage tanks, less than 100 feet away
containing thousands of gallons Of high
~ infiammable crude oil, while on the
nearby tracks of the Outer Belt Rail-
road switch engines pushed close to
the blazing refinery to save a number
of oil cars.
Maintained at a refining temperature
of TOO degrees Farenheit, one of the
500-gallon stills is believed to have be-
come overheated while oil was being
poured into it, causing the explosion
which sent q column of oil through the
metal roof and one side of the plant.
James Fleming, foreman Of the ex-
ploding still, was one of those burned
to death. In laboratory 20 feet away
the body of Wallace Hitch, %, recently
a graduate student at the University
of Chicago, was found. Kitch had en-
tered the refinery's employ only two
days ago. He had been trapped by the
wall of fire. His home was in Canton,
Ohio.
Four Others Escape.
-Four others, working at the other
still in the plant, reached a doorway
safely. They were Joseph Mcclure, a
foreman; Frank Jesslis, John Mcguire
and Edward Sikora. A fifth, Jerome
Sukes, apparently was walking toward
the exploding still and was burned by
the shower Of Oil. He staggered toward
the same doorway, fell and was dragged
along by the others.
Firemen found 1t impossible to check
the blaze in the building, as the water
only spread the burning oil. For sew
eral hours, they turned their streams
of cold lake water onto the storage
tanks to prevent them from exploding.
Nearby was the plant of the Swan 81
Fitch Refinery, and for a time 1t, too
was threatened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-30
MESSENGER ''LOST"
ON WAY T0L0NDON
Cairo Unable to Explain
Failure" of Envoy to
Reach England.

By Radio to The Star and Chicago paily
News. Copyright, 1880.
LONDON, England, April 30.-Tht
Egyptian special messenger, who shoult
have brought final instructions tc
Premier Nahas PaSha on Monday here
In connection with the negotiations fol
a treaty with Great Britain, is LOST
somewhere in France"
When the motor car of the Egyptian
delegation went to Croydon to pick ur
the special envoy, it was found that
only minor official had arrived. The
explanation given was that the special
messenger had landed In France under
the impression that most of the Egyp-
tan delegates were still at Vichy.
Premier Nahas Pasha is alleged to
have been much troubled, and to have
asked Cairo for information. Cairo re-
piled officially that the envoy had never
left the city and that the young for
eign office official who had reached
Croydon had not been sent on any spe-
cial mission.
According to reliable information, 1t
appears that the special messenger sent
with the Cairo cabinets reply to the
British proposals had been ordered to
delay his arrival in London, even at
the price Of a comic opera blunder. The
Egyptian cabinet, following the advice
of Premier Nahas and King Fuad, de-
cided to leave out Of the present treaty
the question of the Sudan and accept
the British proposals with some minor
changes.
According to reports from Cairo, the
extreme Nationalist, aided by students
of Alhazar University and young grad
yates Of European universities, are
pressing the government to allow them
to begin riotous demonstration to
intimidate the British government and
thus render Premier Nahas' task In
London easier. enabling Inn to say to
the British delegates, "I am willing to
sign the agreement, but you see that
popular feeling in Egypt is running
high and that neither myself nor my
government would be safe unless I re-
turned to Cairo with full agreement
sharing the administration Of the
Sudan"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-30
''Handout'' on War
Losses VS.. Traffic
Creates Mystery
War Department Statistics
Evidently Meant to Show
Relative Safety i'm Battle.

While the naval limitation treaty,
fresh from London and hailed as an
other step in accordance with the pur-
pose of the Kellogg pact to outlaw war,
was being brought to Washington today
and started on its official journey to-
ward the Senate, the War Department
at the same time was making public in
the District of Columbia and sending
TO all the States figures to show that
the casualties of war are not nearly SO
severe as those caused by automobiles
in times of peace.
A mimeographed press release from
the press branch Of the War Depart
ment on this subject today resulted in
considerable mystery. At first it was
not apparent whether the Army was
engaging in propaganda in favor of
stricter traffic regulations or was trying
to show that war was not such bad
thing after ALL
Some facetious persons even went so
far as to suggest that, n view of the
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