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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
YOUTHS SENTENCED
TO 5YEAR TERMS
Two Plead Guilty to Rob-
beries-Third Is Given Sus-
pended Penalty.

Two youths known as the hoy pan-
dts" received five-year prison sentences
from Justice Peyton Gordon yesterday
afternoon when they pleaded guilty In
District Supreme Court on three counts
each of robbery. They were Clyde M
Fisher, 20 years old, and Vincent Del
cher, IL years old, both OF Rochester
N. Y.
Accused as a third member of the
band, Joseph A. Cross, Is years old, OF
Washington, received a four-year sus-
pended sentence and was placed on pro-
baton for that time. 1t was said that
Cross took part in only one hold-up, al
that time cutting telephone wires. He
entered a guilty plea.
Fisher and Delcher admitted they fol-
lowed Robert Croce from his grocery at
Fifteenth street and Massachusetts,
avenue to his home at 1925 B street
southeast, robbing him of $125 on the
night of November %.
Six nights later they held up a filling
station at Fifteenth and D streets
southeast, where they obtained 500. On
the same night the pair robbed the op-
orator of filling station at 2715 Penn
sylvania avenue of S100.
Sadie Brooks, colored, who recently
pleaded guilty to manslaughter in con-
neCIlOn WIFI CIle usdLn Oh WUtLdIL
Edmonston, also colored, July %, was
sentenced today by Justice Gordon tc
serve seven years in the penitentiary
She had been indicted for murder in
the second degree but was allowed to
plead to the lesser offense. She stabbed
Edmonston at 251 Warren street north
east when she claimed he had attempted
to dominate her life.
Others Go to Prison.
Roland Dorsay was given term Of
four years in the penitentiary for rob-
berry. He is said to have struck Charles
S. Dracos over the head with bottle
and to have robbed him.
Peter D'Agistino and Joe Anzolone
both of PaSsaic, N. j., were sent to the
penitentiary for three years each by
Justice Gordon for violating the Har-
rfson narcotic law. The men were APP
pretended in a Federal dragnet at
Union Station July 26. Five large dope
rings along the Atlantic seaboard are
said to have been smashed by the au-
thorities as a result of the arrest OF
the men. They were indicted october
and recently pleaded guilty.
DR.. F. William Ferris. 204 F street
practicing physician, charged in an in
dictment containing seven counts with
sale of narcotics without using Gov
eminent blanks and with possession OF
narcotics, was given a sentence of is
months on each count, to run concur
rently. He was arrested October 16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
Automobile Escapes
Policeman for Fifth
Time Using Smoke
Screen Allows Bootlegger
to Gut Back and Elude
His Pursuer.

A bootlegger whose automobile was
equipped with smoke screen and siren,
eluded Policeman H. M. Smith of the
Traffic Bureau for the fifth time late
last night after an extended chase
through the northwest section during
which Smith fired three shots from
his revolver in an effort to puncture
the tires of the leading machine.
His life twice placed in danger by
swirling smoke, which enabled the
bootlegger to cut back and disappear
in an alley, Smith called at the eighth
precinct station to post lookout. only
to learn that the license number Of his
own automobile had been reported by
a pedestrian.
Smith, who lives at 2514 Fourteenth
street, said he observed a familiar auto
mobile at the entrance to Scaton street,
between u and V streets, near Florida
avenue. as he was returning to his
home about midnight.
Il had chased the car before and
Immediately drove behind it," he said.
1.-The car was driven along v street
to Champla:n street and the driver let
the smoke ON me. 1 shot at his tires
and a moment later I noticed he had
pulled to the side of the street, under
cover of the smoke, and before I could
stop he had turned and was beating
back was blowing my whistle and he
was using a siren. with a result that
traffic opened up to him.
He turned in a short street run
ming off Columbia road after giving
me the smoke second time and ran in
an alley. Then ] lost trace of him and
was unable to locate the car"
Smith, who formerly was a plain
clothes man at the eighth precinct,
said he recognized the car at once as
one he had chased four times. The
combinstio of smoke screen and siren
proved too much for him each time, he
said, adding that the man was "a
great driver"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
HORSE RACE GAMBLING
DEFENDANT SENTENCED
60-Day Jail Term and $3.50 Fine
Imposed on Harry Conn-Judge
Cites Leniency.

Harry Conn, SO years old, recently
convicted Of accepting a bet on the re-
suit of horse race, was sentenced to-
day by Justice Peyton Gordon in Grim
ina Division to serve so days in jail
and to pay a fine Of $3.50. He noted
an appeal.
In response to plea Of Attorney
Harry Whelan for clemency, Justice
Gordon declared that the jury had ex-
tended all possible leniency when it
convicted Conn only of misdemeanoe
when he had been tried for a felony
charge of setting up a gaming table on
the third floor of 1910 G street last
June.
The jury had acquitted Edward Kill
leen, Kirk Callenberger, Henry Tucker
and Bonnie Lewis, who had been joint
ly indicted with Conn.
Assistant United States Attorney Will
liam H. Collins conducted the prosecu-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
DEPICTS POMPEII
OF FROZEN NORTH
Arctic Explorer Tells of Flourish
ing Eskimo Village That
Disappeared.

A sort Of Pompen of the frozen North,
where the population of flourishing
village of Eskimos disappeared during
the last century, leaving no clues Of
what became of them, was described
last night before members of the Ma
tional Geographic Society by Capt.
Robert A. Bartlett, Arctic explorer The
settlement was on Shannon Island, OFF
the northeast coast of Greenland, 700
miles above the Arctic circle, which
Capt. Bartlett visited last Summer in
his veteran ship, the Morrissey. Thirty
eight ruins Of stone houses were found
on the island in reasonably good con-
dition and in them we're the sewing i'm
plements of women, the toys of chill
dren and household and hunting uten-
sis left, apparently, as If their owners
only a brief absence.
First Visited in 1923.
The settlement on Shannon Island
was first visited by Europeans in 1923.
When the next recorded visit was made,
in 1870, the village had been deserted
Only a few parties of white men have
been to the island since 1870. The rea-
son why this coast of Greenland has
been SO seldom touched by ships. Capt
Bartlett said is that 1t is usually eff
fectually fenced off by an impenetrable
field of heavy ice $50 miles thick that
extends north of Iceland and along the
Greenland coast. Conditions were I'M
usually favorable last Summer, Capt.
Bartlett found, and to this he ascribes
the success of his expedition in getting
through. Probably not more than once
In so years, on the average, can such
an easy passage be counted on, he de-
clared.
Motion pictures exhibited by Capt.
Bartlett last evening showed the heavy
ice through which the Morrissey pushed
its way, the work of excavation and
wild animal life on Shannon Island and,
at Musk Ok Ftord on the mainland and
the trip down the coast toward home.
Myriads Of Birds Found.
Both on Shannon Island and the
mainland the party found myriads of
birds-barnacle geese, gray geese, other
waterfowl and numerous song birds
from Europe. In addition to musk oxen
they found Arctic hares. foxes and
polar bears. On the trip home they en-
cotntered of lower Greeland a large
narwhal and obtained one of the few
motion picture studies of that animal.
The creature is known as 1.-THE uni
corn of the ocean" because of the long
spearlike horn that projects from its
head. The norwhal encountered by
the MOrrissey was between15 and 40
feet long and had q horn estimated to
be seven feet In length.
On the outward trip Capt. Hartlett
put IN at Reykjavik, capital of iceland.
which he declared to be one u the
eleanest cities he had ever visited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
Samuel Everham and William
Thornton Are Thrown Into
WindshieIdS.
BOTH VICTIMS UNABLE
TO EXPLAIN ACCIDENT
Police Report Declares Red Lights
: and Street Illumination Marked
Six-Foot Obstruction.

Two men were seriously injured when
their light sedan plowed into dirt from
q street excavation on Rhode Island
avenue at Twenty-eighth street north
east in the early morning hours today.
The men-Samuel Everham. As years
old. attached to the Spring Grove Hos
pital at Gainesville, Md and William
Thornton, 25 years old, believed to be
of the same address-had spent last
night In Washington and were en- route
TO Baltimore.
Machine Hits Dirt Pile.
Going east on Rhode Island avenue,
their machine hurtled into pile of dirt
perhaps six feet high The dirt had
been thrown up yesterday by the Water
Department and. according to the po-
lice report, was under street lights ana
was further marked from the approach
side by two red lights.
Both men were rendered unconscious
BY the shock, which demolished the
front end of their cars and threw them
into the windshield. A passing motor
ist notified police and the injured men
were removed to hospitals, Everham to
Eibley and his companion to Casualty.
At Sibley Hospital Everham was
treated for possible fracture OF the
skull and collar bone and for deep cuts
about the head, tongue and knees. He
later was transferred to Gallinger Hospi-
tai, where his condition was called I'M
determined.
Unable to Explain Crash.
Thornton sustained a fractured skull
and cuts about the head. Both men
were semi-conscious at late hour today
and unable to give an account of the
accident. Police were unable to locate
any witnesses.
Policemen I. H. limbaugh and L. w.
Kelley of No. IL precinct investigated
the accident.
The accident occurred at 6 o'clock,
shortly before daylight. Police, who
could not learn Thornton's address,
notified relatives Of Eyerham.
Run Down by Truck.
Dragged nearly 40 feet when run
down by a truck at Thirteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue last night,
DR.. Harry Dunbar, 81 years old, of 4424
Greenwich parkway, today was in
Emergency Hospital.
Ernest Phillips, colored, az years old,
of Silver Spring, Md, the truck driver,
is being held by first precinct police
pending the outcome of the physicians
injuries.
Three persons received minor injuries
In two other traffic accidents yesterday
afternoon and last night
George Joseph Baur, SO years old, of
Sill Sheridan street, and Robert Blair
Shaw, "a years old, Of TIC Somerset
place, were treated at Walter Reed Hos
pital after their automobiles collided at
Eighth and Rittenhouse streets. Both
machines overturned.
Thomas H. Downes, 81 years old, of
the 800 block street southeast, was cut
slightly when a machine driven by Will
liam @. Kloman of the 1400 block Gal
latin street, struck him at Twentieth
street and New Hampshire avenue.
Downes was treated at Emergency Hos
pital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
D|SBARMENT CASE
ARGUMENTS MADE
Five Justices Hear Counsel in
Bar Association Move
Against R. G. Donaldson.

Five District Supreme Court Justices
who failed to reach an agreement last
June on the application of the Grievance
Committee of the bar for the disbarment
of r. Golden Donaldson heard argyll
ments today Of counsel for the accused
lawyer and for the committee.
Mr.. Donaldson, former president of
the Commercial National Bank and for
many years a member of the District
bar, was accused Of obtaining from the
Boyle Robertson Construction Co. fees
totaltng 100000 for securing contracts
for the company to erect buildings on
which the F. H. Smith Co. had placed
loans and could control the letting of
contracts. Donaldson was said to
have been attorney for the Smith COM
pany at the time.
A general term viii be held by Chief
Justice Wheat and Justices Siddons,
Hitz, Bailey and Gordon, but no wit
nesses will be reheard. Testimony of
witnesses occupied two days, June 16
and II last, and on June 80 the court
announced that rehearing would be
granted in October. It was taken to
mean at that time that with the ap-
pointment Of the additional justices to
the bench and the return of Justice
Stafford, who was Ill, that a larger
number of justices would be available
to rehear the case
When the testimony was concluded
June IT, the case was submitted by
both sides without argument, and now
1t has been decided that the same five
justices shall hear arguments of counsel
on the record as concluded last June.
Attorney William z. Leahy will repre-
sent Mr.. Donaldson and Attorneys j.
Wilmer Latimer and G. Bowdoin Craig
hill will appear for the Grievance
Committee.
The contracts, said to have been OBJ
tanned through the aid of Donaldson,
were for the building of Cathedral
Mansions and the Fifth Avenue Apart
ments in Pittsburgh and for the Boule-
ward Apartments In Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
CHRISTMAS OBSERVANCE
WILL OPEN TOMORROW
Friendship House to Present Pro-
gram of Carols and Stories
in Afternoon.

A program of carols and stories will
launch Christmas festivities tomorrow
afternoon at Friendship House, 326
Virginia avenue southeast. The pro-
gram will start at 4:30 o'clock and
will feature solos by Doris H. Tucker
and selections by the Girls Glee Club.
Harry and Elsie Reaper will sing a
duet and Catherine Evans will sing
"Mary's Manger Song" A Christmas
lullaby will be sung by Aileen Martin,
Margaret Watts and Florence Dean.
Two Christmas stories will be told by
Miss Ellen De Shields. Miss Esther
Linkins is director of the Sing Song
Club, and Miss Doris H. Tucker will
lead the Boys and Girls Glee Clubs in
the carol singing.
A tree celebration for pre-school
classes will be held Tuesday, December
%, at 10 am. The dinner and tree
celebration for the children of the day
home will take place Wednesday, De-
cember "a, beginning at / pm. From
6 to 8 pm. Christmas eve the groups
will sing carols. A party for the boys
and girls Of early teen age will be
given Friday evening, followed later by
the Young Peoples Social Dance Club
party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
SENATE BODY O.K.'S
SCHOOL FARES CUT
WITH COMPROMISE
Modifies House 2-Cent Pro-
posaI to Give Utilities Body
More Power.
HALF OF ADULT CHARGE
is FIXED AS MAXIMUM
Copeland Feels Substitute Bill Fair.
Traction Companies Accept
Reduction in Principle.

The bill to establish a reduced fare
for school children on cars and buses,
which passed the House at the last
session, moved a step nearer enact
ment late yesterday when the Senate
District Committee authorized Chair
man Capper to make favorable report
on a rewritten measure.
Senator Capper filed the report be-
fore the Senate adjourned last night,
so the bill is on the calendar and may
be considered the next time the Senate
takes up the calendar.
Half Fares Made Maximum.
AS reported from committee. the bill
empowers and directs the Public Utili-
school fare should be, provided it shall
not exceed half the adult fare. The
House bill sought to have Congress fix
2 cents as the school fare.
The Senate substitute was drafted by
the Utilities Commission in conformity
with the suggestion outlined by Senator
Copeland of New York last week after
the transportation companies had taken
the view that Congress should not go
into rate making, but should let the
commission determine the rate after
Senator King of Utah, while favoring
a reduced fare for school children, was
disinclined to approve limitations in the
bill on the rate-making authority of
the commission. He contented him
self with stating his position, and sug-
gested that Senator Capper report the
bill after aScertaining the opinion of
the other committee members by taking
a poll. The chairman found a majority
in favor of making the report. Senator
Gould Of Maine agreed with Senator
King, but said half-fare for school
children had worked satisfactorily in
his State.
Claims Fair Compromise.
Senator Copeland described the sub
stitute bill as a fair compromise, in
view of the fact that the House voted
for daf1nite rate of cents. Senator
Capper urged the committee to act on
the bill, which has been discussed at q
number of meetings.
The position of the Capital Traction
Co. was made known in letter Thurs
day, in which President John H. Hanna
said objection was made to the phrase
land directed" after the language which
empowered the commission to Ak a re-
duced school rate. Mr.. Hanna said his
company die 49, object to the half-farc
limitation in the bill.
At yesterdays hearing G. Melvin
Sharpe of the Washington Railway &
Electric Co. said the position of that
company was not an objection to a re-
duced rate, but an insistence on the
regulatory body fixing the rate on the
facts as they find them, with no prohi-
billions or inhibitions.''
John Noonan made another appeal at
yesterdays meeting for enactment of a
bill for reduced school rate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
.FIREMEN TO CHECK
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Small Blaze Reveals Lack Of Re-
quired Exits in One
Institution.

Fire Chief George S. Watson said to-
day that the Fire Department was max
ing check of all private schools in
the District to see that they are prop
erly equipped with fire escapes, lighted
exits and the like, required by law.
The check Is the result of a small
fire earlier in the week at the Landon
School, 2131 Massachusetts avenue,
where firemen discovered there were no
fire escapes. Chief Watson said that
the law requires all schools to be
equipped with fire escapes and other
safeguards to the pupils. These laws
are strictly enforced as to public schools.
The fire marshal's reports on schools
with any deficiencies will 60 to the
building inspector, who has charge of
enforcing fire regulations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL HELD
ON CHARGE OF MURDER
Armstrong Student Tells Police
She Didn't Know Man Was
Hurt by Knife.

Sarah Edna Carter, Is years old,
colored, Armstrong High School student,
residing at A Fenton street northeast,
was held at the House of Detention
today on a charge of murder, following
the fatal stabbing of James NJ. States
man, coIored, AZ years old, of 81 L
street, during a row at As o street,
shortly after midnight last night.
The girl declared she did not know
she had stabbed Statesman, explaining
that she was merely trying to obtain
possession Of the knife at the time the
wound was inflicted and also to get
him away from another girl.
The knife blade passed between two
ribs, penetrating the heart. Statesman
was dead when he reached Freedmen's
Hospital.
The girl left the House, not knowing,
she said, Statesman had been wounded
and went home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
CHEST PUBLICITY MAPPED
Address ON Methods Discussed by
st. Louis Worker.

Publicity plans for the 1881 Com
munity Chest campaign were discussed
yesterday at the Y. w. @. A. Building,
Seventeenth and K streets. at the meet
ing of the Community Chest Publicity
Council, which was addressed by Col.
Paul Bliss, director Of publicity for the
community fund of st. Louis.
Chest Council, introduced Col. Bliss
and told of the progress Of publicity
plans for the forthcoming campaign.
Mr.. Johnston praised the newspapers
for their cooperation in furnishing
display advertising again this year
Plans for the window-dressing contest
were outlined by Edwin s. Potter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
COUPLE ROBBED OF $50

Four colored men, posing as revenue
agents. appeared at 39h Massachusetts
avenue this morning about Q o'clock.
They displayed no weapons, william J..
Logan and Eta Logan, his wife, told
the police, but one Of them slapped the
husband. Husband and wife were rob-
bed of $50 by the men, they informed
the police, and Mrs. Logan was able to
suggest the probable identity Of a mem
Der Of the quartet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
CHANGING OF GREENS"
CEREMONIES ARRANGED
Play Also Scheduled at Christmas
Celebration of Y. W. c. A.
Tomorrow Afternoon.

Presentation of a play and the tradi-
tional hanging of the greens" will mark
the all-association Christmas celebration
of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation at $3.50 o'clock tomorrow after
noon in the administration building, at
Seventeenth and K streets.
The Girl Reserves of the elementary
and Junior high schools will stage the
play, why the Chimes Rang" under
direction of Miss Mary M. Burnett,
music director, and Alice Sigworth
Morse, drama director of the associa-
ton. Costumes and properties for the
production were made by reserves under
guidance of Miss Elsa M. Peterson,
chairman of the Girl Reserve Commit
btee. The performance will be augmented
by the elementary school and the junior
high school choirs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
DISCOVERY OF MYSTERY GRAVE
ALARMS CAMP PAROLE PEOPLE
Woman Investigating Pit in Woods Is Engaged in Scufe
by Strange Man.

Another mysterious Maryland grave
was discovered this week, under circum-
stances that alarmed the residents Of
the community where 1t was found.
The newest grave mystery is located
deep in the woods, on the farm Of Mrs.
Leila Tucker, poStmistress, at Camp Pa
role. Anne Arundel County.
While Mrs. Owen Faust, daughter Of
Mrs. Tucker wa. Investigating the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
TAXI DRIVERS FOLLOW LIGHTS
TO AVOID F1OLD.UP ATTACKS
Chauffeur Drives Out of Way Keep OFF Dark Streets
After NghtfaIl

Washington taxicab drivers have the
Jumps" as result of series Of hold
ups Of men of their ilk recently.
This was demonstrated last night
when one Of the "35 cents q jerk"
drivers insisted on following a circuitous
route in taking two passengers home.
Aren't you going out of your way?"
one Of the passengers inquired.
Eyes, SIR" the cab driver responded.
I'm staying on lighted streets as much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20

strange pit o man suddenly appeared
amongst the trees and grabbed her.
Following scuffie the woman freed
herself and ran away.
About year ago grave was dug
In the woods, near Colmar Manor
Prince Georges County. Residents said
they noticed q man driving an automo-
bile through the woods o day or two
before the grave was discovered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
HUSBAND ASKS DECREE
Misconduct Charged by Clarence
y. Smith, Wed in 1928.

Clarence e. Smith, 1901 q street
southeast, IN q suit for an absolute d.
vorce charged his wife, Helen NJ Smith,
$50 Morton place northeast, with mis-
conduct with two correspondents.
They were married February 3, 1928,
the husband says, and separated in
September, 1925. They have one child,
now In the custody of the husbands
mother. Attorneys Darr. Darr 81 Espey
and George Monk appear for the hus-
hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
GROUP STAGES PLAY
Burleith Citizens Entertained BY
Presentation of "Toy Shop"

Featured by a playlet, 1.-THE Toy
Shop" the Christmas entertainment Of
the Burleith Citizens Association was
held last night at Gordon Junior High
School.
A prelude to 1.-THE Toy Shop" in
cluded piano solos by Miss Eleanor Col
burn, welcome address by j. s. Gorrell,
president Of the association, and greet
Ing by Caroline Embrey, Rita Brown
and Louise Murphy.
The Toy Shop" was under the direc-
ton of Jean Hill, and the cast included
children Of the Jean HUI Dancing
School. and others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
MAYFLOWER TO BECOME
FLAGSHIP OF ADMIRAL
Former Presidential Yacht to Be
Placed in Service as Gunboat
in Central America.

The Navy Department has announced
that the U. S. S. Maydower, former
presidential yacht and now being re-
commissioned at Philadelphia, viii be
placed in service about February IS
as gunboat and will relieve the u. s.
8. Rochester in Central American
waters.
After 81 years of service, the May
flower left Washington to be placed out
or commission in Philadelphia, and q
number of unsuccessful attempts were
made by the Navy Department to dis
pose Of the craft by sale. On being
refitted the Mayfiower viii take over
the nag Of Rear Admiral Edward H.
Campbell
Capt. G. M. Austin, a Washingtonian.
viii be In command of the Mayflower.