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The Washington times., 1930-01-06
|SPL|T IN CRIME
COMMISSION
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and railroad consolidation will
hold the center Of the stage from
time to time, but in the wings
will be lurking always the grisly
spectre Of the prohibition contro-
verSy and the ghost Of politics
which walks this year for 435
members of the House and 35
members Of the Senate.
They must face primaries in
the spring and summer and elec-
ton in November, and there are
many Of them who wish heartily
that the present prohibition flare.
up had never started.
The tenth anniversary Of the
Eighteenth Amendment, on Janu-
ary 16, viii see heavy firing begin
all along the prohibition front.
The dryS hope by that time to
have put through the resolution
creating q joint committee of
Congress to pass upon new legiS-
lation to tighten up enforcement.
It is this joint committee, too
that will receive and consider the
preliminary report Of President
Hoover'S law enforcement com
mission, over which there has
been considerable disSenSion with.
| in the commission itself.
Although its members refuse
to discuss it, the Capitol is filled
with rumorS of q wide split amone
the eleven men and women who
were chosen by President Hoover
to find q remedy for public law
leSSneSS. There is q split over
prohibition, as well as upon the
necessity for q preliminary re
port which is now in Mr.. Hoover's
hands.
The criticism Of the commits
sion hasn't been confined to the
anti-prohibitioniStS alone. Much
Of it has come from the moder.
ate dryS themselves, who have
ben hoping to see a positive
rather than negative report from
the WickerSham group.
Such q consistent dry as Sen.
ator Carter Glass CD Of Vir.
ginia has been q leading critic,
Glass contends the commission
was created to investigate pro
hibition and nothing else. and
that 1t has not fulfilled its mis-.
sion.
why have q commission at
all If it isn't going to investigate
and pass upon the facts Of pro.
hibition?" asks Glass.
Meanwhile, another fight Is
coming over appropriations for
enforcement next year.
Senator Harris CD Of Georgia,
reiterated today his determine.
ton Of forcing millions upon the
administration to "make a real
effort to enforce the law"
Some Of us want to see this
law actually enforced for q
change" he said today, "and we
are determined to give the admin.
iStration enough men and money
to make the attempt. No such
attempt has yet been made"
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Touching Scenes Are. Enacted
As Third Victim IS Buried

But the questioning did not
cease when they were locked up.
Lieutenant Itzel, Sergeant Schal.
ter and Prince continued their
Interrogation of Leroy for about
an hour. At that time Prince
and the sergeant went to nearby
hotel and went to bed.
About 4 o'clock this morning,
Lieutenant Itzell left the lookup
and returned to the hotel. He
sat around for a few minutes
talking to reporters rho had
I stayed up to meet him. He was
tired. He had been on the GO
since early Sunday morning, but
he was perfectly willing to con
tinue as he believes the end OF
hunt has been reached. Ser
geant Schalter was with the lieu
tenant all the time up ~ mid
night, as was Prince.
Prince has been working almost
single handed ON the case until
Detective Sergt. John Fowler, ace
Of the Washington Homicide
Squad had been assigned out OF
courtesy to help him.
While detectives at Marlboro
U0ught desperately to unravel the
mystery surrounding the blast
q touching scene was enacted
On the slopes of the cemetery
near the Mount Oak M. E. Church
near Mitchellville.
Dorothy Hall, four years old
4test victim Of the blast, was
E3od mstha church cemter3 e
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to come to the States Attorneys
office yesterday for questioning.
They arrived early and Herman
was questioned throughout the
day.
During the early hours Of the
night as the questioning con.
tinued, an air of expectancy per-
vaded the area around the court
house. Many residents Of Marl-
boro drifted in and out Of the
courtroom on the top floor of the
county building and watched the
comings and goings of the Ques-
tionerS and witnesses.
Herman was questioned at
great length during the day.
About 4 o'clock he was taken
from the courthouse to a hotel,
where he was given dinner, and
after that he was taken back to
the States attorneys offices until
about 1880 p. m.
He was followed into the In.
quiSitorial chamber by his brother.
who was interviewed" long into
the night.
At $3.50 o'clock, Herman was
taken from the Sheriff's office to
Parran'S office and it was then
the brothers faced each other
when Herman acknowledged a
signature on a statement as being
his own.
The brothers faced each other
across a small table for but a few
minutes and then Herman, was
escorted back by Officer Frank
Prince, Of the icounty police, to
the Sheriff'S office.
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hundreds watched. There was
hardly a dry eye as the tiny
coffin was lowered into the earth
on top of those containing her
sister and brother, whose funerals
were held Saturday.
BY. the side of the grave stood
John Hall, father of the dead
His body shook with Sobs as the
Rev. Julian E. Mcdonald, cir
cult riding pastor of the church,
and pastor of two other rural
chuches, intoned the burial
services, Hall had seen three OF
his children placed In the grave.
His wife and two other chill
dren are still in Washington
hospitals desperately injured,
They will be blinded or crippled
for life if they recover. Mrs,
Nora Hall, 46, mother Of the
children, is in Providence Hos
pital. The mangled woman has
not been told that three Of her
children and her unborn grand
child have been murdered.
Two children, Thomas, 8, and
Leslie. 16, also are in Providence
Hospital. Both are terribly
mangled and mutilated.
Meantime residents of the
Mitchelville- -Mullikin-W o o d m ore
section are taking up a collection
for the Hall family, which they
say has already had three
funerals to finance and may have
another.
Harold elmgfuff. postmaster e
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TRY At SUICIDE
FAILS YOUTH

An unsuccessful attempt at
suicide by taking poison In a
Connecticut Avenue drug store led
last night to the arrest Of. Arthur
Mann, 10, of Richmond, Va,
who after hospital treatment was
locked up at the Third precinct
pending investigation.
Mann, police said, is being held
on orders given by Detective
Sergeant Robert Saunders, who
is inquiring if the youth violated
the pharmacy law when he bought
the poison.
Mann, who was stopping at the
Harrington Hotel, was said to be
recovering from the effects of
the poison. His mother, police
said, is on the way to the city.
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D. C CRIME PUT
ON LAE|TY OF
DRY LAW

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hibition act. due no doubt to the
lack Of complete cooperation on
the part of the public in general
in the enforcement Of the pro-
hibition laws.
JaiIs Given o. X.
"As q result Of our inspection.
Of the Lorton reformatory, the
workhouse at Occoquan, and the
District Jail, this body finds
these constitutions are being con.
Quoted in highly efficient man.
ner and conmends the executives
Of the District Of Columbia penal
institutions on the progress Of the
building program today under
way at Lorton and Occoquan.
we recommend, however. the
immediate installation Of modern
laundry equipment at the Lorton
rfeormatory, and while we realize
the existing dining room and
kitchen facilities at Occoquan are
temporary, we feel that said din
ing room and kitchen should be
kept in a modern sanitary condi-
tion.
Because Of the overcrowded
condition, we recommend that
extensions be made to the north
and south wings Of the District
jail and the interior Of the old
wings be equipped with modern
sanitary cells.
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FEDERAL AGENT
FOUND SLAIN. !.
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at a downtown hotel, confessing
that he murdered Gill.
Gill had been shot through the
head and at first it was believed
he had been murdered by gang.
sters. A ticket for an automo-
bile on a private parking lot ad.
jacent to the hotel in which Bell
works, gave police their first clue.
They questioned Bell in a room
at the Gill home and then took
him into custody. William Green,
%, bellboy at the hotel, also was
arrested.
Bell, after first denying the
crime, finally admitted he had
shot Gill while driving the latter
to his home early Sunday morn
ing, police claimed. i.
MaSt'S body was found in an
alley early Sunday. He was iden-
titled through fingerprintS taken
December II when he was ar
rested on a charge Of removing
contract property.
A Federal prohibition agent,
whose name police withheld, then
went to the county morgue and
identified the body. The agent
said that a year ago he allowed
his name to be used as a refer
ence when Mast sought to Join
the dry forces.
Suspect BOOtleggers
The theory that Mast was slain
by bootleggerS was advanced by
his brother, Harold, Of Redford.
Mich.
George has received several
warnings from rum runners who
threatened to get him for turn
ing them in," Harold said. "He
never told me much about his
work, but he did tell his wife
that his life had been threat
ened."
When Mast's body was found,
his overcoat was pulled up around
his shoulders, covering his head
and face. A postmorten exami-
nation was to be held at the
morgue today to determine the
cause Of death, although detec-
tives said they were certain Mast
was strangled to death with his
necktie.
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$500 Students Return
To Howard University

Nearly $500 students Of How.
ard University returned to classes
today after a two,week vacation
for the Christmas holidays.
Registration Of the autumn
quarter for the college depart
ments began Saturday. No
changes in the program of the
professional schools win be made
until the beginning Of the second
semester in February.
The school Of religion has been
moved to its new building on the
corner Of Sixth and College
Streets, just at the entrance to
the, university grounds. The new
building will house the entire de-
partment.
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Mitchelville, took the lead in max.
ing the collection. He has q
sizeable fund. on hand now and
is receiving donations Of from
81 to S. from the sympathetic
citizens Of the community.
Members Of the Seat Pleasant
volunteer fire department have
placed a black draped box on
the Hall home.
The wrecked home is the
Mecca Of thousands of Sightseers
and nearly all Of them have
dropped something in the box.
The money collected will be turned
over to Hall.
The box is marked III. F. r.
F. s. P. F. d., which means, Hall
Family Relief Fund, Seat Pleas.
ant Fire Department"
The bomb which had been left
on the porch Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Buckley, near the Hail
home early Sunday morning, was
taken to the Hall home by Leslie
and his playmate, Stuart Carneal,
IL years old.
1t was sent as a Christmas gift
and was addressed to Naomi
Hall. For three days it reposed
on a table in the Buckley home
until Clarence Brady, the uncle
who delivered eggs to the neigh.
borhood, told Mrs. Buckley where
the Halls lived. Then Leslie and
Stuart came by and the package
was taken to the Hall home. II
was put on kitchen table while
the Hall family gathered around
to watch Naomi and her mother
open it.
While all held their breathS in
anticipation of Naomi'S belated
Christmas gift, the lid of the box
was lifted. This set off the trig
ger which exploded the internal
machine.
"She is unable even to discuss
the matter" the sister told 8
Times reporter. She also addec
that neither she nor her ill sister
could throw any light on the
bombing, declaring that it came
as a complete surprise to her.
Questioned d regarding hel
brother-in-law's occupation, she
declined to say anything, although
police say he is a mechanic with
knowledge Of the workings of elec
tricity.
Pitching and tossing under the
strain Of nervous collapse, Mrs
Lawrence Leroy Brady, 170O block
Mass. Ave. s. E., anxiouSly awaits
word from Marlboro. Nd, where
her husband is held in connection
with the New Year Day bombing
at, Seat Pleasant.
Her husband, a mechanic and
electrician. was taken from his
wife and child yesterday by police
to the Maryland town. where crack
detectives from Baltimore ques.
toned him. Her sister is caring
for the i'll wife and her child.
When the internal machine mu
tilated and killed her brother-in
laws wife and members Of her
family, Mrs. Brady developed q
highly nervous condition, the sis
ter declared this morning.
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KELLY RESUMES
TESTIMONY
At PROBE
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VHtttNNAN8 HbOUbN 1kN5 SNS<
described by her husband rs
being ut certain times "melan.
chOlic and vicious" At such
tiues, Kelly said, the young
woman was given to attempts
ut suicide.
Tells al Details
Beginning at the point In his
testimony where he was telling
Of questioning young MCPHERSON,
at the Third precinct station
house Saturday September Il, the
accused officer detailed the story
told by Mcpherson Of his where
abouts at the time Of his wife's
death.
HE appeared to me-" continued
Kelly, ito be q Sorrowful looking
boy. I found him ready and will
ing to answer all questions. He
did not have the look of q man
who had any guilt.
Kelly then told Of his visit to
the morgue where ne again viewed
the body Of the nurse.
"Up to this time" he said, "I
had no evidence that a crime had
been committed. Details I learned
at the morgue seemed to con-
firm this belief. I did not insist
that DR.. Rodgers. the deputy
coroner, hold Mcpherson. I had
no right to insist. 1t Is just as
much the duty Of a police Off
Ger to protect an innocent man
as to apprehend the guilty.
Allen May Testify
It is. generally understood that
the principal rebuttal witness to
be offered by the prosecution will
be former Policeman Robert j.
Allen. When asked about this,
however, Assistant Corporation
Counsel Walter L. Fowler merely
smiled and stated that he could
not say at this time.
Kelly described an interview
with the elder Mrs. Mcpherson,
in which she told Of a telephone
call she received from the nurse
shortly after McPherson's last
visit to her.
Roberts been here and gone
and wouldn't make up" Kelly
said Mrs. Mcpherson quoted the
nurse. Tell Bob not to bring
the money down-I'm going
agay. What's the use Of my stay
ing here without Bob?" She was
sobbing, Mrs. Mcpherson told
Kelly. The mother. Kelly said,
also described the young couples
marital troubles. her own good
officest in effecting reconciliation.
and told Of previous attempts
made by her daughter.in-laW to
commit suicide.
"Tad Theories, No Facts
The witness said he also inter
viewed Mary Roberts, telephone
operator at the Park Lane, who
tried to tell us how to inveSti.
gate the case and had lots OF
theories but no facts" Miss
Roberts, re said. was convinced
the young nurse was dead on
Wednesday.
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Arlington County
Car Tag Office Opens

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Jan. 6.-MotoriSts Of
Arlington county are advised by
J. v. Turner, of East Falls
Church, who is in charge Of the
distribution Of the 1890 automo-
bile license plates, that he will
be at the office of Sheriff Howard
B. Fields every day up to and
including January is.
That will be the last day
motorists win be pllowed to opaR
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((0nktnuen rom rage OneI 80
sisted by his running made.
Sergt. Charles Echalter, by De-
tective Sergeant John Fowler of
the washington homicide squad,
Policeman Frank Prince, Prince
Georges, county investigator, and
States Attorney j. Frank ParraI1.
Lieutenant Itzel declared that
Clarence Brady's own answers
and q statement made to them
by Herman Brady, which it is
alleged implicated his brother,
has convinced the investigators
Of the uncle's innocence.
Clarence, the uncle. was the
first one suspected when neigh.
boris and friends declared he had
been in love with Laomi Hall.
who lived on the same farm in
tenant house with her parents
for ten years. The story was that
she had spurned his love. Clar.
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BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
$4.889. .102.51.
New York Clearing House, ex-
change, $847, ,00o, 900.
New York Clearing House bal
ance, $202, ,000,0 900.
Treasury balance, $16S,246,325.
Customs Teceipts. 2,2og. sol a&.
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ONLY TRIO LEFT

Assignment of Clarence Mitchell
to coaching duty with the st.
Louis Cardinals leaves but three
spithall pitchers m the active
EassieH (,SxiSs1al ~ cl4.anasSI
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WOMEN MEET WEDNESDAY

LYON VILLAGE, Va, Jan. g.
The Woman's Club Of Lyon vii
lage will hold its monthly meet
ing, Wednesday night at the
home Of Mrs. H. s. Omohundro,
Oak Street, with Mrs. g. s.
Campbell as co-hoSteSs. Officers
for tha mem year viii b iAorAA
3aateds
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Tugs Aiding Britisher
Ashore in Mexican Port

NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 6
0NS0 Salvage tugs today were
to attempt to drag the British
vessel Lunlua off the beach near
Puerto, Mexico, where It is re-
ported to have gone aground.
Relayed radio messages said
the steamship San Zotico an
sWered an 8 OS signal Of the
British boat and was standing by.
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THREE "CALIFoRNIANs.'

THREE "CALIFORNIANS."
HERE ARE THREE MEMBERS of that famous band,
The CafOrnians, playing second week the feature
attraction at the Fox Theater The melody Makers
who played at the Big Times Stag Party at the Airing
ton last night will start an engagement at Monte
Carlo, the first American musical unit TO play the Bal
des Bette Hta &anC4 where Erench nOtables gathen
The Washington times., 1930-01-22
Cop Hides in Coffin
But Fails in Quest

Police are required to do many
things in their line Of duty.
Detective James A. Mostyn, at,
tached to the special vice squad
at headquarters, is willing to
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10D|E IN SCHOOL.
BUS CRASH

BEREA, Ohio. Jan. "a uN.S).
Nine school children and a bus
driver. were killed near here today
when the Brook Park School bus
was rammed and demolished by
a fast New York Central mail and
passenger train.
The dead: Charles Taylor,
driver; William Davidson, IL: Yer
non Davidson, z: Jacob Walter,
jr., IL; Juanetta Walter, 8; Rita
ZielinSki, 9: Vincent ZielinSki, 6;
Dorothy Zielinski, 10; william
Pastoreck 8: Evelyn Koltan.
bach, Z.
The injured-E Ethel Davidson,
IL, in Berea Community Hospital.
The bus approached the tracks
from the south on Sheldon road.
Taylor, the driver, stopped, and
two trains, one travelling east and
the other west, crossed the inter
section. After they had passed,
Taylor started across and the
third train, the fast New York
Central limited struck the bus
with a terrific impact. overturn-
ing it and scattering wreckage on
either side Of the tracks.
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CAT GWEN
SCARE BY
FIREMAN

/, East Washington "coyote" hunt
continued unabated today with
reports from two more persons
who claim to have seen the beast
within the last Is hours, both Of
whom lend credence to the ouin-
ion Of Government experts that
the prowler is a coyote or some
member Of the dog family.
L. L. Rollins, Of No. n engine
company, saw the beast last
night In the rear of the fire
house. BY the time he procured
q gun the animal had diSap-
peared. His tracks led to q
chicken coop nearby, which was
apparently too secure for him.
and then into a ravine.
The firemen declared that In
his opinion the beast was a
panther. adding that he had had
experience hunting wild animals
IN the West.
Expert Confirmed 4
This attempt to raid snhicken
coop carries out the prediction
Monday sof DR.. Remington Kel.
logg, Biological Survey scientist,
who expressed the opinion, after
determining the hair left in the
barbed wire fence Of q chicken
coop was probably that of a coy.
ote, that his next raid would be
on a chicken coop.
Kellogg was told the hunters
were watching the pig.pen for
another visit. The scientist said
he should watch chicken coops
instead.
Mrs. j. l.. Lee, colored, Kenil-
worth Avenue and Douglas Street
Northeast, declared today that
she saw "the thing" about 3 q. m.
today in her back yard, but that
when she went to the door to
look at it more closely it dis.
appeared in the direction of a
4O-acre lily pond In the rear Of
her home.
Runs From Woman
1t. hartley II. J.. jackson, the
department expert who made a
microscopic examination Of the
beasts hair, said q coyote would
run from a human being.
Excitement is intense among
the colored population Of Wash
ington'S east end, where the
beast has been seen almost nightly
for the past two weeks. Despite
reaSSuring statements by big
game experts Of the Department
Of Agriculture that a coyote will
not attack a human being, most
of the residents are staying within
doors at night.
Yesterday q representative Of
The Washington Times. accom-.
panied by e. A. Preble, biologiSt
Of the Department Of Agriculture
visited the spot where the body of
a dog had been found. It was
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Stin1son andFogBane
Of Typists' Liues

LONDON, Jan. 22.-Pity the
poor Stenographer! The weather
and Secretary Of State Stimson
have sconspired against her.
"A canvass made today Of the
heyy Of pretty typistS attached to
the American delegation to the
five.power naval disarmament
conference now under way here
revealed that all their hopeful
plans for gay times, lavish shop
ping tours "and perhaps a little
wnoopee'' while In London have
so far come to naught.
Seen Only Drugstore
.sWhy said one of the girls
In an aggrieved tone today. "The
only sight we've seen has been a
corner drugstore at Piccadilly
circus after dark
A thorough investigation to de.
ternine why this representative
set Of young American ladies
should have been deprived Of the
hectic sightseeing they had pre-
dicted for themselves revealed
Secretary Stimson to be a hard
task.master and the London
weather q willing conSpirator.
TO begin with, Secretary Stim.
son plunged himself and his dele
CATION into a round of important
conferences the moment they set
foot in London. So urgent were
the matters in hand that he
deemed . advisable to work as
hard Is possible during the few
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SUPPORTS
SH|F I Of
BUREAU

The enforcement Of National
prohibition win be improved II
the Governments huge prchibip
ton machine is transferred from
the Treasury to the Department.
Of Justice. Andrew w. Mellon.
Secretary Of the Treasury de.
clared today in giving hearty ap..
proval to the main item on Presi.
dent Hoover's program for tight
ening dry law enforcement.
Testifying before the House
Committee on Executive Expendi-
lures, he said. It was an "illogi-
cal choice" ever to place prohibi.
ton enforcement in the Treasury
Department, the chief function
of which is to handle the Gov.
ernment's finances and collect it's
taxes.
He said prohibition was en-.
tirely unrelated" to the duties OF
the Treasury and better results"
would be obtained by placing il
under the Department Of JuStice,
which has charge Of other cr1Ini.
nal prosecutions.
would Control Permits
Mellon. however. insisted that
the Treasury retain control Ce
the industrial alcohol permit sys-
TEN and the sale Of alcoholic
spirits as allowed under the Vol
stead act. He said 1t YVES clear
these functions did not come
within the jurisdiction Of the De.
partment Of Justice and that as
the Treasury now handled them,
"there Is no adequate reason for
removing them" !"
Once the enforcement Of prolli-
bition is given to the Justice De.
partment, Mellon said, the rem.
nants Of the now powerful prol1i.
bition unit win be known as the
Bureau Of Narcotics and In.
dustrial Alcohol"
Summing up his views, the
Secretary declares the House bill,
providing for the transfer, meets
with the approval Of the Treasury
Department"
Tells Story Of Law
'"The duty Of enforcing the pro
hibition laws was vested originally
in the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue who, prior to the adop-
ton Of the eighteenth amend
ment, was charged with the duty
Of collecting the excise taxes
levied on alcoholic liquors sold
FOR beverage purposes and admin
istering the provisions Of the De.
natured Alcohol Act Of 1905 pro
viding for the withdrawal Of
alcohol free Of tax after denatura.
ton for use In the arts and In.
dustries," !" said Mellon, explaining
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