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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL
DETAILS PLANNED
Co-ordinating Committees Named
at Meeting of General Group
Last Night.

Formation of co-ordinating groups
and working subcommittee to plan the
first organization of the National Cap
ital's Halloween celebration marked the
initial meeting last night of the Gen
eral Committee in charge OF arrange
ments for the observance of october 81.
The meeting, presided over by Assistant
Corporation Counsel William A. Rob-
'erts, general chairman, was held In the
board room of the District Building.
Representatives of member bodies of
the Federation of Citizens Associations.
which, with the Greater National Capt.
tai Committee of the Washington Board
of Trade, Is sponsoring the movement,
were present at the session.
It is planned to coordinate the Gus
tomarily unorganiZed community. and
city celebrations on Halloween night
into one grand parade and carnival,
shifting the center of activity from its
usual location on F. street to Pennsyl-
vania and Constitution avenues.
Joseph S. CAMEL was named chair
man Of committee to coordinate the
work of the representatives. These in
clude: A. G. Case. chairman OF the
Greater National Capital Committee:
and A. K. Shipe. both of the Board OF
Trade Col Edward Goring Bliss and
w. C. Miller of the Washington Cham
Der of Commerce. and william E. Rus
sell and Dewey Zirkin of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
Other committee chairman named
last night include L. S. Trundle, chair
man Of the committee on local citi-
zens' associations; w. I. Swanton,
chairman of the committee on parade
arrangements and formation; Mrs. E.
G. Rittue. chairman of the committee
on children's activities, and a commit
tee on information and publicity, COM
posed of Mr.. Roberts, chairman; Miss
Edith L. Grosvenor, Mrs. Elizabeth
Sullivan and c. A. Hodges.
Mrs. E. K. PEBBLES, director OF the
Community Center Department, as
sured the committee of her organiza-
tons cooperation.
Efforts will be made to enlist the
full support of the public schools, espe-
cially the high schools, in the move
ment. Participation of high school
bands in the parade and carnival Is
especially sought. Other organizations
also are invited to take active part In
the celebration. Prizes will be awarded
for outstanding costumes and other en-
tries IN the parade, according to the
committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
La GUARDIA sCoRNs IDEA.
Replies to viii Wood That Reduction
Now Is Impossible.

NEW YORK. September % R.-
Representative F. H. La Guardia. Re-
publican, of New York, believes there
is little likelihood of any cut in the
Federal pay roll.
In a statement today replying to
Representative VIII r. Wood, chair
man of the Appropriations Committee
CT the House, he said.
Only a combination of Democrats
and Republicans could bring about a
cut in Federal salaries, and such a COM
bination is highly improbable.
"All this talk of reducing Federal
salaries, which would amount to only
few million dollars and disturb the
budget of thousands and thousands Of
families is the talk of weak men
who do not understand Government
finances, are bewildered by the prices,
and have not constructive PLAN
1t is either ignorance of fiscal mat
tiers or timidity in the face of COM
ing election. Cuts in salaries Of Fed
eral employees are no more to be sane
toned than reductions of wages in
private industries and the lowering of
the American standard of living.
The progressives, in a very few days,
viii be presented with complete
financial program TO pull the country
out of debt"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
Victim Tentatively Identified
as E. L. GunneII of East
Point, Ga.
MANY ASK FOR BULLDOG
THAT WITNESSED DEATH
Plates on Auto Said to Have Been
Issued to Woman, Now
Missing.

A coroner's inquest probably will be
held tomorrow in the case Of man
tentatively identified as E. L. Gunnell,
%, of East Point, Ga, a former resident
of Washington, who either leaped or fell
Sunday night from fire escape in the
rear of hotel at 482 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to his death in paved alley three
floors below.
While police were completing their
investigation No. / precinct was be-
sieged with calls from persons Offering
a home to Boston bull pup which was
found in the mans room when the
tragedy was discovered The dog was
turned over, however to the District
Pound, where it will receive special at
tention until 1t can be learned II the
mans survivors will send for 1t.
Receipt Gives Clue.
The partial identification was made
after headquarters detectives discovered
mobile repair work by Meridian, Miss,
garage The job was done for Gunnell.
and police learned from the latter's
stepfather, w. o. Mackenzie, a deputy
sheriff of East Point, that the young
man was missing from home.
License plates on sedan which the
dead man had left parked near the
hotel were issued in 1880 to Gunnell
and last year to Miss Mildred z. Felix
of Atlanta, whom police there were UNI
able to locate. according to a wire re-
ceived at Washington headquarters this
morning.
Neither the telephone nor city direc-
tories listed the woman, and she was
not known, according to the telegram.
at an Office building which she gave as
an address when the plates were issued
to her.
Gave Another Name.
The man registered at the hotel on
the morning preceding his death as
E. J. James of Macon. Ga. No such
name was known in Macon and cards
on the mans person. which bore the
name of William M Todd, Dobbs Tire
Co.. also gave no clue.
Although the police investigation has
uncovered no suspicious circumstances.
Coroner J. Ramsay hewitt said an
inquest probably would be necessary
to clear up several unexplained details
The mans money-over $50 in bills
and change-lay scattered about his
room, but there was no further evil
dence of disorder.
He reached the fire escape, from
which he fell, through bath room
window, some distance from the room
he had rented.
The theory that the victim is Gunnell
Is strengthened by the fact the man
wore belt initiated with the letter &c"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22

Teddy is on the keepers knee.
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.
~ URIOSTTY consumes a certain
black-faced young gentleman
of the Zoo these days. N'gi,
~ Washington's gorilla. now no
longer a baby, is just dying
to know what's going on in the cage
next to his Although he can't see, he
hears. and he knows that last Thurs
day neighbors moved in next door.
Some day soon, perhaps, window
will be cut between N'gi's house and
the one next door and then he can
get a peep at his newly arrived cousin,
little 2-year-old Okero, who came with
a chimpanzee playmate, Teddy, from
New York last week.
Has Had Lots Of Thrills.
Okero has had lots of thrills packed
into his short span of life. Perhaps
the greatest was about year ago,
when he met Mrs. Martin johnson on
her way through the Belgian Kongo
with her photograph explorer hus-
band. The Jchnsons already had a
young gorilla for whom they had
secured permit to bring back to the
United States for the Smithsonian. As
they were passing through native
fllldBS. OhSlO, a olIh, PuA1J hIelC bAAhA6
scarcely a year old, who had been
picked up in the jungles by unsym-
pathetic natives, was brought to them
for sale Martin johnson looked at
the tiny creature and shook his head.
They didn't want any more gorillas,
and besides. the little fellow was so
sick he couldn't possibly live.
The Johnsons ctarted to move on
when Okero gave Mrs. Johnson a pitt
full look and held out his hairy little
arms.
Gesture Saves Okero's Life.
That gesture saved Okero's life. Mrs.
johnson adopted him Immediately,
nursing him back to health on their
long trek through the Dark Continent
and over the ocean to the United
States.
Last week the Johnsons presented
the bsby gorilla and his inseparable
companion, Teddy. to the Smithsonian,
and a private van was sent with two
keepers to bring the two little fellows
back 10 the Washington Zoo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
MRS. ELSA EMM0NS
GETS RENO DIVORCE
Employe in Bureau Of Internal
Revenue Claims Husband Went
About With Other Women.

Mrs. Elsa p Emmons, 1851 Irving
street, has been awarded decree of
absolute divorce in Reno, New, from
Otto Emmons, to whom she was mar
ried March "a, 1927, in Alexandria, Va,
it was announced today.
Mrs. Emmons, employed in the Blu
reau of Internal Revenue, brought suit
against her husband upon the ground
of cruelty and failure to provide. charg-
ing also that he went about with other
women and Inundated and embarrassed
her.
Under the terms of the decree. Mrs
Emmons was permitted to resume the
use of her maiden name Of Elsa p.
Newquest. Mrs. Emmons was repre-
sented in the Nevada proceeding by
Raymond Neudecker of this city and
George Springrneyer of the Nevada bar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
LEE RITES ARRANGED

Oliver Melvin Lee, who died yester-
day at his residence, 811 Quackenbos
street, after a short illness, will be
buried in the Towson, Md, cemetery
tomorrow, after services at the ceme-
terry.
He had been employed as an engineer
for the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad for
the last 80 years He is survived by
three sisters, Mrs. b. A. Conlan, Rose
z. and Florence Lee, and three BROTH
ers, James E.. Charles w. and Howard
F. Lee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22

with Teddy, his champanzee playmate.
Star Staff Photo.
In a large, brightly lighted cage in
the lion house Okero and Teddy pass
the hours happily swinging on bars, or
wrestling with each other on the SIDE
next to Ngi's cage.
Sounds of all this merriment come
to N'gi, swinging his dumbbells, con-
tented until now in his solitude. He
pauses a moment. gazing indifferently
upon the humans gazing impolitely into
his cage.
The sounds of humping feet and
rolling bodies next door finally get the
better of his indifference and, running
to the blank wall separating him from
the newcomers next to him, he croucheS
down, cocks his head to one side and
vainly tries to peer through a tiny
crack into the opposite cage.
Curiosity dissatisfied.
So far his curiosity remains unsatis-
fed. oZo officials think 1t wiser to let
Okero and Teddy become accustomed to
their surroundings before allowing them
to be disturbed by the knowledge that
an older member of the family like
N'gi Is close by to spy upon their be-
havior. - 81
Maybe, when the little fellows have
learned to drink milk from q pan in
stead of bottle and to eat their fruits
and vegetables politely, like Cousin
N'gi, they may be permitted to ex-
change greetings through specially
cut window. In fact, they may even be
permitted to play together in the same
cage. But being boys, they like to fight,
and it is feared that N'gi might get
too rough and really hurt Okero, who is
not yet past the age where his health
is an assured thing
This will be Okero's first Winter away
from Africa There is not much anxiety
felt, however. about his ability to stand
the cold, as he was born in the noun
famous regions of the Belgian Kongo,
where the temperature rarely rises
above so degrees.
Cousin N'gi is, on the contrary, a
lowlander, hailing from the low, hot
plains of Western Africa.
Cold or hot nights, however, all
three-N'gi, Okero and Teddy-roll
themselves up in blankets when bed
time arrives and sleep soundly until
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22

cations have been advocating that no
special effort should be made for in
creases in salaries during the coming
session, as their contribution toward
relief of unemployment and the husi-
ness depression.
There Is pending before Congress
now the program reported by the Per-
sonnet Classification Board for auto
matte salary increases, with revised
ratings on basis of merit. The Per-
sonnet Classification Board advocated
classification act would end the average
provision that has caused so much mis-
understanding and injustice.
Warned Against Increases.
1t can be safely predicted that as
good politics" no serious effort will
be made in the coming session to get
this new legislation for automatic pay
increases passed Those who are most
closely associated with this legislation
advise that present conditions make 1t
impracticable for any attempt to be
made to bring up that or any other
salary increase measure.
1T would be extremely unfortunate
to try to liberalize the Government pay
roll" they say, under present condi-
tionS when unemployment is so COM
mon and where pay rates In private
employment have in many cases been
reduced below the Government n 1es."
The general opinion today among
friends of the Government employees
and Government officials is that Con-
gress will probably "let well enough
alone. Congress. is not expected to
make a successful effort to. reduce
Government salaries and the Govern
ment employees are barking to wise
counsels not to make efforts to have
salaries increased at this time.
ITRGES GIFTS E0p rnNcpES1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
WARNS OF PARK THIEVES

The business depression has brought
to Washington a number Of people who
are out of work and hungry. and as a
result the amount of petty thieving in
the parks has materially increased in
the last few weeks. Capt. r. c. Mont
pomery. u. S. A., superintendent of the
in warning WashingtonianS and vis=
TORS not to leave valuableS in their
parked automobiles.
In an effort to combat this thievcry
I'm captain said the number Of plain
clothes nen In the parks is being in
creased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
ASSOCIATIONS PLAN
MEETS IN ALEXANDRIA
Annual Conventions to Be Held in
Virginia City During
1882 Celebration.
eneclal pIspatch . The star.


ALEXANDRIA, Va. September 22.-
With the announcement today Of two
more conventions scheduled for this
city during the next year. Alexandria
now has a total of 10 organizations
coming here for their annual conclaves
in 1882
The Grand Council OF Virginia. order
OF FTaternal Americans, will come here
from May is 10 I5, according 10 a
Chsmber of Commerce announcement.
They are expected to bring 300 dele
gates The Garden Club Of Virginia
recently announced its intention Of
holding its 1882 convention in Alex
andria next Spring.
Dan S. Hollsnga, business manager
OF the local Chamber Ct Commerce. has
also invited the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers and Firemen and
their Ladies Society to come here next
year This organization is holding its
gathering this year in Jacksonville,
Fla, from October 7 TO g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
FIVE PLEAD NOT GUILTY
TO LIQUOR POSSESSION
Police Vice Squad Stages Boozeless
Raid-Trjals Are De-
manded.

Arrested yesterday by police of the
vice SQUAD in a liquor-less raid at BIS
Vermont avenue five men entered pleas
of not guilty before Judge Gus A..
Schuldt in police court today and de-
manded jury trials. on charges Of nui-
sancc and possession of liquor.
The men, Patrick j. OHern, Lester
Simmons, Joseph Hall. colored; William
H. Woods and John Peyton, were re-
leased on $500 bail for trial October g..
The men were changed with main
tanning a nuisance since July 1 and
possession of whisky September 81
when a police informer is alleged to
have made buy" Assistant United
States Attorney Julian Richards will
prosecute the case.
The vice squad headed by Sergt. N.
o. Holmes raided the Vermont avenue
place, but failed to find whisky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22

T Up the turnpike. down the road,
across the mountains and over
the plains for 5000 miles, a
~ 10-year-old flivver called Boun-
cling Betty, rolled, but she did
not rattle.
1t may be just sales talk. but
Bouncing Betty's boastful proprietors,
Andy Mack and Bill LANCE, claimed in
unison yesterday they never heard a
squeak out of their f1ivver all Summer.
In view of this performance, the
proprietors felt their automobile was
worthy of a museum. They wrote
Henry Ford for an offer.
No Place in Museum.
The reply. in effect, was that while
the manufacturer was glad to hear"
how well and long the machine had
run, there nevertheless was no place
for 1t in the museum.
This was much the same answer given
the motorists when they drove up to
the Smithsonian Institution yesterday
and made an informal tender Of Bounc-
ing Betty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
URGES CUTS FOR CONGRESS.
Treadway VIII Ask That Both Houses
Reduce Salaries $1,000.

PTTTSFIELD, Mass. September %
9.-Representative Allen T. Treadway
of Stockbridge, Republican, today adj
vocated a reduction of $4,000 in the
annual salaries of members of Congress
as evidence Of their willingness to aid
the country during the present de-
preston.
Treadway, who is the ranking mem
per OF the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, said he would introduce a reso-
luton in Congress in December to
carry out this plan. He will also rec
ommend temporary increase in the
surtax rate on individual incomes in the
upper brackets as a means of balancing
the national budget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
HIT-RUN CAR HURTS BOY
Cecil Darden, IL, Has Broken Leg
After Being Run Down.

Cecil Darden, IL years cid, of 1914
U street southeast, was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital with a fracture of the
leg and cuts about the head late yester-
day after being run down on Nichols
avenue near Good Hope road southeast
by a truck operated by hit-and-run
driver.
The truck driver. police of the elev-
enth precinct station reported, picked
the boy up. placed him in q machine
driven by James j. Gallagher. 2042
Bennett place northeast, saying that he
would follow the car q the hospital.
He was not seen again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
WIFE SUES SECOND TIME
IN S YEARS FOR DIVORCE
Failure of Husband to Pay Main
tenance for Child Is Charged
in Marlboro Action.
nv a sIaff correspondent of The star.

BY a STAFF Correspondent OF Inc star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, September
22.-For the second time in five years,
Mrs. Emma Smith yesterday brought
suit against Edward Thayer Smith of
the $500 block of Baker street, Mount
Rainier, Md.
In her latest suit the wife alleges
abandonment.
In 1925 she petitioned for limited
divorce on grounds of cruelty, but this
Dill was subsequently dismissed. although
the wife was awarded custody of their
son, Robert Smith, and the husband
ordered to pay SIS month toward the
childs support.
Mrs. Smith alleges her husband has
not fulfilled the court order in this re-
spect. She now asks an absolute divorce
and custody of the child. She is repre-
sented by Attorney Campbell Howard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
QUARTET ROB VISITOR
Raleigh, N. c., Man Forced to Give
Vest, Shoes, Goat and S12 Cash.

Police today were seeking four men
who last niQht robbed Frank Simms Of
Raleigh, NJ C.. OF more than $l2 and
part Of his clothing, including shoes,
vest and coat. at First street and Mary
land avenue southwest.
Sinms walked into No. police sta
tion, where he reported the incident TO
police. furnishing them with descrip-
ton Of the four men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
HEARING ORDERED
!. ON TAXI SITUATION
BY UTILITIES BODY
Merchants Group Demands
Regulation of Business and
Protests Chaos.
GEN. PATRICK OUTLINES
PROBLEMS OF CONTROL
Chairman of Commission Seeks
Financial Responsibility for
Cab Operators.

Notice will be sent out today by the
Public Utilities Commission of pub
lie hearing to consider washington's
tangled taxicab situation. The decision
was made by the commission late yester-
day on receipt of communication
from the Merchants g. Manufacturers
Association demanding regulation of
the taxicab industry and complaining
OF chaotic conditions now affecting it.
Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the
commission, said today that the notice
would be couched carefully in Ian
guage which will make the scope OF the
hearing as wide as possible.
Patrick Outlines Problem.
"Just what the solution of the prob
lem, or, rather. the many problems, is"
he said, II have no idea. have al
ways thought that there should be a
regulation requiring financial RESPONSE
bility of taxicab operators. 1t does not
seem proper that anybody with small
down payment should be able to solicit
the public for common carrier service"
The commission once before tried to
solve this problem by regulation re-
curing showing of financial respon-
sibility, insurance or bond before taxi
cabs would be allowed to operate, but
the move was defeated in the courts.
Then" he added, there is the ui1-
employment situation, and perhaps we
should not take away from persons 9TH
erwise unable to work the chance to
earn an honest living.
Hearing TO Be in October.
However. am convinced that the
industry needs some sort of control or
regulation, call it what you will, and I
believe 1t to be the duty of the CONF
mission to seek to accomplish this end
According to the law governing the
commission, 20 days must elapse be-
tween the publication of the first no.
tice and the hearing, so that the date
for the hearing will not be before late
October
The present decision was fastened by
notice served on the commission by
certain independent hackers that rates
had been increased IN the central zone
by splitting this zone into two parts,
and also increased in the old second
and third zones. theoretically, the COM
mission governs the matter of rates
charged in the District by common
carriers, but in practice the taxicab
operators have been charging what. they
please, sometimes. but not always,
notifying the commission of their FREE
quent changes in rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
GIBBONS FUNERAL RITES
Resident Here 80 Years Buried in
Mt. olivet Cemetery.

Funeral services for Mrs. Helen c..
Gibbons. who died Sunday,at her home,
Sic Shepherd street, we're held TINS
morning at $50 O'Clock at the residence
Mass was said at st. GabrieIs Churcn
at 9 o'clock, followed by burial In Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Mrs. Gibbons, who had been a resi-
dent OF this city about 80 years, was
native OF New York City. She Is sur
vived by her husband, Thomas J: Glib
bons; her mother. Mrs. Nora Rafferty,;
s.r brother aas J Ionp HoIbert Mrs James
Donofoe and Miss Frances Rafferty,; a
daurhter kathleen Gibbons, and two
sons, Thomas ). r., and John Gibbons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22

That" wrote Andy, who, incidental
ly, was interviewing himself on an office
typewriter, rs the sort of appreciation
Bouncing Betty gets.
I'VE never heard the motor skip a
beat nor knock once, and we drove all
the way to my home in San Pedro,
Calf. and all the way to Bills in Al
bany, N. Y.
VIII Consider Offer.
Now we're back at school again. and
we can't keep the car on the campus.
Since the car is no use to science, well
consider anybody's offer"
Andy was abo@A to put the final
period on his interview. "Of course -
he wrote with wide grin, while the
fiivver sounded o. K. to Bill and me,
that possibly may be because of the
fact that we've been stone deaf since
we were 10 years old"
When Andy and Bill drove of, on
their way to Gallaudet College, more
pedestrians in the vicinity of Eleventh
street and the Avenue were able to hear
than TO see Bouncing Betty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
Grid No. 10 Taboo.

CHESTER, Pa. C4o).--Thirteen is ia
boo at Pennsylvania Military College
as a foot ball players number. Since
1926 three players wearing the numeral
have been injured In games which the
cadets lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Card party, benefit st. James Cath
Ollie Church, Thirty-seventh street and
Rhode Island avenue northeast, pm.
FUTURE.
Meeting, National Capital Chapter,
Delphian Society, Willard Hotel, to-
morrow, GAS am.
Luncheon, Exchange Club, Carlton
Hotel, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayfiower
Hotel, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Bingo party. Pythian Sisters. No. O.,
Friendship Temple, 804 Seventh street
southwest, tomorrow, pm.