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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
AGENTS CONTINUE
STUDY OF RECORDS
OF SWARTzELL CO.
important Developments
Soon Expected in Failure
of Mortgage House.
BUILDER SEEKS PERMIT
TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS
Recovery of Strong Box and
$4,000 Worth of Notes Also
Asked of D. C. Court.

Important development in the inves-
tigation of the affairs Of Swart7ell
Rheem g. Hensey, bankrupt mortgage
house, are expected in the near future
it was learned today, as result of a
report made yesterday by Department
of Jurtice accountants who have been
examining the books of the company.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
said any action based on the report
would be taken by Nugent Dodds, As
sistant Attorney General; himself, and
his assistant, Neil Burkinshaw.
Studies Continued.
The report was prepared and sub
mitted by Charles T. Malone and E. j.
Armbruster, special agents of the Blu
reau of Investigation. specializing in &C
counting work. These agents are now
studying other phases of the firms &C
tivities which were touched upon, but
not examined in detail, in the prelim-
mary investigation. This work IS ex-
pected to require several days.
Frank Tomlinson, a builder, yester-
day asked District Supreme Court to
permit him to examine the BOOKS OF
SwartzeIl, Rheem & Hensey. Tomlin-
son was the builder of several large
apartment houses financed through the
mortgage house.
Through Attorneys Douglas, Obear
and Douglas, he tells the court he
borrowed 5000 900 from the bankrupt
firm and gave as security q second
trust on an apartment house project,
now under construction. He says that
although he gave a second trust deed
and $40 trust notes, he has only re-
ceived $7O.31194, and that $129,689 .06
is still due him, less $4,000 commits
sion.
Seeks Strong Box.
The builder alleges that Swartzell,
Rheem and Hensey have disposed OF
the notes to a number of noteholders.
He saws he has asked the receivers,
Julius !. Peyser and Henry p. Blair,
for permission to examine the books in
order to determine the name of these
noteholders, but that his request was
denied.
The court was also asked by Charles
Slope to direct the receivers to turn
over to him a strong box and contents
which he left with the firm for safe
keeping on May Is, 1919.
Cedonia S. Reiss filed a petition for
recovery of notes totaling $21 900,
which she says were left with the firm
for collection. All the notes were
bought through Swartzell, Rheem &
Hensey, she alleges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
DETECTIVES TO AID
LIMERICK INQUIRY
Grand Jury to Discuss Con-
fIiCting Testimony With
Homicide Squad.

The grand Jury will discuss vital
points in the Staying of Beulah LINER
lex with members of the homicide
squad today.
Certain points in the varied stories
told to the jury by witnesses will be
cleared up for the jury by headquarters
detectives, it is believed.
Investigators intimated that several
OF the witnesses told different versions
OF what they knew about the life and
murder Of the Limerick girl to the
jury than they did when Intercepted
by police.
Mrs. Limerick May Be Recalled.
The entire testimony presented to
the jury by the IS or more witnesses
already heard will be reviewed. Assist
ant District Attorney Julian I. Rich
ards, who Is presenting the case to
the jury, intimated today.
The attorney said that tomorrow the
grand jury would continue hearing part
Of the remaining witnesses He said
it was likely that Mrs. Dora Limerick,
mother of the slain girl, and her sister,
Mrs. Julia Bywaters, would be recalled
tomorrow.
Inspector William 8. Shelby, chief of
detectives, announced today the police
investigation of the mysterious death of
the Sky-High Whoopee secretary was
practically at standstill.
Inferno Describes Scene.
Yesterday the grand jury heard
Lyman Green, Casualty Hospital in
terne, tell of the appearance of the
linen on the bed and of the body.
Green already had testified that the
linen >on the bed was "spotlessly
white" when he arrived at the murder
house. Conflicting stories to the effect
that the pillow under the girls head
was stained with blood were told by
two members of the fire rescue squad
They said they arrived shortly after
Green's departure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
Edwards Revises
Prisons System
OF Keeping Books
Former Smith Co. Official
Installs New Method
of Accounting.

Although John H. Edwards, jr., a
former vice president of the F. H. Smith
Co., has been in the District Reforma-
tory for only about five weeks, he
already has repaid the District for his
board and keep for the remainder of
his three-year term.
Edwards, it was revealed today by
Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent
of the Districts penal institutions,
worked out and introduced a model &C
counting system for the reformatory
commissary which provides the institu-
ton with complete check Of every bit
of food, clothing and other supplies.
1t was big and important job, Capt.
Barnard said, and Edwards executed it
like an expert.
Had Planned Revision.
Before Edwards entered the reforma-
tory December 20, Capt. Barnard had
been planning for some time to revise
the commisSary accounting system, but
thought he would have to go outside of
the institution to hire an expert &C.
countant for the work. And then
Edwards came along. and the reforma-
tory officials began looking around for
some place to assign him.
Capt. Barnard and his associates fig
ured that Edwards experience with the
Smith Co. qualified him for the work,
so he was told to do what he could to
put the reformatory commisSary on an
up-to-date business basis Within three
days he had laid all his plans and sub
mitted them to the officials for APP
prevail The system was exactly what
Capt. Barnard wanted, and Edwards
was directed to put it into effect.
So enthusiastically has Edwards taken
to his work that officials at the reforma-
tory have to persuade him to leave the
commissary for his meals. Although
prisoners are required to work on an
eight-hour schedule, Edwards. it was
said, puts in considerable overtime.
Is "MOdeI Prisoner"
approximately $250,oO0 worth of sup
plies pass through the reformatory
every year. And under the
new Edwards system, reformatory Of
fcials say they can determine imme-
diatsly the amount of supplies in stock,
and precisely where other equipment
has gone.
Edwards, too, according to Capt.
Barnard, is model prisoner" and has
won many friends at the institution.
Edwards was convicted with @. Bryan
Pitts and c. Ebert Aanadale, also for
mer officials Of the Smith company, of
conspiracy to embezzle $5,000,00O from
the company and to destroy incriminat-
ing records.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
FORMER POLICEMAN
HELD STILL INSANE
Fisher, Who Attempted to Burn
Up Washington, Loses Fight
for His Release.

John J. Fisher. former policeman,
who, on January Is, 1928, according to
his own confession, attempted "to
burn up Washington" must remain in
st. Elizabeth Hospital indefinitely, Dis
trict Supreme Court Justice Siddons
ruled today.
Fisher recently sued out a writ of
habaes corpus for his release from the
institution, declaring that he had re-
covered his mental balance and wanted
to stand trial on the arson charges.
DR.. William A. White, superintendent
OF the hospital, in an answer, filed
through Assistant United States Attor-
ney William A. Gallagher, informed the
court that the man is still insane and
said the history of Fisher as a "firebug"
dates back to his tenth year.
While with the Army on the Mexican
border IN 1917 and 1918, DR.. White re-
ported, Fisher had burned tents and
bridges and had kept up the practice
while in France.
On the might of horrors" as Janu-
airy Is, 1928, Is referred to here, Fisher,
according to his confession. watched
fremen battle blaze In q Woolworth
store on Pennsylvania avenue. He said
he suddenly went wild" Procuring a
torch he set fire to a warehouse and q
lumber yard located in different
sections of the city, while flremen were
still endeavoring to extingliish the
Pennsylvania avenue blaze.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
MRS. &. A. MCCORMICK
EXPIRES AT RESIDENCE
Wife of Retired Rear Admiral Was
Long Prominent in Navy and
Church Relief Work,

Mrs. Edith Abbot Mccormick, So
years old, wife of Rear Admiral A. M
Dupuy Mccormick, U. s. NJ. retired
died at her home, 1905 Phelps place,
last night after a long illness. Mrs.
Mccormick had long been active in
church and Navy relief work.
A native Of Boston, Mass Mrs. Nc
Cormick was a descendant of early
Colonial ancestry. She was a member
of the Colonial Danes of America, the
Army and Navy Chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, and of
the Lloyd Williams Post of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary of Berryville, Va.
Mrs. Mccormick had been a resident
of this city since 1923.
She is survived by her husband, a
sen, Lieut.. Comdr. Lynde D. McCor-
mick, and three daughters, Mrs. John
r. Beardan, wife of Comdr. Beardall
Mrs. Morris r. Clark of Santa Barbara.
Calf, and Miss Ellen Jet Mccormick,
a student at the Holton-Arm School
here.
Funeral services will be conducted at
st. Thomas Episcopal Church Thursday
morning at 1920 o'clock Rev. DIR. c.
Ernest Smith, rector, will off1ciate, as
sisted by Capt. Sydney K. Evans, chief
Of the Chaplains Corps, U. S. Navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
C. H. FLETCHER DEAD
Clarendon Resident Expires After
an Illness of Year,

Clarendon Resident Expires After
an Illness of Year.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON, Va, February s.
Charles H. Fletcher, So years old, a
well known resident of this place, died
yesterday at his home, No. Virginia
avenue, after an illness of about year
He had been a resident of Clarendon
for the past 16 years. He was employed
at the Library of Congress for the past
seven years.
Funeral services will be geld tomor-
row afternoon at o'clock from the
residence, with Rev. NJ. M. Perkins of
Grace Episcopal Church of Georgetown
officiating. Syracusian Lodge, No. 10,
knights of Pythias of the District OF
Columbia, of which he was a member,
will participate In the service. Inter-
ment will be in Columbia Gardens
Cemetery.
Besides his widow, he is survived by
two sons, G. Marvin Fletcher and Earl
A. Fletcher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
CONSTRUCTION OF SEA
MEMORIAL is URGED
Immediate Action on Navy and
Marine Monument on Columbia
Island Requested.

Immediate construction work on the
Navy and Marine Memorial was advo-
Gated today by representatives OF Harvey
w. Corbett, architect. during a confer
ence with Assistant Director Butler of
public buildings and public parks.
Ground plans for the memorial on
Columbia Island were examined and
these will be forwarded for approval to
the Fine Arts Commission and the Blu
reau of Public Roads, Department of
Agriculture, which is supervising the
construction of the Mount Vernon Me-
mortal Highway, which the memorial
viii overlook.
The memorial will honor Americans
lost at sea. The sculptor is Ernesto
Begni del Plata.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
RETIRED MAJOR DIES

Eston M. Barker, Virginian, Ex-
pires at San Francisco Hospital.
Maj. Eston M. Barker of Middleburg.
Va, a retired officer, of the Army. died
at the Letterman General Hospital. San
Francisco. last Saturday, according to
War Department advices.
He entered the military service as a
private in the 9th Infantry in MAY,
1900, was commissioned in August,
Scouts, and reached the grade of major
in July, 1920.
Two years later he was transferred
to the retired list on account of disability
In line Of duty. His next Of kin is q
sister, Miss Florence Barker, 112 Mary
land avenue northeast, tl1isheity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
FORMER NAVY BAKER DIES
Frank H. Meinhold Was at u. s.
Naval Academy 43 Years.

Frank H. Meinhold, SIS. a we'll known
citizen of Annapolis, died suddenly at
his home.
Mr.. Meinhold was head commissary
baker at the United States Naval Acad-
envy for the past 43 years. He was re-
tired August /, 1880, and was then
presented with a letter from Superin-
tendent Robson of the Naval Academy,
congratulating him for his faithful and
efficient years of service.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Sophie Meinhold, and the following
children: Robert Meinhold, Mrs. Joseph
Griscom, Mrs. Preston Cantler, Mrs
H. F. Sipe of Annapolis; Mrs. w. c. Del
linger of West Virginia, Mrs. Alexander
S. Fenwick of Takoma Park, Md, and
a sister, Mrs. L. Reinhard Of Balti-
more Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
PLAN ANNIVERSARY

The John Quincy Adams Parent
Teacher Association tonight at the
Adams School will celebrate the first
anniversary of its organization. Among
those to be present include Mrs. Theo-
dore Birney, founder of the association:
Mrs. Phoebe Hurst. Mrs. Joseph M.
Saunders, State president, and Mrs.
Giles Scott Rafter, president for num-
Der of years Of the District Congress
of Parent Teacher Associations. Mrs.
Dorothy Rus, president Of the John
Quincy Adams Parent Teacher Asso-
citation, win preside
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
DR.. S. F. HERSHEY DIES
Former Washington Pastor Expires
at Lake Helen, Fla.

DR.. Scott Funk Hershey, former pas
tor Of the Sixth Presbyterian Church
in this city, died at Lake Helen, Fla,
where he had recently been pastor, Sat-
urday, January IS, it was learned here
today. Funeral services were conducted
in his church there. The body was
placed in a vault at Davtona Beach,
FLA. pending removal in the Spring to
Lancaster, Ohio, for burial.
DIR. Hershey was stricken on the aft
ernoon of the day he died and his con-
Qregation at Lake Helen went to sery-
ices the following Sunday. not having
heard Of his death until then.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
Bethesda Church Plans Play.

The junior department of the Bethes-
da Methodist Church is putting on a
play, THE Making of Our Flag" Fri
day evening, February 20, at the
Bethesda Grammar School. The play
is in three episodes and is told in song
and story. The costuming is effective
and adds much to the play as it
portrays the different periods Of Amer
lean history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
SAMUEL FERGUSON DIES

Samuel ]. Ferguson, for "a years an
employe of E. Lee Jones and Miss Helen
Jones, whose home IS Fairfax road
Va. near Chain Bridge, died in Emer-
gency Hospital today after long III
ness.
He was . member of the colored ELS
and other colored organizations. IN
neral arrangements have not been COZ
pleted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03
MEETING POSTPONED
Navy Relief Society Puts OFF Ses.
sion for Mccormick Rites.

The annual meeting of the Navy Re-
lief Society. scheduled to be held
Thursday morning at 1890 O'Clock, has
been postponed until 2:30 o'clock that
afternoon, due to the funeral services
for Mrs. Mccormick. wife of Rear Ad-
miral A. M. d. Mccormick, Medical
Corps, U. S. N, retired. The services
will be held at st. Thomas Church at
1880 O'Clock on Thursday morning.
Mrs. Mccormick served as a member
OF the board of managers of the NAVY
Relief until short time ago. when she
resigned because of i'll health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29

One of the worst by-products of
present conditions is the great in
crease in racketeering by men who
formerly tread the straight and
narrow. When legitimate ave-
nues of livelihood are closed, men
seek the easiest way out-usually
outside the law.
Keep the children in school as long
as possible. Sending a boy or girl,
mentally unframed or unqualified,
out into the business world is
starting them with handicap
that may never be overcome. Make
every effort to give your children
their birthright of good educa-
ton.
The woman who continues to work
after marriage should not be con-
demned without facts. Many
woman is helping to hold a home
together because her husband is
joblesS.
And still on the subject of women,
an intelligent woman in bust
ness is a real asset. A charming
smile turneth away an angry male
customers wrath and maketh him
happy.
See if you can get any comfort out
of this. America has more mil
Ionaires than Washington had
men in his army at Monmouth.
Every time you make a purchase
you provide work for perhaps a
dozen people from the obtaining
of the raw material, through the
manufacturing, shipping and dis
tributing processes. Help put
men and women to work by buy
ing now. Prices were never more
in your favor.
Now. in the throes of our expan-
sion program, we can sympathize
with the housewife at cleaning
time. But the old order changes
for the new and better. When
completed our new, bigger and
better quarters will be well worth
the present temporary discom-
forts.
The Chief Tire Changer Signing Of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

we're at the station to bid the visit
ing statesmen farewell.
The veteran BRAND and the
younger statesman, Laval. attained
at least a modest achievement, as
Laval put it, in the Berlin visit.
They took to Paris plans for per-
inanent economic committee to ex-
anime questions affecting both peo-
pies with due regard for other ma
lions and international obligations.
The commission will hold sessions
alternate in France and Germany,
will be presided over alternately by
a French and German cabinet min
lister, and will include representa-
tives of business and labor.
The most dramatic parts Of their
visit were the spontaneous ovation
accorded the French statesmen by
German crowds held behind police
lines and their meeting with Presi-
dent Paul Won Hindenburg, idol Of
the German nation and command
er-in-chief of the German armies
in the invasion of France during
the World war. 1t was the first
time that Hindenburg had received
a French statesman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29
BOMB ROCKS LOOP
Chicago Advertising Firm
Damaged by Blast.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. pa bomb,
apparently aimed at the Big Four
advertising concern, resounded
through the loop today, shattered
windows in several buildings, and
sent hundreds of hotel guests hurry
ing from their rooms in alarm.
Only about $500 damage was done
to the building housing the advertis-
ing concern, but so loud was the re-
port that guests in the Stevens,
Blackstone, Congress and Audito-
rum hotels, several blocks away,
were aroused. In the United Press
office, six blocks away and eleven
stories up, the report sounded like a
loud roll of thunder.
The same building was bombed
last Feb. /, at which time Ralph L.
Goodman, part owner of the adver-
Using concern, blamed the attack to
labor troubles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29

Early in November the classes
will hold food sale. Not only will
canned goods, but cakes, pies and
other products of classwork will be
sold.
Proceeds will be used to buy food
for packing Thanksgiving baskets to
be distributed to poor families.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29
GERMANY BIDS
FAREWELL TO
LAVAL, BRAND
French Statesmen Cheered
by Results of Farley
in Berlin.
BY ERIC KEYSER
limited Press STAFF Correspondent

BERLIN, Sept. 29.-Premier Pierre
Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide
BRAND of France started back to
Paris today after their mission Of
reconciliation in Franco-German
affairs.
The statesmen travelled in spe-'
cial car attached to the Paris ex-
press leaving Wilhelmstrasse station
at 1853 a. m. Adjacent streets we're
roped off as they had been when
the French party arrived early Sun
day, but only a small crowd stood
behind the lines.
Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and
Foreign Minister julius Curtius
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29

Democrat; John w. Palmer, Sedalia,
Republican, and L. L. Collins, wet
independent, we're the contestants
to succeed the late Representative
Samuel G. Major, Democrat.
Both parties and Collins waged
spirited campaigns Former United
States Senator James A. Reed and
Representative Joseph Robinson of
Arkansas took the stump through
out the district for johnson. Both
avoided the prohibition issue, but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29
GASOLINE FROM
SOVIET ALARMS
DETROIT REGION
Dealers See Prospect of
Disastrous Price War in
Huge Imports.

BB United Press
DETROIT, Sept. 29.-Huge stor-
age tanks. lying close beside the
sluggish waters of the Detroit river,
today we're to receive their first
taste of gasoline-gasoline that has
come all the way from Russia.
The S. S. Pendracke was due TO
dock today with its cargo of AGO.
600 gallons of Soviet gasoline con-
signed 10 the Sunny Service Oil
Company of Detroit.
Quite recently the Detroit oil
company completed the marine
storage tanks with 1000, 000-gallon
capacity.
The Pendracke's cargo is part of
q 2,700,000-g gallon shipment to Mon
treal from u. S. S. S. r. aboard
the Ellsworth. which arrived there
recently.
Market Already GIutted
Already the Detroit market is
glutted with gasoline and various
price wars have shown the effect
of this oversupply. With the active
prospect of nearly 100000 gallons
being added within a short time
gasoline dealers were pessimistic for
the future possibility Of maintain
ing price which would allow fair
profit.
Disclosure of the shipment from
Montreal to Detroit and the arrival
Of the original consignment from
the Soviet was made here by Walter
@. Cole of the Union League of
Michigan.
Charles e. Austin, president of
the Sunny Service Oil Company.
said it was his knowledge that oil
shipments to this country from out
side countries we're not infrequent.
Harmful Effect Seen
He cited the case Of one American
company which had large foreign
holdings and also the direct impor-
tations from South America, Mexico
and the Dutch East Indies.
Austin said that he believed this
to be the first direct shipment to
Detroit from the Soviet.
The normal monthly capacity of
the Detroit area is placed at 3d.
O00,000 gallons of gasoline. Austin
would not predict the possible out
come Of dumping an additional
100000 gallons into this field, nor
whether the gasoline is to be sold
in the Detroit district.
"As 1 view it," Cole told the
United Press, adding this gasoline
to a market now crowded is going
to create an even greater hardship
on the oil industry than now exists"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29
U. S. WATCHING
MISSOURI VOTE
House Control, Repeal Are
Election Issues.
~ United Press

By United Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Sept. %
With the possibility that party con-
troll of the house of representatives
may depend upon their votes, citi-
zens Of the Seventh Missouri dis
trict went to the polls today to elect
a congressman.
The district ordinarily votes DEM
ocratic by.a majority of some 2,750.
But, with the prohibition question
thrust upon the voters by an indie
pendent candidate, party leaders
refused to predict the outcome.
Robert D. Johnson, Marshall,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29

Collins called upon the people to
elect him on his repeal platform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29

The Chief Tire Changer Signing OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29
Burns Cause Death

B Times Special
ROCHESTER, Ind, Sept. 30. -
Burns suffered when her clothing
became ignited while she was start
ing fire with coal oil, caused the
death of Mrs. Howard Hartman, 55,
at her home southeast of here. Her
husband suffered severe burns in
attempting to extinguish the flames
and the home was damaged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29
$50 ENTER GYM SCHOOL
Phy-Ed Training School Starts It's
Twenty Fifth Season.

One hundred and fifty students
were enrolled in the normal college
of the American Gymnastic Union,
which began its fall semester Mon
day.
The training school for physical
education teachers is in its twenty
fifth year, and has ninety-five men
and f1fty-five women enrolled.