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The Washington times., 1931-03-07
Breaks Leg Fleeing
Police Raiders in
Rum Hunt

When Robert s. Carter, %,
colored, of 922 Third st. N. W.,
heard that the police were com
ing, he thought that the most
expedient thing to do was to
jump the back fence. He did,
with the result that he was
taken to Emergency Hospital
and treated for a broken leg.
According to police, a party
was being staged ia the Third
Street address. The police, sus-
pecting liquor on the premises,
entered the house, but found no
intoxicantS.
At the first warning all mem
bers in the party rushed from
the rear door.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
Religious News and Announcements
Bishop toTalk
Tomorrow at
Chapel

The Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop Of Washington, will preach
on Mans Self-Determination" in
the Bethlehem Chapel Of Wash
ington Cathedral tomorrow at 4
p. m.
This service will be broadcast
over Station WMAL. The sermon
will be one of a series now being
preached during the Sundays in
Lent by Bishop Freeman on the
general subject Of Religion and
Life"
At the IL a. m. celebration Of
Holy Communion and sermon TO-
morrow, the preacher will be Rev.
G. Freeland Peter, Canon and
Chancellor Of Washington Cathe-
dral. Music will be furnished by
the Cathedral choir Of men and
boys.
Other services in Bethlehem
Chapel tomorrow will be cele-
bration Of Holy Communion at
1880 a. m, morning prayer and
litany at 10 a. m.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
Nurn1i Killed Self,
Gun Tests Indicate

Aarvi Nurmi, 26, who was found
November 10 lying beneath a
window of his home in Takoma
Park, Md, a 25-caliber pistol
bullet in his head. was suicide,
tests on the death gun, showing
that the weapon was his, indi-
cate.
Nurmi had been drinking, &C.
cording to j. j. O'Brien and
Henry Mcclure. A shot was
heard by the two men and Nurmi
plunged from the window to the
ground below. The two were
held by Maryland authorities but
will now be admitted to bail,
States Attorney Stedman Pres.
colt announced last night.
The tests on the weapon were
made at the Bureau of Standards.
Experts yesterday announced
their findings.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
REV. DIR. S|ZOO
To SPEAK ON
CONFESSION
Evening Sermon at New York
Avenue Church Will Be On
why | Am a Church Member

DR.. Sizoo will.deliver the
third sermon Of a Lenten series
tomorrow morning at the New
York Avenue Presbyteria n
Church. The subject will be
"A Belated Confession" At the
8 p. m. service DR.. Sizoo will
speak on why I Am a Church
Member"
At 1880 a. m. Wednesday
in the ballroom Of the Mayflower
Hotel DR.. SiZoo will deliver the
third Lenten lecture Of the
series, on "The Faiths Of the
World and Our Faith" The
subject will be How Men Have
Found God-Through Confucius." !"
A series Of Lenten teas will
be held Thursday afternoon in
the Lincoln Room of the church.
The Wednesday Morning Guild
will be hoSteSses. DR.. Sizoo will
speak on "Presbyterianism" at
that time.
At mid-week prayer services
DR.. Sizoo will discuss "A Cues
ton of Passion Week"
The Noon Day Lenten services
under the auspices Of the Wash
ington Federation Of Churches
will be held at the church from
March 8 to April 3, at 1920
daily except on Saturdays and
Sundays.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
NORTHEAST MEET

The Northeast Washington Citi-
zens' Association will meet in
the Ludlow School, Sixth and G
Streets Northeast, Monday night
at 8 o'clock. The gas situation in
Washington and traffic conditions
will be among the matters up
for discussion,
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
Trophies Ordered
For Rifle Contest

The War Department yester-
day announced it has placed
orders for the trophy and badges
to be awarded in the chief
of milita's indoor rifle tea m
matches this summer.
The meet was started in 1880,
and is to be an annual event be-
tween National Guard units whose
principal arm is the rifle. It
will be open to all such organiza-
tions In the United States, in
GLIDING Hawaii, Porto Rico, and
the District of Columbia.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
DR.. Darby to Preach
At LanadOn Church

DR.. w. L. Darby, executive Sec
retary Of the Federation of
Churches, will preach Sunday
morning in Langdon Methodist
Church, Twenty-second and
Evarts SITS. N. E. His subject
will be Church Cooperation in
Washington"
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
DIR. n. BOYNTON
TOSPEAK HERE

DR.. Nehemiah Boynton, Of New
York, one Of the great preachers
Of the Congregational denomina.
tion, will preach tomorrow morn
ing and evening at First Con
gregational Church, Tenth and
G SITS. N. w. DR.. Boynton is a
former moderator of the ma
tional council of Congregational
churches.
The church night supper will
be held at 6 o'clock Thursday in
the Sunday school room. The
prayer meeting, after supper, will
be led by Rev. Harvey w. God
dard. All Sunday school de
partmentS meet at 9:45 a. m.
The senior society of Christian
Endeavor will have a tea and
social hour at 6 p. m, Sunday
in the Sunday school room. The
regular meeting will follow. Miss
Georgia Redway will lead the
meeting. The Young Peoples So.
ciety Of Christian Endeavor will
meet Sunday at $50 p. M, in
the east parlor. Miss Charlotte
Hobbs will lead the meeting.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
DR.. Thomas r. Opie
Accents OLneu Call

DR.. Thomas F. Opie, rector of
the Church of the Holy Com
forter at Burlington, N. c., has &C.
cepted call to st. Bartholomew's
Church, Olney, in the Diocese Of
Washington.
DR.. Opie is known in the Epis-
copal church not only as de-
voted pastor, an eloquent preacher
and capable executive, but also
as a writer chiefly on religious
themes for church periodicals. and
the secular press. He has had
several books published.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
DR.. Williams Talks
On Church Business

The Rev. c. N. Williams, dis
trict secretary of the Christian
Missionary Society for Maryland,
Delaware and the District of Co.
lumbia, will occupy the pulpit
Of the National City Christian
Church tomorrow at both services.
Mr.. Williams was local secre-
tary Of the world convention of
the Disciples of Christ, held in
Washington last October. He has
had many years of experience in
connection with the business side
Of religious life,
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
WOMEN DIRECT
! EVANGELIST
MEETINGS
Misses Stockton and Gould
will Be Heard at Series
Of Baptist Church Services

At the Metropolitan Baptist
Church Sunday Misses Amy Lee
Stockton and Rita Gould, ma.
tionally known California evange-
lists, will begin their meeting
under the direction Of DR.. John
Compton Ball. These young
women have completed meetings
in Detroit and Grand Rapids,
Mich, and in Buffalo, N. Y.
. Miss Gould will lead a large
chorus choir, and Miss Stockton
will deliver Gospel messages. Miss
Stockton's themes for the week
are:
Sunday morning: "The Need Of
the Hour; Miss Gould will sing,
Awake, o Church of Christ"
Sunday evening: What Does
the World Need MoSt?" Miss
Gould will sing, "Give Me Jesus" :"
Monday: "On to Victory; regi-
mental review. Miss Gould will
sing, Go on With the Lord"
Tuesday: when Home In
Heaven; Family circle night.
Miss Gould will sing, When the
Road Leads Home"
esday: "B h old, He
Cometh: When?" Miss Gould will
sing: when Jesus Comes"
Thursday: do I Preach a
Book of Myths or Miracles?"
Bible Night. Miss Gould will sing
"The Wonderful Book"
Friday: Rainbow Chorus for
Boys and Girls. Miss Gould will
meet boys and girls from the
Bible school each afternoon at $3.50
in preparation for this meeting.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
N|FE'S SUICIDE
TRY FAILS

Upset by an argument she had
with her husband last night, Mrs.
Catherine Gumpman, 20, of 5726
Fifth st. N. W., arose early to-
day, according to police, and
drank a quantity of poison.
Hearing his wife scream, Merle
C. Gumpman ran to her aid.
Calling his sister, Margaret, the
two carried the stricken wife to
Garfield Hospital.
There she was given first aid
by DR.. Maurice Kennedy, who
said he expects her to recover.
Police say Gumpman told them
he and his wife had quarreled
over a trivial matter.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
ATTERBURY SEES HOOVER

Gen. w. w. Atterbury, of the
Pennsylvania railroad, called at
the White House yesterday, accom-
panied by Secretary Of Commerce
Lamont.
The Washington times., 1931-03-07
1915 Meals GiUen
BV Volunteer Center

The Volunteers Of America
Social Service Center has dis
tributed 43,716 meals, lodged
2,070 persons, and distributed 906
garments during the winter, it
was announced today.
The center announced that w.
j. Armstrong, local merchant,
will be speaker at a meeting of
the organization Sunday after.
noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
SENATE AMAZED BY
.BROOKHART CHARGE

Brookhart aroused a furry of in
dignation when he charged that he
had been denied an opportunity to
question Meyer in committee, before
the nomination was reported favor
ably.
Senator Ashurst Dem, Ariz.)
who supported Meyer, said:
THAT is the most shocking, as
founding thing I have heard in
nineteen years in the senate" He
said if the charge should be sub
Stantiated, he would support Brook
hart'S motion to recommit the nomi-
nation to the committee for further
consideration.
Senator Couzens (Rep., Mich.)
also expressed amazement. He said
he would mot condene any such re-
fusal to hear senator
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
LEISURELY BANDIT ROBS
y IN GOLD COAST TOUR
HoIdup Man Runs Elevator
and Gathers Loot From
His Passengers.
By United Press

DS OKttCU 4TtoS
CHICAGO, Jan. GA shabbily
dressed bandit, who knew how tc
operate an elevator, made a two
block tour in Chicago's exclusive
Gold Coast district Wednesday
night, robbed two hotels, held ur
twenty-five persons, attempted tc
rob another hotel, and calmly
walked away.
His first stop was a fashionable
hotel at East Delaware place, where
the clerk handed over $85.
Smilingly, the bandit waited ir
the lobby and stopped eight guests
seven men and one woman.
The victims were taken to sixth
floor room, where. one of ther waS
forced to NIX highballs.
After emptying their pockets, the
bandit left the guests locked in thu
room and departed by way of tn
lobby, where he robbed James
Burns, politician, of $40, and told
him to visit the sixth floor room.
The clerk in another hotel, less
than block away, gave up $40 and
the bandit remained in the lobby for
a half hour.
He answered the elevator bell
eight times and each time obtained
a few dollars from a guest.
vending his way through groups
of policemen, the bandit sauntered
a few doors down the street and
lined the clerk and the janitor OF
another hotel up against the wall.
He obtained only IS cents, became
alarmed when the clerk mentioned
the house detective, and left while
his victims, their faces to the wall
thought he was opening the safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
SCHOOL COST
DISCUSSED AS
TAX PROBLEM
House Committee Lays
Aside Gwin Bill to Con-
slider Other Measure.
SALARY CUTS PROPOSED
Parke County Superintend
ent Suggests Reduction
of 10 Per Cent.

Cut my salary and the salary of
every other county Official 10 uer
cent II you're going to do awav with
minimum teacher salaries and omen
the jobs up to competitive bid
ding
This was the proposal laid before
the house ways and means com
mittee by Edward j. Fisher. Rock
vile, superintendent of the Parke,
county schools, as the committee de-
liberated on school legislation with
its correlating problem Of reduction
In costs OF administration of govern
ment.
Fishers avowal of Willingness to
accept reduction of his salary OF
$1,000 a year came as the commit
tee heard school superintendent
from various parts of the state urge
the necessity of relieving the tax
burden on property and stress the
plight OF poverty sticken southern
Indiana.
Debate on Unit Bill
The committee members debated
the merits Of the school lew bill
now pending, introduced by Repre-
sentative FabiuS GWin Dem. Mar
tin and Dubois, which provides for
levy with the state as a unit of
taxation, a board of control COM
posed of the state tax board. the
state auditor and the state super
mtendent of public instruction, to
determine size of the levy after
scrutiny of all available data on adj
ministration cost.
In connection with the hearing OH
the Gwin bill, the committee heard
Harry Kirk, state aid auditor. criti-
else the present state aid law, which
expires this year, as too inelastic.
He asserted the requirement for
approval of purchases a year in adj
vance prevents economical admins
tration.
Gwin Measure Tabled
The committee voted to table the
Gwin measure until it has had an
opportunity to study other similar
legislation yet to be introduced.
Representative Albert F. Walsman
(Dem., Marion), research director
for the Indiana Taxpayers Associ-
alton, interjected the property valu-
alton issue during a talk to the
committee by Kirk, whose admins
tration has been under fire for some
time.
do you know of instances where
county superintendent have con-
nived with township assessors to re-
duce assessments in order to place
townships in state aid category"
queried Walsman.
II do not" replied Kirk, and
Walsman abandoned that line of
questioning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
INDIANA FIRMS
BID is FAVORED
South Bend Company May
Build u. S. Hospital.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Ralph
Sollitt & Sons Construction Com
pany, South Bend, Ind, virtually
was assured the contract for the
indianapolis veterans hospital to-
day when officials of the bureaus
construction division determined to
award the job to a firm guarantee
ing to employ local labor.
Sollitts bid was $487 900, against
$524,000 offered by the Algernon
Blair Company of Montgomery, Ala.
The Blair bid was understood by
veterans bureau officials to con-
template the importation of cheau
labor from the south.
Bids on the hospital were. opened
Tuesday afternoon. The Sollitt bid
did not reach the bureau until
Wednesday morning. Investigation
disclosed, however, that it had
been mailed at South Bend at
6 p. NJ. Monday and postoff1ce Of
ficials stated that in the ordinary
course OF business it should have
reached the veterans bureau in
time for the opening Tuesday.
The construction division, agreed,
therefore, to receive the bid. For
NAL announcement of the award is
expected early next week. Sollitt
offers to begin work in fifteen days
and to complete in $50 days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22

Mrs. Blacklidge, a woman about
40, extensively dressed and of very
striking appearance, said that Fred
Litsinger, nephew of the politician,
was in the room with. her when she
lost the $4,000 Wednesday night.
Edward Litsinger, she said, was in
the hotel.
Lltsinger himself also reported at
the police station. He said he had
come to Springfield to visit some
politicians. He refused to talk
about the faro game.
Called Closed Incident
The federal revenue collector told
that the gamblers had refused to
pay her $207,500 Sunday because
they said she had entered the
game without cash. She said she
had known one of the men in Chi
cago and that he had played cards
with her husband, who died last
year.
Both Litsinger and Mrs. Black
lidge said they would return to
Chicago today.
so faS as I am concerned it is
a closed incident" Mrs. Blacklidge
told newspaper men.
Although I could, am not going
to make a sob story out of this. I
am the victim of confidence men,
but there was nothing wrong SO far
as [ personally am concerned.
Prominent in G.. o. p.
Mr.. Litsinger understood the en-
tire matter when the money was
secured In Chicago. He was to get
$4,000 Of the money"
Mrs. Blacklidge succeeded Mrs.
Mabel Reinecke as federal collector
of internal revenue at Chicago. She
was appointed by the President on
March /, 1929, and took office April
l Of t u year.
She had been prominent as a
leader in the Republican faction
headed by Senator Charles S.
Deneen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22

sent election day would appear at
the courthouse in case Of a general
election, or city hall in event Of a
municipal election, not more than
ten days or less than three days
prior to the election. No ballots
would be mailed. The absentee vote
ballots would be deposited in a bal
lot box having two locks, the key TO
one being retained by one board
member, and the key to the other by
the other member.
A second bill would provide for the
mailing Of ballots to persons unable
to appear at the polls with the same
time provisions as the above, but
would provide for the mailing to the
county or city clerk cE the marked
ballot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22

MRS. blackluge VOld PoIce Chlet Thomas Sullivan
She came here last Sunday, at the suggestion of a
friend and gambled with two men, whose last names
we're Reynolds and Parker but whose first names she
did not know.
At that time she said she won $2o75oo ION paper.
which the men refused to pay until she had given
cash for $4,000 check which she had put into the
game.
She went to Chicago she said and told Edward
r. Litsinger, member of the board of review and a
prominent politician, what had happened.
Litsinger, she said, furnished her with $4,000 in
$1,000 bills which she brought back to Springfield
Wednesday night.
Again she gambled with the men, this time at an
other hotel She said and fhe first deal lost all her
$4,000. The men left the few minutes later
II realized had been duped.p she told Sullivan
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
KIDNAP PLOT Fooled
-Four Held as Principals in
100000 Conspiracy.

By United Press
DETROIT, Jan. %. = -Four men,
one a former policeman, were held
today as principals in plot to ex-
tort 100000 ransom from a wealthy
Detroiter after kidnapping one Of his
two children. All have confessed,
police say.
Two of the men were seized by
detectives at the doorway Of the
home of Horace S. Maynard, Secre-
tary- treasurer of the Senior Invest
ment Corporation, as they attempted
to force their way into the house to
abduct one of Maynard's children
Wednesday night. Two other men
! and q woman were arrested later at
their homes.
An underworld tip to Inspector
William Collins of the police squad
several days ago led to Illustration of
the plot.
George B. Spears, As, formerly
chief accountant for a steamship
company, admitted he was the
brains" of the gang.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
SCORE
Three TO ONE
ON FUGITIvES
Two RecaptuTeS and a
Death Leave Single Refor-
matory Inmate at Liberty.

By Times Special
PENDLETON, Ind, Jan. o.
Three of the four convicts who
made dash for liberty at the In
diana state refornlatory here re-
Gently, are now accounted for. One
is dead and two have been recap
tured and returned to the institu-
ton.
Peter j. Stoner, parole officer, had
unusual luck when he went to take
charge of Enoch E. Pleif, %, who
was captured at Greenville, Fla,
after he had stolen an automobile.
While Stoner was in Florida, an
other of the fugitives, Samuel w.
Sanders, 81, was arrested at Madi-
son, so the parole officer had both
men as his prisoners when he ar
rived at the reformatory.
Sanders resisted when deputy
sheriff took him into custody and
was shot twice in a leg when he
tried to wrest a revolver from the
deputy's hand. Both men waived
extradition. Sanders was sentenced
from Vigo county for five to twenty
one years for automobile banditry.
Pleif was serving a three to ten
year sentence for second degree
murder.
Another of the escaped prisoners,
Lee H. Powell, was found dead at
Indianapolis, victim of pneumonia
resulting from being exposed while
lying in a haystack several days
hiding from pursuers.
Bruce A. Scott, the only prisoner
now unaccounted for, is the object
of a nationwide search. He has
been identified by photographs as
the bandit who held up and robbed
the Daleville bank few days after
escaping from the reformatory.
The four men climbed through an
elevator shaft to freedom. Sanders,
who was employed at the reforma-
tory as plumber, had obtained q
key by q ruSe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
STUDENTS ON STRIKE
Undergrads War on Cops
in Spanish University.
Pu T7n;ted Prose

By United Press
MADRID, Jan. 22.-Police battled
with striking students at the Uni
yersity Of Madrid today a few hours
after a general strike among stu
dents became effective.
The strikers were repeatedly
charged by police, who injured sew
eral in fighting before the students
were dispersed. A group of mon
archist youths and legionnaires led
the student hostilities, collecting
iron bars and clubs for the battle.
The royalist students battled the
striking Republican students, who
shouted threats against King Al
fonso and the cabinet.
The strikers sent delegates to all
provincial universities demanding a
general strike throughout Spain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
PREDICTS CHANGE IN
DRY LAW BY WOMEN
Mrs. Sabin Believes Fair Sex Will
Vote for Prohibition Reform.

Mrs. Sabin Believes Fair Sex viii
Vote for Prohibition Reform.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-The women
Of the United States eventually
will use the constitutional right
given them in the nineteenth amend
ment to bring about a revision of
the eighteenth, believes Mrs. Charles
H. Sabin of New York, founder and
national chairman of the women's
organization for prohibition re-
form.
Speaking before a meeting of the
Illinois members of her organiza-
ton, Mrs. Sabin predicted Wednes-
day night that ''women's suffrage
will restore to our country, liberty.
honesty, temperance. sobriety and
sanity, to replace the present era
of intemperance, intolerance, dis
honesty and corruption"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
HENLEY SUIT VENUED
Strange Divorce Case Sent
to Hancock Court.

Hancock county circuit court at
Greenfield has been selected as the
scene Of the strange divorce trial
in which Mrs. Ethel Williams Hen
ley asks absolute severance of her
alleged marriage bond with Man
ford G. Henley, Indiana adjutant-
general.
Although the date of the trial has
not been set definitely, it was in
dictated by attorneys that first evil
dence will be presented to Judge
Arthur G. Van Duyn some time next
week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22
Smile Stays on Face as
Blind Man Meets Death


CHICAGO Jan 2-Blnd Urdanowicz g. died lived
with a smile his face
smiling" Alex to tell his companions at
the blind
these companions the
home that he followed his advice
death
their fingers his face they filed past
his coffin, the smile, they know still there.
Clinton county fifty years. Several
trapped by from death
many.
But just kept slin he told his blind pals when he
recounted for them his experiences
He smiled Also he said when he went blind He down in
fellow his safety
gone couldn't his that had
gone instead They led him out of his 1nne smiling
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-22

although we do not discount the
seriousness of the depression We
have been passing through, we feel
that there are unmiStakable signs
of gradual but steady recovery dur
ing this year, and this, together
with our mistaken faith in the fu-
ture of Indiana warrants, in our
Judgment, the program we have
adopted
Included in the budget of almost
100000 is $1,000,0OO for new
general headquarters building here
It will be completed late in 1882 at
a total cost of $1,850,0O0.
An item Of $1,076,OO0 for exchange
lines will provide additional inter
office trunk cables between ex-
changes in Indianapolis. Approx
imately million dollars Of
an 100000 fund apportioned for
central office equipment is to be
spent here for additional toll and
local apparatus.