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The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Doris GossAppointed7hird
Secretary to Mrs. Hoover
Harris & Ewing Photo

splendor of her hospitality and
her home near New York, Ophir
Hall, has housed even royalty.
It will be remembered that the
King and Queen Of Siam made
the estate their headquarters
while in this country. =.
Ranks Third on Staff
Miss Goss will rank third in
the First Lady's secretariat.
Her immediate SuperiorS are
Miss Mildred Hall and Mrs. Fred
erick B. Butler, the latter sue
cessor to the. former Miss Ruth
Fesler, now Mrs. Robert L. Lip
man.
Mrs. Butler was secretary to
Mrs. Hoover in 1924 in Washing
ton and prior to that acted in a
like capacity to the future First
Lady at Palo Alto.
Miss Hall has been Girl Scout
secretary to Mrs. Hoover since
the days when President Hoover
was Secretary of Commerce.
She was with the Hoovers dur
ing the campaign and later ac-
companied Mrs. Hoover to the
White House.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
DRIVES
/ LAUNCH, MAN.
/ OFF SHORE
Wife Watches G.P.0. Employe
Disappear With Boat in Bay;
Located by Naval Plane

Located by a naval airplane
the disabled motorboat Of William
F. Maher, with Maher aboard,
was being towed back to Annapo-
lis from Matapeake Point by a
Sub" chaser today.
Maher, so, a pipefitter at the
Government Printing Office here,
and living at "a Crittenden st.
N. W., had gone to the bay yes
terday with his wife. He started
out alone in his cabin cruiser.
Mrs. Maher sav her husband
put out safely from shore, be-
tween Bay Ridge and Kent Island.
Suddenly a squall blew up, waves
battered the 32-foot craft, and it
disappeared.
Sub Chaser Hunts
Throughout the night, a Navy
submarine chaser and tug from
Annapolis scanned the bay with
searchlights for Maher.
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Five cases Of members Of the
Police Department recommended
for retirement because of physical
disabilities were heard today by
the Police Retiring Relief Board.
Action on the cases will prob
ably be delayed for several days,
it was indicated by Assistant Cor
poration Counsel William A. Rob
erts, acting chairman Of the
board.
The policemen involved in to-
days cases are Sergt. Minor e.
FUR and Privates Norris w.
Jones, David o. Hayes, Frank
M. Dierkoph and Horace R.
Crawford.
Crawford is a patient at Walter
Reed Hospital. where he is suf-
fering from the results Of a
gunshot wound received several
years ago in the course Of duty
The other four policemen were
recommended for retirement as
q result Of disabilities found in
the examination of lot men
last week by the board of fire
and police surgeons.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
SUSPECT DENIES
KILLING GUILT

Frank Prochazka occupies a
cell in the Prince Georges County
Jail today where he is held in
connection with the death Of
Marine Private Emmanuel Thorne
whose bullet-ridden body was
found in a grave at Capitol
Heights, Md, April 8.
Prochazka was arrested late
Saturday night by Deputy Sher-
ifs T. H. Garrison and L. E..
Dutrow. The accused man said
today he knew nothing of the
killing and that he was not aware
he was even suspected.
Garrison, however, said that
on the night Of January Is, when
Thorne is believed to have been
slain, Prochazka and two other
men were seen in his garage. It
was on that night that Constable
Earl Blackwell got a report Of a
shooting affray now believed to
have occurred in the garage.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
ALerGndriUv1s Want
Blue LQLUS Enforced

Strict enforcement the Sunday
closing laws is asked Of city
council by a petition signed by
20 grocerymen in Alexandria. The
petition asks that groceries and
meat markets be closed all day
Sunday. At present there is little
attention paid to the. blue law
observance.
According to D. l.. Rubin, cir
culator of the petition, it is not
planned to interfere with drug
stores or lunchrooms, but only
to prevent unfair competition
among the grocerymen and meat
dealers,
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Weather Man Saves
To Make Dictionary

Some people collect stamps and
some collect snuff boxes, but c. F.
Talman, librarian of the United
States Weather Bureau, is col
lecting words relating to the
weather. His encyclopedia weather
dictionary, when completed, will
contain about $4,000 weather
terms, including slang, dialect
and scientific names for weather
phenomena
It may be some years before
the dictionary is finished, but
meanwhile each definition is filed
on a card and the cards are in
daily use as references for the
scientists of the Weather Bureau
and others.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
U. S. Worker, so, Dies
After Fall on L0lUn

DR.. William P. Ellennerger, so,
a veterinarian at the DEPARTMENT
of Agriculture, died at Emergency
Hospital today after having fallen
while watering his lawn at 1859
Parkwood Place N. w.
The veterinarian was discovered
in an unconscious condition by
neighborS who rushed him to the
hospital, where it is said he re-
ceived a possible fracture Of the
skull. Mrs. Irene Ellenperger, his
wife, said she believed her hus-
band had tripped over the hose
and fallen on his head.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
WOMAN I found
DEAD Of CAS-

The body of Myrtle Crawford
Morgan, 26, of 1868 L st. S. E.,
was discovered in a gas-filled
bedroom early today. She had
been dead several hours.
Neighbors said the woman was
respondent.
The Fire Rescue Squad at
tempted first aid without success.
Clyde H. Henderson, 4112 Gait
Pl. N. E., her brother-in-law, dis
covered escaping gas when he
visited the house. He called po-
lice who forced the door and dis
covered all gas jets in the house
open.
Police say Mrs. Morgon twice
before attempted suicide, once in
Gallinger Hospital and another
time when she jumped from a
southeast bridge.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Crash, -Four Injured:
Court Calls TGrinlQHl

Leroy Allison, 62S Eighth st.
8. W., will appear in Police
Court in Hyattsville, Wednesday,
to answer charges Of reckless
driving as q result of traffic
Accident in which four persons
Were injured yesterday.
According to HyattSville police,
ta taxicab operated by Allison
crashed into an automobile
operated by T. Publ, Of 1909
Twenty-second st. N. w. Publ,
M. Publ, L. -Krick, and Helen
Krick, all of the same address,
were brought to Emergency
HOSPITAL.
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William Huff Dies
From MOnOEide Gas

William Huff, %, of 1881 D
st. N. E., died at Casualty Hos
pital late yesterday from the
effects of monoxide gas inhaled
In his home early yesterday.
I Rosetta Brown, a fellow roomer,
is in q serious condition at the
hospital suffering from the ef-
fects of the gas. The young man
was taking a bath when he was
overcome. Miss Brown smelled
fumes and went to the door to
investigate. She fell to the floor
in faint from the fumes.
Members Of the Fire Depart
ment rescue squad worked on the
man for more than three hours
in an effort to save his life. A
blood TRANSMISSION also failed.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Auto Victim Struck
RUVaninq for Trolley

Edward Vincent Roche, 81, OF
1915 Otis st. N. E., is III an I'm"
determined condition today after
having been struck and Knocked
down by an automobile while rum
ming for a street car at Fifth
street and Massachusetts, Ave. N.
W., last night.
According to police, the ma
chine was operated by Tennyson
M. Craft, %, Of Boiling Field,
D. C. Physicians at Emergency
Hospital, where the man was
taken in a passing vehicle, say he
has abrasions and lacerations to
the left leg and both nands and
a possible conclusion Of the skull
as well as large confusion on
his head,
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Alexandria Begins
DQu NMrSeru Drive

An intensive drive to raise
$4,000 for the Alexandria Day
Nursery will begin this week by
the directors Of the nursery under
the direction of Ted Harold.
Four committees, headed by Judge
William P. Woolls, Mrs. H. A. La
tame, Miss Helen Cummings, and
Frank Fannon. will attempt to
prevent the nurseries being closed.
Nearly 80 small children are be-
ing cared for by the nursery,
which is the only institution of
its kind in the northern section
Of the State.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Old IrOnsides Trip
Cut for EcOnOnlU

The proposed cruise Of the
historic frigate Constitution to
Southern waters has been can
celled in the interest Of naval
economy.
Old IronsideS is now at Balti-
more. She Is scheduled to arrive
in Washington November 7 and
will remain here. Abandonment
of the Southern tour will save
about $2co 1000, it is estimated in
the economy program dictated by
President Hoover.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
5 POLICE CASESICRAFTS EXHIBIT
GIVEN HEARING OPENS TONIGHT

The seventh annual Industrial
Exposition Of the washington
Chamber of Commerce opens to-
night in the Washington Audi
torium. Many public officials
have been invited to the opening
which Secretary of Labor Doak
will launch with a radio address
from the Auditorium over WMAL
at S:4S.
Officers and representatives Of
140 local labor organizations are
expected to hear the Secretary's
talk. Commissioners Luther H.
Reichelderfer and Gen. Herbert
B. Crosby will head reception
committee of Is WaShingtonians.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
JObless Apples Out;
Wine Bricks Taking
Street Trade Now

Wine bricks as q commodity
for the consumption of Wash
ingtonians were being freely
offered on Washington streets
today by an army Of statesmen.
Armed with hand bags which
looked like women's overnight
bags the statesmen. representing
Baltimore concerns, were at
various popular intersections
questioning paSSerSby:
"HOw about . champagne
brick t0day?"
The bricks, neatly done up
in yellow cartons and bearing
the name of the California
maker, were displayed openly
at Fourteenth and q Streets,
Northwest and other interSec-
tionS. ,.-
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
FOOtpad Asks Time,
Then Seizes Watch

Police today are searching for
a footpad who last night snatched
a valuable watch from John
Henry Herbert, 2100 Second st.
N. W., as he was walking through
Lafayette Park.
The thug approached the man,
he said, and asked the time.
When Herbert drew out his watch
the man seized it and ran. Her
bert chased him for more than
a block before losing him.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
HurIOck Student
Wins SUfetu Prize

B. johnson Todd, a student in
the Hurlock School at Hurlock,
Nd, won first prize in a state
wide safety contest conducted by
the Highway Education Board Of
washington. He Is to receive a
gold medal and a cash award of
SIS for his essay on street and
highway safety.
Second prize is to go to Mar.
garet GarlitZ, Cumberland, Md.
Other Maryland school children
will receive minor prizes.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
THUG DEMANDS
MONEY FROM
LAUNDRY
Manager Screams at Threat
and Young Man FIees After
Striking Her With Fist

Angered by the screams Of the
young woman manager in q
branch laundry at 1925 Fifteenth
st. N. W., which he attempted to
rob today, a thug struck her in
the face with his fist and escaped
before help could arrive.
Mrs. Annabelle Powell, 1906 FIT.
teenth st. N. E., was working be-
hind the laundry counter shortly
before noon when a youth wear-
ing a red sweater and a blue over
coat entered the office. He talked
vaguely about some laundry and
then left.
Demanded the Money
Later he returned and. with his
fist doubled up in his right pocket,
he advanced toward Mrs. Powell
and said:
Hand over the money"
She appeared not to understand
at first and he repeated his COM
mand. She screamed.
She Calls For Help
Miss Anna G. Quinn, 3O2 Sixth
st. s. W., who works in an adj
joining office, came in and taking
in the situation at glance, rushed
out calling for help.
The sudden turn Of events
startled the thug and he struck
Mrs. Powell in the mouth with
his doubled fist, she said, and ran
out.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
$50 or SerUe Month
For Carving Knife

Pleading guilty to carrying a
concealed weapon. Thomas Nor
gan, colored, 80, Of 5 Kings Court
N. W., today was ordered to pay
fine of $50 or serve 80 days in
Jail by Police Court Judge Isaac
r. Hit.
Police said they arrested Nor
gan yesterday in the $500 block
Canal Rd. N. w., while inveStigat'
ing a report Of a fight. He had
a long knife in his pocket, they
said.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
G. u. Records Quake
1850 Miles AU1u

An earthquake Of moderate in
tensity was recorded last night
on the Georgetown University
seismograph. The te1nblor was
recorded at 1881 p. m. and
reached it's peak at 11:41 p. m.
The quake occurred about
1850 miles from washington,
probably some place. in South
America.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
BRIBERY TRIAL
POSTPONED

Trial of Abner Siegal, attorney
under indictment for bribery,
scheduled to begin in District Su-
preme Court before Justice James
M. Proctor, was postponed until
tomorrow.
The indictment alleges Siegal
paid a guard at District Jail $3.50
to insert in the files a fake record
to show that a man under indict-
ment in Pennsylvania for first
degree murder was in jail here at
the time of the crime.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Girls Group Window
Dedicated at Church

A memorial window presented
BY the Girls Friendly Society
and said to be the only one Of
its kind in the United States,
was dedicated at the morning
service at st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, yesterday.
The window bears the facsimile
Df the Friendly Society emblem,
&ogether with the society motto,
"Rear We another'S burdens"
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
SHELBY WANTS
JURY ATTACK
+. EXPUNGED
Inspector Asks Court to Wipe
Criticism In Mcpherson
Investigation Off Its Book

There was an echo Of the IA
nous Mcpherson case in District
Supreme Court today when In
spector William s. Shelby filed a
motion to expunge from the rec
ords a Grand Jury report which
severely criticized the inefficient
and unbusinesslike" manner in
which the investigation into the
death of Virginia Mcpherson was
handled.
False, Says Petition
In his petition Inspector Shelby
sets out that the Grand Jury re-
port charged that he and Lieut..
Edward Kelly attempted to mis-
lead the Grand Jury, and had
indicated to certain witnesses as
to what they should testify and
as to what they should forget.
Inspector Shelby and Lieuten-
ant i.-elly were subsequently
brought before a special trial
board and acquitted.
The inspector declares that
charges Of the Grand Jury were
without foundation in fact, as
was shown in the hearing be-
fore the special trial board.
The report was made Septem-
ber 80, 1929, and was signed by
Merritt o. Chance, as foreman
of the Grand Jury.
Likely to Win Plea
In view Of a recent decision
by Justice James M. Proctor
that such reports by Grand
Juries are extra-judicial and i'm
proper, it is likely that Inspec-
tor Shelby's request will be
granted.
Justice Proctor's decision was
made when Inspector Louis j.
Stoll made a successful attack
on a report criticising him.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
Possession of Pint
Costs Youth SIS

Accused by police of bootleg
ging in the Pension Office Park,
Marvin Jones, %, of 701 Fourth
st. N. w.. today pleaded guilty
before Police Court Judge Isaac
r. Hit on a charge Of possession
of liquor and was ordered to pay
a fine Of $75 or serve go days in
iail.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
ArgO Lodge to Hear
3 Speak WedneSdGy

Milton Strasburger, guest
speaker at the meeting Of Argo
Lodge Of B'nai Birth, Wednesday
night at the Jewish Community
Center, will be introduced by
Frederic William Vile, newspaper
correspondent. Attorney Simon
Hirshman and Morris PaSch, Sec
retary to Senator La Toilette also
will speak.
The Washington times., 1931-10-26
DR.. SILVER HONORED

Reappointment of DR.. Edwin
Va. Silver, 141O G st. N. E., as
chairman of the national ad-
visory committee on vision for
motor drivers of the American
Optometric Association, Inc, has
been announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-16
PIONEERS {: WILL. BE SHOWN FINE
 TIME IN CITY
Entertainment for Members of Grand Igloo Is
 Outlined

The committee appoi inted by President John T. Spickett, Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, to pro- vide entertainment for the Grand Igloo delegates, has outlined the following program:
 Wednesday evening, February 25 Theatre party, Capitol Theatre.
 Thursday noon, February 26th- Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
 Thursday evening, February 26 Theatre party, Coliseum Theatre.
 Friday evening, February 27- Grand Igloo Ball, ElkS Hall.
 Saturday Afternoon, February 28 Trip to Mendenhall Glacier.
 Saturday evening, 6:3O o'clock I. o. o. F. Hall, banquet given by Womens Auxiliary, Pioneers ot l Alaska.
 The meetings of the Grand Igloc are to be held in the L o. O. F Hall, starting Wednesday, Febru- ary 25.
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THE Cs[aIlNN5 [uS1 THE [p[ul17lsIn1 @Zzgss[Is p>[2[SS rssssssT SsSss

admitted the constable.
 I could have done it last week,
 wicked woman. I won't wait
 much longer.
 That was the next letter, and the others continued in the sarne vein. Richmond said treating the finger prints cn the letters would be use less, since many persons had han dlcd them. At this point Duck worth suggested possibly the letters had not all be written by the same person.
 Doesn't help us much" muttered Richmond. When writing is dis euised there are often differences Then he turned to Duckworth and asked him for particulars about himself
 She did not altogether like it, was Duckworths frank reply tc the superintendent's question con- corning Miss Querdlings view oi her niece's engagement to him, "but ! I think she was getting more usec to the idea"
 He said that on the night of tht tragedy he had been in the room with Evelyn singing, remaining un' til Marjorie had come to tell O her aunt's death.
 You didn't see any one in th' garden at any timer" the superin tendent asked.
 Well, as a matter of fact, wen to pull the curtains'-he pointed t the windows-"an I noticed woman hurrying across the patl you can just see. While l can describe her well, she was of mod crate height and wore a long, darI coat CT macintosh. couldn't Sc her face, as she was going the othe way. Of course, I didn't take par ticular notics.'
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Richmond, did you see anyone about?"
 Blight it, no!-I'd have said so.'
 Tt might take you 20 to 25 min utes to get from your house across the links to this garden. That would make it ten past nine on your arrival Now what did you do when you got here?"
 "Nothing-I came to see Miss Querdling and her nieces met me and said there had been an acci- dent"
 That was later" Richmond's $ glance was hard. "You arrived at 10 or Is minutes after nine. You gay you called to see Miss Querd- ling. If you did not go to her di- rectly you arrived-what were you doing from the time you arrived until you were seen by Marjorie in the garden about 9:30.'
 What do you mean?"
 Just what I say. On your own showing, you arrived in the garden at ten minutes past nine and you were there until half paSt-when Miss Querdling was discovered dead"
 Copyright, 1880, J. B. Lipplncott Company
 Why did the major finger?
 Does his unrcquited love, re-
 veaIed in tomorrow's chapter,
 explain?
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SYNOPSIS: The mys-ery of the murder of Annabelle Querd- ling deepeng as Police Super intendcnt Richmond and Jim mic Haswoll, amateur d1tect.ve, probe the tragedy in the Dutch garden. Here the eccentric spins:er, watching the san52t, was crushed fatally by a Stcnc statue, toppled with evil intent. Marjorie Blake, niece of Miss QucrdIing, finds her aunt dead after she and Dr. Netherton, q ncighbcr, had talked with her. Hearing MarjCrie's alarm, her sister Evelyn and the latter's fiance, Lionel Duckworth, run from the music room and go with her to the garden, joined by Majcr Gresham, who has been ca the grounds at the time. Suspicion points toward g disgruntlcd chauffeur, Green, and new possibility appears when Constable Roscoe reports having seen q strange car and driver near the estate at about the time Of the murder. Evelyn tells the superintendent of her aunt's opposition to romance, but adds that she had consent cd to her marriage to Duck worth at the end of SIX months.
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the possibility the less the certain ty.
 The letters, Evelyn said, were in Duckwcrsh's possession. Shortly after she left at Richmonds re- quest to summon him, Duckworth came in, looking tired and hag- gard, and delivered the envelopes, arranged in the order received. Superintendent Richmond and Jimmie scrutinized the letters close ly. They were rudely scrawled in printed characters on cheap note paper. The first was the longest and bore a postmark nearly five months old.
 You are a bad wicked old woman. You go to church, but what do you pray for. You ought to be punished. Wait till get the chance.
 The second was more definite:
 I am waiting my chance. It won't be long. You are for death sudden and quick.
 Aside from smudgier writing, th' third was similar
 Are you ready to die? The end is near. You made others suffer and you shall pay. You beast.
 The next merely said:
 Psalms 69. 28. This means you.
 whats the reference?" ques tioned Jimmie Old Annabell Querdling had penciled it on tn back:
 Let them be plotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous. Constable Roscoe said that n suspected Joe Allen, the gardener dismissed for making love to on of the maids, as the writer of tn notes, because Joe had once beei 1n the choir. He swore he wasn't
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ritory on the acquisition of the Capitol from Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior; w. J. Mulvihill, mayor of Skagway; MT. and Mrs. Forest J. Hunt of Ketchi- kan, and Archie w. Shells, of Bel lingham The executive of the territory reviewed briefly and en- tertainingly the history of Alaska. He regarded the erection of the new Capitol as the beginning of an- ether era in northern annals-an era that will soon be marked by the requirement of full territorial gov ernment &
 On Behalf of Race Roderick F. Davis, Mayor of Met lakatla, native, spoke on behalf of his race. He noted what had been done for his people by the government, and expressed the hope that further help would be patient ly extended to enable them con- tinually to improve and progress
 James Wickersham, Dele g te- elect to Congress, gave an eloquent address, twice interrupted by ap- plause, on "Alaska's Trade Value to the United States showing tha what the federal government ha done for Alaska amounts to littl when compared with what Alasks has done for the Union.
 The Rev. c. E. Rice, dean o Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, offeret the benedicticn. concluding the ex ercises.
 Open to Inspection
 After the exercises in the Museum Hall, the Capitol was kept opel for public inspection. The bril- liantly lighted halls and office were visited by more than 1,50 persons and elicted favorable com ments.
 Yesterday afternoon, between and o'clock, the building wa again kept open for public inspee ton. During this period. the hig school band played selections i the Museum Hall. Several hur dred persons took advantage of tn second opportunity to visit the var ous offices in the structure.