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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
Ex-Marine Questioned in At
tack on w. B. LumSden
on Lonely Road.
WOMAN ALSO DETAINED
BY POLICE FOR QUIZZING
Patient Search of Corps Headquar-
tiers Files Yields Evidence,
Officers State.

A fingerprint on gun found near
the unconscious form of william B.
Lumsden, 26, of Raleigh, N. c., after
he was attacked on a lonely road in
the southeast section Monday, resulted
in the arrest of an ex-Marine today.
Cline Roy Teegarden. 81 years old, of
16 Fifteenth street southeast, admitted
attacking Lumsden after completion of
a tedious search through Marine Corps
headquarters fingerprint files which re-
vealed his prints matched those on
the gun.
Teegarden confessed, police say, to the
attack at the sixth precinct this morn
ing when detectives confronted him
with the fingerprint evidence.
Gladys r. Fink, % years old, of Col
mar Manor, Md, where the automobile
which was stolen from Lumsden after
the attack was found later, also is being
held.
Denies Part in Case.
The woman was taken into custody in
a cafe near Ninth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue last night She denies
any connection with the case.
Police are anxious to question the
Fink woman. since Lumsden's story of
the attack brings out that woman was
Teegarden denies it.
AS headquarters detectives grilled
Teegarden in his cell at the precinct
last night and through the early hours
of this morning he admitted beating
Lumsden and leaving him lying uncon-
SciouS on the dark and lonely Branch
road southeast
At the outset Of the police investiga-
ton only three clues to the brutal at
cor xw.aw u A HI -knf~ = -1alr
several buttons from a Marine private's
coat. and the gun were the evidence.
Arrested at Home.
Headquarters Detectives Hugh Brodie
and Thomas Bragg bagan work and ex-
perts later announced that Teegarden's
prints matched those found on the
handle of the gun. The detectives i'm
mediately went to his home and ar
rested him.
When detectives arrived at Teegar-
den's home he was wearing a Marine
private's coat, they said. He will be re-
questioned this afternoon as investi-
gators seek to clear up the woman angle
in the case. At present Teegarden is
being held for investigation.
Meanwhile Lumsden. with AZ surgi-
cal stitches in his head, lies in a
critical condition at Casualty Hospital
He has also several fractured ribs and
multiple bruises.
Lumsden's story is that he was stand
ing IN front of the Hamilton Hotel
about 20 o'clock when a man in a
Marine uniform addressed him The
man, Lumsden said, pointed to a young
woman standing nearby and suggested
that they go for an automobile ride
Lumsden said he readily consented
and they boarded his automobile. He
said when they reached Branch road,
the man suddenly began beating him.
He was later found lying along the
roadside by a passing motorist and
taken to the hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
SURVEYS CONTINUED
BY LAW COM MISSION
Reports on Criminal Statistics and
Prosecution of Crime May Be
Made This Month.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Torn apart by its controversy over
prohibition, the Law Enforcement Com
mission assembled today to continue
surveying the whole field of crime
Immediately before the members were
two virtually completed reports, one
dealing with criminal statistics and the
other with the prosecution of crime
Unless diSagreements develop over the
material or form Of these surveys, it
was held possible both might be in
President Hoover's hands before the
end of the month.
However, the work is to be continued
at more leisurely pace than charac-
terized the last part of the commits
sion's prohibition deliberations.
Preparation of the reports, expected
to occupy the commissions first atten-
ton, was directed by Dean Roscoe
Pound Of Harvard, the expert on sta
tistics. and Monte Lemann of Louisiana.
who specialized in prosecutions. In con-
junction with this latter report will be
survey analysis of both prosecutions
and courts conducted by Alfred Bett-
man of Cincinnati.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
NEW CITY DIRECTORY HAS
80 GEORGE WASHINGTONS
Latest Issue of Publication In
cludes Many Persons With
Presidents Names.

Thirty-nine George Washingtons
live in the District. This was revealed
today by the new Boyd's City Directory,
issued by r. l.. Polk g. Co.
In addition there are 81 Washing
tonians named John Adams, 6 Thomas
Jeffersons, IL James MadisonS, 9
James Monroes, Is Andrew Jacksons, 8
William H. Harrisons, IL John Tylers,
3 James K. Folks, 6 James Buchanans,
Is Andrew Johnsons, William McKin-
leys and Woodrow Wilson's.
Among the other monickers in the
2408-page volume are Mayors, 139
Manns, / Broker, / Counsel. 2 Lawyers,
l Senator. 4 Bills, 2 Comes, Dollar
and ! Dime.
The book also contains large amount
of up-to-date statistics on Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04

Capt. j. r. Groves of Fire Rescue
Squad No. /, who has directed the
resuscitation of hundreds of persons
overcome by Illuminating gas, found
his own father-in-law, Samuel Spring.
mann, dead from such fumes last
night.
Groves, accompanied by a friend, called
at his father in-laW's home, at 226 X
street southwest. Gas was flowing
from a Jet in the room in which
Springmann's body lay, according to
Capt. Groves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04

biles in various sections of the city, and
within two minutes, Policemen Richard
Cox, S. r. Russell and j. E. Cockrell
were at the Parker home.
They arrested the intruder, who iden-
tilted himself as Alfred Lewis Bonacci,
% years old, 1928 Fifteenth street
After being questioned at police head
quarters he was taken to the first pre-
cinct station. where he was held for
further investigation.
Before police arrived at the Parker
home, two other men tried to enter the
house, according to Mrs. Parker. They
were frightened away, however, driving
off in a machine They later telephoned
Mrs. Parker, she said. and requested her
not to prosecute Bonacci, who, they ex
planned, had been drinking. They re-
fused, however, to reveal their identity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
RESCUE SQUAD CAPTAIN FINDS
FATF4ER-IN-LAW DEAD FROM GAS
Samuel Springmann Discovered in Home With Fumes
Flowing From Open Jet.

Capt. Groves summoned his squad
but Springmann seemed to have been
dead for several hours and efforts to
revive him were futile.
The body was removed to an under
taking establishment pending an in
vestigation by Acting Coroner Joseph
d. Rogers.
Springmann, who retired from the
express business many years ago, was
& Widower and had lived alone since
his wife's death. aaeveral years ago. He
Is survived by his daughter Mrs.
Groves, and a son, Samuel Spring.
mann, jr., Of Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
MAN RELEASED ON BOND
ON LOANS LAW CHARGE
Edward Frank Accused of Exact
ing More Than Legal Interest
on Small Advances.

Charged with making small loans at
rate of interest greater than 6 per
cent per annum in violation of the
small-loan law, Edward Frank of 442
Ninth street was released on bond of
$500 when arraigned before Police Court
Judge Gus A. Schuldt ins District of
Columbia branch today. The case was
continued until February IA at request
of Defense Counsel Harry Whelan in
order to obtain additional witnesses.
Frank is alleged to have been engaged
in making small loans, although not a
licensed banker or broker He was ar
rested yesterday by headquarters detec-
tiveS on a warrant sworn on complaint
OF Herbert H. Mathany and Evelyn /.
Quinn, both of 1016 Sixth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
WIFE OF F. H. ECKER,
INSURANCE HEAD, DIES
New York Woman Was Prominent
in Community Life of Shelter
Island and Greenwich.
Ry the AssocIated PICS.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February Mrs. Hem
rietta WorraI Ecker, wife of Frederick
H Ecker president of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co, died yesterday at
her Park avenue home.
Mrs. Ecker was born I'll Brooklyn.
Her marriage to Ecker took place June
rs. 1890. The husband and two chill
dren. Frederick w. Ecker, assistant
treasurer of the Metropolitan, and r.
S. Heisler Harrington of Greenwich,
Conn, survive.
Mrs. Ecker was prominent in the
community life of Shelter Island and
Greenwich. Funeral services will be
held Thursday in the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
TAYLOR Is COMMENDED
FOR WORK FOR BONUS
American Legion Post Votes Con-
fidence in His Presentation of
Issue to Committee.

John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman
of the National Legislative Committee
of the American Legion, received a
unanimous vote of confidence last night
at a meeting of George Washington
Post, No. /, the pioneer post of the
American Legion, held in the club
house, 1441 Rhode Island avenue north
east
He was commended for his presenta-
ton Of the adjusted compensation GER
tificate resolution, which was adopted
at a special meeting Of the National
Executive Committee at indianapolis,
Ind, January Is, before congressional
committee last week.
william E. Porter, post commander,
presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
ATTACKED AFTER CRASH

Colored occupants of an automobile
which collided with the car of Benjamin
Snider, 35 years old, of 1922 Eighth
street, on Seventh street in the Mall
early last night, are reported TO have
attacked Snider and so severely wounded
him that he went to Providence Hos
pital, where he was treated for lacera-
lions and bruises of the face.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
PLAN DANCE AT CLINTON
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLINTON, Md, February 4.-Sev-
eral interesting community functions
here are scheduled the next few days.
A dance viii be held Friday evening
in the high school auditorium by the
Good Will OF Christ Church.
The high school auditorium also viii
be the scene of card party next
Monday night under the auspices of
the parent-teacher association, and a
play end dance February IL for the
keneht of the high school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
italian Statesman Ill.

ROME, February CP.-Tommaso
Tittoni foreign minister in the Giolitti
and Nitti cabinets and president of the
Senate for 10 years up until this year,
is seriously Ill with influenza. He is
former president of the Academy of
Italy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
Federation Meets Saturday Night.

The Federation of Citizens Associa-
lions will meet in the board room of the
District Building at 8 o'clock Saturday
night. President George G. Havenner
will preside.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
Corn Products
Company Fined

SPRINGFIELD, H., July 6. up
The Corn Products Refining COM
pany was fined $4,000 today on
charges of entering into a conspira-
cy to violate the prohibition laws,
giving the federal government a
partial victory in its effort to penal
ize corporations providing supplies
for manufacture of illegal alcoholic
beverages.
The fine was imposed by Federal
Judge Louis Fitzhenry when the
New York company's attorneys en-
tered a plea of nolo contendre in
the case, which had been pending
for months.
The Corn Products Co. was in
dicted with the Fleischmann Yeast
Co. and more than a score of in
dividuals in an alleged conspiracy
to violate the prohibition laws by
shipping corn syrup and yeast to
bootleggers in Bendl. the town
which the WickerSham commission
survey termed the worst" in Illi-
noiS.
The Corn Products company'S
plea was unexpected as its officials
had indicated that they intended
to fight the charges on the basis
that the prohibition law placed no
responsibility on them in. the ship
ment of corn sugar.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
VATICAN-FASCIST
RELATIONS NEAR
BREAKING POINT
Pope's Encyclical Issued
In Paris ArOuses MussO-
lini's Ire.
BY THOMAS b. MORGAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

ROME, July 6. U.HStrained re-
lations between the Holy See and
the government of Fascist Italy
were dangerously near the breaking
point again today as result of the
papal encyclical issued secretly
abroad over the weekend.
The encyclical-given out in Paris
last Friday night before publication
in Vatican City the next day-was
a direct attack on the Fascist party
for alleged attempts to tear the
youth of Italy from the Roman
Catholic church.
Amazement and irritation were
expressed openly by Fascist govern
ment authorities led by Premier
Benito Mussolini. The effect of the
document, sent outside the realm of
Fascism to insure its publication
abroad without change, was cleo
trio, and a stiffening of the govern
ment's attitude in the prolonged
dispute between church and state,
was at once noticeable.
The Vatican, as result, last
night issued an apparently i'm
spired statement seeking to explain
the action of Pope Plus XI. The
statement emphasized that the en-
cyclical must not be considered an
act of histility against the Fascist
regime"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
REPORT FILED
BY HUNTINGTON
ESTATE OFFICERS

LOS ANGELES, July 6. U.p -
The estate of the late Henry E.
Huntington, street railway magnate,
has a value of $42,5l0,251, the larg-
est ever to come up for probate in
Los Angeles county court, accord
ing to the first account and report
by the executors of the estate on
file today.
Huntington died four years ago.
The report of the executors. Mrs.
Caroline M. Holiday, sister of
Huntington, and the Security First
National bank, showed that interest
and dividends on bonds and securi-
ties held by the estate gave it a
gross value of 58,606,l26 Expenses
of administration, inheritance taxes
and claims against the estate
amounted to $20,4l2,022.
The will contained bequest of
S2,000,000 for a memorial hospital
and other philanthropic institu-
tions
Mrs. Molladay was bequeathed
81 100000 and three daughters. Mrs.
Clara M. Perkins, Mrs. Elizabeth v.
Metcalf and Marian Huntington
were left equal sums. Numerous
other relatives were left sums rang
ing from $4,000 to $l50,000 each.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
Three Injured In
Airplane Crash

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. U.P)-
Injury to three persons in one acci-
dent and forced landing in hay
field which thrilled spectators were
reported at bay region airports Sum-
day.
Marc Worst, pilot, 81, Watson
vile; Martha Worst. 10, his sister,
who lives at Almonte, and Harold
Painter, "a, Watsonville airport me-
chanic, were injured when their
plane overturned making a landing
at a San Rafael field. Painter suf-
fered a broken nose. The others
sustained cuts and bruises.
Ernest Voss, former German war
aviator, now head of an aviation
school, gave hundreds of spectators
a thrill when he maneuvered his
plane into safe landing in a hay
field near the San Francisco air.
port. The engine of his plane failed,
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
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SIX KILLED AS
PLANE CRASHES
INTO MOUNTAIN

LAKEPORT, Cal, July 6. U.P)-
The cause of one of the worst air.
plane accidents in northern Cali
fornia, in which five men and a
woman were killed, remained a
mystery today as Investigators
searched the twisted wreckage of a
plane where it had crashed against
mountainside.
Three Of the men killed, George
Ritchie, Leon Keller and Jack Ker-
rigan, were prominent California
golfers. The other victims were
Louis N. Becker, vice president of
the Clear Lake Beach company.
Los Angeles; Mrs, Sigmunda Lax of
Long Beach, Cal, and William
Hoffman of Lucerne. the pilot.
Mrs. Lax was still alive when
rescuers reached the plane at dusk
last night, but she died few min
utes later without regaining con-
sciousness. The men were killed in
stantly.
Coroner H. M. Jones learned from
witnesses that the plane, a new
Travelair enclosed model which
Hoffman brought here few weeks
ago. struck tree atop a 500 foot
knoll. The scene of the crash was
near the Lucerne airport and it was
believed Hoffman was gliding to a
landing when his ship struck the
tree, Severing it.
The coroner said he had report
that another plane was taking off
from the airport as Hoffman ap-
preached, indicating his attention
may have been distracted and he
failed to see the tree. It was also
reported the planes motor had
failed.
Ritchie, former San Francisco
amateur golf champion, Keller, who
lived in Los Angeles, and Kerrigan,
former professional at the Rio Del
Mar club, were here for holiday eX-
hibition matches.
Mrs. Lax, mother of a 7-year- -old
daughter by a former marriage,
was engaged to marry Becker.
Hoffman is survived by a widow
and two children.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
ANTLERED HERD
AT SEATTLE in
ANNUAL MEETING

SEATTLE, July s. U.P)-Seattle
became the stamping ground for
thousands of Elks today as the ma
tons largest fraternal organization
prepared to open its 9th annual
convention.
Special trains, motor caravans,
steamships and airplanes brought
delegates and their families here
from all parts of the country and
from Alaska. State members held
a meeting yesterday, but the con-
vention itself will not open formally
until $3.50 O'Clock tonight, when q
public session will be held in the
civic auditorium.
The invasion started last week
and reached it's peak yesterday.
Nearly 500 automobiles brought
their share of delegates from Ore
gon, California and other nearby
states.
After today's sightseeing and to-
nights opening meeting, the con-
vention will get down to serious
business tomorrow when the grand
lodge will hold it's first business
meeting. Lawrence H. Rupp Of
Allentown, Pa, grand exalted ruler of
the Benevolent ant. Protective Or
der of Elks, and other officers and
committees will make their annual
reports and officers will be elected.
Varied entertainment programs
have been planned each morning,
afternoon and night until the big
parade and farewell ball Thursday
brings the convention to a close.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
Move In Clark's
Case Continued

LOS ANGELES. July 6. U,H-
Filing of motion by which David
H. Clark, former deputy district at
torney, hoped to compel the state
to file a second murder information
against him was continued until to-
morrow at superior court session
today.
Clark was held for trial on
charges of Staying Charles Craw-
ford, politician, and Herbert Spen-
Ger. magazine editor. Recently
Special Prosecutor w. Joseph Ford
filed an information bringing Clark
to trial August 3 on the single
charge of Staying Spencer.
Clark and his attorneys charged
Ford was holding the Crawford in
formation in reserve with the idea
of forcing Clark through two trials.
In that case, they alleged, Clark
would be forced to reveal his de-
fense at the first trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
THREE DIE IN
AUTO WRECK ON
MOUNTAIN ROAD
HOltville Family Return
From Jacumba Victims
Of Tragedy.

Three Mexican residents of Holt
vile, two of them women and one
a 14-year- -old boy, were killed late
Sunday afternoon when the brakes
on their car failed to hold as they
started down the Mountain Springs
grade after a Fourth of July cele-
bration at Jacumba.
Mrs. Marie Soto, As, and Favian
Flores, IA, died in the crash Mrs.
Marie Flores died in an ambulance
while on the way to the Ell Centre
hospital. Four other children and
E. Flores, husband of Mrs. Flores
and father of the boy, escaped with
only minor injuries.
The accident occurred in San
Diego county, just across the county
line. Imperial county escaped with
not one serious accident during the
July Fourth celebrations. Several
other less serious accidents were re-
ported on the San Diego highway.
In one of these accidents four
other Holtville residents narrowly
escaped injury when their car over
turned on a curve. Mary Yeargen
suffered a badly lacerated hand.
Bob Yeargen, Joe Mcqueen and
Helen Swerdferger escaped injury.
Mcqueen was driving.
E. Flores was driving the truck in
which his wife and son and the
other accident victims were riding
when it got out of control on the
Mountain Springs grade. Crashing
into boulder, the body of the truck
flew from the frame.
Occupants of the truck, besides
the driver and those killed, were
Carmen and Paul Flores and Car
men and Joe Soto, They are be-
tween nine and 13 years old.
The bodies of Mrs. Soto and the
Flores boy were taken to San Diego
The body of Mrs. Flores is in FL
Centre.
Captain A. F. Oswalt, Bill Tackett
and Ralph P. Sutton, state traffic
officers, were on the scene of the
accident shortly after it happened
Sutton is stationed in San Diego
county, while the others are sta
toned here.
Only five accidents, none of which
resulted in serious injuries, were
reported in Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
Continued on page 81
Hurled
At Silk Mills
In Strike Area

ALLENTOWN, Pa, July 6.-(U.p)
Three silk mills, where the workers
have been on strike for the past
two months, were bombed simultan-
eously here early today. Windows
were shattered and considerable
property damage done.
The bombing occurred at one of
the Phoenix Manufacturing Comp
any mills, the Majestic mill and the
Mcbride mill, the latter located at
Fullerton, near here.
The series of bombings broke first
at the Phoenix mill and while police
were on their way to that mill the
bombings of the other properties
were reported.
A watchman, Howard Lehman
was injured by flying glass at the
Phoenix mill.
Conferences have been arranged
for Wednesday between mill oper-
ators and the Textile Union officials
as a result of a meeting between
Governor Pinchot and the interest
ed parties Friday.
Approximately 1000 workers are
on strike.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-06
Party Preceded
WOman's Death

LOS ANGELES, July 6. U.P)-A
dinner party was held in the hotel
room of former Detective Lieuten-
ant Edward Nolan last June II a
short time before he assertedly beat
to death Mrs. Grace Murphy Dun
can, his sweetheart. according to
testimony today at Nolan's prelimi-
nary hearing on a murder charge.
Mrs. Helen Burleson, friend of
Mrs. Duncan. declared that the vic
tim and Nolan quarreled and that
the detective FLEW into a terrible
rage" and ordered her and Mrs.
Duncan from his room.
1t is charged by the state that
Nolan later found Mrs. Burleson
and Mrs. Duncan attending party
in another room of the hotel and
beat her with his police revolver.
Mrs. Burleson testified that No
Ian and Mrs. Duncan drank heav-
lily" during the dinner.