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The Washington times., 1931-01-08
BicentennidL Group
HULts Resignation

The George Washington Blcen-
tennial Committee, which has
been dwindling rather rapidly be-
cause of the withdrawal of a num-
ber of members, yesterday with:
held action on the resignation OF
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, at a
meeting of the executive COM
mittee.
pressure of other duties was
given by Colonel Grant as his
reason for handing in his reslgna-
ton. It may be accepted next
week. it was indicated.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
Arrested at 1901;
Ch0r0e Dismissed

HYATTSVILLE, Md, Jan. 8.
Arrested on the stroke of the
New Year by an officer for dis
playing expired automobile tags,
Charles H. Fuller, of Benning,
had his case dismissed in police
court here yesterday by Judge j.
Chew Sheriff.
Evidence revealed that Fuller
was in the act of returning from
a party when, Albert Anderson,
local chief Of the police, stopped
him and apprehended him at
1901 a. M, for driving on 1880
tags in the year 1881.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
DGrrOv Will Speak
p. At Lincoln Church

Clarence Darrow, who is lectur-
ing at Howard University will
speak at a meeting tomorrow night
in Lincoln Temple Congregational
Church, sponsored by the James
y. Walker Post to commemorate
the Tooth anniversary Of the pub
lication Of the "Liberator" and
pay homage to Fred Douglass,
Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner
and other leads Of the anti.
slavery movement,
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
COLOred Soprano Is
To Sin0 at HOLUnrd

Abbie Mitchell, negro soprano
and q former Washingtonian,
viii appear here next Tuesday
night at Howard University in
the second Of the artist series
sponsored by the university.
Miss Mitchell is the wife Of
win Marion Cook, well-known
colored composer and a native Of
this city. Their son, Mercer
Cook, is now an instructor at
Howard University.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
MCC COrnuick Named
Chief of Police

COLMAR MANOR, Md, Jan. 8.
H. L. Mccormick, for two years a
deputy marshal of this town, was
appointed chief of police here
Tuesday night by town officials
at a special meeting. Mccormick
will take office Immediately.
Mccormick served his term Of
deputy under former chief of the
police George Evans. Evans re-
signed recently, but gave no
reason at the time for his resigna-
tion.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
Zion Church Will
Fete Pastor SlEHuday

The sixth anniversary Of the
installation Of the pastor, the
Rev. Leon S. Wormley, Of Zion
Baptist Church, Deanwood, will
be observed Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 O'Clock.
The speaker for the exercises
WilI be the Rev. E. L. Harrison,
pastor Of Shiloh Baptist Church
the anniversary reception will
take place on Monday night ct
$he church. --'
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
D. C.. KiWaHlis Club
To Install Officers

New officers of the Kiwania
Club will be installed. at a lunch
con today at the Hotel Washing
ton. They are Merritt o. Chance,
president; Eugene R. Woodson,
first vice president; Edwin F. Hill,
second vice president and George
H. Winslow, secretary-treasurer.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
Michigan Society
GiDeS Dinner Soon

The annual dinner of the
Michigan State Association will
be given at the Hay-Adams House
Monday night, January 26.
Governor Green will attend
and Senator Vandenberg will pre-
side. The dinner will celebrate
Michigan's 4 admission to the
Union a century ago.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
Michigan Group Fete
VII Be Held Jan. 26
Photos by International

The Michigan State Associa-
tion will hold it's SEVENTEEN an
nual banquet at the Hay-Adams
House, January 26. Gov-elect Will
bur M. Brucker will attend. Sen
ator Vandenberg, president of the
association. will act as toast
master.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
Missionary Group
Meets Tnn10rr01L

The Woman'S Home and Foreign
Missionary Societies of the Wash
ington District of the Methodist
Episcopal Church will hold its
quarterly meeting tomorrow morn
ing at the Douglas Memorial
Church, Eleventh and H SITS. N. E.,
at 10:30 a. m.
Mrs. B. T. HynSon, Mrs. H. C..
Eliason and Mrs. F. C. Reynold
will speak.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
.Optin1ists to Hold
Annual Dinner Dance

The Washington Optimist Club
will hold its annual dinner dance
tonight at Meridian Mansions, 240O
Sixteenth st. N. W., with delega-
tions from clubs at Richmond
and Baltimore attending.
Entertainers will include Matt
Hall, George O'Connor, Bill Ray,
mond, Fred East and Edward
Steffe, according to Wash B.
Williams, president of local
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
VETERANS ASSURED

Assurance that Congress is in
terested in the veterans Of the
World War was given by Repre-
sentative Morgan G.. Sanders, Of
Texas, in an address last night
to members Of the Kenneth Nash
post of the American Legion at
the Hamilton Hotel.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
IWOnaen's City Club
RapS Allen Homes

The Women'S City Club last
night urged removal Of alley
dwellings and unSightly bill.
aAEdA.
The Washington times., 1931-01-08
oPTIMISTS DANCE TONIGHT

The Washington Optimist Club
will give a dinner and dance to-
light ae 300 Sixteenth st. n. w.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Expeditions TraUel
10000 Miles to
Get Specimens

PHILADELP LPHIA, May 8.
Seventeen expeditions travelled
10000 miles last year to ran
sack all the continents except
Australia for birds, beasts, in
sects, plants and minerals for
the Academy Of Natural
Sciences.
During the year 10000 speci-
mems were added to the collec-
tions, bringing the total to
more than 100000.
Those who ramble in the
woods will be interested in the
cases being installed at the
academy which eventually will
contain mounted specimens of
every bird that spends any part
of the year within so miles of
City Hall. Specimens are be-
ing prepared, too, showing all
species of four-footed denizens
of Pennsylvania.
Life groups, of Kadiak brown
bears, Rocky Mountain goats,
Stones sheep and American
eagles already are on view, and
work is in progress on groups
Of East African lions and giant
sable antelopes from Angola.
Painted landscape backgrounds
vivify all these.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
DRY LAW CAN 7
SUCCEED, SAYS
BEER BARON
Americans Running Health
With Bad Rum, Ayers DAN
iSh Delegate to Session Here

Back in America for the first
time since 1902, Benny Dessau,
portly beer baron of Denmark,
saw the United States as in a
sad state from prohibition, he
said today.
Dessau is managing director of
the United Breweries, Ltd, and
the Tuborg Breweries, Ltd, Of
Copenhagen, and head of Den
marks delegation to the inter-
national Chamber of Commerce.
He said the American people
were running their health by
drinking illegally manufactured
liquors, and that prohibition
would never be a success.
Conditions Worse Now
He recalled that when he came
here 90 years ago to study
brewing methods, conditions "Were
not all they should have been"
but declared the situation i'm
measurably worse at present.
He said:
"An hour before my boat
landed in New York, everyone
seemed to make rush for the
bar, and stayed there until the
ship was within the prohibition
area.
"They all seemed sad when
this zone was approached"
Dessau said he had not been
in his hotel room a quarter OF
an hour after landing when ne
had an opportunity TO ouV
Spirits"
Praises Chicago Fair
He recommended government
control of liquor as the "best
means Of reducing alcohol con-
sumption and curbing drunken
ness. In the countries which
have adopted a modified form OF
prohibition, he said, there are
few cases Of intoxication and the
people have become contented
with the legal beverages contain
ing alcohol.
Further, he pointed out, the
government profits by tax on
spirits, and does not have the
burden of vast enforcement
system.
The Danish delegation head
deviated from a discussion of pro-
hibition long enough to praise
the movement for an interna-
tional exposition in Chicago in
1888. He hailed it as a decidedly
important factor toward the
building up of world peace.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Dry LaIU ViOLGtOr
Receives $3.50 Fine

In the Alexandria police court
yesterday, Raymond Brown, who
was charged with violating the dry
law, was fined $3.50 and costs
and sentenced to serve three
months in Jail.
He was arrested by Sergeant
Everly on complain of Patrolman
Hawes who stated that Brown got
away from him after the officer
fired three shots at his feet.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
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The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Night Hours Set
For Tennis Courts

With night lighting of tennis
courts at Seventeenth Street and
Constitution Avenue to be started
Monday, the Office Of Public
Buildings and Public Parks yester-
day announced that hours for
night playing will be from sunset
to 1890 p. m. during May.
Later, the hours will be from
8 to II p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06

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by 6 #. s in.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
81 VOile Bedspreads

T h e s e W e IL
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of voile come
in two beauti-
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The Washington times., 1931-05-06

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
BELIZE AID PLANE
CRASH KILLS THREE
Pilots and Mechanic of Navy
Ship Burn-Radio Man
Injured.

Three men were fatally burned AMI
one less seriously injured as q re-
suit of a plane crash. 8 miles
northwest Of David. Republic Of
Panama this morning. the Navy
Department was advised today. The
plane, which was carrying medical and
relief supplies from Coco Solo, Canal
Zone. to Belize, British Honduras. had
a forced landing, the cause Of which
Is unknown here.
The dead are:
Chief Aviation Pilot Isaac L. jenkins
of Couch, Mo-, and Aviation Machinist
Mate Third Glass; Arthur o. Miller of
La Sale, N. Y.
Lieut.. (Junior Grade) Creighton K.
Landlord, the pilot, whose home is in
Plattsburg. Mo.
Badly burned, but expected to re-
cover is Roy J. Miller, radio man, third
class of Erwin, S. OAK
The Navy Department was advised
In an official dispatch from Comdr A.
D. Bernhard, U. S. N, commanding
the feet air base ct Coco Solo, that
The plane crashed in attempting forced
landing, when it was only 800 feet aloft.
The cause of this, the message said, is
unknown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
NAVAL ALUMNI VOTE TO RESUME
GRID GAMES WITH WEST POINT
Annapolis Graduates Favor Insistence Upon Three-Year
Eligibility Rule for Players.

G. Hart, superintendent of the Naval
Academy, was read at the luncheon, in
which he said he had studied the re-
suit of the poll He said too much
publicity had already been given the
Army and Navy foot ball controversy.
Singer announced at the meeting
that most of those voting in favor OF
renewing relations also insisted the
games be played according to Navy
rules. From other sources, however
the Associated Press was informed, q
great number of members voted fol-
compromise rules.
The Navy severed athletic relations
with its traditional service rivals In
1927 over the three-year eligibility
rules.
For two years no service game was
played. Last Fall both agreed to bury
the Ratchet in the cause of unemploy-
ment. Army won to and the Sal
walton Army unemployment relief fund
was enriched by about $4,000.
Attempts to bring the two teams to-
gether have been made by several Con-
gressmen and high officials OF both
branches of the service without sue
cess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
DEATH OF MORROW
IS LAID TO FALL
Coroner's Jury Unable to De-
termine Cause of Fatal
Plunge.

Raymond M. Morrow, third precinci
policeman, was killed as the result of q
fail, coroner's jury held this after
noon.
The verdict is that Morrow "came
to his death from a rupture of the lungs
and liver, hemorrhage and shock, said
injuries being the result of fall, the
cause Of said fan being unknown to this
jury"
This verdict was in line with result
of the autopsy performed by Deputy
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald.
Miss Martha z. N. Haley, manager
of the Playhouse Inn, 1914 N street,
was identified as the mystery woman"
in the case.
Taking the stand as the inquest was
resumed today, Miss Haley testified that
she was with the policeman from about
80 Friday night until 2 o'clock Satur-
Cay morning when he left her outside of
her apartment, at Sixteenth and s
streets, and drove out Sixteenth street
in the direction of his home.
Morrow Is believed to have met his
death within an hour afterward.
Deputy Coroner TestifieS.
Miss Haley took the stand after Dr.
Macdonald had testified that it would not
have been possible for Morrow to have
walked from the spos where investigators
believed he plunged over the embank-
ment at the edge Of the valley to the
point where his BODY was found.
This is distance of 1877 steps. DR..
Macdonald said that it would have been
possible for Morrow to have fallen
down either one of the inclines at the
edge of the Piney Branch Valley Bridge
and then to have gotten to where his
body lay when discovered. This was
only 20 feet from the foot of the bridge.
Denied She Was Witness.
The appearance of Miss Haley had
been awaited with interest, as she Was
so far as is known, the last person who
saw Morrow alive. She arrived at the
Morgue about a half hour before the
inquest was scheduled to start, but de-
MED to newspaper men that she was q
witness. She said she had only come
down "out Of curiosity"
After successfully evading photogra-
pliers while the inquest was in progress
Miss Habey. shielding her head and
face with paper, was spirited out OF
a side door at the morgue and into q
machine with the help Of policemen
and raced away.
Miss Haley had been referred to yes
terday in the testimony of Hainer Hin
shaw, vice president of American Air
ways, as the woman who had been In
his apartment with Morrow Friday
night Hinshaw. however, knew her only
as Sugar" the term he said Morrow
used in addressing her.
Miss Habey said that she had known
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
BREWER CLEARED
OF FRAUD CHARGES
indictment of Former Aide of
Rheem NoIIe Pressed by
BurkinshaW.

An indictment charging ]. Newton
Brewer, former vice president of Swartz-
ell Rheem & Hensey Co., with ennbez-
element and concealment of writings
was nolle pressed today by the Govern
ment.
Brewer was indicted with Edmund
D. Rheem, president of the concern,
following an investigation by the Jus
tice Department of business dealings
which resulted in the bankruptcy of
that company. Rheem pleaded guilty
to the count charging him with con-
cealing writings. and now is serving a
sentence of seven years In the peniten-
tiary.
Burkinshaw Silent on Step.
Special Assistant Attorney General
Neil Burkinshaw, who nolle pressed the
indictment, declined to discuss the rea-
sons for the step. 1t was understood,
however, that representations had been
made to the Justice Department absolv-
ing Brewer of any willful connection
with the offense charged.
During the recent hearings conducted
by the referee in bankruptcy Rheen
voluntarily assumed full responsibility
for all transactions entered into by his
company. He said the other officers,
including Brewer acted under his di-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
House Washington
Used at Brandywine
Destroyed by Fire
Relics, Papers of Struggle
During Revolution Lost
in Chadds Ford Blaze.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST CHESTER, Pa, September is.
"A smoldering mass of ruins was all
that remained today of the old Colonial
farm house used by George Washington
and his staff as their headquarters dur
ing the Battle Of Brandywine in 1777.
The structure caught fire and burned
to the ground at Chadds Ford, near
here, early today.
The building was located in section
made famous by the struggles of Wash
ington and his men during the Revolu-
ton. Destroyed with the building were
many valuable relics and papers dating
back to the days of the Battle of
Brandywine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 16.-The
Naval Academy Graduates Association
Of New York is overwhelmingly In favor
of the resumption of ATHLETIC relations
between Army and Navy.
A poll conducted by the local alumni
group, sounding the attitude OF naval
officers and former midshipmen, re-
vealed today that most Navy men are
In favor Of foot ball contests with West
Point under the three-year Navy ell
gibility rules.
The detailed results of the poll were
not made public. The Associated Press
was informed, however, that partial re-
suits of the questionnaires were made
known at Graduates Association lunch
con yesterday.
Samuel ]. Singer, secretary of the or
ganization, refused to comment on the
poll. He explained that in the absence
of the president of the Graduates AS
ISOLATION, he could not make the figures
public,
A letter from Rear Admiral Thomas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
Grand Jury Given Evidence
Gathered by U. S. Depart
ment of Justice Agents
After Three Weeks Inquiry.
SIX OFFICERS CALLED
IN NEW INTERROGATION
More Than $50 Witnesses Seized.
uled to Appear, Many of Whom
Claim They Were Assaulted
After Being Taken Into Gus
tody.

It's investigation of third-degree
abuses in Washington completed,
the Department of Justice today
carried to the grand jury sensa-
tional evidence that is expected to
result in indictment of another
group of policemen and possibly
a report blaming alleged preva-
lence OF third-degree methods on
"higher-ups."
Presentation of evidence and
testimony in more than so cases.
involving approximately rs police
men OF lower grade, was begun
at the grand jury room, outside of
which more than $50 witnesses.
many of them alleged assault VIC
tins, waited their turn to testify.
Among those subpoenaed for in
terrogation by the grand Jury to-
day were Capt. Ira Sheetz, COM
handing the tenth precinct;
Headquarters Detective A. d.
Mansfield, Policemen r. L. Jen-
kinS, B. g. Lewis and william r.
sheetz of the first precinct, and
Policeman Henry Rinke of the
second precinct.
Msrtx Case First.
The first case given attention by the
grand jury was that Of Robert Martz
10 years old, who has alleged he was
beaten by three policemen of the nrst
precinct following his arrest on charge
of shooting to death Irwin zirkIe. pool
room proprietor at s37 Ninth street ON
May last.
j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
United States Bureau of Investigation.
appeared at the grand jury room as
tne proceedings opened and announced
formal completion OF the bureaus
sweeping inquiry, which began three
weeks ago today. All evidence of a
criminal character uncovered by a spe-
cially augmented corps of Federal
agents, will be given to the grand turv
for any action 1t may care to take.
while general summary of the bureaus
findings Is being prepared for the in
Lormatlon OF the District Commissioners
The number OF witnesses summoned
to testify today was so large that
accommodations had to be found for
them elsewhere than the Motions Court
room, which has a capacity of about
100 Long benches and chairs were
placed IN the corridors outside the
courtroom and half a hundred wit
nesseS, chiefly women. sat in the hall
way All witnesses were under irlstruc-
tions not to talk with passersby in
the corridors, including newspaper men.
The inquisitorial body did not ap-
pear to be making the rapid headway
that marked its proceedings two weeks
ago, when five policemen of the first
precinct were indicted on felonious as
sault charges. Unless the proceedings
are expedited the hearing may extend
into the first part of next week
Inspector John M. Keith. in charge
of the Federal investigs ton, assisted
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
in organizing the parade of witnesses.
keith took with him into the grand
jury room a long club-shaped package
wrapped in newspapers. A group Of
special agents of the Bureau of In
veStfgation also was on hand to testify
If needed.
The cases to be presented to the jury
Continued on Page q, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
CRAMER'S PLANE
FOUND IN ATLANTIC
Factory Manager Identifies
Debris as Airship Lost
With Two Aboard.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 16.--K. D.
vosler, factory manager for the Edo
Aircraft Corporation, today definitely
identified wreckage found in the North
Sea by the British trawler Lord
Trent as that of the plane of Parker
Cramer. American flyer, lost on fight
from Detroit to Copenhagen.
Cramer and his radio operator, Oliver
Pacquette, disappeared into a heavy
storm August after leaving the Shet-
land Islands for Copenhagen. Cramer.
who had hoped to blaze an airmail
route over the Arctic, was veteran
pilot.
In 1929 he was one of the pilots Of
the Untin Bowlsr, huge amphibian
plane, which eSsayed round-trip flight
from Chicago to Berlin on the Great
North Circle course. The craft reached
Fort BurWell, on the Hudson Straits,
but was lost when ice to which it was
moored broke up in a gale and drifted
out 10 sea. Cramer and his compan-
lens made their way back 70 civilization.
Cramer also accompanied Sir Hubert
wilkins on one Of his trips into the
Antarctic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
EDITOR OF MAGAZINE
KILLS SELF IN FALL
Parker Lloyd-Smith, 80, of For
tune, Dropped From 23d Floor
to Adjoining S-Story Roof.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 16.-A man
identified as Parker Lloyd-Smith, 80
years old, editor of the magazine For
tune, was killed today when he jumped
or fell from the twenty-third floor Of
an East Eighty-sixth street building to
the roof of an adjoining structure.
LloydSmith had plunged from his
suite on the twenty-third floor. His
body, nude, was found on the eighth
floor extension Of the Hotel Croydon,
adjoining. Police listed the case as a
suicide, and attributed 1t to overwork
and the heat.
Lloyd-Smith, listed in the social reg
lister and a graduate Of Princeton Uni
versity in 1924, was unmarried. A
brother. Wilton, Is in Alaska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-16
BAR LEADERS HOLD
LAWS CRAMP TRADE
Statutory Revisions Urged for In
dustrial Union and Crime
Curb.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ j., September
16.-Leaders of Americas bar today
urged alteration of the antitrust laws
to permit industry to control produc-
ton, and advocated changes in the
criminal laws to curb the activities Of
sangdom.
Rush c. Butler. chairman of the
Commerce Committee of the American
Bar Association, addressing the mineral
law section, said chaos Is king in the
oil industry because Federal laws will
not permit the oil companies properly
to cooperate.
Meanwhile joint committee repre-
senting the American Law Institute, the
Association of American Law Schools
and the section of the criminal law of
the association recommended exhaustive
and co-ordinated researches with view
finally to radical readjustments in GRIM
inal codes.
Addressing the mineral law section
earlier today, Francis H. Brownen,
chairman Of the board Of the American
Smelling & Refining Co., urged the ma
lions of the world restore silver as Q
coinage metal; ct no fixed ratio to gold.