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The Washington times., 1931-01-22
EEK MAN SAYS BIRTH
JLE WAS On JAN. 6
Staff Photo

Horace E. Williams, colored,
who gave his age as 80 at police
headquarters when he was booked
there for larceny, insisted to
Judge Gus A. Schuldt, in Police
Court yesterday, that he was born
January 6, 1881.
Williams, who lives at 6 Nay
lors Ct. N. W.. was charged with
taking and selling 19 pounds of
lead cable, the property Of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company.
The man suffered from some
impairment of speech, which he
told the court was caused by his
having been poisoned at one time.
He could give no reason for the
poisoning. Aside from the mans
insistence that he was born on
January of this year, he ap-
peared to be sound mentally, but
Judge Schuldt decided he should
be taken care of by the probation
office and withheld sentence.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
WPDW IS POLICE
RADIO STATION

Station WPDW, the Washington
police broadcasting station, will be
in operation the early part of next
week, according to Maj. Henry G.
Pratt, superintendent of police.
For several weeks tests have
been made of equipment, located
at the Tenth precinct, but addi-
tional ones are necessary before
the broadcaSting unit will be ready
for effective operation.
Autos on Wave Length
Seventeen police automobiles
are being equipped with receiving
sets on a short wave length and
will be in constant touch with CEN
tral station.
Private James L. Kelly will be
in charge of the station, which so
far has cost the police department
about $18,500.
A remote broadCastir1g unit Will
be located at police headquarters.
The sending set is at Tenth pre-
cinct.
Difficulties Met
In making tests considerable dlf'
ficulty has been encountered due
to the low wave length, which can
not be picked up on the average
radio
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
HOUSE PRESSED
FOR MERCER

Although there is virtually no
chance for action at this session,
Representative Addison T. Smith
(R.) of Idaho, has requested the
House District Committee to eX-
pedite consideration of the meas,
ure authorizing a merger of the
Washington and Georgetown Gas
Light Companies. This measure
has long been pending and in the
past session Representative Hull
(R) of Wisconsin, and the late
Representative Lampert (R) of
Wisconsin, fought a favorable re-
port on the bill.
No Hope Held
Representative Zihlman (RD of
Maryland, chairman of the Dis
trict group, has informed Mr..
Smith the bill would soon re-
ceive renewed consideration, but
no hopes are held out for final
action by House and Senate at
this session. Senator Howell (R)
of Nebraska, has announced his
opposition to the measure unless
the companies agree to eliminate
"going concern values" from their
corporation values in the merger
negotiations.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22

Nonresident children should be
admitted to the public schools of
washington only upon payment
of tuition and when there is an
abundance of room" for them,
it was declared yesterday at a
meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton.
Poll Is Taken
This sentiment was expressed
as the result of a poll of mem
bers of the board in response
to a request from the Subcom-
mittee of the House Appropr1a-
tions Committee. The request OF
the power of the board to take
action in connection with non
resident pupils will be submitted
to Corporation Counsel w. w.
Bride.
The board wishes to lnaugurate
a policy permitting only those
nonresident children whose par
ents pay taxes here 60 attend
schools in the District. 1t does
net wish to change the policy
which privileges those children
whose parents work in the Dis
trict or are officers in the Army
to attend free.
Gifts Cause Row
A letter from the Public School
Association urging congressional
appropriation for athletic supplies
and stage appurtenances stepped
the board into controversy con-
cerning the advisability of accept
ing gifts of that nature from par
ent-teacher organizations.
The matter was referred to DR..
Frank w. Ballou, Superintendent
of Schools.
On the suggestion of Mrs.
Henry Grafton Doyle. member
of the board, an elaborately deco
rated cake, presented to the
board by the Dennison Vocation
School for Girls, was given to
Mrs. David L. Cannon, secretary
to DR.. Ballou. Mrs. Cannon was
married Saturday to David L,
Cannon, son of Bishop James
Cannon, jr., of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
BOYCOTT FIGHT
APT To BARE
D. {. NAMES
8 Defendants Cited, Charged
= With Threat to Hold Up
Turf News, Race Results

District officials today awaited
developments in the injunction
suit filed in the District Supreme
Court yesterday by Heron and
Boyd, printers, who charge that
purchasers of their race horse
\ "wall sheets" have been threat
tened with boycott.
Interest of officials is Centered
on whether any facts will be forth
coming in the suit that may lead
to the identity of the subscribers
for the sheets for use in connec-
tion with gambling raids which
are now being made.
Defendants Named
The suit. filed against Samuel
Beard, 7400 Alaska Ave. N. w.
Joseph Ottenstein, 800 I st. N.
W.; William Burke. also of the
II Street address; Wal-Min Press,
Inc; Min-Haf Distributing Cor
poration, both of New York, and
General News Bureau, 800 I st.
N. W., charges defendants served
notice on the customers of Heron
and Boyd that unless they cease
purchasing sheets from the plain
tiff, the defendants would refuse
to supply them with race horse
news, including results OF races.
According to the plaintiffs,
they have built up list OF So
subscribers since February l, 1880,
from which they derive a gross
income of $500 weekly, and & net
income of S400 weekly.
u. S. Attorney Leo A. Rover,
/, who, with police officials, is Wag-
ing the gambling war, which has
resulted in numerous arrests since
the drive opened Saturday, said:
"The District Attorneys of
flee is watching with consider
able interest the developments
in this suit"
Police Check Up
Not only is the District At
torney's office keeping a watchful
eye on the injunction suit. but
the police department also is
checking up as the case pro-
greSeSeS.
Whether or not the Corpora
ton Counseps staff will step into
the case could not be learned. Of
ficialS of that office feel they
would be stepping into the do
main of the District Attorneys Of
flee should he plan action.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Name of Wickersham1
Suggested For Park
Half Under Water

Besides formal comments
upon the WickerSham liquor re-
port Congress members already
have begun to make wise
cracks" about that puzzling
document. For instance:
The House was debating a
bill late yesterday to have the
Government establish a park in
the Everglades section of Flor
ida. Representative LaGuardia
(R0. New York, questioned ad-
visibility of such an eXpendi-
ture. He understood that the
proposed park site was under
water" about half the time.
Representative Black CD,
New York, a wet, suggested a
way out, observing:
"ThatII be all right; it means
the park will be half-wet and
half-dry, so why not get it and
name it the WickerSham Park?"
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
SALOONS FOES
SOON To HAVE
NEW HOME
Dry League, Forced Out of
Bliss Building Watch Tower,
Planning Other Quarters

The watch tower" of the Anti
Saloon League, perched on the
brow of Capitol hill, is going to be
dismantled soon.
It will not have to retreat very
far, however, and plans already
are being made to provide it with
new quarters only a stones throw
away.
Officials of the league today
made it clear that they intend to
continue to train their propa-
ganda guns on Congress at close
range. They will have their new
base of operations on the pro-
posed new boulevard linking the
Union Station with Pennsylvania
Avenue, and skirting the Capitol
grounds on the northwest.
The creation of the new Capt.
tol Plaza will involve the razlng
of the Bliss Building, where the
Anti-Saloon League is now quar-
tered, at the corner of B Street
and Arthur Place Northwest, next
summer. The Driscoll Hotel also
will be demolished.
It is the plan of the Bliss in
terestS to erect new structure
on the square between First, Sec
ond, B and C Streets Northwest
The building will be a comblna
ton hotel and office structure
and in it the Anti-Saloon League
will make its home.
Plans for the new building are
now being drawn.
The Anti-Saloon League for
many years has sent forth its
messages to its followers in the
House and Senate from the
shabby brick structure which is
soon to be razed. It was from these
quarters that Wayne Wheeler, its
former head, engineered the pas,
sage of the Eighteenth Amend,
ment and the Volstead act.
It was the effective close-range
work of the league that inspired
the Methodist Board of Prohibi'
ton, Temperance and Morals to
erect it's snowy office-residential
structure on the Capitol plaza,
It appears likely now that the
Methodist board also will have
to shift it's watch tower" to meet
the exigencies of the Federal
building program.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Watchn1Qn's Estate
Sues Boat Company

Mrs. Bessie Eckert, admins
tratrix of the estate of Edward
Joseph Hardy, who was employed
as a, night watchman by the Mt.
Vernon and Marshall Hall Steam
boat Company at the time Of
his death on January 81, 1880,
has filed suit to recover $1O,-
900 damages against the steam
boat company.
Attorneys Albert W. Jacobson
and Chauncey Brown represent
the plaintiff, who alleges that
the company was negligent in
failing to keep the gangplank
from the wharf to the boat in
safe condition.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Clothing Is Shipped
To DrOught Region

Announcing that since the ap-
peal was made January IL, TO
help drought sufferers a total OF
1,421 pieces of clothing, 81 pairs
of shoes and 331 pairs of stockings
had been sent to stricken areas,
the District of Columbia chapter
of the Red Cross today asked that
further help be given.
The donations already received
have been sent to Red Cross
chapters in Kentucky, West Vlr.
ginia, Virginia and Alabama.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Citizens VIII Hear
Of NeU Traffic Bill

The Midcity Citizens Associa
ton will hold a meeting, to be
designated New Center Market
Night" at the Thomson Commu'
nifty Center, Twelfth and L Streets
Northwest, Monday at 8 o'clock,
Farmers and dealers of the new
Center Market Fifth and K
Streets Northwest, have been in
Vited to attend.
The association will hear re-
ports on the new traffic bill and
paving bill.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
DIR. Gordon Named
g. W. u. PathOLOgist

DR.. Leon Stuart Gordon was
named assistant professor of
pathology at George Washington
University yesterday. DR.. Cor
don, who is only 26, becomes one
of the youngest professors of a
major scientific subject in Amer
ican universities. He was ad-
mitted to practice medicine in
1928 and made diplomat of the
National Board of Medical Ex-
aminers in 1890.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Property Purchase
ApDrOUed for School

Purchase Of propf 'ty at Thirty
ninth and Garrison Streets North
west, from Alfred T. Newbold
1925 Connecticut Ave. /. W., for
school site has been approved
by the District Commissioners.
The property will cost $4,000.
The appropriation was made in
the last appropriation bill to pro-
vide school facilities for children
in the Chevy Chase section. Of
ficials of the Municipal Archi-
tect's office are expected to start
on plans for the new building
within the next two weeks.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Council Card Party
To Be Relief Affair

The regular card party of the
Keane Councils 500 Club for the
Relief Fund of the council will be
held tonight at $50 o'clock at the
Knights of Columbus Hall, 918
Tenth st. N. w.
The entertainment committee
includes: Mrs. William A. Multi
gan, hostess, and Charles j. Dean,
Charles D. Boone, Mr.. and Mrs,
George B. Saur, Mr.. and Mrs. John
j Burns, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin B.
Goodwin, Mr.. and Mrs Jerry Don
ovan, Mrs. William A. Heligan,
William A. Mulligan, H C. Nolda
and James P. McKeOn.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
SEEKS
TO LEARN
0FCARS
"Pea-Green Roadster" Latest
Mentioned BY Langdon As
Parked Near Death House

Vernon Limerick and Richard
Reed were being grilled in District
Jail this afternoon by Capt. Ed
ward j. Kelly and Detective Sergt.
John Flaherty in an effort to
relieve the traffic jam that ap-
pears, according to stories told
the police, to have existed about
the house at 18 Nineteenth st.
S. E., where Beulah Limerick was
slain.
Almost daily new automobile
allegedly seen at the house comes
into the picture. So far four
have been reported as being at
the house either before the night
of the murder or driving away at
that time.
In Comes Green Car
The latest one, "a pea green
roadster" was entered today as
an added starter by Policeman
Robert F. Langdon, who is being
held as a suspect. Langdon also
reported. two days after the
murder, that he found a cartridge
shell in coffee cup and a bullet
in the floor of the house which
he was guarding alone. That
caused his arrest.
Langdon says he saw the pea
green" roadster parked in front
of the house about week before
Thanksgiving. He just remem-
bered it.
Donald E. Boyer, milk wagon
driver, said several days ago that
he saw a blue roadster speed
away from the house early on
the morning of December 81, the
day of the murder, shortly after
he had heard two shots fired.
Police Skeptical
A colored woman reported see
ing a roadster parked in front
of the Nineteenth st. house a
few days before the shooting, and
a taxi driver saw the girl get out
of a roadster, enter a store, buy
some cigarettes and drive away
about 2 o'clock the morning OF
the murder.
Police are impressed by the
array of automobile stories, de-
claring that they are being told
about three weeks too late. They
are investigating however to de-
termine if any of Beulah's many
men friends owned a blue or pea
| green roadster.
Receive Many Tips
Police have also received scores
of other tips relating to the MUIR
der and have run them down
only to have them prove value
less. Officials admit tnaU they
have exhausted every possibility
and are still in the dark as to
the identity of the man or woman
who slipped into the girls base
ment room and fired .25-callber
bullet into her brain.
Besides Langdon three other
men were bound over to the
Grand Jury. They are Vernon
Limerick, brother of the dead
girl, who lived with her! Richard
Reed, who posed as her husband.
and William Paddy, who brought
her home from a dance only a
few hours before she was slain.
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The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Phone Your Tips
To Times, Folks!
$50 in Prizes

Phone The Times when
anything happenS-ring the
News Tip Editor between
$3.50 a. m. and 6 p. m.-tell
him of any new happenings
in your neighbOrhOOd. 1t
may mean cash to you,
Fifty dollars in cash is
divided each week among 10
people who "tip off" The
Times on the best news
stories. Save your news for
The Times. A business mer-
ger, an accident, a rescue, a
fire, an important discovery
or anything that you think
might be of interest to the
public, may net you some
spending money if you
phone the News Tip Editor
at District $3.50.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Bloom to Address
Realty Men Tonight

Bicentennial celebration plans
will feature the washington
Night" meeting of the Washington
Real Estate Board. to be held in
the garden of the Mayflower Hotel
tonight. Representative Sol Bloom,
director of the U. S. commission
for the celebration, and Ernest N.
Smith, executive vice president of
the A. A. A., will address the meet
inR.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
Dancer Will Give
Lecture Recital

A lecture recital on the art of
dancing will be given at the Arts
Club, 2017 I st. N. W., February
II, at 8:15 p. M, by Miss Gertrude
Prokosch, who will illustrate the
dance as portrayed by Wigman
and Kreutzberg.
The recital is sponsored by the
Women's Athletic Association of
George Washington University.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
WOMAN TO LECTURE

Mrs. Edit Banghart. of Me
dina, Wash will lecture on Al
pine plan - the American
Horticultu cicty at a meet
ing to be i'-~ in the Depart,
ment of th" IL lerior auditorium
Monday at 4:45 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-01-22
DAVIDSON TO SPEAK

Julius Davidson will speak on
The Menace of Occultism" at
meeting of the Secular Leagues
Cpen Forum Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock in the Musicians Hail.
I006 E St. N. w.
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filters SEEKING
$4,000 MORE
Pacific Pair Ask Prize for
Hop to Texas.
By United Press

~ UHtted Press
WENATCHE, Wash, Oct. g.
Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon
Jr., who won $4,000 by making the
first nonstop airplane fight from
Japan to the United States, hoped
today to persuade Colonel w. E.
Easterwood of Dallas, to reconsider
his refusal to pay them a similar
sum if they would extend their trip
to the Texas city.
The young American aviators, re-
freshed after a full nights sleep,
planned to communicate with East
erwood at once, in the hope he
would change his mind.
Pangborn and Herndon said they
wrote to Easterwood before they
took off on their historic flight,
but that they did not receive re-
ply and were under the impression
when they left Japan, that they
were eligible for his prize.
The prize of $4,000 offered by
the Toxic newspaper ASahi will be
paid them when their Paragraph
has been checked, it was said.
Easterwood informed the fliers
Monday he had specified that the
one stop between Toxic and Dallas
be San Francisco.
While the f1iers awaited landing
gears from the Bellanca factory,
they planned to go on a fishing trip
into the Cascade mountains.
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ting, but it must he important,
too, that these people are dis
turbed mentally about other things
unemployment, for one.
And when the President steps
out among them, you agree that
perhaps 1t is only natural that
they should attempt to show him
how they feel about the way he is
doing his job.
When a Republican President
invades such a hotbed of Repub-
licanism as the state Of PennSyl-N
vania and the citizens proceed to
give him the bird, it must mean
that somebody has left the biscuits
in the oven too long.
Personally, I wouldn't know.
didn't even enjoy hearing MIR. Hoo
yer being booed. although I did
stand up and wave my weskit when
the roofing sections took up the
cry, I'VE want beer!"
Watching Mr.. Hoover from the
press box, however, I was forced
to the unhappy conclusion that the
gentleman is unsympathetic. He
sat there with his hands folded
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nv noe WHLIAMS

Sports Editor. New York World-Telegram
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6.-You
l. are df you don't mind sitting
miles in the air on the swinging,
swaying, press box at Shibe park.
home grounds of the American
League champions. 1t is the third
game of the world series between
the Cardinals ane the Athletics
and it is ten minutes past O'Clock.
A squadron of blue-frocked cops
line up in front of the Athletics
dugout. There is a moment OF
silence, fraught with tenseness.
The President of the United States
is about to enter the arena, which
is drenched in a warm autumnal
sun and packed with thousands of
his subjects.
Presently there is blur OF
motion down on the field, A mill
tary man and an auStere executive
type in formal afternoon attire lead
the way.
Behind them comes a plumpish,
gray haired, smiling man, carrying
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across his tum-tum and smiled, as
if to reply, 'try and get it."
MIR. HOOVER'S humiliation did
1V1 not end, I regret to report,
with the pre-game demonstration.
Between the eighth and ninth in
nings the amplifiers cried for ISL
lence, please" Then came the re-
quest that as mark of courtesy
all spectators would kindly remain
seated until Mr.. Hoover and his
guests had left the premises. This
was the signal for another shower
of raEzberries.
I remember that Mr.. Babe Ruth
protested vehemently against this
discourtesy. "If he's leaving, they
ought to cheer" grumbled MIR.
Ruth. I do not know exactly what
Mr.. Ruth meant by this remark,
but I happen to recall that he
campaigned for Al Smith a few
years back, even to the extent Of
wearing a brown derby, smoking
cigars and saying ''raddio."
Taking it by and large, it was
not an altogether pleasant after
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gray soft hat in his right hand,
and waving it mechanically at
definitely spaced intervals.
With him is midle-aged woman
dressed in what the fashion writer's
probably would call burgundy
ensemble, and this is set of with a
vivid blotch of orchids.
At a random guess you would
take them for a successful banker
in western town and his wife.
Actually it is the President of the
United States and his wife.
- q q
VOU watch them intently as
Il they walk past the file of cop
pers forming the official escort and
while you are watching a strange
sound breaks around your ears.
Out of the first spontaneous
break of polite applause, there
comes unmistakable note of deri-
sion, and as this note seems to
hang in midair, sullen and chal-
lengingly. it is taken up by more
timid souls, until ultimately it be-
comes a vigorous full-rounded
melody Of disparagement.
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Leaders of Many Nations
Join in Tribute to
Statesman.
By United Press

By United Press
ENGLEWOOD, N. j., Oct. e.
Leaders of this and other nations
joined today in tribute to Senator
Dwight Whitney Morrow, whose
brief but brilliant career as states
man and diplomat came to a sud-
den end Monday.
Morrow, So, died in his sleep, of
cerebral hemorrhage.
The man, known as good
''neighbor" among friends, states
man and diplomats, was mourned
by President Hoover, Prime Minis
ter Ramsay Macdonald of Great
Britain, President Ortiz Rubio of
Mexico, and many of the foremost
citizens here and abroad.
Preparations were made today for
his funeral Wednesday at his Sc
cluded estate here. Far away in
China, his daughter, Anne Lind
bergh, and her husband, Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh, on an aerial
vacation tour, moprned his passing.
Hoover Pays Tribute
Services for the senator will be
held at 8 p. m. Wednesday at the
First Presbyterian church of which
Morrow was a member. The Rev.
Carl Elmore, pastor, will officiate.
Other details have not yet been ar
ranged.
President Hoover paid tribute to
Morrow as a loyal and generous
character as a neighbor and a
friend"
1.-The country has suffered great
loss in the death of Senator Dwight
w. Morrow" he said.
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon-
aid of England cabled: II am
greatly grieved by the loss of one
whom I long have regarded as a
most delightful personality and a
much valued friend"
Anne Told of Death
The Lindberghs will be the only
members of the immediate family
unable to attend. The flying couple
were on board the British aircraft
carrier Hermes, in the Yangtze river,
en- route to Shanghai.
Mrs. Lindbergh was informed of
her fathers sudden death Monday,
in cable from her mother and by
the United Press, but until the
HermeS reaches Shanghai, where it
is due Wednesday morning, the
Lindberghs' plans probably will not
be known.
Daddy died peacefully today.
Don't hurry home" was the mes
sage from Mrs. Morrow.
The Lindberghs accepted the hos
pitality of the Hermes when their
monoplane, in which they had
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You say to yourself: "This isn't
right. This man is the President
of the United States. He is here
to see ball game. He is deserving
at least of the same courtesy that
is bestowed upon John Bannans,
the plumber"
But the strange vocal babble,
identified as catcalls and booS,
continues until Mr. Hoover and his
party have taken their seats and
the ball players have reassembled
themselves into patterns Of play.
We'll, this is odd, indeed" you
reflect, giving the Bronx cheer to
the gent who runs the country, t"
and yet you reaSsure yourself that
you are sitting among thousands
who supposedly typify the mood
and spirit of the nation.
NHAYBE in order to get sane
Iva perspective it is important to
remember that these thousands
are here because they are pri-
marily interested in Lefty Groves
fast ball and Pepper Martins hit