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Interior Secretary Goes
To Philadelphia Meeting
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Returning Tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Payne Have Guests
From Massachu sets
Underwood Photo.

The Secretary Of the Interior and
Mrs, Ray, Lyman Wilbur are in Phila-
,delphia, where the Secretary went to
attend the meeting of the Child Dental
Health week. They are expected back
in Washington tomorrow.
The Assistant Secretary Of War and
Mrs. Frederick H. Payne have as their
guest for a week in their apartment
at the Mayhower, Mr.. and Mrs. Irving
E. Esleeck of Greenfield, Mass, who
will return to their home today.
The alien property custodian and
Mrs. Howard Sutherland will have with
them for several weeks their daughter
Mrs. Wallace Dunkle, who will arrive
from her home in New York, accom-
panied by her small daughter.
The special assistant to the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury and Mrs. David
e. Finley will return tomorrow from
q few days visit with the formers
mother, Mrs. David e. Finley, in her
home in York, s. c., where they went
Wednesday.
The special assistant to the Secre-
tary Of Labor and Mrs. w. w. King
are entertaining over the week end
Mr.. and Mrs. George Foley and their
little daughter Pat, who are from New
York.
The Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury Maj. Ferry K. Heath entertained
at dinner last week in honor of Lady
Chiffon. The. company included the
Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs
F. Trubee Dawson, the United States
Minister to Canada and Mrs, Hanford
MacNider and Representative and Mrs
Lewis W.. Douglas.
The United States consul at Seville,
Spain, and Mrs. Richard Ford, with
their son, Richard Ford, 5th, sailed for
Europe Tuesday for the formers new
post in Seville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ford were accompanied
to the ship by group of their asso-
ciates, who bid them bon voyage. Mrs
Ford was formerly Miss Mildred Caro-
line Case, granddaughter of Mrs
Charles L. Hoyle of Washington and d
niece of Mr.. John Hays Hammond and
the late Mrs. Hammond.
DR.. William F. Knott, dean Of the
Georgetown Foreign Service School, has
returned to Washington after visit
abroad, where he attended economic
conferences dealing with internationa.
and economic and financial matters
DR.. Knott visited in Northern Russia
including Leningrad and Moscow
spending some time in Geneva during
the session Of the League Of Nations II
Basel, Switzerland. He attended 6
round table conference under the aus.
pices of the directors of the Interna'
tional Bank of Preparations.
Mrs. van Reypen and her daughter
Baroness Korff, have returned to theil
home on California street for the Win.
ter. Miss Barbara Korff, daughter o.
Baroness Korff, has returned to hel
studies at Bryn Mawr, where she is &
member of the Junior class.
Mr.. John H. Storer sof Waltham
Mass, and Washington, with his daugh
ter, Miss Emily L. Storer, will return
to his apartment at Wardman Parl
Hotel November 5. from Atlantic City
IN. J. where he spent the. Summer .
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the Brighton Hotel. Miss Storer has
made frequent visits to washington
through the Summer, returning to At.
lantic City to be with her father, who
has been i'll.
Nine. Roso, who has been travelling
since May in Europe, has returned to
Washington and is occupying an apart
ment at the Mayhower, which she has
leased for an indefinite time.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Meade Lea have
returned and reopened their Washing
ton residence after spending the Sum-
mer in st. Joseph's Sanitarium, Mount
Clemens, Mich. En- route here they
paid visit to relatives Of Mrs. Lea at
her former home in Kentucky.
Mrs. Hans Kinder and her three
children have joined Mr.. Kinder In
Washington. Mr.. Kinder is the direc-
tor Of the new National Symphony Or
chestra Of Washington, which gives its
first concert November 2 in Constitu-
ton Hall.
Mrs. j. Wilmer Biddle of Philadelphia,
who has been spending the Summer
with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Keppel-Palmer, at
their home at Henley-on-T Thames, Eng
land, sailed Thursday from England for
New York. 1t is understood Mrs. Bid
die will go direct to her Virginia coun-
try place, Kenmore Manor, in Kappa
hammock County, for the late Autumn
season.
DR.. Ward G. Reeder, professor of
school administration at Ohio State
University, and Dr. David Sutton, re-
search assistant in the Bureau Of Edo
ucational Research in Ohio State Uni
versity, have taken an apartment at
1857 K street for the Winter DR..
Reeder and Dr.. Sutton have come to
Washington as specialists in school
finance and are assisting in the national
survey Of school finance ordered by the
last Congress.
Miss Mildred Tytus and Miss Victoria
S. Tytus have visiting them at Ashin-
fully, in Tyringham, Mr.. and Mrs. Ro-
land Palmedo of New York, Mr.. Foster
Stillman Of Washington and Mr.. Harold
]. Coolidge and Mr.. Lawrence Coolidge
of Boston.
Judge and Mrs. Edward r. Short have
returned to their home in Tennessee
after visiting the Misses Steele in their
apartment at 1757 K street. Judge and
Mrs. Short were accompanied to WASH
ington by their daughter, Miss Christine
Short, who will spend the Winter with
her aunts, the Misses Steele, while ate
tending George Washington University
Mrs. Nathan Clark and Mrs. Sterling
Dockoven have returned to Washington
after an extensive tour Of the United
States.
Mrs. Ralph Heitmuller of Buffalo,
N. Y, with her small son, is the guest
this week of her husbands parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Heitmuller, at
1907 Fourteenth street northwest.
! Mr. and Mrs. F. Marion Law of Houston,
Tex, who formerly made their home ia
Washington, are spending the week end
at the Mayhower. They were in Att
lantic City for the Summer and Mr4
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Miss Mildred Tytus and Miss Victoria
S. Tytus have visiting them at Ashin-
fully, in Tyringham, Mr.. and Mrs. Ro-
land Palmedo of New York. Mr.. Foster
Stillman Of Washington and Mr.. Harold
j. Coolidge and Mr. Lawrence Coolidge
of Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11

Mr.. G. Leslie McCrea entertained ct
dinner last evening In honor Of Mr..
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Capitals "Small Season"
Blossoms Into Sprightly
Period for Society Folk
Two Large Garden Parties of Past Week Develop
Particular Observation-Disclosures Assembly
Also Adds to Activities.

mier at the French embassy, especially
a luncheon of note the day Of his
arrival.
Perhaps no feature Of the present
administration will live longer in the
minds of Washington people than the
garden parties and other Inequalities
at WooVey, the home of the Secretary
of State and Mrs. Stimson. Certainly
there was chill in the air when they
gave the garden party Friday for the
delegates to the Pan-American Con-
gress, but as one of the Latin American
diplomats remarked, nothing is ever
chilly that the Secretary of State and
Mrs. Stimson essay. They are the per-
sonifcation of hospitality. Woodley
has been the home of many famous
men and women, but certainly none
was ever more hospitable than the
present hosts.
Important men and women have
stopped of in Washington from other
parts of the country en- route to York
town, there being some particularly
interesting committee meetings here
before the throng gathers at Yorktown
and the adjoining towns connected
with the surrender ceremonies. Mrs.
James P. Andrews Of Hartford, Conn,
national president of the Society of
Colonial Danes, will be at the Carlton
Wednesday and Thursday for this pur-
pose before proceeding to the historic
city, where she will be the guest Of the
commissioners.
The titled folk of England will stalk
among us this month, and far more in
teresting than the average will be
Fiennes Stanley Wykeham, Baron
CORVALLIS and his cousin, Wing Com
nander the Hon. L. j. e. Twistleton-
Wykeham-Ffennes a man popular in
the diplomatic corps. BY very special
invitation Lord CORVALLIS will come
to Washington and will attend the
dedication of the tablet marking the
surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown,
adding an amusing phase to the ques-
ton of whether or not such a piece of
history should be enacted for fear of
hurting British pride. Lord Corn
wallis is gentleman farmer and at
his country seat at Kent gives personal
attention to the rural side of life.
Lady CORVALLIS, with an unusually
large share Of the grace of mature
English lady, will accompany him.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
EXCHANGE HITS
BEAR RAIDS

NEW YORK, May 26 G.N.S)
The New York Stock Exchange
today opened what was construed
In Wall Street as determined
drive against bear raiding," !"
which has been a factor in the
decline of stock prices.
Restoration of confidence in
the market and the encourage
ment of investment buying is the
primary object of the drive, it is
believed.
The committee on business con-
duct of the exchange sent out a
QUESTIONABLE to all its members
asking for data on borrowing
and loaning of stocks. In this
manner the identity of the most
important members of the Wall
Street bear clique" could be dis,
closed.
Members of the exchange were
asked for this information:
al. A list of all stocks bOr-
rOwed, from whom and for
whose account.
"2. A list of all stock loaned
and to whom.
SO. Intra-O flee borrowings
and for whose account.
"a. A list of all stock which
YOU have failed to deliver and
for whose account"
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
PLUNGES
4 To DEATH

CHICAGO. May % G.N.SO
Four men we're killed today when
the Bellanca airplane, Blue
Streak, owned by the Chicago
Daily News, crashed 1000 feet
into a field two miles north OF
Wheaton and about two miles
west of Glen Ellyn, suburbs west
of Chicago.
The dead are:
Shirley Short. staff pilot of the
Daily News.
Richard X. Peck, cO-pOlOt.
Lewis S. Rice, radio operator
and technical man for the Daily
News radio station, WMAQ.
Robert U. GOrmeIy. mechan mic.
The plane. according to Sher
man Leseth. an eyewitness. side
slipped at 1000 feet, then went
into a tailspin, loped two or
three times and finally plunged
to earth.
The Blue Streak took off from
CurtiSs-Reynolds Airport in an at
tempt to carry 1000 Kilograms
around an official kilometer
course.
The flight was to be an endur-
ance test in an effort to break the
planes recent record nonstop
flight of l,500 miles to Brows-
vile, Tex"
The Washington times., 1931-05-26

CHICAGO, May 26 QN.S0 A
coroner's inquest today revealed
that arsenic poisoning caused the
deaths of four of the five men
who passed away in the home OF
Mrs. Margaret Summers.
Mrs. Summers collected insur,
ance on the life of each man,
records show. The inquest was
held specifically into the death of
Thomas Meyers, the wOman's H.
year-Old nephew.
The victims of the insidious
poison and the amounts of insur-
ance collected by Mrs. Summers,
who is in police custody, are:
Thomas Summers, 81, her hus-
band, $4,000; Thomas Meyers, the
nephew, $4,000; Thomas flanagan,
60, a boarder, $4,000 and William
Rieman IS, boarder $400.
1t was disclosed that Mrs. Sum
merS was beneficiary under 19 in
Surance policies issued to 10 per.
sons, five of whom are dead.
She Denies Guilt
Mrs. Summers took the stand
and denied responsibility or
knowledge of how they came to
their deaths.
The jury recommended that
she be held to the Grand Jury
on charges of murder in all four
cases.
Mrs. Summers, SObbing hySteri.
cally, was led from the room.
She had collapsed before the
inquest resumed today and cried
during most of the proceedings.
Sawdust In Corpse
Mrs. Mathilda Kuhn testified
that Mrs. Summers, after the
death of her husband, said, II
PIT him away so nobody else will
get him. poisoned him."
Police revealed that there was
a strong friendship between Mrs.
Summers husband and Miss
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
SPEED
KING, KILLED
picture on Page y

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. May 26
0.N.SD Joe Caccia, 81, crack
driver from Bryn Mawr, Penn,
and his mechanic, Clarence e
Grove, %, of Haverford, Penn,
were killed instantly when their
Jones-Maley special raceing car
plunged over a retaining wall at
the Indianapolis motor speedway
race track today.
The racing car, apparently out
Of control at a speed of nearly
100 miles an hour, plunged over
the wall at the south turn, struck
a tree, and caught fire.
Both Badly Burned
Caccia is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Sophia Caccia.
Made Practice Tests
Grove lived at Haverford. Pa.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Laura Grove.
The two men were practicing
in preparation for their qualifica-
ton trial this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
'DEBS' IN COURT
IN CURS|NG

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, May
26.-Two Washington deoutantes,
the Misses Margaret and Eleanor
Calver, daughters of George H.
Calvert, jr., prominent attorney,
will take the stand in magistrates
court here today and testify to
having been cursed and told to
shut up" by two State officers.
The officers, ]. Warren Davis,
prohibition inspector, and J. Al
dine Smith, motor vehicle officer,
are charged with unlawful search
and using profanity.
Student Is Complainant
The charges were made by Sam
R. Baker, University of Virginia
law student who, with Thomas
Dew, was with the Calvert girls
when their car was stopped by the
officers last Friday night.
Baker was charged by the Of
ficers with passing their car on
curve and resisting arrest. He
denies he resisted arrest, and
claims he was yanked out of his
car by the officers.
Cursed at, Girls Say
The girls charge they were
cursed at by the two officers
when they protested against the
treatment being accorded their
escort. The case against Baker
will be heard at the same time.
Baker and the girls declared
they thought the officers were
holdup men from their actions.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Eye Reflects Workings of
Brain and Heart

sent by his government to inspect
the Wilmer Ophathamological In
stitute of Johns Hopkins Uni,
verSity.
DR.. Magitot. who for Is years
has been developing the tech
nique called tonoscopy. said;
The eye is a transparent
organ in which we can see
things that ordinarily we could
not see without a microscope.
With an OpthamOlOScOpe we
can see all the little blood
vessels and watch the blood
flowing through them. With
another instrument we can
bring pressure against the eye,
watch the reaction, and in this
way measure the blood pressure
in the eye by sight.
BY measuring cerebral blood
pressure, certain circulatOry
disturbances related to nervous
conditions may be detected"
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
OFFICER FACING
H|JACK TRIAL

Policeman Wallace ]. Middle
ton, Twelfth precinct, who re-
Gently was held in connection
with the killing of Jack Cunning
ham, police stool pigeon, today
was indicted by the Grand Jury
for housebreaking and larceny re-
Sulting from the alleged hijacking
of a speakeasy in the 1900 block
of I ST. N. w. on May 8.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney William H. Collins presented
the matter to the Grand Jury yes
terday.
In addition to the theft of the
liquor, Middleton is charged with
the larceny of $22 in cash. an
electric fan and a fountain pen
belonging to Milton Yudelevit,
who is reported to have testified
before the Grand Jury.
Other witnesses included
Charles F.. Wilson, 1743 P st.
N. W.; Stella and Edna Bakowski,
1908 I st. N. W.; Detective Ser
geants Brodie and Flaherty and
Policeman James A. MoStyn.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
CONCEAL
SLAIN MAN
A WEEK.
Victim, Believed From Here,
Found Near Pistol; Police
Can't Determine Motive

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May
26.-Significant papers and
marks of Identification gone, and
with only IS cents in his pockets,
the body of a we'll dressed man
about SIS years old was found in
the woods, about a mile from
MaSsaponax Church, 10 miles
south of here, today.
Cause Undetermined
The man had been shot, and a
pistol of expensive make, with
one bullet discharged, was found
near the body. SpOttSylvania
county authorities are unable to
determine if the man was a sui
eide or was murdered.
The victim is believed to have
left Washington for Richmond on
May 18, as a check showing he
had purchased bus ticket for
Richmond in the Capital was
found in his pocket.
A pair of glasses and a scrap
of paper with a name Peter
Rafple, QuanticO, Va" we're found
near the body.
A COPY of The Washington
Herald of May 18 was also found
near the body, and a cap, bought
in Petersburg, lay nearby.
A gold ring mounted with ru-
bieS was on the left hand.
About SIS and Gray
The man, about SIS years old,
had gray hair. He was feet 10
inches tall, and weighed about
IT'S pounds. The body had been
in the woods for more than
week and was badly decOmpOSed.
The body was in a dense thicket
about 40 yards from the main
highway from Washington to
Richmond.
The body was taken to Spott-
autopsy will be held.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Z|RKLE INQUEST
BEING HELD
-Timta Stall Photo

An inquest into the death of
Irwin Leroy zirkle, shot to death
in a Ninth Street poolroom Satur-
day night, is being held at the
District Morgue this afternoon.
Police are prepared to intro
duce an alleged confession made
by Robert Emmett N1artZ, 20, in
which he stated that he had shot
Zirkle.
Martz, however, has declared
that the shooting was accidental.
His version is that he was hand
ing a pistol to another man,
when the weapon exploded, the
bullet striking Zirkle.
Police are prepared to present
witnesses who, it is said, will
testify that Martz fired the
weapon from beneath his sweater,
then threw the weapon up On top
Of a water cooler and attempted
to leave the poolroom.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
MORALS
ARE FALLING
RAPIDLY
Confident American People
Will Recover and Respect
Dry Law; Religion Needed
BY CARROLL PEEKE

Modification of the Eighteenth
Amendment is inevitable - and
within a few years - unless the
American people pull themselves
out of the depths of the moral de-
preston through which this ma
ton is now passing.
This warning was voiced today
by DR.. Clarence True Wilson, Of
the Methodist Board of Temper
ance and Morals.
Moral Standards Are Falling
The moral standards of the age
are fast falling, DIR. Wilson be-
lieves, and a great national re-
vivaI Of religion is needed to put
MS as a nation back on our feet.
Otherwise, he believes, we can
not 60 on at the rate we have
been going. We must come to
realize that the prohibition law,
as we'll as other moral laws, must
be observed or else these laws
must fail.
However. DR.. Wilson does not
believe the American people will
fail in respect to the prohibition
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The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Detroit FLiers Pass
10Th Hour in the Air

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla,
May 26 0.NSO .-Droning through
the night without even a
"chuckle" from their motor, Wal
ter A. Lees and Frederick A.
BroSSy, Detroit flierS, passed
their twenty-ninth hour in the
air at 11:42 a. m. today in an at
tempt to lower the worlds record
for non-refueling endurance flight.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Death of 4 From, Poison
Holds Victim Wdou

Anna Kuhn, %, daughter Of Mrs.
Kuhn. r.
DR.. C. A. Muehlberger, coroner's
chemist, testified he found no
vital organs in the body of Rie-
man, but that the portion of the
body where the vital organs should
have been was stuffed with saw
dust. Examination of other tis-
sues, however, revealed the pres
ence of arsenic.
DR.. Muehlberger explained that
chronic arsenic poisoning indi-
Gated that the arsenic had been
administered or taken in small
doses over a period of time.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
FederdL-D. &. Funds
To Be Studied June 9

Financial relations between the
District and Federal governments
will be scrutiniZed June 9. Chair
man Mapes of the special House
committee appointed for the pur-
pose, announced yesterday.
What support the National
Capital should be allowed from
the Federal Treasury is the ques-
ton at issue. George Lord. tax
expert, who has been making
comparative studies based on
other cities, will report.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
President Cancels
Press Conference

Instead of President Hoover re-
ceiving the newspaper CORE
spondents today for the regular
Tuesday press conference, he in
structed the following message be
conveyed to the reporters:
"The President and his Cab
met discussed the economic
situation today and found many
factors that are favorable"
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
GOTWALS ASKS
SCHOOL PLANS
Be CHANGED
Cement Wall, Instead of Brick,
Urged for Roosevelt Stage
As Result of Crash Inquiry

A change in construction plans
of the Roosevelt High School was
recommended to the District
Commissioners today by Engineer
Commissioner jain c. GotwalS.
Major GOtwals took the action
after receiving a report from the
special board appointed by the
city heads to answer two ques-
tiOns dealing with the school con-
struction.
Two Questions Answered
One question was whether the
free standing steel column i'm
bedded in brick wall type of con-
struction as proposed was sound.
The other question was whether
it was practicable to erect this
steel without danger of collapse.
The board found that the
method described in the first
question is safe, provided the
steel columns are of such design
as to carry all vertical loads in
cluding those of the roof and
provided, further, that the col
umns are designed and braced so
as to carry all lateral loads in
cluding wind pressures without
dependence of the enclosing wall.
AS to the second question an
opinion that it is practicable to
erect this steel without hazard of
collapse was expressed by the
board.
Change Urged in Walls
The attention of the investigar
tors was directed particularly to
the auditorium of the school
where 70 tons of steel frame
work blew down in windstorm
on April %.
Major Gotwals stated that he
believed the Municipal Architect
followed sound principles in as
Stunning that the heavy and care
fully built brick walls would sup
port the steel columns, but recon-
mended:
THAT reinforced concrete be
substituted for the 18-inch brick
wall enclosing the steel columns
on the stage of the Roosevelt
High School in such a way as to
wholly cOnfine these columns to
a plane FL feet above the stage.
The change here recommended,
while adding somewhat to the
structural safety of the audi
tOrium, will not alter its archi-
tectural appearance"
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
Grape GrOUers Ask
For II Million More

Representatives of California
grape interests went before the
Federal Farm Board today and
presented their claims for addl-
tional loans totaling about $l4,-
600. 900. Favorable action is ex-
pected.
The loans, if granted, will be
made to the California grape con-
troll board.
The Washington times., 1931-05-26
WIFE THINKS
N 'DUFF|E
|SH|D|NG
HERE
Former Policeman Hiding Child
In Dive, She Believes; Kin
Asked to Be on Lookout

Police and relatives are today
searching for former policeman
Paul McDuffie. 81. who disap-
peared yesterday afternoon from
his home at 1906 E st. N. E, tax.
ing his 3-year-old daughter, Ina
Jean. The child had been sick
for several days.
When his wife returned from
work in the Census Bureau she
found a note from McDuffie say
ing he was taking the girl and
would not return until things
get better"
Went To GaIlinger'S
McDuffie was referring to his
recent trouble in April, wnen he
was put under probation for
drunkenness and threatening his
wife with a shotgun. At that
time he was sent to Gallinger
Hospital for 80 days.
McDuffie was a policeman for
several years, attached to the
Ninth precinct. but was dismissed
four years ago for being drunk
and other causes. Since then,
his wife says, he has not done
any work and has been sober only
during the time he was in the
hospital.
Mrs. McDuffie believes that her
husband is keeping the child in
SpeakeaSy or gambling house in
Washington, for, she says, he often
took Ina Jean and her six-year-
old sister, Norma, with him on
his visits to dives.
Relatives Notified
A brother, John. in Philadel-
phia, and his mother, who lives
near Aberdeen. N. c.. have been
notified to look out for McDuffie.
McDuffie and the girl left yes
terday in a taXicab from their
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