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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
.DRAF TING TRAFFIC
CODE STARTS SOON
New Regulations Effective
July Few Radical In
novations Expected.
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unless it is in condition to operate
safely on the highways of the Dis
trict. Commissioner Crosby says he
is favorable to this idea and that cars
probably will be checked at the va
rious police stations with some central
checking place to which cars classed
as doubtful" by the checkers at the
police stations will be given a second
examination. This has not been def
nitely decided, but is something that
remains to be worked out along with
the other problems expected as a re-
suit of the passage of the new act
One other problem that will give the
city heads some concern Is that of
interstate buses using the congeSted
downtown section. The act puts the
routing of all such buses together with
the regulation of their equipment,
schedules, stops, platforms and loading
zones, in the Public Utilities Commits
sion. 1t is provided that whenever any
order, rule or regulation of the Utilities
Commission shall be made relative to
these matters, it shall be referred, prior
to its PRONUNCIATION. to joint board,
consisting of all of the members of the
Board of Commissioners and the Public
Utilities Commission.
Both commissions have given this
problem considerable study in the past.
but neither moved for fear of tres
passing on the Jurisdiction of the other.
1t is expected that public hearings on
the matter will be held after the act
goes into effect, and that the buses will
be forbidden to enter the congested
downtown section in an effort to relieve
traffic conditions there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
boy ORDERED HELD
AS WIDOW EXPIRES
Sunday School Teachers
Bail Cancelled and Murder
Charge Is Planned.
BY the Associated Press.


HAVERHILL, Mass, March TEN
days after having been beaten into
insensibility in the boudoir of her man.
sion by a midnight intruder. Mrs. Clara
e. Ellis, wealthy widow, died today.
Russell Noble, i7-year-old Sunday
school teacher, was ordered held with
out bail charged with the crime
LaSt-minute efforts to rouse the
woman to a death-bed Identification of
her assatlant failed, for she died with
out regaining consciousness.
Young Noble is already held in $50
600 bail on charge of assault with
intent to kill, and murder complaint
will be brought when he Is arraigned
on the assault charge next Wednesday,
District Attorney Hugh A. Gregg said.
This city was scarcely less shocked
by Mobiles arrest than by the assault
on the widow itself. At first his school
and church associates rallied to his
support but then came announcement
by the police that the boy had con-
fessed
Shortages in high school and church
funds, of which he was custodian, were
revealed, and a librarian gave the in.
formation that Noble was an avid
reader of detective and mystery fiction.
Two days before his arrest and before
he was under suspicion. the boy sat at
a library table and penned thesis on
the crime. In 1t he gave robbery as the
motive.
The boy was not suspected until TIRES
days after the attack, when he took 20
police a wrist watch he said he had
found In a snow bank. 1t was Mrs.
Ellis watch. Noble was arrested next
morning. The thesis was found In his
pockets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
MAN IS REFUSED
BAIL IN STABBING
P. J. DEMENT, Sent Back to
Prison Following Hyatts-
vile Hearing.
By a stan Correspondent of The Star.

EVANSVILLE, Md, March 7.-Beni
with grief, Paul ]. DeMent, Sc, Branch.
vile bricklayer, who killed a neighbol
in backyard fence argument, was re.
fused bail today and sent back to prison
Justice of the Peace Herbert j. Moffatt
refused to reduce first degree murder
warrant charge for the fatal stabbine
of Claude Hughes when the two quar-
relied over the objection to their young
sons playing together.
Mrs Anna Hughes. the widow, was
near collapse at the hearing at which
DeMent was held for the action of the
grand jury.
J. Wilson Ryon, attorney for DeNIent
release on a writ of habeas corpus next
week.
Stabbed During Argument.
Hughes was fatally injured February
% when stabbed near the heart with
penknife welded by DEMENT, in an
argument over their children. He died
at Providence Hospital three days later
DEMENT, surrendered to Judge Moffatt
after the stabbing and has been held
In jail at Marlboro.
In pleading for change in the war
rant so that his client could get out
willing to waive immunity and take the
witness stand to make statement. He
was not permitted to do so, however.
With her hand over her eyes as
though to shut out the memory of the
tragedy, Mrs. Hughes described the
quarrel between her husband and De
Ment.
Il heard him say" she testified, re-
ferring to DeMent, that if you don't
want to live in peace and let others
live in peace, why don't you go home
and drink poison"
Widow Witnessed Quarrel.
AS the argument progressed and she
watched from a window, Mrs. Hughes
said she could see it was Dement'S
object to draw her husband over to
his property.
After her husband was stabbed. De
Ment yelled, He is all right" three
times, Mrs. Hughes said. Her son,
Richard, another witness, had testified
that DeMent did not want his son 70
take Hughes to the hospital but he did
so anyhow.
After telling of the fatal blow, the
widow broke into tears and was excused
Her children, Virginia, II, and Ken
meth, 10, also testified
All the witnesses were closely Ques-
toned by States Attorney Alan Bowie
as to just where the stabbing occurred
and were in general accord that II
happened beside gravel pile near the
DEMENT, home while the two men were
standing in the street that runs be-
tween their houses
NeighborS who heard or saw portions
of the quarrel and were called upon to
testify, were Agnes and Virginia Riddle,
and Gertrude and Helen Appleman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
RED CROSS FEEDING
100000 IN NEED
Relief Being Administered in
~ States Through Drought
Area, Report Shows.

BY the Associated Press.
The full disaster of last Summers
drought was calculated yesterday by
the Red Cross.
Approximately 100000 persons in
$50 counties of az States were being
fed or otherwise aided by the Red Cross
on the last day of February month
end summary believed by officials to
represent peak load"
Though the demand did not lessen
as swiftly as had been anticipated with
arrival of March / furnishing date"
the Red Gross disaster relief experts
did not expect it to mount further.
Respite Is Expected.
They explained that this resumption
of financing of plantation farmers by
merchants in the South had been coun-
terbalanced somewhat by Northern
chapters coming to the end of their re-
sources. However, with Government
loans becoming operative and some en-
ployment opening up, some respite from
the long demand on Red Cross funds
was expected.
In the shortest, leaneSL monLn OF all,
February, 460,240 families were being
fed, as against 255,737 families the
month before. Pennsylvania was the
only drought State meeting demands
with local funds, all others having been
forced to ask aid from national funds.
A month earlier a half dozen States
had been still meeting their own prob
lens.
The national relief scene was etched
in terms of families aided with the ex-
PLANTATION that four and one-haf per-
sons were considered the average per
family.
Arkansas Worst on.
BY States, aid was given as follows:
Alabama, 22,752 families: Arkansas,
161,114; Georgia, 1,122; Illinois, 4,785;
Indiana, 1855; Kansas, 20; Kentucky,
40 ,903; Louisiana, 51,251; Maryland,
567; Mississippi. 31,3ss; Missouri, 49,
626; Montana, 500; North Carolina, g.
100; North Dakota, $50; Ohio, 8,045;
Oklahoma, 52,616; Pennsylvania, $40;
Tennessee, 16,467; Texas, 26,519; Vir-
ginia, 9,175; West Virginia, 5000. New
Mexico was continued on the list, though
its transient problem was practically
cleared up.
Contributions to the $4,000, 900
drought-relief fund totaled S9,704,654.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08


labor during this crisis, I should not
approve the bill. I have repeatedly
urged a proper extension Of public
employment agencies, but this bill un~
fortunately abolished the whole of the
present well developed Federal EN-
ployment Service, and proposes, after
certain requirements are complied with,
to set up an entirely new plan by sub
sides to the States from the Federal
Treasury. And even were there no
other objections to the plan, it cannot
be made effective for many months or
even years. 1t Is not only changing
horses while crossing stream, but the
other horse would not arrive for many
months. This situation alone required
that legislation be deferred, as 1t will
not help in emergency, but viii do
great damage.
Fundamentals to Consider.
THE fundamental questions involved
also require more consideration. This
bill proposes, as have said, to destroy
the Federal Employment Service In the
Department Of Labor, which has de-
perience, and to substitute for it IS
practically independent agencies. each
under State control, the Federal Gov
eminent paying for them to so per
cent and based not upon the economic
need Of the particular State, but upon
mathematical ratio to population. On
the other hand, the existing Federal
Employment Service Il today finding
places Of employment for men and
women at the rate of 1900 900 per
annum- 1t co-operates and co-ordi-
mates with the service already estab-
lished by some 80 States. It applies
its energies to interstate movements,
and. being q mobile service, 1t concern
trates upon the areas in need. Beyond
this, however, the present Federal
Service has special divisions devoted
in agriculture and q special organizas
ton for veterans. There is no pro.
vision for the continuation of these
two very important special services
under the new plan, and the Interstate
quality of the Federal service is de.
stroyed. In any event. the bill re-
qutred effective action by the legislas
lures and Governors of the various
States at q minimum time requiring so
long period for its establishment as
to be OF no purpose in this emergency,
And there Is, therefore. ample time to
consider the whole of the questions in
volved. There Is no financial loss to
labor in allowing this bill to lapse.
While the bill provides for 81 500, 900
expenditure over the next Is or 10
months, one-haf of it would be alb
sorbed in relieving one-half the present
expenditure of the States without any
additional service on their part. On
the other hand, the present Federal
service has available over the next Is
or 16 months nearly 81 ,00o, 900 for the
conduct of its agencies, which are be-
ing rapidly expanded through the
emergency appropriations
81 am asking the Secretary Of
Labor to cooperate with the various ins
terested organizations to draft q plan
for presentation to the next session Of
Congress, which will avoid the difaculs
ties presented by this bill.
"A more ample statement indicating
the difficulties of the bill Is given in the
reports to me by the Secretary of Labor
and the Attorney General, which are
attached"
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cial master in receivership proceedings
against the Home Mortgage Co. OF
Hickory.
Federal Judge ]. M. Meekins, who
appointed Calvert special master in the
case, said here that he was much dis
treSsed." He said Calvert was recently
admitted to the North Carolina bar by
the State Supreme Court.
His recommendation to the court,
made by prominent members OF the
profession of Maryland, were of char
acter Of which any man night be Justly
proud" Judge Meekins said, adding
that Calvert did a splendid piece of
work" as special master.
Charles Benedict Calvert, a. WASH
ington and Prince Georges County at
torney, received considerable notoriety
last Fall by filing complaints against
what he claimed to be q notorious
gambling establishment on Bladensburg
road. His charges led to special in
vestigation by the Prince Georges
County grand jury last October, but
failed to result in any indictments.
Calvert has long been q stormy petrol
in county affairs, having participated
in suits against the mayor and coun-
Gil of Mount Rainier over the legality
of bond issues, and against Sergt H. c..
Machen. of the county police force, in
volving an alleged illegal arrest. CAL
vert lost the suit against Mount Rainier,
while the action against Machen was
settled out of court.
Calvert left Washington last Fall upon
being appointed special master in chan
Gerry in Ditrict Courts of the United
States for the Eastern District of North
Carolina.
Calvert makes his Washington home
with his mother, Mrs. George H. CAL
vert, at 1850 Corcoran street and main
tainS law office in the $500 block of
Rhode Island avenue, Mount Rainier.
He is said to be divorced from his
wife, who now lives with their two
children in California.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
woman MOTOR|ST
HELD IN ACCIDENT
Husband Also Charged With
Possession After Man Is
Critically Injured.

A T4-year-old man Is in a critical
condition at Casualty Hospital this
morning after being knocked down last
night by an automobile operated by q
woman, who was charged with driving
with defective brakes and possession Of
liquor The woman's husband, riding
with her, also was charged with posses
sion of liquor.
The injured man. James Carroll of
908 Eleventh street southeast, was
treated at the hospital for possible
broken neck, possible skull fracture, q
badly lacerated ear and multiple body
bruises. Thirty stitches were taken in
his head.
According to police, Carroll was
crossing the street in front of 900
Eleventh street southeast, when the
accident occurred.
The liquor charges were placed
against Mrs. Margaret Ward, 80 years
old, and her husband, Paul Ward, 81
years old, both Of 400 Delafleld place,
after police reported they found a
package containing quart Of liquor
in possession Of Mrs. ward.
Police reported that the liquor
changed hands several times before
Mrs. Ward obtained it.
The police report states that Mrs.
Mollie Clark Of Garrett Park, Nd,
passed by the scene of the accident
shortly after Carroll was struck down.
Mrs. Clark told police that while she
was at the scene Paul Ward handed
her q package, which Mrs. Ward later
took from her.
Mrs. Clark, continuing her story to
police. said she saw Mrs. Ward walk
into grocery store at Oil Eleventh
street carrying the package.
At this point comes the part of the
package story" which involves z. L.
Poland, an employe of the store, living
at 31l Eleventh street southeast.
Poland said he saw Mrs. Ward walk
into q rear room at the store and de-
post a package. Poland decided to give
it back to her-juSt as Policeman J. ?.
Bowers of the fifth precinct arrived at
the store.
Policeman Bowers pieced together all
the stories told about the package,
opened it and found liquor. and placed
possession charges against both the
woman and her husband. Police said
that the two small children Of the
couple were In the automobile when the
accident occurred. They were taken to
the home of q relative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
SLAIN VETERAN BURIED
ON MOUNTAIN PEAK AS
SUSPECT OFFERS ALIBI

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delay before the final rites were pro-
nounced.
The murdered man leaves a wife and
several small children. His wife was
a widow when she married the World
War veteran, and her former husband,
named Jenkins, also came to q violent
death. David Sours, who has been
lodged in jail here on charge of in
vestigation in connection with the case,
has a brother who married a niece of
the murdered man. Sours, who is 80,
also has family.
Sours claims he is innocent and his
statements are supported by his brother,
John Sours. When interviewed today
John Sours stated that he was de-
termined to get at the truth of the mat
ter and that his brother David was in
nocent Of any blame.
John Sours claims that his brother
was framed by those who want to see
him punished. He stated today that
he did not believe the bloodhounds,
which are said to have led Luray officers
TO his brothers home, followed a trail,
but that they were "steered" to a trail
by information given by David's
enemies Overalls which the hounds
shifted at David's home had not been
worn for months, John Sours claims,
and says the stains on them were yell
low mud stains.
Alibi viii Be Defense.
The man under arrest also claims
an alibi, stating that he and five other
men were ploughing and grubbing
stumps all of the day the murder
occurred.
Sours claims that threats had been
made against Burracker by a man who
had served time for moonshining and
who is now at large and that this man
claimed he would burn the house over
Burracker's head.
The bloodhounds used in the case
are the same that were used in the
famous Nelson case in Albemarle
County. There is much evidence in
other cases, it is claimed, to show that
these hounds are old at their business.
Found by Brother.
Burracker's body, with a shotgun
wound in the left breast, was found
by his brothsr at noon yesterday lying
partly covered by leaves in an isolated
spot beside the mountain trail from
Ida to Skyland Camp, in Page County.
Alarmed when he did not return home
after setting out for a store at Ida
THURSDAY, searching party was or
ganizsd and found the scene of a scuffle
in the trail two miles east of Ida. The
body was discovered a short while later
lying just of the road.
Sours was arrested by Sheriff Lucas
and other officers of Luray yesterday
after bloodhounds obtained from Staun-
ton. Va. are claimed to have followed
trail which led to his home, where
stained overalls were found, which the
dogs shifted. Taking the oVeralls, the
officers followed to the house Of Charles
Sours, where they found David, his son,
and a Single-barreled shotgun of the
same gauge as the shot found in Bur-
hackers breast.
Prospects Of bitter legal battle loom
with the employment by the Sours FAM
lily of Lynn Lucas of Luray and j. w.
OFT of Harrisonburg, as their attorneys.
Commonwealth's Attorney S. L. Walton
is in North Carolina. and q preliminary
hearing cannot be held unit he returns.
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follows: Second Observation Wing,
composed of all the National Guard
observation squadrons, Baltimore; 2lst
Observation Wing, comprising the
Regular Army observation squadrons,
18th Bombardment Wing and Sd At
Va, and the transport and cargo units,
Middletown Air Depot MiddletoWn, Pa.
Entire Force in Review.
It still is planned to assemble the en-
tire force of fighting planes for a re-
view and flight demonstration over the
Capital on Memorial day, but the In
adequate airports here will prevent local
residents studying the great aerial
groups at close range and seeing how a
huge air force is maintained in the field
The division will be stationed at Boiling
Field, Baltimore. Middletown and Lang
ley for three days before it is broken
up and the squadrons begin returning
TO home stations in all parts Of the
country.
Following organization and prelim-
mary training of all the units as divi-
sion at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, be-
ginning May IS the entire air force will
be moved on May 81 TO New York by
routes extending from the National
Capital to Buffalo, N Y
New York Base of Maneuver.
The aerial armada will be stationed
at New York about week, though the
combat maneuvers will carry units
through the New England section dur
ing that period.
Battle maneuvers Of the air division
over Manhattan Island the night of
May % and the following afternoon are
to be broadcast over the national net
work of the National Broadcasting Co.
Seven announcers will be required to
handle the daylight attack, five of
them from ground observation points
and two from Army planes. The broad
cast will include the commands of Of
1cers putting the entire force into mo-
ton as well as descriptions Of the re-
sulting napeuyers.
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Justice Holmes 90 Today
SUPREME COURT MEMBER TO TALK OVER RADIO.

BY the Associated Press.
Ninety years ago young Boston
physician experienced the usual father
ly reactions on the birth of lusty baby
boy.
That child, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court,
in observing his ninetieth birthday an
niversary today, will deviate from his
routine to make his first radio address.
1t will be brief. The Columbia Broad
casting System has set aside five min
utes, beginning at 1885 pm, E. s. T.,
for his response to eulogies from
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice
of the United States; Charles A. Bos-
ton, president of the American Bar As
ISOLATION, and Charles E. Clark, dean
of the Yale Law School. Boston and
Clark will speak from New York studios
and Hughes from Washington.
MicrOphone in Home.
Justice Holmes probably will not use
all the time allotted to him, although
he may have more if he wishes. A
microphone has been installed in his
home on street, where he has lived
for many years and with it went the
first receiving set that the old house
ever saw.
Justice Holmes ordinarily lets his
birthdays pass without any outward
sign, but be broke a precedent to
| acknowledge publicly the eulogX. from
the Chief Justice.
Felix Frankfurter, Harvard professor,
plans to call at the street home this
morning to present volume in which
Justice Holmes is the central theme
A few intimate friends may drop in
These and messages of congratulations
will be the only indications that it is
different from other days.
His Health Good.
The health of the aged justice, the
oldest man ever to sit on the Supreme
Court bench, has been unusually good
for the past year. He missed few court
sessions because of a slight cold, but
nevertheless did his share OF arduolis
work, and hardly an opinion day goes
by that he does not deliver a decision.
Sturdiness of body and keenness of
mind are traditional in the Holmes
family. The father, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, poet and author Of the Auto
crat of the Breakfast Table" died in
1894 at the age Of IS.
Father and. son resembled one an
other noticeably. They were about the
ant hair as they grew old, although 1t
turned a silvery white. The physician
and author was clean shaven; the jurist
has a mustache.
Last Of His Line.
He is the last of the line Mrs
Holmes died in 1929. They had no
children.
The Presidents message said:
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as long ago planned. to make way for

as long ago planned. to make way for
monumental, permanent structures.
In this site also Is the area where
stood the temporary building used by
offices of the Federal Trade Commission
until fire destroyed that structure last
Labor day. The site of that building,
Twenty, Twenty-flrst and C streets,
since has been cleared
Other temporary structures in the
area house offices of the Federal Trade
Commission, the War Department, the
stables and garage of the quartermaS-
ter's force and the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The two laundry plants in the site of
the new War-Navy Buildings are those
of the Conger's Laundry, at Twenty
third and New York avenue, and the
Frazee- Potomac Laundrya at Eighteenth
and D streets.
other buildings in the area are
Young Womens Christian Association
hut. two restaurants, the Pettus Build
ing and q gasoline station.