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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
PROPERTY LAW IS
 GIVEN EXPLANATION

The property law which is pro- posed for introduction at the com ing Territorial Legislature was ex- plained last night by Mrs. R. R. Hermann at a meeting of the Pro- fessional and Business Women's Club of Juneau There was a large attendance at the meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-03
WHIST PARTY

The Ladies of the Parish will hold a WHIST PARTY at the Parish Hall Thursday night, Feb ruary 5th. Good prizes and refresh ments. Public invited. Admission 5o cents. adv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
WAR CRIPPLE ENDS
LIFE AT MOUNT ALTO
Joseph B. Hoffer of San Antonio
Uses Revolver Purchased
Through Mail.

HelplessIy crippled, Joseph B. Hoffer,
30-year-old war veteran from San An
tonic, Tex, this morning ended his life
with a revolver in bed at Mount Alto
Hospital, where he had been confined
more than year.
HoFer shot himself in the head with
a weapon that he had bought in New
York, and which reached him through
the mail yesterday.
Hofier was alone in room on the
third floor of B ward at the time He
had attempted To deaden the sound of
the weapon by wrapping it in a towel,
but others on the floor heard the
discharge.
Capt. Maurice Collins and Pvt H. A.
Reed of the seventh precinct investi-
gated the case with Detective Sergt.
Charles Mansfield Of headquarters.
Coroner hewitt issued a certificate Of
suicide
Information in the case was refused
at the hospital, questions being referred
to the police. Other men in the ward
said they understood Hotter was being
treated for injuries received in fall.
He was paralyzed from the waist down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
BRIDGE IS NAMED
IN TAFT'S HONOR
Commissioners Make Con-
neCtiCut Avenue Span Me-
mortal to Its Admirer.

The District Commissioners yester-
day changed the name of the Connect
cut Avenue Bridge to the William
Howard Taft Bridge in honor of the
late President and Chief Justice of the
United States. The bridge has been
popularity known as the Million Dol
lar Bridge" The suggestion for the
change was made by the Women's City
Club in March, 1880.
The text of the order changing the
name of the bridge is:
Whereas, the late CHIEF Justice, Will
liam Howard Taft, whose residence was
in the vicinity of the Connecticut Ave-
nue. Bridge over Rock Greek, was a
great admirer of said bridge, over which
it was his custom to walk several times
a week, especially on Sunday after
moons, at which times he would stop
to talk to friends and acquaintance,
and especially with groups of children
whom he met; and
Whereas, the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia desire to honor
the memory of this great American cit
izen by making slight tribute of af-
lection from the people of the District
of Columbia to one who as President
of the United States and Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States had SO endeared himself to them,
it is hereby
Ordered that the bridge across Rock
Greek in the line of Connecticut ave-
nue. shall be officially designated the
William Howard Taft Bridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
FAMOUS OLD HOME
INCLUDED IN TOUR
Bellevue to Be Opened to
Public for st. Johns Church
Georgetown Pilgrimage.

Bellevue. one of the most famous old
homes in Colonial Georgetown, built in
1850 by Charles Carroll Zone of the
CAROLS of Carrollton), will be opened
to all those making the historic tour
of Georgetown for the benefit of St.
Johns Church, on Saturday and Sun
day.
The present occupants Of the lovely
house, at PITS @ street, Representative
and Mrs. Charles A. Eaton, are CO.
operating in helping to make the tour
a success by opening the doors of the
famous edif1ce for the first time to the
public.
Tradition had it that the old Carroll
home was the place of refuge for Dolly
Madison during the War Of 1912.
In recent years the house was pur-
chased by the Colonial Danes of Amer
lea, who are planning to open the place
next year as a museum.
In addition to Bellevue, the home Of
the last mayor of Georgetown, situated
at the corner of Potomac and N streets,
now owned by Mrs. A. Blair Thaw, will
also be opened to those making the
tour.
The tours will start every half hour
after o'clock from the Peck Memorial
at Twenty-eighth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue and will be made by
buses over a two-mile route. Tickets
may be obtained from the guides at
the start Of the tours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
GIRLS ADMIT TAXING
STORY OF KIDNAPPING
13-Year-0ld Cousins Say They
Feared Whipping for Play
ing Hockey"

Fear OF being spanked for having
played hockey" from George Mason
School, Alexandria, Va, was given by
Edna Cummings and Winifred Emmons,
13-year-old cousins, as an excuse for
relating a story of having been kid
naped yesterday morning
Leaving their homes in Afexannrfa ~
attend school, the cousins changed their
minds and came to this city instead,
spending most of the day window shop
ping and sightseeing in the snow and
rain, and when found at the bus sta
ton, Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth
street last night they were wet, tired
and hungry.
Their disappearance was reported to
police of the first precinct by Mrs.
Edith Saul, Hume Spring, Va, sister of
the EmmonS child, and it was shortly
after leaving the police station that she
found the runaways at the bus station.
Taken to the police station, the chill
dren related story of having been
kidnapped while on their way to school
by middle-aged white man in an auto
mobile bearing Maryland license tag,
giving portion of the tag number.
Lieut.. w. H. Carlin and Detective
James A. MoStyn separated the chill
dren and short questioning resulted
in their admitting having Invented the
kidnapping story for fear OF getting a
spankingEor not having gone to scEsNpl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
WIFE IMPRISONED,
BEATEN IN HOME
Husband Said to Have Kicked
Woman During Protracted
Intoxication.

Apparently held a prisoner IN her
own home for two weeks at the mercy
of her intoxicated husband, according
to police. Mrs Rose May Hamilton. 40,
of 228 C street northeast is suffering
from Commissions about the body and
other injuries at Emergency Hospital.
Her husband, Charles Franklin Hamil-
ton, so, Is being held by police of the
ninth precinct, pending determination
of Mrs. Hamilton'S injuries.
Patrolmen Victor H. Landrum and
r. D. Jett, summoned to the Hamilton
home by telephone call from neigh
Dor late last night, said they found the
woman, bruised and bleeding, after
having battered down the door to gain
entrance.
She was lying on bed, they said. too
weak to talk, and Hamilton showed
signs of protracted intoxication. The
woman'S body showed hand and foot
marks, police said, where she had been
beaten. kicked and stamped upon.
Neighbors told police they had heard
means and screams from the house for
the last two weeks, and. at intervals
during the past few days, the woman
had been heard to plead, Don't kill
me-"
The woman told hospital officials she
had been beaten by her husband, but
was too weak to talk much, they said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
H. G. INSCOE TO HEAD
DISTRICT GRAND JURY
Justice Peyton Gordon Names
Eight Women and Is Men
on Group.

Horace G. Inscoe, 235 Twelfth street
southeast, has been selected by Justice
Peyton Gordon to serve as foreman of
the grand jury for the ensuing three
months. With him are women and
IA men.
The other grand jurors are: Enoch
H. Waters, $50 Randolph street; Mrs.
George A. Buchanan, $500 Ontario road;
Nathan H. Worth, 423 Upshur street;
Mrs. Regina E. Chandler, TIA Ninth
street; Mrs. Sarah E. Nolph, 731 Ken
lucky avenue southeast; Charles O..
Ch1sley, 603 Four and-a-hal street
southwest; John E. Callan, l08 Eighth
street northeast; Leonard H. Hancock,
l424 Ames place northeast; Edwin Tel
lou, 243 Tenth street northeast; Edward
w. Parker. 1880 T street southeast; Mrs
Mary S. Tew, 1914 Connecticut avenue:
Joseph G. Mallon, 1882 Twenty-ninth
street; John E. Palmer, 1921 University
place; Edward L. Beall, GAL Fourteenth
street northeast; Mrs. Ollie E. Reh 1918
Bladensburg road northeast; Martin j.
Schroen, 231 Eleventh street northeast;
Mrs. Florence C. Crouch, 1907 Quincy
street; William Halam, 1925 Madison
street: Stephen Badurski, 621 Girard
street northeast: j. Henry Bailey, 1885
irving street northeast, and Mrs. Rose
Jacobson. 300 Massachusetts avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
WOMAN IS FOUND
SHOT NEAR HEART
Leaves Note limiting of Sui
eide Attempt-73-Yea old
Man Takes Life With Gas.

One suicide and an attempt were in
yestigated today by police.
Mrs. Betty Warner, 4o-year-old State
Department clerk, was found shot near
the heart in an apartment at 1925 Sew
enteenth street early today while Thorn
as j. Lee, 70 years old, mysterious
figure, asphyxiated himself in room
ing house at 405 Massachusetts avenue.
Mrs. Warner was found lying on a
day-bed by Jesse Nelson, a janitor, after
he was attracted by groans. She was
removed to Emergency Hospital by the
fire rescue squad. Physicians described
the woman's condition as serious.
Finds Life Difficult.
She left note scrubbed on the back
of an envelope which said, Life is too
hard" Friends said she had been i'll
about a week. She entered the State
Department about two years ago after
short period in the Veterans Bureau.
Mrs. Warner came to Washington from
WATERFOWL, Fla.
No message was discovered in Lees
room. Police, however, found papers in
his personal effects revealing he had in
vented an airplane heater, formerly
operated a drug distributing company
in Detroit and had published pamphlets
assailing the eighteenth amendment
and advocating Government control of
the liquor traffic.
Miss Blanche Simmons, manager of
the rooming house, who discovered his
body, reported Lee had been reticent
about his personal affairs. He had been
renting a room from Mrs. Simmons
about six months.
Issues Suicide Ruling.
DR.. j. Ramsay hewitt, District coro-
ner, issued certificate of death by sui
eide after DR.. Lyman j. Green Of Cas-
ualty Hospital reported Lee dead on his
arrival.
The pamphlet written by Lee over
his own signature suggested Govern
! ment control of liquor be substituted
for the present form of prohibition and
was sent to high-ranking Federal officials
throughout the country.
Mrs. Simmons called police when she
was unable to open the door to Lees
room after detecting the odor of gas
and the body was found on the floor
after a patrolman broke through the
locked door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08

organized and as universally incorpor-
ated into our governmental system as
is public education. THE returns are
thousandfold in economic benefits,
and infinitely more in reduction of suf-
fering and promotion of human happi-
ness" The public health budget for
the City of Washington needs to be
more than doubled to provide for the
type of public health work, which will
compare with that of the leading cities
in the United States, and the type of
program which the citizens deserve.
There is apparent opportunity for
increased correlation of activities of
voluntary and official agencies and for
the development of somewhat more
complete working relationships. Sew
eral of the activities of the voluntary
agencies have proven their value and
might we'll be assumed by appropriate
official organizations. The survey rec
concentrations will need careful study
and consideration leading to practical
means of execution.
May Plan Health Council.
1.-THE Health Committee of the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies would seem to
provide an excellent representative body
for such deliberations. Other health
committees mentioned are likewise in
position to contribute much to the So
luton of the problems considered. In
the course of year or two, it may be
anticipated that the health committee
of the Council of Social Agencies will
have reached point where serious con-
sideration might well be given to the
organization of q Health Council either
under the auspices of the Council of
Social Agencies or as a separate organ
ization. It is not recommended that
such an organization be formed, how
ever. until a vel TRAINED public health
worker ON full time basis may be Sc
cured as executive.
THE chief detectives Of a health
council have been outlined in recent
editorial in the American Journal of
Public Health in the following terms:
81. To promote the coordination of
public and private health work.
80. To serve as forum for the dis
cussion of health and sickness problems,
policies and plans
"3. To develop new and to improve
present standards Of service through
joint study of special problems.
Il. To secure improvement of existing
health facilities and services and the
establishment of new or additional
hcalth facilities or services where
needed.
IS. To give moral support to the eX-
listing department of health in cooper
stion with the local dental and medical
societies. 81 49,. .-----i~4-.i.s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Two Thirds of Road Would
Be One-Way Lane in
Heavy Periods.
SENATOR URGES STREET
WIDENING BE CONTINUED
Crowds at Easter and Inaugural
ton Cited as Showing Value
of Program.

The large number of motorists who
drove to Washington for Easter week
to see the sights of the National Cap
ital led Senator Bingham, Republican.
of Connecticut, to express the belief
today that the program Of widening
streets, inaugurated several years ago,
should be continued.
Senator Bingham, chairman of the
subcommittee which handles local ap-
preparations in the Senate pointed
out that there are many occasions,
such as cherry blossom time, inaugu-
rations and large conventions, which
draw crowds of motoring tourists to the
District. He has in mind widening ad-
ditional streets that flow into the
downtown section, to carry more of the
traffic load to and from the heart Of
the city.
Rush Hour Plan.
Mr.. Bingham also suggested that
traffic officials consider marking some
of the main arteries in such a way
that incoming traffic could use two
thirds of the street in the morning
rush period and, by reversing the rule,
let outgoing traffic use two-thirds of
street in the evening rush hour.
The Senator indicated he had in
mind especially those places where the
Traffic Bureau already had a single
white line painted down the center of
certain streets The Senator said If
three lines were painted on such streets
it would create four lanes. three of
which, he believes, could be used by
traffic coming down in the mornings
and three machines going home in the
evenings.
Street Widening Projects.
There are two short street widening
projects in the appropriation act for
the fiscal year beginning July /. One Is
to continue the widening of H street
in the downtown section as far east as
Massachusetts, avenue. The other is to
begin the widening Of Constitution
avenue. as an approach to the Lincoln
Memorial and Arlington Memorial
Bridge. In the coming year this avenue
will be widened to 30 feet from Four
tenth street to Virginia avenue.
The views expressed by Senator Bing-
ham today indicated he is considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of other street widening
projects in succeeding appropriation
bills.
Urges More One-Way Streets.
Another suggestion advanced by
Senator Bingham today was that some
of the north and south bound streets
be made one-way during the morning
and evening rush periods as means OF
expediting the movement of traffic to
and from the downtown section.
The Senator said several streets could
be reserved for south bound traffic dur
ing the morning rush period and for
north bound traffic in the evening rush.
He emphasized, however, that he would
not advocate making any of these
streets one-way throughout the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
BOY, 2, WHO ATE POISON
IS IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Child, Mistaking Tablets for Can
dy, Is Treated by Fire Rescue
Squad.

---..ic condition of Bernard Gleason,
tr, years cid, who mistook a drug
for candy while visiting his grand
parents yesterday afternoon and swal-
lowed II Of the tablets. continues
serious today, according to physicians at
Casualty Hospital. where he is being
treated for poisoning.
Bernard and his 4-year-old sister,
Katherine, were visiting at their grand
fathers residence, 827 Fourth street
northeast, when the former discovered
the tablets Sampling two or three, he
found them to his liking and ate IS
more.
The child, who lives at 1872 T street
northeast, was seized with stomach
pains shortly afterward and the grand
father, Andrew j. Gleeson. summoned
the Fire Rescue Squad when his con-
dition steadily became worse. Members
of the rescue squad rushed the boy II
Casualty after administering emergency
@eatment. i..-s.--
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
.AL|D|S CHECKED
IN JAYNES CASE
Police Hope to Solve Tea
Shop Crime Through Man
Seen in Roadster.

With the failure to identify positively
any Of the six suspects held in the
Staying of Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes,
Garden T Shoppe cashier, investigators
today are checking their alibis.
AT present police hope for solution of
the crime rests with policeman's iden-
LITIGATION of one of the suspects as the
man he saw sitting in roadster of the
same type used by the bandits, within
half block of the tea shop about 5
minutes before the cashier was shot.
Policeman Identifies Car.
Last night the policeman, H. M
Heathcote of the fourth precinct also
identified the stolen roadster used in
the Staying as the one in which he says
he saw the suspect sitting. Yester-
day morning when Heathcote picked the
man from a lineup, investigators said
the latter dropped" and asked for a
glass of water
Three employees of the Garden T
Shoppe, 1885 Columbia road, where Mrs.
Jaynes was shot, were uncertain as to
whether any one of the six suspects
participated in the hold-up and shoot
ing.
Difficulty in Identification lies in the
fact that both bandits wore masks and
had bathing caps drawn tightly over
Yesterday the three suspects first ar
rested in the case were fingerprinted.
Their prints failed to compare with the
hngerprintS found on the tags of the
automobile used in the hold-up and
murder.
The three suspects arrested last night
in Baltimore in connection with an
automobile theft will be fingerprinted
today and comparison made with the
prints on the tags.
Brought From Baltimore.
The latter three were brought here
from Baltimore after police there found
a gun on one of them at the lineup
last night. The three employees of the
tea shop failed to identify them, but
Dr. Charles D. Ren1sberg and Louis
Norman partially identified two of them
last night as the men, who participated
in an attempted hold-up at the Cava-
lier Apartments March 20.
All six of the suspects will be grille0
today by police in an attempt to break
down their alibiS.
1t was learned that police are work
ing on a new lead, but they declined
to talk about it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
DISTRICT BOUNDARY
CASE OPENS MONDAY
Supreme Court to Decide if Vir-
ginia Line Is at Low or
High Water Mark.

A brief in support of its contention
that the District of Columbia is bound
ed by the low water mark on the Viz
ginia side Of the Potomac has been filed
in the United States Supreme Court by
counsel for the Washington Airport, Inc.
The highest court is scheduled to hear
arguments Monday In the boundary
case, which arose originally in litigation
between the airport company and the
Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation,
but in which the Federal Government
is an interested party because OF the
extensive Government improvements in
progress on the Virginia side Of the
river
Briefs previously have been filed on
behalf of the sand and gravel company
and the Federal Government in sup
port of the contention that the District
boundary line extends to high-water
mark on the Virginia side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
TWO MORE CHURCHES
ANNOUNCE ELECTIONS
st. Adams and Church of Ascen-
sion, Silver Spring, Officers
and Vestrymen Chosen.

The following elections of officers and
vestrymen, in connection with the an
nual elections of the Episcopal Churches
in the Diocese of Washington, are re-
ported, in addition TO those announced
in The Star yesterday and Monday:
st. Adams Church-Officers: Senior
warden, w. Peter Bisset; junior war
den, w P. B. Fletcher, sr. vestry,
Henry N. Brawner, jr.; W. L. Brown
ing, DR.. William Earl Clark, G.. B.
Craighill, Victor B. Deyber. George r.
Wales, E. M Weeks and James E. Eek
loft; treasurer, c. H. Korts registrar,
John Brawner; delegates to convention,
w S. Bowen, W. M. Dougal and G. E.
Ferguson, and alternates, c. A. Amman
and Col. w. r. Pick.
The Church of the Ascension, Sill n
Spring, elected the following as an
Auxiliary Committee Of the Department
of Missions:
Senior warden, w. S. Whitehead;
junior warden, George L. McCallum;
Vestry, Charles E. Lizear, Henry P. Al
Gen. Arthur Sabin. T. c. Taylor, Lloyd
T. Clark and Fred NJ Oden; treasurer,
Alfred T. Newbold; treasurer of build
ing fund. William E. Perry; registrar,
Mr. McCallum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
BY NEW YORK SOCIETY
Group to Hear Rochester Universi-
tvs Musical Clubs Monday in
Seasons Final Fete.

DR.. w. j. Davis was elected presi-
dent Of the New York STATE Society last
evening at a meeting at the willard
Hotel.
Other officers elected were as follows:
vice presidents, F. w. Krichelt, Mrs.
William A. Carr, c. F. Hammerly; sec
rotary, George Wrinkle: treasurer, G.
Kibby Munson: historian, Miss Helen
Brown; trustees, John Taber, M. c.;
Harry j. Hunt, william A. Carr, Miss
Louise Evanson. DR.. Lamar Harris and
William r. Valance.
Final arrangements were announced
for the sOciety's last entertainment of
the season. to be given at the Willard
Hotel on Monday at $50 pm, when
the combined musical clubs Of the
University Of Rochester will be heart ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Conservatives Gain in Argentina.

LA PLATA, Argentina, April 8 H1.-
The Conservatives showed a gain as
the official count CT votes from Sun
days election in the Provincc CT Buenos
Aires was begun today. The count in
the Campana district was Conservatives,
LOGS; Radicals, LOS Socialists, ass,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Swedish Poet Dies,

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April (E1.-
Ark Axel Ksrfeldt, poet and permanent
secretary of the Swedish Academy, died
here suddenly today at the age of 66.
In 1919 he declined to accept the Nobel
prize for literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Tulips to Bloom Soon.

LYNCHBURG. Va, April 8 (Spe-
ciaD About 10000 tulips will be in
bloom at Miller Park by April 20. The
beds are now being given final cultiya-
ton prior to tbs blooming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
Most Lack Funds.

"True it is, the various official and
voluntary agencies are, for the most
part utilizing the available resources
in an effective manner. But most of
the agencies are working under severe
handicaps of lack of adequate funds
and of sufficient trained personnel. Pub
lie health is purchasable commodity.
President Hoover has wisely stated that
public health service should be as fully
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-12-19
Stewart Christmas Tree
 Wednesday Evening

The annual community Christmas three for the Stew art kiddies will be held in Legion Hall Wednesday even- ing, commencing at 7:30 p. m.
 A new interest will be added to the occasion Wednesday af- ternoon, when the smaller little folks will all be taken in a big sleigh to meet Santa Claus as he comes into the town. No one knows the road by which he will come and the fun will be in trying to locate him before he gets there.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-12-19
Something To Shoot At

Owners of local hens which produce unusually large eggs will probably need to groom their egg layers quite a bit to make them produce hen fruit of the dimensions indicated in the following press report from South Hadley, Massachusetts, clipped from a November ex, change:
 Albert F. Wilkinson says a