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The Washington times., 1931-07-08
Metal Ash Cans Win
In Noise Test Over
Rubber Type

The institution of the old
American ash can has been up
held in the worlds first official
ash can bouncing program. Six
types Of a pepped-up version
Of ash can were bounced
around in front Of the Depart
ment Of Health Building for
edification of members Of the
Noise Abatement Commission,
and when it was all over the
old. familiar music of the his
toric ash can appeared to have
been found beyond improve
ment.
The symphony in ash cans
was in two parts; first the old
kind was rolled up against a
truck, banged against it and
dropped, both full and empty.
Then the new kind, with the
rubber base, proved noisier
then the old variety.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
TWO POLICEMEN
ACCUSED At
BELTSV|LLE
Man Absent From His Invaded
Home Says He Had No Rum;
Fireworks Draw Complaint

Charges contained in a letter
to the Prince Georges county
commissioner from Elmer Man
uel, Of Beltsville, in which Po'
Icemen Ralph Brown and Claude
Reese are accused of entering his
home without a warrant and
searching the premises for liquor,
are being investigated by Chief
Of Police jeremiah Crowley.
According to Mr.. Manuel's let
ter, the policemen entered his
home while MIR. Manuel was
away. No liquor was found and
no arrest made.
A second complaint about law
enforcement tactics reached the
commissioners. when P tri ic *
Roache and Mrs. Ruth Martin,
both of Brentwood, protested the
lack of enforcement Of the fire
works ban over the Fourth Of
July.
The commissioners had ordered
that no fireworks stands be
erected in the town areas of the
county, and had instructed the
police to prohibit their erection
and to see that all stands under
construction were torn down.
Fire companies always had op.
Grated such stands, however, and
several defied the order, operat-
ing their stands over the Fourth.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
s MONTGOMERY
POLICE ADDED.
To FORCE
8 Promotions, Many Shifts
Give Personnel Strength;
Roster Now Raised to 27

With six new faces added to the
roster of the Montgomery county
police, and three promotions ef-
fected, the personnel of the force
has been considerably strength
ened.
The appointment Of Webb
Hershberger, of Poolesville; George
Dixon, jr., of Silver Spring; Jerry
Hobbs, of Colesville; Ralph How.
ard, of Gaithersburg; Frank
soper, of Clarksburg, and Thomas
B. Donnell, brings the numerical
strength of the force, counting
Chief Alvie A. Moxley, to 27.
Roy BOdmer, of POttsville, who,
as corporal, had been assisting
the States attorney in the prepa-
ration of cases, has been elevated
to the rank of sergeant.
d. Leroy Snyder, Of Silver
Spring, who was a corporal at the
Silver Spring subst9tion, has been
made sergeant in charge Of the
Takoma Park station, succeeding
Earl H. Burdine, who has been
switched to detective sergeant, as
signed to the fingerprint bureau.
The corporals, or first-class
patrolmen, as they are officially
designated, have a new recruit in
the person of w. Harry Merson,
of Damascus.
Theodore F. Vollten, of Bethesda,
who started and was responsible
for the success of the Montgom'
cry County Identification Bureau,
has been assigned to the States
attorney, but will assist in finger
print work.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
BE PHYSICIANS,
WOMEN URGED

RICHMOND, Va, July 8
O.N.S0.-Women prefer women
physicians and the medical pro-
fession offers golden opportuni-
ties to them, DR.. Helen H. Shell
ley, of San Jose, Calf, declared
here today to the National Fed
Grafton of Business and Profes-
sional Women'S Clubs.
DR.. Shelley. a college mate of
Mrs. Herbert Hoover. had stopped
in Washington to visit the First
Lady.
All the stories about women
preferring sleek, handsome young
men doctors are fiction, she said.
The demand for women phySi-
clans cannot now be supplied, she
said.
Business women generally are
still doing clerical work, not be-
cause Of lack of efficiency, but
because of their mental attitude,
Marion H. McClench. of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, president, said.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
Virginia to Honor
Redper InUentO1

HMOND, Va, July 8.
Cyrus Hall Mccormick, who, as
a 22.year-old Virginia youth, con-
tributed to the welfare of the
world by inventing the reaper,
will be honored by Virginia Poly
technic Institute, the Sta t e's
agricultural and mechanical col
lege at Blacksburg, in special ex-
erciSeS July 30.
The occasion will be the observ.
ance of the Tooth anniversary
Of the invention Of the reaper,
which was first demonstrated on
a Rockbridge county. Virginia,
farm, July, 1881.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
CrOUded Jail Brings
Extra Term of Court

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, July
8.-Judge Frederick w. Coleman
said today there would be no
summer adjournment Of courts
in his circuit as has been custo-
mary and that special sessions
would be held in SpotSylvania,
Stafford and Caroline counties
to relieve the crowded condition
of the jails.
Judge Coleman will preside
over an off-Season session in
Stafford on July 13. The Stat
ford jail houses prisoners for the
entire county and is now greatly
congested.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
j. s. PREPARES
FISH GUIDE

Choice game fishing hooks of
the Chesapeake Bay region have
been selected by the Bureau Of
Fisheries and a pamphlet made
available for fishermen describing
their locations, it was announced
today.
Fishermen in the Eastern States
will now have a handy reference
guide to the best sport fishing
along the Chesapeake. All neces-
sary data to sport fishing is con-
tanned. John C. Pearson, biologist,
who compiled the book, said:
"The possibility that a 4-fOOt
shark or a 5O-pOund channel
bass may suddenly grab the
hook while one is waiting a
gentle nibble from a spot or a
croker gives saltwater angling
in Chesapeake Bay a thrill al
its own"
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
Rockville Issues
MUrringe Licenses

Marriage licenses were issued in
Rockville, Md, yesterday to Ed
ward C. Hoover, 28, and Dorothy
Hayden, 81, both Of Washington;
George w. Fay, 81, and Lillian e.
Christen, 19, both of Philadelphia;
Otis Aston Pope, 20, Fayetteville,
Ark, and Ruby Edna Trail, ~,
Rockville, Md; Elmer D. Smith,
81, Washington, and Maxine D.
Hobbs, 1S, East ORANGE, N. j.;
George v. Hall, 80, Oaklyn, N. j.,
and Frances j. NieSSen, 1S, Allo-
way, N. j., and Hunter F. Grimes,
jr., a., and Myrlyn D. Sleutz, 81,
both of washington,
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
IS DAYS FOR DRIVER

Edward Lincoln, colored, of
Washington, was sentenced to
serve IS days in the Montgomery
County Jail by Police Court Judge
Charles w. Woodward, in Rock.
vile, for operating a car without
lights and with illegal tags.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08

WHEN HIS chair became over
balanced in his chambers at Po-
lice Court, Judge Isaac r. Hit
fell and suffered a slight frac-
ture Of a bone in his arm. He
was reported improved at his
home today.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
Line

ATLANTA, Ga, July 8 GN.S).
Vandals who overturned a steel
tower near Gainesville, carrying
a 11O,00O-volt transmission line of
the Georgia Power Company, and
dynamited another tower support
ing a 38,000-volt wire in the same
neighborhood we're sought today
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
Rockville Chamber
OUting Set, JuLu rs

The Rockville Chamber Of Com
merce is expecting an attendance
of at least 400 to participate in
its fifth annual outing to be held
at Chapel Point, Md, on Thurs
day. July Is.
Roger Shaw is chairman of the
committee on arrangements. The
crowd will enjoy swimming, boat
ing, fishing and O baseball game,
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
CARD PARTY, DANCE

The League of Republican
Women of Arlington County will
give a card party and dance at
the Windsor Arms Tea House, on
Glebe Road, tonight.
The Washington times., 1931-07-08
AUT0IST is GAsHED
BERTHA, 6,

James Smarr; 26, of Annandale,
Va, was treated at Alexandria
Hospital last night for cuts on
his head and loss of blood caused
by an auto accident at Lin
colnia, Va, in which his car was
wrecked,
The Washington times., 1931-07-08

Twenty.three days left to file
your personal tax return. Persons
residing temporarily In the Dis
trict Of Columbia should inquire
at room 1O3, District Building, as
to their taxable status to avoid
possible inCOnVeniences
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
POLICE OF CHICAGO
GIVEN FREE HAND
Mayor Cermak Says Politics
and Department Have
Been Divorced.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April lin the midst
Of preparations for a weeks vacation
in the Southland, Mayor Anton J.
Cermak today announced "the Police
Department and politics are per-
manently divorced"
The mayor ordered acting Commits
sioner John H. Alcock to run the Police
Department with free hand and
told him he was free of any political
pressure"
ANY men who are in plain clothes
and in the Detective Bureau through
the influence of politics should be put
PACK in uniform" said the Democratic
leader, who was put in the mayors
once by the largest majority ever
given a mayoral candidate
Commissioner Alcock said he would
nold district captains personally re-
sponsible for clamping the lid down
on all illegal activities.
Il told Alcock he was free from
political pressure and that he was re-
sponsible to no one but me-" Csrnak
said.
The mayor, however, refused TO dis
cusS Alcock's retention after his ON
ctal Inauguration April 22-at which
time. the complete cabinet viii be an
| nounced
Emmett Whealan, Democrat WAS
elected president of the Cook County
Board at todays meeting, succeeding
Cermak, whose resignation accom-
panied his assumption of mayoral
duties Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
Radio Finds Blind Mans Dog.

As the result of a radio broadcast, a
blind ex-soldiEr at Dortmund, Ger
many, again has his dog which led
him about. Two days after the broad
cast the pet was returned to its master.
it having strayed to a town some dis
lance AWAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
HOOVER DUE BACK
| HERE EARLY TODAY
Special Train Scheduled to
Reach Capital in Time
for Breakfast.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ABOARD PRESIDENT HoovERs
TRAIN AT MANCHESTER, Ohio,
April 11.-President and Mrs. Hoover
were enroute back to Washington to-
night after attending the funeral OF
Nicholas Longworth which was frought
with memories of the past 30 years of
life in the White House.
Standing beside the grave in beautiful
Spring Grove Cemetery were President
and Mrs. Hoover, the present occupants
of the Executive Mansion; Mrs Theodore
Roosevelt, widow of the late President;
Mrs. Longworth, who was married there
Kermit and Archibald Roosevelt, who
practically were reared in its shadow
and Robert and Charles Taft, sons of
the late President.
When Mrs. Longworth left the church,
Robert Taft, chief usher, offered his
arm but Mrs. Longworth was bearing
UP well and refusing support, walked
steadily to the door of the edifice and
down the steps to the automobile.
bearer, and the two Roosevelts were
active pallbearers.
Chatted With Crowd.
All together there were eight persons
present who had lived part of their
lives beside the white columns Of the
Presidents house.
Hundreds gathered around the Hoover
special as it prepared to leave Cincin-
natl and the President and his wife
stood on the platform chatting with the
crowd until the train pulled out.
Were glad to see you in Cincinnati,
Mr.. President" man called.
Il am sorry had to come on so sad
Journey" the President replied, but
am always glad to come into your city
and beautiful State"
A little girl In the front row told Mrs.
Hoover she was in the sixth grade, TO
which Mrs. Hoover replied: Fine, was
there once myself and liked it,"
Before the train left, the President
had the chief of police and other Of
f1c!als come Up to be thanked for what
he termed splendid handling and nice
treatment Of U.s."
Due Early Sunday.
Postmaster General Brown, an Ohioan,
who was with the President, found a
number Of friends in the crowd with
whom he talked until the train left.
The special Is due back in Washington
early Sunday in time for the President
to have breakfast in the White House.
Monday he begins round of speech
making by appearing before the annual
meeting of the American Red Cross in
welcoming address. Tuesday he has an
other busy day, a speech at noon at
the Pan-American Union, a base ball
game in the afternoon and a radio
speech on the Tuskegee anniversary at
night.
A large crowd greeted the President
at Chillicothe, and he gave his auto
graph to a dozen or more persons who
were able to reach him. The Chief
Executive chatted with persons standing
near the platform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
CALH0UNS ANSWER
SUIT OF SCULPTOR
Couple Denies Noble Conceived Me-
mortal Idea-Conspiracy Hear
ing Is Next Week.

Capt. and Mrs. c. c. Calhoun have
filed in District Supreme Court their
answer to the $250,000 damage suit
brought against them by w. Clark
Noble, local sculptor. who charged fall
ure to carry out a contract fer con-
struction OF a memorial to womanhood.
The memorial was to be erected by the
Women'S Universal Alliance.
Through Attorney w. Gwynn Gardi-
ner. the defendants deny that Noble
had conceived the idea of the memo
rial and assert the project was two
years old before he was brought into it.
They also deny receiving large sums Of
money as contributions to the proposed
memorial. Mrs. Calhoun contending she
financed the matter herself.
Mobiles design had never been Of
ficially adopted by the Womens Uni
versal Alliance, the defendants stated.
and the agreement was only to use his
design for illustrative purposes, the
court Is informed
The criminal charge Of q conspiracy
to blackmail, which grew cut of the
matter last August, is scheduled for
hearing early next week. Noble, his
wife. and three others are named in the
conspiracy indictment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
GUNMEN'S IDENTITY
KNOWN TO SHERIFF
Officers Continue Search for
TWo-Leader to Be Buried
in "PotterS Field"

Armed with what they consider def
mite knowledge Of the identity of the
two gunner who escaped after their
leader had been killed in an attempted
hold-up of the First National Bank at
Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges County
authorities last night were continuing
their efforts to bring about the capture
Of the fugitives.
Sheriff w. Curtis Hopkins, convinced
the bandits had eluded his posses and
ed the police in other sections of Mary
land to be on the lookout for them.
What are believed to be the robbers
names have been turned over to Hop
kins by Claude H. owen, assistant
cashier of the bank, who frustrated the
attempted hold-up by firing three bull
lets into the chest of Joseph Hayes
leader of the robbers.
Owen received the names in an anon
ymous telegram from Chicago. The
gunner. according to the wire. have
criminal records in the Illinois city.
One of the names in the telegram
according to Sheriff Hopkins. is the
same as that given Washington police
by Mrs. Mary Anne Hayes, wife of the
slain gunman. Mrs. Hayes, who Is
about 80 years old, refused to reveal
the name of the other bandit, explain
ing he was related to her, the sheriff
said.
The telegram, couched In the jargon
Of the underworld, intimated the wives
Of two Of the robbers also have GRIM
inal records.
Hayes, whose body has been held at
an undertaking parlor in Richie, Md,
will be buried today in the towns pot
tiers field" His wife, who with her 81
month-old son. Mickey, has been held al
the House Of Detention since the day OF
the attempted hold-up told county Of
ficials she was unable to provide a
funeral for him.
Mrs. Hayes is expected to be released
Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12

Arrangements are being made for the
annual convention and fellowship din
ner on April 81 of the District Of Co
lumbia Parents and Teachers ASsoci-
alton, of which Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders
is president.
The convention, which will deal with
problems in the schools, will be from 10
to $3.50 o'clock in the Wilson Normal
School, followed by the dinner in the
auditorium Of the National Press Club.
Mrs Oliver Bowles is chairman in
charge of arrangements for both the
convention and dinner, while Mrs. Louis
B. Casten has charge Of the dinner
reservations.
Paul Wooton, Washington CORE
spondent of the New Orleans Times
Picayune, will be the postmaster at the
dinner and the speakers include Col
Campbell Hodges, aide to President
Hoover; former Senator Joseph F.
Ransdell Of Louisiana and Miss Eileen
Haltigan, girl winner of last years ora
torical contest in the District.
Music will be furnished by the glee
clubs Of Mckinley and Central High
Schools. Other features are being plan
ned in connection with the dinner
which will be one of the largest given
by the association.
Two former presidents, Mrs. A. A.
Birney and Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, will
be among the honor guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
What Mr.. LOngworth Leaves
For One Thing, the Memory of Personality That
OVershddowed Job and Remained
Its Master.

job Of composite legislative leadership
at arms length from his own inner life,
could every morning look at the mem
bersh1p Of the House Of Representatives,
including himself, as a new objective
problem to be solved in the midst of
the humors Of reality. He thus became.
through taking politics, as 1t seemed,
lightly, the most astute political ply
chologist In the Capital City.
This writer will on that point re-
member always most especially con-
versation that happened at the be-
ginning OF the last session of the Con-
gress between the Speaker and a mem
Der of the Presidents cabinet. The
Speaker outlined the prospective results
OF the session. The member of the
cabinet was horrified Can you" he
said, support such things?" 81 can
not" replied the Speaker, support
them. I am against most of them. !
am not telling you, though, what /
pen. so that you can guide yourself &C
cordingly."
Prophesy Came True.
The things that the Speaker thus
prophesied did happen. The member OF
the cabinet did not-emphatically not
guide himself accordingly. The Speaker
did The member of the cabinet got
several times cast on the rocks. Tbs
Speaker rode out the storm with al
least his eyebrows above the waves.
He could never have done so, this
writer thinks, had he not always hello
himself a bit aloof from, a bit ironi.
cally and laughingly poised over, hi;
daily working tasks. In that posture
he did not over-estimate his own prin-
ciples and preferences and did not
wreck himself or his party majority II
the House by pressing those principles
and preferences to the ridiculous point
or rule or ruin
He will be much remembered for hi,
large share in restoring the House o.
Representatives to its pristine prestige
relatively to the Senate, on Capitol hill
How could he do it? Only by keepins
his party ma or1ty in the House intact
and loyal. How could he do that? Only
by judicious f1rmness plus-very plus
judicious compromise. How could he
see when compromise was desirablef
BY detachment, by realism, and by tina,
trait without which nobody has realism
humor And how did he cherish and
nourish and sustain that humor? BY
being always Nick Longworth the human
being before he was Mr.. Speaker Long
worth the practitioner Of the trade OF
statecraft. BY being, one might almost
say, irresponsible before he was re-
sponsible.
He leaves us the large lesson that
avoidance Of succumbing to job Is the
rightest route to the mastery Of It.
tCopyrtght. 193l)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
WILL PLAN PILGRIMAGE

Plans for the associations annual
pilgrimage to the home Of Thomas
jefferson at Monticello, Va, will be dis
cusSed at a meeting of the Association
for the Preservation of Virginia An
tiquities at the Colonial Danes Club
1900 New Hampshire avenue, at 3
o'clock Thursday
Mrs. j. F. Russell and Mrs Kate B.
Bobbs are scheduled to speak. The
pilgrimage this year is expected to be
made on May IL. The Commute on
Arrangements includes Mrs s. Nc
Dowell Meek, chairman; Mrs. Virgil
Jackson, Mrs. John Frank Little, Mrs.
Nelson T. Webster and Mrs. E. c.
Chinn. Mrs. George Tully Vaughn is
president of the association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
Kemmerer Ends Peru Study.

LIMA. Peru, April IL (P).-Prof Ed
win w. Kemmerer of Princeton Univer-
sity who has been here three months
studying Peruvian finances. said today
the work of his mission was virtually
concluded and he would sail for the
United States April 81.
His report he said, would include pro-
posals regarding reorganization of the
national treasury and enactment of
legislation to establish a central re-
serve bank, to provide for an income
tax and TO make certain other changes
in the Peruvian financial system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12

the candidate for the State Supreme
Court. Justice Chester A. Fowler, win
ming handily over the La Toilette or
ganization candidate, Attorney Cen
eral John M. Reynolds. Mr.. Fowler
was appointed to the court by Gov
Kohler and later the people elected
him He was reelected with 10000
ma ority over Mr.. Reynolds and So
cialist candidate. This is simply an
other illustration that the State Of
Wisconsin is regular in its politics"
Despite the fact that the late Speak
er Longworth was reelected in the
Ohio first district last Fall by only
$500 votes, the Republicans say they
can elect his successor in the special
election, whenever Gov. White decides
to call it. The district is wet" But
1t was pointed out that it should be
possible to pick a wet Republican can
didate for the House there who can
win.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
Artist Who Painted
LOngwOrth Portrait
Returns to America
Baron Doblhof Says
Speaker Looked Forward
to Another Term.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1l.-Baron Robert
Doblhoff, Austrian artist. who painted
two portraits of the late Nicholas Long
worth. one Of which will hang IN the
Speakers gallery in Washington, re-
turned to the United States on the
liner Albert BALM today.
The baron spent nine months in
the United States in 1880 and did a
portrait of Speaker Longworth for Bee
man Dawes, brother Of Gen. Charles
G. Dawes, Ambassador to Great Britain.
He said Longworth liked the portrait so
well that he wanted Baron Doblhof to
do another which eventually would
hang In the Speakers gallery.
The baron said the portrait was
painted upon Government requisition
and that payment was made from a
special congressional fund.
when the portrait was done" the
baron said. Mr. Longworth said to me
I do not know but what have been
hasty in having the portrait done. I
still have three years to serve as Speaker
and when that is done shall prob
ably be Speaker again for another
four years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
Colored Prisoner Caught.

WILMINGTON, Del, April IL (H1.-
Scarcely more than "a hours after his
escape from Jail at Elkton. Nd, where
he was serving a sentence for larceny.
Everett Valentine, colored. was captured
here today and returned TO Maryland
authorities.
Local police were advised yesterday
that Valentine had escaped and was be-
reved TO be fleeing In the direction Of
Wilmington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
Rail Mill Plant Closed

DENVER, Colo, April IL LR.-The
rail mill department of the Colorado
Fuel 81 Iron Co. at Pueblo has been
closed, due to light orders. Other mills
Will be operated on a production basis
controlled by business demand, said a
statement issued by the company hsre
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12

Cornelius Vanderbilt and Cornelius
Vanderbilt, jr. Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert
Taft, Postmaster General and Mrs
Walter Brown and Vincent Astor and
hundreds of other organizations and
individuals.