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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
WOMEN TO TESTIFY
IN REALTY PROBE
Grand Jury to Inquire Into
Use of Mails by Country
Club Properties, Inc.

A number of women were included
United States Attorney William H. Col
Inns presented today to the grand jury
at the beginning of an inquiry by that
body into charges of using the mails to
defraud which has been preferred
against the Country Club Properties.
Inc, which sold real estate at Silver
Spring, Md, by means of the lunch
conjecture" method. Collins expects to
call as many as so witnesses to tell the
grand jury what representations were
made to them in connection with the
sole of lots He said that as much as
100000 was taken in on down pay
ments by agents of the corporation Of
which N. 3. Clarke was president
The inquiry will take several days
Collins declared, and a group of wit
nesseS will be called each day. Collins
said today he expects to show that GER
tain literature of the company was dis
tributed through the mails and should
the testimony of the witnesses disclose
that some of the statements therein
were false, an indictment for fraucu-
lent use Of the mails might result.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
some weeks aga seized records of the
company and had an audit made by
Department of Justice auditors, who re-
Gently returned their report, which has
not been made public, but which will be
submitted to the grand jury. The COM
pany recently sought by mandamus to
compel Rover to return the books, but
he explained to the court that he need
ed them in his investigation and the
request for their return was denied by
the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
POLICE INVESTIGATE
$1,000 RING THEFT
Missed From Apartment After
Callers Leave-Coffee Shop EN-
ploye and $125 Vanish.

Thieves who stole a 81 200 diamond
ring from the apartment of Rebekah
K. Pedigo, Conard Apartments, Thir-
tenth and streets, were being sought
today by police.
The ring was missed Sunday evening
O short time after the departure OF
friends, who had visited the apartment
police we're told.
Theft of $i25 from the Capital Cot
fee Shop, 1905 Pennsylvania avenue
was reported today. The money was
missed, it was said, following the dis
appearance Of a young employee.
Police also were seeking two men who
held up and robbed William E. Lee, SAC
Forty-eighth street, a taxicab driver, OF
about $11 yesterday. The men hailed
Lee at Seventh and T streets and asked
to be driven to Fairfax, Va. The hold
up occurred when the cab reached the
south end of Highway Bridge, where
one Of the passengers produced a pistol
and ordered Lee to hand over his
money.
The bandits then ordered Lee to drive
to Fort Myer, Va, where they jumped
from the taxi and fed.
A pocketbook containing SIS in cash
q railroad ticket, an automobile drivers
permit and other cards and papers was
snatched from Pearl Putney, 1925
Seventeenth street. while walking in the
1900 block of that thoroughfare last
night, 1t was reported to police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
VOLLEY SCATTERS
BOYS TAKING AUTO
Surprised, Three Take to
HeeIS-0ne Is Captured
as Two Disappear.

With bullets flying and police and
citizens in hot pursuit, three youths
abandoned an alleged attempt to COM
mandeer" an automobile at Eighteenth
and A streets southeast last night and
took to their heels.
Two escaped, but the third, Howard
Pierson, IS years old, of 401 Third
street, was caught in a nearby alley
and sent to the Receiving Home. He
was to be arraigned in Juvenile Court
today on charge Of unauthorized use
OF a motor vehicle.
The boys were trying to make off in
car owned by Byron E. Richardson,
at l747 A street southeast, when a
friend OF the latter, Willis E. Hatch,
1900 block A street southeast, saw them
and shouted an alarm, police. were told.
Person was at the wheel, 1t is said,
While his companions were pushing the
machine.
Hearing the commotion, Richardson
saw the trio fleeing with Hatch in pur-
suit Running into the street, he fired
several times in the air in a futile at
tempt to bring them to a halt Police
man G. w. Sine of the Traffic Bureau,
who lives near the Richardson resi-.
dence, was aroused by the gunfire, and
he, too, joined in the chase.
Plerson ducked into an alleyway, but
Richardson was upon him in a fash.
He turned the boy over to Sine. The
other two disappeared.
One bullet fired during the chase, po-
lice later learned imbedded itself in the
wall Of the kitchen at Miss Theresa
Rcbey's home 1915 A street southeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
Wide World Photo

definite distance from North Cape
Siberia. It has only been penetrated
for about 40 miles by explorers. He
does not believe that the existence OF
a large Arctic island somewhere north
of Point Barrow, postulated years age
by the behavior Of the tides on the
Arctic Coast, has been entirely dis
proved by the Mcmillan expedition or
the Amundsen and wilkins flights over
the Arctic. But these have shown, he
said. that if such land mass exists
it must be much smaller than was
postulated.
Illustrative Of the progress Of Arctic
research, Gen. Greedy mentioned espe-
ciaIy the enterprise of the Russians in
establishing meteorological stations in
Franz Josef Land, at the mouth of the
Lena River, and on the desolate Wran-
gell Island, north of Alaska, which so
long remained a death trap for ex-
plorers.
Looking back on the long record of
Arctic exploration, Gen. Greedy said
that probably the most remarkable voy-
age of all was that made by the Ameri-
can Navy officer, Capt. Hall, who was
the first to cross the narrow, icefilled
stretch between Greenland and Grant
Land and reach the polar sea. He was
still long way from the Pole, but had
gone about 200 miles farther than his
predecessor, Elijah Kent Kane. Then
came the English expedition, under
Mares, which also reached the polar sea
In Touch with Leaders.
Gen. GraeIy's own expedition followed
closely that of Mares. He was not con-
cerned with finding the Pole, but only
with setting up and maintaining a sta
ton where observations could be made
fitting into the international program
At the same time another American
station was set up at Point Barrow,
the northernmost point under the
American flag, where regular meteoro-
logical observations now are made and
which is in constant radio communi-
cation with civilization. Once Gen
Greely's party disappeared into the
Arctic their fate was unknown.
Thirteen nations co-operated in the
last international polar year. Next
year several others will be represented
and the observation will be extended to
the South Polar regions by the coun-
tries close to the Antarctic.
Long established as the foremost his
torian of polar exploration, Gen. Greely
has kept in close touch with the lead
ers of Arctic expeditions. He discussed
| the polar year plans with hansen the
| the last time the Norwegian explorer
was in Washington, and with Sverdrup
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
SKINNER IS HELD
ION MURDER CHARGE
Action Follows Death of Wife
From Stab Wounds
Received Thursday.

Sidney A. Skinner, 38 years old, was
charged with murder today following
the death of his wife, Mrs. Dorothy
Mabel Skinner, 81, who died in Homeo-
pathic Hospital late yesterday as the
result of wounds sustained when her
husband attacked her with steel table
knife at their home, 4007 Twenty-f1rst
street northeast last Thursday.
A coroner's jury will be sworn in over
the woman's body today, Coroner j.
Ramsay hewitt said, but will not hear
evidence in the inquest until called at
a later date. officials at Gallinger Hos
pital, where the husband, Sidney A.
Skinner, was taken following the at
tack, said that he IS mentally unable
to go through an inquest at this time.
He is under observation at the hospital.
Mr.. Skinner underwent treatment for
nervous disorders previous to the at
tack, it was said. Relatives also said
that the attack was the result of a
nervous breakdown.
Mrs. Skinner was suffering from a
large knife wound in the back, made
when her husband plunged the knife
deeply between the ribs. She was
treated at the hospital by DR.. Charles
j. Bovine, 2001 Rhode Island avenue,
following the cutting
Relatives are caring for the three
children of the couple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
JOHN T. ALTERNATELY
DIES AFTER ILLNESS
Shoe Firms Representative, 65,
Had Resided Here
Since 1919.

John Travis Abernathy, 65 years old,
resident of this city since 1919, died
in Garfield Hospital yesterday. He had
been failing for some time and was
seriously i'll about two weeks.
Mr.. Alternately had travelled extern
sively throughout the United States
as sales representative for a number of
leading wholesale shoe firms, and was
widely known In the Southern States.
He was born near Petersburg, Va, and
number of years ago was engaged in
business in that city.
Mr.. Alternately was the father of
William L. Alternately, announcer at
radio station WRC. He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Eva e. Alternately
two sons, William L. and Walter S.
Alternately, both Of this city, and a
daughter, Mrs William p. Bremen of
Cincinnati. He also leaves d brother,
w. w. Abernathy Of Miami, Fla
The body was taken to Petersburg,
Va, this afternoon for burial There
tomorrow In the Blandford Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
MAN is BADLY BURNED
AS BED CATCHES FIRE
Harry Miller, 80, Rescued by Ho-
tel Employe and Carried to
HOSPITAL.

Harry Miller, 80 years old, guest at
the Penn Hotel, $40 Pennsylvania ave-,
nue., was badly burned about the legs
and lower part of his body today when
the bed in which he was lying at the
hotel caught fire. The man was taken
to Emergency Hospital by the fire res
determined.
Members Of the rescue squad and
police who examined the room after the
fire said that they found in the room
several empty cans which had con-
tanned a heating substance. The man
was unconscious when carried from his
burning bed by hotel employees.
The man had just registered at the
hotel last night, it was said, although
it was believed that he had been there
before. He registered as from the city,
but no other address than the hotaa
could be determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
Won BAYER BURIAL
ALLOWED AS WIFE
BEGINS RECOVERY
hewitt Lifts Ban on Funeral
After Police Say Woman
Barred Death Pact.
DEAD MANS CHECKS
ON BILLS WORTHLESS
Physicians Report Pianist HAS I'm
PROBABILITIES Set for T0mor-
row at $50.

Improvement was reported today in
the condition of Mrs. Crete Won Bayer,
well known pianist, who was shot yes
terday by her husband before he killed
himself in a suicide pact at their eX
elusive Chevy Chase Circle apartment
Meanwhile DR.. j. Ramsay hewitt,
District coroner, notified relatives they
might proceed with the burial of the
husband, William H. Won Bayer, SO
years old, associate forester of the
Indian Service, Department of Interior.
He had ordered the funeral held in
allegiance pending completion Of a po-
lice investigation.
Suicide Certified.
DR.. hewitt issued a certificate of sui
eide in the mans death on the basis
of a police report. Investigators eX-
planned Mrs. Won Bayer had declared
she told her husband she wanted to
die with him after she had failed in
efforts to diSsuade him from killing
himself.
Funeral services for Won Bayer will
be conducted tomorrow afternoon at
2:30 O'Clock at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. Interment will
be in Rock Greek Cemetery.
Emergency Hospital physicians de-
clared Mrs. Won Bayer rested well last
night They said she PROBABLY would
recover. She was shot only once. The
bullet entered the back near the right
shoulder blade. passed through Mrs. Won
Bayer's body and then through the
right arm.
Left Useless Checks.
Police reported Won Bayer had been
In Ill health. Before shooting his wife
and firing bullet from a .44-caliber
pistol into his right temple ne wrote
out several checks to local merchants
in order that his outstanding debts
might be paid. He left the checks on
their grand piano.
incidentally, lawyers reported the
checks were worthless, due to Won
Bayer's death. They declared, however,
that the debts might be paid out OF the
estate.
Police were summoned by janitor
after neighborS heard the pistol reports.
When they entered the apartment Mrs.
Won Bayer was sobbing Historically as
she lay across the body of her husband
on the living room floor. The man was
clad in pajamas and a dressing gown
and the woman in negligee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

athletic field space for the Shaw Ju-
Nor High School; a gymnasium addi-
ton for the Powell Junior High School;
additional play space for the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School, and pro-
vision for stadium at the new Roose-
welt High School. Several petitions were
made on behalf Of the school gardens.
Besides the verbal requests made at
the conference, many delegates merely
presented their Petitions in the form OF
written briefs. These, together with the
verbal statements, will be considered by
the school board in framing its esti-
mates for 1888.
Besides DR.. Learned, the school all
thorities at last nights joint conference
included Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
board member; DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent Of schools; Stephen E.
Kramer, first assistant superintendent;
Garnet c. Wilkinson, first assistant SUI
perintendent; Jere j. Crane, first as
sistant superintendent; Robert Haycock,
assistant superintendent, and George D.
Strayer, statistician Of the school sys-
tenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
LECTURES ON elders

Lieut.. Ralph s. Barnaby, U. S. N, first
licensed American soaring pilot, will
give an illustrated lecture on the in
ternational glider meet at Elmira, N. Y.
at q meeting of the Standards Flying
Club at o'clock tonight in the east
lecture room Of the Bureau of Stan
dards. The public is invited.
Lieut. Barnaby has IS lantern slides
taken during the Elmira meet The
club also has a reel of motion pictures
Of the meet which will be shown.
Several reels of films showing various
Glider activities in Germany and the
United States and movies Of the auto
afro also will be shown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

" EXPLORATION of the frozen
- North is not yet an entirely
closed chapter in history, i'll the
- opinion of Mai. Gen. Adolphus
w. Greedy, 87-year-old dean of
all Arctic adventures, as the second
international polar year approaches.
Next year practically all the civilized
nations win cooperate in a program of
polar research. 1t was during the last
international polar year, more than half
a century ago, that Gen. Greely's name
was written indelibly into the story of
the northland as commander Of one CT
the stations set up by the United States
for magnetic observations.
Then it meant complete Isolation
from civilization. Dog sledges were the
only means Of travel over the ice. Next
year the airp,ane and the submarine
will play the most prominent part.
Those who 60 into the Arctic will be
in constant touch with home.
Doubtful About Submarine.
But as to the submarine, Gen. Greedy
is a trifle doubtful. The proposal of Sir
Hubert wilkins to cross the Pole under
the ice strikes him at the best as an
extremely dangerous adventure, al
though, he says, he has the greatest ad-
nliration for the courage and skill OF
the Australian explorer.
"All I know of the wilkins project,
he said. "is what I have read in the
newspapers, and the accounts are con-
flicting, I have not talked with Will
kins about it. 1t seems to me that
everything depends on how far he in
tends to go. If he actually Is planning
a Journey of several thousand miles
under the ice am afraid we shall not
see him again"
wilkins has not seen that Arctic
ice and I have" he continued, when
asked as to the practicability of sub
marine breaking its way through the
ice sheet to the surface If anything
goes wrong while it is submerged.
While the general run Of polar ice. he
says, is from IL to IA feet thick, there
are great stretches Of what is known
as palaeocrystic foes where the thick
ness ranges from 80 or 40 feet to sew
eral hundred feet. A submarine trap
ped under such mass could hardly
hope to break through.
Unknown Land Limited.
There still is some unknown land in
the Arctic to reward explorers, although
its extent has been greatly limited in
recent years. Among the unknown
land areas, he pointed out. is that
which stretches northward for an in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
WILLIAM H. GREEN, 78,
CAPITAL NATIVE, DIES
Had Been Wholesale Salesman Here
Over so Years-Funeral to Be
Held Thursday.

William H. Green, 70 years old, a
lifelong resident of Washington, died
at his home, 5066 Conduit road, late
Monday after a long illness. He was a
salesman for wholesale products for
over SO years in Washington.
Up to the time of his last illness he
was employed by the William H. Har-
rison Co., commission merchants.
The funeral will be held at the resi-
dence Thursday at o'clock, to be fol-
lowed by services at Our Lady Victory
Church.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Catherine Green; three sons, Thomas
H., William H., IT,, and Charles E.
Counselman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


Card party, Mothers Club. auditorium
Of st. James Catholic Church. Thirty
seventh street and Rhode Island avenue
Mount Rainier, pm.
Conference, District of Columbia Con-
gress OF Parents and Teachers, Wilson
Teachers College, 1880 pm.
Meeting. Polcemen's Association, Odd
Fellows Hall, AIT Seventh street.
Luncheon meeting, Washington Real
Estate Board, Hamilton Hotel, II 80 pm
Annual school luncheon, w. B
Powell School. Fourteenth and Upshur
streets, IL noon.
FUTURE.
Luncheon meeting, Soroptlmist Club
Lafayette Hotel. tomorrow, / pm.
Luncheon meeting, Exchange Club
Carlton Hotel, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Lecture. "st. Augustine and Inter-
national Peace" DR.. Herbert F. Wright
Chemical Laboratory auditorium, S:I5
pm.
Indoor circus, District of Columbia
Congress of Parents and Teachers, VIII
son Teachers College, Friday and
Saturday.
. Smoker meeting, District Of Columbia
section, American Society of Civil Engi-
neers, Cosmos Club assembly hall, March
"A. 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
WILL ADDRESS WOMEN
Lady Dorothea Hosie to Talk al
Y. w. C. A. Meeting.

Lady Dorothea Hosie will talk before
the World Fellowship Committee of the
Young Women's Christian Association
Friday night. 8:15 o'clock, at the head
quarters of the association, Seventeenth
and K streets.
Lady Hosie will speak on "An En-
glishwonan Looks at China" The
speaker has travelled extensively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Luncheon meeting, Washington Rea
Estate Board, Hamilton Hotel, 1890 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
FUTURE

Luncheon meeting, Soroptlmist Club
Lafayette Hotel. tomorrow, pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Lecture. "St. Augustine and Inter-
national Peace" DR.. Herbert F. Wright.
Chemical Laboratory auditorium, S:I5
pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Luncheon meeting. Exchange Club,
Carlton Hotel, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Annual school luncheon, w. B
Powell School. Fourteenth and Upshul
streets, IL noon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Conference, District of Columbia Con
gress OF Parents and Teachers, Wilson
Teachers College, 1880 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Meeting, Policemen's Association, Odd
Fellows' Han, All Seventh street.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-03-01

G"The Call of Christ to Law Accept
ance," by p Whitwell Wilson in the
Christian Adpocate February S, l931.l
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-03-01
FOURTH ANNUAL SOUTHERN PROHIBITION CONVENTION
Drys of Southern States Meet in ST. Petersburg Florida
March 8-11, 1881

The fourth annual Southern prohibition
convention under the auspices of the Anti
Saloon League of America will be held in
st. Petersburg, Florida commencing Sun
day afternoon. March 8, and continuing
through the afternoon session on Wednes-
day. March II.
DR. j. NJ. Doran, formerly prohibition
commissioner, and now director of the In
dustrial Alcohol Bureau, is expected to
address the convention. Col. Patrick
Henry Callahan, of Louisville, Kentucky,
one of the best posted men on politics and
prohibition in America, is also scheduled
for a speech League officials who will
speak, include Dr. A j. Barton, chairman
of the executive committee; DR.. F. Scott
Mcbride, general superintendent, and DR..
Ernest H. Cherrington, director of the de-
partment of education. "Pussyfoot" john
son and Col F. B. Gilbert will be there.
Florida speakers who will be heard are
Don McN1ullen, of Tampa, long a forceful
dry leader in the state; DR.. G. w. Crooke,
who has been state superintendent of the
state Anti-Saloon League for twenty years,
and Dr. C. A. Vincent, of Winter Park,
one of the leading preachers in the south.
The remarkable suitability of ST. Peters,
burg for great dry gatherings in the winter
season led to the selection Of the city for
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-03-01
POINTING OUT THE SORE SPOT


1.-THE Control of the Drink Trade" by
Seebolm Rowndtree in the Spectator Lon
don January II, 1891
Mr.. Rowndtree is a widely known advo-
cate of state ownership as q solution of
the liquor problem. In this article he
shows that government control of the sale
of liquor only would not remove financial
inducements from the producer.
He says: THE interests of the nation
and the interests of those to whom the
monopoly rights to sell alcohol have been
granted by parliament are Numerically
opposed. Tt is in the interest of the nation
that the consumption of alcohol should be
reduced; it is in the interest of the trade"
that it should be increased, and by no
method of juggling can we bring these two
opposed interests into harmony. The only
way out of the difficulty is to remove from
the manufacturer and distributor of al
cohol all financial inducements to extend
its sale"
With modern craftsmanship what it is
today there is almost no way of estimating
how much of the liquor patronage and
clamor Is due to the desire to drink To
all appearances. most of it is stimulated
by the desire to sell. Hence the necessity
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-03-01

annual Anti-Saloon League conventions.
Thousands of visitors from throughout the
northern states who are interested in pro-
hibition take advantage Of the increas-
ingly popular prohibition programs Each
year more people make the League con-
Vention the occasion for an annual visit TO
st. Petersburg from other Florida cities,
and from the South as well as the North.
Local facilities for pleasant and COM
Portable living, and every form of recrea-
ton are unsurpassed in the entire nation.
Hotels are numerous, meals are whole
some, prices are reasonable, and all kinds
of healthful games, sports and entertain
ments are conveniently and economically
available.
Friends of prohibition everywhere are
invited. Prohibition workers will nowhere
find more pleasant, and profitable occa-
sion for physical refreshment and mental
stimulation for the anti-liquor battles
ahead. Visitors from everywhere who at
tend the convention can return home in
formed and inspired to take an effective
part in the temperance warfare.
For programs and other convention par
ticulars as well as information about ST.
Petersburg and how to get there, write to
o. c. Christgau, convention manager, 30
Bliss Building. Washington, D. G.