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Evening star., 1932-06-21
RA|CH[E'S TRIAL
OPENS TOMORROW
G. Bryan Pitts Expected to
Be a Principal Witness
for Government.

The trial Of Frank G. Raichle, law
partner of former Assistant Attorney
General William J. Donovan. on per-
jury charges growing out of the F. H
Smith Co. case, will open in District
Supreme Court tomorrW
Raichle was one of several lawyers
who defended G. Bryan Pitts and two
other officers of the Smith Co. when
they were brought to trial in December
1880. for conspirlng to embezzle funds
Of the corporation. During the trial
d number of authorizations and re-
ceipts were introduced in an effort to
chow that Pitts was legally entitled to
receive money the Government charged
he had er1bezzled. The defense also
had marked for identification % prom
iSsory notes made payable to Pitts
Some months later the grand jury
returned an indictment against Raichle.
two of the counts charging him with
subornatior of perjury in connection
with the Introduction Of the authori-
cations and with obstructing justice, the
latter charge being based on the mark
ing OF the promissory notes.
Justice F. D. Let's, who will preside
at the trial. ruled today that the de-
fense was entitled to a bill of partic-
ulars under the count charging obstruc-
tion Of justice. This bill will be fur
niShed the defense this afternoon, it
was said. A similar motion on the
other count was denied
The case will be prosecuted by Assist
ant Attorney General Nugent Dodds
and Neil BurkinshaW. a special assist
ant. Raichle will be represented by
Attorney James o. Moore of Buffalo. It
is expected that Pitts will be one of the
Governments principal witnesses.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
All CLUB MEMBERS
HEAR CARL WILLIAMS
Farm Board Member Says Cooper
alton Will Solve Agricul-
tural Troubles.

Cooperation between the farmers
and the Federal Farm Board will do
much to relieve the depressed conditions
in the agricultural sections of the
country, Carl Williams, member Of the
Farm Board. declared today before a
meeting of delegates to the National All
Clubs Camp here.
The efforts of the Farm Board alone.
he said, are not sufficient to help the
farmers, nor can the farmers work out
their economic salvation alone, but both
must work together.
He predicted that when the genera
tion represented by the All Club boys
and girls grows up. all their buying and
selling will be cooperative, much as it
now is in Denmark.
This afternoon the delegates will 70
to Mount Vernon, where a wreath will
be laid on the tomb of George Wash
ington by Leon E. Andrews of Kent
County, r. l.. and Helen Jordan of King
County, Wash
ASSISTANT Secretary of Agriculture R
w. Dunlap will speak at the final meet
ing Of the encampment tonight. After
the sessions, the delegates will start
leaving for their homes.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
SI IJk1NER HAS OFFICIALLY ARRIVED,
BUT WEATHER LAGS ABOUT WEEK
Spring. Reluctant to Depart Has Been One of Nearest
Normal for This Region, Says Meteorologists.

from normal the country over for
March. April and May were only two
or three degrees, plus or minus. In the
District there was a net departure Of
onlv one degree minus. Most Of the
country east of the Mississippi ranged
from the exact average to one or two
degrees minus. West of the Mississippi
the departures were one or two degrees
plus.
It has been, says j. B. Kincer, chief
of the division of agricultural meteor
ology of the Weather Bureau, almost a
perfect specimen Of a Spring, such as
the country may not know again for
a long time. To the man on the street,
especially in Washington, it has seemed
an exceptionally wet Spring. Actually
there has been little more than 25 per
cent above normal rainfall for the
Washington Baltimore district. This has
been more than offset a little farther
West, where precipitation has fallen to
about the same degree below normal.
The South, some sections of which still
are feeling the after-effects of the
drought, has received plenty for agricul-
tural purposes. There has been an
abundance, especially during the past
two weeks, In the dryeSt sections OF the
country in the Far West.
Spring and Summer appear to be late,
Mr.. Kincer points out, because they
have been abnormal for the past 10
wears. It has been abnormally hot
nearly every year. Some years there has
been q decided deficiency and some
years q decided surplus of moisture.
Crops have been early. Now weather
has swung back again to the 50-year
normal. and the only question Is as to
whether it will stay there.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
WOMAN JOURNALISTS
CHOOSE OFFICERS
Kate Scott Brooks Elected Presi-
dent and Sallie v. H. Pickett
Vice President.

The Newspaper Women's Club of
Washington held its election of officers
yesterday at the National Press Club.
Officers elected for the year 1928
are: President. Kate Scott Brooks. So
ciety editor. the Washington Post; vice
president, Sallie V. H. Pickett, society
editor, The Washington Star; recording
secretary, Betty Hynes, feature page
editor, the Washington Herald; cor
responding secretary, Katharine Brooks,
Washington Star. and treasurer. Marie
Sourgeon McNair, Washington Herald.
In addition to the officers there are
five members of the board of gov
ernors, the election yesterday resulting
in the following: Margaret Hart, Wash
ington Star; Mabelle Jennings. Wash
ington Herald: Vylla Poe Wilson. Wash
ington Post; Flora Mcdonald. Washing
ton Times, and Leila Wilson Bathon,
Baltimore Sun.
The active membership of the club
Is limited to woman writers employed
by newspapers. A number of women
r:o:s...siealt III official and professional
circles were elected to associate men,
bership at the meeting yesterday, which
was followed by tea. The club will
meet regularly at the National Press
Club, in the ladies' dining room.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
WOMAN is THROWN
into POTOMAC RIVER
Police Take Her to Hospital as
Two Men Are Detained at
Police Precinct.

Notified that four men in a roadster
had pushed woman eff Hains Point
into the Potomac River about 4 o'clock
this morning, United States park police
apprehended the quartet and sent the
woman to Gallinger Hospital.
Oflcers j. N. Browning and w. J.
McFeeley met car coming from Hains
Point, containing five persons. The DO
lice reported that the woman was prac-
ucally without clothing and had been
wrapped in blanket The car and its
occupants were taken to Emergency
Hospital and upon the advice of ply
siclans there, the woman. Lucy Nav
Gill, 25 years old. of Ballston, Va, was
sent to Gallinger Hospital.
The police locked up at No. precinct
Robert F. Ruppo, 80. of the 900 block
OF Fifth street and Edward B. Barry,
so. Of the 900 block of New York ave-
nue. charged with being drunk.
The police listed as witnesses of the
incident r. H. Heinbuck and A. NJ.
johnson. employees Of the East Potomac
golf course.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
TAX|CAB PARKING
FACILITIES URGED
Hacks Cruise $4,000 Miles
Daily, Unpaid, Harry C.
Davis Asserts.

Asserting that taxicabs operating on
Washington streets cruise an average of
250000 miles daily, due to inadequate
parking facilities, Harry c. Davis, presi-
dent of the Independent Taxi Owners
Association, Inc, In a statement last
night advocated the utilization Of vacant
space adjacent to fire hydrants as park
ing places for taXicabs.
Davis said the combined number Of
taxicabS operating in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh. Cleveland, Detroit and San
Francisco is less than the number now
in operation in the Capital. Due to
extremely low rates, he stated, Wash
ington cabs average at least 500 900
miles daily, half Of which is unpaid and
compulsory cruising mileage.
The public vehicle stands only ac-
commodate $50 cabs at the mcst," Davis
asserted. "and in the slow periods rs
per cent of the cabs are compelled to
cruise or subject themselves to arrest
for parking of designated hackstands
Adequate parking facilities at strategic
fireplug locations in the congested areas
should naturally make the operation CT
cabs more economical and would relieve
traffic congestion and taxicab cruising
and the evils incident thereto"
Evening star., 1932-06-21
AUTO CRASH VICTIM
TO BE BURIED TODAY
Funeral Services for Washington
Girl Killed in Indianapolis Are
at Highmore, S. Oak.

Funeral sefvices were to be held today
in Highmore, S. Oak. for Miss Beverly
O'Brien. 23-year-old Washington singer,
killed Sunday near Indianapolis in an
automobile collision which resulted in
injuries to three other Washington resi-
dents, one of them her fiance.
Miss O'Brien, who made her home in
Washington for two years past with an
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Wilkie, 1888 Franklin street northeast
was to have married Bert Bagranoff,
25-year-old George Washington Univer-
sity foot ball player, when the party
reached the st. Louis home Of Bag
ranoff's parents.
Miss O'Brien and Mr.. Bagranoff were
accompanied by Miss Lucille Leckie, 20,
of 3704 S street, clerk in the Depart
ment of Commerce, and Kenneth
Broderick, %, of 3105 Garfield street,
an employe Of the District tax collec-
tors office.
Associated Press dispatches said Miss
Leckie and Mr.. Bagranoff were seri-
ously injured while Mr.. Broderick, who
was driving, escaped with lesser hurts.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
It Is Summer.

The season of haymaking. thunder
storms and dog days reached WASH
ington astronomically at 1923 am. to-
day. Then the sun entered the sum-
mer solstice with the Northern Hemls-
phere tilted toward the sun at an angie
of % degrees q minutes. This IS the
longest day Of the year, with Is hours
and minutes between sunrise ana
sunset.
But, for the most Of the United States
and especially for the countryside apouI
the Distritc of Columbia, meteorological
Summer is stuck in the mud down
South somewhere. The season, as lts
progress is reflected in the changes OF
nature, is about a week behind time;
The late climbing roses are in the 1uli
flush of their bloom over BACKYARD
fences. Ordinarily, in this latitude, tneir
petals would have fallen more than a
week ago. This lag Of the season mas
been apparent since March. All tne
ordinary Towering shrubs have been pe-
hind.
Spring departed somewhat in dis
grace. Compared to what washington
has come to expect, the season was
chill, damp and sunless. But. accord.
ing to the Weather Bureau records, 1t
has been about the most normal Spring
ever known for these parts and for the
United States as a whole.
The past few Springs, not this one,
have been abnormal. The Weather
Bureau conclusion is based on the tenn
perature and rainfall data for the past
so years. No one season could be ex-
pected to hit therexact average for SO
seasons, but this one came miraculously
close to 1t. Temperature departures
Evening star., 1932-06-21
FEDERAL WORKERS
WARNED AGAINST
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Civil Service Commission
Says Employees Run Risk
of Losing Jobs.
RETURN OF SPOILS>
SYSTEM IS FEARED
Successful Candidate Naturally
Would Appoint His Own Backers,
Statement Explains.

Federal employees throughout the
country were warned by the Civil Serv-
Ice Commission today that they would
run the risk of losing their jobs If they
took an active part in the forthcoming
political campaign.
The commission issued its warning
after being informed one large oreani-
zation of Government workers had
started campaigning against members
OF congress whose attitude on recent
legislation affecting Federal employees
was considered unfavorable.
II was said the commissions action
Was merely for the purpose of calling
the attention Of Government workers TO
long standing rules prohibiting partici-
patton in politics
Each individual. the statement said
would be held responsible for the actjv.
lties OF the organization to which he or
she belongs.
10 make public attack on a candi-
GATE Tor public Office is to take active
part In political campaign" the state
ment declared. Such action bv an
empIoye Is violation of civil service
rule l. and may subject the offending
empioye to separation from public
service
II 1t be permissible for Federal en-
ployes to take active part in a political
campaign to elect one candidate and
defeat another, by the same token the
successful candidate must be accorded
the right to dismiss from the public
service whom he will and fill the va
cancy by the appointment of whom he
will. This means the return of the
spolis system, with infinite disaster to
Federal employees and the public
service"
Evening star., 1932-06-21
GREAT AMERICAN"
WILL OPEN TONIGHT
BicentenniaI Pageant to Show
Episodes in George WASH
ington's Career.

Hundreds Of Washingtonians and
contingents of troops from military
posts adjacent to the Capital tonight
will enact the outdoor Bicentennial
pageant, The Great American" on the
green slopes in the shadow Of the
Washington Monument.
Presentation of the pageant tonight
will be the first of three performances
scheduled. The others will take place
tomorrow night and Thursday night,
commencing at 8 o'clock.
Three Stages Of Career.
Planned as part OF the Capitals
celebration of the Bicentennial Of the
birth OF George Washington, the pag-
eant-play is being staged under the
Joint auspices of the District and United
States Bicentennial Commissions. It
comprises three actions, depicting the
three stages Of Washington's career.
Each action Is made up Of a success
sion OF colorful episodes. In many of
these scenes troops from Fort Myer and
Fort Washington will appear as Colo
NAL, French and British soldiers. A
ME and drum corps from Fort Wash
ington and mounted troopers from Fort
Myer will lend poignant reality to the
scenes of battle
The first action Of the pageant opens
IN l749 and comprises three episodes in
the life OF George Washington, Colo
MIST The second action is made ur
OF five military episodes and is entitled
George Washington, Warrior" while
the third portion. opening in 1887 with
the signing of the Constitution, COM
prises four events in the life of George
Washington. Statesman"
The Sylvan Theater forms the CEN
tral setting for the pageant, while the
battle scenes will be enacted on the
grassy spaces on either side.
DR.. George C. Havenner, executive
vice president of the District Bicenten-
nial Commission, said any tickets to
performances postponed on account of
rain will be honored at the next per-
formance.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
C0LORED DEMOCRATS
HOLD MASS MEETING
G. 0. P. Accused of Protecting the
Wealthy-Victory Fund
Drive Advanced.

The Democratic party was described
as favorable to the working and middle
classes, while the Republican party was
accused Of protecting the wealthy, at a
mass meeting of colored Democrats last
night in Pythian Hall, Twelfth and U
streets, under auspices of the Victory
Fund Army.
Dean Kelly Miller of Howard Uni
versity, who emphatically disclaimed af-
flliation with either party, but described
himself as an independent" and Rep
resentive Pettengill of Indiana were the
principal speakers. The session was
called to stimulate interest in the rails
ing Of the $l,500,000 fund to finance
the Democratic campaign.
Dean Miller called upon the National
Association for Advancement of Colored
People. which he said made a great
fight in getting the Negro the right to
vote in Democratic primaries in Texas,
to make fight to have colored voters
admitted to Republican conventions in
that State.
The colored race was described by
Representative Pettengill as "a part of
the Democratic party" He advocated
Jeffersonian democracy "as good for the
Negro as for the white man." and asked
the Negro voters of the country to give
the Democrats an opportunity to dera-
onstrate what they can do for them.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
five ARE ARRESTED
AS RUM SUSPECTS
Montgomery County Police Be-
lieve Active Ring Is
Broken.
By staff Correspondent of The Star.


BETHESDA, Md. June 2l.-Mont-
gomery County police smashed what
they described as one of the most ac-
tive liquor rings operating in this sec
tion of the country early today with the
arrest of five persons, one Washing
ton woman, and the seizure Of a large
quantity of alleged beer, Canadian ale,
alcohol and whisky.
The arrests were made in Friendship
Heights at what police said was the of
flee used by the ring for extensive sales
operation in washington and Maryland,
while the alleged whisky was confis-
Gated in a vacant home in Chevy Chase,
which the quintet used as a warehouse.
Those taken into custody were Mrs.
Ethel Sparrough of 3209 Nineteenth
street, Washington: Mrs. Bette Dom
molly Of Friendship Heights, Martha
Cosmar Of Baltimore john Duffy and
James Duffy. both of Chicago. They
were arraigned on possession charges
before Justice Of the Peace Frederick
Van Court and released under $500 bond
each for appearance in county police
court June 30
Sergt. Leroy r. Rodgers and Pvt W.
Frank Soper, acting on information said
to have been furnished by the Federal
Z 1iOillUltlOil oultdu Ill WdSlllllSJ JOIl,
raided the house IN Friendship Heights
and reported finding 20 cases of alleged
Canadian beer and ale, gallons of
alleged alcohol and 36 bottles of home
brew after arresting the three women
and two men they found in the house.
One Of the rooms. Sergt Rodgers
said. was outfitted as an Office and
contained two telephones, an adding
machine. two typewriters and a record
file showing large sales conducted by
the ring during the past month. Some
of the orders. police said, were for as
much as 100 cases of beer, ale or
whisky
Shortly afterward the two officers
raided the vacant house, in Chevy
Chase near Rock Creek Park, and
seized SO cases of alleged whisky and
an enormous supply of empty jars
Late yesterday afternoon Sergt
Rodgers, accompanied by Sergt Roy
Bodmer and Pvts. Webb Hersperger
and Ralph Howard. arrested Sam Jack
son, colored, SIS, at his home just off
the Potomac Great Falls road after
they reported seizing 50-gallon still
in full operation. 25-gallon dismantled
still and seven barrles of mash.
Jackson was charged with possession
OF instruments to manufacture liquor
and possession of liquor and was re-
leased under $500 bond for appearance
in County Police Court June 80. The
arrest of jackson, police say, had no
connection with the apprehension of
the five men and women at Friendship
Heights.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
GUARD HELD FOR HITTING
Man, rs, AT D. c. ARMORY
Youth Said to Have Struck Visi-
tor When He Insisted on En-
tering Building.

George Smyrson, rs, Of the 1400
block Of N street was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital yesterday for a wound
on the head, received when he was
strucn by 20-year-old guard when
the former Is said to have tried to
enter the National Guard Armory, in
the old National Hotel, on Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
The guard, Charles E. Clark Of the
2200 block of Charming street north
east, is employed as a special watch
man at the armory. He was released
in custody of Lieut.. Col. Preston G..
Nevitt, In charge at the building.
Police were told Clark struck Smyr-
son when tie latter insisted on going
into the building.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
BOY NEAR DEATH FROM BULLET;
BATF1ER, 16, CLAIMS ACCIDENT
Police Question Charles
Tebbes, Held in Shooting
of Joseph McCrone, 13.
Seek to Learn if Gun Which
Wounded Schoo|boy Was
Fired in Malice.

Thirteen-year-old Joseph McCrone
was near death at Casualty Hospital to-
day, while police sought to learn If the
bullet which pierced his abdomen was
fired with malice as Joseph and four
other boys flshed and swan on the west
bank of the Eastern Branch yesterday
noon.
Young McCrone. who lives at 1910
Trinidad avenue northeast, and a COM
panion, Bruce Esch, Is years old, of
1921 ChildresS street northeast, told po-
lice the shot was fired Intentionally by
Tebbes, 16-year-old Stuart Junior High
School student, Of 134 Sixth street
northeast.
Accident Claimed.
Tebbes, who was arrested and is being
held at the receiving home for investi-
cation. was backed up by his two COM
panions in the contention that the gun
discharged accidentally as he started to
lay it down after shooting at target
The .22-caliber bullet passed almost
entirely through McCrone's body 1t
was fired from about 100 yards up the
bank, where the other three Youths
were swimming and playing with the
rifle
The three boys with the gun. police
were told. fled the scene, and McCrone
was assisted by ESch to a nearby cot
tage, where he was picked up by the
patrol wagon from No. precinct and
taken to the hospital.
According to Policemen C. L. Haden
and S. Jones of No. 9 precinct, no one
at the scene knew the identity of the
three boys Haden said he found
magazine cover which had been used
as target and happened to be in
scribed in pencil with Tebbes' name.
When the policeman later located
Tebbes at his home. the youth admitted
the gun was in his hands when the shot
was fired. but insisted it was discharged
accidentally.
Esch, according to Haden, insisted,
however. that the other boys fired sew
eral shots in the direction of himself
and McCrone. and then another youth
took the gun. saying, Here. let me
show you how to shoot" The boy,
Esch declared. raised the rife, aimed
and shot his companion.
Three Boys Flee.
The wounded youth ran a few steps
and dropped, Esch said, while the other
three boys. who had disrobed for SWIM
ming. snatched up their clothes and
fed into the underground.
McCrone has been only partially con-
sciouS. In a statement to police he
said he had been shot deliberately by
a boy whose name he did not know.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
D. {. BILL AWAITS
ECONOMY ACTION
Consideration Put Off to
Study Effect of Compul-
sorry FurIough Plan.

The 1888 District appropriation bill
continued to languish in conference
today. pending final Senate disposition
Of the economy measure.
Senator Bingham of Connecticut
chairman of the Conference Committee.
said little progress could be made on
the District bill in conference until it
is known definitely how the District
personnel will be affected by the COM
pulsory furlough plan, and for that rea-
son consideration would be delayed.
If the furlough plan is ultimately ap-
proved today, as is anticipated, a meet
ing Of the conferees probably will be
held tomorrow. A preliminary session
scheduled for yesterday was called off,
Only two controversial issues between
the House and Senate are expected to
hold up approval Of the bill in confer
ence-the amount Of the Federal lump
sum contribution and an item Of $780,
900 for emergency relief
Senator Bingham has indicated the
Senate will hold out for a Federal con-
tribution of s8,55O,oO0 in 1888. The
House fixed the amount at $6,500, 900.
to make vigorous fight for retention of
the 100000 relief item which the
House refused to put in the bill. Little
controversy is anticipated. however,
over the other items in dispute.
Senator Copeland. Democrat, Of New
York, was appointed today as a substi-
tute for Senator Glass. Democrat. of
Virginia. on the Conference Committee
considering the District appropriation
bill.
The substitution was made at the
request Of Bingham. who said Glass
had requested that he be relieved be-
cause of numerous other duties.
The other Senate conferees are Sen
ators Nye, North Dakota, and Capper,
Kansas, Republicans, and Kendrick,
wyoming, Democrat.
The House conferees are Representa-
tives Cannon. Missouri; Blanton, Texas,
and Granfield, Massachusetts,, Demo-
Gratis, and Simmons, Nebraska, and
Holiday, Illinois, Republicans.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

CA4 NE Wo In bh1EF.
TODAY.
Dinner. Georgetown Clinical Society,
Hamilton Hotel, 7:30 pm
Meeting, Daughters of American
Colonists, Willard Hotel, 2 pm.
Meeting. Chanwas Club, Willard
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Card party. Hope Council. No. 1, Sons
and Daughters of Liberty, Fourth street
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast
8 pm.
Card party, Mothers Club, st. James
Catholic Church Auditorium. Thirty
seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. northeast, pm.
FUTURE.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard Hotel
tomorrow, 1880 pm.
Luncheon. District of Columbia Bank
ers' Association, Willard Hotel tomor-
row, 1890 pm.
Board meeting. National League of
American Pen Women, Willard Hotel,
tomorrow, $50 am.
Luncheon. Optimist Club, Hamilton
Hotel, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayfower
Hotel, tomorrow, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Monarch Club, New Colo
nial Hotel, tomorrow, 1915 pm.
Luncheon, University of Missouri
Alumni. University clMa tomorrow,
1890 pm.