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Evening star., 1932-01-11
HOTEL DEATH LAID
TO NATURAL CAUSE
Coroner Returns Accidental Verdict
in Killing of Two by Gas in
Capital Lodging House.

William H. Smith, so, found dead
Saturday in the Mount Vernon Hotel,
487 Pennsylvania avenue, died of tuoer-
culosis it was revealed at an autopsy
performed yesterday by Coroner Joseph
D. Rogers The coroner issued a
natural death certificate.
In the account of the death published
in The Sunday Star it was enormously
stated Smith was found in the Metro
politan Hotel.
Certificates of accidental death were
issued yesterday in the cases o. Harry
G. Schmidt, SO, and McColin B. Price,
36, killed by Illuminating gas Satur-
day in lodging house at 6l2 g street.
Deputy Coroner c. j. Murphy said
Schmidt was identified by a friend,
Joseph Sparrough, 233 Rhode Island
avenue, and Price by his brother, VIII
liam B. Price, 833 Eleventh street
northeast. Schmidt previously had
been tentatively identified by Army dis
charge papers found in his pockets
Evening star., 1932-01-11
GOVERNMENT PLANES
RETURN TO CAPITAL
Lieut.. Pugh Sets Service Record,
Coming Here From Miami
in 71a Hours.

A number of Government planes
from the Capital, homeWard bound
from the all-American air races In
Miami, arrived here yesterday and more
were expected today. More than score
of privately-owned planes, flown by
amateur pilots, are expected to pass
through the city within the next two
days en- route home from the races.
Seven Army planes came in from
Miami yesterday, one Of them, flown
by Lieut. Charles F. Pugh of Boiling
Field, setting a new service speed
record. He covered the distance from
Miami to Washington in seven and a
half hours of flying time. He made
fuel stops at Savannah, Ga, and Pope
Field, N G.
Lieut.. Pugh, native of the Capital
bettered by Is minutes the flying time
of Lieut.. Julian Haddon, who last week
made the trip in hours and As
minutes.
Nine planes from the Anacostia Naval
Air Station are on the way back today
three of them reporting fueling stops
this morning at Charleston, S. c. Two
more Army planes also are expected.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
TO HOLD ANNIVERSARY

Plans for the Winter will be outlined
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at meet
ing in celebration of the fiftieth ami
versary of the Associated Charities in
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation.
Mrs. John M. Glenn, president of the
Family Welfare Association of Amer
lea will discuss THE Place Of the As
sociated Charities in the Community
in the Present Emergency"
While the organizations chief func-
tion has been direct assistance of fam
lilies In need. its welfare activities have
covered a wide field. 1t organized ths
Committee on Prevention of Consump-
tion in 1908. which was succeeded by
the Association for the Prevention Of
tuberculosis. The organization formed
the first Public Playground Committee
in the city.
The Associated Charities had 3,l39
families under care in 1880, as COM
pared with 1868 in 1881. Relief dis
bursements in 1880 we're $130,118,
against $l88, 1853 in 1881.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
HEARING WILL GET
VIEWS ON SITE Of
NAVAL HOSPITAL
Smoot to Preside at Session
of Building Commission
This Afternoon.
OPINION IS DIVIDED
ON TWO LOCATIONS
Fine Arts Group Favors Walter
Reed Area-Navy Holds Out
for Present Place.

The location of Washington's new
100000 Naval Hospital will be dis
cusSed at a hearing to be held before
the Public Buildings Commission in
the Senate Finance Committee room.
The Fine Arts Commission wants the
new naval medical center placed in
some location like Walter Reed Hos
pital, but the Navy is holding out for
its present site at Constitution avenue
and TWenty-fourth street.
Scheduled to appear to discuss the
problem today are Charles Moore, chair
man of the Fine Arts Commission; Rear
Admiral A. L. Parsons, chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy De-
partment, and his assistant, Capt.
Walter H. Allen of the Nays Civil
Engineer Corps.
Secretary Adams and Assistant Sec
retary Ernest Lee Jahncke, who would
otherwise be asked to appear, are out
Of the city. Last week Mr.. Moore and
H. P. Caemmerer, executive secretary
of the Fine Arts Commission, had a
conference with Secretary Adams on
the subject. Mr. Adams announced
later that there is no real difference
between the Navy and the Fine Arts
Commission.
Today's hearing is arranged for 4
publican, of Utah, chairman of the
Public Buildings Commission. presid-
ing. The commission is charged with
the location of governmental buildings
here.
Recently the Fine Arts Commission
sent a letter to the Navy Department
suggesting that the new Naval Hospital
funds for which have been held up oy
President Hoover'S economic program,
be built on site in the vicinity OF Wal
ter Reed Hospital, where there is plenty
of available space, enabling a great
naval medical center to develop. Pre-
liminary plans for the hospital have
been prepared by the Allied Architects
of Washington, Inc, and further studies
are being made.
The project is tied up with the pro-
posal to extend New York avenue in the
direction of the Potomac River. Any
buildings placed on the present Naval
Hospital site would have to harmonize
in character with the Lincoln Memorial,
National Academy of Sciences and other
structures in that area along Constitu-
tion avenue, under plans of the Fine
Arts Commission.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
SET
FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Junior and Senior Classes
Hold Midyear Exercises
at End of Month.

Washingtons junior and senior high
school graduations of mid-year classes
will be held on two days at the end
of this month, according to the sche-
dule announced today at the Franklin
School Administration Building. The
graduations, with the presiding officer
of each, will be held as follows:
Business High School Cwo-year
class, 10 am Jere j. Crane, school
business manager; Business High
School four-year class, 8 pm, Rabbi
Abram Simon, president, Board of Edu-
cation; Eastern High School three-
year class, pm, Mrs. Philip Sirney
Smith; Armstrong High School, 8 pm,
Mrs Williab c. Mcneil, and Cardozo
High School, 2 pm, Rev. F. I. A. Ben
nett, all January %.
Central High School, 8 pm, Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, school board
member; Eastern High School four-
school board member; Mckinley High
School, 8 pm, Daniel c. Roper. board
member; Western High School, 1:30
pm, George M Whitwell, board mem
ber, and Dunbar High School, 8 pm,
DR.. j. Hayden johnson, board member,
all January 49,
Junior high school graduations and
their presiding officers follow:
Hine, pm, Robert L. Haycock, as
sistant superintendent; Langley, pm,
Miss Rose Lees Hardy, assistant super
intendent; Facfarland, 1870 pm, Harry
o. Hine, school board secretary, and
Francis, 1890 am Harold A. Haynes,
member of the board of examiners, all
January 28.
jefferson, 8 pm, Miss Jessie La Sale,
assistant superintendent; Paul, 2 pm,
Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant super
intendent; Powell 2 pm, Mr.. Crane;
Stuart, 2 pm, Mr.. Hine; Garnett-Pat-
terson, pm, Rev. Mr.. Bennett; Ran
dali, 1890 am, Mrs. McNeill, and
Shaw. pm, DR.. Johnson, all jan
uary 20.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
Wakefield" CHOIR
REHEARSAL IS SET
Tryouts for BicentenniaI
Presentation Will Start
Tomorrow Night.

First steps to organize choir which.
with the United States Marine Band,
will furnish music incident to the pres
entation of the Percy Mackaye
masque wakefield in Constitution
Hall, February q, will be taken tomor-
row night in Thomas Community
Center, when hundreds of volunteer
singers will gather for initial rehearsals
under the direction of DR.. Albert w,
Harmed, director of the National Capt.
tai Choir.
The masque, written expressly for
the George Washington Bicentennial
celebration by the well known play
right, will be presented under the joint
sponsorship of the District of Columbia
and United States George Washington
Bicentennial Commissions. It is planned
TO repeat the performance on the nights
of February 25 and 26. with the dele
gates to the convention of the National
Education Association attending one
of these shoWings as body.
Spiritual and symbolic in character,
the masque will portray scenes in and
around Washington's birthplace, and
factors that were the inspiration and
moving force of his career. 1t is ex-
planned by the local Bicentennial Com
mission that the play is in no sense an
historical delineation of the life OF
Washington, but lis the story of our
country composed in folk lore"
Music for the production has been
arranged by John Tasker Howard, musi-
cal director of the National Bicenten-
nial Commission.
The masque," according to the Dis
trict Commission gives the process
sional of the arts, the law, the sciences
and the fairy ring, which is composed
of the folk people of the ages, with the
addition of those who have come to us
from many lands to help in the forma-
tion of the country because of the i'm
petus which was set forth by Washing
ton"
Evening star., 1932-01-11
RAIL TICKET FRAUD
CHARGED TO THREE
Woman and Two Men Said to Have
Cost Pennsy and B. & 0.
Thousands.

Two men and a woman, said to have
been engaged in a ticket racket, u
through which the Baltimore & Ohio
and Pennsylvania Railroads have lost
thousands OF dollars, were arraigned in
Police Court today on charges Of vio-
lating the law by selling tickets with
out a license.
Those arrested yesterday were Sam
uel Rosenberg, 81, of the 600 block OF
Kenyon street; Joseph Schwartz, IS, 400
block of F street, and Mrs. Ethel Claw
ans, Newark, N. j. Each was held on
two charges of violating the license law
and held under $500 bond in each
charge.
The trio appealed to Judge Mcmahon
for a jury trial and were released on
bond Of 81 900 each for appearance in
court January %.
According to Headquarters Detective
r. j. Cox, the alleged scheme was car
ried out by riding from New York here
on week end excursion trains and buy
ing return stubs of the excursion tickets
for small sums and selling them to per-
sons going TO New York
The round-trip excursion cost is only
$3.50, Sergt. Cox explained, and the re-
turn stubs have been purchased by those
in the racket for as low as so cents
each. The stubs subsequently have
been sold for SIS each to persons going
from Washington to New York. The
one-way straight fare to New York is
S814
The two men and woman were taken
into custody as they came in on q
train yesterday Their arrest followed
an investigation of more than two
months, during which time 29 buys
were made by persons working for the
Detective Bureau.
Other arrests are to follow, it is said.
The three were arrested by Detective
Sergts. Cox and Leo Murray.
Police said the Clawans woman had
a number of the return ticket stubs
concealed in her shoes.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
TWO OFFICERS TRIED
IN BEATING OF MAN
C. R. Bremmerman and H. H
Clark Are Charged in
Six Counts.

Charged with repeatedly beating a
colored prisoner on three successive
days at the old second precinct station
last Summer, Policemen Charles r.
Bremmerman and Hollis H. Clark were
standing trial today before jury and
Justice Let's in Criminal Division l of
the District Supreme Court.
The policemen are charged in six
counts of an indictment with assault
with dangerous weapon, a wooden
club, on Thomas McKeever Williams
last June 25, 26 and 27, the counts
charging that the policemen alternately
used the club.
Demonstrates Torture.
Just before court recessed Williams,
a diminutive figure, demonstrated for
the jury how he and five other colored
prisoners on the three successive days
had been compelled by blows with clubs
and fists to stand on their toes with
their hands over their heads. This
novel method, he testified, was kept up
for an hour at time.
Eight other policemen previously had
stood trial on third-degree charges, four
having been acquitted and four con-
Victed.
Outlines Case to Jury.
Assistant United States Attorney John
R. FitZpatrick, who is trying his first
case before the District Supreme Court
with his collegue, William Collier, out
lined the cases to the jury which had
been selected after an hours time.
Previous to his arrest on June 25,
williams had never before been involved
with the police, he told the jury.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
FOUR PLEAD NOT GUILTY
IN SPEAKEASY RAID
Patrick J. Ahern and Others Ask
Jury Trial on Liquor and
Nuisance Charges.

Patrick j. (Jack) Ahern and three
other men, arrested Saturday by police
and Federal agents in a raid on an
alleged speakeasy at 1886 Connecticut
avenue, pleaded not guilty before Judge
Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today
and asked for jury trial on charges
of possession of liquor and maintaining
a nuisance.
Judge Schuldt ordered the men held
under 81 900 bond each and fixed jan
uary 25 as the date for trial.
The men besides Ahern arrested in
the raid in which the officers reported
seizing a quantity of liquor and speak
easy paraphernalia, were Harry w.
Wood, Joseph Harris Hall and John c.
Kelly, the latter two colored.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
FURTHER CHARGES.
Of SHORT PAY IN
SCHOOL WORK MADE.
Six Carpenters on Benjamin
Stoddard Building Accuse
Contractor.
FORCED TO SIGN BLANK
PAY ROLLS, THEY SAY
Afidavits Are Filed With Maj.
H. L. ROBBIE. S. Bannett De-
nies Statement in Paper.

Another charge alleged short-chang-
ing workers on District School projects
by contractors has been brought to the
attention of the District Government in
series of affidavits relating to pay
ments made TO carpenters working on
the Benjamin Stoddart School, also
known as the Burleith-G Glover Park
School.
Maj H. L. Robb said today he had
received affidavits from six carpenters
on this job to the effect that they had
been compelled to sign pay rolls in
blank by the contractor for the job, the
Charles S. Bannett Co., Inc, of Phila-
delphia. The pay for carpenters under
the scale approved by the District on
the authority of the Bacon-Davis act is
S1371a per hour. The carpenters
claim they were paid at the rate OF IS
cents per hour.
Bannett Makes Affidavit.
There is also an affidavit, Maj Robb
said, signed by Charles S. Bannett stat
ing that the pay rolls showing pay
rate are true and correct.
Maj. Robb said that since the state
ments were both under oath and were
directly contradictory, he had turned
the whole matter over to Corporation
Counsel william w. Stride for action.
A somewhat similar case arose re-
Gently in connection with a contract for
the construction of an addition to the
Woodbridge School. Here workers
charged that they had been forced to
sign for more than they received, and
this was not denied by representatives
of the William P. Rose Co., of Goldsbor-
ough, NJ c., who had that contract. In
that case, however, the Rose company
agreed to make a payment in full to the
men who had been short paid in order
to secure another contract with the
District for the construction of fire
engine house at Thirteenth and K
streets. This payment was made.
Work Behind Schedule.
Mai Robb said that the work on
the Stoddart School was far behind
schedule, and that the District was con-
sidering calling on the bonding com
pany which underwrote the contract TO
make it UP. This, however, IS nde-
pendent of the trouble over the wage
scale.
Mr.. Bride said he had not yet seen
the papers in the case, and coulo not
forecast what his action would be.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
GEN. BOOTH GIVEN
POST IN MANILA
Succeeds Gen. Hines, Who
Retires, Starting for WASH
ington in April.

Maj Gen. Ewing E. Booth will sue
ceed Maj. Gen. John L. Hines as COM
mander of the Philippine Department
of the Army, the War Department an
nounced today. Gen. Hines will be
retired May 81 because CT age. He will
leave Manila April and proceed to
Washington, where he will be assigned
to the Office of the chief OF staff while
awaiting retirement.
The new head of the Philippine De-
partment has been in command of the
1st Cavalry Division, stationed at Fort
Bliss, Tex He will sail from San Fran
cisco for Manila March 7 to assume
his new duties.
Both officers have had distinguished
military careers. Each has been
awarded a Distinguished Service Medal
and Gen. Hines also has the Distin-
guished Service Cross. Gen. Booth will
be 62 years old next month, while Gen.
Hines will reach the retirement age Of
"a in May.
Began As Private.
The new Philippine commandant be-
gan his military career as private in
The Colorado National Guard. He had
attained the rank of captain in the
regiment prior to the outbreak of the
Spanish American War.
He saw extensive service in the
PHILIPPINES during the war with Spain
and later during the Philippine insur-
rection. Commissioned a first lieuten-
ant of cavalry in the Regular Army in
February, 1901, he was ordered to join
the 7th Cavalry Regiment in Cuba.
At the outbreak of the World War,
having reached the rank of major he
was made assistant chief of staff and
later chief of staff of the Eastern De-
partment at Governors Island. N Y.
Late in 1917, he went to Europe as an
observer of military operations on the
eastern front. He returned to me
United States in March, 1910. and ac-
ccmpanied the 77th Division TO France,
sailing during the same month.
In July, 1918, he was appointed
temporary brigadier general and as
the 4th Division, with which he served
in the Aisne-Marne, st. Mihiel and
Meuse-Argonne offens1Ves and on the
march to Germany.
From January to July, 1920, he was
deputy allied high commissioner to Ar
menia. He returned to the United
States in July, 1920, with the permanent
rank of colonel in the Regular Army
and was ordered to Fort Leavenwortn
KanS
After several changes of assignment
he was promoted to brigadier general
and in December, 1929, to the grade OF
major general.
Gen. Hines served in Cuba during
the Spanish American War, in the
Philippine Insurrection, was chief OF
staff of the punitive expedition into
Mexico against Villa and during the
World war commanded the 4th Di-
vision. Returning to the United States
he was assigned as chief Of staff IN
1924, and from November, 1925, to Oc-
tober, 1880, commanded the 9th Corps
Area He has been in command of the
Philippine department since 1880.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
TWO MARINES DIE
IN CRASH OF AUTO
CHASED BY POLICE
Victims in Southeast Accident
Fred Refer, Navy Yard, and
c. MutchIer, Barracks.
CAR REPORTED STOLEN
SHORT WHILE BEFORE
Witness Tells of Body Hurled Into
Air by Impact at 65 or 70
Miles Per Hour.

Two Marine Corps privates were
killed instantly late last night when a
stolen automobile in which they were
riding crashed head-on into a tree and
then into telephone pole on Orange
street southeast while making an effort
to elude police. Both men were thrown
clear of the machine and their bodies
mangled.
The men were positively identified,
police said today, as Fred Refer, "a
Marine, attached to the Navy Yard, and
Charles Mutchler, attached to the Ma
rine Barracks here. Refer was in
civilian clothes and Mutchler In uni
form.
The crash occurred shortly after the
automobile had turned off Nichols ave-
nue. southeast into Orange street, a
dead-end thoroughfare. George Nc
Donald of the 5000 block of Brothers
place southeast, told police he saw one
OF the bodies thrown in the cir upon
the first impact.
Speed Over IS Miles,,
At the time of the crash the machine
In which the men were killed Vas trav-
cling at an estimated speed of between
IS and 10 miles an hour
The stolen car was being chased by
Policeman Eugene Lohr. He said he
noticed the cars tag numbers CORE
sponded with those of machine re-
ported stolen earlier in the night. At
the time Lohr was in a police car
at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast.
The stolen machine and the police
car sped toward the AnacoSt.a Bridge.
The chase was later joined by Thomas
A. Redmond of the 1900 block of New
Hampshire avenue, taxi-cab driver
AS the machines raced across the
Anacostia Bridge, the car in which
the Marines were riding almost struck
an automobile operated by Charles A.
keefe, 400 block of Eleventh street
southeast, who also joined in the
pursuit
few blocks past the bridge the
machine began to outdistance its pur-
suers and turned into Orange street.
The crash came just after the turn
Car Reported Stolen.
The automobile in which they were
riding was said to have been the prop
erty of Clyde A. Sherman, 900 block of
5AAA@A "fSiidC ooAClIWCSts dIlu Was Te-
ported stolen from the vicinity of Sec
ond street and Virginia avenue south
west.
Refers father, Adam Refer of Lea
wood. Iowa, was notified of his sons
death.
Miss Marie Walter, 81, of SIS Elliott
street northeast, was treated at Casualty
Hospital last night for cuts about the
head received when she plunged for
ward into the windshield of an auto
mobile operated by Earle S. Russell, %,
223 Ninth street northeast, after a colli-
sion with another machine at Ninth
and L streets northeast Alonzo Rey-
nolds, IS, colored, of the 17O0 block of
Montello avenue northeast, is said to be
the driver of the other GER.
John E. Kan2, II, BATS Holmead
place, received broken leg yesterday
when he slipped from the curb into the
path of an automobile being parked in
the 5000 block of Fourteenth street.
He was taken to Children's Hospital
The automobile was operated by Bene-
dict M. English, 81, 1872 Newton street,
police say
Evening star., 1932-01-11
HUNDREDS TO ATTEND
CHEST "PEP" LUNCHEON
Meeting Tomorrow Will Be Final
Session Before Opening of
Campaign.

Several hundred persons probably
will attend pep luncheon of the Com
munity Chest Speakers Unit tomor-
row in the Raleigh Hotel. This will be
the final meeting of the unit prior to
opening the campaign January "a.
Joseph D. Kaufman, unit chairman,
will be the toastmaster. Speakers will
include Edward F.. Colladay, chairman
of the General Campaign Committee;
Thomas E. Campbell, chairman of the
governmental unit Clarence A. Aspin-
wall, chairman of the special gifts unit;
Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman of the group
solicitation unit H. L. Rust, jr., chair
man of the metropolitan unit, and FL
wood Street, Chest director.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
Says He Speeded
Bv "Neckers'' for
Daughters Sake
A. H. Sparkman Explains
Desire to Prevent
Girl Seeing.

Andrew H Sparkman, 300 Maryland
avenue northeast; drove 40 miles an
hour along Bladensburg road northeast
in order to pass automobiles containing
"necking parties which he did not wish
his young daughter to see,' he explained
in Police Court today
Sparkman, who said he is connected
with the Office of Senator Blaine OF
Wisconsin and was once professor at
the University of Wisconsin, was re-
leased by Judge Isaac R. Hit on ms
personal bond. He also was charged
with driving on dead tags and failure
to exhibit his drivers permit, but plead
ed unfamiliarity with local laws.
Sparkman was arrested yesterday by
Sergts. James E. Fondahl and K. P.
Greenlow, after they had paced him at
40 miles an hour for five blocks, the
court was informed.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
MRS. M. F. WHELAN DIES

Friends here have been advised of
the death in H.aleah, Fla, this morn
ing Of Mrs. Martin F. Whelan, sr., a
former resident of Washington who
moved to the Southern city about five
years ago with her family.
In addition to her husband, Mrs.
Whelan is survived by son, Martin
r. Whelan, jr., graduate of George
town University Law School. and now
municipal judge at Hialeah, near
Miami.
Evening star., 1932-01-11
TWO KILLED, FOUR HURT.
Washington Colored Persons Victims of
Auto Near Fredericksburg.
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
FREDERICKSBURG Va, January
1.-Two Washington colored persons
were killed, two probably fatally injured
and four others sustained minor hurts
when a sedan in which the eight were
riding south crashed into the side of
produce truck en- route north, miles
north of here on the Richmond Wash
ington Highway last night.
The dead are, Hattie Coleman, 13,
and James Dickerson, taxi driver, 80.
Those probably fatally injured are Ada
Montague, "a, and Linwood Coleman,
Is. They are unconscious and no hope
is held for recovery.
The Washington machine is said to
have left its side of the road and
crashed into the truck, knocking it
feet from the roadway.