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Evening star., 1932-03-08
AUTO |MPOUND|NG
LAW IS APPROVED
c. of C. transportation Group
Urges Seizure of Cars
Parked 48 Hours.

The principle of all automobile i'm
pounding law for the District OF Co.
lumbia was approved by the Transror-
tation Committee of the Washington
Chamber of Commerce at meeting
yesterday.
Inspector E. w. Brown. assistant TO
the superintendent of pollce, outlined
tentative provisions for such law now
under consideration by traffic author
tiles He said a law is desired Whlch
would permit police to impound an
automobile left on the street for more
than 48 hours. and would change the
period of time to elapse before the de-
partment could dispose of an abandon
ed auto.
Ticket Not Sufficient.
Frequently. Inspector Brown pointed
out. automobiles park in violation OF
the law and merely placing a parking
ticket on the windshield does not re-
move the hazard caused by this unlaw-
full parking. If the Police Department
could be authorized to tow machines
off the streets in such cases, he de-
clared, enforcement of parking laws
could be more efficiently accomplished.
The committee reiterated its former
stand in opposition to street vending OF
gasoline, declaring that trucks from
which the fuel is so dispensed are
parked so as to create traffic hazards
and congestion.
Job Plan Presented.
Allen V de Ford. a member of the
committee, presented a plan to give
employment to some 500 men who
would aid in handling traffic and as
sisting officers in enforcing parking
regulations. Fashioned after the Buff
falo, N. Y, scheme. Mr.. de Ford's man
a-block" plan would call for the sta
tioning of either one or two men in
each block to facilitate handling OF
pedestrian and automobile traffic. The
men would be allowed to increase their
income by busting cars and doing odd
Jobs, and funds for a regular salary
might be contributed by citizens within
blocks so serviced or from the munich
pal treasury.
Mr.. oe Ford'S plan was referred to
subcommittee for study and report.
William A Van Duzer, director OF
traffic, gave members brief account of
the survey of traffic conditions in the
Capital now being undertaken by his
department which he said is employ
ing approximately 26 men on traffic
count" work, and advancing the work
of the department approximately 18
months ahead of schedule.
George E. Keneipp, chairman OF the
committee, presided.
Evening star., 1932-03-08
CENTURY AIR LINE SAFE,
CHICAGO PROBERS HOLD
Report Made in Dispute With Pilots
Refusing to Accept Re
duced Salaries.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO March 8-The Chicago
Aero Commission yesterday reported to
the Aviation Committee of the City
Council that it had found no grounds
for charges that operations of the Cen
fury Air Line we're unsafe.
The air concern has been involved
for several weeks in a controversy with
a group of pilots who refused to accept
its tender of reduced salaries.
A group of 10 pilots, headed by G.
H. Thompson, appeared before the
commission in an effort to substantiate
the charges, but M. C. Meigs, chairman
of the commission, declared it was in
terested only in problems of public
safety and not in the wage controversy
John Casey, manager of the NUM-
cipal airport, testified the new pilots
hired by the air line are qualified under
Department of Commerce rules.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
Thugs Use Pistols 7hieves Loot Store and Apartments
Police Leave
Granted TO
Edu,ards

Regardless of the resignation
of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford
as superintendent of police, In
Spector L. I. H. Edwards, second
ranking assistant superintendent,
was ready to leave Washington to-
day on a belated vacation.
Last year, just as Inspector Ed
wards prepared to leave, Major
Henry G. Pratt resigned as police
chief. Inspector Edwards felt that
his services we're needed, so re-
manned on duty.
For several months he has been
planning this years vacation trip,
with today definitely set as the be-
ginning of it. When he learned
General Glassford had resigned,
he said:
THAT makes no difference.
I'm going to Ohio and forget
about the police department for
the time being. haven't had
vacation in over two years, and
/ think l deserve One."
Inspector Edwards has 80 days
vacation due him. Under provi-
sions of the economy act he will
not be able to use the 80 days &C
cumulating from last year. Canton
and Cleveland are the objectives
of the trip by automobile.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
80 BURGLAR|ES
ADDED To LIST
BY POLICE
Clothing, Money Taken From
Raided Households; Two
Men HoIdup Victims

Thugs were busy in the Dis
trict yesterday and last night.
Police reports show that loot
valued at more than 81 100
was taken in 80 housebreaking
affairs.
Two men were held up and
robbed at point of pistol.
A pecketbook containing $40
was snatched from Masie Brown,
of the 1900 block of Eighth St.
N. w., by a colored man as she
was walking near her home last
night.
Thugs Use Pistols
Rockey Manning, colored, said
he was held up at pistol point by
three colored men and robbed of
$11 and a gold watch at Second
Street and Virginia Avenue South.
west. He lives in the 200 block
F st. S. w.
Arthur w. Rison said two
colored men covered him with a
pistol and robbed him of IS cents
as he was leaving him home in
the first block of I st. N. w.
Thieves forced an entrance to
an apartment house in the TOO
block of Harvard st. N. w.,
last night and took clothing and
jewelry valued at more than $500
from the apartments of Leroy
Macon, Mary j. Travis, and Mary
Ollie Mcbride
Store Robbed
Alfred Mogal, a salesman Of
Philadelphia, reported that cloth
ing samples valued at $700 were
stolen from his car, which was
parked yesterday afternoon at
Ninth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest.
Clothing valued at 1899 was
stolen from a store in the 900
block of Seventh st. N. w., early
yesterday, according to Louis M.
Dietch, manager.
Mrs. Lilly Gresham, of the
900 block Of Seventeenth St.
N. w., reported that her wrist
watch valued at $40 was stolen
from the postoffice of the House
Office Building, where she is
employed.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
v. {. T.U. HEARS
COL, YATES

Indiscriminate signing of tenn
perance pledges, without educat-
ing the head, heart and con-
science" of the signers, damages
the cause of temperance, Col.
Julian E. Yates, U. S. A., chief of
chaplains. said today at the clos
ing session of the annual conven-
ton of the District Women's
Christian Temperance Union at
the Columbia Heights Christian
Church.
Colonel Yates, in an address on
How the w. C. T. U. Can Help
the Army" said further:
1--WE chaplains have seen many
men sign pledges under such
conditions and go out and break
them almost Immediately. Con-
tinue to secure pledges, but by
all means try to get genuine
education and conviction first"
The field of temperance is edu-
cational, Colonel Yates said, and
advised the w. c. T. U. not to
divide it's energies and jeopardize
it's prestige by entering politics
on issues other than the dry issue.
Temperance work by the Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs was out
lined by its president, Mrs. Har-
vey Wiley. while Lieut.. Rhoda
Milliken, of the women's bureau,
spoke on police work,
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
ADDED CHANGES
DUE FOR PARK

A revised plan for develop
ment of Anacostia Park further
curtailing the estimate of $2,514,-
600 made in 1923 will be pre-
sented to Congress when it con.
venes in December, E. A.
Schmidt, United States Engineer,
said today.
Completion of the recent
Washington Channel survey now
makes it possible to concentrate
upon the Anacostia development,
Mr.. Schmidt explained.
The Anacostia Park project
was first launched in 1912, but
was revised in 1915 when Ger.
tain engineering features proved
to be unsound. 1t was again
revised in 1925 in the interests
of economy and remaining ex-
penseS cut Is per cent.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
SCHOOL BUDGET 7
ORDERED GUT
Times Staff Photo

A cut in the school budget of
approximately $4,000 was an
nounced at the meeting of the
school board last night. Most of
the cut is in the proposed budget
of the city council, while over
$1,000 is in the money received
from the State which under the
economy act was cut 10 per cent.
The budget cut will result in
substantial salary slicing in all
employees receiving more than
5000 year, with a heavier cut
for high-salaried employees who
are limited to the superintendent
of schools and principals of the
high schools.
The board ordered that all the
recommendations of State Fire
Marshall Bowman be Immediately
carried out, whether funds are
available or not. These include
the installation of panic bolts,
81 new fire eXtinguishers and
metal doors on all boiler rooms.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
j, s. UNION ASKS
5-DAY WEEK

Advocacy of a five-day week
for Federal employees was one
of the principal features of a
five-point legislative progra
adopted last night by the Ameri-
can Federation of Federal EN-
ployes at the closing session of
its first annual convention at
the Hamilton Hotel.
The legislative committee speci
fled that it's support of the five
day week was conditioned on no
loss Of pay or equivalent privi-
lege.
other features of the program
are:
Restoration of pay and privi-
leges lost or reduced by operation
of the economy act; definite leg
islation extending classification to
the field service; strengthening of
the provisions of the retirement
act. and representation of en-
ployes on the Civil Service Com
mission.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
Wages VS.. Scales

Now among the Presidents claims to fame given
forth in the Cleveland speech the other day. were no less
than twelve operations economic defense he President
has been talking about and battles for several months
but ISM we re in it's depresson and recovery
already put into operation by his Administration Among
them found-point 2-union of employers and workers
through the November 1929( conference in upholdng
wages far possible maintaining buying power stag
gering employment and expanding construction
There such conference. Representatives OF labor
and industry and agreed things that labor
not to agtate for higher and that industry was not
to lower the wage rate.
Do you the catch in that agreemen' Industry was
at the end of 1929 we back with glow of salts
faction, believing that wages going to be kept up,
believing that would be employed before and
ceive wages before The second part true Those
who worked received for time the rate per day as
they had before but they worked only three days week
half days all week they got only half much money
And they laid off. | do not bring this forward
treason the part of the employers bad faith
unkindncss. What could they do? No wanted
to buy their productsor it seemed they couldn't keep
ten thousand at work merely to please the President
They kept up the scale of wages But wOrkmen do not buy
meat and shoes with wage scale; they buy them with
wages. And wages had gone down.
White-CoIIar Slashes
Soon the wage-rate collapsed 1t was they said inevitable
The bankers had right away the manufacturers
hardest hit of all the industries forced and begin
ming with salaries for the whecolar workers (who
cruelty left out of the agreement they sashed 10
here and there and other industries followed The greatest
fight in STEEL and the whose is honored is
Farrell who fought the last ditch until he overuled
know other employers who fought hard and longer
But deflaon had set in prices lower profits
existent and wages had to be cut.
mention these doorous facts which all know from
experience because think that it bad business to
trick 1929 We business nation but only in
thousand of knows enough to distinguish between
of wages ct took me-wachng for just this sort
of thng-a long time it straight from the reports
of the time We allowed fall asleep the of
high wagerate if it could protest from harm. 1t
blanket of cobweb it left cold and got into eyes,
Coody! Coody!
Without the 1929 agreement I many employers
would have cheerfuy sashed the wagerat making
the worker the goat, usual The agreement good
thing But it contributed little to economic stability then
recovery 1t nothing for the President to proclaim
with pride.
Another of the Presidents points increase of Federal
public works the limit of Treasury ability At the end of
August 1881 according to figures which the President him
self made public the number of engaged such works
about ITO Of per of the total
unemployed Is that the limit of Treasury ability and
that be the Treasury which still counting to
do something for the country?
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
2 TAX EVADERS
TOFACE COURT

A recommendation that man
damus proceedings be instituted
in District Supreme Court against
% persons for failure to file per
Sonal property returns was for.
warded to the District Commits.
sioners today by Tax Assessor Will
liam P. Richards.
In each case, the assessor ad-
vised, the persons not only failed
to file returns but also ignored
letters calling attention to the
tax law and requesting the filing
of a return. The assessor also
reported that a number of other
letters had been sent to de-
linquents and recommendations
for similar proceedings against a
large number will follow from
time to time The recommenda-
ton recited:
"The personal tax law re-
quires that, anyone residing
in the District for three months
or more prior to July 1 of each
year, file a personal tax return
during the month of July, and
If return is not filed, the Com
.miSSiOnerS are empowered to
file mandamuS proceedings
against such persons to compel
the filing of a return"
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
REGA|NS MIND,
FACES TRIAL

The strange death of Emma
Kirk, 71-year-old spinster "um-
brella woman" six years ago and
the subsequent confessions and
regulations by her alleged slayer
last year, were brought to life
again today with the revelation
that George Pierce Tucker, 80, in
dicted on first degree murder
charges, will soon be brought to
trial in District Supreme Court.
It is learned that Tucker,
brought to washington early last
year after he had given himself
up in California, has been re-
moved from ST. Elizabeths Hos
pital, where he had been con-
fined for more than a year and a
half as of unsound mind, and is
now in the District Jail awaiting
trial.
Tucker, who has alternately
confessed and repudiated his con-
feSsion several times since his ar
rest, is now reported to have
again repudiated the confession
and to have said he does not
know anything about the strangu-
Iation of the aged woman, who
was slain on the night of January
%, 1926, in her umbrella shop at
819 R st. N. w.
Declaring that the crime was
preying on his mind, Tucker ap-
preached a policeman in Los An
geles in April, 1881, and declared:
I'm ready to give up-I killed
the wOman!"
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
PHONE IN TRADE
TALK SUBJECT

Use of the telephone in adver-
tising as an aid to economic dis
tribution of commodities was the
subject of a talk given the Wash
ington Advertising Club at the
Raleigh Hotel today by John M.
Shaw, information manager Of
the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company.
The great problem facing busi-
ness men of the future, Mr.. Shaw
told the advertisers, is how to
distribute commodities rather
than how to produce them.
Washington phone subscribers
make about a million calls i'll
the downtown area every day,
Mr.. Shaw estimated. Thousands
of those calls are directly in
volved with selling and delivery
of merchandise.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
Library Will Close
FridQuS at I p. NJ.

The public library at Eighth
and K Streets Northwest will be
closed on Fridays at l o'clock be-
ginning tomorrow, DR.. George F.
Bowerman, librarian, today an
nounced.
The Friday closings are ordered
to make it possible to keep the
library open Saturdays until
o'clock. Major branches at Mt.
Pleasant Southeast, and Takoma
will not close Friday afternoons,
but will shut their doors Saturdays
at l o'clock,
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
HOOVER To ASK
j. s. FOR D. c. .
JOB FUNDS
Commissioners, Assured His
Support, Go Before Budget
Tomorrow on Relief

Assured of Presiden
Hoover support for a congress
sional appropriation to cope
with the unemployment prob
lem, the District Commissioners
and officials of the Board of
Public Welfare are scheduled
to appear before the Budget
Bureau tomorrow to map out
the size of the appropriation.
President Hoover, it was learned
today, is prepared to recommend
to Congress the enactment of
such legislation which the Com
miSsioners deem advisable.
Budget For 1884
Consideration is being given by
District officials to request a de-
ficiency appropriation as we'll as
the incorporation of an item in
the Board of Public Welfare ap-
preparation in the 1884 budget
to battle against the starvation
which the emergency relief COM
mittee predicts may be seen in
the Capital this winter.
In the event request for
deficiency or joint resolution
appropriation is decided upon
the approval by Congress may,
not come until mid-December.
The only assistance which the
District can now look for to
carry on the relief work until
the appropriation is made is the
success of the Community Chest
drive.
Amount Unknown
Just what size of an appro-
priation will be sought could
not be determined today. DR.
Luther H. Reichelderfer, prest',
dent of the Board of Commits
sioners, has denied published
reports that the Commissioners
will seek $1,O0O,O0O and declared
that the size of the appropria'
tion will be ironed out after con-
ferences with the emergency com"
mittee and the Bureau of the
Budget.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
CLEARED
IN SLAY|NGOF
POLICEMAN
Justice Wheat Orders 3 Others
to Trial in Death of Milo
Kennedy in Riot

Verdicts of not guilty di-
rected by Chief Justice Alfred
A. Wheat in District Supreme
Court today freed three of the
six colored men on trial on
charges of fatally beating Park
Policeman Milo j. Kennedy in
Logan Circle last August G..
The men were charged with
first degree murder.
Those freed were Leroy Robin
son, Louis R.. Murray and Harry
M. DuVal. The jury will decide
the fate of the other three men,
Joseph j. Jackson, Irwin Murray,
and Ralph E. Holmes.
At the conclusion of the proSecu-
tion'S case, Attorney John H. Will
son for the defense made the mo-
ton for a directed verdict of ac-
quittal as to Robinson, Murray
and Duval on the ground that
there was no evidence that they
participated in the attack on
Kennedy. The court agreed that
there was insufficient evidence to
hold them.
A motion for directed verdict
for acquittal of Jackson on the
ground that all he did was to
break away from Kennedy when
the officer sought to arrest him
without a warrant was denied.
Council sought to show that the
arrest of Jackson was illegal. and
that, therefore, he had right to
resist.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
District Hoo HOOs
Initiate 7 Members

Seven Washington lumbermen
last night were received in the
Cancatinated Order of Hoo Hoo
at a dinner meeting of local Club
SO. at the Continental Hotel.
They are George w. Huguely, A..
B. Church, Joe Gail. M. w. Cur
tbs, William o. Fuellhart, William
c. Harrison and S. E. Madden.
William H. BUrrass, of Lynch
burg, Va, a national officer, and
Nelson o. Gladding, of Indianap-
oils, oldest member of the Hoo
Hoo, attended. Paul Speake pre-
sided.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
Exhibit
DralUS Manu- Photos

Hundreds of entries have been
made in the color enlargement
photo contest which will feature
the eighth annual Industrial Ex-
position of the Washington Cham
ber of Commerce opening Mon
day.
More than 500 in prizes will be
awarded winners in the contest,
sponsored by the Master Photo
Finishers Association. These
photos later will be displayed at
the associations convention in
New York.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
Clan GregOr Society
Meets In CuDituL

The American Clan Gregor So
ciety today will begin a two-day
social and historical program at
the Willard Hotel. A business
meeting will be held at 2:30 p. M,
and a Washington Ricentennial
celebration at 8:15 p. m.
A bronze marker commemorat-
ing George Washington's first
entry into Prince Georges county
will be dedicated. Observance of
the Tooth anniversary Of the death
Of Sir Walter Scott will be an,
other feature.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
FACES SECOND CHARGE

Willie Comodore. of near Dare's
Post Office, was lodged in Prince
Georges county jail at Upper
Marlboro yesterday on Federal
charge of transportation and pos,
session of liquor. He already is
under bond on another rum
charge.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20

pened when we were itsy-bitsy chill
dren way back in 1929. And he may
be right; memories are short, and
toward the end of 1929 we were
handed lot of sticky candy so as not
to howl for supper. 1t happens that
for the past six months I have been
looking over the words and actions of
our leaders in the weeks that followed
the Stock Market crash (and like
Joe Cook with the Polo Grounds, l
mean the OLD Stock Market crash,
discovering that the truth was as OBJ
stinately withheld from us as if we
were-to quote Mr.. Lardner-a bunch
1@-witted morons.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
TGriCGbs InUOLUed
In Manu- Accidents

Although taxicab drivers have
been characterized as the safest
drivers in Washington, they are
involved in one-fourth of the acci-
dents and comprise only 4 per
cent of the total number of auto
mobiles here, it was disclosed in
data of the police department sta
tistical bureau.
During the recent rain storms
the percentage of cab collisions
has been higher.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
True to Type
HOOVER'S II POINTS
ONLY GOOD FOR
3RD GRADE
BY GILBERT SELDES

the campaign gets any hotter we II all be back in the
primary grade learning to figure again, with special
attention subsracon division and the minus quantity
To Judge by the of President he thinks
all in third grade counting only far as fingers
go, for whenever he speaks twelve great points
nounced and he that too doltish to
understand them and stupid to remember what hap
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
G. o. P. RALLY SPEAKERS

Former Representative Philip
P. Campbell. of Kansas, and Mrs.
George A. Wyeth. president of
the Women's National Republi.
can Club of New York city, are
scheduled as the speakers at a
G. O.. P. rally in the large ball
room of the Willard tomorrow
night.
The Washington times., 1932-10-20
RALLY AT CATONSVILLE

Young people of the Chevy
Chase First Methodist Episcopal
Church will go to Catonsville for
rally with Rev. j. Turnbull
Spicknall's charge Saturday. To-
morrow night the group plans a
straw ride,
Evening star., 1932-01-21
WESTERN RIFLEMEN
SHARE LEADERSHIP
Ties Fresno (Calif.) High in Sec,
ond National Junior Series
After Winning First.

Rife teams of Western High School
of this city and Fresno (Calif.) High
School, after having battled neck and
neck through the first series Of i've
matches, with the local team finally
coming out the victor and winner of
first-place trophy, have started the sec
ond series of national Junior rife
matches in another tie
Each team fired scores of 496 and 500
in the opening match of the second Sc
rieS, the results announced by the Ma
tional Rife Association However, West
ern is leading 1900 to 1850 in total
points for all matches fired In both
series These matches are fired from
prone position.
After having copied the flrst-place
trophy in the first series in the prone
standing class, Western opened the sec
ond series by placing second to Lane
Technical of Chicago in this class
For total matches fired, however, West
ern still holds lead, $50 points to 430,
over the Chicago shooters.
Central High, scoring 494, placed
third in the first Of the second series
matches In the highest prone division;
Mckinley High placed eighth with a
score of 488. and Western girls, twelfth,
with 47s. In the second division. prone
class, Central High girls placed third
with score Of 43l. In the prone
standing division Central High boys
placed fifth and Central girls eighth.
Seventy-two junior teams from all
parts of the country are competing in
| the matches.