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Evening star., 1932-08-01
TWO BOYS DROWN
WAD|NG IN RIVER
Mother and Sister Try VainIy
to Save Joseph Athey, 8,
at Great Falls.

Two small boys were drowned yeSter-
day while wading in the Potomac, one
of them almost within reach of his
mother, who. nevertheless, was power
less to save him. Both got into unex-
pected deep water and were unable to
SWIM
Joseph Athey, years old, had gone
to Great Falls on the Virginia side
with his young brother, sister and
mother, Mrs Ethel Athey of BAIT @
street, on an outing.
Joseph was wading while the other
members of his family looked on from
the shore nearby. He slipped from a
rock and the strong current swept him
into a deep pool.
The child'S mother, who could not
swim, sought desperately to reach the
drowning boy and his young sister
leaped into the water, although she
could not swim, in a vain effort to
grasp the boy.
Assistance Too Late.
Others on a Sabbath holiday at
Great Falls heard Mrs. Athey's cries
and ran to her assistance. A number OF
swimmers SCOIl were OlfulB 4OI Ill-
BODY, which was located almost an hour
later.
A certificate of accidental death was
issued by the coroner. Joseph's father
died only a few years ago. The child
had been eager to go wading for a
long time, and his mother finally
agreed.
Houston Nash, 9-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. c. L. Nash Of 106 West Maple
avenue, Alexandria, Va, was drowned
at Gunston Manor while wading to-
ward a dredge anchored off shore.
Mr.. Nash is president of the Gunston
Manor Property Owners Association,
and with Mrs. Nash had gone to a
meeting of the association while Hous-
ton remained behind at the Summer
cottage.
Steps Into Hole.
A passer-by noticed the small boy
wading toward the dredge and clinging
to a rope extending between the boat
and shore. Suddenly the childS head
bobbed under. He had stepped into a
hole made by the dredge in prepara-
ton for bathing beach.
The passer-by hurried to the meet
ing and spread the alarm. 1t was al
most two hours later when divers loca-
ted the body, which was removed to
the Wheatley funeral chapel in Alex
andria. DR.. w. P. Cation of Accotink
acting coroner, issued a certificate OF
accidental death.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
new NAVY PROJECTS
TO COST $4,000, 600
Washington Omitted From Expen'
ditures Under Recent Emer-
gency Relief Measure.

Rear Admiral A. L. Parsons, chief OF
the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy
Department, is drawing up list of
public works projects to be constructed
Immediately under the emergency relief
act recently passed.
This will embrace a S10,000,000 pro-
gram for the Navy. Washington loses
out in this program. as the measure
prohibits spending construction funds
in the District of Columbia.
While part Of this money is expected
to go toward construction of the new
Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, Admiral
Parsons told The Star today the ban
against spending funds here bars start
ing Washington's new Naval Hospital,
although that project has been author
lied By Congress.
Various navy yards throughout the
country are being polled for priority of
construction of approved projects.
When the list is completed in a few
days, the tentative program will be laid
before the Secretary of the Navy for in
dorsement. 1t is expected then that the
work will 30 forward without delay,
Evening star., 1932-08-01
REPORT OF HOLD-UP
REVEALS SUICIDE:
Police Find Aaron Goldstein,
Grocer, Dead From
Bullet Wound.

Following receipt of a report that a
man had been slain during hold-up at
$500 Ontario road shortly after 6 am.
today, homicide squad detectives went
to the address and found the body of
Aaron Goldstein, 60-year-old grocer,
seated in a chair in the kitchen with
a bullet hole through the head.
The dead mans wife, Mrs. Sarah
Goldstein, and other members of the
family at first were too excited to give
the detectives a coherent account of
the shooting. However, some of the
blood had been washed from the store
keepers face and the revolver was no.
where in sight, SO the detectives were
inclined to believe they were confronted
by another murder
A thorough search of the house by
Detective Sergt. George Darnall, he
said, resulted in the finding of the
gun in rubbish heap in the cellar.
Questioning by Detective Sergt H.
K. Wilson, chief of the homicide squad,
he said, developed that the family did
not want any one to know. that Mr..
GoldStein had taken his own life
His son made a statement to Acting
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald, who
issued a certificate of suicide DIR.
Macdonald said the grocer left no notes
and members of the family were unable
to suggest a reason for his act.
Mr.. Goldstein was proprietor of a
store at 1913 Seventh street.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
ADAMS COMMENDS TWO
FOR RESCUE OF FLYER
Marine Corps Reserves, Who Aided
japanese at Floyd Bennett
Field, Receive Letters.

The Navy Department today an
nounced that Secretary Adams has sent
special letters of commendation to two
Marine Corps Reserves who rescued a
Japanese flyer when he crashed last
March, near Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y.
The two, Sergt. Leroy E. Turner
and Pvt. John Martin Bachmann, Sd,
were commended for rescuing Capt.
Yoshinori Nogaya, a reserve officer of
the Imperial japanese Air Force.
Capt. Nogaya crashed in shallow
creek, his plane being partly submerged
when fire broke out. Turner and
Bachmann waded out to the burning
plane and released the body of Capt.
Nogaya. Immediately thereafter two
explosions of the gasoline tank oc-
Cured. Turner is from Brooklyn, NJ Y,
and Bachmann is from Yonkers, N. Y.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
PROSECUTION BEGUN
AGAINST BUS LINES
Company Charged With Refusal to
Take Out District
License.

The Public Utilities Commission today
ordered a prosecution to be started
against the Washington Virginia and
Maryland Motor Coach Co., of which
Leon Arnold is president. for continuing
to operate its bus lines into the District
without obtaining a license under the
license act of July /, 1882.
Under this act, the license costs
eight-tenths of one cent per bus mile
operated in the District. Mr.. Arnold is
said to have claimed that the District
cannot tax an interstate carrier and has
declined to take out the license.
The prosecution Is to be brought to
the District branch of Police Court.
The penalty prescribed by the act is a
fine Of $500, or Imprisonment for 90
days. The case will be prosecuted by
Assistant Corporation Counsel William
A. Roberts.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
ARLINGTON ASKS
EARLY APPROVAL
Of GAS RATE CUT
Utilities Commission Letter
Sent to State on Year.
Old Application.
OTHER COMMUNITY
ADVANTAGES CITED
County's Progress Requires Re-
moval of Handicap-"Excessive
Profits" Also Discussed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

CLARENDON, Va, August Am
appeal for early and favorable action
on the application Of the Arlington
County Public Utilities Commission, a
semi-official body, for reduction of the
gas rates in Arlington County, filed
more than a year ago, is contained in
a letter addressed today to George C.
Peery. chairman of the State Corpora
ton Commission, by G.. o. Bashem
special counsel for the local utilities
commission.
After calling attention Of the COM
mission to recent developments in the
gas situation in the metropolitan area
of washington, which resulted in an
81, per cent reduction to the consumers
of Washington and an application by
the Maryland Public Service Commls-
sion for a similar cut to the consumers
of that area. Mr.. BaShem told the COM
mission that lone most essential OBJ
iective of our case is to achieve a just
narity in gas rates with the nearby
and comparable communities In Mary
land which now enjoy an undue adVan-
tage in public utility service over
Northern Virginia in the keen COM
petition for home buyers.
Handicap to Progress.
The progress of Arlington County,
rejecting a population increase OF DO
per cent in the last 10 years, the letteT
cites, absolutely requires the reHio'ai
of this serious handicap.
reduction in the Washington rates OF
8I5 per cent. coupled with the reduc-
tion of March /, 1882, both voluntary
and subsequent to the hearing in TINS
case. furnish a most compelling reason
for a downward revision OF our rates
You are. of course, familiar with the
identity of interests tnat control the
gas supply in this whole area. Even
though we are dealing here with sub
sidiary of this monopoly, the fact re-
mains that excessive profits have been
earned by the parent company, thal
the excessive charges we have been
paving have accounted in part for these
profits, and common justice requires
that we participate in the return OF
those profits through rate reductions.
1--WE ask, therefore. that after de-
termining the fair rate on the record
as made your commission give effect tC
this additional 8.5 per cent reduction
Otherwise the discrimination will con-
tinue and will neceSsitate further long
drawn-out and expensive litigation.
I'VE as Virginians are entitled to as
much consideration as the citizens OF
Maryland or the District of Columbia
and feel that cur own State commits
sion will not permit a further con-
tinuation of these discriminations.'
Evening star., 1932-08-01
1900 UNEMPLOYED
STORM OLD Church
SEEKING D. c. RELIEF
Line Begins Forming at 4::30
A.M., Hours Before Offices
Are Due to Open.
$3.50, 900 is AVAILABLE
FOR RESIDENTS OF CITY
Applications of ], 800 Persons Held
Over to Tomorrow, Due
to Rush.

Washingtons unemployed took up
their stand for relief at 4:3O O'Clock
this morning at the old Metropolitan
Methodist Church, John Marshall place
and c street, and four and a half hours
later 1900 men and a few women we're
in a close-packed mass to await aid
from the S350,000 District relief fund.
The new District of Columbia Com
mittee on Unemployment opened its
door in the church at o'clock to the
hrSt 100 aid seekers, and as their ap-
plications for relief were filed they were
released through a side door as sec
ond 100 were admitted.
Fail to Reach I,50O.
BY noon Leroy A. Halbert, director OF
relief, was preparing to advise the more
than $500 persons still awaiting en-
trance that they could not be reached
today and they had better return to-
morrow. Many of those waiting had
been in line since 6 O'Clock this morning.
According to Halbert, the applications
which were being filed today were to be
checked Immediately. Persons found to
be in need of emergency relief, he said,
would be given grocery order slips.
Others will receive early cash relief and
still others will be given an opportunity
to work. As applications were received,
social workers in Red Cross automobiles
scurried about the city, visiting homes
OF relief seekers to determine actual
needs.
Admitting that the applications were
handled slowly on the opening day of
the relief administration, Mr.. Halbert
said he was convinced that after routine
was established, his staff could handle
between 300 and 500 cases day.
The fund being administered is the
S350,000 which Congress appropriated
during the recent session. 1t will be
used to provide the necessities of life,"
including food, fuel, shelter and cloth
ing for bona fide residents of the Dis
trict. For purposes of administering
relief, Mr.. Halbert said, only persons
who have lived in Washington for at
least one year will be classed as resi-
dents.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
GIRL FINDS FATHER
LIFELESS FROM GAS
Walter c. Jester, Alexandria, Be-
yond Aid of Rescue Squad.
Suicide Threat in Note.
By a STAFF correspondent Of The Star.

ALEXANDER. Va. August 1.-The
body. of Walter c. Jester, 81. of 113
North Columbus street, was found in
a gas-f1lled room of his home by his
daughter Virginia when she returned
home about II o'clock last night. Mem
bers of the local rescue squad, who
were summoned. stated that the man
had been dead for several hours. Gas
from a jet in a small room on the
second floor of the house had been
turned on by wrench, police said.
A note in which he threatened to
commit suicide unless he was loaned
S100, was sent to local organization
recently by Mr.. Jester, member of the
organization said today
In addition to his wife, the deceased
is survived by two daughters, Miss Vir-
ginia Jester and Mrs Elizabeth Rose,
and three sons, William, Joseph and
Randolph. Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
36 CLASSES ENTERED
FOR HORSE SHOW
Clark County Event, at Berryville
August 1919, to Include
Racing and Cups.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WINCHESTER, Va, August l.
Thirty-three classes are on the program
for exhibition and judging during the
annual show of the Clarke County Horse
and Colt Show Association, at Berry
vile, August 1919, according to the
Official program, which is being mailed
to exhibitors. In addition, there will be
five racing events each day. Besides
the money prizes, six silver cups will
be given in the Corinthian class by Mrs.
Carter Mullikin Lockwood in memory
OF her father, the late Charles Mullikin,
who was for some years president of
the association as well as president of
the Virginia State Hose Show Society.
There cups will have to be won three
times, but not necessarily in successive
order. by the same person to retain per-
manent possession. Judges will be Louis
Merryman, Sparks, Md, and Wilbur Os-
borne, Gordonsville, Va, for hunters:
Harry K. Russell, Winchester, and
Thompson Sewers, Stonebridge, Va, for
heavy drafts, and William Metzger,
LeeSburg, Va, for races.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
KILLS OWN BROTHER
IN FIGHT OVER SHIRT
Colored Man Admits Shooting-Po-
lice See Violation of Fire
arms Law.

Raymond Minor, rs, colored, was shot
and killed yesterday by his brother,
Andrew Minor, 27 during a quarrel
over the possession of a shirt in the
bedroom of their home, 100 block of
MAYORS Court.
The injured man was pronounced
dead on arrival of the Emergency Hos
pital ambulance. Policemen G.. w.
Absher and W. r. Morris Of No. 2 Pre-
cinct said Andrew Minor admitted he
fired the shot and then threw the pistol
away.
The two had quarreled frequently,
police were told Andrew Minor said
he recently borrowed 81 on the weapon
from Seventh street dealer and re-
deemed it few days ago. Police are
investigating to learn if the new ordin-
ance governing the sale of guns was
violated by the transaction.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
BUILD TENNIS COURTS
FOR USE OF COMMUNITY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BRENTWOOD, Md, August 1.-The
mayor and Town Council will meet this
evening. At special meeting held
Friday the council voted to grant TO
the Mount Rainier Brentwood Boys
Club members certain privileges in the
use OF Bartlett Park AS a result work
already has begun in removing the leaf
mold in portion of the park in the
northwest corner preparatory to con-
strucLing two double tennis courts
which will be for the use of the general
public through issuance of permits, but
will be maintained by the Boys Club
through its Executive Committee with
special privileges to the members OF the
club for using the courts. 1t is under
stood croquet grounds and space Tor
other games will also be provided.
Next Saturday the Brentwood Men
Club will have their anual picnic and
outing at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
TWO DEAD, THREE
HURT IN NEARBY
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
James 0'Rourke, 20, Cumber-
land, and H. Lester Good,
46, TraviIah, Md, Killed.
AUTOS ARE OVERTURNED
IN LEAVING ROADWAY
Similar Fatal Accidents Near
Clarksburg and at Westmore.
Man on Boulevard Hit.

Two men were killed, two others were
critically injured and a fifth suffered
minor hurts in series of week end
trafffic accidents reported to police in
nearby Maryland.
Those dead are James O'Rourke, 20
years old, of Cumberland, Md. and H
Lester Good, 46, of Travilah, Md, while
the injured are the formers brother,
Joseph Edward O'Rourke, "a, of 508
Maple Ridge road, Bethesda, clerk in
the Bank of Bethesda; Lee johnson, 40
Of Berwyn, Nd, and j. E. Silvins, also
Of Travilah.
Both O'Rourke and Good were killed
when automobiles in which they were
riding ran off the road between Rock
vile and Frederick and overturned
The Cumberland youth and his elder
brother were driving back to Bethesda
from Cumberland shortly after last mid
night, with the latter at the wheel of
the car, when the m ~Aline ran of the
road near Clarksburg, Md, plunged
down 4-foot embankment and crashed
into tree, where it was demolished.
Taken to Gaithersburg.
Passing motorists summoned an am
bulance from Gaithersburg and the two
u16u were IuSIcQ IO IIle OlllCe Oh LII.
w. Stanley Barber at GaitherSburg
where James O'Rourke was pronounced
dead of fractured skull. Joseph
ORourke was removed to Georgetown
Hospital here, and X-rays were being
taken to determine the extent of his
injuries. His condition is said to be
serious.
The youth who was killed was motor
ing to Bethesda to spend today with
his brother after the latter had visited
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John T.
ORourke of 453 Columbia street, Cum
berland, when the tragedy occurred,
relatives said. James was employed in
the shops of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad at Cumberland.
Good, former resident of New Mar
ket, Va, died instantly of a fractured
skull, when a car he was driving left
the Rockville road at
Westmore, l mile west of Rockville,
shortly before o'clock yesterday morn
ing, overturned and crashed into a
pole.
With him was ]. E. Silvins, also for
morly Of New Market, who escaped
with minor cuts and bruises. Both
Silvins and Good had been making their
home with William Beahm, near Ira
vilah.
Police were. told that both men had
been drinking. Authorities turned the
body over to a Rockville undertaken
pending funeral arrangements and to-
. day were endeavoring to communicate
with Goods wife, who is said to live at
New Market.
Struck Crossing Boulevard.
johnson was seriously injured when
4 struck by an automobile while crossing
h the Baltimore Boulevard near the Uni
versitty of Maryland. The accident
happened at almost the identical spot
where his wife was fatally injured last
Fall.
johnson was rushed to Casualty Hos
pital by the Bladensburg Fire Rescue
Squad He is believed to be suffering
a fracture of the skull and internal in
juries and he remained unconscious
several hours.
johnson was walking along the side
of the boulevard with his wife when
she was struck. He is an employe OF
the University of Maryland.
CRASH KILLS VIRGINIAN.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
MILLION NEW QUARTER DOLLARS
AVAILABLE AT DISTRICT BANKS
Distribution of Washington Bicenenna Coin Is Started
in City by Treasury.

where. up till II o'clock, 1900 coins
had been exchanged for old ones.
The new quarter bears on one SIDE
portrait of George Washington. the
figures 1882" and the words Liberty
and I'm God We Trust" On the other
side is a design with the spread eagle
and the insignia, United States OF
America, E Pluribus Unum, quarter
dollar.
The first issue of these coins totaled
about 5000, 600, worth more than mil
lion and a half dollars. They were
coined at three mints, San Francisco,
Denver and Philadelphia. The coins
available here came from Philadelphia.
The new design was by John Flanagan
of New York and Paris, a well known
sculptor.
Evening star., 1932-08-01

A million shining new quarter dol
lars were available at Washington
banks today as the Treasury Depart
ment began distribution of new de-
sign quarter-dollar which bears the
portrait of George Washington.
While the coin is commemorative of
the Bicentennial, the coin is more than
a memorial coin because, under the
law. the use of this design may con-
tinue for the next 25 years.
The design for the regular quarter
dollar may not be changed within that
time except by act of Congress.
There was sharp demand for the
new quarter dollar at the office of the
cashier OF the Treasury Department,
Evening star., 1932-08-01
ROADSIDE CLUB RAID
NETS ALLEGED LIQUOR
Benny Morris Faces Charges in
Prince Georges County
for Second Time.
By STAFF correspondent Of The star.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, August l
-Raiding the Forestville Club a road
side resort on the Marlboro pike, Prince
Georges County police early yesterday
arrested Benny Morris, alleged propri-
etor, on charges of possession of liquor
He was released under $500 bond by
Justice of Peace Thomas D. Griffith.
Police said they seized a 5-gallon can
Of alcohol. II pints of alleged whisky
and about barrel of beer.
Morris was arrested on liquor charges
about a year ago, when police faded
the establishment, but was acquitted.
Yesterdays raid was staged by Police
men G.. William Gray. Elon Turner
Oscar Beall and r. Arnold Naylor. A
number of guests were in the club when
they arrived, but none was arrested.
The same officers also arrested
Freddie Radtke on charges of possession
CT liquor following a raid on house
on Walker Mill road.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
FILM EDITOR DIES

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, August I Cp).
james r. Quirk, publisher of a motion
picture magazine, died in a hospital
today. He had been i'll about two weeks
from pneumonia and heart attack
Quirk, husband of May Allison, motion
picture actress, contracted a severe cold
during a tour Of Northern California.
He returned home and physicians
ordered him to the hospital. The heart
attack, physicians said, was induced by
pneumonia.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
Open Life-Saving Glass.

The American Red Cross will open a
class in life-saving for men and boys
tonight at the Y. M. G. A. Twelfth
street branch. The class will begin at
8 O'Clock and will be in charge of H. K
Howerton, assisted by Robert Best
James Marten and Oswald Glymph
instruction will continue each night
this week.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
Woman Kills Snake
Children Thought
Live Garden Hose
Home of Mrs. McNey at
Leonardtown, Md, Scene
of Exciting Moment.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, August l.
Attracted by the cries of her children,
who were playing in the yard of their
home Saturday, Mrs. lie Roy McNey
hurried to investigate. They told her
the those was running across the yard
alive
snake. Mrs MeNey seized a shotgun
containing just one shell, but it was suf-
ficient. She blew the snakes head
neatly off.
1t was one of the largest black
snakes seen here this Summer. Little
Jean McNey was about to pick it up,
when it darted across the yard.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
HELD IN AUTO VANDALISM
Suspect Detained by Police for In
vestigation.

Police today are holding a 23-year-
old youth for investigation following
damage done yesterday morning to an
automobile belonging to Walter Van
Mort, 1108 Ninth street
Van Mort reported that two men broke
both doors Of his car, smashed the
windshield and threw acid inside while
it was parked in front of his home The
radio in the car also was damaged. He
could assign no motive for the van
dalism.
Police are investigating the possibil-
itv that this case may have some con-
nection with one July %, when several
shots were fired into a parked car OPP
posite lbs Eighth street.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
TWO POLICEMEN INJURED
Nichols and Tomkins Hurt Chasing
Law Violators.

Two fourth precinct policemen sus-
tanned minor injuries last night while
in pursuit of law violators.
In chasing a colored man near
Carrollburg and Half streets southwest,
Policeman r. Nicholas stumbled and
broke bone in his foot. He was treated
at Providence Hospital. The officer had
been called to the place to stop fight
between two colored men.
Policeman Robert Tomkins was called
to the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at
Sixth and C streets, where some boys
were shooting an air rifle. He sprained
his ankle when his foot slipped between
two cross ties.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
NICARAGUAN GUARDS
ROUT BANDIT FORCES
Natives Under Command of Ma
rine Encounter Invaders Near
Esteh.

In a l5-minute encounter with Mica
raguan bandits who were using auto
matte wea pens, rifles, pistols and bombs
a detachment of the native nationa
guard dispersed the hostile force neal
Fsteli, in Western Nicaragua, Saturday
the Navy Department was informed
today in a dispatch from Lieut.. Col
Calvin B. Matthews, u. S. NJ. c., COM
manding the native constabulary.
The national guard force was under
command OF Lieut. Clarence G. Hughe:
of Los Angeles. Calf, private in the
United States Marine Corps, and Lieut.
Pedro Silva. The bandit casualties were
unknown. There were no guardia cas-
ualties.