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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

Crossing the borders of her adopted
State of California for the first time in
40 years, Mrs. Mary Mooney was in
Washington today to do her 84-year-old
best to effect the release of her son Tom
from San Quentin Prison.
Something of the traditional fighting
spirit of her native County Mayo flashed
from her clear blue eyes as she went
ahead with plans today to spread on
the pages of the Congressional Record
the report of the Wickersham Commits
sion on the Mooney-Billings case, and
to lay it personally, if possible, before
President Hoover.
With Warren K. Billings, Thomas j.
Mooney was sentenced to prison in con-
nection with the Preparedness day
bombing in San Francisco. He has
served 16 years.
Hope for his release appears brighter
now than it ever did before" Mrs.
Mooney said today. But whatever the
present outcome, it is a fight that l will
never quit. My son is innocent, and an
aroused public opinion and the pres
sure it will exert is bound in time to
force his pardon. Gov. Rolph cannot
fail to act when the world knows the
true facts"
Mrs. Mooney will address a mass
meeting at Arcade Hall, Fourteenth
street and Park road. tonight. Today
and tomorrow she will confer, accord
ing to plans made by the International
Labor Defense. which sponsored her
trip from California, with the three
Senators who seek to have the Mooney
case data published as a Senate docu-
ment. They are Senators Cutting OF
New Mexico, Costigan of Colorado and
Walsh of Montana. Their resolution
awaits a vote.
Inclosing a dollar bill which he de-
scribed as his last, man who signed
his letter "a st. Louis Plumber" today
paid a debt of almost two decades
standing when he asked Mrs. Mooney
to use the dollar to buy meal
Eighteen years ago I was hungry
and broke and Tom Mooney bought me
a meal" the letter said. Please take
this dollar, which is my last. and buy
a meal for yourself in remembrance OF
the one Tom bought for me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
WOMEN OFFER BURIAL MONEY
FOR INVENTOR AS RICHES LOOM
Three Interested in Capital Victim of Georgia Crash
Surviving Relatives in Sweden

Although his sole surviving relatives
are in Sweden, at least three women
have expressed a wish to arrange for
the burial of Oscar Sporting. 52-year-
old Washington inventor, whose body
has been held by an undertaken at
Louisville, Ga, since Sperling's death in
an automobile accident near that city
10 days ago.
The undertaken, William G. Taylor,
also has become temporary admin
istrator of Sperling's estate, said to in
clude as assets patent rights in dry
icemaking machine which Sporting in
vented and for which, his friends say,
he had been offered 100000.
Taylor is holding the body until ne
can communicate through the Swedish
consulate in Savannah with the in
ventor's brother and sister in Sweden.
Sporting had lived at 1400 L street while
working on number of inventions.
The accidenA occurred while Sporting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
POLICE SEEK USE
OF SEIZED AUTOS
GIassford Urges Plan to Aid
in Enforcement of Dry
Law in District.

With a view to increasing the scope
of prohibition enforcement in the Dis
trict, Gen. Pelham D. GlaSSford. super
intendent of police, seeks the right for
police to use confiScated automobiles in
suppressing liquor law violations.
With the use of some of the cars con-
fiscated by the Police Department be-
cause of various law violations the
efficiency of enforcement work would
be increased, Gen. Glassford believes.
The police, he thinks, should be allowed
to take their pick of the confscated
automobiles
Gen. GlasSford Is having a study
made of laws and regulations to see if
some of the confiscated motor vehicles
could be put to this use.
Auto Shortage Cited.
The shortage in automobiles for en-
forcement work was pointed to in con-
nection with statement by Gen. Glass
ford that only 'the surface is being
scratched" in reference to the enforce
ment of dry laws in this city. Many of
the enforcement officers now use their
private automobiles for enforcement
work, Gen. Glassford pointed out.
While the Prohibition Bureau pays
AOA OAAS 6eboOAAAAC anu VA uONd Wy O1uCCl .
in their private automobiles for en-
forcement of prohibition, there is no
Government insurance carried for dam
ages to these automobiles, Gen. Glass
ford points out. There are only two
automobiles assigned to the police de-
partment for the enforcement work and
due to the condition of these the en-
forcement officers prefer to use their
own cars, he said.
Statistics in Gen. Glassford's office
point to a steady increase of the num-
Der Of persons arrested for intoXication
since 1922, when only 6,373 persons
were taken into custody due to this
cause. In the fiscal year ending July
l, 1881, total of 16,408 persons were
arrested for this reason.
401 Places Now Known.
Pointing to the difficulties in gain
ing entrance and evidence to make ar
rests, Gen. GlaSsford declared there
are now 40l known or suspected places
where liquor is being sold and 70 places
where there is gambling or suspected
gambling. While police have these
places under surveillance, it is very diff
ficult to gain the necessary evidence to
make raids, he points out.
Figures in Gen. GlaSsfords office
show total OF q stills seized In the
District in the fiscal year ending in
1881 and a total of 23,082 gallons of
liquors of various sorts seized. The
peak in stills seized was reached in 1928,
with 116.
The peak of the amount of liquor
seized In any year since 1922 was in
1929, when a total of 28,481 gallons
were taken.
Intoxication Arrests Gain.
While the number of stills and guam
titles of liquor seized f1uctuates from
year to year, the number of arrests for
lntoxication shows steady increase.
In the fiscal years between 1922 and
1881 the number of arrests recorded for
lntoxlcation Is as follows:
For 1923, $685.; 1924. 9.149: 1925,
1851; 1925, 12,907; 1927 1875; 1923,
1876; 1929, 1892, and 1880, 14,409.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
ARMY JUMPERS TO COMPETE
IN FIRST TELEGRApHIC MEET
Fort Myer and Three Western Posts to Match Teams by
Wire Next Friday Night.

1ormance Of the corresponding con,
testants on the three other teams will
be scored by wire. Thus, the audience
Will be given a jump-by- jump report OF
the competition.
me riders will go over 10 obstacles
! teet to Az feet high, some OF them
o leet IN spread The time limit Will
be ! minute As seconds.
Fort Myer will pin its hopes OF VIC
Tory on an equine contingent headed oy
the Two veteran Olympic jumpers JACK
Snlpe and Miss America" and the
posts leading equestrians, Lieut.. Col. =
George, Capt G. I. Smith. Lieut.. y
n. Noble. Lieut.. w. A. Bugher. Lieut.
Goroon Rogers, Lieut. G. w. 6ennett
and Lieut.. A. G. stone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

The first Geographic jumping con-
test ever offered Washington horse low
ers will be held next Friday night, with
four Army jumping teams competing in
widely separated sections of the coun-
try and the results being recorded by
wire.
Capital fans will follow the contest
at Fort Myer, Va, where that military
posts team will go over the jumps in
competition with aggregations at Fort
Sill, Okla; Fort Riley, Kans., and Fort
Leavenworth, Kans.
The teams will take their best
mounts over the difficult international
military course and. as each rider COM
pletes his run, the results Of the per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
PERMIT FOR BRIDGE .
PASSES TIME LIMIT.
Congress May Be Asked to
Extend Authority for Great
Falls Project.

The permit granted by the Secretary
of War for the construction of a bridge
across the Potomac River at Great
Falls expired today.
Beyond digging for foundations for
the bridge, on the Virginia side of the
river, officials in the office of Mai.
Joseph D. Arthur, jr.. district engi-
neer for the War Department for the
Washington area, asserted that the
Great Falls Bridge Co., Inc, has done
nothing on the site toward erecting the
span across the Potomac A wooden
shack for the workers was erected near
where the ''footings" for the bridge
were being dug.
Legislation Now Needed.
Now, in the opinion of the Govern
ment officials, it will be necessary for
the Great Falls Bridge Co., Inc, to
which the permit was granted, to 60
to Congress and secure special legisla-
ton authorizing the project. Some time
ago officials of the concern indicated
that they were seeking to interest Sen
ator Swanson, Democrat, of Virginia in
the contemplated bill.
E. j. Merrick, jr., civil engineer in
the United States Engineer Office, which
conducts preliminary investigations for
the granting of bridge construction per-
mits, said today that the Great Falls
Bridge Co., Inc, has made no move to
renew the permit.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, vice chair
man and executive officer of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, said that his group would have
RI hA
permit, as the commission favors con-
Structicn of the bridge. The area where
the bridge was planned lies within the
future George Washington Memorial
Parkway
Planned to Light Falls.
The Great Falls Bridge Co., Inc,
maintains offices in the Woodward
Building. officials of the concern said
previously that the business depression
had initiated against their plans for
going ahead with the work They de-
clared plans for a three-year extension
are before Congress.
The original permit was granted to
the Great Falls Bridge Co., Inc, on
May l, 1929, and the firm was required
10 begin work by March 4, $780, Rec
ords In the United States engineer Of
flee show that this requirement was
satisfied by starting work on February
10, 1880. Under the permit the firm
was required to have the bridge COM
pleted two years from March 4, 1880,
which is today.
Pretentious plans were announced a
couple OF years ago by the bridge con-
Germ. Great Falls was to have spe-
cal Illuminating effect, designed as a
special attraction for those using the
bridge at night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04

was en- route to a Florida resort city,
accompanied by George T. Ash. jr., of
1886 Shepherd street, to close a deal
with South American interests for
patent rights in his dry-ice machine.
Sporting, Ash said, was driving at the
time the accident occurred.
After Sperling's death, Ash received
letter from Gary. Ind, woman claim
ing that her sister was engaged to the
inventor and asking information about
the funeral. Later the Louisville chief
of police received an inquiry about
Sporting from a woman in Yoakum,
Tex
A third woman came to Louisville
from Miami a few days after the acct
dent, explaining she was to have mar
ried Sporting soon and declaring she was
in possession of his will.
The woman was said TO have paid
Taylor 500 for a vault for the body,
where 1t will remain until Sperling's
family can be heard from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
TRAFFIC LINES HIT
Serve Only as Exhibition of Paint

Serve Only as Exhibition of Paint
er's Skill, Boylan Holds.
White traffic lanes painted around
Peace Monument have no value except
as an exhibition of a painters skill.
Representative Boylan of New York
today wrote Chairman Norton of the
House District Committee.
Boyland said he had made efforts re-
Gently to have traffic authorities i'm
prove traffic conditions around the
monument, and the result was the
painting of the white line.
II do hope" he said, that no fatali-
ties will occur at this point until we
secure proper protection"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
$25, 900 INCOME LIMIT
ON INSTITUTIONS OPPOSED
D. c. Heads Represented as Favor
ing Amendment of District
Code

Vernon West, principal assistant
corporation counsel of the District, told
the Judiciary Subcommittee of the
House District Committee at a hearing
today that the Commissioners favor a
pending bill to amend the District code
TO remove the $4,000 property holding
limitation on charitable and benevolent
institutions
The restriction was put in the code
in 1884, West said, when $4,000 was
considered big income for charitable
institution.
George S. Wilson, director of public
welfare. also Endorsed the bill.
The hearing was conducted by Rep
reSentative Palmisano of Maryland
chairman of the Judiciary Subcom-
mittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
BOOSTS DEMOCRATS

The prediction that the next Presi-
dent will be Democrat, was made last
night by Harold B. Faulkrod,. in an
address to the Al Smith Club, at a
in the Arlington Hotel.
Bert Walmsley was elected president
OF the club. Other officers chosen in
Guided Mrs. L. Gauzza, vice president;
w. M. Greer, treasurer: Mr.. Faulkrod,
secretary; John J. Cain, sergeant at
arms, and A. j. Verschelden, in charge
of publicity.
The next meeting of the club will be
held March 10 at pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
PLAN BERGMAN RITES

John Bergman, A, who died Tues
day in Hines Hospital. Chicago, will be
buried in Arlington National Cemetery
tomorrow Funeral services will be held
at the funeral parlorS of Almus r.
Speare, 1923 Connecticut avenue. The
hour has not been set.
Mr.. Bergman was q former resident
of this city, where he had motor cycle
agency on Ninth street. He went TO
Texas in 1928, establishing a similar
business. During the war he was a
lieutenant in the Quarternaster Corps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
DEBATE TEAMS TO MEET
Federal Control Topic of G. W. U.
and Florida Here,

The George Washington University
debating team will meet debaters from
the University of Florida here tomor-
row night on the question, Resolved,
that Congress should enact legislation
providing for the centralized control of
industry" The local team will take the
affirmative
George Washington will be repre-
sented by Dewitt Bennett of Portland,
Greg, a junior in the college. and Philip
Merriman of Missouri, a student in the
School of Engineering. The visitors
will bring willard Ayres of Miami, a
senior in the College Of Education, and
Harold Wahl of Orlando, senior law
student at. the University of Florida.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
TWO PROMOTION TESTS
APPROVED BY BOARD
Sandberg, Fingerprint Expert, and
Rhoda Milliken Seek to
Get Lieutenancies.

The Civil Service Commission has
approved applications for non-com-
petitive promotion examinations for
Sergt, Fred Sandberg. police fingerprint
expert. and Sergt. Rhoda Milliken of
the Women'S Bureau, it was announced
today.
In both instances the applicants will
seek to qualify for lieutenancieS.
Sergt. Milliken has been acting head
OF the Women's Bureau since the recent
retirement of Lieut. Nina Van Wrinkle.
The examinations we're requested by
Supt. of Police GlaSsford. The date has
not been set, but they will be In the
near future, it was said at the commits
sion this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
CHURCH CLASS H0N0RS
WILLIAM ALLEN WILBUR
G. W. q. Provost, Teacher for 25
Years Is POSTMASTER at Din
ner Marking Anniversary.

William Allen Wilbur, provost OF
George Washington University, served
as POSTMASTER as the Wilbur Glass OF
Calvary Baptist Church, celebrated its
twenty-fifth anniversary at Tlden
Gardens Club House Tuesday night.
Mr.. Wilbur has been teacher of the
class since its founding in 1907. He
was presented with a silver vase in be-
half of the class by Miss Margaret E.
Whitzell, president.
Those responding to toasts were Rev.
William S. Abernethy, DR.. H. H.
Kirnball and Mrs. William Allen Wilbur.
Mrs. Carolyn Nordica Bost gave a
number of songs, accompanied by Mrs.
Eula Alexander, pianist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Tries to Borrow
Cash to Buy Bullets
To Shoot Rival

Thomas Lee Pickins, %, colored.
of the 1900 block Twelfth street
was arrested by police of No. 2
precinct early this afternoon after
he is alleged to have tried to Dor
row money from the manager OF
a gasoline station at Tenth street
and Rhode Island avenue to pur-
chase bullets with which to shoot
a man going with his wife, &C
cording to police.
Pickins was taken into custody
by Officer S. Ostenso and booked
at No. 2 precinct for investiga-
ton. He had no pistol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
Celebrate Generals Death. "

HONGKONG, March 4 (P).-Chinese
here today abandoned themselves to
celebration of the killing of Gen. Ken
kichi Uyeda, commander of the LIST
japanese Army at Shanghai. but word
from Shanghai said reports of the gen.
e-1ls death were greatly exaggerated.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
QUE Sc HA HUN
DIDO LA GOLETA ,AUXI-
LIAR GUADALHORCE

En- IA oficina de la compania
Dantzler Company Sc manifeS-
to aver la creencia de que la go
leta auxiliar Guadalhorce,, sa-
Ida d. Tenerifa, IslaS Canarias,
ell dia so de scptiembre, con rum
DO a este puerto, debe haberse
perdido en- el Atiantico, porque
aun no Sc ha recibido noticia de
su paradero.
La goleta venia a tomar un
cargamento de 100000 pies de
MADEIRA.
Senales de huracan Sc hicie-
ron desde ell primero de noviem-
be al 10 y t6mese que la EN-
barcaci6n haya sido Sorprendi-
da, naufragando y eciendo
Sus tripulantes.
La mandaba ell captain Cipria
no Garraton.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
LOS C~OMISIONADOS DEL
D TOMARON AVER
LOS ULTIMOS ACUERDOS
DEL ANO

La comisi0n del condado, que
tendra cuatrO nuev0s miembros
en- 1888, tom6 aver los QltimOs
acuerdos del ano y ell martes los
comisionados salientes entrega-
ran sus cargos a los reciente-
mente electos.
Aprobaron aver los comisio-
nados las fianzas de tres dipu-
tados del nuevo sheriff, Will c.
Spencer, que tambien tomara pc
session ell martes.
Sc acord6 conceder permiSo
a dos miembros del grupo de
motociclistas para que vayan a
Tallahassee a dirigir la secci6n
que Ell condado mandara a las
fiestas ALI preparadas, con mo-
two de la toma de possession del
gobernador SchOltz,
Cuatro de los comisionados
que cesar, los Sres. Williams,
Lester, Jones y Friend, seran
sustituidos por ell DR.. J. H. Ha-
rrys, Fred w. Ball, James j.
Fernandez Y A. w. Frank.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
LOS HAN DIS
MINUIDO EN- TAMPA

En- un informe semestral rem
dido por ell detective c. E. Nc
Bride. Sc muestra que desde eI
primero de JUNO las perdidas
Dor incendios en- Tampa y Sus
alrededores han sido de $500,
comparable esta cantidad con
$150,000 durante los doce meses
anteriores,
Asegura ell detective Mcbride
que la partida de incendiarios
que en- Tampa habia sentado
sus reales, ha quedado desorga-
nizada.
En- los seis pasados meses Ell
detective ha impedido doce in
cendics que habian sido cuida-
dosamente preparados por ma
nos criminales.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
Pleitos V Divorces

Val NJ, Antuono contra Y, Fic
"io, Angelo Ficcio y Pasquale
Ficcio; Roberto Rodriguez con
ira Gladys Rodriguez; Frances
Mcbride contra Howard Nc
Bride; f. +. Moon contra Bea-
trice Harris Moon; w. l.. Mott.
como iiquidador, contra J. p.
Claville y otros.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
Fl TEMPO

Nublados parciales para hoy,
Temperature mas fra por la
ncchc. Vientos frescos del Sud
este. Maxima aver, 81 grades
minima, 81.
Marea alta. a las 4:47 "A. m.
y SAB p. m. Marea baja, a las
/ | :28 a. m. y 1854 p. m.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31

cerca de Archer. en- un acclden-
te automoviliSta.
La Sra. Parsons dice Que su
eSpcso habia obtenido una poll
"a de 100000, de la compania
Independence Indemnity Co., y
que a los 10 dias de haberla re-
cibido pereci6 en- Ell accidente,
viajando en- compania de otro
hombre.
La compania Sc MEGA a pa
gar.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
UNA VIUDA RECLAMA GIN
CUENTA MIL PESOS

La Sra. Bonnie C. Parsons,
viuda de William r. Parsons,
present6 aver un escrito en- la
corte federal demandando $50,
600 de indemnizaci6n .~r la
muerte de su esposo, ocurrida
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
Ell SUSTITUTO DEL TIE
NIENTE MEEKS NO SERA
NOMBRADO HASTA DES-
PUES DE LA FERIA

A petici6n del jefe de policia
81. Logan, ell teniente Meeks no
pedira hasta despues de la Fee
ria gus Sc lie conceda su retro,
por llevar q amos prestando
servicios a la policia local.
Meeks ha Venido dirigiendo la
vigilancia en- la Feria, en- dife-
rentes amos, y Mr.. Logan dcsea
que 10 haga tambien en- 1898,
La gaceta., 1932-12-31

.39l5 de la avenida Harrison, I'm
IChrysler sedan. A este ultlmo
So 10 robaron de la esquina de Ia
| Stptima y Gale 10.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31

antes de su retirada definitiva.
Tn nuevo teniente debera ser
designado por ell alcalde Chan
cey.
La gaceta., 1932-12-31
SENIOR ~SUSCRlPTOR

LIE rogamoe no pague a ninguno dc los
oartidores de este Oe'i@dieo S~o lie entire
ga I'm recibo.
Haganos este favor y al mismo tempo
evitese molestias.
ST tiene alguna dificijtad con su repair
tidor, O no lie llevan su periodico a TEMPO
1adio,,e dos minute a llamarnos por los te-
ldfonos Y-3792 y 91952 y lie atenderemoS
sin perdida de tiempo.R
Lea La Gaccta y reqpmi6ndele a sus a
miqos que la lean,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-09-15
One Point of View
The greatest of all faults, ]. should
10y. is to he conscious Of none
A. A. A. MAN TALKS TO STUDENTS

During the activity period on Friday,
Sept. 9, Mr.. H. E. Ward of the Arneri-
can Automobile Association talked to
the students at the high school on
safety first in driving. He began by
calling attention to the startling sta
tistics that the A. A. A. has compiled,
which show hat Uncle Sam lost 3d.
400 men during eight months of the
World War, but beginning in 1929 there
were $4,000 people killed by traffic ac-
cidentS in eight months.
Mr.. Ward gave the students the mi
tials B. G. to remember, which stand
for the words, Be Courteous He said
that if these words were followed by
all drivers it would insure perfect safe
ty on the highway. He then went on
to show that if drivers were courteous
in all respects to the passengers with
him, with other drivers on the road,
and to pedestrians, that he would not
drive in such way as to endanger
their lives. He also mentioned that
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-09-15
Horticultural Exchange

K. o. Kirby won handily in her bout
with Battling Foster Thursday morn
ing. Fosters manager has appealed to
the Board of Control, claiming that
K o. never hit him once, and that
he stepped on an apple or would not
have gone into the rolls for the count.
At least two of the sorters have mem
toned that they didn't care for
cuddling moths, but thought that a
cuddling-bee might prove interesting.
And one sorter walked out of the
warehouse with suspicious looking
bottle
And just let Joe try to finish pack
ing box at recess. The girls are so
thick around him that he can't pick
up an apple, much less wrap one. Le-
land says he just can't see what the
girls see in Joe.
BY the way, Leland is organizing a
new Eye-Double- Double Society to be
called THE Purple Shirt Gang" He
was terribly put out what he was talk
ing to good looking sorter few days
ago and his small daughter came up
and said Hello, Daddy"
The Packing boss came beaming up