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The Washington times., 1932-08-10
WAR
DESCRIBED To
D. {. BODY
AFFIDAVIT Charging That JUS
tice Agents Fomented Trou-
BILE Yet to Be Received

Only two witnesses testified
before the District Grand Jury
today investigating the rioting
at the bonus camp on Penn
sylvahia Avenue July %. The
body then adjourned until
later this week.
Edmund Dipacci. of 410 H st.
N. W., attendant at filling sta
ton at Third st. and Maine
Ave. S. W. is believed to told
the jury what he witnessed of
the brick battle between the
veterans and police just before
the shooting that took two lives.
Lieut.. L. E. Kelly, of the
Eleventh precinct, was the next
to testify and was in the grand
jury room about five minutes.
He is understood to have testi-
fled concerning serving the evaC.
uation notice on the veterans
at Camp Marks.
Affidavit Not Received
An affidavit written in the
office of Senator Black CD of
Louisiana, yesterday and charg-
ing that Government agents pro.
voked the rioting, had not been
received at the office of the Dis
trict Attorney as was expected.
j. w. Wilford, who commanded
the veterans at the Pennsylvania
camp, and who made the state
ment, had said he would submit
the afadavit to u S. Attorney
Leo A. Rover for presentation to
the grand jury. Mr.. Rover said:
Il have not officially even
heard of any such affidavit"
Furthermore Rover said he did
not think he would permit the
affidavit to represented to men,
bers of the jury.
Wilfred's statement says that
when the trouble broke out he is
convinced that it was planned
and provoked by Department Of
Justice agents planted among the
veterans" The statement adds:
THAT these agents caused
the trouble is practically GER
tain and could have been
proved before the grand jury
of the District of Columbia If
it permitted evidence from both
Sides"
The Department of Justice said
that none of its agents were at
the area during the trouble. w.
H. Moran, chief of the U. S.
Secret Service, said substantially
the same thing.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
D. c. PROJECTS
APPROVED

Approving plans for remodeling
of Business High School, the Dis
trict Commissioners today in.
structed the engineer department
to advertise for bids on the project
this month. 1t is estimated that
the work will cost 100000. The
school will be supplanted by the
new Roosevelt High School, which
opens in the fall.
Authorization for the purchase
of property owned by Mr.. and
Mrs. John j. Gull and adjacent to
the Stevens School, Twenty-first
and L Streets Northwest, as
playground site, for $6,175, was
given by the Commissioners.
A contract was awarded to Will
liam Meyer, of Baltimore, to fur
nish the District repair shop with
two steam shovels and crew for
improvement of school grounds at
a price of $3.50 per day.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
BOy 6, in Hospital
After Auto Accident

Wilhelm Queen, coIored, 6, of
1920 Marine Pl. N. E., is at
Casualty Hospital suffering from
a possible fracture of the skull
and cuts and bruises on head
and knees. Police say he was
struck by an automobile driven
by FoSsett Dement,, Colmar
Manor, Md. while he was play
ing in the street in front of 1910
Kenilworth Ave. N. E., last night.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
PERSONAL LEVY.
OFF MILLION

Although showing a decrease of
$982,580, personal property re-
turns filed last month totaled
$4,000, declaring taxes of $685.
627, and caused a pleasant sur
prise to District officials.
Deputy Tax Assessor Charles A.
Russell in making public the
amount of return today said he
fully expected to see at least
a $1,500,O0O shrinkage in the tax
compared with last year, he said.
The 1881 personal property col
lection amounted to $3,916,207,
including increased assessments
and tentative assessments. Tax
on tangible personal property
brought $1,369,159 and intangible
property, $2,547,048 In addition
to the returns filed last year.
Mr.. Russell said there were $500
increased assessments and 10000
tentative assessments.
Returns filed last month de-
clared $1,017,259 in tangible prop
erty tax, decrease of 1851, 800,
and $1,916,368 in Intangible tax,
O decrease of $63O,68O.
Mr.. Russell said he expected
the $982,580 decrease will be cut
down considerably before the ex-
piration of the year through in
creased and tentative assessments.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Pair DrdU 80 Days
For ChQritu TheftS

Charged with stealing four
cans of shrimp and two pack
ages of gelatine, Leo Carr and
Albert Dyer today were cached
sentenced to 80 days in Jail by
Police Court Judge Ralph Given.
The men were said to have
taken the food from the pantry
at st. GATHERINGS Home, 118 E
st. S. E., a charitable institution
at which they were frequent visi-
tors.
Carr was given an additional
10 days on a drunk charge and
Dyer Is DAYS for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
DC. DEMOCRATS
RALLY TONIGHT

Formal opening of Democratic
headquarters for the District in
the Roosevelt Garner campaign
will take place tonight, in the
old City Club Building, 1920 G
St. N. w.
A volunteer force of workers
today began assembling names of
absentee voters" from the vari-
GUS States and the drive will be
to have them return home, or
send their ballots to the States,
for the November elections.
John F. Costello, Democratic
national committeeman for the
District, recalled today that in
1880 Gov. Harry Woodring, the
first Democratic governor that
Kansas has had in many years.
was elected by absentee voters
ballots to which total the Demo
Gratis here contributed 1913.
Speakers at tonight's initial
rally will include Mr.. Costello;
John Colpoys. chairman of the
District central committee: for
mer Judge Robert E. Hardison;
Victor Russell, president of the
Young Mems Democratic Club of
the District and probably Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, vice chairman
of the Democratic national com.
mittee.
The national organization is to
cooperate with the District group
in rounding up the absentee vote
and otherwise injecting pep" into
the party campaign.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
SCHOOLS CLOSE
PEAK YEAR

Completion of the 1882 summer
school session Friday brings to
a close one of the peak years of
the vacatio nSchools.
Glasses in the various ele-
mentary, junior and senior high
schools, both white and colored,
will recess Friday after a session
of six weeks.
According to E. j. Lockwood,
director of summer schools, the
total enrolment for this summer
session reached the total of the
peak year in 1928. The enroll
ment has maintained an average
of approximately 4.600, he said.
The regular fall session in the
local schools will begin Septem-
ber 10,
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
TWO IN F FAM|LY
WIN AWARDS
Times staff Photo

Those smart Riley children in
Colmar Manor believe in keeping
things in the family.
At least that's what the Prince
Georges county school board
learned, for they both won scholar
ships to Western Maryland Col
lege.
Idamae, Is, is a graduate of the
Cottage City Elementary School,
while her brother, Andrew, II, was
a product of Mt. Rainier. Both
we're graduated from Hyattsville
High School last spring.
They live with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Riley, at
112 Pershing Ave-, Colmar Manor.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
SERVICE BOARD
ENDS USE Of
5-DAY WEEK
McCarI Ruling Moves EN-
pIoyes to Reverse Vote in
Favor of Economy Plan

The Civil Service Commits
sion, first Federal establish,
ment to sponsor the five-day
week for Government EN-,
ployes, will discontinue at once
the five-day plan instituted
two weeks ago.
This was decided today follow
ing tabulation of votes from a
majority of the commissions
local employees in favor of the
former Observation-Disclosures week.
Old Way Wins Vote
At noon. with 325 of the 399
employees here having voted, the
count stood 1872 to 143 for dis
continuance.
The commission had promised
that the majority vote would rule.
E. Claude Babcock. secretary of
the commission, said after the
ballot count that this marks the
end of the five-day week for the
commission"
The vote today. even with only
a majority of 40, was a sharp
contrast to the count Of the COM
mission employees last week, when
they voted 245-88 to retain the
five-day week.
McCarl Ruling Factor
However, the new decision of
Comptroller General j. R. McCarl,
insisting that per annum EN-.
ployes going on a five-day week
would suffer a one-eleventh pay
reduction, the same as per diem
employees, instead of the one
twelfth reduction for those per
annum workers not on the five
day week, reversed the voting in
today's balloting, Mr.. Babcock
said.
McCarls new decision, which
insisted on the larger reduction
for those employees on the short
week, reversed his previous rul-
ing which required offices Civ
ing administrative furloughs to
the first months salary
of furloughed employees in the
Treasury He thus lifted the ban
against concurrent furloughs.
The National Advisory Com
mittee on Aeronautics and the
Employees Compensation Commis-
sion, also on a five-day week, will
decide today whether they, too,
will give up the plan because of
the greater cost to employees. The
of Labor is not eX-
pected to foreSake the short week.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Police Told to Weed
Out Drv InfOrnlerS

Under an. order sent to all COM
manding officers from police
headquarters today, prohibition
informers must be declared sat
isfactory by August II or they
will lose their jobs.
Precinct captains must make a
report to Inspector O. T. Davis,
head of the Crime Prevention
Bureau. Those found not salts
factory will be replaced by others
August Is.
Prohibition informers are en-
ployed by the Department of JUS
tice and supplied to the police
department. They are paid. it is
said, SIS a day.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Probe On in Death
OF Man Hit bu Cab

William Lewis, colored, IS, of
Municipal Lodging House, 312
Third st. N. W.. died today at
Gallinger Hospital of injuries re-
ceived on May %. when he was
struck by a taxicab driven by
George w. Kissal. 81. of 215
Cromwell Terrace, N. E.
Lewis at the time was stepping
from a loading platform at the
south side of Pennsylvania Avenue
at Eighth Street Northwest, The
coroner is investigating.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Park Tennis Team
May Be GiUen 500

Contribution of 500 for
travelling expenses of a tennis
team representing District parks
to an intersectional tennis tourna.
ment at Louisville, KY. will be
considered by trustees of the
Welfare and Recreational Asso-
citation tomorrow at their mid
summer meeting.
R. F.. Martin. vice president of
the board, will preside in the
absence of Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant Sd.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Bonus Site Clearing
To Be Let Auqust Is

Final steps to reclamation of
the bonus camp site on PennSyl-
vania Avenue will be taken Au-
gust 18 when contracts will be
awarded for filling. grading and
fencing the area, the Treasury
Department announced yesterday.
Rhine and Company. of Alexan-
dria. is near completion of it's
contract to tear down certain old
buildings on the south side Of
Pennsylvania Ave. between Third
and Sixth Sts. N. w. The area
will be entirely be made into
park.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Boy, IL, Disappears:
Times Asked to Aid

The Washington Times Missing
Persons Bureau was asked today
to locate 12-year-old Herman
Tingen, who disappeared from
his home, $40 Maine Ave. S. W.,
last Saturday.
When last seen, he was wearing
a blue shirt, long khaki trousers
and brown tennis shoes. He is
five feet tall, weighs 1870 pounds
and has brown hair and eyes.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
ROBBED BY THUGS

M. C. Mauyer, 1924 Duke ST.,
reported to the Alexandria police
that he was attacked by colored
thugs last night and robbed of
$11.50. The attack is reported to
have occurred in an alley in the
rear of 400 North ROYAL St.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
BUSES CHANGE ROUTE

The A. B. & w. Bus Company
has abandoned the route to MT.
Vernon over U. S. Highway No.
l and is now using the boulevard
between Alexandria and Mt. Ver-
non. The distance is cut three
miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12
HERO OF AKRON
TRAGEDY SHOWS
BUSINESS SENSE
Advised BY Manager To
DO No Talking Except
For Money.

SAN DIEGO, May II. U.P) - A
husky farmer boy who is learning
to be a sailor experienced a hair
raising and highly dangerous adj
venture because he was taught,
right at the start of his naval ca
reer, to obey orders.
When Charles Bud Cowart, of
Sand Springs, Okla, grabbed hold
of a mooring cable from the navy
dirigible Akron yesterday, he re-
membered that an officer had or
dered him and the rest Of the
ground crew to hang onto that
rope"
When the dirigible suddenly
scared aloft, Cowart obeyed orders.
He hung on.
AS the ship rose high into the
air. two other sailors who also had
hung on" lost their holds and
fell hundreds Of feet to their
deaths.
But no SO Cowart. After the
others had dropped from the same
cable on which he dangled, he
held himself with one hand while
he looped the loose end Of the
rope around his legs with the
other. Fashioning a regular
"bosun's seat" in that manner, he
saved his life.
But his adventure had no,
ended. He dangled in midair, 200
feet beneath the dirigible and
nearly 1000 feet from earth for an
hour and a half before he was
hauled into the Akron.
Once inside and safe, he eX-
pressed an immediate desire to ex-
anime the great craft. He ap-
peared to have suffered not bit
during his perilouS experience, and
refused to be bundled up to ward
off possible serious effects of ex-
posure and shock
When the dirigible landed and
was moored, he refused to talk
about his experience.
Il hung on because I was or
dered to hang on" he said "Il
have to see my manager before
talk"
Cowart is a welterweight fighter
and as such he has his manager.
The manager appeared to takt
precedence over Lieut.. Com. c. f.
Rosendahl himself, for although
the Akron's commander urgec
Cowart to tell of his experience
not a word would he utter.
Neither would he pose for a pic
ture until Lieut.. Com. Rosedahl
and Com. C. N. Gray, commandant
of the eleventh naval district
posed with him.
NewSpapermen approached the
manager. Would he let CoWart
talk?"
We'll sell our story to the high
est bidder" said the manager.
There were no bidders.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12
HOOVER CONFIDENT OF
HELP FOR UNEMPLOYED

WASHINGTON, May II. U.Rs--
President Hoover issued q public
statement today expressing con-
fidence that "a solution will be
found" to the national problem of
affording relief to unemployed.
The President expressed high
appreciation" of the work of Sena-
tor Robinson (Dem) Arkansas.
Robinson yesterday introduced an
elaborate relief program in the
senate. Hoover said the way had
been opened for new unified action.
The statement was issued after
the President had conferred with
advisors for more than two hours.
Secretary of the Treasury Mills,
Gov. Eugene Myer OF the federal
reserve board, President Charles G.
Dawes of the reconstruction finance
corporation, and Senator Robin
son had attended the conference,
The President left for Alexan-
dria, Va, to attend the dedication
of the Masonic Memorial i'm
mediately when conference ended.
Robinson proposed in the senate
n $2000,000,000 fund for public
construction and a $300,000,000 al
lotment for direct relief
Hoover did not say definitely
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12

whether he approved Of this plan
The White House statement said:
"At a conference this morning
the President and Senator Robin
son canvassed the plan of Sena-
tor Robinson and the plans OF the
President to provide for relief and
to stimulate enlarged employment
Methods were considered COM
bining, simplifying and putting
INTO concrete form the different
proposals SO as to secure unified
partisan and immediate action
and not to delay completion OF the
work at this session.
The President expressed his
high appreciation of Senator Rob-
inson's action in opening the way
for unified action and his conf
dence that a solution will be
foud.
1T was agreed that the pre-
requisite of any plan is balancing
the budget"
Just as this formal statement
was issued, Theodore Joslin, secre-
tary to the President, announced
that Hoover had discussed relief
plans at breakfast conference to-
day with Senator Watson, Repub-
lican floor leader
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12
Fight On World
Court Shifts To
Floor OF Senate

WASHINGTON, May II. U.R-
The world court fight was shifted
today from the senate foreign re-
lations committee to the senate
floor in the form of a committee
favoring American adherence under
specified conditions. The condi-
tions amount TO reservations and
are similar to those injected pre-
viously by world court members as
the basis for American member
ship.
The committee adopted a COM
bined MoseS-Reed reservation in
sisting that world court partici-
pants shall agree to the conditions
of American adherence before this
country joins the court.
The condition or reservation 10
American adherence in effect re-
iterateS the fifth of the reserva-
tions upon which the senate predi-
Gated its agreement in 1926 to
American adherence to the court.
1t stipulates that the court shall
not without the consent of this
government render an opinion in
any matter in which the United
States has or claims an interest.
Senators Reed (Rep) Pennsyl-
vania, and Moses (RepD New
Hampshire, obtained adoption of
this condition to adherence. Their
success was interpreted by Chair
man Borah of the committee as n
reputation Of the administration
theory that the Root protocol for
adherence adequately safeguarded
American rights.
Senate leaders are agreed there
will be no opportunity to consider
the court this session. The Root
protocol has been pending in the
foreign relations committee since
1q30
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12
Brutal Attack
Made On Woman

LOS ANGELES, May IL. SU.R-
A white man and four Negroes
were sought today for an attack
upon Patricia Park, pretty 24-year-
old stenographer, who was in a
serious condition.
Miss Park was returned to her
home by the white man, dressed
as an army officer, who slugged
her mother when she attempted
to detain him and escaped In an
automobile, according to police.
Miss Park told police she had
visited a night club with a man
named Frank, who disappeared in
company with four Negroes and
that shortly afterward the man
dressed as an army officer ap-
preached her and volunteered to
help find her escort.
They drove to another night
club, where the man assertedly
took her outside, beat and attacked
her. Then, Miss Park said, the
white man was joined by three
Negroes, all of whom she said at
tackled her.
Physicians said the girls body
was covered with bruises, appar-
emily from kicks and blows, and
that her nose was broken.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12
D|R|C|BLE
PROCEEDS
UP COAST
AkrOn's Departure From
San Diego Accomplish
ed Without Incident.
TRAGEDY PROBE d
Naval Board Holds Hear
ing On Yesterdays Fa.
tai Accident.
BY LEICESTER WAGNER
United Press Staff Correspondent


CAMP KEARNEY, SAN DIEGO
May l2.-The giant navy dirigible
Akron left her moorings at Camp
Kearney at ll:40 a. m. today and
headed north along the coastline
for her base at Sunnyvale.
Shortly before the silver airshir
sailed away naval board of in
quiry concluded hearing into
the deaths of two sailors and the
miraculous escape of a third-al
jerked aloft here yesterday when
the craft broke away from hel
ground crew.
Findings of the board will be
sent to Washington, D. c., where
a decision upon the deaths OF
Nigel M. Fenton, Fresno, Calf, ano
Robert Edsall, Elkhart, Ind, vii
be made.
The third sailor involved in the
air drama was Charles Bud
Cowart, 10, of Sand Springs, Okla.
who was dragged 1000 feet into the
air on the end of a mooring rope
and lived to tell the story.
After two hours in his precarious
position, secured by knots he inn
provised in the rope, sailors aboard
the Akron hauled Cowart hand over
hand through a hatch at the most
of the dirigible.
There was slight fog along the
San Diego coaStline as the Akron
arose neatly from its moorings.
Approximately $1,000 persons
witnessed the takeoff. Fourteen
miles from Camp Kearney the
Akron left land and poked hei
nose over the sea.
Although 1t. Comdr. c. E. Ros-
endahl intended to follow the coast
line. he reserved the right tc
change his course and come inland
if he met adverse weather condi-
tons over the Pacific.
Shortly before the Akron cut
away from her mast, two Navy
seaplanes picked up % members OF
her crew and started for Sunny
vale, where they will supervise the
landing.
The Akron, herself, left few
minutes after high officers of the
Navy crawled from in under her
tail where they had sat on the
tail carriage as a court of inquiry
Present ut the inquiry were Rear
Admiral r. j. Sem commandant
of the 11th Naval district; Rear
Admiral H. E. Yarnell, commander
of the aircraft squaGrons of the
battlefield AMI 1t. Comdr Rosen-
dahl.
Commander Rosendahl said be-
fore leaving that he did not intend
to have the Akron participate In
scheduled Navy maneuvers off San
Francisco. TIe did not amplify his
statement.
Fuel and foodstuffs were put
aboard the Akron during the night
and she was regarded as adequate
ly equipped for the last leg of her
journey from Lakehurst, N. j., ts
Sunnyvale.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12
OF
TR!PPEL BALKED
BY HABEAS WRIT

SACRAMENTO, Calf, May 12.-
(UP)-Alfred Trippel, wanted in
Bisbee, Ariz., on charges of kid
naping and contempt of court, was
free today on writ of habeas cor
pus after Governor Rolph had ap-
proved his extradition to Arizona.
Trippel was placed in the county
Jail last night by Sheriff Fred Ken
ney of Cochise county, Ariz., where
Trippel spent several hours before
Kenney was served with the habeaS
corpus writ.
The document directed the sher-
iff to produce Trippel in Superior
Judge Martin I Welsh's court and
show cause why the prisoner should
not be released from custody.
Meanwhile attorneys for Mrs.
Dorothy Trippel, mother of the two
children her husband Is accused
of abducting, were confident that
the issuance of a bench warrant
for the Rev. and Mrs. G. H. Hare
of Lodi missing guardians of the
children, would bring them for
ward.
The warrant was issued by Super
ior Judge John F.. Pullen, who took
the children from their father and
awarded them to relatives in Ari-
zona. Failure of the HareS to pro-
duce the children was the basis OF
the bench warrant.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-12
ROSENDAHL BLAMES IN(EXPERZENCE
OF GROUND CREW FOR TWO DEATHS

Akron because both food and fuel,
principally fuel-our gasoline tanks
were only one-Sixth full-were
running low.
camp Kearney possesses one of
the three mooring masts in the
United States capable of accommo-
dating the Akron. The others are
at Lakehurst and Sunnyvale, and
in addition there is the mooring
ship, U. S. S. Patoka.
The Akron behaved splendidly on
its trip across the continent. Al
though we received a severe batter
ing from unfavorable weather at
some stages of the trip, am very
we'll pleased with the performance
the Akron gave.
Never were we in any danger, and
never had I any anxiety over
reaching our destination. am
sorry to lose such a command. Nt
Comdr. Rosendahl will be trans
ferred to sea duty.
We were forced to haul CoWart
up to the Akron because it is i'm
! possible to judge the exact distance
dirigible may be from the ground
To descend would have brough the
risk of serious injury through drag
glng him before we could ascertain
our exact height, and his distance
from the earth.