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Evening star., 1932-06-22

naval activity. His personal courage
and calm demeanor in times of great
danger maintained a high degree of
courage and determination among the
men under his command and greatly
contributed to the efficiency of the crew.
Residence. 1917 Connecticut avenue,
Washington, D. c.
He is now a commander, United
States Navy. and Is on duty at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Evening star., 1932-06-22

Swimming party, Boy Scouts of D.
c.. Chevy Chase Pool, tomorrow. 9
to IL noon.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
FUTURE.

TODAY.
Card party, Carol Club, 809 E street,
8:45 pm.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
HAD z PERMIT
GETS JA|L,F|NE

Failure to have one drivers per.
NIT has spelled trouble for many
automobile drivers, but the fact
that he had two yesterday led to
the arrest of James Marshall, col,
ored, 1406 Half st. S. E., it was
revealed in Traffic Court today.
Policeman L. K. Collins, of the
Traffic Bureau, said when he
stopped Marshall yesterday the
colored man had two driving per
mits, neither of which belonged to
him. Further search showed Col
Inns said, that Marshall had dis.
played in his taxicab a hackers
license which had been stolen
from another cab and upon which
Marshall's photograph had been
pasted.
Collins charged Marshall with
driving without a permit and op-
Grating cab without a hackers
license. On the first charge
Judge Isaac R. Hit sentenced the
man to so days in Jail, while on
the second the penalty was a $100
fine or an additional 60 days.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
BENEFIT LIFE
PLOT HOLDS 8
MARTHA

The District Grand Jury today
returned an indictment charging
a conspiracy to embezzle $450,000
from the National Benefit Life
Insurance Company, considered
the largest financial institution
operated by colored people.
Those named in the indictment
were John T. Risher, former
president of the company; Morti-
mer F.. Smith, former assistant
secretary, and Daniel M. Gary
financial advisor to Risher be-
fore he became head of the COM
pany. All are colored.
The funds which the men con-
spired to embezzle, according to
the indictment, were to be used
to complete the colored Masonic
Temple at Eleventh and U Streets
Northwest.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
GAST0NMEAN5
RE-|ND|CTED
IN LARCENY
SIeuth viii Be Arraitned Here
Friday in Mclean Case; Flaw
In Other Writs Found

The Dis trict Grand Jury to-
day retur9ied a new Indictment
against CASTOR B. Means,
former Department of Justice
operative which will replace
the two Indictments previously
returned against him. On the
new wri E, Means will be ar
raigned Friday.
The Indictment handed down
in Distrht Supreme Court today
charges Means with the grand
larceny II $1O4,000 allegedly given
him by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Nc
Lean as supposed ransom for the
Lindbergh baby and the embez-
Element Of the same funds.
The two indictments which the
new one will replace charged the
larceny after trust and embezzle-
ment of the money.
It was explained by members
of the District Attorneys staff
that the new Indictment was de.
cided upon to correct a slight
technical error which had been
discovered.
Trial os Means, scheduled for
June 6, probably will be delayed
at least few days by the switch
in indictments.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
To EMPTY
JAIL FO|LED

Sheriff E. P. Kirby, of Fairfax,
yesterday frustrated a jail break
when he discovered a hole in the
jail wall during an inspection Of
cots and blankets. The hole was
behind a cot, and the sheriff
said five more minutes of digging
would have enabled all the prison
ers to escape.
The Jail, originally built to
house Is persons, now is so
crowded that the prisoners are
said to be forced to sleep in shifts.
Conditions have been so crowded
during the past week that Sheriff
Kirby placed cots in the corridors.
Since May l, 1872 persons have
been placed in the Jail, most of
them for violation of the prohibit
ton law. Twenty-seven prisoners
were carried over from the previ-
Gus month. The so now in jail
are serving sentences ranging
from 10 DAYS to 6 months,
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
Naval Air Aide Goes
To Dutu in Panama

Comdr. Robert P. Molten, jr.,
aide to the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Aeronautics at
the Navy Department, will go to
the Canal Zone June 20 for duty
at the naval air base there,
orders issued today indicated.
Other changes in the Washing
ton personnel include Comdr.
Harry R. Bogusch, Bureau of
Aeronautics, to U. S. S. Lexing-
ton, as head of air department;
Lieut.. Comdr. Van Hubert Rags,
dale to Bureau of Navigation
from the battle force, and Lieut..
Marcy M. Dupre,: Naval Observa.
tory, to U. S. S. Salt Lake City.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31

The acute taxicab situation in
the Capital is today giving con-
Germ to members of the District
subcommittee of the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee, which
has before it the District of Co.
lumbia appropriations bill for the
next fiscal year.
Bingham Is Doubtful
Senator Hiram Bingham (RO
of Connecticut, subcommittee
chairman, admitted today that
the taxicab issue is a vexatious
one land has two sides to it."
However, he said. it is impossible
now to predict the action of the
senate subcommittee, which COM
urises 16 members. on the legis-
iative rider" on the District bill
Inserted by the House.
ThiS House proviso is aimed
directly at the Public Utilities
Commission and its authority to
regulate taxicab rates. In effect,
Il stipulates that the Commis-
sion shall not eXpend any of its
funds for the PRONUNCIATION and
Advertising OF an order requiring
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
F FR|GATE MASTS
FRET FL|ERS

The towering masts of the y. S.
Frigate Constitution, once ! the
pride of the American Navy for
their loftiness and beauty, con-
stitute a menace to aviation,
practical Naval officials have de-
cided. On July IS red obstruc.
ton lights will be placed atop
them to warn off aviators, under
orders issued today.
Old IronsideS' mainmast towers
the highest, reaching 1877 feet
above the water. The foremast
is ITO feet high, the mizzenmast
152 feet. The three sticks" cover
a horizontal distance of 1875 feet.
The lights will be lighted at the
n0astheads upon completion of
repairs to the Navy Yards radio
towers which are now being lew
cred from 300 to 100 feet.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
ALREADY.
HAS APPROVED
MEASURE
Senator Austin Optimistic,
Waits Only Upon
Capper Views

Despite the legislative jam
IN the Senate and the in
definiteness of plans for final
adjournment Senator Warren
r. Austin (R.) of Vermont,
member of the Senate District
Committee, predicted today
that the street car merger
resolution would be approved
at this session Of Congress.
Senator Austin is in charge of
the resolution and the majority
report filed thereon by the Dis
trict group. A minority report,
objecting to several features of
the merger plan, has been filed
by Chairman Capper (RD, Kan
sas, and Senator Blaine (RO,
Wisconsin.
The House passed the merger
resolution several weeks ago and
on motion of Senator Austin the
Senate committee substituted
the House measure for it's own
resolution. The Vermonter eX-
planned that there we're no really
important differences between
the two plans
Senator Austin said today:
81 want only time enough to
present cOncisely the argu.
mentS in favor of a merger
here of the traction lines.
They have been set out in the
majority report. 1 assume
that Senators Capper and
Blaine will want sufficient
time to be heard in opposition.
But today / see no reason why
we should not dispose of this
reSOIutiOn hof0ro VUn odiO1Irn
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
'Snow Baby to Bear
Flag to Peary
Monument

A flag to be sent to the
upper part of Melville Bay in
the Arctic by the Society of
Women Geographers, to be
placed upon a monument to
Adm. Robert E. Peary, will be
carried into the Far North by
the "snow baby" daughter of
the explorer, Mrs. Marie
Ahnighito Peary Stafford, of
Washington.
The society will send it's flag
tomorrow to Mrs. Stafford who
sails early next month for Cape
York, North Greenland, her
birthplace.
Accompanied by her two sons
she will make the passage on
the schooner Morrissey with
Capt. Robert A. Bartlett.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
PLANK PARLEY
BY GARFIELD,
BORAH DUE
COP. Platform Chairman to
See Idahoan Today, Report
As Dry Impasse Hangs

Republican leaders today
planned to continue confer
ences on the delicate question
of prohibition in an attempt
to agree upon a plank for
the party platform to be
adopted at the Chicago con-
vention.
A conference between Senator
William E. Borah, arid leader
from Idaho, and James R. Gar
field, of Ohio, who has been Sc
lected as the chairman of the
resolutions committee at the con-
vention, is expected.
BOrah Sees Hoover
Borah has threatened to alb
sent himself from the convention
if any definite plan is adopted
that would permit the Repub.
lican party to alter its stand
in favor of prohibition.
He conferred yesterday with
| EICS1QGIlI 11OONCI DO VAAC S4AASA
Executive called in leaders to
discuss the question.
Others at the conference were
Senator Simeon Fess, chairman OF
the Republican national commit
tee; Senator Dickinson, conven-
ton "keynoter"; Senator Watson,
majority leader, and Senator
Moses of New Hampshire.
Coolidge Word Reported
Senator FeSS and Vice President
Curtis have advised the President
to avoid an attack on the prohi-
bition question, but Postmaster
General Walter Brown and other
prominent Republican leaders are
urging reSubmission plank.
Word is also said to have been
received from former President
Calvin Coolidge suggesting the
party avoid an attack on prohi-
bition.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
PETS SCAT;DOWN
TUNBLES GUN
Times Staff Photo

Clyde T. Stahl, 35, who says
he halls from York, Pa, is being
held at the First Precinct for
investigation because he bent
over to be friendly with "Skeeter,
the boss cat of G Street"
Skeeter, carried on the books
of the Fred C. Hayes Company,
1887 G st. N. W., as a regular
member of the staff, was enjoy
ing himself in a tree-box near
the northeast corner of Thir-
teenth and G Streets Northwest.
A police call box is only a few
feet away. where Policeman w.
j. Lynn, of the Traffic Bureau
bicycle squad, was just calling in.
Stahl bent over to pet the cat
and a .25 automatic pistol fell
out of a vest pocket.
The policeman took possession
of the gun and called the pa
troll wagon.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
Annual PeOny ShOW
Comma at TakOn1a

The annual peony show of the
Takoma Horticultural Club will be
held in the Takoma Branch of the
Public Library from 7:30 O'Clock
tomorrow night until o'clock
Thursday night.
Exhibits will consist of peonies
alone and more than 100 varieties
are expected to be on display.
Roots of choice varieties of
peonieS will be given as prizes to
the exhibitors of the best three
exhibits in the show.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
E.. s. SChm1id Feted
On 18th BirthdQu

Edward S. Schmid, Washington
fraternal leader and pet expert
received congratulations from his
host of friends yesterday on the
occasion of his seventy-seventh
birthday.
Last night at his home, 712
Twelfth ST., he was feted by more
than so of his friends and rela-
tiVeS.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
Hickey Heads Police
Of Parks Next Week

Capt. Doyle o. Hickey, U. S. A.,
detailed here to replace Capt.
Ray C. Montgomery as superin-
tendent of the park police, will
assume his new duties next Mon
day morning.
Captain Montgomery will leave
early next week for Fort Leaven-
worth for a course at the Staff
Officers School.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
DriUer Who Hit AGED
Veteran Fined $3.50

Pleading guilty to a drunken
driving charge which grew out of
an accident in which an 84-year.
old veteran was hurt yesterday,
Robert N. Blake, 80, of 1902 Forty
first st. N. W., today was or.
dered by Traffic Court Judge Isaac
r. Hit to pay a fine of $3.50 or
serve 180 days in jail.
According to police, Blake's car
struck David Frazier, of 434 H st.
N. w., a civil war veteran, frac-
turing both of his legs. Blake
was granted until June IA to pay
the fine.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31

Benefits Journal, dealing With the
years before Miss West knew him,
and to find how precise her esti-
mate is. "Arnold Bennett" she says,
wanted to do everything and to be
everything. That determined his
personal life and his literary ca
reer -" And again: "He had the
first necessity for a novelist in his
Unsuitable appetite for life. He loved
every phenomenon which the world
presented to him and grudged no
expense of time and energy in study
ing it. Also he had the right emo
tional dynamo: what he saw ne
loved"
A Million Good Words
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
4 Suburban Youths
AnnapOLiS Graduates

Included among 420 midship-
men graduating from the United
States Naval Academy next Thurs
day are four youths from nearby
Maryland and Virginia. George
S. James, jr., Hyattsville; Charles
K. Mallory, jr., Bethesda; Richard
S. Craighill, Braddock Heights,
Alexandria, and Samuel P. Mon
cure, also of Alexandria.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
Firenlen'S AuxiLiaru
To GiUe Card PUrtu

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Dis
trict Fire Department will hold a
benefit card party Friday night
at 8 O'Clock at the home of Mrs.
Joseph Davidson, All Forty-sec-
ond st. N. w. Mrs. Rose Virn.
stein, chairman of the ways and
means committee, is in charge of
arrangements.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
Capital City Club
To Hold SpeLLinq Bee

The Capital City Spelling Club
will hold an oral spelling match
tomorrow night at 1870 p. M, in
the Mt. Pleasant Branch of the
Public Library. Mrs. Virginia
Gartrell, who is the present cham
pion, will be one of the entrants.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
WOMAN HURT In CRASH

The skidding and overturning
of an automobile near La Plata,
Md, yesterday afternoon, sent
Miss Maggie z. Noodle, 81, of
3043 Fifteenth st. N. W., to
Emergency Hospital suffering
from a broken arm and other in.
lurieS.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
Auto Speeder Fined
$50 After Chase

Arrested after lengthy chase
in an automobile and on foot,
Ernest Butler, jr., colored, of 1917
Ninth st. N. W.. today was fined
$50 by Traffic Court Judge Isaac
r. Hit, for speeding and leaving
after colliding.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
2 GET COMMISSIONS

Commissions as second lieu
tenants in the Army Reserve have
been issued to Donald Archibald
Falk, $50 Connecticut Ave-, and
Bennett Green Jones, 1901 Adams
Mill Rd. N. w., the War Depart
ment announced.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
d IN FAMILY HURT

Four members of the family of
R. S. Bertrand, of Summit, N. j.,
were treated at the Alexandria
Hospital yesterday for slight in
juries received in an automobile
accident on the Mt. Vernon Boule-
ward. -
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
True To Type
BENEFITS JOURNAL
REVEALS SECRET
OF NOVELIST
Bv GILBERT SELDES

CHORTLY after Arnold Bennett died, Rebecca West,
~ who can be as just and generous as she can be
severe and hates only stupidity and cruelty, wrote
beautiful essay on him, which printed later as one
of the John Day pamphlets 1t is interesting to read
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
MONARCHS TO MEET

The Monarch Club of Washing
ton will hold a luncheon tomor-
row at 1915 o'clock in the New
Colonial Hotel, Fifteenth and M
Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1932-05-31
Taxi Meter Issue Affects
District Supply Bill

taxicabs operating here to install
meters and to abandon the pres
ent zone system of rates.
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
SWeden to Forbid
KiLLinu of Offers

STOCKHOLM, May 4. - The
otter will be protected by the
Swedish government, which will
forbid it's destruction except
near fish hatcheries.
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
DOG BITES BOY, 5

Paul Staples, 5, of the Gordon
Hotel, was severely bitten on the
face by a dog yesterday while
visiting relatives, and eight
stitches were required to close
the wound.
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
RANSOM NOTES
CONFUSE

JOLIET, Ill, May 4 G.N.s).-
Two conflicting ransom notes to-
day confused authorities hunting
for Gustav Miller. %, kidnapped
son of wealthy Joliet merchant.
A telegram and letter from
Detroit sought to bring the
youths father, Max Miller. to
that city to bargain with the
kidnapers, but another set of
instructions, demanding $4,000,
indicated young Miller was held
in Chicago.
The second letter. postmarked
Chicago, advised the father to
rent an airplane and fly toward
Chicago until he reached May
wood, according to Police Chief
Nicholas Fornango. Then he was
to circle at an altitude of 500
feet over a highway.
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
8 LAWMAKERS
/. FLY ON AKRON

LAKEHURsT, N. J., May 4
GN.S0.-Eight members of the
House Naval Affairs Committee,
with five friends. left here today
on a test flight in the Navy
dirigible Akron.
The group arrived from Wash
ington in two tri-motor transport
planes piloted by Navy officers.
The big airship. which headed
for the New Jersey coast, will
remain up until dusk.
The Representatives are Will
liam H. Sutphin. New Jersey;
Clark BurdicH, Rhode Island;
Roy o. Woodruff, Michigan; Clar-
ence E. Hancock, New York;
William R. Coyle, Pennsylvania;
William C. Lankford, Georgia;
Melvin j. Mas, Minnesota, and
P. j. Kvale, Minnesota.
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
LITTLE RHODY'
BACKS HOOVER

PROVIDENCE R. l., May 4
G.N.S.l.-"Herbert Hoover will be
renominated by acclamation and
will be reelected in November" ,"
predicted James H. MacLafferty,
of California, former Congress.
man, at the Republican State
Convention today.
MacLafferty, the keystone
speaker" made an impassioned
plea for party workers, and urged
the eight unpledged delegates Of
the Rhode Island G. O. P. con-
vention to the national conven-
ton of the party at Chicago to
stand by President Hoover.
Although the eight delegates
elected were unpledged, all were
known to be solidly behind Presi-
dent Hoover for the renomlna-
ton. United States Senator Fe-
lix Hebert was elected to head
the delegates.
United States Senator Jesse H.
Metcalf, senior Senator, was not
elected as a delegate.
Regarding the question of pro-
hibition, the convention urged
the delegates to work for a reso-
luton at the national conclave
seeking solution of the prohibi-
tion issue through State conven-
tions.
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
BLOC SET
TOPUSHF4GHT

Elated by their 46 to Is victory
on a motion to consider the Hale
bill for a treaty-strength navy
equal to that maintained by
Great Britain, Senate advocates
of a new naval building program
were ready today te press for
advantage.
Senator Thomas CD of Okla
home, who sought vainly to have
the naval issue sidetracked in
favor of the Glass banking re-
form bill, expressed fear of a
general filibuster."
The Senate approved the mo-
ton to take up the Hale bill
after the little navy" bloc had
refused a compromise which
would have insured a vote upon
the bill before adjournment.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
the minority leader, declared
Congress should await the out
come of the Geneva disarmament
conference before acting upon the
bill,
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
HOOVER SILENT
ON MORGAN
JOSEPHINE ALESSI

The White House remained sill
ent today regarding the meeting
last night of President Hoover
and j. Pierpont Morgan. the New
York financier mentioned pronnt-
nently in the Senate's investiga-
ton of Wall Street practices.
They met at the table of Sec
retary of the Navy Adams and
persons close to them denied
there was any significance in
their meeting.
The Senate committees inves-
tigation of market speculation
was begun at the instigation Of
the White House. and upon the
demand of Senator Walcott (R.)
of Connecticut, who is close to
the White House.
Several days after the inquiry
was under way, the committee
brought out that the firm, in
Guiding Richard Whitney, presi-
dent of the New York Stock Ex-
change, had pegged the price of
German reparations bonds for
the house of Morgan, and then
withdrew it's support after the
bonds had been sold,
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
BR|TON ASSA|LS
SUBMARINES

GENEVA, May 4 GNS).-The
submarine was characterized as
"the only naval vessel especially
dangerous to civilians" at a meet
ing of the naval commission Of
the world disarmament confer
ence today.
The classification was made
by Sir Bolton res-Monsell,
British first lord of the admiralty,
in the course of a somewhat
heated debate with Charles Du-
mont, formerly French minister
of marine and a member of the
French delegation to the parley.
Dumont vigorously defended
sub-sea craft as the best means
of defense for the smaller, less
prosperous nations. Eyres-Mon-
sell advocated their complete
suppression, but, realizing the
necessity for compromise, pro-
posed sharp restrictions as to
their size.
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
VETERANS SEEK
MASS|E PARDON

Incensed over the verdict re-
turned in the Massie case in Hon
olulu last week. members of the
w. w. Atterbury Chapter, No. 4,
Disabled American War Veterans
of the World War, at a meeting
last night adopted a resolution
asking President Hoover to i'm
mediately pardon Lieut.. Thomas
H. MaSsie, Mrs. Granville For
tesque and the two convicted
naval enlisted men.
The following is the resolution:
BE it Resolved, That w. w.
Atterbury Chapter, No. 4, Dis
able Veterans of the World
War, in meeting assembled, di-
rect and authorize COmdr.
Helen Evans O'NeiIl, to request
the President of the United
States to extend to Lieutenant
Massie, u. S. N, and the other
defendants convicted in the
Territorial court of Hawaii, of
manSlaughter a full and com.
plete pardon.
"Be it further, Resolved,
That the commander be fur
ther authorized to cable Lieu.
tenant Massie and his code
PENDANTS, congratulations and
best wishes of the comrades Of
this chapter for uphOlding the
traditions Of American man
hood in defense of American
wOmanhOOd."
Following the meeting Mrs.
O'Neill, who is the only woman
commander of a World War or
ganization in the United States
sent the following telegram to
President Hoover:
"T respectfully request that
you grant Lieutenant Massie
and the other defendants a
Presidential pardon from their
conviction of manslaughter.
This request is in accordance
with the unanimous action Of
the w. w. Atterbury Chapter,
d. A. V. w. w., Dept. Of the
District of Columbia"
The Washington times., 1932-05-04
GAMING RACKET
ST|RS POLICE

CHICAGO, May 4 G.N.s).
With the passing of AL Capone,
kingpin of the rackets. official
dom today warily watched the
underworld for signs of unrest.
Temporarily, at least, the pow
erful syndicate built up by Capone
is carrying on it's business of
booze, vice and gambling.
If the syndicate dissolves into
greedy, warning factions, or if
some other mob reaches Gor its
power, Chicago may again see
the bloodshed that characterized
Scarface Al's rise to affluence,
authorities believe.
Already there is talk Of serious
competition in one of the most
lucrative rackets-gambling. Re
ports are that a new organization
with powerful political backing is
setting up gaming houses in every
ward in anticipation of making
big money during the World Fair.
These houses, according to un-
derworld informants, would pay
$1,O00,O00 a year protection"