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Evening star., 1932-10-17
ASK $4,000 IN CRASH
DURING HOOVER TRIP
Frank W. Connor and Wife Charge
Negligence in Virginia
Collision.

Frank w. Connor, Reconstruction
Finance Corporation executive and for
mer Washington newspaper correspond
ent, today joined with his wife in filing
suits for total of $4,000 against the
Old Dominion Stages, Inc, for injuries
sustained by Mrs Connor July year
ago while en- route to the Rapidan with
President Hoover's camp party.
The suits, fled in the District Su-
preme Court, allege negligence on the
part of the driver of motor bus which
collided with Connor's automobile on
the Little River turnpike between An
nandale and Fairfax, Va.
Mrs. Connor asks $50,000 for her in
juries, listed as a fractured collarbone,
fractured right hand, displaced YER
tebrae, cuts, bruises, contusions and
shock. Connor seeks $4,000 for loss
of his wife's services.
The ccmplainants charge the driver
of the bus refused to accord passing
space to Connor's car after being
warned. and that the bus collided with
the machine, causing it to overturn.
Attorneys Simon Michelet and Wilfred
Hearn represented the plaintiffs.
The accident, which occurred July
10, 1881, revived agitation for a police
escort for White House cars. Accord
ing to newspaper accounts, the bus
fell into line between the presidential
limousine and that of secret service
men following It, . The secret service
car and one automobile containing
newspaper correspondents succeeded in
passing the bus, which was headed the
same direction as the presidential
party, but Connor met with disaster in
the attempt.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
SLENDERIZING TABLETS
SALE HERE UNDER FIRE
Rover Asks Action on Charge Mis-
representation Regarding
Curative Effect.

'."Thynn Tabs" which claim to aid
normal slenderizing without the use of
drugs, has fallen under the ban Of the
Department Of Agriculture and today
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
and Assistant United States Attorney
Rebekah S. Greathouse asked the Dis
trict Supreme Court to condemn 496
packages Of the tablets as violating the
food and drug act. The packages were
are misbranded In that statements made
on them regarding the curative or
theurapeutic effect of the articles are
false and fraudulent. The article, it is
asserted, contains no ingredient or
combination Of ingredipts capable Of
producing the advertised ! eject.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
DEPRESSION CURE
TOLD POSTMASTERS
Must Be Talked About in
Terms of the Past, Says
LeaSure.

The so-called depression will not
begin to end until the people of the
United States think about It and talk
about it in terms of the past, Chester
Leasure Of the United States Chamber
Of Commerce, told delegates to the con-
vention of the National League of Dis
trict Postmasters at preliminary con-
ference today.
Leasure, who spoke before a tri-
State conference of Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia and Maryland delegates, attacked
the $4,000, ,0000 600 annual bill of the
United States Government, declaring
which American citizens cannot longer
endure
Other speakers at the session today,
a prelude to the national convention
which opens tomorrow, included w. H.
Haycock Of the Washington City Post
Once, who made an address of welcome
on behalf of his organization; c. N.
Nichols of the Greater National Capt.
tai Committee, who welcomed the dele
gates to the city; Joseph M. Armstrong.
Annapolis, Md, postmaster: Simon E
Sullivan and j. w. Satterfield of the
Post Once Department and Berkeley
Williams, postmaster at Richmond.
The session was presided over by r
Lee Griffith, president of the Virginia
League of District Postmasters. The
invocation was pronounced by Rev
George E. Brown of the North Carolina
Avenue Methodist Protestant Church.
Election of officers of the leagues of
Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania
was to take place at sessions this after
noon.
The national convention opening to-
morrow will last three days
Evening star., 1932-10-17
CAB OFFICIAL ASKS
RULING ON METERS
Commissioners, Utilities Body
and Corporation Counsel
Urged to State Aims.

Will Brown. general manager of the
Black & White and Yellow Cab Co.,
has written the District Commissioners,
the Public Utilities Commission and
Corporation Counsel William w. Bride
to ask what the District intends to do
about enforcing the order Of the Public
Utilities Commission compelling taxi
cabs to be equipped with meters.
At the moment this order is held up
in the Court of Appeals on appeal by
the City Cab Co. from a decision of the
District Supreme Court sustaining the
order. After the Court of Appeals de-
cides the case, however. there is an
other obstacle to enforcement of the
order. The current appropriation act
carries a clause forbiddirg the use of
any money therein appropriated for the
preparation, publication or enforcement
OF any order compelling installation of
meters in cabs; and even If the higher
court upholds the order, the Utilities
Commission would have knotty prob
lem on its hands of how to enforce it
without using any appropriated funds.
No answers have been sent yet to
Mr.. Brown. but they are expected in
the course Of this week.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
Youth Held in LeonardtoWn
Jail in Connection With
Maryland Robberies.
TWO OTHERS RELEASED
AFTER INVESTIGATION
Officials Are Guarding Information
After Combing Sections
for Bandits.
BY Stan Correspondent of The Star.

By a Stan Correspondent of The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, October IL
William Owens, 81 years old, of Me-
chanicsville. Md, was being questioned
by Maryland State police at the Leon
ardtown Jail today in connection with
the series Of hold-ups and robberies
staged by the BLACK Shirts" band
that has been terrorizing residents Of
st. Marys County for the past three
weeks.
Owens, sought since October on
warrant charging him with aSsaulting
a Leonardtown man at Helen, Md,
was apprehended last night when State
troopers from the Waldorf substation
came upon him in an automobile acci-
dent at Mechanicsville while returning
from a fake hold-up alarm.
Information Guarded.
The youth, who escaped uninjured In
the traffic accident that led to his ar
rest, was brought to the Jail here imme-
diately and was questioned at length
regarding the series Of hold-ups before
he was allowed to retire. His grilling
was resumed again today. but police
would not divuIge the nature of the
information that led them to suspect
Owens as member of the bandit band.
Richard H. Sears of Leonardtown
obtained q warrant for the arrest OF
Owens on October S, police say, charg-
ing that the latter attacked him in
a store at Helen, Md. on September
30. but police could find no trace of
Owens until last night. 1t was shortly
after the attack upon Sears, authorities
pointed out, that the series Of hold-upS
began.
Two Are Released.
Apprehension of Owens followed
shortly after the release of two men
who were arrested here Saturday night
in connection with the robberies, which
have resulted in officials Of the State
police force sending Is troopers into
this area on special duty in an effort
to trap the bandit trio.
The men are German Davis and Ray
mond Harding. both of Laurel Grove,
Md. State police took them into Gus
tody when they came across the pair
riding in an automobile displaying only
one license plate, but with a pair of
tags in the tonneau. Harding was at
the wheel Of the machine.
Police questioned the two men for
several hours. but finally released them
with the announcement that they were
satisfied the duo had no connection
with the robbery series. Authorities for
some unexplained reason, however, con-
tinue to hold the car in which they
were riding.
Davis was the husband Of the late
Mrs. Elsie Davis, who, was shot and
killed two years ago when Mrs. Lulu
Mae Gamble Of La Plata, Md, found
her seated in an automobile with her
husband outside the Gamble home early
one morning. Mrs. Gamble, using the
"unwritten law" as her defense, was
acquitted by the jury that heard her
case.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
STUDENT LOAN FUND
OBJECT OF DRIVE
Central High Parent Teacher As.
sociation to Seek Increase
in Members.

Largely for the purpose Of building
up an adequate student loan fund. the
Parent-Teacher Association of Central
High School is starting this week an
intensive membership drive
It Is proposed. according to DR.. John
c. Eckhardt, president of the associ-
alton, to transfer at least 80 per cent
of all the membership dues to this loan
fund, which was the first Of its kind in
the country at the time it was estab-
lished last year, but which has proved
inadequate for demands upon it.
Present conditions, Dr. Eckhardt says,
have made it necessary for many Cen
trail pupils to receive assistance of some
sort in order to continue in school. The
Student Loan Committee is composed of
r. M. Ferguson. Maj. Julius I. Peyser,
Mrs. Bertha Saunders, DR.. Harvey A.
Smith and DR.. Eckhardt. With this
purpose in view the membership Of the
association was raised last year from
1894 to lila, making it the third largest
association of this kind in the country.
Following are board members:
President, DR.. Eckhardt; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. r. M. Ferguson; second vice
president, Miss E. M White; secretary,
Mrs. M. B. Waite; treasurer, Mrs. E. c.
Wilson.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
CONTRACTOR DIES
IN BLAZE IN HOME
Maurice T. Dougherty, so, Is
Suffocated as Flames
Sweep Dwelling.

Maurice r. Dougherty, SO, Of CAT
street southeast, was suffocated early
yesterday In a fire that partially de-
stroyed his Summer home at North
Beach, Md.
Dougherty. plumbing contractor and
owner Of considerable property in the
southeast section, apparently was over
come by smoke while trying to make
his way out of the burning cottage.
Held Key in Hand.
Firemen, summoned by neighbors
who had noticed smoke issuing from the
dwelling, broke open door and found
Dougherty PROSTATE on the floor. He
lay near door and held key in his
Misunderstanding, the flremen pointed
out, that he was trying to unlock the
door when he collapsed
An oil stove used for heating Is be-
lieved to have caused the blaze. its heat
evidently ignited a bed beside which
it was standing.
Sister Is Notified.
Through the American Automobile
Association. the dead mans sister, Miss
Mamie Dougherty, 725 Virginia avenue
southeast, who was touring New Eng
land. was notified Of the tragedy. She
is expected to return to Washington to-
night and take charge of funeral ar
rangements.
Dougherty, q bachelor, had lived in
the southeast section all his life. His
brother, John, died about two months
ago.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
HYPODERMIC NEEDLE
USED BY STABBER
Federal Agents Investigate Case of
Mrs. May Gernava, At
tackled in Crowd.

Local police and Federal narcotic
agents launched an investigation today
following the stabbing with a hypo-
dermic needle Saturday night Of Mrs
May Gernava. 27-year -old mother. 1850
Eighteenth street, while she was walk
ing along the street at Fourteenth
street and Park road.
Mrs. Gernava said today she drove
to Fourteenth. street and Park road
about 8 pm Saturday with her hus-
band, Julion Gernava, an Agriculture
Department employe.
While crossing the sidewalk there,
she said. she felt sharp jab on her
upper arm, but concluded it was in
flicted by the elbow of some one
passing.
Later she entered a store. Her hus-
band found her there, weak and about
to faint. A. home Mrs. Gernava ex-
amined her arm and found four small
bruises. In the center of one of them
the skin had been punctured as If by
needle.
Last night Mrs. Gernava went to her
family physician, DIR. George H. Ma
gee, 731 Seventh street northeast, who
today said the symptoms Mrs. Gernava
described correspond to those expert
enced following administration Of a
narcotic.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
WOMAN KILLS HERSELF,
BEGGING FORGIVENESS
Mrs. Dorothy Quinn, 80, Found
by Husband Near Stove,
Victim of Gas.

Leaving a note in which she begged
forgiveness and asked that her friends
continue to think well of her, Mrs
Dorothy Quinn, 80, of the 1900 block OF
Seventeenth street, took her own life by
inhaling Illuminating gas in the kitchen
of her apartment early yesterday morn
ing. Deputy A. Magruder Macdonald
issued a certificate of suicide.
Mrs. Quinn was found unconscious
lying beside the kitchen stove, from
which gas was flowing. by her husband
John r. Quinn, who summoned the Fire
Department rescue squad and the
Casualty Hospital ambulance. Efforts
to revive her were fruitless.
Dr. Macdonald was told, he said, that
Mrs. Quinn had engaged in card game
at her home Saturday night and that
there had been quarrel during the
game.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
POLICE DRAGGING RIVER
FOR BODIES OF 2 MEN
Boat Capsizes on Potomac South of
Chain Bridge-Two Others
Escape Drowning.

Harbor police today were still drag
ging for the bodies of two colored men
who drowned yesterday evening when
boat In which they were crossing the
Potomac River just south of Chain
Bridge with two other colored men sank
In the middle of the stream. It Is esti-
mated that the water is IS feet deep
where the men are believed to have
gone down.
The dead are william West, 80, of
Arlington, Va, and Sinclair Medley, 81,
Of Chain Bridge road and Dana place
Their companions were Norman Davis,
13, Of Glenmore, Va, and Albert Young,
%, of the HOO block of Twenty-second
street. Davis managed to swim ashore,
while Young was rescued by Frank
Jackson, colored, of Glenmore, Va.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
Falling Into Grave,
Woman Is Injured
At Cemetery Here
Mrs. Susie NJ. Ball Rescued
by Husband-Suffers
Spinal Injury.

Mrs. Susie M. Bail, As, of 1920 Good
Hope road southeast, was injured yes
terday when she fell into a newly dug
grave In Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Ball and her husband, John L.
Ball, accompanied by their three small
grandsons, had gone to the cemetery
to visit the grave Of another grand
child, Katherine May Miller. Walking
through the cemetery, Mrs. Ball stepped
on canvas sheet covering the new
grave and dropped to the bottom:
Aided by passersby, her husband
placed q ladder In the grave and car
ried her to the surface. Her family
physician ordered her to bed. In ad-
dition to suffering numerous bruises
about the body, she received spine In
jury, members Of her family said.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
RESUMES BRIDGE WORK

Lieut.. Col. U. s. Grant, Sd, director
of public buildings and public parks
today announced that work on the
bridge across Rock Greek at L street
will be resumed this week.
The Tidewater Construction Co. Of
Gloucester Point, Va, which was award
ed the contract to complete the unfin-
ished structure. his guaranteed compile
tion of the work within $50 days, the
colonel said. Government officials ex-
niained that the previous contractor on
fhe bridge, q Maryland firm, had neg
iected TO carry forward the work as
crreed. '~-
Evening star., 1932-10-17
PLAN CUPOLA DEFENSE
Rhode Island Avenue Delegation
to Appear at Hearing.

e. G. Sievers, president OF the Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Association, first
civic group to protest the elimination Of
the cupola in the construction of the
Taft Junior High School, announced
today he would head delegation which
will appear before the District Commis-
sioners tomorrow, at a hearing on the
matter.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
WOMAN POISON VICTIM
Pittsburgh Girl Who Took Potion
October 8 Dies in Hospital.

Lillian Mastbrook, II, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, who swallowed poison in her room
in the new Franklin Hotel, 623 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, October 8, died this
morning in Gallinger Hospital. It was
learned from letters received at her
hotel that the young woman Is known
also as Mrs. George G. Grimmel Of
Pittsburgh.
Police say she has a sister, Mrs. Anna
Reese, living in Pittsburgh.
The young woman had 3-year-old
child, who was placed in the Receiving
Home when the mother took poison.
The Woman's Bureau has been In
formed by the Jewish Welfare Society
of Pittsburgh that that organization will
care for the child.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
PASSES FAIR NIGHT.
Inspector Stott Still in a Serious
Condition at Hospital.

Inspector William G. Stott of the Po-
lice Department still was in a serious
condition this morning at the Naval
Hospital, where he was taken Friday
evening for an emergency appendicitis
operation. Hospital attaches said he
passed fair night.
Inspector Stott, who is in charge of
police equipment, collapsed Friday aft
ernoon at his hcme, 529 Seventh street
southeast, and was taken to the hos
pital, where it was found the appendix
had been ruptured.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
DISTRICT TO WELCOME
PIT. A. REPRESENTATIVES
DR.. Frank W. Ballou, Mrs. ]. N.
Saunders and Mrs. Hugh
Bradford Will Speak.

Representatives of parent-teacher
associations In all parts Of the country
will be guests Of the District Congress
Of Parent Teacher Associations tomor-
row at the Parent Teacher Institute.
Opening in the Franklin School at
$3.50 am, the congress will continue
through the evening, with addresses by
Mrs. J. N. Saunders, president Of the
local congress; Mrs. Hugh Bradford,
Sacramento. Calf, national president,
and DR.. Frank w. Ba1lou, superintend-
ent Of District schools.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
GIVEN DIVORCE DECREE
David B. Bowman Names Core
spondent in Case.

David B. Bowman, st. Elizabeths
Hospital employe, today was awarded
an interlocutory decree of absolute di-
vorce by Justice Luhring in Equity
Court, from Mrs. Lillian Bowman, to
WHOM he was married In this city
June 2, 1921.
Bowman charged that his wife left
him on January of this year, and
afterward was frequently in the COM
pany of the correspondent named in
the proceedings. Under the terms of
the decree entered today, the husband
was awarded custody Of the minor son.
Attorney Raymond Neudecker sppeared
on behalf Of Bowman.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
CALHOUN POSTS BOND
Puts Up $500 to Await Jury's
Action in Littlefeld Death.

Capt. G. @. Calhoun, who has been
at liberty in the custody Of Attorney
Mark Friedlander since the coroner's
jury held him for the death Of Henry
c. Littlefield, who was struck by Cal
houn's automobile at Tenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue, today posted a
bond Of $500 to await the action Of
the grand Jury.
Evening star., 1932-10-17

in the accident, neither seriously. Harry
F. Campbell of the Pentilly Apartments,
Washington, who was driving, suffered
q fractured arm and his wife received
cuts and bruises. Two other passen-
gers were uninjured. The injured were
given first-aid treatment here and then
returned to their homes.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
FOUR YOUTHS INJURED.
Car Overturrs on Curve on Queens
Chapel Road.

By Stan Correspondent of The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, October IT,
Four young residents Of Hyattsville
were injured last night when an auto
mobile In which they were riding over
turned on curve on the Queens Chapel
road.
Roy Cogar, 20, suffered a possible
fracture of the skull, while Emory Dove,
81, was injured about the head. Grace
Cogar, IA. and Edna Hobson, Is, re-
ceived minor lacerations.
The Bladensburg rescue squad took
the quartet to Casualty Hospital. Corp.
G. w. Cubbage Of the State police force
investigated the crash.
Evening star., 1932-10-17
Fall Fractures Boys Skull.

William A. White, 6, 1400 block Of
Newton street, sustained a skull frac-
ture yesterday when he fell from a
scaffold at his home Mrs. Margaret
Allen, the boys mother, took him to
Sibley Hospital, where his condition
was said to be serious.
Evening star., 1932-10-17

ard Engineering Co., plumbing and
heating
The local subcontractors on the
Post ONCE, Department so far are
T. A. Buckley, setting reinforcing steel;
Howard p. Foley Co., Inc, electrical;
United Clay Products Co., brick; James
Berrall, surveys; Vitriolic Products Co.,
Structural glass; AlbezF D. Battists,
Evening star., 1932-10-17
COLLAR BONE FRACTURED.
Daughter Of Arlington Board Member
Is Injured.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LURAY, Va, October 17.-Miss
Marion Magruder, daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Magruder, member Of the
County Board Of Arlington County, suf-
merous cuts and bruises yesterday when
the automobile in which she was riding
skidded and overturned on the Luray-
Newmarket road.
There were two other persons injured
Evening star., 1932-10-17
TWO TREATED FOR INJURIES.
Washington Residents Hurt on Peters
burg Pike.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. Va, October Thames
Sweeney and Mildred Lagomarsino. both
Of Washington. were treated at the
Memorial Hospital here for injuries said
to have been received when Washing
ton taxicab they occupied ran into .
parked car on the Petersburg pike yes
terday afternoon. Aubrey Powell Of
Washington was rep4 bed as the driver
of the cab,
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Legal Bids, Proposals
INDIANA STATE HIGHWAY COMMITS
SION, DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION


BRIDGES
NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS
Notice is hereby given that sealed pro-
posals for the construction of certain
by the Director of the Indiana State High
wav Commission at his Office in the State
House. Annex in Indianapolis, until 10 a. M.
pHbiic iS' o Is 3 wa and a read PROPOSES Tbsss S Sridp es
are further described as follows:
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY-Two bridges
on Road consisting of one bridge OF two
miles southeast of Columbus. and one
bridge of two spans of % feet each, sp-
proHimately AZ miles southeast of Column
BOONE COUNTY-one 2o-foot bridge on
Road 80, approximately SIS miles west Of
DELAWARE CoUNTY-one bridge on
Road 3, approximately GA mile south Of
Muncie. consisting of two spans Of 40 feet
ELKHART CoUNTY-one 4s-foot bridge
on Road 6, approximately 65 miles west Of
MSpo-NTGoMERY coUNrY-seven bridges
on Road ~. consisting Of one %50-foot
hridee, approximately FL miles west Of
matelv 16 miles northeast of Waveland;
one bridge Of two spans of 50 feet each,
a sPoTns Vaileyy; one at sd ml5es br nSrSns approx 81
mately Al miles northeast of Browns VAL
lev; one 52-foot 6-inch bridge. approx
matelv 5.3 miles northeast of Browns VAL
lev: one i2-foot bridge. approximately SO
miles southwest of Charlottesville, and one
70-foot bridge. approximately "a miles
southwest of Charlottesville.
POsEY COUNTY-Four bridges on Road
Sc. consisting of one 40-foot bridge. ap-
proximately "a miles southeast Of Wades-
Vile: one S2-foot bridge, approximately 40
miles southeast of Vaudeville: n 24~foot
bridge, approximately 81 miles southeast
OF wadesville, and one 24-foot bridge, APP
proximately SIS miles southeast of Wades-
vile.
VANDERBURGH COUNTY-Three bridges
on Road sc. consisting of one 3o-foot
bridge. approximately rs miles southeast
matelv SO miles southeast of Vaudeville,
and one 25-foot bridge. approximately 81
miles southeast of Vaudeville.
The plans and specifications may be
examined at the office of the State High
way Commission. state House Annex. In
dianapolis. or copies thereof will be for
warded upon payment to the Director of a
nominal charge. No refund will be made
for plans returned.
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Legal Notices
NOTICE 10 TAXPAYERS

NOIICE III IEtNS
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN the tax
PAYERS of Marion County. Indiana. that
the Marion County Commissioners and the
Marion County Council Of said County al
their regular meeting places in the Court
house. indianapolis. Indiana, on the 4th
day OF February. 1892. viii consider the
following appropriations.
Perry Township Assessor-100 sery-
Pike Township Assessor-10O serv-
ices. personal 10000
Warren Township Assessor-l00
services, personal .............. 5000
wayne Township Assessor-i00 sery-
ices, personal 500. GC
Juvenile Court-iOO services, per
Criminal Court-lOO services. per-
Taxpayers appearing shall have the
right to be heard thereon.
After said appropriations have been de-
termined. ten or more taxpayers. feeling
themselves aggrieved by such appropria-
tons may appeal to the State Board of
Tax Commissioners for further n final
action thereon by filing a petition there
for with the County Auditor not later
than ten days after said appropriations
have been made. and the State Board OF
Ttax Commissioners will Ak a date for a
nearing in this county.
CHARLES a. GROSSART.
Auditor NJ rf1N CnpNfu