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Evening star., 1932-08-26
MISS O'KEEFE LEAVES
ESTATE OF $121,257
Church and Various Charities Re-
membered, as Well as Friends
and Relatives.

Miss Katherine O'Keefe, 1341 L street,
who died August 10, left an estate val
ued at S12l ,257 according to the petit
ton Of the Riggs National Bank, her
executor, for the probate of her will
She owned property at 1885 to 134l L
street, assessed at Sl04, ,l04, and her
personal property included $4,000 IN
securities, S4,l53.34 in cash and $1,000
in iewelry and furniture.
Under the terms of her will, st. Mat
thews Catholic Church Is given $1,000,
while bequests of $l00 each are made
to St. Joseph's Home and School, st.
AIMS Infant Asylum, st. Vincent de
Paul Society, Little Sisters of the Poor,
and ST. Margaret Mary House.
Specific cash legacies totaling S21 900
are left to a number of friends and rel
atives. Three-fifths of the remaining
estate is to be divided between John
O'Keefe, a brother, and Margaret
OKeefe Long, a sister; one-fifth to the
children Of Hannah Quinn, half sister,
and one-fifth to the children Of Eliza
beth Fealy, a half-sister.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
MRS. H. {. PR0SPERI
DIES AT AGE OF SO
Was Widow of Former President
of Washington Musicians
Union.

Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Prosperi 90,
widow of John F. Prosperi. former
president of the Washington Musicians
Union, died yesterday at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Maurice Otterback,
325 Fifth street southeast Her son-in-
law, Maurice Otterback, is president of
the Anacostia Bank.
Mrs. Prosperi's death came only two
days after that of George r. Cook, a
lifelong friend, who died at the age Of
90. Mrs. Prospect was lifelong mem
Der of Trinity M. E. Church.
Her husband, Civil War veteran,
was once member of the Marine Band
and played in the orchestra in the old
Herzog Theater. He died in 1923.
Besides Mrs Otterback four other
daughters survive. Mrs. Oscar c. Full
Ter, Mrs. Charles A Fenner. Mrs.
Thomas e. Turpin and Miss Clara Pros
peri.
Funeral services will be held at Mrs.
Otterback's residence Monday morning
at II o'clock Burial will be in Arling-
ton National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1932-08-26

Point and couldn't turn shoreward
when the two boats bore down on us,
We turned toward them as much as
possible to take glancing blow and
they hit us just aft of amidships on
the starboard side.
After the crash they kept on their
course while we rushed to see what
damage had been done. Water was
pouring into the engine room rapidly,
and after proceeding few hundred
yards, we stopped. Without stopping to
wake up the colored man who was
bunked over the engine room, we
grabbed his bedding end stuffed 1t
into the hoe. Then for about two
hours We pumped to get the water out
of the hold
jenkins and Wake said they could
identify the two boats which hit
them. They reported the accident to
the United States Customs House at
Georgetown on their arrival yester-
day and officials were at the wharves
today taking the statements OF the two
men.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
Peanut Taken From Lung

TINE life of a 2-yearold girl was
saved yesterday, when peanut
lodged in her lung since last
L Saturday night was removed by
DR.. David Davis. George Wash
ington University Hospital bronchoscope
expert.
The child-Anita Sauveur. daughter
of Clarence and Minnie Sauveur, 1928
Wisconsin avenue-swallowed the pea
nut while playing with several other
children in her home. Gasping for
breath she was taken to three hos
pitals, none of which was. equipped for
bronchoScope work.
BY the time she reached Children's
Hospital her condition apparently had
improved, and she was permitted to re-
turn to her home after an examination.
Change for Worse Came.
But the improvement was only tempo
rary. The peanut had lodged In ANITA S
right lung, setting up an Inflammation
that rapidly became so serious that
her life was endangered. The change
for the worse was accompanied by an
alarming rise in temperature.
Her condition had become so much
worse by yesterday morning that her
parents decided to take her to George
Washington, where she was X-rayed.
After viewing the negatives DR.. Davis
deemed it necessary to perform a
bronchoscope operation Immediately.
The operation, considered a highly
delicate one, apparently was successful,
for Anita was resting comfortably today
though her lung still was in an in
famed condition. Barring some un-
foreseen complication, she will be able
to so home within a few days, DR..
Davis said.
Complains of Hospital.
Georgetown University Hospital, the
first institution to which Anita was
taken after swallowing the peanut. de-
clined to give her emergency treatment,
according to her father.
Sister Rochus, superintendent of
Georgetown, said today that the Incl
dent had not been officially reported to
her, but that she would begin an in
veStigation Immediately.
1T is not our policy to turn any one
away from this hospital" said Sister
Rochus, land if such a thing ever hap
Evening star., 1932-08-26
TWO BANDITS LURE
BOY TO APARTMENT
AND GET S24 CASH
Drug Store EmpIoye Calls
Help After Loosening
Wire Bonds.
PHONE ORDER REQUESTS
CHANGE FOR $40 BILL
Youth, Is, Notices Empty Rooms
and Tries to Escape, but Is
Overpowered.

Police today were seeking two men
reported to have lured a 15-year- old
drug store delivery boy to vacant
apartment in the 2800 block of Con-
necticut avenue last night and left
him lying on the floor, bound and
gagged, after robbing him of S24.15.
The boy, Henry Ritnour, employed
by the Cathedral Pharmacy, 5000 Con-
necticut avenue, went to the vacant
apartment after man telephoned the
drug store and ordered several pack
ages of cigarettes. The order totaled
IS cents. and the man requested that
change for a $40 bill be sent along with
the cigarettes.
Invited to Step Inside.
Knocking on the door of the fourth
floor apartment, Henry, who lives at
1920 Connecticut avenue. was invited
to step inside" by the young man who
responded. he told police.
Noticing that the apartment ap-
parently was unfinished, the boy hesi-
tated, he said, and the man stepped
into the hall and jammed a revolver
against his side. Clapping his hand
over Henry's mouth, the man pulled
him into the apartment and slammed
the door. the boy said.
Inside, the man was joined bv an
other, who helped carry Henry to the
other side of the room where the boy,
according to his report to police, was
dropped on the floor Without a word
the men searched Henrvs pockets. he
said. relieving him of the change for
the $40 bill and $5 of his own.
Attracts Passerby.
Then, according to Henry, one Of the
men produced quantity of heavy wire,
with which the two bound the boys
hands and feet. Placing gag in
Henrys mouth the men pushed him
into a corner, he said, and fled.
After about half an hours work
Henry managed to force the gag out of
his mouth and shouted for help. His
yells were heard by passerby, who
summoned police.
Several other hold-ups were reported
last night. Harry c. Curtis, 35 of
Takoma Park, Md. told how two bandits
gagged and bound him with his own
and necktie, after robbing
him of $l2 Curtis explained he was
walking on Weaver place near Canal
road when the men accosted him, one
apparently holding gun on him from
a coat pocket. Taking his billfold,
Curtis said, they bound his wrists be-
hind him, inserted the gag and ordered
him to walk along Weaver place. The
men then escaped in small automobile
Detained by Police.
Curtis was detained at No. precinct
for further questioning as to the
hold-up.
A well-dressed young white man OBJ
tanned S35 early today from D. N Mills.
of a filling station at New
York avenue and First street northeast.
The robber took the money at pistol
point and disappeared into an alley.
Evening star., 1932-08-26

~ AHMED and nearly sunk by two
u Chesapeake Bay boats which
X are alleged to have continued
i on their way without offering
assistance, the melon boat
Harriet, from the Pianktank River. IN
Middlesex County, Va, hmped into
Washington late yesterday and its own
ers Immediately started Federal authori-
ties on an investigation OF the crash.
The Harriet, skippered by Capt. j. T;
Jenkins and Willard H. Wake, managed
to get into Washington with its tull
cargo of melons, only after yawning
hole, opened in its starboard side near
the stern, had been stuffed with bed
clothing and about 3 feet OF water
pumped from its hold.
we we're just rounding Cobb Point
Light, in the lower Potomac, about 2
O'Clock yesterday morning, when sud
denly the two boats, lashed together
and returning from market, light,
crashed into our starboard SIDE" Capt
Jenkins explained today.
There was no chance to avoid the
collision. We were, In close to Cobb
Evening star., 1932-08-26
FRANKL|N'S NAME
GIVEN POST OFFICE.
STATION ON AVENUE
Change September 26 With
Corner Stone Laying for
New Department.
BROWN ANNOUNCES
TRIBUTE TO FIRST HEAD
Will Mark 143d Anniversary of
Inauguration of Service Under
Constitution.

The name of the central post office
on Pennsylvania avenue, now known
as the Pennsylvania Avenue Station, is
to be changed to the Benjamin Frank
lin Station in honor of the first Post
master General of the United Colonies
The change will be effective September
26, the date on which the corner stone
of the new Post Office Department
Building will be laid by President
Hoover.
In making this announcement today
Postmaster General Brown added that
the change would be effective at pm
September 26, Immediately following
the ceremonies incident to the corner
stone laying. The designation will re-
main with the post Office when it Is re-
moved to the new building expected to
be completed in the Spring of 1884.
Philateiists Cared For.
Special arrangements to care for
philatelists in connection with the dis
patch of letter mail from the newly
named post Office are being made by
the department. In addition to show
ing the name of the new station and
the date and hour of its establishment
on the postmark, the mail will receive
also, on request, special cachet ap-
pTOpTldIe 10 Ulle occasion.
The Post Office Department announced
that stamp collectors desiring first-day
cancellations of the Benjamin Franklin
station and the special cachet, may send
a limited number of properly addressed
letters, with postage stamps affixed
sufficient for the first-class letter rate,
to the Postmaster, Washington, D. c.,
to be received not later than September
%. The outside of the package Of covers
should be inscribed For September rs
Registration Requests.
Application for registration of first
day covers at the Benjamin Franklin
station cannot be honored and such
covers will be subject to ordinary, air
mail or special delivery dispatch.
Benjamin Franklin, printer, pub
Usher, philosopher, philanthropist and
statesman, was born in Boston, jan
uary II, 1706 He was named Post
master General for the United Colonies
by the Continental Congress In Phila-
delphia in IT'S.
September &c, the date of the corner
stone laying and the change in the
name of the Pennsylvania avenue sta
ton, is the one hundred and forty
third anniversary of the Inauguration
of the postal service under the consti-
tuition.
The cachet for the occasion will be
approximately 2l2 by 212 inches in size
and has been prepared with the idea
Of indicating the first and the latest
modes of mail transportation, covering
the progress of mail carrying from
1889 to 1882 A horse bearing an old
Continental post rider is portrayed at
one corner of the cachet, while in an
other is shown the airplane, most mod
ern form of transporting the mails.
The inscription reads: One hundred
anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the United States Post
Office, in the administration of George
Washington"
Evening star., 1932-08-26
Increase of s15,529,330 Is
Shown in Richards Report
Over Previous Year.
INCOME TAX FOR CITY
AGAIN RECOMMENDED
Total Intangible Property Value Is
Put at $500, ,4Os, ,4e2, Drop of
$29,1eS,792 for Year.

Valuation of realty assessments in the
District was fixed at S1,226,691 ,948 in
the 1892 fiscal year report of Tax
Assessor William P. Richards made yes
terday to the District Commissioners.
The valuation is an increase Of SIS
$3.50 over the assessments of last
year.
The report fixed the value of lands
at 1854, ,879, and improvements to
the lands at s672 .6l9 o69. Valuation of
new buildings and additions totaled
S3l ,0S2 100 and were distributed over
the various sections of the city as
follows:
Northwest city, $5,666, 500; north
east and southeast city, s2,9S7 500;
southwest city, S20o,O50; northwest
county and Georgetown, $l7,472,950,
and northeast and southeast county,
$4,755, 100.
Ss,s63,20O Removed.
Assessments for improvements re-
moved during the year were estimated
at $3,S63,200.
The economic condition was blamed
for the decrease of S324,64 in per-
sonal property taxes. while the falling
off of $29, 1872 in the amount of
taxable intangible personal property was
described as comparatively small by
the assessor The total of intangible
property was assessed at $500, ,408, ,462.
Urges Income Tax.
The report reiterated the recon-
mendation made by Mr.. Richards 10
Congress to replace the intangible prop
erty tax by an income tax. Regarding
this recommendation the report states
THE Office of the assessor recon-
mendS very strongly in favor Of an in
come tax, as it is known that an in
come tax would make more equitable
distribution of the taxation on intan-
gible property than what is known as
an intangible tax can ever hope to &C
complish; moreover it is believed that
more persons would be placed on the
tax roll who should be assuming some
of the burden of taxation, but who are
at present escaping taxati ton for various
reasons; and moreover, it is believed
that an income tax would eventually
produce more revenue for the District
of Columbia than is at present collected
under the intangible tax law
Special assessments for sidewalks,
building lines, street extensions, paving
roadways and similar items amounted
to S1,158, ,458.33. License fees brought
a total of S193, ,321.01. The water main
division levied assessments of $685.
377.2l and collected s171. 1902, includ-
ing interest and forced sales.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
Step-On-Gas Order
To Govern Officers
Driving Own Cars
Controller Says Time En-
Route Must Be Ac-
counted for to u. S.

Officers of the armed services, the
Coast Guard, Public Health Service and
Coast and Geodetic Survey, who use
their own automobiles while on Gov
ernment missions, hereafter will be
forced to step on the gas"
A decision today by Controller Cen
eral McCarl said: For travel between
two points any substantial distance
apart, with no duty on the part of the
officer en- route, the increased travel
time will be chargeable as a legisla-
tive furlough or furlough without pay
as may be required in individual cases"
The basis of comparison, of course,
would be the time required for common
carrier transportation.
The controllers decision was rendered
to the Secretary of the Navy on a draft
Of modified transportation regulations
submitted by that official In connection
with the operation Of the economy bill.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
Staff Photo.

the new Hollywood. Even the four-a-
day personal appearances she came here
to do this week are meat and drink to
her love of acting. The personal ap-
pearance tour is distinctly a 1892
wrinkle in Hollywood stunts, but it has
had some of the new stars groggy and
complaining before the transforming
was over. Miss Negri, after II weeks
of it, is ready for more.
Likes New Experience.
Certainly it is hard work, she says.
But she likes work and hence likes the
new regime in the movies. The thrill
of seeing the audiences she has been
playing to for many more years than
her youthful appearance suggests, also
is compensation for the difficult life of
the trouper, Miss Negri maintains.
Making pictures is no longer as easy
as it was in the era of the silent film
Miss Negri says. In the first place, a
pretty face and exciting figure will not
make a modern star. There must be
hard work, devotion to the improvement
of voice, histrionic range and certain
technical abilities which only the best
of silent films demanded. Working con-
diticnS in the talkieS are more trying,
too she thinks. The soundproof sets
are hot, lights are strong, mechanical
equipment more elaborate and there is
less room for mistakes and retakes.
Nevertheless, Miss Negri says she Is
keen to get back to the movies She
plans to appear in a picture based on
"a well known Broadway play" and
written in the Viennese vein she pre-
fers. Her role will be that of a gay
Austrian woman-something in the line
she has determined to follow. Next Fall,
in 1893, she may take the lead in a
legitimate play, a Max Reinhardt pro-
duction concerned with the life of the
Empress of China.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
MRS. RHEEM FILES SUIT
FOR DIVORCE IN RENO
Daughter of Harry Wardman, Wed
in 1915, Charges Cruelty-Has
Daughter IL Years Old.

Mrs. Alice Wardman Rheem, daughter
of Harry Wardman, one-time leading
Washington builder, yesterday filed suit
at Reno, New, fer divorce from Edmund
D. Rheem, vice president and executive
head of the defunot mortgage firm of
Swartzen, Rheem g. Hensey.
The Rheems were married here on
June l, 1916, and they have one child,
Nancy, II years old. In her petition for
divorce Mrs. Rheem charges cruelty.
Rheem now is serving seven-year
term for embezzlement at the Lortcn
Reformatory IN connection with charges
arising from investigation OF the col
lapse Of the Swartzell, Rheem e. Hensey
firm. He pleaded guilty to the embes-
element Of Sl62,l50. -.--.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
PRISONERS TAKEN AWAY

Two colored prisoners. who escaped
from the North Carolina State Peni-
tentiary at Raleigh and were captured
here recently, left the District for the
journey back to prison today in COM
pany of North Carolina officer
The prisiners were William Williams,
who escaped while serving 35-year
sentence for murder of his wife, and
William White, serving 7 to 10 years
for burglary. White is said to have
boasted that he would again escape
from the North Carolina prison.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION
FUND SPENDS S34,215
Report of District Claims Inspec-
tor Shows 744 Workers Were
Injured and 162 Paid.

A total of s34,21596 was expended
during the 1882 fiscal year from the
District employees compensation fund,
according to report made to the Dis
trict Commissioners today by Inspector
of Claims E. S. Dawson.
The report stated that 744 cases Of
temporarily injured employees were re-
corded Compensation was granted in
the amount of $13,163 86 to 162 of these
employees and was refused in the 582
cases.
Other expenditures reported were IL
permanently injured employees, So
1921; 10 widows and 8 dependents of
employees, $5,O45.24; hospitals, s3.256.52:
physicians s2,79925; nurses, 1855. and
artificial limbs, $96l.88.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
BOY SHOT IN LEG

James Fuller. 13-year-old colored boy,
of the 900 block Of Twenty-seventh
street, was shot in the leg late yester-
day by another colored boy during an
argument said to have started over a
dice game. He was treated at Emer-
gencg Hospital and returned to his
home.
Clarence Blackwell, Is, Of the 1000
block Of Thirtieth street, was booked
for investigation at No. 3 pei ce. sta
ton in connection with the shooting.
The pistol used was said to have been
thrown into the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal. near the scene of the shooting.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
ACADEMY HEAD LEAVES

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, August 90
Sister Mary Hubert, mother superior at
the ST. Marys Academy for the past Is
years. left today for Nazareth, KY,
where she will teach in the st. Agnes
School there. She is succeeded by
Sister of Charity Mary Aline of NaZa-
reth. KY who assumed her new duties
as the new mother superior yesterday.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
PRISONER RETURNED
ON LARCENY CHARGE
Jesse Rose, Colored, Alleged to
Have Obtained $54 From Wom-
an on False Promise.

Jesse Rose, colored, 40, arrested in
Baltimore on warrant charging grand
larceny, was brought here and turned
over to police last night.
The warrant was sworn out by Mrs.
Lula SpotwoOd, 1900 block of Sixth
street. who said Rose obtained S54 from
her upon a promise to give her one
third of $4,000 he said he had found.
Mrs. SpotWocd went to Baltimore to
identify Rose.
Detectives who brought him back
from Baltimore said he admitted the
swindle He was released from the
Maryland House Of Correction several
days ago after serving a l0-month SEN
tence on conviction for similar swindle
Evening star., 1932-08-26
Heads Sons of Pericles.

AKRON, Ohio August IS CP).-Con-
stantine Verinis, New Haven. Conn, was
elected supreme national president of
the Sens CT Pericles in national con-
vention here yesterday. d,
Evening star., 1932-08-26
RICHMOND PENALTY TAX
REDUCED IS PER CENT
Board of Aldermen Passes Cut Over
Mayors Veto-Councn Had
Voted Measure.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, August 26-Rich-
mond property owners won their long
fight for Is per cent reduction in real
estate taxes when the Board Of Alder
men passed the measure over Mayor
Bright's veto last night
The reduction had previously been
voted over the mayors veto by The
Common Council, and the action by
the upper branch of the city's legislative
body was the final step in a long
drawn-out contest.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
Gets Job-Dies Suddenly.

NEW YORK, August IS (N.A.N-A).
Starting out for his first Job in a
year, Peter Lang, IS, an actor died sud
denly here. ..--.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
CHEST DONATIONS
SHOW SHARP DROP
Total Reported Yesterday Only
SS9-0ficials Look for In
creased Help.

Community Chest contributions yes
terday declined to $87. This increased
the total to $2,413,984.90. leaving a
deficit of $187,015.10 in the drive for
$2,6O1 900.
Meanwhile, indications were demands
for aid this month would be double
those of February, 1881. Such condi-
tions prevailed at the Associated Chari-
ties, the Salvation Army and other
organizations afiliated with the Chest.
Regardless of the shotage, efforts were
made to help every cne in distress.
Chest officials predicted today sub
stantial sum toward reduction of the
deficit would be obtained from indi-
viduals who have not yet subscribed
because they did not realize the serious
situation brought about by unprece-
dented unemployment.
Donations received yesterday in
cluded: IS, Emile Bishop; SIS, Epiph-
any Sunday school; S.. Henrietta Heron;
SIS, Abe Lash: $40, Jennie Bruce Nc
Even; $40, Grace E. McEwen; 81, Joan
Miner: IS, George E. Sartwen (addi-
tionaD: SO, Sewing Circle, Jewish
Foster Home; $40, Frances J. Swiggard.
Evening star., 1932-02-19
SHOT FIRED At CAR,
M0T0RMAN CLAIMS
Police Continue Search for
oot-and-Run" Gunman.
Reports Are Frequent.

Search for the "shoot-and-run" gun
man still was in progress today. fol-
lowing a report to police that a man
in a coupe fired shot last night at
street car at Thirty-first and P streets
The report was made by Clifford Da
wilson, 2217 North Capitol street, mo-
torman of the car. He said the shot
was fired at the base of the car as the
automobile sped past.
The conductor, Guy Lucas, 1923 Gales
street, said he heard a noise like that of
a stone striking the car, but did not
see the passing machine.
Such reports. police pointed out. have
been frequent since the "shoot-and-run"
gunman began his series of shootings
two weeks ago. His victims were Paul
Riedel. As, shot to death in his bakery
at 32151a Mount Pleasant street; Cor
don T. Backus, 81, wounded near his
home at 3433 Mount Pleasant street,
and Helen Andrews. 18. and Doris Beall,
is. wounded at Fifth and Aspen streets.
Backus was discharged from Emer-
gency Hospital yesterday. Wounded in
the back. his condition at first was con-
sidered critical The other victims also
have recovered.