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Evening star., 1933-01-14
YOUNG WIDOW SEEKS
MARINE CORPS AID
Will Ask Military Funeral for
Estranged Husband Who
Took Own Life.

Eight weeks behind in her insurance
payments, Mrs Margaret Harmon, %
year-old mother Of two children, was
preparing today to ask the Marine Corps
to provide a military funeral for her
estranged husband, John, 81, who shot
himself to death Thursday night in
front Of her home, 1916 ] street south
east.
Meanwhile. the body. which lay un-
claimed in the District Morgue for "a
hours after the shooting. was being held
at the Thomas Nally e Sons under
taking establishment pending receipt of
instructions from Marine Corps Off
cials.
Word also was being awaited from the
dead mans father, John A. Harmon,
Windsor, Md. Although he told Detec-
tive Sergt. Dennis J. Murphy he was
financially unable to provide funeral
for his son, it was thought he would
come here to help arrange the rites.
Harmon, VINO served six years in the
Marines, killed himself on the side
walk in front of the I street house,
where his wife lives with her parents.
MI. and Mrs. James Wood, about an
hour after she had refused to effect a
reconciliation. She had taken the chill
dren. Dorothy, 2, and Betty, 10 months.
and left him about a month ago, she
said
In Harmon's pocket. police found a
i6-plge letter in which he declared he
was ending his life because he could
not live without the children and TO
make my wife happy"
Evening star., 1933-01-14
kEECH SAYS CAPITAL
WILL LEAD RECOVERY
Peoples Counsel, in Radio Talk
Believes End of Depression
Is Near.

Washington should be the first city
TO throw off the effects Of the depres-
sion, Richmond B. Keecn, peoples
counsel declared last night in pros
perity hour" radio address over Sta
ticn VOL.
He pointed out that Washington was
the last big city to feel the industrial
slump and that there is no reason
why it should not be the first to usher
In better times. The Capitals financial
institutions. he said are in a partic-
ularly strong position, with bank de-
poslts exceptionally large
Recent surveys show that the trend
of business throughout the country is
on the upgrade" he continued. Il
don't pretend to be an oracle Ger
talnl y, though, We have reached at least
the beginning of the end.
i am equally sure conditions will
return to normal only when the peo-
pie as whole have confidence in their
Government, their banks, their mer-
chants and their public institutions. 1t
seems to me that what we need most
OF all at the moment is optimism
Evening star., 1933-01-14
Army Sends Only
Woman Soldier to
Philippines Again
Warrant Officer Hoskins
Has Spent % Years
in Service.

The Army's only woman soldier,
Warrant Officer Olive L. Hoskins, IS
sailing from New York next Thursday
for her second hitch" in the Philip
pines.
With % years of service to her credit.
Miss Hoskins. or Warrant Officer Hos
kins, as she is officially known, tired of
the inactivity of routine duties at
Omaha. Nebr. and applied for another
tour of duty in the Philippines. She
had been at the Omaha headquarters
OF the 7th Corps Area since 1922.
For several weeks the Army's woman
soldier has been on leave visiting friends
at Summit, N. j., prior to her depar-
ture. Her previous tour in the Philip
pines began in 1919 and lasted nearly
four years.
Miss Hoskins got into the Army cler-
ical forces through civil service exam
ination. In 1916, however, the clerks
were made field clerks, with Regular
Army status.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
FEDERAL BAR SETS
DINNER FOR FEB. II
Preliminary Plans for Annual
Event at Mayfower Completed
by Committee.

Preliminary plans for the annual din
ner Of the Federal Bar Association,
tentatively set for February II in the
Mayfower Hotel, have been completed
by the Committee on Arrangements. it
was announced today.
Monte Appel, Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral has been selected chairman of the
committee. Rowland S. H. Dyer, inter-
nal revenue attorney, is vice chairman,
and Ralph G. Cornell. attorney in the
General Accounting Office, secretary.
The following additional committee
,chairmen have been selected:
Corporation Counsel William w.
Bride. Committee on Speakers; Ken
meth H. Bruner. attorney in the General
Accounting Office, Committee on Tickets;
Assistant United States Attorney Pearl
Mccall Committee on Decorations: !:
Duke NJ Patrick, Committee on Seat
ing; William E. Reese Committee on
Printing; Albert E. Stephan. Publicity,
and Maj. Gen. Blanton Winship, Dinner
Committee.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
URGED
TO OFFSET LEISURE
DR.. Theodore T. Martin Be-
lieves Schools viii Combat
Menace of Growing Crime.

Present social trends in America de-
mand an expansion of educational
facilities to combat the danger CT in
creased crime resulting from mis-
directed leisure, according to Dr. Theo-
dore T. Martin, director of membership
Of the National Education Association.
Addressing a group of educators, stu
dents and men seeking vocational
counsel at an "occupational adjust
ment" forum at the Y. M. c. A. last
night. DR.. Martin declared the current
economic system, with it, shorter work
day and work week and it's increased
leisure for the laboring man Is chal-
lenge to educators.
Opposes Retrenchment.
There must be greater expenditures
for education or greater expenditures
for apprehension and punishment of
criminals, DR.. Martin asserted. He eX-
planned that schools are crime pre-
ventives, while police departments and
jails are confronted with the problem
OF dealing with the person already
turned criminal
Instead of retrenchment, there should
be marked increase in the country S
educational facilities, the speaker said.
He described the profession of teaching
AS ''one of the Nations biggest busi-
nesseS,p the governmental expenditures
fer which are exceeded only by those
for roads and war
Not Easy Berth, He Says.
Deploring what he said was a pcpu-
lar belief that teaching was an easy
BERTH" DR.. Martin said a good teacher
requires brains, personality. an inner
urge and adequate preparation"
While there is some oversupply of
teachers at present, he expressed the
opinion that the profession is at the
threshold of an era of great expansion.
Salaries of teachers have been in
creased in the past few years, SO the
profession today provides "a reasonable
living" he said.
1T is not yet a profession of wealth,
however" he edded
The lecture was under auspices of
The Y. M. C. A. Committee on Vocation
al Guidance. DR.. j. Orin Powers of
George Washington University presided.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
SUICIDE INTRUSTS
HIS BODY TO BOY
Notes Found With Dead Marine
Corps Sergeant, 33, Victim
of Gas.

Leaving several notes entrusting his
effects and disposition of his body to a
15-year- odd boy who had been taken
from his custody by a court order,
Robert B Halvick, 33-year-old Marine
Corps sergeant, committed suicide early
today by inhaling gas in the kitchen
of his apartment, in the 100 block Of
Second street northeast.
The body was found by police,
slumped in a chair before the gas
range, from which gas was flowing from
five open jets. In notes addressed to
the coroner and the commandant of
the Marine Corps, HalVick asked that
nothing be moved from the apartment
until the boy, ward of the Board of
Public Welfare, had been notified.
Halvick, said to have been a native
of Seattle, had gone to Juvenile Court
to fight for custody of the child after
the boys grandmother had charged in
corrigibility against him.
He was employed in the Department
of Operations and Training of the
United States Marine Corps with the
rank of probationary technical SER
geant."
A certificate of suicide was issued by
Acting Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
PRESIDENT NAMES THREE
TO ARTS COMMISSION

Tnree new members Of the Fine Arts
Commission were named Yesterday by
President Hoover. Senate COMBINATION
IS not required. The new members are
John Mead Howells, architect; Lee Law
RE, sculptor, and Eugene Francis Saw
age, painter, all of New York.
The retiring members Of the COM
mission are Ezra Winter, painter; John
Walter Cross, architect, and Adolph A
Welnman, sculptor. Serving on the
commission, with Charles Moore as
chairman, are John L. Mauran, Edger-
ton Swarthout and Gilmore Clarke.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
HEARINGS SCHEDULED
ON GAS VALUATION
Maryland and D. C. Commission to
Sit Jointly, Beginning
February 27.

February 81 has been set as the date
for public hearings on the valuation of
the Washington and Georgetown Gas
Light Companies.
The hearings will be held in the Dis
trlct Building. but members of the
Maryland Public Service Commissions
and the District Public Utilities Com
mission will sit jointly, as the valuation
covers also property in Montgomery
County owned by subsidiaries of the
two District concerns.
The Maryland commission has before
it petition from residents of the
Bethesda section for reduction in gas
rates. There is no petition pending in
the DlStrlct where an 812 per cent dis
count on all bills was recently ARRANGED
This arrangement, however, expires Feb
ruary l, and before that time the Dis
trict commission is expected to extend
it until after the valuation proceedings.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
Deaths Reported.

Gilman B. Howe. SO. 3217 18th st.
Heloise NJ. Sands, 5s, 1850 @ ST
IaBlond Purdett. ~. 6a02 Pinev Branch I'd.
Nellie G. Veihmeyer. -. 562l Colorado ave.
Mary E. Barney, 90. 2S4+ Wisconsin ave.
Katherine O'Brien. 6S. 1o3 St
Mary 8 Miles GS 400 YnSt place ne
Morris zhupnik. g.. Garfield Hospital.
Fred Schaake, 81. Galli"ser Hospital
FLORENCE F. Bell. 81. Sibley HOSPITAL.
Frank Deamato, 40. en- route Emergency
Hospital.
Lutte Grifith. AZ. Georgetowns Hospital
Henry J. Holland, A., Walter Reed Hos
Hugh B. Thomas. ~, Emergency Hospital.
Landore Peters. "a. Providence Hosnital.
Guilia Lilli. ~. found near Forest Glen,
Md.
George Lushy. /. Casualty Hospital
Lizzi Dorsey. 20. Home for Aged and IN
nrm.
pital.
Mary SLAUGHTER. 40. 1929 1st st. Sc.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

BALTIMORE, January 14-Tn a
statement read to the jury in United
States District Court yesterday in the
income tax trial of Samuel r. Beard,
confessed Washington bookmaker, it
was brought out that for several years
Beard kept as much as $3.50, 900 in cash
in a trunk in his fathers home at
1872 Eleventh street southeast, Wash
ington.
Beard Is being tried before Judge
W. Calvin Chestnut on charges of max
ing fraudulent income tax returns for
the years 1924 to 1881.
Assistant District Attorney Charles
G. Page read report by Otto R. Freed,
special agent of the Internal Revenue
Department, who investigated the case.
According to the report he became a
bookmaker in 1924, and in that capac-
ity became widely known in the SPORT
ing centers of the District of Columbia.
Beard said he was born in Baltimore
in 1887 and moved to Washington as a
boy. He left school after completing
the sixth or seventh grade, and since
he was 18 or 19 years old has earned
his living by gambling. he admitted.
From 1910 to 1918, he said, he had
Evening star., 1933-01-14
INAUGURAL TO HAVE
UNUSUAL SOUVENIR
Program Will Be as CoIorful
as Ceremonies, Chair
man Announces.

The souvenir program Of the Roose-
velt inaugural, while conforming to
the general form of such publications,
will be as distinctive and colorful as it
Is planned to make other activities in
connection with the coming inaugural,
it was announced today by j. Fred
Essary, chairman of the program sub
committee of the General Inaugural
Committee.
Mr.. Essary today announced the per-
sonnel of his subcommittee which is to
prepare and publish the program. The
subcommittee is as follows: Merle
Thorpe, Ernest G. Walker, F. M Rus
SELL Marshall Morgan, Howard M. Berry,
Representative Sol Bloom, Mrs. C. G..
Lee, jr; Miss Eleanor Connolly. James
D. Preston. Charles P. Light, Lawrence
B. Campbell. c. K. Bergman, Charles
H. Tompkins, j. r. Hildebrand and
John D. Erwin.
Mr. ESsary. Washington correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun, will call a
meeting of his subcommittee early next
week to lay plans for the program.
Parade Requests Many.
Tie Inaugural Committee, it was re-
vealed today, is being deluged with re-
quests of organizations which wish to
take part in the parade that is to wend
its way along Pennsylvania avenue after
the inaugural ceremony. Requests have
been received from more than 80 or
ganizations, and more are coming into
the inaugural Offices in the Washing
ton Building daily
So heavy has been the parade work
that, although the grand marshal has
not yet been chosen, Col Henry Roose-
velt, retired Marine Corps officer and
cousin of the President-elect, has
been drafted for the work and is main
tanning offices in the suite occupied by
the Inaugural Committee.
Col. Roosevelt is expecting more than
100 additional requests for permission
to appear in the parade, from organiza-
tions not only in Washington, but in
other sections of the country.
Places in the line of march will not
be assigned these groups until the
grand marshal is appointed and the
general outline of the parade is mapped
out by the marshal and his aides.
Traditional Parade Order.
The traditional order of inaugural
paradeS is expected to be followed in
the coming parade, with the Army,
Navy, Marines and Coast Guards at
the head Of the column with National
Guard units following. The service
units will be drawn from Army, Navy
and Marine posts in and near Wash
ington. units that can be brought into
the city for the affair at no expense
to the Government Participation Of
the Annapolis Midshipmen and the
West Point Cadets is not expected due
TO the expense of transporting the fu-
ture officers to and from the Capital
Requests for reservations in the
Glands, and accommodations for large
groups that will visit the city during
tho inaugural week end continue to
flow into the Washington Building
headquarters One came today from
Emmett Whealen Of the Cook County,
Ill Commission, who stated th2t sp-
proximately $50 officials of the City
OF Chicago will attend the inaugural
in body, coming to Washington on a
special train. Hundreds CT smaller
groups have notified the committee
they will attend.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
BEARD TELLS OF KEEPING S45O,OOO
IN CASH IN OLD TIN BOX HERE
Bookmaker, Trial in Income Tax Case Says He Spent
$4,000 in Six Months He Was in Army.

as much as $3.50, 900 in cash at vari-
GUS times.
where did you keep this money!"
he was asked.
II kept most OF it in big notes in a
tin box in trunk at my fathers
house." Beard said
How much did you have in the box?"
II think had as much as $3.50 900
at one time
WAS there any insurance on the
house or the money!"
"I carried no insurance of any kind. -
It was further brought out that this
box with its precious contents was
moved with the rest of the household
effects to w street address later on.
Beard said he began putting his
money in safe deposit boxes and in in
vestments in 1921, but that he made
no money from 1918 to 1921, which in
cluded six months in the United States
Army in 1918. He said he spent $40 900,
however, while in the Army
He had bet on plenty of horses. he
said, but never made any money from
this source. He had never owned any
horses. He had owned real estate in
MARYLAND and had an interest in the
Marlboro Hotel.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
WILL WATCH "H0LD-UP"

Headed by Supt. of Police Ernest w
Brown, high ranking police officials and
experts in the use of tear gas left here
today for Wilmington. Del, to observe
the use of tear gas and other police
technique to + used in a demonstration
"hold-up" at ding Wilmington bank
after closing S this afternoon.
Besides MAJ. ..-- own, among those who
left for Wilmington were Assistant Supt
Of Police l.. l. H. Edwards, Lieut.. H. G
Callahan, head of the police school
here; Pvt. Arthur Poulsen, member oi
the police gas squad; H. E. Crawford
chief clerk of the Police Department, and
Robert Jones of the Federal tear gas
laboratory.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
Births Reported.

Arthur W. and Caroline A. Queen. girl
Walter and Lillian Fox. girl.
Thomas j. and Catherine ]. Crowley, girl
Elmer L. and Edith Gusaek. girl
Huber E and Pauline v. Garrett. girl.
Solomon and Esther N. Maxim: girl.
George c. and Rachel A. Paffenbarger, girl
Earl A. and Martelle Trager. girl
Bernard J. and Elizabeth NJ. Burns. girl
Edward c. and Mary f. Staples. girl.
Lanine D. and Helen D. Mover, girl
James and Louise D. Robinson, boy.
Thomas j. and June Mccarthy, boy.
John and Katina VassaS. hoy.
Ralph A. and Margaret l.. Dommel. boy.
Francis H and Ruth J. Thompson. boy.
Alva d. and Grace Adams. hoy;
Lovick p and Henrietta S. Riddle. boy.
Charles H. and Dorothy E. Weaver, boy
Clav S and Mary E. Coss, boy.
Clarence A. and Mary H. Gates. boy.
Harry C. and Catherine Kepner, boy.
Paul C, and Muriel NJ Maxwell boy.
Franklin C. and Annie r. Davis, boy.
Harrison L.. end Julia Morton, hoy.
Norman and Marv Jarvis. girl.
Boolser T and Esther Jones. girl.
Eugene and Mary Coleman. boy.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
NOTARY PUBLIC HELD
Charged With Falsely Certifying
Auto Title Application.

S. H. Blumenthal. a notary public,
1900 block of Seventh street, was bound
over to the grand jury from Police
Court yesterday on a charge of falsely
certifying an application for an auto
mobile title.
Police charged that Blumenthal GER
titled the application as date several
months ago. when in reality it was not
executed until after the first of this
year. This change was made. the
prosecution charges, to avoid the ne
cessity for mechanical inspection of au-
tomobiles, required under the new reg
ulations which became effective this
year.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
'DRAKE ESTATE FRAUD ORDER
IS UNWELCOME TO TEXANS
Government Activities for Protection of Public Bring
Flood of Protests.

extraordinarily, distribution of "the
estate" of Sir Francis Drake to heirs
who have been contributing freely to a
fund reputedly used to push the matter
in British courts
The letters apparently were sent out
about the time the fraud order was
issued. but there were indications at
the solicitors Office that, even had they
come prior to the order. they wouldn' t
have made much difference.
The department acted after lengthy
investigation, during the course OF
which advice was received from British
authorities that there is no Drake
estate.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
GUILTY UNDER ARMS LAW
Storekeeper offered for Sale Guns
Without Permit.

In the first successful prosecution
under this phase of the new weapon
law. James L. Deans, colored. operator
of & store in the 1900 block of Four
teenth street. yesterday. entered a plea
OF guilty in Police Court to a charge
of having in possession and offering
for sale guns without "a permit.
The case, however, was referred to
the probation officer on recommended
ton of Assistant United States Attor-
ney Milford L. Schwartz, and Deans
was placed on probation for q year.
Evening star., 1933-01-14

Solicitor Horace J. Donnelly' OF the
Post ONCE Department, who specializes
in breaking up projects the department
doesn't like, took time out today to
wonder If it's worth while
Intermittently. for several years, the
department has been warning on the
celebrated Drake estate" operation and
on Wednesday issued a fraud order
barring the use OF the mails TO tn lse
identified with it.
Today the solicitors Office was flooded
with letters, sent by registered mali
from Southern Texas. protesting against
the departments activities, which, it
was declared, were preventing happy
Evening star., 1933-01-14
FEARS ISLAND REVOLT

Fernando T. Amis, president OF the
Philippine Education and Relief Society
OF America, declared today he hoped the
Senate would override the Presidential
veto Of the Philippines independence
bill. He said he feared that II the Sem
ate does not overrule Mr.. Hoover's veto
there might occur on the islands q po-
litical or economic revolution. n
Evening star., 1933-01-14
RED CROSS LIST DROPS
President Told of Diminishing De
mands From Poor.

Calls on the American Red Cross for
food and clothing are diminishing,
President Hoover was advised late yes
terday by Chairman John Barton
Payne.
Judge Payne attributed this trend
partly to the funds distributed by the
reconstruction Finance Corporation
and partly to the large store of flour
and cotton already distributed.
Evening star., 1933-01-14
Plan Turkey Dinner.

GAITHERSBURG, Md, January IA
(SpeciaD The Ladies Aid Society OF
Grace M. E. Church will hold its an
nual turkey dinner in the church hall
Friday evening from to o'clock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-28

calls days when he could take his
can of worms and, It's Just fifty
years ago And I'd 60 down to Blue
and get myself big mess of fish.
Perch. bass. cat, and buffalo
Was Great Fishing Spot
Even men who are not grand
fathers yet, in Newcastle, tell of the
times in their youth when Big Blue
was a credi. to the town as SWIM
ming and fishing spot
Plans for sewage disposal plant
to prevent continued pollution of
Big Blue have been discussed by
Newcastle.
Don't want to saddle any more
on the taxpayers under present
conditions than we can. That's why
nothing has been done declares
one city official.
When mention is made of the
dumping of poisons and other
wastes into Big Blue by manufac-
tories. the conversation lags or the
official importunes, not to say any,
thing about it these hard times"
Threat Over Town
He mentions the constant I'M
spoken threat that hangs over the
heads of the townspeople, You
know factories can move away from
your town. Your citizens are thrown
out of work.
1t is the same threat met in any
small or large Indiana town when
the concrete subject of requiring
factories to end their days Of pollu-
ton is brought up.
And so Newcastle swimmers go TO
private pools for their outings.
The Ike Walton of the town takes
his rod and reel 70 clearer and purer
waters, where carp won't be his
bite"
And the motorist rides serenely
by Big Blue and its ditch that has
held poisons for fish and livestock
and man and. viewing the scene
from the highway, remarks: Quite
pastoral! Quite!'
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