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Evening star., 1933-08-17
Escorted by Police Part Way,
Man Goes Alone and Is Robbed
T,uO Beat Merchant and
Get $365 in Cash in
Hold-Ups.
Suspicion aroused by
Watchers in Alley;
Protection Asked.

The only trouble with the police pro-
lection which Jesse B. Smith asked for
and got-when he became suspicious
OF two men seen lettering near his home
was that 1t didn't go far enough.
Smith, Union Market produce deal
er, was told by a neighbor that the
strangers had been watching his home,
2l4l K street, for several days.
When he started for his place of busi-
ness early yesterday, he saw the pair
In the alley in the rear of his home.
As he drove out of the alley, they
walked past his automobile-one on
each side-and got into car parked
nearby. When he pulled out of the
alley, they still were trying to get the
machine started.
Asked Police Escort.
Smith, who goes to the market about
l o'clock every morning, asked the third
precinct to give him a police escort out
of the alley-which, he pointed out, "is
pretty dark
When he started out this morning
two officers were there. The two men
also were there, but they made no at
tempt to molest him, driving away the
moment he appeared.
The policemen rode with him as far
as the precinct: then, feeling that he
was safe. he let them out.
AS he pulled up at the market, how
ever, the men suddenly appeared. Press
ing guns against his body. they warned
him that If he didn't have any money
he'd get the same thing Harrison got"
The man referred to, evidently. was J.
Karl Harrison, Hyattsville, Md, COM
mission merchant, who was beaten and
robbed of $3.50 near his Summer home
at Back Bay Beach, Md, several days
ago.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
DIRECTED VERDICT
FREES POLICEMEN
|NBRUTAL|TY CASE
Discrepancies in Testimony
Acquit C. c. Williams and
Frank Ashley.
WITNESSES DISAGREE
ON ELEMENT OF TIME
lieutenant, Summoned to Appear
for Government, Gives Defense
Valuable Aid.

A directed verdict Of not guilty in
Police Court today cleared Policemen
G. G. Williams and Frank Ashley. sec
ond precinct. Of charges OF assault IN
connection with alleged third degree
brutality against a colored prisoner In
the precinct on August 8.
Judge Isaac r. Hit directed the &C
ouittal on motion of Defense Attorneys
E. Russell Kelly and Joseph Kelly: Inc
motion was based on discrepancies In
testimony offered by the complaining
witness and several others as to the
time the alleged assault occurred:
Just prior to the directed verdict. val
uable testimony for the defense was
given by Police Lieut.. Gustave Lauten,
in command of the precinct at the time
of the alleged assault, who was sum-
moned as a Government witness.
Questioned Officers.
Lieut.. Lauten said neighbors Of the
precinct complained that man was
being beaten on the second floor. he
said he went to the room in question
and found the complaining witness,
George Mahoney 19, colored, 24Oo block
of Virginia avenue. with Ashley ana
Williams. The officers told him, ac-
cording to the lieutenant that they
were questioning Mahoney IN connec.
that every time they asked the suspect
a question he yelled at the top OF MS
lungs. .o,
the lieutenant asked.
The prisoner declared the officers
were burning his wrists
Lieut.. Iauten assured nmSell, nc
said that this charge was untrue. he
then left the room, closing the ooor
behind him, but remaining nearby.
Il was within two feet OF the ooor
when Mahoney screamed again. Lieut.:
Iauten testified Il Immediately swung
the door open and found both officers
seated in the same position they occu-
pied when I left. They could not nave
been beating the prisoner at that time.
Alarmed by Screams.
At least half a dozen colored residents
of the vicinity testified they were
alarmed by screams issuing from the
precinct about noon on the day IN ques-
tion, and trooped into an ADJOINING
alley One witness said he saw ponce,
mans arms swinging" and several
others declared when they shouted a
protest the policeman pulled down the
shade.
When the trial opened YESTERDAY
Mahoney testified the alleged assault
occurred on Wednesday, Other
prosecution witnesses placed the time
as Monday" AS a matter OF TACT,
defense attorneys brought out. Mahoney
was taken from the precinct station
Tuesday, August 8. On the same day
a warrant was issued for the arrest
of Ashley and Williams.
Mahoney was removed to Freedman's
Hospital for examination. Doctors there
found slight bump on his head
and a mark. "as if made by pressure,
on the wrists, but declared Mahoney
was not in need of medical treatment.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
D. c. HEADS HOPEFUL
ON PUBLIC WORKS
Officials Optimistic Over Fate
of Requests for s25,261,-
500 Spending Here.

District officials today were optimistic
regarding the fate of their request for
public works construction items for the
District totaling, s25, ,26l 500 They
were given a hearing lasting an hour
and half yesterday by the Federal
Public Works Administration. Today
DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president
of the Board of Commissioners, said:
I'VE were given a very courteous
hearing and feel much encouraged"
Senator William H. King of Utah,
mittee, was more specific. He said he
expected the District to be allotted not
less than S10,00O,000 of the public
works funds which the Federal admin
istration has for distribution.
Board Hearing Requests.
The board which heard the requests
consisted of Turner Battle, assistant to
the Secretary of Labor; l.. r. Robert,
jr.. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
in charge of construction, and Maj.
Carey Brown, member of the Public
Works Administration staff.
Mai. Brown formerly was an assist
ant District Engineer Commissioner and
later was attached to the staff of Col.
U. S. Grant, Sd, when the latter was in
charge of public buildings and parks
here. and Is by long experience quite
familiar with most of the projects on
the list filed by the Commissioners.
A statement as to what funds will be
allocated to the District by the public
works administration is expected in a
few days.
Municipal Center Listed
In the list filed by the commissioner
less than 81 ,000, 900 Is asked under the
funds limited to a 80 per cent contribu-
tion by the Federal Government. Four
projects, for which partial appropria-
tions are already available, come under
this head. They are the Anacostia
Junior High School, the Wilson High
School. the contagious disease ward at
Gallinger Municipal Hospital, and the
Calvert Street Bridge. These requests
total $960,000, 900.
The other projects are subdivided into
two classes. those on which work could
start Immediately, the principal one
being the first unit of the Municipal
Center, and those on which work could
not be begun for six months.
The Commissioners did not ask for
any loans, as the local government has
no power, under its organic act, to incur
indebtedness.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
CONFESSES ROBBING
GAS SERVICE STATION
Suspended Policeman Withdraws
Plea of Not Guilty in Su-
rreme Court.

Withdrawing his plea of not guilty,
John F. Patton, suspended tenth pre-.
cinct policeman, admitted in District
Supreme Court today that he, with Two
colored men, had robbed gasonne
station two months ago.
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue re-
ferred the case to the probation otfice
for investigation at the request OF Pat-
tons attorney, Ringgold Hart. Assistant
United States Attorney Julian l. Hlcn-
ards said the Government had no oo-
lection to this procedure.
Patton was indicted with James
Mason and William Wood. both colored
The latter two men are charged with
holding up the Dome Gasoline Sta
ton, Sixteenth and Taylor streets,
under Patton's direction, and robbing
II of s185 last June 81 The policeman
was on duty at the time. When Pat
ton was first arraigned he pleaded not
guilty to the indictment.
Evening star., 1933-08-17

Then a shell begins to form around it
and, burdened with this extra weight,
it sinks to the bottom. Normally it
would have an old oyster shell to light
upon and continue, TO grow. With
these shells removed the oyster sinks
in the mud and is smothered to death.
Pieces of Stag of the correct chemical
composition, it is pointed out, are just
as good oyster shells as the most ex-
pert shell maker among the oysters can
turn out.
Ivory From Casein.
The elephant and the walrus should
be eternally grateful to Rudolph Zell-
man Of Radebeul, Germany. He found
that a product very similar to their
priced tusks, for which they have been
slaughtered SO ruthlesSly, can be made
out of milk This artificial ivory is
made from casein, one of the chief in
gradients of milk 1t is hardened with
sulphur and the whole process can be
completed in a day. whereas it takes
the elephant half lifetime to turn out
a good commercial product.
French inventor was granted a
patent on an artificial wool. made by
a new chemical and spinning process
out of vegetable flbers. Thus fabric
is produced which looks as if it came
direct from the sheep.
A way to outwit the pestiferous fly or
mosquito that slips into the house as
soon as a screen door is opened is pat
ented in the form of an insect repel-
Ter" 1t Is spray gun device that acts
Evening star., 1933-08-17

automatically when the door is moved,
PROJECTING outward fine, poisonous
spray through which the insect cannot
penetrate.
Then there are the coin-in-t the slot
gasoline pump: the Pullman-style au-
tomobile with seats and sides so ad-
justed that they can be converted into
beds at moments notice; the combi-
nation cigarette holder and lighter in
which the cigarette is elected and the
lighting device ignited by the same
motion; and the combination sunshade
and head-rest for beach frequenterS.
Turning to Distilling.
Inventors, the records show, are
turning their attention to the fields OF
brewing, distilling and bottling One
patent provides method for freeing
from beer the solid material In yeast
cells and concentrating it into neat
cakes" which may be used either for
food or fertilizer Hitherto it has been
waste product. The end is achieved
by adding to the process a micro-organ-
ism, one of the cocci with a peculiar
affinity for yeast cells
Another invention provides a way for
determining counterfeit coins by their
resistance to an electric current This
differs slightly for the various metallic
compounds. Several patents were
granted for burglar alarms and bottle
filling machines embodying new prin-
ciples- Several inventors have turned
their attention to improved methods for
permanent waves.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
RAz|NG IN CAPITOL
AREA PROTESTED
Property Owners Appeal to
Roosevelt, Claiming Values
Lowered by Work.

President Roosevelt had before him
today an appeal from owners Of property
in the vicinity of the Capitol to discon-
tinue razing Of buildings in the area
to make way for expansion of the
Capitol grounds.
A petition to this effect was taken
to the Executive Office yesterday by a
committee representing the protesting
property owners, headed by Nicola
Reale. The plea set forth that the
noise and dust of the work of demolition
has made living in that area unbear-
able and has destroyed the residential
and rental values of the properties.
1t also was pointed out that in
authorizing the purchase of these prop
critics, 80 per cent in excess of the
assessed values would be allowed in the
condemnation proceedings In the
meantime, small property owners have
obtained court action holding that prices
81 per cent in excess of the assessed
values would be nearer the true value
of the properties in question.
The petition was not presented to the
President in person, but was left with
one of the Executive Office attaches who
gave assurance that it would be sub
mitted to the President and given his
personal attention.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
TWO MEN ARE INJURED
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASHES

BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, August
1.-TWO men were injured, one seri-
ously, in Prince Georges County auto
mobile accidents today.
Struck as he stepped from behind
his milk truck on the Livingston road,
Nicholas j. Fillman, As, 5000 block Of
Benning road. northeast, Washington,
received a fractured leg early this
morning. He was taken to Casualty
Hospital by Robert Galloway, goo block
Of Howard road. southeast. Marlboro
police were investigating to learn the
name of the driver of the car which
struck Fillman.
Stephen Queen, colored, of Bowie.
was also brought to Casualty Hospital
early today by the Glenn Dale rescue
SQUAD suffering with a broken back
and possible internal injuries, received
police said, when struck by an auto
mobile near the Bowie race track.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
5000 BESIEGE II. s. FUEL YARDS
. TO OBTAIN APPLICATION SLIPS

The applicants, who must be between
the ages of 18 and 40, within the next
few days will begin to undergo physical
tests to determine their capacity as
laborers. Each to be accepted on the
list must shoulder load of 125 pounds
The best ifters will receive classifi-
cation as senior laborers," with pay
of $1,000 annually-about $3.50 a
month when economy and retirement
deductions are made. The pay for
"junior laborers" figures about $64.07
monthly, after the deductions are
counted.
Throughout today at the fuel yards,
Half and L streets southeast, con-
slant stream of men asked for the ap-
plication slips
No new blanks will be issued. how
ever, as the first $500 are names
enough for the new registry. It may
be a year or two years before another
register is compiled, Civil Service au-
thorities said.
A spcial police detail from No. 4
precinct was turned out to handle the
crowd. A small window was broken,
however, before the applicants could
be crowded back from the building.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
4rtificiauy Made Wool, Iuory, Oyster Shells
And q Bandit Catcher Among Ne,v Patents
Prospective Repeal Has
Brought Out Many
NetU Ideas.
COin-SlOt Gasoline Pumps
another Brain Child
of MventOr.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.


A RTIFICIAL ivory, wool and oyster
~ shells, the automatic safety
~ razor and the non -leakable ice
cream cone are among the
hundreds Of articles upon which
patents have been granted during the
past week. according to the records of
the Patent Office
The crime wave and the prospective
end of prohibition are reflected in some
of the ideas upon which patents have
been secured.
For example, there is a new kind Of
cork remover which promises to make
the popular corkscrew of the years OF
the great drought an object for collec-
tors of antiquities. A hollow needle Is
plunged through the cork and air
pumped through it. The pressure Of
the air under the cork drives it out OF
the bottle. One advantage claimed for
this device is that it saves the cork as
good as new. instead Of mutilating it
as does the corkscrew.
Bank Bandit Catcher.
A Massachusetts, inventor borrowed a
page from the notebook of Sumatran
rhinoceros hunters In devising a trap
for bank bandits 1t Is essentially "a
cage disposed beneath floor, with the
top of the cage movable but normally
held to form a part of the floor, oper-
ated from the cashiers cage" The
idea is that when the cashier steps on
button the floor drops from under
the robber and he is precipitated into a
steel cage. while simultaneously another
top slides over the cage All the police
have to do is load cage and all into the
wagon.
At last, a use has been found for
blast furnace Stag. It makes excellent
artificial oyster shells. according to the
claims of one of the patent applica-
tions. There is crying need, it is
set forth, for more oyster shells. The
product of the oyster itself is used for
road building. For the first few days
of life the oyster is a mobile animal.
Evening star., 1933-08-17

After searching Smiths pockets and
taking 1865 in cash and checks for a
total of approximately S35 one of the
men struck him on the head, knocking
him down. When he got to his feet, a
few moments later, he saw them driving
off.
Notifies Ninth Precinct.
He gave ninth precinct police de-
tailed descriptions of his assailants and
said he thought he had seen one Of
them in the market on several occa-
sions
The hold-up was one Of three re-
ported during the night. Dr.. William
A. Goodloe, colored physician, said two
colored bandits held him up in front OF
his home, 1725 T street, about l AS am.
and robbed him of diamond ring val
ued at 81 500, watch worth 500 and
S27 in cash.
The other robbery was reported by
Ben L. Deutsch. manager of a lunch
room at lila Eighteenth street, who
said a lone bandit, armed with a re-
volver, forced him to hand over So
about IL pm.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
BEER LICENSE SEEKER
TAKES FIGHT TO COURT
City Heads Ordered to Show Why
School Limitation Applies In
Rowe's Case.

William A. Rowe, 801 Tenth street.
filed a petition for writ OF mandamus
in District Supreme Court today to
compel the District Commissioners and
Supt. of Licenses Wade H. Coombs to
grant him a permanent "on-sale" beer
permit.
The plaintiff said he was granted a
temporary permit April 10 and then
spent $500 improving his place of
business. On July IS, he said, he re-
ceived letter stating his permit had
been cancelled because his establish
ment was within 200 feet OF the Web
ster School. Rowe contends this school
does not come within the meaning of
the law governing the location OF eStab-
lishments permitted to sell beer, since
it merely is used for teaching the Eng
liSh language to aliens.
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue, at the
request of Rowe's counsel, Conrad and
Sam Syme, ordered the city heads to
show cause on September why the
petition should not be granted.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
FINDS HIDDEN GUN
AND ENDS HIS LIFE
Luther B. Rhodes, Out Of Job for
Week, Leaves Notes Telling
of Dependency.

Using a gun which members OF his
family said they had hidden from him.
Luther Benjamin Rhodes. 81, snot a1- nin-
self To death today at his home, 6361a
Newton place.
Rhodes, who lost his job as a cement
worker about week ago. fired a charge
from a 12-gauge shotgun into ms ap-
domen as he sat on a coucn IN ehe
first-floor entrance hall.
His son Leo, upstairs with other
members of the family, heard the re-
port of the gun and found him slumped
on the floor He was dead when an
Emergency Hospital physician arrived.
In his pockets homicide squad detec-
tives found two notes indicating, they
said. that he killed himself because OF
dependency. Deputy Coroner Chris
topher j. Murphy issued q certificate OF
suicide.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Mary A Rhodes; four sons and a
daughter.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
TAX|CAb OWNERS
SEEK UN|F F0RM CODE
Representatives Will Meet
Tonight in District Build
ing to Draft Program.

Another attempt to work out uni
form code of operation will be made by
representatives Of Washington's varied
taxicab interests at a meeting tonight
at 8 o'clock in the Board Room of the
District Building.
The foundation for definite action
was laid by the taxi operators when
they got together Monday night and
discussed plans for q uniform zone sys-
tenn, standard rates and other methods
to eliminate "cut-throat" competition.
Because Of the peculiar taMcab situa-
ton in Washington, the taxi operators,
it was said. are anxious to frame code
independent Of any national code which
might be submitted to the National Re
covery Administration for approval.
Increase in Fares Seen.
Any code that the operators agree
upon. 1t is believed in public utility
circles. will provide for an increase in
the existing 20-cent zone rate. and
probably a change in the present geo
graphical limits Of the various zones.
A 25-cent and 30-cent zone rate already
has been proposed.
An increase in rates, It was pointed
out. would be absolutely essential under
a code operation to give the drivers
living wage. The drivers now. 1t was
said. are merely eking out an existence
on present rates. some Of them making
an average of IS q week for 80 hours
work.
Fowler Starts Movement.
The move toward the adoption OF
any independent code for the taxi
operators Of washington was initiated
by T. w. Fowler, q former cab opera
tor. He called the first meeting OF the
operators at which representatives OF
Is operating organizations attended
and advocated either revised fare zones,
increased rates, or both.
The Diamond Cab Co, one OF the
largest independent taxicab groups IN
washington, was not represented at the
first meeting, but it is expected to take
part in the deliberations tonight II q
Serious attempt is made to wofk out a
code for the Washington taxi industry;
Richmond B. Keech. peoples counsel
before the Public Utilities Commission
who has followed closely the develop
ments in the taxicab situation, also
plans to attend the meeting and of1er
his advice as to fair code OF COM
petition.
Evening star., 1933-08-17

Application blanks instead of jobs
were being handed out, yet 5000 men
besieged the Government Fuel Yards
this morning, eager to obtain one of
the coveted slips.
The supplicants for laborer's job
with Uncle Sam began to assemble early
last night, and when distribution of
the application forms began at 8 am.
today, line of fours several blocks long
was pressing forward.
The Civil Service Commission was
obtaining a new registry list for male
laborers in the District of Columbia,
from which about $50 applicants are
placed yearly.
There were only 1,500 blanks to be
handed out-enough to complete the
registration. Eager hands were
stretched forward for these, and half
an hour after the distribution began
the last was given out.
At least $500 white and colored
applicants turned away in disappoint-
ment, while the more fortunate hastened
to an out their blanks and return them
to the commissions Office at Seventh
and F streets. They are allowed until
August as to make this return.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
HARTFORD MAN AWARDED
PRIZE IN TOURNAMENT
Cletus Heaps Of Pylesville Defeats
Is Competitors in Professional
Class at Marshall Hall.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARSHALL HALL, Md. August II.
-Cletus Heaps of Plyesville. Hartford
County, triumphed over is competitors
to win first prize in the professional
class at the annual tournament here
yesterday. Approximately 5000 persons
witnessed the riding.
Others who won prizes in the pro-
fessional class were Herbert McConkey,
second; Warren McConkey, third, and
Brooke Kerby, third.
Although thrown from his horse and
badly shaken up just after he had
won first prize, Heaps recovered sufii-
GENTLY to crown Miss Rosemary Burt
ner of Boonsboro, Washington County.
queen of the tournament
Merle Thorne captured first honors
in the amateur class and crowned Miss
Angela Walzel, queen. Second place
went to George Weems, with Robert
Street third and Thomas Weems fourth.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
ONE DEAD IN CLUB FIRE

STONINGTON, Conn, August II up.
One death resulted today from fire
which destroyed the palatial club house
of the Stonington Country Club last
night with loss estimated by firemen
at 100000.
died at the Westerly, r. l., Hospital.
He was crushed by a falling chimney.
The IRE forced 30 members and attend
ants to nee.
Evening star., 1933-08-17
Sleeper in Bathtub
Believed a Suicide
Until Police Arrive
Fire Rescue Squad Also
Responds to Call Con-
corning Virginian.

John Tyson, 81, of Cherrydale. Va,
was just sleeping" he told police and
a fire rescue squad who broke into a
bath room in an apartment building in
the HOO block of Ninth street last night,
after occupants of the building sum-
moned them to work on suicide"
An excited voice called the police and
the squad:
Some one has committed suicide
here
The police and fireflghters arrived in
a hurry were told the bath room door
had been locked an unusually long
time. looked over the transom, and saw
an apparently lifeless form stretched
out in a bath tub
They broke the door. The noise
awoke Tyson. who said he had been
visiting friends in the building and
apparently" had gone to sleep.