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Evening star., 1935-01-05
COURT TO SPEED
SIGMA CHS CASE
To Clear Way for Freedom
of Former Students Now
Under Sentence.

The District Court of Appeals will
act Monday to clear the way for the
freedom of Edward j. PARTON and
Alfred H. Smith, former George
Washington University students, con-
victed Of arson in the burning of the
Sigma Chi Fraternity House in July,
1898.
Action on the confession of error
filed with the Appellate Court yester-
day on behalf Of Attorney General
Cummings, who conducted a personal
investigation into the circumstances
surrounding the fire, automatically
throws the case back into District Su-
preme Court, where the two Sigma
CHS were convicted in October, 1888.
and sentenced to from two to nine
years each.
After the case goes back to the
Supreme Court, the United States
attorney for this district will nolle
PROSE- the charges. according to the
Justice Department, which yesterday
announced the Attorney Generals ac-
ton.
In filing the confession Of error,
Cummings overrode United States At
torney Leslie G. Garnett, who had filed
brief upholding the conviction of
partition and Smith and opposing the
appeal taken by. counsel for the two
youths. The Attorney General, in q
statement accompanying the petition,
advised the court his action was based
on an investigation made by special
agents Of the department, which con-
vinced him Of the innocence Of the
defendants.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
ALExANDRIAN HELD
ON GAMING CHARGE
r. L. Nowland Possessed $s1 in
Change and $197 in Numbers
Tickets, Police Say.

The police vice squad, continuing its
drive against gambling in the District,
yesterday arrested Robert Lee Nowland.
SO, of Alexandria, Va, on a charge of
operating lottery.
His case was continued in Police
Court today until January l8. In
the meantime this case, together with
several others of a like nature, will be
presented to the grand jury.
Nowland, police claim, admitted that
he was numbers collector and gave
his occupation when booked at the
Ninth precinct as collector"
When arrested at Grant road and
Division avenue northeast, Nowland is
said by Policeman R. E. Blick to have
had in his possession S81 in change
and $197 worth of numbers tickets
which had already been played.
Blick said Nowland declared that
he had turned to the numbers racket
because he had a child in Children S
Hospital with tuberculosis and had no
other way Of making the necessary
money to insure proper treatment for
the child, since he had been out of
work for the past six months. He
previously was an insurance agent, he
said.
Nowland said his commissions
averaged between Sc and 81 day, ac-
cording to police. He said he turned
the numbers and money over to man
whom he met on street corner in
the Northeast section of the city. Blick
declared,
Evening star., 1935-01-05
Dr.. Wilson Gets Ne,v Ticket
In Battle on Parking Ban

Dr.. Edward Comstock Wilson ap-
parently has become a marked man
in the eyes Of police since he parked
his automobile on his front lawn We'd
nesday night.
The physician yesterday received
his second ticket" in two days for
parking in restricted areas along Con-
necticut avenue. Thursday morning
Officer E. G. Mower, eighth precinct,
tagged him for leaving his car on the
lawn in front of his residence at 2723
Connecticut avenue, and yesterday the
doctor was given q ticket by The same
policeman for parking on Connecticut
avenut between the hours Of 2 and
9 an.
Because several other cars that were
parked On the street near his ma
Evening star., 1935-01-05
u. s. and District
Workers Enlist in
Ne,o Symphony
Treasury En,plOye Plans
Federal Orchestra of
so Musicians.

Washington Is to have a new
symphony orchestra, recruited from
Federal and District employees, If the
plans of Carl Hofer, Treasury Depart
ment employe and former Cincinnati
orchestra leader, are fulfilled.
Hofer has posted notices in Govern
ment buildings inviting all candidates
to try for positions in the group. He
now is holding additions and has en-
rolled approximately 80. He hopes to
have SO before rehearsals are under
taken, within the next two or three
weeks.
Hofer said that so far he has avail
able IL violins, a viola, string bass,
French horn, 3 trumpets, from
bone, 2 oboes, 3 flutes, 2 clarinets, a
drummer and a pianist.
The orchestra has established tenn
porary hearquarters in the home of
Miss Mildred E. Saunders. secretary
of the orchestra, 5522 Carolina place.
Additions are being held at her home.
Arrangements for additions may be
made through Miss Saunders, whose
telephone number is Cleveland 1890
He said candidates must be Federal or
District workers. The orchestra Is to
be known as the Federal Symphony
Orchestra.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
LACK Of HOTEL
FACILITIES DENIED
Trade Board Committee De-
CIares Accommodations
Are Available.

Denial that there is lack of hotel
accommodations available in Wash
ington at present was made today by
the Greater National Capital Com
mittee of the Washington Board OF
Trade
Every so often" said Curtis Hodges
director of the committee. reports get
into circulation about the lack of &C
commodations in Washington. 1t is
even being said now in some places
in the country. according to word we
receive. that some members of Con-
greSs are walking the streets unable
to find places to lay their weary heads
Such reports, of course, are untrue.
I'VE have contacted just now large
number of the most important hotels
of the city and We find that they are
not sending anybody away and have
not been doing so, in spite of the fact
that Congress is now in session
Washington has approximately 10000
high-grade hotel rooms, to say moth
ing of various other satisfactory lodg-
ing places. There are 80 sizable hotels
in the Hotel Association of Washing
ton and many smaller hotels.
1T is true that great many people
come to Washington every year. Al
the time of the Cherry Blossom Festi-
val each year and in some other in
stances it is necessary to make special
arrangements for taking care of the
housing, but, at that, everybody is
accommodated. At the present time
it is not even necessary to make any
special arrangements, for all of the
hotels are open for additional guests
and there is no indication that any
special housing plans will have to be
adopted"
Evening star., 1935-01-05

pine insurrection, being detailed to
submarine mine planting at Calves
ton, Tex. in the former. In 1900 he
was detailed with the Copper River
expedition to Alaska.
Asst. Supt. of Police L. I. H. Ed
wards today described Lieut.. Sandberg
as "one of the most efficient men in
the department" and praised his work
in solving many important police
cases.
Inspector F. S. w. Burke, chief Of
detectives, likewise declared Sandberg
to have been lone Of the most valuable
men" in the department. His finger
print and identification work was
recognized here and all over the coun-
try, Burke said.
Lieut.. Sandberg was a member of
the Columbia Lodge of Masons and the
Spanish War Veterans. He also be-
longed to the Drott Lodge apd the
Vasa Order. Swedish organizations,
and was a member of the Lutheran
Church.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Caroline Sandberg; five sons, Robert,
Fred, jr: Albert, Walter and Victor
Sandberg; a daughter, Miss Hulda
Sandberg; a sister, Mrs. Ellen Bengt-
son, and brother, Albert Sandberg,
all of this city. The Sandberg resi-
dence is at 164 U street northeast.
Funeral arrangements were to be
completed today.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
Lieut.. Sandberg, Finger-Print
Expert, Dies at Walter Reed
Installed Identification
Bureau in Washington
Police Department.
Native Of SUeden Vas
Often Called in IrpOr-
tant Murder Cases.

Lieut.. Fred Sandberg, g., former
head Of the Police Departments Bu-
reau of identification, and one OF the
country's outstanding fingerprint ex-
perts. died last night in Walter Reed
Hospital.
He had been i'll for some time and
underwent several operations about a
wear ago. He again became i'll and
returned to Walter Reed Hospital
nine days ago.
In 1906 Lieut.. Sandberg installed
the fingerprint system in the Police
Department, his foresight having
recognized the value of the system as
an aid in identifying and apprehend-
ing criminals.
While engaged in his work at the
bureau, Lieut.. Sandberg had become
recognized nationally as flngerprint
expert. He also had q vast knowledge
of photography and other criminal
identification methods.
Frequently he had been called in on
investigations Of important cases In
various sections. One of these was
the famous Hall-Mills murder case in
New Jersey. He also was consulted
in connection with the investigation OF
the Reynolds case in North Carolina
A native of Sweden, Lieut.. Sand
berg came to this country in 1888.
After considerable service in the Army
he was appointed to the Metropolitan
Police Force November "a. 1908. He
was promoted to detective sergeant
January /, 1917, and in March. 1882,
was made lieutenant in charge Of the
Bureau of Identification. He was
placed on the retired list October 81.
1898.
Shortly after coming to this coun-
try Lieut. Sandberg worked for some
time in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Subsequently he enlisted in the Army
and was assigned to the 18th Infantry
and later served in the Corps of En-
gineers with the rank of sergeant.
AS soldier ne served in the Span
ish-American War and in the Philip
Evening star., 1935-01-05
FOWL CONSERVATION
PROGRAM ADVOCATED
Special House Committee Also
Recommends Plans to
Save Fish.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A long-range program to save the
Nations fish and fowl from exter-
mination has been recommended to
Congress by a special House Commit
tee on Wild Life Conservation.
Chairman Robertson said the COM
mittee found wild ducks were killed
of during 1888 at a rate 100000
greater than the number hatched
during that year.
The recommendations included:
Appropriation of funds to the Bio
logical Survey to permit that bureau
to aid States in establishment OF
game-managed areas.
Negotiation of treaty with Mexico
for protection of migratory birds.
Provision Of funds for continuance
Of stream survey and improvement
work by the Bureau of Fisheries.
That the Federal Government de-
fine and a,iopt a continuing program
of providing fish protective works,
including ladders and screens on all
Government projects that constitute
serious menace to the fish supply.
An investigation of the fisheries
of the Middle Atlantic section by the
Bureau of Fisheries 'as this problem
is too broad for the individual States
and has been requested by individuals
and organized groups from Long
Island to Chesapeake Bay" --s
Evening star., 1935-01-05
PAY CUT RELIEF
HOPE IN CONGRESS
Government Employees Are
Disappointed in Attitude
of President.

Government employees today we're
looking toward Congress for relief
from the pay cut.
In an executive order that had been
anticipated. President Roosevelt yes
terday afternoon held the cost of living
had not shown sufficient advance to
warrant elimination of the S per cent
reduction, and that consequently II
would remain in effect under the law
as at present drawn for another six
months.
Costs Up 3 Per Cent.
The order said that while costs had
gone up per cent in the past year,
they still were 1873 per cent under the
level for the first six months of 1928,
which is the base period used in COM
putting pay. These findings we're based
on a survey of So cities. just completed
by the Department of Labor.
Some time ago, the President pre-
dicted this would be the situation
faced. but that by midyear, there
would be sufficient rise to put salaries
back where they were before the
economy wave hit the Government in
July, 1882.
Meanwhile, organized employees have
pressed their plans for remedial leg
islation, and several bills have been in
troduced looking to restoration as of
January /.
Method Condemned.
Return of base pay without any ref
erence to living costs would be VIC
tory for the workers who have con-
demned this method of fixing pay ever
since it was instituted in the first
economy act adopted after the Roose-
welt administration came into power.
William Green, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, yes
terday told gathering of labor leaders
here that lone of our first and most
immediate objectives is the restoration
of the indefensible Government pay
cut. effective January l."
Green also said the federation would
push the 30-hour week in industry.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
PARRISH FREED
ON $2,50O BOND
Rooming House Proprietor Awaits
Action of Grand Jury in
Shooting.

Henry P. Parrish, As, rooming house
proprietor and an employe of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration,
today was awaiting grand jury action
on charges that he assaulted John M.
Mears, 80. Commerce Department
worker, wounding him seriously.
Parrish, who surrendered Thursday
to Detective Chief Frank S. w. Burke,
was released late yesterday on S2,500
bond after being arraigned in Police
Court. He pleaded guilty to a charge
Of assault with dangerous weapon,
though when he explained the story
to Inspector Burke he insisted the
shooting was accidental, that the gun
had discharged during a scuff1e.
The farm administration worker
contended Mears lunged at him
threateningly and that he pulled out
a revolver in selt-defense. When the
gun went off, he said, the bullet
passed through his own lapel before
wounding Mears. Parrish owns a
rooming house at s0e Ninteenth street
Mears, who was shot Tuesday, still
Is in q serious condition at Emergency
Hospital.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
FEDERAL COMMISSION
ON AIRMAIL IS SEEN

The troublesome airmail problem,
which still worries officials Of the
Post ONCE Department and Congress
despite the new airmail law enacted
after the cancellation of all contracts
last February, may be left to a perma-
nent Federal Aviation Commission,
created to take over supervision of all
civil aviation activities Of the Gov
ernment.
It was learned yesterday the Fed
eral Aviation Commission, the tempo
rary air policy group created by Con-
gress and the President, may not
make definite general airmail recon-
mendation in its report to the Presi-
dent and Congress. but will recommend
that the whole matter be turned over
to the permanent commission which
it will advocate.
Evening star., 1935-01-05

chine did not get tickets, according
to DR.. Wilson, he believes police may
be laying for him."
DR.. Wilson, backed by the American
Automobile Association, says he will
60 to Police Court Tuesday to make
a test case out of the regulation
which prevents him from parking on
his lawn.
Having a garage quite way from
his home, the physician drove his car
through the hedge Of his lawn so as
to have his machine within easy reach
In case he had an emergency call In
the early morning.
Police decided he had violated the
law when he drove over the sidewalk
and further violated the regulations
by leaving his automobile In pub
lie space"-his lawn
Evening star., 1935-01-05
PENNSYLVANIA MAN
DIES AT HOTEL HERE
Head of Glass Company Is Found
Dead in Bed by Business
Associate.

William F. Mathews. Al, president
of the Kane Plate Glass Co., Kane,
Pa, died suddenly of a heart attack
this morning in his rooms at the May
flower Hotel while on a business trip
to Washington.
At about 8 am. Robert j. HetZ-
necker. business associate. called at
Mr.. Mathews apartment and obtained
no response when he rang the bell.
He obtained admittance and found
Mr. Mathews dead in bed.
DR.. F. A. Hornaday, the house ply
sician, was summoned and found Mr.
Mathews had been dead about two
hours.
The coroner's Office issued a GER
tificate of death from natural causes
Mr.. Mathews had been in Wash
ington for several weeks.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
WAGNER BILL SEEKS
| new H. OIL. c. FUNDS
Senator Would Authorize An
other Billion to Aid Distressed
Property Owners.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A bill to authorize another billion
dollars of Government guaranteed
bonds to aid distressed home owners,
and to earmark an additional $780,
100000 for home modernization. re-
building and enlargement, was intro
duced yesterday by Senator Wagner,
Democrat, of New York.
"The rescue of 100000 American
families from the terrible experience
of foreclosure and eviction is one of
the brightest pictures in the pageant
of the New Deal" Wagner said In
offering the measure.
I'm preserving the home, the core
of civilization has been safeguarded
Congress has not forgotten the ac-
complishment. Congress must not
forget to carry the program onward. -
The New Yorker, who helped frame
the original home loan act, said the
present s2,700,000,000 loan capacity
of the Home Owners Loan Corp. was
less than half the amount that would
be necessary to grant all applica-
tons for loans and was over 81 1,000,-
000,00 short of the sum required to
provide only for the properties al
ready appraised.
He added the $1,000, 900 900 pro-
vided in his bill should be sufficient
to insure help where it is most needed.
until still further improvements in
general economic conditions bring re-
lief everywhere"
Evening star., 1935-01-05
PERSHING HONORED
BY MILITARY ORDER
Made Commander in Chief for
Life by World War Vet
erans' Group.

Gen. John J. Pershing today was
presented with a parchment desig-
mating him as honorary commander
in chief for life" of the Military
Order of the World War. The pres
eneation was made in the presence
of national officers and members of
the general staff of the order.
The ceremony took place in Gen.
Pershing's Office at the War Depart
ment. The general has been life
member of the order since its in
ception in 1920.
The presentation today had his
toric parallel in the election of Gen.
George Washington as life president
of the Order of the Cincinnati, insti-
tuted by Gen. Washington and his
officers upon the close of the Revo-
lutionary War.
The Military Order Of the World
War is patterned after the Cincinnati
organization.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
TAX ABATEMENT
AWARDED PITTS
Government Cancels ST..
500, ,537 Claim Against For
mer Smith Co. Head.

The Government has abated income
tax assessments. penalties and inter-
est, totaling 81 1863, ,537.O4, to G. Bryan
Pitts, now serving a term at Lorton
Penitentiary for fraud in connection
with the F. H Smith Co., and to his
wife. Gladys T Pitts.
The abatements mean the Govern
ment has simply stricken this charge
from the books. No part of the over>
assessment is subject to refund. ac-
cording to Guy T. Helvering, COM
missioner of internal revenue.
Board Made Decision.
The abatement covered the period
from 1925 to 1881, except 1929. The
first three years tax was contested
before the Board of Tax Appeals, and
the attachments now made effective are
in accordance with decision of the
board for these years, 1926, 1927
and 1928.
For the other two years. the over
assessments for 1880 and 1881, it was
explained, were abated as a result of
investigation by field examiners and
further consideration of the case in
the Bureau of Internal Revenue. II
was found that the tax liability as
determined in the prior audit for
these years was materially over
stated"
Consistent With Order.
The determination in the last two
years was said to be consistent with
the final order of determination" by
the Board of Tax Appeals in the
years 1926, 1927 and 1928.
The abatements in detail for tine
years are as follows: 1926, s193, ,399. 60;
1927, S302,s4178: 1928, 1891 ,094.15;
1880, 1926, ,90041: 1881, S145, 5,301.1o
Pitts was chairman of the board OF
the F. H. Smith Co.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
.CAPPER SPONSORS
BILL GIVING D. c.
VOICE IN CONGRESS
Senator Will Introduce Res.
oIution for Vote on
Monday.
DENIES U. S. TO LOSE
CONTROL OVER CITY
Kansan Says Sentiment to Grant
Representation Is Growing
Over Nation.

When the Sente meets Monday,
Senator Capper, Republican, Of Kan
sas will reintroduce his joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
that would empower Congress to
grant residents Of the District repre-
sentation in Congress and the right
to vote for President and Vice Presi-
dent.
Declaring sentiment Is growing
throughout the country in support of
national representation for the Dis
trict, Senator Capper said:
1T is a national disgrace that the
people of Washington, representing as
they do a cross-section of the coun-
try, are not permitted to vote for the
President and are not represented in
Congress"
Senator Capper, who sponsored the
resolution in the Senate in the last
Congress also. emphasized that eX-
tending this measure of representation
to Washingtonians would not deprive
/ the Federal Government of control
over the Capital City, but would
merely grant to local residents the
same participation in national gov
ernment that is enjoyed by all other
Americans.
The Resolution.
The joint resolution reads as follows
HDncnlvod htyt tho Canofn on6
of Representatives of the United
States of America. in Congress as
sembled two-thirds of each House
concurring therein), That the fol-
lowing amendment to the Constitution
of the United States be proposed for
ratification by the Legislatures of the
several States, which, when ratified
| by the Legislatures Of three-fourths of
| the States, shall be valid as a part of
said Constitution, namely, insert at
| the end of section 3, article 4, the fol-
lowing words:
1.-The Congress shall have power
| to admit to the tsatus Of citizens of
State the residents of the District
constituting the seat of Government
of the United States, created by article
| ~ oCCIlOll o, 1OL IllC pun pOoc VI
| representation in the Congress and
among the electors of President and
vice president, and for the purpose
of suing and being sued in the courts
of the United States, under the pro-
visions of article 3, section 2.
One or Two Senators.
"'When the Congress shall exercise
this power the residents of such dis
trict shall be entitled to elect one or
two Senators. as, determined by the
Congress, or such other representative
in the Senate as Congress may pro-
vide for, Representatives in the
House according to their numbers, as
determined by the decennial enumera-
tion, and presidential electors equal
in number to their aggregate repre-
sentation in the House and Senate or
as Congress may provide.
The Congress shall provide by law
the qualifications of voters and the
time and manner of choosing the
Senator or Senators, the Representa-
tive or Representatives and the elec-
tors herein authorized.
1.-The Congress shall have power
to make all laws which shall be neces-
sary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing power"
Evening star., 1935-01-05
RUM HEARING LISTED

A hearing will be held Tuesday
before United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage for Edward
Butler, a. colored, 300 block Oakdale
place, who was arrested by the police
vice squad Thursday on charges of
illegal manufacture of liquor and
having liquor in his possession upon
which the tax was not paid.
Butler was arrested, police say, as
he was leaving the house carrying a
bag containing several half-gallon
jars of alleged liquor. In the house,
1t is charged, police found q still Of
100 gallons capacity and 1000 gallons
Of mash.