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Evening star., 1935-05-23
Hazen Considers
Plan to Establish
Farm, for 'Drunks'
City's HabituaI Offenders
You'd Be RemOred
From Temptation.

Development of q drink cure" farm
for Washington's habitual inebriates
is being given some consideration by
Commissioner Hazen. but he himself
is a bit dubious about success Of the
plan, he said today.
The idea would be for the Dis
trict to buy q tract of at least
1000 acres Of Maryland or Virginia
farm land, erect there series of
cottages or dormitories where the
"down-and-outers," particularly the
habitual drunks. could be put to work
away from temptation.
Such farm land could be had for
as little as IS OF $40 an acre, the
Commissioner said. The thought Of
such a development came to him, he
revealed. while visiting the Jail. the
precinct stations and the reformatory.
His point Is that many drunks,
given brief sentences for their short
as released. The thought Is that
many might be permanently rehabili-
tated If given q chance to work on a
farm where legal confinement did not
overshadow their residence, as it does
at the Jail or reformatory.
Hazen said he might call into con-
ference a group of civic workers to
discuss the plan.
1T is just an idea" he said, land
I don't know If it could be worked
out"
Evening star., 1935-05-23

many hands. Yet she utters no COM
plant.
When the ingerprint-applying
group has departed, along come other
agents laden with powder -atomizers,
bottles of vari-colored powders,
brushes, gummed tape and cameras.
These agents search all over 'Beulah'
to find the prints left upon her body.
Each print, when revealed, is brushed
or sprayed with powder until the
ridges appear distinct Gummy tape
is applied and the print is lifted off
Agents with cameras shoot the finger
print smudges from various angles.
Finally, the agents hurry upstairs to
the technical laboratory to print and
develop the impressions.
For old Beulah' there comes a
temporary respite. Creaky at the
joints, she is wheeled groaningly back
to her berth, there to wait another
class of trainees"
With sigh. the veteran agent gave
"Old Beulah" resounding smack
on her tonneau.
"A grand old gal" he commented,
with f1nality. She knows how to
take it,
Evening star., 1935-05-23
ROSE-PE0NY SHOW
DRAWS HUNDREDS
217 Exhibits Shown in
Woodbridge Garden Club
Annual Event.

The annual rose-peony show OF the
Woodbridge Garden Club. held in Sher-
wood Hall, Woodbridge, last night, drew
PIT exhibits of roses in singles, vases
and baskets and large variety of
peonies. Several hundred attended the
event
First prize winners in the various
classifications were:
Radiance, Malinda Kieny: red
radiance. A. H. Englebrecht. Other
pink varieties. Mrs. o. Strieby: deep
pink. Mrs. P. G. Mevitt; white. George
S. Marshall; yellow, w. H. Bozarth;
salmon to orange. A. r. Hester; red to
crimson. j. E. McGeary; other eolors,
Mr.. McGeary; hybrid perpetuals, Mr..
Bozarth; best roses in show. Mr..
Bozarth; five blooms, one variety, Mrs.
]. L, Bishop; climbing roses, Mrs.
M. H. Sutton.
In the basket or other container
class, the winners of first prizes were:
Six inches or less in diameter. Mrs.
Sutton; 6 to IL inches. Mrs. w. H.
Gannaway: more than IL inches in
diameter, Mrs. j. A. Gamble. Corsages
roses predominating. George s.
Marshall; other flowers, H. c. Kinner.
In the peony show the different
classifications and the first place win
ners in each were: White or cream,
Mrs. Bishop; light pink, Mrs. j. e.
Burr; dark pink, Mrs. Sutton; Japanese,
specimen bloom, Mrs. Sutton; 3
blooms, variety, white or cream, Miss
E. Meyers; 8 blooms, 1 variety, light
pink, A. H. Hester; 3 blooms, l variety
dark pink. w. T. Simmons; poppies,
Mr.. Bozarth; best peony In show, Mrs.
Bishop; basket peonies. with other
flowers. George Gee; painted daisies,
Mrs. T. E. Marquis; columbine, Mrs.
Taggart; pinks, Mrs. Marquis; pansies,
Mrs. Peterson. and miniatures, H. T.
Stowell.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
CHARLES MILLER
INJURED BY AUTO
7-Year-0ld Man Seriously Hurt.
Mrs. Alberta Fritz Free
on $1,000 Bond.

Charles Miller, II, of 720 Thirteenth
street, was seriously injured last night
when struck by an automobile at
Thirteenth and H streets. At Emer-
gency Hospital, where he was taken
by James M. Dunton, a taxi driver, he
was said to have a compound fracture
of the right leg. sprained right arm
and possible internal injuries.
Mrs. Alberta Fritz, %. of Woodland
Beach, Md. driver of the car. was
charged with reckless driving. She
was released on $1,000 bond.
In another accident last night,
Nathan Herndon, SO, of 1o7 Carroll
street southeast. received head M
juries when struck by a machine on
Pennsylvania avenue between Second
and Third streets southeast. He was
treated at Providence Hospital. Police
said the car was operated by Irving
North, %, Receiving Station. Navy
Yard.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
new WELFARE BODY
TO BE CONSIDERED
500 Invited to Session Tonight
to Study Advisory
Group Plan.

Five hundred civic workers have
been invited to attend a conference
at 8 O'Clock tonight at the auditorium
Of the Interior Department to consider
q proposal by the Board of Public
Welfare for formation of a District
Welfare Association.
Invitations to many civic and well
fare organizations were sent out re-
Gently by Frederick w. McReynolds,
chairman of the Welfare Board.
The proposed organization Is de-
signed to serve as an advisory group
on welfare activities by the District
and as a clearing house for ideas for
improvements in this field.
A membership fee of 81 would be
charged to defray costs of mailing
notices Of meetings. This is expected
to be sufficient to cover costs for a
two-year period.
Qualified speakers on welfare prob
lens would be obtained to address reg
ular meetings Of the association.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
DE FORD IS CHOSEN
BY HEBREW GROUP
Succeeds Harold P. Ganss as
President of Congregation
Brotherhood.

Allen v. De Ford. Broadmoor
Apartments, was unanimously elected
president Of the Brotherhood of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation al
the annual election last night In the
vestry rooms of the congregation. He
succeeds Harold p. Ganss.
Other officers elected are Harold
Strauss. first vice president; Sidney
Lust, second vice president: DR.. Ber-
nard A. Baer. treasurer: Allen G
Stern, recording secretary, and Leon
Strauss. financial secretary.
Five directors to the board Of the
brotherhood were elected for a two
year team. They are Charles Lulley
Albert Small, A. D. Frank, Arthur T.
We'll and william Bush. Two were
elected for q one-year term. Milton
Norman and Morris Konigsberg
Others on the board are DR.. David
Davis, Burnett L. Baer and David
Hornstein.
After the election q town-hall dis
cussion Of Jewish social justice was
led by Rabbi Edward Israel of Balti-
more. Participants were Sidney Hech-
niger. Irving Diener, Philip Rosenfeld
and Lawrence Koenigsberger.. Musical
selections were given by the Samuel
Bogatch Jewish Choir.
The annual father-and-son banquet
Of the brotherhood will be- held May
20 at the Mayhower Hotel.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
TRIAL SET June 4
F0RFVE CHARGED
|NLYDDANE PLOT
Woman Fails to Appear at
Hearing-Wi|I Plead
Not Guilty.
CARNELL Is RELEASED
UNDER BOND OF $1,000
Bail Set for Other Men in Mont
gomery Case-Jury Will
Hear Evidence.
zx g.. STAFF CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

BY a STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, May 23.-Trial
of Mrs. Anne Lyddane and tie four
men charged with her with conSpir-
ing to murder her husband, Francis,
and Mrs. Arthur Beall of Darnestown,
today was set for June 4 by Judge
Charles w. Woodward of the Mont
gomery County Circuit Court.
The five defendants will be tried
jointly before Judge Woodward and
jury of II men to be chosen from
a picked panel of 48, called during
the March term of the Circuit Court.
Mrs. Lyddane Not Present.
The four men-John H. CARMEL,
John M. Boland, Harry E. Inomas
and Edwin J. Davis-were indicted
with Mrs. Lyddane yesterday by a
grand jury and appeared before Judge
Woodward to enter pleas OF not guilty
Mrs. Lyddane, under bond of $4,000
fixed at the preliminary hearing be-
fore Police Court Judge Donald A. De
Lashmutt, did not appear in court to-
day. Her attorneys indicated she
would enter plea of not guilty.
Bonds for Boland and Davis, both
Of Washington, were set at $4,000 each
Pending the securing Of bail, both
men were remanded to Jail.
Following an extended conference
between Judge Woodward and attor-
neys for Thomas and CARMEL, their
bond was fixed at $1,000 each. Car
nell was released shortly thereafter
and counsel said they would raise this
amount for Thomas release during
the day.
Alleged Contact Man"
Carnell. erstwhile Rockville bar
tender, is alleged to have acted as
contact man between Mrs. Lyddane
and others said to have been hired
by her to do the killing.
OF the 10 indictments returned yes
terday by the grand jury, four were
against Mrs. Lyddane, three against
Carnell and one each against Boland
Davis and Thomas.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
DINNER OF FEDERAL BAR
TO HONOR STANLEY REED

Stanley Reed, solicitor general, will
be guest of honor at the fifteenth an
nual reception and dinner Of the
Federal Bar Association tonight at
the Mayfiower Hotel.
Ralph William Close, Minister of
the Union of South Africa, will de-
liver an address, and Justin Miller,
special assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral, will serve as toastmaster.
Members Of the District Bar As
sociation, the Women's Bar Associa-
ton, the American Bar Association
and the American Law Institute also
will be guests.
The reception viii begin at 7
O'Clock, according to Ralph G. Cornell,
president, and the dinner will be an
hour later. A musical program will
be presented by the Marine Band
Orchestra.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
TESTS ANNOUNCED
FOR POLICE Jobs
Civil Service Will Receive
Applications for Vacan-
cies Until June |.

The Civil Service Commission TO-
day announced examinations to I'LL
vacancies in private class !, Metro
polian Police Department, and for
park policemen, class /, National Park
Service, for duty in Washington and
on the Mount Vernon Highway. Ap-
plications will be received by the COM
mission at Seventh and F streets until
June /.
The examination is the first the
commission has held in nearly five
years. According to commission ad-
visors. there are 10 vacancies in the
Metropolitan Police Department and
a bill pending in Congress to pro-
vide SIS new places.
In the park police there are six
vacancies. but 1t was said there this
morning these cannot be filled because
Of lack of funds. That force has been
under its established quota of 80 men
since the first economy act Of 1882
brought about retrenchment.
The entrance salary for both police
jobs Is $1,000 and the pay ranges
up to $4,000 for Q private at the end
OF nVe years.
For the metropolitan police, the
applicants must be residents of the
District and those appointed must
continue to maintain residence here.
For the. park police, appointments will
be made in Alexandria, Arlington and
Fairfax County, and Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties, but ap-
pointees will be restricted to duty
in the State in which they reside.
Applicants must be at least ~ years
old. but not more than 80, but these
age limits are waived in the case Of
the park police If they have veteran
preference, the only restriction i'm
posed in this connection being that
they must not have reached retire.
.nent age.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
MERCHANT MARINE
PLIGHTIS DEPLORED
DR.. Healy and Father Walsh Ex'
hort Action in Speeches Be-
fore Propeller Club.

A gloomy picture of Americas pres
ent merchant marine was drawn by
DIR. Thomas H Healy, chairman OF
the National Defense Committee OF
the American Legion and assistant
dean of Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service, speaking
last night before the Propeller Club
of Washington in honor Of National
Maritime day.
At the same gathering Rev. Edmund
A. Walsh, s j., vice president OF
Georgetown University and regent OF
the School of Foreign Service, de-
clared that complete Government
ownership and operation of all mer-
chant shipping would be a "calam-
ity." The session was held at the
Indian Spring, Md, Country Club.
"At the. present moment our mer-
chant marine Is definitely inferior,
said DR.. Healy "It Is well known
that 1t Is deficient in types, numbers
and speed of vessels to serve as q
balanced unit with our Navy. Unless
something drastic Is done within the
space Of approximately seven years
most of our merchant marine will be
completely out Of the picture. both
for national defense and commerce.
while foreign ship yards are busy
turning out the latest types Of cargo
and passenger vessels, adaptable to
defense and commerce, we content
ourselves with building q few tons Of
tow boats, barges, scows and the like.
This Is indeed a tragedy for great
Nation whose prosperity and security
necessitates, for many reasons. the
maintenance of reasonable sea power. :"
Father Walsh pictured the Amer
lean merchant marine as "a huge pub
lie utility" in competition with "a
heavily subsidized foreign competitor. I"
"If subsidy be ended because Of the
unsocial possibilities attaching to the
use of It." Father Walsh told the Pro
peller Club, I'VE must embark on o
long series Of ever-widening prohi-
hdtious."
Evening star., 1935-05-23
MOTORMAN'S CASE
DELAYED TO June II
Two Firemen Whose Injuries in
Crash Were Blamed to Car
Still Confined.

A charge against George H. Will
liams, motorman for the Capital
Transit Co., of failing to give the
right of way to fire apparatus was
continued by Judge Isaac r. Hit
in Traffic Court today, when 1t was
stated that two firemen injured in
a crash on Eleventh street on the
night Of May 8, are still unable to
appear In court. The case will be
heard on June II at IL am.
Charges against Williams were
brought after No. 9 Engine Co. of the
District Fire Department crashed into
the street car operated by Williams.
Four firemen were injured and the
apparatus was demolished in the col
lision. The most seriously injured
were Raymond Creel, 80, Alb D street
southeast, and Sergt. George w.
Swords, 80, Ala Seward square SOUTH
east.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
REALTY TAX HERE
DECLARED ON PAR
W|THOTHERC CITIES
Assessments Nearer Market
Value, Richards Tells
VoteIess League.
PER CAPITA BURDEN
CALLED TRUE TEST
District Rate Found to Be $34.04,
Compared With $2s.s1 for 20
Other Municipalities.
Because real estate assessments here

Because real estate assessments here
are as close to market value as it is
possible to make them, the Districts
per capita tax burden compares favor
ably with that of other cities of the
country, Assessor William P. Richards
last night told the Voteless D. c.
League of Women Voters.
This has been revealed clearly time
and again, he explained, in different
studies of comparative tax burdens.
Cities having much higher realty tax
rate, but assessments far below market
value, are found to have per capita
tax burdens only comparable to that
of the District, he said.
Richards recently made public
study of 20 cities showing property
owners here have per capita city
tax burden that exceeds the average
for 19 cities of the country. The per
capita tax levy here was found to be
S34.04. as compared with an average
of s2e.81 for the 20 cities, including
Washington.
Per Capita Tax Stressed.
All his studies prove that the per
realty assessment for cities is the only
test of comparable taxes that proves
anything conclusively, he told the
league. Asked about the tax study
made by Treasury Department experts,
Richards asserted it should not be
weighed against other studies because
it did not consider the per capita tax
burden, the only fair test of the bur-
den of taxes. The Treasury experts
used an adjusted" tax rate as their
guide.
To prove his point, Richards took
list of six cities in which assess
ments are made to approach full
market value. He found that by di-
viding the populations into the realty
assessments in each case the per
capita assessment was found to be
s2.400.
This study, just as other studies
have shown in the past" Richards
said, proves there is @ relation of
population to assessments. In these
cities the requirement Of 100 per cent
full market value assessments is seri-
ously followed"
Chicago Rate Cited.
The fallacy of following only the
tax rates is conclusively shown in
other studies, Richards added. TAX
ing Chicago as an example, he told
the league the tax rate there is $3.50,
much higher than in the District, but
that when the population was divided
into total real assessments the per
capita assessment was found to be
but $500.
Figures for 1894 were used in this
case. In that year the per capita
realty assessment in the District was
S2,360.
II you are to make q fair COM
parison of tax burdens" Richards
concluded, you cannot get away from
the difference in assessments. tax
rates, alone or adjusted, do not tell
the story. Many cities by law re-
quire 100 per cent full market value
assessments but this is not the actual
practice in many of these same cities.
1t is true here"
Annual reports Of committees were
made at the meeting and the follow
ing officers were elected: Mrs. Will
liam Kittle, president: Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith Friedman, second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Ben McKelway, treasurer,
and Mrs. Ernest Harkinson and Mrs,
Clara Byer, directors.
Evening star., 1935-05-23

much to the "old dame" INDUCED in
some fond "reminiscences as he placed
firm palm print on "Beulah's'
chassis today in the basement of the
Justice Department Building.
Thankful Is every agent who has
made her acquaintance" he said,
when, during the course Of a GRIM
inal investigation, he applies his
finger print lore to find and lift latent
prints that will link q suspect with
the scene of a crime.
"On such occasions he recalls how,
as an embryonic agent. he acquired
from old Beulah' the 'flngerprint ex-
pertness demanded of every special
agent before he Is released from the
bureaus training school for field in
vestigations.
"Forlorn but not forgotten, old
Beulah' waits in docile patience for
the recurring visits of old and new
agents who come to her to test their
skill. Eager fingers leave their i'm
pressions on her hood and on her
glasses. Whorl and loop patterns are
imprinted on her silver plated acces-
sories. Her windows are marred by
Evening star., 1935-05-23
BODY FOUND IN BASIN
BELIEVED Identified
Owner of Automobile Discovered
Nearby Is Learned to Be
Berwick, Pa, Man.

Identification Of John Heavier, Ber-
wick, Pa, as the owner Of an auto
mobile abandoned in Potomac Park
about 10 days ago has led police to
believe he is the man whose body
was found floating in the Tidal Basin
yesterday.
Heavier left home May and failed
to return. The first indication his
wife had Of his whereabouts was
when she learned of the finding of
his automobile near the John Paul
Jones Statue May IA. The doors Of
the car were locked, but the keys
had not been recovered.
Harbor precinct police removed the
body from the basin after it had been
called to their attention by Leo Haral-
son, 328 Seventeenth place northeast.
1t is at the Morgue awaiting positive
identification.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
10 MEN INDICTED
IN AUTO THEFTS
Accused of Taking Stolen
District Cars to North
Carolina.

Ten alleged members Of an automo-
bile theft ring were indicted today
by the District grand jury for vio-
lations of the national motor vehicle
theft act.
The first five counts of the indict-
ment charge them with taking auto
mobiles stolen in the District to North
Carolina. The sixth count charges
conspiracy to commit so such
offenses.
The defendants are Ernest Rodgers,
Charles E. Smith, Joseph Frederick
Raleigh, jr.: Stanley Dade, James
Robinson, Roy Burleigh, Douglas Nc
Knight, Frank Deaton, Fred H. Deaton
and Karl Deaton.
Louis Walter Dove and Charles
Patrick O'Brien, arrested during a
raid in the 1900 block of K street May
13, were charged with violating the
gaming laws A similar charge against
Louis j. Waldron and Frank Crandall
was ignored.
Homicide Charge Ignored.
The jury also ignored a homicide
charge against Roy A. Bayne, taxicab
driver, whose cab struck and killed
Mary E. Dyer at Sixteenth and Har-
ward streets May IA. Witnesses said
the woman stepped suddenly in front
of the cab, which was being driven
slowly at the time.
Four men were accused Of defraud-
ing two District residents in connec-
ton with an alleged profit-sharing
lime kiln project in Pennsylvania. The
defendants are Harry c. Smith, John
J. Gallagher, A. F. Du Verger and H.
c. Moore. The defendants are said
to have told Senes B. Passmore and
Willie Helm, both of Washington, they
represented the Cumberland Lime Co.,
which already had let 10 contracts for
lime kilns. 1t is charged no contracts
had been let, although the defendants
allegedly told the prospects subscribers
to stock would receive half the profits
from the deals.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
Many Held for Robberies.
Harold E. Marsh, non-support; Ed
ward A. Stone, William J. Riley, How
ard j. Baylor and Arthur A. Hawkins,
joyriding; Joseph Baldwin, Wilbur
Shipley and John o. Byrd, joyriding
and grand larceny; Joseph Matthews,
HOUSEKEEPING; Howard A. Colby, E.
Williams, George Newman and Eugene
M. Jones, HOUSEKEEPING and larceny;
Raymond Potts, Arthur Herndon, Rob-
ert Clay William Weitlauf and Clar-
ence Tomlin, robbery; Lawrence Saun-
ders, assault with dangerous
weapon; Maurice Haley and Clara
Hall, robbery and assault with intent
to kill and assault with a dangerous
weapon; Grantly w. Edelen, carnal
knowledge; Wallace Kimball and Eliot
w. Shreve, violating Harrison mar
cotic act; John Louis Wolarik, forgery,
and Floyd Manuel, second degree mur-
der.
The jury cleared the following of
the charges indicated:
Elmer Clifton and Paul Marshall.
robbery; Johnnie Williams, assault
with a dangerous weapon; George H.
Augustus, grand larceny; Leonard
Mcbride, joyriding; Frank Fox, Harry
Williams and David j. Keppel, forgery
and violating section 831, D. G. Code;
William T. Dewdney, Cabora Shama,
William E. Larman and Claude p.
Cool, violating section 865, d. C. Code;
William F. Smith and Brice Gabriel,
violating liquor taxing act, and Henry
G.. Kelly, homicide.
Evening star., 1935-05-23
BY REX COLLIER.

Veteran special agents of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, here fol
q course of retraining in scientific
crime detection, are renewing &C
quaintance with "Old Beulah," whose
modest services in f1nger-print study
have enabled the Department OF
Justice to solve some Of its most i'm
portant cases.
]. Edgar Hoover, director of the
bureau, with a show of feeling, paid
high tribute to "Old Beulah" today
ranking her alongside Oscar" the
training schools wax murder victim
in the esteem OF the bureaus crime
war forces.
This college widow" of the bu-
reau's chronological university is
well upholstered, but lacking in mod
ern streamline design. She has a
weather. beaten complexion which
faded paint does not enhance.
"Beulah" Is a venerable Packard
sedan, whose services were obtained
q good many years ago for the nom
inal sum Of $40.
An agent who admitted he owes
Evening star., 1935-05-23
100000 MOTOR CARS
TO Be REGISTERED HERE
keystone Automobile Club Re
ports List Already Is Close
to 164,OOO.

With registrations Of motor cars this
year totaling close to 164, 900, the
keystone Automobile Club today esti-
mated that 100000 cars will be regis
tered in the District before the end OF
the year.
Last years total on December 81
was approximately 10000 machines
and the month increase this
year is expected to increase that num-
ber by approximately 10000, based
upon new car sales.
Registration of 100000 will place
Washington near the top Of the list
of cities on basis of per capita own
ership of automobiles, the club said.