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Evening star., 1935-08-02
FEWER D. C. CRIMES
REPORTED FOR JULY
Record Set With No Hold-up
Cases for Three-Day
Period.

Something Of a record was eStab-
lished this morning, when for the first
time in a long while not a single re-
mort of a hold-up had been made to
police for three days.
Inspector L. l. H. Edwards, acting
police superintendent during the brief
absence of Maj Ernest w. Brown, said
it was the first such situation he could
recall in e long while.
Inspector Edwards attributed the
no-hold-up record to extra activity
of police, which, he believes also has
brought about a reduction in other
forms of crime.
For July there were only 225 house.
breakings. against 239 in June and
27l in May. Rocberies for July num-
bered only At, against 81 for June
and SO for May
Even the number of stolen auto
mobiles n July was much lower, rec
ords show than in. the previous
month, with els total for that month
and $50 in June.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
D. c. AREA PLANS
PLEA TO PRESIDENT
Southeast Civic Leaders
Protest Alleged
NEGLECT.

Business and civic leaders of south
east Washington are planning to pre-
sent to President Roosevelt a resolu-
ton protesting against the actions OF
District officials In Ignoring" re-
peated requests for public improve
ments in the southeast section.
Richard B. English, vice president
of the Southeast Business Mems Asso-
ciation, said his organizations Execu-
tive Committee will meet early next
week to take action on a resolution
he has prepared.
This whole thing has gone far
enough" English declared today.
Citizens of Southeast Washington
have been treated indifferently by the
District Commissioners and other city
officials too long.
I'VE believe it is up to the President
to get them on the job or put them
out of office. He put them in there
and if they can't do the job, they
should be replaced"
The most important projects sought
by civic and business groups are a
new bridge to replace the Pennsyl-
vania avenue span which the citizens
declare is unsafe: more Fairgrounds
and recreation centers, and the re-
moval of the garbage transfer plant
from New Jersey avenue and K street
southeast.
The full membership of the organi-
zation will meet a week from next
Monday, and Clarence F. Donohoe,
president, announced Engineer Com
missioner Dan I. Sultan will be asked
to attend.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
Impounded Auto
Disappears, but Is
Captured Again
Car Taken From Front
of Precinct Station Is
Found abandoned.

Police of No. precinct had to
impound an automobile twice in less
than "a hours to make their action
stick
First impounded for violation OF a
parking regulation, the machine was
placed in front of the station house
to wait for its owner to call for 1t.
Police are not certain about the
owner calling, but some one did. The
car disappeared. A search for the
owner last night proved futile, when
inquiry at the residence given for the
man to whom the machine is listed
brought the information he did not
live there.
This morning. however. officers
again found the automobile near
Nineteenth street and Jefferson place.
Although this time it was within the
law, in so far as parking was con-
cerned, it was taken back for the
previous violation. The machine is
again in front of No police station
but a small and important part of
its engine is not.
Officers say several slot machines
were found in the car today.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
DetectiUe "Fi1es''
Elopers' Trouble
With Irate Parent
Perjury Charges Are
Withdrawn Through
Efforts of OgIe.

Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle put
aside his ordinary duties long enough
yesterday to effect a reconciliation
between a recently married young
couple and an irate parent.
Detective Ogle few days ago was
called on to serve a perjury warrant
on william H. Richards, %, OF 48 In
dependence avenue southwest. The
warrant was sworn out by the youths
father Dellbert Kidweu OF
ChiIhlm, Md. who charged Richards
had given the wrong age for his
daughter Frances when the couple
obtained a marriage license July II.
when he served the warrant Ogle
said he found the young pair getting
on 50 well that he decided to see what
he could do In the role of family
peacemalier. ...+.-.
The case came up before Police
Court Judge Isaac r. Hit yesterday,
ED the father withdrew the charges
and Judge Hit dismissed the case.
Evening star., 1935-08-02

While the dispute was IN progress
and spectators gathered Detective
Watson Salkeld of No. 5 precinct hap
pened by and took the women and
children to headquarters, where they
conferred with Detective Lieut.. Glenn
ent Cox.
Meanwhile the older of the girls
told reporters in an ante room:
That woman" (meaning their
mother started grabbing at us. ]
don't care who she is, I don't like her
and I don't want her grabbing at me
and fighting on the street"
Lieut.. Cox said Miss Williams ad-
mitted the court had awarded custody
of the children to their grandmother
The mother said she could not resist
the impulse to be near her daughters.
The little girls left headquarters in
custody of their step-mother and Miss
Williams was advised not to violate the
court order.
Both children chung to the hands
Of Mrs. Wooding. They seemed dis
appointed when news photographers
were told not to take their pictures,
especially in view of the fact that they
did not get to see the Shirley Temple
feature.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
j. s. AGENT HELD.
IN FATAL SHOOTING.
Loudoun Coroner's Jury
Acts on Testimony Man
- Was Shot in Back.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpatcn TO Inc star.
LEESBURG Va, August 2-After
Federal Agent John A. MILAN ad-
mitted shooting Delmas Duncan, Lou
doun County moonshiner, in the back
during raid near Ryan Wednesday
the agent today was ordered held for
the action of the grand jury at a
coroner's inquest.
The admission was drawn from
MILAN by Attorney Edward E. Gar
rett at an inquest conducted by DR..
John A. Gibson, county coroner.
MILAN said that he shot Duncan
at distance of about feet as Dun
can, revolver ir hand, whirled as if
to shoot MIN. A few seconds before,
he said, Duncan had snapped the re-
volver in his face.
He said he had been chasing Dun
can, who had been surprised at the
still, through dense underbrush. Dun
cans gun dropped from his right hand
as the Federal agents turned him over
after he had been shot. 1t had
three shells in the chamber. Milan
testified that several times he called
to Duncan to halt and to drop the
gun. He testified he shot only when
he believed his own life was in danger
John Mann, IT, of Ryan, Va, who
said he had no home and who was
with Duncan at the time the officers
raided the still, was the first witness.
He said Duncan had carried the gun
to the still in the seat of his car
and that when the raiders reached
the still the weapon was hanging on
the limb of tree within a few feet
of the still.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
ARRESTED. YOUTH
IS FOUND UNHURT
Detailed Report to Be Made
on Fight With Police in
"Drunk Case"

After an official investigation had
already been ordered into the reported
serious injury of 19-year-old Odel.
Brown in a fight with police last
night, it was learned at Casualty Hos
pital today that the youth is urhurt
and was clamoring to be released
It was feared for while the youths
neck was broken as he fought with
officers in patrol wagon after he had
been arrested for alleged drunkenness,
and Asst. Supt. of Police L. I. H Ed
wards had requested a detailed re-
port of the affair.
Arrested on Avenue.
Brown, who has no fixed address,
was taken into custody near Thir-
teenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. by First Precinct Policeman C.
w. Masenheimer. The patrol was
called and the youth was turned over
to Officer H. H. Wilson, who sat with
him in the rear.
En- route to the station, Wilson said,
Brown attacked him. With the help
of the driver, R. NJ. Alexander. viii
son said he subdued the prisoner. A
few minutes later Brown is reported
to have again attacked the officer
This time Wilson allegedly struck the
youth on the head with the butt of his
revolver, lacerating his scalp.
Taken TO Hospital.
After being booked at the precinct,
Brown was put in the patrol again
to be taken to Casualty for treat
ment for his slight injuries. On the
way, according to police, he made a
lunge at Wilson and started choking
the officer. Wilson said he pushed the
boy, sending him reeling into the front
of the patrol, where he fell and was
believed to have severely injured his
neck.
A thorough examination at the hos
pital this morning, physicians said, re-
vealed Browns neck was uninjured
and that his head was not cut, as at
first reported. He was expected to be
discharged from the hospital this aft
ernoon.
Meanwhile, Capt. William E. Holmes,
first precinct, went ahead with his
investigation of the incident in con-
formity with the order issued by In
spector Edwards.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
SUSPECT IN JEWELRI
THEFTS IS ARRESTED
Youth Held in Lynchburg Ac-
cused of Trying to Sell
Watches.

Detective Michael j. Dowd was to
leave this afternoon for Lynchburg.
Va. with a warrant for the arrest and
return here Of a youth said to be Lee
Bryant, II, of Clinton. Miss. suspected
of participation In recent jewel thefts.
Lynchburg police were holding Bry-
ant for questioning by Dowd. They
reported they had found in his pos
session three watches and three dia-
mond rings. Numbers on the watches
were said to correspond with those of
watches taken from the window OF
Castleberg's jewelry store. 1904 F
street, early in the morning Of July 30.
According to the Associated Press.
Bryant was arrested in Lynchburg
when he tried to sell watch to a
jeweler. He was said to have insisted
he bought the watches and rings found
in his possession from a transient for
SIS and a pair Of shoes.
Evening star., 1935-08-02

TWO little girls who came to
Washington to see Shirley
Temple motion picture and
witnessed a real life drama
instead we're on their way home to
Danville, Va, today after their mother
tried to take them from their STEP
mother at F and Thirteenth streets
yesterday afternoon.
A large throng of shoppers and
theatergoers watched while the two
women struggled over custody of the
girls, Louise, 6, and Nancy Wooding.
8, daughters of William Wooding, a
Standard Oil Co. salesman, who lives
in the 1900 block of Calvert street.
Louise and Nancy, who have been
living with their grandmother at Dan
vile since their mother and father
were divorced two years ago, came to
Washington to visit their step-mother,
a former nurse at Garfield Hospital.
and to attend picture show.
AS the little girls were led into the
theater where Shirley Temple is star
ring, they were seen by their mother,
who had resumed the name of Louise
Williams, and now lives at Decatur
Heights, Md. It was the first time
Miss Williams had seen her daughters
for two years.
Acting on an impulse, which ap-
parently she could not resist, the
mother followed her children into the
theater, police were told. She per-
suaded the three to return to the
street, investigators learned, and in
sisted that the little girls get into
cab with her. The stepmother re-
sisted with spirit.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
MANY DELINQUENT
ON PERSONAL TAXES
$4,000 Fail to File Reports,
Making Themselves Liable
to Penalty,

District tax officials estimated rough
" today that $4,000 persons had failed
to file their personal tax reports, thus
holding themselves liable to an $ll
mandamus penalty.
In the final rush TO send in their
returns before the deadline at mid
night July 81 approximately $500 re-
sorted to the mails. Tax Assessor
william p. Richards did not adhere
strictly to the limitations in numerous
cases and taxpayers could give rea-
sonable excuses for their delay in filing
returns. A great many returns were
received In this way yesterday.
Legal action will be taken, however,
against delinquents who fail to take
advantage of regulations which permit
partial returns to be filed when it is
impossible to make out complete re-
port.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
TRAFFIC ARRESTS
IN CAMPAIGN DROP
George W. TenIey, SO, Fa-
tally Injured in Maryland
Accident.

For the first time since the traffic
safety campaign started nearly two
weeks ago traffic arrests fell below the
800 mark for the 24-hour period end
ing at 8 am. today. One death re-
suited from an accident in Maryland.
George w. Tenley, 50, OF 3O7 S
street northeast. railway car lnSpec-
tor, died last night in Casualty Hos
pital from injuries received several
hours earlier when struck by a street
car in Brentwood, Md.
He failed to regain consciousness
after being struck and was identified
at the District morgue by his son. M
C. Tenley, with whom he made his
home at the S street address. He suf-
fered a crushed chest and other in
juries.
% Arrested for Speeding.
Two hundred and seventy-nine ar
rests were made during the "a hours
ending at am. OF these % were for
speeding. IA for passing red lights and
8 for reckless driving.
Oficials attribute the fewer arrests
to better observance, genarlly. OF the
traffic regulations and feel the success
of the campaign is shown by the de-
crease.
Seven persons, two of them chill
dren, were hurt in total Of 27 acci-
dents here from am. yesterday to
8 am. today None of the injuries
was expected to prove serious.
Virginia Man Injured.
The most seriously hurt was Charles
Moore, IS, of Alexandria, Va, pro-
motion manager of the Washington
Post. He suffered a spinal fracture
in a collision between an automobile
and a taxicab in which he was rid
ing at Fourteenth street and Pennsyl-
vanja avenue.
Robert Grueble, 81. of Bristol. Pa,
driver of the automobile which COL
lided with the taxicab. was charged
with reckless driving.
Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, acting
superintendent of police during the
absence of Maj. Ernest w. Brown, to-
dav issued an order for strict enforce
ment of the law forbidding glaring
headlights on motor vehicles.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
PURCHASE Of PARK
APARTMENTS SEEN
i'm VACATE ORDER
Tenants in Potomac Build
ing Must Make Way for
Interior Department.
OFFICES FOR P. w. A. DUE
TO BE INSTALLED NOW
Structure Is in Area to Be
Cleared for Northwest Rec
tangle of Government.

Early purchase by the Federal Gov
ernment of the Potomac Park Apart
ments, Twenty-first and C streets.
appeared in prospect today after it
was learned that Weaver Bros, agents
for the building, had served a notice
on the tenants to vacate within 80
days.
Tentative plans of the Interior De-
partment provide for altering the
building and installing the Public
Works Administration there, it was
learned
c. J. Guthrie, chief of the Division
Of Government Space Control of the
National Park Service, Interior De-
partment, declared there are a few
details TO be cleared up before a def
mite commitment can be given to the
owners.
Plans for Purchase.
The Procurement Division of the
Treasury Department is to buy the
property, under present plans This
is to be done under authority granted
by Congress under the Keyes-Ellott
act, which set aside property for
eventual purchase BY the Government,
The Potomac Park Apartments are
located in the area, which has been
designated by the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission as the
Northwest Rectangle. Eventually the
Government is to buy all the property
in the area bounded by E street,
Eighteenth street, Constitution avenue
and the Potomac River.
Government officials disclosed that
immediate purchase Of this building
will provide urgently needed space, and
they foresaw a saving in rent which
would have to be spent elsewhere if
space were leased.
10000 Feet Floor Space.
The Potomac Park Apartments will
provide some 10000 square feet Of net
/ floor area. Alterations will have to
be undertaken to convert the building
into desirable Office space. Due to
crowded conditions in the Interior
Building and the fact many divisions
are scattered in rented space, Secre-
tary Ickes desires to concentrate the
P. w. A. and give it more room. This
will be done when the Potomac Park
Apartments pass into Government
ownership.
Negotiations for the acquisition of
the apartments have been in prog
ress for some time. it was learned
today. Yesterday Weaver Bros. served
notice on the tenants that they would
have to get out by August 81.
There are lis apartments in the
Potomac Park. an eight-Story build
ing. The present owners are said
to be Martin West of Weaver Bros
and James P. Schick.
The building was erected in June
1924, and the first owner was Frederic
j. Haskin, who conducts a daily in
formation service in The Star. His
Offices are now located in the building
Evening star., 1935-08-02
JIMMY THIEVES NET
$500 IN TWO HAULS
Jewelry Taken From Sixteenth
Street Apartment-P Street
Place Robbed.

Jimmy thieves netted more than
$500 worth Of jewelry and a small
amount of cash last night in two rob-
berries.
An unset diamond worth $500 and
q watch were stolen from the apart
ment OF Katherine Shenk, 1920 Six
teenth street, police were told.
Six dollars and incidental articles
were reported stolen from the apart
ment OF Alice Domino and Catherine
Shoe, 2o06 P street. Their empty
pocketoooks were und in a nearby
alley.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
PAVING CONTRACT LET

A contract for improving the road
way at Foxhall road between Canal
and Reservoir roads was awarded to-
day by the Commissioners.
Corson & Gruman put in the sue
cessful low bid, the work costing $780,
973.50.
Another contract for new paving on
Thirteenth street between Spring road
and Buchanan street was awarded to
MCGUIRE q Rolfe Co. The lc@ bid
was $24,972So.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
A. A. A. CLERK MARRIES

Clair Rizer Bishop, IS. A. A. A.
junior clerk and former foot ball
player at the University of Nebraska,
was married yesterday in Lincoln,
Nebr., to Miss Mae Helen Posey of
that city, according to the Asso-
ciated Press.
Bishop has been working in Wash
ington since April, 1884, in the rental
and benefit audit section of the di-
1sion of finance of the Adjustment
Evening star., 1935-08-02
STATUTE UPHELD
Law on Water Ices and Sherbets
Wins Court Verdict.

BALTIMORE. August R.-Vai-
idity of the 1885 statute requiring
water ice and sherberts be sold only in
individual containers which must be
plainly labelled was upheld yesterday
by Judge Eugene Opunne. in ruling
on the suit of the AfAndel Ice Cream
Co., against the Board Of Health.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
DRIVER BROUGHT HERE
Colored Youth Charged With
Using D. c. Car.

Ernest L. Smith, 16, colored. 2400
block Of K street, who was arrested
In Catonsville, Md, Tuesday on q
charge of joy-riding, was brought here
yesterday by Detective Sergt. Frank
M. Alngood of the headquarters auto
mobile squad and Precinct Detective
]. o. Curtis.
Police allege young Smith drove to
Catonsville in an automobile belong
ing to A. c. Liggett, an attorney in
the tax division of the Justice De-
partment, who lives at 1920 twenty
third street.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
JUDGE H. M. STEPHENS
is FETED AT LUNCHEON
Fifty Friends and Associates Gel
ebrate Elevation to Court
of Appeals.

Judge Harold M. Stephens, former
Assistant Attorney General. recently
appointed to the District Court of
Appeals, was honored yesterday at a
testimonial luncheon In the National
Press Club auditorium. Approximately
so friends and associates attended.
The speakers were Phillip E. Buck.
former director Of litigation for the
N. r. A.; Ewin L. Davis, chairman OF
the Federal Trade Commission: John
Dickinson, successor to Judge Ste
rhens as Assistant Attorney General;
Mariner S. Eccles, governor Of the
Federal Reserve Board; Frank K.
Nebeker, former Assistant Attorney
General, ard Chairman King Of the
Senate District Committee.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
POSITIONS ARE OPEN
FOR U. S. CRAFTSMEN
Civil Service Examinations Also
Will Be Held for Principal
Horticulturist.

Two new examinations have been
listed by the Civil Service Commis-
sion.
For engineering craftsmen and
Junior engineering craftsmen appli-
cations will be received until August
10 at the commission. Seventh and F
streets. The pay is 81 $40 to $4,000.
For principal horticulturist, bulb
and Horticultural Investigations, Bu-
reau of Plant Industry, application
may be made until August is. The
pay Is $500.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
D. of A. Plans Luncheon.

GAITHERsBURG, August ,spe-
cial) Archbishop Curley Unit Cath
olic. Daughters of America, will hold
a benefit luncheon and card party at
the home of Mrs. E. P. Schwartz,
Summit avenue, tomorrow afternoon
ut ! o'clock
Evening star., 1935-08-02
LIBRARY TO BE CLOSED
DURING ALL OF AUGUST
Washingtoniana Division Pro-
gram Is Announced by DR..

The Washingtoniana division of the
Public Library will be closed during
the month of August. Research
workers to wish to use washingtoniana
material are asked to inquire at
the desk in the reading and reference
rooms OF the central building at
Eighth and K streets.
DR.. George r. Bowerman, librarian,
also announces the closing of the
subbranches of the library from Au-
gust to II. The branches affected
are Chevy Chase, Conduit road, Ten
ley and Woodbridge. The Eastern
High subbranch closed JHly ! and
will reopen September 2.
Evening star., 1935-10-20
by H. AsHBRooK

But this is outrageous. Last week when
Chevalier arrived, they Say. what do you
think I'm paying you for?"
Tommy cut him short. You're not paying
me anything I'm taking percentage on what
make out of you. And I've made plenty
when you consider what little there was to
start with. I've built you up from nothing.
You should have heard them last week at
Imperial Pictures when l tried to raise your
$500 to $4,000. They laughed in my face Said
you didn't have any real following. They said
lot more" he paused, grinned "a lot
more that they're going to take back = in
Evening star., 1935-10-20

about half an hour. So let's get
going"
Arm in arm, they left the station.
1t was at the corner of Forty-second
Street and Vanderbilt Avenue that
Tommy dropped the first handful Of
pennies - deliberately - casually
nonchalantly. There was furry
in the crowd, a dive for the coins.
He dropped another handful.
Max's handsome brows knitted
into a puzzled frown. whats the
idea? Are you crazy or"
Pipe down - and smile"
But -"
Smile"
Max smiled. Tommy continued
to drop pennies. The crowd was
following now. At Madison Avenue
it had increased, and by the time
they reached Fifth, it was a pro-
Evening star., 1935-10-20

cession of such sizeable proportion that it
surged out into the street.
At Sixth Avenue the crowd was definitely
mob. Someone shouted. Tommy dropped
more pennies. BY the time they reached Times
Square, traffic was stalled. The crowd surged
milled about. Heads popped out of office win
dows. Policemen pushed their way to the
center of the maelstrom
Officer! Help It's Ray Maximilan, =
Tommy shouted.
Ray Macmillan" The name ran through
the crowd. "Maximilian." Those in front took
it up. passed it on to those behind. 1t grew
Evening star., 1935-10-20

[["HE rose-petal softness of my
skin" said Mr.. Tommy Trap
hagen. Il attribute to the
daily use of Sante Soap"
Evening star., 1935-07-13
NEW SHIP SUBSIDY
BILL |SASKED NOW
Roosevelt Also Wants Bus
and Truck Laws at
This Session.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt wants ship sub
sidy and motor bus and truck regula-
ton bills enacted this session.
In so telling congressional leaders
the President expressed dissatisfac-
ton with the ship subsidy measure
now pending in Congress and asked
that a new bill be worked out.
The present measure provides for
separate maritime authority. Mr..
Roosevelt wants the merchant marine
placed under the Interstate Com
merce Commission. He also wants a
section providing for construction
loans eliminated.
The new legislation is designed to
replace the present system of aiding
the merchant marine through ocean
mail contracts. Outright financial
help to pay the difference between
domestic and foreign operation and
construction costs would be provided.
Secretary of Commerce Roper and
Post Office officials were requested by
Mr.. Roosevelt to assist In framing the
new bill. But after talking with the
President, Senator Copeland, Demo-
crat, of New York, said it was doubt
full the legislation could be perfected
this session.