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Evening star., 1935-05-31

hands unless he introduces cold
deck. OF course, he can do tricks
with the aces . watch this"
The aces and face cards moved
by magic to the bottom or top of
the deck under Villas deft manipula-
ton.
The other members Of the society
today had gone down the Potomac
on sightseeing voyage to Mount
Vernon. Villas remained behind to
register late arrivals and answer the
telephone.
While he talked many inquiries
came in. The Washington public
wanted information about the two
shows which the magicians are staging
in Wardman Park Theater at Sis
O'Clock tonight and tomorrow night.
$50 Magicians Attending.
At least $50 magicians, amateur and
professional, from all parts of the
country. are here for the three-day
conference which opened last night
with a smoker and entertainment.
On the program tonight will be
Bernard Zufall, the electrical supply
salesman who in his off hours has
won the title of the human encyclo-
pedia" by his feats of memory. Zu-
falls Photographic mind can. in q
few hours, grasp such details as are
contained in an entire telephone di-
rectory.
Some Of the best talent in the coun-
try will be on display at the shows. to
which the public will be admitted. An
admission price will be charged.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
NURSES RECEIVE
D|PL0MASM0NDAY
st. EIizabeth's Exercises
Will Be Preceded by
Festivities.

The commencement day exercises Of
the School of Nursing at st. Eliza
beth's Hospital, scheduled for June
3, viii be preceded by festivities this
afternoon and evening at the Red
Cross House. A picnic supper will be
served at 4:30 o'clock. followed by
class exercises at and a dance at 2
pm.
The commencement program. to be
held at 4:30 pm. on the campus,
will open with music by the Marine
band Elwood Street will address the
graduating class, and DR.. William A.
White. superintendent. will present
the diplomas. Rev. George M. Cum
mings will pronounce the invocation
and benediction.
The graduating class Of the school
this year includes Violet Cecilia Bar
tholomew, Cornelia Ann Boney, Nam
cy Elizabeth Carroll, Johnnie Lou
Cain, Martha Jeannatte Davis, Len
ME Lucille Deale, Annie Marguerite
Dunn, Luna Belle Elkins, Evelyn Joan
Gibbs, Ethel Viola Loan, Rachel
Anne Markley, Elise Eleanor Meyer.
Evelyn Hildegarde Morrell, Frances
Evelyn Moseley, Mary Holmes Pulley,
Josephine Esther Seeley, Elizabeth
Steadman, Ruth Harriet Summers
and Dorothy Agnes Wyudham.
The reception to graduates at Red
Cross house will take place at $50
o'clock. The graduation dance, at
Hitchcock Hall. begins at 9 pm.
The school year will close with the
annual alumanae banquet on June 6
at 7:30 pm. It will be held at the
Admiral, 1640 Rhode island avenue.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
ADMR. v. |. CAPPS
EXPIRES SUDDENLY
Former Chief Constructor
of Navy Is Victim of
Heart Attack.

Rear Admiral Washington Lee
Capps. Il, former chief constructor
of the Navy. died today after heart
attack at his home, 1923 Jefferson
place. He was senior member of the
Compensation Board and took an ac-
tive part in handling war damage
claims of all kinds under the Navy.
During the World War, by direc-
tion of President Wilson. he served
with the Emergency Fleet Corp. to
which he was elected general man.
ager.
His sudden death came as a shock
to his many friends in the Navy De-
partment. who had seen him on duty
as usual on Wednesday. He is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs Edna Ward
Capps, daughter of the late Rear Ad-
miral Aaron Ward, and several nieces
and nephews in Norfolk. Va.
Services will be held at IL O'Clock
Monday morning at st. Johns
Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and H
streets, followed by burial in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Rear Admiral Capps was born jan
uary 81, 1864, in Portsmouth, Va,
and was graduated from the Naval
Academy in 1884. He was graduated
from the University of Glasgow, Scot
land, in 1888 and then entered the
Construction Corps. He served as
chief constructor and also as chief
of the Bureau of Construction and
Repair from October, 1903. to Octo-
ber. 1910. He had served on the
staff of Admiral George Dewey aboard
the Olympia in 1898 and 1899, but
just missed being present at the bat
tie Of Manila Bay, as he Joined the
staff after the engagement.
Admiral Capps superintended the
razing ami repairing of Spanish YES
sels captured during the Spanish
American War. In 1918, he was named
by President Wilson as one Of the
American commissioners to the Inter-
national Conference on Safety of Life
at Sea. held in London. He also repre-
sented the Navy DepaItm at the
International Engineering Conference
at San Francisco in 1918
The Distinguished Service Medal was
awarded to Admiral Capps for his
World War service.
Reaching the statutory retirement
age of "a in 1928, Admiral Capps was
requested by the Secretary of the
Navy to continue to serve on active
duty as the senior member of the
Compensation Board. This position
he held until his death.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
Excitement and Pies Spread
In OM-FashiOned Run-A,vav
Bakery " Wagon Horse
Objects to Backfre
of Automobile.

An old-fashioned runaway spread
some excitement, but more pies. this
morning in the neighborhood of
Sixteenth and A streets southeast.
1t all started when a big dappled
grey horse pulling bakers wagon,
driven by Louis Stein of 1867 Tenth
street, heard an automobile back
fire.
STEMS horse had heard automo-
biles back-fire before, but Stein hap
pened to be delivering a cake to
nearby back door. The horse reacted
to this particular back-fire like a
sprinter to the starters gun.
He dashed for two blocks while the
wagon careened behind him. spread
ing dented tenders and pastry in its
wake. The wagon finally overturned
and the horse broke free.
The animal slowed down to trot,
q walk and then began to mooch
few mouthfulls of grass from the
parking while Stein hurried up with
words of reproof. ,,
A spectator asked Stein what he
called the horse. After some hesi-
tation Stein confessed his name was
Dummy"
Evening star., 1935-05-31
Regiment From Fort Meade
Will Camp in Mall Dur
ing Convention.
MANEUvERS, POLO GAMES
AND PARADES ARRANGED
All Demonstrations Will Be on
Northern Slope of Monument
Grounds.

An Army camp on the Mall. be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets: series of military maneuvers,
with demonstrations of war equipment,
polo games, drills, band concerts and
parades, will feature Shrine week,
June 8 to IS, it was announced today
by Robert p. Smith, director general
of the conclave
The model camp will be set up June
7 by the 34th Infantry from Fort
George G. Meade. Md. and will re-
main open throughout the convention.
The camp will be open to visitors and
guides will be present to show them
through.
Each day the regiment will put on
a program Of events. A parade. re-
view or some other ceremony will con-
clude the afternoon schedule. All DEM
onstrations will be held on the northern
slope of the Washington Monument
grounds, just south of Constitution
avenue.
Polo Game on June IL.
A polo game between two Army
teams will be staged in Potomac Park
uCoOdy, OuIIC II. at ONlONhs AC
Sd Cavalry from Fort Myer will play
team from the War Department.
Extensive exhibits of Army equip
ment and materiel will be located on
the southwestern slope of the Monu-
ment grounds. These will arrive June
8, and Will remain through June 13.
Meantime elaborate floats and stages
are being made in various parts OF the
city for the big pageant Thursday
night, June l3 including Mysteries
of Egypt" announced yesterday.
Sculpture for this Egyptian sceue is
by Charles Farrar, design for the
floats by Bill Edwards and costumes
by Jane Mckenzie. The role OF
princess for this huge spectacle based
on an episode in Egyptian tradition is
enacted by Esther Ingram.
Arrange Registration.
The Raleigh Hotel will be used as
registration headquarters for the i'm
perial conclave, according to report
made by Frank A. Birgfeld, chairman
of the Registration Committee. to Di-
rector General Smith. A corps of em-
ployes will be established at this CEN
tral Office in time to begin registering
guests the morning of Sunday, June 9.
In addition to operating the Regis
tration Bureau, this committee will
also establish lost and found" de-
partment where all articles found may
be deposited for Identification and re-
turn to their owners. The commit
tee will also cooperate with the Serv-
ice and Information Committee.
In the meantime a full crew is en-
gagged at headquarters of the Hotel
and Housing Committee listing rooms
for the accommodation of visitors.
According to a report by Stanley D.
Willis. chairman of this committee,
there are already listed approximately
10000 rooms. which should take care
of 10000 to 10000 people 1t is prob
able that more rooms will be needed,
and the committee is anxious that
every possible home be opened for the
housing of visitors.
Mr.. Willis plans to increase his
force to provide 10 counter girls and
20 operators. each equipped with in
coming and outgoing telephones. for
each shift will operate two shifts to
take care of anticipated crowds.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
j. s. AGENTS TAKE
4 BANK ROBBERS
Men Who Looted 0kemah
Vaults of $1,000 Are
Arrested Secretly.

In a series Of swift moves in the
Southwest, the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation has effected secret
roundup of four notorious bank rob-
bers who are alleged to have perpe-
trated Oklahoma's only simultaneous
robbery of two national banks.
j. Edgar Hoover. director of the bu-
reau, today announced the capture at
different times within the past few
DAYS of Dewey Gilmore. Dan Heady,
Russell Cooper and Walter Holland
end the recovery of $4,000 of the ST.
800 they are alleged to have stolen
from the First National and Okemah
National Banks of Okemah, Okla, on
December %
The Okemah banks. located near
each other. were looted at the same
line by masked bandits, who gained
entrance before the opening hour by
overpowering the janitors and who
held up each bank employe as he ar
rived. The vice president of the Oke-
nah National Bank heard the rob-
bers say their comrades also were rob-
bing the First National Bank
Apparently a messenger shuttled
between the two banks to keep the
robbers advised of developments, and
at a signal both bands took to wait
ing automobiles and fed. They took
sl2.3l2 from the vault of the Okemeh
National Bank and s5,49l from the
First National safe
One of the bandits wore a sock
over his head. with holes cut out so
that he could see. All the robbers
wore gloves to avoid leaving finger
prints. Despite these precautions,
the Justice agents obtained informa-
ton which incriminated seven known
bank robbers
Holland, alias Irish" O'Malley. who
was taken Monday at his apartment
in Kansas City, Mo-, also was wanted
for the August Luer kidnapping. Gil
more was arrested at Dallas. Tex. a
week ago, Heady at Kansas City, Mo,
last Sunday, and Cooper at Fort
Smith, Ark, some days ago.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
BILL CHANGE FOUGHT
BY LIQUOR DEALER
Oppose Move to Make Them Buy
Their Stocks Only From
District Jobbers.

Local retail liquor dealers are pre-
pairing to oppose in the Senate an
amendment to a recent House bill
which would prevent their buying any
alcoholic beverages except beer out
side the District. This provision, they
point out, would compel them to pur-
chase their stocks only from local
wholesalers.
The retailers have made known
their position to Chairman King Of
the Senate District Committee, who
will grant a hearing before the bill
is acted upon. The question appears
likely to provoke considerable con-
troversy.
In behalf of the amendment It Is
contended it would keep business in
the city and aid revenue collections.
Opponents, on the other hand, are
said to be apprehensive that it might
lead to higher prices, or restrict deal
ers in the selection of products. The
controversial amendment was not in
the bill as originally reported, but
was added on the floor of the House.
The rest of the bill deals with several
other features of the liquor control
law
Evening star., 1935-05-31

Two potential candidates for roles
in the Oberammergau Passion Play
6-pound twin girls-were born yester-
day to Mrs. Klara Mayr Lang. Mary
Magdalene in the famous Bavarian re-
ligious pageant last year, and wife Of
DR.. Anton Lang, jr.. Georgetown Uni
versity German professor and son of
the former impersonator of Christus
in the world-famous drama.
Father Bernard Hubbard, celebrated
glacier priest, an old friend of the
Langs who was their companion dur
ing q mountain climbing expedition
in the Austrian Alps several years
ago. will baptize the babies.
year ago after the wedding was post
poned to allow the bride-to-be to
n L.. r IL L
Evening star., 1935-05-31
Magdalene of Passion Play
Becomes Mother of Girl T,Uins

DR.. Lang himself has acted in sew
eral minor parts in the play. while
his father has depicted Christus on
three occasions. more times than any
other man.
DR.. Lang. who has been an instruc-
tor at Georgetown for several years.
brought his wife to the United States
shortly after the play last year and
they have made their home at 1903
S street.
The twins-one of whom will be
named Elizabeth Mathilde-and Mrs.
Lang were reported doing nicely"
today at Georgetown Hospital. Eliza
beth, DR.. Lang explained, Is the name
of Mrs. Lang's = grandmother, while
Mathilde Is an old name in DR.. Lang's
family.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
NEW DELAY FACED
BY CRIME REPORT
District Committee Expect
ed to Postpone Action Be-
cause of AbsenteeS.

Another delay in passing on the
partly approved report of the House
Crime Investigating Committee ap-
peared likely today as several men,
bers of the full District Committee
indicated they would be unable to
attend any meeting that may be called
next week
1t had been planned to hold spe-
cial meeting the full District Com
mittee early next week 20 complete
consideration of the crime report or
otherwise take it up at the regular
meeting Wednesday. The contem-
plated absence of several members
who are vitally interested in the fate
of the report. however, is expected to
cause further delay.
Werner to BE Absent.
Representative Werner. Democrat.
of South Dakota, who filed a minority
report opposing the recommendations
for the removal of United States At
torney Leslie c. Garnett and Karl
Kindelberger. his Police Court assist
ant, will be one of the absentees. He
is planning to return to South Dakota
on special mission.
In the meantime, Chairman Ran
dolph revealed he had received a let
ter from Peoples Counsel William A.
Roberts praising the manner in which
John R. Fitzpatrick, who served as
counsel for the Crime Committee. con-
Quoted the investigation
Fitzpatrick's conduct of the inquiry
was severely criticized in Werner's mi
nority report.
Complains About Moss Case.
Roberts letter also complained about
the handling of the Alfred j. Moss
case by the United States attorneys
Office. He said he was familiar with
the details Of this case.
1t is understood that the letter made
no reference to Garnett or to the rec
ommendation in the majority commit
tee report for the retirement of the
Police Department high command"
Randolph declined to make the let
ter public at this time. but said he
would give it out for publication in
connection with other correspondence
he has received since the full District
Committee began consideration of the
crime report.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
BOY SERIOUSLY HURT
AS TOMBSTONE FALLS
Child Injured in Peculiar Acct
dent While Playing Near
Mother in Cemetery.

Two-year-old Bradley Smith, jr. 3
West Thornapple street, Chevy Chase,
Md. was in a serious condition at
Casualty Hospital today suffering from
injuries received yesterday while in
Mount Olivet Cemetery with his
mother.
While Mrs. Smith was looking after
graves of relatives and arranging
floral decorations. the little son play
ed nearby. Suddenly she heard him
give an outcry, and found tomb
stone had toppled from its base and
fallen upon him.
Mrs. Smith accompanied him to the
hospital, where attending physicians
treated him for head and possible in
ternal injuries. His condition was re-
ported serious.
Evening star., 1935-05-31

~ honest hand. honestly dealt
L to the seven poker players by
Royal l.. Villas, card wizard
though he was.
If his fellow players watched Villas
with extra attention, it was more
from curiosity than suspicion, for
Villas had the sort of hands which
are swifter than the eye.
The veteran secretary of the So
ciety of American Magicians had
come to New York from his home at
Westport. Conn. to entertain a con-
vention of business associates with
feats of sleight- hand he had been
perfecting for hall century.
After the show some one suggested
a friendly game. and the seven poker
players foregathered in hotel room
to test their skill. 1t was real treat
for Villas. whose hobby for sleight-of-
hand tricks had somewhat curtailed
his opportunities for participating in
a good poker game.
Played at Dollar Limit.
Villas, who is attending the seventh
annual conference of American ma
gicians, at Wardman Park Hotel. re-
called today the tense atmosphere of
that poker game. There was a dol
lar limit and the betting had waxed
lively.
When Villas handed out five around
there was an immediate opener. an
opener raised three times in success
sion before the bet got around to
Villas, the dealer. Villas eagerly
scanned the five cards he held close
to his shirt front.
1t was his bet. and, great guns, he
held four natural aces!
What did you do?"
Gosh, man, what do you think I
did? I tossed in my hand! -Four
natural aces thrown away-the best
hand I ever held! This thing of be-
ing magician has its grief as well
as its pleasure"
Tricks Are His Speciality.
Card tricks are Villas speciality. He
can squeeze a deck and make any
previously indicated card rise slowly
before the astonished eyes of his audi
ence; that, and scores of other baf-
f1ers.
Villas also collects cold" decks, but
not for poker playing. During years
of persuing his hobby, at least $50
crooked decks have come into his
hands. some of them masterpieces in
this peculiar art.
Villas paid So for one of the decks,
which had been hand-tinted by an
artist so that the subtle shades of
coloring identified for the expert every
one of the So cards.
The fraud could only be detected
by an expert, and ordinarily would pass
even microscopic scrutiny. Other decks
had been marked by adroit fingers
of crooked gamblers-minute nail
on the edges of the aces or
face cards.
There are lot of tricks among one
type of gambler" Villas said. but
there's no such thing as a stacked
deck. Don't let any one tell you other
wise. No man can deal premeditated
Evening star., 1935-05-31
PHONE RATES CUT

Low night rates for out-of-town
calls from Washington, formerly ef-
fective at $50 pm, will be available
flom 2 pm. to 4 am. beginning June
l. John A. Remon, general manager
of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co., announced today. These
rates replace the evening rates hither-
to available between Z and $50 pm.
New night rates also will apply, ef-
fective June l, on calls to trans-At-
lantic points between. S pm. and 5
am. For example, a call from WASH
ington to London between these hours
will now cost $21. or 50 less than the
day rate.
Remon said arrangements have been
made for the handling of a consider
able increase In out-of-town calls
placed between the hours of z and
$3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
Committee Votes FavorabIy
on Establishment of Unit
for Project.
PLAN is SUPPORTED
BY MANY OFFICIALS
Fine Arts Commission Prefers
Separate Building for Portraits,
Senators Are Told.

Establishment of a commission to
make plans for national portrait
gallery in Washington was approved
today by the Senate Public Buildings
and Grounds Committee.
The resolution was ordered favor
ably reported after testimony in sup
port of the idea had been given by
Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine
Arts Commission; Charles G. Abbot,
secretary of the Smithsonian 1nStitu-
ton; Alexander Wetmore. assistant
secretary of the Smithsonian. and
Ruel P. Tolman acting director of
the National Gallery of Art. which is
being developed under the direction
of the Smithsonian.
The witnesses told of plans that
have been under way for a number of
years for erection of a national gal
lery of arts building somewhere in
the Mall, but they also agreed that
erection of separate portrait gallery
building would be desirable. Although
selection of a site would be left tc the
proposed commission, committee men,
bers indicated the portrait gallery.
like the proposed gallery of arts.
should also be located in the Mall.
Prefers Separate Building.
Moore said the Fine Arts Commits
sion is thoroughly in favor of the
purpose of the resolution, and would
prefer separate portrait building
The resolution states that the purpose
would be to honor the memory of
men and women who have been OF
may become notable in the history
of the United States by portraits.
miniature portraits or sculptures.
Moore and Abbot explained that
some other countries have portrait
galleries separate from art galleries
The witnesses explained that such
building would house many portraits
Of great value primarily from an his
toric standpoint.
Portraits Available.
The committee was told that the
Smithsonian Institution already has
many portraits that would be ap-
proprIate to 60 in such a building
and that many others undoubtedly
would be presented after the building
is erected. Some of the portraits, Of
ficials of the Smithsonian said, had to
be stored away at present for lack of
adequate space.
The resolution was sponsored by
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa-
chusetts. The hearing today was
presided over by Senator Connally,
Democrat, of Texas, chairman of the
Public Buildings and Grounds Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1935-05-31

said she fell from the car after acci-
dentally opening door.
Others Hurt.
Others injured included: Miss Mary
Steiner of 101 West Linden street, hurt
when an automobile operated by her
and q machine driven by Albert S.
Lang of Atlanta. Ga, collided at
Mount Vernon and Peyton avenues in
Alexandria Lang, a delegate to the
Jehovah Witness convention being
held in Washington, was arrested on
charges of reckless driving and col
liding.
william Parks OF the $500 block Six
teenth street, Washington, who sus-
tanned a fractured leg when a heavy
object fell on him at a building In
the 200 block North Lee street, Alex
andria, and G. H. Brown of 124 North
Royal street. Alexandria. who received
a broken wrist in Q fall from scaffold
Evening star., 1935-05-31
Berry Fete Tomorrow.

GAITHERSBURG. Md, May 81
(SpeciaD The annual strawberry
festival Of the Ladies' Aid Society of
the Hunting Hill M. E. Church will
be held in the parish hall tomorrow
from 6 to 9 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
LUNCHEON PRECEDES
TRUSTEES MEETING
G. W. u. Board Gathers to Elect
New Members-Alumni
Nominate Two,

The annual meeting of the George
Washington University Board of
Trustees was scheduled for this aft
ernoon in the board room of the
university. Preceding the meeting
President Cloyd H. Marvin enter
tanned the trustees at luncheon.
New members of the board will be
elected. two of whom have been nomi-
mated by countrywide alumni vote.
Six alumni trustees serve on the
board, two being chosen each year
for three-year terms.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
Girls to Hold Carnival.

HYATTSvILLE, Nd, May 81 (Spe-
ciaD THE Girl Scouts Of Troop 73
of the Hyattsville Nigh School will
hold q nickel carnival" tonight in
the Hyattsville High School at 3
Evening star., 1935-05-31
Park Head Dies,

HAGERSTOWN, Md, May 81 RJ.-
Injuries received in an automobile
accident near here proved fata last
night to D. H. Phillips, superintendent
Evening star., 1935-05-31

Dance, Tennessee State Society,
Shoreham Hotel, 9 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-31
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Bingo party, Eagle Tent, No. 2. In
dependent Order of Rechabites, Naval
Lodge Hall. Fourth and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-31

Dance. lexington Community Gen.
ter, Mckinley High School gymnasium.
$50 pm,
Evening star., 1935-05-31
TOMORROW.

Meeting. Optomist Club. Hamilton
Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-31

Meeting. Biological Society of Wash
ington, Cosmos Club, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-31

TOMORROW
Meeting. Ladies' Auxiliary, Lamb
kins Club, Masonic Temple, Eighth
and F streets northeast.