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Evening star., 1936-11-09
NEW-CAR SALES
DUE TO EXCEED '35
Increase of 8 900 Over Last Years
Record Volume Is
Predicted,

With Washington automobile deal
ers enjoying the best business in his
tory. the prediction was made today
that new-car sales during 1886 will
exceed $4,000, an increase Of at least
5000 over last years record volume.
The Washington Automotive Trade
Association said the seventeenth an
nual automobile show. opening at 10
am. Saturday in Calvert Exhibition
Hall, will climax the most active Pc
riod In the annals of the local motor
vehicle business.
Already this year, according to r.
J. Murphy, manager Of the trade as
sociation and director of the show.
sales Of new passenger cars exceed
27,600. The total for all 1885 was
28,539, Of which nearly 5000 were sold
during November and December, the
months during which new models are
announced. This indicates, Murphy
said, that total sales for 1885 will be
much higher than in 1885.
Prior to last year. 1881 was the big
gest year in Washington's automobile
business, 23,164 passenger cars having
been sold. Sales dropped to 1892 in
1892. In 1898, they totaled l4,367.
and In 1884. 18433.
Evening star., 1936-11-09
GUARD
GERMAN EMBASSY
New York Rumor of Plans
for Demonstration
Leads to Vigil.

Acting on request by embassy OH
cials, police today stood guard at the
German Embassy, 1889 Massachusetts,
avenue, to forestall any disturbances
similar to those which have occurred
recently at the German Embassy In
London.
Ambassador Hans Luther and men,
bers Of the staff were away for the
week end, but an officer stood guard
from 8 I'm. to midnight yesterday and
others took up the vigil today. Capt.
James Bobo, second precinct COM
mander, said the guard would be main
tanned 'for few days."
Should anybody appear and picket
the embassy peacefully, no action
would be taken, Capt. Bobo said. ANY
disturbance or breach Of the peace,
however, would land the offender Tn
Jail, he warned.
A rumor from New York to the ef-
feet an attempt would be made to stage
q demonstration before the embassy
was given by embassy officials as the
reason for their request for special
police.
. The execution last week Of q Ger
man Communist, Edgar Andre, re-
suited in several disorders at the Ger
man Embassy in London and one
woman was arrested for throwing
brick through window Of the diplo-
matte mansion.
Evening star., 1936-11-09
O'BRIEN SHOOTING
! PROBE POSTPONED
Victim Is Unable to Leave Hos
pital to Attend Grand
:" Jury Session.

The grand Jury investigation into
the shooting July 81 Of Joseph E.
O'Brien was postponed today until
Thursday.
It was explained that o'Brien was
unable to leave Providence Hospital
today. He Is still suffering from the
bullet wounds and one leg is useless
because Of q shattered knee cap. He
probably will have to be carried into
court in q wheel chair, 1t was said.
Police have rounded up six per-
sons and charged them with assault
with intent to kill. They are Charles
(Rags) Warning. 26: John w.
Sweeney, 81; Clarence L. Ware, 80;
Joseph s. Bond, George Frederick
Tear, 49,. and Samuel s. Montgom-
cry, 20.
Tear and Montgomery are under
conviction in connection with q huge
bootleg conspiracy in which II per-
sons were found guilty by . jury In
District Court last March. That
case now u in the Court OF Appeals.
Evening star., 1936-11-09

who has never been apprehended.
For four years the murder was car
fied on the police books as an un-
solved mystery. Jordan. himself, gave
police the break" for which they had
yainly sought.
Wrote U. S. Attorney.
Disturbed by his conscience. the
young man wrote United States At
torney Leslie C. Garnett from Mount
Vernon, N. Y, where he was living,
asking whether there was any chance
Of his being arrested again as a sus-
pect In the murder.
He had been taken into custody
and questioned shortly after the slay-
ing, but police at that time were con-
Vinced he had nothing to do with the
crime. He told Garnett in his letter
that he had fallen in love with a
young woman In Mount Vernon and
wanted to get married, but felt he
should assure himself that he was no
longer suspected of the crime.
Garnett Immediately turned the let
ter over to the Police Department.
Detectives were dispatched to Mount
Vernon, where they arrested Jordan
and obtained a confession from him.
Illegal Jury Claimed.
Garnet and his assistant, Roger
Eobb. argued the case before the
Court Of Appeals. One Of the points
raised In the appeal was that the
jury was Illegally constituted because
a notary public was on the panel.
Government employees have been dis
qualified for jury service in criminal
cases and Jordan's attorneys claimed
that notary came under this classi-
aication.
The court ruled, however, that the
office Of notary public does not create
such a relationship to the Federal
Government as would disqualify
juror. The defense attorneys also
contended that the trial jury did not
understand the judges instructions
concerning the legal theory that
person who kills another while en-
PACED in the commission Of felony
"purposely" Stays, and is guilty of
6rst-degree murder.
The Court of Appeals held that the
trial court judges instructions were
clear, and the fact that the Jury re-
turned a first degree verdict merely
indicated that the jurors did not be-
Aeve the testimony of the defendant.
Evening star., 1936-11-09

Twelfth street and Constitution ave-
nue.. He was taken to Casualty Hos
pital.
Two persons were injured In Alex
andria this morning when an automo-
bile In which they were riding over
turned after being. in collision with
another machine at .Craik street and
Washington avenue.
Two persons were treated at George
town Hospital after the car In which
they were riding was IN collision with
another machine In Clarendon today.
Those hurt were: Otis Melton, 2S, who
suffered severe head decorations. and
Mrs. j. r. Barnhill, who was cut about
the legs. Both live In Clarendon.
Mrs. Alma Sarton, 80, 100 block Of
Spring street, Alexandria, sustained
severe lacerations and . possible frac-
tured shoulder. She was admitted to
the Alexandria Hospital. Charles L.
Strickler, a., 10l Alexandris avenue,
was treated for lacerations. A third
passenger escaped injury. 80
Police said the cars were operated
by Strickler and Edgar n. Brown, ~,
Route 3, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1936-11-09

stead spent six years in the Far North,
within a few hundred miles Of the
Pole. Two other "mounties" were with
him, and their duties were to claim
land for the government, and to pa
troll the territory.
"Of course, there wasn't much to
watch out for while on patrol duty"
a friend quoted him as saying. I'VE
were even farther north than the
Eskimos, and the weather was our
only enemy-that and the fact that
most of the area was sea ice.
Lived Through Narrow Escapes.
"Sea ice is liable to break at any
moment, and-well, life Is just one
narrow escape after another in the
Far North
Contrary to the popular belief. all
members Of the r. c. M. p. aren't
mounted. In fact, few horses are
used nowadays, the officers preferring
automobiles and motor cycles wher-
ever their use is feasible. and dog
sleds where it isn't.
The Royal Canadian Is more like
this country's G-men than an ordi-
nary police force. Its 2,700 men are
federal officers, assigned to duty in
the interests Of the Canadian govern
ment. They work in close co-opera-
tion. however. with town, city and
provincial policemen.
Anstead doesn't know how long
he'll be in Washington, but, his
friends say, he has learned to like
the city "a lot"-adventure or no ad-
venture,
Evening star., 1936-11-09
CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
DENIED CORONER'S DATA

Gardner Jackson, representing the
Washington branch of the American
Civil Liberties Union, today was denied
q letter from the District Commission
ers authorizing him to examine the
coroner's records in the deaths of 20
persons killed, either by policemen or
special officers, since March, 1888.
The denial was made on the recon-
mendation Of Elwood H. Seal, corpora
ton counsel, who referred the request
back to Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
old. The coroner previously had denied
Jackson access to the records without
written authorization.
Jackson explained that the records
are wanted "since we are midway in
an analysis requiring these records
which we believe is of immediate pub
lie Importance"
Seal cited q number Of court de-
cisions In which similar requests for
access to records was denied.
Evening star., 1936-11-09
'sMountie'' Puts Trigger.Finger
To Type,vriter and Likes 1t
COrpl. Ed Anstead OJ
Canadian Legation
Remembers PeriIs.
BY PHILIP H. LOVE.

Washington's only member Of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
hasn't even had chance to "get
his man"-not during the three years
he's been on duty on fashionable
Massachusetts, avenue, anyway.
Corpl. Ed. Anstead quit the London
metropolitan police because, as he
explains to friends, ut was too monot-
onous." Now, still wearing the red
jacketed uniform of the Royal Ca
madam force, which he joined 16
years ago, his nearest approach to
adventure Is in trying to keep his
spurs from jamming against the legs
of his comfortable chair as he pecks
away at typewriter.
The typewriter is in his Office in
the Canadian Legation, where he
works from 9:15 am. to Sis pm.
daily-a "mountie" without man to
"get," an expert rider without
horse, a marksman without gun.
Friends Talk.
As q member of the r. c. M. p.
Anstead is not permitted to discuss
his job with reporters, but from his
friends the following facts were
cleaned:
Anstead, a native of London, tired
of being a bobby" after about a year
as a private. He signed up as a
"mountie" with a recruiting officer
on duty in London and went to
Ottawa to join the force.
He started as a constable, working
his way up to his present rank about
nine years ago. He is the second mem
Der of the r. c. M. P. to be assigned
to duty in the legation at 1746 Mass
achusetts avenue, the first having
served from the time the Canadian
government took over the mansion
in 1927. His wife, Mrs. Florence An
stead, and their two children-a girl,
13. and boy, 16 months-are with
him.
Anstead and his family live in Ia
koma Park, Md, and he is not per-
mitted to don his uniform until he
reports for duty at the legation. With
the regulation red dress coat, he wears
tight blue trousers with yellow stripes
down the legs and brass dress" spurs.
Although the crossed revolvers of the
R. C. M P. marksman decorate his
coat-sleeve, he is not allowed to carry
gun.
Before coming to Washington An
Evening star., 1936-11-09
FIRE Department
EXAMINATION IS SET
Applications From Prospective
Members to Be Received
Until November %.

An examination for prospective
members Of the District Fire Depart
ment was announced today by the
Civil Service Commission. Applica-
tions will be received until November
%. The date Of the text will be fixed
later, and those successful will go on a
new register to fill the vacancies that
occur in the ordinary course of events,
the old register being depleted.
The basic pay is $1,000 annually,
and 500 increases are granted until
the top Of $2,400 is reached. Eligibles
must come from the metropolitan
area. which is the territory within a
12-mile radius of the Capitol.
Applicants must have reached their
21st, but not 31st, birthday on No.
vember %, and certain physical re-
Quirements are set up. *.
Details are available at the COM
mission, Seventh and F streets.
Evening star., 1936-11-09
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Marine Band in the audi
torium of the Marine Barracks at
8 pm. tomorrow. Capt. Taylor Bran
son, leader; william F. Santelmann,
second leader.
Program.
Marines Hymn"
March, "Semper Fidelis"- s"-------Sousa
Selection, "Over There" Lake
Trombone solo, Dear Old Pal"
Gitz-Rice
Harold Bayes.
Chanson Franchise, "Madelon,"
Robert
Cornet solo, There Is No Death"
OHara
winfred Kemp.
"Marche Heroique" -Saint-Saens
Euphonium solo, Roses Of Picardy,"
Haydn Wood
Donald Ktmball.
March, "The New Orleans Times
Picayune Centennial Branson
"IarRO .-.....-.-.-... -danoel
aTsps" -----------------Pa -Pasternack
sThs Star spansled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-11-09
MOTORIST EXPIRES
AT WHEEL OF CAR
Believed Victim Of Heart At.
tack-virginia Counts
Four Traffic Deaths,

A motoriSt who apparently died OF
heart attack, slumped over the
wheel of his car last night as it ran
wild on Highway Bridge and finally
crashed into a tree in Potomac Park.
The driver was identified as John
H. Liptrap, Sc, of Fort Foote, Md.
Although physicians and police agreed
he must have died before the car
came to a forced stop, an autopsy
will be performed to determine the
cause of death.
Persons who saw the machine
swerve from side to side before leav-
ing the bridge said it was going slowly.
Liptrap was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, where efforts were made to re-
vive him.
The circumstances of the accident
prevented it from being listed in the
Districts traffic toll.
Virginia, however, counted four
deaths over the week end as result
Of highway mishaps, and a number
Of persons required hospital treat
ment here for injuries received in
crashes.
Man Killed Near Leesburg.
The dead were George L. Broder-
lex, rs, Of Baltimore, injured when
struck by an automobile near Lees
burg: John Riggens, 10, Of near Pu-
laski, Va, believed to have been .
hit-and-run victim; Ellis H. Likens,
18, of Roanoke, killed when his ma
chine went over an embankment near
Salem, and Robert Turner of st.
Pauls. who figured in a head-on
crash.
Admiral Louis M. Mutton, retired,
former commander of the United
States Fleet and one-time comman-
dant of the Naval Academy, narrowly
escaped serious injury yesterday when
his automobile skidded on a slippery
road between Upperville and Mid
dleburg, Va, and overturned.
The admiral and other occupants
of the car, Mrs. Mutton and DR.. and
Mrs. B. B. Dutton and their son,
were shaken up and bruised. The
party was en- route from Winchester
to Annapolis, Md. to visit friends.
Among those hurt in other acci-
dents was Harry Dove, IS, address
unknown to police, who is in serious
condition at Providence Hospital with
head injuries and a broken leg. Dove
was struck by car at Waldorf, Md.
Injured in Collision.
Bertha Dubois, %, colored, 625 Sec
ond street southwest, suffered when q
may prove skull fracture when
machine in which she was riding was
in collision with another at Second
and G streets. She was taken to
Emergency.
William F. Harding, go, Of Bowie,
Md, was taken to Casualty with q
compound fracture of the arm and
scalp cuts after he was struck near
his home.
Louise Barrett, 10, Of 1918 Hemlock
street suffered brain conclusion In
an accident at Mount Rainier, Md.
Harrell Motegue, "a, colored, 1884
Whittingham place northeast, was cut
about the face, neck and leg in q
crash in the 1900 block Of Livingston
road, and William Manning, "a, coll
ored, 1913 Howard road southeast,
received head injuries In the same
accident.
Marie Cinchino. 20, Of 821 II street
northeast suffered leg injuries and
Paul M. Sanford; 20, of 1852 Peniisyl-
vaaia avenue southeast was cut about
the head in mishsp at Ninth and q
streets southeast.
Melvine Devine, a, Of Alexandria,
Va, received . compound fracture Of
the leg when struck BY . machine ak
Evening star., 1936-11-09
SENATE D. c. GROUP
WILL Be CHANGED.
Three New Members Must
Be Chosen to Fill Pres
ent Vacancies.
BY ], A, O'LEARY.

When Senate leaders get together
In the near future to work out new
committee assignments, they will find
three vacancies on the District Com
mittee, and gaps In the membership
Of several of the major national
committees as q result of the elec-
ton.
The District Committee lost Sena-
tor Couzens, Republican of Michigan
by death; Senator Carey, Republican
of wyoming, through defeat at the
polls last week. and Senator Gore
Democrat of Oklahoma, who failed
of denomination in the primaries.
The number of new appointments
to the committee will depend on
whether the leaders make any change
in the ratio Of Democrats to Repub-
licans on committees generally. How
ever, In view of the fact that al
the last session the District Com
mittee stood at 10 Democrats and
4 Republicans, 1t Is more than likely
that the two Republican vacancies
will be fllled, even though no fur
ther changes are made. At present
there are only two Republicans left
on the committee e-Capper of Kansas
and Austin of vermont-to nine Dem
ocrats.
Subcommittee Changed.
Three men also are gone from the
District Subcommittee Of the Sem
ate Appropriations Committee, which
handles the annual supply bill for the
National Capital. Two of them
Coolidge, Democrat, of Massachusetts,,
and Keyes, Republican, Of New Hamp-
shire-did not seek reelection. The
third place was held by Senator Carey.
These places will be filled by the
appropriations chairman after the
assignments are made to the full COM
mittee.
Senator Glass, Democrat, Of Vir-
ginia, who won reelection last week,
has the choice of remaining chairman
Of appropriations or becoming head
Of the Banking and Currency Com
mittee, left vacant by the death Of
Senator Fletcher last Summer. The
Virginian Is not ready to announce
his decision, but even If he stays in
command Of appropriations, he would
still be q member of banking and
currency.
A number Of Senators who have had
long periods Of service will be in line
to move up to more important COM
mittee assignments left vacant by
those who were defeated.
Finance Committee.
The Finance Committee, for in
stance. lost four Republican members
through the defeat Of Senators Hast
ings in Delaware and Metcalf in Rhode
Island, the retirement Of Keyes and
the death Of Couzens.
The Banking and Currency Com
nittee has two Democratic and two
Republican vacancies, in addition to
the open Craftsmanship.
The military affairs group lost three
Republicans and one Democrat. Naval
affairs lost two Republicans. There
are scattered vacancies on most Of the
other committees.
The chairman Of the Senate District
Committee, Senator King Of Utah, is
expected back in Washington in about
10 days or two weeks, to begin shaping
up the local legislative program for
the coming session.
Senator Thomas, Democrat Of Okla
homa, chairman Of the Subcommittee
on District Appropriations. also is ex-
pected back the latter part Of the
month.
Evening star., 1936-11-09
HEARINGS ON BUDGET
START AT TREASURY
Executive Sessions on 1888
Amounts for District Bring High
Officials Together.

Executive hearings on the proposed
1898 District budget were begun to-
day at the Budget Bureau at the
Treasury Department. They were ex-
pected to continue for several days.
Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, District
auditor and budget oflcer. headed the
group Of oflcials called to appear. All
three Commissioners also were to at
tend today's hearings.
The budget this year was divided
into two parts pending determination
Of just how much the Federal Gov
ernment will contribute toward the
Districts expenses. The basic part
Of the estimates totals close to $43,-
000, 900 and covers only necessary ex-
penses, excluding needed Capital i'm
provements and expansion. The sec
ond part allows close to $1,000, 900 for
such needed improvements.
Under . Treasury ruling imposed
about three years ago officials are for
hidden to discuss proceedinss before
the Bud1et Bureau.
Evening star., 1936-11-09
INQUIRY OUTLINED
IN BOMB Staying
Postal Inspectors Work in
Thomas Case Wins
Praise.
BY the Associated Press.

Chief Postal Inspector Kildroy P.
Aldrich revealed yesterday for the
first time how postal inspectors
worked on what he termed one of the
most battling crimes in department
annals-the bomb-killing OF Curry
Thomas, wealthy Virginia plantation
owner, last July %.
Thomas was killed when he opened
mailed parcel in the presence Of
his wife. while seated in an automo-
bile in front Of their Cape Charles,
Va, home, six weeks after their mar
riage. Mrs. Thomas escaped with
severe injuries.
Aldrich said Inspectors c. H. Bur-
rows and B. B. Webb, who hurried to
Cape Charles by plane. were bafded at
first by what appeared to be a COM
plete lack Of motive among Thomas
acquaintance. Their only clues at
first were shattered fragments Of the
bomb and the package which con-
tanned 1t.
Beginning Of Investigation.
Investigation of Mrs. Thomas back
ground gave them their first evidence
Of possible motive, Aldrich said, when
they discovered that Mrs. Thomas, q
divorce and mother Of two children,
had worked from 1881 until O few
days before her marriage for DR.. H. r.
Hege, a Mount Airy, N. c., dentist,
whose letters revealed he had objected
strongly to her leaving his employ.
Describing their search for sufficient
evidence to justify Hege's. arrest as
"one of the finest pieces of detective
work have ever seen," Aldrich said
the inspectors proceeded by the fol-
lowing steps:
Submitted pieces Of iron pipe found
in the wreckage of Thomas car to
the Bureau of Standards for analysis.
Construction of Bomb.
Learned from the Bureau Of Mines,
at Pittsburgh, that the bomb had been
constructed from a mouse trap, a
small battery, dynamite, fuse, and
Q piece of pipe.
Traced TO- suspected batteries from
Cleveland to Mount Airy and pieces Of
StTlIlS lIOul u uClltLoOc SuPRAy 4lOuoCs
Investigated Hege's alibi that he
and a companion, Edward Banner,
were on q two-day fishing trip at the
time of the Staying, and found it open
to suspicion.
Constructed q dummy package re-
sembling the fatal parcel, and after
an exhaustive search traced it to a
branch postal station in Richmond,
Va.
Found . filling station attendant
and three other persons, who said
they had seen Hege in Richmond the
day the bomb was mailed.
The night of october inspectors
and State troopers trapped Hege and
Banner on Virginia road, after an
automobile chase through the Blue
Ridge Mountains at so miles an hour.
The pair were lodged in the East
vile, Va, jail, where five days later
Hege died of self-inflicted gashes in
his wrists and throat. Banner was
released last week, and postal tnspec-
tors marked the case closed.
Evening star., 1936-11-09

3, 1881, was af-
hrned today by
the United States
Court of Appeals.
Jordan is sched ..
uled to die in the
electric chair De-
cember II.
Mrs. j ayne s,
C a S h | e r at the
cafe, was shot by
Jordan, who be-
came e Xci t e d
while attempting
to rob the res
taurant. Indicted
with Jordan was
Edith Dodsworth,
Evening star., 1936-11-09
K|DNAP-ROBBERy
ARRA|GNMENT SET
Seat Pleasant Brothers to
Be Accused of Election
Night "Job."

Waving extradition, two Seat
Pleasant (Md) brothers-Arthur and
Warren Halfpap-were scheduled to
be taken to Baltimore today for ar
raignment in the kidnapping of a
Capitol Heights lumber company
bookkeeper election night and the
robbery of the firms safe.
Specific charges of kidnapping and
robbery probably will be preferred
against the pair when they are taken
to Federal Court, it was said at the
Justice Department.
The brothers were arrested Satur-
day by agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, who announced the
recovery of most of the S1,232 taken
from the lumber company's safe.
Hoover Reports Confession.
The robbery was committed, it was
said, after the brothers kidnapped
Riddell Porter Bowman from his
home in Mount Rainier and forced
him to accompany them to the office
OF the Stembler-Ford Lumber Co. and
open the SAFE.
j. Edgar Hoover, chief of the F.
b. l., said both brothers admitted
participating in the crime.
Bowman told the Investigators he
was working in the basement of his
home at 800 Date street about s:45
pm. Tuesday when one Of the kid
napers knocked at the door and con-
fronted him with a gun.
Bowman said he was forced to enter
q parked car, which was driven by
the other kidnaper, and was taken to
the lumber company's Office. After
the safe was robbed, Bowman said,
he was driven to Hyattsville and re-
leased about II pm.
Money Is Recovered.
Investigating after being notified of
the incident by Bowman, the Federal
agents arrested Arthur Halfpap on a
warrant issued in Baltimore and a
short time later took his brother into
custody.
The agents said they found $1,010
Of the money in a can buried beneath
the floor Of the garage at Arthur
Halfpap's home in Seat Pleasant.
Both brothers have criminal records,
according to the Justice Department.
Arthur, who is known by the alias of
Arthur Clayton, has been arrested sew
eral times for unlawful use of auto
mobiles and Warren has been arrested
on similar charges here and in Phaila-
delphia.