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Evening star., 1936-01-09
TWO DISTRICT YOUTHS
HELD IN CAB ROBBER'i
By STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va.
January 9-Charged with robbing c
taxi driver of S2.70 two Washington
youths were held without bail for the
action of the grand jury by Judge
B. M. Hedrick following hearing in
County Court today.
Joseph Barry, %, of 1000 block OF
A street northeast, Washington driver
of the taxi, said the two youths. Harry
King. 20, of the 100 block of street
southeast, and Eugene Fitzpatrick, 20,
of the same address, hailed him at
Fifteenth and H streets early this
morning and asked him to drive them
to Virginia Highlands.
Upon arriving there, he said, one of
the passengers poked an object in his
ribs that felt like gun while the
other blindfolded him with his own
handkerchief.
The men drove him several miles.
taking what money he had when they
left. Barry told the judge. After noti-
flying Policeman Jack Ward Of the
robbery, Barry helped him search for
the men, who were discovered about
two hours later at the Rosslyn street
car station.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
TRIAL OF GRAYS0N
MAY Be DELAYED
TWo-Year Case Is Due to
Start Monday, but Illness
May Prove Bar.

Will John Cooke Grayson. 69-year-
old brother of Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, head of the American Red
Cross, go on trial in District Supreme
Court Monday. as scheduled. or
will there be another continuance
added to the long series of delays
which has held up his prosecution on
conspiracy charges for Ilore than two
years?
That question, which has been
asked many times this week involves
the reputedly precarious physical con-
dition of the defendant, former
Treasury official. No answer yet is
apparent.
The facts are these:
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue has
ordered, in no uncertain terms, that
the trial must begin on the ap-
pointed date 1t shall take precedence
over any prior engagements of coun-
sci, he declared when he grudgingly
granted the last continuance about
a month ago.
Twenty three Witnesses Summoned.
The prosecutors, Assistant United
States Attorneys John J. Wilson and
John w. Fihelly. have been busy for
weeks preparing their case, and they
expect to announce in court Monday
that the Government is ready and
willing to begin the trial. Twenty
three Government witnesses already
have been summoned.
William E. Leahy, who represents
GraySon. says the defendant is so
seriously i'll in Charlottesville, Va,
hospital that physicians will not allow
him to be interviewed, even for the
preparation of his defense.
i am at loss to know what to do, ~
Leahy declared today. 'Grayson is
fiat on his back in hospital bed
The doctors say I can't talk to him
let alone bring him to Washington
and 1 certainly don't want to take
responsibility for doing something
which may kill him. I have been un-
able to prepare any defense.
Fears "Grandstand" Charge.
Even if he is brought to Wash
ington, would have to take him into
the court room on stretcher, and
just as soon as do that l will be ac-
cused of making grandstand play.
Il just don't know what to do"
Grayson is reported suffering from
serious heart ailments which have
grown progressively worse. Two Gov
ernment physicians examined him
some time ago and agreed that he had
heart trouble.
Grayson is charged with conspiracy
in two indictments which followed in
vestigation of the collapse of the Park
Savings Bank It is alleged that
Grayson. an employe in the Office OF
the national bank examiners, tipped
eff" Robert S. Stunz, vice president
of the institution, concerning prospec-
tive visits by bank examiners. Stunz
later committed suicide.
One charge against Grayson is that
he conspired with Stunz to defraud
the Government by depriving it of
his own faithful services. The other
is that he conspired with StunZ to
to steal and embezzle some $4,000 of
bank funds.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
LIQUOR INSPECTION
BY POLICEI IS URGED
Palmisano Drafts Bill to Junk
Present District System-Wants
Cases in Courts.

Critical of the present set-up of
the inspection force of the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board, Representa-
tive Palmisano, Democrat, of Mary
land, announced today he planned to
introduce q bill to delegate the work
of inspecting District liquor establish
ments to the Metropolitan Police De-
partment.
Palmisano is vice chairman of the
House District Committee and father
of the bill which abolished prohibition
in the District.
The present inspection system,
Palmisano said, is thorough failure" {"
He believes "far better results would
exist If the job is turned over to the
police, so that cases made by the
officers would be taken before the
courts, where they belong. instead of
before the A. B. G. Board"
Palmisano also declared the liquor
inspection force is inadequate, and
pointed out that an increase in the
number of inspectors would not en-
tirely remedy conditions.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

Tzotis. a former Detroit restaurant
man, was one of 1876 extra walters
brought IN to serve the huge dinner
group.
Several weeks ago Diogenes ap-
peared at the United States Supreme
Court in flowing robe and sandals,
flashing his lantern down the stately
corridors and bearing about his per-
son various placards.
These latter were worded with Quo
Vadis, Uncle Sam?' and various other
sentiments of political nature. such
as "London-Phlegmatic Destiny and
"Rome-the Seat of Might Is Right. p"
His activities sent Tzotis to GAL
linger Hospital for a period of mental
observation.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
TRANSIT HEARING
DETAILS STUDIED
Utilities Commission Seeks
Correction of Transpor-
tation Problems.

To determine what additional regu-
lations may be needed to further cor
rect mass transportation problems.
the Public Utilities Commission today
began close study of details gathered
at the hearings into complaints against
the Capital Transit Co.
Hearings begun December 16 were
concluded late yesterday and the COM
mission announced it will allow 10
days for interested parties to file writ
ten arguments. after which the COM
pany will be given time to answer any
new statement of company service
faults.
Commission Vice Chairman Rich
mond B. Keech directed Fred A. Sager,
commission chief engineer, to obtain
from New York latest information as
to the efficacy of plans used there for
ventilation and heating of busses.
Improved ventiIating.
Company officials yesterday pro-
tested they were diligently searching
for improved means of ventilating
their busses and had two experts of
manufacturers studying all new meth
DDS of improving air conditions in
busses. The hearings had been marked
frequently with complaints against
presence of foul air in the buses.
r. D. Voshall, company superin-
tendent of equipment. declared more
extensive testing of air conditions
would be possible when the company
has established new bus repair shop
in Southeast Washington.
Voshal and Robert H. Dalgleish.
company chief engineer, both declared
there had been an unen pected amount
OF trouble with the large number of
new busses purchased by the COM
pany since the street car merger in
December, 1888. Clutches, rear axles
and weaknesses in bus engines, Voshall
said, had caused principal troubles.
He said generally the same defects
had been found in new equipment
used in other cities. Manufacturers
are striving to correct weaknesses, he
said.
227 New Buses.
Company officials placed in the
hearing record data to show that
the company has purchased since
the date of merger 227 new buses,
costing $2,067, 900; 20 new street cars,
costing $362,000: established one new
bus garage, costing $330,000; spent
$685., 5000 for rerouting track changes,
spent $4,000 for other track i'm
provements and made other invest
ments to bring the total expenditures
since December /, 1888, to s5,061, 900.
The company also announced it
plans to spend this year for further
improvements a sum of S2,727, 100,
making the total outlays since the
date of merger amount to S7.788, 100.
The new programs call for: Pur-
chase of 35 additional buses, at a
cost of $259,600; a new bus garage,
$3.50. 900; street cars and car improve
ments, $4,000; track changes for
rerouting, 1857 900; to complete the
1885 track-renewal program, S188, 900;
the 1886 track-renewal program,
100000, and other work costing
$45,500.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

tured skull and other injuries shortly
after the mishap.
The street car motorman, Redmond
E. Hood, "a. of % Seventh street
northeast, was released in custody of
his attorney, pending an inquest.
Credited With Saving Plan.
Esender, who retired from active
service in 1880 after Al years at the
Navy Yard, was credited by friends
with originating the Christmas saw
ings plan here.
Soon after the opening Of the Wash
ington Mechanics Savings Bank. on
Eighth street, in 1906 he is said to
have asked bank officials to accept a
weekly deposit and allow him to with
draw the entire sum at Christmas.
The widespread savings plan was de-
veloped from this idea, it was said.
Other accident victims included
James Kane, 81, of 409 Third street,
and Mrs. Mary Power. %. of 1851
Sherrier place, who suffered serious
injuries.
At Garfield Hospital, Kane was said
to have a broken leg and collapsed
lung. He was struck in the $500
block of New Hampshire avenue by
car said by police to have been operat-
ed by Max Fulton, %. of 5l2 Columbia
road. Fulton was charged with reck-
less driving.
Hit by Motor Cycle.
At Emergency Hospital it was said
Mrs. Power may have skull fracture
and internal injuries. She was
knocked down by a motor cycle at
Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue as she was walking to street
car loading platform. Henry r. Jen-
kins. %. of Mount Rainier Md, said
by police to have been driving the
machine, was charged with reckless
driving
Charles Hill. IA, of 1912 Thirteenth
street, suffered a broken arm when
struck by an automobile near his
home. He was taken to Emergency.
The others hurt were Catherine
Robinson, 16, colored, 2311 Calvert
street, who was treated at Freedmen's
Hospital for head injuries; James Nc
Nally, 81, of 1017 I street, who re-
ceivad a scalp cut when he is re-
ported to have walked into the side
of a moving automobile; Francis A.
Curtis, 19, of 614 L street, who suffered
a sprained ankle and head injuries,
and John Young, jr., Z, of 1920 r
street, whose face was cut when he
was knocked down by a hit-and-run
car near his home.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
ELECTRIC RATES
HEARING WILL Be
HELD TOMORROW
Commission to Weigh Pub.
lie Views on Pepco Basic
Reduction.
CUT TO 6.5 PER CENT
WOULD ADD BIG SUMS
Consideration of Adjustment Of
Consumer Rates Before Utilities
Body Later in Month.

Whether the basic rate of return to
be allowed the Potomac Electric Power
Co. under its sliding scale plan for
annual adjustment of consumer elec-
tric rates should be reduced will be
considered tomorrow at public hear
ing called by the Public Utilities Com
mission.
The present plan allows the concern
a basic rate of return of per cent on
an agreed valuation which recently
was figured at some S66 900 900.
Should the commission determine
to reduce the basic rate of return on
the investment to 65 per cent, the
effect would be to greatly increase the
sums which may be allowed for re-
duction of electric rates in future years
but not for 1886
Annual Hearing Later.
Later this month the commission
will hold the annual hearing on ad-
justment of consumer rates.
The newly adopted sliding scale plan
for the Washington and Georgetown
Gas Light Companies. permits basic
rate of return on an agreed valuation
of 6.5 per cent. There has been some
intimation the commission may favor
reduction of the, power company re-
turn to that figure. The sliding scale
plan for the P, E. P Co. allows the
company to keep all its profits in ey-
cess of Z per cent, but sum equal to
half the excess profits between and
81 per cent are considered for con-
sumner rate reductions in the next
year; three-fourths of the excess
profits between 81 and per cent for
rate cuts and fve-siXthS of the exce-s
profits over per cent.
S147,O0O Rate Cuts.
Last January consumers we're
granted rate cuts amounting to STAT
900. The excess profits over 7 per cent
were figured to amount to s295 900 for
1884
Regardless of action by the COM
mission which may reduce the basic
rate of return to the company, there
is to be another consumer rate cut
this year. officials believe.
Final company income figures for
the calendar year 1885 are not yet
complete, but reports show that for
the first II months of the year the
gross corporate income, before de-
ductions for interest amounted to
s4.694 339. For the IL months end
ing December l it is figured the gross
corporate income amounted to S5,15l,-
139.
Unofficial calculations, therefore,
show that the excess of profits over
per cent may be found to be about
$500, 900, about half of which could
be set up for consumer rate reductions
in 1886, under present arrangements.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
H|LDEBRANDT HITS
TEXT BOOK CRITICS
Letter to Chairman Norton
BIames Reactionary, Pluto
cratic interests.

Charges that "the noise and fuss"
about Communism in Washington
public schools comes mainly from re
dictionary and plutocratic interests"
were made today by Representative
Hildebrandt, Democrat, of South Da-
kota. in letter to Chairman Norton
of the House District Committee.
AT the same time Office special COM
mittees of school officials and teachers
went to work on the list of magazines
and periodicals used in the schools
to weed out any Objectionable pub
lications. They were given inStrlc-
tionS by DR.. Frank W. Ballou. super
intendent, at an executive meeting
yesterday.
COmmends Officials.
Hildebrant commended Mrs. Norton
for her position in opposing a con-
gressional investigation of alleged sub
versive interests in the schools at this
time. and praised the Board of Edu-
cation and DR.. Ballou for declining
to prohibit the use of textbooks that
mention communism. His letter, in
part, follows:
'* Congress has more important
business on its hands than combing
the Washington school system in an
effort to find a teacher who failed to
hurl eXpletives at communism when
the subject was mentioned.
1T is my observation that the noise
and fuss about communism in the
schools comes mainly from reaction
airy and plutocratic interests that want
to distract attention away from their
own exploitation of the people. Un-
fortunately, it is abetted by we'll
meaning citizens who are misinformed
and frightened by faxed yarns in the
poison-pen type of newspapers = = y"
Educators Praised.
The Board of Education and the
superintendent of schools are to be
commended for declining to ban text
books that mention Communism. ."
DR.. Ballou asked his committees for
positive justification" for all maga-
zines recommended for use
DR.. Ballou said that statements
should accompany the title of each
magazine approved showing the spe-
cific use made of it in the schools.
DR.. Ballou asked for the reports as
early as possible and expressed hope
that at least partial reports will be
ready for his presentation to the
Board of Education next Wednesday.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
DESPONDENT WOMAN
lNHALES GAS FUMES
Stove Jets in Kitchen Open When
Body of Mrs. Anna M. Chap
man Is Found.
man Is Found.

Despondent over the death OF her
husband, Mrs. Anna M. Chapman, At.
mother of three children, ended her
life late yesterday by inhaling illumi-
mating gas in the Kitchen of her home
at 526 Somerset place. All jets on
the range were open when she was
found.
The discovery was made by her
daughter, Miss Vivian Chapman, who
found the body lying on the floor
when she returned home from work.
She said her mother had been de-
spondent over her husbands death,
about five years ago.
Mrs. Chapman is survived by. two
other children, Douglas, l8, who lived
with his mother and sister, and an
other daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Norris.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued a certificate of suicide and re-
leased the body for funeral services.
to be held Saturday at the Taltavull
funeral home. Burial will be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery. .
Evening star., 1936-01-09
O. {. S. OPENS SESSION

The Grand Chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star of the District Of
Columbia will begin its fortieth annual
session at 7 o'clock tonight in the
Willard Hotel. Meetings will continue
for three days. Election of officers is
scheduled for tomorrow, with installa-
ton set for Saturday.
Walter L. Fowler, worthy grand
patron, and Helen L. Brashears, worthy
grand matron, are to preside at to-
nights session.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
ASK BIRTH.C0NTROL LAW

Lobbying for liberal birth-control
legislation, a delegation of New York
women, headed by Mrs. Walter
Timme. chairman of the Executive
Committee of the National Committee
on Federal Legislation for Birth Con-
troll, yesterday visited Senator Royal
S. Copeland and other members OF
the New York congressional delega-
ton at the Capitol.
In the group were Mrs. Alexander
c. Barker, Mrs. Alexander c. Dick
of the Executive Committee; Mrs.
Louis de B. Moore, chairman Of the
Executive Committee of the American
Birth Control League; Mrs. Robert
McC. Marsh, director of the league;
Mrs. Zelma Brandt, Mrs. Anne Ken
nedy, Mrs. Floyd Dell, Mrs. Mary
Field Parton, Mrs. Edmund Gilligan
and Mrs. Cochran Kennedy.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

= ERVING the Democrats seemed
a natural role last night for the
modern Diogenes who recently
- turned his lantern on the United
States Supreme Court.
Instead Of a flowing robe and sau-
dals, however, Diogenes appeared this
time in formal attire, serving the
Junior Democrats from soup to nuts
at their Jackson day dinner in the
Willard Hotel.
Few recognized the man in his new
role as he catered to the needs of
guests at a table directly in front of
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. one
of a score of prominent guests and
speakers.
Diogenes, otherwise known as Harris
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Loin Collectors Worry

KANSAS CITY R).-Kansas City
coin collectors. who used to fret be-
cause President Hoover wouldn't is
sue any special commemorative coins
for them to collect, plan to meet Mon.
day to worry about President Roose-
velt's issuance Of eight In the last
two yearA
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Gandhi Blood Pressure Drops.

WARDHA, India, January 8 (P.-
The Mahatma Gandhi, suffering from
high blood pressure, was said by two
physicians today to be slightly i'm
proved.
His blood pressure, the doctors said,
Is somewhat lower. Plans were made
to remove two injected teeth.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
POLICE AUTO HIT
Collision Brings Arrest on Charge
of Drunken Driving.

Walter J. Potter, %, of 2616 Myrtle
avenue northeast could have picked
on at least 100000 other cars in the
District to run into last night-but
he didn't.
Colliding with the police cruiser
driven by Inspector William e. Holmes.
night superintendent, he was held
responsible for $40 worth of damage
to the cruiser and charged with driv-
ing while drunk. The accident oc-
CURED at Fifth street and Massaci1u-
sets avenue.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

-
The death of
William T. Esen-
der, retired Navy
Yard lnachinist,
who was struck
by a ST. eet car at
Seventh S t r e e t
and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast,
brought the traf-
fc toll for this
month to six.
Esender. who
i've d at 14l1
Potomac avenue
southeast. died in
Providence Hos
pital of a frac-
Evening star., 1936-01-09
TRIAL IS POSTPONED

Government Seeks MEDICAL IeSt1-
mony in Murder Case.
The Government yesterday obtained
postponement until Monday in the
first degree murder trial of David l..
Ashcraft, crippled, who admitted kill
ing his 5-year-old son, David, jr.. by
gas last September.
Assistant United States Attorney
Samuel Beach explained he antici-
pated a defense based on an insanity
contention and wished to have med
ical testimony concerning Ashcraft's
condition confirmed through another
examination before the trial begins.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
MAN, s., KILLED
BY STREET CAR;
I OTHERS HURT
Retired Navy Yard Worker
Was Credited With YuIe
Savings Plan Idea.
DEATH RAISES TOLL
THIS MONTH TO SIX
Woman Is Hit by Motor Cycle.
Car Driver Held After
Striking Pedestrian.

A 68-year-old man was killed and
seven other persons we're injured, two
seriously, in traffic accidents in the
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1936-04-11
MINNEAPOLIS EMPLOYERS LICKED
BY McMann

Minneapolis employers are
licked. Those are not our own
WORDS; they are the consensus of
opinion among radical labor and
communists in this city.
Their reasons for that state
ment are based on the results
of the Strutwear strike, the ]. R.
Clark sitting down. strike, and
a few small ones-such as the
Forum Cafeteria strike.
Labor has a stranglehold. La.
Dor firmly believes no employer
will ever again dare to fire a
worker who is organizing in his
plant or place of business. The
three strikes mentioned above
were started because employers
did not care to have persons in
their employ who were doing
their evil best to ruin that bust
ness.
1t is the most logical thing in
the world for an employer to dis
charge any person who seeks to
create unrest and dissatisfaction
among employees. According to
any labor newsorgan, any en-
ployer who does such a thing is
something closely resembling a
hend from Hades. The en-
ployer deserves nothing less than
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1936-04-11
BY McMann

The Townsend movement is
fast being relegated to the ash
pile of pudding-headed panaceas,
under the searching fire of the
congressional investigating COM
mittee. Pathetic chapters in the
history of the movement are be-
ing unfolded, ruthlessly, surely.
The story is harshly revealed
of how California doctor and
his pipe dream, which caught the
fancy of millions of u. S. citi-
zens, became the catspaw of poll
ticians and chiselers.
1t was Townsend's idea to use
the votes Of his millions of sup
porters to force congress to pay
a sum of two hundred dollars a
month to each and every Ameri-
can of 90 or over. The consum.
nation of such an act, even if it
did not ruin and bankrupt the
government, would have settled an
immense and burden onthe
youth of the country, who would
have to labor all the years of
their lives until they were sixty,
to support the aged in luxury.
/ But Townsend had only his
"great idea," he had no ability to
organize and direct the results of
his idea. He had to leave that to
some one else, and when that
some one else took charge, to be-
gin the forming of Townsend
clubs, and the solicitation of sig
natures of petition to congress
which the signers had to pay for
at a sliding rate of 10 to IS cents
per signature. And then there
were the Townsend pamphlets,
brochures, and periodicals which
had to be bought or subscribed to
which millions did. The result
was an income amounting to sew
eral millions a year. The con-
gressional investigating commit
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1936-04-11
AGAIN, THAT JOURNAL
MASTHEAD
By James McNeal
It runs thusly:
It runs thusly:

"The principles that should
govern the publication of a news
paper are honesty and fairness.
The decision on any question
should be submitted to this test
lis it fair and is it honest?'
The Journal now features a
series of articles written in high
ly artistic and polished language
of an accomplished scribe, con-
tanning alleged experiences of a
retired city officer and the arti-
cles bear his signature as author.
It's an autobiography. The ex-
tent of that officers literary &C
complishments, independent of
samples remaining in official files,
may be classed from the fact that
he failed so many times in at
tempts to pass civil service ex-
aminations for ordinary patrol
man that his credentials were
furnished by waiver of examina-
ton. But, watch Journal cum
ming make him a learned pro-
fessional hero.
Is it fair and is it honest?