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Evening star., 1941-03-26
Youth, 70, Reported
Confessing He Killed
Dress Shop Owner
Detectives Soy Prisoner
Told Them He Fired
After Women Screamed

Detectives said 20-year-old COL
Ored youth at headquarters today
signed confession TO the hold-up
murder of Mrs. Fannie Cohen, Sc. in
her dress shop at 1912 U street NV,
on February IS.
Police reported William Thomas
Mumforde told them he left the
city the morning after the shooting
and went to his former home at
Rockingham. N. C. He denied he OBJ
tanned any money in the robbery.
Mumforde was booked on a charge
OF murder and probably will be ar
raigned before the United States
commissioner tomorrow. since he was
picked up in North Carolina on a
commissioners warrant.
Pistol Recovered.
The prisoner, according to 1t
George Darnall, chief of the homi-
eide squad, said he fired after the
woman screamed.
Investigators said they recovered
Mumforde's 38-caliber pistol from
llIc IlOiilc VI WOllldll lIlcIlu.
Detective Sergt. Aubrey Tolson
was sent to North Carolina for
Mumforde Monday. The suspect
was arrested there Sunday night by
two local officers said to have recog-
nized him from photographs dis
tributed by Washington police.
Earlier Mumforde's picture, police
said, had been identified here, and
police obtained other information
which pointed suspision at the youth.
Picked Up Once Before.
Mumforde was picked up for in
vestigation at Greenwood, S. c.. on
February l8. and released before
police there learned he was wanted
in Washington, it was said
Police doubled a $l00 reward of
fered for the killer after several
witnesses had been questioned and
released.
The dress shop proprietor was shot
down when she screamed after the
robber demanded money. The mur-
der occurred as she was about to
close her shop for the day.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Knox Approves Plan for IS
Midshipmen From District

Secretary of Navy Knox in a letter
10 Chairman Walsh of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee yesterday
approved the bill to increase from
TO Is the number of midshipmen
allowed at the United States Naval
Academy from the District.
The Navy Secretary called atten-
tlon to the recent growth in popula.
ton of the National Capital en-
phasizing that five States with fewer
residents are entitled to Is appoint
ments-Arizona, with population
OF 499,26l; Delaware, with 266 SOS.
Nevada, with 110,247; New Mexico.
55l,8l8, and Wyoming, 25O,742.
AS matter of justice. therefore.
1t appears to me-" Secretary Knox
wrote. this legislation is Warranted
and the Navy Department recon-
mendS enactment . " ~ Under the
present law, which authorizes five
appointments of midshipmen from
the District of Columbia, two are
scheduled to graduate in 1912 two
IN 1943 and one in 1914. If 10 addi-
uonal midshipmen from the Dis
trlct OF Columbia enter in the wear
1912 there will be II appointments
available in 1912, two in le43 and
one in 1914.
1t appears desirable, therefore"
secretary Knox argued, ''in order
that appointments may be dis.
tributed more evenly during the
successive years that the proposed
Dill should be amended to distribute
the additional 10 appointments in
accordance with the following: Four
ior 1912, four for l943 and two
for 1914"
Secretary Knox said the Bureau
OF the Budget has no objection to
tnls legislation, which is sponsored
oy Chairman Reynolds of the Sem
ate District Committee.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
House Action
On 0verton Bill.
Seen April "A
Hunter Anticipates
Favorable Report in
Time for D. c. Day

House consideration April IA. the
next District day, of the Senate
approved Overton bill containing a
formula for fixing the amount of
the annual Federal payment toward
municipal expenses here, is the goal
OF Chairman Hunter of the Fiscal
Affairs Subcommittee of the House
District Committee.
Meanwhile, the subcommittee to
which the bill was referred follow
ing its unanimous Endorsement by
the Senate Monday, will hold an
other public hearing Friday at 10 30
am, primarily to give Representa-
tive DlrkSen, Republican, of Illi-
nols an opportunity to explain ths
plan embodied in his bill for ar
rlVlng at fair and equitable Fed.
eral payment.
commissioners Testify.
A group of District officials and
CIVIC leaders told the subcommittee
at its initial public hearing yester-
day the Overton formula is the
fairest plan yet devised for equitable
participation by the United States
IN District expenses. The officials
VINO testified included Richmond B.
keech, corporation counsel. and all
three missioners-Melvin G.
Hazen, j. Russell Young and Col.
David McCoach, ir.
Chairman Hunter is confident his
subcommittee will approve the
Overton bill which he sponsored in
tne House, and that the full Dis
trlct Committee will do likewise,
A favorable report by the full COM
mlttee will place the measure on
the House calendar. Since no local
legislation will be considered bv the
House until April a. Mr.. Hunter
believes the Overton bill will he
! ready for its action at that time.
Limiting Amendment Weighed.
IN view of the emergency facing
the District, Representative Hunter
SAID he is considering recommends
ing an amendment to the bill IN
place either S or 10 year limita-
ton on the period of operation
OF the formula it prescribes.
We can't tell now. in this period
OF emergency" he declared. what
Is likely to happen in the next 5
or 10 years. If the Overton formu-
la works out successfully in that
time it should be made perma-
nent"
Under the Overton plan the Fed.
eral share in District expenses
would be computed according to the
ratio of land owned in the Dis
trict by the United States to the
entire taxable area. The Dirksen
! plan is to have a board of Fed
eral appraisers place a value on
the Federal-owned land. which ia
exempt from taxation, as a guide
10 Congress in fixing the amount
OF the Federal payment.
+ Adoption of the Overton plan n
/ Is estimated, would increase the
/ present annual S6,0O0.0OO Federal
payment to approximately $4,000 COO
IN the year TO begin July l.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Red Cross Leaders
Honor Miss Edna Nav

Miss Edna May, secretary of the
1910 Roll Call of the District Red
Cross, was honored at a luncheon
yesterday at the Raleigh Hotel.
She is leaving the local Red Cross
unit and is to be married soon in
Baltimore. Gen. Frank A. Keefer,
chairman of the local chapter; Otto
Lund, manager of the chapter, and
Edgar Morris, chairman of the 1910
Roll Call, Joined in paying tribute
to Miss May.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Architect Gets 1870 Days
On So Bad Check CHARGES

A man described by his attorney
as having been successful architect
who has erected buildings for
Rockefeller and large concerns. yes
terday was sentenced to 100 days in
Jail by Judge George D. Nelson on
charges of false pretenses in which
two small checks were involved.
The man, Bernard j. McGarry,
A. Attorney M. M. Doyle said, had
come here at the request of large
concern to confer with Government
housing authorities about building
pre-fabricated houses. McGarry, Mr.
Doyle told the court, could complete
q pre-fabricated house in 10 days.
One of the false pretense charges
involved a check of $5 and the other
of 81. Judge Nelson imposed q
sentence OF 80 days on each charge
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Fire Takes Life
OF Man Trapped
In F St. Hotel
Several Are Carried
Down Ladders From
Six-Story Building

A middleaged guest at the Grand
Hotel, COG F street NV, was burned
to death early today in three
alarm fire which started in his
siXth-foor room. Flames were
Spouting through the roof when the
f1remen arrived and they carried
some of the guests down extension
ladders. The blaze drew large
crowd of spectators.
The first firemen on the scene
about 1890 am. were driven from
the top-foor corridors by the heat.
A second alarm was sent in two
men threw ladders to upper win
dows. while other firemen climbed
the fire escape at the rear of the
six-story brick building.
1t was not until the flames were
beaten back that firemen found the
charred body of the guest. Mean
while, the floor had been cleared of
other guests. Two men and wom-
an we're carried down extension lad
des from the sixth story.
Victim Said to Be War Veteran.
The dead man, described as about
Al and said to be a World War vet
eran, registered yesterday afternoon
as C. P. Hull or Hill of Il. A." He
was dressed in overalls and walked
on crutches as he had only one leg.
His handwriting on the register was
not clear and authorities were un-
able TO identify him Immediately.
1t was supposed the Il. A." meant
Los Angeles.
The night clerk. Karl Winfield.
smelled smoke about al pm. He
made two trips through the corri-
dors, he said, but was unable to To-
cate the source. Some time later
John Miller, So. who occupied a room
next to Mr.. Hull's. heard a cracking
sound and felt heat through the
wall
He notified the desk and he and
Mr.. Winfield kicked in the door.
The hotel clerk had brought a fire
extinguisher. but realized it was in
adequate because flames were boil
ing out OF the room
Firemen were summoned while
the clerk and guests sprayed the fire
extinguiSher into the room and
warned others on the floor.
Mr.. Miller remained fighting the
flames so long, it was said, he had to
be helped down an extension ladder.
Others carried to safety by Sergt. c.
C. Woltz and Pvt. H. A. Baker of
No. l Truck Co. we're Mrs. H. P.
Mullins and an unidentified man. i
Concrete Floors Prevent Spread.
Joseph Leech, 70, and other guests
were urged down the steps by Mr..
Winfield before the heat closed the
corridors. Concrete floors confined
the fire almost wholly to the upper
story and roof, it was said.
Flying glass cut Fireman Leon T.
Clark of No. Engine Company on
the eyeball while he was on a fire
escape landing in rear of the fifth
floor. He was treated at Emergency
Hospital and sent home. His condi-
ton was not thought to be serious.
Flremen feared the flames might
spread and guarded adjoining build
ings. The blaze turned out II en-
gine companies. 4 truck companies. !
rescue squad cars and the police re-
serves to hold the crowds in check.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
withheld a certificate of death in the
ease of the victim pending an in
Vestiga ton. He was undetermined |
today If an inquest would be neces-
sary. The body of the burned man
was taken to the Morgue
Evening star., 1941-03-26
#. B. |. Aid Enlisted
In Probe Of Death
Bs the Associated Press.

BS the Associated Press
CRISFIELD, Md. March 26.-
Somerset County authorities investi-
eating the mysterious death of Miss
Marie Swift turned today to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation for
assistance.
An autopsy performed late yester-
day after the body of the attractive
25-year -old brunette was discovered
near country road failed to dis
close the cause of death, physicians
said, and vital organs were sent to
the F. B. I. in Washington for
examination.
There were bruises on her face
and body. and Mr.. Maddrix said she
apparently had been thrown from
an automobile.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Army Air Corps 6. H. Q
Beinq Moved to BoIIino

Establishment of General Head
quarters of the Army Air Corps is
being gradually effected this week
at Boiling Field.
Twenty men from the headquar-
ters unit at Langley Field, Va, ar
rived yesterday by plane and others
are following. The Offices of that
unit at Langley will be closed offici-
ally Friday at midnight.
Altogether, 50 officers and 225 en-
listed men are to be moved to Boil
ing Field in connection with the
transfer.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Hospitals Seek
Master Plan
ForExpansion
Officials Meet With
Health Security Aides
And Order Survey

Preparation of master plan" to
provide for expansion of hospital
and health facilities to care for the
rapidly increasing population of the
Washington -Maryland-Virg met
ropolitan community was authorized
last night at a meeting of officials
of Washington hospitals and the
Health Security Administration.
The meeting, held at the H. S. A..
headquarters at 1923 L street NV,
considered the problem at length and
passed resolution officially provid-
ing for a comprehensive survey" of
the situation and development of
the master plan.
The resolution provides for a
meeting of the same group within
week or 10 days to consider the
next step.
Reports were considered based on
an extensive preliminary survey al
ready made by the Health Secur-
1ty Administration. Meetings are
planned in the future, it was pointed
out, with outstanding experts and
consultants in hospital planning and
construction as we'll as with the
heads of programs elsewhere so that
the Capital master plan may en-
body a composite of the best thought
and experience.
Elasticity Is Aim.
AS explained by Ross Garrett, ad-
mlnistrator for H. s. A., the pro-
gram is based on the engineering
maxim that ''in rigidity there is
weakness and in elasticity there
is strength"
Mr.. Garrett characterized the
movement as "an elastic master
plan embracing integrated hos
pital and affiliated health con.
serving facilities for the ever
changing and increasing population
of the Washington Maryland -Vir-
ginia metropolitan community"
The elastic plan, he pointed out.
Is being prepared by the H. S. A.
in collaboration with and at the
instigation OF officials of the vol
untary hospitals of Washington. :"
The group, including presidents,
trustees and other officials of the
hospitals, together with the Execu-
tive Committee of H S. A.. made
preliminary study of charts, data
and plans already assembled by the
H. S. A.
The group also viewed pictures
MADE by a subcommittee of the
H. S. A. Executive Committee Sat-
urday during tour of Washington
and nearby counties in the Goodyear
blimp. Other trips are planned to
give a bird's-eye view of the trend
and growth of population.
The. master plan is being de-
veloped,' Mr.. Garrett explained,
like tripod from three bases"
The first base" he explained. lis
developed from study of need for
disqualification. In studying need
for disqualification. sex, color. age.
housing, type of employment and
type of dependency of the existing
population of the entire area are
being considered, together with So
cial, economic and transiency fuc-
tuations.
The second base has to do with
the existing hospital and allied IA
cilities to meet the needs determined
in study of the first base This study
of facilities portrays the types of
hospital accommodations available
and needed to be made available for
the various types of patients.
The third base covers financial
resources both existing and to be
required"
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Bodminton Tournament
Sturts Tomorrow Nioht

The second annual badminton
tournament, sponsored by the Dis
trict Department of Recreation, will
be held tomorrow, beginning at 6
pm, at the Banneker Recreation
Center. Events will include mems
and women's singles and doubles and
mixed doubles.
Winners in the competition, bring
ing together representatives of va
rious recreation areas in divisions
1913 of the Community Center and
Fairgrounds Department., will re-
ceive cups and medals.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
.DeHort Tells How He Won
Income Tax Exemption
Sure, He Pays Taxes in
PennsyIvonio-60 Cents q Year

intends to leave Washington at
that time"
Intention, of course. is an impor-
tant point in the case.
But Mr.. DeHart said yesterday
he did not expect retirement in four
years and did not intend to leave
Washington at that time. Why?
He answered the question himself.
He's only 81 The retirement age is
g. That makes II more years
before he is able TO retire
Will he leave then? Go back to
Harrisburg? Tie Court of Appeals
does not know. 1t thought he ex-
poets retirement in 1914.
When he does go back. though.
the room in his parents home he
left as young man of "a may still
be waiting. intact. It's been wait
ing ever since he left. This is an
other important point in the case,
helping to establish his domicile
there instead of in the District.
Toys Still There.
"Yes. SIR he said.' rmsny of my
childhood toys are still there. There
little red fire engine Also a. little
Oil lamp that I used to go to bed
| with"
Anything else?" he was asked.
We'll, there's an old silk hat. ]
used to belong to lodge there
He also said there is a shirt, an
old suit, a pair of rubbers and an
umbrella there for him.
I've been told to take the things
out of there many times but never
have" he said. The room is not
occupied except when he goes there
for visits, he said.
His testimony before Mr. Morgan
showed he is life member of a
lodge in Harrisburg and does not
have to pay dues. He also has made
church contributions there and he
votes there.
He also belongs to the Shrine
here. In his testimony to Mr.. Nor
gan, he said:
Il belong to the Shrine because
it took me to Kansas City a couple
OF times without any expense to
me and as courtesy to them
Joined here but I expect to re- Join
at Harrisburg when I go back"
Murphy Dislikes Partial Taxation.
Henry c. Murphy is the other
man who won in a test income
tax case before the court. He said
he wanted to emphasize that he did
not feel strongly" about the case
one way or the other, but did not
want to pay tax that some did
pay and others did not.
He said he was not opposed to
paying a tax that was on every
resident of the District, regardless
of domicile.
Mr.. Murphy, who is IS. is the
assistant director of the research
and statistical division of the Treas
ury Department. He is married and
lives at 2700 @ street NV, an
apartment house.
Lived Here Since 1888.
He claimed domicile in Detroit
Mich, and the court sustained his
contention
Mr.. Murphys wife has never been
to Michigan, but now, he thinks.
that is her domicile too, because it
Is his. He has lived here since
1885 and was married only last
year.
The reason Mr.. Murphy claims
Detroit as his legal domicile is that
he lived there five and one-half
years and would go back there if
he left Government service.
He votes and has some friends
there and could get his job back
in bank there, he said. He owns
no property in Detroit and there
is no address that he claims as
his abode there.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
D. {. 10 Inspect Autos
AT Rate Of 800 a Day
Starting April IA
Drivers Urged to Bring
Postcard Notices to
Stotions With Cars

Schedules for this years District
safety inspection of motor vehicles
were issued today by Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer with an added
appeal to drivers not to forget their
notification post cards when deliver
ing vehicles for a check-over. In
spections will begin April a.
Beginning with tag No. l, pleas
ure cars will be inspected at rate
of about 300 working day. Trucks
and motorcycles also will be looked
over for mechanical defects.
June 2 First Deadline.
Vehicle owners were urged to
avoid peak traffic hours if possible
To care for the expected midday
increase in applications, Is inspec-
tors will be on duty between II am.
and $50 pm. instead of the usual
IL.
Inspection station hours will be
8 am. to 6 pm. on week days and
8 am. to $50 pm. on Saturdays.
The stations will be closed on legal
holidays and days designated by
executive order.
June 2 will be the dead line for
all vehicles bearing tags from l to
10000, and July 8 for those from
45,901 to $1,000. Other dead lines
have been set at intervals of a
month, with the last on February
% fol tags in the highest number
brackets.
Postcards Important.
Mr.. Van Duser emphasized that
the notification postcard is part of
the record and serves as the release
form on applications for next years
tags.
The l941 approval stickers for the
windshield will be red. white and
blue. Motorists who fail to display
the stickers after the various dead
lines will be subject to police action,
Mr.. Van Duzer said.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
S1,360 Is Raised 10 Aid
Wounded BAGGAGE Clerk

Police today planned to deposit
more than sl,360 which has been
raised by police. The Star and the
Post to aid Jon Francis, 20-year-old
baggage clerk who was shot February
n when he attempted to aid police
In capturing a fugitive downtown.
Inspector James F. Beckett, in
charge of the fund for police, said
he had $91050 to deposit. The
amount contributed by readers of
The Star to be turned over to In
spector Beckett today will add about
$445 to the police deposit.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Health ToIk

The third in a series of health
talks sponsored by the Montgomery
County Public Health Lay Council
will be held tomorrow at 815 pm. at
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School.
DIR. r. r. Spencer, assistant chief at
the National Cancer Institute, will
speak. The talks have been ar
ranged by the Washington Y. M.
CA.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Band Concerts

BY the United States Marine Banc
in the band auditorium in the bar.
racks at 2::30 pm. tomorrow. Capt
William F. Santelmann, leader;
Henry Weber, second leader.
BY the Soldiers Home Band-Or-
chestra in Stanley Hall in the home
at $50 pm. tomorrow. John S. M
Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, assistant.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
a Club Bonquet

The "a" Club, women's athletic
honorary society at American Uni
versity, will hold its annual banquet
at $50 pm. tomorrow at the Taft
House, Sixteenth and X streets NV.
Evening star., 1941-03-26

In March, Beware OF:
/. Crossing street at point
other than a crosswalk. Four
pedestrians were killed doing
this in March, 1910. Three of
these were over IS years of age.
2. Standing in the street. A
e3-year-old man lost his life do
ing this in March of last year.
The sixth traffic victim during
March. 1910. was a passenger on
a truck who was crushed be-
meath spool of cable when the
truck overturned.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
G. A. A. Aide to Speak

Members of the Institute of Aero
nautical Science will hear K. P.
Knight of the Accident Investiga-
ton Division of the Civil Aero
nautics Authority at meeting in
the Aeronautical Building of Cath
ole University at 8 pm. Friday.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Gloss lnstuIIs Officers

New officers of the Euzelian Glass
of the First Baptist Church were
installed last night at the annual
banquet of the class at the church.
The new president. Dorothy Lacatell,
succeeded Jessie Haseltin.
Evening star., 1941-03-26
Doyton u. Alumni to Meet

Washington alumni of the Uni
versity of Dayton will meet tomor-
row at $50 pm. at the Westchester
under the chairmanship OF Joseph
Z. Keller.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-05-22
Only Agriculture, Mining Are
Better Business Getters,
St. Paul Man Says.

Income from the tourist industry
ranks third in Minnesota, Carl w.
Moen, st. Paul international represen-
tative from the conservation depart
ment told members of the Ely Rod
and Gun club at their annual outing
Sunday night on White Iron lake.
Only agriculture and mining, in the
order named, bring more income to
the state, Moen declared.
Tourists yearly leave 100 million
dollars in Minnesota. he said, and con-
tinued that this industry could be built
into a 500 million dollar annual bust
ness.
A capable speaker who was well re-
ceived by club members, Moen showed
motion pictures on the Carlos Avery
game farm, pike propagation, and on
the Lake Traverse geese sanctuary
Many club members were present anc
ate a "Dagwood Bumstead" sandwich
lunch.
The St. Paul man outlined briefly ths
work of each division of the conser'
vation department. Highlights OF hi
talk follow:
| 1. Minnesota'S iron ranges VIII neve
see their cities become ghost towns be
cause the commercial use of low grad
iron ores, necessary to perpetuate tn