Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1924, Page 23

S FAKE EYE DOCTORS SOUGHT IN SWINDLE Charged With Touring Carolinas @laiming to Have Johns Hop- e kins Degree. PROMISED CURES ALLEGED. WVictim Says He Paid $447 for Worthless Treatment. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., Januiry 5.—Au- thorities of Johns Hopkins Hospital today are Investigating complaints from residents of North and South Carolina regarding two men claiming to be eye speclalists, give Baltimore as their home and showing alleged [an antenna, he diplomas from Johns Hopkins. The men, according to the com- plaints gave the names of Dr. E. M. Kelly and Dr Belle, and their oflice &t 2304 North Howard street. There is no such number. 8. 8. Marcon of Carey, N. C., wrote that he paid $447 to tne men who promised to cure him of an ailment of the eves. That, he claims, was the lust he saw of them: There were numerous other victims, according to the information, the method of the “physicians” being to b collect money for a course of treat- ment and then vanish, District National Guard Regular drills will he resumed Tuesday night for the 121st Engin- ecrs. Al drills were suspended dur- 4ng the Christmas holidays, although several social affairs and business meetings of various organizations avere held during the last two weeks. A dinner was given at the Armory 472 I street northwest, Wednesday might, to the non-commissioned offi- s of the regiment, which was well attended. Remarks were made by Gen. Stephan, Col. L. M. Brett, ad Jutant general, and Mrj. John W Oehman, outlining plans for the de velopment of the guard this year, and officers gave brief addresses gubject: Capt. C, w erage attendance of any the regiment. Yeglment e - recognizing the so- Natfonal Guard and stated that his experience has been that it is enough to expect a guardsman to come down each Tues- day night and leave his family, work. or outside social pleasure: hy Zuard_is to be made attractive fo fiim. Not only must he feel that he is doing his patriotic duty, but if there +is a social air into w | from ti to bring his family and friends it is made more attractive, and gradually the moral support of the community is obtained. which is one of the most essential factors in the development of a Natlonal Guard org, Capt. J. S. Oliff discussed a_ Regiment”; First Keesee, “Training of sioned Officers.” Lieut. commandant of the which furnishes most of the A Shields gave a talk on ing.” He has been sent by the Dis- trict Guard to the national rifle matches at Ohlo, for sev- eral years of the best shots in the Company E which he comm won the major- ity of all priz red at the annual ritle matches of the District National Guard at Camp Simms last fall. Sec- ond Lieut. Thomas A. Kane discussed recruiting. and First Lieut. Willlam F. Jorgenson the need of athletics in the guard. He is first lleutenant of Company C. and also is athletic offi- cer of the Engineers, and direc- tor of athletics of the C Company Association. The C Company bas- ket ball team claims to be the strong- est in the guard and is rapldly as- suming a place of prominence among the teams of the city. The completion of Company F gave to the District of Columbia a com- plete regiment of engineers with a high-grade personnel. It is the only offe: regiment in the District reorganized | since the war to ob nition War Department. Company commanders are at work preparing for the annual federal in- spection to be held in February Alarch. Regular drills for the Capitol Ca- det Corps were resumed last Friday might. Several applications have been xeceived by the commandant for mem- bership and will be voted upon at the pext meeting. Capt. Harry E. Gladman, Company C, has made a personal appeal every member of his compan e resent Tuesday night at 7:45 o'clock. t is the Both training o % The Company C basket ball team will play the Lexington Athletic Club night at the Armory, m. Capt. Gladman will issue com- limentary tickets to all members of is_company Tuesday night for as ¥ _of their friends as may desire attend. Dancl will follow the game. Music will Offiflicer George ¥. Harbin € Company team. Meyer G is coach of th The annual military ball given by' the C Company Association will be held at the City Club during Feb- ruary. Several illustrated lectures on dif- ferent phases of cngineering will &iven by Lieut. Herman IL Pohl, C, E., Tegular Army instructor assigned to the st Engineers, during the vear. a fo openings for the ieing, under the instruc- tion of Mr. Nelson, Applications should be made to Licut. Jorgensen, athletic officer, Tuesday nights, i The Dramatic Club of Company A will stage “Lookin for Mary Jane,” a farce in three acts, the latter part gnes Ferguson and Lieee A s Fe: and Lieut. . Seesce will have the 1oading rotes” on ‘the unless the or| e furnished by the | National Guard band under Warrant | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. RADIO NEWS (Continued from Twenty-second Page.) waves between 7 and 11 _a.m., recom- mending other channels for ship communication. The new chanrels suggested will probably include waves between the 600 and 800 meter | waves used by the government for | marine and atrerat work, and in which there is one commercial ship ! channel on 706 meters. Another wave between 800 and 1,000 meters, now assigned for marine radiophone communication, might be re-allocated, as this medium is little used us vet, The ships will, D the 600-meter calling |and distress, all wave lengths, but it is hoped ne location bene- ficial to both broade: ors and ship- ping can be agreed upon. it was pointed out. of course, k Ownn Freak Set. He vest phone and all. When he is; near anything which will serve as makes a contact, sometimes only with his hand, often neglecting to make a ground con-| nection, and listens in. To be sure, he takes what he gets— the nearest and strongest station on the air. The: vest-pocket set com- prises a single head phone, without leads, and a fixed crystal detector, oconnécted in parallel with the phone ! by two short copper wires from the telephone terminals. Placing the phone to ome ear and making con- tact with as good an aerial as he| can find conveniently by means of {Fis fingers, which of course must |touch one of the two terminals. is jall he has to do. By this means he thas heard NAA time signals and set ihis watch, and also whiled away odd |minutes by listening to WRC or | WCAP when they were on the air. One day he picked up KDKA. Wi nient he also makes a the other phon ' that The ticular xes is @ compact unit about the size of a short thick lead ‘pencil, with binding posts at each «nd convenient for connection with the phone terminal e used to use this bulky apparatus o incoming signals. » also did his phone for connecting with aerial and ground. The result {s be- lieved to be the neatest, cheapest and mallest portable set in use. Radio in Humble Homes. Radio now has a place in many fumble homes as well as in those of the more well-to-do. Christmas vis- its of American Legionnaires to the homes of sixteen pract tute familles in the Distric the fact e families had radio recef Most of the sets were homemade affairs, which in all in- scemed to have been good in- since they brought spirit- 1 comfort and alse entertainment to those forced to remain at home large part of the time. In the five | instances, further Christmas cheer | »nd material aid were rendered by the onnaires enting the henefits derived b casts. SCENARIO WRITER DIES. LOS ANGELES, Calif., January discarded it, a: Tumbi; of revealed newspaper man of Cleveland, Ohio, died today at his home in Hollywood after a lengthy iliness, For some time i he had been writing scenarios for the | fitms. 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