Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 4

BLANTON SCORES DISTRCT HEADS .Claims Members of Congress _ Denied Right to Question Bureau Chiefs. Assailing the District Board of €ommissioners on several scores, in- eluding the assertion that they are refusing to let Traffic Director Eldridge and Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle of the Women's Bureau of the Police De- ment give direct information to mbers of Congress, Representa- Blanton of Texas yesterday de- fred in the House that he favored lition of the present board and ular election of the Commissioners. ¥We think you ought to come to Commissioners,” Mz. Blanton sald $ had been told by Commissioner ®éuning when he had asked him a day or two ago for permission to ob- Miln information he sought direct #rom Traffic Director Eldridge. The jsame rule preventing members of ess from consulting _directly rict officlals also applied to n Winkle, Mr. Blanton de- lclared. in praising her work as head i the policewomen. {" Defies Commissioners. am going to their bureau chiefs whenever 1 get ready,” Mr. Blanton declared. *““We must devise ways and means here to bring that about. I get much valuable information that wav. We have a good woman down re in charge of the House of De- tention and of the policewomen whom the newspapers are cussing all the time,” he said, “and yet sht is doing splendid _work." “‘One of the Commissioners told me oul of his own mouth that she had ¥pent $64,000 of her own money in building up that House of Detention #nd perfecting her women’s bureau. That is how much she is interested in it Yet she cannot come to a man in Congress about her business, and a man in Congress cannot go to her for nformation.” Urges Five-Cent Fare. Mr. Blanton had opened his re- marks with a defense of his 5-cent carfare bill, the subject of recent l:earings before a subcommittee of the District committee which precipitated s threatened physical clash with Representative Reld of Illinois. By the inereuse in carfare allowed by the Public Utilitles Commission, which his bill would reorgunize. the 68,000 Gov- ernment employes in Washington, Mr. Blanton suid, are paying individually from $21 to $42 1 year more in street car fares than they would if the street railway companies were held to the b-cent fure prescribed in their char- ters. Mr. Blanton declared the Commis- sioners hud “admitted that they knew tothing whatever ihout the street car situation” here, asserted that they were endly” to the utility inter- ests, and that the President ought to| remove them. Present values of lo- | cal street railway stock, he said, are | only one indication that the traction companies could operate on a 5-cent fare The subcommittee in charge of his | ©ill, which would annul the tare in- sases granted by the Utilities Com- agston, was stacked, Mr. Blanton >clured, and the matter was pre- .dged before hearings were started LITTLE U. S. A.’ SENDS COOLIDGE GREETINGS| 8pecial Envoy of Union of South Africa Calls at White House. ngs from the Union of South were extended to President olidge_at noon today by George imiuel Oetile, special representative, ¥ 0 is making a vear's stay in the | ted States to study commercial * artistic developments £ value to nation Ticans of the attractions of tour- in his country fr. Oettie said he extended the atings of “the little brother T". . | to the big brother 1. 8. A" and g the President of a few of the smmercial and agricultural condi- in South Africu. r. Oettle has been in government iee {n South Africa for 28 yeurs the most part attached to the tilroud dauarters office. Rail- .ds of South Africa. he said, are soeessfully and effielently operated the government, but he doubted, in hisy study of conditions in the ired States, if they could be here, ceause of the great problem of labor. \ strikins theory of the formation ©f the terra firma which now makes up the four provinces of the Union of suth Africa i being expounded by some selentists, Mr. Oettle said. Through similarity of flora =nd rock formations to be found in the three vontinents, scientists believe the Cape i'eninsula section of Southern Africa was a part of what is now Aus. U, later being separated by a great ysmic upheaval and becoming u | wrt of Indiu, and still later, following | other upheaval, being joined to | Liriea. While no positive proof, even » the satisfaction of sclentists, hus oo deduced. 3ot the Tuxuriant floral | & wth in the three couniries is so irprizingly similar the belief is ten- anle, Mr. Oettle de 1 . Oettle was the luncheon guest ir Bsme Howard. British Ambas- dor.’ today. and will huve a confer. ‘e With Secretury Hoover this after. noon. He his established an informa. bureau at 11 Broadway, New vork Clty. JUDGE H. B. ANDERSON GETS 0. K. OF SENATE Nominee for Western Tennessee Judicial Circuit Contirmed After Committee Inquiry. The Senato lute yesterday confirmed 11ie nomnation of Harry B. Anderson i be judge for the western district ut Tennessee. A favorable report on the nomination had been made earlier " the day. Confirmation had been delayed pend- iz investigation. Air Traffic Now Tabulated. Air traflic is becoming so common in Fiurope that it is possible for the curi- #us to @scertain definite facts about Eie volume of air travel. The British Yinperial Alrways in the vear from ~prii, 1924, to April, 1925, made 6,750 suts, covered 1,335,512 miles, carried 18,724 passengers and delivered 1,098 lons of freight. —— Lottery Joke Ends in Suicide. When a Munich merchant took out # lottery ticket he signed a statement Lefore witnesses that if he won he ieves of the grand monarch, Louis vould gjve half his prize to the So- viety of Chimney Sweeps and the other Lialf to fhe brewers. It was, of course, »n joke but his ticket won $125,000, wnd he carried out his contract, which he committed suicide. CRIME DETECTION UNDER NEW PLAN Closer Co-operation Between Central Office and Precincts in Operation Monday. A new system of investigating and detecting crimes in Washinston will be put into force next Monday when precinct detectives will be brought into direct contact with the Central Detective Bureau ut police head- quarters in the Interest ot closer co- operation betwcen the central office men and those at the precinct. The plan was suggested by Inspec tor Henry G. Pratt, in command of the Detective Burewu. and its obfect 18 two-fold: First, to eliminate duplica- tion of effort by the precinct and de tective headquarters on cases which should be assigned to peecincts only: and second, to fix responsibility for the investigation of every case coming to the attention of detectives. Indorsed by Fenning. The plan_was worked out by Pratt and Maj. Hesse, and Commissioner Fenning today s that It had his hearty indorsement, since It would eliminate any suggestion that the Police Department was made up of independent units functioning inde- pendently rather than a united ma- chine with each part tunctioning in co-ordination with every other part in the prevention und detection of crime. Sergt. C. C. Wise, will be trans- terred from the first precinct to police headquarters for speclal duty in con- nection with this plan. It will fall to him to preside at a daily roll call of the 14 precinct detectiv who will gather in the headquarters squad room at noon each day for their as- signments. The assignments will be given them when the case involves investigation entirely within a pre- cinct and has not angles diverging cenerally about the city. Wise also will have other duties such us being responsible for the smooth operation of the telephone system of the Police Department, which has its central switch board at police headquarters, and for transportation equipment for detectives. Inspector Explains Bystem. Up to this point, Inspector Pratt pointed out today, numerous assign ments which could-easily have been handled by precinct detectives had fallen to the lot of headquarters detec- tives, with the result that numerous minor cases impeded their progress with larger and more important cases talling to their lot Under the new system this burden will be taken off headquarters detec- tives and given to precinct detectives, while at the same time the precinct de- tectives will be acquiring experience and knowledge of the speciulized work of the centrul detective ureau by being brought into such close contact with headquarters. Analogy Is Cited. The analogy drawn in the situation by Inspector Pratt is one referring to family physicians and specialists. For a local disturbance or average case. the precinct detective. like the family physiclan, will be called in and given complete responsibility for the case. In complex situations, how- ever, where the case has angles which place it abave the ordinary, the head- quarters detective or specialist will be placed on it Commissioner Fenning sald he had noticed the plan as contemplated here tias been In operation in & number of other cities and that it worked out favorably. { BEAUX ARTS BALL RENEWS SCENES OF ANCIENT DAYS Costumes at Benefit Entertain-| ment, New York, Turn Calendar Back Two and Half Centuries. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 30.—The calendar was turned back two and a half centuries last night at the Beaux Arts ball, annual benefit event for art students, in the Hotel Astor as the world of art and fashion, bril- Henily cosimed. dunced ander the IV, and his court in a minlature garden of Versailles The King, impersonated by Whit ney Warren, was seated in the loge with Queen Muria Theresa, in the person of Princess Matchebelli, be side him, guarded by menatarms and a guard of honor. The first half the night's entertainment began with a flourish of heralds’ trumpets and the announcement: “It is the birth. day of the King, Louis XIV, Le Rol Soleil.” According to custom, most of the 3,500 persons who attended came late, after theater parties and _other amusements. Mrs. . Stanwood Men- ken was conceded to be the most richly dressed woman present, in s costume on which 250,000 precious stones were sewed. CAPTURE JAIL FUGITIVES. Detectives Locate Two From Lor- ton Reformatory. Two former members of the police ce, Willlam E. Shipman and John Nolan, were arrested last night as fugitives from the District reforma- tory at Lorton, Va., where they were serving 18- months. ALL NIGHT Gogr. 1638 (N. Y. World) H—M& EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME. WWAOL PACK OF WOLVE $TRIED T 8LST 1IN T DooR ,’7‘? ngw WHAT 1'0 DO ? I'D My ARM FER A LATCH LIKE DAVY CROCKETT (! MAL S. DAUGHERTY QUESTIONED AGAIN il o™t concerns the release by Col. Thomas | Duugherty has W. Miller, former alien property cus: | oriber. oy Lol Brother of Former Attorney Gen- eral Testifies Eighth Time in Metals Case. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 30. former Wednesday afternoon the two pris- oners came to the city on a truck for supplies, and when they reached the Bureau of Engraving and Printing they were permitted to enter the building alone and disappeared. Neither fugitive made an effort to leave the city, however, and Detectives. Scrivener, Springman, Alligood, Cul- linane and Darnall recaptured them. They sald they escaped in order to énjoy & short respite from prison life. Shipman is in prison on a bad check charge and Nolan for theft. Florida and Spain. From tha Southern Lumberman. Florida land is now selling for $20,- 000 a front foot, and if anybody ever reminds Spain that she sold us the whole peninsula for $5,000,000 there is likely to be another Spanish-American war. [Stap envyind numersof’ Studebaker i Pawer-Durabilingfinish’ SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1926. RADIO TEST WEEK WILL END TONIGHT Programs to Start in Canada and Go South to Cuba and Central America. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—Interna- tional Radio week comes to an end to- night, and DX fans who have been losing lots of sleep can begin to catch up again p‘!‘nnl(ht'l test, between 11 p.m. and midnight, Eastern time, will be fea- tured by a North-to-South movement Qzl::omh.tmry 15 mlnute:d from it s Programs move East wmv‘vm every 16 minutes. The Pacific Coast got some Eastern sta- tions, and the Rocky Mountain sec- aons reported great clarity in recep- lon. Atmospheric interference was no- ticeably apparent, experts sald of the results In the East fans reported hearing Far West stations, and picked up Cube and Porto Rico. of Hol d was picked up on a short wave length. Most other Pacific stations were indis- cernible on high wave lengths. The only broadcasting intended spo- | cifically for fore! ears last night was the - from Richmond Hill, Long Island, to France by Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan, and her guest, Mre. A. W. Dike, mem- ber of the French Academy of Agri- culture. They spoke through a new Dutch microphone hewn from & solid block of marble. Tonight Canadian stations will op- erate from 11 to 11:15, Eastern time, and stations {n the Northern half of the United States will broadcast dur- ing the next quarter. States south of and including Calffornia, Nevada, Utah, Coldcr,'{ao. h{,-bmlu.. Xgl!u. Ken- tucky an ‘est Virginia will operate from 11:30 to 11:45 p.m. Cuba, Mexico and Central America ‘“go on the air" from 11:45 till midnight. PUBLISHERS LOSE PLEA FOR HEARING Right to Intervene in Proceedings Before I. C. C. on Mail Rates Denied by Commission. torney General Harry M. 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