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6 * 0. K. OF PARK POLICE | roposed Legislation Approv- ed by Dougherty and Eld- ridge at Hearing. { A favorable report on the bill to § combine the park police with the Dis- # trict police force, under the super- # vision of the major and superintend- ent of police, is expected late tod: from the House District subcommit tee having this proposed I tion in_charge. 2 With a view to taking action on the measure, the Rathbone subcom mittee_on police and firemen today pressed its hearings on the bill and received indorsement of it from Com- missioner Dougherty and Traffic Di- rector Eldridge. Commissioner Dougherty expressed the opinion that greater economy and efficiency would result in combining the separate police forces in ‘the Dis- trict. Another important factor which he stressed as a result of the enactment of the proposed legislation would be increased facility in the matter of promotion, a better morale and more efiiciency in traffic regula- tion. Favors Unified Control. Mr. Dougherty agreed with Repre- sentative Blanton and other members of the committee that unification of control would make way for more ease in prosecution of traffic violations. Director Eldridge, in response to questioning, said he had never con- sulted any member of Congress about the proposed legislation, nor had he assisted the District Commissicners in drafting the bill “I have felt for a long time,” Mr. MERGER DUE TODAY, Honored on Retiring AMOS LUKE, Chief of the correspondence section of the World War Division of the Adju- tant General's Office, who has just com- Plel«l 42 years of service in the War Department, has been granted leave of absence until March 6, when he will be placed on the retired list. As a mark of respect his associates in the office vesterday presented him with flowers, Mr. Luke was a clerk in the Office of the Surgeon General from June, 1885 to July, 1886, when he was transferred to the Adjutant General's Office, in which _he has served continuously since. Because of his efficient service he was granted two extensions in of- fice, each for two years, since he THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1927. ASKS RECULATION OFBULDING LI Committee of Planning Com- mission Would Bar Projec- tions on Four Streets. Prohibition of projections in build- ings beyond the building line were recommended to the District Commis- sloners today for four thoroughfares by the co-ordinating committee of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The streets and avenues selected for such regulation are those which are eventually to be widened in connection with the projects of the city planners, and it is the desire that steps be taken now to prevent permis- slon being given for the erection of bay windows and porches beyond the building line. It such building is pre- vented now, it was pointed out, ‘the task of widening the streets will be simplified to some extent and will per- mit wider idewalk The streets selec tion are: Twenty-third street from B street to Washington Circle. Fourth street and Florida avenue to the Filtration Plant. Georgia avenue from Florida ave- nue to Kansas avenue, Seventh street from B street to Florida avenue. While the majority of these streets for such regula- reached the retiring age of 70. He is a native of Ohio. SENATOR RECEIVES Eldridge said, “that a_consolidation of the two forces would mean better administration and better unification of traffic supervision if all were put under one head.” Mr. Eldridge said that all police in charge of traffic should be put under the supervision of a superintendent of police. “I have thought that all along,” he said. Explaining that six-sevenths of the area of the District was under the supervision of the Metropolitan Police, Mr. Eldridge said it would be a great deal better for law enforcement if the District police had control over the remaining area, constituting public parks. Grant Sees Handicap. Col. Grant asked the traffic director + if he did not think the additional work involved upon the corporation counsel of the District under the proposed bill ‘would be a handicap to that office. “We are having good enforcement in the parks and very few accidents,” replied Mr. Eldridge. ‘‘While trans- ferring prosecution of cases originating ¢ in the parks to the corporation coun- sel's office would involve some addi- tional cases, I do not think it would . make any material difference.” ‘When Director Eldridge was asked © to explain the duties coming under his * control, Representative Reid interrupt- ! ed to tell the committee that “Eld- ridge is the most powerful man in the District.” “Why, he can take away a man's autornobile license if he doesn’t like his looks,” said Representative Reid. { This brought a prompt denial from Mr. Eldridge. : Uses Caution, He Says. “I assure you I exercise that au- thority with a great deal of caution,” he said. “The lawyers are looking for my scalp.” Mr. Eldridge reiterated-at this point (1 that he could get better results if the two forces were combined and regula- tions were unified. Mr. Blanton stressed that in the matter of traffic enforcement a park i{ policeman had given an affidavit to © the effect that special consideration . Was given cases involving Army and Navy officers, and added that park K,ollcemen were afraid of losing their bs if they arrested any of them. - ““'ouldxfluudch a })ractlce prevail un« ler a_unified service?” he as] 3 A ked Mr. “Not so far as T am concerned,” re- plied the traffic director. " HULL FINDS FAULT WITH DEBT FIGURES | Says Misleading Inferences May Be Drawn From President’s Claim of $2,000,000,000 Reduction. Issue was taken with President Coolidge last night by Representative '} Hull, Democrat, Tennesses, over the | Chief Executive's statement Saturday that Government expenditures have been reduced by nearly $2,000,000,000 during the past six years. ‘Wholly misleading inferences may be drawn from this statement, Hull asserted, unless the claimed reduction is submitted to careful analysis. “The clear inference from this par tial statemen he sald, “is that the Harding and Coolidge administrations have been annually reducing the level of expenditures at the rate of $333,- 000,000. The whole truth is that the expenditures of the Government have been actually increasing since 1924, “What has happened—and nearly all that has happened—was that for the single year 1922 the reduction of the Army and Na to a peace basis and the discontinuance of appropria- tions for the railroads and a portion of those of the Shipping Board per- mitted a permanent reduction of the level of expenditures in the amount of $1,750,000,000, so that the total ap- propriations for 1922, omitting public debt items, were $3,373,000,000. “If we take the expenditure for the five vears, 19 nclusive the total reductions have been only $275,000,000, or an average of $55,000,000 a year. This is a vastly different picture of reduction from that presented by the President.” Hull declared he would not deny the Harding and Coolidge administrations full credit “for what they have actu- ally accomplished, but it is due the American people that the true facts should be known.” THOMAS EI:OSER DIES. Lynchburg Resident, 65, Is Sur- vived by Five Sons. LYNCHBURG, Va. February 1 (Special)—Thomas E. Foster, 65 years old, died at Lynchburg Hospital Sun- day afternoon after an illness of sev- eral weeks. He was a native of Lynch- burg and a member of Memorial Methodist Church. Mr. Foster is survived by five sons, B. J. Foster of Durham, N. C.; E. S., T. L. and C. T. Foster of Lynchburg and A. K. Foster of Washington. —_—— Resigns Chamber Post. WESTERNPORT, Md., February 1 (Speofal).—L. D, Case has resigned as secretary of the Tri-Towns Chamber of Commerce after serving six months. Mr. Case, who went to New York,, wrote D. W. Anders, president, from there that because of ill heaith he would have to relinquish the position. ‘The board of directors will take up the matter of securing a new secretary at ABUSE FROM K. K. K. Bruce of Maryland Tells Senate Dozens of Communications Have Been Sent to Him. The Senate was told yesterday by Senator Bruce, Democrat, of Mary- land, that he has received dozens of abusive letters from members of the Ku Klux Klan. His statement was made as he was objecting to the insertion into the Congressional Record of a sheaf of communicatjons received by Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, commend- ing him for his attacks on the Knights of Columbus. “The Senator from Maryland can not keep these expressions of the American people out of the Record,” shouted Senator Heflin. “They are protesting against war and indorsing my position. I shall read them and many more to the Senate tomorrow and it will require a great deal of time. “The truth of this conspiracy to bring on war is going to be told to the American people.” Asserting that he would vote to keep out letters of an abusive kind from Knights of Golumbus, Senator Bruce said Senators should draw the line somewhere on inserting matter into the Congressional Record.” “I have received dozens and dozens of letters, abusive and scurrilous in character, fre members of the Ku Klux Klan,” the Marylander said. “They excited in me no sensation ex- cept unmitigated scorn. PROPERTY VALUED AT $175.50 IS STOLEN Naval Observatory Reports Loss of Binoculars and Electric Heater. Maryland Store Burglarized. Seven pairs of binoculars and an electric heater have been stolen from the Naval Observatory, within the past week, observatory’ officials re- ported to police today. The instru- ments, some of them purchased from the French government, were valued at $175.50. Observatory officials are checking up to see if anything else is missing. The thefts were com- mitted at different times, they sald. Local police are assisting the Charles County, Md., authorities in an effort to apprehend burglars who robbed the store of R, M. Swann at Allens Fresh of a large quantity of merchandise Saturday night. Loot taken from the store included 9,000 cigarettes, 1,000 cigars, jewelry, knives and wearing apparel. Charles Stinson, colored, 1721 U street, disappointed three colored hold- up men on O between Sixth and Seventh streets early last night. Stin- son readily responded when the trio held him up at the point of a pistol and demanded his cash. He had none to_give them. Mrs. Annie Harmon, Grace Dodge Hotel, was robbed of her pocketbook containing $20 and a railroad ticket from Washington to Atlantic _City, when her pocketbook was snatched from her hand in front of the hotel Jast night by a colored boy. Theft of jewelry valued at $220 was reported by Albert F. Woods, 609 New Jersey avenue, yesterday. A diamond :;lngnvfilued at $125 was included in e list. Open Confession | * + “The works of Dickens, Reade and Scott I always have admired,” ex- plained my neighbor, Henry Spott, “but Shakespeare makes me tired. I do not hesitate to say and make my meaning plain, that Shakespeare turns my whiskers gray and gives my neck a pain.” I know he is an also ran from whom the cultured shrink; but oh, it's good to meet a man who says what he may think. I would not dare to go abroad and roast Bill Shakespeare’s plays, although those plays, which I applaud, have bored me many days. I'd be afrald that highbrow friends would view me with disdain, and say my conversation lends to them a convex pain. I always travel with the herd in matters of this kind; I humbly bow and take the word of men I think refined. I boosted Ibsen in his day, although he made me sore; then Russians had the right of way, though frequently they'd bore. I followed, followed like a sheep where'er the cultured led, and was impelled at times to weep, again to soak my head. At times rebellion led my veinsa, and inwardly I cried, ‘Give me a book of Laura Jane’s and let Galsworthy slide.” But I sup- pressed this fieyce desire, nor was from bondage freed; I lacked the courage to admire the stuff I liked to read. But, oh, I glory in the spunk of met like Henry Spott, who say that Shakespeare’s plays are junk and tosh and tommyrot. They do not seem to care a whoop for your sar- donlc_smile; they do not shrivel up and droop when told their taste is vile. What fun they have, these dauntless jays, in swatting good and hard, and knocking all the classic bays from some old musty bard! ‘WALT MASON. are business streets, Twenty-third street is to be included in the protect- ed prohibited zone because it is to be widened as one of the approaches to the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The committee considered also the request of the Southeast Business Men'’s Association that South Carolina avenue southeast between Seventh and Ninth streets be closed as a high- way. It was pointed out that keep- ing this street open furnishes a traf- fic complication at Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The commit- tee decided that it will hold a hearing BRIDGE IS AUTHORIZED. | Senate Approves $10,000,000 Struc- ture Across Chesapeake. { _Construction of a bridge across the Chesapeake Bay between Baltimore and Kent Counties was authorized by a bill which passed the Senate today and was sent to the House for action. The authorization is given to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Co. and, ac- cording to reports made to the com- merce committee, the structure will cost approximately $10,000,000. The bridge would stretch from a point near the mouth of Back River to a point between Rock Hall and Tolches- ter Beach. < g SOUTHERN RALIAY HAS B PROCRAN Will Quadruple Train Control Installation Requirements by I. C. C. Going far beyond the actual re- quirements of train-control installation specified by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its orders applying to nearly 50 trunk line carriers, the Southern Railway has under way a program scheduled for completion within a year that will quadruple the train-control installation requirements of the commission. The far-reaching manner in which the Southern has complied with and gone beyond the commission orders was revealed to- day in statistics contained in a letter made public at the commission from H. W. Miller, vice president in charge of operations of the Southern. 240-Mile Installation Cut In. The 638 road miles required to be installed at present under the orders of the commission have been in opera- tion for many months, and yesterday the 240-mile installation from Chatta- nooga to Macon, via Atlanta, was cut in for the first time. Mr. Miller's next Tuesday, when the proponents of the recommendation will appear, and in the meantime officials of the Dis- trict traffic department will be asked for their views on the matter. FRATERNAL ORDERS AID TO CITIZENSHIP Representative McSwain Praises Society in Addressing Tem- ple Club. “Public school system alone is not sufficlent to make worth-while citizen- ship,” Representative McSwain of South Carolina said last night in ad- dressing the Temple Club of Master Masons from the Post Office Depart- ment at the club’s monthly meeting. “The present high standing of American citizenship,” he continued, “is due in a great part to the fra- ternal societies of this country. Eighty-five per cent of the fraternities have constant schools of citizenship.” Mr. McSwaln drew a parallel between this country and ather republics where there is no fraternalism. Countries that forbid fraternities cannot hope to live. The admission of fraternalism tends towards the building up of an enlightened nation.” The District of Columbia Advisory Board of Masonic Clubs, headed by its president, M. D. Hensey, made its official visitation and announced the cherry blossom as the official emblem to be worn by the fraternity to com- memorate George Washington's birth- day. The advisory board installed Charles E. Warren as junior vice president of the Temple Club and Louls Brehm as treasurer. The past president’s Jewel was presented to Henry Sun- wold, who completed his term Decem- ber 31 Barclay, Abraham A. Frank R. Povich, Harold W. Hicks and Claud- fus L. Burton were elected to mem- bership. The Roval Male Quartet of the H Street Christlan Church pre- sented several numbers and Ralph H. Gauker entertaled with piano selec- tions. The next meeting of the club will be February 18. VIRGINIA’S GASOLINE TAX BRINGS $6,158,124 Levy for Third Year of Its Opera- tion is Five Times as Great as for First Year. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, February 1.—Gasoline taxes in Virginia for the year 1926 reached $6,158,124, according to the report made by Motor Vehicle Com- missioner Hayes. This tax has been collected beginning with 1923, when the revenues were for the first year $1,567,204, and since that time it has been advancing with regularity. For the first three months this year the tax was 3 cents a gallon, and for the rest of the year it was 41 cents. Flad the law been for the latter tax the entire year the revenues would have exceeded $6,500,000. The report shows that for the col- lection of this tax the expense was less than one-tenth of 1 per cent, and penalties for not paying within the precribed time, with interest added, came vefy near to defraying the en- tire cost; of collecting the tax. It is point ut that last year there were only four States—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois— that did not have a gasoline tax. e MODIFICATION OF SUNDAY LAWS HIT BY MINISTERS Baltimore Clergymen Pass Resolu- tion Against Allowing Sab- bath Movies and Sports. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, February 1.—Resolu- tions opposing any modification of the Sunday “blue laws” by the Legisla- ture were adopted by the Ministerial Union at a meeting here yesterday. This action was taken following an address by Rev. W. S. Mitchell, pastor of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church of Worchester, Mass., who sald that the churches might properly borrow a leaf from the theatrical world, where the producer realized that he must freshen up his shows to meet the needs of the times. “Christianity,” he said, “is old and hoary. There is a question as to whether its service to the world has been finished. The church must adapt itself to modern civilization. The outside world is changing. The resolution dealing with Sunday laws follows: “Whereas, the press reports bills legalizing motion pictures and Sun- day sports are to be introduced into the Legislature now in session, there- fore the Ministerial Union, repre- senting the 400 Protestant churches of Baltimore and vicinity, its unalterable opposition to in Sunday laws. The secul the Lord’s day is a menace to religion, without which no nation can pyosper. lettér pointed out that the Southern, as soon as it found a type of auto matic train control in whose probable efficacy it had confidence, had adopted a policy of progressive installation on those lines on which high-class passen- ger service is operated; giving prefer- ence to single-track road, where he said the service may be expected most to_justify itself. The 1926 budget provision of the road laid down the following program of train control installation: Chatta- nooga via Atlanta to Macon, 240 miles; Salisbury to Morristown, 228 miles; Macon to Jacksonville, 262 miles. The 1927 budget contains the follow- ing contemglated installations on which contracts for material already have been let: Biltmore to Hayne, 66 miles; Charlotte to Columbja, 108 miles; Bristol to Chattanooga, 241 miles; Stevenson to Memphis, 275 miles; Chattanooga to Meridian, 295 miles, and Meridian to New Orleans, 202 miles. Four Times Requirements. The combined total of the 1926 and 1927 budgets of the Southern, together with the 638 miles of installations re quired under the commission orders and in operation for months, is 2,655 miles, four times the commission re- quirements. The Southern, according to Inter- state Commerce Commission officials, lead most of the other trunk line rail- ways in train control installation, and is proceeding under its announced program, with the installations far in advance of actual requirements. The collision on the Southern De- cember 23, 1926, near Rockmart, Ga., occurred on a section of the road where a system of automatic train control already had been installed and was practically ready for operation. It would have been in operation with- in three days, it was predicted, but had been delayed for painting of the posts and inspection. Could Have Been Prevented. “The unfortunate part of the sit- uation,” a commission meport on the accident said, “is that this is a type of accident which probably would not have occurred had an automatic block signal system been in use and which would have been prevented by an adequate automatic train control system.” SENATE AGENTS TO GO FOR BALLOT BOXES ‘Will Leave Tonight to Get Pitts- burgh Election Records—May Need Court Order. Senate agents will proceed tonight to Pittsburgh to take possession of the ballots, registration books and other documents in the contested Pennsylvania senatorial election of last November. As was the case when the campaign funds committee took over the Phila- delphia. ballots under directions from the Senate, court orders may be nec- essary for the transfer of the Pitts- burgh ballots to Washington. The election documents are sought for use in the investigation which the campalign funds committee is to make into the contest brought by Willlam B. Wilson, the Democratic candidate, against Willlam S. Vare, Republican, who was elected on the face of the returns. —_— Named Superintendent of Hall. CLARENDON, Va., February 1 (Spe- clal).—Appointment of Howard Hill of Aurora Heights as superintendent of Clarendon Citizens' Hall and caretaker of the fire department’s equipment which is housed there was announced last night following a meeting of of- ficers of the Citizens’ Corporation, the Citizens’ Assoclation and the fire de- partment. Hill will assume his du- ties at once, giving the fire depart- ment an alltime man to answer fire calls and to have equipment ready to leave the building upon arrival of the volunteers. $3.50Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN SUNDAYS February 13, 27, March 13, 27 Ar, Wilmington. 1 M‘i“fi?’p&‘i Special Train Leaves Washington (Union Station), 7:30 a.m. Gor 1 0E aom.: Phifaaelollid, Sroed Street, 10:50 Jiv: iribren P.0.ENPLOYEDIES OF TRAFIE INURY E. W. Turner, Watchman, Hit by Street Car—Woman Killed by Automobile. Edward W. Turner, colored, 77 years old, watchman in the Post Office De- partment since 1898, who resided at 2304 Sixth street, died at Emergency Hospital last night from injuries re- celved Friday morning when struck by car on Ninth near F street, His death was the seventh traf- fic fatality last month. Coroner Nevitt will conduct an inquest at the morgue at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Turner, a_native of this city, was the first colored boy to serve news- papers to subscribers here. He attend ed private schools in_this city and later was graduated from the class of *72 at Howard University. His early employment was as dispatch clerk and messenger for Gen. Louis R. Parson in the transportation division of the Quartermaster General’s Office. Resumes Studies in 1866. In 1866 he resumed studles at Springfield, Mass. and later Lincoln University in Chester County, Pa. In 1869 he was sent South as a mission- ary teacher, commissioned by the reedmen’s Aid Society of the Pres- byterian Church of Pittsburgh, Pa., later serving as principal of Kittrell Academy, Kittrell, N. C. He returned to this city and took a position in the Pension Bureau in 1890, During the Spanish-American War Turner served as confidential mailing clerk to the Postmaster General and Assidtant Attorney General for the Post Office Department. He was prominently identified with local col- ored Masonic bodies, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and the Crispus Attucks Association, John Marshall Holland Relief and other colored or- ganizations. He is survived by his widow and seven children. Woman Killed ni Crash. One elderly colored woman, stop- ping in the middle of a street to search for a lost article, was almost instantly killed by an automobile early last night and another was possibly fatally injured only a few blocks away by another motorist. Mrs. Grace Rhodes, 71, of 21 Union court, had stooped near Second and E streets to look for a package she had dropped. Oscar E. Sherman, 26, 202 E street, driving north on E street, struck her with his automobile. She was dead before she could be taken to Emergency Hospital. A verdict of ac- cidental death was rendered at an in- quest today. Suffers Skull Fracture. The second accident occurred at Seventh street and Pennsylvania ave- nue. Arthur Shaffer, working in the Transportation Building, drove his car around a stalled truck just as Luocy Hughes, 76 I street, stepped from in front of it. Her skull was fractured, and physicians at Emergency Hos- pital pronounce her condition serious. Miss Nora Mann, 24, 1601 Sixteenth street, was slightly injured by the automobile of William Riley, Quan- tico, Va., at New Hampshire avenue and Q street. Bernard Wilson, 6, 1408 V street, was knocked down and bruised by the car of Morris Temin, 525 Four-and-a-half street. THREE ARE SENTENCED FOR DISTURBING RITES Two Get Four Months and $75 Fines, Companion Must Pay $25 for Fight at Stanley, Va. LURAY, Va., February 1.—Jacob Grimsley was fined $25 and Floyd Henderson and Bunker Breeden each received four months in the county jail and $75 fines for disturbance of public worship at the Faith Healer Church near Stanley, Va., last Friday night. Breeden and Henderson were convicted of simple assault on Rev. Frank Comer, who, with Willilam Hil- liard, was seriously injured in _at- tempting to eject the intruders. Evi- dence introduced showed that the trio had been drinking when they entered the church. Liquor bottles, rock: guns and other weapons were used in the fight, it was charged. The cases were tried before County Magistrates T. K. Dukehart and J. D. 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On yesterday morning’'s daily bul- letin, which all good policemen are supposed to read carefully so that they may, perchance, “spot the thief” therein described or the stolen auto- mobile as listed by license tags and general description, was the entry with others that a sedan with license {tag 29-286 was “still out,” reported stolen Saturday, January 29. Yesterday Mrs. Alice P. Enisor of {4822 Seventh street, who had re- ported the theft of the automobile Saturd: received a telephone mes- age that a car resembling hers was parked near the Veterans' Bureau. She communicated with her sister, FARMERS MARKET AGAIN HITS SNAG McCarl’s Ruling Complicates Program for Re-erecting Sheds Following Removal. Another complication over the farmers’ market arose today when Controller General McCarl decided that the Treasury may use funds appropriated for construction of the new Internal Revenue Bureau Build- ing for the purpose of tearing down the farmers’ market sheds, but may not use such funds for re-erecting the sheds elsewhere. Under present plans the sheds were to be removed from the western half of the market so that excavation and foundation work could proceed in what will be one-half of the site of the Internal Revenue Bureau Bulilding. But the further complication over re- erection of the sheds today again tied up the matter temporarily. One of the biggest problems has been where to put the Farmers’ Market, but in the absence of a final decision on this question the District Commis- sioners have transmitted to Congress a bill which would authorize expendi- ture of $600,000 for a new Farmers’ Market site. P A CUMBERLAND TO STUDY FLOOD CONTROL PLANS Diversion of Potomac Through New Channel Is One Plan Proposed to 5 Prevent Disasters. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., February 1.— The mayor and Council yesterday passed a resolution calling a meeting of citizens at the City Hall next Mon- day evening to obtain sentiment on the question of flood prevention and to finally dispose of the matter. Mayor Koon said a bond issue would be required if the work is to be car- ried on. Cumberland was visited by disas- trous floods in March and May, 1924. One of the plans recommended by J. H. Kimball, an engineer employed to make a survey, is the diversion of the Potomac through a new channel that would be made through Ridgeley, W. Va. This is regarded as the most feasible plan, but would be very costly and would have to have the legisla- tive sanction of both Maryland and ‘West Virginia. | Champion Spotter of Overtime Parking Watches Stolen Machine who works at the bureau. Her sis- ter, at 4:30 o'clock, went to the scene. She found the car, but she found also Policeman R. V. Sinclair with a ticket in his hand. He handed her the ticket. She protested that the car was a stolen automobile which her sister had asked her to take. Meanwhile, however, Policeman John Leech of the sixth precinct had driven by, with his wife in the car. He is a policeman who read his morning bulletin. He had noted the tag num- bers on the car. He had compared them with the ones on the morning report. But he is a careful man. He went to_police headquarters for De- tective Jett of the automobile squad to see whether the car had been re- ported recovered. It had not been. So Jett and Leech returned to the scene. ‘There they found Sinclair and the sis- ter of the owner of the automobile en- gaged In conversation. Sinclair's ticket was a total loss. The car was towed back to police headquarters, where it is to be claimed today by the owner. HORNSBY RE-ELECTED. Is Named Cardinal Director, De- spite Transfer to Giants. ST. LOUIS, Feb 1 (P).—De- spite his trade to the New York Giants Rogers Hornsby, former manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and still the second largest stockholder in the club, today was re-elected a director. 30 PERSONS INDICTED IN ELECTION PROBE Pittsburgh Alderman Among Those Accused — Women Includ- ed in Jury Report. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, February 1.—Indict- ments charging conspiracy and mis- demeanor in connection with alleged frauds in the November election here were returned by the grand jury to- day against 30 persons, including a number of women, district election officials and an alderman. The latter, John Carr, was charged with failing to receive and properly guard a ballot box. District Attorney H. H. Gardner directed the inquiry, which covered a period of one month. Most of those named were election officers in six Allegheny County precincts. During the grand jury probe the district at- torney seized a number of ballot boxes and at the present time he is attempting to arrange that these boxes be left here when the Allegheny boxes containing the November re- turns are removed to Washington later this week for use in the Senate elections committee inquiry. Alder- man Carr was indioted when it was found that a ballot box, supposed to be in his care, was missing. 3 The conspiracy and misdemeanor charges were based on allegations that the district election officers con- spi to make false returns and will fully failed to perform their legal duties, y GAS OVERCOMES SIX. TR A P Visitor in Home Finds 3 Adults and 3 Children Unconscious. CUMBERLAND, Md., February 1 (Special).—After being aroused early vesterday morning, Mrs. Luther Martz, visiting the familles of Henry and George Schade, Mapleside, found six membe: of the familles had been overcome by coal gas from a stove. ‘Three adults and three children were found unconscious, but all are now improving. MANEUVER PLANS INNEBULOUS STATE Action by Congress on Pro- posed $25,000 Appropria- tion Is Awaited. War Department plans for two maneuvers in the coming Spring months are in & nebulous state, pend. ing final action by Congress on a proposed $25,000 appropriation for joint maneuvers with the Navy iIn the Narragansett Bay area, and also because of conflicts between this project and a suggested Air Corps con centration in the San Antonio, Tex., area for maneuvers with troops of the second division. Required Funds Not Available. The joint maneuvers with the Navy were abandoned some weeks ago as the funds required were not available. The War Department now expects an appropriation to be made, however, and conversations with the Navy have been reopened to determine if it is possible to revive the original plan. That plan called for an extensive Army Alr Corps mobilization in May, as an element of the proposed test of the northeastern frontier against a simulated naval attack. The San Antonio maneuver plan in its tentative form is for a local oper- ation during April with the exception of the Air Corps concentration. No additional troops would be moved in to the section, units of the second division stationed regularly at Fort Sam Houston being employed to work out tactical problems of co-operation with the air forces. Prepare Recommendation on Subject. A War Department explanatory statement today sald Maj. Gen. Pat- rick, chief of the Air Corps, was pre- paring a recommendation on that subject. “If it is found practicable and de- sirable to utilize a large portion of the Air Corps in the New England maneuvers, then necessarily the me- neuvers around San Antonio would not involve as many Air Corps units as otherwise would be the case,” the statement said. It was added that Gen. Patrick's plans for the San Antonio maneuvers were drawn up after the New England plan had been laid aside, as it was thought “a large proportion of the Alr Corps might be assembled (at San Antonio) and operate in conjunction with the 2nd Division without addl- tional expense.’” —_——— FIVE BOYS ACCUSED OF STEALING AUTOS Three Under 16 in Group Held at Lynchburg—Eight Cars Taken Over Week End. LYNCHBURG, Va., February 1.— Callie Wright, Marion Thorpe, Joe Graham, Lawrence Worley and Jesse Rush, the last three being under 16 year of age, were arrested here during the week end on charges of stealing automobiles. 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