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THE FVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TREASRY SURPLS S SN0 Past Twelve Months “Wit- nessed a Further Improve- | ment,” Mellon Says. ew Trial Granted Because Juror Aired Marital Troubles Because ~Richardson A. Baker, foreman of the jury, before Justice Siddons recently, aired his marital troubles in the jury room and the Jury found in favor of the husband in a suit to recover a judgment for arrears of alimony, Justice Sid- dons has granted a new trial to Mrs, Lillian B. Coles of Katonah, N. Y who sought to recover $9,050 alimony EX-CLERKINDICTED INFORGERY GASE {Joseph W. Frenzel Was Em- ployed in District Govern- ment—Others Accused., By the Associated Press The Federal Government enters ‘the | new fiscal vear with a Treasury surplus | of $398,000,000. Summarizing the Nation's financial | condition at the close of the old year, which came at midnight of June 30, Secretary Mellon declared late yester- day that the period “witnessed a furthr improvement” in the country’s posi- . tion. i National Debt Reduced. “There was & substantial surplus of recelpts over expenditures,” he said. “The national debt was reduced by over $900,000,000, accompanied by a ma- terial cut in interest charges. The vast refunding operations begun in 192 continued and have been well-nigh brought to a successful conclusion. Taxes were again cut by over $220,000,- The total of ordinary receipts for the fiscal year was $4,042,000,000, Mr. Mel- len announced, with expenditures of $3,644,000,000 chargeable against this amount. The two figures for the pre- vious fiscal yvear were, respectively, $4,129,000,000 and $3,364,000,000. Tax Receipts Less. ‘Tax receipts totaled $3,364,000,000. or $111,000,000 less than in the fiscal year of 1927, Receipts from income taxes gated $2.174.000,000, as compared with $2,225.000,000 in 1927. In this connection Secretary Mellon called at- tention to the fact that the Treasury's estimate of this total differed from the actual figures “by the narrow margin of $9.000,000." | Including disbursements under the war claims acts total expenditures | amounted to $3.671,000,000, as compared with $3,494,000,000 for the fiscal year 1927. The increase Mr. Mellon at- tributed to the failure of the second deficiency bill of 1927 and changes in the revenue law by reason of which “a substantial amount of expenditures” properly chargeable to the fiscal year 1927 was carried over into 1928.” Surplus Near Estimate. A surplus of $455000,000 was esti- mated by the Treasury Department, Mr. Mellon said, “exclusive of payments un- | der the settlement of war claims act, which in fact amounted to $50,000,000, or, in other words, a surplus of $405,- 000,000. The actual surplus was $398,- 000,000, or within 13% per cent of the estimate.” Democrats in Congress have voiced criticism of the accuracy of the ring year total of the public del from $18,511,000,000 to $17,604,000,000, and the annual interest rate on the interest-bearing debt was cut from 3.96 per cent to 3.87 per cent. Of the sur- g:& $357,000,000 has been applied to public debt and the remainder is to bemu:ed lme retirment purposes early in fiscal year. 'mfie course of the 18 months ‘beginning on March 15, 1927, and end- on September 15, 1928, Mr. Mellon “the Treasury will have retired or refunded into securities bearing a lower rate of interest over $5,000,000,000 of second and third Liberty loan bonds.” CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. 'TODAY. mmauuu%wmma:x: organization meeting, 3:30 o'clock, the Pranklin administration building. ters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Musse! “Tent, No. 1, will hold & business ing, 8 o'clock, in Grand Army Hall. FUTURE. ncheon tomorrow, 12:30 Hotel. A program | By the Associated Press. from her former husband, Nathaniel C. Halstead of this city. Attorney Ralph A. Cusick made an affidavit in which he disclosed what he had learned of the jury's deliber- tions and asked for a new trial for client. The talesmen had been sked before being accepted as jur- rs if any had difficulties with their wives and none answered that they had. Joseph W. Frenzel, former chie clerk of the District government { his alleged accomplice, C. Ray Sever- | ance, were indicted today by the grand | jury on charges of false pretenses, for- | gery and uttering. They are alleged o have falsely represented that persons | in whose names were drawn rebate checks for alleged erroncous payment | of taxes were really entitled to such| rebates and to have forged the names | of the alleged payees to the checks and | to have uttered to Maj. James R. Lusby, | disbursing officer, that the indorsements | were genuine. | Only three charges are made in the | | indictment, but Assistant United States | | Attorney Connolly, who presented the |case to the grand jury, stated there were other transactions. The mentioned in the indictment BACKS DEMOCRATIC McMullen, Republican Gov- ¥ 26, Maj. Daniel , in whose office Frenzel was ernor. Says Agral‘ians employed, laid the matter before the Approve Plan. other | grand jury. | Charged With Murder. Emma Ford, colored, was charged with murder in the first degree in con- nection with the death of her friend, | Daniel Freeman. The woman is said | to have poured acid on Freeman at 427 N street February 22, which re- sulted in his death, March 16 Murder in the second degree is al leged against Robert E. Dorsett fof the death of Alex H. Steen. Dorsett i saild to have struck Steen with his fis CHICAGO, July 2—The Chicago| Daily Journal today printed a tele-| gram from Adam A. McMullen, Repub- lican, Governor of Nebraska and leader of the Lowden agricultural group at| the Republican national convention, re- plying to @ request from the newspaper | at 14 Naylor’s coi for his opinion of the agricultural plank | kicked him, causing his death May 27 in the Democratic platform adopted at| Herman O. Hagner and Julia C. Hag = : _ | nmer, trading as H. O. Hagner Co., a the Houston convention. Gov. MeMul- | 8% HeCing s B O, reir X7 7 len’s reply follows “ . | are charged in “Answering your wire, the agricultur| conspiracy ‘and_with using the al plank in the Democratic national | to"defraud. They are said to platform is satistactory to the farm |20, SRR By R0 TG, ma rt and then to have two indictments with b have More | in Teadiness for the opening tonight at A% ek opens tonight.. They were out early this morning getting in trim for the test. bands hurriedly left for work. Left to Ezell, Mrs. R. W. Marshall and Mrs. C. right—Mrs. H. N. Crichton, Mrs. A. M. MONDAY, JULY e ——— > <y OBREGON IS LIKELY FLYER HELDKILLED 10 COME T0 U. 3. INAIRBY LIGHTNING Conference With President-;Mail Plane Hit Ground With Elect of This Country Throttle Wide Open, Route P few of the entries in the rolling pin throwing contest,one of the features of the Lyon Village, Va. Carnival, which The picture was made just as six hus- Brown, Mrs. Henry Young, Mrs. G. A. —Star Staff Photo. CARNIVAL TO OPENV AT LYON VILLAGE Rolling Pin Hurling Contest b; r t | Married Women Features Night t| | Attraction of Annual Event. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va, July 2—All is seemed to hold him. He didn't know anybody in the Philippines. I could see that he had made up his | mind not to let me in, but he didn't TILDENDEFEATS | ence between Gen. Is Foreseen. Manager Says. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, July 2 2.—A confer-| Alvaro Obregon, | Smith, crack air mail pilot, was killed | President-elect, and the President-|by a bolt of lightning before his plane elect of the United States was regarded | crashed at terrific speed on a wooded as possible today. Gen. Obregon, who | hillside 9 miles north of Elsinore, Mo. was unopposed in the election yester-| Thursday night, in the opinion of his day, will be inauguarated for a six-|employer, Frank H. Robertson, gen- year term December 1. eral manager of the Robertson Air- | He Is expected to tour Mexico and craft Co. | then possibly go to the United States| Robertson. who rushed to the scene before assuming office. Observers pre- | of the crash after the pilot and his dicted that he would confer with the|wrecked plane were found, gave no | American President-elect in regard to|credence to the theory that Smith had | the policies of the new administrations | peen forced to land by a heavy down- | regarding relations between the two re- | draft caused by the storm. | publics. | “smith an experienced bad- | Obregon’s administration, it is be-|weather pilot.” said Robertson. “If he {lieved, will prolong the present era of |had been attempting a landing he good will between the two countries.|would have released his parachute | Observers think that his relations with | flares. ‘We found both of them in their | United States Ambassador Morrow will | tubes be as friendly as those existing between | “Furthermore, he would have closed Mr. Morrow and President Calles. {bis throttle for landing. —We found, ’ however, that the plane had strucl e Calles’ Daughter Cheered. trees at a ‘.Prnhg speed, apparently A demonstration of friendship for the | with the throttle wide open.” United States was given by a group of | The theory that the plane was struck Obregon supporters in the capital. As|py lightning is borne out by reports they were parading to the polls, Thomas | that several persons had seen lightnins Robinson, his wife and their baby rode | <trike an object in the air in the vi- Lieut. L | mind talking some more. He told me that clubs like his couldn't afford to let people in unless they were intro- duced; it wouldn't be fair to the mem- bers. He said he'd be glad to admit me if T were so introduced. He told me | that most of the clubs were patronized by certain groups of people, eithcr | rough convenience o preference and | Rallies to Advance to Semi- Finals at Wimbledon—Hen- nessey Is Beaten. BOROTRAINASETS The word “gamble” was never men- | tioned, but there was a perfect under- | | standing between us as to what went | |on. AIll the time he kept asking me by in an automobile. The men recog- | cinity of he e was fount nied the daughter of President Calles | oce tllo ey and shouted, “Viva Senora Robinson. Viva Mr. Robinson. Viva Mexico. Viva Estados Unidos.” Press dispatches today indicated only | one election disturbance, with two fa- talities. | Supporters of two candidates for Fed- eral Congress clashed at Panuco, State | of Vera Cruz. Guns, knives, sticks and stones were used in the affray and two persons were killed and ten wounded. The vote, as yet unannounced, was | light. Most people went to the buil | vesterday on the night of the storm. PARACHUTE UNUSED. ELSINORE. Mo., () —Stil grasping the shattered “stick” of his air- plane and with a packet of Democratic convel n pictures at his side, Leslie Smith, air mail pilot of St. Louis, wa. found dead with his wrecked plane o a wooded hillside near here yesterday The plane was found shattered fc bits. the fuselage and wings clinging to organizations because it embodies spe- cifically the provisions of the McNary- Haugen bill, although it does not use the term equalization fee. “It provides first for a Federal Farm | chants’ Tranfer & Storage Co., which |7 o'clock of the three-day carnival of | was purchasing their accounts receiv- | the Lyon Village Citizens' Association able, that & number of false accounts |and Women's Club, to be staged in the represented actual purchases of goods. |large field bordering Wilson boulevard { Paul T. Tobin, a pollceman of the |at Rucker avenue and Court House Board as did the McNary-Haugen bill; | oyrteenth recinct, and Frank L. Ed- second, in the following language: ‘AP- | wards, said to be a police informer, propriate Government aid t co-opera- | were indicted on a charge of accepting tive assoctations in the form of credit |y bripe to influence their testimony in loans on a parity with the terms of | copnection with a prohibition case to loans authorized recently by the GOV-|pe heard in court. Morris Cohn charg- ernment to aid shipping. |ed that after his arrest on a liquor “Thrid in the following language. | charge, he was approached by Edwards, ‘We pledge the party to an honest|in the presence of Tobin, and told that endeavor to solve this problem of the | they might forget the testimony. He distribution of the cost of dealing With | placed $25 on @ table, he said, which crop surpluses over the marketed units | Eawards picked up and gave $15 of of the crops whose producers are beng- | the amount to Tobin in his presence fited by such assistance,’ it provides 10r | Transporting of a film of the Tun- the equalization fee provision of the |ney.Dempsey fight from Maryland into McNary-Haugen bill. 14 | the District of Columbia is charged in “The equalization fee provision of|an indictment against Urie Hollings- that bill simply planned a method | worth, 614 Otis place, and manager of whereby the farmer could distribute |the Capitol Theater at Capitol Heights, any surpluses of crops produced at his|Md. It is alleged that March 30, last, own expense without governmental | he exhibited the pictures at his movie the legislation the farmers demand. It the film back to Washington with him. places the farming industry on a| john Walker, colored, is indicted on respectable business basis. This plank | two charges of perjury. He had been should have been incorporated in the | employed as a police informer and Republican national platform, as it | made two false affidavits, it is alleged, would be in keeping with the funda- | before United States Commissioner mental doctrine of protection upon | Turnage as to the purchase of liquor which the Republican party is founded. | which formed the bases of search war- “The Democratic party does not Le- | rants. :l;:e in t.h: ;{o‘:h“h: olfal;tfl .lngl yet Veteran Is Accused. agricultus D] ts platform | geward Lackey, a World War veteran, extends the protective system to agri- | s charged with false pretenses. He is sald to have borrowed money on his culture, no doubt on the theory tha the protective system is & permanent|agjusted service certificate and to have ! represented to the Veterans' Bureau | that he had lost the certificate and was economic institution.” AL e g s ted a duplicate. The indictment YOUTHS UN | Eharges that e falsels represented to 8 DER CHARGES. teller at the American Security & Trust | Co. February 10 that the duplicate was Three Arrested Accused of At-| jicumbered and borrowed $125 on it. tempted Larceny From Auto. Roderick A. Pace is charged with ‘Three youths were arrested this after- larceny from the United States, it being subsidy or bonus. That is the heart of | house in Maryland and then brought | noon on the Ellipse and charged with attempted larceny following their al- remove equl‘gtgnem from parked on roadway there. They gave the following names and addresses when taken to the first ct by Park Policeman J. B. Edle- : Charles Phillips, 15, 1139 Tenth street; Jean Swift, 16, 924 K street, and Oliver Tipton, 15, 1119 Tenth street. A number of complaints have been received at the park police headquar- ters from owners of automobiles who park them on the roadway, telling of thefts of various accessories from the cars. In several instances tires and rims have been removed while the cars Several days ago Police- ‘Women's Council will in room- of the Covenant. ~The Bible charge of Mrs. Selden 45 to 7:15 pm., and Chauacey Gentzler Public welcome. Post, No. three Sabbath ed at the an- of the Council of Jewish th Schools tomorrow at alleged that while a supply officer at ‘Walter Reed Hospital he obtained pos- session of supplies on false requisitions and appropriated them to his own use. Between November 10, 1927, and March 31, 1928, it is alleged he obtained 35 pairs of shoes, 60 shirts and 50 pairs of stockings. Nelson Gordon Phelp of New York, recently indicted for false pretense in securing a large sum of money from the American Security & Trust Co. on alleged false stock certificates of the Otis Elevator Co, was again indicted on a charge of uttering the alleged false certificates as genuine on which the company made the loans. The grand jury exonerated Herman and the Northeast Syna- outing wili be in charge ingfeld and Mrs. Joseph Aged The ‘TONIGHT. By the United States Navy Band at _the Capitol, 7:30 o'clock, Charles Benter leader. Overture, “Oberon Von Weber Grand scenes from the opera “Bugene Onegin”......Tschaikowsky Reve Angelique, “Kamenoi Ostrow” Rubenstein .....Rubenstein Folk Songs,” Arr, Excerpts from the musical comedy Two excerpts from he Pathetic hony” -Tschalkowsky | Valse, “Lystratial 4 Rhapsodie, “Hungarian, ovel “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band at | Reservation 313-A, Twenty-sixth and| Irving strets northeast, at 7:30 o'clock, | William 1. Stannard, leader. | March, “La Giralda” Gonzales Overture, “Der Tambour der Garde,” : it “Prayer at Eventime ... Elje| “Balome” (Dance of the Seven Vells), Tobant | s Belections from “The Prinet . Student March._ “Colon” o . Romberg iinto various cars. He took them into | swept sections of the Dakotas Colon | Esworthy, driver of an_ automobile which ran down and killed Peter Snyder May 27 near Thirty-fourth and Pros- pect streets. The grand jurors also refused to indict Eugene Arnold, Leon J. Stewart and Ada Huot, charged with grand larceny. A total of 45 indictments is con- tained in the final report of the grand jury submitted today. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Lee King and Oliver Spence, violat- ing opium law; Daniel T. Wheeler, as- sault with dangerous weapon: James Robinson, assault with dangerous weap- on; Henry McFadden, assault with dan- gerous weapon; James M. Carter, as- sault; James Dudley and Abraham Wallace, Clarence A. Cook and Joe Hardy and Horace Mulford, housebreak- ing and larceny; Lacey Lee, housebreak- ing; James Pinkney, housebreaking and depredation on property; Lewis Penn, Percy Blaine and Christopher C. Evans, grand larceny; Arvern Clifton Plumley, Joyriding and grand larceny. Luvercy French and Linwood E. Day, joy-riding; Philip Mickens, second offense joy-riding and second offense grand larceny; F. Willlam Nell, remoy- ing mortgaged property; Emily A Rollins, allas Mrs. H. Randall, alias Elizabeth Bradshaw, alias H. L. Brad- shaw, false pretenses; Bertha M. Jack- son and Clagett T. Rison, false pre- tenses; Frank Hall, false pretenses; Seward Lackey, false pretenses; Mina Steinberg and Samuel Steinberg, false | pretenses; Charles B. Murphy, false | pretenses, forgery and uttering: Emily forgery and uttering; Ralph were parked. man p was detailed in plain clothes to watch the cars, and before he arrested the youths today, he said, he watched them for some time looking custody after they had removed a motometer and then replaced it. MORRISON IS HONORED. LONDON, July 2 (#).—Many noted advocates of international peace and the outlawry of war gathered at & luncheon today to welcome Dr. C. C. Morrison, editor of Christian Century, Chicago, acclaimed as the first advo- cate of a pact for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. Sir Henry Lunn was chairman, and Viscount Cecil, Lord Parmour, Viscount Astor, Sir Herbert Samuel, Lord Olivier and the Bishop of London were guests. Dr. Morrison in the course of his speech declared that the Kellogg agree- ments for the renunciation of war were not enough; there must be a strong in- ternational court based on a code of laws of peace able to summon any na- tion against which there was a com- plaint. e STORM HITS DAKOTAS. S8T. PAUL, Minn, July 2 (#)- Broken trees, shattered glass, wrecked barns and garages and fallen teiephone | Bloyer, and telegraph poles marked the path of a heavy wind and rain storm that Funk, forgery and uttering; Ellot Walter and | Shreve, forgery and uttering, and Eliot W. Shreve, violation Harrison narcotic | act. Minnesota last night and early today., No lives were reported lost. “The Ster Bpangled Banner.” TODAY. By the United States Marine Band at the Marine Barracks, 4:30 Taylor Branson leader. March, “The King of the air” Eleanor Hope Overture, “Academic Festival”. Brahms Two characteristic nufabers— (a) “On Tiptoe” Hosmer (b) “The Butterfly” Bendix Trombone solo, “Thoughts of Love’ Pryor Beenes from “La Traviata” Meditation from “Thais” . Massenet Valse de concert, “The Debutante” Santelmann “Capriceio Espagnol, " Rimsky-Korsakow Marines’ hymn “The Halls of Montezuma” “The Star Spangled Banner.” TOMORROW. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band at the bandstand, at 5:30 oclock, John 8, M. Zimmermann leader, March Patriotic overture, Deseriptive fantasia, Life in Ye Olden Times”.... Le Thiere Excerpts from “The Grand American Fantasia” .. Victor Herbert Patriotic patrol, “The Old U. 8. A" Coxemoor Woods “Laurels of Victory”... *. . .Tobani “Americ “Village Valse lente, “Caressante”... Finale, “The Sters and Stripes For- ever’ Bousa The Slas Spangied Banner,” Verdi | Lambert | CREW IN ARCTIC o'clock, | | | | | { w of the seaplane n which Amundsen set out to partic) Arctic wastes, v | Prederick Hutchins, forgery; Wilbur A. | road. A long-distance rolling pin_hurling | contest among married women will be an | inaugural feature. The contest will | begin promptly at 7 o'clock. The title, now held by an Oklahoma housewife, will be at stake, it is announced. Car- {nival games and amusements will be |in sway at a dozen booths, manned by | members of the association. Dancing | will be an attraction on a large, spe- | clally built pavilion, starting at 8:30 |o'clock. The Dixie Syncopators will | | furnish music. Five dollars in prizes | will be awarded in a waltz contest. | A race between turtles named “Al land “Herbert” will be held tomorrow | night. The celebration will close Wed- | | nesday night with a big Fourth of July { program. Representative R. Walton Moore and State Senator Frank L. Ball will speak. | CERTAN HOTEL CLERKS | INTRODUCE STRANGERS | T0 D. C. GAMBLING DENS ~—(Continued from PFirst Page) those fathomless eyes. After a minute tor two 1 committed a breach of eti- te and said, “How about getting “Card?"” said the eyes, just as a butler would say it. “Sorry,” 1 said. | | here.” “I'm a stranger | Refused Admission. “Sorry,” said the eyes, “but this is a private club.” | I looked above the door and saw the {name of a “social” club neatly printed |on a card. Still, he had nice eyes, 50 |1 kept on talking to him, explaining | that I had some money that I just had to lose. While I was talking two or | three persons, ranging in age from 16 | to 80, came in, showed their cards and Fussed by the guard. We talked so long that we began to get a little familiar. “Look here,” I said, “how about open- ing up?” “I'd like to,” he said, “but it's strictly | against orders. But I'll let you talk to | the manager if you want to." Manager Called. I said, “All right.” So he went and got the manager. The manager came out and talked to me in the. vestibule. {He was a nice fellow, too. He said it would be impossible to let me in unless I was introduced by & member. I| | asked him how I was going to be intro- | duced by a member unless I knew some | member I could be introduced to. “Well,” he said, “the clerks in some of the hotels are members of these clubs.” That explained a great deal. It ex- plained how the clubs draw members from out of the city, a very remunera- tive source of revenue. It explained, too, how these prospective members can be investigated before being taken or sent to a club. The clerk has only to look at the register, then at the appii- cant’s face and declde whether he would be a good prospect. If he is a traveling salesman his bags will show it. Placed in Predicament. That remark was also my cue to tell the manager I was staying at such and {such a hotel, after which he would | probably call the office, verify the name and address and then let me in. Hav- ing a perfectly good address right here in Washington I was in something of a pickle “I'm staying with an aunt here” I { satd “Where you wanted to know. | “Pittsburgh,” I said, and the next | minute I wished I hadn't. “Know Mike Riley?" he asked 1 shook my head. “Bill 8mith? Jack Jones? Jim Robin- s0n?” etc,, ete | The only thing I could do was to ex- | plain that I hadn't been in Pittsburgh {for a long time and had spent the past five years in the Philippines. That from?” the manager WASTES | | | questions, and after awhile I decided it was time to push off. We said good- | night and I went out into the night. Introduced by Clerk. The next night I asked the clerk in |a well known hotel where I could do| a little gambling, and he took me around to a place and introduced me personally. Another group of “introducers” are the unofficial “starters. ‘They hang around certain corners or in poolrooms or lunchrooms and will take you around to a club if you are “O. K. ‘The first one I found knew who I was. “How's The Star?” he said. “What Star?” I demanded. “Don’t you work on The Star?” “I should say not.” I said indignantly. “Well," he said, “you look like a guy that does.” He took me around to an apartment | | | | By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, July 2— fights, motion pictures, foot ball and |a tree, the motor and undercarriag: base ball games instead of to the polls. | having lanted 50 feet beyond. Saloons,” which were closed from| Smith was found by three farmers Thursday night until after the election, | Who had beaten their way through th underbrush as members of searching William T. Tilden, American tennis ace, | advanced to the semi-final round of the Wimbledon championship 'tournament today by defeating Jean Borotra, one of reopened this morning. Carrying of | pistols had been forbidden and the |army was held in readiness to prevent | i disturbances. | Gen. Obregon's headquarters an- nounced that there was no doubt that the French “Three Musketeers,” by scores of 8—6, 3—6, 6—3, 6—2. Twelve thousand fans packed the stands around the center court as Tilden and Borotra began their match, which | promised a tennis “natural.” The bounding Frenchman got away to a fast start, taking the first game from Tilden. It was a deuced session of flashing shots. | house, where the game hadn't started, | Tilden Wins Second Game. {1 ha' {up t Nobile rescue and which s still missing Left to right, Emil Valette, Lisut. Albert de lll\"hvlll!, Capt. Rene Gilbaud and Gilbert Brazy, places per thousan ~-Underwood Photo, then to a hotel. The game hadn't started there either. I found out that he wasn't going to get me into a reg- ular place, but into a big private game. I seized the excuse that the game not having started gave me and left as quickly as I could. I didn't care any- thing about a private game anyway. found out one more thing, that s are posted about town to drum de for the gambling houses. I supp: e they get a rake-off if the player loses. Taxi Drivers Help. Taxi drivers are a help, too, but they would much rather get you a drink. They know all the places, but they aren't 50 good at getting you in. One took me start | to one of the numerous establishments | on Fourteenth street and then left me to fare for myself. “The last time I was in there,” he said, “I lost $200 and drew the rod. They don’t like me any more."” Another took me through the outside | door of another place and tried to get the lookout to admit me. The guard was hard boiled. “If you ain't got a card you don't get in. That's all there is to it.” he said “We've lost $2,000 already tonight.” Admitted Later On. I got past him a couple of nights later. Another taxi driver said he could take me to any number of places in the aft- ernoons and we made a date for the next day. I didn't keep it because I knew I could get into two or three places without his help. ‘The trouble with most of the taxi drivers is that they want to take you out past the District line to the largest place of them all. It is the easiest to get in and the taxi driver gets $1.25 by the meter. If you know the procedure you get a free ride out and a free ride back. But there will be more about that later. Gets Card from Acquaintance. I got into my first establishment in | town by going out there. I scraped up an acquaintance with a passenger in the car going back and he Ylvc me his card to a place in town. I held up the card in the vestibule, a man looked down from upstairs and pressed a buzzer and I walked in. He never looked at the name on the card. The place out in the country is the easiest to get in, the best known, and by far the largest around here. That, of course, makes it harder to get into the establishments in the city. It caters to people from Washington, but it is in Maryland. Most of the visitors to :’}(umngwn who want to gamble go ere. Police Declared Tightening Up. The places in town, on the other hand, are patronized by people who live here, except for the few visitors who get in by one of the methods -1 have mentioned. They have to be more care- ful in town. The taxi drivers all say the police are tightening up on them and they have to be careful. As long as they don't let anybody in who isn't “O. K.” they are safe. They can’t be raided without a warrant and a warrant can't be secured without evidence. But you can get in if you take a little trouble. And when you get in, there is plenty to see Another article on the gambling sit- uation in Washington will appear in The Star tomorrow CARL H. SHAIFER GIVEN LUNCHEON ON RETIRING Navy Department Authority Has Served Government 42 Years. Native of Mississippi. Carl H. Shaifer, an employe of the library of the Navy Department, tod 15 being tendered a luncheon by his assoclates on the occasion of his retire- ment from the Government service after 42 years. Mr. Shalfer is an au- thority on the activities of the Uhion and Confederate Navies and since he has been in the Government service he has supervised the editing of volumes of “Officlal Records of the ! Unton_and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.” Mr, Shaifer was born at Port Gibson, Miss., July 3, 1858. He received his education at public and private schools in that State and engaged in news- paper work untll he came to this city {in 1886 as an employe of the Govern- ment Printing Office. He remained there until 1894, when he was trans- ferred to the office of naval records and library, where he remained until the time of his retirement, He resides at 1803 Blitmore street. New York 1s sald to have more cating d inhabitants than world, any other eity in Tilden, serving. won the second game, | ! although Borotra brought it to deuce first. Slashing out with his famous cannonball service, the American took | the deciding point’ of the game with a | sizzling ace. | " "Games followed service until they stood at 3—2, with Borotra leading. He then broke through the American’s delivery to lead by 4 games to 2. | Borotra tried to give Tilden a point | on a ball apparently called incorrectly by a linesman, but Tilden would not take it. Borotra then banged two of ! Tilden's services into the stands. Borotra's double fault helped Tilden to' take the seventh game, and the | Ametican leveled the count in games | at 4-all in the next, serving, driving and chopping superbly. | { | then Tilden brought the set to deuce at | 5-all, winning a deuced game with the | aid of a stinging service ace which caus- | ed the crowds to gasp. Borotra won the vantage game and Tilden, serving, went to 6-all. For the first time Tilden took the lead when in the thirteenth game Borotra | double-faulted on the final point. Tilden then swept the fourteenth game at love to capture the set, 8—6. Starting the second set, the Basque grabbed a love game on his own de- livery. Games then followed service until they stood at 2-all. The speed of play had slackened somewhat. There were longer rallies and less spectacular play. Borotra went to 4—2 in games, crash- ing through the American’s service. Taking his own, he then advanced to 5—2, and in doing so received great ap- plause from the gallery for not accept- ing a linesman’s decision, smashing the ball out. Tilden picked up one game, but Borotra, serving, took the set, 6—3, to bring the match to even terms. Tilden Braces in Third Set. Borotra started the third set strongly, winning Tilden's service. Taking the next game with a spectacular shot al- most at his feet, he stretched the lead to 2—love. Tilden braced, however, and allowed the Frenchman only one point in the next game, adding the fourth game | also, to tie the count at two games all. The amazing agility of the French- man never diminished. Tilden was largely waging relentless war from the | base line, rarely risking the net | After games had been even at 2-all i | in the third set, Tilden went to 4—2 on a break through Borotra's service and then to 5—2, after which the American gave his opponent a game to compensate for what he considered a linesman’s error that had enabled him to take the seventh game from Borotra. {In a hot volley duel Tilden took the ninth game and the set, 6—3 | " Tllden, after the rest period, opened the fourth set confidently and dis- | played all of his stroking fireworks in | Yacing to a lead of 4—0 on games. He had Borotra on the run and once broke | through the Frenchman's service at | love, so severe were his returns. Borotra | braced to split the next four games, but | Tiiden always kept the upper hand and | ran out the set, 6—2, to settle the match. |, Tilden's path to the finals now is barred by Lacoste, while the other semi- final bracket involves Cochet and Boussus. Cochet, sharpshooting French musket- eer, advanced to the semi-finals in de- fense of the Wimbledon men's singles by conquering the sturdy young Ameri- can tennis s,'(lu”., Hennessey, in four sets, Cochet’s victory over Hennessey turn- ed the tables and gave the Frenchman vevenge for his setback at the hands | championships at Forest Hills last Sep- | tember. It also assured France of three of the four semi-final brackets. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, California vet- eran, chop-stroked her way to victory | over Mme. Nicolopoulo of France, 6—1, ¢ | 46, 62, to enter the semi-finals. Daphne Akhurst, the Australian wom- champlon, who eliminated the rican, Miss Helen Jacobs, a few | days ago. won her way to the semi- finals by defeating the chief British | hope, Miss Eilleen Bennett, in three sets, 26, 63, 6-—-2. Senorita Ella De Alvarez of Spain, the 1927 runner-up, put out the young German star, Cecelle Aussem, 75, 6--2, In the mixed doubles, the American team of George Lott and Mrs, Molla Mallory won from the English combi- nation. Donald Grelg and Elsle Gold- sack, 62, 6 Francis T. Hunter paired with Helen Wills to defeat J. C. Gregory and Miss E. H Harvey of England, 6--4, 10--8. The American forces, teamed this time with the Australian, lost a threat wvhen the youth Junior Coen of Kansas City and Norman Brookes, antipodean veteran, were eliminated from the doubles competition by Robson and Boyd of .‘Arlt‘ntult. 4, 36, 3-8, 03, 6 The agile Prenchman took his service, | and Chamber of Deputies and the states Legislatures, which were also i chosen. | Faces Loss of Power. Diminution of the power of Luis | Morones, labor leader and secretary of commerce, labor and industry, was re- headquarters that 25 state Legislatures, | sufficient to make the measures effec- tive, had ratified Gen. Obregon’s amend- ments to the constitution. One of these provided for establishment of federal commissions instead of e mayors and boards of aldermen as municipal governments in Mexico City and other towns in the fed € The Labor party, dominated by < rones, who is the political enemy of | Obregon, has controlled these govern- { ments. When the amendments become | effective, Obregon's party will control them. Obregon has indicated that he in- tends to continue substantially the policies of President Calles. LAWS FOR HEALING ART IN D. C. URGED IN GRAND JURY REPORT —_(Continued_from Pirst_Page) | his supporters would control the Senate | | garded as a likely result of the election. | Word was received at the Obregon | Craft Corporation. and an Army blim % | in the search. parties who had sought the flyer since ‘Thursday in the densely wooded Ozarks of southeastern Missouri. A violen: storm which swept the vicinity Thurs- day night apparently caused the wreci of the plane and death of the pilot. A parachute strapped to Smith wa untouched, giving rise to the belief that he had probably lost control of his shir at a low altitude. This theory wa: further borne out by a path through the tops of oak trees. which had been clipped off by the plane as it swooped to_the ground. Fellow pilots from the Robertson Air- from Scott Field, Belleville, Ill, had searched vainly over the spot where the plane was found, but were unable to see the wreckage because of low visibility. Twenty planes were engaged The farmers, Willard Boyer, Harry Secrease and Otis Tucker, came upon the dead pilot, whose body was flung across a wing, vesterday at noon. The gasoline tank of the De Haviland plane ad been thrown to a spot many feet away, where it had exploded and burned. Smith left Little Rock with the pic- tures Thursday night. DOG OWNERS BUY TAGS. More than 400 dog owners had ac- quired new tags for their animals in the first four hours that the tags were on sale toda: The tags are on sale in the office of Chatham M. Towers, col- lector of tax ‘While the law requires all dogs in the { District to carry new tags July 1, the — | pound force has been instructed not to tion of interested officials the handicap | 1und up animals with the 1927 tags that has, at times, been experienced 1n | {OF Several weeks. The new tags are in arriving at intelligent decisions, due to | the shape of a keystone and are made failure of the arresting or investigating | Of bronze. The old tags were made of officers, in certain cases, to familiarize | 20 aluminum alloy themselves with details that should be In possession of the police, or that the | : police should, at least, endeavor to | keeping with secure, grand jury, therefore. recommends the “In the majority of instances the tes- | €ntire rebuilding of these two sections, timony of the officers, particularly those | designed to relieve the present objec- from headquarters, showed that their: tional conditions assignment had been diligently handled | _-If. and when, this work is under- and all material facts obtainable ac- | taken. due consideration should be given quired; but in many cases the progress | 10 Providing a mess hall for the prison- of the grand jury’s work, and that of | e'S confined in the north and south the District attorney's office, has been | Wings. An improvised dining room, lo- modern prisons. This of the American in the United States | serfously impeded from the arurememj tioned cause, and ft is recommended that lice officers be schooled in properly working up their cases, and | instructed so to do. that they may be | able to supply helpful information when called upon to testify. | Hoffman Case Recalled. | “This grand jury has noted with a great deal of concern that, during its three months’ service, only one second | ffense violation of the prohibition act | has been brought to its attention. Also | that only a very few hand-book cases, ! involving the larger operators, have been | aeard, the bulk of such cases being con- fined to those of a petty nature “This grand investigated the | tragic death of at the | hand of Louis W. Hoffman, self-styled doctor, whose sole excuse (o practice the healing art was that after graduat- | ing as a nurse, he incorporated a fraud- ulent school known as The Washing-| ton College of Physio-therapy. became its president, and issued a diploma to | aimself. | “The facts connccted with the death of Miss Lehman have thoroughly im- | pressed this grand jury with the great | necessity of appropriate legislation to protect the people of this city from in- competent and characterless person: who practice upon the human body and from the issuance by fraudulent school of degrees denoting training and skill in the art of healing. “This grand jury has, therefore, care fully considered proposed legislation be fore the Congress relating to these | subjects and strongly recommends Sen- | ate bill No. 3936, to regulate the prace | tice of the healing art to protect the public health of the District of Colum- bia, and Senate bill No. 2366, designed | to put an end to the operations of | unscrupulous individuals who make a | business of selling scholastic degrees, | which are a fraud upon the public both | in the District of Columbia, the various | States and foreign countries he Hoffman case demonstr grave need for both pieces of leg tion and it is hoped it will be before the large number of unt { ‘realehs,’ or those of poor character, | who practice upon the sick of our com- | munily, cause other untimely deaths. “This grand jury has inspected the | nal institutions of the District of | lumbia-—-name the District L, | Reformatory Lorton, Va., and Workhouse at Oceoquan “The District jail was originally con- structed some 60 years ago. In rece years the east wing, wherein are lo- cated the men's and wome dormi- tories, has been rebuilt, and now pro- des modernly . spacious and nitary quarter prisoners assigned to that section, with the exception of | individual lockers (similar to those | used in the reformatory dormitories at | Lorton), which should be added to elim- | Inate the present necessity of hanging | clothes along the walls. “The north and south wings are as originally constructed, aside from minar, but important, alterations to improve sanitation. The cell blocks in these while apparently supervised, con: ducted and maintained as well as eir- | cumstances permit, are of antiquated design, Inadequate to the present needs. imposaible of sufficlent ventilation and proper tation, and otherwise not in AT the | | arrangement is found in excellent condition. cated in one of the long, below-floor- level corridors, is now being used. This crude and unsighti; detrimental to healthful, safe and con- venient operation, and should be cor- rected. “Also provision should be made for a chapel of ample , in order to dis- continue the present practice of holding religious services on the floor of th rotunda, which is entirely unsuited for the purpos Likew! & new hospital ward badly needed to replace the present firmary, which tter, while recen installed and seel ¥y well equipped. does not meet the requirements, due to the fact that the rooms are few number, very small, and have extre: low ceilings. Urge Fumigating Plant. Another and highl provement. and one that should be con- sidered without delay, is the installa- tion of a modern fumigating and de- lousing plant. The method now f lowed in performing this necessar work is obsolete, and, this grand jury is informed, even where care is exercised often re temporary illness of the prisoners. “Possibl ajor prison in the country where executions take place by electrocution aas. apparently, so little and tho been giwn to the in__conne the Distric gathered by L the law was ) is n- sential 1 as ssion ¢ is th portable ric chair furnished and the local management left to deal with t situation as best they could w means and. Makeshift abou ribes the result. If capital punish- ment is to be continued in the District of Columbia, this grand jury recom- mends that an adequate and properly located death chamber, with other necessary and improved facilities, be provided “The Re! Lorton, Va, was ‘The ma- jority of the bulldings are of recent construction and well kept. The present equipment is new and ample to meet the immediate needs with one excep: tion—that of a laundry. The laundr work is now performed by hand, and this grand jury can not conceive of an institution of this character and sise being denied so important and essential a facility. It is recommended that a laundry of late design and of sufficien pacity be installed to replace the ude and slow method now hecessarily employed The workhouse, Occoquan, Va, for an institution of that nature, was also found iIn first-class condition. Brick uildings, with one or two exception have supplanted the old wooden stru tures, and those of the latter type still remaining are included in the present building program “Capt. M. M. Barnard, in charge of all three of these Mstitutions, and hi lieutenants, Supt. William L. Peak, trict jail: Supt. A. C. Tawse, reforma- Lorton, and Supt. Julian Schoen . Oceoquan, are to be com- mended for their untiring efforts. “It is the bellef of this grand jury that, if given the proper financial and moral support, they will bring these institutions to a standard unsurpassed by any that serve a Lke purposs.” armatory.,