Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1929, Page 15

RUM CAR PAIR HELD FOR GRAND JURORS Men in Liguor-Laden Auto| Which Killed Pedestrian De- tained After Inguest. The two colored men who occupied the liquor-laden car which ran down and killed John F. Luitich, 57-year-old government printer, Friday night while being pursued by a motor cycle police- man were held for the grand jury.at a coroner’s inquest yesterday. The jury | was out less than five minutes before | it brought in its verdict. Luitich was struck by the car as he was crossing P street at North Capitol street. He was on his way to 19-A Bates street, where his wife lives, to at- tend a birthday party being given for him. He was 57 years old Thursday and his two daughters and his son had gathered at their mother’s home for the_celebration. The colored men held are Robert Darrall Dixon, 23 years old, of the | 1400 block of Third street, driver of the | carand William Alfred Rollins, 20 years old, of the 1400 block of Sixth street. Fires to Halt Car. The car was pursued at a high rate of speed from Sixth and Q streets to First and I streets northeast by Po- liceman William A. Schotter of the Traffic Bureau, who had fired several shots at the fugitive car before he | was able to draw up alongside and | compel the driver to halt. It was brought out at the inquest that three policemen attached to the | Sixth precinct were standing on the | corner of North Capitol and P streets when the accident occurred. Schotter testified that Roilins con- fessed that he met Dixon by appoint- ment or. Wisconsin avenue and to- | gether they drove to an address on N ! street, between Thirty-third and Thirty- | fourth streets where they obtained a | quantity of corn whisky from a col- ored man. When the car was seized 116 quarts of alleged liquor were found in it. Edwards Hits Traffic Conditions. Senator Edwards, Democrat, of New issued another statement last ttacking prohibition enforcement | ods and declaring it is becoming; ‘acutely dangerous” for pedestrians to | cross the streets of the District because | of the operations of automobiles con- | veying liquor. | The statement of the New Jersey| Benator, who has expressed similar views in the past, was prompted by the death of John F. Luitich, Government Printing Office employe, who was knocked down while walking across North Capitol and P streets Friday night by an automobile which was being pursued by a motor cycle policeman. Senator Edwards’ statement said, in Tt: “How long is a condition such as that which caused the untimely death of Mr. Luitich going to be tolerated in the city where the laws of the Nation are enacted? Such a condition will re- main to plague us just so long as the eighteenth amendment is a part of the Constitution and extra-legal organiza- tions and societies are permitted to substitute their will for the will of Congress and a mejority of right- thinking and honest citizens.” — NEW QUIZ IS FACE BY APARTMENT JANITOR Stains Analyzed as Blood Give Impetus to Probe of Woman’s Disappearance. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, January 5.—Common- wealth’s Attorney Otte announced to- day that he plans to submit Philip Haynes, colored man, to further grilling in the investigation of the disappear- ance of Mrs. Ella McDowell Rogers, 30, from her apartment October 7, when Hayes was janitor of the fashionable apartment building in which she lives. The announcement followed dis- THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 0, JANUARY 6, 1929—PART T. flies as possible soucces of basic huma By the Associated Press. Observing that human beings and | butterflies behave much alike in certain racial activities, Austin H. Clark of the National Museum is inclined to look to these and other insects to provide a Srmer scientific foundation for the study of sociology. Both mankind and butterflies are divided naturally into races and racial groups, he points out, and the simi- larity continues to the extent that some of these groups are characterized by warlike and adventurous instincts, while others are distinctly pacific in tempera- ment. Show Human Characteristics. ‘Whenever a venturesome, warlike hu- man group has migrated, he recalls, the men have always gone first, leaving the women and children to follow after the new homeland has been conquered. ‘When a pacifist group has migrated, however, all have gone together, and the same racial difference, he says, can be observed among butterflies. Such migrations, whether among men or butterflies, usually are caused by pressure of population, which also ac- counts, he declares, for other striking | similarities in their behavior. This is especially noticeable in the military measures taken by such warlike races of butterfles as the pearl crescent, the buckeye and the viceroy to protect thelr food supplies. | “The males,” he relates, “wander away and gather along roads or the borders of waste places. Here they become ex- cessively pugnacious. They attack each other and dart viciously at bees, wasps, grasshoppers and other insects that fly near them. “They cannot in any wy harm these objects of their spite, but they do their best to worry them. I have seen a male pearl crescent, by a furious onslaught on an immensely larger milkweed but- terfly (a pacifist) cause it to fly awk- wardly from side to side, at the same time rising in a desperate endeavor to | shake off its puny adversary. Protect Food Supplies. “These lines of belligerent male but- terflies striving to prevent passage across their lines into an overpopulated area are acting in defense of their species’ food supply. They show a curious correspondence to the military | closure that stains on the apartment house basement floor had been analyzed as blood. Haynes is in jail on an old charge of shooting without wounding, revived during the investigation of the | disappearance. Whether the blood was | human blood remains to be determined. | Haynes has been the central figure of | the investigation since police were giv~ en the story of Hal Harned, Dawson | Springs, Ky., banker, who said that he left Mrs. Rogers’ apartment on the night of the disappearance after the | lights had gone out and she said she FRANCE IS LEADING TOURIST COUNTRY 2,000,000 Visited Nation in 1927, British Attache De- 7 BUTTERFLY STUDY EXPECTED TO AID SOCIAL RESEARCH n racial tendencies. Above are three illustrative types: The common Southern butterfly (left), given to “club” life; a pacifist from India (center) and a pugnacious species (right). | lines drawn around human social units | for the same purpose. Haphazard wandering and “club” life, usually affecting the males of the species in larger number than the fe- males, are other effects of population pressure he has observed among both men and butterflies. “In some species, as for instance the cloudless sulphur, the males will flock together and go on exploring expedi- tions, sometimes traversing large areas never visited by females,” he say In others, the males will congregate on muddy spots where they may be seen occasionally in enormous companies sucking up the moisture. ture suggest men's clubs in a crowded | city.” LANSBURGH & BRO 7th, 8th and E Sts.—FAMOUS FOR QUALITY SINCE 1860—Franklin 7400 You’ll Miss Hearing Eddie Cantor To- night if You Haven’t a Radio at Your Command—But Coming Features, Never—If You Take Advantage of This Exceptional Radio Value RCA Radiola 1 (Lighting Circuit Operated) In This Handsome Inlaid Walnut Veneered Cabinet These com- | | panies of males sociably imbibing mois- ARRESTS INCREASE, - DECEMBER REPORT | Police Record Is Gain Over, November, as Well as De- cember in 1927. | e | Washington police made 10,592 ar- | | rests during December, a slight increase | over the number of arrests in Nove ber, and a substantial increase over the number of arrests in December. 1927. In November, 1928, the police made 10,412 arrests and in December, | x19:‘7. they took 7,547 persons in the | oils. half of the arrests were for | against the traffic regulations, 4,494 persons in all being_arrested for breaches of these rules. Parking ove | time, as_usual, was the cause of most arrests, 731 tickets calling on motorists to leave collateral for this cause having | been left in their cars. Next came vio- | | 1ations of the light regulations, with | 646 arrests; speeding, with 552 viola- | | tion of miscellaneous parking regula- | tions, with 453, and parking abreast, | | with'310. | One hundred and ninety-four arrests | | were made for reckless driving, 39 for | | driving while drunk, and 31 for collid- | ing and failing to stop. Three hundred and forty-four arrests were for felonies, including seven for murder. The arrests for misdemeanors totaled 3.155. There were 482 arrests | | for violations of the Volstead law and | 1,329 for violations of the Sheppard law, | which includes intoxication. The police seized 31,392 gallons of | mash during the month. Other seizures | includec 7 stills, 1,208 quarts of alc hol, 6,825 quarts of whisky and 1,545 | bottles of beer. The hard liguor and Austin H. Clark (above) of the National Museum points to various butter- | 2ICOhol seizures totaled 2.469 gallons. | | ROMAN SCHEME BARED. | | Vatican Reveals Plan Papal Question. | ROME, January 5 (#).—Existence of | a provisional scheme for settlement of | the Roman question was revealed semi- | officially by the Vatican today in the | | publication of an appreciation of the | “ life work of State Counselor Domenico | | Barone, who died yesterday. | It was he, said the statement, who, together with the consistoral advocate, | Francesco Pacelli, brother of t | nuncio in Germany, “had confidenti: | conversations about the possibility of | the solution of the Roman question. | . The Barone-Pacelli tentative schem> is understood to have provided measures | for making the Pope appear, and be in fact, really independent of Italian or | other control. to Settle Flu Routs Hermit Isolated 20 Years On South Mountain Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md, January 5. —Influenza has driven Edward Norris, hermit of South Mountain, back to civilization, after 20 years. He staggered into town yesterday and has been sent to the county home at Bellevue. Norris, 57 years old, lived in a shack near Rohresville, Md.,, and subsisted on nuts, berries and wild game. He wore little more than a loin cloth and was seldom seen. His shack fell down about three years #go, and he received aid from people of that section. Nothing is known of his family or previous life. McDERMOTT, VETERAN ACTOR, DIES IN WEST| Movie Pioneer, 60, Played Char- \ acter Parts With Many Famous Stars. By the Associated Press. GLENDALE, Calif, January 5.— Mark McDermott, veteran actor and a pioneer of the movies, died at a hospital here today after a long illness. He was | 60 years old. 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