Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 17

Washington News - @he Fuening Star LANGDON CLEARED BY JURY PROBING BURTON SLAYING Inquest Verdict Holds Colored Man Shot by Officer in Line of Duty. DETECTIVE DECLARES VICTIM HAD PISTOL Was Attempting to Escape From Car Forced to Curb After Chase Over City. After deliberating for nearly an hour a coroner’s jury decided that Precinct Detective Robert F. Langdon killed Louis Burton, colored, in line of | quty. Burton, 29-year-old alleged boot- legger, was shot and kiiled by Langdon last Thursday, escepe from an automobile which Lang- don and another officer forced to the curb at South Capitol and K streets. Burton was shot in the back and died two days later at Casualty Hospital. Half a doven employes of the Stan- after he had tried to! Grifith Con- | “REPEATING” PRISONERS " CREATE PUBLIC PROBLEM Jail Is “Home” to Increasing Number, ' Causing Welfare Board to Plan Bill BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Jail is “home” to an increasing num- | ber of Washington men and women. | Battered and world-weary, they re- arded hills of Occoguan from the ferred back to the Distri 5- back alleys and dives of the city. charged in a few days. ., e Some have had from 70 to 80 home- ¥2s picked up again and ci ent down ings in t} t eight One for 90 days. but somebody got him oit comings in the pas eight. years. ne o paving fine. He remained {old gentleman boasts of 135 sentences py FiY'\8 Take a single year's one of the oldest offenders. he was arrested for the March 13, after what appe bren a three-month straight. He went down for 60 days, £ at ibe nti s 7, when he was | Since he has been a resident of Wash- Lnrrty until gune Tt ington. His claim covers so long & pe- [oiq his fine and he remained at | riod that it has not been practical for Derty antil Jun ent ¢ [odinEl t Deen practical for Jierty until Junc 8. When he went to jail offielals o verify it. but he IS & Qccoquan for 30 dr 3 man with an excellent record for ve- He next is in the hands of the police racity. on July 9 and is sentenced to 90 days. Constant Repeaters Are Problem. His fine is paid aft These constant repeaters have be- L‘;’tlfifé";‘ e s fome such & broblem to the DIstrict (ransferred from the workhouse to the | Board .o} ublic Welfare and superin- ! District jail and is out again in time | tendents of the three penal institutions "o, njsq‘mrnfl‘ of 10 days December i | | that a bill is being drawn up for pres- 1§ 8L &0 this sentence, but i { entation to the forthcoming special pin 't Gedin two after Ch sessfon of Congress which will be rev- 155 ang goes down for 90 days. Agal olutionary in the history of penal legis- Lomenody "pays his fine and he is at lation in Washington. when he goes liberty until Febr Judge Michael M. Doyle, & member goyn for 70 days, which he stll is of the board of public welfare. has) CONT | been delegated to write this bill and | ; : is engaged in framing a measure which | %3 Terms in Eight Years. will provide for indeterminate sentences, | » (i example s W. J. M., 40 a parole board, a provision for a small money payment to prisoners {upon discharge from the District of | | Columbia Workhouse, and probably the | | maintenance of a receiving home in acc vears old, whose prison carec ing to Maj. Peak's records, started on July 1, with a 10-day sentence for intoxication. Before the end of the | vear he had accumulated six other jail TWASHINGTON, Again somebody | D. SLACRE ARPORT /10 BF ADVISED BY DAVISON FORD. :Model Plant Costing $3,000.- 0G0 to $4,000,000 Favored After Inspection Tour. | LOCATION QUESTION NOT TO BE INCLUDED Recommendation Will Give Details as to Hangars, Runways and Such. Engineer Commissioner | Donald A. Davison, who returned to his | desk today after a brief visit to the air- ! ports at Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo, missioners the construction of a model 500-acre airport for the city of Wash- ington, to cost between $3,000,000 or $4.000.000. Maj. Davison has not yet had time to enter into the details of his recom- mendation, but he will set at work upon them at once. They wiil include recommendations as to the type ond size of hangers, number and construc- tion of runways and other technical engineering details which occupied most C. MONDAY, MARCIL aid he would recommend to the com- | 1929, PAGE 17 JILDER OF SE SEES SUPERS BY JRY AT ORDER s e OF JUSTEE oY~ "% in Year. judge Directs Verdict of Not Capt. Irving Here Awaiting | Guilty on All 10 Counts Arrival Tonight of Driv- | in Indictment. ing King. \ i | | “Two hundred miles an hour is mere | child's play, 300 may be child’s play |after next year, if we get some com- | petition.” Capt. J. S. Irving, designer and builder of Ma). H. O. D. Segrav Golden Arrow superspeed car, which Collins” Admission Prosecution EVi- . cnty ‘set a mark of 231 miles an hour on Daytona Beach. said today. . ol dence Largely Circumstantial | (200 G, Davions, Rinch, foid, tomes; Brings Defense Victory. | waiting for Maj. Segrave to arrive in ;ACCUSED OF FORGING | DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS | | Washingten for a short stay beforc | returning to England. 8 | Mrs. Lorraine Horner, wife of scan-‘m,,c,‘;,‘;‘,'fl,"‘:,"gffs,"g,;‘;}.shfu&”rlflff:d;"og ley Horner, automobile distributor, was | superhighways for general travel, acquitted of charges of forging and | “There is no reason why you shouldn't passing e prescriptions ttt!;]xs | hnvln-nént(hn country now busses capable | morning in Criminal Division 1 of the | ¢ 0 125 miles an hour, traveling | District Supreme Court, when Chief | with perfect safety,” he said. “That Justice Walter I. McCoy directed the | will come, surely. ‘It must come. The | jury to return a verdict of not guilty to | mechanical facilities are all available, | all 10 counts in the indictment. | there is no limitation on tires at such | | Chief Justice McCoy's direction had,r'nnlp;:nl:"fil)t' s;ln\&asxmd& and n;mqu]fs; | been anticipated since last Saturday, | can be built to drve any projectile | when it Rt dmrmxm-}d!m almost speed.” | | to grant the motion of defense counsel! Capt. Irving sees the driver—the hu- | | to that effect. Owing to the fact that| man element—as the weakest link in | | the jury had been excused until today, | all speed tests. Next. he says, the tires, | he had withheld announcing his deci- | or substitutes therefor, are the big prob- sion until the reopening of court. lem. Accused of Changing Figures. 245 Miles Car's Capacity. GRAVE'S CAR | this last and greatest test against time. | FPEED DAY NEAT. | I CAPT. J. S. IRVING. velopments of motor cars come from | racing and I look for some to come from | There are many questions about auto- mobiles that I can answer now that I couldn’t answer before. This matter of | tires, for instance.” Elimination of accidents in super- speed trials, such as occurred to the Triplex, the giant three-motored jugger- naut of J. M. White of Philadelphia, which took the lives of its driver, Lee Bible, and a news cameraman, will come, he believes, through the demand by the governing body for such races for dri- vers of unquestioned skill. “The drivers themselves, such men a: Mzaj. Segrave and Tommy Milton— there are others—will eliminate such machines as the Triplex,” he says. ROADHOUSE BN VIGTIM DIES AS INQUEST IS BEGLN Charles Poutra Succumbs to Wounds Received in Green Gables Fight. WEEIpES ¥ CORDNER;S JURY CALLED BY STATE’S ATTORNEY fecond Man Shot Is Recovering. Motive for Fatal Quarrel Remains Uncertain. Charles Wesley Poutra, 32 years old, of the 1600 block of S street, who was shot in the abdomen during a quarrel at Green Gables, a roadhouse near Suitland, Md., last Wednesday, died at Emergency Hospital early this morning. Joe Houser, 30, of the 1900 block of Pennsylvania avenue, who also was shot at the same time, is said at the hospital to be well on the road to recovery. State’s Attorney J. Frank Parran of Prince Georges County ordered a cor- oner’s jury summoned when informed of Poutra’s death. The jury will be taken to Washington to :view the re- mains today. It will hold an inquest at a later date, when Hauser is recov- ered sufficiently to testify. In the mean- time police are continuing their efforts dard Oii Co. and the Washington to care for discharged pris- | E i ent | of his attention during his trip. The i | Capt. Irving set the limit of the Gold- o to apprehend others who were present i entences, During 1 he was sent : g 4 Mrs. Horner had been on trial since FTOW. &8, - et | Safety for the driver should be the e preseny B > al Co., who witnessed the |oners for a few days and try to get! o e t he man- | commissioners must report to Congress | y s v the o ent | €1 AITOw as 245 miles an hour. “The | v at the shooting. umers’ Co: | to Occoquan nine times, bu! e memdntions. (or & atraon, i | March 15, acoused by the Government (., “\us" capable of much more than | st considerstion in the design of a of having raised the figures on five pre- | aged to crowd in 12 sentences in 1923 seriptions written by Dr. M. C. Dollman, | i i g v bs for them. “hooting disputed Langdon's story that | 0 il ! i and 13 in 1924. The next year he I killed Burton because the colored | Opposition in Congress Seen. 't | super-speed car, Capt. Irving avers. It Motive for Shooting Uncertain. is the prime factor of the game, and, g Bgreginsc that” he says, “but we could not g The exict £ the she ct cause of the shooting has December and they will use Maj. assurance that the tires would stand | Davison's technical report as a basis | man attempted to draw a pistol which { rried in his belt. = V0f the witnesses said that they did not see Burton make an effort to draw a pistol and that they did not ke a pistol from the see Langden ta ¢ tofored man after the shooting. None of them, however, was willing to say | that Burton did not have a pistol in his possession. Langdon Takes Stand. k“ ter some argument, Langdon took | |h:fstnnd and testified he believed Bur- | lon was trying to take the gun from: a holster which he carried in his b@ll: When he saw the colored mml‘ma}'te ihis move, he said, he concluded his own life was in danger. He said he fired at Bur- ton after the latter had turned the cor- . ner of K and Half street southeast. | langdon said he fired at the ground ! and that the bullet ricocheted into lhté man's body. ¥ He said that he did not intend to!} Fill Burton, but only to wound hlm“ After the shooting, Langdon took the| “ounded man to Casualty Hospital, | vhere he died two days later. | Hundreds of persons, unable to gain | admittance, thronged the streets out- side the District Morgue as the coro- | ner's inquest got under way. 3 wiumgn F. Franklin of the Vincent Costello Post. and other representatives of the American Legion were present When the inquest opened. They said that Burton had an excellent service | record during the war and that the Legion intended to learn the full de- M'.?.l of the shooting which resulted 1a his death. Witness Says Victim Had Gun. ecinct Detective F. L. Arrington. | ‘v\g:r was with Langdon on the day of | the shooting, testified this morning that he saw Burton attempt to draw a pis- tol from his belt before he attempted to make his escape. Arrington said he was close_enough to see the handle of the | pistol sticking out of the colored man’s | belt. g | Arrington said_he was driving the and that after the alleged had stopped, Burton and harles Fells, of the 1200 block of First street southwest jumped out. They stood facing him and Langdon for a few seconds, he said, while Bur- fon was attempting to draw his weapon. Arrington said he fired one shot in the air to frighten the colored man. As he fired, he said, both men started to run. Langdon grabbed Fells and turn- ed him over to Arrington and then started in pursuit of Burton. Police Claim Liguor in Car. Arrington said that Langdon re- turned a few minutes later in an auto- mobile, bringing the wounded colored man_ with him. He left immediately for the hospital in the car belonging to Fells before they had an opportunity to search it for liquor. Arrington said. According to the police. 88 quarts of whisky were found in the Tear com- partment of the automobile when it was searched at the fifth precinct. Dr. Joseph Rogers, deputy coroner, testified that he removed the bullet fiom Burton's body after the colored man had succumbed to the wound. The Pullet, he said, was slightly flattened on the bottom as though it had struck hard object before entering Bur- hody. He said that there was no nce of its having struck a bone. 1 evidel EPISCOPALIAN LAYMEN CONCLUDE CONFERENCE Thirteen From Maryland, Virginia, | Delaware, Pennsylvania and Illinois Attend Sessions. The final conference of a series for Jaymen which has been held during lent by the College of Preachers of Washington Cathedral took place Fri- :, Saturday and yesterday at Mount Alban. Dr. Wiliam C. Sturgis, merly educational secretary of the department of missiol of the Protes- \t Episcopal Church, was the leader. hirteen laymen from Maryland, Vir- Delavate, Pennsylvania and Iili- nois were in attendance. The sessions took place in the me- morial ng of the Cathedral library, with di exercises in the Bethls hrm Ch: Those attended includes t Boling W. Barton, P. L. Gold: borough, J. A. W. Iglehart and C. M. Sears, all of Baltimore: C. C. Chapin, | Meade. C. B. Valentine and i a | i Wood. all of Richmond: T. J. Hall, | of T Landing, Md.; H. L. Har- of Wilmington Del; W. A. Lippin. fott, jr. and G, H. Randall of Phila- 2. and Melvin Spencer of Spring- 1d, T CUBA HONORS SUMMERALL | The award of Cul Gen, Charl of staff, was r the War Department Gen. Summerall as an officer of the £rmy is prohibited by the Constitution, however, from accepiing any medal or decoration of & forelgn government and, thergfore, the Cuban decoration will be retained in Department constitutiona until these provisions no longer are applicable. The of the award was made Kellogg_had advised | 60 days Secret Gocd of the Cuban govern ment's action. ‘This legislation involves several knot- ty problems, especially the indetermi- nate sentence provision, which is expect- | ed to arouse more or less opposition in | Congress, but for which there are ex- | cellent precedents in some of the States. i Judge Doyle is studying previous efforts | to deal with the “repeater” problem, | especially a bill drawn up but never | | presented by Attorney George E. Ham- | ilton several years ago when he was| a member of the board of charities, | which embodied practically all these| provisions. Men from both Occoquan and Lorton now are set free without any further supervision at the Seventh sireet sta- tion of the Southern Railway. Those from Occoquan are without money, often without friends, and find them- | selves helpless in the city. Often their only means of getting bed and dinner is to get into the toils of the law again as soon as possible. 66 Progress Revealed by Barnard. The astonishing progress of some of | the “repeaters” is revealed in statistics | compiled by Capt. M. M. Barnard, su- perintendent of District of Columbia | penal institutions; Maj. William H. Peake and Julian A. Schoen, superin- tendents of the District Jail and Occo- quan Workhouse, and Miss Pearl Mc- | Call, assistant United States auomey} It is pointed out, however, that these records, astounding as they seem, by no means furnish a complete picture of the individual's prison career, since some of the men have records almost &s long in the Maryland institutions. They roam back and forth between Washington | and Baltimore, and are well known to the police of both cities. Few of the “repeaters” really are | criminals. They are characterized by | Maj. Peake and Mr. Schoen simply as men and women who have “given up.” | and whose only associations with hu- man kindness, cleanliness, full stomachs and warm blankeis are at the jails. “Intoxication” or “disorderly conduct” appear on their records 56, 60 and 70 | times. Their sentences range from 10 to 60 days, with an occasional sentence of a year to give a little variety. Some of them are excellent mechanics, who always find a welcome awaiting them | &t the workhouse, but they cannot make | a living outside. Occasionally. of course, | there is a degenerate among them whose constant crimes and misdemeanors arc | a menace to society. Dejected Lot in Court. They are a dejected lot, their heads | bursting from the effects of bay rum | and raw alcohol, when they are herded | into the District Jail, but their faces | brighten the next morning as the train | nears Lorton Station and they sec the | familiar, battered old truck waiting ‘o |take them to the heated barracks, sweeping vistas of Virginia countryside | and recreation hall in the hills. } Sometimes one of them will manage | to stay out of jail a month, especially |in Summer when one can sleep out | of doors without discomfort. At other | seasons they frequently are released at the Seventh street station one eve- ning. arrested that same night, tried | the next day, and are back at Occopuan the day after, readv to take up their old jobs with hardly a break in the | continuity. Some of them regard these jobs as thelr own. Mr. Schoen tells of | one man who is an_excellent plumber. | Every time he comes back he is returned to the plumbing shop, so that actually he only has an occasional day off. He was out four days the last time. “Got a Right to Be Here.” “Back again,” one of the other pris- i i into the shop. % “I guess I've got more right to be here than anybody else,” the old man muttered indignantly. He loves his job and fears that during one of his en- forced vacations some other prisoner | cner plumbers greeted him as he came | dropped back to 12 and since then he has worried along on 10 sentences a year. He has a total of 73 terms. D. M. colored, 36 years old, has only 38 sentences recorded against his name since 1921, but he still is a young man. He made his best record in 1925, when he went to Occoquan 15 times, There were two 30-day sentences, four 20-day, | one 25-day, two 15-day and six 10-day terms, a total of 215 days. C. O.. 40 years old, has 73 sentences recorded since 1921. His high-water mark was 13 in 1923. He dropped back to four in 1925, but has piled up from | eight to ten a year since. J. B. M., 29 years old, has piled up 41 sentences of from 10 to 90 days in four years. E. R. 44 years old, in the same length of time has 43 terms in Occoquan against his name. 300 Counted in Race. Approximately 300 men have been in Jail 10 or more times in the past five years, Some of the repeaters are women, such as Mary W., colored, with a record of 39 sentences in five years, all for in- toxication. She made her best mark in 1924, when she went down 16 times. Mary J., white, runs her a close second, | with 32 sentences in four years. Most of the repeaters are gentle and harmless men and women, who long since have won the affection of the at- tendants. Prisoners are not coddled at Occoquan. They work hard and must be strictly on their good behavior, but they are fed well, housed comfortably, and protected from themselves, There are no walls to restrain them and no ostensible guards, but seldom indeed does a repeater make a break for liber- ty.l Humane and fair treatment is the rule. In discussing his proposed bill, Judge Doyle emphasized the helpless condi- tion of men and women discharged in Washington without a cent and with nobody having any further interest in them until they have broken the law again. Some of the repeaters eventual- ly comit serious crimes. As for the chronic alcoholics who go down month after month, Judge Doyle believes that they are more in need of hospital treat- ment than sentences to jail, and that eventually soclety will adopt this way of dealing with them. — SPECAL BOARD WL TRY ALEN liceman’s Request for Trial Starting Thursday. Maj, Edwin B. Hesse, retiring super- request of Pvt. Robert J. Allen of the third precinct and appointed a special police trial board to hear the charges service revolver. at 10 o'clock Thursday morning in the sixth precinct police station. The special trial board will be com- posed of three captains, T. R. Bean, j Martin J. Reilly and J. E. Wilson, It 1s the same board which exonerated | Allen several months ago on a charge of failing to co-operate with an in- spector of the District Health Depart- { ment in the case of a delicatessen store Hesse Grants Accused Po-i intendent of police, today granted the | against him of unwarranted use of his | Allen will go on trial | highest decora- tion, the Order of Miliary Merit, to s P. Summerall, Army chief ade public yesterday at the custody of the State | He was arrested the day after Chr may get it away from him. Few of the repeaters, however, are cld men. They range between 25 and 40. About half are white and half col- ored, but all the records are held by { white men i i | A typical year of a repcater’s life is| | proprietor on the policeman’s beat, who was accused of using unsterilized drink- ing glasses. 47 Witnesses Supoenaed. Allen’s trial will be held in the same room in the sixth precinct station 15 days. Discharged March 2, he was| of Inspector Louis J. Stoll and rearrested March 21 and sent down for | Fred M. Cornwell and William G. Stott, 60 days. He got some time off for good | will be in session on the floor below, conduct so that he was at liberty on{ The Allen trial is expected to rivai May 21, on which date he was arrested | that of Capt. Burlingame in the num- and sent to the workhouse for 90 days. | ber of witnesses. Forty-seven alrcady Again he got some time off for good | have been subpocnaed, 33 by Allen and conduct, but on_September 10 he was | 14 by the proscution. picked 1p again and received a sentence 7 P15 dave. TAfter a few days of drunken Hesse Summoned by Allen. Nberty he fell info the hands of the| Maj. Hesse and a large group of police once more on October 3 and | ranking officers of the department, in | addition to a number of privates, are went down for 30 days. | % | among those sumomned by Allen. These In Again—Out Again. | include Inspector Stoil, Capts. Burlin- He was out again, however, Novem- game and W. E. Sanford, and Lieut. {ber 1, on which date he was again ar-| H. rested and sent to the workhouse for | bureau. 25 days He served the sentence and! The charges against as discharg arly Winter, He did something to get | himself rearrested at once and on No- mands of the officer. | vember 30 drew another 25-day sen-| shot in the right tence, getting out the day before Christ- | charged from the hospital seve mas. He met with an old crony who! later, furnished him some bay rum, now be- lieved to be the clieapest of Intoxleants. | pybagey mas and went back for 30 days. Ap- parently he was rearrcsted two days after his release, January 28. and got Now he is out again. but jail | Allen followed falled to halt at the The boy Mifitary attaches of foreign embassies and le parim their in & body this morning to pay respects to Col. Patrick J. Hurley - 1 officials ex | man repeats this record year after year.! Wase shown by Tecords compiled By MT.| where the extraordinary board which | | Schoen. F. B., for instance, was ar-| exonerated Capt. Guy E. Burlingame [ rested January 9, 1928, and sent down ! of the charges growing out of the ac [for 30 days. He served the full time.!cusations of Mrs. Helen F. Blalock but was out soon enough to be Tear- | conducted its hearing. the same rested February 17. This time he got| time, the regular t , made up apis. | H. Grove of the central detective Into the chill winds of | his shooting of a colored youth who | repeated com- was | leg and was dis- 1 days | morning sent s Meet Col. Harley | tions called at the War De- ect him back any day. This|newly appointed Assistant Secretary of for their recommendations. Maj. Davison's report recommendation for a location for the airport, but it is well known that the city heads favor a site to be developed out of the low lying land at Gravelly Point, Va. Maj. Davison said his recommenda- tion would probably call for the ex- penditure of $1,000,000 to . $1,500.000 during the first vear. He would not go more Into detail at this time. but promised a detailed report for publica- tion later. HARLAND PREDICTS Believes Dupont Circle Con- gestion Will Cure Itself in Few Days. Complaint over the traffic confusion caused by the 22 new traffic lights in- stalled at Dupont Circle to give both pedestrians and vehicles an opportunity to cross the various intersections in perfect freedom, was made to Traffic Director Willilam H. Harland today by C. P. Clark, assistant general manager of the American Automobile Associa- tion. | Clark called on Harland at the traffic | department and they exchanged com- i ment on the operation of | lights, which were turned on yesterday | and attracted more autoists than ever | to the busy circle, the drivers being cu- | rious to sce the new signals at work. { The confusion that resulted also wa | prevalent today when the rush hour traflic headed for downtown. Clark Predicts “Cure.” “How long did it take vou to get around the circle this morning?” Mr. ! Harland asked Clark. “Abount an hour and a half,” was the reply. “Don’t you think the situation will cure itself in a few day: “Yes, indeed,” was the reply. “By { that time we will all find another way | to get to town, and we will use it until they start tearing up the streets.” Clark complained that there were no designated lanes for pedestrians to fol- low in crossing the circle. Harland said {he omitted them on purpose. TI ! major reason for the lights at the circle, he explained, was to allow nurses and children who use the park inside the | circle as a playground to cross the street safely. If he put in lanes for them to follow, they would lose time getting to the lanes, and would probably be caught in the middle of the street when the lights changed to green, he said. “1 think in three of four days, the novelty will have worn off,” Harland continued, “and things will settle down to normal. 1 intend to put in another light where Nineteenth street enters the circle. I think things will run better then, “What makes the situation bad at the circle is that one line of street cars travels from Connecticut avenue to P street against the rest of the stream of i traffic. {turn green at once. This creates a | situation where cars are making left- { hand turns out of the circle into P | strect against a stream of southbound | traffic. So we have to keep an officer g 8 i there to stop the automobile traffic, in | | spite of the green light, to let the street | cars get on P street. I do not see how this situation can be remedied except by relaying the car tracks around the | circle. Drivers Add to Confusion. “Another thing that makes the situa- tion confusing is that drivers tend to keep to the outside of the circle. This they are trying to turn out of the circle and get in to one of the inter- wuld take the le as much as possi- | ter for the Wash- ington Railvay & Electrie Co., who works at_the circle in the traffic rush hours told him the street cars were moving faster as a result of installation of the lights, The main complaint, he said, came from motorists who often way around the circle. This would only happen in the rush hours, Harlan sald s during the rest of the day a car make a coemplete circle around light controlled area without a still keeping within the speed MAN SHOT IN QUARREL. A shooting described by police as the | culmination of & crap game early this orge Haines, colore, |27, of 214 B-and-a-Half street southwes to Emergency Hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen which may prove urth precinct police were told had been in a fight with Ayler ms, 34, of 326 C street southwast, = the gun play occurred. Police been unable to locate the latter A ¥ Hainos will carry no | TRAF SOLUTON the new | All the lights around the circle | 50 as (o obtain larger amounts of drugs, | £ d | Following an admissions by United | WP at better than 245. They were the | t - : ¢ |best we could get and they marked e ey Al B eoums Al | naturally, the limit of the Golden Ar Horner largely was circumstantial, Mil- | TOF'S speed. Maj. Segrave could have ton King and John H. Burnett, her at- | tried for a higher speed, and I did| torneys, filed & motion last Friday that | Want him to get the car up to 240 the court direct a verdict of not guilty | Miles an hour. at least, but the un-| on the ground that each of the five pre- | fortunate accident to the Triplex car Seriptions was invalid under the Har. |and the big margin we established over rison narcotic act and could not have | the old record. made that unnecessary. | been forged under the law. Capt. Irving already is planning a| | "In explaining his action to the jury, | 300-miles-an-hour car. | Chief Justice McCoy, in support of the | = “What about tires for a car like argument of defense counsel, said: that>” he was asked. “In every case of forgery under the | “We may not use rubber. I have an| law, the forgery must operate to the [idea. I cannot say what it is at present, prejudice of others. The law also pro- | Put we'll have something to answer any vides that narcotic prescriptions must | Preaking of our record,” he replied. not only bear the signature of the phy-| “HOw about Maj. Segrave’s state- siclan, but also must be dated. It has|ment that he is through with the been testified that none of these pre- |Suberspeed game?” the engineer was scriptions before you was dated, and |asked. therefore they could not be valid pre- ©Oh, he always says that.” Capt. Irv- | scriptions. Neither could they operate | iNg replied. “Just let some one hit | to the prejudice of another, because no | 2bout 238 miles an hour on Daytona one had the right to fill them.” | Beach and he will be right back in the Sister Expected to Be Absolved. | J81t” | In view of the acquittal of Mrs. | Horner on_these grounds, it is con- sidered probable that the Government will move to nolle prosse the indictment that stands against Mrs. Vivian Till- man, her sister, who was indicted with her on the same counts. Through her attorneys, Harvey Cobb and Daniel S. z | Ring, Mrs. Tillman obtained a severance | MaJ. Segrave’s test that will be of in- March 6, estimable value on the ‘bread and but- During the trial of Mrs, Horner testi- | teF' side of motor design—that is, quan- mony given by Dr. Dollman and C.! !ty production.: All of the great de- Answer for Critics. Capt. Irving has several answers ready | for those who criticize superspeed trials on Daytona Beach as unwarrantedly dangerous. “I am a consulting automotive engi- neer,” he said. “I have learned a great many_things about automobiles from | trolled. Speed without control is worth. while projectiles can be built capable of super speeds, they must be con-| less, he points out, adding that it is highly dangerous. Rocket cars, recently tried out in Ger- many, are just freaks and not destined o go very far, the British designer says. i Segrave Due Tonight. Maj. Segrave arrives in Washington tonight. The silver trophy he won when he broke the speed record at Day- tona, which is the gift of the city of Daytona Beach, will be presented on the | steps of the Capitol Wednesday morn- | ing at 11 o'clock by Vice President Curtis. Sir Esme Howard, British Am- bassador; Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff of the Army; Admiral| Hutchison Cone, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen of the Florida delegation to Congress, Mayor E. H. Armstrong of Daytona Beach and Mayor W. F. Broening of Baltimore, where Maj. Segrave was born, are expected to attend the presen- tation ceremony. Capt. Irving has brought to the United States an invention in which he seeks to interest American motor car manu- facturers. It is a “free-wheel” attach- ment for the automobile g box, which would lift the engine drag from a car when the foot is lifted from the accelerator. It works, Capt. Irving points out, very much like the coaster on a bicycle, and saves, in allowing free coasting. up to 25 per cent of the car's consumption of gasoline. | P. Beckley and Morris Rodman, | pharmacists, who filled the prescrip- | tions, admitted that none presented had been dated when made out and filled. | courtroom this morning during the 5- ! | minute proceedings. She avaited the | | anticipated action of the court in the i i L .Committee Announced by Dr. Dollman is under indictment on | three counts of misuse of narcatic pre- | = g Spanish Ambassador to MAN THOUGHT SHOT | g | ! Serve as Advisers. seriptions in connection with the case. | | IN ROBBERY ATTEMPT| = A Appointment of an American inter- He admitted in court that he had given | Mrs. Horner 222 narcotic prescriptions within a few months, | | Watch - Is Kept at Hospitals for| Mational committee to act in an ad- 7 visory capacity for the forthcoming Intruder Believed to Be exposition at Barcclona has been an- Wounded. | | | Mrs. Horner did not appear in the | nounced by Spanih Ambassador Padilla. The committee was appointed by the Marquis de Foronda, president of the exposition, after consulting with Ambas- sador Padilla. Miscellaneous loot valued at over $200 was lost to burglars and thieves over the week end, while one intruder, attempt- ing to enter the home of Fred H. ‘Wright, 2242 Twelfth street, early yes- | terday morning, is thought to have re- ceived several bullet wounds. Wright fired on the man as he ran into the alley behind his home. Wright said the thief had a stocking pulled over his face as a mask. Police have been on the lookout for the man, think- ing he might turn up at a hospital. Robbers gaining entrance through a basement window last night made off with jewelry valued at $200 from the residence of Waldo J. Tastet, 4140 Committee Personnel. ‘The members of the committee in- clude Alfred Sloan, president of the | General Motors Corporation; Gen. Har- bord, president of the Radio Corpora- tion of America; L. A. Osborne, presi- |dent of the Westinghouse Electric In- | ternational Co.: Conde Nast, president of Conde N: Publications; Otto H. {Kahn, New York banker; B. F. Yoa-!| kum, president of the Empire Bond & | | Mortgage Co.; John F. Tinsley, vice | president and general manager of Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, Worcester, Mass.; Noble Foster Hogg- Seventeenth street, he reported to police. | son, president Hoggson Brothers; P. F. Some one entered the Chinese laun- | Saylor, president of the Canada Dry dry of Lee Lim, 2134 P street, he dis- | Ginger Ale Co., and Alban McCauley, covered yesterday afternoon, and forced | president of the Packard Motors Co. the cash drawer, getting $2 in change| Since American manufacturers and and several packages of laundry. | sales organizations have sent extensive Bessie E. Hurt, 1437 Shepherd street, | exhibits to the exposition, and many 19:45 am., when struck by an automo- currency and six pairs of silk hose. Bennu Ennis, property manager at the reported the theft yesterday of $60 in | merchants have indicated that they will send buyers, the appointment of the American committee was considered shuts off drivers using the inside when | had to stop two or three times on their | Fox Theater, reported the theft of a | necessary to act in an advisory capacity revolver valued at $20 from a locker at [ to both™ the American exhibitors and the theater. The gun was missed yes- | visitors. terday afternoon. ashon 40,000 Square Feet of Space Reserved.| Approximately 40,000 square feet of floor space has been reserved by Ameri- can_exhibitors in the arts, chemicals, machinery and construction sections of the_exposition. Special offices have been reserved by the American Chamber of Commerce in Barcelona. One of the largest exhibits will be in the agricultural section, which will oc- FINED ON DRY CHARGE. | Defendant Arrested While Seated Under Police Patrol Box. William J. Fallon, 55 years old, of the 900 block of Grant place, desired to take a ride last night and seated ! himself under a police patrol box at [cupy two entire buildings. | Ninth street and New York avenue. The exposition will open May 15 and Officer A. S. Douglas approached and | will continue for seven months. | dition today was reported not serious. NINE ARE INJURED INTRAFFIC MISHAPS Automobile Carrying Party of | Six Crashes Into Pole on Highway. Nine persons figured in traffic acci- dents reported to police yesterday, six of them members of one party. An automobile driven by Elmer Mal- | colm, 33, of 219 P street, in which five other persons were riding, crashed into a pole on the Defense Highway, near Lanham, Md., about 2:30 o'clock when a rear tire blew out. Malcolm was slightly injured, as were his daughter, Betty Jane Malcolm, 10; Mrs. Louise Steeks, 34; her husband, Frank Steeks, 34; their daughter, Shirley Steeks, 10, and their son, Frank Steeks, jr., 9, all of 171 Uhland terrace. Malcolm took members of the party to Emergency Hospital, following t! accident, where each was treated for bruises and lacerations. Child Hurt, Driver Arrested. Mary Mulaney, 10 years old, of 1332 I street, was seriously injured about bile at Eleventh and G streets. She was taken to her home and then to Emergency Hospital, where Dr. J. E. Lewis treated her for possible fracture of the skull. Ernest Charles Thomas of 2611 Sherman avenue, said by police to have been driving the car that struck the girl, was arrested and charged | with committing assault with an auto- mobile. He was released in custedy of an attorney for appearance in court when called. Clarence G. Lee of 1123 Thirteenth street was seriously injured at Union Station about 7:45 o'clock l#8t evening when struck by a street car of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. A passing motorist took him to Casualty ospital, where he was treated by Dr. Ottman for possible fracture of the skull. Woman Hit by Automobile. Another accident on Defense High- way resulted in injury to Mrs. Theo- dosia Johnson, 54 years old of Bladen: burg, Md., who suffered minor bruises about the body when struck by an automobile while crossing the highway near South Corners. She was taken to Casualty Hospital, where her con- questioned the man. 1 am waiting for a taxicab,” Fallon said to have replied. Douglas immediately summoned the | patrol and Fallon was taken to the first precinct. A charge of intoxica- | tion was preferred. | _Arraigned in Police Court today, the man was ordered to pay a fine of §25 | or 30 days by Judge Ralph Given. Hope was held out today by Charles| Henlock, in charge of the hnrlicultural‘ division of the office of public buildings and public parks, that with continued | favorable weather, the single-blossom cherry trees will be in bloom Easter | Sunday. Yesterday's Summerlike temperature wr wonderful change in the STOLEN CAR FOUND. Police Sergt. Jenkins Recovers Auto Reported Taken. Sergt. R. B. Jenkins of the United States Park Police reported today to|buds, Mr. Henlock sald, and unless i pt. P. J. Carroll that he had re-|something unforeseen occurs in the | covered an automobile, reported stolen, | weather, prospects are bright that Nature will put on her Easter finery in the shape of countless Oriental blooms. April 5 was the previously announced | probable e for the initial blooming of the cherry trees, but the mild and warm March weather has hastened | their growth. in the rear of 126 Eleventh street south- east. _Jenkins declared that the car bore District license M-5440 and had | been reported stolen from its owner, William P. Many, 457 Massachusetts avenue. The car was turned over to No. 5 police station. Weather Prospect Inspires Prediction Cherry Trees Will Bloom Easter Sunday Should Washington be disappointed in seeing the cherry blossoms Sunday, Mr. Henlock explained, there are flowers enough now to treat the fancy of the lover of the out-of-doors. Thousands of daffodils are nodding in the breezes in East Potomac Park along the Po- tomac River; the magnolias near the Lincoln Memorial and near Inlet Bridge adjacent to the Tidal Basin are in| bloom and the gay forsythias are out in full force. Orange Fr-e State, South Africa, pro- poses to build an elaborate system of highways, with main trunk lines and secondary roads to serve as fecders, the entire plan calling for construction of 7,500 miles of thoroughfares. never been definitely established by the olice. ~ Louis Frederick Behrens, 29, also of the 1600 block of S street, who was struck over the head during the fight and subsequently arrested and placed under $1,000 bond as a Govern- ment witness, told State's Attorney J. Frank Parran the shooting followed a | quarrel between himseif and an Italian over a girl. Sheriff Charles 8. Early, however, is of the opinion the circum- stances of the shooting point rather to a quarrel over illicit liquor business as a more plausible cause. In additions to Behrens, who is also known as ‘“John Bunny” in sporting circles, local police arrested John Law- rence Brenner, 37, of the 1200 block of Twenty-first street, when he arrived at the hospital with Houser in his car. Versions of Fight Given. Both men were returned to Marlboro, Where each gave a written version of the shooting to the State's attorney Brenner declared he was outside the readhouse, preparing to drive back to Washington, when he heard 10 or 12 shots, and rushing back. saw two men pointing revolvers at Behrens. Later he discovered Houser and Poutra bleeding from bullet wounds and took one of the men to the hospital. Behrens claimed an Italian called him outside a few minutes before the shooting to complain because he had danced with a certain girl. The two men composed their differences at that time, the statement says, and shook hands, but a short time later Behrens declares he was struck over the mouth. This_aroused his ire and led to a fist fight, which, in turn, led to the shooting. Apparently most of the guests rushed for the doors when the firing started. Police found three men’s overcoats, two men's hats and a woman's fur coat in the building next morning. The woman's coat contained a driver’s permit issued March 6 to Miss Ruth Bradley, 29, who gave as her address the same apartment house in which Behrens and Poutra live. Seach for Woman Futile. Search by Prince Georges County po- lice and local headquarters detectives for Miss Bradley, and for the men who did the shooting, has so far been futile. Poutra was operated on shortly after being brought to the hospital, but at that time it was found impossible to re- move the bullet. A few hours later he was given a blood transfusion. The next day Prince Georges County police were informed the bullet had been re- moved. His condition remained critical, however. The shooting again aroused sentiment throughout the county for a more stringent roadhouse law, and led the county delegation in the Legislature to amend their bill so as to include the entire county, and to raise the penalty for violations to $500. — THREE SAVED FROM RIVER AS SPEED BOAT CAPSIZES Party Rescued by Tugboat After Pleasure Craft Is Uplei Off Hains Point. Three persons were saved from death yesterday on the Potomac River off Hains Point, when a newly-built speed- boat in which they were riding at high speed capsized after nearly striking a floating log and a tug, hauling gravel for the new Arlington Memorial Bridge, rescued the trio. The three—William F. Higgins, 28 years old, of 2608 Penn- svlvania avenue, who was at the boat's wheel: his 7-year-old daughter, Mary, and Charles Cumberland, 21, of 1508 Twenty-eighth street, were described to- day as being liitle the worse for their experience. ‘The speedboat, the Jimmy Junior, was constructed by Higgins' father, Lau- rence Higgins, a machinist, of 2608 Pennsylvania avenue and was being taken on its maiden run yesterday. The boat was said to be going about 40 miles | an_hour, when a log loomed up In its path. Seeking to avoid a collision, Hig- gins spun the wheel, but the light craft turned over. The three passengers were thrown out, but as all could swim they made their way back to the craft and clung to it for some 20 minutes until the tugboat rescued them. MURDER OF 7 YEARS AGO BEING INVESTIGATED Senator Pine Seeking to Solve Mys- terious Slaying of Wealthy Oklahoman in Maryland. Further light on the mystery sur- rounding the slaying of Barney A. Mc- Bride. a wealthy Oklahoman. in nearby Maryland seven years ago, will be sought in Oklahoma by Senator Pine of that State, who has left for a brief trip to the West prior to the opening of the new Congress. Senator Pine has been giving renewed attention to the unsolved McBride case during the past few months as the re- sult of reports which reached him to the effect that new information might be avallable. Thus far the Senator has not announced any definite progress. His present trip to Oklahoma is not being made solely for this purpose, but he indicated before leaving that he probably would look into certain phases of the case while in his home State. L 4