Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1929, Page 17

ONE DIES IN CRASH * OF CORNELL BUS: FIVE ARE INIURED Capital Umpire Is Fatally " Hurt in Accident Near Quantico. VEHICLE EN ROUTE HERE SKIDS OFF HIGHWAY Twenty-two Ball Players and Five Others Aboard—All Bruised or Shaken Up. One man was hurt fatally, three were seriously injured and two others required hospital treatment when a large bus carrying 22 members of the Cornell University Base Ball Club and five other men skidded off the road and was wrecked about 6 miles out of Quantico last night while bound here. ‘The man dead is Thomas Crooke. well known local umpire, of 1302 D street southeast. He died at the Ma- rine base hospital at Quantico at 11:30 o'clock this morning. After the bus left the road it plowed up about 50 feet of rail fence, crashed ‘ into a tree and then overturned, every one of the occupants receiving at least bruises and severe shaking up. ‘Three of the persons badly hurt were struck by a top rail of the fence, which penertated the front of the coach and continued all the way through the rear. Five Washingtonians were in the wreck. One other local man hurt seriously is H. W. Faggert of the Harrington Hotel, the driver of the bus, fracture of his right thigh and severe lacerations. Three others confined in Quantico Hospital are: John Russell of Ben Avon, Pa., stu- dent manager of the team, compound | fracture of his left leg, a bruised right | shoulder and cuts. John Haddock, assistant coach of the team, of Syracuse, N. Y., a badly bruised and lacerated right shoulder and cuts and bruises. F. C. Sillex of Washington, a relief driver, a lacerated leg. He did not go to the hospital. Russell’s condition also is serious. Injuries Are Serious. Prank Sheehan, 50 years old, of Ithaca, N. Y. the team trainer, was taken to Emergency Hospital in this city and this morning was said to be in a serious condition. His skull may be fractured and several ribs and his left | arm are broken. An investigation into the circum- stances of the accident is being con- ducted by the Washington Motor Coach Co., owners of the bus. One official of the company said the information he | had received indicated that the mishap was unavoidable and that the bus was proceeding at a legal rate of speed. The base ball team was en route to | Washington to engage the Georgetown University team this afternoon. Paul ‘W. Eckley, coach, said this morning that although his men are stiff and bruised, the game would be played un- less rain interfered. Wet grounds, how- ever, caused cancellation. Yesterday afternoon Cornell was de- feated, 6 to 1, by the Quantico Marine Corps team. They had dinner at the Marine post and then embarked in the bus for Washington. The crash oc- curred about 7:30 o'clock. Many of the | players were given airplane rides yes- terday morning at the Marine base. The team was on its annual Southern trip and was swinging back toward home, having toured the Carolinas and | 1 i | i ‘| makeshift apparatus of THOMAS CROOKE. . WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 5 1929, CLARK EVOLUTION THEORY AROUSES LIVELY DISCUSSION écientist Makes First Pres- entation of Theory to Scientific Body. 600,000,000-YEAR-OLD ROCKS FURNISH CLUES Dr. Hrdlicka, Dr. White, Dr. Stiles and Dr. Bassler Give Dis- senting Views. FIRE APPARATUS ADDITIONS SLATED Model Rescue Squad Wagon and Two Other Items Planned. A model rescue squad wagon and two other important additions will be made to the apparatus of the District Fire Department, it was announced today by Fire Chief George S. Watson. A 750-gallon triple-combination pump- ing engine and the most modern aerial hook and ladder available are included in the new equipment, to cost $37,775. Contract for the apparatus has been awarded the American La France & Foamite Industries, Inc. The new rescue squad wagon was de- signed by O. E. Fern, superintendent of machinery of the Fire Department, and Battalion Chief Thomas O’Connor, the rescue squad drill master. after an exhaustive study of similar apparatus in use in other cities. According to the fire chief, it will be the “last word” in rescue squad wagons and probably will serve as a model for other fire de- partments. ©Old Wagon in Reserve. Plans have been made to put the new wagon into service at No. 2 Engine Company, on Twelfth street between G and H streets, to replace the present the rescue squad. The old wagon will be held in reserve for emergency use. Special compartments have been de- signed in the new wagon for the variety of equipment carried by the rescue squad. This, includes gas masks, stretchers, acetylene torches and in- halators. Provision also has been made for two high-powered searchlights, at- tached to .a 110-voit generator con: nected with the motor of the wagon. In addition there will be a reel of wire which will enable the firemen to ecarry the searchlights into a building. ‘Undecided Location. Pire Chief Watson has not yet defi- nitely decided where to assign the two other mew pieces of apparatus. The aerial hook and ladder probably will be located in ome of the three outlying sections, Brightwood or Tenleytown. These three communities are growing rapidly, he pointed out, and should have metropoli- tan fire apparatus. At present, he said, the hook and ladder equipment Virginia. The motor coach was almost demol- ished. More than an hour was needed to get every one clear of the wreckage. Faggert was the last man rescued. He had been pinned beneath the broken steering wheel. Wet Road and Fog. «“We were going along pretty fast,” Mr. Eckley said today, “and the road was Wet and slippery and the fog was heavy. Probably due to the difficulty of seeing through the fog, the driver had the bus :hrne sections is known as the “village” ype. The new rescue squad wagon will cost the District $11,400. The price to be paid for the other two pieces of a paratus is $26,375. |CHICAGO FIRM GIVEN HOOVER OFFICE JOB such as Congress Heights, | BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A lively debate on the ancestry of man and the continuity of life forms developed in a meeting of the Wash- ington Academy of Sciences at the Cosmos Club last night when Dr. Austin H. Clark, noted National Museum biolo- gist, presented his special theory of evolution for the first time before .a scientific body. This theory holds that evolution has i progressed both by mutations and nat- ural selection within the major life groups, but that these groups them- selves have persisted since the begin- ning in essentially their present form. It has been praised by fundamentalist leaders as a long step toward reconcil- ing science and revealed religion. After Dr. Clark had explained the essential points last night, the theory was attacked vigorously by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, world-famous anthropologist and president of the academy; Dr. David White of the Geological Survey, Dr. C. W. Stiles of the Public Health Service, and Dr. Ray Bassler, curator of paleonthology at the National Museum. All insisted that the weight of evidence in their special flelds bore heavily against the Clark theory. Previous evolutionary theories have pictured all living things as descendants from some primitive, single-celled form. The difficulty, Dr. Clark said, is that they have not explained the enormous, unbridged gaps between such groups as the insects and vertebrates, or even be- tween major families of animals within these groups, such as dogs and cats. Old Rocks Give Clue. ‘The first clue to this mystery, he sald, came from the work of the late Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution, with rocks from the Cambrian era, until recently the first known rocks containing evidence of life on earth. They go back ap- proximately 600,000,000 years. Dr. Clark was closely associated with Dr. Walcott in examining fossils from these rocks. They revealed, he said, that the major groups even in this remote period were very - close to the major groups of today and showed no intermediate forms. He declared that the rock con- tained fragments of vertebrate fossils, although it has been generally supposed that back-boned creatures, such as are now the dominant forms of life, { | | | a for) ife, did not appear until millions of years later. Since life seems to go back in parallel lines that far, he said, it was reasonable to assume that such has been the case " | from the beginning. “As far back as we can go,” he said, “Insects have always been insects mnd vertebrates have always been verte- brates. Moreover, there-are no inter- mediate forms between dogs and cats, turtles and snakes, squids and oysters. Each has a separate evolutionary tree.” Man and Ape Linked. Man, he insisted, probably “appeared suddenly from the same general stock as apes from some unknown ancestor common to all primates but from the first was entirely distinct from !the anthropoids. Every bone in his i body ‘is different. Man has articulate | speech. The use of fire and tools, cloth- ing and ornaments were human att butes from the first. Both parents are required to rear the human infant and {to weld the family togethey there is a | socially effective sentiment of love in {all humans. Taboos have existed from the first to hold the family together. All monkeys, on the other hand, live together in troops, each mother raising | i i Complaint Officer Title Is Conferred On Lieut. Morgan Lieut. Ju?h C. Morgan, who was recently transferred from the Detective Bureau to take the place of Capt. F. S. W. Burke as liaison officer between the Po- lice Department of the Civil Serv- ice Commission and as member of the uniform board, was given the additional title of complaint offi- cer yesterday by order of Maj, Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of the department. In the past there has been no one man designated to receive all complaints from citizens who come to the District Building and the work has been shared between Morgan, Lieut. L. I. H. Edwards, and any other officer who hap- pened to be around headquarters, Now they all go direct to Morgan, who will take such action as his judgment indicates should be taken. The job is nothing new to Morgan, who has been re- celving the complaints of indig- nant citizens over his desk in the Detective Bureau for the past 16 years. STABILIZED MARKET 1S FARM AID PLAN President of Fruit Growers’ Association Would Consider Cost of Production. By the Associated Press. C. C. Teague, president of the Cali- { fornia Fruit Growers’ Exchange, laid before the House agriculture committee today a plan that contemplates stabiliz- ing markets on the basis of cost of pro- duction. The plan, which Teague said had been worked out by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, proposed that a stabiliza- tion corporation should go into the mar- ket to buy surplus commodities -after prices had fallen below the cost of pro- duction. ‘The plan contemplated - setting up only one stabilization corporation to i eliminate the overhead cost necessary to maintain different corporations for the separate commodities. Teague contended that there would be no losses if the corporation bought the surplus after the price fell below the cost of production, because he felt the price could not remain at such a level. ‘The grower, he said, could not continue to produce below that level, and prices | automatically would rise. { COMPULSORY AUTO - POLICES SOUGHT [Law to Govern Vehicles for Hire in District Being Drafted. A special committee of the Washing- ton Chamber of Commerce started on the drafting of a proposed law designed to require all motor ve- hicles carrying passengers or freight in the District for hire to take out insur- ance policies or post bonds to cover damages growing out of possible acci- dents. ‘The committee is headed by R. B. H. Lyon and is a subcommittee of the chamber committee on law and legis- lation, of which Judge Mary O'Toole is chairman. The proposed law is aimed to include independently owned taxi- cabs, some of which are said to be op- i today ! CITIZENS T0 ELECT SIK MEMBERS 10 ADVISORY COUNCIL Campaign in Federation of Associations Ends—Ballot- | ing Tomorrow. ACTIVE UNDERCURRENT OF INTEREST EVIDENCED Two Colored Representatives Are to Be Named, Without Con- test, Tonight. The campaign in the Federation of Citizens' Associations over the election of six members to the Citizens’ Advisory Council virtually came to a close today as the delegates made preparations to cast their ballots at the polls in the boardroom of the District Building to- morrow_evening at 7 o’clock. On the surface. the campaign has been comparatively quiet, but there has been an active undercurrent of interest by the candidates and their supporters. No Contest Tonight. ‘The two colored representatives on the council will be elected tonight by the Federation of Civic Associations. There will be no contests over this elec- tion, however, as there are only two candidates, Dr, George H. Richardson and W. H. Lewis, both members of the present council. The ballot of the Federation of Citi- zens' Association, on the other hand. contains the names of 16 candidates, 10 of whom must be eliminated in the election, which gives every indication of being the most spirited since the cre- ation of the advisory council. Four of the candidates are members of the pres- ent' council—F. Tracy Campbell, ‘Thomas E. Lodge, Willilam A.. Roberts and Charles I. Stengle. The other 12 jare Henry K. Dierkoph, John 8, Drig- gers, Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, G. Howard | Andrew F. E. Scheer, Charles H. Spe: | cer and Alfred Pembroke Thom. According to political gossip in federa- tion circles each of the organization’s factions has its own slate, and each is: confidently predicting victory. The issues involved are said to be sectional rather than over policies, 'although there have been rumors that Roberts is destined to receive little support in view of his fight against the transportation merger agreement in its present form. Yet, there are equally persistent reports that Lodge, who supported the merger plan, has been given but little consid- eration by the so-called slatemakers. successot on the council. Campbell, Roberts and Scheer, how- ever, have received the largest number lof indorsements from the neighborhood | organizations. The Anacostia, Randle Highlands and Hill Crest Associations have supported Campbell’s candidacy. Roberts’ support has come from the ! American Association of Engineers and | the Mt. Pleasant and Conduit Road As- | sociations, whereas the Brookland, { Rhode Island Avenue, Michigan Park ! and Dahlgren Terrace Associations have | indorsed. Scheer. Once Defeated by Error. One of the interesting features of the election is that Dr. Richardson, who has | been indorsed by the Congress Heights Association, was a candidate for the first advisory council. His defeat at that time was attributed to an error of his campaign manager during the course of the election. Mrs. Dubois is the only woman candi- date, but indications are that there is little likelihood that the federation in- tends at this time to place a representa- tive of her sex on the council. She was nominated by the Progressive Citizens’ Association of Georgetown after the federation had rejected the nomination of Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest because of her official connection with the com- munity center department of the pub- lic schools. The council’s organic act | forbids District government employes i from serving, and although she is em- ployed time by community Thom s said to be the choice as Lodge’s | ¥ B Fails to Realize He Is Wounded Until Going Into House. No More Hunts, Declares Mother, Who Throws Gun Into Well, Thirteen-year-old Johnny Jarbo - of No. 2 Harewood road northeast, who spends most of his spare time chasing imaginary Indians around his backyard, abandoned that pastime last night for more realistic hunting and accidentally shot himself in the leg with a .22-caliber rifle. Johnny. and his father, Edward Jar- bo, set out to rid the rear woodsheds of rats. They hunted and kiiled rats for some time. Mr, Jarbo was the first to tire of the sport and he left Johnny in the woodshed with a flashlight, still searching for rodents. Johnny's gun accidentaly . exploded while holding it at his side and the bullet pierced through a thick rubber boot -into his ankle, It was not until he went into the house, however, that he realized he was wounded. His father took him to Casualty Hospital, where physicians say he is not seriously hurt and will be able to continue his hunting activities in a few days. But his mother, Mrs. Margaret Jarbo, thinks differently. This morning at her 0Y. 13, SHOOTS SELF IN ANKLE HUNTING RATS IN' WOODSHED JOHNNY JARBO. home she said, “There will be no hurit- ing around here any more—in the first place one needs & gun to hunt with— and I threw Johnny's down the old well this morning.” ‘The well in the back of the home is 60 feet deep and Mrs. Jarbo says there's not much possibility of Johnny finding it. ‘The boy attends St. Anthony's Catholic School and expects-to finish in June He is a golf enthusiast, base ball player, but most of all he likes to hunt, Mrs. Jarbo insists, however, his hunting days are over. VIEWS ARE ASKED ON HIGHWAY WORK Letters Seek Suggestions on . List for Inclusion in 1931 Budget. Anxious to obtain the views of the citizens of Washington as to the high- way work they consider most important for the next fiscal year,” the Highway Department today dispatched circular letters to all citizens’ associations, and to trade and other organizations, ask. ing for lists of neighborhood and cit: wide projects, respectively, that the or- ganizations believed should be included in the 1931 budget. ‘The Highway Department first sent out such letters two years ago, and, ac- cording to Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, the District’s chief engineer, the re- sponses were extremely useful in mak- ing up the District’s ensuing two bud- | gets. Most of the work called for two ears ago has now been accomplished, Capt. Whitehurst said, and he is anx- fous for the citizens who will pay for the work to express their preference as to the order in which it should be un- dertaken and the extent of the work to be done. When the letters were sent out two {Inrs ago they only went to neighbor- 00d citizens’ associations and inquired only about neighborhood work wanted. This year, however, letters have been sent to trade organizations of city-wide ‘membership asking for the bodies’ views on_city-wide projects. The citizens’ associations canvassed are told that they should submit rec- ommendations for street work only in cases where the street is at least 75 per cent built up, and advised against suggesting improvement to macadam streets, which will all soon be equipped with curb and gutter in line with a pol- icy already adopted by the department. Both classes of organizations are asked to submit their recommendations before May 15. A. F. L. TO OPPOSE ARBITRATION BILL Bar Association Measure Going to Committee for Study at SIK AUTO DEATHS . TOLL FOR MARGH 1250 Persons Receive Minor Injuries, Police Report Shows. Six persons were fatally hurt in tral fic accident and 250 received minor injuries during the month of March, a report made public by the Police De- partmeni revealed today. During March a year ago eight per- sons were killed and during that month in 1927 nine were killed. The figure for those receiving minor hurts in March, 1927, is 195 and in that month, 1928, 201 The report further states that 870 persons were arrested last month for parking overtime and 887 for parking abreast. Arrests on the charge of fail: ing to change addresses on permits to- taled 103, and 379 persons were arrested on charges of disobeying official traffic signs. Other arrests on traffic violations were as follows: Backing to turn in street, 16; coasting with gears unmeshed, 1; colliding, 1; colliding and failing to stop, 1; cut-out open, 18; cutting corners, 21; dazzling lights, 31; dead numbers, 21; defacin; permits, 9; driving on sidewalk, 6; driv: ing over firehose, 1; driving through | funeral procession, 1 driving through safety zone, 7; driving while drunk, 14; engine running unattended, 35; failing to give right of way, 49; failing to give signal, 35; failing to have auto under control, 100; failing to lock auto, 3; failing 'to_show permit, 90; faliing to ! sign permit, 8; failing to turn in permit, | 2; failing to wear badge, 30, and| passengers on running board, 6. H Only one person was arrested for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk, and the re, as usual, for violation of the | light regulations and speeding laws was large, the former being 844 and the . ! PAGE 17 LABOR EDUCATION BODY OPENS 3-DAY CONVENTION HERE Green, President of Ameri- can Federation, Welcomes Meeting Delegates. MAURER, BUREAU HEAD, GIVES ANNUAL ADDRESS C&mminioner Dougherty, J. J. Noo- nan and Frank J. Coleman Also Speak at Session, With distinguished representatives of organized labor present, the Workers' Education Bureau of America, indorsed by the American Federation of Labor, met in convention today at the national headquarters of the federation. Approximately 100 delegates were wel- comed by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and others, nicluding: James J. Noonan of ‘Washington, president of the Central Labor Union; Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty and Frank J. Coleman, sec- retary of the Maryland State-District of Columbia Federation of Labor. Continuation of Move Urged. Continuation of the workers’ educa- tion movement, which this year com- pletes a cycle of eight years, was urged by James H. Maurer of Pennsylvania, president of the Education Bureau, in the annual address. The Workers'. Education Bureau is a movement initiated by labor bodies in order to further educational advantages among all branches of organized labor. Featuring activities of the bureau in its three-day convention are reporters from the field, including studies of labor conditions in the textile indus- try at Passaic and Paterson, the New England area, a discussion of the so- called California plan and an outline of the Southern Summer school. ‘These subjects were to be discussed this afternoon following a report of the bureau’s executive committee. Cobb to Speak Tomorrow. “The Progressive Education Movement and Adult Education” will be the sub- ject of an address by Standwood Cobb, president of the Progressive Education Association, at a meeting tomorrow over which Mr. Maurer will preside. Reports of committees on curricula and teach- ing methods will be presented. In the afternoon Prof. Paul Ord of Pater- son Continuation School speak on “The Continuation School and Worker's Education.” Reports will be heard from committees on text books and the con- stitution of the bureau. Addresses by Dr. Frank Mann, presi- dent of the American Council of Edu- cation, and Dr. L. P. Jacks, principal of Manchester College, Oxford, England, and Judge Theodore G. Risley, solicitor of the Department of Labor, will be delivered at a dinner meeting tomor- row evening at 6 o'clock at the Hamil- ton Hotel. The delegates and guests will be taken for a sight-seeing trip Sunday morning Jy the local committee on arrangements, of which John B. Colpoys of Washing- ton is chairman. OFFICIALS IN QUANDARY OVER COMFORT STATION Wisconsin Avenue and M Street POLICE BODY PLANS TRIBUTE TO HESSE| Gift Presentation and nnolutions! Lauding Former Chief Scheduled | for Taesday by Association. Project Plans Protested by Property Owners. District officials are in a quandray over an appropriation of $38,000 for construction of a public comfort sta- tion in the vicinity of Wisconsin avenue and M street carried in the current year's appropriation act. Recently - Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris announced plans for putting her own young. There is no family group among them, so far as we know. No individual ever has been found which can be called a missing link.” Both Dr. Hrdlicka and Dr. Stiles on the left side of the road when it smhl by skidded. v “Just ahead of the spot a fence began. A big 2-by-4 came just like a sword through the center. "It struck Russell center LE; federation held she was in- eligible. |the station underground below Wiscon- {sin avenue a few feet south of M street, The - Metropolitan Police Association | His plans included entrances, similar to of the District will present Maj. Edwin | the erated by these unable to show finan- cial responsibility. The law and legislation committee yesterday asked another subcommittee to obtain a report on the codification Bid of $15225 for Altention{ Project Is Lowest By the Associated Press. Announcement_ was made ay New York subway entrances set in the sidewalk of Wisconsin avenue. Pub- and Crooke on the legs and hit Shee- han on the arm. . After plowing up quite a length of fence we were diverted down a ravine, and at the bottom we, struck a tree and turned over, Every one was thrown forward by the impact and even the seats were torn from the floor. “I seized a plece of the smashed steering wheel and broke a window. Those of us who were able climbed out, and then we rigged up a sort of a slide from the bus to the roadway with planks from the fence. A line of men wes posted on either sl and in this way we got t! not walk to dthe road. Imost knee deep.” b Although Faggert was the only one - pinned beneath the ‘wreckage, consid- erable time was taken in others of the injured, hose who could The mud was removing the | § because it was|§: of Seven. Hoover's executive office were and Public Parks, with seven firms seek- ing the job. The Chicago, contractor for that part of Arlington Memorial Bridge across House, was the lowest bidder, $15,225. de of the slide, ! firms, were: William P. Lipscomb Co., $20,900; Schneider, Spliedt Co., $19,890. W. E. Mooney, 'k, Rosengarten Co., L. Smith & Co, necessary to drag them through the windows and care was needed to avoid hurting them still more. An ambulance from Quantico was summoned. _ Sheehan was taken to FEmergency Hcspital in a passing auto- mobile. Henry Gichner of 3220 High- land avenue, Washington, former star Western High School athlete and catcher for the Cornell team, accom- panied him to the city. The others were brought here by a bus from Rich- mond, Va., Ehlch passed the spot a short time the accident. List of Bus Passengers. A list of the occupants of the bus follows: L s, ar Gt the D. P,‘ "Hfiy university. 5 Ithaca, coach. Syrac assistant Paul W. Eckley, John Haddock, Ithaca, trainer. - Avon, Pa,, stu- coacn, Frank Sheehan, e i ‘Washington, catcher. Preeport, John D, Russell, Ben Gicnaer, *izezy O Y Rollo, N. Y., pitcher. g;{:? B. Lewis, Jefferson, N. Y, ttcher. - 3 Carl S. Boles, White Plains, N. ¥., pitcher. Edwin Madden, North Hampton, N, Y., T, . ‘Schultz, Hammell, N. Y., pitcher. sl}v?nlscxph‘:, New Rochelle, N. Y., first base. § R. L. Donnelly, Cincinnati, Ohio, sec- ond base. 4 o Edward T, Herbert, Pittsfield, Mass, third base. office into office space, particular] the west side of the building, fac! State, War and Navy Building. FRY RITES TOMORROW. Services Will Be Held for Former |l Capital Correspondent. Col. House Improving. . W YORK; April 5 e o Bids for the alteration of President oxrened today at the office of Public Buildings N. P. Severir Co. of ; C. H. 37. parts ‘The work consists principally in al-|in tering the basement of the executive|placed for a creature stan objected strenuously to the claim that there are no missing links. Dr. Clark himself, Stiles said, has classified many species of animals on the basis of a single specimen, and if this could not be done much of the structure of sys- tematic zoology would fall. But if the legitimacy of this method is admitted, he insisted, the world is full of missing links between men and anthropoids. Boundary Channel and the firm that|Thus both man and the orang-utan recently put a _new roof on the w‘l;'ltke‘ have 12 pairs of ribs. Gorillas and The other bidders were local The other contractors and their bids | must be strictly interpreted as “missing chimpanzees have 13 pairs of ribs. Many men, however, are found with 13 pairs of ribs, and such individuals | links.” Although it may be possible. to dis- tinguish every bone of a man from every bone of an ape, he said, this con- dition does not. continue in the soft of the body. Thus the valves the veins of a man are peculiarly upright. ly on | They are needed in the vertical veins, ing the | such as those of the arms and legs, but veins. They are found in both. They are not found, however, in the great vein of the back, the most important vertical vein of the body. This becomes ar, Dr. Stiles said, when a man all fours like a baboon. Then his (#).—Col. Ed- of District laws, which is now being prepared. Two other subcommittees were di- rected to gathering additional data concerning the proposed abolition of the death penalty in the District. Judge O'Toole heads one group and F. B. Hoffman_the other:. factor in bringing out new types of liv- ing creatures. !t')n Hrdlicka stressed the physical evidence in the human body of the de- scent of man from some lower form, and disputed Clark’s contention that the fundamental human characteristics have remained unchanged since the be- ginning. “Look at your own hand, said, “and you can see where every par- ticle is not essentially human, but in- herited, sometimes from very far back. As we go back in time we find men so low that the skeletal material easily is wrongly diagnosed as from anthro- ids. m"oruluIUy you see the human mind becoming less and less. When we get to the beginning of the ice ai we can't an tell wnere man ‘begins il i POLICEMAN ORDERED "REMOVED BY BOARD| F. H. Ragsdale Dismissed—0'Neal | Is Fined $50 and Min- nick $15. | | Policeman F. H. Ragsdale of the twelfth precinct was ordered removed from the force by the Police Trial Board yesterday, when he entered a plea of guilty to charges of intoxication and dis- respect to his superior officer. He offered no defense against the charges. Pvt. R. E. O'Neal, assigned to the House ‘of Detention, was found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and fined $50. He was exonerated on a charge of making an untruthful statement to a suj officer. O'Neal was charged with taking a revolver from the House of Detention without permission. W. C. Mi , second precinct, plead- ed gullty of failure to patrol his beat l‘?g entering & building and was fined Pvts. W. V. Christian and L. L. thi third were exoner- |ADce was by Willlam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, that that organization expected to oppose congressional enactment of . & bill drafted by the American Bar Associa- tion to make arbitration agreements be- tween employes and employers en- forceable by the courts. The Bar As- sociation measure, Mr. Greene’s state- ment sald, will be presented to con- gressional committees for study at the coming session. “Labor has.always contended that it whhad wdbg free flol;l’él let"-l zx::u::le] ments and from participating in legal controversies,” the statement said. “We are committed to the policy of volun- tary agreements and voluntary action. Because we are not certain of the scope and import of this proposed legislation, I am Sure that the American Federa- tion will strongly (:gpoee it He added that the bill might favor “company union” organization and pro- cedure, to which the federation also would find objection. SEPARATE MAINTENANCE SUIT IS FILED BY WIFE gf‘raununt separate mainte- in the District Supreme rt today by Mrs. Marie. Eleanor ire of the Hotel Roosevelt against * Bouthern Pacific Profits Up. - Jaw YORE Aol 0 O ual pul today, B. Hesse, formetly superintendent of the department, with & gift and a set of laudatory resolutions at 8 pm. Tues- day in the squad room of police head- quarters. Maj. served as secretary-treas- urer of the assoclation for 22 years dur- ing his career as chief clerk and later as major and superintendent of the de- partment. In this time he handled mil- lions of dollars of funds and has never received a cent by way of salary or other recompense. Harry M. Luckett, who succeeded Ma). Hesse as secretary-treas- urer of the association, has been ap- pointed a committee to purchase the present. ‘The privates and sergeants of the de- partment. will also express their appre- ciation of Maj. Hesse's services by pre- senting him with an automobile. The gnentltkm will be made by George 'heelock, station clerk of the sixth pre- cinct, in front of the Fourteenth street entrance to the District Building at 2 p.m. tomorrow. - Maj. Hesse has been taking driving lessons recently from Headquarters De- a tour of the valley of Virginia in the near future. CARE OF LAWNS TOPIC. tective Jake Wolfe and expects to make | lication of these plans was followed by a_protest from property owners near whose stores the entrances would be placed, and Mr. Harris is reluctant to spend the money for working drawings for the construction if there is a likeli- hood that a citizen will enjoin the work by going to court. Mr. Harris says that the citizens who protested suggested locating the com- fort station in a house on Wisconsin ayenue, which could be remodeled for purpose, but Assistant Engineer Commissioner Layson E. Atkins holds that the District cannot purchase prop- erty for the purpose unless the appro- K.l‘nthn act specifically provides for the d purchase. There is no such pro- vision in the act. Maj. Atkins has suggested that the station be placed on ground already owned by the Districi where Thirty- second street intersects with the C. & O. Canal, about one block away from the intersection named act. Whether this would be considered “in the vicinity” within the law, and whether it would satisfy the George- town Business Men's Association, which has been seeking construction of the comfort station, is not known. - THREATENING LETTER SENT TO SOL BUCKNER | Mother, Opening It, Is Frightened Into Hysteria by Warning to Move. Mrs, Eva Buckner, mother of Sol Buck- ner, who shot and killed a colored ban- dit in his store at 401 O street Wednes- day night, was confined to bed with a nervous today as the result of re- celving a threatening letter, sent anony- mously, with the ordeal she has gone through as a result of the heldup and shooting. The letter, written in pencil and the addressed with pen, was ve- in this morning's mail. It read: