Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1929, Page 17

@The Zoening Star ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, LABOR CONDITIONS INSOUTH ASSAILED BY LEAGUE LEADER Women’s Trade Union Group Head Calls for Action on Legislation. LAWS ON HOURS LACKING, PARLEY DELEGATES TOLD Textile Field Particularly ILax, Speaker Says—Northern Aid Is Seen Need. Working conditions in mills and fac- tories in the South were denounced sharply by Miss Rose Schneiderman, president of the National Women's Trade Union League, today in her ad- | dress opening the eleventh nauonnl‘[ convention of the league in the Grace Dodge Hotel. “There are hardly any labor laws of any kind on the statute books in most of the Southern States, either for men | or women,” she declared. “There is no legal limitation of hours for work either by day or by night—in fact, the night shift is usually the longer. “The unsophisticated visitor to the South is likely to look in vain for women with ‘careers’ in this paradise where women have ‘equal opportunity’ with men to be exploited, but all she would find would be thousands of overworked and underpaid women.” Speaks in General Terms. Miss Schneiderman spoke in general terms and did not undertake to limit her description of labor conditions to particular industries or localities. Her statements were accepted, however, as a commentary on the textile field espe- cially and as a reflection of conditions fonnd by_the league’s field represent- atives in Elizabethton, Tenn., where un- satisfactory conditions in the textile industry first became evident in the South. An_ intensive membership drive in the South, incorporating a demand for a shorter work week and abolition of night work, was urged by Miss Matilda Lindsay of Clarendon, Va., the league’s | Southern field representative, in her re- port based on a survey of Southern mill Is. “The South is beginning to think in- dustrially,” she reported, “but the proc- ess is painful and slow. A number of Southern pecple believe that some- thing has to be done to awaken the Southern worker as well as the com- munity to the importance of indus-|committee of the trade body, will be in | trial questions, but the number who are willing to take an active part in bringing about the awakening is s i Willidim Green Is Speaker. The Southern situation as reflected by the strike of rayon workers at Elizabethton, Tenn., was disct also by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who ‘welcomed the convention delegates, and by Miss Elizabeth Christman in her re- port as secretary-treasurer. Mr. Green asserted that employers are as hostile to collective bargaining as they were two decades ago. He pledged co-operation of the American Federation to the woman's organization and in commenting on the Southern situation, said: “In Tennessee today we find a peaceful community changed into a military camp. There still is op- position to the practical plan of the workers choosing their own represent- atives to appeal for them in matters of wages and working conditions.” “The Southern situation does not | differ widely from the condition in the North as far as the industrial workers are concerned,” Miss Christman sald. “Long hours, night work and low pay appear to be the concern of compara- tively few people outside the workers themselves, and as for group expres- sion, these workers are for the most | part_inarticulate. “The Elizabethton strike is of spe- cial significance,” she asserted, “because it involves one of the very newest in- dustries, one which bids fair to sup- plant in large measure other textile operations. The rayon industry is in- creasing in gigantic strides. It has been said that the du Pont Co. and the Ger- man Corporation at Elizabethton have already put $200,000,000 into this in- dustry.” In addition to Mr. Green, the follow- ing persons identified with the labor | Frank Hawks Also Stops in Wash-| movement directly and indirectly ex- tended greetings to the convention, which will be in session through Satur- cay: Mrs. Edith C. Paul, president of |4, the Women's Trade Union League of the District; Miss Belle Sherwin, presi- dent of the National League of Woman Voters; James L. Noonan, representing the Central Labor Union of the Dis- trict; Miss Charl Williams, Tepresenting ihe National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, and Miss Frances Perkins, industrial commis- sloner of the Department of Labor, New York State. Officers “Visit President. Officers and delegates to the conven- tion paid their respects to Presldenl; Hoover at the White House at 12:30 | o'clock. Unless the women of the North speedily come to the aid of Southern workers, Miss Schneiderman said, the Southerners “are in serlous danger of Josing their hardly-won standards of hours and wages.” The league president urged that trade unionism be extended among woman employes in clerical work and employes in beauty parlors. “Every year thou- sands of young girls are turned out from our commercial business schools and Jet loose on a glutted market,” she said “That conditions are likely to become worse Is evident because of the con- stantly growing mechanical devices which are being introduced with the inevitable result of diminishing the de- mand for skilled workers and further intensifying competition _among th half-baked products of these busines school mills.” Urges Local Co-operation. Urging that local leagues interest themselves in making the campaign to organize beauty parlor workers Nation- wide, she said that “during the past few years beauty shops have sprung up all over the country in countless num- bers, reaping for the owners tidy profits and for the workers only long hours and meager pay envelopes. “The problem of tk try is becoming increasingly more dif- ficult,” she asserted. “The transient character of the woman's place in the store, workshop and office is gradually being eliminated. Marriage is no longer a guarantee against the life sentence of having to earn one’s own living and un- Jess economical conditions affecting workingmen change for the better, the married woman in industry s here to stay.” woman in indus- | SWIMS TO SAFE Horse Shies at Dog and Falls Over Embankment at Hains Point. Miss Parsch Pulled Out by Two Men—Animal Also Finally Rescued. None the worse today for a chill plunge into the Potomac River yester- day morning, Miss Barbara Parsch, 1709 | Q street, has reason to be thankful for | her prowess as a_swimmer, which en- | abled her to win the sea wall, unassisted, when the horse she was riding through East Potomac Park shied at a small dog -and backed suddenly over the em- bankment near Hansi Point. Miss Parsch smilingly scouted the supposition that she had been the' ob- ject of a thrilling rescue. “That was quite,” she remarked. known how to swim for | years!” The young lady admitted, however, that she had an anxious mement when her riding boots filled with water, and when a hasty glance showed the sea wall some 20 feet away. “I don’t know how deep it was there,” she said, never touched bottom, but I made it and hung on, then looked back to see how the horse was faring.” Miss Parsch was assisted over the wall, she said, by a riding_companion, Channing Richards of 407 Randolph street, and a young man who left the scene before his name could be learned. “I'm afraid the horse got the worst of it,” Miss Parsch said. It required the combined efforts of GIRL RIDER, HURLED IN RIVER, TY AT SEA WALL —— \ | | MISS BARBARA PARSCH. ; —Star Staff Photo. DRUEGST ELD U 50 PATS LIQUOR TAKEN BY BANDTS to Surrender His Entire Stock. |ESCAPE IN AUTOMOBILE AS ONE “COVERS” HIM Prescription Rum Safe Is Cleaned Out in Robbery at 3 0'Clock This Morning. harbor police, several members of the United States Park Police and some employes of the American Automobile Association about three hours to rescue the animal from the Potomac. Ginger, the horse, nearly capsized | the police launch when some one tried | to hold to his reins. He was finally hauled over the seawall, about four feet high at that point, with a block and_tackle rigging attached to a tree | at the water's edge and worked by an | automobile crane. A passing motorist returned Miss Parsch to her home. The horse be- longed to the Potomac Riding School, 1204 Ohio avenue. Bystanders said the horse. became frightened when a small dog in a parked automobile barked at him. TRADEBOARDPLANS FOR HEALTH CLINI Hospitalization and Mental Hygiene Among Topics for Discussion. ‘The cost of hospitalization in Wash- ington and the subject of mental hygiene as it relates particularly to the business man will be discussed Saturday evening at a health clinic to be held in the auditorium of the United States Chamber of Commerce headquarters, under auspices of the Board of Trade. Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alien- ist, and chairman of the public health charge of the meeting, to which 3,000 local business men, members of the trade body and other organizations have | been invited. Principal Speakers Listed. Principal speakers will be John Shil- lady, administrative secretary of the International Congress on Mental Hygiene, who will discuss mobilization of forces for better mental hygiene, and Dr. William A. White, superintend- ent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. and president of the International Congress on Mental Hygiene, who will talk on opportunities for mental hygiene in the District of Columbia. A number of distinguished physicians, members of the Council of Social Agencies and the Mental Hygiene Society of the District, have been in- vited as special guests. Dr. Hickling will make a report of the study being made by the Board of ‘Trade relative to the cost of hospitaliza- tion in Washington. A preliminary re- port on this subject recently showed that persons needing hospital care are being denied treatment to some degree because of the cost. Will Consult Experts. It was announced today that the Board of Trade will confer with the Interior Department experts on this subject to gather additional data on the matter of hospital costs. At the health clinic Saturday evening also plans will be announced for the convention of the International Con- gress on Mental Hygiene, which is to be held in Washington next May. —_— NELSON LANDS IN CAPITAL ington at Hoover Field. Erik Nelson, one of the Army round- world fiyers who made the first ail plane trip around the globe six years ago, is in Washington today with one of the new Boeing air mail planes, said to be the fastest commercial airplane yet developed in this country. Nelson landed at Hoover Field yester- day afternoon and will leave for Dayton, Ohio, within the next day or two. He is here on business for the Boeing in- terests, with whom he has been con- nected since leaving the Army. Capt. Frank Hawks, holder of the landed at Hoover Field this morning in a Lockheed cabin monoplane of the type used on his 18-hour trip across the country. Col. Deems Relieved of Duty. tired, has been relieved from duty at headquarters, 3d Corps Area, Baltimore, Md., and ordered to Alexandria, Va., for | duty as military fnstructor at the Alex- | andria High School, effective July 1. i Buck Garrett Dies at 58. ARDMORE, Okla., May 6 (#).—Buck Garrett, 58, veteran peace officer of Ok- lahoma, died at his home here today | following a stroke of paralysis. ‘transcontinental non-stop flight record, | « Col. Clarence Deems, jr., U. . A, re-|. LAWYERS WILL AGT ON CODE GONFLICTS Common Law Restatement Main Aim of Institute Meeting Here. The drafi'ng of an unofficial restate- ment of common law codes, with & view | to setting up a positive expression on certain conflicts, will be the primary objective of the American Law Insti- tute at its annual meeting here May 9-11. George W. Wickersham, former Attorney General, will preside at the | ing at 10 o'clock with a business meet- ing at the Mayflower Hotel. Elihu. Root is honorary president of the institute. jamin N. Cardozo, vice president; George Welwood Murray, treasurer, and William Draper Lewis, director. Early arrivals will register Wednes- day, and the meeting continues through Saturday, with two business sessions daily. At 8 o'clock Thursday night delegates will be guests of the American | Judiciary Society at a dinner in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel. Officers of the Institute have been preparing a tentative draft of the com- mon law restatement, which will be sub- ject to discussion and revision at the various group meetings during the ses- sion here. CHORUS WILL STAGE REHEARSAL TONIGHT Festival Concert Will Be Given in Central Community Center Wednesday. ‘The last rehearsal of the massed chorus for the festival concert Wednes- day evening, will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in the Central Community Center, formerly Central High School Auditorium, Thirteenth and Clifton streets. Frederick Alexander, who came from the Michigan State Normal School to conduct the concert, will direct the re- hearsal tonight and the entire program will be sung. Sylvia Lent, violinist, who will be soloist at the concert, will return from concert engagements in the East tomor- row night. She is no stranger here, as she is the daughter of Mrs. Lent and the late Ernest Lent, for many years a ‘cellist of Washington. He was also conductor of the Georgetown Orchestra and Mrs. Lent was a pianist. George H. Wilson will play accompaniments for Miss Lent and Charlotte Klein will play the choruses and the organ prelude. The concert is under auspices of the Church Music Council and the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs and is a part of the celebration of Na- tional Music week. Rev. J. R. Duffield is head of the Church Music Council and Mrs, Joseph M. Stoddard is presi- dent of the District of Columbia Fed- eration of Music Clubs. RAT BITES BABY. | Rodent Attacks Child, Asleep in Crib. Clarence Turner, colored, 15 months | old, was bitten on the back of the head | by a rat as he slept in his crib at his home, 2618 K street, early this morn- ing. The child was taken to Emergency Hospital and treated by Dr. Leon Gor- | don for painful cuts and lacerations to | the head. He is expected to recover. Continued screams from the baby’s crib led the child’s father, James Tur- | ner, to rush to the child and scare off | the’ rodent. | Five Woman Textile | drawn around two young woman textile | the National League at ‘Thursday. Miss Matilda Lindsay of Clarendon, its convention where they live. An atmosphere of secrecy has been workers from the South, who are to testify as to working conditions before Women's Trade Union meeting Va., the league's Southern field repre- sentative, made known today that the | being brought here in connection with names of two of five young women |the league’s educational work. who will be here as guests of the league will not be disclosed because of the at- titude of employers in the communities Workers to Describe Working Conditions in Southern Mills vention at the Grace Dodge Hotel de- clined, Miss Lindsay said, because they feared their employers might discharge them if they came. Among the five women who are expected to describe conditions in the South at a luncheon | for delegates Thursday are one from Elizabethton, Tenn.; one from Richmond Va., and one from Lynchburg, Va. The , | women were chosen under authorization | of the league’s executive board, and are It was said that the two young women who declined the league's invi- tation live and work in Durham, N. C,, |in the area that has shared with Eliza- Two other women in the South who | bethton, Tenn., evidences of unsatisfac- were invited to attend ”Qe league’s con- | tory conditions among textile workers, session, which opens Thursday morn- | Other officers are Ben- | Held up by a gang of bandits at about 3 o'clock this morning, Columbus W. Henry, proprietor of Henry's Drug Store, at 1250 Twenty-second street, was rob- bed of his entire stock of prescription liquor, about 500 pints. ‘The bandits entered hijs store, Henry said, while he was in a back room checking up his accounts and his stock of medicinal whisky. They came in at the front door, and when the proprietor first looked up, he said, he saw a gun pointed at him. One bandit, a white man, ordered him to turn over the liquor, Henry said, and then backed him into 'his office, while confederates cleaned out the prescription liquor safe. ‘The druggist estimated that there were about four or fiw white men in the gang. They quickly cleaned out all the liquor, about 500 pint bottles of prescription whisky, of several different brands, and then went out the front way. ‘The bandit who kept him covered with a gun, during the robbery, ordered him to stay in the back room for 5 minutes to give the crowd a chance to get away. Henry said he remained there a short time to evade possible gunfire from the bandits in the front of the store. and then came out. There was no trace of them, and the liquor was all gone, he said. The bandits were believed by the druggist to have escaped in an auto- mobile, as Henry said he heard a car start up in front of the store, about the time they left. COURT FIXES SCALE FOR PRINTERS’ WAGES Arbitrator’s Decision in Controversy Betwesn Employes and Pub- lishing Company Upheld. The United States Daily Publishing Co. is bound by the new union scale for printers’ wages set by Justice Willlam Hitz, acting as an arbitrator between the local union and the Publishers’ As- sociation, although not &~ member of the latter organization. The District Court of Appeals so held today in an opinion by Justice Charles H. Robb af- firming a judgment of the Municipal Court which had awarded Charles A. Nichols, a union printer, $89.25 for the difference in wages between $1.10 and $1.284-7 cents an hour for the peri between March 3, 1926, and June 3, 1926, while in the employ of the com- any. The court held that the custom by which union wages are fixed is rea- sonable and calculated to make strikes and business interruptions unnecessary, and that the company, through its foreman of printers, was acquainted with this arrangement and when open- ing a union office became amenable to the custom that when a scale is “open™ it is liable to be increased by the ar- bitrator and the publisher be obliged ‘?m pay the increase from a specified time, MARGO COUZENS’ VICTIM STILL SEEN NEAR DEATH Man Struck by Auto of Senator’s Daughter Has Skull Frae- ture, Fear. A final diagnosis had not been made this morning of the exact nature of in- juries suffered by George Brown, 53 years old, colored, of 1912 Thirteenth street, who has been in a serious con- dition at Emergency Hospital since Sat- urday afternoon when he was run down by an automobile operated by Miss Margo Couzens, 18-year-old daughter of Senator Couzens of Michigan, at the entrance to Rock Creek Park. Hospital physicians believe the in- jured man may be suffering from a fractured skull, in addition to numer- ous severe body lacerations, but cannot determine the precise extent of his in- juris until X-ray pictures arc developed some time today. Miss Couzens was on her way to the Wardman Park Saddle Club Horse Show wheh the accident occurred. She laced the injured man in her auto- mobile and took him to the hospital TEST FLIGH'i'S PLANNED. Eaker to Put Southern Star Through Load Experiments. Capt. Ira C. Eaker, chief pilot of the Question Mark and now operations manager of Atlantic Seaboard Airways, Inc., operators of Hoover Field, will leave this city for New York Wednesday to make load test flights with the old Sikorsky biplane Southern Star in prep- aration for the plane’s projected flight to Santiago, Chile. ‘The Southern Star was christened at Bolling Field last week by Senora Dona Herminia Arrate de Davila, wife of the Chilean Ambassador. It was built two years ago for Capt. Rene Fonck, French ace, to be used in a transatlantic flight which never was made. Capt. Eaker, who is on leave of ab- sence from the Army, will make the tests at Farmingdale, N. Y. The tests probably will require about three days to complete. MAN, 80, IS GAS VICTIM. Thomas Burke, 80, was found dead in a small room on an upper floor of 305 Sccond street last night, Death had resulted from gas poisoning. A small heater in the room was light- ed, but several of the burners were ob- structed, permitting the escape of gas. Burke, a native of this city and un- married, is said to have come here last having served a short while in the Navy. He had rented the room in the Second street house only 48 hours before his body was discovered. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt sald death was the result of an accident, Relatives took charge of the body. Colhmbus W. Henry Forced| week to make an effort to get a pension, | ¢ MONDAY, COLUMBUS W. HENRY. —Star Staff Photo. AIR MAIL SERVICE 1S DOUBLED HERE Seven-Day-a-Week Schedule Gives National Capital Bet- ter Coast Contact. Following inauguration last - night and early this morning of seven-day-a- week airmail service on the New York- AUanta airmail line, passing through | Washington, the airmail service be- tween this city and New York is being doubled today by daylight flights in ad- dition to the regular night schedule. In addition to the two important in- | creases in fiying schedules, which will speed up direct deliveries between this city and New York, the National Capi- tal, as a result of the new schedules, is given closer connection with the trans- continental airmail line. cutting nearly a day in malling time between this city and the West Coast. Ceremonies Planned for Tonight. ‘The increased service and the first anniversary of the inauguration of the New York-Atlanta airmail line will be celebrated with brief ceremonies at Bolling Fleld at 6:30 o'clock this eve- ning. These ceremonies will culminate in the departure for New York of the first northbound day airmail plane, scheduled to leave at 6:45 p.m. ‘The first Sunday service on the New York-Atlanta line was inaugurated last night, Pilot Amberse M. Banks, making the southbound trip from Newark air- port, arriving here shortly before mid- night, and Pilet Don Johnson, making the northbound trip, arriving here early this morning. Since the local air mail line was in- augurated on May 1, 1928, the mail planes have flown on a six day a week basis, one . trip In each direction being made and all fiights being made dur- ing the night. The first day air mail flight on the line was made this morning, Pilot C. W. Gurley leaving Newark at 5 am. in a new Pitcairn Mailwing plane and stopping Philadelphia and for the first time at Baltimore. He landed at Bolling Field at 7:39 a.m. Baltimore will be in- cluded as a regular stop on the day air matl line, landings being made at n Fleld pend‘ml il:om‘{:n of the Balti- more Municipal 3 The ceremonies at Bolling Field this evening will be in charge of the Washing- ton Chamber of Commerce. Invitations sent out by Charles W. Darr, president of the chamber, have been accepted by Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania, W. Irving Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air- mail; David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy for Aeronautics; Com- ] missioner Sidney F. Taliaferro, Maj. Donald A. Davidson, Assistant District Engineer Commissioner, and & number of Government and civil aeronautics people. Carry Greeting to West Coast. The ceremonies will be simple. Mr. Darr will introduce the guests of honor and a brief explanation of the p‘\;fipov of the increased air mail service will be made by Mr.Glover, after which the plane will take off for Newark, The pilot will arry letters of greeting from the ‘Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce to the presidents of the San Francisco and Los Angeles Chambers of Commerce. This evening’s exercises, Mr. Darr explained, have been arranged not only to commemorate the first anniversary of the local air mail line and to celebrate the increased service on the line, but also to promote local interest in aero- nautics and to focus public attention on the .extended scope of the air mail facilities. Last Wednesday day and night air mall service was inaugurated on_the transcontinental air mail line from New York to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The doubling of the service on the ‘Washington-New York line was insti- tuted so as to give direct connection with the new transcontinental sched- ule. Beginning today letters mailed in this city before the close of business day will be delivered. in the Middle West the next morning and on the Pacific Coast the second morning. o WORK OF PARK POLICE IN APRIL REPORTED Total Arrests 233, Fines and For- feitures of $1,188, Noted in Capt. Carroll’s Summary. | The United States park police col- lected $1,188 in fines and forfeitures during the month of April, the report submitted today by Capt. P. J. Carroll to Capt. M. H. Parsons, superintendent, revealed. The 233 arrests . included those held for speeding, 23; violation of traffic regulations, 126; drunkenness, 22; violation of the park regulations, MAY 6, 1929. 16; reckless driving, 11; disorderly con- duct, 13; fugitive from justice, 1; de- stroying private property, 2; petty lar- ceny, 1; destroying Government prop- erty, 2; vagrancy, 1; illegal n of liquor, 2; transporting liquor, sault, 4, and concealed weapons, Qf those arrested 4 personal bonds were taken, 4 placed on probation, 10 dismissed, 1 sent to jail for 10 days, 1 sent to jail for 30 days, 1 sent to jail for 90 days, 1 turned over to proper nmmlel, 18 pending when the month Eighteen sick or injured persons were sent home or to hospitals; 43 automo- bile acidents reported; a lost child was returned to its parents; two children were turned over to their parents for correction, and one body was sent to the morgue. * 672,740 INCREASE INWELFARE FUNDS SOUGHT BY BOARD Estimates for 1931 Placed at $5,214,595 for Institu- tions Under Its Care. NEW BUILDING PROJECTS OUTLINED BY OFFICIALS Number of Inmates and Prisoners Expected to Be Raised, at Additional Expense. An increase of $672,740 is asked by the Board of Public Welfare for main- taining the various institutions under its direction for the 1931 fiscal year. The total appropriations for 1930 are $4,541,855, and the board’s estimates call for $5,214,595 for 1931. The increases are fairly evenly di- vided between new building programs at several of the institutions and addi- tional costs expected from the increase in the number of prisoners and inmates of the prisons, welfare and correctional { institutions. For board and care of all children committed to guardianship of the Board of Child Welfare, $300,000 is asked, an increase of $70,000. A sum of $49,920 1s also asked for expenses of the Re- celving Home for Children, as against $40,000 in 1930. Extra Help Sought. Employment of an additional physi- cian, nurse, clerk-stenographer, n‘:’nyron and five guards at the District Jail sent the estimates for salaries up from $72,- 670 to $91,720. Maintenance and sup- port of prisoners is expected to cost $84,000, an increase of $15,500. Items totaling $87,500 are asked for remodeling the heating and lighting factlities and installation of permanent water system at the Occoquan work- house. The maintenance of prisoners is e!ltolgll'ed at $150,800, an increase of 1,800. An item of $70,000 is asked for con- tinuing the construction program at the reformatory at Lorton. In the 1930 fiscal year $50,000 was appropri- ated for this purpose. The latter ap- propriation will complete construction of 12 dormitories, expected to house 600 prisoners. These will be recalled by the District from various Federal in- stitutions, in which they are now “farmed out,” and are expected to in- crease the cost of maintenance of pris- oners from $87,000 to $144,500. This will be accompanied by an estimated in- crease in the ex) of personnel serv- ice from $88,380 to $106,680. Hospital Expansion. The building program at Gallinger Hospital will be continued by install tion of equipment at the new Nurses' Home at a cost of $175,000, and ex- nditure of $10,975 for grading and laying streets and sidewalks. Extensive building is contemplated at the District Training School, where feeble-minded = children are lodged. Among other items asked are $8,500 for furnishing and equipment of employes' building and superintendent’s residence, $4,000 for construction .of cistern with necessary pumps, $3,500 for "building coal bins, $130,000 for a service building and $4,500 for a stable and garage. Construction of two additional cot- tages at the Industrial Home for Colored Children, to cost .$50,000, and expansion of the infirmary building at the Home for the Aged and Infirm at a cost of $20,000 are also sought. A sum of $1,700,000 is asked for the care of indigent and insane residents of the District at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. The 1930 appropriation bill carries $1,572,000 for this purpose. WOMAN LO SES SUIT {OVER $100,000 ESTATE Virginia Hurdle Sought Half of Amount for Services to Mary A. Spencer. Virginia Hardle today lost her suit against the American Security & Trust Co., as executor of the $100,000 estate of Mary A. Spencer, who died in 1919, after the petitioner had served her as housekeeper and nurse for five years, when the District Court of Appeals, in a decision by Chief Justice Martin, up- held the finding of the District Su- me Court that she had waited too 5 to present her claim for compensa- jon. ‘The plaintiff had set up the claim that Miss Spencer had agreed with her December’ 1, 1914, to leave her half of her estate in consideration of the care given her by the claimant. She hunted for such a will until 1924, when she the | brought suit for compensation for her services and the court held that she was barred by the statute of limitations. She then began a suit in equity to establish the alleged agreement, but the court again held that the statute also barred that action and this later de- cision was upheld today by the appel- late court. ‘The estate is still in litigation be- cause Miss Spencer had directed ‘that after the payment of certain legacies totaling about $10,000, the remaining estate should be used in erecting a mausileum in Congressional Cemetery. Numerous heirs from England are op- posing the disposition of such a large sum for that purpose. PAGE 17 WILLIAM EDWARDS. —Star Staff Photo, BOY SHOT INLEC Rifle in Hands of Companions Sends William Edwards to Hospital. ‘Twelve-year-old William Edwards is lying in bed at Georgetown Hospital to- day, hopefully awaiting a favorable re- port on X-ray pictures taken last night to determine the exact nature of a gun- shot wound in his right leg, suffered when he was accidently shot by one of three companions while standing on the corner of ‘Twenty-ninth and P streets yesterday afternoon. His condition is said to be not serious. Young Edwards and his two com- | panions, John Sullivan, 14-year-old son |of Capt. Patrick J. Sullivan of No. 3 Truck Company, and Richard Creamer, who lives with the injured boy at 1503 Thirtieth street, were emulating the high school cadet drill of the manual of arms, which they had witnessed Fri- day at Central High School, with a rifle belonging to Conway Harrigan, 13, of 1400 Twenty-ninth street, when the shooting occurred. ‘The boys were attempting to load a .22 caliber rifle with a cartridge fur- nished by David Bruce, 13, also of thc Thirtieth street address. Police of the seventh precinct, who investigated, de- clared they did not believe any action would be taken against the boys in con- nection with the accident. EXAMS REQUIRED DESPITE DEGREE Teachers Must Take Tests for Senior Posts. The possession of a college degree does riot prevent a junior high school teacher in the public schools being re- quired to take an examination for ap- pointment as teacher in the senior high and normal schools, as the degree alone does not meet the eligibility require- ments of teachers of senor high schools. This is the effect of the decision of Justice Charles H. Robb of the District Court of Appeals, in which he affirms the action of the District Supreme Court, which had dismissed a petition in mandamus sued out by Richard A Gillem, a junior high teacher, against the Board of Education to compel his classification in class 2, group C. The court points out that if Gillem had sought appointment as a high school teacher, he would have been re- quired to take an examination, not- withstanding his college degree, and yet he contends that the possession of :‘Illcl?en:’e:{u& lm;euhthe ;ugmum’ Te- ents of teachers of senior high schools. i TWO YOUTHS ARRESTED ON LARCENY CHARGES Property Valued at $500 Stolen From Auto Saturday Night Is Recovered. A bag found in the yard in the rear of a Chinese laundry on D street be. tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets yesterday morning and turned over to the police led to the arrest of two young men on charges of grand larceny and recovery of $500 worth of property stolen from the automobile of George Sessions of 48 Abbott street, Valley Falls, N. H., parked in front of the Capitol Park Hotel Saturday night. Carroll Harvey Pugh, 25 years old, and Sylvester Arthur Bird, 22 years old, are the men held on charges of having stolen the property from the automo- bile, the loot consisting of several bags containing $250 worth of sample pens and jewelry. The prisoners, said by the police to have confessed breaking the glass in a door of the automobile and taking the bag and contents, are alleged to have come to this city two days ago from Michigan. Detectives C. P. Cox, Bagby E. King and J. A. Foley traced the recovered bag to & rear uppér room of a hotel at 1226 Pennsylvania avenue, where the young men were found. Motorists Who Endanger Lives by Passing Halted Street Cars Are Scored by Judge Automobile drivers who take a chance on pasing a street car about to stop to load or unload passengers were scored today by Justice Charles H. Robb in an opinion of the District Court of Appeals afirming a judgment of $15000 damages against the J. Maury Dove Co. for injuries sustained by Dorothy Cook, a 14-year-old stu- dent of Dunbar High School, February 8, 1926, when a truck of the company failed to stop behind a street car at New Jersey avenue and N street. “Under the regulation, it was the im- itive duty,” said the justice, “of the ruck driver, as he approached this car stop, not only to have his truck under control, but to stop it when he saw, or should have seen, that the street car had stopped or was about to stop. The few seconds delay to motorists incident humane regulation is of trivial im- portance when compared with the frightful consequences very liable to re- sult from its non-observance. “It is a singular and regrettable fact that many persons who in their ordi- nary relationships are scrupulously mindful of the safety of others are prone while driving automobiles to dis- regard reasonable regulations designed for the protection of the public as well as themselves. It is therefore the duty of the courts not only to uphold such reasonable regulations, but, in addition, so to construe them as to effectuate if possible their humane pu The court also held that the burden of the look-out is upon the driver of the autcmobile and the pedestrian has the right to presume that the driver will not violate the regulation and may not be charged with contributory negli- to an obsprvance of this gensible and gence, EMULATING CADETS Robb Rules All Junior High| POLICE CHARGE USE OF TAXICAB DECOYS BY RUM RUNNERS Aides Spy on Dry Squads to Warn Bootleggers, Say Dry Agents. BLOCKING OF PURSUERS ON CITY STREETS TOLD Eleventh Precinct Men Make One Seizure of 240 Quarts and Auto During Night. Rum-runners, adopting every availa- ble means of securing information con- cerning police activities and of evading apprehension, are resorting to the use | of taxicabs as “spot” and “block” cars. | Patrolling the roads leading to South- ern Maryland, the chief source of liquor | supply, they warn bootleggers of im- | pending danger and disclose the hiding places of police lying in walt for rum cars The recent adoption of this system becomes more apparent nightly, accord- !ing to police of the eleventh precinct. who say_their efforts are hindered by taxicab drivers, who learn of their ac- | tivities and reveal the information to | rum-runners, awaiting the signal, across the District line, to “run” in their car- es. ’ Police last night seized a car loaded with 240 quarts of corn whisky. The car carried no smoke screen, but the tags were changed between the time it left the District and returned in an effort to deceive police, who have been making a check on all suspected rum- }'u!l;):ers when they depart into Mary- { land. Policeman Fails in Chase. Early Sunday morning a liquor-laden machine, believed to have learned of police ambushes on roads in the South- east section from the driver of a taxi- cab who patrolled the highways, suc- cessfully eluded police after “smoking™ Motor Cycle Policeman G. F. Newton and causing him to be thrown from his machine at Fourth and K streets south- east. Police, pursuing in an automobile, were blocked by a taxicab driver, who swung his machine into their path, causing them to halt. He escaped be- fore he was arrested. ‘Warned that Good Hope road was too “hot,” the rum runner sped down Penn- sylvania avenue, across the bridge, through Scutheast to escape. Before he made the attempt, a taxicab traveling east over Oxon Hill on Pennsylvania avenue toward the District line passed Officer R. V. Sinclair, parked on the { hill, and Newton, concealed at the top. No attempt to halt him was made and a few minutes later a large sedan, trav- eling at 60 miles an hour, sped over the hill to Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. One after another the three policemen pursued and the driver of the car was halted on the bridge by Newton, but a search revealed no liquor. The car was merely a decoy. Second Car Passes. Campbell continued west on the ave- nue, Sinclair halted at the end of the bridge preparing to return to the cap- tured sedan. Partially turning his ma- chine around he was warned suddenly by the scream of a siren that another car was approaching, and quickly drove to the curb, narrowly avoiding the au- tomobile which swept down on him at 70 miles an hour, with siren blowing, and heavily laden with a supposed liquor cargo. Newton and Sinclair pursued up Pennsylvania avenue but the latter was overtaken by a taxicab, occupied by the driver and two men. The cab, at an intersection, forced Sinclair to swerve to a side street and before he could {urn around and continue the chase, the liquor car had passed from view. Sinclair turned his attentions to the taxicab but it also had disappeared, and after a fruitless search he was forced to abandon the pursuit. According to police, they are contin- ually confronted with the same situa- tion. Taxicab drivers learn police hiding places, which roads they are patrolling. and other information regarding their activities. This is relayed to bootleggers waiting in Maryland, either by tele- phone or by the driver who crosses the District line to their hiding places, and informs them of the situation. Car Without Screen Taken. There was mo smoke screen device attached to a liquor car seized last night ! by the police road squad composed of iSel’gL George M. Little and Policemen George C. Deyoe, T. O. Montgomery and Leo Murray on Cedar Hill road southeast, while returning from South- ern Maryland with a cargo of 240 quarts of corn whisky. Changing of tags on the trip did not Zool the police as occupants of the car probably thought it would, nor did selecting Sunday night as a_time for making the trip prove safe. It is gen- erally believe¢ by persons engaged in the business of running rum that Sergt. Little's road squad takes Sundays off. The sergeant and members of his squad are in evidence at staggered hours, night and day. however, and the two young men. alleged occupants of the car seized last night, are said to have shown surprise when arrested. They gave their names as George Ed- ward Shanks, 32 years old, of the 1100 block of New Hampshire avenue, and William Carley, 21 years, of the 1900 block of L street northeast. Sergt. Little and members of his squad were in a secluded spot on Naylor road last night ortly before 9 o'clock when they saw a car equipped with rental tags appear and go in the direction of Maryland. They switched positions to the Cedar Hill road, and two hours later the same car, equipped with other tags, appeared, A short zigzagging down the road at a rate of speed in excess of that per- mitted by the traffic regulations ended in the sudden stopping of the alleged rum csr and attempt on part of Carley to disappear in the darkness. He was quickly overtaken by Policeman Deyoe, however, and taken to & police station with Shanks. Car_and liquor were seized. Both defendants were charged with {llegal possession and transporting. and Shanks was also charged with reckless driving and having dead tags on his car. Drastic Sscreen Measures Urged. Aroused by the widespread use of smoke screens, the Policemen’s Associa~ tion, it_was revealed today by Sergt. Milton D. Smith, president, is planning to recommend drastic measures to com- bat the illegal device: Sergt. Smith announced that the smoke screen problem would be the principal topic of discussion at the regular meeting of the association May 21, and by that time he would have some definite recommendafions to sub- mit which he believes will defeat the bdptleggers “at their own game