Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1929, Page 13

The Foening Star WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1929. * PAGE 13 TWO RUM RUNNERS ESCAPE POLICE IN SPECTACLAR DASH Evade District and Maryland | Officers by Use of Smoke Screen. ABANDON CAR AFTER TIRE IS SHOT AWAY Occupants Escape in Woods Near Floral Park, Leaving 20 Cases of Liquor. The use of smoke screens again last night saved two rum runners fromn capture after spectacular chases by the police, both in the District and in “mouthern Maryland. Although the Maryland police failed to catch the bootleggers, they forced the driver of the liquor laden car to abandon it by shooting of one of the rear tires. The Washington police, however, did not use their guns and the suspected rum car escaped after laying down a dense smoke barrage. The chase in Southern Maryland started near the Mattawoman swamp below T B, when Prince Georges County police attempted to halt a car from which the license tags had been removed. The driver increased the speed and simultaneously turned loose a smoke screen. The police continued the pursuif, firing at the rear wheels of the machine, and near Floral Park the occupants abandoned it after the tire went flat from a bullet and came off, ‘and the smoke became exhausted. ‘The occupants escaped in the woods, but in the car the police claim they found 20 cases of liquor with the license plates on top of them. The tages, it was said, were issued to & Washington man. The officers were Deputy Sherift Hepburn and Policemen Prince and Nichois. by Miles and Znamenacek of the eleventh precinct. The car was running at such a speed that it en- dangered the lives of motorists and , it was said, and the police- men lost it when blinded by the smoke screen it laid down. The car was sighted 3 the suit a cloud of. smoke belched from the exhaust. chase proceeded north on Eleventh street to Virginia avenue. By this time the fugitive car was three blocks ahead-of the ‘polices men. At Seventh street southeast it ! turned into K street and when last seen it was speeding west on K street toward the cepter of .the city. going north of that it should go to the District com- mittee, and the course was followed. Chairman Capper of the District com- mittee, has not yet announced when he '{lu call that group together to con- E HOW THIEVES FLED FROM STORE [ REALTY FINANCING T0D.C.COMMITTEE Resolution Is Transferred on| Advice of Senate Judici- ary Group. The resolution of Senator Brookhart, Republican of Iowa, for an investiga- tion of real estate financing methods in ‘Washington, was transferred today from the judifiary committee to the committee on ¥he District of Columbia | for study before $he Senate takes ac-| tion on it. It came up’at™an executive session of the judiciary committee this morn- ing, the members of which decided it was a matter which should be handled by the local committee. As soon as the Senate met, Chairman Norris of ju-| diciary, reported the resolution back to | the Senate with the recommendation der it. Senator King, Democrat of Utah, who is a member of both the judiciary and District committees, pointed out this afternoon that the District com- mittee has had before it in previous sessions a bill to provide for the regu- NEGRO ART EXHIBIT “ OPENS HERE MAY 16 Paintings and Sculpture Will Be! on Public View at National Museum. Tepresenting a selection of paintings lation of the sale of securities in Wash- ington. Senator Brookhart, author of the pro- posal for an investigation, has been working ‘'on a_memorandum relating to the subject. but it has not -yet been made public. POLIGE BAFFLED and works of sculptor brought together in New York a few months ago in con- nection with the ual Harmon award, will be held the, f the Art Museum, &t street, day, May 16, to Mon- from Thi day, May127: -~ Archibald J. Motley’s painting, “Oc- toroon Girl,” which brought the gold award from the Harmon Foundation this year, and Malvin Gray Johnson's, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” which. re- ceived the exhibit prize, have attracted wide attention and are among the paintings that have gained high com- mendation from ecritics in New York, Indianapolis, Atlanta and other cities. of sculptor from the ‘ashington studio of Mrs, May Howard Jackson, who received the bronze medal this year, also will be on exhibition. The tings represent a broad he open to the public, free of charge, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weeks days and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Sundays. BURNETT RITES ARE HELD. | s Funeral Services Are Conducted in Gawler’s Chapel. Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Brady Burnett, 76 years old, who died at her residence, 1843 Mintwood place, Saturday, are being conducted in Gawler’s chapel this afternoon. Inter- ment will be private. Mrs. Burnett was the widow of Dr. Swan M. Burnett, for many years a oculist of this city. Dr. Burnett died about 20 years ago. Mrs. Burnett was & member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and for the past 50 years had been a member of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. MRS. M. E. PROCTOR DIES. Native of Washington, a Widow, Had Long Been Il Mrs. Mary E. Proctor, widow of Charles W. Proctor, died of diabetes at her home, 913 L street, yesterday. She had been in ill health for several years. Mrs. Proctor was born in this city in 1846 and has resided here all of her life. She is survived by four sons, Wil- liam A., Harry T., Jesse and Arthur C. Proctor. Funeral services will be held at ‘Wright's funeral chapel, 1337 Tenth street, at 2 o'clock tomorrow. BARRACKS TO HAVE ‘MIKE’ Columbia Broadcasters Authorized to Equip Marine Band Room. The Columbia Broadcasting system was authorized today by Maj. Gen. ‘Wendell C. Neville, commandant of the Marine Corps, to install a microphone in the bandroom of the Marine Bar- racks. The Columbia system has arranged to distribute over its vast network of radio stations the Marine Band's series of Summer concerts at the Sylvan The- ater, and when inclement weather makes it impossible to give the program N SUICIDE CASE Employ Systematic Methods to Learn Identity of “Mr. Winchester.” The mystery of “W. Winchester,” the modishly-clad young man who leaped | to his death from an eighth-story win- dow of the Houston Hotel, 910 E street, shortly after midnight yesterday morn- ing, after attempting to kill “himself with a knife, remained unsolved today with Washington police following every] avenue-~ n'hm them in their attempt to_identi e man. His my prints, clothln%e laundry marks and dental work are being care- fully examined for a systematic police of such methods of identi- fication. Police have his picture also reports of missing 1¢ parison with S departments of | persons from police other cities. Admitting that the registration of “W. Winchester of Baltimore” was in- correct, and-that it was “useless to at- tempt to identify me,” in a note left at the hotel, the man has left & prob- lem of identification which police ad- mit might take them some time to . The body is being held at the District morgue. The man weighed about 150 pounds. He had a small mustache, dark in color, and dark brown eyes and hair. His| age is estimated at between 28 and 30. . His complexion is dark. ‘The greenish gray suit he was wear- ing at the time he leaped from the hotel window is an_expensive one, and has the name of a Philadelphia clothier in it. He also wore a greenish gray overcoat. His linen was of the ex- pensive sort. His necktie was green with white polka-dots. Baltimore police are checking up to find out whether any one answering | the general description of the man is reported missing from that city. An-| other avenue of investigation bearing on ‘the man’s identity is being traced to the clothing firm from which the man bought the suit in Philadelphia. | Still another clue is a_handkerchief, | bearing the initials W. W. W., which :l:fllflund in the man’s room at the| otel. { HURT BY BROKEN GLASS. A freak of circumstance contributed to the injuries suffered by Mrs. Jesse M. Loving, 810 Aspen street, when struck down by an automobile a. Geor- gia avenue and Fern street yesterday. Mrs. Loving was carrying a bottle of olives at the time. The glass shattered and cut her when she struck the pave- ment. b Mrs. Loving was treated at Walter Reed Hospital for lacerations about the arms and a possible fracture of the knee, and later sent to her home, where she was reported to be improving this | |a Above: Chairs and stool used by rob- bers when they made their exit last night from the store of Sidney Simon, 431-33 Seventh street. Right: Sidney Simon. They “dropped in” the same way. —Star Staff Photos. EXPERT THIEVES HARASS MERCHANT Sidney Simon, Many Times Robbed, Despairs of Bar- ring Night Prowlers. Brick walls, substituted for doors and other precautions failing to keep out robbers, Sidney Simon, proprietor of ‘& men’s clothing store at 431-433 Seventh street, despairs of barring them, but guarantees a disappointment for them leaving any cash in the store over- h night. At the same time he decided to “in- sure” his safe from being broken open by the simple expedient of leaving it unlocked, expressing the belief that if he did not do so “somebody would blow 1t open anyway.” After a robbery of the store last night, the fifth or sixth one within a little ‘more than a year, the proprietor has decided that brick walls in_spots will not keep out the unwelcome visitors because they will enter where the bricks are not. Cut Hole in Ceiling. The robbers entered last night through a hole they cut in the ceiling over the second floor, after having gained en- trance to the attic via a fire escape, ac- cording to Mr. Simon. After search- ing the safe, they climbed back through the hole, making away with several articles of clothing, valued by Mr. Simon at about $100. The exit was made with the aid of two chairs, a stool and an iron pipe which the thieves used to climb back up to the hole in the ceiling. The chairs and stool were tied together with twine and a piece of measuring tape, while the iron pipe was placed so as to reach from the floor up through the hole in the ceiling, that the unwelcome visitor or visitors might steady themselves in their climb upward. ‘The last robbery prior to the one last night was in November, Mr. Simon said. All told, the robbers have obtained cash and clothing equal to about $1,000. Bricks and Martar No Protection. During the robberies they broke through two doors in the wall and in each instance, in place of the doors, Mr. Simon placed geood solid masonry in the form of bricks and mortar. The rob- bers last night, however, entered through the ceiling, where they had to cut away only paper and a thin layer of plaster. Mr. Simon expressed confidence that more robbers will be along and he is now deciding on what kind of “trap” he may set for them when they appear. R WILL BE HONOR GUEST. Dr. Ida Scudder Will Lecture on India Tomorrow. Dr. Ida Scudder, president of Vellore Medical College, in South India, will be the guest of honor at a Juncheon at the Y. W. C. A. tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock. Tomorrow night Dr. Scudder will ad- ress a mass meeting at New York Ave- nue Presbyterian Church on_ “The Daughters of India Answer Mother India.” Dr. Scudder, who has spent more than 3 years in the Orient. has made a close ‘study of condliions in India, particularly with regard to the estate of the female population of the country. Gunman Arrested in Collision. CHICAGO, May 13 (#).—Frank Mac- | Erlaine, notorious gunman, was arrested yesterday after his automobile crashed morning. The automobile was said by police to oytdoors, it will be broadcast from the Barracks, ¢ Marine have been driven by Fred McClure, 38, 200 block of Peal street, A into another car and he threatened the driver with a pistol. The police found three pistols in MacErlaine’'s automo as far as money is concerned by not | LIBRARY WORKERS FIND LIVING GOST EXCEEDS SALARIES Assistant, College Graduate, Spends $47 More Than Her Pay for Year. CONVENTION WILL HEAR INVESTIGATORS’ REPORT| 2,000 Delegates Are Expected to Attend Sessions of National Body This Week. The typical library assistant, a woman with two years of college and eight years of practical experience, spends $1,644 a year to sustain herself, or just $47 more than she is paid for her | services. Figures corroborating this assertion will be laid before the fifty-first annual | convention of the American Library | Association this afternoon by its com- mittee on salaries, insurance and an- | nuities. The salary question took first impor- tance at the convention's opening ses- sion this morning at the Washington Auditorjum. Early registration indi- cated an attendance of well over 2,000 delegates, who will close their meeting | officers. Report Made After Long Study. two-year investigation of living condi- tions among 685 library assistants in 98 public, university and college libraries over the country. It was compiled un- der supervision of the chairman, Charles H. Compton of the St. Louis Public Library, assisted by Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., of Washington, and 10 other com- mittee members. Ttems listed as the average outlay for living costs on a modest scale were: Board and room, $654; clothing, $281; laundry and dry cleaning, $42; health, $45; carfare, $52; recreation, including vacation, $96; books, magazines, the- ater and music, $47; benevolences, $55; miscellaneous expenses, $372. The dis- crepancy between the total living cost and the salary scale was explained by the fact that 141 of the librarians had an outside income of $324. The first general session of the con- vention will be called to order at 8:30 o'clock tonight in the Washington Audi- torium, where all four general meetings will be held. Speakers include Judge Wendell Philips Stafford, associate justice of the District Supreme Court, who will deliver the address of wel- come; William J. Cooper, United States commissioner of education; Linda A Eastman, president of the association. and R. R. Bowker, editor, Library Jour- nal, New York City. Will Honor Dr. Putnam. Mr. Bowker will make a testimonial talk in honor of Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of Congress and dean of his profession, on the occasion of the thir- tieth anniversary of his appointment to the post. ‘Unopposed officers placed in nom- ination for election at the closing meet- ing are: President, Andrew Keogh, librarian, Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.; first vice president, Everett R. Perry, librarian, publle library, Los Angeles, Calif.; second vice president, Jennie M. Flexner, ‘public library, New York, N. ¥.; treasurer, Matthew S. Dudgeon, librarian, public library, Milwaukee; trustee of endow- ment fund, John W. O’'Leary, president, Chicago Trust Co., Chicago, Ill. Members of the executive board: Linda A. Eastman, librarian, public library, Cleveland, Ohio, and Judson T. Jennings, librarian, public library, Seattle, Wash. The ground floor of the auditorium was a scene of activity this morning, as arrangements were completed for numerous displays of books and library accessories. Approximately 100 booths will be open during the convention. “Bookmobile” Is Exhibited. Delegates showed particular interest in the “bookmobile,” an inclosed motor | truck equipped with a co-operative dis- | play of the warking tools of the library profession, which is also used in various parts of the country to demonstrate how the vehicle can be useful to rural county library service. The exhibit is in charge of Charles R. Brockmann, representing the Na- tional Association of Book Publishers, {the American Booksellers’ Association and several publishers. ’ The twenty-first annual meeting of the Special Libraries Association, to be held at the Mayflower Hotel today, to- morrow and Wednesday in connection with the general meeting, opened at 8 o'clock this morning with a breakfast conference on newspaper questions as they relate to libraries, followed at 10 o'clock by a general session. The spe- cial association is composed of affiliated groups of the American Library Asso- clation, including civil-social, commer- cial-technical, financial, insurance, mu- seum and newspaper workers. Special features of this conference include a joint session with the general association tomorrow nlih', at the Au- ditorium, another meeting tomorrow morning at the Music Auditorium of { at the Washington Hotel Wednesday for members of the New York State Library School and graduates of the Columbia School for Library Science. BE R ANNAPOLIS GIRL HELD ON FUGITIVE CHARGES Ran Away From Home to Avoid Marriage to Midshipman, She Tells Detectives. Instead of starting on her honeymoon today as she expected, Virginia Sim- mons, 16, of Annapolis, was a guest at the Receiving Home here, awaiting a rival of a member of her family to re turn her home. Virginia left Annapolis on a train scheduled to reach here shortly after 10 o'clock last night. She came by way of Baltimore, however, and_ arrived au hour_later. Detectives D. J. Cullinane and L. A. O'Dea met her at the station and took her in charge as an alleged fugitive from parents. n conversation with the detectives, Virginia said her mother wanted her to marry a midshlgmln at the Naval Academy. She objected, however, and came here expecting to become the wife of a resident of Falls Church, Va. “Why did you want to run away?” one of the detectives asked her. “My sister did it she responded, “and they didn't send for her.” William A. Simmons, father of the girl, was advised by police of the where- about of his daughter, . Iy Saturday with the annual election of : The committee report represents a | Scenes at Thirteenth and F streets th right with traffic lights. No arrests were made, the purpose of the police being only to warn the walkers. 0 RSS WITH LIGHTS }PUUEE IN"IME morning, where four policemen were POLICE assigned to show pedestrians how to walk —Star Staff Photos. 1 INTENSIVE STUDY OF GATHODE RAY Research Is Designed to Open Way for Use'in Medical Science. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, With_instruments inclosed in a 30- | ton lead vault, the x-ray division of the Bureau of Standards has started an intensive study of the cathode ray, one of the most: powerful agencies known to_science. This study is designed especially to open the way for the use of cathode ray treatment in medicine, ‘ where it may have great potentialities. Before flhyslcilm can use it with safety on ving tissue much experimental work must be done to determine the effect of different doses. The basis of this must be a means of accurately measuring the doses themselves, which is the first ob- Jjective of the Bureau of Standards. ‘The cathode ray consists of a stream of electrons, negatively charged parti- cles, shot from a vacuum tube through which a very heavy voltage of electricity is passed—{rom 100,000 to 900,000 volts. This stream of. particles can be pro- jected from a few inches to several feet beyond the window of the tube. The passage of the electrons is marked by a blue luminescence Elllnly visible in front of the tube in the darkened vault. This stream of billions of electrons moves at approximately one-fenth the speed of light, or nearly 2,000 miles a second. Something happens to whatever gets in its way—just what is not clearly understood. When the electrons hit atoms in their path, whether of the air jor any other substance, they produce | x-rays. They have little penetrating power and are quickly .absorbed when they strike a screen of any sort. Operators Must Be Protected. The power of the electrons to produce X-rays at a distance from their source makes it risky to stay in the neighbor- hood of a cathode ray tube in operation without complete protection. To pre- vent possible injury to eperators, the vault is so arranged that the current cannot be turned on until the door is closed from the outside. sulting phenomena are watched through a lead glass dow. It would not be necessary to stand in the path of the stream to get the effect because some cathode rays are escaping from the moving in all directions. ‘When the negatively charged particles penetrate living tissue they create X- rays within the body which naturally heat up the cells, and would cause severe burns. Here lies both the danger and the possible therapeutie value. Al- the Library of Congress and a meeting| though creating X-rays wherever it| strikes, the cathode ray itself is very different from the X-i although the instruments which produce them super- ficially are similar. The cathode stream is actually of moving particles while the X-ray is an extremely short light wave in the invisible spectrum which moves at the speed of light and penetrates deeply into most substances with which it comes in contact. Thus its thera- peutic value lies largely in its ability to reach deep-seated conditions, such as internal cancers. The possible thera- peutic value of the cathode ray is in superficial ailments, such as skin and scalp conditions. It will'kill every sort of bacteria with which it comes in con- tact. Other uses are the taking of shadow pictures of very delicate tissues and the effect on certain chemicals. Seek to Measure Rays. Another medical use in the light .of recent experiments is the treatment of ergosterol and cholesterol, the two mys- terious chemical substances which be- come extremely rich in certain vitamins after appropriate radiation. Physicians, however, cannot afford to use cathode rays until they have some way of calcu- lating the amounts with which they are dealing. The Bureau of Standards is interested primarily in the physical problem of being able to measure them. They hope, however, to make some tests with animals to determine the safe dosage which may be directed against human _tissue. For the first few years after Roent- en's discovery of the X-ray, says Lauriston 8. Taylor, associate physicist +in charge of the X-ray division, it was -of .no .value .in .medicine Then the re-{ sides of the tube itself and X-rays are | | 1 1 | | «hecause .there ).atore. “Lindy” Serves U. S. As Adviser 5 Months Without Cent of Pay By the Associated Press. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is not getting rich very fast from his position as adviser on aero- nauties to the Department of Commerce. Assistant Secretary MacCrac- ken said today that Lindbergh , has not drawn one ¢ent in salary since His appointment about five months ago. He is entitled to $25 a day when his services are sought by the ‘Commerce Department. Otherwise he gets nothing. Mac- Cracken explained that no prob- lem had arisen which required Lindbergh’s advice. Secretary Lamont said Lind- bergh visited the department about 10 days ago and talked things over in an informal way. ‘That was the first time the Sec- retary and Lindbergh had met. was no way of measuring it. Certain effects were observed, but there was no way of passing along the information because nobod! knew the amounts re- quired to get definite results. Cathode rays, or electron streams in | air, were first produced in 1894, accord- ing to Taylor, but did not become prac- tical until three years ago, when Dr. Willlam D. Coolidge of the General Electric Co. succeeded in producing a vacuum tube with a sufficiently thin window to allow the escape of the strong electron stream. Since then medical workers all over the world have sought for a practical application. ‘The tube to be used at the Bureau ;J; Standards was furnished by Dr. Cool- ige. with 900,000 volts, it is not likely that more than 400,000 wil be used with this apparatus. The X-ray laboratory has available a total of 1,200,000 volts. Whatever biophysical work is a tempted will be in co-operation with the Public Health Service, which has shown considerable interest in the possible ~ medical application. The cathode ray experiments will be carried on in conjunction with the work on X-rays to determine dosage for cancer treatment and appliances for protection from X-ray burns. Exact measurement of X-radition still is far from accom- plished, Taylor says. RAILWAY COMPANIES COMPLY WITH ORDER Local Corporations to Dispose of Bonds Holding of Which Was Declared Illegal. Heads of the Capital Traction and ‘Washington Railway & Electric Cos. at- tended a conference with the Public Utilities Commission today and agreed to dispose of bonds in other local util- ities companies, the holding of which had been declared illegal by Corpora- ! tion Counsel Willlam W. Bride. ‘The Capital Traction Co. owns $50,- 000 Washington Gas Light Co. bonds, which will be put on sale. The Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. owns $31,000 of Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. bonds. These, however, ma- ture on July 1, and it will not be neces- sary to sell them. No formal action was taken by the | commission in the case, as the company heads explained the bonds had been bought not with an' intention of acquir- ing control over the other concerns, but simply as an investment. The agree- ment to sell was made voluntarily. Those who attended the conference were John W. Childress. of the Public Utllities Commission, People's Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty, G. T. Dunlop and John H. Hanna, Capital Traction Co., and William F. Ham, Washington Rail- way & Electric Co. PrUTL GIRL IS SENTENCED. Pleading guilty to a charge of larceny, Helen Mae Tootsey, 18, of the 1200 block of Massachusetts avenue, was sentenced to serve 30 ‘days in’ jail by z;xdu Gus A. Schuldt of Police Court ay. Policewoman Cecelia A. Clark de- clared in court that the girl took a dress from & downtown department ¥ THO AUTOVGTING DEFROM INIRES cumbs to Hurts Suffered Week Ago. :Boy Runs Into Bus—Girl Suc- . - PLAN T0 CORRECT - D.CIAYWALKING Open Pedestrian School at Thirteenth and F Streets With Four Instructors. | OFFICERS?JNVINCED OF NEED FOR CAMPAIGN | | Most Flagrant Violation of Walk- ers Is That of Cutting Corners. “Walk right, obey the lights and live i longer.” | With this impressive, philosophical | slogan, the Traffic Bureau of the Police | Department today initiated a new edu« cational campaign to teach pedestrians ;mo cross congested intersections in the safe and sane manner prescribed in the traffic regulations. The pedestrian school ‘opened at ! Thirteenth and F streets—a light-con- trolled intersection—with four uniformed policemen acting as instructors. It will be moved from day to day to other busy ! intersections. and continued until pedes- | trians quit -walking” and learn to stop and go on the signals. No arrests will be made during the campaign, according, to Inspector E. W. | Brown in charge of the Traffic Bureau, although the traffic code empowers the | police to “ticket” pedestrians as well ,as motorists who disobey the lights. The sole purpose of the drive, he explained, ,is to get walkers in the habit of watch- ing the signals and crossing the street at the proper time for their own safety. Convinced of Need. The first few hours at Thirteenth and F streets deeply convinced the four | officers on duty there of the need of the | educational campaign. Fully 90 per jcent of the pedestrians started across | the intersection, they observed, without 1 looking to see whether the signals were flashing red or green. One officer was stationed at each corner, and if pedestrians started to Icrosu ainst a signal and in a stream | of moving traffic, they would be warned { to “watch the lights.” Some of them | heeded the warning and returned to the | sidewalk, but others ignored the police- jmen and deliberately crossed, weaving {in an out of the moving vehicles. The most flagrant violation of the walkers, | however, was cutting corners. Some of | them who did this narrowly -averted i colliding with automobiles making right turns on the proper-signal.” “Men are just as bad as women when it.comes to_jay " observed Po- liceman W. J: Liverman, one of the four officers trying to teach pedestrians to walk right. “Some of those I warned I!hu morning to cross with the lighis | were even more stubborn than the | women.™ | Policceman W. M. Sanford on the opposite corner, however, did not agree with Liverman. He said he found the men more willing to obey the signals One fatality resulted from traffic ac- | cidents over the week end here, with |seven persons injured, two seriously. | Another victim of an automobile acei- | dent, Blanche Hawkins, 9, colored, 1112 Second street southeast, died yesterday at Casualty Hospital. Fifth precinct police arrested the driver, George Baker, 31, Suitland, Md., on a charge of leav- ing the scene of the accident, whicl occurred last Sunday when the child was struck down at New Jersey avenue and M street southeast. ‘The fatal accident yesterday befell 3-year-old Thomas Greenhow, colored, 607 L street southeast, who, police say, ran into the side of a Capital Traction Co. bus yesterday afternoon and was almost instantly killed. The incident was witnessed by the child's father, watching through the window of his | home. | The bus was operated by Willlam L. | Aldridge,. 3342 Prospect avenue, whe police say; applied his brakes and skid- | ded more than 20 feet in an effort to | halt the vehicle as it bore down on | the child. Motorman Aldridge was | today. Policeman TIs Injured. Joseph Oldficld. 33-year-old membs {of the Bethesda, Md., police force, was | at Georgetown Hospital this morning, | following an accident last night in | which_he was thrown from his motor ‘cyclf beneath the wheels of an auto- | mobile.. He was treated for a fractured | foot. and lacerations about the head. | __Another accident in Maryland, on the | Marlboro Pike near T B, resulted in | injuries to three persons. Those suf- | fered by Hugh Monte, 34, 1007 Eighth | street southeast, were regarded as seri- | ous ~ He was brought to Casualty Hos: | pital and treated for body. lacerations yand a possible fracture of the skull. | The accident occurred early this morning when an automobile operated | by Frank Monte collided with another | machine. Although the driver of the |latter car reported to Marylan authorities, District police did not learn his name, | Two other occupants of the Monte ‘nummobfle. Mrs. Mary Pyles, 32, route No. 3, Anacostia, D. C., and A. H. Widle, |29, 1013 Eighth street southeast, were )!aken to Emergency Hospital, the for- mer for a fractured leg and the latter | for lacerations about the head. Their | condition was regarded as not serious. Ellena Hangliter, 60, of 3101 Nine- | teenth street, was lacerated about the | face yesterday when an automobile operated by Edward Hangliter, sr., 56, was diverted from Q street near Twenty- first by another machine and rolled over the sidewalk, striking a tree. She was treated at Emergency Hospital. An automobile operated, police say. by Peter Frank Manning, 435 Foxhall ! road, struck a trolley loading platform \on Peunsylvania avenue near Twenty- | fifth street yesterday morning, careen- |ing over the sidewalk and stopping | against the side of St. Stephen's Church. ! Manning was taken to Emergency Hos- | pital in No. 3 patrol and treated for lacerations about the face. Gussie Venezky, 4 years old, of 2605 Irving street northeast, was treated for minor bruises and shock yesterday after- noon following an accident at South Da- kota avenue and street northeast. ‘Twelfth vrecinct po! reparted the child was_struek . by an automobile driven by John D. Dant, 2832 Franklin | street northeast. 'BRIDGE IS REPAIRED. Bridge No. 1 of the Washingtéon Rail- way & Electric Co.'s Cabin John line, near College Pond, has been repaired following a finding by the Public Utili- d | mony in Liggett's Quinn’s trial than the women. “You certainly can tell those women who have their own | way at home,” he remarked. The other two officers are J. A. Voss L. Mabers. tor Brown | plans to relieve them at ¢ o'clock with a new detail, which will be kept on h | duty until the theaters close tonight. Business Club Sponsors Plan. The campaign is being sponsored by the Washington Chapter of the Ameri- can Business Club. San A. Syme, sece retary of the club, is in direct charge. “This is not an attempt to give t] motorist a monopoly-on the streets,” he sald. “The law gives pedestrians an absolute right of way at all uncon- trolled intersections. Traffic devices and traffic officers, however, are placed at congested points to expedite all trafic and disobedience of signals slows properly moving trafic just as much as disobedience by motoirsts would slow it. The law, to do away with this danger has made it unlawful for pedestrians Although he himself has worked | asked to appear at the coroner’s inquest | t0_move against vehicular traffic a: | such crossings, but has put on motorists making right turns the duty of yielding the right of way to pedestrians..” SURPRISE WITNESS ON TRIAL FOR PERIURY Action Against Quinn Will Precede Second Mistrial of Walter Liggett. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 13.—Jack Quinn, surprise witness in the first mis- trial of Walter Liggett on charges of slaying Turney Cunningham last Fall, faced trial in Criminal Court today on perjury charges growing out of his testi- defense. will precede any fur- ther action coincident with the de- fendant’s second trial, reported last week, as a result of which Liggett, B. P. Osburn, a juror, and Rainey Cres- well, grocer and tt’s friend, were involved in charges of bribery. Quinn has been in jail here since he forfeited bond posted for him by C. L. Liggett, father of the defendant, when he was arrested on the perjury counts. Liggett's bond was orderer vacated last week and he remains in jail. Os- burn and Creswell have been released { on bond. BRIDGE PLAN APPROVED. i Legag e, Structure Proposed Over Hunting Creek Below Alexandria. Plans of the Bureau of Public Roads { of the Department of Agriculture for | construction of a bridge across Hunting Creek, just below Alexandria, were ap- proved today by Col. Patrick J. Hurley, Assistant Secretary of War. ‘The bridge will be an integral gn of the projected-Mount Vernon vard, the south end of the | THIEF STEALS FLOWERS. ‘William Pfeil Robbed of Geraniums on Mother’s Day. The demand for flowers on Mother’s ties Commission recently that it needed i bracing. A citizen called the office of | the commission on the telephone and sazid that the bridge appeared to sway dangerously when cars passed over it. . n detailed Bridge En- gineer Clifford Whyte to meke an in- wn and Mr. Whyte recommended steel bracing. i day, particularly heavy this year, may or may not have had something to do with the theft of six Martha Washing- ton lenntumganu from the front yard of Willlam Pfeil, 315 Twenty-second street. ' He missed them yesterday morning. Flower thieves are usually active