Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 17

@he Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION [ 4 ny Staf. TESTIMONY FAILS TO SHED NEW LIGHT ONDIETZ SHOOTING \Three in Inn at Time Are| Quizzed by State’s Attorney Frank Parran NONE ADMITS SEEING FIRING MONDAY MORNING Detective Agency Head Tells Au- thorities He Is in Touch With Eye-Witness. Alihough the three persons who were in the Prince Georges Inn at the time Willlam Dictz was shot Monday morn- ing, were today examined at length by State's Attorney J. Frank Parran, none would admit seeing the shooting and no further arrests have been made. Harry A, Kaufman of the 600 block of K street northeast, manager of the inn, was the first person examined. According to the State's attorney, the manager claimed to have been looking after some guests who were departiug when he heard the shooting. Tells of Hearing Shots. John Ray, colored headwaiter at the establishment, told the Government prosecutor he was in the kitchen when he heard several pistol shots fired and then went upstairs to his room to avoid | trouble. The other person examined was Wil- lam W. Smith, alias Jew Boy Smith, who is said to have admitted he had an argument with a man named Mc- Mahon, prior to the shooting. Smith told the State’s attorney he had been drinking and did not remember clearly what had happened. He did recall, however, throwing a_ glass at “Mc: Mahon” and in turn being hit on the head. Some woman was bathing a cut on his head in a private room when the shots were fired, Smith said. Moran Is Called. At the same time, Tom Garrison, for- mer Prince Georges police official, who now maintains a detective agency, in- formed the authorities that he was in touch with a person who had been an eye-witness to the shooting, and some action by the Prince Georges authori- ties toward seeing this person was awaited this afternoon. ‘ ‘As was the case yesterday, the State's attorney conducted his hearing behind closed doors. Frank W. Moran, in whose name the Jicense for the inn was issued, alco has been notified to appear before the State's attorney, according to the police. Dietz Reported Tmproved. Dietz was giverr a blood transfusion at Sibley Hospital last night in an ef- fort to save his life and was reported to be “improved” this morning. The man, who had $981 in his pockets when | brought to the hospital, still refused to | make any statement or to give police any Clue as to who shot him. Solomon Munitz, who brought Dietz to the hospital and who yesterday was charged with being an accessory to the assault upon him, last night obtained his liberty ubder $5,000 bond. County police still are working on the theory that the shooting, like that at Green Gables, Suitiand, Md., roadhouse, in March, was the result of a quarrel| between bootleggers and gamblers. THREE ARE ARRESTED | IN VICE SQUAD RAID Trio Charged With l[lintlining' Nuisance and Illegal Possession. An establishment, it is alleged, where liquor orders were taken by telephone and relayed for delivery from stocks lo- cated elsewhere, was raided last night | in the 1800 block of Fourteenth street | by. Sergt. O. J. Letterman and his vice squad, who arrested three men on charges of maintaining a nuisance and illegal possession. They were George Drew Craig, 32. alleged proprietor; Stanley Howard Mullin, 28, and James John Dangelo. 20, said fo have been employes of Craig, who, with Mullin, also was charged with illegal sale. Sergt. Letter- man said a dozen orders came in over the several telephones while he was in the place, all asking for liguor in amounts from a pint to five gallons. - | At one time, Sergt. Letterman said. a | man called and asked the raiding officer | who answered if he wanted “that load | now?” The answer was to “put it in the back alley.” The other party must have become suspicious, however, be- chuse he failed to show up. # eearch warrant was obtained on the | etrength of an alleged “buy” by an s:hdefcover agent. who was said to have | kept the place under surveilance for several months prior to the raid. The reputed buy was the basis for the pos- | session charge. MID-JUNE TE L = MPERATURE Wenther Burcau Reports Mereury at 80 Today, With Prospect of Mounting Higher. mid-June temperatures, with 'ing humidity, will prevail un- til Priday, with local thundershowers | late each afternoon. Forecaster Mitchell | officially forccast at the Weather Bu- | reau toda Before noon today the mercury had soared to 80, with every indication that it would reach still greater heights, but Mitchell said it will establish no records for the month of May. The highest temperature recorded at the Weather Bureau for this month was in 1925, when the thermometer rose to 97 on May 23 The torrid wave, it was explained. is due to unusually high pressure off the Atlantic coast, with corresponding low pressure in the West and Northwest. The wave is expected to break Friday night, and cooler temperatures will be ushered 1n for the week end. Up to noon today no prostration cases had been reported by the hospitals which yesterday treated two heat vic- tims. Robert Dugan, 37 years old, of 1133 Potomac avenue southeast, was treated Emergency Hospital after having n found unconscious from heat near hth and C streets. He was revived and later sent home. George Washington, _34-year-old colored man, living at 1418 Ninth street, was treated for heat prostration at Fmergency Hospital after having been picked up on the street at Thirteenth K ateets. | termine whether Miss Booth is suffer- | from _contusions all over the sworn in _this morning by Justice Harl declared without precedent. FORMER POSTAL CHIEF SHIFTS DUTIES John H. Bartlett (left), former First Assistant Postmaster Generzl, Supreme Court as a member of the Intbrnational Joint Commission. Mr. Bartlett also was the center of another ceremony today when he was presented with a watch by the House committee on post offices and post roads in appreciation of his services, the presentation, which took place in the committee room, being WASHINGTON, D G, TUESDAY, MAY 28, lan Fiske Stone of the United —Star Staff Photo. WOMEN IDENTIFY ASSAULT SUSPECT Colored Man Is Said to Have Confessed to Two Attacks. | | | | Through the efforts of Policeman R. Schleichert and other officers of the | sixth precinct, Archie Gillam, colored, | 32 years old, was identified at the sixth | precinct yesterday afternoon by two white women as the man who assaulted them in robbery attempts, one Febru- ary 16.and the second May 19. Gillam is said to have confessed to the two as- saults and to a similar Attempt about the middle of May. Police say Gillam led them yesterday to a point on North Capitol street be- tween C and D streets, where he is said to have confessed to attacking Miss Angeline Ciffo, 26 years oid, of 62 C street on the night of May 19. Gillam is quoted also with describing a location near the same point, where Miss Mavis Baynard, 25 years old, who lives at the Government Hotels, was attacked and robbed of $2.60 on the night of February 16. Screams Attracted Two Men. Both women identified Gillam when he confronted them yesterday. When Miss Ciffo was held up her screams attracted two night watchmen from a nearby Government reserva- tion, R. M. Lawrenson and B. G. Wormsley. Lawrenson whipped out & gun and fired four times, although he directed the shots wild .for fear of striking the woman. Police quote Gillam as admitting he attacked anolher woman as she was walking in the vicinity of North Cap- itol street and Delaware avenue. No repart of the incident was made with police at the time. The colored man was picked up by Officer Schieichert Tuesday night on a vagrancy charge. He was asleep in a wagon on a vacant lot near Pennsyl- vania avenue and Sixth street. Sentenced Subsequently. Gillam was subsequently tried in Po- lice Court and sentenced to 45 days on the vagrancy count. Yesterday the arresting officer re- membered Gillam when a lookout with a description of the man who had at- tacked the two women came to his at- tention. He obtained permission from the District Jail to bring him to the sixth precinct for questioning. Officer Schleichert said new charges probably would be filed against Gillam today. He was assisted by Policeman E. C. O'Meara in working up the case. | gl MISS BOOTH IS REPORTED ON WAY TO RECOVERY Head of Salvation Army Improving | From Injuries Suffered in Rgcent . Automobile Accident. By the Associated Press. HARTSDALE, N. Y., May 28.—Miss | Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in America, last night was reported slowly recovering from | injuries received in an automobile ac- cident last Friday. Her physician, Dr. Walter Clark Til- den, said he was pleased with the progress she had made during the day. He indicated that X-rays may be made tomorrow. These are expected to de- ing from a slight fracture of the skull. The commander, although making favorable progress, was still suffering pain. Earlier in the day Dr. Tilden sal id: “She is still painfully ill, suffering dy, es- pecially over the left eye. ‘The eye, Which was almost completely closed, 15 now slightly better.” Miss Booth received her injuries when | thrown against the top of her auto- mobile as her chauffeur suddenly swerved it across a ditch to avoid hit- ting another automobile. FIRE LOSS HERE LOW. Per Capita Damage Placed at $1.39 by Underwriters’ Board. Washington had the third ’smallest loss in the United States from fire, per | | | POLIGEMAN ALLEN TAKES LONG LEAVE { During Four-Month Ab- sence From Force. Policeman Robert J. Allen, whose | varied activities have made him one of the widest known members of the force, is planning to take a four-monti | leave of absence and to sell real estate. He applied to Maj. Henry G. Pratt for the leave without pay vesterdav. Maj. Pratt said he wilingly would rec- ommend it to the Commissioners, who must act in such a case. Allen has been offered a place as salesman for the Brumback Realty Cor- pn:'latlon, sp-olalizing in Virginia prop- | erties. Allen first became known for a speech at a meeting of the Policemen’s | Association, in which he charged that officers mistreated prisoners in their | custody. Later he made an unsuccess ful attempt to appear as defense coun- sel for a brother officer in & case before the trial board, and still later was brought himself before the board twice. ‘The first time he was charged with taking an_ undue interest in a case against a lunchroom proprietor in Po- lice Court, when the man was freed of a charge of violating health regu-| lations on the strength of Allen’s testi- mony. Allen was exonerated on this; charge, Then he was charged with improper | use of his;e\'cl\'er in seeking to arrest a colored “man. Allen shot the man in the leg when the latter refused his command to stop. The trial board found him guilty and ordered him dismissed from the force, The Commissiorers, however, reversed the finding and Allen remained a mem- ber in good standing. Six Bitten by Dogs. i Six persons, five of them children, | were reported to police as having been | bitten by dogs yesterday. None was seriously hurt. An order of the District Commission- ers under which dogs permitted to run at large must be muzzled goes into effect autoraatically June 1. REV. G. H. WILLIAM DIES AT ANNANDALE Retired as Chief Clerk in Capitol | Superintendent's Office in 1920 After 18 Years. 1 Rev. George H. Willlams, 89 years old, retired chief clerk of the office of the superintendent of the Capitol Building, where he was employed for 41 years, died at his home in Annandale, Va., today. Rev. Mr. Willlams was retired in 1920, fater having held the office of chief clerk since 1902. He had been re- siding on his farm at Annandale since retirement. A veteran of the Civil War, he served in’ Company G, 8th Virginia Infantry, and in the Stonewall Brigade during | the confiict. During his long service at'the Capitol he was several times called upon to open sessions of the Senate with prayer in the absence of the regular Senate | chaplains. \ | An ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Rev. Mr. Wil- liams for a number of years preached in_churches in Fairfax County. He was twice married. He leaves his second wife, Mrs. Rena L. Williams: three sons, Thomas A.. Marvin W. and Charles Spurgeon Willlams, and a daughter, Mrs. Vernon M. Lynch. A member of the Masonic fraternity, PAY DAY ADVANCED Plans to Sell Real Estateil‘ | compensation until the appoined time. | Callahan, chief disbursing clerk of the Steel Worker Falls From Seventh Floor, Catches Self at Fifth Losing his balance this morn-: ing while working on the seventh floor level of the Internal Revenue Building, under construction at Tenth and B streets, Larry Call han, 33 years old, engaged in erecting the steel work of the structure, fell two floors before he caught on a lower platform and is thought to have sustained a fractured skull. Callahan was removed to Gar- field Hospital and treated for the head injury as well as possible internal hurts. His condition was regarded as critical and of- ficers of No. 1 precinct notified the Callahan family. | | N7 DEPARTHENTS Federal Employes to Get Ad- | vantage of Memorial Day Holiday. In view of the holiday Memorial day, employes of 7 of the 10 Federal de- partments will be paid tomorrow instead of the 31st of the month, the regular payday. The disbursing clerk of the Department of Commerce has not yet made his_decision, while the State and Interior Departments will not pay off until the end of the month. The_disbursing officer of the Dis- rict, Maj. James R. Lusby, has sided with' the minority of the departments and will not pay the city workers their This stand is supported by a decision of Controller General McCarl, who has | ruled against payment of employes be- | fore the last day of the month. The opinion was quoted by Interior Department, in defending his position that payment of employes to- morrow would be violation of the law. Those Federal departments which will | ay off tomorrow are Treasury, War, | Navy, Agriculture, Justice, Post Office and Labor. The employes of the Gen- eral Accounting Office will not be paid until the first of June, since this office differs from the departments in that it pays off on the first and sixteenth of the month instead of the fifteenth and last day. Some reguiar employes of the District | are expressing considerable dissatisfac- tion with the deferment of their pay. | Maj. Lusby, their disbursing officer, however, contends that pay should not be given an employe until he has com- pleted the services for which he is be- ing paid. If a disbursing officer, he de- clared, should pay an employe on Wed- nesday for work which continues through Friday and the employe for any 10ason should not complete the time for which he has been paid, this would have to_be made good by the disbursing officer. There is one class of District em- ployes, however. who will draw their compensation Wednesday — the school teachers. These will have completed the services fer which they are being paid Wednesday, and therefore payments to them will be proper, Maj. Lusby said. CHILD BADLY HURT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Knocked Down in Street by Auto’ Condition Undetermined—Other Casualties Reported. i Two-year-old Ernest Smith, colored, 933 N street, was the most seriously in- jured of four pedestrians hurt by auto- mobiles yesterday afternoon and last night. The child was hit last night as he darted across the street near his home | by an automobile operated by Whitney Thayer, 1330 Thirteenth sireet. He was removed to Garfield Hospital by his | father. His condition was described as | undetermined today. Achille Burklin, 70 years old, 4626 Georgia avenue, was bruised and shaken last night when knocked down by an | automobile on Florida avenue near, Eckington place northeast. The ma- | chine_was driven by David Hurzmark, 2927 Tilden street. No. 2 precinct re- ported that Burklin, who was treated at Sibley Hospital and discharged, was walking_ down the middle of Florida avenue when the accident occurred. Henry Hazel, 48, of Capitol Heights, Md., was bruised and lacerated about the face last night when hit by an automobile operated by Alger Brass, colored, 3826 Dennison street, on Water street near Eleventh southwest. The elderly man was treated at Emergency Hospital. Ten-year-old McKinley Dewnor, 2017 Vermont avenue, was slightly cut yesterday _afternoon when knodked down by an automobile as he was cr ing the street near his home. The chine was operated by T. J. Traynor of Soldiers’ Home, according to the report of eighth precinct police. ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. Man Says Wife Offered Home to Co-respondent for Office. Allison W. Leland, 610 H street north- he was affiliated with the Henry Lodge, No. 59, F. A, and A. M, of Fairfox | County, Va. 0 Funeral services will be conducted in | the Annandale Methodist Episcopal | Church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 | o'clock. Interment will be in the| Annandale Church Cemetery. { Dead at 89 capita, during 1928, according to figures released today by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. In a list com- piled of the 24 largest citles in the | country, Washington's per capita fire | loss was given at $1.39. Seattle, Wash., | had the lowest, 82 cents, and Jersey | City. N. J., was next with 98 cents. | The average loss in the 24 cities was | $257 per capita, Washington, accord- | ingly, having a little more than_half | of the average rate. Boston suffered | the heaviest loss, $4.89. This was fol- lowed by Chicago with $4.12. New York City had a $2.76 per capita loss, Philadelphia, $2.59, and Detroft, $2.11. Freed of Assault Charge. William R. Spitzer, 627 I street south- west, was acquitted yesterday afternoon by & jury in Criminal Djvision 1 of a charge of & criminal assault on a 9-year-old girl. The offense was al- leged to have occurred March 22, 1928. The accused was represented by Attor- neys Daniel S. Ring and Harvey L. Cobb, while Assistant United States At torney William H. Collins conducted the | prosecution. st, in a suit for an absolute divorce against his wife, Mrs. Susan Eva Le- land, 420 Second reet, tells the Dis- trict Supreme Cou that over his pro- test his ife offered a jobbing con- tractor, who is named as co-respondent, the use of their reception hall and tele- phone facilities for an office. He says the contractor would come | to his office about the time the husbana ‘ was leaving for work. When he asked | his wife to do away with the office | for the co-defendant, he asserts. she | | struck him, Attorney Frank B. Hofl- | Imau appears for the husband. | OWENS ASKS DIVORCE Absolute divorce is asked in a suit | | filed by William A, Owens 4913 Rock | | Creek Church road. against Mrs. Trene | A. Owens. They were married in Bal- timore October 28, 1021, and have two children. Misecnduct is alleged and | a correspondent is named. Attorney | Henry Gilligan appears for the| husband. John A. Graeber, 31 Q street north- , has filed suit for an absolute di- e from Naomi E. L. Graeber, nam- | ing a corespondent. They were mar- ried at Frederick, Md. December 22, 1916 Attorney David A. Hart appears for the husband. . Files Bankruptey Petition. Edward L. Kneessi, leather goods. 409 | | Scventh street, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptey. He lists REV. GEOBGE H. WILLIAMS, debts at $16.447.97 and estimated his | assets at $14.30451. He is represented his| | able to absorb sunlight and transform | bon dioxide and water absorbed by the | J. B.!sun. This energy is stored in the plants. | Animals eat the plants, or devour other i ani ithus secure this stored-up energy as | be retained for millions of years and ) by Attoruey James M. Proctor, SCIENTISTS HUNT COMPLEX SECRET OF CHLOROPHYLL Substance Providing Green in Foliage Believed to Be Base of Life. TRANSFORMS SUNLIGHT INTO HEAT ENERGY STORE Carbon Dioxide and Water Absorb- ed by Plant Used to Build Up Tissue. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The Smithsonian Institution and the fixed nitrogen laboratory of the Depart- ment of Agriculture have just launched a co-operative research into the nature and behavior of chlorophyll, the mys- terious chemical substance which pro- vides the green color of follage and which probably is the keystone of all life on earth. ‘The two organizations have different ends in view, but both now are con- cerned with learning all they can about this extremely complex pigment. Builds Up Cellulose. Chlorophyll, in some obscure way, is it into heat energy, by which the car- plant from its environment is used to build up cellulose or plant tissue, oxy- gen being released in the process. No- body knows exactly what happens. This is the only direct way provided by na- ture #for capturing the energy of the imals that have eaten the plants, and sugars. These are burned in the body, providing the energy for life processes. Again, this captured sunlight may finally utilized in the form of coal. the carbon from the bodies of the plants, or oil from the bodies of ani- mals. ~Thus the automobile of today is propelled by energy created in the sun in an extremely distant past. Unable to Make Chlorophyll. But man never has been able to make chlorophyll, Its composition re- mains one of the profoundest secrets | of nature. It has been extracted from the plants. Dr. F. M. Schertz of the Fixed Nitrogen Laboratory has been able to secure about 100 grams in this way. It is not certain, however, but that something is lost in the extrac- tion process. The molecule of chloro- phyll exists in two forms, which vary ightly. One contains 55 atoms of carbon, 72 of hydrogen, 5 of oxygen, 4 of notrogen and 1 of magnesium. How these are combined is not known. Chemists at the Fixed Nitrogen Lab- oratory believe, however, they are approaching the point where it will be | possible to study the molecule as a whole. Their interest is primarily in the possibility that chlorophyll, or some varlent of it, may be found to act as a nitrogen-fixing agent. Its general composition it similar to hemoglobin, the mysterious chemical substance in the blood which makes animal life pos- sible. Hemoglobin combines with oxy- gen and carries it to different parts of the body in the bloodstream, releasing it where needed. It also combines with carbon monoxide, a fact responsible for many deaths, because when the hemo- globin molecule is loaded with carbon monoxide it cannot take on an extra hurden of oxygen. Nitrogen Is similar to carbon monoxide. Both are inert gases, which refuse to enter combina- tions. The chemists feel that a sub- stance so similar to hemoglobin as chlorophyll may unite, under ordinary temperatures and pressures, With nitrogen. No Evidence This Takes Place. There is no evidence, according to Dr. C. Iddings of the Fixed Nitrogen Laboratory, that this actually takes place. Plants are able to fixate nitro- gen from the atmosphere in some way and this seems the most likely lead. Nitrogen is one of the most abundant elements and essential to plant growth. It is_difficult to obtain from the at- mosphere, and probably plants receive most of their nitrogen supply from the soil, where it is placed in the form of nitrates. Fixed nitrogen laboratory workers, however, have found one plant which in some way combine the fixation of nitrogen and the photosynthesis process by which sugars are built up through the release of oxygen by action of sun- light. This is the common blue-green algae which is found in soils through- out the world and is common in all fresh-water streams in the form of a greenish scum. It apparently is able to live on.a purely mineral medium with no nitrogen and no source of carbo- hydrates. The nitrogen evidently is taken directly from the atmosphere, although whether this is by the me- dium of cholorophyll or some variation is unknown. This may explain, it is clalmed, why some soils are rich in nitrogen for no obvious reason. Further studies are planned to get at the bottom of the blue-green algae nitrogen fixation process. The other common medium of nitrogen fixation in the soil is by the action of bacteria on the roots of le- guminous plants, producing nodules which have this faculty. May Not Be Commercially Feasible, Plant fixation of nitrogen even if it can be publicated in the laboratory, the chemists point out, may not prove com- mercially feasible, but the research is certain to_yield results in unexpected quarters, Derivatives of chlorophyll, for the most part worked out in Germany, already have considerable commercial importance. Chlorophyll combined with copper supplies the green colar of some forms of gasoline now on the market, and the pigment in another form is proving of considerable importance in medicine, 1t is eflective in some forms of anemia. The same results would not be obtained by eating greens because the chlorophyll in the plant is sur- rounded by a cellulose structure which | iz not dissolved by the stomach juices. | The research is being pursued by or- ganic chemists, physicists working to determine the physical structure of the chlorophyll molecule, bacteriologists and biochemists. DR. HAVENNER TO SPEAK. Federation President to Address Trinidad Citizens. Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, will speak at the monthly meeting of the Trinidad Citizens’ Association, in the auditorium of the Wheatley School tonight. The association has been conducting a vigorous fight against the proposed schedule of tax assessments levied for the widening of Benning road, which will be continued at tonight's meeting. 1929, PAGE 17 | ! | | Lieut. Carlos Zegarra, navy, and Capt. Carlos Martinez, Peruvian army, who hope to be the first South American avi by air. They were photographed here y iators to link the United States and Peru esterday. —P. & A. Photo. | PERUVIAN FLYERS VISIT CAPITAL Flight Is Informal Response to Pan-American Good Will Effort. In response to the Army pan-Amer- ican good-will flight several years ago, Capt. Carlos Martinez de Pinillos and Lieut, Carlos Zegarra, Peruvian military aviators, today are in this city on an in- formal good-will trip which will be fol- lowed by visits to all South American and Central American capitals. The fiyers landed at Bolling Field | late yesterday afternoon in an Amer- ican-built Bellanca cabin monoplane in which they have made a long tour of | South America and in which they flew here from Peru. They probably will leave Washington on the return trip about Thursday, with New Orleans as their first stop. Peruyians Interested. De Pinillos and Zegarra are making the flight as private individuals, it was announced. While the flight is not di- rectly under the auspices of the Peru- vian government, both the government and the people of Peru are said to be very keenly interested in the project. Funds for financing the flight were raised in Peru by local subscription, one of the largest contributors being the President's son, Juan Leguia, formerly director general of aviation of Peru. The Peruvian government assisted to the extent of allowing the machine and parts in duty free and in promoting a Ell!bk:lcity campaign in behalf of the ight. The flyers were met at Bolling Fleld‘ yesterday by Dr. Hernan Velarde, Pe- ruvian Ambassador, and Senor J. Al- varez de Buenavista, first secretary of the embassy, who escorted them to the Mayflower Hotel. No formal program has been arranged for them during their stay in this city, it was announced, though they probably will be tgken to the White House tomorrow. The Peruvian flyers sald that they will not attempt to establish any rec- ords, but will make the flight back to South America in easy stages. From New Orleans they will go to Mexico City and on through Central America. CESSION FROM VIRGINIA TO DISTRICT DISCUSSED Senator Capper Informs Inquirer | Restoration of Former Capital Boundary Not Now Considered. The proposal that has been discussed recently to have Virginia cede back to the District of Columbia the area across the Potomac which was originally part of the seat of government, was brought to the attention of Chairman Capper of the Senate District committee today in a letter from Richard L. Facho of Clarendon, Va. Replying to the letter, Senator Cap- per said there is no possibility of that question coming up during this session and that “in any event before our own committee acted, if such legislation were referred to us in the next regular session, we should want definite evidence not only of the desire of the majority of the citizens of the Virgina section, but of the people of the District.” Senator Capper also reminded Mr. Eacho legislation would have to be passed by Virginia before any action could be taken by Congress. Aeronautical Society Corrects Speed Mark Made Last Saturday By the Associated Press. ‘The actual speed record for seaplanes set by Lieut. William G. Tomlinson, U. 8. N, in the Curtiss Trophy race here last Saturday, has been placed by the National Aeronautical Associa- tion at 16252 miles an hour. An_error of the timer had previously set his speed at 175.01. The revised figure, however, is almost 5 miles an hour better than the previous seaplane mark, which Maj. Charles A. Lutz of the Marine Corps, set at 157.60 last vear. Maj. Lutz was killed later in the crash of an airplane he was piloting to Nicaragua, BALLOU PRASES” | DECEASE TEATER loins With Central Students and Faculty in Memorial to | Former Principal. | | | | Characterizing Alvin W. Miller, Cen- tral High School principal, who died of blood poisoning a week ago last Sun- day, as “the kind of man we'd like to see all our young men become,” Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, this morning joined with the students and faculty of Central in pay- ing tribute to the dead educator during a memorial assembly in the school's auditorium. Death Hard to Understand. 1In his tribute to Mr. Miller, Dr. Bal- lou declared that as life is a mystery the death of Central’s principal is hard to understand. * far as the human eye can see Alvin Miller had everything to live for—his family, his church and his school,” Dr. Ballou said. “At present it is hard for us to understand how this school can get along without him. Continuing, Dr. Ballou said: “No finer tribute could possibly be paid to Alvin Miller than to say he was the kind of man we'd like to sce all our young men become. Every fa- ther whose son attended Mr. Miller's school is grateful to the man for the example he set them and the training he gave them.” Assistant Presided. The assembly was presided over by Lawrence G. Hoover, assistant principal of the school. Following Dr. Ballou's tribute Miss Margaret Gilligan, daugh- | ter of Henry Gilligan, member of the | Board of Education, and a Central stu- | dent, sang “Abide With Me.” Miss @ | Bessie Whitford paid a tribute to Mr. | Miller on_behalf of the faculty when |she saild he was a man with * | toward none, with charity for all Samuel Wood, Washington orga now & member of the Central faculf | played an organ solo, after which Mi | Lee Anna Embrey, a student, paid trib- | ute for her fellow pupils. The exercises were conducted by David Krupsaw, who read a poem, “In Memoriam,” by Ray Miller. Besides the personnel of Central the memorial assembly was attended by Mrs. Alvin Miller, the principal’s widow; and his mother, Mrs. Ella Mil- ler, and Miss Marjorie Miller, one of his two daughters. A similar_assembly will be held for the lower classmen this afternoon, at which time Stephen E. Kramer, fir: assistant superintendent, whom Miller | | succeeded as principal of Central, will | speak. TWO HURT IN CRASH. | Father and Dnught;’l‘rented for Injuries After Car Upsets. A motorist sustained several fractured | ribs and his 20-year-old daughter was | | slightly injured about 9 o'clock this Morning when their automobile over- turned in a collision at Warder street and Park road. The father, Casper G. Dickson, 54 years old, of Kensington, Md., was driving- one of the automo- biles, while the second was operated | by Bennie Schwartzman of 3654 War-| | der_street. . i The injured man and his daughter were removed to Garfield Hospital in Schwartzman's automobile, where they were given emergency treatment and discharged. The daughter sustained: only slight bruises and lacerations ac- cording to doctors. i | FLAG, WIDTH OF AVENUE. | EAssociMion Asks Police to Close“ Street During Display. | The District Flag Association _mu-p' | day asked the Police Department to close Pennsylvania avenue Saturday | afternoon while the largest American ! flag in the world is carried from the | White House to the Capitol. The flag, | { which will be carried by many persons, | will occupy almost the entire width of the avenue. The Police Department. according to | | Maj. Henry G. Pratt, will suggest an- | other hour than the one asked by the | association for the ceremontes. The as sociation wanted to make the march at 1:15 pm. Saturday, however, Is the| first day on which Government depart- | jments close down for half day. and| | the avenue is expected to be unusually | {crowded at this time. Maj. Pratt said | he thought there would be no objection if the ceremony were to take place at 5 pm. If this hour meets the wishes of | the association, the permit will be | | | i ! | Representative | the birth of Lat STEVENS INDICTED AS OWNER OF GAR IN SCREEN CHASE |Charged With Having Auto With Smoke Device and Hauling Liguor. ARRESTED AFTER KILLING OF FLEMING BY ROUSE Ten Others Accused Under Jones Law~—Other Findings of Jury Announced. John Stevens, 300 N street southwest, Wwho was arrested in the early morning of April 24 by Policeman C. O. Rouse as an occupant of an automobile which the officer had been chasing and at which he had fired five shots, one striking and killing Ottmer H. Fleming, 21 years old, was indicted today by dhe grand jury on two charges of possess- ing an automobile equipped with a smoke screen and with transporting Lu‘flmr in violation of the Jones-Stalker ill. The smoke screen indictment is in two counts and alleges that Stevens was {in possession of a device known as a smoke screen and that he was in pos- session of an automobile equipped with such device. No charge of using the smoke screen is made in the indict- ment. Under the liquor indictment it is alleged that Stevens had in his poses- sion a quantity of intoxicants, which were being transported in the auto- mobile from which he is alleged to have jumped after the officer had shot Flemigg. Others Are Indicted. Ten other persons are indicted for alleged violations of the Jones-Stalker act. They are Edward T. Parker, Rich- ard M. Criswell, Charles S. Beal, George E. Shanks, Willlam Carley. Walter S. McDonald, Albert R. Price, George Walker, Carl Mehrstedt and Joe Zim- berg. Five persons were exonerated by the grand jurors of charges of trans- porting and sale of liquor. They are Bruce J. Lafrogialo, James R. Moore, Ernest Reed, Joe Zimberg (another charge), and Willie Herbert. The grand jurors also declined to in- dict Ernest A. Fairfax, colored, who caused the death of William Tines, also colored, with a “jack handle.” They also ignored a charge of housebreaking against Sam Roth, grand larceny against Clarence McCullen, Roland R. Bell and Harold E. Harper, assault against Letitia Long, libel against Sarah Hawkins and receiving stolen property ! against John Wallace and Liilian De- Lilly. Charges Are Listed. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Charles W. Wil- helm, Harry A. Sweeney, Noah E. De- Haven, Harry Goldberz, Samuel Epstein, Simeon F. Rakestraw and Isaiah T. Harrod, non-support; Creed Jordon, Jesse Gray, Charles Cross, John L. Shamek, William O. Turner, Ellis Glenn and Wallace Goodwin, housebreaking: Charles John Patrick, Stewart Bird and Carryl Pugh, grand larceny; John I. Bruce, Theodore S. Carter, Robert Wil- son, Dick Warren and Llewllyn Davis, grand larceny and joyriding: Filmore C. Roper and Udysess Howard, joyrid- ing, and John Stewart, assault with dangerous weapon. \URGES D. C. CITIZENS TO TRUST CONGRESS Collins Stresses Need of Closer Co-operation in Work of Beautifying Washington. An appeal for closer co-operation and a better understanding between the citizens of the Distrist and members of Congress was made by Represent- | ative Collins of Mississippi in a talk before the Georgetown Citizens' Asso- ciation at their last meeting of the sea- son in the Potomac Savings Bank, “{ii&onsln avenue and M street, last night. Mr. Collins declared the average Washingtonian was imbued with false ideas regarding the sunwillingness of Congress to make appropriations for the District. Almost every member of Congress, he declared, wished to im- prove and beautify Washington, and it only rested with the citizens of the District to make their demands. A discussion was held regarding the purchasing of two old guns, recently unearthed near the waterfront and be- lieved to have belonged to Braddock's army, to be erected as historical souvenirs. The need of prohibiting un- pleasant odors that eminate from vari- ous factories along the waterfront, and the use of soft coal in furnaces, also was brought up. Reducing of the sharp curve at Thirty-first and R streets, the placing of improved lights on upper N street and the building of a traffic box at Key Bridge also was advocated by the association. A. B. Bowles, presi- dent, presided. PAGE TO MAKE ADDRESS. Clerk of House to Aid in Tribute to Patrick Henry. lliam Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, will be the principal speaker at an open-air meet. ing to be held on the south plaza of the Treasury Building at 4:30 o'clock to- morrow_ afternoon under the auspice: of the National Patriotic Council com- memorating the 139th anniversary of k Henry. Music wil be furnished by the Navy Band, undel the direction of Lieut. Charles Benter Mrs. Noble Newport Pots, natfona president of the council, will preside. FACES SECOND CHARGE. Youth Indicted in Liquor Case Again Accused. indictment on a charge of transporting liquor, Willlam Garrison Donaldson, 19 years old, of the 600 block of H street northeast, was again arrested last night on similar charges Detectives W. R. Laflin, W. E. Mac- Ewen and W. F. Burke of the eighth precinct are said to have observed the vouth as he drove a large sedan auto- mobile into an alley in the rear of the 1300 block of T street. Police say they v him deliver a package to a colored +n and swooped down to arrest him A search of the machine is said tc have revealed 40 quarts of allegeC Under granted, Maj. Pratt indicated. liquor,